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Today is Friday, February 26, 2021.

All week long, we have been talking about the Daily Examined, which was created by St. Ignatius of Leola over 500 years ago.

We've already talked about the first four steps of the daily

examine, which are being aware that you are in God's presence and entering into silence and

focusing on what is happening now. The next one is to evaluate the day you have just lived

in terms of gratitude. What blessings did you

experience? Next, you evaluate your day by looking for where you experience love, whether it's

love between two people or the very love of God active in your life. And we do this because God

is love. And when we experience God, we are actually

experiencing love. Now, the next thing that we do is we look through our day is we look for

the ways that we failed, that we sinned, that we chose selfishness, that we rejected love,

or we even rejected God. So we look through our day

for ways that we have failed and we ask for forgiveness. We only have one step left of the daily

examine and that is to ask for grace. Now we ask for grace as we wrap up looking at the day we have just lived and we look to

tomorrow. We know that we want to do better tomorrow. We want to have more that we are grateful for.

We want to bring love more into our day and we want to have fewer sins to have to confess to God.

So we see tomorrow is a great possibility, a new beginning and a day to truly bring Christ

more into our lives. So in this final stage, we think about what our day will entail the following day.

Will we be going to school?

Will there be tests that we're worried about or other subjects?

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