Bonus Resources: Fiat Business Academy
“Thank God ahead of time.” –Blessed Solanus Casey
Hello my fellow Catholic creatives and content creators! As promised here are a few bonus resources to supplement our most recent Fiat Business Academy fellowship.
During our gathering, we touched on the most important, and spiritual first step to building a creative Catholic platform - the power of prayer.
I pray you find these prayer resources helpful and nourishing to your spiritual creative callings.
A prayer for deep listening
God of silence and God of all sound, help me to listen.
Help me to do the deep listening to the sounds of my soul,
waiting to hear your soft voice calling me deeper into you.
Give me attentive ears
that begin to separate the noise from the sounds that are you;
you who have been speaking to me and through me my whole life,
for so long that you can seem like background noise.
Today help me hear you anew.
Source: Discernment prayers from www.xavier.edu
A prayer for humility
“He must increase, I must decreases.” John 3:30
I wrote this short humbling post to help us abandon our preferences and let go of our agendas - so that the perfect will of God can be most prominent in our faith and works.
A prayer for clarity
This beautiful Novena for Clarity can help you peacefully discern God’s calling for you.
Try setting up a novena prayer group with other Catholic creatives, and content creators!
Together, we can ask God for his blessing and clarity to understand His will for our creative and spiritual life!
Prayer for Thanksgiving
Meditations and quotes by saints on giving thanks to God.
In all created things discern the providence and wisdom of God, and in all things give Him thanks.” - St. Teresa of Avila.
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” - St. Ambrose.
“O my God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to thee thy mercies toward me.” –St. Augustine of Hippo.
“Remember the past with gratitude. Live the present with enthusiasm. Look forward to the future with confidence.” –St. John Paul II.
“The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for what He is sending us every day in His goodness.” – St. Gianna Beretta Molla.
“O God, grant that whatever good things I have, I may share generously with those who have not, and whatever good things I do not have, I may request humbly from those who do.” –St. Thomas Aquinas.
“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.” - St. John Chrysostom.
“The best way to show my gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.” - St. Theresa of Calcutta.
“Jesus does not demand great action from us but simply surrender and gratitude.” - St. Therèse of Lisieux.
“Get used to lifting your heart to God, in acts of thanksgiving, many times a day. Because he gives you this and that. Because you have been despised. Because you haven’t what you need or because you have. Because he made his Mother so beautiful, his Mother who is also your Mother. Because he created the sun and the moon and this animal and that plant. Because he made that man eloquent and you he left tongue-tied … Thank him for everything, because everything is good.” –St. Josemaria Escriva.
Source: Scepter Publishers
