Month |
Values in Action |
NY Catholic Model |
Scripture |
| September |
How do I share HOPE with others? |
Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha |
Romans 8:24-25 (“For in hope we were saved. Now hope that sees for itself is not hope. For who hopes for what one sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance.”) |
| October |
How does my FAITH show in my actions? |
Fr. Isaac Hecker, C.P. (Founder of the Paulists) |
Romans 10:8 (“But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.’ (that is, the word of faith we preach.”) |
| November |
How do I show my TRUST in God? |
Ven. Pierre Toussaint |
John 14:1 (“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me.”) |
| December |
How can I use my talents to SERVE others? |
Servant of God Terence Cardinal Cooke |
1 Pt. 4:10 (“As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God’s varied grace.” |
| January |
How can I bring HAPPINESS to others? |
Servant of God Mother Angeline McCrory, O. Carm. (Foundress of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm) |
Acts 20:35 (“In every way I have shown you that by hard work of that sort we must help the weak, and keep in mind the words of the Lord Jesus who himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”) |
| February |
How can I WELCOME strangers and those alienated? |
Fr. Felix Varela |
Heb. 13:2 (“Be mindful of prisoners as if sharing their imprisonment, and of the ill-treated as of yourselves, for you are also in the body.”) |
| March |
How can I CHANGE the UNJUST things I see? |
Dorothy Day |
Prov. 16:8 (“Better a little with virtue, than a large income with injustice.”) |
| April |
How can I show the RESURRECTION to others? |
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen |
John 11:25 (“Jesus told her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live…’”) |
| May |
How do I show LOVE for others? |
Bl. Marianne Cope, OSF |
Lk. 6:35 (“But rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.”) |
| June |
How can I BRING CHRIST to others this summer? |
Rose Hawthorne, OP |
Heb. 13:16 (“Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have; God is pleased by sacrifices of that kind.”) |
