SJCBT FAITH FORMATION
SUPPLEMENT
Little Boy’s
Love for his
Family
I was walking around in a
Big Bazaar store shopping
when I saw a Cashier
talking to a boy who
couldn’t have been more
than 5 or 6 years old. The
Cashier said, "I’m sorry,
but you don’t have enough
money to buy this doll."
Then the little boy turned
to me and asked, "Uncle,
are you sure I don’t have
enough money?"
I counted his cash and
replied, "You know that
you don’t have enough
money to buy the doll,
my dear." The little boy
was still holding the doll
in his hand. Finally, I
walked toward him and I
asked him who he wished
to give this doll to. "It’s
the doll that my sister
loved most and wanted so
much. I wanted to give
her for her birthday. I
have to give the doll to
my mommy so that she
can give it to my sister
when she goes there." His
eyes were so sad while
saying this.
"My Sister has gone to
be with God. Daddy says
that Mommy is going to
see God very soon too, so
I thought that she
could take the doll with
her to give it to my
sister." My heart nearly
stopped. The little boy
looked up at me and said,
"I told daddy to tell
mommy not to go yet. I
need her to wait until I
come back from the
mall." Then he showed
me a photo of him
laughing. He then told
me "I want mommy to
take my picture with her
so my sister won’t forget
me, I love my mommy
and I wish she doesn’t
have to leave me, but
daddy says that she has
to go to be with my little
sister."
Then he looked again at
the doll with sad eyes. I
quickly reached for my
wallet and saidto the
boy. "Suppose we check
again, just in case you do
have enough money for
the doll?" He said, "OK,
I hope I do have
enough." I added some of
my money to his without
him seeing and we
started to count it. There
was enough for the doll
and even some spare
money.
The little boy said,
"Thank you, God for
giving me enough
money!"
Then he looked at me
and added, "I asked last
night before I went to
sleep for God to make
sure I had enough money funeral home where the 27 DECEMBER 15 But sometimes, what we someday. The grateful humanity and need not
to buy this doll, so that body of the young HOLY FAMILY need is a tunnel that can mom happily agreed. stop you from sharing
mommy could give it to woman was laid. She was Too Many Choices reduce our choices and Unbeknownst to both another’s burdens.
my sister. He heard me! I there, in her coffin, send us in a focused women, another When you’ve known
also wanted to have holding a beautiful white In today’s world, we’re direction.” shopper, Jason Yoshino, pain, your insight can
enough money to buy a rose in her hand with the faced with a wide array saw the whole exchange help you to become more
white rose for my photo of the little boy of choices when it comes Choose this day whom and recorded it with his selfless and better able to
mommy, but I didn’t dare and the doll placed over to what products to buy, you will serve. phone. After posting the rally to the aid of
what websites to visit, or Joshua 24:15 video on Facebook, it someone with troubles
to ask God for too much. her chest. I left the place,
how to spend our free Holy Spirit, guide me in gained national media worse than your own.
But He gave me enough teary-eyed, knowing that
to buy the doll and a my life had changed time. But an making wise choices. attention. Kanefke told “We may be sitting
overabundance of local TV station KSFY, “If alone, lost in self-doubt
white rose. My mommy forever…
AUTHOR ANONYMOUS choices can actually be a  you ever needed a sign or self-pity when the
loves white roses."
I finished my shopping bad thing because it that God’s there for you phone rings with a call
results in what MONDAY, in the hardships and the from a friend who’s
in a totally different state Moral:
from when I started. I entrepreneur James 28 DECEMBER struggles, this is it. It’s really depressed.
 Respect life.
couldn’t get the little boy  Don’t make anyone else Clear calls “decision Holy Innocents pretty awesome.” Instinctively, we come
fatigue.” out of ourselves, just to
out of my mind. Then I pay and bear for your Diapers and Good You will be be there with her and say
“Making decisions over Deeds
remembered a local news mistakes. and over again will drain enriched…for your a few reassuring words,”
paper article two days  Do not make mistake your willpower,” writes Katie Kanefke went to great generosity, which write Ram Dass and Paul
ago which mentioned a which cost others
drunk man in a truck, something that can never Clear thereby making it her local Walmart in will produce Gorman in How Can I
be replaced. hard to maintain good Sioux Falls, South thanksgiving to God. Help?
who hit a car occupied by 2 Corinthians 9:11 “When we’re done, and

a young woman and a Always have a giving habits. “When we place a Dakota, because she
constraint on ourselves, needed to buy four large Increase my willingness a little comfort’s been
little girl. The little girl hand and extend your help
to those in need and it can become much boxes of diapers for her to show kindness to shared, we put down the
died on the spot and the sorrow. phone and feel a little
easier to get something son Marcus. They were others, O Loving Saviour.
mother was left in a  When driving, don’t drink. more at home with
done. This is especially more expensive than she
critical state. true if it is a constraint had expected, so she  ourselves. We’re
The family had to  reminded of who we
that forces us to start asked the cashier if they
decide whether to pull  small.” really are and what we
would match the lower TUESDAY,
the plug on the life If you want to start price of the diapers at a 29 DECEMBER have to offer one
sustaining machine exercising, for instance, different store. When St Thomas Becket, another.”
because the young Clear recommends Walmart would only bishop & martyr Let each of you look not
woman would not be limiting yourself to five price match one box, Distressed? You Can
able to recover from the minutes a day initially Kanefke prepared to Still Help Others to your own interests,
coma. Was this the because it’s a small return the other but to the interests of
family of the little boy? enough amount of time boxes…until a stranger, When you’re feeling others. Philippians 2:4
Two days after this ‘You can’t give God that you’ll stick with it. Carol Flynn, got involved. overwhelmed by
encounter with the little You can always increase Flynn told Kanefke that problems, you might Holy Spirit, inspire us to
boy, I read in the news deadlines.’ slowly after several she would pay for the conclude you have be generous even if we
paper that the young weeks. extra diapers. All she nothing to offer since feel we have nothing
Clear concludes, “We
woman had passed away. asked in return was that your energy and more to give.
I couldn’t stop myself. I often think that we want Kanefke perform a emotional strength are
bought a bunch of white an open road and the random act of kindness limited. But facing 
roses and I went to the ability to choose any for somebody else struggles adds to your
direction for ourselves.
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SUPPLEMENT
something that tastes

WEDNESDAY, good. It’s also a grudge, and replace it living. I am your SATURDAY, about the job is the Aesop are all very short so
30 DECEMBER testament to the years of with some pleasant opportunity to practice 2 JANUARY sincerity of Ms. Scott keep the attention of children
The Origins of a Bottle hard work it can take to memories. Vow not to what you have learned Sts Basil the Great & because she reaches into and feature familiar animals
of Bubbly make something great make a promise you about life during the last Gregory Nazianzen, the cesspool of loved by children.
that will stand the test of don’t think you can keep. twelve months. bishops & doctors homelessness and It is believed that Aesop
If you plan on buying time. Walk tall, and smile “All that you sought The Empowerment transitional housing, and lived from about 620 to 560
champagne for New more. You’ll look ten and didn’t find is hidden Plan she’s steadily pulling B.C. and, although his place
Year’s Eve, you know In all toil there is years younger. Don’t be in me, waiting for you to people out.” of birth is uncertain, he spent
you’ve got Benedictine profit, but mere talk afraid to say, ‘I love you.’ search it but with more When Veronika Scott much of his life living in
monks to thank for it, leads only to poverty. Say it again. They are the determination. was a student at Detroit’s Whoever is kind to the Greece at the court of King
right? Proverbs 14:23 sweetest words in the “All the good that you College for Creative poor lends to the Lord, Croesus in Athens.
As Frank Weathers May I not lose patience world.” tried for and didn’t Studies, a teacher gave and will be repaid in Aesop's fables were first
documented on his Finally, reflect on these achieve is mine to grant her class the assignment full. printed in English by William
Patheos blog, the first when hard work is called words from author Vern when you have fewer to create a product that Proverbs 19:17
for, Lord. Caxton in 1484, from his own
ever sparkling wine, McLellan: “What the New conflicting desires. All fulfils a social need. With
How can I use my translation made from the
called Blanquette de  Year brings to you will that you dreamed but an interest in helping the French. The fables were
Limoux, was invented by depend a great deal on didn’t dare to do, all that homeless, Scott regularly initiative to help others in originally used to make
the Benedictine monks in THURSDAY, what you bring to the you hoped for but did not visited a local shelter to need, Lord? thinly disguised social and
France’s Abbey of Saint New Year.” will, all the faith that you determine what that THREE MINUTES A DAY
political criticisms.
31 DECEMBER
Hilaire in 1531. claimed but did not could be. VOLUME 49/50
St Sylvester Here is an example of
According to Now begin the work, have—these slumber As reported by PBS THE CHRISTOPHERS
New Year’s Eve Aesop's Fables..…
Wikipedia, “They Reflections and the Lord be with lightly, waiting to be Newshour, “The final  
achieved this by bottling you. awakened by the touch design was a coat that 
the wine before the For many people, New 1 Chronicles 22:16 of a strong purpose. transformed into a The Travellers
initial fermentation had “I am your opportunity sleeping bag,” made with
FABLES, and The Bear
Lord, guide me through
MYTHS Two friends were travelling
Year’s Eve means a party.
ended.” They’re not the to renew your allegiance fabrics that would keep AND on the same road together,
But author Bill Vaughan’s the year ahead.
LEGENDS when they met with a bear.
ones who perfected the to Him who said, ‘Behold, people warm and dry. The one, in great fear,
process, however. That take on the holiday also  I make all things new.’” Though it took some trial Fables are short stories without a thought of
rings true.
honour goes to a He once wrote, “Youth and error, the product which illustrate a his companion, climbed up
If anyone is in Christ,
different Benedictine is when you’re allowed was a success and led a tree and hid himself. The
2016: particular moral, or
monk: Dom Pierre there is a new creation: Scott to launch her own
other, seeing that he had no
Peé rignon. He spent 47 to stay up late on New NEW YEAR’S DAY
everything old has non-profit business teach the reader a
Year’s Eve. Middle age is FRIDAY, lesson. The theme and chance, single-handed
years at the Abbey of passed away; see, called The
when you’re forced to.” 1 JANUARY (PH) characters appeal to against the bear, had
Saint Pierre everything has become Empowerment Plan.
For a more traditional MARY, MOTHER OF GOD new! children and the stories nothing left but to throw
d’Hautvillers, near the She now employs 10
New Year’s wish, I Am the New Year 2 Corinthians 5:17 are often humorous and himself on the
Champagne region of formerly homeless
France, working to get consider the words of the women, who have made entertaining. Fables can
Guide me in making wise
the creation of sparkling late advice columnist Bible Illustrator more than 1,000 coats often pass into our
wine just right. HeAnn Landers, who wrote: magazine once published choices this new year, that have been culture as myths and
“Let this coming year be a reflection about the Father. 
achieved his goal in distributed to the legends. The characters
better than all the others. potential for change that
1670, and his legacy lives homeless nationwide. of fables and tales are
Vow to do some of the a new year brings.
on today. Elisha Carpenter, a usually animals who act
things you’ve always It read, “I am the new
Whenever you pop the wanted to do but year. I am an unspoiled mother of three whose and talk just like people
cork on a bottle of couldn’t find the time. page in your book of wages from working whilst retaining their
bubbly, remember that Call up a forgotten time. I am your next with Scott allowed her to animal traits. The fables,
you’re not just drinking pay for housing, said, or stories, accredited to
ground and pretended to be dead; for he had heard that a bear will never touch a dead body. As he laid thus, the bear came up to his head,
muffling and snuffling at his nose and ears and heart, but the man immovably held his breath and the beast, supposing him to be dead, walked
away.
When the bear was fairly out of sight, his
companion came down out of the tree and asked what it was that the bear had whispered to him, 'For', he said, 'I observed he put his mouth very
close to
your ear'. 'Why', replied the other, 'it was no great secret. He only bade me have a care how I kept company with those who, when they get into
difficulty, leave their friends in the lurch.'

Moral: Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.