Men of SRL Prayer Group

04/30/2026

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02/12/2026

https://x.com/chrisstefanick/status/2021585089969147911?s=46&t=TfscVe4TZPRYStMn4qN-Fw

01/30/2026

https://spiritualdirection.com/2025/12/18/how-the-ancient-practice-of-spiritual-exegesis-opens-for-us-the-mystery-of-the-word

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01/07/2026

⚓DAILY ANCHOR: STEP 2 TO LASTING CHANGE...

Hi Friend,

Step 2 to lasting change: Don’t take temptations on HEAD ON!

Temptations surround us more than ever, and a world selling you things knows how to make them irresistible.

Take just one little temptation, for instance: the Dorito.

Not good for you. Yet, for the Dorito addicted… practically irresistible.

If you’re a Dorito lover, you will almost never win a direct battle against a Dorito. And there are scientific reasons for that. Tens of millions of dollars have been invested in making sure each Dorito propels you to the next Dorito!

To share some of the science:

A Dorito melts in your mouth at the perfect rate to trigger the brain to think the food and calories are disappearing, so you don’t ever feel full. Even if you’re overeating them.

Your caveman brain is attracted to high fat foods, because 50,000 years ago we needed to eat fat, fast, to survive. If something you’re eating has the right amount of fat, your trigeminal nerve senses it, and tells the brain’s pleasure center to keep eating. Nacho Doritos send the perfect “fat” signals to your nervous system to send you into a feeding frenzy.

The “gold dust” on each Dorito is finely ground, to maximize the amount of flavor that comes in contact with your taste buds.

There’s lactic and citric acid on each chip that keeps your saliva flowing, which triggers you to eat more, faster.

The flavor is just forgettable enough to keep you from feeling fully satisfied. Think about it: You wouldn’t eat a whole bag of rosemary-thyme flavored chips, though they’d be delicious. Doritos? You’d keep eating those until the bag is gone, or shame stops you!

There’s more… but I’ll stop there.

My point is this: You can’t win when your will power goes toe to toe with a Dorito. And that’s just one temptation.

Everything from ads that get you to overspend on your card, to internet p**n, to chips, to more potent w**d, to sweet tasting vapes, to strong alcohol, to the voluptuous mannequin in the mall, are set up today with scientific precision to put your poor little brain at a disadvantage.

With that in mind, you need to get better at sidestepping your temptations. People who look more disciplined than you are generally just better than you at managing what temptations they expose themselves to.

They remove social media from their phones if they’re addicted.

They avoid the Dorito aisle at the store.

And… above all… they don’t walk into a pet store with their children when they don’t want a puppy.

Are you serious about giving up a bad habit? What are you going to do to avoid the temptation all together? If you really want to be the you God made you to be… do what it takes!


God bless you,


Chris Stefanick

Real Life Catholic

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01/07/2026

⚓ DAILY ANCHOR: STEP 1 TO LASTING CHANGE...

Hi Friend,

This is the first full week of our new year. Have you broken your New Year’s Resolutions yet? 😉

No worries, I got your back. This week I’m going to give you five steps to help you make lasting change… Let’s jump in!

STEP 1 to lasting change: Remember that you are more than that thing you need to change about yourself.

Our strongest interior struggles and temptations can be so powerful we tend to confuse them with WHO we are. That tendency has etched itself into our very language.

“I AM angry.” you say. But if that’s a part of yourself you want to change in this new year, you should start saying “I currently struggle with anger.”

That anger isn’t YOU. You are more.

In the words of St. Pope John Paul II, “We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.”

If you don’t grasp the distinction between your struggles and your identity, you’ll be more likely to get disheartened in your struggle to improve. You’ll be more likely to give up on your very self. Or maybe worse, you’ll be too afraid to attempt any positive change at all, because failure to change would be experienced as failure at who you are… and no one wants to risk that.

We all need to grow.

What struggle do you need to “reframe”? Do it. Out loud. Say:

“I am NOT____.

I currently struggle WITH____.

And I’ll keep struggling until, by the grace of God (who loves me anyway), I WIN!”

God bless you,



Chris Stefanick

Real Life Catholic

Credit: ⚓ Daily Anchor, Real Life Catholic

08/18/2025

Spiritual awareness.
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Every Sunday, we walk into the miracle of the Mass. But what if the clothes we wear – even without bad intention – silently preach irreverence? What if Satan...

07/16/2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/WoeSx9xNpRs?si=DF4HKjR-KXuUdCwl

Time stamps:
7:25 1st Reading - Deut. 30:10-14

8:44 Psalm 69: 14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37,
R/: Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.

12:48 2nd Reading - Colossians 1:15-20

15:54. Gospel
18:56. Homily 28:28

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 13, 2025 12:00 PM

07/16/2025

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Pope Pius XII preached in his homily that parents can learn from Maria’s life to train their children such that when put to the test they will come through “undefeated, unscathed and untarnished.” What a triad! As I lingered with this thought, the Holy Spirit led me to remember the speech by T...

06/12/2025

06/12/2025

Dr. Brant Pitre examines Proverbs 8:22-31 the first reading of Sunday’s Solenity of the Trinity. Provetbs 8 was used to refute the A***n heresy of the Trinity. Listen as he reveals the personification and essence of Jesus and the holy Spirit existence are not seperate created beings of the Trinity.

In this excerpt video from the Mass Readings Explained, Dr. Pitre covers the famous verse from Proverbs 8 that Arius used to argue that Jesus was a created b...