Heroic Minute Challenge

The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 13: One Small Act at a Time

By Adam Minihan | October 30, 2014

Prior to reading St. Josemarie Escriva’s description of the first moment of the day as the Heroic Minute, I never considered this seemingly insignificant act of getting up in the morning as a key battle in the war between virtue and vice; good and evil; light and darkness that goes on in the soul of…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 12: Scriptures For the Morning

By Adam Minihan | October 29, 2014

As we enter into the home stretch of the 14 Day “Heroic Minute” Challenge, here are five of my favorite scripture verses related to the morning. In contemplating these it seems that there is a few consistent themes among them:Our morning should begin with praise and thanksgiving to God. This seems straightforward – the very…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 8: The Proverbs 31 Woman’s Heroic Minute

By Adam Minihan | October 28, 2014

So far during the 14 Day “Heroic Minute” Challenge, we have learned from the Scriptures about how Our Lord Jesus himself rose before dawn to begin his day in prayer.  Today, I’d like to propose a famous Old Testament woman’s Heroic Minute – the Proverb’s 31 woman.This woman is an absolute ROCK STAR of virtuous living.…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 10: The Joy Comes With the Morning

By Adam Minihan | October 27, 2014

I often wonder what it must have been like for the Blessed Mother and the Apostles to wake up on Holy Saturday morning consumed with an overwhelming feeling of loss, hopelessness and fear. What were they thinking that day? How did they even get through it? The shock of all they had witnessed and experienced…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 9: The Perfect Morning

By Adam Minihan | October 26, 2014

We have been talking a lot about the struggle of living out the Heroic Minute – and it can be a big struggle (at least it is for me….) Considering it is Sunday, I thought we would keep it light here and just share our vision of a perfect morning – the kind when the…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge:Day 12: Purity of Motive

By Adam Minihan | October 25, 2014

As we get to the last few days of 14 Day “Heroic Minute” Challenge, I got to thinking about what my motives are for taking this challenge.  Here’s what I have come up with:I am hoping that by living out the “Heroic Minute” I will grow in the virtue of self-discipline.The early morning hours before my children…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 7: Offer it Up

By Adam Minihan | October 24, 2014

Day 7 of the 14 Day “Heroic Minute” Challenge – the half-way point.  Have you mastered the Heroic Minute?  I surely have not, but I am learning so much during this challenge about myself, about the Lord and also about the value of struggling.St. Josemarie Escriva offers us the following quote to highlight the approach…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 6: Mortification, the Heroic Minute and Love

By Adam Minihan | October 23, 2014

This morning was an exercise in frustration. Around 5AM, I was awoken by a bright light streaking through the bedroom window, followed by a loud burst of thunder. Not three seconds later, my daughter arrived in our bedroom, accompanied by a pillow and two stuffed teddy bears. “I’m scared”, she whispered and climbed into bed.…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 5: St. John Paul II’s Heroic Minute

By Adam Minihan | October 22, 2014

Today the church celebrates the feast of St. Pope John Paul II. If anyone exemplified living out the Heroic Minute it was he. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who served as the Pope’s personal secretary, devotes an entire chapter in his memoirs A Life with Karol: My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope to the Holy…

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The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 4: Preparing For the Heroic Minute the Night Before

By Adam Minihan | October 21, 2014

I blew it this morning. My alarm was set for the “fixed time” of 6:00AM, and I woke up exhausted. Without even thinking, I immediately hit the snooze button. After the first snooze rang, I re-set the alarm for 6:30AM and rolled over for a few more minutes of restless sleep. Laying there attempting to…

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Mass Attire

By Adam Minihan | December 13, 2017

This post was written by a guest blogger and Council of Man member, Rich Lamm. You…

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Be a joyful man by The Catholic Man Show

By Adam Minihan | December 13, 2017

On Being a Joyful Man by The Catholic Man Show Want happiness? Eat bacon! But…

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