The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic by Matthew Kelly

Introduction

• Work advice:
  • don’t schedule meetings/phone calls before 11 a.m. every day
  • take 20 minutes each Sunday afternoon to plan what projects to work on each morning that week

• when you are spiritually healthy, nothing bothers you
• one of the key indicators of spiritual health is gratitude
• he keeps a CD in his car: Come to the Quiet by John Michael Talbot
• passion and purpose are the by products of personal clarity (53)
  • clarity emerges from silence
• every family needs a prayerful giant

• the best thing you can do for anyone else is to grow in holiness = become a better version of yourself (79)

• GENEROSITY CHALLENGE:
  • calculate how much I gave in the last year as a % of my income
  • increase by 1% each year until I reach 10% (or further if feasible)

• The Church doesn’t tell us what we can/cannot do. “The Church simply stands in every place and time pointing out the path toward the best way to live.” (158)
• people are won through Truth, Beauty, and Goodness