Some thoughts on dealing with bitterness: remember the weeds and the wheat in the parable (Saturday of the sixteenth week in Ordinary Time II, 08, Matthew 13, 24-30)
Christ goes to the country of the Gerasenes and casts out the demons from a man. The demons go into the pigs, and Christ is asked to leave the district (Mark 5, 1-20)
Christ lets his glory be seen in the sign he gives by changing water into wine. Christ is the centre of revealed religion and the centre of all reality.
The Holy Family of Nazareth - Jesus, Mary, Joseph - the model of every Christian marriage and its source of strength (February 2, 08, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Luke 2,22-40)
A reading of Mark 1:40-45 describing prayer of the leper and Christ's cleansing him of his leprosy, and a reflection on that passage. (Thursday of the first week of Ordinary Time)