Community Chat

[gloriajean]

Hello my friends! A very blessing, and relaxing day today - After Mass visiting with two classmates was fun, during coffee and donuts they serve after Mass - and now Angie's back home and by her email she had a good time. Wishing you all a very good positive week filled with many blessings!

A blessing is an explosion of joy from God that ripples through your heart
and fills
your mind with God's light and hope. Lord, help me speak the words of
blessing
when they are needed by someone who is lonely, or who is dying or who is
depressed.

Scripture for the day:

"But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and
persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act--they will be
blessed in their doing." ~James 1:25

Meditation for the day:

When something happens to upset us and we are discouraged, we can try to
feel that life's difficulties and troubles are not intended to arrest
our progress in the spiritual life, but to test our strength and to
increase our determination to keep going. Whatever it is that must be
met, we can either overcome it or use it. Nothing need daunt us for
long, nor need any difficulty entirely overcome or conquer us. God's
strength is always there, waiting for us to use it. Nothing can be too
great to be overcome, or if not overcome, then used.

Prayer for the day:


I pray that I may know that there can be no failure with God. I pray
that with God's help I may live a more victorious life.

WITH GOD EVERYTHING'S POSSIBLE, INCLUDING THE CORRECTION OF OUR PAST
MISTAKES

How's this for a prayer: "O my God! Source of all mercy! I acknowledge Your
sovereign power. While recalling the wasted years that are past, I believe
that You, Lord, can in an instant turn this loss to gain. Miserable as I am,
yet I firmly believe that You can do all things. Please restore to me the
time lost, giving me Your grace, both now and in the future, that I may
appear before You in 'wedding garments.' Amen."

It's from St. Teresa of Avila. We spoke about this a year ago: how with God
all is possible and how we can even ask Him to go into our pasts and correct
wrong things we did or didn't do (especially to others).

How potent! We can redeem ourselves now -- through His grace.

Who doesn't have things they would like to reverse? There are times we hurt
others. There are times we didn't do enough. There are times we said the
wrong thing -- or didn't say the right thing. There are times we committed
sin.

Turn time back. For Him, there is no time. With God, all is possible.

And anyway, we know that the Memorare can be called the "prayer of the
impossible." We have that tool also!

When we right a wrong -- with our whole hearts -- in God's Eyes (after
expiation) it is changed. Did you waste time? Did you neglect things? Have
you offended (who has not)? Go back and ask God to fix that too. Pray that
the results He expected occur despite your lapse. He can work this!

We also have the powerful novena called "Our Lady, Undoer of Knots." This
prayer asks the Blessed Mother to untie knots we have created. As the author
of a booklet on it explains, "Our lives are a jumble of knots! Knots in our
personal lives, family lives, work lives. Knots big and small that we or
others formed, that chain us, leave us vulnerable, fragile, timorous,
enslaved, unhappy. Knots of anguish, of fear, knots of depression, which we
cannot untie. Knots in our relationships with our spouses, parents,
children, brothers, sisters."

Go back and fix them.

You'll feel harmony. You'll feel relief. Why harbor anxiety?

In prayer, go back through your life and send love where you should have
sent love and embrace those you should not have rejected. It counts! In this
way too, you recover your full mission, your full destiny.

Ask Mary, ask the Lord, to unknot your past. Make things right. Turn
radiant. Call Heaven. The area code is "Jesus I trust in You" and the number
is "Mary take over."

[resources: Our Lady Undoer of Knots and Mary Take Over]

Press Onward

Keep a brave spirit,
and never despair
Hope brings you messages
through the keen air
Good is victorious,
God everywhere

Grand are the battles
which you have to fight
Be not downhearted,
but valiant for right
Hope, and press forward,
your face to the light.


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Bless me, O Lord

Heavenly Father, Almighty God.
I humble myself before your Presence. What a joy it is to come to you.
I thank you and I praise for your infinite Majesty, Omnipotence and
Perfections.
Please forgive me all my sins.
Lord I come to you in my nothingness.
I want to worship you and adore you, to love you with all my heart,
with all my mind, with all my soul and with all my strength.
I want to burn with desire for you like an angel.
I need you my Lord, I am nothing without you.
I ask you to raise me before your Glory.
Shine your light upon me, allow me to walk with you and always do your Holy
Will ,
protect me and bless me O Merciful Lord.
Fill me with your Holy Spirit, grant me peace, love and joy.
Heal me, bless me and sanctify me O Lord; make me a blessing for all those
around me.
Amen.

A PRAYER FOR MOTHERS

Good and Gentle God, we pray in gratitude for our mothers and for all the
women of theory who have joined with you in the wonder of bringing forth new
life. You who became human through a woman, grant to all mothers the courage
they need to face the uncertain future that life with children always
brings.


Give them the strength to live and to be loved in return, not perfectly, but
humanly.

Give them the faithful support of husband, family and friends as they care
for the physical and spiritual growth of their children.

Give them joy and delight in their children to sustain them through the
trials of motherhood.

Most of all, give them the wisdom to turn to you for help when they need it
most. Amen.