Community Chat

[gloriajean]

Keep your heart clean by constant spring cleaning. Then there will be a
place
for beauty and peace. Lord, help me to remove carelessness and disrespect
from
my heart and in all things may I celebrate Your love for me.

Scripture for the day:

"Those sown among the thorns: these are the ones who hear the word, but the
cares of the world, and the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things
come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing. And these are the ones
sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit,
thirty and sixty and a hundredfold." ~Mark 4:18-20

Meditation for the day:

If I have a singleness of purpose, I can do my part in God's work. I need
not let material distractions interfere with my job of improving personal
relationships. It is easy for me to become distracted by material affairs,
so that I lose my singleness of purpose. I don't have time to be concerned
about the many concerns of the world. I can concentrate and specialize on
what I can do best.

Prayer for the day:

I pray that I may not become distracted by material affairs. I pray that I
may concentrate on doing what I can do best.

Greetings my friends! Hope your day went well. It was very nice here - weather was perfect and it should be the same for the State Fair tomorrow too. Lori came over and cooked us lunch today - chicken taco salad, very good and tasty! Then Linus mentioned that he wanted her to take us to Buffalo Wings for supper and his brother Ron has never been there, so made the call and she did, and Ron came, and we had a nice time there trying out different sauces and rubs of Buffalo Wings. This was her gift to us for our Wedding Anniversary which is tomorrow. It was a day full of blessings!!! A Baptism at Mass this morning and Fr. Matthew's wonderful homily was great too!!

Twelve Biblical Reasons For Wanting To Spend One Hour With Jesus
In The Blessed Sacrament
1. He is really there!
"I myself Am the Living Bread come down from Heaven." (Jn 6:35)

2. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because of his
Infinite love for you!
"Behold I will be with you always even to the end of the world," because "I
have loved you with an everlasting love, and constant is My affection for
you." (Mt 28:20; Jer 31:3)

3. The specific way that Jesus asks you to love Him in return is to spend
one quiet hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
"Where your treasure is, there is your heart...." "Could you not watch one
hour with Me?" (Mt 6:21; 26:40)

4. When you look upon the Sacred Host, you look upon Jesus, the Son of God.
"Indeed, this is the will of My Father, that everyone who looks upon the Son
and believes in Him shall have eternal life. Him I will raise up on the last
day." (Jn 6:40)

5. Each moment that you spend in His Eucharistic Presence will increase His
Divine Life within you and deepen your personal relationship and friendship
with Him.
"I have come that you may have life, and have it more abundantly." "I am the
Vine and you are the branches. Whoever remains in Me and I in Him shall bear
much fruit because without Me, you can do nothing." (Jn 15:5)

6. Each hour you spend with Jesus will deepen His Divine Peace in your
heart.
"Come to Me all of you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will
refresh you..." "Cast all of you anxieties upon the One who cares for
you..." "My Peace is My Gift to you." (Mt 11:28; 5:7; Jn 14:17)

7. Jesus will give you all the Graces you need to be happy!
"The Lamb on the Throne will shepherd them. He will lead them to the springs
of life-giving water." (Rev 7:17)

8. Jesus is infinitely deserving of our unceasing thanksgiving and adoration
for all He has done for our salvation.
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive honor, glory and praise."
(Rev. 5:12)

9. For Peace in our country!
"When My people humble themselves and seek My Presence... I will revive
their land." (2Chr 7:14)

10. Each hour you spend with Jesus on earth will leave your soul
everlastingly more beautiful and glorious in heaven!
"They who humble themselves shall be exalted...." "All of us, gazing on the
Lord’s glory with unveiled faces, are being transformed from glory to glory
into His very image." (Lk 18:14; 2Cor 3:18)

11. Jesus will bless you, your family and the whole world for this hour of
faith you spend with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
"Blessed are they who do not see and yet believe..." "Faith can move
mountains..." " What is needed is trust... " "Behold I come to make all
things new." (Jn 20:29; Mk 11:23; Mk 5:36; Rev 21:5)

12. Each moment you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament brings joy,
pleasure, and delight to His Sacred Heart!
"My joy, My pleasure, My delight is to be with you." (Prov 8:31)

Mother Teresa Said...

"The Missionaries of Charity is just a little instrument in the hands of
God.
We must try to keep it always like that -- the small instrument.
Very often I feel like a little pencil in God´s hand.
He does the writing, He does the thinking, He does the movement --
I have only to be a pencil and nothing else."

Where Earth Meets Heaven

Once there were two monks who sat together, reading out of a very old book.
The book said that at the end of the world there would be one place where
heaven and earth would meet and the kingdom of God would begin. So the two
monks decided to go in search of that place and not come back until they had
found it.

They wandered up and down the highways of the world, exposed themselves to
all sorts of danger, took all kinds of risks, suffered all kinds of
setbacks, and were tempted many times to give up the search. The book had
said that when one got to the right place, there would be a door there, and
all a person had to do was knock and it would open and there one would
stand: right in the kingdom of God.

Finally, they found the door they were looking for. They knocked on it, and
their hearts beat faster as it began to open. They stepped over the
threshold and what did they find? They were right back in their own
monastery!

They looked at one another and then it dawned on them what the book had
meant to say: that the place on earth where heaven and earth meet, and where
the kingdom of God begins, is the place where God has put us to live.

Think of others

Lord, help me live my life for Thee
to think of others instead of me
and help me give my very best
without regard for need of rest.

Until I've run the race you've set
and every righteous goal is met.
Then will I pause to give thee praise
for all the grace that blessed my days.

Then lovingly will I lay down.
a life of work, to thee a crown,
unworthy token though it be
to you who gave so much for me.



God's Faithfulness



Have you ever realized how generous God is? Look at the cross, it's a plus
sign. He always want to add blessing in your life.

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Never a weakness that He can't feel,
Never a sickness that He can't heal,
Never a sorrow that He doesn't share,
moment by moment--we're under Jesus' care.


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God said "If you never felt pain, then how would you know I'm a healer? If
you never felt sadness, how would you know that I'm a comforter? If life is
perfect will you still know Me?

A Fervent Prayer For The Sick and Suffering
O Almighty Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Savior. The same Lord that so
loves His children as to lay His life down for them. The same Lord that rose
from the dead on the third day, and Ascended into Heaven. The same Lord that
spoke the word and the Centurion’s Servant was immediately healed. The same
Lord that restored sight to the blind; cleansed lepers, cured the halt and
lame. The same Lord that with a word rebuked the seas and they were calm.
The same Lord that raised Lazarus from the dead. The same Lord that has been
given all power both in Heaven and on earth, do Thou, the same Lord visit
and heal Thy servant, (__name__), from the afflictions that they are now
suffering. Strengthen our faith like that of the Roman Centurion, so that we
may ask for this healing with the same faith, trust, and hope that Thy
servant, (__name__) will be healed in the same manner that the Centurion’s
servant was restored to health. O Holy physician of our souls and bodies,
hear this fervent prayer for Thy servant (__name__), and grant this request
as we hold this, Thy servant up before Thy glorious Throne. We ask this in
the victorious and Holy Name of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Good night and God bless you! Sweet Dreams and may you have a very blessed
and positive day tomorrow!