Hello my friends! I'm going to try to get this out before another storm comes our way in case the electricity goes out again like last night!! What a blessing we have with electricity! Wow!! I always had electricity growing up, but not TV or running water until I was 16. Listened to the radio alot. Father Jerry, my cousin, had a celebration for his 50th Jubilee as a priest today - we went to the Cathedral for his Mass, and wonderful homily gave of his life of fifty years as a priest. It rained - and the reception was outside, in tent awning type thing which worked. Got to see my cousin, Marilyn, and we ate together. Shirley, too, my classmate and Father Jerry's sister - we visited with. So something I didn't even know about him - he wrote poetry! There's booklets out there and I got mine, so thought I'd share a piece of his poetry here and there, if that's okay. He wrote that this poem describes an experience he had while attending daily Mass at St. John's Seminary. The aged face of our rector inspired my faith as he elevated the Host and Chalice with evident reverence and humility.
Mirror of Faith
Ah! Christ is there!
I see it not within the bread
That lies beside the cup,
But written on the face of him
Who holds His Body up!
The regal throne of gold does not
So speak of things divine,
As does the homage of the heart
That tastes for Blood the Wine!
Prayers for you all - especially for shorelady and her dear husband! Thank you all who posted and gave her support and love!!!
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.
The Eyes of Love
A grandmother and a little girl whose face was sprinkled with bright red
freckles spent the day at the zoo. The children were waiting in line to get
their cheeks painted by a local artist who was decorating them with tiger
paws.
'You've got so many freckles, there's no place to paint!' a boy in the line
cried.
Embarrassed, the little girl dropped her head. Her grandmother knelt down
next to her. 'I love your freckles,' she said.
'Not me,' the girl replied.
'Well, when I was a little girl I always wanted freckles,' she said, tracing
her finger across the child's cheek. 'Freckles are beautiful!'
The girl looked up. 'Really?'
'Of course,' said the grandmother. 'Why, just name me one thing that's
prettier than freckles.'
The little girl peered into the old woman's smiling face. 'Wrinkles,' she
answered softly.
A Savior Meditation
Be good, and you'll never regret it.
Be bad, and you'll never forget it.
If mistaken, be first to confess it.
If right, be the last to express it.
If wrong, then be quick to redress it.
If it's slander, be sure to suppress it.
Be kind, but let no one suspect it.
Be wise, but let no one detect it.
Be fair, for your friends will expect it.
Be swift, or perhaps you'll neglect it.
If it's borrowed, be quick to repay it.
If it's loaned, make excuse to delay it.
Be selfish, and no one will miss you.
Be a fool, and the demons will hiss you.
Be yourself, and the Good Lord will kiss you.
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