Our body is the temple of God and our soul is His image. It is the devil's
work to make us forget that and feel useless, incapable and worthless.
Lord, I will not deny Your existence in me. I am strong and capable
because You live and work through me.
S C R I P T U R E F O R T H E D A Y
"In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not
so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take
you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also." ~John
14:2-3
M E D I T A T I O N F O R T H E D A Y
We can look at the world as our Father's house. We can think of all
people we meet as guests in our Fathers house, to be treated with love
and consideration. We can look at ourselves as servants in our
Father's house, as servants of all. We can think of no work as
beneath us. We can be ready to do all we can for others who need our
help. There is gladness in God's service. There is much satisfaction
in serving the highest that we know. We can express our love for God
in service to all
who are living with us in our Father's house.
P R A Y E R F O R T H E D A Y
I pray that I may serve others out of gratitude to God. I pray that
my work may be a small repayment for God's grace so freely given me.
Life is not about being perfect,
it’s about making life perfect with
common imperfections.
~ Erika Valdespino
Laugh when you can, apologize when you should
and let go of what you can’t change.
Letting go doesn’t mean you’re giving up,
it means you’re moving on.
~ Unknown
Lord, I bring to you my burdens and you know
my situation. You know i can’t make it without you.
Comfort my heart, give me strength
and help me carry on.
~ Unknown
Don’t ever change just to impress and please someone.
Change because it makes you a better person
and it leads you to a better future.
~ Unknown
Never underestimate the pain of a person,
because in all honesty, everyone is struggling.
Some people are better at hiding
it than others.
~ Will Smith
There will always be a reason why you meet people.
Either you need them to change your life or
you’re the one that will change theirs.
~ Unknown
GOD IS ALWAYS NEAR
Author Unknown
One thing can always cheer me
When I'm feeling sad and low
When I tired of daily trials
That I have to undergo,
When those who should
Seem closest, seem like
People I don't know,
One thing can always cheer me
I know that God is near me.
One thing can always cheer me
When I do not understand
How pain and sadness
In our lives
Can get so out of hand,
When the best of human efforts
Doesn't meet the days demands,
One thing can always cheer me
I know that God is always near me.
One thing can always cheer me
More than anything I've known
And show me I will never
Have to struggle on my own
For no matter what might happen
I will never be alone
The thing that will always cheer me
Is just knowing God is near me.
Our lives are in God's loving
Hands, in everything we do
He is with us constantly,
He always sees us through.
And if our faith is strong enough
We'll never walk alone,
For with His great and perfect love
He takes care of His own.
Obstacles
An old farmer had plowed around a large rock in one of his fields for years.
He had broken several plowshares and a cultivator on it and had grown rather
morbid about the rock.
After breaking another plowshare one day, and remembering all the trouble
the rock had caused him through the years, he finally decided to do
something about it.
When he put the crowbar under the rock, he was surprised to discover that it
was only about six inches thick and that he could break it up easily with a
sledgehammer. As he was carting the pieces away he had to smile, remembering
all the trouble that the rock had caused him over the years and how easy it
would have been to get rid of it sooner.
O Blessed Virgin Mary
O BLESSED Virgin Mary, who can worthily repay thee thy just dues of praise
and thanksgiving, thou who by the wondrous assent of thy will didst rescue a
fallen world? What songs of praise can our weak human nature recite in thy
honor, since it is by thy intervention alone that it has found the way to
restoration?
Accept, then, such poor thanks as we have here to offer, though they be
unequal to thy merits; and, receiving our vows, obtain by thy prayers the
remission of our offenses. Carry thou our prayers within the sanctuary of
the heavenly audience, and bring forth from it the antidote of our
reconciliation. May the sins we bring before Almighty God through thee,
become pardonable through thee; may what we ask for with sure confidence,
through thee be granted.
Take our offering, grant us our requests, obtain pardon for what we fear,
for thou art the sole hope of sinners. Through thee we hope for the
remission of our sins, and in thee, O blessed Lady, is our hope of reward.
Holy Mary, succor the miserable, help the fainthearted, comfort the
sorrowful, pray for thy people, plead for the clergy, intercede for all
women consecrated to God; may all who keep thy holy commemoration feel now
thy help and protection.
Be thou ever ready to assist us when we pray, and bring back to us the
answers to our prayers. Make it thy continual care to pray for the people of
God, thou who, blessed by God, didst merit to bear the Redeemer of the
world, who liveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen.
Written by Bishop Fulbert of Chartres (ca 951-ca 1029)
Mother Teresa Said...
The aim of taking a retreat is to advance in the knowledge and love of God,
to purify ourselves, and to reform and transform our lives according to the
life of our model, Jesus Christ. It is not so much a looking back on the
achievements and failures of the past, as a looking forward to a more
generous imitation of our Lord Himself.
Meditations by Padre Pio
Don’t try, excessively, to heal your heart, as your efforts would only make
it more infirm. Don’t make too great an effort to overcome your temptations,
as this violence would only make them stronger. Despise them and don’t dwell
on them too much.
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