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Oh, how few find time for prayer!
There is time for everything else,
time to sleep and time to eat,
time to read the newspaper
and the novel,
time to visit friends,
time for everything else under the sun,
but - no time for prayer,
the most important of all things,
the one great essential!
Oswald J. Smith
From "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Tuesday was the anniversary of Pope John Paul II and I had planned to send a card to commemorate the special event... but alas and alack.... I was just too tired too move, so anyway.. .... now that Pope John Paul is in heaven... what's a day or two when you have all of eternity?
Today was in the car and on the road day.. which as you can assume is not all that common for someone living in the monastery. But, Sister Colleen was off to a Poor Clare federation meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio and someone had to drive her to the airport. Did I volunteer? Hmmm, maybe, or was I volunteered? Hmmm. Whatever... that was a nice little morning drive at five in the morning. And then.. my mother had a doctor's appointment... the first in a series now as we try to get her a little more stablilized UTI wise. I wasn't looking forward to it... because it was at the hospital.. you know one of those huge conglomeration places with umpteem different buildings with convulted streets that get you there or not depending on how savy you are. I wasn't.
Anyway I survived. I didn't get a T shirt or anything but I survived. Next week they want me to do it twice more... In two different places. Don't they understand how stressfull this is to someone who gets lost going out the back door? Whatever. If you don't hear from me after next Thursday you know I will be still be driving around trying to find the place till the car runs out of gas or I hit somebody.
So... now it is time for prayer. I think I know how to get there.
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THE POWER OF PRAYER (Part Two)
By Bishop William S. Skylstad
If prayer is a relationship, how do we actually do it?
Remember that prayer is an invitation from God to us ? an invitation to spend time with him, to speak with honesty about our joys and our sorrows, our gratitude and our needs. Prayer is the activity that lets us reach out and touch God, and be touched in return.
The most important thing to remember is: To try to pray is to pray.
Keep in mind that there are as many ways to pray as there are people. Each of us speaks with a unique voice, whether we use our vocal cords or a computer keyboard. Some might place themselves before God with a full heart, brimming over with expressions of love, of gratitude, of need. Others come before God with a heart full of sorrow that simply cannot be articulated. They place themselves in God?s presence, offering up the feelings that they cannot put into words.
For prayer is not necessarily about words, or even an abundance of words. Sometimes it is enough to say, ?Help,? and at other times, to say, ?Thank you.? To say, ?O Lord, I love you. Help me love you more.?
From the Introduction for "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Rejoice in Me
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Everything God Created is Good
Magnificent Masterpiece
Psalm 8:4-5
When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars which you set in place—
What is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the son of man that you should care for him?
We are the masterpiece of God's creative love. Our mission is to reflect his glory and give him honor and praise which his handiwork deserves.
The people we meet, are also very special master-pieces of God's creative love. It behooves us to recognize and respect them as such. Rejoice with the inspired writer: "Yours, O Lord, are grandeur and power, majesty, splendor, and glory." (1Chr 29:11)
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A Smile from Home - Danielle Bean
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Cache
As head warden around here, one of my most time-consuming responsibilities is the confiscation of illegal weaponry. Don’t get me wrong — weapons are allowed. They only become “illegal” when used improperly. Permanently marking the ceramic tile or attempting to slice off your brother’s head, for example, would be punishable offenses. Here’s today’s haul.
Note the shank-like quality of the whittled stick in the center. I fear that the prisoners might be planning a revolt. After one recent confiscation, I found a scrawled note in the dining room. In blue crayon it read, “We are wiled and untamed.” Agreed.
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
Pause for Prayer
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On a personal note…
The butterfly
A wooden butterfly lies on the bookshelf in my room. It’s only about 1˝ inches in height and 2 inches wide. It is hand-carved, but in little detail, and that is, perhaps, its beauty . I’ve had the butterfly for several years and, literally, God alone knows for how long its previous owner had enjoyed its simplicity.
The thing that makes this particular butterfly precious is that Maria, who gave it to me, died unexpectedly a very short time later.
Suddenly a simple carving was transformed into a valuable memento.
The things that are really priceless in life are not those of monetary value: they can easily be stolen or destroyed. Rather they are the, perhaps, commonplace objects that have their worth because of the people associated with them.
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Thursday
Acts 5: 27-33
Ps 33(34): 2
and 9. 17-18. 19-20
Jn 3: 31-36
Daily Readings
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Apr 3 Thu: Easter Weekday
From today's readings:
“We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.... Many are the troubles of the just man, but out of them all the LORD delivers him.... Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.”
Obey God, rather than men!
By now, we are familiar with the pattern found throughout the Acts of the Apostles: time and time again, the disciples suffer persecution or other obstacles in spreading the faith, but nonetheless, they always find a way to proclaim the Gospel with zeal and boldness. Yesterday, sacred scripture recounted the miraculous release of the apostles from prison, which enabled them to overcome that formidable barrier, and as soon as they were free, they returned to public proclamation of the good news (Acts 5:20-21). Today, Holy Writ relates how the Apostles were again dragged before the Sanhedrin, and again stood their ground (“We must obey God rather than men!”) in the face of the gag order imposed by the Jewish leaders (cf. 4:13-31, and reflection on April 17).
The Apostles insist that Jesus was exalted by God “as Leader and Savior to grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.” Once again, that central focus of Christ’s ministry is stressed: His call to repentance and discipleship for the forgiveness of sins! This crucial aspect must never be lost or overshadowed by other dimensions of living out our faith, and since now the proclamation of the Gospel at this time has been entrusted to you and me, with our words, and more importantly, with our deeds, we must give faithful Christian witness in the face of whatever obstacle or persecution we account, for we too “must obey God rather than men!”
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