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We must pray not first of all because it feels good or helps,
but because God loves us and wants our attention.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
From "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Today... you really should click on the Peace Card and read about Saint Isidore. I just love this card because it tells about how St. Isidore worked with angels. I mean angels that people could actually see. It's a really cool text.. so do read it. Unless of course you are not into angels.. and then there probably is no hope for you anyway. (Just kidding) I'm sure the angels will find some way to help you even so.
We are getting so close to getting the book done that it is absolutely scary. When it actually is sent to the printer I will be so happy I can probably jump off the roof and keep on sailing for miles. Sister Rita Louise keeps telling me, "I know this book is going to be good, there has been so many obstacles in getting it there that Satan must really be upset about it.
I'm all for Satan being upset... except that its does get sort of uncomfortable at times when he gets that way. I guess its like being around anyone when they are out of sorts... they always seem to put other people out of sorts too! Unless of course you have learned to rise above it. I actually do .... once in a while... when I'm not caught off guard. It's those "out of the blue" moments when something happens that are the trouble spots!
Today I did the recording for Bishop Skylstad's bi-weekly talk for the radio. It is very good.. he is talking in a warm and friendly way about the coming of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States and what it was like to meet him and what the Pope is like on a personal encounter. Really nice. Link to 30 minute recording
ALSO... if you love cats.. then you will totally love this picture.... I Can't Respond . A friend sent it to me today.. and it is so, so cute! Even if you have seen it before.. it is still so, so cute!
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THE POWER OF PRAYER (Part Two)
By Bishop William S. Skylstad
It is the attempt to pray that is the prayer. It is the desire for union with God, put into action, that is prayer.
There are as many styles of prayer as there are people who pray. Whether we meditate or contemplate, recite or extemporize, pray with friends or alone, in a church or on a street corner: the important thing is to accept God?s invitation. In whatever way we choose to accept that invitation ? that is prayer. And it is powerful.
Sister Patricia has assembled another collection of stories about the power of prayer, how prayer has touched people?s lives. All of these people have been touched by the power of God?s grace through prayer. I know that you will be, too.
From the Introduction for "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Blessings of Peace,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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Everything God Created is Good
Only a Shadow
Psalm 115:15-16
May you be blessed by the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
Heaven is the heaven of the Lord,
but the earth he has given to the children of men.
This is a fervent prayer for a tremendous blessing—the blessing of the Lord of heaven and earth. God created the earth just for us. Let us stand and gaze in wonder at the beauty and the bounty of God's creation surrounding and enveloping us.
Yet this is only a shadow of "what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor 2:9).
Listen to Jesus' invitation: "Come. You have my Father's blessing! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world." (Mt 25:34)
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A Smile from Home - Danielle Bean
Today's Thought
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Gentle Rejection
Deep in the night, I awoke to the sound of Raphael asking for a drink. When I brought a cup to his bedside, he sipped from it and then asked, “Mama, pweeze will you sweep wif me a wittle while?”
I’m a sucker for those W’s. I climbed in bed beside him and then he snuggled, sighed, and fell back asleep.
I slept too. Until my apparent neediness began to cramp my toddler son’s style. I awoke again about an hour later when Raphael nudged me gently.
“Mama?” he smoothed my hair with one small hand.
“Hmmm?”
He hesitated, sighed, and then finally told me, “You weally need to go back to your bed now.”
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
Pause for Prayer
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On a personal note…
An apple
An apple is my favourite fruit. I never get tired of eating them. There is an English proverb which says that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Well, that is not the reason why I eat apples, although I suppose they might have something to do with the good health I usually enjoy.
I’ve never found two apples which taste exactly the same. That’s why it’s almost an adventure to take the first bite. I like them best when the apples are cold, straight out of the fridge. That’s when they are most crisp and juicy.
Apples come in many different varieties. There are Golden Delicious, which are green and crisp and are seen on sale everywhere even though, in my opinion, they are ‘short on taste’. There are Bramleys, which are native to Britain and can grow to the size of a new baby’s head. These are very sour and are mainly used for cooking. I like to eat them raw, however, as I enjoy their flavour so much. There are red apples and green apples, sweet and sour…….they look different and they taste different.
The other day I didn’t manage to eat my lunchtime apple until the afternoon. It looked beautiful and tasted wonderful at first. As I bit into the fruit, however, I discovered that the inside, around the core, was rotten. Instead of beautiful white, crisp, fruit, it was brown and soft. It just couldn’t be eaten.
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Friday
Acts 5: 34-42
Ps 26(27): 1. 4. 13-14
Jn 6: 1-15
Daily Readings
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Apr 4 Fri: Easter Weekday/ Isidore of Seville, bp, dr
From today's readings:
“And all day long, both at the temple and in their homes, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the Christ, Jesus.... The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear?... The Jewish feast of Passover was near....”
Church Chews on John 6
Most Catholics and many other Christians recognize Lent as the penitential season of 40 days leading up to Church’s celebration of Easter. And while everyone knows about Easter Sunday itself, far fewer people are familiar with Easter as a proper festive season stretching seven full weeks from the Sunday of the Lord’s Resurrection all the way to the day of Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit on the nascent Church, the fiftieth day of celebrating Christ’s Easter victory.
As always, the lectionary Scriptures set the meditative tone for the Easter season. To recall and be inspired by the Easter transformation of the first disciples, the Church reads through essentially the entire book Acts of the Apostles. This is obviously noted in the weekday readings, but even the first reading on Sundays (normally taken from the Old Testament) also comes from the Acts throughout Eastertide.
During the initial week of this season, the Gospel readings first logically cycle through each evangelist’s account of the Resurrection, but starting in the second week of Easter, the lectionary returns to a number of pre-Resurrection discourses of Christ found only in the Gospel of John. These Gospel passages, which the Church thus considers anew, are among the most mystic teachings of the Lord, since none of them can be properly understood without the light of Easter faith.
So, for instance, the Gospel readings this week have been from chapter 3 (of John), the Lord’s introductory teachings on the baptismal re-birth of water and the Holy Spirit. Then today, the lectionary presents the entrée of John 6, one of the most crucial chapters in the entire Bible, since it provides us with the best taste of the topic which Jesus Himself saw fit to patiently preach about in savory details exactly one year before His Passion. So, open your Bibles to John 6, and let’s carefully chew on every word to insure that not even a fragment of the Lord’s loaves goes to waste....
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