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January 4,
2007
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
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Thoughts from Sister Patricia
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Our talents are the gift that God gives to us..
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Here is the wonderful radio talk (30 minutes) that our Bishop William Skylstad (diocese of Spokane, Washington) did on the subject of Hope. Gift of Hope
Today I'm having one of those - Eureka - discovering new things about myself. It all comes about when you see yourself projected in a negative light. Oh my. How did that happen? You know, someone says something to you - and your immediate thought is, "I think I will just take their lights out." The typical response you expect from a nun right?
So you sort of say something that is not tooooo bad - a sort of nunnish half way sappy response but inside you are seething and wondering how you can wrap them up in a small package and send them to the moon or some place far, far away so you won't have to deal with their stupid, ridiculous behavior!
Then, you get to thinking and examining your response... "Why the big upset?" "Ooooh, did a nerve get touched or what?" So then you sort of pray about it and put it on the back burner (except for a few inner conversations in your head where you sort of get heated up again) but eventually - God somehow..... give Him a little time... manages to break through and you see "Eureka" a new discovery about yourself.
One of the breakthroughs came this morning before Mass when I was reading from one of my favorite books that I pull out when I find myself getting overly sensitive and prickly.
Happiness is an Inside Job by John Powell, S.J.
and here is the part that helped me. (don't know if it will make any sense to you - taken out of context .... but here it is.
Do I Accept My Feelings or Emotions?
It seems to be true that we handle emotions according to what we think about them. And so we must ask: Are there emotions active in me that I allow to become an obstacle to joyful self-acceptance? Can I feel fear, hurt, anger, jealousy, resentment, self-satisfaction, or self-pity without getting involved in self criticism and self-condemnation?
All of a sudden it was like a light bulb went "Click" and I thought. Yeah. so what if I did say or think something several years ago that was sort of "ME" centerered - who am I to think I'm not ME centered? It would be nice to think one was holy and all that.. but hey, if you're not.. isn't it much more freeing to be honest about it and say, "Yep, that was what I was thinking all right." and "My gosh, you sure hit the nail on the head that time."
I love reading books that sort of take the cover off of one's smothered, protective thinking about self and open one up to accepting the reality of who we really are... warts, bumps and all.... just like every one else ... who also are gifted with their own set of warts, bumps and stuff that need to be given over to God.
Blessings of Peace and Joy,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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Collecting Stories from
September 14 - January 15, 2007
101 Inspirational Stories
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The stories need to provide answers to these questions.
1. How did you pray?
What kind of prayer?
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2.. How committed were you to praying?
Maybe you didn't pray all that much... that's okay.. tell us that ...
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Help us to really get into how much heart and soul went into your prayer.
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I became a Pastor
As I looked into the congregation, I saw the family of a man whose funeral I had celebrated the past week. I saw the family of a woman who was in the hospital suffering from cancer. I saw a woman whose husband was struggling with alcoholism. There was a woman whose confession I had heard, amidst many tears.
to be continued
A selected story from Sister Patricia's book "201 Inspirational Stories of the Eucharist."
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Rejoice in Me
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Meeting the Lord at Dawn
Psalm 143:8
At dawn let me hear of your kindness, for in you I trust. Show me the way in which I should walk, for to you I lift up my soul.
Jesus rose from the dead early in the morning to reveal a way of life in which we should walk. He assured us that he would never leave us but would always remain with us in his resurrected, glorified life.
Each morning as we renew our faith in his presence, we will discover great consolation.
St. Paul says it so well: "The life I live now is not my own; Christ is living in me." (Gal 2:20).
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Friday
1 Jn 3: 7-10
Ps 97(98): 1. 7-8. 9
Jn 1: 35-42
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Jan 4 Fri: Elizabeth Ann Seton, r M
From today's readings:
“ Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the Devil.... All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God.... We have found the Messiah!”
Unraveling the Devil’s works
The Devil is also known as “the Deceiver” - he lurks in lies and eclipses truth with the darkness of dishonesty. In contrast, Jesus is the true Light of the world (John 1:9), dispelling the darkness of sin and error, untangling the mess of deception and confusion. The clarity of this radical opposition is bluntly expressed time after time in the works of St. John.
The tendency of modern man, however, is to avoid absolutes, insisting that there is no black and white - only varying shades of grey. Granted, many moral issues are indeed complex, but it is precisely the complexity of these issues that calls for a clarifying examination in Christ’s light.
The Son of God was revealed precisely to unravel and destroy all the Deceiver’s deceptions, so whenever we’re faced with the confusion of choices, you and I need to pray, study and seek the illumination of the eternal Truth of Christ. In fact, many (if not most) of us are at least vaguely suspicious that we continue to tolerate some self-deception in various areas of our lives - NOW is the time to pierce the fogginess of these secret issues with the piercing light of the Truth of Christ!
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