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Learn to love the Creator in his creation,
the Worker in his work.
Don?t be so fascinated by things created
that you forget the One who created them all.
St. Augustine
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This week we are being gifted with some Franciscan teachings by Fr. John Vaughn, OFM. We have an hour session in the morning and one in the afternoon. The talks are wonderful - simple and open to discussions that sometimes lead us off into other realms of discovery about the Franciscan life that are not on the agenda but I think just as important and valuable.
For instance this morning we started talking about the early ministers of the order and the direction the Spirit led and they led the Franciscan movement into new areas... and ended up talking a bit about Pope Benedict and his love for the Franciscan Saints. I didn't know that. I had forgotten that he wrote his Masters thesis on Saint Bonaventure... so perhaps its more accurate to say I forgot - but anyway that was kind of a neat thing... and after that we got into talking about Saint Dominic and how the two saints who lived in the same time - blessed the church in different ways.
I wanted to know how come St. Francis became more popular than St. Dominic (other than to Dominicans of course) and we tossed around different theories and one that Father John offered that made sense.. is that one was Italian (Francis) and one was Spanish (Dominic) and the two cultures presented their saints in different ways. Neither was always accurate - not in a deceiving sort of way... but just how the different cultures promoted their popular figures. Which I thought was a very interesting concept.
After that we progressed for a bit on how surprised we will probably be in heaven to find out who REALLY were the great saints in God's eyes..... not that those we know and love won't be great.. but I am sure some hidden saints.... ones we never heard of .... will be greatly honored for their heroic deeds and lives that never made the popular roll call of those we know today.
Surprises, surprises. I am sure Heaven will be full of them!
Tomorrow I go with my mom to her first doctor visit after her hospital stay. How time passes! She has almost beeen a week in the nursing home. Just amazing - that which I thought would have been a most unbearable thing to experience for my mom (and myself)... a broken leg, wheelchair and nursing home .... has turned out to be quite manageable. Thank you again and again for all your prayers. They are surely working!
I wanted to thank each one of you who wrote - but sadly - I just do not have the time to do that. Every day piles up with new things to do and my plans to answer each one... I don't think is going to happen. But God bless you and Thank You so much! You are wonderful and your prayers are so appreciated.
Blessings of Peace and Joy!
Sister Patricia
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Susan DeFanti
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About three years ago I had what I thought was a terrible migraine headache. Little did I know that it was the warning sign of worse things to come. When a mass of tissue was found in my brain, I found myself in such a dark place that I could not pray, so I asked others to pray for me. Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, Muslims, and even Hindis were praying for me.
Then I went to the hospital to have brain surgery. Throughout my whole ordeal I kept hearing in my head, "Give thanks in all things," so I started looking for things to be thankful for. I gave thanks for my insurance, and for being able to choose my neurosurgeon, who, incidentally, is one of the best in the nation for my kind of tumor and was right in my own backyard!
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Psalm 103:11-13
For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him.
As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he put our transgressions from us.
In picturesque language the psalmist tries to convince us by comparing it to the infinite distance between earth and heaven.
Similarly, from east to west is a continuous circle without beginning or end. Such is God's loving forgiveness. It is limitless, unending, always present.
Sacred Scripture reassures us: "We have this confidence in God: that he hears us whenever we ask for anything according to his will. And since we know that he hears us whenever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours." (1 Jn 5:14-15)
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This is the game:
1. Stand on a chair in the dining room.
2. Dump enormous box of crayons onto the floor.
3. Giggle with glee.
4. Get down from chair and painstakingly refill box with every last crayon from the floor.
5. Repeat.
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July 10, 2008
From today's readings:
"Yet, though I stooped to feed My child, they did not know that I was their healer.... O LORD of hosts, look down from Heaven, and see.... Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give!"
Missionary Theme
Chapter Ten of Matthew's Gospel begins with the naming of the Twelve Apostles, those whom Jesus sent forth with the mission of proclaiming His Gospel. In fact, the word "apostle" is derived from the Greek verb "to send," and also the word "mission" is the Latin derivative, again from the verb "to send."
So, in this and all of their other missionary work, the Apostles were agents of Christ, doing things the way He wanted them done. If they had insisted on doing things their own way, they would have shaped a much different church, one of merely human origin. But because they were given and followed the Lord's specific directions, the Church will forever glory in the four divine trademarks: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.
Jesus specified that the heart of His missionaries proclamation should be, "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!" This was, in fact, the theme of His own preaching (cf. Matthew 4:17). Without doubt, there is much entailed in faithfully preaching and living the full Gospel, but every evangelistic effort must be centered on the practical consequences of that cardinal Christian insight: The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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