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Quote for the Day: It is not I who wanted prayer. It is he who wanted it. It is not I who have looked for him. It is he who has looked for me first. My seeking him would have been in vain if before all time he had not sought me.
Carlo Carretto Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Sunday was nice and lazy. At least for me - my get up and go never showed up and I just didn't care. Perhaps its from all the smoke in the air - its been a fire filled, smoky few days. Thirteen homes were lost in the area and about 1200 acres. One of those windy periods and someone had a fire in a fire pit that got out of control.
Today was our last day with Father John Vaughn, OFM....it's been a wonderful few days. We had dinner on the patio before the day got to hot. Luckily we have our main meal at noon so we can do this more often!
My mom gets her cast this Wednesday. Hope it goes well. Here is a picture I took on Saturday when I went for a visit. Took her for a wheelchair excursion around the outside. Was really nice on Saturday because it was much cooler and one didn't mind being outside.
Well, don't know what the week will hold.. but it promises to be interesting I think.
Blessings of Peace and Joy! Sister Patricia
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Saint Joseph's Protection
Roberta H. Sefchick
Prompton, Pennsylvania
My mother taught us children to pray at a young age. We often prayed the rosary together while sitting on the back porch, and as we prayed we would look at the sky. Mom would say, "Look at the beautiful sky, it's 'Blessed Mother Blue'." She frequently said, "You know, St. Joseph protected Jesus and His mother. If you pray to him he will protect you, too."
My mom gave each of us a copy of a prayer to St. Joseph and told us to always keep it with us and to pray it often. As the years passed, I gave copies of this prayer to my own children and taught them to pray it often.
When my youngest daughter Eileen was nineteen, she had to take her first long trip to Philadelphia by herself. It was her first time on a major highway. When she returned home safely, we went out for lunch. We sat near a window in the restaurant and watched as a workman removed a curb in the parking lot with a backhoe. At one point in the
conversation, Eileen leaned over the table towards me and said, "Boy, Mom, the traffic was really bad on the highway. Did I ever say my St. Joseph prayer!"
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Worthy of Praise
Psalm 103:20-21
Bless the Lord, all you his angels,
you mighty in strength, who do his bidding
obeying his spoken word.
Bless the Lord, all you his hosts,
his ministers, who do his will.
When we ponder God's forgiving, healing, redeeming love for us regardless of what we have done, we are completely overwhelmed. Words cannot possibly convey our feelings of grateful love and praise.
With the psalmist, let us call upon all the hosts of heaven to praise and glorify our merciful God in our name.
With the heavenly choir let us sing:
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power and riches, wisdom and strength,
honor and glory and praise!"
(Rev 5:12)
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
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On a personal note…
Mission Life
One of the useful things about searching for something is that it often leads to a discovery. This has happened today.
We can talk about ‘mission life’ as though it were something interesting and exciting. Indeed, there are those moments which are wonderfully unforgettable, but they tend to come in between hours devoted to ‘the daily grind’. Today, my serendipitous find was something I wrote one Valentines’ Day some years ago. I include it below as it presents one particularly busy night in Zambia, when I was ‘on call’ for the hospital.
It’s the end of the day and the day has gone on forever. It’s not that there have been major catastrophes for once. It’s little things, such as planning to watch a video that someone has deliberately carried for several hundred kilometres, by way of a relaxing treat. The community relaxes…and the electricity fails. People decide there’s nothing for it but to go to bed early…by candlelight…and ten minutes after the house becomes silent, the electricity returns….and it’s too late to watch the video.
It seems as though it’s only a few minutes since the candles were lit, the electricity returned …and failed again…and it’s 02.00am. The watchman is banging at the door. The chief wants an injection because he has hiccoughs again and he wants the Sister to give it, not the nurse on night duty…. “and when you come, could his relative have a pillow?”
Trying to be charitable and Christlike, you stagger out of bed and find something to disguise the fact that, under the chitenge, you didn’t bother to get completely dressed. No, you don’t remove your shoes to greet the Chief, who mutters about the length of time it’s taken for his injection. (What a shame the needle isn’t longer and thicker and wouldn’t you love to throw the pillow at his relative…and if he sees that you’re wearing shoes? Tough! The disrespect is intended, for once!) The night nurse comes in. She forgot to ask for some syringes and hasn’t enough for the children’s ward….and one of the women is vomiting….and a man has just come in who has fallen from his bicycle in the dark (he was drunk!) and cut himself. Does he need to be sutured and if so, could Sister please do it because there’s a very sick child in the children’s ward.
At 03.00, just as the thought of sleep is becoming an obsession, there’s a noise outside. A group of people have just paddled for five hours in a leaky canoe because a woman is having difficulty in giving birth, and it’s her first baby…..so she’s terrified and there could be problems. The thought of sleep recedes as you try to be as encouraging, kind and gentle as possible with a young girl whose grandmother has been telling her to push the baby out from the time the poor girl had her first contraction….so there could be problems. At 03.30, with the thought of a couple of hours sleep, you leave the hospital and head towards bed, that wonderful, wonderful place you just don’t see very often…and at 04.30, the girl is having difficulty in delivering the baby and might need to be transferred to a hospital for a caesarean section …but then again, she might just have the baby normally, but could Sister please come to check her out?
00.50. Bed!… and the roosters start to crow, the women are chattering as they go to the spring for water… and so mission life continues. Where’s the glamour?
Sr. Dorothy Stang fought for the landless in Brazil. Fr. Kaiser worked for his parishioners in Kenya. They gave themselves. They gave their lives. Murdered…for the greater glory of the God whom you’d have to be crazy to love and to follow, crazy to have night after night of disturbed sleep.
……but then, you do love him. Crazily!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
God bless,
Sr. Janet
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From today's readings:
"Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good.... Why do you recite My statutes, and profess My covenant with your mouth, though you hate discipline and cast My words behind you?... Whoever receives you receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me. "
Learn to Do Good
A few weeks ago, we considered the condemnation of religious hypocrisy found in the book of the prophet Amos, a view echoed in Hosea's writings (cf. Hosea 6:6) and many others, including these early inflammatory verses of Isaiah, who compares the hypocritical listeners of his day to the rampantly immoral people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
But, as always, it would be folly to dismiss the words of the prophet as directed merely to the people of another age - they're also meant for us! Even though we don't worship with the blood of sacrificed animals, and we observe religious solemnities unknown at the time of Isaiah, the same insight applies: worship is worthless without the wholehearted resolve to "Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow!"
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