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2008

Wind Beneath My Wings

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Sometimes people ask me this question: ‘If God does not wish us to ask for material things,
but for Himself, the Giver of all good, why does the Bible never say: Do not pray for this or that,
pray simply for the Holy Spirit? Why has this never been clearly expressed? ‘

I reply, Because He knew that people would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches
and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something
better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

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Today I carefully spent a whole hafl hour planning the week - what needed to be done - breaking it down into day by day segments. I naturally didn't get everything done today I had planned.... not even half.. but it did help to see things a little better and take some of the unknown out of the equation.

Tomorrow I go with my brother John to Care conference for my mom. We will meet with the therapist and nurse I suppose and others and see how things are going.

Sister Patricia and all the Sisters



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My grandson, Russell, had spent time in Kuwait as a scout for the army and was finally back at his base in the United States with only five months left to serve when he was notified that he was being sent to Iraq. After he arrived in Baghdad, the army informed Russell that his service time had been extended for another year. He needed the prayers of the entire family if he were to get home safely. I am a great believer that there is no greater power available to us on earth than prayer, so my husband and I prayed the rosary every single day for his protection and safe return home.

I wrote and encouraged him not to give up hope, and told him to let his superiors know that he would be out of Iraq by Christmas because his grandmother was praying for him to be home by then, and that she has pull with someone a lot higher up than the president of the United States.

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God's forgiving love is a mystery. He loves us so much, he wants to forgive us more than we could even want forgiveness. That kind of love we cannot fathom.

Jesus' words to the criminal on the cross could also be addressed to us if our disposition is the same as his: "I assure you: this day you will be with me in paradise." (Lk 23:43)

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Let go and let God

The story is told of a monk who had a very short temper and who made life extremely difficult for his community. One day, for some unspecified but very trivial reason, he lost his temper and was so angry that he actually died in the midst of his rage. His community, having been at the receiving end of his wrath for so many years, had a discussion. Of course their brother must have gone straight to hell because nobody could possibly have held so much anger inside and still be forgiven by God. The result was that the community decided that it was a waste of time praying for the monk and continued on their daily routine somewhat more peacefully than usual as he was not around to disturb their peace.

A couple of nights after the monk’s death, the abbot woke from his sleep.
“Why are you not praying for your brother?” asked the Lord.
“Well with a temper such as his, we presumed that you could never forgive him for such an outburst and so we did not want to waste our time or yours”, responded the somewhat confused abbot.
“Ah,” replied the Lord, “That is where we see things differently. You think he died because he lost his temper. I know his death was the result of his efforts to control it!”

One of the beauties of a Retreat is that it gives the opportunity for a little bit of healthy self-examination. Recently, in the quiet of my room, I listened to some lovely Spanish instrumental music that I recorded during my Retreat last year. Out of the blue and, as I thought, with no trigger, I thought, “I was so angry!”

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Sr Janet

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Jer 14: 17-22
Ps 78(79): 8. 9. 11 and 13
Mt 13: 36-43


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From today's readings: "Is it not You alone, O LORD, our God, to Whom we look?... Help us, O God our savior, because of the glory of Your Name.... The Son of Man will send His angels, and they will collect out of His Kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers."

Ravages of Sin


In addition to the crisis of foreign invasion, chapter 14 of the book of Jeremiah recounts the catastrophe of a great famine. Droughts and food shortages were common from time to time throughout the ancient world, but the prophet bewails the effects of a famine which was evidently quite severe, and particularly bad-timed, coinciding as it did with grave military threats.

Read all of chapter 14 to get the complete picture: false prophets were promising that no famine or war would come, even in spite of the people's sinfulness. But Jeremiah and the true prophets had announced that the Word of the Lord had foreseen the coming of these adversities because of the people's iniquities.

And come they did! The people were faced with the unmasked reality of the fruits of their wickedness. Drought is so visibly awful, when life-giving water is dried up, and food sources quickly become scarce. We can recall the Lord's complaint voiced in Jeremiah 2:13 that "Two evils have My people done: they have forsaken Me, the source of living waters; They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that hold no water!" So now, the people physically experience the famine which parallels the spiritual dryness their sins have caused.


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