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June 16,
2008
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Today was a beautiful, beautiful day... sort of seemed like a day slipped out of heaven. The weather was so beautiful, warm and fresh without being hot. After Mass I pulled out our lawn swing from the garage and spent a delicious hour reading a fun book and just totally enjoying the day. I had the wonderful feeling that heaven is sort of like this...totally free and beautiful.
The pessimistic side of me - always wants to assure me that days like this will not come twice in a row so enjoy it! The fatalistic side of me says,... "Okay, what trouble is God preparing me for now?"
Think I need to stop drinking from the gloom and doom waters and trust that God is preparing us for days of Joy in heaven.. not sadness and sorrow. And beautiful days are glimpses of our glorious future.. all in store for us for ever and ever.
The fun book I am reading is a childrens book, (my favorite kind) called, "The Mysteriouos Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart. 485 pages of mystery and intrigue and suspense.. but not the adult kind where you have immoral stuff slapped in between the pages like slithery snakes... but just good and evil right out there in plain black and white that we can all see and deal with. Fun.
Very well written... I have this huge admiration for authors like this. I marvel how they do it... and enjoy every bit!
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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He Was Watching Me
Bridget A. M. Donaldson
Morpeth, Northumberland, England
A few years ago, when I was about eight years old, I was in one of my Communion classes preparing for my first holy Communion. These classes help you to become closer to God in the weeks leading up to your first holy Communion. I was in a particularly special class that day as this was the day I made my first holy confession.
As my friends and I sat in St. Roberts Church (my parish church), ready to make our first confessions, we were all very nervous. After about the second person had gone into the confession room, I heard some really loud footsteps at the back of the church. Everyone looked, and when I turned to look, I saw a real live image of Jesus!
He was very real, and He was just standing there in red and white clothing, looking as if He were watching me. Everyone else turned back around to face the front of the church, so I presumed they didn't see Him. I kept watching, and a few moments later, He half faded as He floated up and out of the church. I turned back around and sat there in the pew thinking about it.
Finally, it was my turn to make my first confession. I was very nervous, but as I walked into the confession room I became really confident, and I think I made a very good confession. When the Communion class ended, I told all of my friends what I had seen and they didn't really believe me. They didn't think it was true because when they turned around they didn't see anything. I know it was true, though. Now I am twelve years old, and whenever I feel nervous, I always think of what happened on that day.
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King of Glory
Psalm 7:18
I will give thanks to the Lord for his justice,
and sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.
God heard the prayer of the psalmist and protected him from his enemies. In gratitude, he was loud in his praise of God's holiness.
The "Lord Most High" surrounds us with his protective love especially against all the machinations of the devil. We are not even aware of the countless occasions when the Lord has rescued us from spiritual and physical harm. We praise him particularly for his justice, his divine life, which he communicates to us through the power of Christ's resurrection.
St. Paul's teaching brings joy to our heart:"...just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live a new life. If we have been united with him through likeness to his death, so shall we be through a like resurrection." (Rom 6:4-5)
May praise be ever on our lips!
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A Smile from Home - Danielle Bean
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Small Years
The other night Dan took the oldest four kids to a baseball game, leaving me at home with the bottom half — the littlest four. Four kids ages six and under. A blast from the past.
I needed to pick up just a few things for dinner, but I hesitated to head out with this gang in tow. Ridiculous, right? My little ones are always with me — why should I be afraid to bring them along just because I happened to have no older kids with me? Well. I’ll tell you why.
All those little bodies to buckle and unbuckle, buckle and unbuckle again, and no one to help me. You cannot be serious.
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
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Love makes all the difference
His traditional Marathi dress made him stand out in any crowd, but especially on this Saturday morning when the sun shone. As I had just been grumbling to myself about the difficulty involved in keeping white clothes white, rather than off-white, I envied his dazzling attire as the man hurried along the road ahead of me.
He was in late middle age and was accompanied by a young man pushing a brown-paper-wrapped, large picture frame on a porter’s trolley. The youth was noticeable only insofar as the trolley appeared unwieldy, conspicuous and decidedly inconvenient in that part of London at 09.30 on a Saturday morning. Yet they successfully dodged the uneven parts of the pavement, intent on reaching some unknown destination.
A few minutes later, I found the pair standing beside a large building, confused and lost. The elder asked for directions as his companion balanced the picture frame with a great deal of discomfort. In excellent, although strongly accented, English, he named a street of which I had never heard. His costume was not only brilliantly white, it was also brand new, probably worn for the first time.
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1 Kgs 21: 1-16
Ps 5: 2-3ab. 4b-6a. 6b-7
Mt 5: 38-42
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Jun 16 Mon: Ordinary Weekday
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“The LORD forbid that I should give you my ancestral heritage.... Heed my call for help, my king and my God!... When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one to him as well”
Laws of Retribution
Centuries before the time of Moses and the 10 Commandments, King Hammurabi of Babylon promulgated his famous law code, one of the earliest written texts of systematic legislation. Hammurabi’s work represented a step forward for universal justice, since ideally all citizens would receive equal application of the norms of the kingdom, and there was less danger of perversion of justice by the whims of magistrates and rulers.
But many punitive aspects of the Code of Hammurabi were excessive - those who stole substantial amounts were punished with execution, and even petty thieves were condemned to bodily mutilation. So, the Old Testament principle of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” was actually another step forward in the order of justice, since it prohibited inordinate punishment and established a logical standard for retribution. This rule, juridically titled lex talionis (Latin for “law of retaliation”) is foundational in many legal systems even today.
Jesus, however, in bringing the fulfillment of the Old Law, advocated another step forward, to the level of mercy and forgiveness. His purpose was not to criticize the lex talionis as excessive - in point of fact, judges of that time already employed common sense in cases of personal injury, generally subjecting the offender to a proportionate fine in penalty, rather than strict mirror mutilation. But Jesus taught that even the lex talionis could be advantageously superseded, as the actions of His life and redemptive death proved.
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