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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best.
Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling.
For these may come from a deeper level than feeling.
God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately
when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
C.S. Lewis
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Must share this with you... a comment from yesterday's card (just in case you never get around to reading the comments) about getting holy....Effie wrote this....
About the "getting holy" part though, I must share with you a bumper sticker that I never forgot: "Don't wait to repent at the 11th hour, you may die at 10:30" !!! LOL
That is very funny!
My sister Euli was over last weekend with her kids to visit meself, my brother and his family and of course.. most of all... MOM. . Here are a few pictures when we took mom back to her place. One thing my mom always impressed me was her generosity. She always had to give us something.. whether it was a glass of water or a cute pine cone she found on a walk or one of her latest cookbooks. She might have dementia now but her generous spirit is still as strong as ever. Here she looked about and found a cute little stuffed puppy to give as a present to Euli.
I will say the puppy was very cute. I know because I bought him. We all love to buy her little stuffed animals.. knowing that they will be passed on to someone else at some point... but that's the gift that keeps on giving! None of us mind.. we all know ahead of time.. the gift is for the present moment.. not forever! And it makes Mom so happy to be able to give something cute or nice to someone.
When you think about it... God does this for us all the time. He gives to us so we can give to others... and everybody is happy giving. And of course its nice to receive too.... especially when its given with great love!
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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Sr. Georgene M. Golock
Akron, Ohio
When I was a young novice in our community, I became familiar with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy devotion that our Lord gave to St. Faustina. I prayed the chaplet daily and came to personally embrace the deep meaning of the words our Lord revealed to Faustina.
Our Lord promised that anyone who prayed the novena prayers and chaplet beginning on Good Friday and ending on the first Sunday after Easter would be granted his request, provided it was His will for that person's life. One Easter season I had a very large favor I desperately needed to have granted.
It all revolved around my father who had been away from the Church for many years. I learned from my mom that he was a very religious person when they were first married and while I was a young child. Being a proud and honest man with a tell-it-like-it-is personality, my father could not tolerate hypocrisy of any sort, so when some people in the Church hurt him, he stopped practicing our faith altogether.
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Praise Everywhere and Always
Psalm 67:5-6
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you!
This is a prayer pleading that all nations may recognize the blessings of the Lord as he governs wisely, rules over the seasons, and provides an abundant harvest for our sustenance, not to mention the other gifts he daily rains down on us.
As we ponder God's goodness, we too desire that all peoples glorify him for his loving concern. What more appropriate prayer can we offer than: "May all the people's praise you!"
St. Paul's words are eloquent: "He is the pledge of our inheritance, the first payment against the full redemption of a people God has made his own, to praise his glory." (Eph 1:14)
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Revenge is Sweet
Daughter: When I am grown up and you come to visit me, I’ll be eating Lindt chocolates. And you can just watch me and drool while you’re having a nice plate of whole grain pasta.
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
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On a personal note…
Double trouble… or doubly blessed?
In one sense, there was nothing unusual this morning about seeing a mother standing waiting at the roadside with her twins. What was unusual was that she had two pushchairs, with a twin in each. The boys looked as though they were aged about 7 or 8 and quite severely mentally and physically handicapped. Both of them were so alike and bore such a close resemblance to the woman accompanying them that she simply had to be their mother, waiting for someone to help her with the twins. With the best will in the world, nobody could have managed to single-handedly push the two prams down the busy road. That she had succeeded in reaching the spot where she was standing meant that the helper had to be nearby, if invisible to my eyes.
Who was that woman? One can only imagine the pain experienced on discovering that both of her sons would be incapable of leading a normal life. Did she have the support she needed or was she kept at a distance by her disappointed family? She was a Bangladeshi. Did her husband blame her for ‘imperfect’ sons, or was he as devastated as she, trying to come to terms with his disappointment and give his family all the love and care that they needed?
For sure, the two boys receive great care and attention. Even a brief glimpse in passing by served to reveal as much. They were beautifully clean and tidy, well-dressed and comfortable in their chairs. Their very appearance also testified to the heroism and the love of their parents.
For any parent, the birth of a disabled child is a cause of sadness. It is inevitably a challenge. There have to be the unanswerable questions, “Why me?”, “Why my baby?” For a couple to have to come to terms with more than one disabled child is even harder and even more deserving of the understanding and prayers of others.
The woman at the roadside this morning did not know that she was setting the world an example of heroic and self-sacrificing love. May many people have open eyes and hearts that will receive the lessons that she, unknowingly, taught as she stood and waited patiently.
May God bless her and all parents in her position in life, giving them the courage and strength that they will need as they put love into practise.
God bless,
Sr. Janet
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Sir 48: 1-14
Ps 96(97): 1-2. 3-4. 5-6. 7
Mt 6: 7-15
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Jun 19 Thu: Ordinary Weekday/ Romuald, ab
From today's readings:
“Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace.... The LORD is king; let the earth rejoice; let the many isles be glad.... This is how you are to pray: ‘Our Father who art in Heaven....’ ”
Perfect Prayer
Since many saints have written such profound commentaries on the Lord’s Prayer, it seems appropriate on this day, when those verses are proclaimed, to pass on at least one sample of those saintly writings.
In one of his sermons on the Our Father, St. Thomas Aquinas remarked that the Lord’s prayer elucidates both what we ought to desire, and what we ought to avoid. Since the glory of God should be sought first, it is the first petition mentioned: hallowed be Thy Name. We pray for our eternal life (Thy kingdom come), and the complete fulfillment of God’s plan (Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven), and we turn to God for the necessities of this life (Give us this day our daily bread).
The opposite of those four goods are what we also implore God to save us from. For, anything directed away from the glory of God is Evil. To remove the evil of sin, we say, Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. We pray to keep us far from temptation that leads to sin (And lead us not into temptation) and for definitive salvation from the Devil (but deliver us from Evil).
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