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June 27,
2008
Breath of Nature
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Thoughts from Sister Patricia
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Silence of Mary, speak to me,
teach me how with you and like you
I can learn to keep all things in my heart as you did,?
to pray always in the silence of my heart as you did.
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
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Tut, tut... looks like rain...tut, tut.. looks like rain
That's from Winnie the Pooh.... some things you remember even when you are way older than six. Anyway its what just came to my mind now as I look out the window. The Weather Channel doesn't say rain... but I'm thinkin they need to put up a revision.
Friday, is my day of recollection. Oh Joy. We each take one day a month to have a sort of personal mini retreat day. It's very nice. Don't have to answer the phone or take my turn at the door. Just find a nice quiet place and pray and read and just be. That's the plan. I hope it works out - I've been looking forward to my retreat day for two weeks. I won't even care if it rains because I like rain sometimes as long as it doesn't stay around too long. I could never live in Seattle or a costal city where they get rain all the time... my mental system just wouldn't tolerate it at all.
I was looking at a Visitor Map for Spokane today... one of those things that surfaces when one does a bit of cleaning... and it gave the native interpretation for Spokane. It means, "Children of the Sun." I really like that. I always knew they talked about Spokane as "Sunny Spokane" but I forgot that that was the actual name of it. I knew it was the name of the tribe that lived her at one time... (other than the local baseball team name). Anyway, it suits me just fine.. because I love the sun. And of course Saint Francis too was very fond of Brother Sun... so looks like all around I ended up in the right place in the right order.
So we shall see how my Day of Recollection goes. I'm hoping for the best. Maybe I'll do a little levitating in the morning - followed by a few visions in the afternoon. Just your light typical holy day in the monastery.
Blessings of Peace and Joy!
Sister Patricia
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Ten Minute Meditation
Sr. Patricia Proctor
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Take a moment to visit your beautiful garden. Look at the flowers. Are there any new ones blooming today? Can you hear the waterfall over to the side? Listen to the birds singing in the trees. Spend a few minutes thinking what a beautiful and restful place this is.
Now think of someone that you are having difficulty with today or in your past.
When you have the person in mind, notice that Jesus is walking towards you and He is talking to that difficult person in your life. It actually looks as if He is enjoying being with your problematic person! Oh my goodness! How could that be?
Now the difficult person is walking out of the garden. Your garden! Jesus continues to walk towards you. He smiles at you and you know He is glad to see you and wants to spend time with you.
Did you stop breathing for a few seconds when you saw Jesus with this difficult person? Let your breath out now…slowly and easily. It's okay that Jesus loves you and the difficult person in your life as well.
Talk with Jesus about this or simply let it be and just sit in the garden quietly. Healing comes when we see someone in a new light--even those we have difficulty with.
Prayer when time is completed:
Jesus,
thank you
for opening my heart
to see others
as you see them.
Thank you
for loving all people,
even those I find
difficulty in loving.
Amen.
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On a personal note…
Pray, pray pray
All we can do is to pray, pray, pray for Zimbabwe as they go to the ‘elections’ tomorrow. We hear that people are being pressurised to attend rallies and are to be ‘frogmarched’ to the polling stations. Some of the priests are offering Mass at the risk of their lives.Perhaps John Bradburne, the ‘vagabond of God’ who allowed himself to be murdered rather than desert his beloved leprosy patients, should take a special interest in the progress of his adopted country.
(If you don’t know of John Bradburne, then listen to two programmes I made about him whilst I was at Vatican Radio and which are available online at
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May God love, bless and protect Zimbabwe tomorrow, restoring peace and dignity to all those who are suffering.
God bless,
Sr. Janet
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Jun 27 Fri: Ordinary Weekday/ Cyril of Alexandria, bp, dr
From today's readings:
“Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and his whole army advanced against Jerusalem, encamped around it, and built siege walls on every side.... How could we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?... Go, show yourself to the priest....”
Go to the Priest
“I confess directly to God, so I don’t need to tell my sins to a priest.” The simple aspect of confessing sins to a priest is one of the most common objections raised by both Protestants and nominal Catholics against receiving sacramental confession.
But there are at least three scriptural rebuttals to that excuse. First, recalling John 20:23, on the evening of Easter Sunday, Jesus specifically empowered His first priests, the Apostles, to forgive sins, as He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit - whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; whose sins you hold bound, they are held bound!” So, since the power to forgive sins has been entrusted by Jesus to the apostolic ministry of the Church, that’s where one should regularly go for divine pardon and peace.
Second, more generally, Jesus founded His Church specifically to continue His ministry and His presence through the whole sacramental economy. So actually, in all of the sacraments, it is Jesus Himself who is the High Priest and primary minister, so the human priest acts not in his own name, but in the Name and Person of Christ. The human priest thus bears witness that the sacraments are always a personal encounter between the person receiving and Christ Himself. Thus, when a person seeks baptism for instance, he cannot baptize himself, or “go to God directly” by simply standing in the rain - as is always the case in Scripture, one can only receive the sacramental presence of Christ at the hand of a minister recognized by the Church’s authority.
Third, since our sins not only offend God, but also wound the other members of the mystical Body of Christ, it is fitting that the sacramental process of reconciliation also entails an ecclesial dimension. When Jesus cured the leper, He sent him to the priest, so the priest could verify and authenticate to God’s people, the assembly of believers, that the leper had indeed been made clean. Who cured the leper? Jesus Himself, yet He deigned to associate the miraculous healing with the authority of the priesthood. Who forgives sinners? Jesus Himself, who continues to dispense His divine pardon ordinarily through His priests who administer the sacrament of confession!
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