Collect: Grant, we pray, O Lord our God, that we may be sustained by the intercession of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, that, as through them you gave your Church the foundations of her heavenly office, so through them you may help her to eternal salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
God Heals
O LORD, my God, I cried out to you for help and you healed me.
~Psalm 30:3
~Psalm 30:3
God Heals (a
Remember when you heard the words
- and your mind went blank - you were in another world
God heals
Remember in your darkest hours
- when all that surrounds you is pain and sorrow
God heals
Remember friends' prayers
- your family's encouragement - glimmers of hope from everyday angels
God heals
Quiet...you can hear Him now
- always there - yet never this close
God heals
It's just another day
- yet everything has changed - and you hear yourself say
God heals
Birds are singing
- the sky is a beautiful blue - flowers are blooming...
God heals
Truths that you knew as a child
- awakened again with new understanding
God heals
Remember when others can't
- that life is a gift - each day to treasure
God Has Healed
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Humility
"Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you." James 4:10
Saw this quote when I was driving. It was just what I needed to read/hear at the time. God was speaking to me, clearly reading my innermost thoughts. Gosh, no matter how many times that happens I am amazed. And so I pray...
Saw this quote when I was driving. It was just what I needed to read/hear at the time. God was speaking to me, clearly reading my innermost thoughts. Gosh, no matter how many times that happens I am amazed. And so I pray...
Most humble Jesus, give me a share of your humility.
Take from my heart everything that displeases you;
convert it totally to you,
so that I may no longer will or desire
anything other than what you will.
~St Alphonsus Ligouri
~St Alphonsus Ligouri
Gospel 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel Luke 9:18-24
Once when Jesus was praying in solitude,
and the disciples were with him,
he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
They said in reply, “John the Baptist;
others, Elijah;
still others, ‘One of the ancient prophets has arisen.’”
Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter said in reply, “The Christ of God.”
He rebuked them
and directed them not to tell this to anyone.
He said, “The Son of Man must suffer greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised.”
Then he said to all,
“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself
and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.”
and the disciples were with him,
he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
They said in reply, “John the Baptist;
others, Elijah;
still others, ‘One of the ancient prophets has arisen.’”
Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Peter said in reply, “The Christ of God.”
He rebuked them
and directed them not to tell this to anyone.
He said, “The Son of Man must suffer greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised.”
Then he said to all,
“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself
and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.”
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Saints
Went to spend the day with my sister and her kids today. When her son came to greet me he didn't call me Mary or Aunt Mary, but Saint Mary! I told him not yet, but hopefully one day. That's what we are all called to be one day; saints in heaven with God, the angels and all the saints there before us. Thought it was kind of fitting that one of the stops during our day was to pick up my niece from VBS at church. We got there early and walked the grounds of the parish, so many beautiful statues of saints to see!
"All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly."
~Saint Francis de Sales
~Saint Francis de Sales
Almighty and ever-living God,
I approach the sacrament
of your only-begotten Son
Our Lord Jesus Christ,
I come sick to the doctor of life,
unclean to the fountain of mercy,
blind to the radiance of eternal light,
and poor and needy to the Lord
of heaven and earth.
Lord, in your great generosity,
heal my sickness,
wash away my defilement,
enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty,
and clothe my nakedness.
May I receive the bread of angels,
the King of kings and Lord of lords,
with humble reverence,
with the purity and faith,
the repentance and love,
and the determined purpose
that will help to bring me to salvation.
May I receive the sacrament
of the Lord's body and blood,
and its reality and power.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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