Sunday, July 12, 2009
Fifteenth Sunday in ordinary time
First Reading: Amos 7:12-15
Psalm: Psalm 85:9-14
Second Reading: Ephesians 1:3-14 or 1:3-10
Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
Psalm: Psalm 85:9-14
Second Reading: Ephesians 1:3-14 or 1:3-10
Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
Whoever does not love does not know God. Why? Because God is Love. What more can be said, my Brothers? If one did not find one word in praise of love through this epistle, nor the least word through out all the other pages of Scripture, and we heard only this one word from the voice of the Spirit of God: Because 'God is Love,' we should seek for nothing more.
-- St. Augustine
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Meditation
Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
Dear God, I know that into every life a little
rain must fall. Please help me today to build
up those vital lines of communication with my
family. Enable me to secure these lifelines
when the sun is shining on us so that when
the rain falls, we will be able and willing to
bear each other's burdens. And remind me that
you are asking me to keep those same lines of
communication built up with you, dear Father,
rain or shine.
Dear God, I know that into every life a little
rain must fall. Please help me today to build
up those vital lines of communication with my
family. Enable me to secure these lifelines
when the sun is shining on us so that when
the rain falls, we will be able and willing to
bear each other's burdens. And remind me that
you are asking me to keep those same lines of
communication built up with you, dear Father,
rain or shine.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Grant, O Lord, that my heart may neither desire nor seek anything but what is necessary for the fulfillment of Your Holy Will. May health or sickness, riches or poverty, honors or contempt, humiliations, leave my soul in that state of perfect detachment to which I desire to attain for Your greater honor and Your greater glory. Amen
-- St. Ignatius Loyola
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
A word from St. Augustine
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
-- St Augustine
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
I'm Back!!!!
"The reason why sometimes you have asked and not received, is because you have asked amiss, either inconsistently, or lightly, or because you have asked for what was not good for you, or because you have ceased asking."
-- St Basil
Well, it is not quite July for me yet (about 2 hours and it will officially be=)
I have had a good break, gotten into somewhat of a summer schedule with my kids, helped my daughter study like crazy for her drivers permit (she passed!!) and now we are doing behind the wheel (wow...wow.. wow)
Alex was diagnosed with having difficulties with sensory sensitivity and has begun occupational therapy several times a week and we are already seeing some good results.
Matt has kept very busy with weekly play dates with friends as well as having friends at our home!!
Zach has had band lessons as well as taking on babysitting both his younger brothers for the first time (which has gone good)
And today is my dear husband's birthday!!
As for me... I just keep marching along and putting my trust in our Heavenly Father!!
I'm so looking forward to catching up with all of you, my dear blogging friends!!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Separate me from myself and from all that is not you, in order to unite and incorporate me with you. Empty me of myself and of all things, destroy me utterly, in order to fill me with yourself and to form and establish yourself in me. Cause me henceforth to be a perfect image of yourself; just as you are a most perfect image of your Father.
-- St. John Eudes
Friday, June 12, 2009
Try to gather more frequently to celebrate God's Eucharist and to praise Him. For when you meet with frequency, Satan's power are overthrown and his destructiveness is undone by the unanimity of your faith
-- St Ignatius of Loyola
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
To Bear Witness To the Truth by Father John Corapi
To Bear Witness To the Truth:
An Unequivocal Moral Obligation for All Christians
Every Catholic and, indeed, every Christian faithful to the Gospel, has the moral obligation to
bear witness to the truth, “in season and out of season, convenient or inconvenient,” accepted
or rejected. This mandate is nothing new, of course. It’s as old as the Old Testament, and as
new as the New Testament. Nonetheless, I’m afraid that it has become more necessary than
ever to remind ourselves of it.
The Magisterium formally teaches in the Catechism of the Catholic Church #2471, quoting
Sacred Scripture, “Before [Pontius] Pilate, Christ proclaimed the He has ‘come into the world to
bear witness to the truth’ (Jn 18:37). The Christian is not to be ‘ashamed then of testifying to
our Lord’ (2 Tm 1:8). In situations that require witness to the faith, the Christian must profess it
without equivocation, after the example of St. Paul before his judges. We must keep ‘a clear
conscience toward God and toward men’” (Acts 24:16).
Let me give you one definition of equivocation: “A statement that is not literally false but that
cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth; intentionally vague or ambiguous.” How about this for an
example: “A woman has the right to choose.” Choose what? A less vague, ambiguous, and
equivocal statement would be, “A woman (or man) has the right to choose to perpetrate
homicide. Or, “A nation has the right to facilitate, enable, or legislate genocide.”
Oh, excuse me, that would be an unpleasant truth, or maybe an “inconvenient truth,” as the
inventor of the internet, Al Gore, might say.
The Catholic Church unambiguously and formally teaches:
The duty of Christians to take part in the life of the Church impels them [IMPELS
THEM] to act as witnesses of the Gospel and the obligations that flow from it.
This witness is a transmission of the faith in words and deeds. WITNESS IS AN
ACT OF JUSTICE THAT ESTABLISHES THE TRUTH OR MAKES IT KNOWN (see
Matthew 18:16).
The recent travesty involving the University of Notre Dame’s invitation to the President of the
United States to give the commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of laws
degree is the antithesis of Catholic and Christian witness to the truth. A lawyer who vigorously,
publicly, and consistently support an anti‐life and anti‐family litany of evils will now receive an
honorary doctor of laws degree from what is arguably the most prestigious Catholic University
in America.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Indeed, what thousand words will be conveyed by the
picture(s) of Mr. Obama receiving his honorary doctorate and sending off the graduating class
at Notre Dame University?
This will be a dark day indeed for the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic Church that
permitted it to happen. In the end the bishops have the right, and the duty, to decide if the
University of Notre Dame can any longer claim “Catholic” credentials.
Meanwhile, the obligation to bear witness to the truth weighs more heavily than ever on each
one of us. We have rapidly entered into a new era of persecution of the Church and the truth
that she professes and teaches, reminding us again,
The disciple of Christ must not only keep faith and live on it, but also profess it,
confidently bear witness to it, and spread it: All however must be prepared to
confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the Cross, amidst
the persecutions which the Church never lacks.” (Lumen gentius 42; Dignitatis
Humanae 14). Service of and witness to the faith are necessary for salvation:
“So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before
my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny
before my Father who is in heaven” (Mt 10:32‐33).
Written by Rev. John Corapi on May 14th, 2009
An Unequivocal Moral Obligation for All Christians
Every Catholic and, indeed, every Christian faithful to the Gospel, has the moral obligation to
bear witness to the truth, “in season and out of season, convenient or inconvenient,” accepted
or rejected. This mandate is nothing new, of course. It’s as old as the Old Testament, and as
new as the New Testament. Nonetheless, I’m afraid that it has become more necessary than
ever to remind ourselves of it.
The Magisterium formally teaches in the Catechism of the Catholic Church #2471, quoting
Sacred Scripture, “Before [Pontius] Pilate, Christ proclaimed the He has ‘come into the world to
bear witness to the truth’ (Jn 18:37). The Christian is not to be ‘ashamed then of testifying to
our Lord’ (2 Tm 1:8). In situations that require witness to the faith, the Christian must profess it
without equivocation, after the example of St. Paul before his judges. We must keep ‘a clear
conscience toward God and toward men’” (Acts 24:16).
Let me give you one definition of equivocation: “A statement that is not literally false but that
cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth; intentionally vague or ambiguous.” How about this for an
example: “A woman has the right to choose.” Choose what? A less vague, ambiguous, and
equivocal statement would be, “A woman (or man) has the right to choose to perpetrate
homicide. Or, “A nation has the right to facilitate, enable, or legislate genocide.”
Oh, excuse me, that would be an unpleasant truth, or maybe an “inconvenient truth,” as the
inventor of the internet, Al Gore, might say.
The Catholic Church unambiguously and formally teaches:
The duty of Christians to take part in the life of the Church impels them [IMPELS
THEM] to act as witnesses of the Gospel and the obligations that flow from it.
This witness is a transmission of the faith in words and deeds. WITNESS IS AN
ACT OF JUSTICE THAT ESTABLISHES THE TRUTH OR MAKES IT KNOWN (see
Matthew 18:16).
The recent travesty involving the University of Notre Dame’s invitation to the President of the
United States to give the commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of laws
degree is the antithesis of Catholic and Christian witness to the truth. A lawyer who vigorously,
publicly, and consistently support an anti‐life and anti‐family litany of evils will now receive an
honorary doctor of laws degree from what is arguably the most prestigious Catholic University
in America.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Indeed, what thousand words will be conveyed by the
picture(s) of Mr. Obama receiving his honorary doctorate and sending off the graduating class
at Notre Dame University?
This will be a dark day indeed for the University of Notre Dame and the Catholic Church that
permitted it to happen. In the end the bishops have the right, and the duty, to decide if the
University of Notre Dame can any longer claim “Catholic” credentials.
Meanwhile, the obligation to bear witness to the truth weighs more heavily than ever on each
one of us. We have rapidly entered into a new era of persecution of the Church and the truth
that she professes and teaches, reminding us again,
The disciple of Christ must not only keep faith and live on it, but also profess it,
confidently bear witness to it, and spread it: All however must be prepared to
confess Christ before men and to follow him along the way of the Cross, amidst
the persecutions which the Church never lacks.” (Lumen gentius 42; Dignitatis
Humanae 14). Service of and witness to the faith are necessary for salvation:
“So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before
my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny
before my Father who is in heaven” (Mt 10:32‐33).
Written by Rev. John Corapi on May 14th, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Words from Father Corapi
The baby leapt for joy in her womb...
THE BABY
not 'abstract fetal tissue'
THE BABY
leapt for joy in her womb!
THE BABY
not 'abstract fetal tissue'
THE BABY
leapt for joy in her womb!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Daily Meditations for busy moms
...the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you. Numbers 6:25
Oh, Lord, shine your face upon me today. Help
me to truly feel you in the sunshine. Remind
me to stop somewhere along the course of my
busy day for just a moment and completely
allow you to shine upon me. Let me feel you
shining, Lord. Today let me feel the warmth of
your face shining upon me.
Oh, Lord, shine your face upon me today. Help
me to truly feel you in the sunshine. Remind
me to stop somewhere along the course of my
busy day for just a moment and completely
allow you to shine upon me. Let me feel you
shining, Lord. Today let me feel the warmth of
your face shining upon me.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Daily Meditations for busy moms
May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. PSALM 126:5
Lord, it is so hard for us to understand suffering.
It is hard for us to rejoice in suffering.
And there is so much pain and suffering these days.
Today, I pray for all who are sick and suffering in any way.
Help them where they need it most. Help them to see
their tears finally turn to shouts of joy.
Lord, it is so hard for us to understand suffering.
It is hard for us to rejoice in suffering.
And there is so much pain and suffering these days.
Today, I pray for all who are sick and suffering in any way.
Help them where they need it most. Help them to see
their tears finally turn to shouts of joy.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Happy Memorial Day
Some gave all, all gave some. Thank you to our service men and women past and present for all you do to keep our country safe.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, don't seek to understand so that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-- St. Augustine
Friday, May 22, 2009
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
-- St Augustine
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Daily Meditations
So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation:
everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 2 Corinthians 5:17
We all come with so much baggage, Lord.
There is so much of yesterday that we all try to
carry over into tomorrow. Today, please remind
me again that all is fresh and pure and new
with you. Thank you for making me new
again. Help me to leave my baggage in the
yesterdays of my past.
everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 2 Corinthians 5:17
We all come with so much baggage, Lord.
There is so much of yesterday that we all try to
carry over into tomorrow. Today, please remind
me again that all is fresh and pure and new
with you. Thank you for making me new
again. Help me to leave my baggage in the
yesterdays of my past.
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