Excerpt:
Zacchaeus must have been very unhappy. As a tax collector, he was both hated and corrupt. That he wanted to see Jesus must have meant that he was searching for the happiness, meaning and purpose lacking in his life.
God's greatest blessing - Children!!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Oct 31, 2010 - 31st Sunday: The Happy Priest on the Example of Zacchaeus - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
31st Sunday: The Happy Priest on the Example of Zacchaeus - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
Fr. Oct 29, 2010 - St. Narcissus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
St. Narcissus, pray for us!!
It is in our complete union with God that we find complete happiness and that union can only take place when we have been completely freed from the trappings of this world.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The Lover and the Beloved
The love between God and humanity is the love between a lover and the beloved. There has to be a consummation of that love in order for it to be fulfilled. Just as the sperm takes itself into the egg and in the consummation of the two a new human being with life and hopes and dreams is born, so too the consummation of the lover and the beloved. God the lover takes us the beloved and the love is consummated to produce something beyond the wonder of a human being. (Can there be anything more wonderful than a human being? What a great creation God made!) The catch is this - the beloved (humanity) must have as great a desire for God the lover as God has for the beloved. Only then can the love reach the level of full completeness. And it must not wait until life ends for it is only in life that full consummation takes place and then carries us to the place we were born to be.
God bless!!
God bless!!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Sun. Oct. 24, 2010 - 30th Sunday. The Happy Priest: I am a Sinner, You are a Sinner. - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
30th Sunday. The Happy Priest: I am a Sinner, You are a Sinner. - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
Our self esteem is not dependent on whether others love us and tell us what we want to hear or the alcohol that gives us a temporary high or the stuff we buy or get that make us look good. No, it's something more but quite simple. It's that deep longing within that calls us to the knowledge of God's great love for us. God who knows our deepest and darkest secrets and our worst sins and yet he still loves us and longs deeply to be one with us, united for all eternity. We must make that choice We must touch that part of us that has this deep longing for union with God. Unless we choose union now while still on earth, how can there be union in eternity? Our hearts must be right with God! When we attend Mass it must be more than obligation. When we receive Eucharist it must be more than habit. We must empty ourselves of all attachments in order for God to fill us with his presence and great love. We must open ourselves up, let go of our will and freely choose full and complete union with our Creator, Redeemer and True Lover - God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Be not afraid for his love is greater than all our desires. God bless!!
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: 'The Eucharist is More Than Just A Meal' - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass: 'The Eucharist is More Than Just A Meal' - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
Friday, October 22, 2010
Fr. Oct 22, 2010 - St. Abercius Marcellus - Saints & Angels - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
St. Abercius, pray for us!!
Excerpt from above:
We live in what is often called a post modern age; some say a "post Christian" age. I prefer "pre-Christian." This is a new missionary age. The future belongs to the Catholic Church. One has only to read the ancient Christian manuscripts and historic sources to read of cultures not unlike the one in which we live today, cultures of "use" where people were treated as property - cultures of excess where "freedom" was perceived as a power over others and unrestrained license masqueraded as liberty. These accounts depict the bad fruit of a pagan world view.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Happy Anniversary, Leah & Peter - 9 years!!
Tried to put this up on Wed Oct 20, but it would not go so here it is now!!
Happy Anniversary, Peter & Leah!!
Wed. Oct 20, 2010 - St. Paul of the Cross - Saints & Angels - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
St. Paul of the Cross, pray for us!!
RIP - Dr. Mildred Jefferson!!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Fr. Oct 15, 2010 - St. Teresa of Avila - Doctor of the Church - Saints & Angels - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
Today is the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila, mother of the Discalced Carmelites. October 15 is her birthday. On November 13, I will be accepted into the beginning of my journey towards becoming a Secular Discalced Carmelite. I should take my final promises in 2015 when we celebrate 500 years since the birth of St. Teresa. Read her books, especially Interior Castle. She is a mystic as well as a saint. God bless!!
St. Teresa, pray for us!!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Sun. Oct. 10, 2010 - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Recognizing the Gifts of God and Giving Thanks - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
28th Sunday: Recognizing the Gifts of God and Giving Thanks - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
How can the virtue of gratitude be acquired? Fundamentally, cultivating the spirit of gratitude requires us to develop humility. We need to understand that everything that we have and everything that we are is a gift. We might begin by taking out a pad of paper and a pen and making a list of all of the wonderful gifts that we receive each day of our entire life.
God bless!!
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Sat. Oct 9, 2010 - Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius - Saints & Angels - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius, pray for us!!
Mary, the Mother of God, pray for us!!
Friday, October 8, 2010
Psalm 39
At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. (Heb 12:11)
Our sins can weigh us down with discouragement. Saint Ignatius of Loyola tells us that discouragement is never from God because it clouds faith and hope. God's love does not deal in punishment as human vengeance does. God's love disciplines us in order to free and purify us - sometimes a painful process - so that we may not die but live in Christ.
Taken from the October Magnificat, pgs 112-113
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thu. Oct. 7, 2010 - Our Lady of the Rosary | Saint of the Day | AmericanCatholic.org
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!!
Pray the rosary, especially today!!
God bless!!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Wed. Oct. 6, 2010 - St. Bruno - Saints & Angels - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
St. Bruno, pray for us!
Taken from the Magnificat, October issue, pg 89
Food from heaven you gave your people in their hunger, water from a rock you sent them in their thirst. (Neh 9: 15) Without food or water, we perish in time. Without the love of God, we would perish even faster. God is present before we yearn, found before we seek, offering life-giving love before we know our need for it.
God bless!!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Tue. Oct 5, 2010 - Lectio Divina: Studying the Bible, Falling in Love with Jesus the Living Word - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
Lectio Divina: Studying the Bible, Falling in Love with Jesus the Living Word - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
Excerpt:
The Bible is at the heart of the Churches worship, faith and life. It is the "Book of the Church." Christianity is not about "me and Jesus" but me in Jesus. Through Baptism we come to live in His Body, the Church. When God chose to reveal Himself He did not throw a book out of heaven. Rather, the Word made Flesh. Through the Incarnation - which includes the entirety of the life, suffering, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ- a new creation began. We are now incorporated into Christ when we are baptized into His Church and we enter into the lived experience of that new Creation.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Mon. Oct 5, 2010 - St. Francis of Assisi - Saints & Angels - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us!
Excerpt from above:
Soon Francis started to preach. (He was never a priest, though he was later ordained a deacon under his protest.) Francis was not a reformer; he preached about returning to God and obedience to the Church. Francis must have known about the decay in the Church, but he always showed the Church and its people his utmost respect. When someone told him of a priest living openly with a woman and asked him if that meant the Mass was polluted, Francis went to the priest, knelt before him, and kissed his hands -- because those hands had held God.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Sat. Oct. 2, 2010 - Angels Assigned to Each One of Us: Memorial of the Guardian Angels - Living Faith - Home & Family - Catholic Online
Guardian Angel watch over me as I journey through this day!!
Excerpt from above:
"The Lord will send his angel to accompany you and to guide you safely on your way." -- Memorial of the Guardian Angels, Morning Prayer antiphon.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Fri. Oct. 1, 2010 - Vocation to Love. Memorial of Saint Theresa of The Child Jesus, Virgin - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
St. Therese, pray for us!!
Excerpt from above:
The Little Flower of Jesus sacrificed her life for love of souls. She saw the magnitude of her Beloved's love for them. She offered herself for the building up of the Church, the People of God and the Mystical Body of Christ. That is truly a vocation of love, a love which is bound up in the Supreme Love, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. The Little Flower's life was one of beauty, joy, and wonder, a life which continues to affect members of the Church to this day. Here death did not mark the end of her vocation of love, but sparked a new reality of "beginning" in which she continues to touch souls the world over, inflaming within them her ardent desire to love to the end.
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