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August 1,
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Wind Beneath My Wings
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I don't know what to write about. This morning when I was all prayed up and praised up - I had wonderful thoughts to share. I felt almost holy. Now I just feel like... is it time to play a game of solitaire yet?
On Saturday - we are going to step out of the cloister for a few hours and attend the Stuebenville Youth Day at Gonzaga University. Its a wonderful gathering for young people all over the Northwest and we have decided to jump ship and make a presence by manning ( or is it nunning?) a vocation booth. We have all heard wonderful things about these Stubenville experiences so we are considering it a graced time to be able to participate for a few hours. I am sure it will be fun.. once all my introvert cells get over the shock of stepping outside my comfort zone. Will let you know how it goes.
Next week is our Celebration of St. Clare. That will be another big event - as we usually have about 250 people come to share Mass and social time out in the Monastery garden. Right now all we are thinking about is .. how do we get everything ready? Did we really say we would do this? Why? (I'm one of those folks who thinks things like this are a great idea - months before and the day after.. but not so hot the week before.) Maybe its my "Does this look like work?? " complex.
Blessings of Peace and All Good!
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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Novena Prayer to Saint Clare
Faithful Saint Clare,
daughter of the Church,
friend and confidante of Popes,
intercede for holy Church.
Look graciously from heaven
on our holy father Pope Benedict.
Enlighten us to remove from our souls
all that hinders the progress
of the Church on earth.
Grant that we may share
your great love for the Church
of God and spread His kingdom
on earth by a holy life.
You who worked miracles
in the presence of the Popes
on earth, obtain for us the graces we need,
now that you stand in the presence
of the most high God in heaven.
Amen.
Blessings of Peace and All Good
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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A Sudden Calm
Anne A. Jones Rushden,
Northants, England
I was fourteen and it was our annual youth service. I had been chosen to lead the service from the pulpit. Scared does not even begin to describe how I felt. I was shaking so much I thought I would faint. In those first few moments of quiet, before I needed to say anything, I prayed that I would do my best for God.
A sudden calm came over me and I enjoyed leading the service without any fear. I am sixty-three now, but that experience will live with me forever. If ever I needed proof of God’s being, I had it at that moment.
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Mercy I Desire
In Semitic parlance, mercy has a whole spectrum of meanings: tenderness, pity, compassion, clemency, goodness, love. In Scripture, the word mercy is often used when speaking of God's forgiving and pardoning of offenses.
For the Hebrew, the manifestation of God's tenderness is occasioned by human misery, especially man's need for forgiveness. It also implies that man, in turn, ought to show mercy to his neighbor in imitation of his Creator.
Sirach capsulizes this whole idea when he says:
"Compassionate and merciful is the Lord:
he forgives sins, he saves in time of trouble."
(Sir 2:11)
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From today's readings:
"Thus says the LORD: If you disobey Me, not living according to the law I placed before you and not listening to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I send you constantly though you do not obey them, I will treat this house like Shiloh, and make this the city to which all the nations of the earth shall refer when cursing another.... But I pray to You, O LORD, for the time of Your favor, O God!... Jesus came to His native place and taught the people in their synagogue...."
Omit Nothing!
The Bible is by all accounts a big book - even many people who have discovered the treasure of Scripture have yet to read the entire Bible cover to cover. So it's natural for people to be more familiar with some passages, and basically ignorant of others. And indeed, some books of the Bible are objectively more important than others, e.g., the lengthy book of Jeremiah is more significant on all counts than the pithy 21 verses of the prophet Obadiah (the only book of the Bible that appears no where in the lectionary cycle!).
Yet the overwhelming nature of the Bible does not give a person license to pick and choose, to focus exclusively, for example, on only the comforting verses which assure us of God's forgiveness, while ignoring the lofty but demanding moral exhortations and precepts! While this is especially tempting for those charged with preaching God's word to pass over the most unsettling "hard sayings" in Scripture so as not to irk listeners, God's insistence that his prophet Jeremiah "omit nothing" applies as well to all of us who hear or read His word today.
Most people are woefully ignorant of too many essentials found in the deposit of our faith because God's demand that we "omit nothing" has conveniently been ignored. We simply cannot be God's faithful people without a lifelong commitment to accept the whole of His revelation - living this commitment in practice means meditating on the Word of God daily and studying all the tenets of our faith regularly so that we may put into practice in our lives all that we believe, and omit nothing!
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