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August 5,
2008
Wind Beneath My Wings
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Sometimes amazing stories happen even in Spokane! This is a story that several friends have shared with me from afar about an amazing mother duck and her ducklings. It actually was in our daily paper - but with only one or two pictures. Since then it has been going around the world with all the pictures that were actually taken at the time. So, I looked around and found this version from Snopes that seems to have the best information about it.
Mother Duck and her amazing trip to the River
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/amazingduck.asp
The short version of the story.. is that a Mother duck decided to make her nest ten feet up on an office building planter. The day after the ducklings hatched out, mom was ready for their trip to the river. Unfortunately - it was a BIG jump for day old ducklings and besides that there were two downtown city blocks of traffic to navigate. So a bank worker who was watching the whole proceedings ... saw the mother duck fly down and then quack for her babies to follow. The first one did... a very painful first flight on hard cement! So the man ran out and started catching the rest of the ducklings as they popped off their high perch. It's a very cute story with lovely pictures if you have time to visit.
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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.
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My miracle is my daughter. My husband and I were blessed with five sons and I tried to be content, but I still had a secret desire for a daughter. I prayed and more importantly I trusted. I said, "God, you have given me five beautiful sons and I should be happy. I will leave this in your hands. If you don't send me a daughter then I will be happy. I believe you know what is best for me." I was finally at peace. Less than two months later I was pregnant again and everyone said it was a boy, but from that first moment I knew this child was a girl. I believe that this
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Psalm 79:8
Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;
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for we are brought very low.
As we experience in our own life the effects of the sins of our forefathers—e.g. lack of peace, injustice, hatred, and prejudice—so our sins also will influence future generations.
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Aug 6 Wed: TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD F
From today's readings:
“As the visions during the night continued, I saw One like a Son of man coming, on the clouds of Heaven.... The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth.... We ourselves heard this voice come from Heaven while we were with Him on the holy mountain.... Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother, John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; His face shone like the sun and His clothes became white as light.....”
A Superfluous Miracle?
When I was growing up, the Transfiguration of Jesus almost appeared to me as a superfluous event. Nearly all of Jesus’ miracles were clearly worked as an intentional blessing for other people: changing water into wine, numerous healings, multiplication of the loaves, etc. Yet the beneficiaries of Jesus’ Transfiguration are not immediately apparent, since Peter, James, and John certainly failed to grasp the significance of the moment (cf. Luke 9:33), and were even forbidden by Jesus to recount what they had seen (Mark 9:9).
Yet we must remember that Jesus’ miracles were intended not only to help and to inspire wonder, but also to provoke reflection which was in turn to lead to deeper faith and discipleship as well (cf. John 6:26). This is especially true of the Transfiguration - everything about it invites questions: why? how? what does it mean? Jesus silenced His disciples because He knew they had not reflected enough at that time to speak coherently about it - after the Resurrection, their fuller faith would enable them to proclaim and explain the Transfiguration (cf. 2 Peter 1:16-18).
The same is true for you and me - through prayerful questioning and meditation, key insights about Christ can be established. For instance, the Transfiguration occurs immediately after the first time Jesus explicitly predicts His Passion, so the timing reveals Jesus’ intention to link the glory of the Transfiguration (and Resurrection) to the suffering of the Passion. Moreover, since Moses and Elijah represent the Law and the Prophets, Jesus standing in their midst demonstrates clearly that the Old Testament is meant to lead the focus to Jesus. His glorious aspect and the Father’s voice from Heaven confirm Jesus as the beloved Son of God, Whom we should always listen to! You take it from here - think and pray about the Transfiguration to understand why it’s not superfluous at all, but supersaturated with revelation about the resplendent face of our faith!
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