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Quote for the Day:
The neglect of prayer proves to my mind,
that there is a large amount of practical infidelity.
If the people believed that there was a real, existing, personal God,
they would ask Him for what they wanted,
and they would get what they asked.
But they do not ask,
because they do not believe or expect to receive.
Brownlow North
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Bit by very little bit the new card site is starting to pull together. It has miles to go - and it has these fits and spasms that make me think its losing it or I am but it is getting there. Yesterday I added 13 Get Well cards (11 new and 2 from the old site) and plan to add a lot more. The Card of the Day (two little baby seals nose to nose) is featured as Today's Card. It's very, very cute.... when that is - it actually works.
 Get Well Card from holyecards.com
I really like today's quote. I think I really need to pray a lot more for the card site....I think it really, really needs it. I feel it starting to ebb away the few bits of sanity I have left.
Oh, I wanted to share with you a new blog! It's really an older blog but new in the fact that I found out about it. It belongs to Fr. Chuck Talley, OFM who is the Coordinator of Vocations for the Santa Barbara, California Province. It is called Friar Side Chats I was surprised to see Fr. Chuck had even included a picture from our Poor Clare community for the Feast of Saint Clare! Way to go. I was going to share the blog anyway but that made it a double reason!
Unlike my own blog that never stays on one topic... Father Chuck (who is a wonderful, warm and joy-filled friar by the way) actually does - of course its all Franciscan stuff (what do you expect?). And he writes (being a former journalist) things that are really worth reading. Maybe I should take note. (don't hold your breath)
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia
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My Walk With God as an Advocate
Elizabeth Goral-Makowski
Baltimore, Maryland
I am an advocate in Nairobi, Africa. I help my clients to resolve their legal problems either in court or with legal advice. I am also a secular Franciscan, which means that I have made a permanent commitment to live a life of penance, sacrifice and service to God and others in the way of St. Francis of Assisi.
As a result, I am often asked how I can marry my private business practice with my spiritual practice. It is not easy, but I try to hold on by prayer, by punctuating my work with moments of prayer, mostly the Divine Office.
I am not very good at mental prayer; I find a few days of retreat far more helpful in keeping my faith alive and putting me back on the right track of trying to live a Christ-like life.
The most trying moments for me are when a client comes to explain his problem to me but has a definite mindset of just what I should do to solve his problem. Ways that are not always legal or moral. At other times, I simply get a sense that something is not right. At those moments, I send a prayer upwards and ask our Lord Jesus not to let me accept a case which may in any way cause scandal to His Holy Name, even when I am in dire need of money.
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Psalm 27:6
Even now my head is held high
above my enemies on every side.
And I will offer in his tent
sacrifices with shouts of gladness;
I will sing and chant praise to the Lord.
The most comforting and consoling truth in our spiritual journey is the awareness that we are loved and cherished by God. This heart knowledge gives us courage and strength in the face of all that confronts us along life's pathway.
Like the psalmist, nothing will disturb us or cause us to be frightened or afraid because we are protected and shielded by God's love for us personally and individually. With joyous hearts we sing the praises of the Lord.
Jesus assures us: "The Father already loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God." (Jn 16:27)
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A Smile from Home - Danielle Bean
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Come back, baby
He has fallen again.
Crying, he comes running and I lift him into my arms. Grubby fingers clutch at my hair. He sobs into my shirt, wipes his nose on my neck, and then turns and squirms for release.
I kiss the back of his head and set him on ground. The minute his sandaled feet hit the gravel, he’s off. And running. Toward bicycles and boulders. Toward big kids and dump trucks. Toward squirt guns and puddles.
Away from me.
“Come back, baby,” I feel my mouth whisper as I watch him. “Come back.”
But already, he has run too far to hear.
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
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On a personal note…
Looking at life differently
She is really very ill and could die at any time, and yet she went to Lourdes last week. Her daughter, who accompanied her, thought that her mother went to pray for herself, for health and, perhaps a cure. No. After bathing in the grotto, she said that she wanted to give thanks for having lived longer than she had expected. Life is not something to dread, or to complain about its pains and difficulties: it is something to cherish and celebrate with gratitude even with that pain.
May God bless her and all those who, in their sickness, provide such a wonderful example of faith to those of us who are lagging behind them. When death comes, may it be a peaceful, pain-free and joyful transition into the fullness of life, for surely, one who is dying and yet is full of gratitude is already very close to God.
God bless,
Sr Janet
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Ez 28: 1-10
Dt 32: 26-27ab. 27cd-28.
30. 35cd-36ab
Mt 19: 23-30
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Aug 19 Tue: Ordinary Weekday/ John Eudes, p, rf
From today's readings:
“The word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are haughty of heart.... Surely, the LORD shall do justice for His people; on His servants He shall have pity.... But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first....”
Eternal rate of exchange
Like many prophets, Ezekiel foretells words of doom, not only for sinful Jerusalem, but also for the insolent pagan cities and nations around her. The city of Tyre is especially targeted by Ezekiel, with detailed woes prophesied in chapters 26, 27, and 28. Tyre was the richest and mightiest seaport along the northern coast of Palestine. In diplomacy, Tyre tended to take a toady position, happily sending tribute to whatever regional power was dominant in order to guarantee its commercial interests. Tyrians therefore smugly considered themselves worldly wisemen because they were so often able to shift alliances in a timely manner in order to sidestep many woes of war and keep their profits coming in. When Jerusalem fell, they rejoiced at the delightful convenience of having one of their commercial rivals eliminated. The Tyrians’ glee was especially loathsome because they had initially encouraged Jerusalem’s rash rebellion against Nebuchadnezzar!
The haughtiness and naughtiness of the city is well documented in the Bible as Tyre became flushed and drunk with its success in trading and traitoring. Even today, those who adopt Tyre’s worldly-wise policy of political expediency and commercial idolatry, ever attending to profits instead of prophets, will find themselves likewise purchasing a substantial measure of earthly success in exchange for an infinity of heavenly wrath!
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