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Quote for the Day:
The Spirit helps us in our weakness;
for we do not know how to pray as we ought,
but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
And God, who searches the heart,
knows what is the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints
according to the will of God.
Romans 8:26-27
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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I don't know what to write about tonight. I never do. I always seem to be waiting for some holy inspiration to fly in but I'm probably at the wrong terminal or something.
Shelley the dog is going crazy..... moaning pathetically because someone has come to the door and she is worried she is not going to get petted. Its pretty sad. Someday I am going to have to video her melodrama - she really should go on the stage - I'm sure she could get some sort of award for the most pathetic dog or something.
I hate to mention this again... but it really looks as if my desk is going to need attention again. That is another pathetic situation. I was reading something the other day about procrastination being a very big problem with messy desks. Could very well be. Someday I will have to check out that aspect and see if it applies. Ha. Ha. Ha. I already know it does.. but it doesn't seem to affect me enough to look for a cure. Sigh.
In 21 seconds I will have finished my ten minute push to go with the JoyNotes. It usually takes me an hour and sometimes - when I feel like mush... which is how I would describe myself tonight...I have to do it in ten minute spurts. So I set the timer for ten minutes and plow away.. and THEN.... I play a game of solitaire.
See you later.....
Back. I lost. Nothing new.What an exciting life. Set the timer for ten more minutes.
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia
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Thanks, God!
Elizabeth Goral-Makowski
Baltimore, Maryland
For my entire life I have watched my mother remain constant in her steady stream of thanksgiving to God. Whether it's in giving thanks in Russian after every meal, or a hearty, joyful, "Thanks, God!" after hearing good news, or even just a quiet, humble, "Thank you, God," Mom has been a living example of gratitude in every situation.
As a little girl in post-revolution Russia, my mother experienced what hunger was and watched as her own mother miraculously stretched a bit of bread and milk or a small piece of meat to feed her family of seven. It wasn't much, but there was food on their table, thanks be to God.
My mother worked as a forced laborer in Germany during World War II before she began her life in the United States.
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With Your Whole Being
Psalm 27:6
I will bless the Lord at all times;
his praise she be ever in my mouth.
Let my soul glory in the Lord;
the lowly will hear me and be glad.
Glorify the Lord with me,
let us together extol his name.
In these words we remind ourselves to bless and glorify God for his caring and concerned love for us which protects and provides for us at all times.
Praising God with our soul means with our whole being: mind, heart, lips -our whole person. By our words, actions, and attitudes, we are inviting others to join us that together we may extol his name. Thus the glory of God swells into a great crescendo.
Jesus' statement is brief but requires a lifetime of living: "You shall love the Lord your God, with your whole soul, and with all your mind." (Mt 22:37)
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
Pause for Prayer
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On a personal note…
Prayer Board
I receive regular prayer requests, which I place on the Prayer Board at http://pauseandpray.com, where your special intentions become ours.
You might be interested to know that if you also send those requests to the newly-launched Pontifical Mission Societies' website at http://www.pontificalmissionsocieties.co.uk/ , you can also be guaranteed that your intentions will be remembered at every Mass celebrated in the chapel here in the centre of London.
For the sake of the website, we've asked that each petition be no longer than 100 words, so if you have multiple intentions, then send multiple requests as there is no limit to the number of people for whom we can pray!
Simply click on http://www.pontificalmissionsocieties.co.uk/mission_prayers/ index.php or
http://www.pontificalmissionsocieties.co.uk/mission_prayer_b oard/index.php and send your prayer intention.
It makes me think that we are enormously blessed in being able to count on the prayers of complete strangers and form a praying community with people we might never meet in this life.
God is good!
God bless,
Sr Janet
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Ez 34: 1-11
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Mt 20: 1-16
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From today's readings:
'"Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves!... The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.... Are you envious because I am generous?"
Woe to shepherds pasturing themselves!
We're all familiar with paintings of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, inspired by the metaphor the Lord claimed for Himself in chapter 10 of John's Gospel, as well as the famous words of the psalm we read today. In fact, the simple but arresting image of God's people as His sheep recurs many times in the Bible, along with the custom of calling the leaders of God's people "shepherds" (or "pastors," since that's just the Latin word for "shepherds").
Nowadays, we tend to only use the term "shepherds/pastors" to denote religious leaders, whereas in biblical times, political rulers were also aptly recognized as shepherds of the people. Perhaps the modern democratic process of electing leaders strains the appropriateness of viewing those in office as '"shepherds," yet the divine warning in Ezekiel, '"Woe to shepherds pasturing themselves..." is meant to be noted by all leaders, be they religious, political, and popular.
All leaders, of whatever kind, rank, and range of influence, are ultimately answerable to God, and Ezekiel points out that they need to be reminded about this fundamental truth, so that in whatever way a man is given to shepherd God's people, he may do so as the Good Shepherd would so!
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