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Quote for the Day:
The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying.
He fears nothing from prayerless studies,
prayerless work, and prayerless religion.
He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom,
but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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So life continues once again in the slow lane. I definitely had to pull over to the side for awhile and let the big trucks and fast cars go whizzing by because I am just not able to keep up.Or maybe its that I don't want to anymore. That might be more accurate. Hey, maybe I really am getting older. Ooooh...
We had weather in the 60's today... feels like fall is planning an early attack. Most of our garden looks like its still waiting for July to come.. don't have the heart to tell it, July done come and gone. I was looking at our squash. They are just now putting on blossoms. It's like, "Uh sorry, guys - I think you are a little bit late this year."
I'm working on a little booklet now, it will be called, "Catholic Home Shrines: Creating Prayerful Spaces." Part of the material for it is from the 101 Prayer book... (the color pages on prayer spaces that friends sent for it). The other part will be text and a few drawings. One of the things that will be included in it which I think is sort of neat, is creating a Mary Garden and making a Rosary walk. I hadn't really heard of Rosary Walks for homes before but an article I read on the web suggested that for the home just make a one decade rosary walk. I think that sounds like fun. Has anyone made a rosary walk or a Mary garden? I'll take all the input I can get since I haven't made one myself.. but it doesn't look hard to do. Basically get 10 flat stones and place them in a circle as big or as small as you have space for and have a cross or perhaps a statue of Mary at the start.
I'm going to create a web page soon... bought the domain name but don't have anything up yet.. called CatholicHomeShrines.com ... and hopefully if some of you send in pictures and thoughts on creating your own home shrines I can share them on the site for all.
Will share some more about that tomorrow hopefully. But before I go, do you know what flower is known as the Priest's head?
Hint: It's probably in your own garden already.
Give up?
A dandelion! Isn't that amazing? There are hundreds of flowers with biblical or christian associations to put in your Mary garden.
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia
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We had a power outage at ten o'clock one December morning and were cold all day. That night my husband and I bundled up when we went to bed, and the next morning we were still without power. I wanted to be in a warm and light place, so we decided to go to Mass. Afterwards, the thought of returning to our cold and dark mobile home was too miserable, so we decided to go to the library and check our e-mail.
Since I needed some joy, I opened Sr. Patricia's Joy Notes before I read my other e-mail. Sr. Patricia had a St. Lucy holy e-card available to us that week, so I decided to send it to my friend Luci. When I clicked on the link that had information about St. Lucy, I discovered that her name meant light. This inspired me to pray silently for St. Lucy's intercession in restoring light to our home.
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Psalm 74:21
May the humble not retire in confusion;
may the afflicted and the poor praise your name.
In these few words we are asking that the humble and the afflicted may continue to praise God. It may be difficult for them to see the will of God in their lives. In fact, they may become discouraged and confused. However, if they persevere in praising God, they will maintain their peace.
There is an important lesson here. Keeping our sights fixed on God and praising him for his goodness will make us a happy, joyful disciple.
Jesus prepares us for what will happen in our lives: "You will weep and mourn while the world rejoices; you will grieve for a time, but your grief will be turned into joy." (Jn 16:20)
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On a personal note…
A different path
Was it some sort of musical preconditioning? I do not know. All that I know for certain is that when I joined the Sisters for Morning Prayer during my recent retreat, my reaction was one of surprise. “That sounds like sunrise!” At that point, my thoughts moved away from the written psalm in front of me and I simply luxuriated in the beauty of the same words as sung by the Poor Clare Colettine community of Ty Mam Duw in Hawarden, North Wales. That reverie, too, was prayer.
This is the time of year when most Religious manage to escape for a while in order to enjoy their annual ‘holiday with the Lord’, as a Retreat is sometimes called. Not that it is much of a holiday in one sense, because having the opportunity to spend several hours in prayer every day for one week, in silent solitude, has its own demands. It is an opportunity, not only to come face-to-face with the Lord, but also to take a closer look inside one’s own heart, a heart that is his, true, but is still one which, in the course of life’s daily busy-ness, can digress a little from ‘the straight and narrow’. Thus a Retreat is a time for reflection, assessment and redirection.
This year I managed to achieve something that has been a long-held wish and headed to Ty Mam Duw. The Poor Clare Colettines spend approximately one third of their day in ‘formal’ prayer, about four hours of which are taken up with the recitation of the Divine Office, starting at 06.30 in the morning and finishing somewhere around midnight…and then there is Mass, the Rosary and private prayer. Life becomes totally orientated around prayer, totally God-centered.
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Ez 36: 23-28
Ps 50(51): 12-13.
14-15. 18-19
Mt 22: 1-14
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Aug 21 Thu: Pius X, pp M
From today's readings:
“I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts.... I will pour clean water on you and wash away all your sins.... The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come....”
Have a Heart!
The desperate cry to “Have a Heart!” is among the most tugging appeals one can make beseeching another to re-consider some cold intention or assessment. The appeal plainly and plaintively points out that the proposal under consideration appears heartless, and even inhuman.
How touching to note that God uses this same appeal with all His people, entreating us not only to “have a heart,” but more specifically, to have the heart that He offers to give us! At first, it might seem inappropriate for us to be saddled with the charge of having “stony hearts,” since each of us would hasten to assure all that we certainly do love our God! Yet in all honesty, we must also admit that we have too often treated Him heartlessly.
This is particularly true, according to Ezekiel, when the great Name of the Lord is profaned among us. This refers not just to the ubiquitous profanity in our midst (which, tragically, is accepted so casually), but also to any ways in which God’s rightful place in our lives is demoted or denigrated in any fashion. For example, if a man is too embarrassed to ever speak seriously about his faith (even in his own family!), or if a woman can find plenty of time for romance novels or soap operas, but no time for reading the Bible, then God’s Name has certainly been heartlessly profaned in such households!
Today, remember above all to have a heart for the Good Lord who gave you your heart!
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