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October 6,
2008
Sheep May Safely Graze
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Ten Minute Meditation
Sister Patricia Proctor, OSC
Spokane, Washington
Expand your world. We all know people in particular who need
miracles of healing and reconciliation. We know family members
who need help financially or in other ways but I believe that God
wants us to reach out even beyond the circle of contacts we have.
With prayer we can reach out across the world to help people in
need. I remember in my own life an experience in which I felt that
someone was praying for me--someone whom I did not know. It
was a very dark time in my life and I was at the lowest of lows and
somehow God was able to break through my darkness to bring me
hope.
I believe that break through came through prayer. Be a ray of hope
to someone today. You will be amazed how your world will expand
in love and joy and good things. No act of kindness ever goes
unrewarded.
Prayer when time is completed:
Jesus,
I ask you to bless
with love, joy
and miracles
someone who is most in need
of your love today.
Amen.
More
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From the book 101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer
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Endless Praise
Psalm 30:12-13
You changed my mourning into dancing;
you took off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
That my sould might sing praise to you without ceasing;
O Lord, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
Jesus prepared us for what we might expect in life as we follow him. There would be minunderstandings and persecution aplenty. At times the cross would seem intolerably cumbersome. We could expect heartaches and disappointments.
All of these are only temporary. In the peace and joy which awaits us, our hearts will rejoice, our mourning will be turned into dancing, and we will sing God's praises.
St. Paul's words are comforting: "I consider the sufferings of the present to be as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed in us." (Rom 8:18)
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Greetings from London with Sister Janet Fearns, FMDM
Pause for Prayer
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On a personal note…
Aparecida
Our Lady of Aparecida. The story happens to be fact, rather than fiction.
The year was 1717. Three fishermen struggled to net fish and caught nothing. They tried again and again, but still without success. Eventually, continuing downstream on Brazil’s River Paraiba, they let down their nets once more. This time, instead of hauling in a net full of fish, they discovered a blackened, sculpted and headless clay statue of the Immaculate Conception. The next time they cast their nets, they discovered the head.
Legend has it that the three men continued fishing, with the same failure until, in desperation, one of them suggested that they pray to Our Lady, under the title of ‘Aparecida’ (who had ‘appeared’ in their nets). Almost immediately afterwards, they caught so many fish that their nets were almost at breaking point.
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Gal 1: 6-12
Ps 110(111): 1b-2.
7-8. 9 and 10c
Lk 10: 25-37
Daily Readings
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Oct 6 Mon: Ordinary Weekday/ Bruno, p, h, rf/ Bl Marie-Rose Durocher, v, rf
From today's readings:
“But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the Gospel of Christ.... The Lord will remember His covenant for ever.... A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho....”
Something New
While the lectionary selections might seem haphazard at times, as I’ve mentioned before, there’s actually a methodical arrangement for the readings at Mass. For the past few months, the first reading has generally been from a book of the Old Testament. Today, the lectionary finally returns to a New Testament book: Paul’s Letter to the Galatians.
Sugar-coated diplomacy was not a characteristic of the great Apostles to the Gentiles - he spoke the Truth without hesitation or equivocation! But of all Paul’s letters, the Epistle to the Galatians comes across as the harshest - after just a few opening verses of greeting, he launches into what could well be considered a tirade: “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you in the grace of Christ, and turning to a different gospel....” Only a few months had passed since Paul had personally preached to the Galatians the Gospel of Christ, but already the good news was being distorted, misrepresented, and twisted with ideological interpretations, and people were buying into such errors!
From the beginning, con men have used the Gospel as the wrapping for various ideological packages fundamentally at odds with Christ and His Church. Whether it’s the Judaizers (cf. Acts. 15) that Paul berated in the first century, or the liberation theologians which Pope John Paul II had to deal with in the twentieth century, the usurpers’ insidious tactics are the same: convince people that their own agenda and ideology lies at the heart of the Gospel, so that following the Gospel would imply endorsement of their ideologies!
The con men can be quite good at such equivocations - they had evidently made enough inroads among the Galatians that Paul was compelled to launch such a harsh letter to dispel the spell of those Judaizers. How can we be protected against such scams in our own time? Only by studying our faith assiduously in order to grow stronger in it! For it’s always a simple matter to dress a skeletal faith in the garbs of error, but when faith is burly and beefy, the rags of heresy inevitably fit too tight for comfort, since such ill-suited duds can never be stretched to cover the full body of revelation.
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Sometimes it seems that we have been praying a long time
and still do not have what we ask. But we should not be sad. I
am sure that what our Lord means is that either we should wait
for a better time, or more grace, or a better gift.
Today is the feast of Blessed Marie Rose. Although our community has a special devotion to this "almost" saint - because as co-foundress of the Holy Names Sisters who did and continue to do much good in our area, I have a second reason. Before Marie Rose took her religious name, she was baptized Eulalie.. which was the name of my great aunt.. whom I only saw once when she was very sick... but more importantly my youngest sister was named Euli after her. I didn't find out till I came to the monastery that there was actually a very close "almost" saint named Eulalie. Amazing.
Blessed Marie Rose is the patron saint of preventing fires. Quite a few miracles have been obtained through her intercession. One happened in our own community (which I shared a year or two ago) and will share again. It was the feast of Blessed Marie Rose and a Sunday. A quiet day in October - with little going on except looking forward to taking a nap and watching a Sunday movie during the afternoon. Anyway for some reason I was walking by Sister Mary Rita's office and happened to glance in through the door even though no one was there. I was totally surprised to see a whif of smoke curling lazily from some papers on her desk. I blinked and looked again because how in the world could smoke be happening there? It was indeed smoke though and as I got closer I saw this little mini fire was just beginning.
