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October 28,
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Thoughts from Sister Patricia
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Quote for the Day:
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that
he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment
and death. So if God answers prayer it’s because God is good.
From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured
benevolence, God does it! That’s the source of everything.
A. W. Tozer
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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One of the things we are doing in the community is working on inner communication. We never seem to have problem sharing "stuff" but lots of times its the outer stuff. Not the things that are tearing you apart inside or stuff you are just having difficulty with.
So... today we had an hour of very good sharing. It started out light and "normal" but then I sort of came unglued because of the worry I have over my mom and pretty soon the light stuff turned into heavy stuff. But it was good. Very good.
I think its kind of like when a couple decides after ten, twenty years of living and loving together.. there is still room for growth to experience even more "love" with each other.
In monastic life we live a very close, personal life. We eat together, work together, pray a lot together.. and yet... there is still a need to take time and really share. What is amazing when we share.. is that we talk about things that are bothering us.. and we really didn't know just how much we were being bothered by them till we share.
It's like - not only do we not share with others - we are not aware we are not even sharing with ourselves. My gosh! Where did those feelings come from?
It's good to talk to God about things.. but we still have to talk with the brothers and sisters we can reach out and touch!
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia and all the Sisters
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My mom was an amazing Catholic convert who loved her Catholic
faith like no one else I have ever known. When Danny and I decided to
marry, she was concerned because Danny was not Catholic. However, he
did attend Mass with me on weekends and said he had no problem with
our future children being raised in the Catholic Church.
One night before our wedding, I began to feel a bit uneasy and
questioned him about things. I said, "Danny, you know that it is important
to me that when we have children I must raise them in the Catholic faith.
You told me that you would be fine with that, but how do I really know
you mean it?" Danny had never lied to me and had always been true to
me, so I felt good about his answer.
From the book 101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer
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O God, whom I praise, be not silent,
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Jesus taught us that since he was persecuted we could expect to be persecuted also. He even advised us: "Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is great in heaven" (Mt 5:12). We rejoice by praising the Lord for permitting this opportunity to prepare us for heaven.
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From today's readings:
“You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.... Their message goes out through all the earth.... ”
St. Jude, Patron of Desperate Cases
Among the twelve men listed as Jesus’ apostles, for most of them (including St. Simon the Zealot and St. Jude Thaddeus) not much is known historically about their lives after Pentecost. Different traditions (some of them contradictory) supply various details, although such traditions are not essential to the Faith.
When it comes to prayers, there’s certainly a legitimate concept of “strength in numbers,” although this doesn’t mean that, for instance, if two people are praying for the same petition, they have twice the “chance” of getting their prayers answered. So anyway, in addition to having friends on earth praying with us for particular petitions, we can also petition friends above (the saints!) to join there prayers with ours.
When I was in the 2nd grade, I remember a priest explaining the origin of the custom of invoking the intercession of St. Jude in desperate cases. I’m passing on that explanation - it’s quaint, but it has a certain logic, and I personally am inclined to believe there’s truth in the legend, but I add the disclaimer that it certainly should not be held with the same conviction as “Gospel truth”:
After the deaths of the Apostles (most, according to tradition, by martyrdom), people have often sought the prayerful intercession of the whole company of Apostles for particularly important petitions. Many would express their intention to seek the intercession of all the saintly Apostles and then begin going through the list individually, offering a particular prayer for each of the Apostles by name. Now, although not everyone can name by memory all twelve apostles, very few fail to recognize the name of Judas Iscariot. So, whenever the name “Judas” came up, most people thought immediately about the Lord’s betrayer, and tended to forget that there was another (saintly) Apostle named Judas (in English, the tradition has arisen of referring to the saint as “Jude” and the betrayer as “Judas”, but their names are actually the same). So, the upshot of it was, St. Jude’s intercession would often not be invoked the first time petitioners would cycle through the Apostles. But eventually, anxious (and at this point, even desperate!) to still be waiting for an answer to their prayers, people would realize that they had left out St. Jude (by confusing him with Judas Iscariot); so, after including him and completing their petition to all the saintly Apostles, their prayers would be answered.
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