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September 19,
2008
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Thoughts from Sister Patricia
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Quote for the Day:
I need Thee, O Lord, for a curb on my tongue; when I am
tempted to making carping criticisms and cruel judgements, keep
me from speaking barbed words that hurt, and in which I find
perverted satisfaction. Keep me from unkind words and from
unkind silences. Restrain my judgements. Make my criticisms
kind, generous, and constructive. Make me sweet inside, that I
may be gentle with other people, gentle in the things I say, kind
in what I do. Create in me that warmth of mercy that shall enable
others to find Thy strength for their weakness, Thy peace for
their strife, Thy joy for their sorrow, Thy love for their hatred,
Thy compassion for their weakness. In thine own strong name,
I pray. Amen.
Peter Marshall
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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A while back I received a comment that I should write more about "life" in the monastery. So I started thinking about it.. and trying to figure out why I was having such a difficult time
coming up with things to talk about monastic life. I finally decided it is because life in the monastery for me has become so "normal" that it is rather hard to step outside of it .. to see what is different.
In many ways life in a monastery is not all that different from other walks of life.. but there are differences - and so to get my thoughts going in that direction I made a list of anything that came to my
mind about life in the monastery. So far I have 43 entries. I will share them with you off and on in the days ahead - not in any particular order of importance... but just as they popped into my head and I wrote them down.
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Number 1: Start the day with prayer
Many people wake up to the sound of their alarm or their radio suddenly bursting into life with music or conversation to announce it is time to get up. In our monastery the day begins with three quiet knocks on the door at 5:00 in the morning. The sister who is designated to make these morning rounds... usually the Sacristan.. which means myself then says to the sleeping victim,. "Let us bless the Lord!" and the drowsy sister replies... sometimes not very coherently, "Thanks be to God."
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Well, I'm back in the thick of radio again. Not that I have totally left it but its been more of a wading, toe in the water sort of time. Now I'm sloshing out into a little bit deeper water. Will let you know when it gets to be over my head and I have to start paddling.
Today I finished producing our second episode of the Northwest Catholic Hour. It has some rough spots... as I have to tweak the music a bit..a little loud in places...but hey, at least we are doing it. I hope that it will be the start of doing more and more local featuring of Catholic life in the Inland Northwest. Each 30 minute episode contains five minute segments from different Catholic ministries. Bits and pieces but I think over time it will do a lot. If you would like to take a listen -
Northwest Catholic Hour #2
Also our Bishop Skylstad talked about the need to vote NO on Initiative 1000. Washington state will decide at the polls if Assisted Suicide will be allowed. Please pray for the truth to be known about this bill. It is too scary.
Bishop Skylstad - Initiative 1000
Blessings of Peace and All Good!
Sister Patricia
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No Refuge Apart From God
Psalm 16:1-2
Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
I say to the Lord, "My Lord are you.
Apart from you I have no good."
When we acknowledge our own human weakness, our inability, our inadequacy, then our prayer posture is similar to that of the psalmist when he admits: "Apart from you I have no good."
When we take refuge in the Lord and when we make him the first priority in our lives, then he will be our comfort and consolation in times of discouragement, doubt, fear, anxiety, bewilderment.
Jesus confirms this attitude: "Apart from me you can do nothing." (Jn 15:5)
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Sep 23 Tue: Pio of Pietrelcina, p M
From today's readings:
“All the ways of a man may be right in his own eyes, but it is the LORD who proves hearts.... Guide me, Lord, in the way of Your commands.... My mother and My brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it....”
Proverbial Path to the Word of Wisdom
While most of the biblical proverbs are characteristically pithy, a few are longer and more complex - these need to be read more than just one verse at a time. For an example of this, consider a selection of verses from Chapter 8, which is probably the most beautiful chapter in Proverbs, a poetic personification of Wisdom:
Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice?
On the top of the heights along the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand;
By the gates at the approaches of the city, in the entryways she cries aloud:
"To you, O men, I call; my appeal is to the children of men.
You simple ones, gain resource, you fools, gain sense.
Give heed! for noble things I speak; honesty opens my lips.
Yes, the truth my mouth recounts, but the wickedness my lips abhor.
Sincere are all the words of my mouth, no one of them is wily or crooked....
Mine are counsel and advice; Mine is strength; I am understanding.
By me kings reign, and lawgivers establish justice;
By me princes govern, and nobles; all the rulers of earth.
Those who love me I also love, and those who seek me find me.
With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than pure gold, and my revenue than choice silver.
On the way of duty I walk, along the paths of justice,
Granting wealth to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
The LORD begot me, the first-born of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;
From of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth.....
When he established the heavens I was there, when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep....
Happy the man watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts;
For he who finds me finds life, and wins favor from the LORD;
But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death."
It is very clear why the fathers of the church saw in this chapter 8 of Proverbs an introduction to Jesus, the Word of God, the One who was there with the Father before the creation of the world - the One who is meant to be chosen above gold and silver! In fact, Jesus Himself read the Proverbs, and even retold and expanded some of them:
Consider chapter 25, verses 6-7:
“Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great;
for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of the prince. ”
Jesus expanded that into the parable He told in Luke 14:7-14. Here again, we see the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament. What the Old Testament sometimes presents in a hidden way is made clear, opened up, and fulfilled in the New Testament.
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