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Mary, Did You Know?

11/30/2015

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Time teaches us as life goes on.   We are able to grasp our own self-identity and realize that there is a purpose for our lives.   God has destined us to play a part in salvation history that God has asked of no other.   This was most definitely true for Mary.  It is also true for each of us.

We honor Mary as the mother of Jesus, yet we can appreciate how she was human and like us, could not possible imagine all that this meant when the Angel Gabriel first came to her.   Because she was a woman of unshakeable faith, she lived each experience faithfully.   She was able to recognize the hand of God in all things, even in the most confusing and desolate times on Calvary.  

We sometimes use the word awesome to describe something that makes us feel good or celebratory.   In the true sense of the word, Mary must have lived in awe of the great things God had done for her, everyday of her life.   She accepted God's providential love step-by-step.   Nothing was a coincidence to her.

During this Advent, I ask that Mary be with me and with each person who reads this simple blog.  Like Mary, we yearn to live out of the deep faith.   We do not always know the road before us.  Many times our well-thought out plans are changed in an instant.  Many times we are taken by joyful surprise or by a sword of sorrow that may pierce our souls.   We can pray to Mary, when we do not understand or do not know the way before us.  We can ask her to help us remain faithful.

We joyfully begin Advent because we do know what gift Jesus' Incarnation was to the world and to us.  And we marvel, in awe at all the Almighty has done for us.  Holy is His Name!


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"Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice." ( Jn18:37 )

11/17/2015

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Children often show us the way of listening.   They are so curious and so appreciative of each new sound.  They absorb everything and seem to realize in their own innocent way, that "All is Gift." 

Jesus encourages me to be a person of truth.  Truth is the criteria for being a listener.  What does it mean to be a person of truth? 

I think it means to anticipate the goodness and blessings that await me with each new day.   To know the truth, to me, means to know that God loves me.  There is nothing that can happen in my day that changes that truth.  We see examples of people who live in the truth of God's love throughout history.  We call them Saints.  They may have suffered greatly and may have seemed deprived of God's consoling presence, yet they held fast to the truth of God's great love within them, despite the lack of consolation which would have made their suffering more bearable.  I think of Mary under His Cross.  I think of Jesus and Peter and all of the apostles who were martyred.   I think of the Little Flower, St. Therese, Damian of Molokai and Maximillian Kolbe.  In our own day, I think of Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Dorothy Day. The list goes on and on . . .

Why would people strive to bear such suffering joyfully and with faith in God's unseen and sometimes unfelt love for them?  Because HE IS RISEN!  Nothing can separate us from the love of God, poured forth in Christ Jesus and the power flowing from His Resurrection! 

Please help me Lord, to remember this!

(Blogs will be continued after Nov. 23rd, for this week a special Youth Conference will take up all of our blogging time!   We look forward to sharing with you after Nov.223rd!) 


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Praise the Lord!

11/7/2015

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I met with our Bereavement Group last week, in anticipation of Thanksgiving, and we talked about GRATITUDE!  It is so important to maintain a grateful mind and heart.  I know it works for me.  Sometimes I have the tendency to think of the negative:  the plans I had that didn't exactly go as intended, the hurts from the past, my own sinfulness that I can't accept . . .the list can go on and on.   I think that this tendency is in all of us.  Once we acknowledge that, we can change things, with God's help.  We can catch ourselves when we begin to think in negative ways.   We can place a positive thought in the negative thought's place.

In reading, I found a great website that enables one to begin a "Gratitude Journal."   Just search for "Gratitude Journal" and many different kinds will come up on your computer.   It is a great aid to keep each of us in a positive mindset.  I know it works for me. 

Resurrection spirituality urges me to take the high road of positive thinking.   It does not dismiss the evil in our world or the things I need to own about myself that need changing, but Resurrection spirituality encourages me to use the power and presence of the Risen Christ to deal with these realities while still maintaining a positive attitude.   Christ is with us.  Christ empowers us.   We are never alone.  Is there anything more positive than that?
































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