In conversation:
Mom: "Let's name the sacraments to remember how many there are."
Boy: "Which ones are the sacraments again?"
Mom: (Describing baptism...)
Boy: (with a hint of pride)"Oh yeah, Eucharist!
Mom: "Good!" (but then tells what Eucharist is and hints to describe baptism again)
Boy: "1st Communion, 2nd Communion. (pause, then counting on fingers) Eucharist, 1st Communion, 2nd Communion. That's 3!"
I think we have a little more work to do!
Quote
"You must never give up! There are wounded souls out there who need you. Don't leave them behind, soldier!"
--Fr. John Corapi
Prayer for Priests
O Jesus our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of his priestly life.
In his loneliness, comfort him. In his sorrows, strengthen him. In his frustrations, point out to him that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show him that he is needed by the church, he is needed by souls, he is needed for the work of redemption.
O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your son who is close to you because of his priestly ordination, and because of the power which he has received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs him so much.
Be his comfort, be his joy, be his strength, and especially help him to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy.
Amen.
Daily Mass Readings
The Use of Writing
"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Happiness...
"The means to gain Happiness is:
to throw out from oneself
like a spider
in all directions
an adhesive Web of Love,
and to catch in it all that comes.”
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
About Me
- Maria
- I am a wife, and mother to 12 children. My family teaches me more about life than I ever could have imagined! My greatest challenge in life is fulfilling my duties as wife and mother: gently, joyfully and diligently.
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Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI
Please pray for all our priests: present, future and departed!
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