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Morning Offering given
Village waking and peaceful
Happy 11th Birthday Liam F
The Transfiguration Jesus demonstrated that He was God’s chosen, the One known even by Moses and Elijah. Transfigured Jesus, I thank you for giving us all that we need to recognize you as God’s own son.
Meditations for Each Day, Antonio Cardinal Bacci (Nihil obstat: James F Rigney, censor librorum, John P. Sullvan, censor deputatus. Imprimatu: Francis Cardinal Spellman Archbishop of New York 19 October 1964),page 312, Riches and Poverty
Extravagance is always self-centered
Poverty is good in that it makes us detached from worldly things and helps us to think more about the next life.
It is true poverty will always be with us but destitution would disappear.
Destitution is really a social crime, for it is the result of human egoism and can breed hatred and spiritual degradation.
“Poverty is decent. It does not dress in rags, its dwelling is tidy, healthy, and affords a welcome. It can have a change of linen once a week. It is not emaciated nor hungry. It is not good for anyone to live in easy circumstance; on the contrary, it is much better always to feel the goad of necessity.” writes Péguy in La guerre et la paix p. 338.
When Jesus blessed the poor and condemned the rich, he was referring to the poor man who has enough to supply his needs, is detached from worldly possession, uses his poverty to assist him in his journey towards Heaven, and is happy or at any rate content. When Jesus condemns the rich, its the rich man who squanders his wealth on selfish amusement and is deaf to the entreaties of those in need.
Scripture Reading for Day 6 of Never Alone
John 14:17-18 the Spirit of truth,* which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.l 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.*
Mark 11:25 When you stand to pray, forgive anyone against whom you have a grievance, so that your heavenly Father may in turn forgive you your transgressions.”k
The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary by Elizabeth Kindelmann (Imprimatu # 494-4/2009 from Cardianl Peter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and Primate of Hungary), page 161, Jesus: ” Do you know what makes the soul to live in truth? The continuous exercise of prayer and sacrifice. Without these, your souls are sick and will die.”
Divine Mercy in My Soul St Maria Faustina Kowalska (Nihil Obstate: Krakow April 17, 1979, Rev Ignatius Rozycki, Imprimatu: Krakow, April 18, 1979 ,Francis Macharski, Archbishop), page 43, Jesus: Write that by day and by night My gaze is fixed upon him (Fr. Sopocko) and I permit these adversities in order to increase his merit. I do not reward for good results but for the patience and hardship undergone for My sake.
Know you are prayed for.
In the "Wilds of Wisconsin & Cornfields of Iowa" 