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Morning Offering given
Jesus let me live for you
Jesus let me die for you
Jesus I am thine in life & in death
Village foggy and silent
Coffee… pod
New Month… Flower- Aster, wisdom, faith, trust & enduring affection. Sapphire is the birthstone. Check out the Breastplate of Aaron in Exodus 28. Sapphire is said to be one of the 12 stones in it.
A new month means a new start. Make this the month you begin your journey to an intimate relationship with Christ. Cull out all those things you do to keep yourself busy and replace them with prayer, scripture reading, etc. Relationships don’t just happen, they are cultivated. If you don’t cultivate them, they grow weeds and are soon overgrown with them and eventually overrun by them. Marriage is like that. If you don’t make a concerted effort they are lost into the background.
From the Margins:
Does your vision of the river trickle like a small stream or is it rushing forth fresh and teaming with life?
Remaining in God’s presence allows his river to erode our old ways of thinking and living.
It will allow him to point out areas where we are not choosing him and help us to make changes.
St. Giles patron of the crippled reveals that the wholeness of our bodies is not as important as the strength of our souls. Lord, help me to remember that even when my body lets me down, I can work to keep my soul from letting You and me down.
September Scripture Readings will be Fruits of the Spirit. Commit 10 mins of each day to read the verses, think about them and reflect on what it means to you.
Day 1
Galatians 5:22-23 In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,q 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.r
Nehemiah 1:11 f LORD, may your ears be attentive to the prayer of your servant and that of all your servants who willingly revere your name. Grant success to your servant this day, and let him find favor with this man”—for I was cupbearer to the king.*
Meditations for Each Day, by Antonio Cardinal Bacci (originally published in 1959), page 349, The Problem of Evil.
In his second letter to the Thessalonians (2 Thess 2:3-7), the Apostle Paul speaks of the Anti-Christ, “the man of sin… the son of perdition, who opposes and is exalted above all that is called God…”Already,” he says, “the mystery of iniquity is at work.” From the beginning of the Church’s history until the present time, it has always been the same. there always have been and always will be men who do evil not from human weakness, but from motives of malice so diabolical as to present something of a mystery to us. these can be called Anti-Christ because they seem to be incarnations of the devil, the spirit of iniquity. They delight in spreading error, in corrupting minds, and in persecuting the Church. they are steeped in all kinds of baseness and nothing please them better than to succeed in inducing the young and the innocent to follow them in their sinful ways. For this purpose, they employ all the advantages which modern technical progress has to offer – the press, the cinema, the radio, and television. In short, they use God’s gifts in their commercialization of sin in order to draw souls away for Him. (Amazingly accurate in today’s world)
Good morning!
Once again, we have a new month. May this be the month that brings you closer to Christ.
… question, when you tell someone that you will pray for them do you? If not make this the month you begin to pray.
Know you are prayed for
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