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Morning Offering given
Village sleeping
Coffee blah
St. John Gabriel Perboyre helped abandoned children in China, reminding us that Christian actions speak louder than words. Lord, lead me to help children and youth so that the next generation may be yours.
Our personal story… 44 foster children, 6 adopted children, 2 raised grandchildren, 2 biological (1 living) children. Today we have 22 grandchildren 18 living. Our lives have been rich and full. What God said all those years ago “quit the job, adopt those children, I take care of the sparrows, I’ll take care of you” happened. It was a done deal for me when the 4way medal changed colors and broke in half. It was not particularly easy, but not one day did we lack for the things that we needed. God kept his promise, I kept mine. Now my job is to pray for them. They have to make their own way to Christ. The foundation was laid; the path was established.
Meditations for Each Day, pg. 363, The Incarnation
•By means of the Incarnation God comes to man so that man may return to God. God created man by an act of love to display and to diffuse his infinite goodness. But this relationship of love was disrupted by sin. Love became fear on the part of man, and it became justice on the part of God.
•The Incarnation, which is the coming of God among men that He might be loved more, requires that man in return love god and be obedient to His commandments. Since the infinite God could do no more for us than give us His entire self, it is only right that we should be prepared to make any sacrifice in order to prove our love for Him.
Divine Intimacy, pg. 1052, # 349 Toward Complete Purification
•The soul desirous of reaching this high state of union with God is greatly impeded when it clings to any understand or feeling or imagination or appearance or will or manner of its own, or to any other act or to anything of its own, and is unable to detach and strip itself of all these… There are few who enter effectively into the night of the spirit precisely because – there are few who can enter, and desire to enter – into this complete detachment and emptiness of spirit.
•The generous practice of total renunciation is not the only thing we can do in order to enter the night of the spirit; there is another no longer negative but eminently positive: the intense exercise of the theological virtues. Faith, hope and charity must be our support and guide in the obscurity of the night and, at the same time, help us to purify the faculties of our soul–the understanding, the memory, and the will–so that they may cling to God alone.
Lord make possible to me by your grace what seems impossible to me by nature.
You know that I can bear but little and that I am quickly discouraged by a small adversity.
Let every trial and tribulation become agreeable to me, for your name’s sake,
for to suffer and to be afflicted for you is very beneficial to my soul.
Scripture Reading for Day 11 of Fruit of the Spirit
1 Thessalonians 1:3 calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope* of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father,
James 3:18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace.f
Where were you September 11, 2001? I was in the car with my G’son, Jason, headed to WI to visit my sister-in-law, Sue.
On another note:
If you are struggling stay on the path with Christ. Pray for the souls in purgatory so that perhaps one will be released into Heaven. Look at your suffering as being refined by fire; hopefully making your purgatory less.
Know you are prayed for.
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