#MorningPrayer #OOriens Come, Morning Star, heralding the new dawn of your kingdom; shine your guiding light into the darkness of our world and of our ways, that we may be drawn by the hope you set before us, opening our hearts and lives to the refining fire of your love for all.

Dec 5 Scripture bible.usccb.org/bible/readin... Isaiah prophesies that the deaf, blind, and poor will experience God's saving power but the powerful and arrogant will miss it. In the gospels too, Jesus is welcomed among the poor and it was they who experience his healing power. youtu.be/8hcDD6XIeYs

Nov 24 Scripture In the last week of the liturgical year, the focus is eschatological. The poor widow, who put two small coins into the treasury (Lk 21:1-4), teaches us that not only at this time, but each day, we must give life everything we've got. It is the best way to live a life of faith.

Pope Leo speaking with 16,000+young people today!

#MorningPrayer Lord Jesus, inspire us to come to you day by day, bringing that in us which needs the healing, the wholeness, the peace, the shalom of your love. As you renew and refresh us in the new life of your kingdom, give us the strength and courage to show you to the world.

Sunday Homily - The Key is Perseverance When change happens, we need not be terrified, deceived, or succumb to false predictions. Rather, it is by our perseverance that we will secure our lives. www.itemissaest.org/resources/su...

Nov 8 Scripture When Jesus says "Make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth" (Lk 15:9), he is not saying that we become money loving people. Rather, that we are not attached to it; that our identity is not lost when we do not have it; that it does not determine our dignity, character, faith.

FEAST OF ALL SAINTS "Poor in Spirit, Mourn with those who weep, Meek, Hunger and thirst for righteousness, Merciful, Clean of heart, Peacemakers, Persecuted for the sake of righteousness" (Mt 5:3-10). There is blessedness is being the kind of person Jesus was. May we find ourselves blessed!

Bereshit , “In the beginning…” invites us to ponder more than just the origins of heaven and earth; it invites us to consider how the world, society and human relationships can be framed around shared responsibility, mutual dignity, and the freedom that arises when no one holds unchecked power.

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PONDER: The meaning of life is to find your gift The purpose of life is to give it away... The Lord has given us His Holy Spirit to be our Helper, but He will not be of practical help to us until we yield ourselves to Him. In Romans 6:13, Paul urges believers to “yield yourselves unto God.”

Thich Nhat Hahn’s 99th birthday is today. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself and it's spilling over. He doesn't need punishment. He needs help." -Thich Nhat Hanh

Sept 30 Scripture In today's gospel, as much as the disciples wanted to call down fire from heaven to consume and consumer the Samaritan village (as if they could 😂) Jesus turned around and rebuked them (Lk 9:51-56). How often we think God is only our God! All belong to God and God belongs to all.

Sept 23 Scripture Jesus expanded his biological family saying, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it" (Lk 19 21). In our own families, there are good people and not so good folks. Am I a good member of Jesus' family? It depends on hearing and acting on his word.

Yay! Everyone deserves the opportunity to read Merton!

Sept 22 Scripture "No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel...' (Lk 8:18). Unfortunately, these days darkness is placed on a lampstand and darkness is proposed as the light. How is true light discerned from the light of darkness? True light is always humble, kind, self-giving, peaceful.

Sept 17 Scripture Jesus: "To what shall I compare the people of this generation?(Lk 7:31). It is a rhetorical question by Jesus but to answer the question, I say: This generation makes racism, hate, violence, and oppression virtues. It makes martyrs out of villains. So, please let us keep the faith.

SOMETIMES THERE MUST BE SILENCE: because sometimes life is so unutterably bleak the darkness so heavy, the pain so pointless, that we reach a place beyond words. words have no currency here, So we enter silence. The big ache The desolation. Wilderness Silence God...

A beautiful reminder of how great God is

I find my memory tiresome...The only remedy I have is...to pay no more attention to it than I would to a madman. -Teresa of Avila

Walked into a Ross store yesterday. I was met at the door by a uniformed officer who was ‘Metering’ who and how many could come into the store. When I asked about this he said it was to keep the store from being overcrowded🤷🏼‍♀️ and to keep shoplifters out🤦🏼‍♀️.

the clown car arrives in the White House briefing room

A beautiful explanation on the importance of this prayer and what it means…so Much more than what we think on the surface. It is a call to Commitment.

We’ve all been pronouncing Bijan Robinson’s name wrong.

July 22 Scripture - Feast of Mary Magdalene While Mary's identity is inconclusively confused with other Marys (Mary of Bethany or the woman who anointed Jesus' feet) the gospel tells us that it was Mary of Magdala who was the tomb (Jn 20:1-18). The name does not matter; the yearning for God does!

Ha! This is great! 🤣