"If you pray, you will believe. If you believe, you will love. If you love, you will serve..."

Funny thing happened yesterday at the buena park mall. I was walking into sears w/the mexican and there was this little girl probably like 16 or 15 or so well she was walking out into the mall w/whom i assumed was her bf. Anyway, as she passed by me she smiled at me, so i returned the friendly gesture and smiled back at her. Probably one of my ol sre students or something being that i see them errwhurr i go. haha fun stuff!

The last line of this quote stands out to me, 'if you love, you will serve.' I see it as this if you have love in your heart you will serve to His people. Love and serve go hand in hand, juss like faith and good works. YOu cant juss believe cuz if you believe and yet dont do the works, then your faith is dead. Same w/love, you cant juss be love, but you gotta show love. Youve got to reach out that love to each and errperson. That means loving the people whom you may not like. Loving the people who hurt you the most. Loving the people who irritate and bother you the most. Bottom line folks, we gotta pick up those crosses and keep on moving.

I love swapping faith stories and experiences with other people, whether it be people from my own community or whether it be people i juss meet. Its always an inspiration to hurr wha others have gone through. In some ways it also humbles you, but yet you can learn so much at the same time. YFC camp was like that a lot of faith swapping stories and shurring. I guess in way theyre like praise reports. I gotta start incorporating that back into my SRE classes. I think its important for my kids to understand that we should praise God for errlittle thing. Praise God for suffering, praise God for healing, praise God for good times and hard times. Through suffering we become closer to Him. The closer we can become to Him, the more we learn from Him.

Its been said that meditating upon the passion of our Lord for at least 1 hr a day is more pleasing to Jesus than any other penance. St. Paul of the cross found total interest in our Lord's suffering. St. Peter said, 'Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you may follow in his footsteeps.' We are called each day to follow in Christ's footsteps, He left us the examples, not only Him as an example but His apostles and the saints. People who like each one of us who struggled day to day with sin and evil. Though they overcame it, they chose to turn away from it.

I remember reading bout St. Catherine Dei Ricci of italy, who relived Christ's passion each week from noon on thurs. to 4 pm on fri. Although she was unconscious she reenacted all the events, the scourging, the crowning of thorns, and the nailing to the cross. She was known as one of the first saints to bear the stigmata on her own body. Crazy thing is, she didnt like the stigmata and the reliving of Christ's passion. In fact she felt that it was an embarassment and inconvience to her. She even prayed that God would take back the unwanted gift she recieved. Funny thing is, God did back wha He gave her. So when you pray, start to really reflect on Christ's passion. I have a d0pe prayer that St. Catherine wrote that reflects on the passion, if you would like a copy of it, let me know. Let us participate in His passion, so we may participate in His ressurection.

Highlight of the day:Spending time at adoration and soaking in prayer in front of Him.

I thank you, O good Jesus, because i have learned with some experience what you did condescend to suffer for me on the cross, where your most holy body was not even sustained with cords, but hung by your hands and feet, transfixed with hardest nails.

For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world...


I offer myself to suffer anything for love of you.

"In surrender i must give my every heart, Lord receive the sacrafice of a broken heart..."im done, im out God bless!