The First of the Month
"Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors..."
HAPPY FEAST DAY: Today is the feast day of one of my favorite saints, St. Therese of Lisieux. I love reading stories about her, I think out of my saint book collections, I ahve the most books on her. Juss cuz the wisdom she has is so interesting, you can learn a lot from her. I also love sharing bout her to other people, I let jan-michael borrow my book on her stories of answered prayers. Its funny cuz I was looking back at my ol archives from last year and I was reading the stuff she wrote from this book 'wisdom of the little flower.' So much to learn from this Saint, her life of holiness that she lead, the life of perseverance, I cant wait to share her w/my confirmation kids this year!
MISSED ONE: Another birfday shout out, going to the baby josh king. This little guy is one funny kid. Errtime I see him it makes me juss want to eat him cuz he's that cute. WHne he speaks he points saying 'deh deh' haha On top of that he's a pretty chill baby. one of those babies that dont cry all the time and is pretty much happy go lucky baby. Whas cool is that he's always down to eat! hah now thas my kind of kid haha anyway, heres to you baby boy haPpy birfday!
GOD PROVIDES: It really is true, God provides even when there seems to be no other hope. This has happened in two different instances this past week. First off, for how, we all decided to pitch in to buy music equipment. The main stuff, mixer and speakers, cuz we have a keyboard. Well there's this anonymous tita who apparently has heard how sing before. She asked for the receipt of the equipment we bought and wrote out a check to pay for the whole thing!!! Freakin wow! Then I get a call back from cypress skool district wed. telling me I passed the test woOo! I have an interview tues. morning. On top of all that yesterday, I get another call back from centraila skool district calling me in for an interview next tues. afternoon! This is the application I had turned in waaay back at the middle of june. Soo cool two interviews for two skool districts on the same day. God is lookin out for all of us. Im sure its not a coincidence that all this is going on either. Praise God for He does provide, provides for all our needs.
WHICH ONE: I went to san pedro region young adult event at St. Raymond's in downey. It was cool I saw a lot of the peeps that I knew from SCRC. Anyway, they had a really good talk by Fr. Ed from sPc bout the Eucharist. It was a long talk, I dont even know how I was able to last through it all, but I did it. He shared bout the story of St. Juan Diego and how our Lady came to him. All in all it was pretty good, I forgot to bring notebook paper to write down notes, cuz there was a lot of good things he said. There was one part of the talk, he was describing the different types of catholics, theres like a billion of us all over the world, but not all our devout. Anyway, so it brought back to something I read in St. Therese's book.
In the first place are the hundred-percenters. These are the whole and undivded ones, the saints. They have put God in the first place of their life, and everything else comes after that. Externally they have many failures, but under their touch everything grows toward eternal life.
The second group, the sixty-percenters, also wins praise from the Lord. They have fought and are wounded in life's toils. But as fighters they belong with the victorious. They are struggling and maturing. In their distress and in their defeat they keep looking to God and turning to him. A man once told me, 'If at the end of my life I cant stand before God as a winner, then at least let it be as a fighter.'
Even the third group, the thirty-percenters, gets recognition from the Lord. Their faith is a faily up and down. Their religous life has its ebbds and flows, its progress and backsliding. Bright days stand alongside dark nights. It is by no means taken for granted that everything will out well in the end, but they stick w/Jesus. In trust in his forgiving love they continually confess their guilt. They do it with the confidence that God can still create something worthwile, even out of their guilt.
As Jesus address the two different groups, the ones with hardened souls and the group w/the open mind, they both face each other. Both are like a field on which God's seed is cast. Although the key here is both group are not open to receiving him in themselves. So the question you may ask, 'Which group do I belong to?' The answer is provided on the path to silence, because it is above all in the silence that the soul opens up to the truth. In silence it purifies itself from errthang that makes it selfish, hard, and, unreceptive. Anyone who talks a lot puts himself in the center of thigns in order to show himself to good advantage. St. Therese writes in one of her numerous letters, Silence does the soul good.
In the prophet Isaiah it says, 'Hear, that your soul may live.' By hearing, we come to life. So, too, those who dont hear dont know what life is all bout . The listening person makes out what is important to the other person, and to God.
EYE TO EYE: I like that 'if I cannot stand before God as a winner then at least let it be as a fighter.' There's nothing like seeing your God face to face, eye to eye. When father was walking around w/the monstrous going to people w/it, this awe intense feeling came to me. I guess its juss an overwhelming emotional feeling when here's your God standing right before you. One of those grace filled moments that you dont want to end. Nothing better then seeing your Jesus right before you, filled with so much love. On top of all that fr. blessed my bendectine crosses, I got them for my skit peeps, as a reminder of how much God will always be there for them. Orginally I wanted to get the real small ones, but he ran out oh whY?! So all that was left was the real blang blang type, but I didnt want to get those cuz they were too blang-blang, but turns out gaby was giving me a real good deal so I fell through. I hope they like them...I know mine means the world to me. I cant wait to give it to them!
I found this, while looking at my archives hmmm...
CALLING ALL CATHOLICS: Are you afraid to walk the walk???
Just because you go to church on Sunday does not make you Catholic, anymore than sitting in a garage makes you a car. Read about your faith and question it, do works of mercy, pray for your priests who give up their lives to serve you(they're human too), ask Jesus for the strength to resist the world when you receive HIM in the Eucharist, don't be afraid to PRAISE GOD in front of your friends, thank God for the gift of the Eucharist at mass, Open your Bible that usually sits on that dusty shelf(the first attempted crowd surfer's in there...how bad could it be? His name is Razis and he's in Maccabees if you're still curious), Allow God to open your eyes to the beauty of you faith because once you start seeing there's no going back! Look what happened to Lot's wife in Genesis. Talk your Mom (Mary) in heaven...she hasn't heard from you in decades(rosary decades that is). Now go out and prove you're Catholic. Jesus said "I am with you always" so don't be afraid.
"Give us a spirit of wisdom, an understanding heart..."im done, im out GOd bless!
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