Have you heard of this guy? Fascinating conversion story... fascinating
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Monday, May 23, 2011
Grow where you're planted.
These were words spoken by Mother Teresa to a philanthropist with a restless heart taken from Archbishop Jose Gomez's Baccalaureate Address at USC
The entire transcript can be found here. Here's an excerpt:
You are in this world for a reason! God has a plan for each one of your lives. He has something that he wants you to do. Wherever find yourself "planted," wherever you find yourself in this life, you must seek God's will for you.
Wherever you find yourself, remember: God loves each one of you very dearly -- as if there were no one else in the whole wide world but you.
Sometimes I think this is the hardest thing for people to believe in -- God's personal love for us. We think that this world is so big, that the universe is so vast -- how can God possibly care about every one?
But he does, my friends! God cares for you very deeply.
The entire transcript can be found here. Here's an excerpt:
You are in this world for a reason! God has a plan for each one of your lives. He has something that he wants you to do. Wherever find yourself "planted," wherever you find yourself in this life, you must seek God's will for you.
Wherever you find yourself, remember: God loves each one of you very dearly -- as if there were no one else in the whole wide world but you.
Sometimes I think this is the hardest thing for people to believe in -- God's personal love for us. We think that this world is so big, that the universe is so vast -- how can God possibly care about every one?
But he does, my friends! God cares for you very deeply.
Friday, May 20, 2011
My Daily Med: "Have I been with you for so long a time
and you still do not know me?"
This passage reminds me of...gonna say it...wait for it...yep... Catholics.
Cradle catholics, those "been catholic my whole life", " I was raised Catholic", cafeteria Catholics, lillie and poinsetta catholics ( ACE catholics - advent, christmas, easter) whatever your personal favorite is, that's what the reading today speaks to me about and I'm not immune. I completly accuse myself of being guilty too.
The thing is each and every time we enter into the holy sacrifice of the mass, we have the opportunity to meet Jesus. It's not some abstract idea of a real presence. It's him in the flesh, body, blood soul and divinity and do we take the opportunity to meet him, to know him, to love him, to serve him each and every moment of our lives? The hard and fast truth is that every person that meets Christ is transformed. You never leave him the same way you came. Never! Read any of the Gospels. The magi, the first to meet our Lord, went home a different way. That's important! That should happen to us too.
So often it doesn't. Why is that? Is it because we never met him? Are we just like Philip who listened to Jesus' preaching, ate and drank at his table(Eucharist) and camped out with him (adoration) but never really met him/got to know him?
If we never knew him, who's fault is that? It takes 2 to enter into a relationship and it takes 2 to maintain that relationship. He's doing his part. Are you doing yours?
This passage reminds me of...gonna say it...wait for it...yep... Catholics.
Cradle catholics, those "been catholic my whole life", " I was raised Catholic", cafeteria Catholics, lillie and poinsetta catholics ( ACE catholics - advent, christmas, easter) whatever your personal favorite is, that's what the reading today speaks to me about and I'm not immune. I completly accuse myself of being guilty too.
The thing is each and every time we enter into the holy sacrifice of the mass, we have the opportunity to meet Jesus. It's not some abstract idea of a real presence. It's him in the flesh, body, blood soul and divinity and do we take the opportunity to meet him, to know him, to love him, to serve him each and every moment of our lives? The hard and fast truth is that every person that meets Christ is transformed. You never leave him the same way you came. Never! Read any of the Gospels. The magi, the first to meet our Lord, went home a different way. That's important! That should happen to us too.
So often it doesn't. Why is that? Is it because we never met him? Are we just like Philip who listened to Jesus' preaching, ate and drank at his table(Eucharist) and camped out with him (adoration) but never really met him/got to know him?
If we never knew him, who's fault is that? It takes 2 to enter into a relationship and it takes 2 to maintain that relationship. He's doing his part. Are you doing yours?
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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