A Reminder There is a life before this one and a life to follow. Every person is a spiritual being having a human experience. The point of our brief time on earth is to come to grips with what is eternal inside us — the part we’ll take with us when we leave the rest […]
Category Archives: Thought For The Day
The cynic believes that gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favors! If we are nice to people, they will be nice to us. But real gratitude has nothing to do with playing up to people. It has everything to do with loving God and loving our neighbor — a spontaneous gesture of […]
Prayer to Christ, the Universal King O Christ Jesus! I acknowledge You King of the Universe. All that has been created has been made for You. Exercise upon me all Your rights. I renew my baptismal promises renouncing Satan and all his works and pomps. I promise to live a good Catholic life and to […]
O Beautiful, for heroes proved in liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life. America! America! may God thy gold refine, ‘Til all success be nobleness and every gain divine. God bless our Veterans!
Come, O Spirit of Understanding! Enlighten our minds, that we may know and believe all the mysteries of salvation; and may merit at last to see the eternal light in Thy Light, and in the light of glory to have a clear vision of Thee and the Father and the Son. Amen.
“What is essential is not what we say, but what God tells us and what He tells others through us. In silence He listens to us; in silence He speaks to our souls. In silence we are granted the privilege of listening to His voice.” Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Thoughts For the Christian passing through death is really a birth into a new and better world. Those who are left behind should not grieve as if there were no hope. Life is changed, not taken away. Our dear ones live on, in a world beautiful beyond anything we can imagine. With Jesus and Mary […]
Sometime Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned, and sun and stars forevermore have set, The things which our weak judgment here has spurned, The things o’er which we grieved with lashes wet Will flash before us out of life’s dark night, as stars shine most in deeper tints of blue: And we shall […]
“Father, all powerful and ever-living God, today we rejoice in the holy men and women of every time and place. May their prayers bring us your forgiveness and love. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.” […]
It is important to carry on the ordinary, calm, kindly life (even when our world around us is anything but). We are the family of God, disciples of Jesus, consecrated in truth. The healing word of God is implanted in our life together. It will survive disillusionment and all conflict and disbelief. Mother Patricia O’Connor, […]