After years of blogging I've come to a turning point. It's time to put this blog to rest. There are many reasons why I've decided this but it's nothing huge or exciting or....dare I say it - bloggable. I'm going away for a few weeks soon and with limited computer access it's the natural break I need to move on.
Thanks to everyone that prayed for me and my family situations over the past few years.
Best wishes and God bless you!
Angela
xo
Thought of the Day
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Monday, 9 May 2011
The only thing necessary
Heard at Mass yesterday....if every single bible in the world was destroyed, except one, and even if that entire single bible was unreadable except for one verse, and that verse stated "God is Love", then we would have everything we need.
Right now I need to know that and remember it.
Right now I need to know that and remember it.
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Altar boys
“Lay readers and extraordinary ministers serve the people,” he says. “The altar boy serves the priest. He’s the hands of the priest. He would be an apprentice, either in a real or symbolic way, for the priesthood.”
Read the whole article here.
Read the whole article here.
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Sunday, 3 April 2011
Abortion after rape
Abortion pierces the heart like no other issue — especially when a rape is involved.
I have more reports from around the globe; but before that, I want to share with you one of the most touching notes I’ve ever received regarding a rape case.
This Sunday, give thanks for the love of God, which is penetrating the most desperate situations and bringing hope where the world often claims there is no hope.
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FROM THE 40 DAYS FOR LIFE BLOG
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“I want to thank my mother, who did not succumb to the pressure to abort me after being raped 30 years ago,” said this 40 Days for Life participant. “Today, she chokes up with emotion whenever she tells me how special and important I am to her life! Praise God!”
I simply cannot imagine what that pressure would have been like. This is one of the so-called hard cases where abortion is somehow deemed acceptable. But as this woman’s life shows, this is not about statistics or “difficult choices.” It’s about human beings.
“I am not perfect. But because I was given the chance to live, I can and do strive for holiness,” she wrote. “Thank you, pro-lifers, for recognizing AND reminding me that I am beautifully and wonderfully made in God’s image.”
Abortion supporters, she said, “will have people like me think that we are monsters who must be punished for the crime of our father. I know what he did was wrong; but I pray for him and hope to see him in heaven as a repentant sinner.”
I tell you, her story inspires ME. But for her part, she humbly says that she is inspired by … YOU!
“Reading all of these responses makes me so enthusiastic about going back to pray … to save more lives,” she said. “God bless you all and keep up the good work!”
I have more reports from around the globe; but before that, I want to share with you one of the most touching notes I’ve ever received regarding a rape case.
This Sunday, give thanks for the love of God, which is penetrating the most desperate situations and bringing hope where the world often claims there is no hope.
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FROM THE 40 DAYS FOR LIFE BLOG
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“I want to thank my mother, who did not succumb to the pressure to abort me after being raped 30 years ago,” said this 40 Days for Life participant. “Today, she chokes up with emotion whenever she tells me how special and important I am to her life! Praise God!”
I simply cannot imagine what that pressure would have been like. This is one of the so-called hard cases where abortion is somehow deemed acceptable. But as this woman’s life shows, this is not about statistics or “difficult choices.” It’s about human beings.
“I am not perfect. But because I was given the chance to live, I can and do strive for holiness,” she wrote. “Thank you, pro-lifers, for recognizing AND reminding me that I am beautifully and wonderfully made in God’s image.”
Abortion supporters, she said, “will have people like me think that we are monsters who must be punished for the crime of our father. I know what he did was wrong; but I pray for him and hope to see him in heaven as a repentant sinner.”
I tell you, her story inspires ME. But for her part, she humbly says that she is inspired by … YOU!
“Reading all of these responses makes me so enthusiastic about going back to pray … to save more lives,” she said. “God bless you all and keep up the good work!”
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Thursday, 31 March 2011
Heal my tongue
When I receive Holy Communion, I entreat and beg the Savior to heal my tongue, that I may never fail in love of neighbour. (Diary 590)
Friday, 18 March 2011
Saturday, 12 March 2011
We are Christ's ambassadors
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of his body (which is the church) in filling up that which is lacking in Christ's afflictions. Colossians 1:24
Q. ~ What does this mean that when Paul suffers for the church he is "filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions"? How can any man fill up what is surely as full as any suffering could be?
A. ~ It is full and lacking in nothing—except one thing, a personal presentation by Christ himself to the nations of the world and the people you know. God's answer to this lack is to call the people of Christ to present the afflictions of Christ to the world—to carry them from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
In doing this we "fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ." We finish what they were designed for, namely, a personal presentation to the world of people who do not know about their infinite worth.
Q. ~ What does this mean that when Paul suffers for the church he is "filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions"? How can any man fill up what is surely as full as any suffering could be?
A. ~ It is full and lacking in nothing—except one thing, a personal presentation by Christ himself to the nations of the world and the people you know. God's answer to this lack is to call the people of Christ to present the afflictions of Christ to the world—to carry them from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.
In doing this we "fill up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ." We finish what they were designed for, namely, a personal presentation to the world of people who do not know about their infinite worth.
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