Prayers/Reflection

[ashira]

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Thank you for Your love and acceptance, Father. I am grateful that you never turn me away...

[ashira]

Make me an intense hearer Lord, so i can be an obedient doer. Conform me to the image of your son,so i can effectively communicate your word in speech and deed....

[petite fleur]

Lord
Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love,
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
And where there's doubt true faith in you.
Make me a channel of your peace:
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope,
Where there is darkness, only light,
And where there's sadness, ever joy.
O Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love with all my soul!
Make me a channel of your peace:
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Father Francis Pray for us.

[petite fleur]

St. Therese’s Prayer… A Teacher’s Prayer!

“Lord, I am too little to foster your children; if you wish to give them, through me, what each one needs, then fill my hand, so that without leaving your arms, even without turning my face from you, I will be able to give your treasures to the soul which comes to me in search of nourishment.”

[petite fleur]

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. Psalm 139:14

[Ky_s_d_LimiT]

Prayer to Rupert Mayer

Lord, what You will let it be so... Where You will there we will go. What is Your will help us to know. Lord, when You will the time is right. In You there's joy in strife. For Your will I'll give my life. To ease Your burden brings no pain. To forego all for You is gain. As long as I in You remain. Because You will it, it is best. Because You will it, we are blest. Till in Your hands our hearts find rest...

Amen..

[petite fleur]

^ *Prayer of Rupert Mayer

[petite fleur]

O Lord Jesus Christ, Thou hast said, “Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you”; mercifully attend to our supplications, and grant us the grace of Thy most divine love, that we may love
Thee with all our hearts, and in all our words and actions, and never cease to praise Thee.

Make us, O Lord, to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy name, for Thou never failest to govern those who Thou dost solidly establish in Thy love. Amen.

*Prayer from the Litany of the Most Holy Name of Jesus

God bless us all!

[petite fleur]

"Now, is it possible to hope for what we do not believe in? "


".... Yet faith and hope have this in common: they refer to what is not seen, whether this unseen is believed in or hoped for. Thus in the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is used by the enlightened defenders of the catholic rule of faith, faith is said to be "the conviction of things not seen."16 However, when a man maintains that neither words nor witnesses nor even arguments, but only the evidence of present experience, determine his faith, he still ought not to be called absurd or told, "You have seen; therefore you have not believed." For it does not follow that unless a thing is not seen it cannot be believed. Still it is better for us to use the term "faith," as we are taught in "the sacred eloquence,"17 to refer to things not seen. And as for hope, the apostle says: "Hope that is seen is not hope. For if a man sees a thing, why does he hope for it? If, however, we hope for what we do not see, we then wait for it in patience."18 When, therefore, our good is believed to be future, this is the same thing as hoping for it.

What, then, shall I say of love, without which faith can do nothing? There can be no true hope without love. Indeed, as the apostle James says, "Even the demons believe and tremble."19
Yet they neither hope nor love. Instead, believing as we do that what we hope for and love is coming to pass, they tremble. Therefore, the apostle Paul approves and commends the faith that works by love and that cannot exist without hope. Thus it is that love is not without hope, hope is not without love, and neither hope nor love are without faith."

~St. Augustine of Hippo
Enchiridion
On Faith, Hope, and Love
Chapter 2

St. Augustine, Enchiridion: On Faith, Hope, and Love (1955). English translation

[inxss4]

Thank you Lord for everything.....Praise the LORD the ALMIGHTY...HALELUJAH....