Prayers/Reflection

[petite fleur]

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Prayer Before an Exam

Dear Lord,

Sometimes I feel a little strange praying
to you because of an exam.
It doesn't really seem all that significant
when you consider the "big picture."
But right now, the test looms so large
that it is all I can see before me.

I pray to you for three things:
- the strength to handle the pressure that I feel,
- the confidence to feel secure
in my knowledge and preparation,
- and the ability to keep an appropriate
perspective on it all.
Help me to keep in mind what is really important,
even as I focus all of my time and energy
on this test in the immediate future. Amen

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usa ra mn jd ang akong i-pray...

Thy will be done...

[ashira]

O lord,thank you for your unfailing hope that waters my heart....

[petite fleur]

usa ra mn jd ang akong i-pray...

Thy will be done...

Nya if ang will na done na?

Pag Thank you pd uy! hehe

[petite fleur]

No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
and wars would never start
And time would heal all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end
This is my grown up christmas list

As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree

Well heaven only knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul



Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a wonder at the wisdom and power of Your Father and ours. Receive my prayer as part of my service of the Lord who enlists me in God's own work for justice.

Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a hunger for peace: peace in the world, peace in my home, peace in myself.

Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me a joy responsive to the Father's joy. I seek His will so I can serve with gladness, singing and love.

Come, long-expected Jesus. Excite in me the joy and love and peace it is right to bring to the manger of my Lord. Raise in me, too, sober reverence for the God who acted there, hearty gratitude for the life begun there, and spirited resolution to serve the Father and Son.

I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, whose advent I hail. Amen.
~Advent Prayer

[petite fleur]

Blessed Pedro Calungsod Song - YouTube

Beato Pedro, e ampo mu kami labina ang mga kabataan karon nga nahilayu na sa simbahan. E ampo sila sa Ginoo nga malamdagan ang ilang kalag og kasing2x. Ikaw ang batang beato sa Pilipinas, inspirasyun sa mga kabataang Pilipino nga bo-ot mu sunod sa ka agi sa Ginoo, e -ampo mu kami, kami nga bo-ot mahisama kanimu og sa ubang martyr og santos. E -ampo mu kami nga lig-onon sa Ginoo amung kalag og kasing kasing sa pag higuma kaniya. Beato Pedro, e-ampo mu kami!

Pray for us Beato Pedro!
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

[petite fleur]

"What shall prevent God from doing that which He will in the soul that is resigned, annihilated and detached?" (St John of the Cross, Ascent of Mt Carmel, II, 4:2) This statement of St John of the Cross makes you understand that God has an immense desire to work in your soul, to lead you to sanctity and to union with Himself, provided you commit yourself into His hands, despoiled of every attachment, annihilated in your self-love, entirely docile, malleable and adaptable to His action.

The Lord comes to your assistance with purifying trials in order to empty you of self, to detach you from creatures, to immerse you in true humility, but at the same time he helps you to grow in love, the strong bond which must unite you to Him. All the work which God accomplishes in your soul is done in view of making you advance in this virtue; exterior and interior trials, humiliations, powerlessness, aridity, struggles and tempests are meant in the divine plan to extinguish the illusory fires of self-love, pride, earthly affections and all other irregular passions, so that only one fire may burn within you, ever more intensely and strongly, the fire of charity.

~Divine Intimacy

[petite fleur]

God is the Friend of Silence

We Need to Find God,
He Cannot Be Found in Noise and Restlessness.

God Is the Friend of Silence.

See How Nature . . .
Trees, Flowers, Grass
Grow in Silence.

See the Stars, the Moon and Sun . . .
How They Move in Silence.
The More We Receive in Silent Prayer,
The More We Can Give in Our Active Life.

We Need Silence to Be Able to Touch Souls.

The Essential Thing Is Not What We Say,
But What God Says . . .
To us and Through us.

All Our Words Will Be Useless
Unless They Come from Within.
Words Which Do Not Give the Light of Christ . . .
Increase the Darkness.


-Mother Teresa

[petite fleur]

Start Over

When you've trusted Jesus and walked his way
When you've felt his hand lead you day by day
But your steps now take you another way,
start over.

When you've made your plans and they've gone awry
When you've tried your best and there's no more try
When you've failed yourself and you don't know why,
start over.

When you've told your friends what you plan to do
When you've trusted them and they didn't come through
And now you're all alone and it's up to you,
start over.

When you've failed your kids and they're grown and gone
When you've done your best but it's turned out wrong
And now your grandchildren have come along,
start over.

When you've prayed to God so you'll know his will
When you've prayed and prayed and you don't know still
When you want to stop cause you've had your fill,
start over.

When you think you're finished and want to quit
When you've bottomed out in life's deepest pit
When you've tried and tried to get out of it,
start over.

When the year has been long and successes few
When December comes and you're feeling blue
God gives a January just for you,
start over.

Starting over means "Victories Won"
Starting over means "A Race Well Run"
Starting over means "The Lords' Will Done"
We need not just sit there ... START OVER.

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