AUSTRALIA
“Remember that Jesus is indeed alive in you: in your hope, your joy, and your generosity to one another. He promised that your love would win people over. So hold fast to him, and let him sustain you.”
Taken from today’s reflection in the Word Among Us
Life often take us to many places. And these places bring us insight that affect our hearts and mnds at work, with family and with friendships. But our Lord always blesses us in these places. And eventually bring us to the place of our hearts desire.
Thank you Lord for answering our prayers. We know that you have also prepared a beautiful place for us, together with you, in the here…in the now…and in forever.
JOHN 14:1-6
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way.” Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
“God our father, creator of all, today is the day of Easter Joy.
This is the morning on which the Lord appeared to men who had begun to lose hope..
And open their eyes to what the Scriptures foretold, that at first he must die, and then he would rise and ascend in to his fathers glorious presence.
May our Risen Lord breathe on our minds and open our eyes that we may know him in the breaking of bread and follow him in his risen life.
Grant this theough Christ our Lord, amen”
This Easter Sunday prayer was taken from the Liturgy is the Hours, Lenten, Easter volume page 526.
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Happy Easter everyone! May our Risen Lord bless us with renewed strength and grace as we give joy and praise to Him this blessed Easter morning.
Courage – be courageous in sharing the love and healing of Jesus
Compassion – He forgave us of our sins, I should forgive others and be compassionate towards others.
Condemn not – He did not condemn me, I shouldn’t judge or condemn others.
Communion – Find strength in Holy Communion, come to Him when you are weak.
Thank you Lord for being with me today and always. Help me to refocus my life on you and your love, being constantly mindful of your will, your healing and your joy in my life.
Help me to be courageous is bringing my family and others to you.
Tonight I heard a beautiful homily by the Papal Nuncio to Australia, Tito Ylana. His words blessed my spirit as he reminded me that Love should be the beginning, the end and the path we take every day.
..To love God above all
..To love my neighbor as myself
Lord please make straight my path. Amen
With the Apostolic Nuncio to Australia Tito Ylana
I’ve been reflecting on my role as a leader within my team, our organisation and home.
Found great encouragement from this reflection on St Peter, leader of the Church..
An excerpt from “The Word Among Us” – today’s meditation..
On this feast day, when we celebrate Peter’s role as leader of the Church, remember that Peter was able to take on this role because Jesus had helped him grow into the person he became. Remember this, and believe that he can do the same for you.
“Lord, I want to be your disciple! Keep on teaching and forming me so that I can be the saint this world needs.”
“..and keep me humble yet solid as Peter, always staying true to the mission, keeping firm on the agenda knowing that I am leaning on, and have strength from the greatest Rock of all, our Lord Jesus Christ”
“Contemplation prolongs Communion and enables one to meet Christ, true God and true man, in a lasting way, to let oneself be seen by Him and to experience His Presence. When we contemplate Him in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar, Christ draws near to us and becomes more intimate to us than we are to ourselves”
– Pope John Paul II, Letter to the Bishop of Liege, Belgium 1996
I was at the Blessed Sacrament today, and came upon this quotation by Pope John Paul II again, and could not help but share..
We can contemplate and come closer to Jesus when we gaze upon Him in nature, in the love and companionship of dear friends and in the silence and yearning of our heart. He truly does know and love us more than we know and love ourselves and others.
Light of nations.. Alleluia…Light in Darkness..Maranatha…Risen Saviour… Alleluia…Lord of glory…Maranatha…You we long for ..Alleluia…You we thirst for..Maranatha….Here among us..Alleuia..Living in us…Maranatha”
It’s not about asking the question, what do you want to be when you grow up, but what am I becoming?
Inspiring insights from Michelle Obama during in an interview with Oprah Winfrey
Our Lady of Silence
Oh! beloved Mother,
I come to you, tonight,
Seeking for rest?
To find, in silence, the serenity
For which my heart thirsts?
After the weariness of the day,
And the fever of action,
I come to you, Our Lady!
Haven of silence
Fountain of peace,
Abyss of gentleness!
I come to you, to renew my soul
To forget my cares,
To flee from speech
And to escape from the hectic life
Of which, tonight, I am weary?
I come to you, Our Lady
Teacher of silence and of shaded retreats,
Of wisdom and of joy, I come to You!
I want but one thing:
To remain in your sight,
To think of You, Virgin of silence.
And if I am too broken to think,
And too weary to pray,
Too wounded even to smile,
To simply be there at your feet,
In your silence.
To savour your silence, your calm,
To plunge into it, to quench my thirst in it!
To be at your feet, O Mary!
To love you with all my heart,
Without words, without discourses,
In silence!
Oh! Our Lady, I come to you?
May my heart contemplate
In your silence
The silence of adoration!
Taken from: http://www.sjsh.org/
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