"each day meditate on the words of your Creator..." St Gregory the Great

Little Sister Hallel reading a scripture during morning prayer at Easter time in Kansas City.

After hearing from Hallel/Susan on the phone on Sunday, and following her journey from Saint Pierre, France to Rome in my heart and mind -she arrived there yesterday... now St Gregory the Great today and his love of Christ in The Word of God, I am very much thinking of Hallel and her Community of the Lamb today. 

Why?  Because Susan's love of Jesus in His Gospels/The Word of God is what led her to know that she was called to be a Little Sister. 

Why?  Because beginning the night before they mendicate/chew The Gospel for the next day and numerous times they take each line and read it 5 times and chant it 10!  In this way they do something similar to Lectio Divina in how they truly ponder and meditate upon each verse, and glean much from it with the help of the Holy Spirit!  They become Christ through His Word, and are Christ knocking on the door of the poor. 

Why do they knock on the doors of the poor?  They beg for their food from the poor!

 Our friend Maggie, from Kansas City is now in France and on August 22 - the Queenship of Mary - she took her habit and her name is now Little Sister Amaya!  Amaya means beloved and she was the niece of St Clare!  Hallel shared that she went with her family and Little Sister Amaya to Lourdes for 2 days last week, and that is was most powerful for all of them.  How I remember that place with great emotion.  It was where I watched my son, John, weak and sick with brain cancer learn to love Our Lady with an undying love and devotion!  In a lot of ways she brought him to his new found Faith through brain cancer and clinging to Jesus and His Bride the Church and surrounded by an ocean of prayers! 
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/johns-cancer-stories.html 

 The simple beauty of their chapel filled with in incense of their prayers throughout the day.  I am hoping and praying that next spring we will get our every 3 year home visit.  But I do see that Hallel has to leave behind her prayer life and some of the sacraments she is blessed with daily with mass and adoration!  It is truly as the air that she breaths, and the LOVE communication between her spouse and Hallel!

 Their lights shine so brightly!

What about begging for their food from the poor?  No, they don't do it daily, and when they do they call it going on a mission.  How can they ever feel this would be right?  Little Sister Marie, their founder, wrestled with this as she felt called to return to their roots of begging for their food and totally depending on the divine providence of the Lord as St Dominic did.  More than that she felt that they should beg for their food from the poor!  In prayer she was led to I Kings17:7-16 - Elijah and the widow...  "make me a loaf and you will never run out..."  With her last bit of flour, oil, and water she shared from her lack and never ran out!  So many times has the Community discovered the blessings flowing from their encounters with the poor as they knock on their doors as Christ knocking on their hearts... sharing Jesus in His Word and taking their prayer needs to heart!

 Hallel at prayer with now Little Sister Amaya... Amaya remains in France while Hallel is now back in Rome.  Hallel certainly has had some rich and world wide experiences in her 7 years with The Community of the Lamb!  Most importantly is the way she is blessed each day from her prayer and study of The Word... as St Gregory The Great said - Learn the heart of God in the words of God, so that you will long more ardently for eternity.  St Gregory the Great (604)

I think that St Gregory is amazing!

To see my sweet daughter in prayer/love communication with her spouse is so wondrous and fills me with JOY!

The Cross is truly the Tree of LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT!

Jesus, today in the Gospel you teach from the boat on the sea - Simon's boat!  You then ask him to lower the nets for a catch and he does in his fatigue after fishing all night with no catch at all.  There are so many fish that the boat is about to sink!  Terrified at your might and realizing deep in his soul that you are God/The Messiah... he is so humbled and unworthy in your sight...Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.  Luke 5  Yet, you love him and call him to leave all and follow after you and become a fisher of men!  Yes, Lord, over and over again I have witnessed your miracles in my life and I am humbled and unworthy of this constant stream of LOVE for me and unconditional forgiveness.  Yet, in your Lord's prayer we pray first that you forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us... we need to forgive others first!  Not hold onto our anger and resentment... help us, Lord, to see clearly where we are nursing our hurts and wounds and go and forgive them!  May we come to you in the Sacrament of healing and lay our burdens at your feet.  Jesus, we trust in you.  Amen and Hallelujah

 Sharing The LIGHT! 

we do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit and growing in the knowledge of  God, strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy ones of light.  He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the Kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, and forgiveness of sins.  St Paul to the Colossians 1:9-14 - the first reading from mass today.  St Paul should know The Truth and how we marvel at his words of LOVE/LIFE/LIGHT!  Bless-bless, Barbara Luke

Danielle Rose - True Love/The Cross!

Eric Clapton - Holy Mother

Romeo is just a couple weeks from one and already in love with books!