We are up at a convention for county fairs and so are spending some close personal time together. I'll take it! He goes off to meetings and I am allowed this nice time of peace and quiet in our very nice room. I am reveling in some great articles that came my way this morning as well as knowing that today is devoted to The Blessed Virgin Mary/Saturdays are so special for that reason, and the Gospel of Jesus reminding us that he has come for this purpose...
"Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do.
I did not come to call the righteous but sinners." Mark 2
Thank goodness for that, because I need my dear and glorious physician and I need to die to self so that He can live in me and help me to become the saint that is just me!
A wonderful article which set the pace for my sharing today is this;
http://catholicexchange.com/5-ways-parents-engage-child-faith
So very good! Once again it would be beneficial and great to take the time to read it!
1. Baptism as soon as possible
2. Pray immediately!
3. Offer it up when you are facing hardships or difficulties
4. "Love one another as I have loved you"
5. The real presence in the Eucharist
"In conclusion, if parents can take seriously their obligation to be a Saint John the Baptist and point the way to Jesus and the Highway to heaven, then the parents will strive to implement these five practical points of advice: 1) The graces of early Baptism; 2) Prayer which is the key to heaven; 3) The value of offering up and suffering for a purpose; 4) Love, living out love in family; 5) The Eucharistic Lord, growing in faith, knowledge and love for Jesus the Bread of Life, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
May Mary, the Mother of God, the Mother of the Church and our Heavenly Mother attain for us extraordinary graces through her all-powerful prayers!" Fr Ed Broom OMV
That's what I mean... And this fits under the heading of "offer it up."
Just back from mid morning breakfast with my honey... now to wrap up this with the help of my friends, who have written the words for me today!
https://chastityproject.com/2018/01/6983/ The purpose of Marriage isn't happiness? is the title of this great reminder that we are called to die to self and love without counting the cost!
In Three to Get Married, Fulton Sheen wrote:
“In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love… In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.”
“Marriage does not exist to make you happy; marriage exists to make you holy,”
http://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/my-most-cherished-cross-patrick-gerard.html
Wise words from Joey Pontarelli today:here are five ideas to purify your idea of marriage.
- Make God the center of your life and ask him to purify your idea of marriage.
- Remember: Marriage does not exist to make you happy; it exists to make you a saint, and holiness is the path to authentic joy.
- Set realistic expectations for marriage by spending time with good families and holy couples.
- Unhappiness in your marriage is not a sign that you chose the wrong vocation, married the wrong person, or that you should leave your spouse.
- Don’t despair. Even amid struggles, a great marriage is possible with God’s grace and hard work.
Jesus, our families and our children are under attack and lied to by the world. May we look to Jesus and His Bride, The Church, to guide and direct us down the narrow path carrying/dragging our Most Cherished Cross and finding LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT! Jesus, may we die to self more and more so that you may live and work through us! May we be your hands, feet, and voice in this world casting out the darkness of sin and death with the Truth! Amen and Hallelujah
The tractor was sitting there on the way to the grain bins, so how could we not? Bless-bless, Barbara Mary Luke
One more part of my reading this morning that sent me over the moon!!!
Father Grau (1803)
How shall we then how our solid devotion to the Blessed Virgin? By striving to imitate her interior life, her lowly opinion of herself, her love of obscurity, of silence, and of retirement; her attraction to little things, her fidelity to grace, the beautiful simplicity of her recollection and prayer; the only object of which was God and his holy will, Jesus Christ and his love, her continual sacrifice of herself and of all she loved most dearly and had the greatest reason to love. Let us ask her every day that she may serve as our guide and model in the interior life, and let us beg of her to obtain for us the graces which are necessary for us, that we may correspond to the designs of God upon us. And these designs are most certainly our death to ourselves and the destruction of self-love.
Love!!!
“Whoever really takes [the Eucharist] as his daily bread, experiences each day the mystery of Christmas, the Word made flesh.” — St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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