The morning prayer was filled with Hallel.. the highest praise of our Lord and his universe! Psalm 148 was used in morning prayer and is the psalm in the midst of the readings for mass today!
R. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the LORD from the heavens;
praise him in the heights.
Praise him, all you his angels;
praise him, all you his hosts.
R. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Ever since we first heard Little Sister Marie call Susan... "Little Sister Hallel" have we found great JOY in knowing that "every time someone says my name they are giving the Lord total highest praise!" The Psalms 145- 150 are Hallel Psalms we quickly discovered!
Jesus in His Word has also come strongly into our daily lives much in part to our daughter and her wonderful Community of the Lamb. Where they mendicate the Gospel starting the night before... that is a type of Lectio Devina in which they repeat each line numerous times asking the "Spirit of Truth/Holy Spirit to direct their hearts and minds to hear His Plan and message for them.
Tulips, reflecting leaves in my new tabletop, and the wonderful garden stone from John!
Jesus, how I love to listen to your Truth that I must take up/drag my Most Cherished Cross and follow after you. It is through the cross that we find LIFE/LOVE/LIGHT/The Resurrection! May we die to self so that you may live in us! Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barbara Mary Luke
Happy, indeed sublimely happy, is the person to whom the Holy Spirit reveals the secret of Mary, thus imparting to him true knowledge of her. Happy the person to whom the Holy Spirit opens this enclosed garden for him to enter, and to whom the Holy Spirit gives access to this sealed fountain where he can draw water and drink deep draughts of the living waters of grace. That person will find only g...race and no creature in the most lovable Virgin Mary. But he will find that the infinitely holy and exalted God is at the same time infinitely solicitous for him and understands his weaknesses.
Since God is everywhere, He can be found everywhere, even in hell. But there is no place where God can be more present to His creature and more sympathetic to human weakness than in Mary. It was indeed for this very purpose that He came down from heaven. Everywhere else He is the Bread of the strong and the Bread of angels, but living in Mary He is the Bread of children.
--from The Secret of Mary, by Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
Since God is everywhere, He can be found everywhere, even in hell. But there is no place where God can be more present to His creature and more sympathetic to human weakness than in Mary. It was indeed for this very purpose that He came down from heaven. Everywhere else He is the Bread of the strong and the Bread of angels, but living in Mary He is the Bread of children.
--from The Secret of Mary, by Saint Louis Marie de Montfort
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