As the 6 newly come to the U.S. Little Sisters of the Lamb drove up from Kansas City to our farm to meet Susan's family. Susan had just gone to France to join their order - the first American Postulant! Truly they are our Family of the Lamb and now 11 years later Susan is Little Sister Hallel, a fully professed Little Sister!
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/susan-angela-agneslittle-sister-hallel.html
The readings today show the Tremendous love and Mercy that the Lord has for us! The first from 2 Samuel 12 where Nathan brings a message from God to King David after his most horrible sin of adultery and murder... taking the prize Ewe of the poor man rather than from his many! David then sees his sin, and...
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
Nathan answered David: “The LORD on his part has forgiven your sin..."
Then we go to the Gospel today... Mark 4 of Jesus calming the sea! The powerful reminder that we were given from the Lord on Father's Day 2009 when we were told that John had brain cancer! "Mom, this is the storm and Jesus is in control." Hallel told us when we called France to tell her.
It was so hard to give the control over to the Lord and Trust, but we had to and his LOVE and Mercy surrounded John to this day of the new John healed and filled with Faith!
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/johns-cancer-stories.html
I was very touched by this Meditation today about the Gospel by Archbishop Martinez (1956) as he ponders the contrast between the fury of the tempest and the sweet majestic peace of the divine slumber... What would the sleeping Jesus be like? St Therese of the Child Jesus states that children please their parents just as well in sleep as awake. To souls enamored of Jesus, the Beloved is as beautiful in the silence of his sleep as in the zenith of his activity... Mary most holy must have watched the sleep of Jesus many times... the Mystery of the Heart that was always watching.... Song of Songs 5:2 "I sleep, but my heart watches." Yes, Jesus watches solicitously in souls that love, even though they feel that he has abandoned them. Love does not abandon. Jesus is there in the depth of the soul. He seems to sleep because the soul does not hear his refreshing voice, because it does not enjoy his consolations. But the Heart of Jesus is always watching with his inextinguishable love, with his incessant actions, and tender care more solicitous each day.
Yes, we experience this over and over on our journey. In the storms Jesus is in control and His LOVE and Mercy are all around us... calming the storm!
"It was not enough for Him
that He should become one of ourselves
by adopting a human nature like our own.
It was not enough that He
should share the hardships of a life like our own—
that He should suffer and die
and atone for our sins, in our name.
He loved us,
and He would not rest until
He should be completely united to us.
And in His love
He devised this most extraordinary method of union,
in which He Himself becomes our food!
Truly a tremendous lover!"
Dom Mary Eugene Boylan
This Tremendous Lover
"Love is never finished."
- Pope Benedict XVI
https://familysoulstory.blogspot.com/p/the-amazing-story-of-13-becoming.html
Shortly after my parents said "yes" to taking in 4 siblings, whose parents were killed in a car crash! Carol still has the cast on her leg, as they were all in the car and survived. Our beloved Lake Michigan!
"The final word is love." - Dorothy Day
Jesus, your love fills us with Joybeams that fill us with all the peace, love, joy and happiness we could ever ask for! Sometimes we feel worried and anxious and left alone, but truly you are always there caring for us and helping us to be strong in the face of the storms of life! If only we die to self and allow your Spirit to fill us... may we become more totally yours! Your unconditional LOVE and Forgiveness are always there for us in the confessional if only we come to you and admit - "I have sinned against the Lord." May we return that love and forgiveness to those the closest to us in our domestic Church/family. Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Hallelujah
LOVE this and St Therese!!!
So sad that LIFE does not have a voice if the liberals have anything to say about it, and they have a lot to say! The Truth is that LIFE is to be cherished and protected from conception to natural death!
He is truly there on the altar during the mass, the monstrance during adoration, and in the tabernacle for a visit anytime! He is REAL JESUS!
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