Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Go In Peace

Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.  MARK 5:34

Bring peace into the homes of those who are suffering, Lord, and let me be a bringer of peace as I go to hospitals, nursing homes and other care facilities.  Let me able to share the peace from you that passes all understanding, so that their minds may be calm and find rest in the knowledge that you have not abandoned them and that nothing, not even illness, can separate them from you.  AMEN

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Jesus Heals

"O woman, great in your faith! be it done for you as you desire" And her daugher was healed instantly Matthew 15:28

When it comes to dealing with sickness and pain, dear Savior, give me an extra measure of faith.  When there are roadblocks to healing, open my eyes to another option.  when there is a diagnosis that is difficult to process, provide me with the certainty that you are still in control and still present every step of the way.  Like the woman who came to you on behalf of her sick daughter, let me be an advocate, too, for those I know who are struggling - assuring them along the way that faith in you can move mountains... AMEN

Monday, February 25, 2013

He healed them all

Matthew 12:15
I am reminded this day, Lord, that you have the power to heal all illness, injury, sickness and disease.  Whether it is mental, physical or spiritual troubles, you have the ability to relieve them all.  Move my lips to speak this truth to those who are disheartened or desperate in their pain.  Let my words and presence bring them a true sense of hope in you for recovery of one kind or another, according to your will.

AMEN

Friday, February 22, 2013

greatest success

I love this quote that I heard on Morning Radio this morning...

Most people achieve their greatest success one step behind their perceived greatest failure!

May God Bless Us All!!!  And may the speed and accuracy of the Dolphins be with the Sea Kings tomorrow!!! Thank you for that personal plug of prayer for my two daughters as they play in the Championship Round of CIF!!!  Archangel Michael send your protection upon them!!!

God Bless all the teens at RE Congress LA 2013 and God Bless My Saint My Hero!!!!


Thursday, February 21, 2013

YOUTH DAY LA 2013

KEEP CALM....God's Got This...

13,000 Teens gathered in the Anaheim Convention Center today to rock to cool Catholic Bands, Listen to Father Tony tell jokes and dance on stage, and receive the Body of Christ celebrated by Archbishop Gomez... followed by break out sessions by fantastic speakers touching on subjects of Purity, Self Worth and Positive Body Image...

Truly amazing... BE BOLD... BE CATHOLIC!!!

Our Prayers extend out to all the Youth!

And God Bless Christine and Tina on their way to Medjugorje!!! 

AMEN!

Monday, February 18, 2013

Friday, February 15, 2013

Servite Brothers

This being the first Friday of lent... I wish all a beautiful moment of reflection and renewal.

February 17th honors the Seven Founders of the Order of Servites in the 13th Century: 
The time in which the seven Servite founders lived is very easily comparable to the situation in which  we find ourselves today.  It is the best of times and the worst of times, as Dickens said.  Some, perhaps many, feel called to a counter cultural life, even in religion.  All of us are faced in new and urgent way with the challenge to make our lives decisively centered in Christ.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Happy Valentines Day!

A Valentine Prayer for you

Praise to the One whose love grows wings on the weary
And dreams hopeinto the discouraged...
All praise to this Gracious One
All gratitude to this Beloved
All love to this Mentor of Friendship
All Devotion to this Shaper of Hearts

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Lenten Ashes

Pope Benedict truly embodied the Holy Spirit and although Blessed John Paul could remain joyful through adversity, the burdens that Pope Benedict carries might be too much for him to remain inspirit, and thus we pray for this time of new beginnings and transition... May our beautiful Catholic Church remain open in spirit and open in love, and may we all be guided along our path to heaven. Our prayers remain steadfast as we ask the Our Heavenly Father to reach down His powerful and loving hand and choose our next Pope.




In the beauty of Lent today... may we all receive the ashes as our outward expression of our need to begin again.



Sent with a prayer,

amy



Tuesday, February 12, 2013

ash wednesday tomorrow

Dear Friends... check the mass times tonight and make sure that you and your family attend mass and receive your ashes as we begin this time of reflection.  God Bless Us All!!!!

Monday, February 11, 2013

Our Lady of Lourdes

Thank you Blessed Mother for visiting us through St. Bernadette at Lourdes! And thank you for your healing miracles that continue to flow from that apparition sight!  Please remain with Pope Benedict today as he struggles with his role as Pope.

"For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary.  For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible."

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Happy day in Napa

May God Bless all marriages and families!!! Amen

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Trust and Be Inspired - St Paul Miki

Martyrs of Japan, today a new era has come for the church in Japan.  Although the number of Catholics is not large, the Church is respected and has total religious freedom!

"Since Jesus, the Son of God, manifested his charity to laying down his life for us, no one has greater love than he who lays down his life for Christ and his brothers. 
Though few are presented with such an opportunity, nvertheless, all must be prepated to confess Christ before men, and to follow him along the way of the cross through the persecutions which the Church will never fail to suffer."

God Bless us all!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

St. Agatha pray for us

Prayer that St. Agatha proclaimed as she was being arrested,
"Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires.  Possess all that I am - you alone.  I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil."  And in prison:  "Lord, my creator, you have protected me since I was in the cradle.  You have taken me from the love of the world and given me patience to suffer.  Now receive my spirit"

Pray for us... AMEN

Monday, February 4, 2013

Saint Blase

Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Blase!  I love the Catholic ceremonies and the ceremony of blessing our throats on St. Blase day is one of my favorites:)...

"Through the intercession of St. Blase, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from ailments of the throat and from every other evil.  In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" AMEN

Friday, February 1, 2013

Christ Light

"Christ himself says, 'I am the light of the world.' And we are the light, we ourselves, if we receive it from him... But how do we receive it, how do we make it shine?...The candle tells us: by burning, and being consumed in the burning.  A spark of fire, a ray of love, an inevitable immolation are celebrated over that pure, straight candle, as, pouring forth its gift of light, it exhausts itself in silent sacrifice" (PaulVI)

You are pure light.... AMEN