Wednesday, March 10, 2010
My child said the words every mother longs to hear: "I never knew being a parent would be so hard."
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The battery was almost drained, and the tiny light was barely glowing. Yet it was to that faint point of light that my eyes had been drawn as soon as I entered the church.
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Monday, March 08, 2010
International Women's Day (IWD) is marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.
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Sunday, March 07, 2010
Our symbol today is the burning bush. Above it is the urn of ashes. Together they speak of our life that came out of the dust of the earth, and the risen life we have been given by the same God who identified himself to Moses as “I am who am.”
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
Take some time as a Human Being and not a Human Doing.
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Sister Anne was a most beloved superior who developed the sisters according to the charism of the Congregation of the Resurrection,
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
At first, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment.
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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Monday, March 01, 2010
We have created a terrible kind of dualism between the spiritual and the so-called non-spiritual. The principle of Incarnation proclaims that matter and spirit have never been separate!
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Our greatest temptation is to try to change other people instead of ourselves. Jesus allowed himself to be transformed and thus transformed others. That is the meaning of the necessary death of Jesus'
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
Suddenly I could sense God speaking softly to my heart, and I saw that I often do the same to my housekeeper: I often give little attention to my body, which is God's temple;
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Friday, February 26, 2010
There is probably nothing that will give us more peace
Than forgiveness;
Yet is one of the hardest things to do Even though it doesn't take any money or resources
Just a decision on our part.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
How do I stand against hate without becoming hate myself?”
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
We have always needed to find a way to deal with human anxiety and evil by some means—and it was invariably some practice other than forgiveness or healing
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
In the Eucharistic Liturgy,
The Our Father is prayed at the moment when the fulfillment of prayer is about to happen.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
These two men were extraordinary leaders.
One was chosen by Jesus to lead his Church.
The other was chosen unanimously by his community to lead a new form of government.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
As we enter into the season of Lent, scripture reminds us that the Lord will see all our afflictions as moments of grace moving us to call on the Lord in our powerlessness and weakness so that we can embrace our own convictions that God is with us always
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Lord Jesus, bless those who are now our personal enemies or the enemies of our nation. Make us instruments of your peace at home and throughout the world. Amen.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Jesus' call takes us away from the ordinary and plunges us into the realm of the extraordinary. It takes us away from our certainties and securities and takes us into the realm of uncertainty.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
During the past year, we have had a multitude of experiences
through which we have been given opportunities to deepen in our faith and come to a new understanding of the Paschal
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
That Your Kingdom come and not mine,
That Your Will may be done and not mine,
Help me to say “Yes,” O Lord, this Lent 2010.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Over the years a special custom grew up in the houses of the order called "the plate of the Lord Jesus." The best portions of the dinner were put on a special plate and shared with the poor, reflecting Gilbert's lifelong concern for less fortunate people.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Here at the altar, like a tree near running waters, our hearts will be filled with more blessings than we could ever imagine or dare to hope for.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Cathedral church bells must have rung out loudly and canons boomed their salutes to accompany the joyful shouts of clergy, nobles and peasants at the birth of the Million.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Come walk beside us God.
Make your healing known,
and your consolation felt,
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
We don't choose our family brothers and sisters
and we don't choose our brothers and sisters in religious life.
However, in both circumstances the people we find ourselves with
are the people God has chosen for us to learn from and to teach His ways to
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
All the military intelligence available at the time of these battles was not enough to ascertain the truth of the situation.
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Monday, February 08, 2010
Well, the world is certainly a better place because of the
Boy Scouts of America.
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Sunday, February 07, 2010
Our symbol today is a fish. We have chosen it to place before ourselves the “catch” that is awaiting each one of us when we cease to focus on our weakness or smallness, or sinfulness and listen to the word of God that is proclaimed at this mass today.
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Saturday, February 06, 2010
When I was growing up, it never occurred to me
that martyrdom was something that happened in my day and age.
Now that we experience it through our daily newspapers and television
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Cold and chill, bless the Lord.
Dew and rain, bless the Lord.
Frost and chill, bless the Lord.
Ice and snow, bless the Lord…
Let the earth bless the Lord.
Praise and exalt him above all forever.
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
As we receive the blessing of our throats today Let's open to the grace of making our words and how we say them a healing balm for those who hear us.
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
May the gift of the Sisters of the Resurrection long continue to be a healing light to our society.
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Monday, February 01, 2010
The power of memory is a precious gift
It brings us the joy of
Beautiful relationships
Touching events,
Successful surveys
Wonderful celebrations.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Through this liturgy, we are invited to reflect on our own lives to determine whether we are answering our personal call to be prophetic, to do the loving thing, and whether we are recognizing the other prophets in our society.
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
The dime was chosen to honor Roosevelt partly due to his efforts in the founding of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (later renamed the March of Dimes),
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Friday, January 29, 2010
In the Gospels we are told of how the Apostles puzzled over
who Jesus was.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
We should be determined anew to exercise the divine gift of reason in us, our power to know, learn and understand. At the same time we should thank God for the gift of his revelation, especially in Jesus Christ.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Living the new life God offers starts now
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Today might be a good day to reflect on Christ as spouse of the Church and on Jesus as the spouse of each person in the Kingdom
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Paul’s entire life can be explained in terms of one experience—his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus. In an instant, he saw that all the zeal of his dynamic personality was being wasted,
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
At our baptism we were given the responsibility to bring glad tidings to the poor and liberating captives.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Elizabeth Blackwell did not harbor dreams of becoming a physician as a child. Such a career was unimaginable for a woman born in 1821. How did she become the first woman to receive a medical degree?
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Iam on a quest for the World's best brownie so I couldn't pass this up.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
It might be fun to look up the meaning of our own name
and reflect on how our name represents
the gift to God that we are in the process of becoming.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute
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Monday, January 18, 2010
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
With one word from the Mother of God, Jesus reveals His divinity so that, just as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride, all people can realize just how much our God rejoices in each of us.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
While at prayer, I begged our Lord to make known to me by what means I could satisfy the desire that I had to love Him.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
God of mercy, look with pity upon all those who have been left homeless, bereft, in shock, in the wake of this mighty act of nature in Haiti.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Difficulty is not outside of God's design for our lives,
but God is never outside the difficulty unless we put Him there.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Monday, January 11, 2010
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
To day we end the Christmas Season with the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. The readings emphasize the Mission and Ministry of Jesus and of each Christian disciple
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
A friend of mine who was in London during the worst of the World War II bombing attacks has given me a good idea of just how courageous the British were during those desperate times. And how indomitable.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
The truth is that only in the mystery of the Incarnate Word does the mystery of the human person take on light..
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Laws ideally state those things that are for the best interests of everyone and make sure the rights of all are safeguarded.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Throughout the ages, God’s plan seemed mysterious and hidden. In Jesus, it was fully revealed. Jesus was God’s epiphany, the fullness of God’s revelation.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
This New Year's prayer well describes risen life.
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Monday, January 04, 2010
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Sunday, January 03, 2010
We are here not to carry on the business of health care.We are here to witness to God’s love as it has been revealed to us through the incarnation, life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God and our brother.
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Saturday, January 02, 2010
(Mary says) My soul magnifies -- makes great--- The Lord.
Making the Lord great means giving Him a place in the world,
In our lives…
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Friday, January 01, 2010
Like Mary, we ponder all that we see and hear, and we treasure these things in our hearts. Like her, we can bring forth Christ to the world.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be Thy children, and the Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus’ sake.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
In a world that seems not only to be changing, but even to be dissolving, there are some tens of millions of us who want Christmas to be the same….with the same old greeting “Merry Christmas” and no other.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Because the event that we celebrate at Christmas is so important to our world, the Church takes 12 days to celebrate it.Consider this reflection by Pope John Paul II
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Monday, December 28, 2009
May there be harmony in all your relationships. May sharp words, envious thoughts, and hostile feelings be dissolved.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
The crib asks the same question of everyone who approaches it:
"Have you done for others yet what you are on earth to do?"
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
It was Christmas Eve and the weather was cold, dark and rainy as a young couple made their way very slowly from the parking lot to the hospital emergency room
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Friday, December 25, 2009
teacher was preparing her young students for a Christmas play. When she was explaining to the children that Joseph and Mary were looking for a place to rest so Jesus could be born,
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant.
Take peace!
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
What good is it
if Mary gave birth to the son of God centuries ago
if I do not also give birth to God's son
in my time and culture?
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Must of us think of waiting as something very passive, a hopeless state determined by events totally out of our hands
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Monday, December 21, 2009
In that instant, we understood the reason we were there, why we celebrated the holiday in the first place, why even in the chaos, there was a purpose for our festivities.
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Part of the meaning of Christmas is that by contemplating the experiences of Jesus and Mary, we learn how to say an unqualified and unconditional Yes, which is the source of the real joy of Christmas.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
The Christmas spirit is alive at the clinic! – and in all of Resurrection Health Care.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
But in Caesar's decree we can see that God was truly
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Don't forget this year to keep the One who started this whole Christmas thing in your every thought, deed, purchase, and word. If we all did it, just think of how different this whole world would be.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
This is good for a fun thing to do for Christmas
and also to reflect on how the pieces of our lives fit together
Instead of a picture of Santa Claus, imagine it to be a picture of yourself
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
It takes some reflection to decide how to react to elements in our society
that make a concerted effort to ridicule or dismiss the fundamental mysteries of our faith
that we so love.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Third Monday of Advent
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:The presence of a happy family All wrapped up in each other.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
The shrine in Maryville a little bit North of Holy Family Medical Center
was opened in 1997.
It is the largest shrine to our Lady of Guadelupe outside of Mexico city
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Friday, December 11, 2009
But I have been answered
And I have been promised
In words that cannot be broken
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
When we achieve our divine union with God
I think we are going to recognize in it all the things we are experiencing today but we will be able to see them in their real light.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
There has been only one Christmas-
the rest are anniversaries
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Lord, grant us the grace of Mary, our mother and model,
And help us to be like her: obedient and self-giving.
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Monday, December 07, 2009
Since the opening of West Suburban Medial Center in 95 years ago this Emergency Department has been operating 24/7 throughout the year, to serve the emergency health care needs of the residents of the Oak Park, Austin and surrounding neighborhoods
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Sunday, December 06, 2009
As we celebrate Christmas, we need to remember that what we celebrate is the fulfillment of our deepest hope, “the saving power of God” which has appeared in Jesus of Nazareth and abides with us for all time.
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Saturday, December 05, 2009
A reminder not to get too taken up
With the bells and tinsel and lights and forget about what the season is all about. The Advent mystery is awesome
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Video games will break, pearl necklaces will be lost, golf clubs will rust…But giving the gift of love will endure
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
Saint Francis Xavier is one of the special saints for the Sisters of the Resurrection
because of zeal for proclaiming the Kingdom of God
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
This is a call to us to realize the real meaning of Advent as a time to acknowledge our need for a Savior;
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
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