Wednesday, February 08, 2012
All that is created has a spark of the divine in it. Everything flows from the Infinite One; everything is proclaimed to be good.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
When he mentally replayed his earlier actions, he realized what had happened; the glasses had slipped out of his pocket unnoticed and fallen into one of the crates, which he had nailed shut. His brand new glasses were heading for China!
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Many years later, Julius Caesar reorganized the calendar yet again, giving it 365 days. Some say he made February 29 days long, 30 in leap year, and that Augustus Caesar later pilfered a day; others say Julius just kept it at 28.
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
Todays’ symbol is a picture of Jesus of Mercy with His rays radiating out to us.
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Saturday, February 04, 2012
When people say piously, “Thy kingdom come” out of one side of their mouth, they need also to say, “My kingdom go!” out of the other side.
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Friday, February 03, 2012
As we pray for deliverance from ailments of the throat,
Let's think about the words that come out of our throats
And ask that they always be healing and holy.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Resurrection High School Ideology
We are men and women renewing society
By witnessing to and proclaiming
Truth, love and community
Through the power of the Resurrection.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
John Bosco educated the whole person—body and soul united. He believed that Christ’s love and our faith in that love should pervade everything we do—work, study, play.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
While, in America, we put great value one education,
We still have not resolved the question of how academies can be impacted by faith
So that it serves the common good.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
What can free us from being “anxious about the things of the world? The authority of Jesus who” commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.”
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
“I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.”
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Friday, January 27, 2012
If according to times and needs you should be obliged to make fresh rules and change certain things, do it with prudence and good advice.”
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Today, we are celebrating the feast of Saints Timothy and Titus. They were both associated with St. Paul as his companions, collaborators, confidants, negotiators and organizers.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Desiring greatly to abide with Christ, let us worship Him and say: Be exalted forever!
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Lord has not abandoned us. In all life’s experiences he guides us with rod and
staff. He is our Good Shepherd. That is why we say: we give you thanks, Lord!
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Lord, look upon the faith of Your Church in its pilgrimage through all the world, and
lead Your children to see the brightness of Your majesty face to face, You who live
and reign forever and ever.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Let this liturgy be an occasion to open ourselves to God this very day to do what we need to do so that His Kingdom would come.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
we pray to
God for Him to reveal the victory already won by Christ. In the spirit of this request,
we call: Save us, O Lord!
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Friday, January 20, 2012
L – For Your cross – the cathedral of truth and the court of mercy.
C – We worship You, O Lord!
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
For the ability to pray and wait in those situations where only Your gift can meet our
need, we ask You!
C – Hear us, O Lord!
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Lord, the disobedience of Adam and Eve brought suffering and death to us, and the
family of man was wounded and torn apart. Have mercy on us!
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
There is so much frustration in the world because we have relied on gods rather than God
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Through this liturgy today, we reflect that this is symbolic of how God keeps in touch with us and when he has special mission that he needs done that only we can do, he call us.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Lord you frighten me! You demand from me what you gave me. You gave me my talents because you want to profit from them.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Initiated through our baptism we too are commissioned to proclaim Good News with our lives
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
As this New Year begins, consider the ways in which God wants to work
through you to change the world.
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
It is in Christ and through Christ
that we offer ourselves to you now and forever. Amen.
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Monday, January 09, 2012
God calls us all to live our faith and seek out our vocation to become a deacon, priest, religious sister, married or single person. Perhaps God is calling you to the priesthood or consecrated life.
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Sunday, January 08, 2012
Jesus, we acknowledge you as king. May the reign of peace and love you came to establish be firmly rooted in us forever.
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
Jesus stands at the door of our lives, and He knocks. He says that if we will hear His voice and open the door, He will come in.
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Friday, January 06, 2012
This year, 121 years later, we gather as Sisters of the Resurrection
To celebrate our history
To proclaim our charism
And to thank God for our vocations.
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
think this just goes to show that the heavens and the earth show forth glory of God. If we look for God in our lives, we can find God everywhere and can interpret all of our lives in terms of our faith.
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly, to do it because it is his will.”
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Jesus reminds us that because we are all related to him we are, therefore, all related to one another.
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Monday, January 02, 2012
No one wants to change
And yet, change brings about transformation that cannot come about in any other other way.
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
So on this first day of the New Year let us ask for the grace to know Jesus more intimately, love him more ardently and follow him more closely so that this may be a truly Happy New Year.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Do you think of yourself as gifting God?
You do when you live your faith and share it.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
But the true message of Christmas is not the presents we give to one another. The true meaning is the gift that God gave to us, His Son Jesus Christ...
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown”
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The Messiah was not about either destroying or renewing the old order. The Messiah was about building a new one
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Today, however, remember to let the ones on earth you love know it. Tell them verbally. Because you never know if you or I or someone we hold dear might be in heaven next Christmas.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
It is hard to find peace without a family. Once Christmas is over, and the visitors have left, all we are left with is the family in which to find our peace.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Let the soldiers stomp through life. Let the cold winds blow. Let the birth points of all our lives be drowned in obscurity; Let the days seem mundane and fruitless. This place in Bethlehem, cold...,worn down by years of discovery, justifie
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Maybe that's why Jesus came as a child: to remind us that what we do not care for from infancy will rob us of the future we seek. Will rob us of its intelligence, its creativity, its joy, the sense of possibility, its promise.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
O Emmanuel Leader and desire of all the nations. You set captives free,
Comfort the lonely, you feed the poor and hungry
Come be born in us, God of Life.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Cornerstone of the people, desire of all,
From the clay of the earth, by your own hand
You have formed us and fashioned us,
Come and open hearts to one another.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Sun of Justice, bright eternal light,
one who shows the way,
the one who sets us free even in darkness and death,
Come disperse the gloomy clouds of night.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Rod and staff of the house of Israel.
One who opens and no one closes,
The one who closes and no one opens,
Come lead prisoners caught in darkness
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Standing as protector of the people;
Silencing rulers, inspiring the people to make supplication
Come do not delay, deliver us.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
What is most striking about this story is the repetition of God’s use of the word “I” in almost every sentence of the scriptural story.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
He came to give His life for us.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
His generosity connected him with Jesus who multiplied his gifts
and more than supplied the needs of the people.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
There was a man sent from God, whose names was John. He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
We run from the cross. John’s message—like the gospel—is loud and clear: Don’t—if you really want to live!
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
God comes in the love of another who loves us so deeply and unconditionally that we dare to accept our own loveableness.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Today, the icon is displayed in the nearby Basilica of Guadalupe, now one of the most visited Catholic shrines in the world.[
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Let us pray that we will more fully appreciate God's ultimate act of love for us – his birth, death, and resurrecti
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
What does it mean to testify to the light? Do we think of ourselves as witnesses to the light which shines in the darkness?
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Friday, December 09, 2011
“Christ” and “Son of God.” The “good news” will not be the standard fare of political ascension, triumph over enemies, and glorious recognition, and the conventional meanings of “Christ” and “Son of God” that convey privilege and prestige will be reversed
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
Teach us how to be generous and pray that we, too, might believe
That nothing is impossible for God.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
This is not an ending that ties a neat ribbon on the narrative. Rather it is an indication that the story of Jesus continues and that fear is an essential feature of discipleship.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
But perhaps we can utilize the lesson taught by his legendary charity, look deeper at our approach to material goods in the Christmas season and seek ways to extend our sharing to those in real need.
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Monday, December 05, 2011
Give me the strength to turn from those things in my life that keep me from you and help me to draw closer to you.
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Sunday, December 04, 2011
Three years ago, we heard this same gospel and now that we have had three years of experience behind us, this is a good time to think about how we heard this message last time and how we prepared and how we experienced the coming of Christ in our lives.
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Saturday, December 03, 2011
God comes near to each one of us in Jesus Christ, and we are called to respond to God’s advent with repentance. And, in so doing, we receive once again the good news both of God’s forgiveness and of our belovedness.
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Friday, December 02, 2011
Emmanuel means (God-with-us)—perhaps we don’t need always to focus on waiting for God. Perhaps this year we might focus on the reality that it is God who waits for us.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
Jesus, Lord of our longings, it seems that patience is a lost virtue in the modern world. We expect instant results and gratification. Often, when we wait, we feel as if we are wasting time.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Heaven and earth are passing away, and it is the words of Jesus, words that are creating an alternative way to be human, that is bringing them down. These words are the new reality, and they will not pass away.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
God, you gift me with this new day. I am grateful! Be with me as I walk my journey of life. Remind me of your gift—the wisdom people in my life—those who help me to be able “to see.”
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Really?!? Enriched in every way? Not lacking in any spiritual gift? How is that possible, when we know ourselves to be so often broken and overwhelmed by our lives
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Advent is a time of waiting for the Savior to come, not as a child but as King of the Universe. This is what we are preparing for. He promised us that He will come.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Each candle for the four Sundays is given a theme. Tomorrow’s candle is the Candle of Peace.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
It might surprise most of us, however, to learn that in response to thanks, the dictionary meaning of “You’re welcome” is “You are under no obligation for the favor given.”
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
They might not always say thanks. But they'll remember the hand that reaches out.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
We all are members of the Kingdom and brothers and sisters of Jesus. With the new liturgical year coming, let’s see if we can turn the tables in the kingdom and bring many into the sheepfold through our example and our prayers.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Who we are changes as we allow Christ to live in us more and more.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
steer the ship of the Church and bring it to a quiet harbor
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
When we do works of mercy and justice we honor Christ as King and give witness to the reality that He is the Ruler of our hearts and our lives.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
“Perhaps one of the most noticeable changes in the new English translation of the Latin Rite has to do with the acclamation that responds to the consecration.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
"One of the oldest prayers of the mass is the "Sanctus," or, as most American Catholics say, the "Holy Holy Holy."
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
“The second change in the creed that has been talked about a great deal is the translation of the Latin “consubstantialem.”
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
“The first change of language in the new translation of the Latin Mass for this part is a return to its original meaning.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
“One of the phrases I Latin from the old liturgy that survived in literary writing, at least, was “mea culpa,” which means “my fault.” In the old Confiteor, this was said three times.
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Monday, November 14, 2011
In Advent, we will be using the new liturgical texts. This week, I will include a short reflection abut some part of the liturgy that will be changed.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
As we participate in the Eucharist today, we are invited to re-dedicate ourselves to the choices in our lives that will bear fruit for the Kingdom of God.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Emotions are not right or wrong, good or bad. They are merely indicators of what is happening, and must be listened to, usually in the body.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Sister Alice was declared “Blessed”
We can all be “blessed” if we live
According to the values she lived.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
God is not in the whirlwind, not in blustering and show, Scripture teaches us. God is in the breeze, in the very atmosphere around us, in the little things that shape our lives.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Anxious? Take Vitamin A.
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Monday, November 07, 2011
If we might have a second chance
to use the knowledge gained,
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Sunday, November 06, 2011
How well did we prepare our souls by prayer, the sacraments and by our love for our parents, relatives , friends and neighbors?
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Saturday, November 05, 2011
God is making his imprint on the world through us.
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Friday, November 04, 2011
This is Spiritual Services Week. The theme is Shared Voices Today there will be a retreat for the chaplains.
This is the opening reflection from Mission for the chaplains.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
After our discerning and planning and negotiating for the past year, our union has elements of a wedding; so ,to begin this meeting, let us reflect on the scripture account of the Wedding Feast in Cana.
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Each us is going to make our own personal imprint on the New Ministry.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Be love in us as we journey.
May we do the loving thing
To all who come our way.
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