Blog Post 8/02//2024 – How to be Truly Free

 

Isaiah instructs us, “The Lord God opens my ear that I may hear …. The Lord God is my help ….” 

God will lead me and set me free, God will give me the grace to be a faithful disciple.  I pray that I allow God’s grace to mold me, if I do, I will truly be free.

 

May God Be Praised.

 

Blog Post 7/02/2024 – A Thought on Evolution

 

 

“I believe that the universe is in evolution, I believe that evolution proceeds toward spirit, I believe that spirit is fully realized in a form of personality, I believe that the supremely personal is the universal Christ."   

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Christ (the Word of God enfleshed) is the eternal cosmic thread connecting people to God and to each other.”  Deacon Kelly

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Fr. Richard Rohr said, “The Cosmic Christ is First Incarnation – Creation and Jesus is the Personal Incarnation – Jesus.  We believe in the person of Jesus and the Christ of mystery."

Today, thoughts in the clouds and way beyond.

 

May God Be Praised.

*Brother Mickey McGrath’s artwork is available at: https://www.bromickeymcgrath.com/

 

Blog Post 7/1/2024 – Is it time to live more simply?

 

  

 

"The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor."  St. Basil the Great

 

 Think about how you can help the poor.

      May God Be Praised.

 

Blog Post 6/30/2024 – Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

As we conclude this month, June, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, may we take time to allow the Sacred Heart of Jesus to hold us, to embrace us and to envelop us in Jesus Heart, His Most Sacred our most in need of His.  A Glimpse into Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque’s Story [adopted from Franciscan Media] will help us appreciate the Devotion to the Sacred Heart and the First Friday Devotion.

Jesus chose Margaret Mary to ignite the Church regarding the love of God symbolized by the heart of Jesus.  She was a Visitation nun who was “not to be extraordinary except by being ordinary,” however on December 21, 1674, she experienced the first of her revelations and over the next 13 months, Christ appeared to her at intervals. His human heart was to be the symbol of his divine-human love.

Reflect on the idea that “our scientific-materialistic age cannot ‘prove’ private revelations. Theologians … admit that we do not have to believe in them.

Yet, it is impossible to deny the message Margaret Mary heralded: that God loves us with a passionate love. Her insistence on reparation and prayer and the reminder of final judgment should be sufficient to ward off superstition and superficiality in devotion to the Sacred Heart while preserving its deep Christian meaning.”

 

May God Be Praised.

Blog Post 6/29/2024 – Follow the Blessed Mother’s Lead

 

Mary, you believed that the Lord’s Words to you would be fulfilled, now all ages call you “Blessed”, may we allow God’s grace to fill us, form us and lead us, so that one day we may be blessed, also.

 

 

May God Be Praised.

Blog Post 6/28/2024 – An Insight on Prayer - Not Alone, but Being with God

Henri Nouwen wrote, “Solitude and silence can never be separated from the call to unceasing prayer. … solitude and silence are for prayer. The Desert Fathers did not think of solitude as being alone, but as being alone with God. They did not think of silence as not speaking but as listening to God.” 

Solitude and silence are the foundation for our prayer.  Today spend some time in the solitude of silence with God.

 

May God Be Praised, especially in the Solitude of Silence.

Blog Post 6/27/2024 - In Ancient & Modern Times Hubris [Pride] is a Problem

 

 

The ancient Greek Sophocles wrote, “All men make mistakes but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, repairs the evil, the only sin is pride.”

 

 

 

St. Thomas More wrote, "I will simply counsel every man and woman to beware of even the very least speck of [pride], which seems to me to be the mere delight and liking of ourselves for anything whatsoever that either is in us or outwardly belongs to us."

 

Be aware of hubris or pride subtly influencing your life.

 

May God Be Praised