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God's Wonderful Love


 Prayer For Today's Needs
 

Lord, for tomorrow and its needs I do not pray;
keep me, my God, form stain of sin, just for today.
Let me both diligently work and duly pray;
let me be kind in word and deed, just for today.
Let me be slow to do my will, prompt to obey;
help me to mortify my flesh, just for today.
Let me no wrong or idle word unthinking say;
set a seal upon my lips, just for today.
Let me in season, Lord, be grave, in season happy;
let me be faithful to your grace, just for today.
And if today my tide of life should ebb away,
give me Your Sacraments divine, sweet Lord, today.
So for tomorrow and its needs, I do not pray;
but keep me, guide me, love me, Lord, just for today.


written by: Sister M. Xavier, S.N.D.

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 Morning Prayer
 

Liturgy of Hours

 Invitatory

Lord, open my lips.

Antiphon: Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

Psalm 95

A call to praise God

Encourage each other daily while it is still today (Hebrews 3:13).

Antiphon: Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

Come, let us sing to the Lord

     and shout with joy to the Rock who saves us.

Let us approach him with praise and thanksgiving

    and sing joyful songs to the Lord.

Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

The Lord is God, the mighty God,

    the great king over all the gods.

He holds in his hands the depths of the earth

    and the highest mountains as well.

He made the sea; it belongs to him,

    the dry land, too, for it was formed by his hands.

Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

Come, then, let us bow down and worship,

    bending the knee before the Lord, our maker.

For he is our God and we are his people,

    the flock he shepherds.

Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

Today, listen to the voice of the Lord:

Do not grow stubborn, as your fathers did

    in the wilderness,

when at Meriba and Massah

    they challenged me and provoked me,

Although they had seen all of my works.

Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

Forty years I endured that generation.

I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray

    and they do not know my ways."

So I swore in my anger,

    "They shall not enter into my rest."

Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.

Let us listen to the voice of God; let us enter into his rest.

 

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 Awake O Sleeper
 

When I woke up this morning it was with this name floating on my thoughts Adorno Fathers, as with anything I wake up with, I check it out. so I have posted them for others to look also. As I venture in faith and read of the many who love God, I discover a world.
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 Love
 

"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." Matthew 22:36-40

Reflection:
I love this one, because it tells us the truth. To love God first and foremost, with all of our being. This is the greatest and best commandment of all.

Loving God is a very beautiful experience, it is one everyone should experience too. We all know what it is like to fall in love with others and the feelings it brings us. There are so many ways of explaining love, yet no two are the same for anyone to feel. Such is the same with God. But when we love God as if he is the greatest treasure we have ever found, then we love all the more those around us. When people cause hurt, we love them and seek to heal their woundedness. God does this with us too, he teaches us the value of love.

He sent his Son to teach us a very important lesson, one of unconditional love for His Father. To do His will above his own. Jesus showed us his love, by dying for us. God showed us his love by giving His Son back to us by Resurrecting him.
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 Great is Faith
 

Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel." Jesus answered and said to him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this." And he said to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." John 1:48-51

Reflection:
Do we believe because we are told this too? Do we believe when we read about it? Think about all the many things that we read about everyday, and believe those stories. We believe about things written that are far away, where our eyes can not see what is written about.

We have the same today, what good can come from this city? It is interspersed with poverty and crime, are there any good that are there? Yet we believe that there are many who dwell in these cities that are good. In Jesus' time, what was Nazareth like? To cause Nathanael to say what good can come from there. Was there poverty?Was it filled with crime like ours is.

We read today of a person's belief in Jesus. And Jesus already knew his answer, but he asked, "Do you believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree." If he asked this of us today, what would our reply be? Do any of these seem familiar. (We believe but we don't really practice our faith. We believe but we won't talk about it to others. We believe, but first let us travel to a site of an apparition, so we can believe. etc. these are examples of excuses of many who have faith but somehow don't really follow it.) So very many answers we have to what we believe is our faith, but our best one is only an excuse. Are we then like Nathanael, who believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that we have unfailing faith without doubt about who Jesus is.

Nathanael's belief has allowed him the grace to be able to see heaven opened and the Angels ascending and descending on the Son of Man. Will ours enable us to see this too?
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