Being and Doing – 27 March – Present Opportunities
The best place is wherever he puts us, and any other would be undesirable, all the worse because it would please our fancy, and would be of our own choice.
The best place is wherever he puts us, and any other would be undesirable, all the worse because it would please our fancy, and would be of our own choice.
If we chose to love only when we have a reason to love it becomes a tool instead of a gift and a bribe instead of a pledge of devotion.
That is not love it is lust masquerading as concern.
Little by little, act of kindness by act of kindness, teardrop by teardrop, we, often seen as the powerless, have the possibility and the power to transform rejection, prejudice and judgment into ‘Something Beautiful for God’
The journey through Lent is about fasting from things that are harmful. Being over particular, even if it is only in a ‘small’ way which ‘everyone’ should understand, is often about greed rather than denial
When did we ever think that destroying and belittling someone else’s devotion, ritual, or way of prayer would help us grow any closer to God? Screwtape and his minions have certainly been hard at work!
If the ‘demons’ of our life cannot turn us into hardened unrepentant egoists then they are more than happy to settle with small sins. After all banal sin remain sin.
let all men read in your face the happiness of a Christian that loves his Master
This file contains 12 ‘Stations of Creation’, based on the Canticle of the Creatures’ which are offered as a free gift to all those who want to spend time in prayer and praise at the generous gifts of God we meat each day through Brother Sun and Sister Moon
This blog contains a liturgy which contains both an appreciation of the Creation (taken from the Stations of Creation first formalise by Colin Wilfred SSF) and a Eucharist with a Franciscan theme.
We ask Thy peace, oh Lord!
Through storm, and fear, and strife,
To light and guide us on
Through a long struggling life;