Taking offense

"We want God to suffer everything from us, and we are not able to suffer anything from anyone. We exaggerate beyond measure the faults committed against us; worms that we are, we take the slightest pressure exerted on us to be an enormous attack. Meanwhile, we count as nothing what we undertake proudly against the sovereign majesty of God and the rights of his empire!"

  ~ An excerpt from Meditations for Lent by  Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, p. 49-51

This struck me as a true explanation of our culture today. Everyone is so offended and takes great offense at such small slights, yet we give no thought to the truly deep offenses that we commit against our Lord.

Have mercy on us, Lord. Thank you for your great love for us and for dying and rising from the dead for us.

You are worthy of all our love. Please bless me with the grace to be kind and joyful in all circumstances that I might honor your sacrifice for me.

Message from Mother

I know that the apparitions from Medjugorje have not been officially approved by the church. 

However, as something that spoke to my heart this day, I share it, with love from Blessed Mother.

Dear children,

Through the great love of the Heavenly Father I am beside you as your mother and you are beside me as my children, as apostles of my love whom I ceaselessly gather around me.

My children, you are those who, along with prayer, need to completely surrender to my Son so that you may no longer live but my Son may live in you—so that all those who do not know my Son may see Him in you and come to desire to know Him.

Pray that in you they may see resolute humility and goodness, a readiness to serve others; that in you they may see that you live your vocation in the world with the heart, in communion with my Son; that in you they may see meekness, tenderness and love for my Son as well as for all brothers and sisters.

Apostles of my love, you must pray much and cleanse your hearts so that you may be the first to walk on the way of my Son, that you may be the just who are united with the justice of my Son.

My children, as apostles of my love, you must be united in the communion which emanates from my Son, so that my children who do not know my Son may recognize the communion of love and may come to desire to walk on the way of life, the way of unity with my Son.

Thank you.
 

~from an email I receive from Queen of Peace Productions each time one of the seers receives a message from Mary that can be shared. 

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Easter Sunday

"God chose ordinary people to share his good news. In other words, he chose people just like us.

Why would God choose such a humble risky strategy?

...two possibilities:

First, Jesus wants us to experience his love through each other. He wants us to feel his presence through the generosity, the affection, and the humility of his followers. That's why he has called us to be a Church—so that he can work through us to change the world. It's why he calls us to gather around the altar as brothers and sisters."

~excerpt from meditation on today's first reading from Acts 10:41 in The Word Among Us.

Although I cannot find the exact words, the closing prayer last night was something along the lines of "so that we may be one mind and one heart" and Fr's homily was on the importance of love.

It comes together as the gift of Easter. The gift of love and how Jesus manifests it in our lives, through others.

My need is to make Christ the center. Not myself, but Christ.

Amen, alleluia. Happy Easter. 

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