Monday Musings - Gimme Shelter - See It Now!!!
Those who mock people of Faith,
those who further the culture of death, those who portray pregnancy as an
unwanted and unnecessary burden, those who exploit children and women for their
own sexual gratification or monetary gain, those who market the murder of innocent
human life – none of these folk are at all happy that this year’s compelling
pro-life film, Gimme Shelter, has
made it to the theaters of this nation.
Truth powerfully and honestly depicted
- either through a sonogram showing not a “blob of tissues” but the beating heart
of a living human being encased in a mother’s womb or on the “big screen” portraying
the real life struggles of an abandoned, abused and homeless pregnant teenager who
discovers hope, faith and love while courageously welcoming and protecting the life within her -
is never welcomed by the purveyors of lies and deception.
Truth can make these folk uncomfortable.
Truth exposes their deception. Truth
thwarts the plans of those who intend evil rather than good.
Truth allows one to see hope and the
possibility of a better future when others claim neither is possible.
Truth when coupled with faith in
God is an invincible force for good.
This is a quality film. The subject
matter is real and compelling. The acting is superb. Gimme Shelter has the capacity to change attitudes, lives and our
nation.
Stand up for Truth. Take a stand
for the dignity and value of all human life.
Go see this movie. Bring your friends
and family. Insist that your local theater show Gimme Shelter.
Then go out and do something concrete to help the pregnant
teenagers and women in your community.
(Take a peak at the Gimme Shelter trailer)
(Take a peak at the Gimme Shelter trailer)
Sunday Snippets - January 26. 2014
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Here are three posts from my blog:
Here are three posts from my blog:
Eucharistic Reflection - More Favored Than St. Mary Magdalen, the Apostle Thomas and St. John
The Wisdom of St. Francis de Sales on Suffering
Video - If the Main Stream Will Not Share the Truth, We Must!
Catholic Online honored me this week by featuring my post, "Are We Comatose or Just Suffering from Amnesia?" as its lead story.
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The Wisdom of St Francis de Sales on Suffering
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But there are many other great books he left us, worthy of
our time and reflection. One of them is “Finding
God’s Will for You.”
Since suffering is an inescapable
part of our human condition – one which we have difficulty embracing - I
thought, on this feast day of St Francis, that I would share the following brief
excerpt from that Finding God’s Will for You
in hopes that it would lead to fruitful contemplation on this great mystery of
our Faith:.
“…Job reflects
that it is from God's hand that he received those good things,- thus testifying
that he loved those goods not so much because they were good as because they
had come from the hand of the Lord. Since this is so, he concludes that he must
lovingly bear up under adversities because they come from the same-hand of the
Lord, which is equally kind when it apportions affliction, and when it gives
out consolations. Good things are willingly accepted by all men, but to accept
evils belongs only to perfect love. Because evils are lovable only in respect
to the hand that gives them, perfect love has -so much the greater love for
them.”
(From Finding God’s Will for You)
Eucharistic Reflection – More Favored Than St. Mary Magdalen, the Apostle Thomas and St. John
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I often think
of the goodness and kindness of God my Savior while He was here on earth with
His visible presence. One might almost say that His doing good went too far,
was excessive, though of course it was not; for He was God and God is goodness
itself.
A Forgotten Truth - Death
(There are 1200 other quotations that will touch your heart and stir you soul in - "Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct".
Sunday Snippets - January 19, 2014
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Three offerings from my blog this week:
Eucharistic Reflection - He Is Whispering to Us!
Blessed Will Be The Person Who Visits and Asks This Question!
Pondering Tidbits of Truth - January 16, 2014
And one via Catholic Online: How Much Do YOU Love God?
Pondering Tidbits of Truth - January 16, 2014
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Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets
of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.
Rev. Clement Henry Crock
“But the word “hell”
is no longer a welcome word in polite society. Much less will such tolerate any
mention of eternal punishments or everlasting fire and torments in hell. Now,
we wish to frighten nobody. But silence will not extinguish the pains of hell,
nor render them non-existent. Were all of us to agree to remain silent on the
subject, hell would still continue to exist; for as sure as there is a heaven
to hope for, so surely there is a hell to fear. Our Lord told us so, and God
cannot deceive. And since this is true, we should think of it and speak of it
more frequently; for knowing it, we shall fear it, and fearing it, we shall
avoid it.”
(From An
Eternity of Heaven or Hell)
Blessed Will Be The Person Who Visits and Asks This Question!
Another picture worth a thousand words!
Eucharistic Reflection – He Is Whispering to Us
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(From The Real
Presence by Eustace Boylan, S.J.)
Sunday Snippets - January 12, 2014
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It's almost Sunday and time to join an interesting group of Catholic bloggers at RAnn's place where you are sure to find something that will touch your heart and stir your soul. Take a few minutes and visit!
This has been a challenging week making writing a difficult task. In your charity, may I ask you to keep my family and me in your prayers?
I did post two Eucharistic Reflections - one on my blog (The Lord Wants To Be With Us Perpetually) and the other on Catholic Online ('Alas! It is but too true: Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is not loved!').
Eucharistic Reflection - The Lord Wants To Be With Us Perpetually
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“…Jesus waits for us in the Most Blessed Sacrament, in peacefulness, in
silence. Yet, His continual Presence is a proclamation in and of Itself. He
comes and stays that those blinded by spiritual darkness might see; that those
imprisoned by sin might be freed; and that liberty might be granted to the
oppressed who bear the shackles of injustice. This is the message of Perpetual
Eucharistic Adoration: our Lord wants to be with His people perpetually, that
is, night and day unceasingly. A fire of love for Our Eucharistic Lord burns
deep within each soul and yearns to come out. We cannot ever be truly happy or
full in our relationships with God and one another if Jesus in the Most Blessed
Sacrament is not the center, is not the source, and is not the summit of our
lives.”
(From Behold The
Lamb by Mary Beth Bracy)
Sunday Snippets - January 5, 2013
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Here are my offerings:
As We End This Year, We Would Do Well To Ponder "What Our Sentiments Will Be At The Hour of Death"
Pondering Tidbits of Truth - January 2, 2014
Eucharistic Reflection - "Oh, If I Had Only Known!"
Is Satan Afraid?
Is Satan Afraid?
After the gifts of God's forgiveness, love and mercy, we must treasure His Eucharistic Presence among us.
Through our faithful adoration and worthy reception of Holy Communion, He will transform us into Himself and use us to help Him transform the world.
Eucharistic Reflection- "Oh, If I Had Only Known!"
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"I recall the strange and touching
story of St. Alexis. When he was young he left home and then, because God
inspired him to do so, came back to the house of his parents in Rome dressed up like a
poor and unknown beggar. There he lived in some miserable old corner of the
house for seventeen years; and his parents never knew that it was he.
But when he died they found out.
It seems he left a note or something telling them what he had done in penance
for his sins, because God wanted him to. How that mother wept when she found
out that the beggar was her son. She had missed him so much and had so longed
to see him. In agony she cried out: "0 Alexis, my son! My son Alexis! Had
I only known it was you! How I would have loved you and enjoyed your company!
Now, alas! it is too late."
Pondering Tidbits of Truth - January 2, 2014
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Pondering Tidbits of
Truth is my simple and
inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from
time to time.
Pope Paul VI
“Our evangelizing zeal must spring from true holiness
of life, and as the Second Vatican Council suggests, preaching must in turn
make the preacher grow in holiness, which is nourished by prayer and above all
by love for the Eucharist.”
(From Evangelii Nuntiandi, 76)
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