Eucharistic Reflection - We Are Like Children

(Photo©Michael Seagriff)

"We are like children who receive money from our mother to buy her a  a birthday present when she has a birthday. When the children come with their gift, the mother does not say: 'You ought to be ashamed of yourselves to come with a gift that I myself have paid for!' No, she acts as though it were from them. That is what God does with us. Everything we give Him we have received from Him. Nevertheless He acts as though everything came from us.

Our thanksgiving consists in that we give everything back to God...It is not because God is greedy and therefor wants everything back, but rather so that we should have the joy of giving."

(Wilfrid Stinissen, O.C.D. from Bread That Is Broken)

at
Labels: , , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Monday Musings - What If?

  My all time favorite one sentence sermon by Father Francis Hudson, S.C.J.   : What if God loved you, only as much as you loved Him? Now th...

PRAYER TO BE PRESERVED FROM SUDDEN DEATH

MOST AMIABLE JESUS "I humbly implore Thee by Thy ignominious Scourging, The Crowning with Thorns, Thy Holy Cross, and by all Thy Goodness, not to permit me to pass out of this world without having received Thy most holy Sacraments." -Prayer of St. Vincent Ferrer

PRAYER OF ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA

"Eternal Father, all things are possible for You. Although You created us without our assistance, You will not save us unless we help. Therefore, I pray You re-create their wills so that they wish for what they do not wish for: I ask this of Your infinite mercy. You have created us out of nothing. Now that we exist have mercy on us. Re-make the vessel which You created in Your own image and likeness. Bring them back to Your grace through the grace and blood of You Son, the beloved Jesus Christ."

The Fatima Chaplet of Adoration and Reparation

The Fatima Chaplet of Adoration and Reparation