What if we truly believed this…

Gift:  Understanding – With the gift of understanding, we comprehend how we need to live as a follower of Jesus Christ. A person with understanding is not confused by all the conflicting messages in our culture about the right way to live.

Reading:  Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.  (John 14:12)

Observation:  I have read this a couple of times in the past week or so, and asked myself each time why there are not more people healing and casting out demons like Jesus did.  The answer I come back to each time is that we just don’t have enough faith in what Jesus is saying here.  Of course, he is only going to work his miracles through a worthy vessel, in his eyes.  I am going to not only comply with the grace of God that is forming me into a worthy vessel, but ask for the blessing of others in a way that proves that God is still here working to bring more people to him.

Personification:  Generosity. It is for the purpose of displaying God’s generosity that I hope to make a display of the fruit of generosity by my life.  If you want to give something away, you are more likely to get it when you ask for it from the Lord.  I think that is a lesson I learned from my wife.

Prayer:  Lord Jesus Christ, send your Spirit to form me into a worthy vessel of your grace and continue to work miracles in my life and the lives of those that I come in contact with today for your glory.  I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit…Amen!

Saint Catherine of Siena, pray for us!

Eternal God, eternal Trinity, you have made the blood of Christ so precious through his sharing in your divine nature. You are a mystery as deep as the sea; the more I search, the more I find, and the more I find the more I search for you. But I can never be satisfied; what
I receive will ever leave me desiring more. When you fill my soul I have an even greater hunger, and I grow more famished for your light. I desire above all to see you, the true light, as you really are.

I have tasted and seen the depth of your mystery and the beauty of your creation with the light of my understanding. I have clothed myself with your likeness and have seen what I shall be. Eternal Father, you have given me a share in your power and the wisdom that Christ claims as his own, and your Holy Spirit has given me the desire to love you. You are my Creator, eternal Trinity, and I am your creature. You have made of me a new creation in the blood of your Son, and I know that you are moved with love at the beauty of your creation, for you have enlightened me.

Eternal Trinity, Godhead, mystery deep as the sea, you could give me no greater gift than the gift of yourself. For you are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being. Yes, you are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light and causes me to know your truth. By this light, reflected as it were in a mirror, I recognize that you are the highest good, one we can neither comprehend nor fathom. And I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you gave yourself to man in the fire of your love.

You are the garment which covers our nakedness, and in our hunger you are a satisfying food, for you are sweetness and in you there is no taste of bitterness, O triune God!

(Taken from Office of Readings today for the Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena…)

This Sunday’s readings…

If you think this is too hard core…Think of what this world is dealing with right now…How are you working with Jesus to make a change in your own heart?…If not, do something about that!

The readings for today’s Mass led me to say this…Check it out!

Shouldn’t we be doing more?

No excuses…

Seek out and find the lost children…

Today’s morning Mass readings…

Check it out…Habakkuk and Matthew!

Morning prayers…

Feel free to pray along…God bless you!!!