From a dear Friend :
Embrace your decision(s). When you say yes – it requires full commitment. Mean what you say and follow through. Be pure at heart – great is your reward in heaven. Let your light shine. You matter and you are loved. Blessings. đź’™
From a dear Friend:
Embrace love, joy and peace. Do not take shortcuts – you will get cut short. Bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Be marked by faithfulness, self control and gentleness. Receive abundantly what you need to bear fruit. It is always available as long as you have a relationship with God. Align your life with what the Holy Spirit has for you. With Christ all things are possible. Allow the Holy Spirit to work in you. Stay connected to the Source. The more time you spend with God, the more time you can learn and pick up His good habits. Let God do incredible and miraculous things in you. Enjoy the journey and follow through. You are deserving of an abundant life. You matter and you are loved. Blessings đź’™
They may abuse you, threaten you, try to break you and hate you – but someone has to break the negative cycle, and it might as well be you. You don’t…
Treat others as you wish someone had treated you, when you needed it the most
As we celebrate the 3rd Sunday of Lent, we find Our Lord Jesus cleansing the Temple of Jerusalem. ( John 2:13:25) The market place has become part of the Holy Place; there is no room for both. The Market Place replaced the Divine One. The Temple cannot be a House of Prayer for all People and be cheating innocent worshipers.
Jesus is the true Temple! For those who follow Him, us, we become temples too!
In this time of Lent, Jesus will shake us up too! Jesus will remove from us the Market Place that we have let into ourselves. He is able and will do the cleansing if we give our whole self to Him!
Have a blessed Sunday! We, the Caritas Community, are with you in prayer.
Pax.
From a dear Friend:
Embrace your miraculous journey. As you conduct daily reflections remove all that stands in your way of abiding in Christ. Create the “room to breathe” so you can fully receive all that God has for you on a daily basis. Learn from yesterday and let go of it. Enter today with gratitude that you were blessed with another opportunity to go forth and be all you can be. Your journey was created for you and no one else. Embrace it and let your light shine bright. Be kind to yourself and take time to REST – it is necessary. Everything begins with YOU – You matter and you are loved. Blessings. đź’™
On this Second Sunday of Lent we meditate on the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospel of St. Mark.
We join the three future leaders of the Followers of Jesus: Peter, the first Pope; James, the Head of the Church of Jerusalem, who was died as a martyrs; John, the Beloved Disciple, the author of St. John’s Gospel, Revelation and the Epistles that carry his name. And we experience the Law and the Prophets meet together in Jesus. We know that all aspects of our lives are brought together in Jesus and we hear the Father:
This is my beloved Son, listen to Him! Mark 9:7
We need Transfiguration Moments! May this Sunday and every Sunday be Transfiguration Moments for us so that during the week we can hold on to hope!
Pax.
The Spirit immediately drove Jesus into the desert. Mark 1:12
We begin the First Sunday of Lent by following Jesus in the desert. We walk with Jesus, fasting with Him and preparing ourselves to be more like Him. Jesus is the way in which we become Jesus in the World.
Tremendous evil is ever present. The evil one is ever tempting us to leave the Jesus’ approach to life. But our Rabbi, the Lord Jesus gives us the way of victory over evil; Jesus is the way!
The Kingdom of God is present when Jesus lives in us!
Have a blessed Lent! The Mount Caritas Community is praying for you!
Pax.
Being a leper was a terrible thing. You would be like the living dead. All of the usual things of life would be denied you and for good reason. You presence in society would be dangerous because the disease that you have was not curable and was contagious. You were dead to your family!
Jesus brings resurrection when He encounters us!
This poor leper went to Jesus and he became alive again; the incurable was cured! We may not be lepers but we do need Jesus! His love can bring us back to life. All we need to do is follow the former leper’s example: come to Jesus!
Jesus is our Valentine! True love cures! Let us love one another. Let us be a people of love!
Happy St. Valentine’s Day!
Pax.
And He came and took her by hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her; she got up and served them. Mark 1:31
The healing of the Mother-In-Law of Peter reminds us of a key part of our lives with Jesus. First, she was sick with a fever. Second, her Son-In-Law, his brother and his friends brought Jesus to her. Third, Jesus heals her and finally she gets to work doing what God wanted her to do: hospitality!
We are called to be ministers of healing and ministers of hospitality among many other obligations of our relationship with Jesus.
We can and must bring Jesus to people! Jesus is still in the healing business! And once we are physically able, we are called to serve one another.
We are part of a community of healing and service! In Jesus we change the world!
Pax
St Edith Stein:
“For the Christian, there is no such thing as a ‘stranger’. There is only the neighbour – the person who happens to be next to us, the person most in need of our help….Christ’s love knows no boundaries.”
Hermitage of Peace 