Dear Friends, In "Love and Responsibility", John Paul II invites us to understand how God made us to love and be loved and what that means. One of the beautiful points he makes is that there are 3 levels of friendship. Forgive me for not pulling up the official terms currently. Right now I'm just talking from my heart....
How is God Calling you to love? Is He calling you to love in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and a family? Is this where He is calling you to love and learn to love? Or is He calling you to love as a Consecrated Religious Sister or Priest? To love God in a special intimate way and to have spiritual children? Is He calling you to love and learn to love in this special vocation? Last Sunday was Mother's Day. What a special day it is for us. We enjoy singing to Our Lady and crowning her. We also have special candles for our own Mom's to remember and pray for them. Mary is the perfect model of both vocations. May she interecede for us and help us find our special way to LOVE.
I grew up in a winning environment. Our little town starting winning Girl’s Basketball championships when I was about 6 years old. I immediately started dreaming of growing up and being on a State Championship team as well. The dream seemed very real as the years went by since we continued to win and win and win. . . .
"The Church can survive without you, but it cannot flourish without you." Fr. John Burns told us this at the recent CMSWR leadership meeting of Consecrated Women. He was ....
Pope John Paul II left us a brilliant teaching that he called "The Theology of the Body". It could not have come at a better time in history. The Holy Father attempted to explain the mystery of human beings -- why God made us male and female in His image: ". . . let us make man in our image."(Genesis 1:26
As DivineProvidence teaches us – we can be assured that God only allows things to happento us that have already gone through His Hands. He knows that good can come from it, even if it’s evil and injustice.