Friday, June 24, 2011

Remain in Me

Remain in Me

Thank you for staying with me, Lord Jesus. If I had to remain in you by my force alone, I would soon betray your presence. You tenderly implanted me into yourself through the mystery of Baptism. How often I broke my oneness with you and hindered its unfolding. But you constantly restored the loving union that was lost. You attracted me;you permeated me with the sweet scent of your presence. I beg you, Lord Jesus, let your silent presence in me be a power of self-formation.

I hear you whisper in my soul: Remain in me, then I will remain in you. Your loyalty to me, my Lord, can never be questioned. You are fidelity itself. You loved me and pruned me before I could love you. Your acceptance of me is not hemmed in by impossible conditions. You are all for me even when I am against you. You cherish me no matter how I feel or am. It is only I who can be unfaithful to you. Therefore you have to ask me:"Remain in me." You assure me once and for all:"Then I will remain in you."

How direct and simple is the promise of your presence. You don't tell me that it is anything out of the ordinary. It is not a question of elated experiences. They may or may not accompany your presence in me. Your presence is not only for people more exalted than I, people unusually graced and gifted. It is also for me, a simple believer in your daily love and care.

To remain in you is not a feat of feeling or perfection. To remain in you is to believe in you, to surrender to you in faith, hope and love.

When I ask to remain in you, I ask for a special dimension of the grace of faith, the dimension of faith that is fidelity.

Please, Lord, let faith and fidelity abound in me; let them fill the empty spaces of my life!

~Practicing the Prayer of Presence S.Muto & A.Kaam

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Sing Me Your Song Again Daddy. A Father's day tribute

A Father would do anything and everything just to see her little daughter smile! So as God to His little lambs. Heavenly Father, our Father! I thank you for everything! Your love for us is immeasurable! You never forget to stoop and to reach out to those little hearts and fill their hearts with your sweet comforting love. Indeed, your love alone suffices!

"'you're amazing Just the way you are" :)

Papa, your little queen is all grown up now. The "time has come for me to leave your side", but, no...I'll be forever yours, forever in your arms and your songs alone my dear Papa are the music that my heart has been playing and will be forever playing. You have prepared the road for me and I am about to walk on it, proud to say, with gladness, with cheer and with confidence for I know you will never leave me.

"I feel within me the vocation of being a priest, an apostle, a doctor, a martyr… inspite of my littleness to enlighten the soul as the prophets and the Doctors have done" (Manuscript B, 2–3)~St. Therese

"I have called you and you are mine!"

"I am standing at the threshold
Of a chapter in my life
I am asking for your blessing
As I’m about to be the wife
Of a man I know who loves me
And I’m proud to be his bride.
Dad the time has come for me to leave your side."

My beloved, I am coming!

There is nothing more noble and more precious than to consecrate ones life totally to God! Your love, my Jesus, has grown within me "so much that it has become an abyss of which I am unable to fathom the depth!"

"Love includes all other vocations… then in an excess of overflowing joy, I exclaimed 'Jesus, my love, I have finally found my vocation… in the heart of the Church, my Mother, I shall be LOVE'" ~St. Therese

Happy Father's Day!

Sing Me Your Song Again Daddy – Jose Marie Chan

Sing me a song again, Daddy
Sing me a happy verse.
Teach me those clever lines you sang
As you carried me on your shoulders.
Sing me that hymn that you so loudly
Sang in church with mom.
Sing it again to me and fill me
With all your words of wisdom.
Comforting words of love when I
Would get home from school in tears.
Somehow your songs have stayed within me
Down through all the years.
Once when my younger heart was broken
Your shoulder was there to cry on.
Sing me those songs I know will linger
Long after you have gone.
I am standing at the threshold
Of a chapter in my life
I am asking for your blessing
As I’m about to be the wife
Of a man I know who loves me
And I’m proud to be his bride.
Dad the time has come for me to leave your side.
So, sing me a song again, Daddy.
Sing me a lullaby.
Wrap me inside your arms, Daddy,
‘Though this is not goodbye.
Your songs will live forever
In my heart. When times get rough
The ones I’ll most remember
Are your songs of love.
JOSE:
Your songs will live forever
In my heart. When times get rough
CHERI:
The ones I’ll most remember
Are your songs of love.

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Words of the Little Flower

The Eight Beatitudes

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Verse 3)
Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. (Verse 4)
Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted. (Verse 5)
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill. (Verse 6)
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. (Verse 7)
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God. (Verse 8)
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. (Verse 9)
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Verse 10)

Gospel of St. Matthew 5:3-10

All About Thee Mary

"HEAR, O most sweet Virgin Mary, hear things new and wonderful!"~St. Boneventure

"My tongue faileth, Lady, for my mind is insufficient. Lady, all that is within me burns that I may render thee thanks for thy so great benefits." ~St. Jerome

"I fear and tremble, all the while that I long to fulfill your expectations, lest I should prove to be an unworthy panegyrist." St. Jerome

"For there is in me neither sanctity nor eloquence, worthily to praise the Blessed and glorious Virgin." St. Jerome

"Dear Mary, my holy mother...Help me to love my neighbor as a child of God. Help me to love myself as a child of God. Amen"

Dear Mary, my holy mother, I love you so much and I give you my heart. Help me to love God. ~Consecration to Mary

She is the one who is full of grace and the sum of all perfections;and she is also our Mother. ~(Friends of God) J. Escriva

Purest of lilies, That flowers among thorns, Bring help to the true heart That in weakness turns and trusts in thee.~ Flos Carmeli

Tota pulchra es, Maria. ~ You are all beautiful, Mary.

"O Virgin Mary, most powerful Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and earth, I consecrate myself today to your Immaculate Heart."

"My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way that will lead you to God." ~ Second Apparition June 13, 1917

O Morning Star, splendour of light eternal and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.

"Never was it known that anyone who fled to Thy protection, implored Thy help or sought Thy intercession, was left unaided." ~Memorare

Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue

Lovely Lady dressed in blue
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
Tell me what to say!

Did you lift Him up, sometimes,
Gently on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way
Mother does to me?

Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of the world?
O! And did He cry?

Do you really think He cares
If I tell Him things
Little things that happen? And
Do the Angels' wings

Make a noise? And can He hear
Me if I speak low?
Does He understand me now?
Tell me for you know.

Lovely Lady dressed in blue
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
And you know the way.

Saints of Carmel

O Jesus, Savior of the world,

We come and for redemption plead,
Mother of God, his saving grace
Win for your children in their need.

All choirs of angels we invoke;
We beg the prophets of God’s call
And patriarchs who led us flock
To gain God’s pardon for us all.

O saints of Carmel, throned above
In Mary’s court, obtain this grace --
That where you are in glory now
We, too, may find a resting-place.

May martyrs, brave in word and deed,
Confessors, holy pastors pray,
And choirs of virgins intercede
That God may wash our sins away.

O blessed saints of solitude,
And all the heavenly company,
Obtain for us that life in God
Which lasts for all eternity.

Praise to the Father evermore
And to the Spirit he bestows,
To Jesus whom that Virgin bore
From whom all Carmel’s beauty flows.

Lord, have mercy
Christ, have mercy
Lord, hear us

[R] Have mercy on us.

God, the Father in Heaven,
God the Son, redeemer of the world,
God the Holy Spirit,
Holy Trinity, one God,

[R] Help us to love.

Therese, bright Star of Carmel,
Therese, star of the ends of the earth,
Therese, star of races and nations,
Therese, star of the pontificate of Pope Pius XI ,
Little Queen of the great King,
Dear Child of the Virgin Mary,
Child cured by the smile of Mary,
Doctor of the way of spiritual Childhood,
Lover of the Child Jesus,
Lover of the Face of Christ
Lover of the Cross of Christ,
Lover of the Word of God,
Herald of the Tenderness of God,
Mirror of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
Rose plucked for the Child Jesus,
Love in the Heart of the Church,
Word of God for our time,
Model of purity of heart,
Living monstrance consumed by love,
Silent sacrifice before the Eucharist,
Treasure of joy in suffering,
Martyr of the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Valiant warrior in the field of the apostolate,
Therese, showering down roses,
Therese, distributing graces,
Therese, offered to Merciful love,
Therese, seated at the table of sinners,
Angel of prisonners and the sicks,
Little sister of the poor in spirit,
Protrectress of exiles,
Tender treasure of orphans,
Consolation of missionnaries,
Ardent model of consecrated souls,
Hidden little sister of all,
Apostle of mercy,
Apostle of confidence and abandonment,
Apostle of simplicity of heart,
Patroness of the missions,
Doctor of the Church,
Prophet of the last times,

Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us, O Lord.

Pray for us Saint Therese, That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us Pray _ God our Father, You have primised your Kingdom to those who are willing to become like little children. Help us to follow the way of saint Therese with confidence, so that by her prayers, we may come to know your eternal glory. Grant this through our Lord Jesus-Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy spirit, one God for ever and ever.
Amen