Thursday, January 26, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Fall in Love
Attributed to Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ (1907–1991)
Nothing is more practical than
finding God, than
falling in Love
in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in Love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
Attributed to Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ (1907–1991)
Nothing is more practical than
finding God, than
falling in Love
in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in Love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
March for Life Thoughts
As I participated in the March for life with the Catholic Youth Of Arkansas, I looked around the room at the weekend extravaganza and on the lawn of the Capitol and was thinking just how many youth have come year after year and there are those who are coming for the first time and those who are returning and my thought was this: This is a whole new generation of men and women and if a difference can be made in their view through education and awareness respect for life, abortion and its spiraling effects, then there is hope in truly making a difference in stopping abortion.
It make me nuts when people say the youth are the future of our Church! No, they are the Church now and boldly going forth to make a difference and we need to support them in this effort, leading and mentoring them! Our prayer as adults for our youth should be that of begging God to give them the grace to carry forth what they have started into their adult lives...then we will begin to see, feel and hear the fruit of their labors and our prayers! Adults, get involved in our youth...they can teach us so much!
Recently I realized that when we look at the spirituality of Jesus we are seeing the spirituality of Mary and Joseph, they were his mentors. What kind of mentors are we being for our youth? Parents take responsibility for your child being taught the faith, teach them how to pray, how to have a relationship with God. If you do not know, then learn together. Youth Directors, PRE teachers, Religious Sisters and Brothers, Priest, Deacons, we all have the same responsibility to teach those whom God has entrusted in our care. We all need to strive to live the motto of St. Francis of Assisi , "Preach the Gospel at all times, use words when necessary." This will be the best lesson you will ever teach your child or those entrusted in our care because it will apply to everything in life.
Here are some wonderful quotes of Blessed John Paul II that I think we need to hear over and over!
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters — members all of the same family — are able at last to live in peace. ~Blessed John Paul II
A nation that kills its own children has no future. ~Blessed John Paul II
The future starts today, not tomorrow. ~Blessed John Paul II
“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.” Blessed Pope John Paul II
Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel. ~Blessed John Paul II
Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills. ~Blessed John Paul II
Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death. ~Blessed John Paul II
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. ~Blessed John Paul II
The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace. ~Blessed John Paul II
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! ~Blessed John Paul II
While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it’s final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit. ~Blessed John Paul II
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times. ~Blessed John Paul II
So to our youth, thank you so much for having the courage to dare to be different!
It make me nuts when people say the youth are the future of our Church! No, they are the Church now and boldly going forth to make a difference and we need to support them in this effort, leading and mentoring them! Our prayer as adults for our youth should be that of begging God to give them the grace to carry forth what they have started into their adult lives...then we will begin to see, feel and hear the fruit of their labors and our prayers! Adults, get involved in our youth...they can teach us so much!
Recently I realized that when we look at the spirituality of Jesus we are seeing the spirituality of Mary and Joseph, they were his mentors. What kind of mentors are we being for our youth? Parents take responsibility for your child being taught the faith, teach them how to pray, how to have a relationship with God. If you do not know, then learn together. Youth Directors, PRE teachers, Religious Sisters and Brothers, Priest, Deacons, we all have the same responsibility to teach those whom God has entrusted in our care. We all need to strive to live the motto of St. Francis of Assisi , "Preach the Gospel at all times, use words when necessary." This will be the best lesson you will ever teach your child or those entrusted in our care because it will apply to everything in life.
Here are some wonderful quotes of Blessed John Paul II that I think we need to hear over and over!
Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters — members all of the same family — are able at last to live in peace. ~Blessed John Paul II
A nation that kills its own children has no future. ~Blessed John Paul II
The future starts today, not tomorrow. ~Blessed John Paul II
“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.
It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.” Blessed Pope John Paul II
Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel. ~Blessed John Paul II
Man’s life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills. ~Blessed John Paul II
Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death. ~Blessed John Paul II
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. ~Blessed John Paul II
The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace. ~Blessed John Paul II
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! ~Blessed John Paul II
While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it’s final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit. ~Blessed John Paul II
The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times. ~Blessed John Paul II
So to our youth, thank you so much for having the courage to dare to be different!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Fall in Love Attributed to Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ (1907–1991)
Fall in Love
Attributed to Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ (1907–1991)
Nothing is more practical than
finding God, than
falling in Love
in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in Love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
Attributed to Fr. Pedro Arrupe, SJ (1907–1991)
Nothing is more practical than
finding God, than
falling in Love
in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in Love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
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