Category: Grace
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Lost in Your Love
St. John tells us today of Jesus’s incomparable love. Jesus laid down His life for us. He told us that there is “no greater love than this, than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” He called us His friends, whom He chose and now appoints to go and to “bear fruit that will…
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Meet Fr. Dan Reehil
Please take a few minutes to listen to Fr. Reehil as he tells of his reversion story. He’s an inspiration and one who our Lord has blessed to serve our church in Middle Tennessee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDLDnJ7ClLQ
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I want your heart
It’s not your wealth I want so much as your heart.Prayers for the poor and needy are powerful…For them certainly, because I hear them and I answer.I am faithful. But even more, your prayers for the poor are powerful for you, for your goodness, for the sweetness and beauty of your generous heart. Similarly, I…
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Give me a broken spirit
Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Let me not despise my broken spirit, or my broken heart, oh lord. Rather, show me how to offer it to you as a sacrifice. Take my ego and my arrogance, my loss…
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Waves of Grace
Against a brilliant background, there she stood. The mounds of reds and yellows, greens and oranges and purples tantalized my senses with promises of Romas and romaine, parsley and peppers, eggplant and onions. Like an angel in my mind’s eye today, her soft, strawberry blonde hair shimmered, framing her face, as light surrounded her. Her…
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Prepare my lips, oh Lord
Father, You gave me your beautiful words during my prayers with You, today at Mass. Help me now, 24 hours hence, to recall them, I pray, and to lift them up to Your glory. Amen. God our Father in Heaven, lean close and beckon to me, that I might lift my heart to You. Let…
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Loving heart to heart
The killing of George Floyd, the righteous anger, the protests against allowing whatever caused this awful murder to stand, the dark forces of opportunistic riots and looting, the hatred and loathing — it all makes me so sad, Father. Where are You in all this? How did we get here? What now? What can we…
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Love You. Trust You. Look to You. Rely on You.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Good afternoon, Father. Thank You for this beautiful day that You’ve given us in Your mercy and Your delight. My daughter continues to be sad about her favorite pet’s and other’s recent deaths in her life and she’s still suffering from…
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All that I am is Yours
Born into dysfunctionand diseaseand disinformation,I entered blindand lameand dumbTo Your will and to Your perfect love. Oh Lord, I didn’t know You. I didn’t know how to search for YouOr what to look for. I didn’t know who to ask,Nor even the right questionsTo learn about You. Crippled by my ignoranceVulnerable in my loneliness,I leaned…
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Divine anticipation
That feeling. That sense of excitement. Of an inexplicable, almost physical knowingness. Signaling something momentous is about to happen. Something extraordinary. I have naught to do but wait In the full incredulous knowledge that You are at work and About to reveal Yourself In my life, In the world, In Your perfect answer to prayer.…
Walking With My Brother 