Jesus, Your mercy is without bounds.
Your mercy is a bright light that shines in the darkness of sin.
Your mercy is unending and Your love unbeatable.
You are a God of mercy and of love.
You are the light of the world, and Your love and mercy lifts us
up anytime we turn to You.
You always call us into a relationship of love, trust and mercy.
Help us in our struggle to be free of sin, and continue to shower
down on us the love and mercy that is pure love.
Amen and Amen.
Thank you Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday AM I THOMAS' TWIN?
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"Do not persist in your unbelief, but believe!" —John 20:27
If we are honest with ourselves, we may admit that we're like
doubting Thomas. Our faith in the resurrection may not be strong.
For instance, in our funeral homes and funeral Masses do we
proclaim the resurrection? Are we so taken up with Jesus'
resurrection that we center our lives on celebrating it each
Sunday? Do we see our bodies and sexuality differently because
we know these bodies will rise to live eternally? Do we devote
much of our finances and energies to proclaiming the resurrection?
Our lives speak louder than our words. We may believe in the
resurrection theoretically, but also have a lack of faith (see Mk 9:24)
to live it out in practical ways.
We need the Holy Spirit to confirm us, to renew the sacrament of
Confirmation in our lives. Jesus is breathing on us and saying:
"Receive the Holy Spirit" (Jn 20:22). He's giving us the grace to
respond: "My Lord and my God!" (Jn 20:28) By the power of the
Spirit, this Easter can be a new act of faith rather than a
continuation of doubt.
Jesus offered Thomas the opportunity to receive mercy, to atone
for his fearfulness, his absence, his doubt. Jesus invites us who
also fear, absent ourselves, and doubt, to come out of the tomb of
doubt into the risen light of faith. Accept Jesus as Lord of your life
and receive the Holy Spirit.
Monday EASTER PRAYER
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"Grant to Your servants, even as they speak Your words, complete
assurance by stretching forth Your hand in cures and signs and
wonders to be worked in the name of Jesus, Your holy Servant."
—Acts 4:29-30
Tuesday MAKING A STATEMENT
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"None of them ever claimed anything as his own; rather, everything
was held in common." —Acts 4:32
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Risen Life
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PM Internet Prayer Requests
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For all the petitions in this prayer room we ask you Jesus to look
kindly on them. We trust in you. Only you can answer them.
(Jim, Wisconsin, United States, 4/9/2010 11:05:59 PM)
We are a Catholic group of young people in Jakarta, Indonesia.
We are starting a chastity campaign among the young, based on
Theology Of the Body (John Paul II). Please pray for the movement,
for the people who hears the message, and also for the team, so
that they all can live in chastity and in pure love. Please pray that
the men and the women become the real man and the real women
of God. Thank you.
(riko, jakarta, 4/9/2010 3:21:51 PM)
During the third hour, please join me in prayer…Dear Jesus of
Divine Mercy You have said to St. Faustina: In this hour, I will
refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of
My Passion…. Let us unite in prayer for those who struggle with
the Truth, especially those in academia, media and government
and all others. Jesus I Trust in YOU!
(Ken, Texas, 4/9/2010 3:11:06 PM)
for all the petitions in this wonderful prayer room. for our garage
sale-please let it go well and that we make a good profit to help us
with our moving expenses. for my brother,sister, mother, son,
nephew. for mi and his father. please Lord help me w/my lonliness,
my finances, my spiritual health. Virgin Mary pray for us. Holy Spirit
soften our hearts. for bobby,pam,marie,joey,david
(Anonymous, 4/9/2010 2:20:06 PM)
Please pray with me to God that He remove Cate from my husband's
life forever. Please pray with me to God that my husband have a
change of heart and doesn't go through with the divorce and comes
back to me. Please pray with me to God that my husband
communicate with me. Please pray wioth me to God that He grant me
a miracle that my husband comes back to me. Also, please pray that
my daughter does well on her Board Exam. Thank you.
(Stepahnie, Oscar, Louisiana, United States, 4/9/2010 2:09:10 PM)
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MP3 4 You
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tapes online. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
are featured as are The Acts of the Apostles Part 1 thru 4, 1
Corinthians Part 1 & 2, and Romans Parts 1-3. Also available,
many MP3 formatted Audio tapes of most epistles in the bible
and numerous 15 minute Bible studies by Fr. Al Lauer.
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Small Christian Communities
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Small Christian Community Resources
Introduction to Small Christian Community
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Building Small Christian Communities (Team Manual)
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Pope Benedict XVI, Shepherd of Truth
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Notable quotations from Pope Benedict XVI and official
teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
WITNESS AWAKENS VOCATIONS
"RESPOND GENEROUSLY"
The fruitfulness of our efforts to promote vocations depends primarily
on God's free action, yet ... it is also helped by the quality and depth
of the personal and communal witness of those who have already
answered the Lord's call to the ministerial priesthood and the
consecrated life for their witness is then able to awaken in others a
desire to respond generously to Christ's call.
PRAYER AND VOCATIONS
Prayer is the first form of witness which awakens vocations.
COMPLETE GIFT TO GOD
In following Jesus, everyone called to a life of special consecration
must do his utmost to testify that he has given himself completely to God.
(Source: Message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations [4/25/2010], issued
11/13/ 2009)
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