May 19th Fifth Sunday of Easter
Jesus, grace us to really pray.
We need to pray with a fervor that shakes the houses where we are at.
Please send forth the power of Your Holy Spirit to fill us with the desire to pray, so that we
will really do just that.
Many times people ask us to pray for a need and we say we will, but either forget to do it, or
do it with out any real conviction of purpose.
Jesus, open up our hearts and fill us with a real desire to communicate with You.
You, Christ, are the answer to all the questions and problems.
Teach us, Jesus.
Teach us.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday HARD LESSONS
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"We must undergo many trials." -Acts 14:22
At the close of the very first Christian missionary journey, Paul and Barnabas instructed their
disciples: "We must undergo many trials if we are to enter into the reign of God" (Acts 14:22). Trials,
in fact, many trials, are a given for a disciple, although Jesus gives a yoke that is easy and a burden
that is light (Mt 11:30).
Life is hard. This is not the Lord's idea. He did not make original sin, "death or mourning, crying out
or pain" (Rv 21:4; see Wis 1:13). He will eventually abolish all these evils. By our sins, we have made
life hard, and the Lord has permitted this to continue.
By sin, we harden our hearts. Hard objects can be broken up by other harder objects (see Prv 27:17).
The Lord can use hard lives to break up and open up our hard hearts. So He lets us "learn the hard way"
so that we will repent (Mk 1:15), give our lives to Him, and not enter the everlasting hardness of hell.
"Oh, that today you would hear His voice: 'Harden not your hearts' " (Ps 95:7-8). Repent of any hardness
of heart and go to Confession. If your heart is so hard that you refuse to repent, may the hard life you
are making for yourself shatter the hardness of your heart.
Then if we open our hearts to the Lord, He will let us share in the hard sufferings of His cross
(see 1 Pt 4:13) so as to open the hardest hearts.
Prayer: Jesus, You gave us Mary to be our mother shortly before You died on the cross (Jn 19:26-27). Let
Mary teach me the hard facts and sublime joys of the cross.
Promise: "This is how all will know you for My disciples: your love for one another." -Jn 13:35
Praise: "Rejoice always." (1 Thes 5:16) "He has been raised up!" (Lk 24:6) Thank You, Jesus!
Monday "AS YOU WISH"
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"Anyone who loves Me will be true to My word." -John 14:23
Tuesday TOUGH LOVE
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"We must undergo many trials if we are to enter the reign of God." -Acts 14:22
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Convert Chris' heart to Your will. Mine too.
(Dad, Illinois, , 5/18/2019 6:58:35 PM)
Why Lord? Why is this happening to me? I just don't understand.
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Please pray to our Lord to heal me. Both physically and mentally. Please bring healing to my body
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Please watch over the Niehaus family. And bring Greg home peacefully.
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Presentation Ministries. The BTL provides callers with a short teaching on the readings for the
daily Mass. It is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Callers may also leave a short prayer
request which will be shared on the line with the other callers the next day on a separate line.
THE BTL RECENTLY WENT TO A SINGLE NUMBER FOR THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES
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Pope Francis, Shepherd of Truth
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Notable quotations from Pope Francis and official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
END HUNGER
"EFFECTIVE HELP"
The poor expect from us an effective help that takes them out of their misery... In this twenty-first
century that has seen considerable advances in the field of technology, science, communications and
infrastructure, we ought to feel shame for not having achieved the same advances in humanity and
solidarity, and so satisfy the primary needs of the most disadvantaged.
"WE MUST DO BETTER"
We are all called to go further. We can and we must do better for the helpless. We must move to
concrete action, so that the scourge of hunger disappears completely.
WE CAN DO IT
We do indeed have the adequate means and framework so that beautiful words and good wishes may become
an action plan of substance that leads effectively to the eradication of hunger in our world. To this
end we need joint efforts, upright hearts, and persistent concern to firmly and resolutely make the
other's problems one's own.
(Source: Message for World Food Day 2018, issued 10/16/2018)
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