"Unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven." ~ Matthew 18:3
With Matthew 18:3 in mind, what Life issue can our Council undertake in conjunction with our Squires Circle?
"Every child comes with the message that God is not discouraged with us." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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St. Hedwig, Religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin
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"In all your ways be mindful of him, and he will make strai ght your paths." ~ Proverbs 3:6
When Joe Wright was asked to ope n the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual p olitically correct generalities. But in 1996, they heard instead a stirrin g prayer, excerpted below. The response was immediate - with a number of l egislators walking out during the prayer.
Heavenly Father, we ask Y our forgiveness and seek Your guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe onto those who call evil good," but that's exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that: We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyl e; We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation; We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare; We have killed our unborn and called it choice; We have abused power and called it political sav vy; We have ridiculed the time-honored values of ou...
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St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop & Martyr
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"I set before you life and death... Choose life then, that you and your descendants may live." ~ Deuterono my 30:19
Would you respect human life in the following situations? 1. A preacher and his wife are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. How she finds out she's pregnant with the 15th child. They are livin g in severe poverty. 2. The father is ailing, the mother has tuberculos is. The eldest child is blind, the second died, the third is deaf, and t he youngest also has TB. The mother learns she's pregnant again. 3. A wh ite man raped a 13 year-old black girl and now she's pregnant. 4. Anothe r teenage girl is pregnant. She's not married. Her fiance is not the father of the baby, and he's very upset.
If you thought ending a innocent life was the best solution under these circumstances - in the first case, you have just killed John Wesley before he could become the famed evangeli st from England. In the second case, you aborted...
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6:30pm-8:30pm
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Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO - Dwyer Hall
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Officers and Directors meeting at 6:00 PM, Rosary beginning at 6:30 PM, dinner and the meeting to follow around 7:30 PM in Dwyer Hall.
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Sts. John De Brebeuf & Isaac Jogues, Priests & Companions, Martyr s
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"When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the LORD had com manded him and took his wife into his home." ~ Matthew 1:24
How deeply do we appreciate wives and mothers and what they go through?
"The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contracepti on." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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"Our Father.... May your will be done on earth as it is in h eaven." ~ Matthew 6:9-10
One night a young man was home alone. H e began thinking about his life. Suddenly, he saw himself as being selfish and self-centered. He was shocked! Next, he turned his thoughts from hims elf to all the suffering people in the world. He began feeling compassion f or them. He knelt down and told his heavenly Father that he wanted to chang e his life. The next morning he awoke, he had a sudden illumination. He wr ote: "I knew that love and service of mankind was the will of God..... W e are to serve God by serving his purpose.... My whole outlook on life chan ged.... It was as if all my life I had been in a darkened room and then I h ad suddenly walked out into the sunlight." ~Alister Hardy, The Spiritua l Man
In terms of all Life issues - abortion, euthan asia, care for the sick and elderly, human embryonic stem cell research, cloning, et al - what is Our Father's will?
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St. Paul of the Cross, Priest
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"(He) will shelter you with his feathers, and under his win gs you will find refuge..." ~ Psalm 91:4
An article in National Geographic several years ago provided a penetrating picture of God's wings. ... After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, rangers began their trek up a mountain to assess the inferno's damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified in ashes, perched statuesquely on the ground at the ba se of a tree. Somewhat sickened by the eerie sight, he knocked over the bi rd with a stick. Three tiny chicks scurried from under their dead mother's wings. The loving mother, keenly aware of impending disaster, had carried her offspring to the base of the tree and had gathered them under her wing s, instinctively knowing that the toxic smoke would rise.
She could have flown to safety but had refused to abandon here babies. When the blaz e had arrived and the heat had scorched her small body, the mother had rem ained steadfast. Because she had been willing to...
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6:00am-7:00am
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Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E Parker Rd, Parker, CO 80138, USA
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Hot breakfast at 5:45 am followed by discussion. Please join
us. For more information contact Brad Riddell at 303-548-
6184 or Bill Was serman at 954-817-5706.
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St. John Paul II, Pope
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"Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Sp irit dwells in you?" ~ 1 Corinthians 3:16
We can gently breathe in God's spirit, that spirit which, if not barred out by selfishness, wi ll enable us to do good works. This means rather that God can be enabled to do good works through us. We can become a channel for God's spirit to flow through us and into the lives of others. The works that we can do will onl y be limited by our spiritual development. We can let our spirits be in har mony with God's spirit and there is no limit to what we can do. In the real m of human relationships. ~ Fr. Pat Umberger
Pray that we may become a channel for God's spirit. Pray that God's spirit may flow through me int o the lives of others.
Are you a channel for God's good works ? What Council Life activities have you participated in this month?
"The Church is a workshop, not a dormitory; and every Christian is bou nd to help in the common cause." ~ Al...