"If we love others, we live in the light... But if we hate others, we are still in the darkness, we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind." ~ 1 John 2: 10-11
IN Feodor Dostoevski's novel, The Brothers Karamazov, a distraught woman comes to Father Zosima for help. She says that if he ca nnot help her, she thinks she will end her own life. Her problem is that s he no longer believes in God. She came to the point bit by bit without real izing it. Now her life is meaningless. All ashes!
Father Zosima tell s her she must go home and, without fail - and in a practical way, every day - love the people around her. If she does this, he promises, bit-by-b it she will come to the point where she'll find it impossible not to believe in God. ~ Mark Link, S.J.
What is Father Zosima's p oint; and why do/don't you tend to agree with it?
"The works is full of beauty when your heart is full of love." ~
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The Baptism of the Lord
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St. Hilary, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
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"Love binds all thins together in perfect unity." ~ Colo ssians 3:14
Seminarian Mark Bosco was touched by a remark from Mothe r Teresa: "The AIDS patient is the newest face of the suffering Christ." He then decided to join 1,000 cyclists preparing for a 600 mile trip from Sa n Francisco to Los Angeles, to raise money for AIDS research.
The n ight of the fifth day, he wrote: "tonight in camp I needed help for my sor e neck and back. A chiropractor named Christine told me that she and about 60 other chiropractors were volunteering to keep us in good form. She said that this would probably be her only vacation time this year, but that she wouldn't have missed the trip for the world. There are many unsung heroes on this ride, including 50 or so UPS drivers who devoted their vocation to following us in trucks with our tents, gear, and food." ~ Mark Link, S. J.
Do your recall a Knights project that moved you as deeply?
"There's no limit to how much good you ...
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"I tell you the truth... I am not trying to do what I want, but only what he who sent me wants." ~ John 5:30
A plaque in Lo ndon contains these words:
In the memory of Charles Gordon Who at all times and everywhere gave His Strength to the Weak His Substance to the Suffering His Heart to God.
Whether the plaque's author knew it or not, he was descri bing the heart of Jesus. No finer tribute could be paid to a person. ~ Mark Link, S.J.
Can you recall some recent occasion when you went out o f your way to help - someone weaker than yourself, someone poorer then you rself. and someone suffering more than yourself?
How have we support ed, spiritually and financially, the widows and children of brothers who have passed away?
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something; And beca use I cannot do everything, Let me not ref...
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"They said to one another, "Here comes that dreamer.... Let 's kill him.... Then we will see what becomes of his dreams." ~ Genesis 37:19-20
It was a summer day in Washington when Martin Luther King , Jr. spoke these memorable words to a huge crowd:
"I have a dream t hat one day this nation will rise up and live out the truen meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created ewual." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood... This is our hope. This is the fait h that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to he w out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope." ~ Mark Link, S.J. Sadly, the Scripture from Genesis above proved to be prophetic. Dr. King would later be slain out of sheer hatred. Waht has become of his dreams an d are they worth keeping alive?
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"Go then to all peoples everywhere, and make them my discip les." ~ Matthew 28:18
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"God will reward each of us according to what we have done." ~ Romans 2:6
Jan Gies and his wife Miep were members of the Dut ch underground. They achieved fame through 14-year-old Anne Frank's diary. It described in moving detail what it was like for the Frank family and fou r other Jews to be hiding out in a warehouse from the Nazis.
After t wo years, the Franks were caught. During that period, Jan Gies risked his life daily, smuggling ration coupons to buy food and then smuggling the f ood to the Franks and to the four others in hiding.
Someone said of Gies, "Jan was not a person to stand in the limelight... He was throughout his life a man of few words, but many deeds." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
W hat are your feelings about publicizing the good works of our Council? < br>"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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St. Anthony, Abbot
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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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"I was sick and you took care of me, in prison and you visi ted me...whenever you did this for one of the least important of these foll owers of mine, you did it for me!" ~ Matthew 25:26, 40
T ip O'Neil was a member of Congress for 34 years. He was speaker of the Hous e for ten years, the longest consecutive term for any speaker in the Histo ry of Congress.
On the wall of his office hung these words from the last speech that Hubert Humphrey ever gave. Tip said they summed up his own philosophy and values.
"The moral test of government is how it t reats those who are in the dawn of life, the children...in the twilight of their life, the aged....in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
How might our assemb ly witness to our special concern for the sick, the needy, the handicappe d and our nation's homeless veterans?
"By having reverence for li fe, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the wo...
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Our Lady of the Visitation, 34201 Co Rd 33, Kiowa, CO 80117, U SA