"My love for you will never end....so says the LORD who love s you." ~ Isaiah 54:10
Dr. Jonas Salk won fame for developing a polio vaccine in 1953. His brother, Dr. Lee Salk, wrote a popular book, called Mr. Father, My Son.
He began the gook by d escribing a touching scene between his father and himself. He wrote:
"One blustery winter afternoon in 1944, my father waited with me in Penn Station for the train that would take me away to the army center where I wo uld begin my World War II military service. He looked at me with tears clou ding his eyes, hugged me tightly, kissed me on the cheek and told me good -bye in a choked voice. Then, wanting to give me something...he took off h is watch and gave it to me." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
When have you felt t he love of a parent or child as deeply as Dr. Salk and his father felt for each other? How did you express it?
Two people who love each othe r are in a place more holy than the interior of a ch...
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St. Angela Merici, Virgin
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"We are one body in union with Christ." ~ Romans 12:5
John XXIII's Journal of a Soul has this entry date d November 1939: "Every evening from my window I see an assemblage of fishi ng boats... They come around in tens and hundreds... One can hear the cheer ful voices of the fishermen. I find the sight very moving. The other night , towards one o'clock, it was pouring with rain, but the fishermen were s till there, undeterred from their heavy toil... What an inspiring example to us, who are fishermen of Jesus Christ. We must do as they do - work day and night with our torches lit, each in his own little boat - yet working as a team for the spread of God's Kingdom on earth." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
What kind of new leadership initiatives might the Knights undertake na tionally to spread God's Kingdom on earth:
"Our chief want in lif e is somebody who shall make us do what we can." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In the day of my trouble I shall call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me." ~ Psalm 86:7 KJV
On this date in 1985, seven brave Americans died as they reached for the stars aboard the space s huttle Challenger. As our nation mourned, our faith compelled us to consider the contradictions -
....that a flowering plant might spro ut from volcanic ash, ....that days after a devastating earthquake we m ight discover the survival of helpless infants,< br>....that the violence of conflict might yield to the peace of reconcilia tion, ....and that in the horror of so vividly seeing seven human lives instantaneously obliterated, we might re member the Easter mystery of the Resurrection.
For the crew of the < i>Challenger - Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair , Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Dick Scobee and Michael Smith ... they were escaping the bounds of earth, looking towards the heavens,...
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St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest & Doctor of the Church
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"If you forgive... your Father in heaven will also forgive y ou." ~ Matthew 6:14
A young man, whose father had abandoned his family, was on retreat. At one point, he imagined himself kneeling befor e Jesus as he hung on the cross. He wrote:
"An enormous guilt was up on me. I wept for forgiveness. As I wept, God forgave me... He loved me in all my filth...I took the next day off from work to think and pray. While I was reading the Bible, I began to think of my father.... That night I we nt to his apartment and asked his forgiveness for hating him.... We hugged and kissed one another.... I took a cab most of the way home that night, b ut I wanted to walk the last couple of blocks. Joy overflowed me... With ar ms outstretched, I screamed, "I love you, God!" He blessed me greatly th at night. ~ Letter to Mark Link, S.J.
What keeps me from forgiving others?
"We are like beasts when we kill. We are like men when we judge. We are like God when we forgive." ~ E. C....
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"Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these." ~ Matthew 19:14
Ba be Ruth was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1895. He died 53 years later of cancer in a New York hospital. Babe loved kids; and they loved him. Durin g the 1926 World Series, he promised a very sick John Sylvestri, that he' d hit a home run for him - and did.
Part of Babe's love for children stemmed from his own turbulent childhood. He lived above the family saloon , played hooky, stole, and drank. His parents finally committed him to S t. Mary's Industrial School.
There, Catholic brothers shaped him up and gave him his love for baseball. ~ Mark Link, S.J.
What are som e of the things Knights do for 'little brothers', especially in a Church s etting? Are you involved in our Columbian Squires Circle?
"Whoeve r you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect.... The re is someone who would miss you if you were gone....
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St. John Bosco, Priest
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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-
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"This is impossible for man, but for God everything is poss ible." ~ Matthew 19:26
After being elected president, Abraham L incoln stayed in Springfield, Illinois, until it was time for his inaugur ation. Times were bad: states were seceding, and the South was readying fo r war. Lincoln walked to the rear platform and spoke is farewell to the cro wd: 'Here I lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me grea ter than that which rested upon Washington.' ~ Mark Link, S.J.
When have you said farewell to a happy past and set out to face as uncertain fu ture? When was the last time our assembly ventured into a seemingly insurmo untable task?
"Without the assistance of the Divine Being. ... that attended George Washington, I cannot succeed. With that assistanc e, I cannot fail." ~ Abraham Lincoln