"Them I will bring to my holy mountain and make joyful in my house of prayer; their holocausts and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples." ~ Isaiah 56:7
Dorothy Day died in New York City in 1980. The N ew York Times called her the most influential person in the histo ry of American Catholicism. There's now a movement to canonize her for her personal life of poverty and for her work among the poor. In her book, Union Square to Rome, Day wrote that before her conversion to Catholic ism she used to go to early morning Mass at St. Joseph's Church on Sixth Av enue. What attracted her were the people kneeling in prayer. She says, "I longed for their faith. So I used to go in and kneel in the back pew." She was drawn to St. Joseph's because it was clear it was a "house of prayer". ~ Mark Link, S.J.
Would a visitor to our parish church witness the same devotion and faith as Day witnessed at St....
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"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them , for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." ~ Luke 18:16 NIV John was a French priest who became famous as a teacher of underprivi leged boys. When he became aware of the needs of the poor children, he fel t himself called to respond. John would later give away his share of the fa mily fortune. He began training a group of young men as teachers, thus beg inning the order known today as the Christian Brothers. John successfully i ntroduced several new educational methods and established colleges for trai ning teachers. His success in training delinquent and underprivileged boys provoked bitter opposition from secular schoolmasters, who resented his em phasis on Christian values. Ignoring his critics, John urged his teachers to treat their students with love, compassion, and concern for their spir itual well-being. One of the lessons we learn from John is that our calling from God may at first seem unpleasant, but if we p...
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"...Whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eter nal life." ~ John 3:16
A man was sleeping when the Savior appear ed. The LORD told him there was work to be done, and showed him a massive rock which he was to push with all his might. For many years the man toiled . The Adversary sensed his despair and placed thoughts into his weary mind: "You are never going to move it." "Why kill myself over this?" the man tho ught. He decided to make it a matter of prayer and take his troubled though ts to the LORD. "I have labored long and hard in Your service. Yet, I have not budged that rock by half a millimeter. Why am I failing?" The LORD res ponded compassionately, "When I asked you to serve me, your task was to p ush against the rock with all your strength. Never once did I mention that I expected you to move it. And now you come to me, thinking that you have failed. But now you are strong and muscled. Through opposition your abiliti es now surpass that which you used to have. Your ...
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"If there is a poor man among your brothers... do not be har dhearted or tightfisted toward him." ~ Deuteronomy 15:7
Th e parable of the rich man and the poor man (Luke 16:19-31) inspired the sti rring homily of Pope John Paul II at Yankee Stadium in 1979. He said, "We cannot stand idly by, enjoying our own riches and freedom if, in any plac e, the Lazarus of the 20th century stands at our doors... The rich man and the Lazarus are both human beings, both of them equally created in the im age and likeness of God, both of them equally redeemed by Christ." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
What caused the rich man to be condemned? How have your values changed since you became a Knight? How do you think God might want t hem to change some more?
"The poor of the United States and of th e world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs of the feast. You must give your substance, and not just of your abundance." ~ Pope John Paul II
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"When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for." ~ Mark 11:2 4
Jim Johnson was sent to save a failing hotel. The situation was so bad that Jim decided upon desperate measures. Each night he drove to a hil l overlooking the hotel. He parked, sat in the car, and prayed for twenty minutes. He prayed for the hotel guests, behind the lighted windows. He p rayed for the employees and their families. He prayed for himself.
G radually, changes started to take place in the hotel. A new spirit radiate d from its employees. Hew warmth greeted each new guest. Hope permeated the operation. Within a year, the hotel was back on its feet.
N orman Vincent Peale, who tells the story, ends with this thought: If the prayer of one person could revitalize a hotel, think what the prayer of an entire nation could do for the world. ~ Mark Link, S.J.
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"The LORD gives strength to his people." ~ Psalm 2 9:11 NIV
The Polish bishop and martyr, St. Stanislaus, spent seven years studying canon law and theology. He earned a doctorate, but he refu sed it out of humility. When his parents died, Stanislaus gave away his in heritance, and was ordained a priest.
Stanislaus' great eloquence a nd piety generated a spirit of renewal and conversion in the local communit y. When he became bishop in 1072, Stanislaus soon found himself embroiled in political affairs. He was outspoken in his attacks upon political and so cial injustices of the immoral King Boleslaus II, who warred with his neig hbors and oppressed the peasantry. In 1079, the bishop excommunicated Bole slaus. The enraged king ordered his soldiers to murder Stanislaus; when th ey refused, he killed the bishop with his own hands while Mass was being c elebrated. Because of Stanislaus' popularity, King Boleslaus was forced to flee to Hungary, where he's said to have spent the ...
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"... In your relations with one another, clothe yourselves with humility, because God is stern with the arrogant, but to the humble he shows kindness... Cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you." ~ 1 Peter 5:5-7
Years ago, Don Shula, legendary coach of the M iami Dolphins, was vacationing in a small town in Maine. One rainy afterno on, Shula, his wife, and five children went to the town's only theater. When they walked in, only six other people were there. To a person, howev er, they stood up and applauded the Shula family.
As the Shu las sat down, a man came running up and shook the famous coach's hand. "Ho w did you recognize me?" Shula asked him. "Mister, I don't know who you ar e," he replied. "All I know is that the manager announced before you came in with your family that unless five more people showed up, there wouldn't be a movie today." ~ Mark Link, S.J.
Humility creates in us a capa city for the closest possible intimacy with God. How do y...