Saturday, March 5, 2022

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Ukraine -Ash Wednesday - A Musing

Ashes on our forehead the people of the Cross and the suffering in Ukraine, now dust. Embers of World War II Still linger in the mind. Have we learned from past history just hate? Shalom Shalom, Shalom the nugget of goodness is found in every Child of God Believe FJV

Thursday, February 24, 2022

God is Forever in an Unchanging World

For us to remain unchanged in this life of ours would be a disaster, for the unattained heights always stretch before our laggard feet. We can hardly think of the utterly unchanged since we are neccessarily immersed in the flow of time's moments from yesterday, through today and into tomorrow. The unchangeableness of God excludes a beginning or an end, a truth we pack into the awful majesty of the word "forever". We can think of estenity only in terms of interrupted time, of a precious moment caught , transfixed, enduring to the exclusion of past and future; yet eternity is rather a cloak embracing all of time as no more than the pin point center of the uninterrupted circle of God's existence. God is ours and we are His; the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only god.. Saint Thomas Aquinas . And world leaders think they are in control of time. Pray for Ukraine

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

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God's Love For Us

It would be more accurate to say that God contains us rather than that we have God within in us, just as our sould more properly is said to contain the body than to exist in the body. A man can be put in prison, or an animal put in a pen; but spiritual things like the soul of a person, the angels , or God are not contained by the strongest or most subtle of fences. We are,in a very true sense, wrapped around with God, penetrated by divinity, held up every instant by divine power that saturates all of reality and exceeds it. God fills the world as summer sunlight floods a room, He is everywhere in the world as the soul is everywhere in the body; where He is not, nothing is.

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Creation and Our Happiness

Rivers do not drink their own water, trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrances for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other. No matter how difficult it is...life is good when you are happy; but much better when others are happy because of you. Pope Francis

Monday, February 14, 2022

Valentine's Day - God is Love

From "My Way of Life by Walter Farrell OP and Martin J. Healey S.T. D. We know as God knows by the virtue of Faith, we love as He loves by the virtue of Charity , thus God is in us in a very special way as the object of knowledge and love, that smacks strongly of the Trinitarian way of Knower, Known, and Loved for God is Love