The blog is the current happenings at the Monastery of Saint Clare Chesterfield, NJ
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Friday, March 11, 2022
Monday, March 7, 2022
Saturday, March 5, 2022
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
Saturday, February 26, 2022
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
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
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