Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Today I was overjoyed to hold a deformed little toddler at the Mother Teresa shelter. I kept shouting in her language, "Magayon ka talaga!" (You are so very beautiful!) She grabbed my hand so hard I thought she was going to squeeze it off and started laughing and screaming with glee. I turned around and the women who watch over them were weeping in a moment of beauty and grace. God makes us beautiful by the way he loves us. He does not love us because we are beautiful.


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As a bird was flying through the sanctuary and many gathering outside, I gave a homily on how you need to have a birdwatching course to recognize a bird, the same way you need Jesus in the Eucharist to recognize God in daily life, in the poor, in prayer, in your neighbor/family. Then I come home, miles away from the church, and there, trapped in my room, is the same kind of bird I saw minutes before. What is God trying to tell me? Comments please....


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Keeping watch over the Church, staying awake for the coming of Christ is difficult. Pray that in the hour of visitation you will be found ready and waiting for the Master. #holydogs #keepwatch


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