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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Jesus to St Faustina: “Whoever approaches the Fountain of Life on this day will be granted complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.” (Diary, No. 300) “I want the image solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter, and I want it to be venerated publicly so that every soul may know about it.” (Diary, No. 341) “This Feast emerged from the very depths of My mercy, and it is confirmed in the vast depths of my tender mercies.” (Diary, No. 420)

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

“The best way to show our gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful sister is like the sunshine of God’s love, the hope of eternal happiness, the flame of burning love.” -St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Saturday, April 6, 2019

Happy Lent! Pretend your fast is a steak! #humorhelpsthemedicinegodown

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Friday, April 5, 2019

Coffee+Office= COFFICE Have a blessed day. Say your prayers.

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Friday, March 29, 2019

Growing in holiness and holes: got my holey shirt and holy St Joseph socks.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Congratulations to this young couple who got engaged right here under the Blue Dome of our Marian Prayer Gardens this Saturday. Our prayers go with you.

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Happy Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary! Today at our noon Mass some people will be making their consecration to Jesus through Mary. Let us pray for greater devotion to Our Lady that greater devotion to Jesus may multiply. Hail Mary....

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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Mighty Women: Fr Sam Medley, our director, just finished serving as retreat master for these amazing consecrated women from the Apostles of the Interior Life. Book your retreat with us. There are accommodations, sumptuous cuisine, and priests for offering Mass, confession, spiritual direction, and giving reflections. Contact us for more information.

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Friday, March 8, 2019

Always seek the blessing of the poor Today a beggar prayed over me and gave me his blessing. What a grace to receive the blessing of a poor man. I have always felt that even if I give some meager charity to those in need that their prayers for me would unlock the floodgates of the Lord, and thereby obtain blessings I could not with my own weak petitions. In these moments I feel the words of Tobit 12:9, “for almsgiving saves from death, and purges all sin.” Alms works away at the miserly selfishness lurking in our hearts, opens new paths of purity and truth, cleanses us of ‘entitled’ grumblings, and inspires deep in our hearts joyful gratitude at the gift of Life. It is not only prayer and fasting that casts out demons, but heartfelt almsgiving that saves us from the fires and hardened curses of hell.

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God Our Loving Father uses Lent to take us by the hand and guide us back to the right path. For each of these respond: Lord, guide us back to you+ When we use good and healthy pleasures too much that they become dominant or excessive... When we seek comfort from passing things forgetting our eternal destination... When we seek our own pursuits, forsaking the needs of the poor members of our family or community... When instead of merely keeping up with friends and family, we spend too much time on social media, forgetting prayer... When instead of just enjoying a show for evening relaxation we binge watch, keeping us from living life or needful rest... When things don't go our way and instead of waiting patiently we react with irritation or guile... When legitimate authority in our life directs us toward the common good yet we rebel or resist correction... When we turn from gratitude and joy to slump into complaining or self-pity... When we lose sight of God's hand failing to trust him, lapsing into vain anxiety and worry... When we forget God is in charge and needlessly brood over human politics and divisive rancor... When the Holy Spirit inspires us to intercede for others yet we procrastinate in obstinacy... O God Our Loving Father, guide us always in your merciful path, help us to trust in your ways and always seek your face, that when this earthly life is over we may rejoice with you in eternal life, through Christ Our Lord. Mary Mother of Jesus be a mother to us now+

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

“Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep, And say, “Spare, O LORD, your people!”

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Ash Wednesday fasting: For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Giving up for Lent? You certainly will give up if you attempt something that is too difficult. Don’t hate thyself. You don’t go into the gym after staying away for a while and attempt to lift some weight too heavy you never could lift before. You would injure yourself and have to recover and would be discouraged in the future to get in shape. Out of guilt some people line up big and heavy penances for Lent, things they might not really be ready for, and then when they fail because it was too much to begin with, they feel a failure and more guilty when they started. Instead I find it is better to look at your state in life at what you should be doing anyway and to do it if it is close enough for you to try. Like a physical weight your body can lift while still being a challenge, spiritually this will not only make you stronger but be an encouragement because of the little victories you will have. This way you’re planning not only to succeed incrementally but permanently change your habits. Good pointers for penances that could permanently change you? Be S.M.A.R.T. Make sure it is: S - specific - don’t say you’ll “give up negativity” or “be holier” for Lent. What exact practices are you going to do? M - measurable - how many more minutes will you pray? How many acts of kindness will you do for your family? A - attainable - don’t attempt something you can’t do. Be realistic about what you’re capable of. If you’ve never been able to do it before there might be a step in between point A and C that you are missing - B. R - relevant - it should be something that helps you be a better you, not turn a businessman into a monk, not take you away from charity toward your family but enkindle it. If you are committing habitual sin you shouldn’t focus on something else but stop what you shouldn’t be doing anyway. T - time sensitive - daily, weekly, monthly, at least once during Lent (like confession) etc. putting a time limit on it makes you accountable.

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Friday, February 22, 2019

Prayer for those growing old (humorous)

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Monday, February 18, 2019

I’m not sure why (I really wish I knew) but after a deep healing retreat, after I feel totally poured out, after walking with people through the deep valleys of their pains and sorrows, I find I have to come here and water the grass a bit with my eye’s waters. It is a strange joy. Empty and full and the same time. Like I’m dying and being born at the same time. May God be glorified in all of it.

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Fr Sam Preaching the Healing Retreat concluding Mass.

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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sr Alison preaching the healing retreat

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Saturday, February 9, 2019

Ministering to priests, especially to those who have allowed themselves to mature, reveals the spirituality of emptiness, of futility, of being poured out like of a libation. If a priest is living the grace of his ordination his soul will most surely begin to start singing the words of psalm 22, a psalm of hope and victory covered in ignomy: “Eloi eloi lamech sabachtani!, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” It will feel like he has nothing left over, like he has been spent and consumed. He will ask, “Am I in crisis? Is there something wrong with me? Have I displeased God somehow” and will be accustomed to valley walking his journey through low spots, acquainted with misery, rejection, abandonment, and loss. The reason for this is that his identification with Christ is as shepherd and servant, and his poor priestly heart becomes conformed more and more to Jesus’ Sacred Heart, which is pierced by our offenses, broken open by our rejection of his friendship and presence, and abandoned in ingratitude of the many. Being conformed to Christ fully means being crucified with him. However, the consolation and intimacy given to those who allow themselves to grow in Christ’s priesthood is beyond any explanation. It is a compensation and comfort for such desolation. At times there is a delay or lapse in such consolation to allow the priest to long and ache for eternity, for real life, to begin. It is at these times priests are in need of great prayer, intercession, and sacrifices. Today is a Friday, or day of penance in the life of the Church. Join me in praying and sacrificing today for priests. Our Father...Hail Mary....Glory Be

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Man and Woman There is only xx and xxy chromosomes. There’s only two combinations. Science clearly shows only two genders. If anyone says otherwise they are fabricating and deluding themselves. They also have no compassion on people who confused and and drowning in the self hatred that causes them to reject their own manhood/masculinity womanhood/femininity. God don’t make junk and he made you glorious with a body that has a gender written into every cell of your body. To deny this is denying every cell of your body and a gender difference that is as deep as your soul. If we continue on a path of delusion as a society we will reap great destruction. God forgives always. Nature never forgives. It will be like trying defy gravity by jumping off a building. Do not perpetuate the confusion. Speak the truth in love.

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Friday, February 1, 2019

What? Breakfast for dinner? Le egg 🥚pizza 🍕avec le duck bacon! 🥓

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

No, I don’t normally have a huge ‘last supper’ picture in front of my desk but yeah it’s kinda awesome.

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Sunday, January 27, 2019

I believe in the Apostolic Church! This means having a real faith that is tested and matured by trial yet consoled by God. Image: St Timothy with his grandmother by Rembrandt Do not be discouraged. Never give up hope. I caught myself saying the other day, “Poor leadership and litigation could destroy the Church!” Immediately astonished as this came out of my mouth that I forgot the promise of the Lord, “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it,” (Matthew 16:18), I prayed for courage and hope. Then I remembered: I say on Sunday in the creed, “I believe in God,” and then moments later, “I believe in One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church.” I am not only saying I believe in the divine nature of the Church, the head of the mystical Body, Jesus Christ, but also in His power to save, heal, elevate, or sanctify the members. So we are assailed by the weakness of the Church, indeed even our own weakness but we do not despair. Here I think of St Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4:7-10: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” Also the Second Vatican Council (LG8): The Church, embracing in its bosom sinners, at the same time holy and always in need of being purified, always follows the way of penance and renewal. The Church, "like a stranger in a foreign land, presses forward amid the persecutions of the world and the consolations of God.”

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Today we celebrate the memorial of St Marianne Cope, who worked with lepers and outcasts.

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Monday, January 7, 2019

Can I get an Amen?!?

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Thursday, January 3, 2019

The last bunch of unnecessary clothes I have to be donated to the needy. The less full your heart is of the fear or love of the things of this world the more full it can overflow with the fullness of God and grow in holy fear and love of God.

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Monday, December 31, 2018

Happy Solemnity of the Holy Family! May you experience the care and protection of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in the New Year!

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Sunday, December 30, 2018

Look who i found in Texas! My parents! Yeehaw! 🎵On the fifth day of Christmas God’s love gave to me: my mom-meeeb and my dad-deeeee🎵 #WinterTexans #parents

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Friday, December 28, 2018

Missionary tip: once a year take all your excess clothes and donate to the poor. For me, if I can’t fit everything I own in a suite case or a few loads of laundry I’ve got too much. Also it is good to buy new underwear, undershirts, and socks both for hygiene and if you’ve changed sizes. Thank you to all who helped me purchased my new clothes. A rich young man went to St Mother Teresa of Calcutta and said that he wanted to learn how to pray. She replied, “Get rid of your things. You own too much.” He said, “Maybe you didn’t hear me, I didn’t ask you about lifestyle but about how to pray.” She said, “I heard you. You have to many things. When you go to pray, they weigh you down. Get rid of all your stuff and then your heart will be lighter and easier liftvup to Heaven.”

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Thursday, December 27, 2018

On the third day of Christmas, God’s love have to me, a really awesome breakfast!!!!

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You love Christmas, but hate family tension? Yep, it’s great to see each other again, especially on a such joyful occasion, however these times also may be accompanied by family arguments, truculent teens, grouchy grandmas, upset uncles, or entangling in-laws. At such a time as Christmas I like to see these moments as just an invitation to remember what it’s really about - love. You can think of these tense moments like a shovel to dig deeper into the roots of Charity. Sometimes it’s just staggering how much love is required. Are you being forced to be patient, to forgive, to be gentle, show compassion? The only place patience comes from, the source and font of strength to look past a person’s weird woibles is Charity. You’re just being asked to love. You might not resolve an argument, get closure, or find reconciliation with certain family members and that’s ok as long as you can love them. We are only allowed a certain level of reconciliation with person as that relationship allows, but you MUST love them. You MUST forgive. If you don’t your heart will be poisoned, your attitude infected, and your vision clouded from what it’s all really about. Helpful hints: -Pray, ask God for a big old dose of his love to flood you -Vitamin D, distance, is sometimes the only way you might be able to get along with certain people# -Pray, ask Our Lady for help. She faced lots of family tension with a Messiah Son. She knows. -Do something constructive that allows you to bond without having to talk about unresolved/unresolvable issues like a game or movie or something humorous. -Pray -Say the things they really need to here, things that will actually and truly help them. -Pray -Recognize but don’t react to toxic behavior, wave the bull fighting flag to change the tone to one of concord from conceit, humility from huff, peace from perplexity. -Choose joy. Choose peace. Choose Charity

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