Mediation Monday---Be The One To Comfort

For the pure can see and share the terrible suffering of Christ.  Be the one to comfort Him when He needs some one to comfort Him, especially where there is so much sin.

                                                                                                                    -Mother Teresa

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell By The Numbers

I am sure most of us already know about Kermit Gosnell.  If not, get informed and spread the word.  This a disheartening, ugly, tragic story about abortion which should be the top story of every news media.  Regardless of your views everyone should know of what this man did.  We must spread the word.  Now is the time to speak up!

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Meditation Monday---Love of God and Neighbor

Just think God creates human life in His own image for the same purpose for which He exist.  God exist to love us ----you and I and that little unborn child have been created for the same purpose: to love and to be loved.  That's why I believe that abortion is an act against God Himself because they are trying to get rid of the presence of God, of the image of God.
                                                                                                        -Mother Teresa

Meditation Monday --a pure heart

If you're all for Jesus, He will do great things.  How?  Because if your heart is pure, God will come and dwell there, because He has great attraction for a pure heart.  I read the other day---God was like "forced" ----Jesus was "anxious" to come down to Mary because she was so beautifully pure.  So, ask Mary to teach you to be pure so that Jesus will be able to come to your heart and make you holy.

                                                                                                 -Mother Teresa

Meditation Monday----cancer of the heart

A soul that is humble and sincere......will never stoop to criticism, which in spiritual life is called "cancer of the heart."  It eats up all the love of God, all the energy we have for God's interests.  It is also most infectious.  Let one sister start criticizing and in a short time we shall have two, four, eight, ten, following........

A truly generous soul must never stoop to criticism.  As a rule, people that criticize never do it openly, but go about doing it in a whisper.  That is a sin.  Today when you go before the Blessed Sacrament, ask Jesus to preserve you from the cancer of criticism.  Criticism is not a failure, not a human weakness----it is something that touches the heart.  Should we have given way to it at times, let us resolve to avoid it and beg Christ to preserve us.  To keep free of criticism, we must be humble.
                                                                     
                                                                                                                         -Mother Teresa

7 Quick Take (Vol 6)----Habemus Papam!

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I think we will all remember what we were doing this past Wednesday when we heard, Habemus Papam!  I was preparing dinner for a dear friend who just had her third baby and I looked at the clock and thought, it's 1:30pm, I wonder if the smoke came out white.  So I went to check online at EWTN and sure enough the screen read Habemus Papam!  I ran to turn on my TV and tune in to EWTN.  I know you would all agree it was an exciting moment.  We have been praying for our new Pope for over a month now and when Pope Francis came out I was overcome with joy.  Thank you Lord for blessing us with such a humble Pope.

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I really like our new Pope Francis.  I am excited!   I like the name he picked (one of my favorite saints), he is so humble and he walks the walk.  Here is a picture I came across of him as Archbishop washing the feet of a mother who just had her baby.

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Here is another photo of him riding the bus as Archbishop in Argentina.

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I came across this great picture of Pope Francis with the statue of St. Peter.  

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Everyone in our family is excited about our new Pope Francis.  My dad was born in Spain but as a young man (age 16) most of his family moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina (side note...some of the pictures I have posted on this blog were taken in Argentina).  So you can imagine that when they announce that the Archbishop of Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was our new Pope Francis, we were overcome with emotion.  We were all very happy not because of our Argentinien background but for the Hispanic community.     

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One thing is for sure, we must continue to pray for Pope Francis.  May the Holy Spirit guide Pope Francis as our new leader and protect him from all harm.  Blessed Mother, please intercede for Pope Francis.

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Here is a wonderful video from Catholic Vote.  Take a look.

¡Hasta Luego! 

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Meditation Monday---How Jesus Felt

"One day a sister did something terrible.  I never said a word to her, but I waited......thinking she will come and say sorry.  But she did not come, so I went after her----but not response.  I found another reason to go to her.  Still no response.  I did not know how she could remain in that sinful state.  I felt sorry for her, so I understood how Jesus felt when we refuse Him.  But He is always waiting.  God's mercy is greater than our sins.  God has created me for greater things because He loves me."
                                                                                                       -Mother Teresa