Tag: hope

sacramental life

Published on by Dawn Marie3 Comments
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Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?

1 Corinthians 6:15

“Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity.

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A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul; through the bodies of men and women Christ toils and endures and rejoices and loves and dies; in them he is increased, set free, imprisoned, restrained.

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true is true

Published on by Dawn Marie2 Comments

A work will be praised for the skill of the craftsmen; so a people’s leader is proved wise by his words.

A babbler is feared in his city, and the man who is reckless in speech will be hated.

Sirach 11: 17-18

Whoah!

Is it just me???

Because I can find both of our 2020 Presidential candidates depicted, within these two verses of Sirach.

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thrive.

Published on by Dawn Marie4 Comments

All you who

put your hope in

the Lord

be strong

and brave.

Psalm 31:24

It takes courage to follow God where we sense Him leading. Sometimes the path is clearly obvious – a well-worn trail blazed by the Saints that have gone before us. However, there are other times that we sense Him leading in a new direction, on a new path. In some ways, it’s not even a path; it’s an uncharted trail that has yet to be traversed.

Courage isn’t something that comes naturally to most.

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