I love this photo :)

 

The Marriage of Mary and Joseph

Yet another I am so happy to have the Faith....

I'm never alone. No matter where I am or what I've done I will always have Someone to talk to. Someone Who will just listen to me pour out my worries,my fears. Someone I can ask help from at any time when I'm struggling. That Someone is our glorious Lord. He is perfection. Far greater than we could ever imagine yet so very humble. He is Comforter, Friend, Guide and Healer. He is our Savior and our Hope. ...whom then shall I fear?

Aww :)

Watch this :) it's funny. and sweet :

http://player.vimeo.com/video/15366067?autoplay=1

My Jesus,

When life gets hard and temptation is everywhere I will not give up Hope because You, my Lord, are completely worth fighting for. Eternal life with You is worth the fight. i love You.

:)

"Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you - for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart...don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love..." 

-- St. Therese of Lisieux

It is so easy to get discouraged by thoughts and feelings. Thoughts enter the mind when say "You are not worthy of God's help!You are the one who failed - it's your responsibility. Fix yourself! Then you may have His help." But that makes no sense! Jesus is the Savior.He came to save us. He knows how weak we are and He knows that the power and strength we so desperately need can only come from Him and so He makes Himself ever present and available to us.. We are complete in Him. He knows we cannot fix ourselves. This is how the priest at confession put it "Think of who He is. He is the Savior.. let Him do His job." All these thoughts that make us shy away from God cannot be from Him.. He cannot contradict Himself. He is Truth and He is Love. How lucky we are that we can call Him our Lord and Savior.

"I've worked for so long
With the weakest of hands
On the coldest of shores
The wind and the rain
Fill me with doubt
But You've never been wrong before.

I prayed for the sun

Some guidance some truth

Some glimpse of the things to come

With only Your song

Your love made me strong

When all hope was gone



All through the night I was fallin'

Straining to hear Your voice callin'

You never gave out

You never gave in

You never quite gave up on me

You are my constant."
- House of Heroes

Such a Love...

"(736) This evening I saw the Lord Jesus just as He was during His Passion. 

His eyes were raised to His Father, and He was praying for us."

- Divine Mercy in My Soul, Sr.Faustina

O my Jesus..such incredible Love. We could never imagine the pain You endured for us. Yet in the midst of most terrible agony You begged Your Father to forgive us.

To Jesus My Friend by St. Claude de la Colombiere

"Jesus! You are my true Friend, my only Friend. You take a part in all my misfortunes; You take them on Yourself; You know how to change them into blessings; You listen to me with the greatest kindness when I relate my troubles to You, and You have always balm to pour on my wounds.

I find You at all times; I find You everywhere, You never go away: if I have to change my dwelling, I find You there wherever I go. You are never weary of listening to me, You are never tired of doing me good. I am certain of being beloved by You, if I love You; my goods are nothing to You, and by bestowing Yours on me, You never grow poor; however miserable I may be, no one nobler or cleverer or even holier can come between You and me, and deprive me of Your friendship;and death, which tears us away from all other friends, will unite me forever to You. All the humiliations attached to old age, or to the loss of honor, will never detach You from me; on the contrary, I shall never enjoy You more fully, and You will never be closer to me than when everything seems to conspire against me to overwhelm me and to cast me down. You bear with all my faults with extreme patience, and even my want of fidelity and my ingratitude do not wound You to such a degree as to make You unwilling to receive me when I return to You. O Jesus, grant that I may die praising You, that I may die loving You, that I may die for the love of you."

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I am so very grateful for the Saints! Not only does Our Lord give us constant access to Him - even physically on Earth - but He also gives us these beautiful prayers He's inspired His saints to write. His love is so great :) all the help He gives us is awesome.

O so merciful...

"What are you dreaming of to fear Our Lord has abandoned you! Will he, who has never abandoned you when you appeared to leave him, abandon you now that you seek him. Drive away the devil who suggests such things to you, it is a thought which outrages God's mercy, and do Our Lord the justice of believing him to be infinitely good, after all the proofs you have had of his infinite mercy." 

-St. Claude de la Columbiere

 

God is so incredible! I really needed this quote. Lately I've just been struggling with this lately. Yesterday I was in adoration and for the first 2 decades of the rosary I was just really really angry at myself for always messing up and never doing what I'm supposed to do for God. For me the way I eat controls how I feel about myself. So when I get upset and eat alot it makes me feel worse and it's almost impossible at those times to do anything to improve myself because I feel like such a lost cause (hence my lack of posts on here). But I've been working on it...

ANYWAY!

Any of you who are on Facebook should check out my friend's page where I found this quote. It's named "In Te Confido" http://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Te-Confido/165164173570776

ALRIGHTY.

So today we heard a talk by Dale Ahlquist and one thing he said just really struck me. He was talking about how G.K Chesterton talks about the importance of wonder. He said something along the lines of "even the smallest bit of dust can not be wondered at enough." I am the type of person who gets easily frustrated with a situation and just keeps looking forward towards the future because I'm not satisfied with what I have now. But if I take the time to wonder at all of God's wonderful creations I think I could better show gratitude to God for what He's given me and live a better life.

So many gifts...

It makes me so very happy to think that not only do we have an amazing,incredible Lord and God who gives Himself to us in the Mass..but we also have so many saints to ask help from and also Mary! I don't know :) He is so merciful & wonderful!

"The sum of man's days is great if it reaches a hundred years: 

Like a drop of sea water, like a grain of sand,

so are these few years among the days of eternity. 

That is why the Lord is patient with men and showers upon them His mercy. 

He sees and understands that their death is grievous, 

and so He forgives them all the more."

-Sirach 18:7-10

"You were wondering how to use those moments when you wake up in the night. Speak to Me of love, ardently desiring you next Communion... Call Me by the gentlest names, even when you are half asleep..."

- Our Lord to Gabrielle Bossis