🌹Mondays with Blessed Mary🌹= By St. Cyril of Alexandria
🧀The Cheese & Crackers = Quotes by Origen, St. Josemaria Escriva, and Isaac The Syrian
🍆The Veggies = my 2💰
🍟The Potatoes = ""Righteous versus Unrighteous Anger", from Catechism of Catholic Church (2302-3)
🌭The Meat = "St. Moses the Black: Meditation Strengthens Spiritual Life", by Bishop Youssef
🍧The Dessert = YouTube video: " On the Will Of God", by St. Silouan
🍏Forward, no matter what happens! Cling tightly to Our Lord’s hand and remember that God does not lose battles. If you should stray from him for any reason, react with the humility that will lead you to begin again and again; to play the role of the prodigal son every day, and even repeatedly during the twenty-four hours of the same day; to correct your contrite heart in Confession, which is a real miracle of God’s Love. In this wonderful Sacrament Our Lord cleanses your soul and fills you with joy and strength to prevent you from giving up the fight, and to help you keep returning to God unwearied, when everything seems black. In addition, the Mother of God, who is also our Mother, watches over you with motherly care, guiding your every step.” By St. Josemaria Escriva
🍅"Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures." By Isaac The Syrian
"God bless you and thank you so much! Please know that I am praying for your intentions. Have a wonderful Church Tour on Saturday. Please pray for the Life in the Spirit Seminar on Saturday and for me as I share about New Life"
When bringing the Holy Eucharist to someone after Holy Mass, it seemed the prayers that the Holy Spirit were inspiring me to pray, was really Him praying through me, for me. It was all about hope, courage, and trusting in God's way, something that could benefit the person, but at the moment certainly for me. Everything was geared towards building up someone, a divine generous shore up.
The crescendo escalates as a call from the plumber comes in to indicate his upcoming plans. We end up having a lengthy spiritual talk, that certainly jumpstarted a spiritual boost. No better way to converse than to expound on spiritual matters. The momentum continues with the viewing of a YouTube video leading to a conversation with the Lord.The climax is later in the evening, via a text carrying an unexpected surprise:
"Lit a candle for you,,, and lifting you up at Holy Mass and the Rosary , Secretary Of Heaven! ⭐️⭐️💚💚💚⭐️⭐️ 5:00pm Holy Mass"
My reaction to the text was this: From you at this moment, a miracle, a real miracle. Just minutes before receiving this text, a conversation with the Lord was in high gear, a result from viewing a YouTube video. My words to Jesus were: truly you are my shepherd and I shall not want. Trying to revel in truth and remain strong, not knowing it wouldn't be long before the comfort of the Lord would again be shown to me unexpectedly. It is customary on my part to try to hold fast, hold on, and hold out when things are happening, but now find myself inspiredand even more motivated to do. God have recently been teaching me to step it up by putting into practice the following: to accept what He permits to happen, and to will as He wills. Trying hard to follow that counsel, but this one day it's a bit hard to shake off the overwhelming feelings that are trying to take root in my heart. The plumbing issue being still unresolved, and attempts to obtain other plumbers not working out, it seems it's for me to continue with the same person who started the job and have been assisting me throughout the years. All of this may be God's way of saying to be patient and like Louis said: carry on.
How unfortunate it is to not be able to live strong and suffer a little while longer without letting the Lord have to stoop down in His compassion and reach out to help. Growing in trust while being able to just be a little bit more stronger without being near tears,and trying to keep on keepin on knowing that God is with me allowing all that is happening, would be mightily persevering in faith and flourishing in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. God wouldn't have to send extra comforts as it would be possible to hang tough.
"Anger is a desire for revenge. Anger is the passion (emotion) by which a man reacts to evil, real or apparent, and seeks vindication of his rights, that is, justice. By itself the passion is neither moral or immoral, but becomes so by reason or its being ordered or disordered - that is, reasonable according to the circumstances. An ordered anger is directed to a legitimate object, and, with an appropriate degree of vehemence. An inordinate anger is directed either to an illegitimate object, or, with an unreasonable vehemence. As St. Thomas Aquinas notes, vice may be by defect, as well as excess. So, the presence of evil should provoke a righteous anger, which if absent constitutes a sinful insensibility. Consider the just anger of the Lord to the presence in the Temple of the money-changers and the action He took:
John 2:13-17 "Since the Passover* of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace. His disciples recalled the words of scripture, “Zeal for your house will consume me.” |
On the other hand, unjust anger seeks to do evil to another for its own sake, the harm to body or soul that it entails. While one may desire, and employ, physical force for the sake of correction, restraint of evil and restoring justice, even if it entails injury and death, one may never desire it for its own sake. To desire some slight injury for an evil motive would be venially sinful. To desire grave injury or death would be gravely sinful. A Christian may never, of course, desire the damnation of the evil doer. Charity requires that we will the good, especially the ultimate good, salvation, for every human being. Unfortunately, the entertainment media often promotes an image of anger and vengeance which is closer to blood lust than to justice."
Info from this site:
abbey.suscopts.org/index.php/MONASTIC-LIBRARY/st-moses-the-black-meditation-strengthens-spiritual-life.html
"Many believe spiritual meditation to be a vague, inconsequential, and unnecessary spiritual exercise. But in all actuality nothing could be further from the truth. Spiritual meditation is directed contemplation, focused dwelling in thought, and conscious reflecting on those things which are good and holy abiding in the Lord Jesus Christ. It has been said by the wisest of the desert fathers that there is always an honorable place for the man who thinks. The Holy Bible associates the highest and most successful life with spiritual meditation. In the Holy Book of Psalms we read: