Amen

 

No baptism, no communion, no confirmation, no speaking in tongues, no mission trip, no volunteering, no financial gifts, and no church clothes. He couldn't even bend his knees to pray. He didn't say the sinner's prayer and among other things, he was a thief. Jesus didn't take way his pain, heal his body, or smite his scoffers. Yet, it was a thief who walked into paradise the same hour as Jesus simply by believing. He had nothing more to offer other than his belief that Jesus was who He said He was. No spin from brilliant theologians. No ego or arrogance. No shiny lights, skinny jeans, or crafty words. No haze machine, donuts, or coffee in the lobby. Just a naked dying man on a cross unable to even fold his hands to pray.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that WHOEVER believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.

                John 3:16 

Period!!!

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Jesus está na fronteira

 
fonte: Michael Phillips

Choose your friends wisely

 

During a prank, a student stuck a paper on his classmate's back that said "𝗜'𝗺 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗱", and asked the rest of the class not to tell the boy. Thus the students began laughing on and off...

Came afternoon math class started and their teacher wrote a difficult question on the board. No one was able to answer it except the boy with the sticker. Amid the unexplained giggles, he walked toward the board and solved the problem.

The teacher asked the class to clap for him and remove the paper on his back. She told him: 

"It seems that you don’t know about the paper your classmate has pasted on your back."

Then the teacher looked at the rest of the class and said:

"Before I give you a punishment, let me tell you 2 things:

First, throughout your Life, people will put labels on you with many nasty words to stop your progress. Had your classmate known about the paper, he wouldn't have gotten up to answer the question.

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻, 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳."

"Second, it’s clear that he doesn't have any loyal friend among you all to tell him about the sticker. It doesn't matter how many friends you have - it is the loyalty you share with your friends that matters.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲."

Choose your friends wisely!

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Natal difícil

 

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Do you pray?

 

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GOD IS LOVE

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United to Christ

 

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Maria, rogai por nós

 

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“Maria de Nazaré, que é judia e palestina, 

estenda o seu manto de misericórdia 

sobre todos os povos da Terra Santa 

– judeus, muçulmanos, cristãos, 

palestinos, israelenses, migrantes e refugiados. 

Mãe do Messias, 

mostra-nos como ser instrumentos de cura e de paz 

no meio da guerra, da ocupação, 

do terrorismo e das divisões. 

Dá-nos um amor abrangente por todos 

na Terra Santa, especialmente pelos reféns, 

pelas vítimas inocentes, 

pelos sem-abrigo e pelos moribundos. 

Maria, nossa Mãe, 

que nos foi dada por Jesus na cruz, 

rogai por nós”.

fonte: Marcos Monteiro

Prayer for Strength and Courage

O Mary, 
except for God, 
no one knows of your suffering.  
Your soul does not break; 
it is brave because it is with Jesus.  
Sweet Mother, unite my soul to Jesus, 
because it is only then 
that I will be able to endure all trials 
and tribulations, 
and only in union with Jesus 
will my little sacrifices 
be pleasing to God.  
Sweetest Mother, 
continue to teach me about the inner life.  
May the sword of suffering never break me.  
O pure Virgin, 
place courage into my heart and guard it.
Amen

~Michael King

Prayer for strength and courage

Lord, give me your Peace

FRIDAY MAY 26TH, 2023

“Dear brothers and sisters, no sin, no failure, no grudge should discourage us from asking for the gift of the Holy Spirit who gives us peace. The more we feel our hearts are agitated, the more we sense we are nervous, impatient, angry inside, the more we need to ask the Lord for the Spirit of peace. Let us learn to say every day: “Lord, give me your peace, give me your Holy Spirit.” This is a beautiful prayer. Shall we say it together? “Lord, give me your peace, give me your Holy Spirit.” And let us also ask this for those who live next to us, for those we meet each day, and for the leaders of nations.

May Our Lady help us welcome the Holy Spirit so we can be peacemakers.” 

Pope Francis

Make me a channel of disturbance

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Conditional Atheist

 I’m a conditional atheist

God does not exist for me on 

the tip of a sharpened sword

   or on the lips of a sermonizing 

hate-evangelist who is foaming at the mouth

or in the licking flames of a torch held 

by a marching bigot 

    or in any dogma that have been soaked in the ancient poison of guilt and self-shame 

the divine doesn’t 

exist for me anywhere

where wounds are being 

caused in its name 

I don’t know about 

how any of this works 

but I’ve never found 

much of God in the towering 

hierarchy of unchecked power 

the Great Mystery isn’t a cracking whip

or a flag or an internet manifesto

or a pointed finger or a political party

or a dividing line or a box of ammo

or a corvette driven by a tv preacher 

or a specific gender or a book bonfire 

Creation is more of a florist 

than she is a fundamentalist 

the Weaver of Life is more interested

in stitching us together into a quilt 

than how to separate us into metal bins 

to come into relationship 

with Unending Love shouldn’t

require us to loathe ourselves

    ~ it should be the exact opposite

to know ourselves 

is to know God

to love ourselves

is to love God

my love, 

I believe that the divine 

is just about everywhere 

~ except in the slow-poison

sands of fear and control 

where so many have built temples

for us to worship inside 

~ in those places 

I am an atheist 

  but everywhere else

there is so much 

fertile soil 

where we can let the sunflowers 

of empathy grow wildly in 

the spaces between us

and I’ve heard 

that if we remain still

and listen so very closely 

these evangelizing sunflowers 

will whisper to each of us 

a secret we once knew while we 

were cooking in the cosmic womb:

“We are all loved equally.” 

~John Roedel

John Roedel

partilhar até ao infinito

What the herd hates the most is the one who thinks differently. It is not so much the opinion itself, as the audacity of wanting to think for themselves. Something they do not know how to do.

~Schopenhauer

Cheryel Lemley-McRoy

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Live in the moment

The devil appeared to three monks and said to them: if I gave you power to change something from the past, what would you change?

The first of them, with great apostolic fervor, replied: "I would prevent you from making Adam and Eve fall into sin so that humanity could not turn away from God."

The second, a man full of mercy, said to him: "I would prevent you from God and you will condemn yourself eternally".

The third of them was the simplest and, instead of responding to the tempter, he got on his knees, made the sign of the cross and prayed saying: "Lord, free me from the temptation of what could be and was not".

The devil, giving a raucous cry and shuddering with pain, vanished.

The other two, surprised, said to him: "Brother, why have you responded like this?"

He replied: "First: we must NEVER dialogue with the devil . Second: NOBODY in the world has the power to change the past. Third: Satan's INTEREST was not to prove our virtue, but to trap us in the past, so that we neglect the present, the only time  God gives us His grace and we can cooperate with Him to fulfill His will ".

Of all the demons, the one that catches the most men and prevents them from being happy is that of "What could have been and was not".

The past is left to the mercy of God and

the future to his Providence. Only the present is in our hands. "Live in the moment"

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Surrender to soul

What the ego wants is tiny

compared to what the soul wants,

and there comes a point

when we recognize this,

and we surrender to soul...
~Marion Woodman
OM+

Marion Woodman

💖💚💙

 

a religion without mystics

E o senhor acha que os místicos são importantes para a Igreja?

- Foram fundamentais. Uma religião sem místicos é uma filosofia.

O senhor tem uma vocação mística?

- O que o senhor acha?

Parece-me que não.

- Provavelmente, o senhor tem razão. Adoro os místicos. Também Francisco, por muitos aspectos da sua vida, foi místico, mas eu não acredito que tenho esta vocação. Mas é preciso que nos entendamos sobre o significado profundo desta palavra. O místico consegue despojar-se do fazer, dos fatos, dos objetivos e até da pastoralidade missionária e se eleva até atingir a comunhão com as Bem-aventuranças. São momentos breves, mas que preenchem a vida inteira. 

fonte: Notícias de Canção Nova

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sobre o silêncio…

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On God…

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sobre Deus

Santo Agostinho 

No final de muitas aventuras atribuladas, conversava eu, um Indiano e Deus… O Indiano era claramente um cientista (desconhecido para mim) que Lhe dizia que teria novamente oportunidades para voltar à Terra e assim conseguir aquilo que pretendia. Eu observava a sua argumentação e sinto claramente que o motivo pelo qual acordei, foi sentir uma certa identificação com este interveniente e uma enorme ansiedade, por, tal como ele, estar a correr o risco de nesta vida ver frustrado o meu principal objectivo. 

No entanto, acho que foi exactamente por isso que acordei repentinamente, determinado a fazer a Sua Vontade...

Amén 🙏