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well done Elaine!
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Thanks, feelingfeline. And, thanks for posting the beautiful pictures above. The Prodigal Son is one of my favorite Gospel stories.
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Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning He came again to the temple; all the people came to Him, and He sat down and taught them.
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.
Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?"
This they said to test Him, that they might have some charge to bring against Him.
Jesus bent down and wrote with His finger on the ground.
As they continued to ask Him, He stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."
And once more He bent down and wrote with His finger on the ground.
But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before Him.
Jesus looked up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
She said, "No one, Lord."
And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again."
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News flagged by Marie has been confirmed today
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Albanian nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor in the Indian city, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on 4 September.
Pope Francis made the announcement today at a meeting of cardinals to give the final approval to several sainthood causes.
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Welcome Zoziana and Loving is Living!
I hope everyone is having a blessed Lent. This is my first Lent as a Catholic and it has had unbelievable highs and lows. I had a couple of Lenten resolutions that went out the window quickly when real life set in but I am learning a lot. Good news though, it appears my new treatment is working after only 2 rounds. Thanks be to God!
Feelingfine, I loved the picture story of the woman caught in adultery. One of my favorite stories in the bible. Thanks for sharing.
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Such great news about your latest treatment Macy. Thanks be to God. XXX
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Good news about your new treatment, Macy! I hope it continues to work for you. One of my Lenten resolutions didn't last long (giving up swearing). But, I am happy that I've reduced my alcohol intake, so there's that. Changing oneself doesn't happen overnight (or even in 40 days). I'm all about small steps at this point in my life.
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A sixteen-year-old boy was kidnapped and taken to another country, there to be sold as a slave.
He was made a shepherd.
Slaves were not allowed to wear clothes, so he was often dangerously cold and frequently on the verge of starvation.
He spent months at a time without seeing another human being.
Long lengths of solitude have been used by people all through history to meditate, to learn to control the mind and to explore the depths of feeling and thought to a degree impossible in the hubbub of normal life.
He wasn't looking for such an "opportunity," but he got it anyway.He had never been a religious person, but to hold himself together and take his mind off the pain, he began to pray, so much that "...in one day," he wrote later, "I would say as many as a hundred prayers and after dark nearly as many again...I would wake and pray before daybreak — through snow, frost, and rain...."
His question became not "What could I have done if I'd had a better life?" but rather "What can I do with the life I've got?"The young slave prayed. He didn't have much else available to do, so he did what he could with all his might. And after six years of praying, he heard a voice in his sleep say that his prayers would be answered: He was going home. He sat bolt upright and the voice said, "Look, your ship is ready."
He was a long way from the ocean, but he started walking. After two hundred miles, he came to the ocean and there was a ship, preparing to leave for Britain, his homeland. He got aboard the ship and went home to reunite with his family.But he had changed. The sixteen-year-old boy had become a holy man. He had visions. He heard the voices of the people from the island he had left — Ireland — calling him back.
The voices were persistent, and he eventually left his family to become ordained as a priest and a bishop with the intention of returning to Ireland and converting the Irish to Christianity.
#At the time, the Irish were fierce, illiterate, Iron-Age people.
For over eleven hundred years, the Roman Empire had been spreading its civilizing influence from Africa to Britain, but Rome never conquered Ireland.
The people of Ireland warred constantly. They made human sacrifices of prisoners of war and sacrificed newborns to the gods of the harvest. They hung the skulls of their enemies on their belts as ornaments.
The slave-boy-turned-bishop decided to make these people literate and peaceful.
Braving dangers and obstacles of tremendous magnitude, he actually succeeded! By the end of his life, Ireland was Christian. Slavery had ceased entirely. Wars were much less frequent, and literacy was spreading.
How did he do it? He began by teaching people to read — starting with the Bible. Students eventually became teachers and went to other parts of the island to create new places of learning, and wherever they went, they brought the know-how to turn sheepskin into paper and paper into books.As Ireland was being civilized, the Roman Empire was falling apart. Libraries and literacy disappeared in Europe. This was the beginning of the Dark Ages.
Copying books became the major religious activity of Ireland. The Irish had a long-standing love of words, and it had expressed itself to the full when they became literate. Monks spent their lives copying books: the Bible, the lives of saints, and the works accumulated by the Roman culture — Latin, Greek, and Hebrew books, grammars, the works of Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Homer, Greek philosophy, math, geometry, astronomy. Because so many books were being copied, they were saved.
A Happy Saint Patrick's Day to everyone.
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Thanks for the biographical info, feelingfeeline.
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!
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My friend and neighbor Lori was put on hospice Friday. She's completely blind, losing weight, and very weak. She's on anti-seizure medication and very drowsy. 😢
Another friend and I visited her. She's having trouble speaking so she uses signs for what she wants. Sometimes she doesn't know or can't tell us what she wants. Sometimes she's confused. Sometimes she says random things. She likes to hug her children but then she forgets how to talk or what she wants to say to them.
She does like to hold a wooden cross while she sits or sleeps. I'm glad that it gives her comfort.
It's heartbreaking.
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Oh Mominator, heartbreaking indeed. I am so sorry that you have to see your friend suffer. Thank God her faith is strong. He will not desert her. Will pray.
Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil
For thou art with me and thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
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✞ Peace and solace on this holy Good Friday to all of you ✞
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Zoziana thinking of you this Easter and hoping that you are experiencing healing and recovery and lots of love.
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Prayers as we all wait, with Mary and the other disciples, this Holy Saturday, for the rejoicing of Easter! God's blessings.
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He is Risen! Many blessings to you all this Easter.
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He is risen indeed!
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them,
"They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him."
Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.
The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.
Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb.
He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
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Just play a few mins for a little flavour of the week long celebration that is World Youth Day Kracow 2016. My son is there with a group from our diocese.
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How exciting, feelingfeline! Your son is so blessed to be there.
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...just coming back onto his website after a few years absence because now I have bone mets...
Anyway, I was pleased to see this discussion group threa as I am a newly confirmed Catholic.
Blessings on you.
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Nancy so sorry to hear of the bone mets you are dealing with. Welcome to the Group here. God bless you too.
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Nancy,
I hate cancer, and I'm sorry to hear about your mets. Congrats on your confirmation! Hoping God is with you every day, providing comfort and blessings.
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God isthere in these moments of rest and can give us in a single instant exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course, under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace. And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the rasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him. Then you will be able to rest in Him - really rest - and start the next day as a new life. - Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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Amen, Nancy!
Trying to leave it in God's hands, every day.
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God does not command that we do great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Hi, Nancy! I'm new here as well and still consider myself to be a fairly new Catholic. My husband & I entered the RCC during the Easter vigil, 2013. I was so excited about it that I started a podcast where I interview converts. It's called Our Catholic Way and you can find it at www.ourcatholicway.com should you ever be interested in hearing others' conversion stories. :-) I haven't posted a new episode in about 3 wks because of the flurry of activity this new diagnosis has caused. I'm so sorry to "meet you" under these circumstances but am so thankful for this community. Though I've posted little the info. has been immensely helpful already. God bless you.
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Welcome Redemptive. Sorry you had to join the BC club but always happy to meet a sister in Christ. Best wishes with your treatment and return to health. XXX
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thank you for your welcome, RedemptiveSufferer. And also thanks for pointing the way to your podcast for new converts. I'm currently listening to the latest one, and am pleased to know that I can listen to it as well as multitask on the iPad while listening. A whole new world awaits. Blessings on you and yours
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Welcome, Redemptive Sufferer!
I'm also sorry that you had to join us here on Breast Cancer.org. Your podcasts sound interesting! We have a number of converts in my church, too, though I'm a "cradle Catholic." Many blessings to you, and best wishes!
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