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Continue reading →: Morning offering of St ThereseO my God! I offer You all my actions this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works, by uniting them to His infinite merits; and I wish to…
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Continue reading →: God deliversPsalm 22:10 On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you have been my God. How definite and deliberate are these confident words from Psalm 22! When we are born we are sent into the world, set adrift, like a castaways. Many of us…
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Continue reading →: Confidence in the LordHebrews 11:1 “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Doubt and lack of confidence often attacks a person when they are at a low ebb, sometimes when life’s stresses become unbearable and often when there is illness or fatigue. When we…
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Continue reading →: Joy in lifePsalm 100:1-3 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Yesterday we lit the Advent candle of joy. Perhaps this…
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Continue reading →: Discipleship 101Luke 9: 51-62 What does it mean to follow Jesus? The message in this passage of Luke’s gospel is all about what it means to be a follower of Jesus. I guess we can call it Discipleship 101.The journey that Luke talks about was an important journey, it was the…
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Continue reading →: Jesus wants us to restDrawing near to Christmas, it is easy to find ourselves distracted by so many things and caught up in a host of activities. Our to do list gets longer and the days become more frantic as we try to squeeze in everything we want to do before the big day.…
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Continue reading →: Service to othersJohn 13:12-15 After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, ‘Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord…
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Continue reading →: Peace I leave with youJohn 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. When there is loss and grief it can feel overwhelming and confusing to the point that it’s hard…
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Continue reading →: Living WaterJohn 4:13-14 Jesus said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’…
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Continue reading →: Help comes from the LordPsalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills—from where will my help come?My help comes from the Lord,who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved;he who keeps you will not slumber.He who keeps Israelwill neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper;the…
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