2011 - Happy New Year

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.  What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  John 1-5

Your Words To Me Are Life and Health

Your words to me are light and truth;
From day to day they show
Their wisdom, passing earthly lore,
As in their truth I grow.

Your words to me are full of joy,
Of beauty, peace, and grace;
From them I learn your blessed will,
Through them I see your face.

Your words are perfected in one,
Yourself, the living Word;
Within my heart your image print
In clearest lines, O lord.

George Currie Martin 1865-1937

Breath of God

Breathe on me, breath of God,
Fill me with life anew,
That I may love what thou dost love,
And do what thou wouldst do.

Breathe on me, breath of God,
Until my heart is pure,
Until with thee I will one will,
To do and to endure.

Breathe on me, breath of God,
Till I am wholly thine,
Till all this earthly part of me
Glows with thy fire divine.

Breathe on me, breath of God,
So shall I never die,
But live with thee the perfect life
Of thine eternity.

Edwin Hatch, 1878

The ROADS...

The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the appointed feasts.  Lam 1:4

Pour out your heart....

Pour out your heart like water
   before the presence of the Lord!
Lift up your hands to him
   for the lives of your children,
Who faint for hunger
   at the head of every street.  Lam 2:19

Return to Me

"Yet even now," says the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, ..."  Jl 2:12

Franciscan Prayer

The other morning at Mass, I was reading some prayers in the back of the missal and was struck with how Franciscan one of them seemed to me. I thought I would just check it out, so I went to our fraternity website at ols-mhe.org to check the Well Known Franciscans and there he was. Here is the prayer I found.

Let Us Not Be Blinded

O Lord, do not let us turn into "broken cisterns" that can hold no water...do not let us be so blinded by the enjoyment of the good things of earth that our hearts become insensible to the cry of the poor, of the sick, of orphaned children and of those innumerable brothers and sisters of ours who lack the necessary minimum to eat, to clothe their nakedness, and together their family together under one roof. Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)

It is now officially Lent. We are called to prayer, fasting and alms giving during this time. I think I may have just found my Lenten prayer. What is yours?

Bonnie Venture

PEACE

THE LORD'S PEACE BE WITH YOU.....

Each Day, each year,

God Begins anew....

planting within us

the seed,

the promise,

God's own self.

May our journey

give birth each day

to the Love which

will heal and

transform our world.