Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them." So to them Jesus...
"Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, 'Prove that you are a good person.' Another voice says, 'You'd better be ashamed of yourself.' There also is a voice...
"To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives-the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy...
"We need to be receiving antennas that are tuned into the Word of God, in order to become broadcasting antennas! One receives and transmits. It is the Spirit of God who makes the...
"'Return to me with all your hearts.' Why must we return to the God? Because something is not right in us...and we need to change, to give it a new direction. And this...
Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. Jesus said to them in reply, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in...
"How do we befriend our inner enemies lust and anger? By listening to what they are saying. They say, "I have some unfulfilled needs" and "Who really loves me?" Instead of pushing our...
"What then must your mercy be, dear God, to bear with me after so many crimes, with me who am no more that a handful of mire, and to recall me to you...
One of our unique human qualities is aloneness which is different from loneliness. We need time for aloneness in the midst of our daily, hectic life. Loneliness leads into isolation. Aloneness leads us into...
Information February 17, 2016
By spiritaflame 11:38 AM InformationI want to personally invite the women who are in driving rage of Houma, La, to the annual Woman of God Conference this weekend--Feb 19-20. It will be a special grace time for...
Mary, Comforter of the afflicted, pray for us! This role of Mary--to comfort those in affliction--began at Calvary, where her presence, sharing in Jesus' sufferings, must have given him some consolation. thought sinless...
Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. Jesus, in his humanity, saw the need to go aside and pray even when people were demanding more of his...
"Jesus says something remarkable to us : 'greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' Love always takes this path: to give one's life....
"When God speaks, God creates. When God says, "Let there be light" (Genesis 1:3), light is. God speaks light. For God, speaking and creating are the same. It is this creative power of...
Thought of the Day February 12, 2016
By spiritaflame 10:42 AMWhat is the purpose of fasting? Physical fasting from physical food and drink is to prepare and strengthen us for the spiritual fasting from sin, both sins of commission and sins of omission....
I came across this and found it interesting and provoking. St. Bernadette embraced the cross of daily afflictions with a spirit of gratitude. She wrote: " Thank You, my God, for the procurator,...
"Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy." (Pope Francis) Now it begins! Our 40 day pilgrimage of purification in the spiritual desert where sin is to be stripped...
"What can we say about God's love? We can say that God's love is unconditional. God does not say, 'I love you, if ...' There are no ifs in God's heart. God's love...
Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. The role of the...
"As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repent and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe?...
Pope Francis tells the story of an eighty-three year old nun who told him one day: "I am finishing my course in this life, to begin another with the Lord, because I have...
What is the greatest inheritance we can leave our children? The Holy Father says it is faith. Reflecting on David's final words to his son Solomon, the Holy Father said, "Before dying, David exhorted...
"Trust is the basis of life. Without trust, no human being can live. Trapeze artists offer a beautiful image of this. Flyers have to trust their catchers. They can do the most spectacular...
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen...
"There are two sides to forgiveness: giving and receiving. Although at first sight giving seems to be harder, it often appears that we are not able to offer forgiveness to others because we...
