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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
Courage! You... can! Don't you see what God's grace did with sleepy-headed Peter, the coward who had denied him..., and with Paul, his fierce and relentless persecutor? (The Way, 483)

It is Peter who speaks: Lord, do You wash my feet? Jesus answers: You do not understand what I am doing now; you will understand it later. Peter insists: You will never wash my feet. And Jesus explains: If I do not wash your feet, you will have no part with me. Simon Peter surrenders: Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. Faced by the call to total self-giving, complete and without any hesitation, we often oppose it with false modesty like Peter's ... May we also be men with a heart like the Apostle's! Peter allows no one to love Jesus more than he does. That love leads us to reply thus: Here I am! Wash me, head, hands and feet! Purify me completely, for I want to give myself to You without holding anything back. (Furrow, 266)

"And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches'', Saint Paul wrote. This sigh of the Apostle is a reminder for all Christians ‑‑ for you, too ‑‑ of our duty to place at the feet of the Spouse of Christ, of the Holy Church, all that we are and all that we can be; loving her faithfully, even at the cost of livelihood, of honor, of life itself. (The Forge, 584)

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I find this message really cool. Like it really spoke the lauguage of my heart for the readings today (13th ordinary sunday of the year)

MESSAGE OF THE DAY
“Learn how to do good”
When you are with someone, you have to see a soul: a soul who has to be helped, who has to be understood, with whom you have to live in harmony, and who has to be saved. (The Forge, 573)

I like to repeat what the Holy Spirit tells us through the prophet Isaiah, discite benefacere, learn how to do good…

Charity towards our neighbor is an expression of our love of God. Accordingly, when we strive to grow in this virtue, we cannot fix any limits to our growth. The only possible measure for the love of God is to love without measure; on the one hand, because we will never be able to thank him enough for what he has done for us; and on the other, because this is exactly what God’s own love for us, his creatures, is like: it overflows without calculation or limit.

Mercy is more than simply being compassionate. Mercy is the overflow of charity, which brings with it also an overflow of justice. Mercy means keeping one’s heart totally alive, throbbing in a way that is both human and divine, with a love that is strong, self‑sacrificing and generous. (Friends of God, 232)

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“Your work too must become a personal prayer”
Before you start working, place a crucifix on your desk or beside the tools you work with. From time to time glance at it... When tiredness creeps in, your eyes will go towards Jesus, and you will find new strength to continue with your task. For that crucifix is more than a picture of someone you love —parents, children, wife, sweetheart... He is everything: your Father, your Brother, your Friend, your God, the very Love of your loves. (The Way of the Cross, Eleventh Station, 5)

November 24, 2000

I have often said that we must not allow these periods of conversation with Jesus, who sees us and hears us from the Tabernacle, to degenerate into an impersonal type of prayer. If we want our meditation to develop right away into a personal dialogue with Our Lord (for which the sound of words is not necessary), we must shed the cloak of anonymity and put ourselves in his presence, just as we are. We must avoid hiding ourselves in the crowd that fills the church, or diluting our prayer into a meaningless patter that does not come from the heart and is little better than a reflex habit, empty of any real content.

To this I now add that your work too must become a personal prayer, that it must become a real conversation with Our Father in heaven. If you seek sanctity in and through your work, you will necessarily have to strive to turn it into personal prayer. You cannot allow your cares and concerns to become impersonal and routine, because if you were to do so, the divine incentive that inspires your daily tasks will straightaway wither and die. (Friends of God, 64)

posted by MJT @ 12:58 AM 0 comments

Kutless-Promise Of A Lifetime

I have fallen to my knees
As I sing a lullaby of pain
I'm feeling broken in my melody
As I sing to help the tears go away

Then I remember the pledge you made to me

[CHORUS:]
I know you're always there
To hear my every prayer inside
I'm clinging to the promise of a lifetime
I hear the words you say
To never walk away from me and leave behind
The promise of a lifetime

Will you help me, I'm falling apart
Pick me up, take me in your arms
Find my way back from the storm
And you show me how to grow
Through the change

I still remember the pledge you made to me

[BRIDGE:]
I am holding on to the hope I have inside
With you I will stay through every day
Putting my understanding aside

And I am comforted

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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
“There are poor who are really rich”

Don't forget it: he has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself. (The Way, 630)

Detach yourself from the goods of the world. Love and practise poverty of spirit: be content with what enables you to live a simple and sober life. Otherwise, you will never be an apostle. (The Way, 631)

Rather than in not having, true poverty consists in being detached, in voluntarily renouncing one's dominion over things. That is why there are poor who are really rich. And vice-versa. (The Way, 632)

You haven't got the spirit of poverty if, when you are able to choose in such a way that your choice is not noticed, you do not select for yourself what is worst. (The Way, 635)
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Is this the way to part?
Seeing two sides of the stories
Teach me to find security in you Lord

posted by MJT @ 1:25 AM 0 comments

http://www.rosary-center.org/fatimams.htm

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From Opus Dei

MESSAGE OF THE DAY
“Jesus has gone to the Father”

What an extraordinary lesson each one of the teachings of the New Testament contains. The Master, before ascending to the right hand of the Father, told the disciples: ``Go and preach to all nations'', and they had remained full of peace. But they still had doubts: they did not know what to do, and they gathered around Mary, Queen of Apostles, so as to become zealous preachers of the Truth which will save the world. (Furrow, 232)

Now the Master is teach­ing His disciples: He has enlightened their minds that they may know the Scriptures, and He takes them as witnesses of His life and His miracles, of His passion and death, and of the glory of His resurrection (Luke 24:45 and 48).

Then, He leads them out along the road to Bethany, He lifts up His hands and blesses them. —And, as He does so, He slowly departs from them and ascends to heaven (Luke 24:51) until a cloud receives Him out of their sight (Acts 1:9).

Jesus has gone to the Father. —Two Angels in white garments approach us and say: Men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? (Acts 1:11)

Peter and the others go back to Jerusalem —cum gaudio magno— with great joy (Luke 24:52). —It is fitting that the Sacred Humanity of Christ should receive the homage, the praise and adoration of all the hierarchies of the Angels and of all the legions of the blessed in Heaven.

But, you and I feel like orphans: we are sad, and we go to Mary for consolation. (Holy Rosary, Second Glorious Mystery)

posted by MJT @ 1:47 AM 0 comments

"Deny yourself, take up the cross and follow me"

Well, following Christ is never easy, and even when we read the stories of saints, their lives as they consecrate themselves to Jesus, was never easy too. Some in fact had more demanding, challenging life. A life which they lift up their suffering to Jesus, though filled with suffering, humility, and hardship, they set their eyes upon Him and followed Him. Never once did they looked back. Never once did they regret. Never once did they filled with self pity. They never, they only looked at Jesus, they modelled after the one who had died for the sins of all mankind.

Well, deciding where to go have been the current issue now. Whether to stay or to leave. There is really alot of factors to considers, factors which i have to give up or which i will gain if i leave, factors which i will not get or gain if i stay. This issue has spiralled me through a multitudes of weather. It has caused many different emotions to be manifested.

Well, the beautiful thing is that, no matter how many times i tried to source for answers through people i meet, God has been there in that silent voice. My heart have been hearing these words:" It is only through seeking me, where you will be able to find peace to make a decision."

Well, i really want to be able to make a firm decision this time round. And after that, i dont want to look back. NO. I want to move forward in my journey with God, in this journey He has planned for me.

All in hope, an Occupational Therapist dream.

posted by MJT @ 11:53 PM 0 comments

Sometimes God breaks our spirit to save our Souls.
Sometimes, He breaks our hearts to make us feel whole.
Sometimes he sends us failure so we can be humble.
Sometimes, He sends us illness so we can take better care of ourselves.
Sometimes He takes Everything away from us so we can learn the value of everything we have!



Dear God help me to make a firm decision. Amen.

posted by MJT @ 8:44 PM 0 comments

Superman (It's Not Easy) lyrics
Songwriters: Ondrasik, John;

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane
I'm more than some pretty face beside a train
And it's not easy to be me

I wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
Bout a home I'll never see

It may sound absurd but don't be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed but won't you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream?
And it's not easy to be me

Up up and away away from me
Well it's all right
You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy or anything

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me

Inside of me, inside of me, yeah
Inside of me, inside of me

I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
I'm only a man looking for a dream
I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
And it's not easy, it's not easy to be me


© FIVE FOR FIGHTING MUSIC; EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC.;

posted by MJT @ 11:20 PM 0 comments

Haha. Where is your Humerus. How about cranium and femur. There is still Tibia and Fibula. I really love Human Anatomy. It is challenging, but it is really fun!!

Well. Was browsing through the song pages of my head, and out came the song "I have a dream". I really want to be a warm and loving OT in the years to come, and I too pray this dream for my current aspiring to be OTs classmates. It is passion, and i know we have.

Enjoy the song, and find your dreams if you haven found one.

posted by MJT @ 10:19 PM 0 comments

When I grant you the grace of devotion, give thanks to God, not because you deserve to enjoy it, but because I have had mercy on you. And if you feel no devotion, but suffer dryness of soul, persevere in prayer, sigh, and knock (Matt. 7: 7; Luke 11: 9); persist until you merit to receive some crumb or drop of saving grace. You have need of Me; I have no need of you (2 Macc 14: 35.). You do not come to sanctify Me, but I come to sanctify and raise you. You come in order to be hallowed and united to Me; that you may receive fresh grace, and be inspired anew to amendment of life. Do not neglect this grace (I Tim 4: 14), but prepare yourself with all care, and invite your Beloved into your heart.

Not only must you make a devout preparation before Holy Communion, but also carefully foster your devotion after receiving the Sacrament. No less vigilance is required after Communion than devout preparation beforehand. For a constant vigilance after Communion is the best preparation for receiving richer graces; and a man will be entirely undisposed to do this if he straightway turns to outward pleasures. Beware of much talk (Prov 10: 19.): remain in some quiet place, and savour the presence of God; for you possess Him whom the whole world cannot take away from you. I am He to whom you should offer your whole self, that, set free from care, you may no longer live in yourself, but in Me (John15: 4: Gal 2:20).


Words of Christ, from The Imitation of Christ
Thomas A Kempis

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