February 24, 2011Dear Family of Mary!"Dear children! Today I invite you to come still closer to me through prayer. Little children, I am your mother, I love you and I desire that each of you be saved and thus be with me in Heaven. That is why, little children, pray, pray, pray until your life becomes prayer. Thank you for having responded to my call." (August 25, 1998) Image via Wikipedia Fr. Barron said that pessimists, like the existential philosophers, see the reality of death as a reason to despair. Sartre said that in life there is "no exit". There is no way around death, and there is nothing after death. On a natural level, Fr. Barron said that the pessimists are right!The optimists are those who choose to focus on finite life, and believe that they can make it meaningful and good. He said that by far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists. They believe that all can be made well here below. With enough scientific development, enough organization, enough power they can make life great. Optimists are men like Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Mao...they were optimists. They would go to any extreme to make their dream happen, and so human dignity and many lives were sacrificed for their ideals.The third response to death is hope. Hope doesn't give up on life, and it doesn't center its energies on this life, but it grasps the reality of life after death with God, in Heaven. Fr. Barron said, "Hope is that supernatural virtue which orders our desire toward heaven and the things of heaven." Hope points us towards the life to come, the promise of eternal joy with God that has been given to us. "It is not something we should hope for within the context and the Cathy NolanPS. All the quotes from Fr. Barron came from his homily on Hope. Again, here is the link:http://www.wordonfire.org/WOF-Radio/Sermons/Sermon-Archive-for-2010/Sermon-518-The-Virtue-of-Hope-Third-Sunday-of.aspx
Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." St. Thomas Aquinas said: "The things we love tell us who we are!" With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry! Below are two albums of pictures that I created: 1. Our grand daughter Adrianna. 2. Tears of Mary!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Mary TV Daily Reflection 2/24/2011
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