Celebrating Community

We had a wonderful celebration of our sixth month as a Community. What more if we were like the other Community on their 6 month and 17 years. Well, hopefully, we would come to that.

More Convivence celebrations brothers and sisters!

Thanks

March 1, 19 and 20, 2011, yup those were the exact days, the days when we had our Convivence for Community 3 at Sacro Costato Formation Center.

I attended a series of evangelization sessions previous the Convivence, also in the month of March.

My joining this Community, through the persuasion of my then Parish Priest, nourished my spiritual life strengthening me in times of great need.

Thanks be to God!

His Will, Is It Your Will As Well?

"Plan", "Be still" and "Trust" . . . these are words that keep on coming and going my way for the past month. Hmmmm.

May God, in His mercy, continue to guide me and open my mind to His Will. I pray that I may have the will to do His Will. (Now, that's a little tough).

Our Lady of Sorrows Feast Day

Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Sorrows. As I attended the mass, the priest mentioned that as Christ received 7 wounds during His passion, Mary also had 7 sorrows. As a mother, I can say that truly, the Blessed Mother is full of grace and is undoubtedly filled by the Holy Spirit because how else can she be able to bear and endure all her sufferings as the mother of Christ who was crucified and died for us.

Our Lady of Sorrows, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows and Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolors are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life.

As Mater Dolorosa, it is also a key subject for Marian art in the Catholic Church.

The Seven Sorrows of Mary are a popular Roman Catholic devotion. There are devotional prayers which consist of meditation on her Seven Sorrows.

The Seven Sorrows (or Dolors) are events in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary which are a popular devotion and are frequently depicted in art.

It is a common devotion for Catholics to say daily one Our Father and seven Hail Mary for each.

1. The Prophecy of Simeon. (Luke 2:34-35)
2. The Flight into Egypt. (Matthew 2:13)
3. The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple. (Luke 2:43-45)
4. Mary Meets Jesus on the Way to Calvary. (Luke 23:26)
5. Jesus Dies on the Cross. (John 19:25)
6. Mary Receives the Body of Jesus in Her Arms. (Matthew 27:57-59)
7. The Body of Jesus Is Placed in the Tomb. (John 19:40-42)

Source: Wikipedia

All About Trust

Be still and know that I am God :
I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 46:10

This phrase pressed into my thoughts during the exposition of the Holy Sacrament yesterday afternoon. Then I came across it again in a photo this morning.

It is telling me that it's time to surrender everything to Him and to totally put my trust in Him. Let Him be my guide.

Paired to the verse above is the verse below.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6

Mother Mary's Birthday

We celebrate Mother Mary's birthday on September 8.

Happy Birthday Mama Mary. Thank you for our "FIAT". Pray for us oh dear mother of God.

Took this photo during my pilgrimage in a church in France.