O Jesus, I know not how to Love as Thee, But please, teach me how. I beg of Thee.
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Ave Maria, gratia plena Dominus tecum, Benedictatu in mulie ribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesu.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pronobis pecatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen +
Mary, the Mother of Jesus, well knew it would be by her Son’s death that redemption would have to be accomplished, yet she too wept and suffered immensely!
If our Lord shows Himself to you, give thanks; and if He hides, do likewise. All this is love’s game. In her kindness may the Virgin Mary continue to gain for you from our Lord the strength to bear without flinching the many proofs of love He shows you. My wish is that you may come to die on the cross with Him and may cry out in union with Him: «It is finished».
May our Mother Mary transform all the sufferings of your life into joy.
-Saint [Padre] Pio de Pietrelcina (1887-1968), Capuchin
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Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus + Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen +
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은총이 가득하신 마리아님, 기뻐하소서! 주님께서 함께 계시니 여인종에 복되시며 태중의 이들 예수님 또한 복뒤시나이다 + 천주의 성모 마리아님, 이제와 저희죽을 때에 저희 죄인을 위하여 빌어주소서. 아멘 +
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails, never ends.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is LOVE.
-1Corinthians13:1-13
Nothing is difficult for the humble.
O my Lord, inflame my heart with love for You, that my spirit may not grow weary amidst the storms, the sufferings and the trials. You see how weak I am. Love can do all.
-St. Faustina
You see, there’s too much freedom in the world. Well.. let me rephrase that.
Evil came into existence because of a FREE WILL created.. AND ABUSED.
Please, let’s not abuse our free will. But rather, let’s be grateful that we are given freedom ONLY so that we are free to choose to Love our God, and serve Him alone. Let us rejoice that we have found true Love in our One and True God and be happy that we are free to become slaves of His, and this slavery is our freedom.
My intention for writing this blog is actually because of the new movie, Legion. You see Legion is very much blasphemous and quite direct in attacking the Catholic Faith and its Dogmas- my Faith to begin with. It is blasphemous because it is about God, being “frustrated” at mankind, sending demonic angels to earth to destroy it and wipe out mankind. Where it is followed by an angel- particularly the Archangel Michael- rebelling against this plan, and protecting a diner where a woman is about to give birth to a child-on December 25- who’s the only one who can save humanity. AND! Take note, it’s an out of wedlock pregnancy- meaning this particular savior- is conceived out of adultery.
Primarily, satan is seriously afraid and angry at St. Michael and Mama Mary, as we can see. And so he turns to these people who are very much willing to be manipulated by satan in disguise of money and fame, to disrespect and blaspheme the Archangel and Our Lovely Mother.
HELLO satan, I AM PERFECTLY POSSESSED BY HOLY PRIDE AT THE THOUGHT OF you VERY CONFUSED AND HUMILIATED AT WHY I KNEEL TO A LADY- OF FLESH AND BLOOD- WHENEVER I PRAY THE ROSARY, WHEN I WON’T KNEEL TO you, who is COMPOSED OF THE SAME ELEMENTS AS THE ANGELS.
WELL, LET ME CLARIFY IT TO you, THEN: you, satan, ARE REPULSIVELY UGLY.
So, going back to you, my brothers and sisters. Let’s not use our freedom to choose satan and his ugliness. Let’s all strive to be Beautiful, just as Jesus is Beautiful, and His Dear, Lovely Mother.
NO TO LEGION AND satan!
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He will raise us up to Himself and clothe us with His own Merits. I Love You Lord. Let me burn with the Fire of Your Divine Love ♥
When we Love.. it’s supposed to hurt. AND it is going to hurt.
May it be Eros or Agape Love- Eros being the “selfish” love or loving out of necessity, Agape being the “Divine” Love which is loving out of the overflowing desire to give oneself to another.
Or, okay. Whatever you call the love you’re in right now. YES. It’s going to hurt.
The difference is, if the hurt is profitable or not. Would it earn you anything, the hurt?
I hope it will. I hope it does, if you’re hurting right now.
Cause we are so wasting time if it’s not. You wanna know why?
Because we don’t know when we’re going to die. We can die right now, later, tomorrow.. ANYTIME. And what if we die angry, bitter, envious, jealous?
Do you want to die like that? Just like that? What about Life? Is it okay that you missed it?
You say we only live once. I throw that back at you. We only live once so you smoke all the cigarettes you want, do all the drugs you can and drink all the alcohol you’re peer-pressured to. Imagine how it would be if in your life you were able to NOT SMOKE one cigarette. Imagine the difference that would make if ONE of us would be courageous and brave enough to say NO to smoking and START making a difference, not just for himself but also for others.
This is what we call “Agape” Love. You do something or not do something, however hard or painful, because you want to give yourself to others- even if they don’t even credit you for it, even if they despise you because of it. This is the profitable pain. This is the suffering God is going to reward when He calls you to Him. This is the suffering that makes people beautiful.
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It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. -Mother Teresa
When I woke up this morning, I found that my parents went out early to the market and my brothers still sleeping. When I entered our living room, I found it very serene, with the sunshine peeking through our windows. And suddenly I asked myself, “What should I do with my life?” I feel, it takes for us to have these serene moments to realize that we’re not doing much in life. That we’re doing very fickle things and that somehow… it feels that we’re meant to do something else, something GREAT, something IMPORTANT, ESSENTIAL. “Are the things that occupy me in my daily life that which I’m meant to do? Is that WHY I’M HERE?”
I feel that my time here is very, very much limited. I do not know how much time I have left to be able to accomplish that which I am meant to accomplish. My beloved brothers and sisters, look around you. Look inside yourself and see- all you are, all you were, all you are trying to be, all you want to be. It hurts so much that we are very, very far from the ideal person we desire to be. That we don’t have enough courage, determination, trust and faith to accomplish our mission in life.
I still do not know fully what my mission is; I am very shallow-minded and cowardly as you can see. I am very much afraid of all the suffering I have to go through, and so I am forever grateful to our One and Only God that He has given me Himself and even His mother- because without them, I would never be willing to undergo ALL THE HURT, ALL THE PAIN, ALL THE CRIPPLING SUFFERING which God wills for me to undergo, to be as pure and beautiful as how He wants me too. If it was not the will of My God, Himself, then I would be a fool to do this– to SUFFER.
You want to know why? Let me tell you a story.
There was a boy, who deeply loved a beautiful girl. But the girl turned out to be his half-sister, and was wooed by someone else. It was very hard for him. Not simply because of the girl, but because of the fact that his mother, father and grandmother have all died already. And so he is left alone, and he feels that his half-sister is all he has. And he lovee her very deeply. She loved him too– as a little brother. When he got into an accident, he found out that he has a cardiac problem. An illness which will, sooner or later, lead to his death. He kept this from his sister.
And he bore it all– ALL THE SUFFERING that comes from knowing that you’re going to die, knowing that you’re going to leave everything you have behind, especially the girl you love, ALL THE PAIN that comes with knowing that this girl is with someone else, ALL THE HEARTEACHE that comes with every WHAT IF a person can utter when everything that’s happening to him is not how he wants it to– WHAT IF she isn’t my sister? WHAT IF I didn’t have this illness? WHAT IF she loves me back as I love her and not only as a brother?
You may be crying right now. You may be hurting because of this boy. Because, you know like I do, that this boy is meant to suffer. That he is a very unlucky boy and no matter how hard we try, we cannot come up with a good solution to this COMPLICATED LIFE.
You know the first thing I thought of? IF ONLY, I COULD HUG HIM RIGHT NOW. IF ONLY I COULD TELL HIM HE’S NOT ALONE, I AM HERE AND THAT I LOVE HIM, AND HE HAS ME. I wanted to comfort him in every possible way that I could think of.
BUT I CAN’T. From my experience, I’ve learned that me comforting others, they don’t really mean so much. Sure, they’re here for now- but HOW LONG ARE THEY GOING TO BE HERE? And HOW MUCH OF THEMSELVES ARE THEY WILLING TO GIVE? HOW MUCH OF THEMSELVES CAN THEY GIVE?
NO MATTER HOW MUCH I’D WANT TO COMFORT HIM, I CANNOT PUT CLAY IN THAT HOLE IN HIS HEART.
And you know what I realized, maybe– maybe if I was able to lead him to Jesus– maybe if I was able to pray for him, to beg God to comfort this man who DID NOT KNOW that in these times of FALLING, AND HURTING, we can run to God and cry in His Everlasting Arms. We can beg Him for help, for His Immaculate Peace, for His Explanation– why do I have to go through this? Because only He has the answer. And for this I am very thankful.
Do you know why?
Because whenever I ask God “Why do I have to go through this?”, He answers,
“For Me, My child. I let you go through this for you to become who you are supposed to be– who I want you to be. For you to become as beautiful, as pure, as gentle, as sweet and as innocent as you can be. For you to be able to LOVE ME BACK as I have LOVED YOU. For Love begets Love, and only Love can suffice onto LOVE.”
And for this my happiness and the peace in my heart is so GREAT that I am able to say with St. Therese of the Child Jesus– “Everything is grace.” Because our trust in God should be absolute.
And I find that this is my mission: To suffer greatly for Him.
Thank You Lord. For Everything.
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In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1Th 5:18)
He Himself has said, “I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU.” (Heb 13:5)
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This is how it began.
Does it really begin?
Was it not always there?
A warmth, a longing, a yearning in the heart, a subtle waiting and a subtle wanting.
But this is how their love began– with a chance and an unexpected meeting– in a place not arranged, in a moment not prepared– ticked off by a clock private only to them. Here the first stolen glance, the sudden swift awareness, and then something ancient and marvelous, old as the rhythym of the blood is there.
It does not matter who is possessed or who is the possessor– Dante first saw Beatrice at prayer. Romeo glimpsed Juliet at a ball. Then love unerring and unafraid could find itself amidst a crowd, aboard a ferry boat, where a seaman first sees her then follows, not sure, yet not so unsure. Ask him now if he remembers the first words. He cannot. But he spoke and she answered and laughed and giggled a little too much. They could know that over them, in this winged moment, hovered the ghost of all the lovers who were, encouraging him, reassuring her. She wonders uncertain. Is this right? And ought I? And what will he think of me?
Love has its moods, its frets, its wayfarers dark twisting paths. They are embarked upon a strange adventure. A pilgrimage to an unknown country, that is another’s self, that is another’s heart, and mind and soul.
When pride is gone, dismissing the fault, how do you conjugate the word to love? I should have? — You should have? — or We should have?
Love’s season has its parties because that is its special destiny. He must go for a little while. There is only silence as she accompanies him part of the way. Dreading the separation that cannot be stayed, the hour that must come. They two against the world. They two an island in themselves. He thinks— how do you say good-bye? Shall I leave now? Ought I to go or stay? Will one word help or be too much? How do you say goodbye when the word is caught in your throat, when the word is as heavy as a stone at the bottom of your heart.
But soon he is home. Suddenly, the unseen is seen. The cherished is as near as her own pulse beat. Nothing counts now but that he is home. Time is vanished. Today is tomorrow.
This is how love becomes — not in sadness — not in ecstasy, but in thankfulness — not in a thunderclap, but in slow silences.
It does not matter who the possessed or who the possessor was because the universe and all that was or ever will be, is caught in this one love — and this is what Dante knew, what Romeo dreamt — and all lovers remember, who remember, when love began.
*As written by Naty B. Luis from memory
I realized; I should be thankful for EVERYTHING I have and EVERYTHING I am.
Because these make me HUMAN. And being human means, I am loved by God.
THIS IS ALL I EVER NEEDED and ALL I WILL EVER NEED.
Most times, my heart hurts. I feel alone, far away from God, forgotten, unwanted, uncared for- I feel as though I should be doing something more. Sometimes I feel like running away. Far far away, where I can start a new life and be whoever I want to be, and have whatever I want to have. Sometimes the emotions, the wanting is so SO STRONG that I’m ready to pack my things and just leave. LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND.
But I am stopped in my tracks, and made to realize that- THAT IS WHAT I WANT FOR MYSELF.
This life, the one I am living now- THIS IS WHAT GOD GAVE ME. Surely, God knows what is BEST for me. And if He wants me to prove my LOVE for Him by enduring whatever I’m going through right now, I am more than willing to do so. More than willing.
Because that is, after all, our mission in life- to “ ‘Lift up your eyes and see…’ See how in my Heaven there are places empty; it is for you to fill them … each one of you is my Moses praying on the mountain (Ex 17,8f.); ask Me for laborers and I shall send them, I await only a prayer, a sigh from your heart!” (Taken from Letter 135 of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus)
Thank You, Lord. For letting me and helping me accomplish the mission You gave to me.
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“O Jesus, Unspeakable Sweetness, please turn all consolations of this world into bitterness for me.”
-Imitation of Christ, St. Thomas a Kempis
One morning, I woke up and realized that everything around me is temporary. EVERYTHING. Even smiles, and tears, laughter and despair, dreams and nightmares, even feelings and emotions and wants and desires. EVERYTHING. One moment it’s here, then the next it’s gone. Maybe later, maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, maybe next month, maybe next year, maybe for the next ten years, maybe for the next 50 years. No matter how short or long the duration is, at some point in our lives, they die- dissapear, perish. Whatever you call it.
And I’ve realized, that amidst this reality of being MORTAL, Our God- Our Lord, Jesus Christ promised us of immortality, eternity. He bravely spoke of these things just as He bravely stretched out His hands on that cross to show us WHAT TRUE LOVE IS.
I realized that NOTHING in this world CAN DESCRIBE GOD but the SUFFERINGS and SACRIFICES made OF LOVE, FOR LOVE, THROUGH LOVE, AND FROM LOVE. NOTHING. But MIRACLES of something IMPOSSIBLE made POSSIBLE because of LOVE.
No matter how much pain, how many tears, into how many pieces my heart will break, how much suffering and crippling hurt I’ll have to endure- Lord, these are all mortal.
So all I ask of You, is to give me all of these O Lord. Let me experience and endure ALL, My God. All for You. Let me borrow Your Love, so that I can Love as much as You. You understand, I suppose Lord. Even if I don’t speak, You know the very will and desire of my heart.
YOU.
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“Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another.” Romans 13:8
“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” Matthew 16:24
My ultimate wish is to be a CHILD OF GOD. I want to be a little, innocent, unknowing girl who reaches up for her father’s hands when she doesn’t know what to do, and who runs up to her mother’s comforting embrace when she is hurt or in terrible pain. This is ALL I WANT. THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO BE.
A little girl. With God as Her Father and Mary as her mother.
And Jesus, Her Love.
Help me, O Lord. Make me like a child, whose trust is complete in You as she doesn’t know anything about what could save her and what could truly make her happy. Thank You Lord. Thank You so much.
When I posted my blog, “Blessed are they who weep, for they shall be comforted“, I know a lot of people didn’t really understand fully the depth of this wisdom. I didn’t understand it before, too.
How do I desolate myself?
How do I forsake my life?
How do I lose my own life?
It downright sounds like suicide is the best choice. And yes, my dearest brothers and sisters. Suicide is the answer.
Know that when you really want to FOLLOW CHRIST, you must remember what He did in His Life. HE DIED. He died for both those who love Him and those who loathe Him. This is what we should all aim to do, if we want to be REAL CHRISTIANS.
We must KILL all our earthly wants and desires- ALL our pride, our greed, our gluttony, our laziness, our lust, our selfishness, our anger and our jealousy. For ALL THESE ARE WHAT ROBBED US OF OUR CHILD-LIKE INNOCENCE AND TRUST in our Father in Heaven.
So whenever we’re feeling proud, greedy, gluttonous, lazy, lusty, selfish, angry and jealous of our neighbors- let us pray that we always remember to FOLLOW CHRIST. To ABANDON OURSELVES TO HIM because WE CANNOT TAKE CARE OF IT.
PRAY. PRAY ALWAYS AND NEVER LET ONE DECISION PASS WITHOUT PRAYING FOR IT. For we are all children of God, and like children- we don’t know what is best for us. We want a lot of things that are bad for us and push ourselves and others to get these- but our parents, Papa God and Mama Mary, they know what is best for us. They even gave us their Only Beloved Son to die for even those who nailed Him to the cross.
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“Even so, however, to be clothed with Christ we must die to ourselves.” Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
“I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
..starts with goodbye.
It may be the hardest thing to face, right now. Emotionally and physically. But getting to the greener side starts with saying goodbye to the things we are attached to right now. Because hurting gains us merits because LOVE is ONLY NOURISHED BY SUFFERING.
And so when we suffer for love of Him- we can save a soul. Because ours He has saved already when we threw ourselves into His arms and let Him guide the way.
Will it provoke a heart to sigh?
These are the last two stanzas in the poem I made. But unlike my beribboned sentences, St. Therese speaks of heart sighs in a deeper and more life-changing manner– she says;
Our vocation, yours and mine, is not to go harvesting in the fields of ripe
corn; Jesus does not say to us; “Lower your eyes, look at the fields, and
go and reap them”; our mission is still loftier. Here are Jesus’ words:
“Lift up your eyes and see …. ” See how in my Heaven there are places
empty; it is for you to fill them … each one of you is my Moses praying
on the mountain (Ex 17,8f.); ask Me for laborers and I shall send them, I
await only a prayer, a sigh from your heart!
In my smallness, mortality and worldliness, I have come to realize and embrace the fact that I am very, very, very WEAK. I cannot do anything- anything that is worth doing- with only myself. I need immense help to love God- with all my heart, mind and strength- to love myself, and to love others. And because of this I find it very, very, very hard to do “what is right”, and not to hurt Jesus. I really don’t want to hurt Him anymore- as He has comforted me in all my sadness and loneliness and emptiness- yet I have not returned that to Him yet. Because, if He does what He does because He loves me, then that is the way to LOVE SOMEBODY.
And I want to love Jesus, because Love is only sufficient unto Love- Love can only be repaid by Love.
Let us pray for all children today- and everyone who has stolen and is stealing their innocence.
If we stop and look around us- almost <b>everything</b> is commercialized- the media is everywhere- the billboards, the posters, the advertisements, the store banners- and what do they all have in common? Marketing, yes.
BUT THERE’S MORE. They are all POISONS. Poison to the mind, poison to the heart. And almost all of them shouts the message of VANITY and LUST. On one side, there is a woman wearing a skimpy suit or a bikini. On the other is a guy with no shirt on. Even on TV- especially on TV- the soap operas and the commercials- EVEN in the INTERNET- they feed their audience with messages of almost EVERY kind of sin- LUST, PRIDE, ENVY, SELFISHNESS, DISRESPECT, IMMORALITY, APATHY. And everyone can have access to all of these- even the innocent children, even us- who are not so innocent but are being made more sinful with every thought that accompanies every glance.
How long would it have to take, how many souls would have to be lost, until mankind realizes that with every upgrade of technology, with every innovation of a “product”, with every rise of a skyscraper, with every new car model, with every new thing in the market which was supposed to be for the betterment of OUR LIVES- if all these are desired in vain, if all of these are desired to profit self and ONLY ONESELF- then all these would NEVER really PROFIT us but destroy us.
Look around you. People fighting with each other because of someTHING– People with much desire to protect, preserve or acquire a non-living thing that we are willing to HATE another person.
MONEY IS NOTHING. I may be the daughter of a multi-billionaire, or I may be the daughter of a cab driver- but NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY I HAVE OR HOW LITTLE MONEY I HAVE if I cannot LOVE and if I AM NOT LOVED- then I will never be happy. If I never realize that I am loved- then I will die regretfully. And If I never love, if I am never able to give myself fully- after every heartbreak, after every sacrifice, after every moment that I have been humbled, or put down, no matter how hard it is or how much it hurts- and the Thing that keeps me going is my love for HIM- then I have never TRULY LIVED. And the money I have- no matter how many or little- is NOTHING because it has never and WILL NEVER be able to LOVE me.
To Love until it hurts. It sounds too much cliched- especially if the one you are loving is a mortal, imperfect being. I found it very hard to Love God- He, Who is so easy to Love; He, Who has given His Everything to me; He, Who gives me the sun, the bright clouds, and the glorious sky every morning, the loving stars, the caresses of the wind and the engulfing peace at night; He, Who has given me every breath, every smile, every laugh, every heartbeat, every tear, everything- what more if I try to Love my fellowmen- YOU WHO ARE SO HARD TO LOVE. And yet, God- no matter how imperfect we are, no matter how poor, how rich, how fashionable, how unfashionable, how beautiful, or ugly we are- He Loves us perfectly.
This is why I cannot take anymore. Because God has given me SO MUCH. MUCH MUCH MORE THAN ANYTHING- He gave me HIMSELF.
You know how hard it is to Love me? Think about your enemy, the girl you bitch-slapped last week, the nerdy guy who barely speaks, the girl who is so trying hard to fit in, your classmate who just talks about him/herself, those people who you would never be caught hanging out with- I am MUCH HARDER TO LOVE than them. But I am not suicidal, I am not miserable, I am not lonely, I am not desperate, I am not depressed, I WAS NOT, AM NOT AND WILL NEVER BE ALONE- only that I am yearning. Yearning to Love Him, the One- the Only One- Who sustained me when even dying is too glorious of a fate for me.
My desire now is to give, to share, especially to the children today- that the sun, the bright clouds, and the glorious sky every morning, the loving stars, the caresses of the wind and the engulfing peace at night- these are the things we- with everything we have earned or achieved- were never and will never be entitled to- but are given the leisure to experience. BUT MORE THAN THESE, is LOVE- because with Love, even if the sun is covered with dark clouds, or the stars forgot to love, even when the sun dies or peace failed to enamor the night- with LOVE, there will be a Sun in our sky gloriously more than ever, a Peace in our hearts engulfing our whole being and those who we Love, and Happiness- not only in our spirit, or in our soul, but in all of Eternity.
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You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love at which we do them.
Be not afraid to tell Jesus that you love Him; even though it be without feeling, this is the way to oblige Him to help you, and carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
– St. Therese of Lisieux
Would you rather die or kill? I’d rather die.
Lord, please help me to give up all my pride, all things that make me important and wanted and profitable. Help me to surrender all myself to You and to Love You blindly.
May I be an instrument of Your Great Love and Mercy, O Lord. Amen.
I have a highschool friend. When we went to college, as we were intimidated by the college life, we drifted apart from each other. But we kept in touch every now and then.
Then suddenly, she just stops contacting us. There were three of us. She doesn’t text us, she doesn’t message us, nothing. At first we thought she was just keeping up with school work, but then 2 months with nothing made us worry. So we started asking around, even our old classmates. And we found nothing. Just a few other questions and rumors born from scanty evidences.
When she finally contacted us, we found out she went to Singapore. She told us she had a “psychological” problem and had to go there to get a break from everything and to receive treatment. She had dysthymia.
Dysthymia is a chronic mood disorder which falls under depression, although milder than major depressive order*. She is depressed. I don’t know when it started, and how long it had been. She was right, we hardly notice it- she’s like me, she smiles a lot, laughs a lot. I don’t even know why. I don’t know the reason she became like that. And I was not being supportive. I’ve always judged people too much. I’ve always thought that people make their problem big, eventhough it’s not.
You see, I’m an over-critical girl. I am so harsh when it comes to judging people. I give praise when and where it is due- and sometimes too little. It didn’t occur to me that I may be hurting people like my friend. I may be hurting her by being over-critical when she is trying so hard to fit in, to somewhat be somehow “beautiful”, “accepted”. All I was thinking was, they should get over it if my statements hurt them- it’s the truth. Well, it’s not like that.
I love my friend so much. And now, I want to tell her that she’s beautiful, that I accept her, that I love her. But I can’t. She hasn’t been contacting us lately again.
I want to say sorry for everything I’ve put her through.
For every time that I didn’t tell her she’s beautiful. She’s beautiful because she’s made by God, and she’s loved by God and she’s more beautiful than the stars that shine above but can never feel the hurt and pain that comes with living and loving. My friend is very very beautiful.
For everytime that I didn’t tell her I love her. I love her because I realized that me being happy- it would never suffice. I realized that when others are happy- when they can feel God’s love through me- then it would make me truly happy. I love her.
Lord, let me not forget to tremble. - Tremble, Nichole Nordeman
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have Loved you.” -John 15:12
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We all are victims of self-preservation- we are just not conscious of it. It fills everything we do. We don’t intervene, we don’t act, we don’t speak out, we don’t speak up- because we’re too afraid- afraid that we might get hurt, that we might not be accepted by “society”, that our friends will desert us, that our time may be wasted because there is no profit to be gained.
WE ARE AFRAID TO DO GOOD. But you know what I learned last Wednesday? Self-preservation is bereft of MERCY. When we preserve ourselves- we become MERCILESS. An old man told me, “the human mind cannot fully grasp the breadth of mercilessness- but we can use it to describe something or someone.”
How do we define the mercilessness of a person who has exploited and stole the innocence of children? We cannot. But we can say, “MERCILESS!”
Those who have demoralized the Temple of the Holy Spirit- the human body- MERCILESS!
Those who kill their very own children, just so they could live a “better” life- MERCILESS!
Those who let the lost stay lost, and not guide them to the right path- MERCILESS!
Those who do not know what color to wear for the day, when a lot of peole don’t even have the basic necessities- MERCILESS!
Sadly, we have become merciless, because of self-preservation. Not only to other people, but even in our families.
The right path is the cross. That is why, WE ARE SAVED BECAUSE OF GOD’S MERCY AND GREAT LOVE FOR US.
God did not remain God, clothed in His Glory and Honor. He became like us, human.. dust. Just so we would be saved from our sins. God is full of mercy and forgiveness.
The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is the ultimate image of the mercilessness of human beings and the MERCIFULNESS OF GOD.
Let us all be merciful, as God is to us. Us who committed a lot of sins, ommitted a lot of holy acts and speeches, us who are weak, us who are poor in spirit, us who are prisoners of our own desires and wants and possessions, us who are DUST.
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Thomas answered and said to Him, “my LORD and my God!” -John 20:28
This site is dedicated to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, the THEOTOKOS +
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you! Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen+
O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every word, thought, and deed, my mind, my heart, my strength, my soul, my will, my freedom, my time, my life and my whole being today and throughout all my life- for love of Mama Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, for Love of You, O Jesus, for the salvation of souls, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Your Sacred Heart, O Jesus.
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I OFFER MYSELF AS A VICTIM OF HOLOCAUST TO THE MERCIFUL FIRE OF YOUR LOVE AND YOUR LOVING FIRE OF MERCY, O ETERNAL TRIUNE GOD! MAKE ME A PURE AND SPOTLESS SACRIFICE LIKENED TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY!
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Deep humility, lively faith,
Blind obedience, unceasing prayer,
Constant self-denial, surpassing purity,
Ardent love, heroic patience,
Angelic kindness, and heavenly wisdom.
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O Jesus, inflame my heart with love for You! That my spirit may not grow weary amidst the storms, the sufferings and the trials. You see how weak I am, Love can do all. (St. Faustina)
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O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament!
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PRAY THE ROSARY EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE.
"O my God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee."
"Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences whereby He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.”
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Jesus, You are Life indeed. WIthout You, Life has no meaning… no purpose.
Totus Tuus, Mama Mary. Totus Tuus ego sum, et omnia mea tua sunt.
“You ask me a method of attaining perfection. I know of love - and only love. Love can do all things.” - St Therese of Lisieux
“Why do we nourish our pride and exalt ourselves? Have we not always failed in our resolutions and when we criticize others, we fail to see ourselves? Let us then ask God to grant us humility, for it is always Him Who never fails us.”
“Instruct me, O Lord, My God, Sweetest Desire and Love of my soul, and help me persevere, in humility, obedience, mercy, charity, and all virtues through which I will become pleasing to You.”
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” -2 Cor 12:9
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, He saves those whose spirit is crushed. Let us NEVER LOSE HOPE.”
“..the Glory of God on the Face of Christ! Ah! How Lovely our God Is!”
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit” -John 12:24
How blessed we are to be able to say the Name of Jesus, Our Lord!
“The deeper a soul has fallen into sin, the more it is bound down by the powers of Hell…” -St. Alphonsus
“I don’t want to be a saint by halves, I’m not afraid to suffer for You. I fear only one thing; to keep my own will; so take it, for ‘I choose all’ that You will.” -St. Therese of the Child Jesus
“I am nothing. He is all. I do nothing of my own. He does it.I am God’s pencil. A tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes. God writes through us, and however imperfect instruments we may be,
He writes beautifully.” -Mother Teresa
Make me a servant, humble and meek. Lord let me lift up those who are weak; and may the prayers of my heart always be: make me a servant today.
Domine, non sum dignus. Lord, I am not worthy.
I promised to bear all the pain for you, so I’m bearing it Mama. This hurt, this is all for you. I don’t know how it’s gonna connect but from now on, whatever pain or suffering I’m going through, I’ll offer it all to you. Totus Tuus! I love you.
“I feel that religion with its precepts is not something we can live without, but rather it is the real comfort, the real
strength in life and the only safe way in every circumstance, even the most painful ones of life.” -Alessandro Serenelli
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” -Our Lady of Fatima
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