The best prayer...

   "The best prayer is the one 

in which there is the most love." 

St Charles de Foucauld

 Prayer of Abandonment 

 St Charles de Foucauld

Father, 
I abandon myself into your hands; 

do with me what you will.

Whatever you may do, I thank you:

I am ready for all, I accept all.

Let only your will be done in me, 

and in all your creatures.

I wish no more than this, O Lord. 

Into your hands I commend my soul;

I offer it to you

with all the love of my heart,

for I love you, Lord,

and so need to give myself,

to surrender myself into your hands,

without reserve,

and with boundless confidence, 
for you are my Father. 

Excerpt from the writings of Fr Rene Voillaumeon
on the Blessed Sacrament and Charles de Foucauld:

"You will always be right in imitating the attitude of soul—which is so simple, so logical, so full of love—of Frere Charles of Jesus towards the Blessed Sacrament. Our devotion to the Eucharist must be profound, honest, totally embraced as essential. When one has acquired the disposition of receiving this gift of God with the soul of a child, one is upset by the reasoning of certain people... who dispute the devotion towards the Eucharist and sometimes question its legitimacy on liturgical or historical grounds... Why not, in the simple logic of faith, love the Eucharist with all the love with which we love Jesus himself? That is what filled Father de Foucauld with the spontaneity of a child."

No matter the cost...

    "We are given graces to overcome our fears

and to accomplish great things 

in Adoration." -  Fr John Hardon

"I strongly recommend that 

each of us make a resolution 

- no matter how much

the decision may cost us -

to make a Holy Hour...

once a week." - Fr John Hardon

Fidelity to the mission...

     After the Last Supper it was Jude who asked Our Lord 

why He chose to reveal Himself only to the disciples 

and not the world.  He received the reply:

 Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; 

and my Father will love him, and we will 

come to him, and make our home with him.  

- John 14: 23 (Today's Communion Antiphon)

"The more lively the Eucharistic

faith of the people of God,

the deeper is its sharing in ecclesial life

in steadfast commitment to the mission

entrusted by Christ to His disciples."

Sacramentum Caritatis, 6

Remembering today... 

Sts Simon and Jude

Apostles, Martyrs (approx 65 AD)

St. Jude: patron saint of hospital workers,

desperate situations, and impossible causes.

 Novena to Saint Jude -- 

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/novena-to-st-jude

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St. Simon: patron saint of sawyers and tanners.

Feast Day - October 28

PHOTO: Missionaries of Charity ~Home for the dying - Khaligat ~ Calcutta, India

"Just as Christ was sent by the Father, so also 

He sent the apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit. 

This He did so that, by preaching the gospel to every 

creature (cf. Mark 16:15), they might proclaim that 

the Son of God, by His death and resurrection, had 

freed us from the power of Satan (cf. Acts 26:18) 

and from death, and brought us into the kingdom 

of His Father."- Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy

Almighty God, You chose 

Your servants Simon and Jude to be numbered 

among the glorious company of the Apostles. 

As they were faithful and zealous in their mission, 

so may we with ardent devotion make known the 

love and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 

who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, 

one God, now and forever. Amen.

Click here: Ss. Simon & Jude - YouTube (2 mins)

Sts. Simon and Jude, pray for us!

My heart, a resting place...

  "I am a child of God through Baptism and 

my resemblance to Him has grown stronger through 

Holy Communion. May I never forget my last 

Communion and may my heart yearn for the next one." 

Mother Angelica

"Heavenly Father, when Your priest holds up 

the host and says "the Body of Christ"

let my soul bow in humble adoration

before the love and humility of Jesus.

Let my heart be a pure 

resting place for Your Son.

I desire, dear Father, that the image of Jesus

grow brighter in my soul after every Communion.

At that tremendous moment God and I are one."

Mother Angelica

Foundress: EWTN and the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration

Excerpt from The Mass is my Life

That you may see...

  But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

for it is light that makes everything visible. ... 

Wake up, O sleeper... 

and Christ will shine on you. - Eph 5:13-14

 "No matter how much you labor,

you labor to this end: 

that you may see."

St. Augustine