Blessed
are those who suffer persecution for the sake of
justice;
the kingdom of heaven is
theirs. - Matthew 5:10
Today’s
Liturgy: Prayer after
Communion
Renewed by the one
Bread
as we
commemorate the holy
Martyrs,
we humbly beseech
you, O Lord,
that
abiding as one in Your
love,
we may merit by
endurance an eternal prize.
Through Christ
our Lord.
St Andrew
Dũng-Lạc (priest) and Companions
117
Martyrs (btwn
1820-1862)* ~ Vietnam
The
group consisted of 96 Vietnamese, 11 Spaniards, and 10
French:
8
Bishops, 50 priests, 59 lay Catholics, incl a 9 y/o
Feast
Day – November 24
"In the midst of these torments,
which usually terrify others, I am, by the grace of God, full of joy and
gladness, because I am not alone - Christ is with me. Our Master bears the
whole weight of the cross, leaving me only the tiniest, last bit." ~ St Paul Le-Bao-Tinh, Martyr,
1843
St Andrew Dung-Lac and companions, pray for us!
Blessed
Thanksgiving Day!
I
will thank you, Lord, with all my heart ... Psalm
138:1a
Gratitude ... goes
beyond the "mine" and "thine" and claims the truth that all of life is a pure
gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the
awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a
discipline. The discipline of
gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given
to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
~ Henri J. M.
Nouwen
As Catholics, our Eucharistic life
(Eucharistia means thanksgiving)
is literally one of Thanks-living!
Consider
a gift of gratitude to our Lord through a
daily
HOLY HOUR and/or HOLY MASS
during
the upcoming season of ADVENT!
"God has two dwelling places:
One
in heaven and the other
in a
grateful heart." ~ Izaak
Walton
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