The Host-life...

7th Sunday of Easter*
*(for Ascension reflection refer to last Thursday's Reflection)

"It is His will to rise from the dead in our lives and to come back to

the world in His risen Host-life." - Caryll Houselander

"Every day, every hour, Christ is born on the altar

in the hands of the priest. Christ is lifted up and sacrificed;

Christ is buried in the tomb of the human heart

and Christ rises from the tomb to be the life of the world

through His Communion with men.

This is the Host-life.... Everything relates to the Host. ...

Living the Christ-life means that we are given the power

of Christ's love.  We are not only trustees of God's love for man,

entrusted to give it out second-hand, but miraculously,

our love IS His love!

"I have bestowed my love upon you, just as my father has bestowed

his love upon me; live on, then, in my love." (John XV.9.)

Caryll Houselander

Excerpt from The Passion of the Infant Christ

Blessed Mother’s Day to all!

"A partnership with God is motherhood.

What beauty, what love, what self control

must belong to her who helps God

fashion an immortal soul!" (Author Unknown)

Some have had kings in their lineage,

Some to whom honor was paid.

Not blest of my ancestors - but,

I have a mother who prays.

I have a mother who prays for me

And pleads with the Lord every day for me.

Oh what a difference it makes for me - 

I have a mother who prays.

Some have worldly success

And trust in riches they've made - 

This is my surest asset,

I have a mother who prays.

My mother's prayers cannot save me,

Only mine can avail;

But mother introduced me to Someone - 

Someone who never could fail.

Oh yes..I have a mother who prays for me

And pleads with the Lord every day for me.

O what a difference it makes for me - 

I have a mother who prays.

Author Unknown

Dearest mothers, thank you, 

...thank you for what you are in your family
and for what you give to the Church and the world.

And to you, beloved Church, thank you, thank you for being mother. 

And to you, Mary, Mother of God, thank you for letting us see Jesus. 

And thank you for all the mamas.  Let us salute them! - Pope Francis