Belonging entirely to Jesus...

    For every living soul belongs to me, 

the father as well as the son -

 both alike belong to me.  - Ezekiel 18:4a

"Our Hours of adoration will be 

special hours of reparation for sins, and 

intercession for the needs of the whole world, 

exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity 

to the healing, sustaining and transforming 

rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist."

St Teresa of Calcutta

nee Albania ~ 1910-1997

Foundress - Missionaries of Charity
Co-patron of India

26 August 1910 ~ 5 September 1997

Click here: Mother Teresa: How to Love God - YouTube
(in her words...)

Feast Day - September 5

Photo credit:  Pascal DeLoche/Godong

 

"By blood, I am Albanian.  

By citizenship, an Indian. 
By faith, I am a Catholic nun.  
As to my calling, I belong to the world.  
As to my heart, I belong entirely to the 

Heart of Jesus."- St Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) Biography

Why Mother Teresa didn't want everyone to be exactly like her
A prayer for families to pray every day, by Mother Teresa

How to Pray Mother Teresa’s Famous Emergency “Flying Novena” 

St Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!

Sacrament of awesome might...

  As you have heard from the beginning,

His command is that you walk in love. - II John 6

"Hail, Thou Living Bread from heaven!

Sacrament of awesome might!

I adore Thee - I adore Thee!

Every moment, day and night.

Holiest Jesu! - Heart of Mary!

O'er me shed your gifts divine:

Holiest Jesu! my Redeemer!

All my heart and soul are Thine."

Edward Caswall

Painting: St Therese strewing roses.  Artist unknown

Good and holy places...

 I rejoiced with those who said to me, 

"Let us go to the house of the LORD."

Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem. 

Ps 122:1-2

Non enim pro locis res, 

sed pro bonis rebus loca amanda sunt –

"Things are not to be loved 

for the sake of a place,

but places are to be loved

for the sake of their good things."

 Pope St Gregory the Great

Italy ~ 540-604

Doctor of the Church

Prolific writer, untiring servant for Christ

Compiled Antiphony (chants of Church used for Liturgy)

Established Schola Cantorum 

(Rome's training school for choristers)

Patron:  Popes, Teachers, Choirboys, Musicians, Singers

Feast Day - September 3 

Photo credit: Church Kneeling, Lawrence, OP

“It is not by faith that you will come 

to know [God] but by love;

not by mere conviction, but by action.”

 St Gregory the Great

"The sacred Scriptures grow with
the one who reads them."

St Gregory the Great

"You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, 
but by taking it slowly."- St Gregory the Great

TOP 25 QUOTES BY POPE GREGORY I | A-Z Quotes

St Gregory the Great, pray for us!

Caught up into a rhythm...

"The grace flowing from this wellspring (Eucharist)

renews mankind, life and history."

 St John Paul II, Dies Domini, Pentecost Sunday, 31 May 1998

"The Blessed Sacrament is the 

Sacrament of Unity; and when you receive it, it 

does not merely produce in you more charity toward 

your neighbor, more loyalty toward the Church,

more unselfishness in your human attachments.

It makes you more at unity with yourself;

it catches up our life into a rhythm 

that echoes the heavenly music...

It comes to you... full of that unifying love

which is the bond of the Blessed Trinity."

Msgr Ronald Knox

Painting above: Memoir Writing ~ August Muller

Tidying up...

   "Speak for your servant is listening." 

 I Samuel 3:10b

"Above all, we must get to church early 

in order to 'tidy up' inwardly.  

We must have no illusions about our condition when 

we enter the church; we must frankly face our 

restlessness, confusion, disorder. To be exact, 

we do not yet really exist as persons - at least not as 

persons God can address, expecting a fitting response.  

We are bundles of feelings, fancies, thoughts, 

and plans all at cross-purposes with each other. 

The first thing to do, then, is to quiet and 

collect ourselves.  We must be able to say honestly:  

Now I am here.  I have only one thing to do - participate 

with my whole being in the only thing that counts, 

the sacred celebration. I am entirely ready."

Romano Guardini

Preparing Yourself for Mass

(A Must Read! Make it your September book!)

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LABOR DAY

American and Canadian Federal Holiday

First Monday in September

"Work is not only good in the sense that it is useful or 

something to enjoy; it is also good as being something worthy, 

that is to say, something that corresponds to man's dignity, 

that expresses this dignity and increases it. ... 

Work is a good thing for man - a good thing for his humanity  

- because through work man not only transforms nature, 

adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfillment 

as a human being and indeed in a sense becomes 

'more a human being.'"- St JP II, Laborem Exercens #9

Prayer after Work by Fr. Peter John Cameron, o.p.

From Blessing Prayers

© Magnificat – Used with permission.    

www.magnificat.com

Most merciful Father, thank you for this day of work with all its achievements as well as its  burdens.  Thank you for all the successes, the challenges, and even the difficulties that it brought to me.  Your Son once said to His Apostles, "Come by yourselves to an out-of-the-way place and rest a little." Thank you for this gift of rest.  May this time be a chance for me to renew my gratitude for all your blessings.  In your great compassion and generosity, please be mindful of those who are out of work.  And help me to do a better job tomorrow.  I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

 St Joseph, patron of the Worker, pray for us!