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Thank God for Today

What blessings are you celebrating today?

I write for you as much as for my own benefit.

Often, I get convicted by my own writing.

Here’s to help me remember to thank and love God each day – and not complain as I usually do.

Let us choose to thank Him and not murmur.

Let us choose to love and not drag our cross.

Let us choose to bless, not to curse.

Let us choose to be filled by what is good, rather than what is bad

Let us choose to be in the light, rather than in the dark,

Let us choose to cling to God for strength, rather than our own.

Let us choose to follow His Will, rather than our own will.

For God has given us free will to love and serve Him,

the free will to embrace our cross.

For crosses are blessings in disguise

which, if humbly accepted, exude the Lord’s Joy

Such comfort to know that sorrow has its end

and God lovingly holds our future.

Let us choose to pray, than worry.

Let us praise and thank God for today!

Our Lady of the Rosary Family Catechism

Nowadays, it is even more necessary and urgent (than before) for our family to be vigilant about the Catholic Faith amidst a highly secular world. It is not enough that we merely listen to Bible scholars, priests, bishops, cardinals or even our Pope and simply believe and obey whatever they say. Not all representatives of […]

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Hymn to the Smile

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The Danger of False Halloween

When I was a kid, my cousins and I came up with a tradition of celebrating Halloween every October 31st.  We would create our own costumes from old clothes or whatever we could find, make or improvise masks or wigs and put on scary make up.  We would prepare some snacks, hold the party in […]

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Litany of Humility

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The Lord is All We Have

Thank God for today. We are in the middle of crisis at this point in our lives – not just in one country but all over the world.  Weeks ago, we lived from day to day thinking we could simply go on living the next day and the day after that..and the day after that. […]

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Why We Get Bored at Mass

We hear these comments from people who have stopped hearing Mass and even from those who still do: I don’t understand any of it. I can’t concentrate when I’m there so what’s the use? It doesn’t have any effect on me. It is boring or The priest’s homily bores me to death. And so on… […]

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Zombie Mom

“You’re not listening.” My daughter would pause, mid-sentence, whenever I fell into my zombie mode. She was quite aware that I have a highly chaotic mind that always attempts to multitask.  I simply could not fool her. While she was telling me something, she knew when my mind had already drifted off to some task […]

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Blessed Among Women

To think of our Lady is always a breath of fresh air, a deep sigh of content, an infinite source of warmth and comfort in any kind of misery yet a pillar of strength against and above the most powerful forces of evil.  A woman of sorrow, joy, purity and simplicity who, among all human […]

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The Lord’s Buffet

For the first time last year, on the night of December 25, we did not spend the entire Christmas day together.  Instead, my daughter lay on the hospital bed in the emergency room, about to be confined due to low platelet count.  As I was staring blankly on the wall, it finally dawned on me […]

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Permanent Address

When we first planned for our house, we dreamed of a garden, perfectly landscaped, with everything inside our house, complete and new.  There was more to that but you get the picture.  That was the dream. This was the reality.  When we first moved in, the construction of the house left us with debts left […]

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The Lord’s unfailing love and mercy still continue,

Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.

The Lord is all I have, and so in Him I put my hope.

Lamentations 3:22-24

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