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| OUR SEMINARIAN - DANIEL CYMER |
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We have been Blessed, Again! During Holy Week we will be assisted by one of our Diocesan Seminarians, Daniel Cymer, a student at Sts. Cyril & Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, MI. Fr. Gary Dailey, our Diocesan Vocations Director, has assigned Daniel to our parish for a pastoral year; (from the end of May until June 2012) when he is scheduled to be ordained to the priesthood. Daniel will be ordained to the transitional diaconate this fall; so he will be ministering along with Deacon Bob. We look forward to welcoming him to St. Mary's.
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WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN
WHEN WE PRAY?
I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ' This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.
The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section... Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed." How is it that there is no work going on here? ‘I asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments"
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings? "I asked...
"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord.”
"What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked.
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy. "
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world."
"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."
"If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare."
"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair......."
Ok, what now? How can I start?
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
Have a good day and
count your blessings.
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COLORS
GOD GAVE US MANY GIFTS BUT HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THE WORLD WITHOUT COLOR.
PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW, TURN UP THE SOUND AND SIT BACK AND RELAX AS EACH PICTURE IS DISPLAYED IN BLACK AND WHITE AND THEN IN COLOR. RELAX... GOD LOVES YOU!
www.greatdanepro.com/Colors/index.htm
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CATHOLIC DIGEST
Catholic Digest Magazine is an excellent source of spiritual information and inspirational readings about our faith. Click on the link below and explore this wonderful magazine and excellent resource for your faith.
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LOVE
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient,
love is kind and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails;
but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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