The Fellowship of the Unashamed

This week I had chance to hear a talk by Patrick Madrid that is distributed by Lighthouse Catholic Media.  The talk was called "Why I am Catholic when I could be anything else".

It has been a long time since I heard him speak and I enjoyed his engaging manner of talking and the anecdotes and exercises he described but I think I enjoyed most his Mission statement, which he read out at the end of the talk and I have to say it has lit a new fire under me to start making a difference where I am.  Below is a copy of that Mission statement.

Smooth knees...a real prayer warrior does not have smooth knees!
T.K.

Holy Spirit Novena- It's time to start again!

      Yesterday, during confession, my esteemed confessor told me two things, it is the Ascension, and so we must have our heads in the clouds, so to speak.  Lifting up our minds, our attitudes, our composure, our demeanor, our outlook, to be in heaven with Jesus.  But not just today, everyday!  We must live our lives as citizens of the heavenly kingdom stretched up to heaven but still impacting, for good, those here on earth with our lives and work.  (Bonny added that then we would be giving God that much more chance to fill us with Grace and make us conduits of his grace to those around us.)  He also said this is the time to push the reset button on your spiritual life.

 What better time to Reset than that time when we call down onto ourselves the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit Novena by St. Alphonsus Liguori

If you haven't started it yet, do it today.

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