Extend your arms in welcome to the future.

The best is yet to come!

-Anthony de Mello, SJ- 

Let us pray that we may allow God to continually draw us closer into this loving union that we deeply long for. That we may trust, grow and blossom as we become deeply united with God in this ever expanding Oneness of Love. 

Let us trust that through God's grace, 

we  may then become transformed to become more loving, gracious, compassionate and justice oriented persons, and thus, become partakers of God's creative change in our broken world!

PRAYER OF ABANDONMENT

Take , Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding
and my eternal will - all that I have 
and call my own.

You have given all to me.
To you,  Lord, I return it.

Everything is yours; 
do with with it what you will
Give me only your love and your grace,
That is enough for me.

-St Ignatius of Loyola - 

 TRUST IN GOD

...trust in the slow work of God

We are quite naturally impatient in everything

to reach the end without delay.

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown,

something new...

And so it is with us...

Do not try to force... as though you could be today what time

(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your good )

will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit

gradually forming within you will be.

Give Our Lord the benefit of believing

that his hand is leading you,

and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself

in suspense and incomplete.

-Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, SJ-

Do not look forward to what might happen tomorrow;

the same everlasting Father, who cares for you today,

will take care of you tomorrow and everyday.

Either He will shield you from your suffering 

or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.

Be at peace, then,

and put aside anxious thoughts and imaginations!

St. Francis de Sales 

To pray is to enter into a relationship with God
and to have that relationship
make a difference in my life."
Kenneth Leech

Though the mountains may fall and the hills turn to dust,
yet the Love of the Lord will stand:
And the Shelter for All who will Call on God's name
"Sing The Praise and The Glory of God!"

Could the Lord ever leave you,
Could the Lord for get His Love?
Though a mother forsake her child,
God will not abandon you!

We are bathed in God

who is around us all,

EMBRACING us!

Meister Eckhart

This looking to God is 
CONTEMPLATION.
It is an inward gaze into the depths of the soul
and, for that very reason, beyond the soul to God.
The more the soul finds God, 
the more it forgets itself and yet finds itself in God. 
It is an "unwavering gaze,"
where "looking" is always "hearing."
For what is looked at is the free and infinite Person
who, from the depths of his freedom,
is able to give himself 
in a manner ever new, unexpected and unpredictable.
That is why the Word of God 
 is never something settled once for all
that can be surveyed like a clearly defined landscape,
but something that comes forth ever new,
like water from a spring or
rays from a light.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

OPEN MY EYES, LORD
Open my eyes, Lord, help me to "see";
Open my ears, Lord, help me to "hear"
Open my heart, Lord, help me to "love."
I live within your heart; rest in me Lord! 

Be Yourself...Life is Precious as it is!

Live your Life to the fullest,
not in counting the years
but in making each moment extraordinary.
Let us be reminded that there is Something Bigger that are constantly calling us to greatness 
and that are always drawing us 
to greater union and intimacy 
with our Ever Loving Creator.
Shine through,
"Go forth and set the world on fire!(St. Ignatius)" 


If You ...

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.If you are successful,  you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.


If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could
destroy overnight; Build anyway.


If you find serenity and happiness, there may be jealousy;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

REST IN THE GOODNESS OF GOD,

FOR THAT GOODNESS 
REACHES 
TO THE DEPTHS OF OUR NEEDS!

Julian of Norwich

PATIENT TRUST
Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end of the day without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate states.
We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress that is made by passing through
some stages of instability -
and that it may take a very long time.

And so it think it is with you.
Your ideas mature gradually -let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.

Do not try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your good will)
will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be.
Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you,
and 
accept the anxiety of feeling yourself 
in suspense and incomplete.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ

May God's Overflowing and Abundant Love

Fill our Hearts in a Special Way

this Easter !

CHRIST IS RISEN!

Break the box and shed the nard;
Stop not now to count the cost;
Hither bring pearl, opal, sard;
Reck not what the poor have lost;
Upon Christ throw all away:
Know ye, this is Easter Day.

Build His church and deck His shrine,
Empty though it be on earth;
Ye have kept your choicest wine—
Let it flow for heavenly mirth;
Pluck the harp and breathe the horn:
Know ye not 'tis Easter morn?

Gather gladness from the skies;
Take a lesson from the ground;
Flowers do open their heavenward eyes
And a Spring-time joy have found;
Earth throws Winter's robes away,
Decks herself for Easter Day.

Beauty now for ashes wear,
Perfumes for the garb of woe,
Chaplets for dishevelled hair,
Dances for sad footsteps slow;
Open wide your hearts that they
Let in joy this Easter Day.

Seek God's house in happy throng;
Crowded let His table be;
Mingle praises, prayer, and song,
Singing to the Trinity.
Henceforth let your souls always
Make each morn an Easter Day.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ,
(July 28, 1844 –June 8, 1898)

English poet, Roman Catholic convert and Jesuit priest