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hofelina · « **Reply #1080 on:** January 22, 2011, 02:54:35 PM »

One With God

We are one with God in the love of Jesus. On this firm basis, we are able to love God as God loves usâ€”and to show Godâ€™s kind of loving to our neighbor.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1081 on:** January 23, 2011, 05:41:02 PM »

Divine Love

God wants us to love the divine image in each other, but also wants us gradually to experience a personal, intimate, conscious relationship of love with the Trinity.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1082 on:** January 24, 2011, 03:39:28 PM »

Seeking God

Creation is all Godâ€™s initiative; yet, in the mystery of freedom, we must accept Godâ€™s power in order to make a response. To â€œSeek Godâ€ is to allow ourselves to be found.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1083 on:** January 25, 2011, 03:05:46 PM »

The Ultimate Gift

God shows how much human suffering hurts God by coming to share it. We do not explain suffering; we conquer it by the power of the crucified and risen Jesus, the sign of his Fatherâ€™s tender concern.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1084 on:** January 26, 2011, 03:18:32 PM »

God's Calling

Godâ€™s being all-powerful is simply a definition of Godâ€”limitless. But Godâ€™s power is never mere force. It is the relentless but gentle pursuit of the human heart, never intruding, but always calling.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1085 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:21:52 PM »

Walking Together

We are indeed responsible adults who must â€œmake itâ€ through each day; yet we are Godâ€™s children, with our hand in our Creatorâ€™s, walking along together in total and peaceful dependence.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1086 on:** January 28, 2011, 03:40:44 PM »

Divine Understanding

One of the best ways we can pray is to enter into Jesusâ€™ feelings on various occasions in his life, for his human feelings are our human feelings.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1087 on:** January 29, 2011, 03:03:04 PM »

Reliance on God

Our prayers of petition are our persistent attempt to be wholly aware of our dependence. The more we think we need something, the more we realize that we are ultimately helpless.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1088 on:** January 30, 2011, 04:43:32 PM »

Genuine Prayer

Our prayer is our life. If our lives are faith-filled, they are prayer. If our prayer is genuine, our life is faith-filled. This communion is the way of life for all who love.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1089 on:** January 31, 2011, 03:28:56 PM »

The Kingdom of God

The Kingdom of God is the power of God present to all human beings. This power offers salvation and also achieves salvation for those who respond.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1090 on:** February 01, 2011, 03:19:02 PM »

Glorious Kingdom

By his death and resurrection, Jesus entered into the glory of the Kingdom, but he remains in his church to the end of time. Then he will hand over the Kingdom to his Father, forever.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1091 on:** February 02, 2011, 03:25:33 PM »

God's Abundance

Faith in a living and loving God does not begin with us. It begins with Godâ€™s lavish interest in giving us the gift of faith that is the ground of fidelity.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1092 on:** February 03, 2011, 03:19:31 PM »

Staying Faithful

Fidelity is the practical expression of love. Fidelity is a love that is supported by loyalty and courage. It is keeping your promises to God, family and country.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1093 on:** February 04, 2011, 03:26:18 PM »

Unsurpassed Evidence

The Passion is the Son of Godâ€™s unsurpassed evidence of what fidelityâ€”with its courage, splendid love, and perseveranceâ€”ultimately means.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1094 on:** February 05, 2011, 03:57:39 PM »

Perfect Fidelity Prayer

At every Mass, the Church puts on our lips the seven petitions of the Our Father. Every petition is a call to holiness.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1095 on:** February 06, 2011, 04:08:11 PM »

Spiritual Food

The Our Father is like a classic Renaissance painting that crowds the canvas with spiritual milk for beginners and meat for the mature.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1096 on:** February 07, 2011, 02:48:16 PM »

Celebration of Love

Our faith is a gift from a living and loving God who lavishly tries to reach us and does so with persistent fidelity. It is a celebration of a God of love who tries all kinds of ways to touch us.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1097 on:** February 08, 2011, 03:27:58 PM »

Is God Back?

God had not died in the sense that modern culture thought it had. God kept his promise to stay with us during every test our church had knownâ€”renewing us after the tumult.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1098 on:** February 09, 2011, 03:20:00 PM »

Open Your Heart

Every time a thousand people close the door to God, the Spirit opens three thousand windows to Christ. To some this may look like a comeback, but the Son of God every day tirelessly knocks at the doors of millions of hearts.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1099 on:** February 10, 2011, 03:24:00 PM »

Love Never Tires

The Holy Spirit nudges, doesnâ€™t force, us to open our hearts to Christ. God never sleeps. The Spirit never rests.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1100 on:** February 11, 2011, 07:04:04 AM »

God's Fidelity

What causes us to complain that God has lost interest in us often depends on our strange ability to close our ears to his word, to shut our eyes to his enticing beauty, to padlock the entrance to our hearts so we cannot receive his love.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1101 on:** February 12, 2011, 05:51:03 AM »

God's Promise

God painted a rainbow in the sky to assure us he would always love us without reserve. That visual aid teaches us about Godâ€™s faithfulness and invites us to practice fidelity in return.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1102 on:** February 13, 2011, 05:08:16 PM »

God's Loyalty

God â€œburns upâ€ with the passion of loyalty to his friends. And every human being on earth is Godâ€™s friend to whom he pledges fidelity.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1103 on:** February 14, 2011, 03:16:39 PM »

The Balm of Forgiveness

The best cure for betrayal is a healing love from the heart of the betrayed. The effective healing of the hurt inflicted by the unfaithful arises from the balm of forgiveness in the soul of the innocent partner.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1104 on:** February 15, 2011, 03:46:25 PM »

Loving Fidelity

Loving fidelity is the healing response to thoughtless infidelity. Loving forgiveness is the cure for heartless rejection.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1105 on:** February 16, 2011, 03:36:08 PM »

Renewal of Love

There is always a healing balm in God, ready to soothe and renew a love relationship that has died.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1106 on:** February 17, 2011, 02:55:54 PM »

Live In Me, Oh God

You are the desiring of God. God desires through you and longs for life and love through you and in you.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1107 on:** February 18, 2011, 02:37:14 PM »

Transform Me, Oh Lord

Jesus has come to transform people, not to exclude them. He has come for the seeming losers, and not to create a country club for the supposed winners.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1108 on:** February 19, 2011, 04:46:39 PM »

Joyous Certainty

Forgiveness is not some churchy technique or formula. Forgiveness is constant from Godâ€™s side, which should become a calm, joyous certainty on our side.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1109 on:** February 20, 2011, 04:42:47 PM »

Seconding the Motion

God is always much better than the most loving person you can imagine, Jesus is saying. It is not that we pray and God answers. It is that our praying is already God answering within us and through us.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1110 on:** February 21, 2011, 06:42:32 AM »

Unconditional Love

You are to love with the same kind of love that God loves you, which is total unconditional love. This is the summit and goal of all Jesusâ€™ moral teaching, and we cannot possibly follow it apart from divine union. The egocentric or separate self is incapable of this kind of love.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1111 on:** February 22, 2011, 03:15:29 PM »

Mirror God's Blessings

Receive Godâ€™s compassion and you will be able to be compassionate. Do not receive negative judgment from God, and you will not be judgmental yourself. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Give and it shall be given to you

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hofelina · « **Reply #1112 on:** February 23, 2011, 03:22:18 PM »

Patience

Humble God, make us like you. You do not lord it over us, but wait patiently for us to change. May we do the same with our brothers and sisters on the journey.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1113 on:** February 24, 2011, 06:02:48 AM »

Bask in God's Graces

Good God, the creator of light and darkness, You who move the sun and the stars, move us into the place of light, a light so large that it will absorb all the darkness.

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #1114 on:** February 24, 2011, 11:59:05 PM »

Lord, help to clear our minds this day, and to fix our thoughts on our responsibilities to this day. May we be able to perform accordingly to the gifts you have given us, and with absolution in your promises in our life. May we always be confident and justified in you, always. Amen.

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #1115 on:** February 25, 2011, 12:01:03 AM »

Lord, please have mercy on the dying, the dead, and those who are ill. Make all of us an instrument of your greater glory. Provide for us o Lord, and may we all provide for one another. In brotherly love and unity. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1116 on:** February 25, 2011, 02:20:56 PM »

God's Great Mercy

God of Compassion, Mother and Father of all Mercies, do not let us shame ourselvesâ€”or the wonder of your nameâ€”by living outside of the wondrous loop of your forgiveness and mercy.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1117 on:** February 26, 2011, 03:52:01 PM »

Imitating God

God of all names and all love, give us hearts to include all that you are willing to include, to forgive all that you so easily forgive, and to join you in doing something truly "new" on this earth.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1118 on:** February 27, 2011, 05:12:01 PM »

Overcoming Evil

Warrior God, Crucified Christ, teach me how evil is really overcome. Do not let me be part of the problem, but the beginning myself of the answer.

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hofelina · « **Reply #1119 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:15:10 AM »

Keep Me Humble

God of all Light and Truth, just make sure that I am not a blind man or woman. Keep me humble and honest, and that will be more than enough work for you.

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