Poverty

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

Recipe for life

Love infinitely the most sweet Lord Jesus Christ; do everything for him alone, and spend your life in works of mercy and of love.   ~~Blessed Maria of Jesus Crucified Petkovic

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy 

Endless Love

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Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures.  It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.~~Saint Rose of Viterbo

I read this verse and look at the picture and can imagine the endless love God has for us all.  Endless love!!! 

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Thanks be to God

Cathy

Making A House A Home

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To offer a home to the homeless Christ, start by making your own homes places where  peace, happiness and love abound, through your love for each member of your family and for your neighbors.  ~~ Saint Teresa of Calcutta

It occurred to me as I read this quote that Mother Teresa was right, so very right!!!  I feel so badly for the homeless in the world!  I want to make it better for them!  I want to take them in and care for them.  But this doesn't happen just because I want to do it. 

An opportunity arose 35 years ago, during a snow storm, in Eastern Oklahoma where we lived at the time.  It was one of those storms that happens so rarely there that we were all left quite unprepared.  When we went into town to get gas for the van we found two Mexican families stranded by the side of the road.  They were traveling back to Chicago after visiting family in Mexico for Christmas.  We took them in and in the midst of this  gathering the presence of God and our Savior was truly felt.  It is such a long story that I will not go into it here but Providence did provide!!!

Truly if we had not had the peace and harmony and love in our hearts and in our home it would have been an ordeal!!!  IT WAS NOT!

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy 

Giving Thanks

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Know that gratitude for God's benefits is one of the riches of the soul, and that ingratitude dries up the fountain of divine graces.  Give your tribute of gratitude often to the most loving Jesus.

~~Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

Summit of Perfection

Keep your gaze fixed on the summit of perfection, where Christ awaits you. ~~Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy 

Intimacy with God

Intimacy with the Lord is not a matter of physical kinship; rather it is achieved by cheerful readiness to do the will of God.  ~~Saint Basil the Great

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

The Way

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

Alpacas at The Woods

When you consider creatures, and even yourself you cannot help knowing they  have not made themselves; therefore they have been made by another, more grand, more  powerful.

Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

Picture taken at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, 10/2/2013 of the alpacas and the babies!  Visit WhiteViolet Center for Eco-Justice at www.WhiteViolet.org.