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| Let us bow down before Him - the CHRIST, The One Who gave Himself as Ransom for our souls! |
The only One that COULD.
Oh come let us adore Him, but not just today, and not just halfheartedly ... but every day and with all our hearts!
Christmas itself bespeaks peace and love. It's a time when we stop, even if just for a brief moment and recognize each other as brothers and sisters of the same family. All one in the Body, for that is what we truly are if we call ourselves Christians. We, for the most part, set aside petty differences and some, by the grace of God, hurts and resentments that have festered for years and even decades. This is the magic of Christmas. The Grace, Love and Peace that He gives freely if we but look in His direction and receive it.
Let everyone's prayer be to have this not just today, but always and forever!
Please let our prayer for this next year be for those that have lost their way, strayed from the path and not only forgot the precious Gift of Christmas, but the reason and the Path to Easter Sunday that leads to Eternal Happiness. Pray for those in mortal sin that are in so much darkness, they can't even SEE the light, let alone what surrounds them in this valley of tears.
Let our daily prayer be:
"Eternal God, thank You for sending Your only begotten Son to the world to offer us a way back to You. That He suffered and died for our sins is too hard for our human intellect to fully understand and we cringe to know our own sins put Him there. But we beg You Father to accept our continuous prayer; united to the Perfect
& Holy Passion of Jesus, we offer You our joys, sorrows, breaths,
heartbeats and tears to strengthen the faithful, renew the lukewarm,
restore the fallen away and convert the proud. Merciful
Father, Whose tender Love has no bounds, grant, in Your Goodness
and Mercy that we always embrace Your Perfect Will in all things
with a joyful heart. Please cover us with the Precious Blood of
Jesus in which we trust and rely. Send the Holy Spirit to renew
our souls and our land that it may bring You honor and glory and
we may, once again, be a nation under God! Bring us daily closer
to the Sacred & Immaculate Hearts and increase our Faith that
we may always strengthen each other, in Jesus' Name. Amen."
Let this new year renew in our souls the fervent hope that all be saved and none be lost. Let us remember always to pray and do penance for those in our families and all we hold dear that have fallen away to renew and SHARE their Faith with all who cross their path, as we should. Pray especially for those whose hearts are good but necks are stiff; those who do good for others but for whatever reason have turned away from formal practice and are too proud to search for the Truth; for those who feel they have been hurt (real or perceived) by God and have hardened their hearts towards Him ... and for those that satan has convinced that they're 'good enough' to get into heaven as they are, putting worldly things first rather than eternal things.
Above all else: PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!!!
Ephesians 6:12: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood; but against principalities, powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
"The date is December twenty-fifth, but to the humble man, it is
Christmas; the manger is a throne; the straw is royal plumage; the
stable is a castle; and the Babe is God.
He found Power because he was weakness, and the Infinite, Immense and
Eternal God, because He was little – for it is only by being little that
we ever discover anything big.
He lies upon straw on earth and yet sustains the universe and reigns in
Heaven; He is born in time, and yet He existed before all time; Maker of
the stars under the stars; Ruler of the earth an Outcast of earth;
filling the world, lying in a manger. And yet the proud man sees only a
Babe. The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the
bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones
who will ever understand the reason of His visitation. He came to the
poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the
Good God could say: You give me your humanity, and I will give you My
Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity, you
give Me your weary body, and I will give you Redemption; you give Me
your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give Me your
nothingness, and I will give you My All.
Thus the birthday of the God-Man is the children’s day, in which age,
like a crab, turns backwards, in which the wrinkles are smoothed by the
touch of a recreating hand, in which the proud become children, and the
big become little, and all find God." ~~(The Eternal Galilean)
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