WAY OF THE CROSS - STATION 4: "SHE WAS THERE"
Welcome, my name is tami, mother of 8 and grandma to one beautiful little boy. Married 26 yrs to the love of my life. Gastric cancer survivor through the grace of god. Passionate about my Catholic faith. Consecrated to the Blessed Mother who is Queen of this family.~Totus Tuus Maria
Front Row with Pope Francis on Christian Unity~August 27 2014
Unity among Christians is a gift from God. Christians must pray for it.
Pope Francis begins His weekly audience with a call to Unity among all Christians. He states: " We affirm that the Church is one and she is holy. Holy since she is founded by Jesus Christ, enlivened by his Holy Spirit, and filled with His love and salvation.
While we, the members of the Church are sinners, the unity and holiness of the Church arise from God and call us to daily conversion." All Christians are children of God and united to God we are all part of One family. As Christians we are not isolated, but are members of a unique Body the Mystical Body of Christ. "So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of of another." This is Christ's priestly prayer, that all may be one.
Pope Francis begins His weekly audience with a call to Unity among all Christians. He states: " We affirm that the Church is one and she is holy. Holy since she is founded by Jesus Christ, enlivened by his Holy Spirit, and filled with His love and salvation.
While we, the members of the Church are sinners, the unity and holiness of the Church arise from God and call us to daily conversion." All Christians are children of God and united to God we are all part of One family. As Christians we are not isolated, but are members of a unique Body the Mystical Body of Christ. "So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of of another." This is Christ's priestly prayer, that all may be one.
Pope Francis goes on to say: "Unfortunately, we know well the sins against unity-jealousy-envy-antipathy- which come about when we place ourselves at the center and which occur even in our parish communities." What then we ask ourselves is needed to stop this anger and envy all the war we see in the world and in families and yes so very sadly in the church our Holy Mother on earth, Oh how Jesus weeps. What can we do? Jesus tells us in the Gospel of John, "A new commandment I give to you that you love another: even as I have loved you, that you also love another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."( John 13: 34-35.)( CCC.1822-29.) How did Jesus show His love. Look at the Cross. He gave His life for us. On the cross as he hung in pain he cried out to His Father, "Father forgive them they know not what they do." And with His Blessed Mother standing beneath the cross she looked to her son as he was dying and she silently gave her "Fiat" again. In this is love and unity. We must die to self in order to love our neighbors with the Heart of Christ. The church has been compared to Christ's tunic which was without seam, woven from top to bottom,( John 19:23.) " The Church should not be divided because it also is without seams." St. Augustine."
We must all pray for unity for the whole church. That with obedience and promptness we obey our Holy Father Pope Francis and all the bishops in communion with him. If we do this we may fall, but we our on the right path. We may suffer, but we will suffer in union with one another, we may feel the pain of poverty but, as Christians we give without counting the cost.We May not always like or agree with the teachings of the church, but we all pray in one voice: " Open our eyes Lord to see the truth. Open our hearts Lord so we can hear your silent whisper that says; " Take up your cross and follow me." Give to me the courage and the gifts of the Holy Spirit to defend in all places Your truth. To live according to your Holy will, whatever it may take from me. To stand for the sanctity and dignity of all human life created in your Image and likeness. Help us respond to your call to pray without ceasing for all those persecuted for their faith throughout the world. To refrain from gossip and speech that wounds another, in this Jesus we remain united with our Holy Mother the Catholic Church and she will lead us home.
" Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the will of Christ."( Galatians 6:2) ( CCC 1965-70)
Let us call upon our Blessed Mother, the Mother of Unity. " You who are the first handmaid of the unity of Christ's Body,
help us, help all the faithful who feel so keenly the tragedy of historical divisions of Christianity, to seek persistently the path to the perfect unity of the Body of Christ through unreserved fidelity to the Spirit of truth and love. Pope Saint John Paull II.
help us, help all the faithful who feel so keenly the tragedy of historical divisions of Christianity, to seek persistently the path to the perfect unity of the Body of Christ through unreserved fidelity to the Spirit of truth and love. Pope Saint John Paull II.
Let us all stand with Mary our Mother at the foot of the cross and say in unison,
"Thy will be done Lord, not mine."
Welcome, my name is tami, mother of 8 and grandma to one beautiful little boy. Married 26 yrs to the love of my life. Gastric cancer survivor through the grace of god. Passionate about my Catholic faith. Consecrated to the Blessed Mother who is Queen of this family.~Totus Tuus Maria
A Mother’s Prayer With Cancer
A Mother’s Prayer With Cancer
Jesus I Trust in You!
Jesus I Trust that You will provide for my children, no matter what mysterious path (stomach cancer) You have chosen for me. You watch over the lilies of the field and the sparrows. But my children, for whom You shed Your Most Precious Blood, are worth more than all the lilies and the sparrows. So I place my Life and family in Your Divine Hands.
Queen of My Heart, you know this mother’s heart so well and all the hopes and dreams for my family. I consecrated my family to you as I began this walk. Along the way I have felt the pain of cancer that is slowly trying to take my life, and oh the pain I bear in my body. That does not compare to the Pain I bear in this mothers heart. You know the pain and you hold your daughter as she cries and
with the breath of your love, you promise me that through the Death and Resurrection of your son~All things will be made new. Jesus I Trust in You~
Queen of My Heart, you know this mother’s heart so well and all the hopes and dreams for my family. I consecrated my family to you as I began this walk. Along the way I have felt the pain of cancer that is slowly trying to take my life, and oh the pain I bear in my body. That does not compare to the Pain I bear in this mothers heart. You know the pain and you hold your daughter as she cries and
with the breath of your love, you promise me that through the Death and Resurrection of your son~All things will be made new. Jesus I Trust in You~
Welcome, my name is tami, mother of 8 and grandma to one beautiful little boy. Married 26 yrs to the love of my life. Gastric cancer survivor through the grace of god. Passionate about my Catholic faith. Consecrated to the Blessed Mother who is Queen of this family.~Totus Tuus Maria
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