Entries for December 2018

The History of the Christmas Creche Every year, the Christmas cards and all of the Christmas imagery portray the images of the Creche. My favorite sacred scripture verse depicting this is: " And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of...

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4th Week of Advent Early this morning, I received an email from my wife Theresa asking me to read an internet link. At that exact time, I was wondering how I was going to bring in this weeks reflection for the closure of advent and to prepare for Christmas; then I read the following article. Aleteia is one of my wife's favo...

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We have Changed our Email Address  Click Here to Send us an Acknowledgement Hello Everyone, In order to keep our website update we no longer are able to use America Online.  We have switched over to Google. I thankyou for your patience as we go through this transition. Our new email address is: guildbjlabre@gmail.com...

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Sr. Isidora's Rosary Meditations Now Printed One of our members who has had her own hardships dealing with mental illness wrote prayer meditations and petitions for the rosary.  Each decade of each mystery is dedicated to a different 1diagnosis of the illness of the human mind. Please pray with us fo...

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Can someone who is mentally ill become a saint? Mental Illness can bring holiness By Request- I decided to place something back into our blog: it is a booklet that someone sent me named Neuroses and Sanctity. God Bless Mr. Laruffa for his courageous effort.      Warning- The booklet may be contraversial...

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Holiday Stress...Oh No!...What is Next? I don't know about you, but when I start getting ready for the holidays, things can easily seem to get out of hand and become overwhelming. I know this and I have supported others with this same experience. How about you? Well,  most recently, I was surfing on the net again and came a...

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The Third Week of Advent 2018 Let Us Be Joyful! We are coming up on one of my favorite weeks in the "New" Liturgical Year preparing for Christmas and living out the Life of Our Lord for 2019.  This comes with my own anxiety around the holiday celebration; four years ago we received two beautiful Christmas present...

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Anxiety- What do we do with it? Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. (Philippians 4:6) "St Francis De Sales once said , “We must trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to our  faithfulness, and the future to his providence.&rd...

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               "The Sermon of St. John the Baptist" (1653) by Adriaen van Nieulandt (Newscom/Cameraphoto/akg-images) Message of second week of Advent full of urgent hopefulness   by Marty Haugen What a rich and delightful potpourri are our Adven...

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Advent: December 2nd First Sunday of Advent The following article is adapted from Catholic Culture.org MASS READINGS December 02, 2018 Clink link for the (Readings on USCCB website) COLLECT PRAYER Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ with righteous deeds at his ...

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Let us Begin Advent and Prepare for Christmas Can you believe it is time for another NEW Year? How do you plan to receive Christ this year? Myself, I plan to focus on my own health. I have struggled with diabetes for over 25 years and I plan on working on my body more perfectly to make room for Christ. One of my favori...

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