Saturday 5 October 2013

The Love Prayer
How do you know you are loved unless the lover cease not to remind the beloved as often as it takes.Even if repeated ten thousand times, each one is different, each time it means something different. There is no repetition in " I love you ", because they are spoken in a new moment of time, another point in space, for the words do not mean the same as they did at another time or in another space. Love is never monotonous  in the uniformity of its expression
This is what we do when we say the Rosary. We are saying to God, to the Trinity. to the Incarnate Saviour and to the Blessed Mother Mary: " I love you. I love you. I love you. " Each time it means something different because at each decade, our mind is moving to a new demonstration of our Saviour's love: for example, from the mystery of his love which willed to become one of us in the Incarnation, to the other mystery of love when he suffered for us.. and to the other mystery of where he intercedes for us before the heavenly Father.
The Rosary is mistakenly regarded as a passive form of prayer since we are able to speak to people while our minds are thinking of something else. But in the Rosary, we not only say the prayers, we think them: Nazareth where it all started in the Annunciation...to the hill country of Judea in the Visitation... to Bethlehem ...Galilee... Jerusalem. Golgotha,.... Calvary.... Mount Olives..... heaven. All these move before our mind's eye as we pray. The Rosary invites our fingers, our lips, and our heart in one vast symphony of prayer and for that reason it is the greatest prayer ever composed. it's God's Love Song given to us and is the best therapy for distraught, unhappy, fearful and frustrated souls.
The month of October is dedicated to praying the Rosary, it's a month of special grace.... each Hail Mary is like a Rose being offered  to the Blessed Mother. Therefore let's offer Her a garland of Roses as we lovingly pray:
 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; 
Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen!
The God of the Impossible
What may seem impossible in your eyes right now will be restored for nothing is impossible to God . Recall the most impossible situation(s) in your life at the moment: terminal illness of loved ones....... family breakdown...... threatening ailments of old age........ etc, etc? what man considers impossible, the Lord sees and uses as opportunities to manifest his almighty power.... only trust and wait ...
Our God will do more than we can ever dare to ask or imagine. He does the impossible as our hope in Him will not leave us disappointed. The situation you are going through can get better or bitter. One way that you can get better rather than bitter is to develop a thankful heart. .... learning to be grateful to the Lord in all things...... counting your blessings along the way will surprised you what the Lord has done.
' O thou who has given me so much, I pray that you give me yet one more thing - a grateful heart and faith to believe that You are the God of the Impossible' Amen!