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More words: Christ Jesus Pope Holy Sacrament Saint MaryAna María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-65000006721331999932011-09-21T18:54:00.001+02:002011-09-27T17:13:47.302+02:00What we are<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In a world that despises and attacks us, just feel proud of <b>who and what you are</b>: <b>God´s child</b> and member, by God´s grace, of the <b>Catholic Church</b>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This video, as the author of the second video author says, "helps you realize what being Catholic.... is all about".</span><br />
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</span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-89729977269498505902011-09-13T19:16:00.003+02:002011-09-13T19:25:54.141+02:00Following the steps of Jesus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/cardenal_van_thuan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/cardenal_van_thuan.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>In the path of Hope, I follow each of your steps.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your wandering steps to the manger in Bethlehem.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your restless steps in the way to Egypt.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your fast steps to the house in Nazaret.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your joyful steps when you go to the Temple with your parents.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your weary steps during the thirty years of work.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your obliging steps during the three years announcing the Gospel.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your painful steps when you went into Jerusalem.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your lonely steps before the Pretorium.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your heavy steps under the weight of the cross, in your way to the Calvary.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your failed steps , dead and buried in a tomb that is not even yours,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>stripped of everything,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>with no robe, no friend,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>abandoned even by the Father,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>but always yielding to Him.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Lord, knelt before the tabernacle, I understand:</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I couldn´t choose any other way, although there may be others more successful, in appearance.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>But You, everlasting friend, the only friend in my life, are not in them.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>In You are all heaven with the Trinity, the whole world, all the humankind.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These is part of a prayer written by <b>Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan</b>, who was a bishop in <b>Vietnam</b> when the country fell to the Communists in 1975. He spent the next 13 years in prison, and during that time <b>he was able to write prayers on scraps of paper</b>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">During all those terrible years, alone, taken apart from his congregation, his church, <b>he found comfort in Christ</b>, putting his whole life in His hands.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Let´s learn from him, <b>when we find ourselves in times of trouble</b>, to put our lives in That who is the Allmighty. Let´s follow His steps, <b>they will drive us</b> to the His presence in our last day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Links suggested:</u></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/only-love-wins.html">Only love wins</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-does-love-look-like.html">What does love look like?</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/pencil-of-god.html">The pencil of God</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.card-fxthuan.org/">Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan Foundation</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-18374795103149433322011-09-10T22:48:00.001+02:002011-09-10T22:51:47.051+02:00Ninety nine balloons<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Among the enormous information that we can find in the internet, flashes of God´s grace, that acts among us, are more frequently found than we expect.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is the case of the video that I want to share with you today.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A <b>defense of life</b>, a homage paid for a father to his son, the indelible testimony that the right way leads us to happiness, though we can´t reach it completely in this world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The story told in this video <b>has not finished yet</b>. It will end sooner or later and that day it will be <b>perfect happiness</b> for its main characters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A <b>therapeutic abortion</b> would have ended all this. Nothing of what you are going to watch would have happened. Nor the future hope will exist. Abortion seems the easier way, but it does not bring happiness, that lasts forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life can be hard</b>, but that does not authorize us to do what it is not correct. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And we always have <b>God´s grace help</b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/only-love-wins.html">Only love wins</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/most-high-glorious-god-enlighten.html">Ask and you will receive</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/reward.html">The reward</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-90844247559617099882011-09-08T18:21:00.001+02:002011-09-10T22:59:22.513+02:00Arrows in the quiver (VII): Forgiveness and Gratitude<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Write the faults that others commmit against you in the sand.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Write the favours that others do to you in stone.</span></b></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So the faults will be erase by the wind of forgiveness and you will always remember the good deeds that you have received.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/stand-firm-in-faith.html">Stand firm in faith</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-65784866302537048502011-09-04T19:05:00.004+02:002011-09-10T22:57:05.166+02:00Arrows in the quiver (VI): Without Your mercy ,we are nothing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Lord I am <b>insolent.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I have looked for you many times </b>and others I have looked for excuses to take delight in my sin.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When the sunset of my life is near I recognize my <b>"nothingness"</b>, I have done few things in spite of having trying, I don´t consider myself a winner, I haven´t lived the life of a saint, but <b>I remember the words</b> you told to the good thief : <b>"Amen I say to you</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 16px;"><b>, you will be today with me in Paradise".</b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I would say that <b>these are the sweetest words of Jesus</b>. He told them to one who was not one of His disciples, he didn´t even know His name, he probably deserved that punishment more than anybody, but <b>Jesus was good to him</b>, even in those terrible moments in the cross, <b>because he was good to Jesus</b>, in the style our Master wants us: with his repentance.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Jesus remember me when You come into your kingdom</span></b></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/greatest-wealth.html">The greatest wealth</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/arrows-in-quiver-ii.html">My will...</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/beautiful-paths-of-god.html">The beautiful paths of God</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-48097976359711557212011-08-27T19:22:00.003+02:002011-09-13T19:24:25.632+02:00JMJ 2011 Mass - Madrid (Videos)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here you have some links to the videos corresponding to the music that was performed during the <b>opening and closing WYD masses</b>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The liturgical music was composed by <b>Pedro Alfaro, Carlos Criado and Iñigo Guerrero</b>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Many of you could think that this has little or nothing to do with faith or religion, but it takes me to <b>a curious reflexion</b> that I would like to share with you all.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The main character of the picture <b>Dorian Grey</b> sold his soul to the devil so he could always be so handsome and young as he appeared in the protrait that a famous painter had made of him. As time went by <b>it was his portrait the one who got older</b>, it showed the signs of old age, but at the same time it also showed the signs of moral degradation, because in the "sale" Dorian´s soul was transferred to the picture.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This turned so disgusting due to <b>his disolute and immoral way of life</b> that he could hardly stood the vision of it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He even tried to change his life to see if this had any effect on the protrait, but he got nothing because <b>he didn´t want to do what was neccesary to do</b>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As I was watching the film I wondered, what if everyone of us could have a <b>portrait of our souls</b> where we could see the degradation produced in it by our sins? What if we can phisically see the <b>effects of sins</b> in our soul?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I think that many of us would want to change our lives, we wanted to be better. <b>Make things different</b> so our soul was as pure and clean as it was the day of our baptism, when <b>we were cleaned</b> of the original sin.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Most of us don´t like to see the ugliness that lies within us, that that only God can see.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But we have the best instrument that anyboudy could wish</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">to fullfil this mission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">: <b>the sacrament of confession</b>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Let´s go to it, ask sincerely for <b>pardon to God</b>, so He can see us pure and impeccable, to His own Image as He created us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/doing-things-together.html">Doing things together</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-does-love-look-like.html">What does love look like?</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-51393162868876583642011-08-24T18:49:00.002+02:002011-09-10T23:14:45.003+02:00Only love wins<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Only love wins, only!</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>In our life we can win, but if it hasn´t been with love, for love and living and resting in God´s love, we haven´t really won.We have been defeated by Evil.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>And although it seems that we have been defeated, although it seems that we are finished, that we have been left stranded, if there is love in our life, we have certainly won. Christ has won in us. </b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Pablo Domínguez</i></span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How true these words are! They belong to a young spanish priest, called <b>Pablo Domínguez</b>. He died only a couple of days after addressing them to a group of cloistered nuns in <b>Tulebras, Spain</b>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Only with and in God´s love <b>we can get through the difficulties</b> we find in our lives, especially in these troublesome times.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Reading these beautiful words I have remembered others by Saint Paul in a letter to the Corinthians: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><b>For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, </b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><b>as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal. </b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just stay calm and be strong in faith and in love, because if God is in our side, <b>who can be against us?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Links suggested:</u></i> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/thoughts-blessed-john-paul-ii-great.html">A message to the modern world (B. John Paul II)</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/jmj-2011-mass-madrid-videos.html">JMJ 2011 Mass - Musical videos</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-17911641802602565082011-08-20T11:08:00.003+02:002011-09-10T23:19:32.352+02:00Stand firm in faith<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In these days of the celebration of the <b>WYD</b>, now with His Holiness the <b>Pope Benedict XVI</b> among us, I would like to make a reflection about its deep meaning.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We, christians, are living hard times, <b>we are bullied, insulted and persecuted</b> in many places of the world, just to follow That who is the way, the truth and the life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That is why it´s so important and hopeful to see so many young people who aren´t afraid of being catholics, of declaring their faith, who carry inside of them the real happiness, that of God´s children. <b>They are our future and our hope</b>, they show us that a better world is possible, that there are still people who work to bring the Kingdom of God to our poor Earth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Saint Paul</b> told us in his letter to the <b>Ephesians</b> how we must behave in these times:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.</b></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. </b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.</span></b><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Ephesians 6, 10-18</i></span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Links suggested:</u></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/pencil-of-god.html">The pencil of God</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/christian-life-according-to-saint.html">Christian life according to a saint</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/09/ninety-nine-balloons.html">Ninety nine balloons</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-22462973716522617672011-08-11T21:25:00.004+02:002011-08-15T01:26:16.048+02:00Doing things together.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #003399; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i><u>Related links:</u></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/arrows-in-quiver-iv.html">...To the end of the world.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have even dared to ask for a cross (as if anyone of us doesn´t have one yet, those true crosses which are unbereably heavy). But I want a beautiful cross, those which give us a nice, even presumptuous experience.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But you have given me a really heavy cross, that that makes me suffer in the most absolute loneliness, that, which makes me feel so thirsty that no water can quench me, that, which makes me think that I am completely misunderstood, and makes me hate life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But then I feel relief when I realized that You are with me, that it is You who carry my cross, and only then I learn another lesson in my life.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Don´t look for Christ without the cross</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Related links:</u></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/beautiful-paths-of-god.html">The beautiful paths of God</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-does-love-look-like.html">What does love look like?</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/arrows-in-quiver-i.html">Arrows in the quiver (I)</a></span></div></div>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-89410979282097212892011-08-07T19:57:00.002+02:002011-08-07T20:32:38.753+02:00Sunday Snippets - A Catholic Carnival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/3d76adcdb12e8a09ad9aa7f982770a4c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/3d76adcdb12e8a09ad9aa7f982770a4c.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To welcome the new friends that want to read <a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/">my catholic blog</a>, I'd like to tell you that you will find several different articles about our faith. I want to share with you the last ones that I have posted:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- <a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/arrows-in-quiver-i.html"><b>Arrows in the quiver</b></a>: Brief reflexions on every day faith. This week we talk about how to <a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/arrows-in-quiver-iv.html">worship Christ in the Tabernacle</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- <b>Biblical quotes that every catholic should read</b>: <a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/biblical-quotes-that-every-catholic.html">about Jeremiah</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">-<b> Thoughts</b>, Blessed John Paul II: <a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/thoughts-blessed-john-paul-ii-great.html">the eyes of God</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- <b>Prayers</b>: <a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/to-pray-instrument-of-gods-peace.html">The instrument of peace</a>, by Saint Francis.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">- <b>Quotes</b>, Blessed Theresa of Calcutta: <a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/greatest-wealth.html">The greatest wealth</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Related links:</u></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/">Catholic Principles</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://principioscatolicos.blogspot.com/">Principios Católicos</a></span>Manuel Pérez Peñahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02321391856939805203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-23089626411887842032011-08-07T19:01:00.004+02:002011-08-07T23:57:08.775+02:00Arrows in the quiver (IV) ... To the end of the world.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jesus is in the closest tabernacle to your home, to your work, to the place where you are now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">He, as a loyal friend, doesn´t leave us, whatever the time is or whatever we are doing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Let your will turns into a worshipper of his close tabernacle, although your body isn´t there, although the church is closed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How beautiful it would be if a whole neighbourhood, a family, a home, unite their wills to pray to Jesus in the tabernacle from their homes, when they get up, when they go to bed or beginning their daily tasks.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Guardian Angel , now that I can´t be next to Him, fly there to adore Him</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Related links:</u></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/most-high-glorious-god-enlighten.html">Ask and you will receive</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/reward.html">The reward</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/pencil-of-god.html">The pencil of God</a> </span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-66037460010501209542011-08-02T21:31:00.002+02:002011-08-02T21:31:00.319+02:00Thoughts: Blessed John Paul II the Great<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/1686papa_juan_pablo_ii%20reducida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/1686papa_juan_pablo_ii%20reducida.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>There is a message that we must proclaim to the modern world, especially to those who are less fortunate, the homeless, the poor, the sick, the rejected, those who suffer in the hands of others.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u><i>Related links:</i></u></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/pencil-of-god.html">The pencil of God</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Where there is hatred, let me sow love;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>where there is injury, pardon;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>where there is doubt, faith;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>where there is despair, hope;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>where there is darkness, light;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>and where there is sadness, joy.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>to be consoled as to console;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>to be understood as to understand;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>to be loved as to love.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>For it is in giving that we receive;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/greatest-wealth.html">The greatest wealth</a></span></div>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-51342097005159974542011-07-29T20:05:00.002+02:002011-07-30T20:01:51.528+02:00Biblical quotes that every catholic should read: Jeremiah<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">God is stronger in His power of atraction than any disorder, depression or anguish that we could suffer. For those who love the Lord, the fire never puts out although we try to smother it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is what the prophet says:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped; </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>you were too strong for me, and you triumphed. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>All the day I am an object of laughter; </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>everyone mocks me.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>The word of the LORD has brought me derision and reproach all the day.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I say to myself, I will not mention him, </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I will speak in his name no more. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I grow weary holding it in, </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>I cannot endure it.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yes, but day in day out, I pay attention to the things I do and I wonder if I do them for love.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I think that my mission as a christian is to do great things,behave bravely,and carry out important tasks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But Jesus asks something much easier for me,first love TODAY and the rest will come later.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And that is what great saints did.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Love in everyday things, in each little detail, in our daily chores:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I clear the table after having eaten,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">when I photocopy something for someone at the office,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">when I give way to someone who is in a hurry, when I am driving,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">when I am in a lift and ask the person who is with me what floor he or she is going and I push the button for him or her,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">when I don´t gossip when someone invites me to do so,</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Without love nothing, with love everything.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Love and do what you like</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Saint Augustine</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Related links:</u></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/08/arrows-in-quiver-iv.html">Arrows (IV):... to the end of the world</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/beautiful-paths-of-god.html">The beautiful paths of God</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/biblical-quotes-that-every-catholic.html">O Lord, you duped me...</a></span><br />
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</div>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-15954931091639455612011-07-26T20:03:00.006+02:002011-08-07T23:59:02.508+02:00The beautiful paths of God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/Karl%20Leisner%20II.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/Karl%20Leisner%20II.jpg" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There is no easy path, but with the company of God every path is beautiful.</span></b><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <i>Blessed Karl Leisner</i></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These are the words of a german priest, Karl Leisner. His life is an example of what our lives should be. He lived for God´s love and in His love. He became a priest in a prisoner camp, Dachau, during WWII, and he only celebrated the Holy Mass once in his life, because he died almost immediately after being released. He was only thirty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But his life was so rich, so full of God that our beloved blessed Pope John Paul II, proclaimed him blessed in 1996.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As he said our way in this world never lacks of sufferings, problems, deceptions, doubts, but if we think that God is on our side, that He loves us as if each of us were the only ones in the world and that He cares and provides for us, how different our lives could be!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Let´s abandon ourselves in His divine hands and our journey will be really beautiful.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.schoenstatt.org/en/about-schoenstatt/schoenstatt-heroes/karl-leisner.htm">Schoenstatt: Karl Leisner</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/most-high-glorious-god-enlighten.html">Ask and you will receive.</a> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/arrows-in-quiver-i.html">Jesus, have mercy on me</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-41893361235160356942011-07-21T19:58:00.003+02:002011-07-21T20:04:06.728+02:00What does love look like?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/san-agustin2_reducida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/san-agustin2_reducida.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>What does love look like? </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>It has the hands to help others. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>It has eyes to see misery and want. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>That is what love looks like. </b></span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Saint Augustine </i></span></div>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-33353575071180575662011-07-21T19:37:00.004+02:002011-07-30T19:06:36.291+02:00Ask and you will receive<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Most High, glorious God,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>enlighten the darkness of my heart </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>and give me</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>true faith, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>certain hope, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>and perfect charity,</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>sense and knowledge, Lord, </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>that I may carry out </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Your holy and true command. Amen.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"> <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Saint Francis of Assisi</i></span><br />
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</span></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is one of my favourite prayer. When I repeat it, I feel I am asking God for all that is important to my life. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I am lost, when I don´t know what to do, I ask God to bring light to my heart.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I feel that my faith is weak, that I have doubts, I ask Him to grant me a true, strong faith.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I am sad, dissapointed, and dissilussioned with myself and with the ways the world are taking, I ask God a certain hope.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And when I see how selfish, in all ways, I can be, I ask He, who is allmighty, to give me a perfect charity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But about all I ask for that Knowledge that allows me to fulfill all that God is asking me to do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-does-love-look-like.html">What does love look like?</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-82858057847535373542011-07-18T20:18:00.002+02:002011-07-21T20:33:51.375+02:00The greatest wealth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/mother%20teresa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/mother%20teresa.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. </b></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. </span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In our world, we care a lot about material wealth. We want better jobs to earn more money to be able to send our children to the best schools and universities, to have a better house, a better car or to enhance our social relations.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> But we often forget the greatest of wealth, that which none can buy but it´s within our hand reach: Love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There is no more powerful force than. love. Everything is possible when you love and are loved.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless to love is sometimes difficult, because it means sacrifice,dedication, giving up my own confort to seek out that of the other, to accept the others as they really are, not what we want them to be, and this is not always easy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> But we are never richer than when we love and feel loved. It is the greatest joy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> And as Mother Theresa said, let´s begin with those who are closer to us, our own family, those we share our lives with. And from there , the whole humankind will be our limit.</span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-65126866171707278272011-07-17T20:33:00.004+02:002011-07-30T20:03:48.885+02:00The reward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/03_17%20madre%20teresa%20reducida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/03_17%20madre%20teresa%20reducida.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>You will teach to fly, but they will not fly your flight.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>you will teach to dream, but they will not dream your dream.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>You will teach to live, but they will not live you life.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Nevertheless in each flight, each dream, each life,</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>the sign of the taught way will last forever.</b></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">An interesting reflection about the mission of parents, teachers and catechists.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>In spanish:</u></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Enseñarás a volar, pero no volarán tu vuelo.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Enseñarás a soñar, pero no soñarán tu sueño.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Enseñarás a vivir pero no vivirán tu vida.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sin embargo, en cada vuelo, en cada sueño,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">en cada vida perdurará la huella del camino enseñado.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If You don´t hold me, I don´t know what will become of me.I often forget Your Mercy and I think that I can "win" my salvation that I can get it on my own.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But the merit and the mercy are Yours alone, nothing more, nothing less.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I only have to let myself be guided by your Grace,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">but I am reluctant to do so, and I don´t even know why.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><u>Related links:</u></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/arrows-in-quiver-ii.html">My will or Your will?</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/pencil-of-god.html">The pencil of God</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/arrows-in-quiver-ii.html">Arrows (II): My will or Your will?</a></span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-61293297056653126232011-07-16T20:59:00.001+02:002011-07-21T20:11:17.696+02:00Christian life according to a saint<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/album_10%20reducida.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26999687/album_10%20reducida.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is beauty, admire it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is bliss, taste it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a dream, realize it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a challenge, meet it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a duty, complete it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a game, play it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a promise, fulfill it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is sorrow, overcome it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a song, sing it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a struggle, accept it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is a tragedy, confront it. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is an adventure, dare it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is luck, make it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is too precious, do not destroy it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Life is life, fight for it.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Mother Teresa of Calcutta</span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I think that there is no better way to say what life must be for a christian and that nobody has said it more beautifully.</span>Ana María Rodríguezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655947645311084700noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157306733294232609.post-65353320642734820392011-07-16T20:44:00.001+02:002011-07-21T20:09:24.347+02:00Principios Católicos in English<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Some of these articles you are reading or are about to read, are translations from those you can find in our blog called "Principios Católicos".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> It is written in Spanish, but if you can get by in it, you can have more information, videos and downloads in that page.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We hope that we can be of any help to you in your way to Christ.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://principioscatolicos.blogspot.com/">Principios Católicos, en español</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/arrows-in-quiver-i.html">Arrows in the quiver (I): 'My' own salvation</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://catholicprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/reward.html">The reward</a></span><br />
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