Advice from my spiritual director that everyone could benefit from for Lent:
Try embracing crosses of daily annoyances.
Pray before speaking to anyone.
Trust, listen, surrender.
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After the Fall there is suffering. Because of Jesus on the Cross we have to embrace suffering. I should not fear the Cross. |
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Now in my elderly years, like St. Thomas Aquinas toward the end of his life, I need mystical prayer now, not more achievement.k here to edit. |
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Padre Pio: To read about God is to pursue God. To meditate God is to possess God. |
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A new friend of mine, Dave Dowd, wrote a book of poems called:
Love, Life, Family and the Boston Red Sox
He is a militant Pro-Lifer, and a lover of the Tridentine Mass, but also a long time Red Sox fan. So, since the book starts with the baseball poems, this could be an ideal book to give to someone you know who loves sports and who you would like to also understand the militant pro-life cause as well.
Love, Life, Family and the Boston Red Sox
He is a militant Pro-Lifer, and a lover of the Tridentine Mass, but also a long time Red Sox fan. So, since the book starts with the baseball poems, this could be an ideal book to give to someone you know who loves sports and who you would like to also understand the militant pro-life cause as well.
Here are some lines from different poems in the book to give you a taste:
The image of a book being “a little footprint on the beaches of life.”
Spiritual Directors are like buoys in the channel.
(When protesting evil such as abortion), intensity comes from giving ones all.
(From a poem called Urban Nightmares): “lovers hurled from promiscuous beds.”
(From Sons of Vikings): “We’re going for a sail even though the ship is sinking.”
Fallen Nature Love: Laughter Rises as Pitchforks.
“ If flight has failed…he buries his head in the sand.”
“Godless men of empty words; death’s dirge sing.”
“Particles from sin are slime on the soul.”
“And while man stumbles and falls, the devil collects rent.”
(From a Poem called Harvesting Voices of Hope - about Project Rachel) “She’s searched cemeteries for her lost soul. In her dreams she’d see her prancing sweet foal.”
“As teachers, not taught, pressed grapes with no wine.”
Goofy Boy from Boston:
“He did not know how well he wrote, He just tried …to write the right thing.”
“Reveals the warmth where hearts can play.”
(About Jesus) “Most of us run from His type of fame.”
“Sadness is a weak emotion; Joy’s a stronger better potion.”
“His Love never leaves, we’re the dumbos who do.”
The image of a book being “a little footprint on the beaches of life.”
Spiritual Directors are like buoys in the channel.
(When protesting evil such as abortion), intensity comes from giving ones all.
(From a poem called Urban Nightmares): “lovers hurled from promiscuous beds.”
(From Sons of Vikings): “We’re going for a sail even though the ship is sinking.”
Fallen Nature Love: Laughter Rises as Pitchforks.
“ If flight has failed…he buries his head in the sand.”
“Godless men of empty words; death’s dirge sing.”
“Particles from sin are slime on the soul.”
“And while man stumbles and falls, the devil collects rent.”
(From a Poem called Harvesting Voices of Hope - about Project Rachel) “She’s searched cemeteries for her lost soul. In her dreams she’d see her prancing sweet foal.”
“As teachers, not taught, pressed grapes with no wine.”
Goofy Boy from Boston:
“He did not know how well he wrote, He just tried …to write the right thing.”
“Reveals the warmth where hearts can play.”
(About Jesus) “Most of us run from His type of fame.”
“Sadness is a weak emotion; Joy’s a stronger better potion.”
“His Love never leaves, we’re the dumbos who do.”
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