I was cleaning out one of my boxes and found a notebook that has all my notes from Tito Jess's Catholic morality class, the Prayer of Jabez, and the talks I went to at the National Catholic Family Conference that year.
Powerhouse.
Fr. Bill Casey. Fr. Shannon Collins. Michael Cumbie. Tim Staples. Fr. Straub.
Those were the days...
So I decided to make them my New Year's meditations. Not just for the day, but for the WHOLE YEAR.
What grace comes from going back to your roots and relearning everything that committed your heart in the first place.
Regina sent me this prayer, and truly...it was everything I needed to hear for this coming year.
"Disturb us, O Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves; when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little; when we have arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore; Stir us, O Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture more seas, where storms shall show your mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. In the Name of Him who pushed back the horizons of our hopes...and invited us to follow Him. Amen."Here's to a year consecrated to Jesus through Mary...a year of expanding territory...claimed for the Kingdom of God.
+AMDG+
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