Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

  March 26, 2024 Hi!   How is each and every one?   We are now in the Tuesday of Holy Week. Today, the 26 th of March is a special day for me, it is my anniversary and I would appreciate your prayers and offerings for my person and intentions;   that I may learn how to love as Jesus loves freely, totally, faithfully and fruitfully. Last Sunday was Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord, a day on which the Church enters upon the mystery of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of her Lord, and brings together the triumphal procession of Christ as king and the proclamation of his passion. The faithful take part in the procession singing and waving branches of the palm tree or other trees in their hands.   The branches are blessed so that they may be carried in procession, and be devoutly kept at home to call to mind the victory of Christ as celebrated by today’s procession. For the spiritual good of the faithful it is appropriate that the narrative of the Passion be read in its entir

  March 19, 2024 Hi!   How is each and every one?   Today is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The whole Church is celebrating this occasion and turning to St. Joseph, Ite ad Ioseph , honoring him and asking him for whatever concerns each one has. The Bible pays Joseph the highest compliment: he was a “just” man. The quality meant a lot more than faithfulness in paying debts.    When the Bible speaks of God “justifying” someone, it means that God, the all-holy or “righteous” One, so transforms a person that the individual shares somehow in God’s own holiness, and hence it is really “right” for God to love him or her. In other words, God is not playing games, acting as if we were lovable when we are not.    By saying Joseph was “just,” the Bible means that he was one who was completely open to all that God wanted to do for him. He became holy by opening himself totally to God.  The rest we can easily surmise. Think of the kind of love with which

  March 12, 2024 Hi! How is each and every one? Tomorrow is the 11 th Anniversary of the election of the Holy Father Pope Francis. Let us celebrate and continue praying for the Holy Father, that God preserve him, and grant him life, and make him holy on earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemies. Omnes cum Petro ad Iesum per Mariam All with Peter to Jesus through Mary. I thought it good to go back to the events around the election of Pope Francis and how St. Josemaria, Founder of Opus Dei and his first and second successors, highly regard the Holy Father and his theologically based advice to his children in Opus Dei. Omnes cum Petro ( All with Peter) Two events left a special mark on the first half of 2013: the announcement of Benedict XVI’s resignation from the See of Peter, on February 11, and the election of Pope Francis as the new Roman Pontiff, on March 13. In his final general audience, Benedict XVI said that “the Pope is never alone... The Pope belongs to

  March 5, 2024 Love Freely, Totally, Faithfully and Fruitfully Hi!   How is each and every one? This post seems to be bringing us back to last month, love month, right? Not really!   It is just reminding us that every day, every month, all through the year is a day, a month, a year to love.   Love is what truly makes life worth living, love is what gives meaning to our existence, and who is that love? No other than the Absolute Love of all, God, Himself. We just started the month of women, International Women’s month.   Allow me to share the following verse Women of Prayer that was shared with me. Do pray for me as well for this day, March 8, happens to also be my birthday.   Following now is the last but definitely not the least of the step in achieving the transformation we have been working on ( From Broken Gods , Hope, Healing, and the Seven Longings of the Human Heart, Gregory K. Popcak, Ph. D. Ch 3). Love Freepik Dreamstime.com Finally, we come to the last vir