In the midst of this icy spell, our wood cook stove is keeping us very comfortable. The hard work of downing trees and splitting logs is warming us again through the winter.
We pray that all have had a blessed Christmas and New Year's time with their families. We are asking all of our friends to pray for the persecuted Christians around the world, many of whom are being martyred by anti-Christian forces. We especially remember in prayer St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla outside Abuja, Nigeria that was attacked on Christmas Day.
It is the children who suffer that wracks the heart with great cracks of sorrow. Lord Jesus, send the angels to protect them. Let us hug our own children tonight and tell them we love them. Then pray for our broken world to be healed.
Living our faith in plain and humble service to Jesus, Our Lord and Savior ... ORA ET LABORA +++ Sentire cum Ecclesia (to think and to feel with the Church)
Rejoice in hope; endure in affliction; persevere in prayer. Romans 12:12
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
St. John Paul II
I have a mustard seed; and I am not afraid to use it. (Habeo granum sinapis quod uti non timeo)
Pope Benedict XVI
But I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing, direct murder by the mother herself."
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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