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Jesus, Divine Master, draw us to you so that by following in your footsteps and renouncing ourselves, we may seek only your will. #FirstSunday #DivineMaster #MonthlyRetreat #MediaNuns (at Daughters of Saint Paul)

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St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, pray for us! #MysticalBodyOfChrist #LivingTabernacle #Eucharist

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Portraits of the Ocean’s Power by @raycollinsphoto

To see more of Ray’s dramatic seascapes, follow @raycollinsphoto on Instagram.

Ray Collins (@raycollinsphoto) captures portraits, but not the kind you are used to. A lifelong beachgoer from New South Wales, Ray was unable to walk or surf for six months following a knee injury. During his rehabilitation, he picked up a camera and discovered endless inspiration in the power of ocean waves. “Every kind of emotion you can have as a human being can be tied to the ocean and the moods of the ocean,” he explains.

Ray can spend months studying storm trajectories in pursuit of the most dramatic seascapes, but he has learned you can’t predict what will happen: “It’s rogue and there’s rocks and there’s riptides and currents. The physical act of pushing the button to capture the photo is the end of a chain of events.” One of Ray’s strongest endorsements of the ocean’s strength can only be experienced firsthand: “The sound is something that you can’t capture. It goes reverb through your whole body.”

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#Oceans #GodsArt

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For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world. #DivineMercy #DivineMaster

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The story of Christ's encounter with the Samaritan woman is a template by which we can understand our own encounter with the Lord.

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“[N]o prophet is accepted in his own native place.”

Luke 4:24-30

Sometimes I find it more difficult to see Jesus in the person that in some ways are very similar to myself.

Jesus, give me the grace to accept the part of me that I detest. Help me to see and believe that you accept me as I am and that you enter my heart to transform it into yours. Thank you for showing me that this is the way I can accept and love my brothers and sisters as they are. Amen.

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Jesus looked at them and said, “For men it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.” Mk 10:17-27

ALL THINGS POSSIBLE by Mark Schultz

[Verse 1]

I will call on Your name

For there’s always a way

When You lead me

And when life knocks me down

I am not counted out

For You’re with me

And You’re with me

  [Chorus:]

Even when it feels like the light is fading

And I’ve lost my way

Still I’m holding on to the One who’s making

All things possible

Even when it feels like my heart is breaking

Hold on, there is strength

Knowing I belong to the One who’s making

All things possible

[Verse 2]

I know mountains can move

I’ve seen what You can do

In my weakness

So my heart will believe

If I wait I will see

My God doing, what only He can do

[Bridge:]

My God is strong and mighty

My God is faithful

My hope is in the Lord

For He is able

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New York Festival of Song

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Matt Maher - Burning In My Soul

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Be careful not to seek yourself in love, you'll end up with a broken heart that way!

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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CHOOSING TO TRUST Trust, I might say reluctantly enough, is everything. Trust is hope and faith, and at those moments when we determine to see in the things we most want to argue about, thrash under, and pay God back for - to see in these things only a series of invitations into the wide places of his heart, it is love. Or it can be love if we ask it to be so.

Sr Miriam Pollard, The Listening God

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Might Fortress

by Aaron Shust

Verse 1

              F#m               D

He won't abandon, He won't deceive

                A                    Esus

He won't desert us, He won't ever leave

      E            F#m                 D

He'll never forsake us, He won't ever run

                A                    Esus

He'll never reject us, the Faithful One

D2      A           E(add4)

  Your love will remain

D2      A           E(add4)

  Your love will remain

Chorus

A

 A mighty fortress is our God

 A tower of Strength never failing 

F#m7

 The name of Jesus, true and strong

D2

 No other power could ever save us

E             A/C#         D2

 You are good,    You are good

                  F#m

 Mighty Fortress

Verse 2

You won't abandon, You won't deceive

You won't desert us, You won't ever leave

You'll never forsake us, You won't ever run

You'll never reject us, the Faithful One

Your love will remain

Your love will remain

Bridge

Bsus        A/C#  D2                          Bsus         

    Yesterday and today and forever, Your love will remain

A/C#     D2

    Nothing has the power to sever Your love

Bsus             A/C#  D2

    You are good, You are good, and Your mercy endures 

Bsus            A/C#   D2

    You are good, You are good

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The Broken

(Bebo Norman)

  In the dark night Is there a shelter or a rescue light? Is there a fire burning up the plight That plagues my shallow heart? Because lately I swear this world is just a maze to me My eyes are blinded by the things I see That are tearing us all apart So, God of the universe Do you hear the cries That pour out from all the earth? Can your hands of glory Reach down and heal the hurt Of the broken? For so long The hands of hunger held an empty song Under the burden that they don't belong It's the poverty of the soul And, but the weight of The weight of glory can still rise above Capture the captives on the wings of love And carry us to our home So, God of the universe Do you hear the cries That pour out from all the earth? Can your hands of glory Reach down and heal the hurt Of the broken? And God of eternal things Will you give us eyes To see all the light you bring? Will you be the voice That causes our hearts to sing For the broken? Can we fall in love again for the first time? We wanna fall in love again just like the first time, yeah Can we fall in love again? God of the universe When we hear the cries That pour out from all the earth Will you give us hands To reach out and heal the hurt Of the broken? And God over everything Will you give us eyes To see all the light you bring? Will you be the voice That causes our hearts to sing For the broken?

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Life of Pi

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Nature by Numbers by Cristóbal Vila

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(cf Psalm 62:6) Verse 1

F#m  A/E                         Dmaj7 A

 Who spoke the earth and sky to form

F#m   A/E                   Dmaj7   A

 Who sets the sun and calls the dawn

F#m       A/E                   Dmaj7 A

 Who breathed me out of dust to life

F#m        A/E                Dmaj7   A

 With the will to trust or run and hide

Chorus

    F#m     E                       D          A

I will stay should the world by me fold

D                  F#m             E            A

Lift up Your Name as the darkness falls

      F#m        E             D            A

I will wait and hold fast to Your word

D                     F#m              E         F#m       A/E    D

Heart on Your heart and my eyes on Yours

Verse 2

Who loved me through my rebel way

Who chose to carry all my shame

Who breathes in me with endless life

The King of glory Jesus Christ

Instrumental

F#m    D    A    E/A    A    E/B

Bridge

E                             F#m

God of wonder and God of grace

D                          A

Let my soul stand always to praise You

E                                F#m               D

Fix my eyes on Your perfect way

And I'll never look back

Verse 3

Who lifts the poor and heals the blind

Who trampled death for all mankind

Who stands for all with arms stretched wide

My King forever Jesus Christ

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Patient Trust

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything

     to reach the end without delay.

We should like to skip the intermediate stages.

We are impatient of being on the way to something

     unknown, something new.

And yet it is the law of all progress

     that it is made by passing through

     some stages of instability—

     and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you;

     your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,

     let them shape themselves, without undue haste.

Don’t try to force them on,

     as though you could be today what time

     (that is to say, grace and circumstances

     acting on your own good will)

     will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit

     gradually forming within you will be.

Give Our Lord the benefit of believing

     that his hand is leading you,

and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself

     in suspense and incomplete.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ