Renew the World, and quotes from Thomas Merton

During a homily the other day one of our priests quoted Thomas Merton. I think it was the first one

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing... - Thomas Merton

"You will probably, if you continue as you do, begin the laborious job of changing the national mind and opening up the national conscience. How far will you get? God alone knows. All that you and I can ever hope for in terms of visible results is that we will have perhaps contributed something to a clarification of Christian truth in this society, and as a result, a few people may have got it straight about some things and opened up to the grace of God and made some sense out of their lives, helping a few more to do the same." Thomas Merton

" All the good that you will do will come not from you but from the fact that you have allowed yourself, in the obedience of faith, to be used by God's love. ...The real hope, then, is not in something we think we can do, but in God who is making something good out of it in some way, we cannot see. If we can do His will, we will be helping in this process. But we will not necessarily know all about it beforehand." Thomas Merton

August 8, 2018 - at the Kiosk

For about a year and a half now I have had the privilege of making rosaries for Blessed Sacrament parish. Last week Angelina mentioned to me that  the rosary basket was empty and so I got busy and made a few dozen this past weekend

Most Wednesday afternoons  Dennis and Angelina Girard have a program DnA live from the Kiosk so I thought it would be a good day to drop by with the rosaries and stay for the presentations. 

Today there were two awesome guests: Sebastian Muggeridge and  Dominic Crouzat. They both gave very powerful testimonies.  Sebastian Muggeridge is a seminarian with the Companions of the Cross. 

After their talks, Fr. Tim Nelligan spoke a little about St. Dominic and closed with a beautiful prayer.  

Thank you Mama Mary for the wonderful afternoon!

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Sebastian, Fr. Tim Nelligan, Dominic, Dennis, Angelina

The Feast of St. Dominic is celebrated on August 8th. ST. DOMINIC was born in Spain, in 1170. As a student, he sold his books to feed the poor in a famine, and offered himself in ransom for a slave. At the age of twenty-five he became superior of the Canons Regular of Osma, and accompanied his Bishop to France. There his heart was well-nigh broken by the ravages of the Albigenian heresy, and his life was henceforth devoted to the conversion of heretics and the defence of the Faith. For this end he established his threefold religious Order. The convent for nuns was founded first, to rescue young girls from heresy and crime. Then a company of apostolic men gathered around him, and became the Order of Friar Preachers. Lastly came the Tertiaries, persons of both sexes living in the world. God blessed the new Order, and France, Italy, Spain, and England welcomed the Preaching Friars. Our Lady took them under her special protection, and whispered to St. Dominic as he preached. It was in 1208, while St. Dominic knelt in the little chapel of Notre Dame de la Prouille, and implored the great Mother of God to save the Church, that Our Lady appeared to him, gave him the Rosary, and bade him go forth and preach. Beads in hand, he revived the courage of the Catholic troops, led them to victory against overwhelming numbers, and finally crushed the heresy. His nights were spent in prayer; and, though pure as a virgin, thrice before morning broke he scourged himself to blood. His words rescued countless souls, and three times raised the dead to life. At length, on August 6, 1221, at the age of fifty-one, he gave up his soul to God. Reflection.—”God has never,” said St. Dominic, “refused me what I have asked;” and he has left us the Rosary, that we may learn, with Mary’s help, to pray easily and simply in the same holy trust. Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894] DnA Live from the SHRINE Thursday, August 23rd  at 1:30 PM  Special Guest: Bishop Pierre-Olivier Tremblay