Blessings, grace and gratitude

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Even though I sometimes get discouraged,Our Heavenly Father has given me many blessings.My family(wife,son,daughter,daughter-in law,3 grand-daughters,2grandsons,)Even the family members who cause me the most heartache.They keep me humble and on my knees.I am thankful for the Holy Father,Pope Benedict,My Parish St.Anthony,our Priest Father Amal.Most of all I am thankful for the Grace given us by the sacrifice of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.May I humbly offer this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQZ057ftfhw .May our Lord Bless You.Rocky
 
Cinette said:
It is now 4h36am and I have been up since a little before 3am. For some years now my sleeping pattern has been disturbed so as evening comes I feel sleepy and most times I fall asleep early, often on the sofa!! Then at 3 in the morning I am wide awake!! I don’t mind very much as I use this time very well.

Today I need prayers. Yesterday my daughter who also lives in the same city and who gave birth 2 months ago to a beautiful baby Leah phoned to tell me that for the past two nights little Leah has slept for 12 hours and 10 hours at a stretch. Later yesterday she took Leah to the doctor as she had a bad cough and fever. Firstly I was worried that such a little baby should sleep 10 and 12 hours at a stretch - this is not normal. The Doctor also did not think this was good but we thought that perhaps it was the fever which caused this. Anyway I have prayed that all will be well.

A friend expressed a need for prayers and there are so many little things converging on me at this time that I felt hot although the temperature is rather cold. I was in a hot sweat (never mind a cold sweat!!) as I prayed my rosary earlier. Now I have calmed down and feel the nippiness of the day. I was thinking of all those who need our prayers, those who are without work, those who are ill or looking after a sick person, those who have all kinds of problems. I thought of my friend and prayed. I then remembered CAF and all the people who network, interact and communicate and how although we may never meet, there is a bond, a friendship and :love::love:. How wonderful it is to know that we care and that we can lean on each other for prayers and comfort.

Thank you Almighty God for your wonderful creation. Thank you most of all for the love that comforts and sustains us.

Blessings to all
Cinette:)
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I go to Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist at 2:00 AM in the morning. At that time Jesus is all ears. Tuesday will be my next time to go. You and others will be included in my prayers. Please let us know how your grandbaby is doing.

Blessings
granny

All human life is sacred from the moment of conception.
 
HI Granny!, what is perpetual Euchristed? and why are you there at 2 am? Is it on tv? I hope no one is reading this they will think i am a nut because i dont know what you are talking about. please enlighten me? love of Christ Nancy " HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL"
 
Indeed, happy Mother’s Day, all you wonderful mothers! 🙂 🙂

And benedictus2, I fully agree. That’s a good point about how the good things are ignored by the press, and I need to keep that in mind more often. Good news doesn’t sell. Neither do pro-conservative stories in many cases, either. It’s too true. I’ll try to keep that in mind more; it’s encouraging to keep in mind!
 
HI Lief,
How are you? Do you know what they are saying? i got my first study book today on the Catholic church and tomorrow i will read as much as i can Love of Chrsit Nancy PROVERBS 11:14 🙂
 
A lady I once knew who suffered greatly from depression once told me that what saw her through it all was the knowledge that she had been baptized and no one can take that away from her.

I wondered then about my own baptism and lately have been thinking a lot about that. What does it mean for me to be baptized? To be a daughter of God and of His Church?

So last year as my birthday neared I decided to stop celebrating my birthday celebrate my baptismal day instead.

I dug up my Baptismal certificate and as I read, my eyes misted over. A profound joy seeped into my soul at the knowledge of being made a daughter of God. The words are so beautiful and so profound.

I then looked up whose feast day it was that day. Aaahh! What joy to find that it was St Catherine of Sienna. And I don’t even know much about her save that she persuaded Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome. I had since read that Christ appeared to her garbed in Papal attire.

Thank God for the saints who watch over us, and intercede for us even when we do not know them all that well.
 
Hi! i JUST FOUND OUT WHO MY FEAST DAY SAINT IS: It is St Barnabas, He is celebrated on June 11th:
St. Barnabas
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Barnabas (originally Joseph), styled an Apostle in Holy Scripture, and, like St. Paul, ranked by the Church with the Twelve, though not one of them; b. of Jewish parents in the Island of Cyprus about the beginning of the Christian Era. A Levite, he naturally spent much time in Jerusalem, probably even before the Crucifixion of Our Lord, and appears also to have settled there (where his relatives, the family of Mark the Evangelist, likewise had their homes — Acts 12:12) and to have owned land in its vicinity (4:36-37). A rather late tradition recorded by Clement of Alexandria (Stromata II.20) and Eusebius (Church History II.1) says that he was one of the seventy Disciples; but Acts (4:36-37) favours the opinion that he was converted to Christianity shortly after Pentecost (about A.D. 29 or 30) and immediately sold his property and devoted the proceeds to the Church. The Apostles, probably because of his success as a preacher, for he is later placed first among the prophets and doctors of Antioch (xiii, 1), surnamed him Barnabas, a name then interpreted as meaning “son of exhortation” or “consolation”. (The real etymology, however, is disputed. See Encyl. Bibli., I, col. 484.) Though nothing is recorded of Barnabas for some years, he evidently acquired during this period a high position in the Church.
There are some Fathers who say he may have helped wriet Hebrew’s? Does anyone have anything on this? Well i am thankful for being here,and for Curtis getting a phone call yesterday form a lady in the church. It seems he will be starting his RCIA classes Monday night! YES!
 
nancy_dalrymple said:
Hi! i JUST FOUND OUT WHO MY FEAST DAY SAINT IS: It is St Barnabas, He is celebrated on June 11th:
St. Barnabas
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Barnabas (originally Joseph), styled an Apostle in Holy Scripture, and, like St. Paul, ranked by the Church with the Twelve, though not one of them; b. of Jewish parents in the Island of Cyprus about the beginning of the Christian Era. A Levite, he naturally spent much time in Jerusalem, probably even before the Crucifixion of Our Lord, and appears also to have settled there (where his relatives, the family of Mark the Evangelist, likewise had their homes — Acts 12:12) and to have owned land in its vicinity (4:36-37). A rather late tradition recorded by Clement of Alexandria (Stromata II.20) and Eusebius (Church History II.1) says that he was one of the seventy Disciples; but Acts (4:36-37) favours the opinion that he was converted to Christianity shortly after Pentecost (about A.D. 29 or 30) and immediately sold his property and devoted the proceeds to the Church. The Apostles, probably because of his success as a preacher, for he is later placed first among the prophets and doctors of Antioch (xiii, 1), surnamed him Barnabas, a name then interpreted as meaning “son of exhortation” or “consolation”. (The real etymology, however, is disputed. See Encyl. Bibli., I, col. 484.) Though nothing is recorded of Barnabas for some years, he evidently acquired during this period a high position in the Church.
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That’s great Nancy! I think the saints are very influential in our lives. He probably had a hand in guiding you back home:)

I have just finished replying ot a thread where he figured quite prominently in the discussion.

You also have an apostolate here at CAF so drop him a quick word whenever you log on.
There are some Fathers who say he may have helped wriet Hebrew’s? Does anyone have anything on this?
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Not sure about that one. I might read up on it. There is a belief though that the writer was certainly in Pauls’ circle.
Well i am thankful for being here,and for Curtis getting a phone call yesterday form a lady in the church. It seems he will be starting his RCIA classes Monday night! YES!
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Yeeyyy! Praised be to God.
 
nancy_dalrymple said:
Hi! i JUST FOUND OUT WHO MY FEAST DAY SAINT IS: It is St Barnabas, He is celebrated on June 11th:
St. Barnabas
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Barnabas (originally Joseph), styled an Apostle in Holy Scripture, and, like St. Paul, ranked by the Church with the Twelve, though not one of them; b. of Jewish parents in the Island of Cyprus about the beginning of the Christian Era. A Levite, he naturally spent much time in Jerusalem, probably even before the Crucifixion of Our Lord, and appears also to have settled there (where his relatives, the family of Mark the Evangelist, likewise had their homes — Acts 12:12) and to have owned land in its vicinity (4:36-37). A rather late tradition recorded by Clement of Alexandria (Stromata II.20) and Eusebius (Church History II.1) says that he was one of the seventy Disciples; but Acts (4:36-37) favours the opinion that he was converted to Christianity shortly after Pentecost (about A.D. 29 or 30) and immediately sold his property and devoted the proceeds to the Church. The Apostles, probably because of his success as a preacher, for he is later placed first among the prophets and doctors of Antioch (xiii, 1), surnamed him Barnabas, a name then interpreted as meaning “son of exhortation” or “consolation”. (The real etymology, however, is disputed. See Encyl. Bibli., I, col. 484.) Though nothing is recorded of Barnabas for some years, he evidently acquired during this period a high position in the Church.
There are some Fathers who say he may have helped wriet Hebrew’s? Does anyone have anything on this? Well i am thankful for being here,and for Curtis getting a phone call yesterday form a lady in the church. It seems he will be starting his RCIA classes Monday night! YES!
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Praise be to God! 🙂 I’m very happy for you, Nancy!
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HI Lief,
How are you? Do you know what they are saying? i got my first study book today on the Catholic church and tomorrow i will read as much as i can Love of Chrsit Nancy PROVERBS 11:14
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You know, you are gaining such wisdom from Christ. He is really just putting it on you; in your gratitude and true pursuit of Jesus you will be overwhelmingly enriched in the faith, and you are being so now. It’s very, very beautiful for me to say; you are blessing me.
 
Lief_Erikson said:
Praise be to God! 🙂 I’m very happy for you, Nancy!

You know, you are gaining such wisdom from Christ. He is really just putting it on you; in your gratitude and true pursuit of Jesus you will be overwhelmingly enriched in the faith, and you are being so now. It’s very, very beautiful for me to say; you are blessing me.
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Thank you Lief, i dont know what to say, because i never hear i’m a Blessing to anyone much in my life, and that means alot to me. You to have Blessed me with your knowledge, and if you dont mind i will keep on asking you question’s on thing’s i need to know. You are Loved Nancy:)
 
nancy_dalrymple said:
Thank you Lief, i dont know what to say, because i never hear i’m a Blessing to anyone much in my life, and that means alot to me. You to have Blessed me with your knowledge, and if you dont mind i will keep on asking you question’s on thing’s i need to know. You are Loved Nancy:)
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I second what Leif said about you being a blessing and I second what you said about Lief being a blessing to us with his knowledge.

Which brings me to another thing I am truly grateful for: the internet and CAF which has been instrumental in my learning more about my faith and meeting wonderful people that I would otherwise would not have known.

Praise be to our most loving God!
 
I met someone on here and i dont think he is comming back, it is sad when you corrospond with someone and they are no more, Please pray for this person for he has alot on his plate and i dont know how to help him:( Did you ever get that Hollow feeling? Like part of your famliy cut you off? I thank Jesus that i met this person,i know he is sad.Pray that he has a change of heart some day. thank you Love of Christ Nancy Please keep praying for Bruce to find work and his famliy will be taken care of in Jesus name AMEN! You are the Blessing.
 
grannymh said:
I go to Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist at 2:00 AM in the morning. At that time Jesus is all ears. Tuesday will be my next time to go. You a
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nd others will be included in my prayers. Please let us know how your grandbaby is doing.

Blessings
granny

All human life is sacred from the moment of conception.

Hello Grannymh!

Thank you for your prayers. Hey watch out! I went to Perpetual Adoration for 4 1/2 years - my hour was 3am but I did many hours when people were on holiday and I took their place and I also did a novena once. I stopped because my husband was ill but to this day that is why my sleep pattern has changed!!! Only sometimes do I wish I could have normal sleep pattern. Most of the time I am happy because I spend the time reading or on Catholic Answers and EWTN at those early hours!!

Baby Leah spent the night here on Saturday. My daughter was visiting with three of her children and my son was in town on business and also because his son was here for a rugby “festival” and was representing his school (they live in another province [county?]) When my daughter was leaving we discovered that she had locked her keys in the car!! We called the AA but it took ages for them to come so the family slept here and although little Leah was niggly in the afternoon she slept without a peep. Little Francis joined us in bed during the night and it was so nice to have them all under my roof - it is such a blessing.

Frannymh - you can pray for my daugter Francoise and her husband Dominic to experience a massive conversion - like that the children will become Christians.

Thank you
Cinette:)
 
nancy_dalrymple said:
Thank you Lief, i dont know what to say, because i never hear i’m a Blessing to anyone much in my life, and that means alot to me. You to have Blessed me with your knowledge, and if you dont mind i will keep on asking you question’s on thing’s i need to know. You are Loved Nancy:)
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By the way, in my post when I said, “very beautiful for me to say,” I meant “to see.”

Please do ask me whatever questions you may have. I’ll do what I can to answer informatively.
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benedictus2:
I second what Leif said about you being a blessing and I second what you said about Lief being a blessing to us with his knowledge.

Which brings me to another thing I am truly grateful for: the internet and CAF which has been instrumental in my learning more about my faith and meeting wonderful people that I would otherwise would not have known.
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Thank-you, and thank-you Nancy too.

I completely agree about Catholic Answers. I’ve met a lot of extremely good people here, and the site also helped to build me while I was going through RCIA, as well as before. The library Catholic Answers has, the faith tracts and especially the Early Church Fathers documents, were very helpful in building my knowledge of Catholicism as I came toward the faith.
 
hello folks
peace and love of christ be with you all
was just surfing the threads
this is an amazing thread as it tells the real story of god s love for us, from real ppl
your stories are great testimonies for, with, and in jesus
will visit from time to time

i want to share sthg simple
jesus said simple remain in me in sundays gos pel about 5 times
did you all get it
so simple to get blessings grace and peace
stimes we work so hard at things and forget the simple things
the whole bible can be as simple as these three words
remain in me
have a great day alll
 
HI Ben and Leif, I have something so important to send you that you need to wait for my e-mail and realy go to the site i give you and look at something. Thank you Nancy Then get back to me on it,.😦
 
Welcome Lesto,i hope you will enjoy yourself here and you will get a blessing as we all get. There are times that you will be up and down but we are all here to help you in what ever we can do for you. Enjoy! Love of Christ Nancy:)
 
Thanks nancy for your warm welcome here
I remember the sign of peace right away after the lords prayer
a true catholic

I also want to let all on this thread know that blessings flow in faith
and the end of psalm 27 says it all to
wait I say, wait on the lord
For yrs I acted in a position no salary to its post
and just last week I got the promotion to the post
What i can say here is it came when I never ever expexcted it and I know its the work of the lord too
The story is a long one but I remained in jesus always
so blessings all till
 
Hello! Peekaboo!
All is quiet on the western front, now that’s someting to have gratitude for. Just Kidding, Wher is everyone? Well anyway’s i am thankful for tonight cause i get to go to bed early. i need some advice i will be real thankful for, i ahve a chance to go back to school for my bachelors, in phycology, and theology online, but my biggest fear is i am not a computer person and i spell stinky,but i am going to take classes in the summer in English,i need to brush up on my punctuations and some spelling and i could do it except for the machine i have not mastered it, but i am thankful for having one and i have learned alot useing it. Well you all take care and God Bless love of Christ Nancy
 
nancy_dalrymple said:
Hello! Peekaboo!
All is quiet on the western front, now that’s someting to have gratitude for. Just Kidding, Wher is everyone? Well anyway’s i am thankful for tonight cause i get to go to bed early. i need some advice i will be real thankful for, i ahve a chance to go back to school for my bachelors, in phycology, and theology online, but my biggest fear is i am not a computer person and i spell stinky,but i am going to take classes in the summer in English,i need to brush up on my punctuations and some spelling and i could do it except for the machine i have not mastered it, but i am thankful for having one and i have learned alot useing it. Well you all take care and God Bless love of Christ Nancy
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Sweetheart do not be afraid to go for htat Bachelors degree. Find out if there is anyone who can help you with the computer around your area. Maybe someone here at CAF lives near you or knows someone who lives near you.

Do not worry too much about spelling at this stage. You do get your message across clearly so just relax about that now and sort of pay attention as you read. The more you read the more you will get better at spelling. CAF is not a very place to learn that I think because we post on the go and myself in particular hardly ever get to spell check my post let alone my grammar sometimes.:). I would read my post later and cringe:o.

Relax and just put your trust in Jesus Christ. If He wants you to get that diploma you will.
 
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