Adoration (2nd Friday) March 13, 2009 Saint Patrick’s Church Jesus, my Lord, While I listen to the Holy Rosary, I ponder on this week and especially today. My Lord I came to Your Church early. I prayed and while praying I saw Father Peter Fagan OP praying as well and I must say I remember a while back that Fr. Peter OP spoke of vocations in the priesthood and religious life. Today, while watching Fr. Peter OP pray I made a vow and prayer: that if my children are called to vocations if by you, my Lord then may you call them. If you do not wish them to be in the religious but have children, I hope that if you call their children they will go to you. On the reflections on Today’s mass “God wants to have us a reflection of his charity,” said Fr. Peter OP during his homily. The Old Testament reading spoke of Joseph (Jacob/Israel’s beloved son) and how his older brothers envied their father’s love for Joseph. As always I now see the parallels of the Old Testament stories and You, my Lord. Your parable of the Vineyard 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country. 21:34 And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, to receive his fruits. 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner. 21:37 But afterward he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. 21:38 But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance. 21:39 And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. 21:40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen? 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
shows the envy and the jealously of the older brothers’ of Joseph in the Chief priests and Pharisees’ rejection of You, the God, our Father’s begotten son. I shall never reject you, for you have shown I am loved and that you waited for me even when I thought I was not worthy of your love and patience. For you as Fr. Peter OP said, “Because we are Good, God loves us.” Your Father, the Holy Spirit, and You know me true. I thank thee and love thee. While mediating and praying before mass I read Fr. Simon Tugwell OP’s reflection on what was said in Matthew 21: 42. 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; This was from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes?
This Cornerstone that was rejected was You, Jesus by the people of Israel. “We must not think of faith, therefore, as something for us to achieve; receptivity is itself a gift we must be prepared to receive,” said Fr. Simon Tugwell OP. I know I am rambling and not must sense, but one does this when one has many things to say. Jesus, I know in twenty-nine more days our wait (Yours and mine) will come to an end. I wait patiently as I watch all others receive your body. I feel you draw me even now as I am sitting her looking upon your sacred body that you made for us to consume as bread. Time feels it is moving slowly as I thin of the left. Before I leave this I would like to write my intentions to you: -That there will be an increase in vocations in priesthood and religious life. -That President Obama and his colleagues see the horrors of the one stop store abortions, which kill lives. -That those in the military are safe at home or where they are stationed. -May my engagement to Danny is to be blessed by the soon to be marriage of us. See that he knows that faithfulness is something that is sacred and honored to not only me, but him and You, Trinity God. Bless You for all you have done for me, Nikita |
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