Fear seized them all, and they
glorified God, exclaiming, “A great prophet has arisen in our midst,” and “God
has visited his people.”
This was said after Jesus had raised the widow’s son
in Nain. There exists no better model for Godly leadership than our Lord.
Everything he spoke he did. He had compassion on the high and the low. He had
compassion on this poor widow. He looked around him and where he saw misery; he
acted. He healed the sick, cast out evil spirits and raised the dead. They came
to Him broken and empty and He filled them with faith, hope and love as well as
taking physical action to help with their suffering. His focus was to restore
the widow her son: to restore the family which is the true tabernacle of the
Holy Spirit.
Families
face many problems in raising children. Parents come home exhausted, not
wanting to talk, and many families no longer even share a common meal. Distractions
abound, including an addiction to television. Families often seem more caught
up with securing their future than with enjoying the present with each other.
This is a broader cultural problem, aggravated by fears about steady
employment, finances and the futures of children.
Many
families are entrenched in drug use, one of the scourges of our time, causing
immense suffering and are a major cause of the breakup of many families. The
same is true of alcoholism, gambling and other addictions. Families at risk
“lose the ability to act to help their families and children and many children
are orphans of living parents. There is violence within families which breeds new
forms of social aggression which causes a breeding-ground of resentment and
hatred in the most basic human relationships.
In
the world there is a failure to realize that only the exclusive and
indissoluble union between a man and a woman is the greatest measure to
creating a stable society that bears fruit in new life. No union that is temporary
or closed to the transmission of life can ensure the future of an abundant society.
Almost
universally people have the practice of living together before marriage, as
well as having a type of cohabitation which totally excludes any intention to
marry. The strength of the family “lies in its capacity to love and to teach
how to love. For all a family’s problems, it can always grow, beginning with
love”.
The
verbal, physical, and sexual violence that women endure in some marriages contradicts
the very nature of the conjugal union. History is burdened by the excesses of
patriarchal cultures that considered women inferior, yet in our own day, we
cannot overlook the use of surrogate mothers and “the exploitation and
commercialization of the female body in the current media culture. The equal
dignity of men and women makes us rejoice to see old forms of discrimination
disappear, and within families there is a growing reciprocity. If certain forms
of feminism have arisen which we must consider inadequate, we must nonetheless
see in the women’s movement the working of the Spirit for a clearer recognition
of the dignity and rights of women.
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Please
pray for me and this ministry
·
Please
Pray for Senator
McCain and our country; asking Our Lady of Beauraing to
intercede.
Today
is my sister Donna Marie’s (Lady-Mistress
of the Sea) birthday please pray for her intentions.
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