You Will Receive Power

Bible Recollection Of The Day - Thursday

 

Acts 1:

8  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

In this verse Jesus commands His disciples to spread the gospel and to help them do so, they would receive the power of the Holy Spirit. The power of the Holy Spirit refers to the help that the Holy Spirit would grant in their spread of the gospel.

The power of speaking with new tongues, the power of healing, the power of interpretation of The Word, the power of preaching the gospel with great effect, the power of enduring great trials and so on.

Jesus then goes on to say that they would all be His witnesses. For this purpose they were appointed disciples and to prepare them for this commission, they had been with Him for more than three years. They had seen His approach to life, His miracles, His meekness and His suffering.

They had had intimate discourse with Him, had eaten and lived with Him as dear friends. They had seen him after He had risen and were qualified to bear witness to these things in all parts of the earth. They had been so intimate with him and his plans that they were qualified to state what his doctrines and purposes were. In every respect, therefore, they were qualified to be impartial and competent witnesses.

On a more personal note, understand that this commission of Jesus is applicable to all those who believe in Jesus and His teachings. It is applicable to you and me. To help spread the gospel is what Jesus expects from you. Spreading the gospel or to evangelize does not always mean standing on a soapbox and reading the Bible to passersby.

You can evangelize by living a life by example. Every small deed that you do to further His kingdom in His name is to evangelize.

So today,
Go Spread The Word by thought (intercessory prayer),
word (sharing Jesus) and
deed (acts of charity).

Maranatha

Person To Person

Sayings Of Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst. "Repent and believe," Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor - He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God... to be alone with Him - not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything - to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Saint of the Gutters

September 5 Saint of the Day Profile

September 5 Saint of the Day Profile Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Profile:
Daughter of an Albanian businessman who died when Agnes was nine years old. Nun, missionary and teacher in Calcutta, India in 1928. In 1948 she left the convent to work alone with the poor, and became an Indian citizen. She founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. In 1957 the Missionaries of Charity started their work with lepers and in disaster areas. She received the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1972, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and the Missionaries today work in 30 countries.

Born:
26 August 1910 in Skopje, Albania (modern Macedonia)
Died:
5 September 1997 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India of natural causes
Canonized:
• 4 September 2016 by Pope Francis
• the canonization miracle involved the healing of brain abscesses of a comatose 42 year old mechanical engineer in Santos, Brazil in 2008

Readings:
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus's thirst. "Repent and believe," Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor - He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God... to be alone with Him - not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything - to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation. - Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Blog post courtesy:
http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-teresa-of-calcutta/

Blessed Are Those...

Thursday Bible Verse Of The Day To Memorize

Thursday Bible Verse Of The Day To Memorize John 20:29

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Peace Be With You

And Jesus Said - Peace Be With You

 

 

 

Luke 24:

36 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

37 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.

38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39  See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.” 40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 He took them, and ate in front of them. 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”

 

Best Kind of Obedience

Sayings Of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

 

The best kind of obedience is that which in its eagerness to obey does not wait either for the necessity of the highest command or the intimation of an order. - Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Moses the Prophet

September 4 Saint of the Day Profile

September 4 Saint of the Day Profile Moses the Prophet

Profile:

Hebrew liberator, law giver, and prophet. He belonged to the tribe of Levi and was born in Egypt (10th century B.C.), at a time of grievous persecution, when Pharaoh had ordered the killing of all male Hebrew children (Exodus 1) Exposed on the waters of the Nile, he was rescued by Pharao's daughter and educated at court. 

Having killed an Egyptian to save one of his brethren from ill-treatment, he fled to Median where he married Jethro's daughter (Exodus 2). God appeared to him in the burning bush and commanded him to go and deliver his brethren (3), with the help of his brother Aaron, but Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let the Israelites go, and the terrible chastisements known as the Ten Plagues of Egypt, only hardened his heart (7-10). However the last one, viz., the death of every first born, forced him to yield, and the Hebrews departed, after celebrating the first Pasch (11-13). 

Then began, under the leadership of Moses, a long and wearisome journey in the direction of the Promised Land, the dramatic episodes of which are related in the remaining chapter of Exodus and in Numbers. Only a few can be enumerated here: The Passage of the Red Sea and the Canticle of Moses (Exodus 14-15); the Manna (16); the promulgation of the Law on Mount Sinai (19-31); the many revolts of the people, who are saved each time by the intervention of their leader (Exodus 16; Numbers 13-14, 21); the march from Mount Sinai to Cades, and the stay at Cades for 38 years during which the present generation is condemned never to enter the Promised Land (Numbers 10-20); Moses himself is excluded from it because of his lack of confidence at the "Waters of Contradiction" (ib., 20); Balaam's Prophecies (23-24). 

The Israelites finally reached the banks of the Jordan, after defeating the Ammonites and Moabites, and Moses died on Mount Nebo after pronouncing the three memorable discourses preserved in Deuteronomy. He was buried in the valley of Moab, but "no man knows his sepulchre" (Deuteronomy 34), and "there arose no more a prophet in Israel like unto Moses" (ib., 10). See also, Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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http://catholicsaints.info/new-catholic-dictionary-moses/