Re: Any Believers in Jesus Christ Here? (Non-debate thread for believers only)
Hope you all have a great weekend.
Hope you and everyone else has a great weekend. Bless.
Having a wonderful weekend guys, thx. Hopefully it is the same for everyone
I hope everyone is well. I've been thinking of a song I used to listen to when I first heard it, so I'm going to share it. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZZkwW0jN2A&feature=related
Michelle, thank youuuu so much for that video. You reminded me of World Youth Day - one of JP II's greatest legacies, one that Pope Benedict adopted so naturally and made it his as well. I remember it like it was yesterday the 2000 edition when a crowd more than 2 millions strong gathered in Tor Vergata outside of Rome to pray and sing together with the Pope. I could have went, but instead i chose to spend the money on tons of issues of the Black & White magazine
I don't regret it though because i probably wasn't ready anyhow to attend such a huge event. I witnessed everything on tv and it was a total blessing.
Apologies for the Italian in the vid since not everybody speaks it. WYD really are awesome events - in the Phillipines in the mid 90s it was the single largest gathering ever, 4 million people in ONE place, amazing, isn't it? Denver in the States in 1993, Paris - 1997, Koln in 2005 and Melbourne in 2008 - WOW, such beautiful events. Next year it will be in Madrid, won't it? I love that city, i miss it.
Ain't it wonderful and sooo awesome (i think i'm gettin addicted to this word; nowadays just about everything is awesome) to see art put in the service of the Lord and technology assisting people separated by oceans to ''attend' the same amazing event? God is good.
The weekend is so wonderful mainly because of the
Feast of Pentecost. The
Holy Spirit descended over the Apostles and the Virgin Mary. He is the fire and the wind still working every day in the Church and in all creation, as He was from the very beginning. He is the vital force which sustains all life, the Comforter in our times of trouble,
He is God. Although a mystery for many outside of the faith, the Holy Spirit is a reality, He is the communion and the imperceivable to the human ear loving dialogue between the Father and the Son; in His apparent silence, He guides and sustains all of us all day and every day. He is merciful and forgiving and His mercy knows no limits.
John Paul II in his first homely as Pope told us
not to be afraid, to open wide the gates to our hearts to Christ. Let us also open the windows of our souls to the Spirit. If we let Him, He will work wonders in our lives. Yesterday evening i heard such an awe inspiring commentary -
if we would understand that the Spirit of God dwells in every creature, great or small, we would learn to see the world with different eyes and perceive it as one huge temple of the Most High and we would walk in it with a lot more respect and responsibility.
Almighty God,
on this day you opened the way of eternal life
to every race and nation
by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit:
Shed abroad this gift throughout the world
by the preaching of the Gospel,
that it may reach to the ends of the earth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God,
for ever and ever. Amen.
Another beautiful prayer i've found:
Remind me, Oh God, I am but a dusty foreigner on this earth.
Use me now, to do Your mighty works in this fleeting time.
Send me, Lord! Propel my mortal shell toward Your purposes.
Let me be Your conduit, Your channel, Your tool.
Craft me to bring Your Word, Your hope, Your love.
And when on earth, I am but dust, gather me up.
Gather me up, and see in me Your Son
Gather me up, my Father God.
And then, at last,
I will be home.
Mary Graver
Also a beautiful reminder
chi si arrende, sopravive, non vive. It is a wonderful words' play in Italian about those giving up in the face of life's adversities and making all kinds of compromises - they are the ones who merely survive, instead of living life to the fullest.
Stop existing and start living kind of thing, yall know? :cheeky:
