Monthly Archives: October 2016

Resting, Silent

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Virgin of Vladimir by the hand of JOANN NELANDER

n silence I wait, silent.
Thanksgiving and praise have created the dome about me,
As angels carry their worshipful sound
And sing my song before the Throne of God.
I am implicitly carried with their melody,
Hidden in the words playing before my God.

The Gates open to admit my presence.
I enter, bowing low,
And I am lifted on high.
Kissing the cheek of my Savior,
I wrap my arms about His Neck,
As He on earth,
Loving embraced His virginal Mother
With an all holy and forever Love.

I rest in Your Sabbath Rest,
Gathering strength for the storm,
That Your Triumph may rain down blessing,
To make all days Your Day.

Here in silence, You whisper.
And, yet, is it not, the glorious and triumphal Shout?
Reign, my Savior and King, in your little ones
Longing for You and the Eternal Rest.

Copyright 2015 Joann Nelander

The Remarkable Evidence of a Transcendent Soul – Fr Robert Spitzer, SJ

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Stumbling Into God’s Mercy

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What Have I?

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What have I, My Lord,
But my beating heart,
My pulsing blood,
My seemingly useless toil,
The tears and sweat,
That mark my life?

Yet, I persevere,
I fight,
I cry,
I shout through the Night.
Though in the tumult,
And the rancor of holocaust,
My screams scarcely rise above a whisper.

I make of my heart a sanctuary,
A resting place for my God.
I long to comfort You,
For my wounds pierce Your Heart,
And tear Your Most Innocent Flesh.

It is You Who are rejected
In the womb of the world,
Women crying,
“Get out you untimely thing.”
Men forsaking love once declared.

Come here to me.
I will cry with You.
I will tend Your wounds,
Hold Your Hallowed Hand.

Each morn anew
I will embrace my lot.
My thoughts will meet ridicule,
But the stripes,
Fall anew on You.

Soldiers of the heart
Swell Your growing ranks,
As mere men take arms
Against Legion.
Each a knight born of a Revelation,
Your Love,
Your Faithfulness,
Your Victory.

© 2016 Joann Nelander

Mp3 Prayers by Richard Garnaut

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Prayer in Time of Need

*Prayer in Time of Suffering

*Prayer in Times of Distress

*Prayer of Resignation to Divine Will

*Prayer of Self-Gift

Prayer of Self-Offering

Prayer of Unemployed

*Prayer to All Guardian Angels

*Prayer to Be Generous

*Prayer to Be Said by a Sick Person *

Prayer to Defeat the Work of Satan

*Prayer to Holy Redeemer

Prayer To Jesus Crucified

Prayer to Jesus The Divine Master

Prayer To The Sacred Head of Jesus

*Prayer to Sacred Heart of Jesus

*Prayer To Slow Down – Monsignor Bernard Powers

*Prayer to St Joseph

*Prayer to The Holy Spirit

Preparation For Mass –

to Blessed Virgin Mary

Preparation For Mass –

St Ambrose Preparation For Mass

– St Thomas AquinasReconcilation – Examination of Conscience*

 

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Land of Waiting

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Mother, my mother,
I wait for you.

In a land of hope and flowers,
I seek one blossom.

I am the fertile seed
Grown and untimely parted.

Love embraces me,
And in love I wait for you.

The world rejected me.
With fear, lies and towers of self.

Forgiveness awaits your desire.
Light waits to shatter your darkness.

In a land where all is forgiven
Our mended, broken hearts may yet be one.

The flower of forgiveness I hold out to you.
Kiss it first for yourself and then the world.

All will yet be well,
As love is our bond in this land of Now but not yet.

© 2016 Joann Nelander