Tag Archives: Communion of Saints

Prayer Request

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Update March 7, 2009

I don’t have all the facts, simply a phone call requesting prayer.   Please pray for Monsignor Douglas Raun , pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Rio Rancho. He suffered “a heart attack” yesterday, while preaching a mission in Las Cruces and is now in the Heart Hospital.  This is all I was told.  I won’t be able to confirm until I get the facts from sources closer to home. That should be after Mass today.  Don’t, however, wait to pray.  It’s always a great and welcome blessing.

Monsignor is our treasure. He was ordained a priest in 1982.  He’s been pastor at St. Thomas Aquinas for about 14 years.  He is doing what he has always wanted to do and he does it so well.

“When I was a little boy, I wanted to say Mass. Something deep inside you says ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to say Mass?’ The most precious, beautiful part is to be able to say Mass, to celebrate Mass.”

10:30 am Update:

Here is better information, I believe.  I was told Monsignor Raun had chest pains and as a precautionary measure is having them checked out at the Heart Hospital.    He wasn’t mentioned at Mass except that we did pray “for the health and welfare of the clergy” as part of our prayer intentions. I think, being in good hands ,especially, the Big Guy’s, we can breathe easy. Do pray all is well and Monsignor Raun comes home soon.

That Your Joy May Be Full!

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Good Morning, Everyone!  This is a good day, even particularly in a troubled world, to praise the Lord.

As the day begins, this antiphon from today’s Office of Readings sounds in God’s ear, rising from the lips of those praying around the world.

“Lord, You know the burden of my sorrow.”

God’s response is, “Ask that you may receive and your joy will be full.”

Prayer:

“Rise up Lord in defense of Your people.  Do not hide Your Face from our

troubles.”


Lion’s Roar:

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This morning I’m thinking about the Church.  I love Sundays.  I hear the lion’s roar, “and then he cried out in a loud voice as a lion roars.”(Rev. 10:3)  The lion thunders out, crying “full-throated and unsparing like a trumpet blast…”  “When He roars his sons shall come…”  (Hoses 11:10)  On Sundays,with tremendous power, the Lion of the tribe of Judah summonses the gathering of the Church from all corners of the earth for a great feast.  Even in Lent, the season of fasting, the Church prepares a banquet.  The Lion, Himself, provides the meal, prepared Himself of Himself.  It is here that the Lion becomes the Little Lamb that was slain, but now lives.

A Prayer Before Blogging

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My God, I believe and I adore You.  Be ever before the eyes of my heart and mind that I may see You in all circumstances and look for You in those I meet today.  I place Your blood over my heart, before my lips and around my mind as I pray and before I venture forth into this day.  May Your good angels, and Your  saints assist me, especially in drawing my thoughts to You.   Be glorified, My Love, in the Church, in the world and in me.

And they all said…….AMEN!

Particular to this day:  May I remember that it’s Sunday and spend lots of time with You.  Amen

Remembering Michael

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Amy Welborn shares not only her grief but her gratitude for all that is Michael.  Amy writes:

“How can I, even as I acknowledge the crushing, puzzling, confusing loss and my shattered heart  – for even Jesus wept –  how can I say that I love him and that I believe all this stuff we both said we believed is actually true – and not allow some gratitude, albeit limited and struggling gratitude – to creep into my soul, for that thing, which is not a small thing, but a great thing?”

It will be a good day to die when someone who knows me intimately can write:

He prayed the Office almost every day of the last 25 years or so. Prayed the rosary every day for longer. Went to Mass almost every day.

He prayed, and knew intimately all those words I have been praying – or trying to pray – so intensely over the past week.

Thirsting for God. Rescuing from the snares of the enemy. Letting Christ live in me, being consumed, taken over by Christ, the Risen One,  alive in Him. Praying for that. Every day. Asking God for mercy, for forgiveness, for peace. For the total embrace of Love.