From Ann Lamott
6. Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born
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difficult choices.
Notes:
Tribute to Sue Boyce, CSJA and how the CSJ Directional Statement dictated her decisions in her life and gave her courage to live its message.
1. OBITUARY
https://fordfuneralhomes.com/tribute/details/1873/Lorena-Boyce/obituary.html
4. SONG
Beatitudes
https://youtu.be/u-Za-lu5kGI?si=nXtDi86OraP9m1Vq
5. SUE BOYCE REFLECTIONS
https://youtu.be/OHUAlF7gEK0?si=TBysCE41NpwVhypj
6. TESTIMONIALS
7. CSJ Associate Prayer
O God of Unity and Strength, unite us, Sisters and Associates, in heart and purpose.
With St. Joseph as our patron and guide, and Mary as our model ofopenness and holiness, we will try to discern Your call and be faithful in our response.
Strengthen us to serve the people of our world and enable us to be a healing presence for those in great need.
Give heart to our mission, grace to our lives and our labors so that we may grow more deeply in oneness with You and each other.
May Your blessing be upon us, for in You is our power and our fulfillment both now and forever.
Amen
8. SONG
John Denver song The Wings That Fly Us Home
https://youtu.be/v7SoJq4Cs3s?si=3hVtNYa2RCeVaqb7
This recipe has been adapted from chef Sam Sade’s version given during the healthy cooking demo he gave at the Plum Community Center.
He topped hamburgers with the pineapple topping he prepared and served the hamburger over Turmeric rice pilaf. He also topped the whole dish with eggs over easy.
I simplified the pineapple topping in my version by dumping all the ingredients in a slow cooker. I was just as happy eating any dish I topped with it.
SLOW COOKER PINEAPPLE TOPPING FOR ANYTHING
https://livingspace.sacred space.ie/l1013g/
Our Father…
God is the source of all our life and all we have and are. We say “Our” and that ‘our’ includes every single person. And, if God is the Father/Mother of every single person, then each one of them, without even one exception, is my brother or sister.
May your name be revered as holy…may your kingdom come…may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…
The three petitions are all really saying the same thing. Obviously, in one sense we cannot make God’s name more holy than it is. But we do need to respect that awesome holiness, and that is more for our sake than God’s. The petition can also be a petition that God make his name holy by showing his glory, in this case by bringing about the Kingdom in its fullness.
We want God to be loved and respected and worshipped by all—not in some future life, but here and now on earth. We want the loving and compassionate Reign of God to be fully accepted by people everywhere as part of their lives, individually and corporately. We want God’s will for this world to be also the will of people everywhere.
Clearly, all this has to begin with ourselves. The coming of the Kingdom is not just the work of God alone, it is the result of us cooperating with him in the work. What am I doing in my life now for the realisation of that Kingdom?
Give us today our daily bread…
This is a prayer that our needs be satisfied for today, a prayer that rules out excessive anxiety about the future. But how are those needs to be satisfied? Do we expect manna to drop from the skies? And what about that little word ‘our’ again? Does it just mean me, my family, our community, our town, our country—or much more? Is this not a prayer that we all work together to ensure that no one goes hungry? Yet we know that millions do go to bed hungry every night and even more suffer from an unhealthy diet. And we recognize that most of it is the result of human behaviour and neglect. This prayer reminds us that changing that situation is the responsibility of all of us—this is another dangerous prayer.
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…
Yet again, we have a dangerous thing to pray for. I really should not say it unless I am ready to do it. And if I am not ready, I need to pray hard for a forgiving heart. This is the only petition which is spelled out more clearly at the end of today’s Gospel passage:
For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you…
(also see Matt 18:21-35 about the unforgiving servant)
And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one…
A final plea that we will not fail, but that God’s help will be with us all the way. It is an admission of our basic impotence to set things right in our own lives and in the world. Given the challenges of the rest of the prayer, we need all the help we can get.
If this prayer were to really enter our hearts and minds, we would become deeply transformed people. So let us stop babbling it as we often do and really pray it, phrase by phrase—and let us live it as well.
Easy delicious no sweat yet delightfully delicious
1 can Hunts pasta sauce w garlic and herbs
Oat milk same amount as 1 can hunts sauce
Water to clean can
Celery , chopped
Onion flakes to taste (optional)
Garlic flakes to taste (optional)
Dump in slow cooker. I used aroma multi cooker set at slow cooker setting for two hours
1. prayer
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https://youtu.be/ls01XGV7oA0?si=p4A_0KQ7VpJ0rhfX
4. Narrative
5. Meditation
https://youtu.be/z4wt0orWOE4?si=AtUxMosWgF5a6C-3
6. sharing
