…Any Matt Maher fans out there? There is a song that he sings that puts Isaiah 61 to music, almost like a battle cry to energize the troops.
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Many of us have attended a wedding or two, hearing the reading “love is patient, love is kind…” and we may be guilty of kinda tuning it out. Yea, yea. We know – we’ve heard it a million times.
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One of my favorite movies is Under the Tuscan Sun. In it, Diane Lane’s character Francis endures a divorce and heals herself of her heartbreak by serendipitously buying a house in Italy.
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To find an official modern day definition of love, I went to the most reliable source of modern day meanings for words: Urban Dictionary*.
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It may have been several years since catechism class, or maybe it’s a new topic all together. The virtues are something that we’ve heard of but may not know how impactful it is to our faith life.
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Sisters, this is your weekly "Art for the Heart".
Each Sunday we will share a screen saver for your smart phone or tablet (or both) featuring a thought for the week.
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So, we hear how much of a call we have when praying the rosary. We hear that it should keep us in a state of growth and push us to dive more deeply into our faith. A rosary is not supposed to be a load of useless prayers that we repeat time after time. It is supposed to serve as a call to you to dive deeper into your spiritual life and it is supposed to serve as a tool to let you see the Lord’s life and reflect on yours and how you need to change or improve your life to grow deeper. It is supposed to be a tool for you to break open the scriptures a bit more and dive into His word in order to live out his Word joyfully, gloriously, sorrowfully and luminously.
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In our spiritual lives and our day to day lives we are called to live by example, “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” -Matthew 5: 16. Due to the mysteries being a path in which to pave our spiritual life, we are called through the Glorious mysteries to shine bright for others to see.
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The Sorrowful Mysteries are the ones that we are the most familiar with. These mysteries are the ones that we walk through each and every year before we celebrate the Resurrection. These are the ones that every Friday during Lent we meditate on through the stations and every day during Lent in anticipation of the death of our Lord. But just because the title holds ‘sorrowful’ doesn’t mean that we are called to be sorrowful every time we pray the rosary and are meditating on these mysteries.
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The Luminous mysteries are also known as the mysteries of light. While praying them, we are called to be lights, to light up our paths and to light the paths of others in order to gain a deeper understanding of the Lord and our spiritual lives.
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The rosary is much more than repeating the Hail Mary fifty times, the Our Father ten times and the Glory Be five times. It is much more than 20 minutes wasted of our time, and it is much more than losing which bead we were last on. The rosary also encompasses the mysteries of the rosary. The Mysteries are broken down into four sets and are all taken from the bible.
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The Rosary is such a beautiful prayer in which we ask for the intercession of our Holy Mother.. Think about it, every single time you start praying, “Hail Mary Full of Grace,” you are specifically asking Mary to intercede for you. But what many find the hardest to decipher between is how the Rosary can be linked through scripture.
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Sisters, this is your weekly "Art for the Heart".
Read MoreOh Sisters! Do we have exciting news!!
Ready?? We can now feature our guest speakers right here on HOMWF! That's right - we now have listenable audio files that you can hear right from your phone, tablet, or computer. Listen in your car when you hook up your phone for your a.m. commute.
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At the end of every study, Heart of Mary Women's Fellowship will recommend additional resources. There may have been a particular topic or idea that we want to learn more about & we'll list the links, books, or resources that our HOMWF team have personally read & recommend!*
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Paul ends his letter expressing his confidence in the cross. Yesterday we spoke about edification verses judging, and how to evangelize through the advise of Pope Francis. We can look back at the book of Galatians and see that Paul has been edifying & evangelizing them the entire time! He has continued to “boast” of Christ’s love for him and used that as fuel to try to bring the Galatians back to their faith. He loves the Galatians people so much that he called them out when they started to go astray. Do we love our family that much? Do we love our friends that much? How about the mailman or the girl across the coffee counter?
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“With freedom comes great responsibility.” We’ve all heard this quote by Eleanor Roosevelt before, but have we ever applied it to our faith? We know of our freedom that we have in Christ. We also know how we can make healthy faith-filled habits (water, sun, roots) in order to bear good fruit. Did we talk about what to do with that fruit?
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We are challenged to BE MORE in our lives. Our freedom does not give us the liberty to act as we please. This is something very important. Though Christ has redeemed us, this redemption is in constant fluctuation. Christ’s Passion & resurrection has redeemed us by simply giving us the opportunity for heaven, when we didn’t have that before. He has opened the door. Now that the door is open, we spend our lives walking toward it or away from it.
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Today we embark upon liberty in our freedom!! For true freedom has three parts: to remain in it, to love, and responsibility.
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Sisters, this is your weekly "Art for the Heart".
Each Sunday we will share a screen saver for your smart phone or tablet (or both) featuring a thought for the week. Save it as your phone lock screen & see this every time you access your phone! We access our smart devices constantly - so that means this is a great way to constantly see God's inspiration & love.
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