All Parts of Ourselves:

Having explored who we really might be,in God’s eyes and in our own,we look at our blindness and our light.We look at our broken parts, those we don’t acknowledge.They are parts of us that need to be loved,we welcome all parts of ourselves home so that we may be whole.

Prejudice – Compassion:

In today’s Gospel, Jesus shows us that He was able to go beyond the prejudices of His culture, and proceeded to touch and heal the lepers. That culture denounced and condemned all lepers as sinful and repulsive. Do we have any prejudices that drivepeople away from God?

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All is too little for the Lord.

- Saint Agostina Petrantoni (1864-1913)

Lord, you have granted me your secret friendship by opening the sacred ark of your divinity, your deified heart, to me in so many ways as to be the source of all my happiness; sometimes imparting it freely, sometimes as a special mark of our mutual friendship. You have so often melted my soul with your loving caresses that, if I did not know the abyss of your overflowing condescensions, I should be amazed were I told that even your Blessed Mother had been chosen to receive such extraordinary marks of tenderness and affection

- Adapted from The Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude