O Jesus, lover of the young,
the dearest Friend I have,
in all confidence I open my heart to You
to beg Your light and assistance
in the important task of planning my future.
Give me the light of Your grace,
that I may decide wisely concerning the person
who is to be my partner through life.
Dearest Jesus, send me such a one whom in Your Divine wisdom
You judge best suited to be united with me in marriage.
May her character reflect some of the traits of Your own Sacred Heart.
May she be upright, loyal, pure, sincere and noble,
so that with united efforts
and with pure and unselfish love
we both may strive to perfect ourselves in soul and body,
as well as the children it may please You to entrust to our care.
Bless our friendship before marriage,
that sin may have no part in it.
May our mutual love bind us so closely,
that our future home may ever be most like Your own at Nazareth.
O Mary Immaculate,
sweet Mother of the young,
to your special care I entrust the decision I am to make
as to my future wife.
You are my guiding Star!
Direct me to the person with whom I can best cooperate in doing God's Holy Will,
with whom I can live in peace,
love and harmony in this life,
and attain to eternal joys in the next.
Amen.
Monday, 29 September 2008
Friday, 5 September 2008
A Distance from Beauty
From some comments on the Conversion Diary site by someone named sibyl. Commenting about what she would take away from her christianity if she left it...
"What I'd take away from my desertion? That sinking horrible feeling that cowardice and fear always leaves with me. A knowledge that I'd departed from reality. A sense of distance from the world and from beauty."
Wow. A sense of distance from the world and from beauty. Wow.
Conversion Diary - A lovely little site
"How we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other" Ray Bradbuy, Something Wicked this way comes.
We mould each other, I my friends and they me. Which is why I want friends that are good. That I can look up to and learn from and be motivated to be more like.
Possibly one such person writes the site www.conversiondiary.com
I was caught especially by the beauty of these lines, the bolding emphasis is mine.
"But then, a funny thing happened on the way to becoming a Christian: ever so slowly, I stopped being so irritated with the people around me. In fact, I started to feel love for them. As I wrote about here, I never intended for this to happen."
I love that she never intended to love, but she does. ( As an aside - I don't write that I love that she never intended to love, but it just happened, because it doesn't just happen, you must work at other things first. )
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Snoring and Large Families?
"Being hospitalised for a respiratory infection before the age of two years, suffering from recurrent ear infections as a child, growing up in a large family and being exposed to a dog at home as a newborn were all independently related to snoring in later life. The authors speculate "These factors may enhance inflammatory processes and thereby alter upper airway anatomy early in life, causing an increased susceptibility for adult snoring".
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