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Faith Solidarity Day

                                                           

                     

Join us each Tuesday – wherever you are!

The aim of Faith Solidarity Day is that in Faith we show our Solidarity for the world and ourselves by having some time during a day once a week set aside to pray and reflect.

• To show solidarity with each other by having a common prayer/reflection once a week on a Tuesday.
• To show solidarity with those with whom we work and live in our common struggle in life, celebrating the good things, asking for help with the difficult things.
• To celebrate the unity and diversity that is Viatores Christi, at all times remembering the family of the association.
• To show in a practical way our concern for the world in which we live.
  

                                                Faith Solidarity Day

                                            Prayers & Reflections for

                                                   August 2008

 

Choice of Readings/Reflections etc.

Sile Ware has chosen the readings and reflections for August 2008. Once again, we are very short of readings for the coming months - please send your suggestions to the VC office or e-mail them to colette@viatoreschristi.com

 

Tuesday 5th August 2008

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, “How many good things have you done in your life?” Rather he will ask, “How much love did you put into what you did?

                                                                                       (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Take care not to let yourself be moody and out of humour with those about you, less attributing this to devotion, they despise devotion; on the contrary, give them the greatest pleasure and satisfaction you can.

You will often be amongst the children of the world who, as is their wont, mock all they see or think they see in you that is not according to their own miserable way of thinking. Do not take the trouble to dispute with them, show no displeasure at their attacks, but merrily laugh at their laughter of you; be above their contempt, jest at their remonstrance, gracefully mock their mockeries, and taking no heed of them, walk always with a light heart in the service of God.

                                                                                 (Writings of St Francis de Sales)

Tuesday 12th August 2008

The Holy Spirit, who has been charged with opening human hearts to receive the Gospel, is constantly engaged in this task, and His commission will continue until the end of the world. We join this noble work when we too hold up in prayer people we are seeking to win for Christ. We don’t tend to think in these terms but we should, because winning people to Christ is our calling.

Every person that you meet in the course of your day can only find true happiness and joy in coming to know God. Our missionary mandate is ultimately grounded in the eternal love of the Most Holy Trinity. Every problem, heartache, trouble, difficulty, cry of anguish or despair is solved, comforted and met in this love.

‘The Church on earth is by her nature missionary since, according to the plan of the Father, she has as her origin the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit. The purpose of mission is none other than to make men share in the communion between the Father in their Spirit of love.’

                                                                      (Catechism of the Catholic Church 850)

Tuesday 19th August 2008

The Sacred Three
My fortress be
Encircling me
Come and be round
My hearth and home.
The eye of the Great God
The eye of the God of Glory
The eye of the King of Ghosts
The eye of the King of the Living
Pouring upon us
At each time and season
Pouring upon us
Gently and generously.

                                         (Trinitarian motif running through spirituality)

 

Tuesday 26th August 2008

God says to each one of us every day: “My son (daughter), give me your heart’ (Prov. 23 – 26). The rich ruler and sick woman gave Jesus their hearts and were richly rewarded. In contrast, the crowd closed their hearts to him, pleading with him to leave the region and get out of their lives. Pope John Paul 11 once said, “”The worst prison would be a closed heart.’ We must guard our hearts and be vigilant against the thoughts and attitudes which make us resistant to God and his plan for our lives.

‘What can I give him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring him a lamb.
If I were a wise man, I would do my part.
Yet what can I give him? I give him my heart’.

                                                                       (Christina Rosseti)

 

                                              Glory to thee
                                         Then Glorious Sun
                                      Glory to thee thou Son
                                      Face of the God of Life.