Articles For Heart Mind Soul

  Personal reflection:   “the unexpected temporary absence of the pastor”  Does that mean that after most people forget, he’ll be assigned to leadership position at Chancery?

  Personal reflection:  How much of the Archbishop’s Appeal for Ministries is allocated to Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Del Rio? Instead of sending $15,804 to the archbishop, give that money to be used exclusively at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.

By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fie...

The Providential Purpose of a Purse by A Soul Seeking Salvation in our Savior It’s time to relinquish this very beaten bag.  I’ve carried it for the past couple of years.  I won’t forget a person recognized the purse when we went to a restaurant.  It replaced the other handbags I carried.  It called me out when my child and I went to a second-hand store for charitable donations almost three years ago. The side piping keeps poking me.  I have tried many times to stitch it but …..it’s time to relinquish.  It has now been replaced by another gently used bag from the same store. It is so weird, but knowing I own a bag that someone else carried makes the experience that much rewarding for me.  Did this purse carry a veil?  Was a rosary inside this bag?  Were  there times when money was tight and only coins were carried?   It keeps my mind to think of others.  Not a high-end luxury handbag, just a modest bag to carry what i...

  Personal reflection:   How beautiful!  A personalized handwritten note from a gentleman to a lady.

 

 

 

Personal reflection:  How many families have a duck, bird, pelican, stork, or fowl looking animal as a pet in their household? Could it possibly be a warning sign that they are all just a bunch of “quacks” and what they are presenting is “foul play”?  May God protect us from the fowler’s snare.

  Personal reflection: President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) to be his next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.   God bless RFK Jr. to stop the covid fear-mongering