Author Archive: Sr. Dorcee
The Spirit helps us in our weakness
In his weekly audience last week, Pope Benedict spoke some very encouraging words to those of us who struggle in prayer: In the Letter to the Romans [Paul] writes: “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with …
Prayer to God the Holy Spirit (2)
Come, perpetual joy. Come, unwitherable wreath. Come, O purple raiment of our Lord and God. Come, girdle, clear as crystal and many-coloured with precious gems. Come, inaccessible refuge. Come, Thou whom my poor soul desireth and hath desired. Come, lonely One, to the lonely one–for lonely I am, as Thou canst see. Come, Thou who …
“I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
A follow-up by Larissa on yesterday’s post: Learning Contentment through Suffering. I want to be like these people when I grow up!
A story of grace
This is a tremendous story of hope and grace and love: The Story of Ian and Larissa. (Scroll down to see the video.) I’m going to be thinking about it for a long, long time. It’s a story that is worth “going viral.”
The sturdiness of God
From Fr. André Louf: “The Hebrew word for faith (emûnah) derives from the stem emeth, faithfulness, one of God’s greatest attributes. God is merciful and faithful (hesed we’ emeth, Gen 24.27). We might as well say, tender and tough. For emeth evokes the image of a rock on which we can lean or build. God …
“God Speaks in Blue”
Our Sunday-poem today comes from Luci Shaw: God Speaks in Blue My friend hands me a gift from overseas. ”Here,” she says. “For you.” The small packet rustles with dry particles. Through thin paper my fingers feel the nubs. I thank her, turning over the plain brown envelope. There from the other side a photo– …
A Mary word
A “Mary word” for today, Saturday, her day: All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don’t give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul. ~St. Josemariá Escrivá
And I did not know it.
In Genesis 28, Jacob, after his dream of the ladder, says a very profound thing: “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I did not know it.” How many of us do not recognize that the Lord is in the very places of our lives. We wonder: “Where are You?” Or we shout: “Where are …
In my “Dorcee-ness”
The other morning I woke up, got dressed, and went into the chapel. As I started to pray, “Lord, I come to you in my lowliness . . .”, I felt a nudge from the Holy Spirit to pray instead: “Lord, I come to you in my ‘Dorcee-ness.” It was a nudge from the Holy …
