Christmas is only three months away

Are you an early bird shopper for Christmas gifts?  I am.  But most importantly, I am an early bird at dropping hints on what is on my Christmas wish list. ;)

Here is my first hint:

It is called the "ostrich pillow" and it creates an ideal environment for power naps.  This picture pretty much sealed the deal for me.  I definitely need this for the office!

It is created by a company called, "Studio Banana Things".  Neat-o.  Perhaps you will find something for that hard to buy person on your Christmas list!

Vee are you paying attention?  

Happy Birthday

to my mom!!!!

It is interesting how, no matter what, each of us has only one mom and one dad.  Whether or not we know them, whether or not we like them, etc we only have one of each.  It can be a mystery as to why we get the parents we do but we only get one of each for better or worse.

Happy birthday to my mom and sorry if this doesnt make sense, its early!!

opcarm on facebook

We now have our own face book page.  This allows us to interact with face book as team opcarm, and allows us photo albums etc that arent available on blogger.  As I write this there isnt much on there yet but we have a lot of work planned.  http://www.facebook.com/TeamOpCarm
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Start Your Novena!!!

To St Therese.

O Little Therese of the Child Jesus
Please pick for me a rose
from the heavenly gardens
and send it to me
as a message of love.
O Little Flower of Jesus,
ask God to grant the favors
I now place with confidence
in you hands
( mention your special prayer request here )
St. Therese, help to always believe
as you did
in God's great love for me,
so that I may imitate
your "Little Way" each day.
 
Amen

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Happy Feast!!

 

The finest garments Jesus ever wore are the crown of thorns and the purple cape of His Passion.

Patriot Day 2012

DS:  The silence was calm.  Except for the sound of rosaries clinking and habits rustling, you could hear a pin drop in the chapel that morning.  I was deep in prayer.  I was just a few days short of one month since my entrance into the convent.  I didn't have any college classes that Tuesday, so I decided to join the Novices in their extra hour of Adoration.  The time was 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time ...

I left earlier than the 9:30 schedule change.  As I opened up the chapel door, I was met by a Sister in the stairwell.  "Sister," she whispered, "America is under attack!  The Twin Towers are gone!"   She led me to the community room, where superiors and other Sisters were gathered around the television set watching the horror unfold.  That day instilled in me the determination to reach out to as many people as possible and teach them about Jesus Christ ...

VEE:  It was Tuesday night in Japan and I was washing up getting ready for bed.  I finished and went into the living room and saw the news on TV, thinking at first it was some old footage of the car bomb attack on the World Trade Center in the 90s.  Then the second plane hit.

DS was in some Dominican convent but I was far from it.  If I had died that day I may have very well gone to hell.  I wonder how many of those who died that day were ready for their particular judgement??  

DS:   Are we forgetting?  Are we again lulled into the schedules of our daily lives?  Is the shock of this day a distant memory?  Do we ever think of our own end?  Jesus tells us to be prepared.  We do not know the day nor the hour.  




May all those who perished rest in peace ...

losing it

"For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."

When we lose our lives to Jesus there is a tearing apart of self, of our prideful sinful anture, of doing waht we want and having our own way.  You say yes Lord I will give you all that I have but there is a purification still because we may even have to let go of our idea of how we will give up our lives for Christ.

We may think that Jesus is calling us to religious life, priesthood, marriage but we have to let go of even those ideas because in one way or another the Good Shepherd will guide, or drag us, to where He wants us.  He will call us to give more than we are comfortable giving.  We will be asked to give up all that is near and dear until all that is left is Him.