[JOYnet] Daily Bread 02.04 and 03.04 (Humility Days 2 3)

2003-04-03 Thread Abraham Joseph
Matthew 20:26-28
But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among
you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be
your slave. Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve
and to give his life as a ransom for many.

Luke 2:51
He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and
his mother kept all these things in her heart.

May the Lord give you all His Peace

Abraham
Fujairah, UAE.

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[JOYnet] TODAY`S SAINT........ST.RICHARD de Wych

2003-04-03 Thread rose maria
3RD  APRIL   2003

ST. RICHARD

BISHOP  CONFESSOR  (1197-1253)

   LIFE:

  Richard  de  Wych  born . about 1197 at Droitwich, Worcestershire, from which his 
surname is derived; . He was the second son of Richard and Alice de Wyche. His father 
died while he was still young and the family property fell into a state of great 
delapidation. His elder brother offered to resign the inheritance to him, but Richard 
refused the offer, although he undertook the management of the estate and soon 
restored it to a good condition. He went to Oxford, where he and two companions lived 
in such poverty that they had only one tunic and hooded gown between them, in which 
they attended lectures by turns. He then went to Paris and on his return proceeded 
Master of Arts. At Bologna he studied canon law, in which he acquired a great 
reputation and was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford. 
  His learning and sanctity were so famed that Edmund Rich, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, and Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, both offered him the post of 
chancellor of their respective dioceses. Richard accepted the archbishop's offer and 
thenceforward became St. Edmund's intimate friend and follower. He approved the 
archbishop's action in opposing the king on the question of the vacant sees, 
accompanied him in his exile to Pontigny, was present at Soissy when he died, and made 
him a model in life. Richard supplied Matthew Paris with material for his biography, 
and, after attending the translation of his relics to Pontigny in 1249, wrote an 
account of the incident in a letter published by Matthew Paris (Historia major, V, 
VI). Retiring to the house of the Dominicans at Orleans, Richard studied theology, was 
ordained priest, and, after founding a chapel in honour of St. Edmund, returned to 
England where he became Vicar of Deal and Rector of Charring. Soon afte!
rwards he was induced by Boniface of Savoy, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, to 
resume his former office of chancellor. 
 In 1244  st.Richard   was  chosen  bishop  of  Chichestor   in  preferance  to  
the   King`s  nominee,  a  court  favourite  , and  he  recievedhis  consecration  
at  Lyon  at  the  hands  of  Pope  Innocent IV.. He compiled a number of statutes 
which regulate in great detail the lives of the clergy, the celebration of Divine 
service, the administration of the sacraments, church privileges, and other matters. 
Every priest in the diocese was bound to obtain a copy of these statutes and bring it 
to the diocesan synod (Wilkins, Concilia, I, 688-93); in this way the standard of 
life among the clergy was raised considerably. For the better maintenance of his 
cathedral Richard instituted a yearly collection to be made in every parish of the 
diocese on Easter or Whit Sunday. The mendicant orders, particularly the Dominicans, 
received special encouragement from him. 
In 1250 Richard was named as one of the collectors of the subsidy for the crusades 
(Bliss, Calendar of Papal Letters, I, 263) and two years later the king appointed 
him to preach the crusade in London. He made strenuous efforts to rouse enthusiasm for 
the cause in the Dioceses of Chichester and Canterbury, and while journeying to Dover, 
where he was to consecrate a new church dedicated to St. Edmund, he was taken ill. 
Upon reaching Dover, he went to a hospital called Maison Dieu, performed the 
consecration ceremony on 2 April, but died the next morning. His body was taken back 
to Chichester and buried in the cathedral. He was solemnly canonized by Urban IV in 
the Franciscan church at Viterbo, 1262, and on 20 Feb. a papal licence for the 
translation of his relics to a new shrine was given;  

  The most accurate version of St. Richard's will, which has 
been frequently printed, is that given by Blaauw in Sussex Archaeological 
Collections, I, 164-92, with a translation and valuable notes. His life was written 
by his confessor Ralph Bocking shortly after his canonization and another short life, 
compiled in the fifteenth century, was printed by Capgrave. Both these are included in 
the notice of St. Richard in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum. 

REFLECTION:

 Humility does  not  mean  being  timid  or  inhibited..It 
 means  acknowledging   our  littleness   in  the  eyes  of  God;  a  little  child  , 
 a  son.--dynamism  in  our  humility-- because  when  a  child  accepting   his  
littleness  ,  is  helped  by  the  all  powerful  protection of  his  Father,  God,  
there  is  a  dynamism   in  him  which  overflows  into  works  of  faith  ,  of  
hope  and  of  love,  and  of  all  the  other  virtuesthat  the  Holyspirit
infuses  into  his  soul.***( Friends  of  God--st.Josemaria)

   PRAYER  BY  ST.  RICHARD:

   Thanks be to Thee, my Lord Jesus Christ
For all the benefits Thou hast given me,
For all the pains and insults 
Which Thou has borne for me.
O most 

[JOYnet] The Necklace

2003-04-03 Thread Jason :)
The Necklace

The cheerful little girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five.  Waiting
with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them, a circle of glistening
white pearls in a pink foil box. Oh mommy please, Mommy. Can I have them?
Please, Mommy, please?
Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked
back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl's upturned face. A dollar
ninety-five. That's almost $2.00. If you really want them, I'll think of some
extra chores for you and in no time you can save enough money to buy them for
yourself.  Your birthday's only a week away and you might get another crisp
dollar bill from Grandma.

As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny bank and counted out 17
pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and she went to
the neighbor and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten
cents. On her birthday, Grandma did give her another new dollar bill and at
last she had enough money to buy the necklace.
Jenny loved her pearls. They made her feel dressed up and grown up.  She wore
them everywhere, Sunday school, kindergarten, even to bed. The only time she
took them off was when she went swimming or had a bubble bath.  Mother said if
they got wet, they might turn her neck green.

Jenny had a very loving daddy and every night when she was ready for bed, he
would stop whatever he was doing and come upstairs to read her a story.

One night as he finished the story, he asked Jenny, Do you love me? Oh yes,
daddy. You know that I love you. Then give me your pearls. Oh, daddy, not
my pearls. But you can have Princess, the white horse from my collection, the
one with the pink tail. Remember, daddy? The one you gave me. She's my very
favorite.
That's okay, Honey, daddy loves you. Good night. And he brushed her cheek
with a kiss.

About a week later, after the story time, Jenny's daddy asked again, Do you
love me? Daddy, you know I love you.  Then give me your pearls. Oh
Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have my baby doll. The brand new one I got
for my birthday. She is beautiful and you can have the yellow blanket that
matches her sleeper. That's okay. Sleep well. God bless you, little one.
Daddy loves you. And as always, he brushed her cheek with a gentle kiss.

A few nights later when her daddy came in, Jenny was sitting on her bed with
her legs crossed Indian style. As he came close, he noticed her chin was
trembling and one silent tear rolled down her cheek. What is it, Jenny?
What's the matter? Jenny didn't say anything but lifted her little hand up to
her daddy. And when she opened it, there was her little pearl necklace.
With a little quiver, she finally said, Here, daddy, this is for you.

With tears gathering in his own eyes, Jenny's daddy reached out with one hand
to take the dime store necklace, and with the other hand he reached into his
pocket and pulled out a blue velvet case with a strand of genuine pearls and
gave them to Jenny. He had them all the time. He was just waiting for her to
give up the dime-store stuff so he could give her the genuine treasure.

So it is, with our Heavenly Father. He is waiting for us to give up the cheap
things in our lives so that he can give us beautiful treasures. Isn't God
good? Are you holding onto things that God wants you to let go of?  Are you
holding on to harmful or unnecessary partners, relationships, habits and
activities that you have come so attached to that it seems impossible to let
go? Sometimes it is so hard to see what is in the other hand but do believe
this one thing 
God will never take away something without giving you something better in its
place.


Hinei ma tov uma na'im shevet achim gam yachad [Psalm 133 : 1]

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[JOYnet] I Love You

2003-04-03 Thread Prejomy Jose
Dear All,

Once I told to a girl; Sweetheart, I Love you.
She replied, I love you 2
I; I love you 3
Again She, I love you 4,
4For;
For Love
Then; for Live
Then; for Die
Do you accept my Love?
Yes, even if to die with you, I love you
xxx

Everyday, Jesus is telling to me;
Dear, I love you
I; Hey man, are you Crazy
Jesus; I love you 2
What?
2  To show and lead you through the Way, Truth and Life
So?
I love you 3
Oomm
3  All of us three, the Father, me  the Holy Spirit
He added, I love you 4
4For;
For giving you eternal life
Do you accept my Love?
Even if you give me eternal life, I . . . . . . . . . . .


Only with you, to Jesus
Prejomy Jose
Abu Dhabi






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[JOYnet] breaking news!!!!!!!!!!

2003-04-03 Thread lijopaul00
hi my dear ones in jesus,


 


Yes finally it happened, answer to my prayer for the last 7 months!  A
prayer group in our college. Yes today , 31st March we have started a prayer
group in St. Joseph's college of Engg and Tech., (SJCET) ,Palai. Everything
happened all of a sudden, if I recollect, today in the morning Manager of our
college called me and asked me is it possible to do something spiritual for the
students. Some students already mentioned my name to him and he asked me the
possibility of a prayer group, also conducting some one-day program for them. I
was at bale for some moments, thanked the lord and rushed to staff room, asked a
teacher who loves prayer group about the matter. She asked me why not we start
it today itself?
I was not at all prepared for the same in that short time, anyway today was the
last day  for first year classes in our college. I have asked the lord for
prayer group in the first year and there is no time to waste. So I rushed to
principal and to another father in our college who loves prayer. Result was
dramatic, father agreed to lead the group and principal asked me to type a
notice regarding the same to be read in all classes. Yes finally we started our
first prayer group with 11 students and two teachers in a classroom. It was a
new experience for all who attended the group and we shared about god's love. We
promised to continue the group in coming semester too. Yes we dream very high
for the kingdom of god, and we will attain it one day!!  Thank you for your
prayers. Do remember this small group of SJCET in your prayers.

Lijo Paul


Lecturer


SJCET


Pala


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[JOYnet] zeal and commitment--The REX BAND

2003-04-03 Thread Shobith Thomas
The Rex Band commitment

Yesterday I was Emmaus for the planning session for the National Campus Discipleship 
Training. We were expecting the representative from various parts but due to some 
reasons only me and tito could be there. We prayed together and fixed the tendative 
date of the Training to be from the 18th to the 25th.

Then I met this years fulltimer Training Program Coordinator Jose Mathew Chettai and 
it was a great time to be with him.

Meanwhile the Audio Visual Team of the Rex Band were practising for the JOY 2003 a 
gathering of +1 students. Now this is what i call commitment I could say that they 
were about 15 of them jumping, dancing, falling on Concrete (They were not mad but 
they were practising)for hours on end.

Umesh,Jaiby,Gibson and Dino were leading these young minds in which the eldest would 
be ! 17yrs
I was thinking how tired I was feeling when I worked for the Lord after a day. But 
these young girls and boys who are barely 17 were practising day in and day out for a 
program and it takes real ZEAL AND COMMITMENT 

It was real fun to watch them crack jokes at others fool around and especially funny 
was a guy called Sijo who they call AALMARAM(banyan tree) due to its(oh!no)his width. 
he had a briuse in the head and yet he was going about with the practise.

Some of them had even problems from their families. I remember on youth get a call 
from home and how he was able to convince them that it was for the kingdom of God. Now 
at this time when this guy was speaking all of them were praising God. From a distance 
he showed thumbs up to tell that it is done and we all sang together 
Thankyou Thankyou Jesus

The amount of backstage work these people do is tremendous. all of us see them 
performing wonderfully but the effort and hardwork,the time (I heard that they start 
friday and on Sunday from 9:00 to 10:00 PM ---they have breaks) and the sacrifice is 
really praise worthy. 

I am moved

with love and prayers
shobith
Coimbatore


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[JOYnet] Inspiring Quotes

2003-04-03 Thread Mary Paul
 INSPIRING QUOTES 1 You are never given a dream without also being given
the power to make it true -- Richard Bach

2 Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every
timewe fall. -- Confucius

3 Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.-- Thomas Alva Edison

4 Results! Why,  I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand
things that wont work. -- Thomas Alva Edison

5 The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first,
hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense. --
Thomas Alva Edison

6 Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds. -- Albert Einstein

7 I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the
conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. -- Albert Einstein

8 People do not lack strength; they lack will. -- Victor Hugo

9 Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.   -- John Quincy Adams

10 Fall seven times, stand up eight.   -- Japanese Proverb

11 In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the

strength of the effort is the measure of the result. -- James Allen

12 The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often
comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. -- Henry
Ward Beecher

13 Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs
of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having
accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas A. Bennett -

14 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. --
Josh Billings

15 Just start. And don't stop. -- Charles Burke

16 If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish
it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough
to follow through. -- Rosalyn Cart

17 Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never. -- Winston Churchill

18  Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have
perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that
we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must
be attained. -- Marie Curieat

19 The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution
and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those
who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of planning in life,
and the tragic brevity of time. -- W.J. Davison

20 The odds are with us if we keep on trying. -- Keith DeGreen

21 The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less
than you settled for. -- Maureen Dowd

21The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. --
Havelock Ellis

22 The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-- William Faulkner

23 Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. -- Malcolm Forbes

24 The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the
persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans. --
Mark Victor Hansen-

25 The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant,
the active, the brave. -- Patrick Henry

26 Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.--
Napoleon Hil

27 The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of
persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-- Napoleon Hill

28 Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half
results, it produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work, is
the only way to accomplish the results that last. -- Hamilton Holt

Regards

Mary



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[JOYnet] Birthday Notification !!!

2003-04-03 Thread listadm
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[JOYnet] **POSSIBLE SPAM** Catechism on the Real Presence

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Dear Friends,
I hope the following exhortation from St. John Vianney warm your heart
and soul as it did mine.
God bless
Shaji Chacko, Dubai
 
 
 
12kb jpg Saint John Mary Baptiste Vianney portrait painting, artist
unknownOur Lord is hidden there, waiting for us to come and visit Him,
and make our request to Him. See how good He is! He accommodates Himself
to our weakness. In Heaven, where we shall be glorious and triumphant,
we shall see him in all His glory. If He had presented Himself before us
in that glory now, we should not have dared to approach Him; but He
hides Himself, like a person in a prison, who might say to us, You do
not see me, but that is no matter; ask of me all you wish and I will
grant it.  He is there in the Sacrament of His love, sighing and
interceding incessantly with His Father for sinners. To what outrages
does He not expose Himself, that He may remain in the midst of us! He is
there to console us; and therefore we ought often to visit Him. How
pleasing to Him is the short quarter of an hour that we steal from our
occupations, from something of no use, to come and pray to Him, to visit
Him, to console Him for all the outrages He receives! When He sees pure
souls coming eagerly to Him, He smiles upon them. They come with that
simplicity which pleases Him so much, to ask His pardon for all sinners,
for the outrages of so many ungrateful men. What happiness do we not
feel in the presence of God, when we find ourselves alone at His feet
before the holy tabernacles! Come, my soul, redouble thy fervour; thou
art alone adoring thy God. His eyes rest upon thee alone.  This good
Saviour is so full of love for us that He seeks us out everywhere. 

Ah! if we had the eyes of angels with which to see Our Lord Jesus
Christ, who is here present on this altar, and who is looking at us, how
we should love Him! We should never more wish to part from Him. We
should wish to remain always at His feet; it would be a foretaste of
Heaven: all else would become insipid to us. But see, it is faith we
want. We are poor blind people; we have a mist before our eyes. Faith
alone can dispel this mist. Presently, my children, when I shall hold
Our Lord in my hands, when the good God blesses you, ask Him then to
open the eyes of your heart; say to Him like the blind man of Jericho,
O Lord, make me to see! If you say to Him sincerely, Make me to see!
you will 

[JOYnet] Priests Chastity

2003-04-03 Thread Bensi Chacko
Dear Friends,

Since 1965, more than 80,000 priests have been laicized according to Fr. 
Florencio Testera, former dean of cannon law. In the USA, more than 2500 
priests since 1982 have sexually molested children. Many bishops were forced 
to resign from their offices after newspapers had exposed their sexual 
scandals.

  After having found several orphanages worldwide a certain priest, devoted 
all his time to his apostolate, which soon turned into a purely humanitarian 
activity. Because he was too busy, he found less time for prayer. Though he 
continued to celebrate mass, he neglected his meditation, Rosary, Confession 
and Holy Hours.

  Soon, he began to drink. When wine no longer satisfied him, he was driven 
to sexual fantacies. But he was well known as a priest, so he could not be 
in sexual relationship with a women. He thought he should release his sexual 
urges either alone or with the children in the orphanage.

One victim followed another. It all become so obvious that the New York 
Times exposed his sexual abuses and accused him of pedophilia.  His donors 
were shocked, the staff was appalled forcing the hierarchy to remove him 
from the orphanage he had supported for forty years. Truly, without 
Chastity, all good works come to an end.

 Yet the opposite is also true. St. John Bosco established many 
orphanages- more than this priest in New York ever did. The big difference 
is Don Bosco remained chaste and holy. His life was a life of intense 
prayer. He would meditate from 1:00 am to 5:00 am daily; heard confession 
ten hours a day; celebrated Mass with great reverence as if each Mass was 
his last; and he would pray at least three Rosaries everyday and the 
Stations of the Cross. His chastity and sanctity brought many orphans to 
love God and the Virgin Mary. It was no surprise then that saints were 
nurtured in his orphanages. Even Virgin Mary would physically visit some of 
them. Don Boscos work has brought the Church many young saints such as St. 
Dominic Savio, Blessed Laura Vicuna, and hundreds of others.

True imitation of Jesus Christ is to remain chaste, poor and obedient. 
Moreover the problem of unchastity among clerics cannot be solved by simply 
allowing priests to marry. St. Paul tells us in Corinthians 7:14, that there 
are those who are called to be virgins. Let them who can remain virgins 
remain as such, for it is written (Rev 14:4):  The virgins follow the Lamp 
wherever He goes (Fr. Bing Arellano)



Bensilal Chacko,DE,USA.





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