To My Friends Who Are Single

Love is like a butterfly.

The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you just let it fly, it will come to you when you least expect it.

Love can make you happy but often it hurts, but love is only special when you give it to someone who is really worth it.

So take your time and choose the best.

To My Friends Who Are Not So Single

Love isn’t about becoming somebody else’s ”perfect person”

It’s about finding someone who helps you become the best person you can be.

To My Friends Who Are Engaged

The true measure of compatibility is not the years spent together.

But how good you are for each other.

To My Friends Who Are Married

Love is not about “it’s your fault”, but “I’m sorry.”

Not “where are you”, but “I’m right here for you”

Not “how could you”, but “I understand”

Not “I wish you were”, but “I’m thankful you are”

To My Friends Who Are Heartbroken

Heartbreaks last as long as you want

and cut as deep as you allow them to go

The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks

But to learn from them.

To My Friends Who Are Naive

How to be in love:

Be consistent but not too persistent,

Share and never be unfair,

Understand and try not to demand,

And get hurt but never keep the pain.

To My Friends Who Are Possessive

It breaks your heart to see the one you love happy with someone else

But it’s more painful to know that the one you love is unhappy with you.

To My Friends Who Are Afraid To Confess

Love hurts when you break up with someone.

It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you.

But love hurts the most:

When the person you love has no idea how you feel about him/her.

To My Friends Who Are Still Holding On

A sad thing about life is when you meet someone and fall in love, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be, and that you have wasted years on someone who wasn’t worth it.

If that person doesn’t worth it now, it’s not going to be worth it a year or 10 years from now.

To All My Friends

My wish for you is a man/woman whose love is:

honest, strong, mature, never-changing, protective, encouraging, rewarding and unselfish.

Happy Valentine’s Day To All Of You

Download Slideshow : On The Eve of New Year

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The eve of a new year is often a great time to reflect, to rejoice over the progress of the past year while also learning from the setbacks and mistakes. Then it’s time to look forward. What would you like to accomplish? What would you like to change?

One key to succeeding in the new year is to plan ahead but not worry ahead. “Don’t worry” may seem easier said than done, particularly if you are facing an uncertain future with health, financial, or personal problems. This is why planning alone is not enough.

Peace of mind comes from putting your future in God’s hands and trusting Him to work things out. If you not only make plans, but also commit those plans to Him, He promises to help bring your plans to fruition.

“Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass” (Psalm 37:5). Of course, this is provided your plans are within the scope of what He knows is best for you and others involved, so the first step is to check your plans with Him—or better yet, get your plans from Him.

Take a few quiet minutes to open your mind to God, and He will put His thoughts there. He loves you and has your best interests at heart, so ask Him to help you set goals and lay plans, and He will.

You just might find that His ideas are far better than your own. He says, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3). And with Him, all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).

Do what you can by asking God for direction as you plan and prepare for the year ahead, and commit your needs to Him in prayer. Then continue to seek His help throughout the year, and watch Him guide, provide, and take care of you!

New Year Prayer:-

Dear Jesus, I don’t know what the future holds for me, but I put that future in Your hands. Thank You for the many promises You have given that encourage me to trust You (Psalm 37:3; 73:28; Proverbs 29:25). Help me to have faith as I begin this new year, to be fully persuaded that what You have promised, You will also perform (Romans 4:21). No matter what life has in store, may I stay close to You and draw comfort from the knowledge that nothing can separate me from Your love (Romans 8:38-39). May I walk in truth (3 John 4), in love (Ephesians 5:2), in wisdom (Colossians 4:5), and most of all with You. Amen.

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Download Slideshow : St John of Facundo

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The following remarkable incident will serve to illustrate what has just been said and to kindle in the reader greater devotion toward Holy Mass.

We read in the life of St. John of Facundo, a noted member of the Augustinian Order, that he never on any account omitted saying Mass, and in fact, urged by his great longing to offer the Holy Sacrifice and receive Our Lord, he said it every morning at the earliest hour possible. He was, however, so slow in celebrating that the server used to go away and leave him at the altar, and at last no one could be found to serve his Mass.

The Saint then went to the prior, and entreated him to order the brothers to do so. But the prior spoke sharply to him, saying, “Why do you give the brothers so much trouble by being so long over your Mass? I shall rather enjoin upon you henceforth to say Mass like other priests.” John did as he was commanded, but obedience cost him so much that he went again to the prior and, throwing himself at his feet, begged him to withdraw his command.

The prior would not consent to do this until John had confided to him in Confession the reasons which made it impossible for him to say Mass more quickly. Having heard them, he no longer hesitated to tell the brothers that they must serve Father John’s Mass, even though their patience was somewhat taxed.

It is certain that Christ frequently manifests Himself visibly to this father, speaking with him as one speaks to a friend, and showing him His five sacred wounds, from which proceeds a light of exceeding brightness, which, shed upon the Saint, quickens both body and soul, so that he experiences no need of earthly nourishment.

He also beholds the Body of Christ shining like the sun at noonday and perceives its infinite beauty and glory. Such are the lofty and divine things he is privileged to know, mysteries which it is not given to man to fathom, much less to utter.

Since I have thus been made aware of the immense benefits accruing to mankind by the celebrating or assisting at Mass, I have made a firm resolution never to omit saying or hearing Mass and to do my utmost to induce others to do the same.” From these noteworthy words which the prior uttered we see clearly that solemn mysteries are contained in the Holy Mass and we ought to reverence it most profoundly.

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