Finding God in the events of daily life...
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Are you looking for for a closer relationship with God? |
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 You are someone who is incredibly precious to God, who called you by your name and loved you from all eternity. Whoever you are and whatever you are, you are never alone. In all your joys and sorrows, successes and failures, thrills and spills, he is there, at your side.
'Pause and Pray' is a varied resource for prayer, helping you to move just that little bit closer to the God who speaks in all sorts of circumstances, often in the most unexpected events of life and through the most unlikely people. Above all, Pause and Pray wants to remind you that 'This, only this is what God asks of you: that you act justly, that you love tenderly and that you walk humbly with your God.' God bless,
Sr. Janet |
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 A Christmas Carol
The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,
His hair was like a light.
(O weary, weary were the world,
But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary's breast
His hair was like a star.
(O stern and cunning are the kings,
But here the true hearts are.) The Christ-child lay on Mary's heart,
His hair was like a fire.
(O weary, weary is the world,
But here the world's desire.) The Christ-child stood on Mary's knee,
His hair was like a crown,
And all the flowers looked up at Him,
And all the stars looked down. G. K. Chesterton |
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 St. Colette
Colette was the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. She was born on January 13, christened Nicolette, and called Colette. Orphaned at seventeen, she distributed her inheritance to the poor. She became a Franciscan tertiary, and lived at Corby as a solitary. She soon became well known for her holiness and spiritual wisdom, but left her cell in 1406 in response to a dream directing her to reform the Poor Clares. Colette received the Poor Clares habit from Peter de Luna, whom the French recognized as Pope under the name of Benedict XIII, with orders to reform the Order and appointing her Superior of all convents she reformed. Despite great opposition, she persisted in her efforts. Colette founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule and reformed several older convents. She was reknowned for her sanctity, ecstacies, and visions of the Passion, and prophesied her own death in her convent at Ghent, Belgium. A branch of the Poor Clares is still known as the Collettines. She was canonized in 1807. |
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