Living Without School: Please pray for us this month....

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Please pray for us this month....

We have some decisions to make.

And I have no idea about discerning the best options.

Do you sometimes feel that you chose the wrong vocation - that maybe this wasn't meant for you at all?

Thanks for prayers and happy thoughts.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: The friars will keep you all in their prayers at Chapel.; 1:54 pm
Ladybug Mommy Maria said...: We're praying, too!; 2:29 pm
Leonie said...: Thanks guys - and thanls Fr for dinner tonight. I hate decisions!; 11:10 pm
Anonymous said...: Prayers from WA. Doesn't parenting seem to be one ongoing process of prayer for discernment and decisions?????

As to questing one's vocation - I am constantly questioning whether I am truly doing what God desires of me, whether I am really listening to His direction or not listening enough and running with my own agenda. Especially as homeschooling has had its ups and downs and I question whether the children should have had a school education and I should have supported them whilst continuing in my earlier vocation with disabilities. When the balance of homelife seems out of kilter - I wonder if it is an inevitable result of an earlier 'wrong' choice.

Most often though - the good Lord send some moment to confirm that homeschooling is a blessing to the family and my true vocation.

Praying that your decision making is in His Will.

God Bless
Shannon; 12:24 pm
Leonie said...: Shannon - super to hear from you and your wisdom. Thanks for prayers!; 4:07 pm
Anonymous said...: I'll be praying for you too, Leonie

Susan <><; 8:02 am
Leonie said...: Thanks Susan - I know you understand the moves and futrue where will we live concerns that come with the military.; 8:37 am

Prayer of Consecration of St. Maximilian Kolbe

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire order of mercy to thee. I, N___, a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet humbly imploring thee to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to thyself as thy possession and property. Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases thee. If it pleases thee, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of thee: "She will crush your head," and, "Thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world."

Let me be a fit instrument in thine Immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed Kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus. For wherever thou enters, one obtains the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through thy hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

V. Allow me to praise thee O Sacred Virgin.
R. Give me strength against thy enemies.

Prayer of St Bonaventure

Pierce, O most Sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, with true, serene, and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with love and longing for Thee, that it may yearn for Thee and faint for Thy courts, and long to be dissolved and to be with Thee.Grant that my soul may hunger after Thee, the bread of angels, the refreshment of holy souls, our daily and supersubstantial bread, having all sweetness and savor and every delight of taste; let my heart ever hunger after and feed upon Thee, upon whom the angels desire to look, and may my inmost soul be filled with the sweetness of Thy savor; may it ever thirst after Thee, the fountain of life, the fountain of wisdom and knowledge, the fountain of eternal light, the torrent of pleasure, the richness of the house of God.May it ever compass Thee, seek Thee, find Thee, run to Thee, attain Thee, meditate upon Thee, speak of Thee, and do all things to the praise and glory of Thy name, with humility and discretion, with love and delight, with ease and affection, and with perseverance unto the end.May Thou alone be ever my hope, my entire assurance, my riches, my delight, my pleasure, my joy, my rest and tranquility, my peace, my sweetness, my fragrance, my sweet savor, my food, my refreshment, my refuge, my help, my wisdom, my portion, my possession and my treasure, in whom may my mind and my heart be fixed and firmly rooted immovably henceforth and for ever. Amen.