"Fear is useless, wat is needed is Trust!"

I was sharing with a friend ...we discussed fear....here r some of the points we covered.

"Feel the fear an do it anyway!" This is a great phrase to help us overcome fear.
 
Another friend told him many yrs ago, "The opposite of fear is faith". 

"Fear is useless wat is needed is Trust" ... Jesus spoke that to St Faustina in The Divine Mercy Revelations. Trust in God....therefore if our connection to God is real we can actually start to trust ourselves because of our connection to The Divine.  There is a movie online by Bishop Barron who is one of the greatest Catholic Evangelists of our time. He made a movie about St Catherine of Sienna. I luv it because St Catherine was  illiterate and did not have an education. Yet she was a great Mystic and declared Doctor of the Church. The movie brings forward a mystic's walk with God which develops the self-esteem.. builds a person up ...is so precious an  innocent yet with great convictions.  I find it greatly inspiring. But the connection here is he brings the movie to a place to talk about our own divination.. not that we become gods.. perfect ,but there's a process of us becoming more like the Divine and it is powerful an uplifting to hear . Ck out the link below. It runs on this website til April 30th. Enjoy ur day an God bless!😊🙏

https://special.wordonfire.org/stcatherinebook?_ga=2.72065873.396169686.1587926659-1734438015.1587926659

Self Esteem...let's go higher

"Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire."
- St. Catherine of Siena

"I am fearfully an wonderfully made!" Bible

Self esteem is a very difficult thing to work on. There is a fine line from knowing our value an the sin of pride.  True self esteem knows we r "made in the Image an Likeness of God".   It knows we deserve, as every human being, respect an love. The Spark of God is in every one of us an therefore everyone deserves our kindness an respect. There comes a time wen we learn our value an it becomes less an less necessary to demand it from others or even correct them. Humility plays a sacred role as we build a healthy holy self esteem in God .  We can let another win in a battle even though we may actually be rt for love an mercy's sake .Wen we start to b able to do this, we no we r starting to walk a little more with The Divine rather than humans.  It is vitally important for us to cleave to God so that all our attempts to grow insure we r getting the proper Sonlight, Water an Nutrients to insure a great outcome an therefore a great harvest. Let's let God lead us in our healing an self esteem work an we will surely surpass the world's view of wat a healthy self esteem is an reach heights we never thought possible.  An let us forgive everyone in family...friends..teachers...all those who influenced us negatively by bullying us or telling us we weren't gd enough all our lives... because in practicing this higher principle of forgiveness we obey God an the fruit of obedience is beyond anything we can imagine. He does no wat is Best!!

Bishop Fulton Sheene

🎉 Happy Blessed Sunday 🌈 this video is of Bishop Fulton Sheene who lived a short time ago.  It is half an hour an worth watching....he is addressing teenagers an his humor an lesson r very gd.  Happy watching.

https://youtu.be/5e5oPIHnHQs

Bishop Barron Web an Daily Mass info

Bishop Barron is 1 of the leading evangelists in the Catholic Church. This link takes you to his Daily Mass. It is a half-hour and his sermons are wonderful. A great way to start our day. If you search the site you can also find he has movies... one particular on Saint Catherine you can watch.. there are articles to read ...it is a wonderful Catholic site. Enjoy looking things up and learning from him.
https://www.wordonfire.org/daily-mass/

It is time to start on a different routine!

Let us as Christians start to use our time wisely. It is time for hours in prayer, it is time to simplify our homes and clean drawers closets and drop off things to the poor.. everything we won't and cannot use. It is time to call people and have phone conferences to pray and encourage others. It is time to shut the television unless it is beautiful, uplifting ,God focused. News will not do anything but depress us and our families. It is time to cook beautiful meals. It is time to dance in the kitchen again....lets start different tomoro. Find wat works for u an implement it!  God bless!

Rest in The Arms of God Who is Madly in Love with you!

I was looking at a conference on Divine Mercy online today. Initially it had Exposition of The Most Blessed Sacrament with a young woman worshipping Jesus on guitar an voice. It was Deep, Precious, Comforting...
followed by Benediction....just Beautiful!!  A Moving Experience ...i luv frequent Silent Retreats...to also go to a Monastery every week to have an opportunity to just sit in The Arms of God an rest....we can experience God taking us  in His Arms like a child an Holding us as every person desires to b held...accepted...comforted by his or her parents...family... That is all our longing...to always rest in God's Loving an Merciful an Healing Arms which we all desperately need especially at this time April 2020.  May we become better an better at first experiencing God's Loving Embrace ourselves ,an resting There...an then become beter an beter at helping others experience this for themselves....
Divine Mercy...The Most Loving an Endearing Eyes, Face an Heart of a God Who is Madly in Luv with us!!  Praised b Jesus Christ...an His Father an His Holy Spirit Forever an Ever!!  Amen!  BONA FESTA!!!😂🙏💒

The Diary of St Faustina

If u really want to understand the Message of Divine Mercy, then consider reading The Diary of St. Faustina.  It will b a life changing experience! You can look it up online.  Til next time, God bless!

Original Divine Mercy Image

The Original Divine Mercy Image was painted under the direction of St. Faustina, the one who saw Jesus an received The Divine Mercy Message. This Image is worth praying an meditating with to experience "The Glance of God"!  The Words JESUS I TRUST IN YOU appear on it.  Til next...happy meditating!

https://www.google.com/search?q=original+divine+mercy+image&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&prmd=isvn&sxsrf=ALeKk00DSm9kGil4WeEmk2juCa18C7D87w:1587353047771&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIk670hvboAhUKg3IEHWWyDKQQ_AUoAXoECA4QAQ&biw=320&bih=448#imgrc=bEvcFqBwIeswxM

Divine Mercy Sunday

Today is Mercy Sunday. We can still receive the Special Graces offered by this devotion.  The requirements r as follows:
We need to watch Mass on EWTN or on computer youtube: Daily tv Mass
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HbAuzEsDu9I

...make a gd Act of Contrition begging God to forgive all our sins an promising to change our lives an to not want to sin again...
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my love.

I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin. Amen

An ask God to miraculously give us Holy Communion an believe He can Spiritually.
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things,
and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there
and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.

If we do these things we start life over...like re- baptism.. All our past sins r gone. Wen the churches reopen we need to go to a gd confession an go to Mass to receive Holy Communion...that is the requirement. Plz take advantage of these beautiful graces today.

https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/what-do-divine-mercy-sunday

Divine Mercy Novena

Divine mercy novena began Friday. Go to this site every day til next sunday an participate.
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/novena-13366

Holy Thurs Mass

Daily tv mass Holy Thursday

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xDQRfwQoUaQ&t=973s

The highs an lows after covid19

It is not Holy Week...nor Holy Thurs or Gd Fri....IT IS EASTER FOR US !!!  EASTER...😂😂🙏💒JESUS LIVES....OUR GOD LIVES... we will never forget Joe's Miracle 2020 Arisen !...we just need time to heal an rest...

He is gd. I am tired an a little under the weather but now i can focus on me a bit. The adjustment.... the long needed discussions of the reality that both he an i thought he was going to die alone in a hosp during this pandemic....it is surreal...
overwhelming...mind bogaling....all in a gd way.  Ptsd....but we have tears an joy that will take gd care of us!  LOVE WINS ...LOVE WINS EVERY TIME ...OH MY...TY GOD!!😂
We r psychologically drained ...we ate we talked...he layed down ....so i took a nap.. any time he sleeps i must rest cause i need to rest. 

This is important for all of us calling people too much an wanting details of their experiences with covid19.  We r Not up for texting or calls...we find it interesting how many who never really reached for us in normal life now come forward ..we need the quiet loving silent prayerful support that requires no effort from us...so plz do not call or text rt now unless u can send  a hug with NO expectation of reply.  Too many on a plight to talk things out with us about all this....i no everyone means well. everyone has too much time on their hands now but everyone must just b our prayer shield for both of us now praying for us to b healed an well...an for us to continue to have Gods protection. We r both extremely joyful in this miracle an very heavy hearted in wat we have an r walking thru.  Consider this as u support people around u. Ty.

My son is home from the hospital. Blessed Easter!!

This day I declare that Our God is Alive ..I declare that God protects His Own.. I declare that the prayers of the righteous availeth much..so to everyone who has uttered a prayer for us.. u r now part of Joes Miracle 2020... I just received the call that is flat-out miraculous after being told that my son was serious last night one step away from critical. I just got a call... Joseph does not need oxygen... he is walking around holding 94-95 oxygen saturation on his own...I will have the privilege shortly to pick him up and bring him home. After being told he would have a Long Hospital stay, Our God had a different prognosis. God bless everyone who took care of him and I ask you to continue to pray for him and me as we finish his recovery at home. Praise be to God.. kisses and gratitude to Our Lady of Guadalupe who never forgot our annointed redition of her song" I'm Your Mother "which we gave to her. I am at a loss for words...nothing...absolutely nothing could express my joy...Easter has come early this year!

"I'm Your Mother" a prayer for my son Joe now in the hospital

I am posting this video of my original rendition of I'm Your Mother.  That song was annointed by God an i was allowed to b Our Lady's instrument to bring her voice forward to the world. As i ache in deep sorrow for my son Joseph, who now is in a hospital in serious condition, i remind the world that i recorded that song wen i was 8 mths pregnant with Joe. He was as much a part of that song as i was because only wen one feels life within can one sing these words with the depth an passion i did. I ask that everyone listen again to this rendition now remembering Joe an i in deep prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe for his healing, cure an protection an mine. To Our Lord an Our Lady who both helped make this song not just gd to listen to, but absolutely healing...may they get all the honor an glory an praise.  For everytime my version of I'm Your Mother was used an touched people, i ask a special blessing from above on my son Joe an i in this, our darkest hour. Ty. God bless!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QGe1ccixRqc

Prayers 4 my son Joe hospitalized

I need your prayers now... my son Joe is in the emergency room being admitted. God bless you an us! Plz pray! 

"The Lord is my light and my salvation Whom Shall I Fear the Lord is my life's Refuge of whom should I be afraid!"

Counting on ur prayers!  angie

Catholic Palm Sunday Masses..it is time to change!

I am grieving this yr. It is the first yr i will not b doin Church Music for Holy Week in 50 yrs.  Many of us cannot attend Mass or receive Blessed Palms to open our Holiest Week of the yr. We must make due an enter more deeply in these Masses/Services as never before. Our world needs us ...every one of us is carrying the sick..the dying..an our world which needs to b rid of this virus. Lets take seriously our responsibility...find God anew...convert an repent of the error...filth...compromise in our lives.  Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Methodus, Lutherans...every form of Christianity...an all other religions....i invite u to join us.We need to begin again an unite in prayer, fasting, an almsgiving.  God will hear us an answer if we do something.  Watever we would want to hide from God if we were goin to die this moment ..these r the things that need drastic change in our lives.

As u watch Mass, ask God to bless again the palms from last yr in ur home an He will. Ask Him to give u Holy Communion...an believe He can do it even if u dont see it...open ur mouth an receive Jesus Christ....an even though we cannot go to confession or b annointed...God can do these things miraculously if we beg Him .Lets get on our knees an beg for forgiveness an confess to God saying a gd act of contrition an receive Gods Loving Mercy. God surely is not limited by our natural world. An wen civid19 is over we will hopefully flock our churches again as never before...goin to Confession, receive Holy Communion an the changes we will have made will b noticeable an b lasting God Willing.

Wake up Hollywood!  Books,Music...tv...movies...
everything needs to change an become innocent again!

Palm Sunday Masses on EWTN...eastern
5 am...8 am
Noon... 7pm
(5 am an 7 pm Popes Mass, 8 am Franciscan an Noon Washington DC)

Online youtube videos of other Palm Sunday Mass...shorter versions

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=palm+sunday+mass+2020

Blessed Palm Sunday!!!  May we make this Holy Week the best ever!  May we take seriously our call to become saints!!!

Become doers of The Word during covid19

Wat a simple way to help people locked down in their homes...look thru ur photo  albums an send a few pics by text that can make people smile!  Try it...u feel great wen u no they enjoyed them! An u get to enjoy some great older memories again .

We need to shut the news an bake cookies...listen to gd inspirational music...pray...watch uplifting tv an computer material..think of ways to reach out to others to help them smile during these hard days...make some calls, write some letters...we need to get creative to stay balanced an peaceful for ourselves an all those in our inner circle of family an friends.  Ministry always starts in ur inner circle .We may reach millions, but if we neglect our responsibilities to our parents, spouses, children, siblings neighbors, friends etc. ,which is our primary calling in life, we have failed!

James 1:27

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world."

.. the sufferings today r monumental..
with the serious realities in our world today...it is too much for a frail human being to handle...ONLY WITH GOD can we rise from this. We must pray an b present to others for support!  If someone is hungry, do u say God bless u an yet not offer them something to eat?  People r hurting...let us ask God for creative ideas on how we can support others...an as we support others, God Himself will carry us!!😉  we wont have time to waste on world news' details...complaining...
obsessing...being unproductive. Lets try to use this time well...interior growth...relationship with God...improving virtues an character in our families..simplifying our dwellings to share our gds with others...emptying our storage units that r not needed...an then outreach to others. Even just texting a positive message .

By the grace of God i have had many beautiful people call on me to ck on us to offer to pay a bill, shop for me, go shopping together an cover the cost ...offered money...to help me an my disabled son during this crisis... one of whom was a holy priest of God, another my sister, another distant cousin, a dear old friend who i grew up with from church choir an a local neighbor/ friend.  Imagine...all of these people offering to care for us like the early church did one another . Our God lives an He will continue to care for His Own!

Courage!!! In my prayers always!  Til next time!🙏💒🙋

Let's read James 1:19-27

An become DOERS OF THE WORD!

PRAISED B JESUS CHRIST NOW AN FOREVER!!

Food pantries in NJ

A word from my friends at Gethsemane Church in my town....

"I will  say of the Lord,   You are my refuge, You are my fortress, My God in You I will trust." Psalm 91:2

Blessings Family,
We are not in this by ourselves. We are FAMILY. Bless God for the gifts He has given to us in this ministry.
Please go to anthonysmithministries.org on the 1st page to find a list of Food Pantries by county in NJ.
Praise God for provision.  There is greatness in THIS
house.

"With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation." Psalm 91:16

"No room for fear."

LET US PRAY FOR THESE, MY DEAR BRETHREN IN CHRIST WHO CARRY ME AN MINE DAILY IN SERIOUS PRAYER!  Ty

Be grateful for life's teachers

I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.
     Kahlil Gibran Sand & Foam

Divine Mercy Doorpost....Blood of Jesus!

Praying u all r well. A devotion imploring Divine Mercy during these times from Marian Helpers..Here is a short video on puttin Divine Mercy pic on our front doors during this pandemic asking God's Protection on us. (I personally think we should always keep it up😃)
A link is provided for people interested to print out a picture for free.
Ck it out. 

I have 2 outdoor lanterns...1 big...1 small..on the porch with Sacred Heart pics to honor God, protect us, an afford those who walk by an opportunity to stop an pray. God inspired me at the beginning of all this covid19 to put an extra 8x10 Divine Mercy Image i found with a large crucifix i keep on my front door on the inside. I put it facing in so everytime we go up or down the stairs or pass it, we c it an pray. God is soo gd. He speaks to us no merit of our own...an then someone told me this morn wat the Marians suggested....so glad i have learned to listen to those inner promptings from The Holy Spirit!!  Confirmed by Assoc of Marian Helpers!  Ty God!

Lets work on developin a deep prayer life.. an from that learn to discern an listen to God's inner promptings.... God Alone gets all the glory! God bless!

🙏💒🙋

Exodus 12:7,13

"They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it."

"But for you the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thereby, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you."

https://www.thedivinemercy.org/articles/seal-doorposts

Joy in the midst of suffering

Joy is the most Infallible Sign of the Presence of God!!!
                    Leon Bloy

Til next time lets look up Scriptures on Joy an meditate on them.