Busy Febuary!!

I know... its been a while since my last post!

I've quite a busy Febuary...
work is keeping me busy trying to make $$$ to pay off some of my school loans before I start the Franciscans in July...

I'm also the best man in my brother's wedding at the end of March so he's keeping me busy with all his wedding stuff... I have to go get fitted for my tux on saturday too!! and I'm planning his bachelor party!!

Friday I'm going to IHM for stations of the cross and to hear a talk from Dr. Scott Hahn...

Sunday I'll be at St. Anthony's for mass and t to hang with the postulants and meet some of the Come and see attendees...

So my weekend is already full....

Just a quick reflection...
We started Lent this week...
There are so many people in this crazy world who just don't seem to want to believe...
They think the the story of Christ's death and Resurrection is just too good to be true or they don't want to accept it because they are afraid that God might require them to change their lives... Don't get me wrong you will!!! But this is what having true faith is all about!! But if you give your life to Christ, you want to change your life! Because he alone deserves to have you be the way he made you to be... without the many masks and walls we all put up to the outside world so we can appear to have it all together... but Christ knows us as we are and so we don't need to hide from him. Just give him our lives and he will fill us with such joy and love... will it be easy to do this all the time? Heck no. We are all frail human beings. But if we hand over all our sins, sufferings, sorrows, and fears to the Lord what we get back is the strength and the healing to endure the sufferings of this life...
All I think most of us need to do is remember to trust in the Goodness of our Lord!!!
The Mercy and Love he gives us surpasses even our worst sins!
During Lent I think it is something we need to think about...
It was this unfathomable Mercy and Love which brought him to the Passion and Cross and bought for us the rewards of eternal life.
I thought this was an appropriate quote from St. Faustina's diary of what Our Lord revealed to her about Confession...
Today the Lord said to me, Daughter, when you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon your soul and ennobles it. Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself in My mercy, with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul. When you approach the confessional, know this, that I Myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I myself act in your soul. Here the misery of the soul meets the God of mercy. Tell souls that from this fount of mercy souls draw graces solely with the vessel of trust. If their trust is great, there is no limit to My generosity. The torrents of grace inundate humble souls. The proud remain always in poverty and misery, because My grace turns away from them to humble souls. (1602)
Peace!

Spring is getting closer.... I can hear the birds chirping outside tonight which means they're getting ready to migrate! Thank the Lord for Spring!