Knock

If anyone cares, I'm sorry I haven't been keeping up with the posts, but sometimes real life gets in the way, as all of you know. Had two of the three grandkids over yesterday, The Boys, they're off from school this week so they spent the day hanging with Grandmother and Grampy. Snow tubing got the call, and Helen and the Boys put on a good show. The course is getting packed down but it still lends itself to some wild off the course adventures. Again, no injuries, but a couple of the trees did take a snow tube beating, lol!

Wonderful commentaries today on Holy Scripture. Every day in Lent there is a mass for that day, and Fr. Troadec and Bishop Bossuet did not disappoint. The persistence of the Canaanite women lends itself perfectly to our state in life. Knock. Persevere in knocking, even to the point of rudeness, if that were possible. There is a way of forcing God and wresting His graces from Him, and that way is to ask continually with a firm faith. - Bossuet. Bossuet goes on to remind us to pray, and pray constantly, during the day, at night and every time we rise. Do we? I know I don't, but I also know that I hope I can try harder to shut down this world and pray to God in its absence, in the quiet, that hopefully will ensue. And again, the faith of the Canaanite women, in proclaiming that even the dogs eat the crumbs from the table. Her faith is so great, that it wins over Jesus. He is so merciful, but he wants us to do our part, too. He wants us to go to the edge for love of Him, to really prove to Him our love, faith and trust in Him. 

Prayer • Lord, give me a pure faith, a strong and ardent faith, which makes me cling to Thee with total security, even though Thou remainest hidden to my gaze. - Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen.