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Rest in Peace Mother Angleica. Pray for us from Heaven above. A fitting day for you to go home, Easter Sunday.
“All my salvation and joy are in You, O Crucified Christ, and in whatever state I happen to be, I shall never take my eyes away from Your Cross”
- St. Angela of Foligno
The snow beckons many to the high alpine in Colorado. The cold of the desolate mountains evokes a calm, a peace, “a moment in time” that urban centers cannot match. The communal aspect of skiing and snowboarding is like heaven on earth at the 10th Mountain Division Huts. Watch the video to see what Father Mike Rapp has to say about skiing on clouds! Hope lives in the mountains, and in the hearts of a Eucharistic community of a up hill skiers.
“Courage comes from knowing God… Be decisive, and take courage.” -Fr. Ignatius, Cistercian monk for over 70 years
“I’m going to mess this up, but I tried explaining this to someone the other day using a quote from Pope Francis. As a writer, artist and manager for a Catholic blog, ‘I prefer a church that is dirty and bruised and on the streets, versus one that is suffocated unto itself.’ We’re too comfortable being prim and proper. What I want is to open a bridge to the world. I want to meet those on the periphery by speaking a language everyone can understand. We aren’t going to do that by turning up our noses to the hard-to-talk-about issues people are facing today. I want to talk about the things people don’t want to talk about. My philosophy is ‘to disturb the comfortable, and comfort the disturbed.’”
“I was eleven years old when my father was killed, and justice was not served because we were poor and the murderers were from an influential group. That was when hatred came into my life.
As this hatred grew, I enrolled in the college of law because I wanted justice.
I joined the Focolare, an Ecclesial Movement, who strives to put into practice the word of God in their daily lives.
I then became addicted to this new drug, and it is called: LOVE.
I found the essence and true meaning of my life for the first time and that Jesus in the Eucharist was the source of it all.
I found how to live Jesus’s word concretely when He said: “Love your enemy”. One day when I was at work, I had met by chance the leader of the group that had killed my father. I spontaneously greeted him with a smile and asked him how his family was doing. And I felt in my heart that the hatred slowly transformed into love.
I continued to visit them in their home and tried building this rapport by showing how much God loves them. And it came to a point where a member of those who had killed my father asked for forgiveness for what he had done and in turn he asked for prayers for his family and his health.
I knew clearly this experience of forgiveness and healing was the transforming power of Jesus in the Eucharist.”
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