Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) Lyric Video

Sign of a Victory (Official 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Anthem)

Sign of Victory song by R.Kelly. Fifa 2010 anthem

I can see the colors of the rainbow
And I can feel the sun on my face
I see the light at the end of the tunnel
And I can feel heaven in its place
And that's the sign of a victory
That's the sign of a victory
I can feel the spirit of the nations
And I can feel my wings riding the winds, yeah
I see the finish line just up ahead now
And I can feel it rising deep within
And that's the sign of a victory
And that's the sign of a victory
Now I can see the distance of your journey
And how you fought with all your might
You open your eyes to global warming
And through it all, you sacrificed your life
That's the sign of a victory, hey
That's the sign of a victory
Oh, if we believe, we can achieve anything
Including the impossible, this I know
So let's lift up our heads, yeah, and raise the flag, yeah
And scream like you want to win, now let the games begin
That's the sign of a victory, yeah
That's the sign of a victory, yeah
That's the sign of a victory, oh
That's the sign of a victory, yeah
That's it, when you keep on fighting
After you lost your strength
That's the sign of a victory, yes, it is
When darkness is all around you
You still find your way
That's the sign of a victory
Oh, you got the victory, sing
Come on and sing
Lift up your voice and sing
Stand up, oh yeah, stand up
Common goal, sign of a victory
Oh, that's the sign of a victory
Songwriters
KELLY, ROBERT S.
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Mother Teresa's List of Humility

"Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed" (Luke 1:48).

            This is what I've discovered today! Mother Teresa's List of Humility!!!!!!!!! 

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“Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.”― Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

1. Speak as little as possible about yourself.
2.  Keep busy with your own affairs and not those of others.
3.  Avoid curiosity 
4. Do not interfere in the affairs of others.
5.  Accept small irritations with good humor.
6. Do not dwell on the faults of others.
7.  Accept censures even if unmerited.
8.  Give in to the will of others.
9.  Accept insults and injuries.
10. Accept contempt, being forgotten and disregarded.
11. Be courteous and delicate even when provoked by someone.
12.  Do not seek to be admired and loved.
13. Do not protect yourself behind your own dignity.
14.  Give in, in discussions, even when you are right.
15.  Choose always the more difficult task.

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"Humility is necessary not only for the acquisition of virtues, but even for salvation. For the gate of Heaven, as Christ Himself testifies, is so narrow that it admits only little ones" (St. Bernard).

Mother Dearest, Mother Fairest

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

O Mary, my Mother, help me bloom where I'm planted.

An Emmaus Experience

                            

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Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Isaiah 38: 17

An Emmaus Experience

I never knew what was awaiting me,
Yet I trod that quite familiar pathway
Leading up to Emmaus!
With the bitter, gnawing pain
I trod, with an earnest longing.
Threescore furlongs or seven miles …,
That’s the distance from Jerusalem to Emmaus, 
Emmaus, the town of ‘Hot Springs’!!
That was where I needed to be broken,
Only to rise up again, with a burning heart!
The Third One who always walks beside me,
The hooded invisible Presence
Was very much present with me that day.
Maya Angelou’s words kept ringing ,
“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise”
Those words of resilience
Quickened my very heart.
The usual smile of welcome,
And a few minutes of sacred silence,
Watching , waiting, and adoring
The visible Presence in the Blessed Sacrament,
Had rested my spirit.
Then  I heard a brother singing
A song of gratitude… for rejection, suffering,
And for the prompt Word in times of anguish!
Another prophetic voice from the left
Read from a bound Xeroxed copy
Of Louis Evely’s ‘Suffering’,
And in succinct words spoke of the mystical Love
Of our Heavenly Father in allowing Pain,
Of the Creator asking “pardon” to the creature!
Like Cleopas, I felt my inner eyes slowly opening
To the unfathomable Mystery of Christ.
Then when the group gathered for prayer,
I sat in silence, unable to open my mouth,
'Coz, for me,'spontaneous prayer' is now a long-forgotten art!
But a phrase from the Bible verse that was read,
Romans 13: 12, still burns within me
“Put on the armour of Light” .
That’s my Christ within me
Beckoning me,
To go back to Jerusalem……..
O Jerusalem!!!

The Roselo, or Rose Garden in Assissi

                                   The Roses Without Thorns
                             
                                     http://www.romesick.org/Romesick_Photography/Assisi.htmlLocated in the Italian region of Umbria is the charming town of Assisi; famous of course for its association with Saint Francis of Assisi. This town is home to windy little streets, ancient buildings and of course, the Santa Maria degli Angeli, which is one of the largest Christian sanctuaries in the world. Part of this sanctuary is the original stone chapel, called the Porziuncola, which is where St. Francis lived and worked after founding the Franciscan Order. It is also where he had his vision in 1216, during which he witnessed the Virgin Mary. Following this vision, the church was visited by a great many pilgrims, and thus the great Baroque church was also built.
Outside the basilica is the Roselo, or Rose Garden. Here, you will find a very special type of rose: one without any thorns! Legend has it that in this location, Saint Francis himself rolled naked amongst the thorn bushes, in order to combat doubt and temptation. It is then said that on contact with the Saint’s body, thorn-less roses began to bloom, and they still do to this day! These special flowers can only be found in this particular rose garden, and are named Rosa Canina Assisiensis. On the wall of the courtyard you can see a mural of St. Francis, surrounded by the modest Porziuncola chapel, olive groves and of course, thorn-less red roses.

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One enters the rose garden via the sacristy. It is the last remains of the ancient wood in which St Francis and his friars lived. Here he talked to the turtle doves, inviting them to praise the Lord. Doves have been nesting since times immemorial in the hands of the statue of St. Francis in this rose garden.According to tradition (already attested at the end of the 13th century), one night St. Francis, feeling the temptation to abandon his way of life, rolled naked in the bramble thorns in an attempt to overcome doubt and temptation. In contact with his body, the bramble bushes turned into dog roseswithout thorns. Since then, the dog rose cultivar Rosa canina assisiensis has been grown in the garden.

From the rose garden, one enters the Rose Chapel. This was the cell where St. Francis rested and spent the rest of the night in prayer and penance. Here St. Francis also met Saint Anthony of Padua. After his death a chapel was built in the 13th century, enlarged in the 15th century by St. Bernardine of Siena. It was decorated between 1506 and 1516 with a series of frescoes by several painters, among which the UmbrianTiberio d'Assisi, depicting the early Franciscan community and the first saints of the order, the miracle of the roses and the concession of the indulgence

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The Rose Garden is especially interesting. In the hallway leading to the garden, there is a statue of the Saint upon which live white doves nest. St. Francis liked to talk to turtledoves in his garden, and ever since his death, the hands of his statue still provide a place for his feathered companions to make their home.