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Tuesday, November 04, 2014

GOD IS ALWAYS OPEN-ARMED, WELCOMING US BACK no matter what sin we were deceived to fall into - "You've Got a Friend"



 



GOD IS ALWAYS OPEN-ARMED, WELCOMING US BACK no matter in what sin we were deceived to fall into - "You've Got a Friend"
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, have mercy on me






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EKKLESIA SISTERS - Orsoline Sisters (Malta) - LOVE AND LET GO + lyrics


 
 
Singers - Sr Denise, Sr Magdalene, Sr Michaela, Sr Monica, Sr Rita, Sr Claudia
 
  
LOVE AND LET GO
 
Last night I heard a knock,
I opened the door,
found a brown box lying on the floor..
and in the box a day old baby,
left in the cold,
he was there with a note of despair...
walking on a tightrope,
pleading for hope...
CHORUS It's all about the children,
it's not about us,
we shine with the beauty
of these rough diamonds,
we love and let go.
It's all about the children,
born from our hearts,
spread the wings of angels,
time to let them grow,
then love and let go.
Last night, I heard a knock,
he was standing there.
lost his hair 
'cause the pain he could not bear.
Last night, I heard a knock,
in a small pink cot
tied in chains
lied a baby in the rain.
Walking on a tightrope,
pleading for hope...
CHORUS It's all about the children,
it's not about us,
we shine with the beauty
of these rough diamonds,
we love and let go.
It's all about the children,
born from our hearts,
spread the wings of angels,
time to let them grow,
then love and let go.
When they are gone
we move on, we try not to cry,
at the end of the day
they walk away,
time to say goodbye.
CHORUS It's all about the children,
it's not about us,
we shine with the beauty
of these rough diamonds,
we love and let go.
It's all about the children,
born from our hearts,
spread the wings of angels,
time to let them grow,
then love and let go.
 
 
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Monday, November 03, 2014

November 1st - Solemnity of All Saints - Pope: When people try to act like God, destruction follows --- & --- Mt 5:1-12a -- Sermon on the Mount-The Beatitudes -- Id-diskors tal-muntanja-Il-bnedmin il-hienja


Pope Francis marked the Feast of All Saints with Mass at Rome’s monumental Verano cemetery during which he hailed the world’s refugees and homeless as unknown saints and slammed the pervading ‘industry of destruction’ that excludes God and destroys the earth.
Below please find the Vatican Radio translation of the Holy Father’s unscripted homily:  

When in the First Reading we heard this voice of the Angel who cried out loud to the Four Angels who were given power to damage the land and the sea, "Do not damage the land or the sea or the trees" (Rev 7:3), this brought to mind a phrase that is not here but in everyone’s heart: Men are capable of doing this better than you. We are capable of devastating the Earth far better than the Angels. And this is exactly what we are doing, this is what we do: we destroy creation, we devastate lives, we devastate cultures, we devastate values, we ravage hope. How greatly we need the Lord's strength to seal us with His love and His power to stop this mad race of destruction!

Destroying what He has given us, the most beautiful things that He has done for us, for us to carry forward, to nurture, to bear fruit ... When I looked at the pictures in the sacristy of 71 years ago [depicting the WWII bombing of the area of San Lorenzo where the cemetery is situated], I thought, 'This is so grave, so painful. This is nothing in comparison to what is happening today. Man takes possession of everything, believes he is god, believes he is the king. And wars, the wars that continue raging, not exactly helping to sow the seed of life but to destroy. It is an industry of destruction. It is also a system of life, that when things can't be fixed they are discarded: we discard  children, we discard the old, the young are discarded without a job ... This devastation that is the result of the culture of waste. We discard people.  This is the image that came to my mind as I listened to the First Reading".

The second image, in the same Reading: "This great multitude which no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language (7:9) ... The nations, the people ... It's starting to get cold: these poor people, who have to flee for their lives, their homes, their people, their villages, in the desert ... and they live in tents, they feel the cold, without medicine, hungry ... because the “god-man” has taken control of Creation, of all that good that God has done for us. But who pays for this party? They do! The young, the poor, those who are discarded. And this is not ancient history: it is happening today. 'But Father, it is far away ...' - It's here too! Everywhere. It is happening today. I will say more: it seems that these people, these children who are hungry, sick, do not seem to count, it's as if they were of a different species, as if they were not even human. And this multitude is before God and begs, 'Please, salvation! Please, peace! Please bread! Please work! Please, children and grandparents! Please, young people with the dignity of being able to work! '".

Among these are also those who are persecuted for their faith, those "robed in white" in the passage from Revelation: "'They are the ones who come from great distress, and their robes are made white by the blood of the Lamb.'" "And today, without exaggeration, today on the Feast of All Saints I would like us to think of all these, the unknown saints. Sinners like us, worse off than us, destroyed. Of this multitude of people who are in great distress: most of the world is in distress. And the Lord sanctifies this people, sinners like us, but He sanctifies these people in distress".

Finally, there is a third image, "God. The first, the devastation; the second, the victims; the third, God. God:’ Beloved, we are God’s children now,' we heard in the second reading. what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is’, that is: hope. And this is the blessing of the Lord that we still have: hope. Hope He will have pity on His people, mercy on those who are in the great distress and compassion for the destroyers that they will convert. And so, the holiness of the Church goes on: with these people, with us, that we will see God as He is. And what should our attitude be if we want to be part of this multitude walking to the Father, in this world of devastation, in this world of war, in this world of distress? Our attitude, as we heard in the Gospel, is the attitude of the Beatitudes. That path alone will lead us to the encounter with God. That path alone will save us from destruction, from destroying the Earth, creation, morality, history, family, everything. That path alone. But it too will bring us through bad things. It will bring us trouble. Persecution. But that path alone will take us forward. And so, these people who are suffering so much today because of the selfishness of destroyers, destroyers of our brothers and sisters, these people struggle onwards with the Beatitudes, hoping to find God, to find themselves face to face with the Lord in the hope of becoming saints, at the moment of our final encounter with Him. "

"May the Lord help us and give us the grace of this hope, but also the grace of courage to emerge from all this destruction, devastation, relativism of life, the exclusion of others, exclusion of values, exclusion of all that the Lord has given us: the exclusion of peace. Deliver us from this, and give us the grace to walk in the hope of finding ourselves one day face to-face with Him. And this hope, brothers and sisters, does not disappoint".
 
FROM: ---http://thechurchinmalta.org/mt/posts/45724/l-omelija-tal-papa-frangisku-fic-cimiterju-ta-verano
 



...towards the end of his homily, the Pope called on men and women who destroy, to convert, by following the path of the Beatitudes.  



THE GOSPEL:
Mt 5:1-12 -- Sermon on the Mount-The Beatitudes -- Id-diskors tal-muntanja-Il-bnedmin il-hienja
>>> Mt 5:1-12a = NOVEMBER 1 - SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS <<<




5. Id-diskors tal-muntanja
[Mt:5:1] Kif ra l-folol, Ġesù tala' fuq il- muntanja, qagħad bilqiegħda, u resqu lejh id-dixxipli tiegħu. [Mt:5:2] Fetaħ fommu u qabad jgħallimhom u jgħid:
Il-bnedmin il-hienja
(Lq 6, 20-23)

[Mt:5:3] "Henjin il-foqra fl-ispirtu, għax tagħhom hija s-Saltna tas-Smewwiet.
[Mt:5:4] Henjin l-imnikkta, għax huma jkunu mfarrġa.
[Mt:5:5]Henjin ta' qalbhom ħelwa, għax huma jkollhom b'wirthom l-art.
[Mt:5:6] Henjin dawk li huma bil-ġuħ u l-għatx  tal-ġustizzja, għax huma jkunu mxebbgħin.
[Mt:5:7] Henjin dawk li jħennu, għax huma jsibu ħniena.
[Mt:5:8] Henjin dawk li huma safja f'qalbhom, għax huma jaraw 'l Alla.
[Mt:5:9] Henjin dawk li jġibu l-paċi, għax huma jissejjħu wlied Alla.
[Mt:5:10] Henjin dawk li huma ppersegwitati minħabba s-sewwa, għax tagħhom hija s-Saltna tas-Smewwiet.
[Mt:5:11] Henjin intom, meta jgħajjrukom u jippersegwitawkom u jaqilgħu kull xorta ta' ħażen u gideb kontra tagħkom minħabba fija.

[Mt:5:12a] Ifirħu u thennew, għax ħlaskom kbir fis-smewwiet."...






















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Saturday, November 01, 2014

Psalm 136 - Litany of Thanksgiving --- Salm 136 - Litanija ta' Radd il-Ħajr --- The Greatest Love Story of All Time is Contained in a Tiny White Host



Psalm 136 - Litany of thanksgiving



Salm 136 (135). Litanija ta' radd il-ħajr

[S:136:1] Roddu ħajr lill-Mulej, għax hu tajjeb,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:2] Roddu ħajr lil Alla fuq l-allat,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:3] Roddu ħajr lis-Sid tas-sidien,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:4] Hu waħdu għamel għeġubijiet kbar,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:5] Hu li għamel is-smewwiet bil-ħsieb,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:6] Li firex l-art fuq l-ilmijiet,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.
 

[S:136:7] Li għamel id-dwal il-kbar,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:8] Għamel ix-xemx biex taħkem fuq il-jum,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:9] Il-qamar u l-kwiekeb biex jaħkmu fuq  il-lejl
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:10] Hu darab l-Eġizzjani f'uliedhom il-kbar,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.


[S:136:11] U ħareġ lil Iżrael minn ġo nofshom,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
S:136:12] Ħariġhom b'id qawwija u bi driegħ merfugħ,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:13] Hu feraq fi tnejn il-Baħar tal-Qasab,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:14] U għadda lil Iżrael minn ġo nofshom,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:15] Ġarraf il-Fargħun u l-eżerċtu tiegħu fil-Baħar tal-Qasab,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:16] Hu mexxa fid-deżert il-poplu tiegħu,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.


[S:136:17] U xejjen slaten qawwija,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.
 

[S:136:18] Qered slaten kbar,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.
 

[S:136:19] Qered lil Siħon, sultan ta' l-Amurrin,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:20] U 'l Għog, sultan ta' Basan,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.
 

[S:136:21] U l-art tagħhom qassamha b'wirt,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.

 
[S:136:22] B'wirt lil Iżrael, qaddej tiegħu,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.


[S:136:23] Meta konna magħkusin ftakar fina,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.


[S:136:24] U ħelisna mill-għedewwa tagħna,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.


[S:136:25] Lil kulħadd hu jagħti l-ikel,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.


[S:136:26] Roddu ħajr lil Alla tas-smewwiet,
għax għal dejjem it-tjieba tiegħu.