Lemuel The Servant

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St.Augusitine writing Confessions

While remembering all his youthful follies, he remembers how God's unfarthomable grace has been a shield for him, how grace leads to discover his faith into Three in One God.

Divine Illumination

St: Augustine receive divine illumination from Jesus the Son of God and Mary, the mother of Jesus, enlightening him while he is writing his discourse.

St.MONICA and St.AUGUSTINE at Ecstacy at Ostia

Two saints, mother and son receive a vision of heaven at Ostia, near Rome. It was the last moment of the two being together, looking heaven ward, and later St.Monica died and was buried there.

Seminarians on the wall.

With co-seminarians, where trying to escape the scourging sunlight, sitting on the fence and keeping ourselves calm with jokes.

Rosary Garden at Tabor Hill, Talamban

A place of prayer and peace, a place of love and charity where being together with the mother of our Divine Lord, and recitation of Holy Rosary knocks the doors of Heaven.

11 February, 2011

You Know?

What I don’t know before, and I want to share……
1st ……These things are the facts that the Holy Catholic Church’s teaching.
The first one is the existence of the pure spirits they so called angels.
The angels have their functions that have given to them particular tasks. There are three ranks among the celestial spirits. They are…..

I. The Supreme Hierarchy
In this rank the angels are Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones

II. Middle Hierarchy
In this rank the three angels are Dominations, Virtues and Powers.

III. Lower Hierarchy
In this rank also has there angels; Principalities, Archangels and Angels.

These are the summary of the existing spirits which can not be seen by this tiny physical world, but for those who are mystics they can see them. They are also called the heavenly choirs of heaven, because they sing the praise for God without cease…
On the other side there is also the existence of the Fallen Angels who roams through the world searching for the ruins of the souls.
The locomotion of the celestial spirits is faster then the electricity. They travel as fast as our thoughts because we have the same spirit like them…but the difference is we have physical body with six senses.

09 February, 2011

လူမ်ိဳး


ကမာၻၾကီးရဲ့ အစ ပထမကာလမွာ ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္ ေျမေပၚဆင္းသက္လာျပီး သူ႕နဲ့ ပုံစံတူ သက္ရွိ သတၲဝါဖန္ဆင္းဖို႕အ ၾကံရသတဲ့ ဒီေတာ့ ေျမေပၚက ေျမေစးကိုယူျပီး စိတ္ၾကိဳက္ဖန္တီးသတဲ့ ဒီလိုနဲ့ စိတ္တိုင္းက် ျဖစ္ေတာ့ အသက္သြင္းေတာ့မယ္ ဆိုေတာ့ ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္ရဲ့ အၾကံေပးက ပိုျပီးစိတ္တိုင္းက် ျဖစ္ေအာင္ စမ္းသပ္ၾကည့္ဖို႕ ေျပာသတဲ့
         ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္က ဘယ္လို စမ္းသပ္ၾကည့္သင့္ သလဲလို႕ ေမးေတာ့ ဒီပုံေဖာ္ျပီး အရုပ္ သုံးရုပ္ကို အသက္မ သြင္းခင္ နားဝကေန တုတ္ေသးေသး ရွည္ရွည္ေလးနဲ့ ထိုးၾကည့္ဖို႕ ေျပာသတဲ့ ဖန္ဆင္းရွင္လဲ အၾကံေပးၾကီး ေျပာသလို စမ္းၾကည့္သတဲ့  ဘာေတြ႕ရ သလဲဆိုေတာ့
ပထမ အရုပ္ကိုစမ္းၾကည့္ေတာ့ နားရြက္ဝက ထိုးလိုက္တဲ့ တုတ္က ပါးစပ္က ေန ထုတ္ခ်င္းေပါက္ ထြက္လာသတဲ့
ဒုတိယ အရုပ္က်ျပန္ေတာ့ နားဝကထိုးလိုက္တဲ့ တုတ္က ပါးစပ္က ေနမထြက္ပဲ တစ္ျခားဖက္ မွာရွိတဲ့ နားဝကေန ေလွ်ာေလွ်ာရွူရွူပဲထြက္လာသတဲ့
 တတိယ အရုပ္က်ေတာ့ ပါးစပ္ကလဲမထြက္ နားဝက လဲ မ ထြက္ပဲ ဝမ္းဗိုက္ထဲ့ကို တုတ္က ေလးက ဝင္သြားသတဲ့
ဒီလူသုံးမ်ိဳးက ေတာ့ အခုလက္ရွိ လူေတြ တစ္မ်ိဳးစီကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳပါတယ္
ပထမ လူမ်ိဳးကကို ၾကားရသမွ်ကို တစ္စြန္းတစ္စမခ်န္ မေမးရေသးရင္လဲ ေျပာျပတတ္တဲ့လူမ်ိဳးပါ ေကာင္းမွန္းသိသိ မသိသိ စကား ေျပာေနရမွ ေက်နပ္ေနတဲ့ လူမ်ိဳးပါ
ဒုတိယ လူမ်ိဳးကေတာ့ တန္ဖိုးမ ထားတတ္ မေလ့လာတတ္ အက်ိဳးရွိမွန္းမ သိတဲ့ လူစားမ်ိဳးပါ အတီးအတ နဲ့ မေယာင္ရာဆီလူး ေနတတ္ပါတယ္
တတိယ လူမ်ိဳးက ေတာ့ လူေတြထဲမွာ ရွာမွရွားတယ္ ပညာရွိ လူမ်ိဳးပါ ၾကားသမွ်ကို စဥ္းစား ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ ျပီးသင္ခန္းစာ ယူ ဘဝအတြက္ အသုံးခ်တတ္တဲ့လူစား မ်ိဳးပါ
ဒီပုံျပင္ ေလးထဲမွာ က်ြန္ေတာ္က တတိယ အမ်ိဳးအစားထဲမွာ မပါဘူး လို႕ စဥ္းစားဆင္ျခင္မိပါတယ္
အကိုတို႕အမ တို႕လဲ ကိုယ္ဘယ္လူမ်ိဳး မွာပါေနသလဲ ဆိုတာ စဥ္းစားေစခ်င္ပါတယ္
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စိန္ၾသဂတ္စတင္း အေၾကာင္း သိခ်င္တယ္ဆိုရင္ ကူညီေပးလို႕ရေၾကာင္းပါ

07 February, 2011

Prayer For Help Against Spiritual Enemies



Glorious Saint Michael, Prince of the heavenly hosts, who stands always ready to give assistance to the people of God; who fought with the dragon, the old serpent, and cast him out of heaven, and now valiantly defends the Church of God that the gates of hell may never prevail against her, I earnestly entreat you to assist me also, in the painful and dangerous conflict which I sustain against the same formidable foe.
Be with me, O mighty Prince! that I may courageously fight and vanquish that proud spirit, whom you, by the Divine Power, gloriously overthrew, and whom our powerful King, Jesus Christ, has, in our nature, completely overcome; so having triumphed over the enemy of my salvation, I may with you and the holy angels, praise the clemency of God who, having refused mercy to the rebellious angels after their fall, has granted repentance and forgiveness to fallen man. Amen.

06 February, 2011

Thanks giving prayer after Mass by angelic doctor St. Thomas Aquinas



I thank you, holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who deigned to feast me, sinful and unworthy servant, with the precious body and blood of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, not for any merit of mine, but only because of your merciful goodness. And I pray that this Holy Communion, far from condemning me to punishment, may bring about my pardon and salvation, encompassing me with the armor of faith and the shield of a good will. By it let my vices be done away, all lustful desires extinguished. May it advance me in charity, patience, humility, obedience, and every other virtue. Let it be strong defense against the wiles of all my enemies, visible and invisible, allaying for me every disturbance of flesh and spirit, binding me firmly to you, the one true God, and bringing my last hour to a happy close. I pray, too, that it may be your pleasure to call my sinful self one day to that banquet, wonderful past all telling, where you, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, feast your saints with the vision of yourself, who are true light, the fulfillment of all desires, the joy that knows no ending, gladness unalloyed, and perfect bliss: through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

05 February, 2011

My Enthusiasm : a Lip-service


We start a new day as usual but the grace was unusually bestowed on us since beginning. How we breathe, our heart beats every now and then, no matter how we stop thinking of God or being aware of his present within us, he doesn’t stop giving his providential gifts on mankind of the earth.
Greatness of God can’t be measured through our senses. But by our senses we can sense that he is near us, within us. We learned from him, he teaches us even before we’re born. Is it true? Most of the ordinary people may ask. I would surely say “Yes”. Because, even in the womb of the mother he instructs us in a very gentle manner. Through the mother we are sustained by his heavenly grace.
We, in the age of numerous technologies, are already numb by the domination of the physical senses or I would rather say our instincts. We keep our minds busy with so many things. We read, we talk, and we learn, we do many things but we don’t listen to the inner voice which is always speaking to us but sadly it is neglected. Is this true?
We each one of us, the temple of Holy Spirit, is the greatest creature among the created, do we really listen to him? When we are not being aware of him, how can we perform his will? How can we know his instructions? Look! There are trees dancing together with the rhythm of the breeze as if they are praising as much as they can. Can we feel that? Listen the joyous singing of the little birds near our household. Can we hear what they sing for? They sing the praise of the Almighty. Do we? We only murmur when we encounter the trial or unpleasant thing. And we blame God for putting in that difficult situation, but do we praise God when we feel happy or encounter with success. Most of the people they use God as an answer for the demands which they cannot answer, they say it is God’s will, he wants us this way. Imagine if we go the rocky road it is sure that at least one time we would stumble. It depends on the person who chooses the way to walk.
We meditate the mercy of the lord, but what method do we use. (Some use sleepy method in the morning.) Do we really love him? We will say proudly “yes”! But in what particular way? Do we talk to him, recently I got a word of JP II he said that many theologians talk about God but he wondered that they really talk to God. If we really listen to him carefully in our hearts, his words will be actualized in our actions.
How can we listen to him? This is a challenging task for a Christian. There are types of meditation, and also contemplation. For me I like to contemplate, because it is applicable whatever I am doing, wherever I am. Even in the mid night you can contemplate, by thinking the mercy, being aware of his love, the kindness and mercy. In a deep contemplation, the Holy Spirits reminds us our misdeeds, wrong perception, disbelief and faults. So that by means of contemplation, we are sure to be in peace and in union with the Divine lord. There is a contradiction between east and west, the western people are so active and practical though the easterners are practicing solitude. I heard that when the westerner is running away from his self image, the easterner is resting at peace by contemplating the nature.
He has revealed himself, we know him but not by heart, we claim that we have faith in him but only lip service. O lord, please help me to know you more and to be your faithful servant in your vineyard though I am not worthy.

03 February, 2011

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION


On 8th December 1854, Pope Pius IX officially declared the Doctrine of Immaculate Conception of St. Mary in the Constitution, Ineffabilis Deus. The Church celebrates this truth on the 8th of December every year.
Immaculate Conception of St. Mary means that she was conceived in the womb of her mother, St. Anne, without ‘original sin’ or its stain. Original sin refers to the deprivation of sanctifying grace and the inclination to sin shown by every person as a result of the sin committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The Sacrament of Baptism removes original sin from us; but St. Mary, by an exceptional grace granted by God, was exempted and preserved from all stain of original sin from the moment of the creation of her soul and its infusion into her body- that is, from the first moment of her existence, conception or animation. Hippolytus calls her the Tabernacle exempt from defilement and corruption. St. Ephraem said she was as innocent as Eve before her fall.
Sanctifying grace was granted to her before sin could influence her soul. She earned this exemption from the universal law through the merits of Jesus Christ, which cleanse others from sin during baptism. Thus St. Mary did not require a removal of the essence of original sin from her soul as her immaculate soul was immune from it and was excluded from it by the special grace of God. This quality of her purity, the supernatural state of her soul and the divine grace Mary enjoyed right from her conception, are reflected in the salutation of Gabriel during the Annunciation, “Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you”{Luke 1: 28}. She was the perfect abode for the incarnation of God.