The Divine Hymn

Oh Divine Master, full of love,
Full of care for your children,
Full of compassion for repenting heart,
Full of joy even in times of trouble,
Full of Hope for those who believe

Oh Divine Face, full of radiance,
Giving glow to those who call you,
Giving light to those who seek you,
Giving serenity to those to beseech you,
Giving peace to those who null you

Oh Divine Mercy, full of grace,
Shining brightly on those who worship you,
Shining gracefully on those in need,
Shining righteously on those who do good,
Shining strength on those who carry your work,
shining humility on those trying to please you

Oh Precious Blood, flowing unconditionally for ours sins,
Washing us of lust and desires of the flesh,
Washing us of all that displeases you,
Washing us clean from our sickness,
Washing us from pressures and tensions of this world,
Washing us clean from failures

Oh Divine Shepard, full of love,
Protecting us from troubles unknown,
Protecting us from tensions unexplained,
Protecting us from snare of demons,
Protecting us from carnal desires

Oh Diving Providence, blessing us with our needs,
Blessing us with good friends,
Blessing us with good spouse,
Blessing us with good earnings,
Blessing us with divine gifts,
Blessing us with peace

Heaven- Place Of Ultimate Repose

Oh Place divine, oh place of joy,
Heaven is what we call you,
Where everyone wants to be,
Great and small, all alike, in a place of joy forever.

Throne of the almighty king, land of eternal daylight,
Repose for tired soul, food for hungry,
Land of justice, land of freedom,
Oh heaven, place of eternal rest.

No lust, no attachments,
No desires of the flesh, no worry, no pressures,
Place of ultimate peace, eternal relaxation,
Where mind is free of disturbing thoughts,
Where desires of the flesh have no power,
Where evil has been conquered by good,
Oh heaven place of eternal happiness.

Where a husband doesn't doubt his spouse,
Son loyal to his mother,
No immorality every exists,
Because neither marriage nor birth every takes place there,
Everyone are like angels enjoying the presence of the Divine Master.

Like a child carefree and Joyful,
Like a eagle in the open sky,
Like a train with no obstructions,
Is our life in heaven,
No fear of losing, no fear of failure,
No depression, no oppression,
But freedom of Good everywhere.

My Fathers house has many rooms said he,
Whoever believes in me shall never die proved he,
My yoke is easy, demonstrated he,
Oh beautiful Master our hope to heaven,
Praise and glory be to You forever and ever. Amen

Conversion Story From Protestant to Catholic

For Those you doubt the catholic Faith and it`s teaching here are two conversion stories

http://www.catholic-convert.com/wp-content/uploads/Story-Tiffanys-Going-AWOL-out-of-the-Christian-Civil-War.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaL2kxfsJVI

Enjoy

HOW TO PRAY FOR YOUR CHILD

By Abraham Thomas ( sankarathilsunny)

1. Pray NOTHING hinders your child from accepting Christ as his/her personal
Savior early in life. (Matthew 19:14)

2. Pray your child learns to know God and will have a deep desire to do

God's will for his/her life. (Psalms 119:27,30,34,35).

3. Pray child hears stories from the Bible that will be a basis for his/her

decisions throughout life. (Ecclesiastes 12:1, Psalms 71:17).

4. Pray child will-develop a keen sense of right and wrong and that he/she

will truly abhor evil and cling to that which is good. (Psalms 139:23-4).

5. Pray child will increase in wisdom (mentally) and in stature (physically)

and in favor with God (spiritually) and man (socially). (Luke 2:52). This

prayer covers his/her total development to his/her full potential.

6. Pray that child will develop a thankful heart and a positive mental

attitude. (Psalm 126:2-3, Romans 8:31)

7. Pray that God protect child from Satan and his/her wiles in every area of

his/her life. (John 17:55, Psalm 121)

8. Pray that God would destroy the enemies in his/her life whether they be

weaknesses, lying, selfishness etc. (Psalms 120:2; 140).

9. Pray that God would make him/her successful in the work God has for

him/her to do. (Psalm 118:25, 139:9-10)

10. Pray he/she have a strong sense of belonging to a family that is loving

and dwells together in unity (Psalms 133, Colossians 3:12-14).

11. Pray he/she will respect authority. (Romans 13:1, Ephesians 6:1-4).

12. Pray that his/her entire life will be a testimony of the greatness and

love of Christ. (Phillippians 2:15-16 Thess 5:2-3)

If you pray one of these a month, you will have your child covered for a

year!

Pray for my children also when you are praying your child.

Your brother Abraham Thomas ( sankarathilsunny)

Hear Their Cry - The cry of persecuted Christians

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong (2 Corinthians 12,versus:9 onwards)

St Therese: Little Flower of Jesus

St. Therese 1895 in brown scapular 

I recently read the book 'Story of a soul' by St.Thresese of Lisieux, populary known as little flower of Jesus. She was born in 2 January 1873 in Alencon, France. She desired to live the life of carmel in Lisieux with all perfection and was always lost in deep contemplation about God. She used to consider Jesus as her Divine Spouse. Her sacrifice to give up her wordly life and her father Louis Martin whom she loved so dearly are of appreciation. She entered Carmel at the age of 15, though her entry into carmel was not easy. She first faced rejection from her very own uncle Isidore Guerin, then from the the prioress Mother Marie de Gonzague of Carmel. She then along with her father goes to meet the Bishop of Bayeux, even there she met rejection. Later on a diocesan pilgrimage to Rome she meets Pope Leo Xlll and asks for the permission. The Pope replies "Well, my child, do what the superiors decide.... You will enter if it is God's Will". And just as the Pope said it was God`s will and she enters the convent on Monday 9th April 1888.

St. Therese in 1896

Therese did simple things to please God, she observed the rules of solitute and silence in carmel so strictly that she even didnt break it for the sake of her own Sisters Pauline and Celine, who were in Carmel along with her. She was always mesmerized by God`s infinite love. She writes how great sinners like St.Augustine, St.Paul and St.Mary Magdalen were forgiven by God. She used to consider herself a simple daisy of God`s garden. According to her God garden consists of all sorts of flowers Rose, Lilly, Violet etc but just like every flower is not a Rose so are we in this world. All cannot become Doctors, Apostles, Prophets that the church is composed of different members, that the eye cannot also be the hand

St. Therese at 15

As a child Therese used to read "Imitation of Christ" by Thomas A Kempis which inspired her greatly. "O My God, who art unspeakable sweetness, turn for me into bitterness all the consolations of the earth". Also lectures by Abbé Arminjon on "The End of This World, and the Mysteries of the World to Come" nourished her spiritually. She also was inspired by many people of God like St. John of the Cross, St. Therese of Avilla, St. Joan of Arc and St. Anne of Jesus. Therese Prayed without great sensitive emotions, she mulitplied the small acts of charity and care for others, doing small services without making a show of them. Far from avoiding humiliations, souer Therese sought them eagerly and for that she offered herself as "aid" to a sister who she well knew was difficult to please and her generous proposal was accepted. She died on 20 September 1897 at the age of 24 out of Tuberculosis.

St. Therese at 13

If today Therese transforms so many hearts and the good she does on earth is beyond reckoning, we may well believe she bought it all at the price with which Jesus brought back our souls by sufferring and the cross. In this world there is no fruitfulness without sufferring either physical, secret sorrows or trials known sometimes only to God. When good thoughts and generous resolutions have sprung up in our souls through reading the lives of the saints, we ought not to content ourslevs, as in the case of profane books, with paying a certain tribute of admiration to the genius of their authors. We should rather consider the price which doubtless, they have paid for that supernatural good they have produced.

St. Therese with her Sister Celine at Right, 1895

Quotes: " May creatures be nothing for me, 

St. Therese at 8

and may I be nothing for them, but may You, Jesus, be everything!..let nobody be occupied with me, let me be looked upon as one to be trampled underfoot..may Your will be done in me perfectly..Jesus, allow me to save very many souls; let no soul be lost today; let all the souls in purgatory be saved.."
"Entreat thee to let Divine eyes rest upon a vast number of Little souls, I entreat thee to choose, in this world, a legion of little victims of they love"


I call upon you to read this book and lead a holy life.

The confessions of St.Augustine: A Review

Tiffany stained-glass window of St. Augustine,
in the Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida.

I recently read 'The Confessions' a spiritual autobiography written by St.Augustine. It was a wonderful reading as he describes his early childhood, his lack of interest for arithmetic and his interest to study Latin. His early adolesence where he steals pears with a group of friends. His Adulthood where he goes to Carthage to study and which makes him fall in love with wisdom. How he embraces Manichaeism-a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian, Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity. How he Becomes a teacher of rhetoric and his grief at the death of a close friend. How the sermons of Bishop Ambrose cause him to reject the teaching of Manichees. 


The confessions consists of 13 Books and this review is of first 5 books, translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey


Book 1: All of our initial childhood is full of mischiefs, which we later recollect and enjoy. But in Augustine case he regrets for having done bad in his studies, In fact he didnt like subjects like arithmetic. He also explains how he learnt Latin with interest and mere observation among his firends who encouraged him. When he explains he`s early childhood he recalls how miserable it was for him to carry on with his initial studies


Quotes: "Thee, O God, are all good things, and from my God is all my health." 


Book 2: Adolesence is the period where most of us enjoy with our friends, it is also the time when some major changes happen in our body. Augustine recalls how he stole pears with his friends at age of 16 and how lust empowered him at that age. He also further recollects that he didnt enjoy what he did but sin itself was enjoable. 


Quotes: "...there is no place whither altogethere to retire from thee"

"St Augustine and Monica"

Book 3: Adulthood is full of oppurtunities for everyone where we select the colleges we like to go and study the subject which we dreamt of in accordance with our pursuit for good future. Even Augustine goes to Carthage to study, he reads Cicero's Hortensius, which inspires him to love wisdom and embrace Manichaeism. He enjoyed the stage plays there which had lot of grieve in them. He also tell how his vanities drive him into greater vanities


Quotes: " For within me was a famine of that inward food, Thyself, my God; yet, through that famine I was not hungered; but was without all longing for incorruptible sustenance, not because filled therewith, but the more empty, the more I loathed it.


Book 4: Our early year of career are full of challenges and hardships similary was Augustine case. He became a teacher of grammer at Thagaste. He also shares a living with a woman and says how he challenged the holy convenant of martirmony. He also elaborates the death of his close friend due to fever whom he loved dearly and which made him leave his native town Thagaste. He stressed the importance of sexual morality in this book which is very relevant in this modern era full of  lust lunacy. He also suggests that he began to love his life of sorrow more than his fallen friend.


Quotes: " Wretched I was; and wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder when he loses them, and then he feels the wretchedness which he had ere yet he lost them."


Book 5: Quotes: Searching for new carrer opputurnities is also essential part of one`s life, hence Augustine moves to Carthage to take up rhetoric classes, and he would remain there for next nine years. There he meets Manichees Bishop, Faustus. He was completely disappointed with Faustus lack of knowledge. He then moves to Rome to meet the best and brightest rehtoricians as per his belief, but it too was shattered as the students in Roman schools simply fled when it was time for them to pay fees. He then moves to Milan and occupies a most visible position in latin world. It is here his actual conversion towards christianity began after hearing the sermon of St.Ambrose, Bishop of Milan he gave up  Manichaeism. St.Ambrose had most influence over Augustine. Ambrose was a master of rhetoric like Augusitne, but older and more experienced.


Quotes: "O Thou my exceeding mercy, my God, my refuge from those terrible destroyers, among whom I wandered with a stiff neck, withdrawing further from Thee, loving mine own ways, and not Thine; loving a vagrant liberty."


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