This past weekend I attended a Catholic Women's Conference where Teresa Tomeo was one of the speakers. Now I listen to her on her Catholic Connections radio show some mornings and I have watched her on the Catholic View for Women so I may have gotten a little fangirl. She is very friendly and personable, a great speaker and pretty funny in person. I hope to do a review of the Conference soon, in fact Teresa mentioned the conference on her show on Tuesday.
One of her talks was "Ten Things I learnt about living a Godly Life" so with her permission here are the 10 things:-
1.Offer it up to God and put it at the foot of the cross
2. Remember the Blessed Mother is watching you. (and we need to be watching her)
3. Remember, it's the Ten Commandments and not the ten suggestions.
4. Pray and go to Mass
5. Think of the word Bible as an acronym: Basic Instructions before Leaving Earth. (Dusty Bibles lead to dirty lives)
6. Give thanks. (an attitude for gratitude)
7. Say God spares or God willing. (In Trinidad we say Please, God)
8. Be Nice
9. Remember it's not all peaches and cream you know. (all sunshine makes a desert)
10. Keep Smiling (even if it hurts)
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Thursday, 13 November 2014
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Testing Your Faith Produces Endurance
....That is James 1:3 and the topic of our 1st talk on Saturday morning (3rd of the weekend). It was the most powerfully delivered talk of the weekend and there were some really powerful talks over this weekend.
Fr Cornelius is a dynamic, powerful speaker, he speaks easily to all ages. He speaks easily to the youths without cheapening the message and the adults don't feel like they are being dumbed down.
The scripture verse calls for us to be strong in trust. If you want to build muscles then you go to the gym, put in the time and effort and sweat. If you want to be a great athlete then you train, you persevere through failures, if you fail then you get back up and try again. That's how we need to be about our Faith, we need to put in the time and effort to build our relationship with God. If we don't put in the effort or put in a half effort we can't expect to have a strong Faith or to stand strong in trust.
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His power. Put on the whole armour of God, so that you may be able stand against the wiles of the devil." Eph 6:10-11. How do you grow strong in the Lord? Get to know Him. Fr C said if you want to know about someone you can google them and you can find out all kinds of info but if you want to get to know them then you spend time with them, develop a real relationship. Therefore you need to develop a relationship with Him, pray, read your bible, attend Mass regularly, frequent the Sacraments, learn about your Catholic Faith.
God is bigger than everything - our troubles, worries, problems, persecution, trials and the devil. We just need to persevere and don't give up. We easily persevere with everything in our life but in our Faith we easily give up on our Faith with the slightest change in the wind.
"and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved." Matt:22
Fr Cornelius is a dynamic, powerful speaker, he speaks easily to all ages. He speaks easily to the youths without cheapening the message and the adults don't feel like they are being dumbed down.
The scripture verse calls for us to be strong in trust. If you want to build muscles then you go to the gym, put in the time and effort and sweat. If you want to be a great athlete then you train, you persevere through failures, if you fail then you get back up and try again. That's how we need to be about our Faith, we need to put in the time and effort to build our relationship with God. If we don't put in the effort or put in a half effort we can't expect to have a strong Faith or to stand strong in trust.
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His power. Put on the whole armour of God, so that you may be able stand against the wiles of the devil." Eph 6:10-11. How do you grow strong in the Lord? Get to know Him. Fr C said if you want to know about someone you can google them and you can find out all kinds of info but if you want to get to know them then you spend time with them, develop a real relationship. Therefore you need to develop a relationship with Him, pray, read your bible, attend Mass regularly, frequent the Sacraments, learn about your Catholic Faith.
God is bigger than everything - our troubles, worries, problems, persecution, trials and the devil. We just need to persevere and don't give up. We easily persevere with everything in our life but in our Faith we easily give up on our Faith with the slightest change in the wind.
"and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved." Matt:22
Monday, 22 July 2013
A Weekend Away
I had an amazing weekend at the Jesus Explosion XI conference this past weekend. This weekend was on fire with the Holy Spirit and vibrant Catholics of all ages and I do mean all ages, from practically newborn up to 97.
There is so much that I have to say that cannot be covered in just one post. I have wanted to go to this conference for a while but I always considered it too far and I didn't want to drive all that way all weekend long at some crazy hours. Then a friend who recently bought a house and move close the area offered us a place to stay the weekend, so it was a no-brainer so a couple friends and I took her up on the offer so I was able to attend for the first time.
The sleep over was great and the conference was powerful. When we got there on Friday night Praise and Worship was already in progress, we weren't even there a minute and I was already moved. There were three amazing music ministries covering the weekend, I was singing songs that I had never heard before and loving it. This morning I woke up with a few of them still playing in my head. We ended the weekend with Closing Mass celebrated by Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Nicola Girasoli, it was his birthday yesterday and he said he couldn't think of a better way to celebrate it.
This is just a synopsis of the begining and the end, I hope to have the meat of the weekend including the middle up over a few posts this week.
There is so much that I have to say that cannot be covered in just one post. I have wanted to go to this conference for a while but I always considered it too far and I didn't want to drive all that way all weekend long at some crazy hours. Then a friend who recently bought a house and move close the area offered us a place to stay the weekend, so it was a no-brainer so a couple friends and I took her up on the offer so I was able to attend for the first time.
The sleep over was great and the conference was powerful. When we got there on Friday night Praise and Worship was already in progress, we weren't even there a minute and I was already moved. There were three amazing music ministries covering the weekend, I was singing songs that I had never heard before and loving it. This morning I woke up with a few of them still playing in my head. We ended the weekend with Closing Mass celebrated by Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Nicola Girasoli, it was his birthday yesterday and he said he couldn't think of a better way to celebrate it.
This is just a synopsis of the begining and the end, I hope to have the meat of the weekend including the middle up over a few posts this week.
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