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Title: A thought for the new year. Post by: stccp on December 29, 2010, 04:20:05 PM A thought for the new year Bulletin Announcement for Jan. 2010 This was in our church bulletin a number of years ago. It is provided for any parish that may wish to use it. Pass it on to your pastor and friends. "Time" The old year is past; a new one has just begun, and we are all now one year closer to eternity. For many people this past year, time was no more. One moment they were in time, the next moment they were in eternity. Time is a two sided coin, one side despised and wasted during life, the other priceless and unattainable at the hour of death. God has given us these days to work out our salvation, but how well do we use them? How often have we observed a man in idle pursuit? If we ask him what he is doing he would reply, "Oh, I am just passing the time." I remember an old song of many years past. It was called "Standing On The Corner Watching All The Girls Go By." Are we just standing on the corners of life watching the days of our salvation going by unused? To quote Saint Alphonsus De Liguroi: "O time despised during life, you will be ardently desired by worldlings at the hour of death. The thought that they must very soon appear before Almighty God, to give an account of their lives, fills them with untold confusion and anguish. They will ask for another year, another month or another day to settle the accounts of their conscience, but they will ask in vain. To obtain a single hour they would give all their wealth and worldly possessions, but that hour shall not be given." Let us therefore exert ourselves to the utmost to accomplish the work of our salvation while there is still time. Do now, what, on the day of judgment, you would then wish you would have done. For at the moment of death, the time of grace will have passed, the time of justice will have come. . Title: Re: A thought for the new year. Post by: Shin on December 29, 2010, 04:59:16 PM Idle pursuits... 'killing' time..
Are eating up gigantic portions of people's lives in these decades, now that there is so much entertainment media.. Instead of spiritual flowers.. people are turning into moldy couch potatoes! Title: Re: A thought for the new year. Post by: Jacki on December 30, 2010, 03:21:15 PM I love it, thank you.
Title: Re: A thought for the new year. Post by: martin on December 30, 2010, 09:34:26 PM Quote Let us therefore exert ourselves to the utmost to accomplish the work of our salvation while there is still time. Do now, what, on the day of judgment, you would then wish you would have done. For at the moment of death, the time of grace will have passed, the time of justice will have come. Lord grant us the grace. :+: Title: Re: A thought for the new year. Post by: Jacki on January 03, 2011, 11:14:41 AM Actually I was flipping through my notebook at work and noticed I scribbled notes from the Sinner's guide that was right on target with this bulletion.
"In all your works remember your last end, and you shall never sin." Ecclus 7:40 "Man's eyes are no sooner closed in death than he appears before the judgement seat of God to render an account of every thought, every word, every action of life." --Sinner's Guide "The judgements of God is different than the judgements of men." --Sinner's Guide Title: Re: A thought for the new year. Post by: Shin on January 03, 2011, 11:38:04 AM "In all your works remember your last end, and you shall never sin." Ecclus 7:40
This is one to keep in mind! |