St. Joseph Box:

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On Sunday two people will come to my house and remove the beautiful
Statue of the Pilgrim St. Joseph.
He has spent the week here and people in my park community have
stopped by to pray with me. It has been so nice.
In order to complement  the process I made a St. Joseph Box-
like my Mary Box. Prayers are placed in the box. When we say a word it becomes alive and the same happens in prayer when we actually write the words
down, fold the paper and slip it into the box.
The prayer box is sealed when it is full (which it nearly is...) and the box will be burned. So many intentions have been prayed as well as the Rosary and
We have prayed for our parish ~ St. Joseph's Catholic community
of Capitola, California.

I am sure the next family on the list will also enjoy this experience.

Prayer has gotten me through every difficulty I have had in my life.

+ Thomas Merton: MY LORD GOD

I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot
know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact
that I think I am following your will does not mean I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope
that I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust
you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

-Thomas Merton

Fear and Faith: Choices

Fear and faith can't live in the same house.

They do not co-exist.

So, what do you do when you are afraid?

PRAY!


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