The Family Foundation School Catholic Community Bulletin
Pauca Verba (a few words)
Prayers and help from the Bible. Check it out!
When you feel unloved Romans 8:35-39
When in need John 14
When you have sinned Psalm 51
When you are worried Matthew 6:19-34
When feeling blah Psalm 34
When God seems far away Psalm 139
When you are discouraged Isaiah 40
When you are lonely or afraid Psalm 23
When you feel down and out Romans 8:39
When you need courage Joshua 1
When feeling bitter or critical 1 Corinthians 13
When discouraged (again!) Psalm 37
When things go from bad to worse II Timothy 3 or Hebrews13
Did you ever hear the entire Serenity Prayer?
God, grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the Wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as the
pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as
it is, not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things
right if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in the this life, and supremely happy
with Him forever in the next. Amen
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Post Graduation: There are many fewer of us now at school following graduation. Have you perhaps thought about what gift you have to share, what talent, what ability or skill? Especially now as our families are re-organized!
Have you thought that there are “shoes to fill” around here now? When certain members of the graduation class got up to give their speech there was sometimes an extra intense applause – a sign of admiration and gratitude. It’s one thing to clap heartily for someone, quite another to try to be like them in some way. It isn’t that I should copy Steve or Laura or Bobbie or …. but that I should live my own life as fully, as honestly, as generously as they lived their’s. What about that?
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Pray this prayer carefully once each week! WARNING! It will change the way you even THINK!
Free us, Jesus, from our inner Pharisee, from every inclination to self-righteousness, from every notion of being morally superior, from every tone of voice, every gesture or glance that could shame others or flatter ourselves. Let no cause, no matter how worthy, seduce us into idolizing ourselves or demonizing others. In a world where so many feel isolated and alone, let us be builders, not destroyers of bridges. Teach us how to admit and overcome our blind spots, so we do not punish others for our impaired vision. Bishop Kenneth Untener.
A woman writes to the magazine, U.S. Catholic in March of 2002: “The most striking memory I have of experiencing nearly complete silence was waiting up late at night for children to come home – and praying for their safety.”
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Young people love what’s “new and different.” After some weeks of this “new and different” you’ll feel “new and different”: Saturday morning Mass in honor of the Virgin Mary. (Jesus’ momma!) Sign up. Meet behind the kitchen with Tommy Cummings at 7:00 A.M. Ave Maria!
