Patrick, Author at The Personal Rosary

I am burdened with sorrows. As You awakened the hearts of Your disciples on the road to Emmaus and they found You in the Breaking of the Bread, raise me to find joy in praise and thanksgiving to You.

The Personal RosaryApril 22, 20230Comments

When we read a novel, we can usually trust the author’s exposition. If the author wrote that a character is annoyed with a situation then the reader can trust that the character is annoyed. What is thought by a character are true thoughts and we can read minds through the words of the author. What…

Christ shows His wounds in His glorified body. Lord, perfect me through my daily sufferings that I may see Your glory beyond my discomfort. May I cherish the wounds won in Your service.

The Personal RosaryApril 14, 20230Comments

Some of the Apostles have nicknames in the Bible. James and John are referred to as “the sons of thunder.” There was a “zealot,” a “just,” a “greater,” and a “lesser.” Poor Thomas was called “doubting.” It has stuck to him down through the ages because he missed out on a visitation from our Lord.…

Lord, as You rose in glory from the tomb, You raise me to new life through Baptism. Help me live out the promises of my baptism in service to You and Your holy Kingdom.

The Personal RosaryApril 12, 20230Comments

Christ has risen from the dead! The Resurrection of Jesus is the crowning truth of our faith in Christ, a faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian community… (CCC 638). He who embraced the simple and confounded the wise suffered for the sins of all and conquered death itself. All…

Lord, You were faithful to fulfill all things on the cross. Help me not shrink from my own duty when it becomes difficult.

The Personal RosaryApril 8, 20230Comments

Look to the cross of Christ—behold the man. The eyes that saw creation’s light burn bright Darken in a visage barely human As Sun’s pause shows homage in day as night. The knees that bent to honor His Father Are scarred from falls under torture’s device. The weight of wood made heavy by man’s sin…

With each strike of the whip (flagrum), I can imagine the accusing voice of the devil announcing my sins which cause Your suffering. I pray for the grace to turn from sin and avoid temptation.

The Personal RosaryMarch 31, 20230Comments

With each strike of the whip (flagrum), I can imagine the accusing voice of the devil announcing my sins which cause Your suffering. I pray for the grace to turn from sin and avoid temptation. From the outside, the Christian life looks strange and even foolish. We preach an ideal we are still striving for…

In rising, You restored our life. When I fear death and doubt rises in my heart, help me be at peace in trusting God, the author of life (Heb 2:14-15).

The Personal RosaryMarch 24, 20230Comments

In rising, You restored our life. When I fear death and doubt rises in my heart, help me be at peace in trusting God, the author of life (Heb 2:14-15). Our time on Earth is fleeting. All of us will die eventually. That isn’t the end, though. There will be a resumption to life by…

The law of the Lord is love. In His love for us, God has given us our neighbors in need. “The poor [we] will always have with [us]” (Mark 14:7) because through service to them, we learn to love.

The Personal RosaryMarch 17, 20230Comments

The law of the Lord is love. In His love for us, God has given us our neighbors in need. “The poor [we] will always have with [us]” (Mark 14:7) because through service to them, we learn to love. Our sojourn in this world can be described as a school of learning to love. We…

Everyone is called to enter the Kingdom (CCC 543). The Kingdom is here and now where God’s will is done. May I live to serve now and patiently await the everlasting joy to come.

The Personal RosaryMarch 10, 20230Comments

Everyone is called to enter the Kingdom (CCC 543). The Kingdom is here and now where God’s will is done. May I live to serve now and patiently await the everlasting joy to come. No one is excluded from our Lord’s invitation to the Kingdom. Not the rich—who find it difficult (Luke 18:25). Not the…

You radiated heavenly glory yet spoke of Your coming Passion. The cross is Your love revealed, not an obstacle in Your path. Help me sacrificially live my love for You.

The Personal RosaryMarch 4, 20230Comments

Lord, You radiated heavenly glory yet spoke of Your coming Passion. The cross is Your love revealed, not an obstacle in Your path. Help me sacrificially live my love for You. In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning, Adam and Eve were innocent. They were made for communion with God. God walked…

Temptation

The Personal RosaryFebruary 25, 20230Comments

We are blessed with free will… and cursed by it. We can choose the greatest good… or the worst evil. We can choose Heaven or Hell. God could cancel our free will and end evil in a moment. However, doing so would also be the end of love. There can be no love without free…

You became a spectacle in Your infirmity. May I be willing to be thought a fool for the wisdom of God.

The Personal RosaryFebruary 17, 20230Comments

You became a spectacle in Your infirmity. May I be willing to be thought a fool for the wisdom of God. King of kings And Lord of lords Beaten; stripped; ridiculed; rejected Bearing the tool of His own destruction. Sinless yet condemned by the wicked. Dying for those who hate So they may learn to…

I am shaped by what I love. In loving You, Lord, may I keep Your word and do Your will. Come and make Your dwelling with me (John 14:23) as I follow in Mary’s footsteps of faith.

The Personal RosaryFebruary 10, 20231Comment

I am shaped by what I love. In loving You, Lord, may I keep Your word and do Your will. Come and make Your dwelling with me (John 14:23) as I follow in Mary’s footsteps of faith. Life is full of choices. Some we make consciously as we go through our day. Some have become…

Patrick

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