Rusty Montgomery

Crowd Control...

“And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well." And immediately the hemorrhage ceased; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.”

Time to Party...

“I received from the Lord what I handed on to you, namely, that the Lord Jesus on the night on which he was betrayed took bread, and after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the supper, he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, Do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

Every Day...

“You can experience this life in Christ every day” Fr. Scott Courtney

Blessed Be God Forever

"We are the gifts! This is so critically important because it fundamentally changes our understanding of what happens at the moment of Communion … Father will take the gifts of bread & wine … these are both earthen and human gifts, and when Father calls down the Fire of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit will transform them into Divinity … in the same way … WE ourselves are Earthen vessels and Human gifts … and by the power of the Spirit at Communion … we are transformed to participate and share in the Divine Life of the Trinity … to participate in Christ’s Mission of Salvation … and we respond, Blessed Be God Forever!" – Deacon Steve Thomlison

Deep Down

The martyrs know that they have found the truth about life in the encounter with Jesus Christ, and nothing and no one could ever take this certainty from them. This is why their words inspires such confidence: from the moment they speak to us of what we perceive deep down as the truth we have sought for so long"

Summer Time

May the Lord give you His peace!

My Friend Grace

Outbreak

May the Lord give you His peace!

The Way Things Are Meant to Be…

"I am the way the truth and the life" – John 14:6

We Win

May the Lord give you His peace! 

Take Your Places

"There is no way back; we are here in the city which he rules, the city in which he will suffer. To enter with him means to suffer with him, to die with him, and finally at the end also to rule with him…This is our comfort: that we shall see Him again"

Something to be Thankful For

"How wonderful that Jesus gives thanks, by offering himself and giving himself without end to God and to man. Who is He thanking? Certainly He is thanking God the Father, source of every gift. But he thanks also the poor sinners who have willingly received Him, who have let Him in under their unworthy roof. He also thanks the humble maiden from whom He received the flesh and this blood when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her…What does He learn from His mother? He learns her "yes." Not any yes, but the "yes" which goes on always without wearying"

"God Saves"

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that all who believe in Him might not perish but have eternal life" –John 3:16

Smile

Today Mary dwells in the joy and the glory of the Resurrection. The tears shed at the foot of the Cross have been transformed into a smile which nothing can wipe away, even as her maternal compassion towards us remains unchanged. The intervention of the Virgin Mary in offering herself throughout history testifies to this, and does not cease to call forth, in the people of God, an unshakable confidence in her... Mary loves each of her children, giving particular attention to those who, like her Son at the hour of his Passion, are prey to suffering; she loves them quite simply because they are her children, according to the will of Christ on the Cross.-Pope Benedict XVI

Risk It

"Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ." Pope John Paul II

Another Kind of Stimulus

May the Lord give you His peace!

Our Problem, Not His

"And they took offense at Him. Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in His native place and among his own kin and in His own house." So He was not able to perform any mighty deed there, a part from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith" -John 6: 4-6

Celebrate

"Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Messiah of the Lord"

Thy Kingdom Come

"It began in that hour, and of this "kingdom" there will be no end. Thus you remain the midst of the disciples as their Mother, as the Mother of hope. Holy Mary, Mother of God, our Mother, teach us to believe, to hope, to love with you. Show us the way to his Kingdom! Star of the Sea, shine upon us and guide us on our way!"

That’s a Good Question

“The next day John was there again with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following Him and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to Him, “Rabbi, where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” John 1:35-39