12/7/10 REMEMBERING PARENTS of the MENTALLY CHALLENGED

12/7/10 cblog REMEMBERING PARENTS of the MENTALLY CHALLENGED ; monastery "Scr re common vocation..comfort people..reach out to to those in pain...this thurs..group of people from st. Dominics..mentally challenged..share difficulties..real challenge to be a parent of a child..more than ucan handle..counselors..lawyers...tremendous parience..once per year....homily ...so happy..mother expecting..little by little realize somethings wrong..child's diff..but realize it became a blessing..broiught couple together..deepened rshp..today st. Ambrose..catechumans..instructor..ised to be 1 to 1 ..now rcia..for adult converts..come together, learn together..imp to bring comfort...easy to judge but compassion imp...also today for those older.remember dec 7 ..day of infamy pearl harbor..comfort my people..pray for others, others for us "

Is 40:1-11 "Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated Indeed, she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins. A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, a broad valley Then the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all people shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken"
A voice says, “Cry out!” I answer, “What shall I cry out?”“All flesh is grass, and all their glory like the flower of the field The grass withers, the flower wilts when the breath of the LORD blows upon it. So then, the people is the grass. Though the grass withers and the flower wilts the word of our God stands forever.” Go up onto a high mountain, Zion, herald of glad tidings; Cry out at the top of your voice Jerusalem, herald of good news! Fear not to cry out and say to the cities of Judah: Here is your God Here comes with power the Lord GOD, who rules by his strong arm; Here is his reward with him, his recompense before him. Like a shepherd he feeds his flock; in his arms he gathers the lambs, Carrying them in his bosom, and leading the ewes with care.

R. (see Isaiah 40:10ab) The Lord our God comes with power.

Matt 18.12-15 "Jesus said to his disciples“What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”