From Our Little Roses
At Our Little Roses we love good mothers – but not Mother’s Day. Here’s why…
This is the time of year I become nostalgic about my childhood. Not only do memories of mom fill my thoughts, but also growing up with my sisters and brother, playing outside, riding our bicycles, walking ...
Each year as we approach the end of the Lenten Season we are reminded that all of our hope in Christ for the resurrection and the new life we have together in Christ is grounded in the suffering and the death of Jesus. Our own agendas are nothing next to this. Any pain or guilt that ...
Philippians 2: 5-8
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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Matthew 6: 9-13
Jesus said:
9 “This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
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Saint Luke 23: 33-34
When they reached the place called the Skull, the soldiers nailed Jesus to the cross. They also nailed the two criminals, one to the right and the other to the left of Jesus.
Soon after, Jesus said:
«Father, forgive all these people! They don't know what ...
Luke 4:24-27
24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was ...
Philippians 2: 3
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”
An anonymous quote says: The happiest people are not those who have the best of everything, but those who do the best with what they have.
Doing ...
Joel 2:13
Rip open your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and compassionate.
It was an ancient custom that the person who was ashamed of his sin and wanted to show he had repented would tear his clothes as an outward sign of penance. ...
St. Matthew 9:
2 Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic:
—Take heart my, son; your sins are forgiven!
3 Some of the masters of the law murmured between them: "This man is blasphemous!
4 Knowing ...
