Mar 20, 2024 | NEWS
This year's Lent abounds in retreat meetings addressed to children, youth or adults.
Pastors from many parishes in Poland are asking to introduce the servant of God Sister Dulcissima to the faithful as part of school or parish retreats. It's really a good time, full of challenges, but also lively prayer. I am convinced that the handmaid of God Sr.Dulcissima is present and leads people towards God. She is the one who leads the retreat, I am just telling about the graces that Sister Hoffmann experienced and the graces that people receive when they ask her to intercede. May the Good God bless all who put their hope in Him. May He bless those invoking the help of God's servant Sister Dulcissima.
Sr. Małgorzata Cur
Mar 19, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Wednesday of the 5th week of Lent
Gospel - John 8:31-42
“‘If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples, you will learn the truth and the truth will make you free.’” Jesus is asking a very precise thing “to make His word our home”. How is make the Word of God our home? This is the point of our reflection. If we want to make the Words of Jesus, our home, first we have to find space for that home in our life. The space to make home with the Words of Jesus. Often, we have occupied the spaces of our life with other things like our selfish interests and ideas. So, we don’t have space to build our home with the Word of God. Therefore, we must make space to build our home with the Words of Jesus. Then the second is to really make the home. That is when the Word of God makes the decisions in our daily life. Then the Words of Jesus becomes the home where everything is secondary to it. Let’ reflect: Lent is the time to make home with the words of Jesus.
Mar 18, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Gospel - Matthew 1:16,18-21,24
“Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit”. Here Joseph represents each one of us. He represents us because we all have this fear. Fear and anxiety are always blocking our way to accept the will of God in our life. In those moments when we don’t know what to do, in those moments when we get stuck and frightened to proceed, St. Joseph is our model. He received his light in a dream. St. Joseph wished so much to be a man of honor so that he wanted so much to find out the will of God regarding the question before him. This ardent desire to do the good is the reason for the dream. The dream of St. Joseph is where his deep desire to do the good and the profound love of God meet. Dream is the prayer of where the longing of human heart for God meets the plan of God for us. Let’s reflect: Can we dream like St. Joseph where the longing of human heart for God meets the plan of God for us?
Mar 17, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Monday of the 5th week of Lent
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop, Doctor
Gospel - John 8:1-11
‘If there is one of you who has not sinned, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.’ The Pharisees and scribes brought this woman caught in the act of committing adultery to test Jesus. They wanted to find out whether Jesus will be lenient in the law of Moses. In this episode we see how God sees the sins and how man sees the sins. For men the sins are occasion to accuse and condemn. But for Jesus, the sin is the occasion to save the sinner. Man condemn the sinner and continue to sin. Jesus condemn the sin but save the sinner. This love of God is very important to understand what we must do with our sins. Jesus loves us and wants to save us. He condemns ths sin but He loves each person and He sees each person different from the sin. The sinner is not identified with the sin. The sinner is identified as a person to be saved and loved. Let’s reflect: Lent is to understand the love of God which saves the sinner but condemns the sin.
Mar 16, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
5th Sunday of Lent
Gospel – John 12:20-33
“I tell you, most solemnly, unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest”. This Word of God explains the profound meaning of suffering. The falling of the grain on the ground and the dying of the grain under the soil are two moments of great pain – falling and dying. But these moments are necessary for the beginning of new life. These moments are necessary for the leaving behind its existence as a single grain. These moments are necessary to produce rich harvest. These moments take life to a different stage. The suffering is like this. The moments of pain we accept because we believe in the love of God which takes our pains and transform them as grace for eternal life. This is seen in the life of Jesus Christ. In the person of Jesus Christ, the human suffering is transformed into joy of resurrection. So, when we unite our suffering to Jesus in the cross, we walk the same path of the Cross of Jesus Christ. The path towards resurrection. Let’s reflect: Lent is to understand the meaning of my suffering in the meaning of the Cross of Christ.
