The lovely ladies from last night's
meeting at the Gruber Home
Being that we're in the middle of Lent 2013, our prayer night was heavily focused on conversion - our personal efforts at being better Christians, as well as for the conversion of sinners throughout the world - and it just seemed highly providential the our Scripture Reading, Matthew 5:38-48... the Medjugorje Message we reflected on... and our featured Saint - St. Margaret of Cortona (d. 1297) - all came together as a single cohesive message encouraging us to repentance, reconciliation with God and with people who have hurt us... and finally, to share the LOVE that God has generously planted in our own hearts with others, especially those who have need of love themselves.
A few of our regular participants weren't able to join us this evening, but we did have the joy of welcoming a new Sister in Christ to our prayer family - a dear coworker of both me and our host, Dre'. After several months of inviting her, she was finally able to pray with our little group and bless us with her own personal insight and prayers. She shared with us after the prayer time that she felt the "Love"... and I was happy for her because I completely understood what she was talking about.
Judging by what I saw in people's faces, I think we all left the Gruber home last night feeling a little less "broken"... and encouraged in our efforts to continue moving forward on our personal faith-journeys with Christ. May Our Lady and St. Margaret pray for us.
~ Words of Our Lord to
"Show now that you are converted;
cry out and call others to repentance.
The graces I bestowed on you are
The graces I bestowed on you are
not meant for you alone."
~ Words of Our Lord to
St. Margaret of Cortona
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