Prayer & Readings – Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him,

When: Saturday, September 08, 2007 11:00 AM-12:00 PM.

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Dear Lord God, I think I need to move to a journal where I can write You the moment I want to capture my connection to You. Even though O talk to You more and more each day, and the Lord’s prayer, the prayer that Jesus used to teach us how to pray, I say when I open my eyes, when ever I feel disconnected or in need of Your special mercy and grace, till when I close my eyes; I even find myself saying it during the night when I toss and turn, even if my eyes are closed. All it takes is that moment of awareness that in that moment I have so much to be thankful for, even if I feel my errors and sins rising like flood waters trying to engulf and over take me.  This week I again was not able to stay in Your word as much as I need to, but I will try and catch up, so I ask Your help, use to moments that I look to You to convict me, help me to slow down and remember all the things I have done to make it possible to be in You word when and where ever I am. Lord why is it that writing You is so restful and refreshing, like a cool breeze on a hot day; I mean I talk to You and I am reminded that You are with me and that I seek Your will, but when I write You I feel like I am showing You that You are my Source of Source for everything, and without you I am nothing. O Lord through and in Jesus Christ I ask that You would bless me indeed, and that Your hand would be with me, to hear and guide me, to keep me from evil and most of all causing pain. For I would bear the pain rather than someone think You are not with me, and I in You, Amen.
 
Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. – St. Rose of Lima

 
Micah 5:1-4 or
1 Now you are walled about with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike upon the cheek the ruler of Israel. 2 But you, O Bethlehem Eph’rathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days. 3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in travail has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the people of Israel. 4 And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.
 
Romans 8:28-30
28 We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Psalm 13:6
6 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23
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The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 4 and Ram the father of Ammin’adab, and Ammin’adab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of Bo’az by Rahab, and Bo’az the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uri’ah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehobo’am, and Rehobo’am the father of Abi’jah, and Abi’jah the father of Asa, 8 and Asa the father of Jehosh’aphat, and Jehosh’aphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzzi’ah, 9 and Uzzi’ah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezeki’ah, 10 and Hezeki’ah the father of Manas’seh, and Manas’seh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josi’ah, 11 and Josi’ah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. 12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoni’ah was the father of She-al’ti-el, and She-al’ti-el the father of Zerub’babel, 13 and Zerub’babel the father of Abi’ud, and Abi’ud the father of Eli’akim, and Eli’akim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eli’ud, 15 and Eli’ud the father of Elea’zar, and Elea’zar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ. 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit; 19 and her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; 21 she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins." 22 All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: 23 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel" (which means, God with us).

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