When: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:00 AM to Friday, April 25, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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Words of Jesus
"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: `The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens. "`I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut; I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Because you have kept my word of patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial which is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell upon the earth. I am coming soon; hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. He who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
Revelation 3:7-12
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
John 10:11-16
The very tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, which the Lord gave, was preached by the apostles and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded, and if anyone departs from this, he neither is, nor any longer ought to be called, a Christian.
— St Athanasius
Abba, Father, Lord God, how thankful I start this day, though I stumble, I feel Your hand as I grasp it not to fall. So it is this feeling; the knowledge that what I see, hear and think is as real as the matter and vibrations that make them interpreted through the thought process which I apply that I wake with today. Aware that what I think and do each day becomes the thoughts I apply and that become this process of interpretation can be of my natural human being from under the sun in the selfish prideful weakness of the physical being; or of the source of source my spiritual being from above always seeking to abide in Jesus who overcame the things and ways under the sun by empting and dying in these ways and to these things to rise above finding true peace and joy in and with You. It is this awareness of feeling that convinces me I am one of Your sheep and the Lord Jesus is my Shepherd for I feel His Words and seek to abide in Him and Him in me knowing that it is only through and in Him that I can keep His patient endurance. For I truly know that without Him I can bear no fruit no matter what I have or obtain under the sun. So it is in Jesus name, the name Jesus that convicts everyone under the sun, the name Jesus that I ask You to help me walk by and in this feeling today and I pray that You would grasp the hands of those love ones You have blessed me with and along with Jesus act as a mirror for my soul, so that they too would feel this feeling. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Revelation 3:7-8, 10-12 <http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Rev&ch=3&bv1=7&ev1=8&bv2=10&ev2=12> or 2 Timothy 2:8-13; 3:10-12<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=_2Tim&ch=2&bv1=8&ev1=13>; 3:10-12<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=_2Tim&ch=3&bv1=10&ev1=12>
Psalm 119:137-144<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Ps&ch=119&bv1=137&ev1=144>
John 10:11-16<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=John&ch=10&bv1=11&ev1=16>
Pope Benedict XVI Encyclical Letter<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html>
Pope Benedict XVI Apostolic Journey to USA<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/travels/2008/index_stati-uniti_en.htm>
One Walk 