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Our Lady of Peace

Locality: Kumbia, Queensland

Address: 42 Brook Road 4610 Kumbia, QLD, Australia

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24.01.2022 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2020 Everything always begins with grace, not with our own efforts with the grace of God, who is a Father and has given us so many good things, entrusting different talents to each of us. We possess a great wealth that depends not on what we possess but on what we are: the life we have received, the good within us, the indelible beauty God has given us by making us in his image All these things make each of us precious in his eyes, each one of us is priceless and unique in history! This is how God looks at us, how God feels towards us. Pope Francis

19.01.2022 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2020 As the apostle Paul says, the faith that truly unites us to Jesus is, faith working through love (Gal 5:6) Being wise and prudent means not waiting until the last moment to correspond to God’s grace, but to do so actively and immediately, starting right now. I yes, I will convert soon Convert today! Change your life today! Yes, yes, tomorrow. And the same thing is said tomorrow, and so it never arrives. Today! If we want to be ready for the final encounter with the Lord, we must cooperate with Him now and perform good deeds inspired by His love. Pope Francis

18.01.2022 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2020 Faith is not a momentary leap, but a courageous disposition to call on God, even to argue with him, without resigning oneself to evil and injustice. Pope Francis

18.01.2022 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2020 Service is our work too; it makes our talents bear fruit and it gives meaning to our lives. Those who do not live to serve, serve for little in this life. We must repeat this, and repeat it often: those who do not live to serve, serve for little in this life. We should reflect on this: those who do not live to serve, serve for little in this life. Pope Francis

18.01.2022 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24, 2020 Those who pray are never alone. Indeed, Jesus is not only a witness and teacher of prayer; He is more. He welcomes us in His prayer so that we might pray in Him and through Him. And this is the work of the Holy Spirit. Pope Francis

16.01.2022 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28, 2020 Taking risks there is no faithfulness without risk. Fidelity to God means handing over our life, letting our carefully laid plans be disrupted by our need to serve. But I have my plans, and if I have to serve. Let your plans be upset, go and serve. It is sad when Christians play a defensive game, content only to observe rules and obey commandments. Those moderate Christians who never go beyond boundaries, never, because they are afraid of risk. And those, allow me this image, those who take care of themselves to avoid risk begin in their lives a process of mummification of their souls, and they end up as mummies. Following rules is not enough; fidelity to Jesus is not just about not making mistakes, this is quite wrong. Pope Francis

14.01.2022 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2020 "At times, we think that to be Christian means not to do harm. And not doing harm is good. But not doing good is not good. We must do good, come out of ourselves and look, look at those who are more in need. There is so much hunger, even in the heart of our cities; and many times we enter into that logic of indifference: the poor person is there, and we look the other way. Hold out your hand to the poor person: it is Christ. Some say: But these pr...iests, these bishops who talk about the poor, the poor... We want them to talk to us about eternal life! Look, brother and sister, the poor are at the heart of the Gospel; it is Jesus who taught us to speak to the poor; it is Jesus who came for the poor. Hold out your hand to the poor. You have received many things, and you let your brother, your sister die of hunger?" Pope Francis

11.01.2022 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2020 For if goodness is not invested, it is lost, and the grandeur of our lives is not measured by how much we save but by the fruit we bear. How many people spend their lives simply accumulating possessions, concerned only about the good life and not the good they can do. Yet how empty is a life centred on our needs and blind to the needs of others! The reason we have gifts is so that we can be gifts for others. And here, brothers and sisters, we should ask ourselves the question: do I only follow my own needs, or am I able to look to the needs of others, to whoever is in need? Are my hands open, or are they closed? Pope Francis

11.01.2022 MONDAY NOVEMBER 23, 2020 Sometimes we human beings believe that we are the masters of everything, or on the contrary, we lose all self-esteem, we go from one side to the other. Prayer helps us to find the right dimension in our relationship with God, our Father, and with all creation. And Jesus’ prayer, in the end, means delivering oneself into the hands of the Father, like Jesus in the olive grove, in that anguish: Father, if it is possible but may your will be done. Delivering oneself into the hands of the Father. It is beautiful, when we are agitated, a bit worried, and the Holy Spirit transforms us from within and leads us to this surrendering into the hands of the Father: Father, let your will be done. Pope Francis

10.01.2022 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25, 2020 Without Jesus, our prayer risks being reduced to human effort, destined most of the time to failure. But He has taken on himself every cry, every groan, every jubilation, every supplication ... every human prayer. And let us not forget the Holy Spirit who prays in us; it is he who leads us to pray, he leads us to Jesus. He is the gift that the Father and the Son gave us to foster an encounter with God. And the Holy Spirit, when we pray, is the Holy Spirit who prays in our hearts. Pope Francis

09.01.2022 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020 "Mary was praying when the Archangel Gabriel came to bring his message to her in Nazareth. Her small yet immense Here I am, which made all of creation jump for joy in that moment, had been preceded throughout salvation history by many other Here I ams, by many trusting obediences, by many who were open to God’s will. There is no better way to pray than to place oneself like Mary in an attitude of openness, with a heart open to God: Lord, what you want, when you want, and how you want. That is, a heart open to God’s will. And God always responds." Pope Francis

07.01.2022 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2020 Those who pray do not escape from the world, but prefer deserted places. There, in silence, many voices can emerge that we hide in our innermost selves: the most repressed desires, the truths that we insist on suffocating, and so on. And, above all, in silence God speaks. Every person needs a space for him or herself, somewhere to cultivate their interior life, where actions find meaning again. Without an interior life we become superficial, agitated, and anxious how anxiety harms us! This is why we must turn to prayer; without an interior life we flee from reality, and we also flee from ourselves, we are men and women always on the run. Pope Francis

04.01.2022 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2020 "Hold out your hand to the poor, instead of demanding what you lack. In this way, you will multiply the talents you have received. The season of Christmas is approaching, the holiday season. How often do we hear people ask: 'What can I buy?... What more can I have? I must go shopping.' Let us use different words: 'What can I give to others?', in order to be like Jesus, who gave of Himself and was born in the manger.'" Pope Francis

03.01.2022 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2020 A day lived without prayer risks being transformed into a bothersome or tedious experience. Everything that happens to us could turn into a badly endured and blind fate for usPrayer is primarily listening and encountering God. The problems of everyday life, then, do not become obstacles, but appeals from God himself to listen to and encounter those who are in front of us. The trials of life thus change into opportunities to grow in faith and charity. The daily journey, including hardships, acquires the perspective of a vocation. Prayer has the power to transform into good what in life would otherwise be a sentence; prayer has the power to open the mind to a great horizon and to broaden the heart. Pope Francis

01.01.2022 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2020 "The Lord, for his part, asks us to be generous, to conquer fear with the courage of love, to overcome the passivity that becomes complicity. Today, in these times of uncertainty, in these times of instability, let us not waste our lives thinking only of ourselves, indifferent to others, or deluding ourselves into thinking: peace and security! (1 Thess 5:3). Saint Paul invites us to look reality in the face and to avoid the infection of indifference." Pope Francis