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Prayer of Transformation

Lord, take my hands. I give them to you so you


may continue to bless, to heal, work, feel, comfort,
and love. Forgive me for using them for things
against your will.
Lord, take my mouth. I give it to you so you may continue to
speak, preach, build up, comfort and love. Forgive me for all the
times I have hurt you and your people with my mouth.
Lord, take my nose and my senses. I give them to you so you
may continue to sense good from evil, and smell the fragrance of
your love in all people. Forgive me for distorting this for my own
will.
Lord, take my eyes. I give them to you so you may continue to
see the good in all men, the Spirit of your Father, the Spirit of
your love. Forgive the times I have seen only the evil and then
judged.
Lord, take my ears. I give them to you so you may continue to
listen and hear the cry of the lonely. Forgive me for all the times I
have closed them, closed them to your Truth.
Lord, take my feet. I give them to you so you may continue to
lead myself and others in the path of your love. Forgive me for
using them to follow a path of selfishness.
Lord, take my body. I give it to you so you may continue to
suffer so as to carry on my dying to myself. Forgive me for want-
ing to use it for the desires of the flesh.
Lord, take my heart. I give it to you so you may continue to
love and understand. Forgive me for all the times I have let my
heart be hardened.
Lord, take my life. I give it to you so you may continue to live
through me. Forgive me for wanting to only live for myself.
Lord, I give you my very self. Everything. All that I am. Just
as I am. I give myself to you so that your will and not mine may
be always done in me.
Amen.
Fr. Larry Richards

St. Philip Benizi Church Mission
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Celebrant: Fr. Eugene Florea
Parish Manager: Deacon Les Stokes
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July 27, 2014
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday (no Mass during summer months)
Sunday 9:00 a.m.
(Confessions 30 minutes before Mass)
CATHOLIC MATTERS
By Fr. Kevin OSullivan, O.F.M.

Todays reflection is from the 2
nd
reading St. Pauls letter to
the Romans. St. Augustine says, "God created us without
our consent or cooperation but he will not (and cannot) save
us without our cooperation." This is clear from what St. Paul
tells us today. God has done, and continues to do, every-
thing that is necessary to bring us to heaven when we die.
However, unless we cooperate and do our part, heaven will
not be our future abode.

This should make each one of us stop and think! Are we on
the right road? Are we truly followers of Christ? Do we love
God? Are our prevailing ambitions worldly or other-worldly?
We have to take an interest in the affairs of this world but do
all our interests end there? Do the ten commandments of
God always govern and direct our conduct, or are they often
trampled on in our mad rush for some temporal pleasure or
gain?

These are questions every Christian should put to himself
and honestly answer. We are living in an era which is daily
growing more worldly and more anti-God and anti-Christian.
On all sides of us we have bad example, a strong-rushing
current of worldliness and immorality, a current difficult to
avoid or swim against. But avoid it we must if we really have
our real and eternal welfare at heart. What is more, if we love
our fellowman as our Christian faith obliges us to do, we
must do all in our power to lead them out of that fatal current
and bring them to safety with us. We must be life-guards.

There is a future life, revelation tells us, and our reasoning
demands it. That future life will be one of eternal happiness
for those who strive to love God in this life, and eternal un-
happiness for those who refuse to do this. Ask yourself this
question: "If I were to die tonight, to which class would I like
to belong?" Tonight may not be the night of our departure
from this life, but that departure is nearer to us than any of us
LAST WEEKS COLLECTIONS
2014 2013
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PRAYERS FOR THE SICK
In the church vestibule we have a Book of Intentions for
use by our parishioners. Please feel free to write your prayer
petitions in this book and during our Masses the congregation
will be reminded to pray for all who are listed.
think, and the state of our conscience at the moment of our
death may depend on the resolutions we make today.

Nobody, not even God himself, can give us eternal life with-
out our cooperation. We must accept it for ourselves. Our
Christian faith tells us how.
DEACONS DESK
St. Philip Benizi
The prayer on the back page was published in a book called
Surrenderthe Life-Changing Power of Doing Gods Will, by
Fr. Larry Richards. I though it fit well with todays reflection on
how we are asked to cooperate with God in His work of salvation.
It also struck me as an excellent way to make an examination of
conscience, either before going to bed at night or in preparation for
making a good confession. Check it out...

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