Tuesday, April 28, 2015!

The feast of the Dedication was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus walked about in the temple area on the Portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify to me. But you do not believe, because you are not among my sheep. My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.”
John 10:23-30

Sacred Art: The Good Shepherd, Jean Baptiste de Champaigne, 17th C. [PD-Art]

Today, I'm praying...and asking you to join me in prayer...for Baltimore and all the troubled areas of our country. May Christ's light heal the brokenness in so many lives.

Monday, April 27, 2015!

Jesus said: "Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice. But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.” Although Jesus used this figure of speech, they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.So Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly."
John 10:1-10

Sacred Art: The Good Shepherd, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, 3rd C. [PD-US]

Today, I'm praying for the Cross My Heart Prayer Team. May the work of our hands bear good fruit!

Friday, April 24, 2015!

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
John 6:52-59

Sacred Art: La Disputable del Sacramento, Raphael, 1509-1510. [PD-US]

Today, I'm praying for and asking for prayers for travelers as I fly to Milwaukee!

Thursday, April 23, 2015!

Jesus said to the crowds: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets:
'They shall all be taught by God.’
Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
John 6:44-51

Sacred Art: The Last Supper, Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, 1896. [PD-US]

Join me in praying for all those trying to find their way in life...the young, the lonely, the aged, the lost.

Dear Cross My Heart Prayer Team, please pray for me as I'm traveling this weekend to Barbara Vey's Reader Appreciation Luncheon. I'm so grateful for all those who will be sitting at my table and ask the Lord to bless them abundantly. I'm also praying for all the new friends I will meet at this event and for all my wonderful readers, whose support means so much to me!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015!

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. But I told you that although you have seen me, you do not believe. Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.”
John 6:35-40

Sacred Art:The Communion of the Apostles, Lucas Signorelli, 1512. [PD- ART]

Join me in praying for the other members of the Cross My Heart Prayer Team. May the work of our hands bear good fruit.

As always, I'm praying for our military heroes. Keep them safe, dear Lord.

Praying for those persecuted for their faith, and for our country, that we will remain One Nation Under God!

Please add your prayer requests so we can pray together for your special needs.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015!

The crowd said to Jesus: "What sign can you do, that we may believe in you? What can you do? Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written:
‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst."
John 6:30-35

Sacred Art:Last Supper, Valentin de Boulogne, 1625-1626. [PD-ART]

Today, I'm praying for you, dear friend! May the Lord bless you abundantly.