Category: Inspiration

As much of America is blanketed in the strongest winter storm of the year, we at LMW would like to remind you to check in on your neighbors, especially if you know someone who lives alone, or someone who is elderly or home bound. Leave your number for them to contact you if need be, and be careful out there!

Start by doing what’s necessary;
then do what’s possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~ St.Francis of Assisi

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of
the human spirit ~ Wilma Rudolph (the first American woman
runner to win three gold medals at a single Olympics)

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

By the Grace of God, this young women survived being aborted. Today she lives to tell her story, is married, and a mother to a beautiful little girl. Her story lights my way.

At LightsMyWay we find Thursday an especially bright day as it’s the day one recounts the Luminous (or Light) mysteries of the Rosary prayer.

The mysteries are events in the Bible that are meditated upon during the recitation of the Rosary. Certain mysteries are meant to be said on certain days. Thursday is the only day the Luminous mysteries are called to mind and heart. They are:

1. The Baptism of Jesus, bringing to mind submission to God’s will.

2. The Wedding Feast of Cana, for devotion to Mary as this is when Jesus’ answered Mary’s concern that they had run out of wine during the wedding, and Jesus’ performed his first public miracle turning water to wine.

3. Proclamation of the Kingdom, for the grace of conversion, when Jesus announced the Kingdom of God was at hand.

4. The Transfiguration, for holy fear of God, when Jesus became radiant upon a mountain, spoke with Moses and Elijah, and was called “Son” by God

5. Institution of the Eucharist, for thanksgiving to God, which was the Last Supper when Jesus gave his disciples bread, saying, “This is my body,” and then giving them wine, saying, “This is my blood.”

To learn how to pray the Rosary, see theholyrosary.org or for a flash presentation of praying the Rosary see the link at fatima.org

This happened after Jesus’ resurrection:

“So the other disciples said to [Thomas], ‘We have seen the Lord,’ but he answered, ‘Unless I can see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’

Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you,’ he said.

Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving any more but believe.’

Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’

Jesus said to him: You believe because you can see me. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.

John 20: 25-29

Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree on Friday attributing a miracle to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God, Pope John Paul II, clearing the way for his beatification, which is to take place this coming May 1st.

Here is full next of the decree

Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited, it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offense or store up grievances. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth. It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. Love never comes to an end.

1 Corinthians 1: 4-8

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

“”I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Lights My Way is inspired by Pope Benedict’s prayer.

Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for January 2011 is: “That young people may learn to use modern means of social communication for their personal growth and to better prepare themselves to serve society”.