On February 3, 2011, from 7 PM to 8 PM in the Chapel of Divine Mercy, 2749 NE 10 Ave., Wilton Manors (954-567-1930) St. Blaise throating blessings will be offered to all.
Heres a little history of St.Blaise, whose feast day we celebrate February 3. St. Blaise was the Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and suffered martydom A.D.316. While the persecution of Christians was going on. St. Blaise moved from town to town and also lived as a hermit in a cave. Wild animals, according to tradition, visited him and he healed many that were sick and wounded, After he had been captured and was being taken to prison St. Blaise encountered a woman whose pig was being seized by a wolf, St. Blaise commanded the wolf to release the pig and it was freed unhurt.
While he was in prison and before he was tortured and beheaded, he miraculously cured a small boy who was choking to death on a fishbone lodged in his throat. By the 6th century, in the East, his intercession was invoked for diseases of the throat. In the 8th century records attest to the veneration of St. Blaise in Europe and he became one of the most popular saints in the spiritual life of the Middle Ages. One reason St. Blaise's popularity arose was the fact he was a physician who cured , even performed miraculous cures . Eventually the custom of blessing of throats arose whereby the priest held two crossed candles, touching the side of the throat and invoking the prayer of the saint and imparting God's blessing.
Please come to St.Blaise Blessing,, Thursday, Feb. 3, 7-8 PM, Father John Joseph Reid, Fathers of Divine Mercy
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Teaching An Older Priest New Tricks
At age 78 it was learning how to use the computer. Thanks God the nuns in high school prevailed upon me to take a course in typing. (A special thanks to Sister Wilma, Sister of St. Joseph, Gate of Heaven High School South Boston, Ma.) So armed with the typing knowledge I muddled through learning the computer, the internet, deleting when I should have not and every few years getting a new computer as technology grew by leaps and bounds.
Now we are blogging, trying to make Constant Contact work for us, building on our web page NewDivine Mercy.org, (thanks to Bill Woeppel of Wilton Manors guiding us along, )having a video view of our Sunday Mass uploaded to you tube and reaching out on Facebook. And learning how to be sociable in our social networking . More New Speak.
Jesus invited and used fishermen, the uneducated, former prostitutes, the despised, the rejected and sinners to help him get his message out: The message of love, acceptance and forgiveness. No computer stuff for him back then. Of course his miracles thrown in now and then helped. But I marvel today how his message travelled all over the world. In todays world a click of the computer key can be seen eveeerywhere. But yet, with all the magic of today, his message of love, acceptance and forgiveness gets lost .
May this priest in a small mission in Wilton Manors do his best to spread His message. Love to you all. A Servant of Divine Mercy, Father John Joseph Reid
Now we are blogging, trying to make Constant Contact work for us, building on our web page NewDivine Mercy.org, (thanks to Bill Woeppel of Wilton Manors guiding us along, )having a video view of our Sunday Mass uploaded to you tube and reaching out on Facebook. And learning how to be sociable in our social networking . More New Speak.
Jesus invited and used fishermen, the uneducated, former prostitutes, the despised, the rejected and sinners to help him get his message out: The message of love, acceptance and forgiveness. No computer stuff for him back then. Of course his miracles thrown in now and then helped. But I marvel today how his message travelled all over the world. In todays world a click of the computer key can be seen eveeerywhere. But yet, with all the magic of today, his message of love, acceptance and forgiveness gets lost .
May this priest in a small mission in Wilton Manors do his best to spread His message. Love to you all. A Servant of Divine Mercy, Father John Joseph Reid
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Letting Go and Letting God
A very long time ago I thought I learned how to Let Go and Let God. That is, get out of the way and let God run the show. It seems my sometimes big Ego gets in the way and wants to do what it thinks is best.
Its then I get frustrated, angry with myself ,because it doesn't turn out just how I wanted it.
A case in point: my ego says that after all this time I should be running a church, the size of course of a cathedral. After all I know how to run things. The key word is run things. Then God steps in and says wait a minute. You want all the headaches of running a big church. After all, there are just two of you and today a newspaper salesman try to sell you an ad for $50..00 and you don't get anywhere that in donations in your weekly Mass. Then the lesson of being humble and accepting humility kicks in.
Someones once said to me that humility is knowing what you should be doing, when you should be doing it and how you should be doing. Lesson learned, for today anyway, that by myself I have to let go and let God show me what, when and how. And for me this has to be a daily petition to God as I look at the big mega churches and the voice says why haven't you accomplished this yet.? After all, you are 78 and you shcould be sitting back and enjoying a nice fat liturgical pension instead of getting a social security check every month. And you really deserve a big crew of helpers out there to make the big show a reality.
I am laughing now as the salesman just called back and said what can you pay and I said $10.00, he is going to his publisher and see what he can do.
In the meantime I will take some time and spend it quietly in the Divine Mercy chapel and continue to learn more lessons. And then be ready to get to work again. Keep going I am hearing.
Its then I get frustrated, angry with myself ,because it doesn't turn out just how I wanted it.
A case in point: my ego says that after all this time I should be running a church, the size of course of a cathedral. After all I know how to run things. The key word is run things. Then God steps in and says wait a minute. You want all the headaches of running a big church. After all, there are just two of you and today a newspaper salesman try to sell you an ad for $50..00 and you don't get anywhere that in donations in your weekly Mass. Then the lesson of being humble and accepting humility kicks in.
Someones once said to me that humility is knowing what you should be doing, when you should be doing it and how you should be doing. Lesson learned, for today anyway, that by myself I have to let go and let God show me what, when and how. And for me this has to be a daily petition to God as I look at the big mega churches and the voice says why haven't you accomplished this yet.? After all, you are 78 and you shcould be sitting back and enjoying a nice fat liturgical pension instead of getting a social security check every month. And you really deserve a big crew of helpers out there to make the big show a reality.
I am laughing now as the salesman just called back and said what can you pay and I said $10.00, he is going to his publisher and see what he can do.
In the meantime I will take some time and spend it quietly in the Divine Mercy chapel and continue to learn more lessons. And then be ready to get to work again. Keep going I am hearing.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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