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St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Farmersville, OhioAugust 31, 2025Twelfth Sunday after PentecostAnnouncementsPreludeOpening Hymn - "Just As I Am" - LBW #296Responsive ReadingPrayer of the DayChildren's SermonFirst Lesson - Genesis 15:1-6Second Lesson - Hebrews 11:8-16Hymn - "Have No Fear, Little Flock" - LBW #476Gospel - Luke 12:32-40Sermon - "Do Not Be Afraid"Song - "I Stand Amazed" (Reawaken Hymns)Apostles' CreedOfferingOffertory - "Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow" - LBW #565Prayers of the Church and Lord's PrayerBenedictionExodus Hymn - "O Jesus, I Have Promised" - LBW #503DismissalFor the video version of today's service, please visit https://youtu.be/Mj6qhr0E444May God bless you now and always!
“A multitude comes from the east and the west To sit at the feast of salvation With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the blest, Obeying the Lord's invitation. Have mercy upon us, O Jesus!”
Happy feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux! On today’s show, Matt Swaim and Anna Mitchell welcome Kris McGregor from Discerning Hearts to look at a selection from the Office of Readings connected to St. Bernard. Other guests include Gary Zimak, author of “Lord, Save Me!” and Derek Rotty, author of “Prophet of Hope: Fulton Sheen Responds to the Modern World.” Plus news, weather, sports, and a whole lot more… ***** St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Jesus O Loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of Thy Shoulder on which Thou didst bear Thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy Flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other Wound of Thy Most Blessed Body. I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross. Amen. ***** Pat Castle and Life Runners are online at liferunners.org. Derek Rotty, author of Prophet of Hope: Fulton Sheen Responds to the Modern World Cincinnati Right to Life is online at cincinnatirighttolife.org. Full list of guestsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
We live in Grace,while we wait for Grace. We live in God, work in God, Love in God. (T)here's only God. No 'we'. Hi Love. His Work. His Life. Trust Him with It. I Love you, nik nikki@curlynikki.comPlease support the show:▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings▶▶ Cash App $NikWalton __________________________________________Surrender Novena Day 8 - Father Dolindo Ruotolo Close your eyes and let yourself be carried away on the flowing current of my grace; close your eyes and do not think of the present, turning your thoughts away from the future just as you would from temptation. Repose in me, believing in my goodness, and I promise you by my love that if you say “You take care of it” I will take care of it all; I will console you, liberate you and guide you.O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times)Mother, I am yours now and forever. Through you and with you I always want to belong completely to Jesus.Amen"__________________________________________"Don't pray from the hurt, pray from the Heart" - Iyanla "Tomorrow isn't promised but when you live for Jesus, Eternity is." - @betteryouliving"He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live'." - RumiThe Emergency Novena-- Memorare:"Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known, that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To thee I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petition, but in thy Mercy, hear and answer me. Amen"'Mother Teresa was flooded with prayer requests, and she had many intentions that she wanted to send up quickly to Our Lady. Her solution? Pray a novena of Memorares. Mother Teresa would pray nine Memorares in a row - and then she immediately added a tenth in thanksgiving for graces received. I can't remember where I first heard about the Emergency Novena, but the graces I have received each time I've prayed it have been tangible and immediate." - Maura Roan McKeegan, Catholic Exchange
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
"I tell you, keep on asking, and it will be given to you. Keep on searching, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened." - Jesus ChristKeep remembering that I Am your Daily Bread, and you'll never hunger again. You'll never fear again.You'll rest, finally,because you trust that I will never leave you.I've never left you. And just as it worked out last time, it's working out this time. I know you think you're almost out of time,but remember, there is no time where I am.I Am before I was. I Am on the cross. I Am resurrected. I Am before you.I Am after you.Right now, I Am for you.You have work to do,but it won't be what you think it is.You have hearts to change.But I'll be right there with you.I love you.I never stop talking to you. xxnik nikki@curlynikki.comPlease support the show:▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings▶▶ Cash App $NikWalton __________________________________________DAY 6 PRAYER - Father Dolindo "You are sleepless; you want to judge everything, direct everything and see to everything and you surrender to human strength, or worse to men themselves, trusting in their intervention, this is what hinders my words and my views. Oh how much I wish from you this surrender, to help you and how I suffer when I see you so agitated! Satan tries to do exactly this: to agitate you and to remove you from my protection and to throw you into the jaws of human initiative. So, trust only in me, rest in me, surrender to me in everything.O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times)Mother, I am yours now and forever. Through you and with you I always want to belong completely to Jesus.Amen""My daughter, do you think you have written enough about My mercy? What you have written is but a drop compared to the ocean.I am Love and Mercy itself. There is no misery that could be a match for My mercy, neither will misery exhaust it, because as it is being granted - it increases. The soul that trusts in My mercy is most fortunate, because I myself take care of it". -Diary 1273, St. Faustina"24 But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus--the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God." - Acts of the Apostles "God is good, all good, only good."Francis of Assisi"You either quit or keep going. They both hurt. Read that again." - @goatmotivated "Whatever you are trying to control, controls you." - @thehamsterwheelisnotmotorized "If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside." -Ramana Maharshi"I read something about how someone was asking their therapist why all of the sudden they got intensely triggered when they felt like they were almost completely healed from that thing, and the therapist respondedeverything screams when it dies.And that made sense to a lot of things." - @self.loveoasis
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
I had an encounter yesterday. That resulted in me altogether scrapping the episode I recorded for today and recording this one instead. "I want to cry.I want to scream.I want to dance.And it's not so much of an answered prayer.It's like He's saying,"I've always been taking care of everything;you just recognize it now." -A listener speaking of what happened after she surrendered her employment situation to Jesus __________________________________________Talk to Me, give Me your love like it's food and I'm hungry.Give me your love like it's water, and I thirst.Like it's only your love, only your light I need.That's how important it is for you to feel Me,so you can be blessed.Not later,not months from now.Now.I don't need time.I stop time,just like I've stopped your thoughts.Parted them.Listen. I've taken over them.I've taken over.Affirm: Jesus has taken over. I Love you, nik nikki@curlynikki.comPlease support the show:▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings▶▶ Cash App $NikWalton __________________________________________"Surrender Novena Day 4- Father Dolindo Ruotolo You see evil growing instead of weakening? Do not worry. Close your eyes and say to me with faith: "Thy will be done, You take care of it". I say to you that I will take care of it, and that I will intervene as does a doctor and I will accomplish miracles when they are needed. Do you see that the sick person is getting worse? Do not be upset, but close your eyes and say "You take care of it". I say to you that I will take care of it, and that there is no medicine more powerful than my loving intervention. By my love, I promise this to you.O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times)Mother, I am yours now and forever. Through you and with you I always want to belong completely to Jesus.Amen""The Holy Spirit is raining down, pouring down, but you have your umbrella up." - Rachel of God (Clearwater) As a bird cannot exhaust the air in the sky, nor a fish exhaust water in the sea, neither can we exhaust the Grace of God." - C H Spurgeon "Sorrow comes in order to lead you to happiness." - Anandamayi Ma"When it hurts, pray."- @__soulverses
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
The month of July is dedicated to the Precious Blood of Our Lord, Jesus Christ. Join Father Anthony and Sister Catherine as they explore the history of this feast and reflect on a meditation from the Franciscan Meditations. The prayer Sister read for us: Out of infinite love for us, O Divine Savior, You crucified Your Blood and Your Life. How could I resist such love! How can I dare to forfeit it! Keep me in Your love, O Jesus, source of my salvation and bliss.
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness, but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
The loss of the spirit of contrition can take place whenever our hearts become hardened; when we grow sluggish in the spiritual life or our attention shifts off of our own sin and need for God‘s mercy and is redirected towards the things of the world or to the sins of others. The desert fathers pull back the veil on the human heart and reveal the motivation for our actions and thoughts. We often become very skilled at satisfying our morbid delight for seeing others weaknesses and their natural flaws and defects. Rather than keeping our focus upon contrition for our own sins and seeking purity of heart, we become preoccupied with our neighbor; judging them, becoming frustrated and irritated with them, pushing our opinions upon them, becoming upset when we do not receive what we believe we deserve or when we feel that we have been misjudged and slandered. Rather than having an eye for the needs of the other and instead of being tender and gentle in our attitude, we often see others as an obstacle to our happiness or our freedom. When we could be a source of peace and healing we become rough to the point that our interactions with others is akin to rubbing up against sandpaper. Those closest to us often elude us. Sometimes we do not know what to give and even what we do give may not be helpful or wanted. But we can still love them - we can love them completely. A human being is not someone we are called to fix, correct or judge, but rather one we are called to embrace with the same love and to offer the same consolation as we have received from Christ. --- 00:14:14 Bob Čihák, AZ: P. 245 first paragraph on this page 00:14:24 Janine: Suzanne..that sounds awful…I will pray for you! 00:14:41 Suzanne Romano: Thank you Janine!!!! 00:37:10 Catherine Opie: This is like being a parent as well 00:56:21 Lindsey Funair: thank you, that helps a lot 00:56:35 Bob Čihák, AZ: An invitation to be nosey? When an acquaintance once said something about a third person like "Yes, I know why he left that job but I'm not going to say why" it sounded like an invitation to get nosey, so I simply didn't respond at all, and went on my way. 00:57:44 Joseph: St. Maximos the Confessor writes, “Cut off the passions, and you will soon silence the senses. Restrain the senses, and you will easily calm the passions.” The goal of ascetic struggle, through repentance and bodily hardship, is not to reject the senses, but to purify them. The senses are not the cause of sin; rather, sin arises from the passionate response to the representations that the senses convey. The desert (silence) is a means of purification, to restore our noetic vision to health, so we can perceive sense data, sight, sound, touch, etc., without passion. This is the what we aim for anyway! 00:58:35 Joseph: From Second Century on Love, 2.15 01:03:34 Myles Davidson: The Litany of Humility springs to mind From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, O Jesus. From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, O Jesus. From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, O Jesus. et. al 01:06:35 Catherine Opie: St Teresa of Avila would say that anyone who slandered her was probably right. That really struck me when I read it. Because it is really the antithesis of what I was brought up to believe. 01:06:37 Myles Davidson: Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta 01:06:41 Lorraine Green: Marie del val 01:14:08 Rebecca Thérèse: Thank you☺️ 01:14:26 Catherine Opie: Thank you Fr. God bless. 01:14:31 Julie: God bless 01:14:34 Lindsey Funair: thank you! 01:14:37 Suzanne Romano: Pax! 01:14:37 Lorraine Green: God bless
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In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
In a season of Stillness—but I'm still here. ❤️
You have come into the light of His Face. You are conscious of His Everlasting Arms.You are conscious of what was hidden. It says in the Gospel of Philip that Jesus is His hidden Name.It's been revealed to you.Call on It, sing It, shout It, share It. "I heard their voices and I treasured their faith in my heart. And I sealed My Name upon their foreheads. For they are free men and they are mine." -Odes of Solomon, John Davidson Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.I love you, nik nikki@curlynikki.comPlease support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings▶▶ Cash App $NikWalton __________________________________________Surrender Novena Day 9 - Father Dolindo Ruotolo"Pray always in readiness to surrender, and you will receive from it great peace and great rewards, even when I confer on you the grace of immolation, of repentance and of love. Then what does suffering matter? It seems impossible to you? Close your eyes and say with all your soul, “Jesus, you take care of it”. Do not be afraid, I will take care of things and you will bless my name by humbling yourself. A thousand prayers cannot equal one single act of surrender, remember this well. There is no novena more effective than this: O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times)Mother, I am yours now and forever. Through you and with you I always want to belong completely to Jesus.Amen""See thoughts and feelings like a train that enters a station and then leaves; be like the station, not like a passenger." ~ Rupert Spira"Jesus" is a hidden name; "Christ" is a revealed name. So "Jesus" is not translated, but he's called by his name "Jesus." But the name "Christ" in Syriac is "Messiah," in Greek "Christ, and all the others have it according to their own language. "The Nazarene" reveals what's hidden. Christ has everything within himself, whether human or angel or mystery, and the Father."- Gospel of Philip "Take a deep breath, put a hand on your heart and repeat out loud: "It is safe for me to re-member who I was before I learned to hide." Deep breath. Thinking the world is not ready for your light is most likely your ego's way to rationalize your self repression. The earth has not only been ready for your light... now she demands it. If you think expressing your pain is vulnerable, try expressing your brightness without holding back." - @xavier.dagba
"You will succeed in all you do, and light will shine on your path." - Job 22:28 You know how when you walk into a Cathedral it's so quiet, that the quiet echoes? The silence echoes. That's how it is here right now. It's as quiet as His tomb, as empty as His tomb. Match My empty. Match My Silence. Feel His Love there. The air you think you're breathing is Love. Love that inhale. Love that exhale. He loves you. You can trust him. Tell Him you're scared. Tell Him to help you. Pray, 'save me, I need you. This is hard." And then linger in the Silence. Listen for Him in the Silence. Tell Him you're listening for Him in the Silence. I feel for Him in and AS the Silence, and I find Him every time. I Love you, nik nikki@curlynikki.comPlease support the show: ▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings▶▶ Cash App $NikWalton __________________________________________Surrender Novena Day 8 - Father Ruotolo Dolindo Close your eyes and let yourself be carried away on the flowing current of my grace; close your eyes and do not think of the present, turning your thoughts away from the future just as you would from temptation. Repose in me, believing in my goodness, and I promise you by my love that if you say “You take care of it” I will take care of it all; I will console you, liberate you and guide you.O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times)Mother, I am yours now and forever. Through you and with you I always want to belong completely to Jesus.Amen"In fact, Mary is so silent that the evangelists say little about the Mother of God. She is entirely absorbed by contemplation, adoration, and prayer. She hides herself in Her Son; She exists only in Her Son. She disappears in Her Son (.) The attitude of Mary is that of listening. She is completely turned to the word of the Son. Mary does not speak. She simply wants to submit to God like a trusting child. Her fiat is tot a I and joyful. She intends to receive God's will through Jesus." - Robert Cardinal Sarah, The Power of SilenceIsaiah 43"God's timing might be sooner than you think. Be ready." - Unknown