4/23/23 Through 4/29/23

 4/23/23 Through 4/29/23

Sunday

Hearts afire with flaming love

For God came down from up above

And opened minds to understand

The beauty of what God had planned

That Christ would die, and rise again

No mind imagined there and then

For when they saw Him crucified

Upon the cross, all hope had died.

But this fulfilled the Father's plan

Of making God those merely man

The price of sin was paid that day

To show to man the holy way.

In every day the food we eat

 Is changed into the mortal meat

But when the Eucharist consumed

The man is changed. Divine assumed.

Monday

Just because your belly's full

You feel a basic earthly pull

But not because the signs are there

That Christ is One beyond compare

Beyond the earthly, we must go

To Christ as King and Lord to know

To share His great humility

And serve the least to set them free

To love and sacrifice are one

But such in me has just begun

The pull of all that wastes away

Is firm in me until this day

I beg You Lord to set me free

As Stephen and the martyrs be

That all this world I would forsake

To just with You, an hour partake.

Tuesday

A one that naked ran away

In darkness on that fateful day

Returns in robes of glory bright

To preach the way and truth, and light

The lion signifies his name

When in the light of Gospel fame

A war-like one to preach the way

Of peace, if we would Christ obey

Wednesday

The Bread of Life, eternal food

Was given for this sinful brood

That those in hunger come and feed

And here receive the all they need

Not all of merely getting by

But all to stretch beyond the sky

And watered well by running streams

Fulfilling all our hopes and dreams

Oh, never let me stray from Thee

Betraying Him who set me free

But let me always humble be

Obeying what He asks of me

For there eternal rest is found

With Christ as King, forever crowned

Hunger thirst and strife are gone

For Christ has risen with the dawn

Thursday

In Bread is where the Life is found

Of One to all the world astound.

True flesh He gives for man to eat

And so, the Lord of lords to meet.

Real food that hunger satisfies

And union with our Savior buys.

That blind no longer, man can see

The way He clearly marks for thee.

In water, washed and sanctified

By Bread and Wine all fortified

To spread the Kingdom far and wide

And be to wayward souls, their guide

If where the Spirit leads, we go

The Church, by leaps and bounds, will grow

And those in darkness then will see 

We only have our life through Thee

Friday

Give warmth to me dear Lord I pray

For chill befalls this very day

Though I have heard Your word so true

Yet still remain afar from You

I seek to know You every day

But still, do often, fall away

Concerned with comfort, pleasure, ease

I fail to Holy Moments sieze

Oh, make the scales to fall away

That I might see the light of day

And bear the cross that You provide

For You are always at my side.

Saturday

How shall I make a return to the Lord

For graces and blessings, abundant outpoured?

Abundant He gives and abundant received

But often have I, in return, the Lord grieved.

His path is the way to the blessings we seek

But His path is no way for the timid or weak

The humble can see in the way that He calls 

How giving, receiving, and glory befalls.

But all I can give is all that I own

And do what I can to make the Lord known

His ways are all timeless, and worthy, and true

And worthy of knowing by more than a few.

If all men could see what I've seen and would know

His way is the way that all men should go

The way of the docile, and humble, and meek

Will lead to the happiness all men now seek/