Enjoy two of our Holy Father's most recent tweets in shareable images. One which can be used as a facebook cover and one, that with the help of some Minion friends, that can be shared however you see fit!
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Guardian Angels exist.
They are real. When we were little we knew and understood this teaching of the Church. “The doctrine on angels is not a fantasist. No, it’s reality,” said Pope Francis recently. They are companions that will speak to us and guide us, if we but listen. Pope Francis' spoke about these heavenly beings in one of his recent homilies, and it is the words from that homily that are the inspiration of a few images that I would like to share below. It's time for some new Facebook Covers! So here is First Fridays with Francis twitter quotes ala new covers! It's summertime and the living is easy.... For June's First Fridays with Francis I have pulled 5 of my favorite tweets that our Holy Father has made in the month of June and given them a summertime feel. Enjoy and remember share your faith and share these images with others! Cyndi I let a First Friday get past me....Mea Culpa! Perhaps it was meant to be as I would not have seen most recent advice from our Holy Father. In his homily on June 9, Pope Francis reflected on the Beatitudes which are found in the Gospel of Matthew. He referred to them as "the Christian's Identity Card." And, of course, I couldn't help but create my own ID card. There are many things that Sacred Scripture tells us to do and to not do. We have been given the Ten Commandments and the Great Commandment. But the Beatitudes are a surefire blueprint for a way of life that will lead us to be true Intentional Disciples. They are our Christian "I.D." Follow the advice of our Holy Father who says: "Today, if you have a little time at home, pick up the Gospel of Matthew, the fifth chapter: the Beatitudes are at the beginning...It will do you good to read” this plan of holiness “once, twice, three times”. Cyndi I look forward to First Fridays with Francis and sharing what our Holy Father has said that has been inspirational to me. This month I have taken my inspiration from his homily at Mass celebrated in the Santa Marta residence on April 24. Pope Francis spoke of Christians who are afraid of the joy of Christ’s resurrection. He compared them to bats hiding in dark caves that prefer the shadows and avoid the light. “This is a Christian’s disease. We’re afraid of joy. It’s better to think: Yes, yes, God exists, but He is there. Jesus has risen and He is there. Somewhat distant. We’re afraid of being close to Jesus because this gives us joy. And this is why there are so many ‘funeral’ (mournful) Christians, isn’t it? Those whose lives seem to be a perpetual funeral. They prefer sadness to joy. They move about better in the shadows, not in the light of joy, like those animals who only come out at night, not in the light of day, who can’t see anything. Like bats. And with a little sense of humor we can say that there are Christian bats who prefer the shadows to the light of the presence of the Lord.” – Pope Francis Bats are nocturnal animals. They fly and seek their food at night, and during the day they want a safe place to sleep. Caves often are the place of choice for many bats as they provide the protected shelter that they bat can thrive in. Some species live in large cave colonies that have millions of members, even up to 20 million in one cave. When they go out and fly in the dark they use echolocation, a process by which sound waves bounce off objects and back to the bat. They use this as their way to locate food and avoid obstacles in the dark. Bats have the ability to create and hear noises that humans cannot hear. It is those sound waves bouncing back that help them to judge the size and distance of objects around them. These subsonic noises vary in length and pulse frequency, and are unique to the individual. Each bat recognizes its own pulse reflections, just like we recognize another human voice. Bats recognize and use their voice, that personal pulse frequency, to navigate where things are around them and distinguish their “voice” from other bat “voices.” After dark, the bats will leave in large groups. But Before leaving they prepare themselves for this departure by flying around inside the cave. Flying around with thousands of other bats inside a cave creates a chaotic amount of noise! When bats are paying attention to their sonar signals, they can navigate without crashing into things. In the cave while in this pre-departure madness before they take off they choose not to listen to their personal voice even though their echolocators are on. So what would happen if a person suddenly appeared in their cave among these flying bats? The bats would crash into them. The famous bat expert, Dr. Donald. R. Griffin, called this phenomenon the "Andrea Doria effect." The Andrea Doria, as you may well remember, sank when it crashed into another ship out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Are you starting to see some parallels? We too can hide in our safe caves choosing the darkness over the light of Christ. We can choose to not listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit that guides us and instead just fly chaotically around in our caves where we eventually just crash and sink. As Christians, we can may the choice to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit over the noise and chaos of the world. We can make the choice to come out of our safe dark caves and soar into the light. Our Holy Father reminds us that we do not have to be afraid of the joy that comes from knowing the full truth of the resurrection and living as intentional disciples of Christ. Cyndi MY FAVORITIE PHOTO OF THE MONTH! Duck, duck, goose!
First Fridays with Francis are a time where I share something that Pope Francis has said that has been a source of inspiration for me. This month's First Fridays with Francis words come from his Angelus Message of 3/24/14, the third Sunday of Lent. The entire message is one of such joy and such encouragement, that it was hard to pick just one part to share.
What an amazing thought. Jesus thirsts to encounter those of us who are parched. Those of us who are lost and seeking. He wants us to ask those questions that we have been too afraid to ask in the past. There is profound freedom in knowing that he waits, that he more than waits - he thirsts - to encounter those of us who are parched. Thank-you once again Pope Francis for sharing with us words of hope and faith. Cyndi by Cyndi Marlow
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