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  We hear the Beatitudes calling Telling us how to be It’s only now I realize It also calls for each us To set our frozen hearts free Fear and doubt are the culprits That keep us from letting go Taught to ignore Spirit’s whispers By the churches meant to help us grow They are the blest they tell us Whose teachings we are to obey But their teaching often conflict With the One, who said, “I am the Way” They are the authority From their teaching, we must not depart When it comes to the poor and pained Where is the love? Where is the heart? The beatitudes call us to courage The beatitudes call us to action To follow the Word in love, not fear The way to our souls’ satisfaction My own heart is full of fear and doubt Though I know It’s not how I should be So I pray to our Mother for help For the courage to set my heart free.   Victoria Marie, 2020-10-23

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time    In today’s first reading, God speaks to Cyrus through the prophet Isaiah.   This passage shows that God can use us even if we know God or not.   Whether we convert to any religion or not.   Through Isaiah, God uses the phrase, “though you knew me not” denoting that Cyrus is not a member of the Jewish religion.   Later in the passage, the phrase, “Though you know me not”, is used which indicates that Cyrus has had no conversion experience.   Regardless of this, God has anointed him to be the instrument through which the exiles are released and allowed to go home.   The message for us is that God uses us and has a job for each of us, though we know it not. Today’s second reading is a pep talk to the Thessalonians.   Paul is encouraging them to keep up their works of faith and labors of love and to endure in hope, assuring them of his prayers as well as the prayers of his companions, Silvanus, and Timothy.   This passage models for us how w