The World's Tiniest Unicorn Coloring
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Please share! Building a Home for Hope
Imagine enduring a series of heart-wrenching losses that would test the resilience of even the strongest souls. My aunt, Angela, a remarkable woman of unyielding courage, has faced this reality head-on. She has navigated the heartbreaking loss of her beloved husband, the tragic passing of her mother and the immense challenge of caring for her son, who grapples with intellectual disabilities.
Angela's journey is not solitary; she is also tackling the challenge of becoming the primary caregiver for her brother, who suffered a debilitating stroke that left him with diminishing function and mobility and also stranded in England, desperate to come home to Ireland.
Our goal is to reunite Angela with her brother, who has been separated from her by distance since his stroke. Your generosity will enable us to bring him home where he can receive the care, support, and love of his family.
Both Angela's brother and her son require special accommodations. We are committed to renovating their facilities to meet their unique needs, including making the space wheelchair-accessible and comfortable for their medical requirements. Our aim is to create a tranquil and welcoming environment where they can flourish.
Every amount contributed brings us one step closer to providing them with the fresh start they so profoundly deserve!
Thank you for taking the time to read Angela's story and for considering lending your support. Your compassion and generosity can truly make a monumental difference in their lives.
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Kazimierz Sichulski: Madonna triptych (detail)
"The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love." Psalm 103:8
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"Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me." Psalm 30:2
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Élisabeth Sonrel: Virgen con el Niño entre Santa Genoveva y Santa Juana de Arco
"But what in fact is meant by repentance? It is normally regarded as sorrow for sin, a feeling of guilt, a sense of grief and horror at the wounds we have inflicted on others and on ourselves. Yet such a view is dangerously incomplete. Grief and horror are indeed frequently present in the experience of repentance, but they are not the whole of it, nor even the most important part. We come closer to the heart of the matter if we reflect on the literal sense of the Greek term for repentance, metanoia. This means “change of mind”: not just regret for the past, but a fundamental transformation of our outlook, a new way of looking at ourselves, at others and at God— in the words of The Shepherd of Hermas, “a great understanding.” A great understanding— but not necessarily an emotional crisis. Repentance is not a paroxysm of remorse and self-pity, but conversion, the recentering of our life upon the Holy Trinity.
As a “new mind,” conversion, recentering, repentance is positive, not negative. In the words of St John Climacus, “Repentance is the daughter of hope and the denial of despair.” It is not despondency but eager expectation; it is not to feel that one has reached an impasse, but to take the way out. It is not self-hatred but the affirmation of my true self as made in God’s image. To repent is to look, not downward at my own shortcomings, but upward at God’s love; not backward with self-reproach, but forward with trustfulness. It is to see, not what I have failed to be, but what by the grace of Christ I can yet become."
Bp. Kallistos Ware: The Inner Kingdom
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