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An Authentic Christmas Prayer & the End of Loneliness
Authentic Christmas is about the joy of savoring that God listens to us, understands us, and is with us forever in Jesus. He is Emmanuel, God with us. When we gratefully pray before the Creche, Emmanuel, God is with, God is with me, the Holy Spirit can use our imagination to bring back to us the reality of the Incarnation and heal the root cause of our loneliness. In Jesus’ weakness and poverty, we recognize our own; we are no longer alone. Let's build a prayer community that will be a sign of God's presence and love and our mutual support as we pray our way.
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An Ancient Advent Prayer: Watch and be Transformed Before Christmas!
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The Lord is Coming! It’s time to watch. As the first Christian communities, pray, “Come, Lord Jesus.” This powerful and humble prayer can transform your day no matter how busy you are. And, when Christmas comes, you’ll be ready to celebrate; you’ll truly know that the Lord is Emmanuel, God with us.
From Brokenness to Wholeness
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Do you tend to focus on what's going wrong or what you lack? Do you often think that you'd be happy if this or that were different? The truth is that sin has shattered the human desire for love and happiness into a thousand pieces. We can waste our lives trying to collect all the pieces without success while we feel empty, confused, or broken. Prayer and Grace can change this dynamic. God’s sil...
Experience Peace Right Now: A Prayer to Enter Jesus’ Circle of Peace.
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Unburden your heart and receive the peace that Jesus wants to grant you. Learn to abide in his presence through a simple prayer. Union with Jesus is the foundation of lasting peace now and forever.
From Worry to Hope: Stop Ruminating through this Prayer
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Jesus invites us not to worry about tomorrow because He offers the grace we need to be free from excessive rumination. Praying in His Name opens us to his care and healing presence, and expands our focus to see reality with new hope. Try and see!
How to Pray when We’re in a Hurry: A Powerful 5-Second Prayer to Reconnect with God.
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God is always available to us when we call him in the Name of Jesus. Find him in your memory and reconnect with him, humbly recognizing that you need his love. This a simple but powerful prayer you can say at any time and place to let God's love, the Holy Spirit, come into your daily life.
What's life-giving repentance? Detach to attach.
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If you are watching this video, most probably you want more for your spiritual life. This desire to grow spiritually is at the core of Lent. But what can we do if our life feels tight and we don’t know what to add or change? Let’s explore a concept we find in the Acts of the Apostles: life-giving repentance, “God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too” (Acts 11:18).
Renew Your Hope this Christmas!
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Let the presence of Jesus renew your hope this Christmas. Open your heart to Him who wants to be born in the messy places, the stables in our lives. God is Emmanuel, God with us! With Him all things are possible.
Spread Gratitude: I'm Grateful for YOU!
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Gratitude is like the rain that makes all things new. When we are thankful, we rediscover our purpose and more easily find a way forward with new hope. Don’t forget to tell the people in your life that you are grateful for them. It can be a simple prayer, thanking the Lord for the gift of each other.
Lessons from Cancer: Beyond Strength.
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Any struggle in our lives can become a "school" where we learn valuable lessons and receive unexpected blessings. Let me share with you some of the lessons I'm learning through my cancer treatment.
The Key to God's Will
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In our daily lives, we have to make decisions: choosing a career, changing jobs, fostering or breaking a relationship, discerning a vocation… In the big and small decisions, if we are truly open, God will never deny us his light through his own Word or the words of others and will confirm it within our soul with inner words or feelings. But when He is silent, He is teaching us not only to wait ...
The Most Comforting Prayer
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When we are in need of strength and comfort, how can we pray and receive the graces we need to go on?
Power to Do the Impossible: Receive the Holy Spirit!
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The Holy Spirit is our invincible friend and advocate. He unites us with Jesus so that we can accomplish our mission by leaning upon him. Get ready to do the impossible. Call upon the Holy Spirit.
Rejoice Always. How?
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Easter is a time for joy and spreading the peace of our Risen Lord. During this season the words of St Paul "Rejoice always" resound in our hearts with great strength and urgency. But how can we do it?
Your Invincible Prayer for the Spiritual Battle
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Your Invincible Prayer for the Spiritual Battle
¿Por qué nos cuesta rezar? Cómo superar los obstáculos en la oración.
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¿Por qué nos cuesta rezar? Cómo superar los obstáculos en la oración.
Experience the Power of God’s Promises: God is with us!
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Experience the Power of God’s Promises: God is with us!
Bringing Prayer into Our Work
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Bringing Prayer into Our Work
Praying like Mary to Grow in Discipleship
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Praying like Mary to Grow in Discipleship
A Road to Joy: An Open Door to a New Paradise
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A Road to Joy: An Open Door to a New Paradise
Preparing for Holy Week: Christ thirsts for you. What do you thirst for?
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Preparing for Holy Week: Christ thirsts for you. What do you thirst for?
A Lenten Practice for Peace
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A Lenten Practice for Peace
A Simple Advent Practice for a Beautiful Christmas
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A Simple Advent Practice for a Beautiful Christmas
How to Pray with Persistence and Not Lose Heart
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How to Pray with Persistence and Not Lose Heart
When It’s Difficult to Pray: Regain the sense of Wonder & Expand your Heart.
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When It’s Difficult to Pray: Regain the sense of Wonder & Expand your Heart.
Ready for Pentecost? Preparing our Hearts to Receive the Holy Spirit.
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Ready for Pentecost? Preparing our Hearts to Receive the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Week We Need: How to Carry our Cross to Receive New Life in Christ
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The Holy Week We Need: How to Carry our Cross to Receive New Life in Christ
Is God asleep? In the Same Boat with Our Lord
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Is God asleep? In the Same Boat with Our Lord
The Lenten Season We Need: Letting Jesus Get Closer.
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The Lenten Season We Need: Letting Jesus Get Closer.
The Best Christmas Prayer
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The Best Christmas Prayer

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  • @Stillwater23-q5r
    @Stillwater23-q5r 16 годин тому

    Thank you Sister for reminding us. I love the name Emmanuel and the Christmas song, Gabriel's message. I have to admit I ask my Good Shepherd if I can see Him as a baby in Mother Mary's arms when I get to heaven. I feel so happy thinking of our sweet Jesus as a baby!💓💓💓

  • @claragonzalez8619
    @claragonzalez8619 День тому

    It's so beautiful what you explain... Thank you very much. God bless you🙏💗💚💚💚💙

  • @marygardiner8953
    @marygardiner8953 2 дні тому

    Thank you Sister, it is true we must keep reminding ourselves that God is with us. The people of the Old Testament would be amazed at how fortunate we are, having Baby Jesus to remind us and having his meaningful name, Emmanuel. Prayers for you and Happy New Year.

  • @elvisdias-pz4yi
    @elvisdias-pz4yi 2 дні тому

    Thank you sister, for your inspiring message... Immanuel ...God is with us ,God is with me .

  • @brettturpin8692
    @brettturpin8692 3 дні тому

    We love you here in Maine

  • @jeanmaputi4336
    @jeanmaputi4336 3 дні тому

    Thank you Lord Jesus Christ reminding us always that you are with ys always. Thank you Sister, I ask for prayer that our family may be able to pass through challenge especially that my husband is been given 2 months for work if he's not able hit his required sales. Lord we trust in you to guide us always. Thank you for the gift of life and family.❤

  • @cia9246
    @cia9246 4 дні тому

    Hello Sister! I love your voice and words. Very soothing. Please pray for me, Rocco I battle anxiety and neuropathy. I'm praying for you too 🙏 ❤️

  • @isabellapeck8892
    @isabellapeck8892 5 днів тому

    ❤lord please help me to love you more deeply and joyfully seated at your feet ❤ thank you bless you sister

  • @andreadsouza9016
    @andreadsouza9016 5 днів тому

    Thank you so much for sharing this message. As you were speaking, something that came to mind was that Jesus becomes small and little so that we can bring our smallness and littleness to him and feel safe.

  • @lenorahollimon488
    @lenorahollimon488 5 днів тому

    Thank you for your special videos ✨prayers for difficult time for my children & I to have peace & Gods plan for us.. their father has been after me for over seven years.. always try to say I’m not good as a mother & has taken them from me. I just pray for justice & fairness. My kids need their mother & freedom from this tyranny..thank you.. thank you..🌴

  • @SweettoothMarie77
    @SweettoothMarie77 5 днів тому

    God is with us! 🙏

  • @VCZ-49r
    @VCZ-49r 6 днів тому

    💌

  • @Latrelle59
    @Latrelle59 6 днів тому

    God Bless You Sister. ❤

  • @Latrelle59
    @Latrelle59 6 днів тому

    Amazing!! I had just watched a video about neuro pathways and how it all affects our thinking and mood etc. I don't think it was a coincidence to stumble upon your video on this same topic. A much needed and simple explanation. Thank You Sister!!! You are a Blessing ❤

  • @CG-lj3zi
    @CG-lj3zi 6 днів тому

    Please pray for me. I have a hard time feeling like God is with me. I used to feel his presence more strongly. But I was very sinful and willful. I am having a hard time knowing that God has forgiven me and still loves me. Please pray for a full restoration of my relationship with God.

    • @claragonzalez8619
      @claragonzalez8619 День тому

      I think that perhaps is you who don't forgive you, as God love us. Think that if He, Who is Saint and knows you better than yourself, forgives you, you must forgive you too. To recognise our sins must be used to change and become better, to go Up. But if we use them to get depressed we go down. From my point of view, God is always with us but with sadness is more difficult to progress and notice it. Perhaps you must accept that we are not perfect, love more yourself and trying to be better every day with Joy, knowing that God is always with you even when we can't feel it.

    • @CG-lj3zi
      @CG-lj3zi День тому

      @claragonzalez8619 Thank you.

  • @patticliffprd262
    @patticliffprd262 6 днів тому

    I found this site while scrolling one day. I live in Charlottesville and am blessed to be able to come to the monastery for liturgy. Joy is quite evident in the faces of the sisters there, as it is in yours. That is the joy I have been seeking all my life. I'm just now beginning to taste its richness and goodness. The Lord has healed a huge wound in my heart through the care and support of many talented therapists and priests and spiritual directors. I do rejoice because God is with me and has always been, even in darkness when I felt lost and abandoned. His light protected me and let me be open to the healing process. Thank you sharing your way of prayer which seems so simple, yet is so rich, so punitive. Thank you for sharing JOY. With much love to you and your sisters. Merry Christmas!

  • @reneecrotty6910
    @reneecrotty6910 6 днів тому

    Thank you for comforting words ❤

  • @robertaherne5731
    @robertaherne5731 6 днів тому

    ❤️🤗🙏

  • @TedBates-b8u
    @TedBates-b8u 6 днів тому

    Christmas means to me that God is approachable.

  • @sweetnicky3969
    @sweetnicky3969 6 днів тому

    Could you keep me in your prayers. My son abandoned me 2 years ago. I want him back in my life can you pray that he returns God bless you thank you. His name is Connor.

    • @PrayingOurWay
      @PrayingOurWay 5 днів тому

      I´ll pray for Connor. May Jesus grant peace to your heart

  • @ThomasSheehan-n6l
    @ThomasSheehan-n6l 6 днів тому

    Dear Sister. I appreciate that you have devoted your life to prayer. Therefore, i pray for you every day because the❤😊 Holy Spirit guides me

  • @cakebakerish
    @cakebakerish 6 днів тому

    Thank you Sr Maria. The evil one won’t let me stop being in confusion at present. I am not Roman Catholic but I am very grateful for You Tubers who teach me everything about Jesus who I proclaim is my Lord and Saviour and who I have a loving relationship with. I was raised in a Secular household and my family are all secular. My Secular parents had me baptized at the age of 3 even though we never attended a church. I married when I was 21 in an Anglican Church shortly after my father died. I thought I was a Christian then. I didn’t love the man but couldn’t be alone. I became pregnant and immediately this man stopped working and began mistreating me. After the baby things got worse in many ways. I had left my job to care for the child and I had to find new employment. He spent every penny I made and mistreated our daughter and did nothing to care for us or the home. He was addicted to drugs by the 4th year and I left him. He did many bad things to our daughter and to me after I left and for about 5 more years until the Court banned him from seeing us. I met a new man whom I have been married to for 25 years now. He raised my daughter as his own and we had two sons. We have a very happy and loving marriage and are a mostly happy family now. I came to Christ in 2020 and my husband who grew up like me, secular, came to Christ in June of this year 2024. We attend a Protestant Gospel Church and are working by Serving at church and in community. I am told by my Christian Women friends that my second marriage is valid because the blood of our Saviour Jesus has covered all past, present and future sins however I have been worried about Saint Paul’s letters to the Corinthians about remarriage being sinful and adulteress. I need someone to help me know why the Blood of Jesus wouldn’t have washed away my sins when I was saved. Please Help me Sister! I am very distressed. Debbie

  • @ginakendrick2581
    @ginakendrick2581 6 днів тому

    Moved very rural to homestead but children are grown and gone. Struggling with so much stillness. Not always.. Inoften talk to Jesus in the midst of snow, gardening, leaves changing, harvesting our food, baking bread etc.. but there are times I miss people and I can’t seem to find any that I’m comfortable with. I need to stretch deeper and go bodily out to volunteer somewhere occasionally as I’m not working. I feel I must find a way to be more useful even though I’m fully living out my vocation as a wife. This video was very helpful Thankyou. I talked to mother Angelica on the phone 25+ years ago when I had two little children and she said she would be my spiritual mother. I will never forget that conversation.

  • @laurachavez8789
    @laurachavez8789 7 днів тому

    Thank you Sr Maria. I kept seeing your video pop up since yesterday. The Holy Spirit is always with us and guiding us.

  • @josep3015
    @josep3015 7 днів тому

    Beautiful message! Thank you

  • @BelenTiongco
    @BelenTiongco 7 днів тому

    So inspiring! God is with me! I am not alone! So many years of celebrating Christmas, and it is only, truly, through your words that I understand the true meaning of the nativity. The King who was born in poverty, in hardship, knows our deepest pains. And that's why when the time is right, He will tell us exactly, what to do. Thanks Sister - God bless you and looking forward to more of your eye-opening narratives!

  • @jodimdugas
    @jodimdugas 7 днів тому

    Thank you Sister for your videos. I pray the “From my heart, to Your Heart” prayer, and it eases my anxiety, and helps me to rest in the Lord. I just discovered you and find your videos so helpful! God bless you Sister ❤

  • @RussellDavis-st8zi
    @RussellDavis-st8zi 7 днів тому

    The lord Jesus Christ doesn’t want you be religious he wants you to repent of your sins and fully accept Jesus Christ as your Lord no one can enter heaven without a relationship with him

  • @RussellDavis-st8zi
    @RussellDavis-st8zi 7 днів тому

    Christmas is Roman Catholic pagen you must be born again of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth the only true living God who came to Bethlehem Israel 🇮🇱 at the feast of tabnacles

  • @martindurkin8837
    @martindurkin8837 7 днів тому

    Oh dear Sister I am so lost and weary just now but I will watch this again tomorrow.

    • @PrayingOurWay
      @PrayingOurWay 5 днів тому

      I´ll keep you in my prayers. Don´t give up.

  • @patodwyer721
    @patodwyer721 7 днів тому

    Thank you so much Sr.Maria for your Guidance and Support Thank you for being here Remember me in your prayers I wish you every blessing for Christmas and the new year God Bless you ✝️ 💕

  • @ThomasSheehan-n6l
    @ThomasSheehan-n6l 7 днів тому

    As i have cancer too, so i always remember to pray for you. Plus i like your style. And accent. And message. I pray God keeps your health well❤😊amen.. from Tasmania

  • @patricialowe8860
    @patricialowe8860 7 днів тому

    thanks Sister Maria very nice and truhfull your coments ,God is with us and God is with me.Blessing to everybody and blessings we not are alone God is with us.

  • @yesican1571
    @yesican1571 7 днів тому

    Thank you for the videos. My health is not well please pray for me.

  • @CathySue70
    @CathySue70 7 днів тому

    Thank you so much Sister I do feel lonely and am envious of people that have a good family. I’m listening to what you’ve said and it’s helped me a lot. I do feel exactly as you’ve said about everything on the outside looking wonderful outside as such but God is what we need. Thank you 🙏🏻

  • @Lisa-ht7jk
    @Lisa-ht7jk 7 днів тому

    I am struggling to believe that God hears me.

  • @Fernscape
    @Fernscape 7 днів тому

    I live as a hermit and there is no loneliness living with Jesus and The Saints Merry Christmas expediteisrael expediteisrael.blogspot.com

  • @ecm018
    @ecm018 7 днів тому

    Thank you for sharing and taking the time to spread Gods goodness in what seems a very lonely and dimmed time. Been struggling with family and separation for a little while now. God is with us. ❤

  • @prakashpatole268
    @prakashpatole268 7 днів тому

    Please pray for me for the job I have need a job please pray

  • @md-1988
    @md-1988 7 днів тому

    Please pray for me I had a tough Christmas day where I felt under attack and robbed of joy.. Have mercy on me Jesus Glory be to God

    • @md-1988
      @md-1988 3 дні тому

      The turn around has been remarkable in me and I know it was of God! Thank you so much I believe sincerely your prayers had an impact. God bless you thanks be to God

  • @MyrnaJimenez-f4g
    @MyrnaJimenez-f4g 7 днів тому

    🙏🙏🙏 Amen

  • @MyrnaJimenez-f4g
    @MyrnaJimenez-f4g 7 днів тому

    Thank you sister I'll be praying for you❤❤❤

  • @MyrnaJimenez-f4g
    @MyrnaJimenez-f4g 7 днів тому

    I have been reborn Amen ❤❤❤

  • @Commonchaffinch2
    @Commonchaffinch2 7 днів тому

    Thank you Sister merry Christmas to you and the sisters. God bless you plz pray for my girlfriend and I.

  • @GiovanniVentre-u9n
    @GiovanniVentre-u9n 7 днів тому

    🙏

  • @noracoyle4988
    @noracoyle4988 7 днів тому

    Thank you sister for this beautiful meditation. I am 67 a semi retired nurse. I'm single and have felt enormous loneliness in my life. To day is Christmas day and God blessed me with the company of 2 beautiful prayefull ladies. Praise you Jesus❤

  • @veronicaeugenia2231
    @veronicaeugenia2231 7 днів тому

    Thank you, dear sister for these beautiful thoughts and blessings. May God encouraged me and make me strong and disciplined in my singing and songwriting.🙏👼

  • @mrs.g.9816
    @mrs.g.9816 7 днів тому

    I have been struggling with loneliness, overthinking and anxiety since I lost my husband in 2017, retired, moved, and bought my very first house. After it gets dark every night, I start thinking of what-ifs: smoke alarms going off, the power going out, or other things that terrify me. A persistent health problem (which my doctor says is caused by anxiety) keeps me home and isolated. A Christian therapist is helping me work through these fears. I've been slowly learning that God loves me. I know that God has tenderly showered blessings on me. What I'm working on is getting this knowledge of God's love into my heart! It helps to thank God every morning for watching over me. I imagine the love of God wrapping around me like a hug. Then I often pray that I'd like to hug God back. I'm the type who loves hugs, so this imagery works for me. As for Christmas, though I love Christmas music, food and movies, I find more happiness being at church, sharing my time and food with others, and having some "centering" time in prayer. Wishing you and everybody posting a blessed and love-filled Christmas.

    • @PrayingOurWay
      @PrayingOurWay 5 днів тому

      I´m sure Baby Jesus loves to hug you and receive your hug

  • @Ritchie123
    @Ritchie123 7 днів тому

    Thank sister, and a blessed Christmas to you too! I'm praying to learn how to pray, and to find a way to shine God's light in the darkness, of myself and everyone I meet. Would you ask our Father to guide my efforts? I'm missing my parish back in Vermont; now home in Virginia, and want them to know how much I love them and treasure them. I would ask for God's loving Hand to guide them, bless them and protect them. Would you pray for the Parishoners of St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church of Vermont? I believe that that Spirit of The Lord led me there, and because of that- I've begun to seek Jesus with all my heart, soul, and mind.

    • @PrayingOurWay
      @PrayingOurWay 5 днів тому

      I´ll pray to the Father to guide you. But He truly desires to do it. Listen to Him in your heart. He is guiding you already.

  • @catholiclife9304
    @catholiclife9304 7 днів тому

    This has been especially hard. My husband is a manic depressive. I'm the one who works to support us. I actually missed Christmas mass because I'm so exhausted and overwhelmed doing everything alone. No medicine helps. He's months just sleeping. I pray to God to give me kindness and peace of mind and. Thank you sister. I needed this so much. God bless you. I'm ashamed I couldn't go to mass. I always go every Sunday. During the week and I missed celebrating the birth of Jesus.

    • @diane986
      @diane986 7 днів тому

      He sees what you're going through and forgives you. He loves you no matter what.

    • @EX58UD
      @EX58UD 7 днів тому

      I hope God gives you peace and the grace to rest in His Presence ❤

    • @username00009
      @username00009 7 днів тому

      I’ve seen several people mention that B vitamin deficiencies led to their OCD tendencies or manic depression. Praying that you continue to find comfort in God.