Author: householdoftheholyfamily

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐲
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭
𝐒𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐬.

𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞–
𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡.

𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧;
𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡,
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐰𝐧
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐲.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞;
𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬, 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞.

𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
𝐓𝐨 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧,
𝐀𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞—
𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐈’𝐦 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝—
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐞
𝐓𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝.

𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞,
𝐀𝐬 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬:
𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐈’𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞.

𝐓𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰
𝐒𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬;
𝐖𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤, 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲’𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐰
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.

𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐩;
𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.
𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲’𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐩;
𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭.

I’m living in a salty waste
That’s seasoned by my own desires.
My pleasures now have lost their taste;
I’m burning from my own sin’s fire.

Please come, O Lord, desires destroy
And irrigate my thirsty heart;
To cleanse me now Your Cross employ
And make me clean, give me new start.

Now my parched soul can feel Your rain
That comes on Holy Spirit’s breath;
It’s sent by You to ease my pain
And save me from my sin and death.

I feel in me Your virtues sprout,
Long dormant in my image made;
In me they sinful vices route–
Bring sunshine to my years-long shade.

O Lord, help me to follow light
From heaven comes on Spirit’s beam
As Father gives me risen life
From You, who my life has made clean. 

𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭
𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝.

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞
𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞
𝐎𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬.

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞
𝐈𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
𝐈𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠;
𝐓𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐰
𝐀𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬.

Let us not saddened be by things of time
But live in truth of Your eternal now
Where sense is found in all of heaven’s rhyme
And You with meaning all our lives endow.

May we surrender to Your truth revealed
In Jesus by Your Holy Trinity
Who our salvation with His Blood has sealed
As in our lives unfolds who we’re to be.

In heaven there awaits for each a place
We learn to fill here in time’s rolling tide,
For Resurrection makes for us a space
Both here and there–with families we’ll abide.

The tide of time alone won’t have its way;
Eternal now will have the final say. 

O Lord, You’ve broken down my walls,
     My fortress is no more;
In desperation now I call:
     “Please save me!” I implore.

Then He steps through my open door
     I can no longer shut
And meets me in my spirit poor;
     My pride no longer struts.

Learn metaethics always fails—
     Autonomy my sin—
Desires of mine became my jail;
     Please make me free again.

Then Spirit He within me breathes,
     And I forgiveness know
As I fall down upon my knees–
     New life in me bestowed.

At last my heart can clearly see
     All Jerichos are doomed,
And in His castle there will be
     For each of us a room.

There all the rooms have open doors
     So He can come and go
With others who have spirits poor–
     Together love Him so. 

Your love, O Lord, is all I need
     To see me through this day
Or else I’ll be a shaken reed
     And won’t be on Your way.

Without You path is slippery slope,
     My feet no traction gain,
And fast recedes my only hope
     To flee from my sin’s pain.

But with Your love I rise above
     The mess that I have made,
And upward walk with Spirit’s Dove
To light beyond sin’s shade

Your love I see when I look up
To gaze on Trinity
And know both there and here I’ll sup
On feast that makes me free.

Your love comes now in Body, Blood,
     Unites Your heaven, earth,
For as a Man You with us stood
     To give to us new birth.

And each new person walks with You
     Who heaven, earth connect,
For in them both Your love we view–
     Await what happens next. 

I see the watch fire of Your camp
     When I step in Your nave–
A beacon that’s Your signal lamp
     That You are here to save.

I walk the aisle and genuflect
     And settle in my pew;
I take a moment to reflect
     On You who make life new.

In every Catholic Church You’re here
     To save us from ourselves–
From selfishness that brings us near
     To Satan to earth fell.

Your watch fire is Your beacon’s call
     To come, take Your light yoke,
And not to let Old Adam’s fall
     Mute words on earth You spoke.

For every day You to us come
     To speak Your words again,
To give vocation to become
     Ourselves who’re free from sin.

And in this Church You give us You,
     Your Body and Your Blood–
Make each vocation ever new
     As Your life in us floods.

Today we step into a place
     That our hands haven’t made,
An everlasting holy space
     Where Truth on altar laid.

For Jesus is God’s way and life
     Found in His Body, Blood;
With Mary, knows His Cross brings light.
     We stand where she has stood.

For Cross allows Him to be raised
     And conquer death for us,
A beacon meant to our world save,
     Breathe life into our dust.

For Spirit brings His Cross to each
     To death submit with Him–
Brings us within His risen reach
     And leaves in grave our sin.

His Spirit’s breath is heaven’s air
     That we can breathe on earth,
And we can smell His garden fair
     As earth knows its new birth.