OXYGEN

01 Feb
Power To Fly
Author Unknown
Ultimately we have the power to decide what we believe about ourselves. Don’t allow people to impose limitations on what you can do or whom you can become. Take, for instance, the humble bumble bee.
Biologists have determined that, aerodynamically speaking, the bumble bee cannot [...]

31 Jan – Memorial for St. John Bosco, priest
St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was the son of Venerable Margaret Bosco. His father died when he was just two years old, and as soon as he was old enough to do odd jobs, he did so for extra money for his family. [...]

30 Jan
Takes Toil To Bloom
by Dorman Winger
One hot summer afternoon a woman was working strenuously, weeding her flower beds and pruning the plants. The flowers were especially magnificent.
A passerby asked, “I really like those flowers – do you?”
As she wiped perspiration from her face with a dirty [...]

29 Jan
Prayer for Tongue Control
Author Unknown
O Lord, keep me from getting talkative. And particularly from the fatal habit that I must say something on every subject at every occasion.
Release me from craving to straighten out everybody’s affairs.
Keep my mind free from the recital of endless details; give [...]

28 Jan – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Church As The Prophet Of God
We are privileged to be called by God to be his prophets: to take his words on our lips and proclaim them to the world. But the gift of prophecy is of no avail without the gift [...]

27 Jan – Memorial for St. Angela Merici, virgin
If according to times and needs you should be obliged to make fresh rules and change current things, do it with prudence and good advice.
- Saint Angela Merici
St. Angela Merici (1474-1540) became a Franciscan tertiary at the age of 15. She [...]

26 Jan – Memorial for Sts. Timothy and Titus, bishops
Timothy’s father was a Greek gentile, his mother Eunice was Jewish. He was converted to Christianity by St. Paul around the year 47. He was a partner, assistant and close friend of Paul. He was a missionary as well, and became [...]

25 Jan – Feast of the Conversion of Paul, apostle
St. Paul (3-65) was a Jewish Talmudic student and a Pharisee. He was a tent-maker by trade. Saul the Jew hated and persecuted Christians as heretical, even assisting at the stoning of St. Stephen the Martyr. On his way to Damascus [...]

23 Jan
High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain!
Author Unknown
A Native American attended a Sunday morning worship service. The sermon contained very little in the way of spiritual food and had been delivered in rather loud tones. The Native American was a faithful Christian, but was not impressed with the preaching.
On [...]

22 Jan – Memorial for St. Vincent, deacon, martyr
There seems to be many St. Vincents that have today as their day of memorial. I think the one that we are supposed to remember in the liturgical calendar is St. Vincent of Saragossa (d. 304). He was a friend of St. [...]