Wishing all a Blessed and Happy New Year ~ Welcome 2014

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wishes all visitors 

a Happy, Blessed and Prosperous New Year 2014.

GOD BLESS and Glory to GOD in the Highest. 

New Year's Prayer

God, thank you for a new year. May everyone in our family be willing to begin anew with a clean slate. We know that you are always ready to forgive us. Help us to be willing to forgive ourselves and to forgive one another.

As we begin a new year, remind us of our truest values and our deepest desires. Help us to live in the goodness that comes from doing what you want us to do. Help us to put aside anxiety about the future and the past, so that we might live in peace with you now, one day at a time.

Amen.

source: loyolapress.com

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Auld Lang Syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 

And never brought to mind? 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 

And auld lang syne! 

Chorus:

For auld lang syne, my dear, 

For auld lang syne. 

We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, 

For auld lang syne.

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O Sacred and Adorable Trinity, hear our prayers on behalf of our Holy Father the Pope, our Bishops, our clergy, and for all that are in authority over us. Bless, we beseech Thee, during the coming year, the whole Catholic Church; convert heretics and unbelievers; soften the hearts of sinners so that they may return to Thy friendship; give prosperity to our country and peace among the nations of the world; pour down Thy blessings upon our friends, relatives, and acquaintances, and upon our enemies, if we have any; assist the poor and the sick; have pity on the souls of those whom this year has taken from us; and do Thou be merciful to those who during the coming year will be summoned before Thy judgment seat. May all our actions be preceded by Thy inspirations and carried on by Thy assistance, so that all our prayers and works, having been begun in Thee, may likewise be ended through Thee. Amen.

Source: CatholicOnline.org

Happy Thanksgiving Day ~ 28 November 2013

Thanksgiving Day commemorates a harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621, and is held in the US on the fourth Thursday in November and it also celebrated in Canada but on the second Monday in October.

Psalms 138: 1 - 5
1	I give thee thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing thy praise;
2	I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word.
3	On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase.
4	All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, for they have heard the words of thy mouth;
5	and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD.

Prayer

O God, when I have food,

help me to remember the hungry;

When I have work,

help me to remember the jobless;

When I have a home,

help me to remember those who have no home at all;

When I am without pain,

help me to remember those who suffer,

And remembering,

help me to destroy my complacency;

bestir my compassion,

and be concerned enough to help;

By word and deed,

those who cry out for what we take for granted.

Amen.

Samuel Pugh

Read and share this letter of Abraham Lincoln..

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION – 1863

The 16th President of the United States of America

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the over ruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with a sure hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the holy scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.

We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven, we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.

I just want to be Happy, truly Jesus will make me Happy

I want to live my life

without stress and worries.

I don't need be rich and famous

I just want to be HAPPY.

I truly believe that JESUS 

will always be there to CHEER me up.

THANK YOU,

JESUS

Rules to follow for a Happy Marriage

Gong Xi Fa Cai (2013)

Happy Chinese New Year

(Gong Xi Fa Cai)

to all Christian brothers and sisters 

from Chinese Ethnic background.

May the New Year be filled with

Good Health,

Full of Joy

and Abundant of Prosperity.

GOD BLESS and AMEN.

Happy New Year 2013

Jeremiah 29:11 
"For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD.
"They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."

Matthew 24:35
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away."