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Tag: Good Friday

Good Friday

His body lifeless,
Tabernacle door ajar.
Where is now my God?

Author MegPosted on March 29, 2013March 29, 2013Categories BeautyTags Good Friday, Lent, prayer5 Comments on Good Friday

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Get excited! Eyes Fixed on Jesus (volume 2) will be out soon! This is the fruit of the first 50 times I read the Gospels and I promise it'll help you love Jesus (and his word) more.

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New book, new head shot! (Just kidding, can you imagine if I got new ones every time I published a book? This is my fourth set ever.)

Help me pick! I think #1 is my favorite, but I will definitely use #3 for informal things. Which is your favorite?

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I've been getting messages asking about volume 2 since volume 1 came out. Great news—you can pre-order now!

Have you read volume 1? I'd love to hear what you thought!

I've never tried this before, but when you believe

I've never tried this before, but when you believe in a book as much as I believe in this one, you'll do anything. So I'm building a launch team—a group of cheerleaders who'll get an advance copy of Eyes Fixed on Jesus volume 2 and will hype it up for me.

Members of the team will get an electronic copy soon, followed by a hard copy when the book comes out. Then we'll work together to get people talking about the book.

If you're interested in helping to promote volume 2 of my favorite book I've ever written (and getting a sneak preview), I'd love it if you'd apply for the launch team. Applications are due 7/25, so it's a quick turnaround. Comment if you're interested and I'll send you the (short) application ♥️♥️♥️ And if you can wait until pre-orders ship and are happy to buy a copy, I'd still be SO grateful if you'd post and share and review. I need all the help I can get!

(Also, check out this cover 🥰🥰🥰)

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And now for the announcement you've all been expecting... I'm going to World Youth Day!

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If you're looking for a way to get to Seoul for World Youth Day, I can't recommend Verso highly enough. They did a brilliant job on our first pilgrimage to Korea and they've been working overtime to make sure they know the stories and the culture and the people of Korea. I wouldn't go with anyone else. Plus, if you go with Verso (especially on the extension), you get to listen to me gush about Korean Saints, and what could be more fun?

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(Pronounced ZHON tyeh-REE, but swallow the n like you're French)⁣⁣⁣

Jean Thierry wanted to be a priest from the age of 6. Growing up in a poor family, he worked hard to help earn money, selling lemon ice in the street when he was little and later driving a motorcycle taxi and working as a photographer. By 13, he was writing love poems to Jesus and continued writing poetry throughout his life. Though a funny, intelligent, popular boy, no amount of attention from girls could distract him from his goal of priesthood. He was rejected by one religious community after 6 months with them (because his prayer life was too intense!), but at 21 he entered the Discalced Carmelites, taking the name Jean Thierry of the Child Jesus and of the Passion.

A few weeks later, the man who had been such a faithful child would begin his own passion. A soccer injury led to the discovery of a malignant tumor which forced the amputation of his right leg; Br. Jean Thierry offered his suffering for the intention of holy priestly and religious vocations.

But by the next year, the cancer had spread throughout his body. Br. Jean Thierry was taken to Italy for treatment, but it was too late. He was given permission to make his vows early and did so in his hospital room, his mother by his side. He prayed for healing, longing to be a priest of Jesus Christ, but he died only a month later--a month shy of his 24th birthday. Before dying, he said, “I will not do like St. Therese, who promised a shower of roses from heaven; no, from heaven I will make a flood of vocations rain." His last words were, "How beautiful Jesus is."

Br. Jean Thierry's mother wasn't with him when he died. Her residence permit had expired a few weeks earlier, so she had left the country, separated from her son because of immigration policies. Through his intercession, may we be given a flood of holy priests and may families separated because of immigration policies be reunited.

Ven. Jean Thierry Ebogo, pray for us!

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Lilacs and my bestie were exactly what I needed today.

If today's hard for you, for any reason, please know of my prayers. You are so loved.

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Happy confirmation day, Daniel Francis de Sales! (Don't mind me, just slowly collecting all the kids in this family into my godfamily....)

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Look, I do try not to make it weird, but if we're honest? This is the energy I bring to every party.

(Though usually my Bible is in my bag and not held triumphantly above my head. Usually.)

📸: @photos.eviesue

15 years after I taught them freshman religion, sh

15 years after I taught them freshman religion, she's a mother and he's a Father! Meanwhile, here's the newly minted Fr. Chris with his religion teachers from freshman and sophomore years of high school. What Easter joy!

I've never been so delighted by an ordination. Apparently that was obvious, as a seminarian stopped me to tell me I had the biggest smile in the whole church at Fr. Chris's first Mass. Look, when a man you've loved since he was a child not only gets ordained but quotes the Song of Songs in his homily at his first Mass, you're going to weep with joy. I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️

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