My sisters and brothers, Happy 5th week of Easter. Today’s podcast is about Faith, our podcast song is, ‘Little White Host’. This song was used in one of my earlier podcast. It’s on Faith, and Faith is believing without seeing. Faith gives hope.
What is Faith? Faith is believing in something you can not see. When we receive Jesus in the form of bread and wine, in the form of a Little White Host, during Holy Eucharist at Mass, our faith tells us, this is JESUS we are receiving!
Little White Host was composed in the middle eighties, it was Sister Bernadette, my special friend’s favorite song.
Little White Host was written while I was living in the loft of a Colchester Log Cabin Home.
I was attending a Catholic Church in the small town of Colchester, CT. At that time, the Church was having prayer meetings, which I loved going to, and the Priest there, was offering a one day a week course for 12 weeks on the Holy Eucharist. Again I found myself becoming more in love with our Divine Outcast, Jesus. Before this 12 week course was completed, this song, Little White Host, was born in me from the very Breath of God.
Soon, though I did not know till a few years later, I would be commissioned as a Eucharistic minister in a smaller town of Pittsfield, NH. in the March of 1987’. I didn’t t know then, but I understand now, that our Lord was preparing me for my journey and ministry. God’s work in us is not always clear in our thoughts, however, our Faith in God is all we really need. I truly believe and I testify to you right now, that during my prayer time with Jesus, when I hear His soft whispers within me, I follow where He leads me.
My sisters and my brothers, I know your thoughts, I have been asked before, ‘how do you know you are hearing the whispers of the Lord? How do you know it’s not your own thoughts? I hear you my friends, these are good questions.
Now when I believe it’s the Holy Spirit nudging at my inner self, which is also the soft whispers of our Lord, then I take notice, and I listen for more, and I follow through, for when the Lord gives you the wisdom of His will, He also provides you with His strength to follow through. With all my heart and soul, I know that the Lord knows my desire is to follow His will, therefore, if I should take the wrong path, and I have, I know that He will in His mercy, lead me to the right path, and He has! The Lord knows my trust in Him is complete. If my heart and my desires are focus on the Lord, this alone is pleasing to the Lord. Like a parent who sees their child’s heart’s desire to do good, even if that child should make a mistake, doesn’t the child’s effort alone please that parent? So if you are focus on the Lord and you desire His will in you, this is pleasing to the Lord. Amen? Oh yes, Amen!!!
