John the Baptizer who came as one who was pointing out the way to God. He lived a simple life in the desert. He was a prophet who called the people of his time to change their ways. Now he was beheaded because he refused to let Herod have the wife of his brother. Are we willing to stand up for what we believe even if it means we loose something? I doubt we will be beheaded but we might loose some friends and associates.
John of the Cross was a young carmelite who called his fellow carmelites to give up their ways of the world. For that they threw him in prison which after some time he escaped. John of the Cross is famous for his poetry and for his efforts to reform the carmelite order.
John of the cross had many sayings here is only one of them.
St. John of the Cross
“God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire that it be known, than a thousand done with desire that men know of them. (St. John of the Cross, Carmelite Mystic and Doctor of the Church)
Today we picked up the Giving Tree gifts under the Christmas tree in the hospital that were given by employees for the women's center, the patients who come without clothes and those patients who need help transportation medications and some employees children. It is done without the one receiving the gift knowing who it came from. I was touched by the generosity I witnessed.
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