Matthew 5:16

"So let your light shine before men, that they may see your works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven." -Matthew 5:16

So I am heading up another retreat. Well it's not really a retreat, more like a prayer service. And it's for the Teacher's end of the year meeting. So I've had a few ideas bounce around in my head, but not many whatsoever. My main thing is to incorporate our Lady's virtues into it somehow. But I don't necessarily want to give a 'teaching'. So here's what I've come up with so far. Start by processing in with the Virgin Mary statue to singing the Magnificat song. Then mayhaps bring in her Virtues. I've started the Consecration Preparation For The Triumphant Victory of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In it is a Chaplet of 7 of her Virtues. I thought it would be beautiful to pray that together. But to explain, I have not the foggiest idea. So then I thought "Maybe I could talk about something on my European excursions. I had visited 3 Marian Apparition sites. And 2 of them are where this Consecration is coming from: Fatima & Medjugorge. But I can't come up with anything. Then I think of Our Lady of Knock and how her message was silent, yet most powerful to me. I could talk about how her virtues emulate through her and bring her closer to her son. And we must do the same, and when we do that, we also will start to point to her son. Mayhaps this is a good start. Ponder...then mom wants to pray over the teachers, but I'm not allowed cuz I'll 'scare' them by speaking in tongues. Ha, the cruel humor, I can't pray to God in the language of perfect prayer.