The Royal Way

When people hate you and despise you
And distort every word you say,
Don’t fight or curse them, don’t get even,
Forgiveness is the royal way.

When burdens are too hard to bear
And pain knocks down your house of clay,
Don’t moan, don’t give in to despair,
Endurance is the royal way.

When you see suffering and fear,
When others turn their face away,
Tend to the wounds and wipe the tears,
Compassion is the royal way.

And whether you meet kings or beggars,
Great saints or sinners gone astray,
Serve all as if they were your brothers,
Humility’s the royal way.

Whatever this world has to offer,
And in your journey come what may,
You’ll conquer all if you remember
That Jesus walked the royal way.

Teach Us, Lord

Teach us, Lord, to be humble. To put the spirit above the letter. To give you thanks for every little thing you offer us. To thank you for the priceless gift of life.

Teach us to be faithful. Faithful to each other, faithful to ourselves and faithful to you.

Teach us to have a positive outlook on life, to see the rose rather than the thorns, and the rainbow rather than the storm.

Teach us to love and to forgive. Show us a new kind of love - selfless, kind, willing to give rather than receive.

Teach us to have no fear. Cause love conquers fear.

Teach us to dare, cause daring is the emblem of faith.

Teach us to open our eyes and our ears to the miracles around us.

And teach us to search your will in everything.

AMEN

Mother Teresa Quotes

Words that touch the heart and enlighten the mind. Words that speak of a life dedicated to loving and caring beyond any human boundaries. Words of wisdom and of a faith that defies reason.

Rather than reading these quotes as separate statements, read them as a whole, as the creed of a lifetime, the testament of a beautiful soul for the generations to come.

''Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.''

Mother Teresa

''God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.''

Mother Teresa

''We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.''

Mother Teresa

''Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. ''

Mother Teresa

''Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.''

Mother Teresa

''If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.''

Mother Teresa

''Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.''

Mother Teresa

''If you judge people, you have no time to love them.''

Mother Teresa

''Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.''

Mother Teresa

''Be the living expression of God's kindness.''

Mother Teresa

''Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.''

Mother Teresa

''Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.''

Mother Teresa

''Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.''

Mother Teresa

''We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.''

Mother Teresa

''The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.''

Mother Teresa

''The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.''

Mother Teresa

''One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.''

Mother Teresa

''Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.''

Mother Teresa

''Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.''

Mother Teresa

''Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.''

Mother Teresa

''I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.''

Mother Teresa

''I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.''

Mother Teresa

''I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.''

Mother Teresa

LET'S WELCOME JESUS

And the light came into the darkness... and the Word came into the world to break the silence of death...

He came and lived among us, full of grace and truth. His words healed hearts and minds, his call arose people from the death, his touch brought light to the blind.

His message was simple and full of power. His words strong and compassionate. His presence life-changing. His love for us had no limits.

He didn't come to judge or to punish, but to save and to heal. To help us find a meaning in a meaningless world. To comfort us and give us a hope in a hopeless world. He came to the orphans of this world, to make them sons and daughters of God and heirs of eternity.

He came as a humble baby, sharing all our pain and suffering in a body like ours, bearing all the burdens of our frail human frame. When the whole earth and sky was his, he chose to live and die for us out of a love that defies our understanding.

Let's welcome the baby born in Bethlehem. Let's welcome Jesus, Son of God and Son of Man, born into our world at the crossway of history to change it forever.

AMEN