A New Creation

A Reflection:

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” 

~ 2 Corinthians 5:17

 

A Short Prayer:

Lord, as you did with Venerable Matt Talbot, help us to overcome all earthly attachments and self-destructive addictions.  Make us a new creation.  Amen.

 

 

 

Source: Guadalupe House, Oahu, Hawaii at
http://guadalupehousehi.blogspot.com/2015/06/saint-of-month-june-2015-venerable.html

 

Seek the Change That Matters

"To his friends and even his family, Matt Talbot looked like an ordinary, hard-working man with a strong religious bent. On the inside, though, he was a warrior waging a spiritual battle that lasted forty-one years and made him a hero of the faith.

His story shows us that the deepest and longest-lasting changes aren’t the showy, splashy announcements. They are the inner decisions that may only take a second to make but require a lifetime to live out."

                                       Woodeene Koenig-Bricker

A Daily Reminder from Venerable Matt Talbot

Paying Attention to God

The theologian, Dr. Ralph Martin (http://www.shms.edu/content/dr-ralph-martin) has stated that “prayer is, at root, simply paying attention to God.”  This definition is particularly  descriptive of Matt Talbot's focus during the last forty-one years of his life.

For more on this definition of prayer, see

http://blog.adw.org/2015/08/a-simple-but-powerful-definition-of-prayer-2/

Venerable Matt Talbot included in new Celtic Saints book

In his latest book, The Spirituality of Celtic Saints (2015, New Priory Press), theologian Richard J. Woods, O.P., provides a thorough survey of Celtic saints.

 

Venerable Matt Talbot is included in the section titled “Urban Sanctity,” pages 216-217 (among other pages) at the link:

http://www.amazon.com/reader/1623110319?_encoding=UTF8&query=matt%20talbot#reader_1623110319