HOPE

Hope combines the desire for something and the expectation of receiving it. The Christian virtue is hoping specifically for Divine union and eternal happiness. While faith is a function of the intellect, hope is an act of the will.
The 

Catholic Encyclopedia defines hope as “the desire of something together with the expectation of obtaining it.”
In the Christian tradition, 

hope in Christ and faith in Christ are closely linked, with hope having a connotation that means the one with hope has a firm assurance, through the witness of the Holy Spirit, that Christ has promised a better world to those who are His. 
Pope 

Benedict XVI stated: “Whoever believes in Christ has a future. For God has no desire for what is withered, dead, artificial, and finally discarded: he wants what is fruitful and alive, he wants life in its fullness, and he gives us life in its fullness.”

The Act:O my God, relying on Your almighty power and infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain pardon of my sins, the help of Your grace, and life everlasting through the merits of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Redeemer. Amen

In the morning worship, we had a Catholic Baptist celebration in our rituals., 

In 2014, the year of our corporation, we were a nondenominational Christian. When the association was made with Christian churches worldwide, we became interdenominational Christians in 2017 (IAoC). 

The Archbishop became a born-again Catholic in 2020 by joining the Third Order of Saint Francis.

The Right Reverend Marie is a Baptist pastor, so we have a Catholic Baptist liturgy using our tools for the liturgy of the Word.

Most Reverend Pastor Eric Michel, SFU, Chaplain.

The Virgin Mary made me do it!

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The International Order of St John, Priory of Canada, was sent to the Revd. Eric Michel on 2023/11/21, the Sovereign’s Coronation Pin for His Majesty King Charles III

November 11, 2023 OUR LADY OF THE PORTUGUESE

In 1641, King John IV, in a solemn ceremony, had taken the crown from his head and had placed it at the foot of a statue of the Blessed Virgin.  He declared her to be Queen of Portugal under the title of the Immaculate Conception.

Fr. Michael Carlson EP

In December 2024, United in the Spirit issue

The Order of Franciscans of the Eucharist Newsletter

Vol 5 Issue 2.

Two of my Blog stories were published.

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OCTOBER IS SAINT FRANCIS’ MONTH

My relationship with or acquaintance with Saint Francis started when I was nine years old, as a Catholic wolf cub (Boy Scout). The adults responsible for us, whom we named Chief, were students from Saint Paul University in the Faculty of Theology, who told us all the stories about Saint Francis. Additionally, I was influenced by a French film from the 1950s or 1960s, a story about a little boy and his donkey who want the priest to bless it. After lengthy arguments, which span almost the entire movie, the priest finally agrees, and all the other animals and village people are brought into the church.

Blessing of animals

At this time of year, people in various places may notice something unusual. A procession of animals, ranging from dogs and cats to hamsters and horses, is led to churches for a special ceremony known as the Blessing of Pets. This custom is conducted in remembrance of Saint Francis of Assisi’s love for all creatures.

Saint Francis blessed animals early in his ministry, sometime between 1210 and 1215. The story goes that he was wandering outdoors one warm afternoon, full of self-doubt, when he noticed a flock of birds in his path.

In 1224, Francis became the first saint in history to receive the stigmata (the wounds of Christ crucified). On October 4, 1226, Francis died in Assisi and was canonized by Pope Gregory IX shortly thereafter. Today, over three million people pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Francis a year, revealing him to be one of the most popular and beloved saints of all time. In 1979, Pope John Paul II paid tribute to Francis’ love for creation by declaring him the patron saint of ecologists.

Now, annually, on or around October 4, Christians worldwide celebrate the Feast of Saint Francis with a blessing of animals and prayers for creation.

Catholicism has specific liturgies for blessing animals, which highlight the interdependence of creation. United Methodists also have a specific liturgy highlighting creation and mutual interdependence.

Separate variants of Christianity, such as the Catholic and Episcopal Church (United States) churches, sometimes combine to hold joint, ecumenical, animal blessing ceremonies.

Blessing of animals can be either of the animal or of the human-animal relationship. It can apply to pets and other companion animals, as well as agricultural, working, and other animals that humans depend on or interact with. The ceremonial blessing of companion animals occurs worldwide, including in Australia, Canada, Scotland, Spain, and the United States.

Blessing animals is a religious practice that occurs in various forms across many religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Shinto, and Unitarian Universalism. Secular respect for animals is also vital. For example, World Animal Day, an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually, is still held on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, a Christian patron saint of animals.

The other Article

CHIROGRAPH OF THE HOLY FATHER

TO INSTITUTE THE PAN-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF JUDGES FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS AND FRANCISCAN DOCTRINE AS A PRIVATE ASSOCIATION OF THE FAITHFUL WITH INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER,

AND TO CREATE THE “FRAY BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS LEGAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE” UNDER ITS AUSPICES.

Read it in the Vatican’s letter: 

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2023/documents/20230815-chirografo-copaju.html

✠ Christus Universalis

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Today’s topic: Prayers

The power of the universe is further strengthened when prayers are made as a Noetic Prayer,

The Noetic Prayer connects us with the Noosphere.

The way is that the brain connects to consciousness, and consciousness to the Cosmic Christ.

“Experiments at facilities like the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab had categorically proven that human thought can affect and change physical mass if properly focused. Their experiments were no “spoon-bending” parlour tricks but instead highly controlled inquiries that all produced the same extraordinary result: our thoughts interacted with the physical world, whether or not we knew it, affecting change down to the subatomic realm.

Not known in the Christian world, but widely used by the Orthodox Churches.

Christian contemplation refers to several Christian practices which aim at “looking at”, “gazing at”, “being aware of” God or the Divine. It includes several methods and theological concepts. Until the sixth century, the practice now called mysticism was referred to as contemplation.

Christianity adopted both Greek (theoria) and Latin (contemplatio) terminology to describe various forms of prayer and the process of coming to know God. Eastern and Western traditions of Christianity grew apart as they incorporated the general notion of contemplation into their respective teachings.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “the Christian tradition comprises three major expressions of the life of prayer: vocal prayer, meditation, and contemplative prayer. They have in common the recollection of the heart.” Three stages are discerned in contemplative practice, namely purgative contemplation, contemplation proper, and the vision of God.

Contemplative or mystical practice is a longstanding and integral part of the life of Christian churches. In the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the predominant form is hesychasm (“stillness”). In both Eastern and Western Christianity, it is part of mystical practices.

In discursive meditation, the mind, imagination and other faculties are actively employed to understand our relationship with God. In contemplative prayer, this activity is curtailed, so contemplation has been described as “a gaze of faith” and “a silent love”. There is no clear-cut boundary between Christian meditation and Christian contemplation, and they sometimes overlap. Meditation serves as a foundation on which the contemplative life stands, the practice by which someone begins the state of contemplation.

John of the Cross described the difference between discursive meditation and contemplation by saying:

The difference between these two conditions of the soul is like the difference between working and the enjoyment of the fruit of our work; between receiving a gift and profiting by it; between the toil of travelling and the rest of our journey’s end”.

In the Orthodox Churches, noetic prayer is the first stage of contemplation.

Theoria proper is the vision of God, which is beyond conceptual knowledge, like the difference between reading about the experience of another and reading about one’s own experience.

Natural or acquired contemplation has been compared to the attitude of a mother watching over the cradle of her child: she thinks lovingly of the child without reflection and amid interruptions. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

What is contemplative prayer? St. Teresa answers: ‘Contemplative prayer in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.’ Contemplative prayer seeks him whom my soul loves. It is Christ because to desire him is always the beginning of love, and we seek him in that pure faith that causes us to be born of him and to live in him. In this inner prayer, we can still meditate, but our attention is fixed on the Lord himself.

Contemplation equals illumination

The Buddha, the Enlightened One, taught a spiritual path that included ethical training and meditative practices such as jhana and mindfulness.
He achieved high levels of meditative consciousness, called “The Sphere of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception.” Understanding meditation is the path to awakening,

Fifteen Carmelite nuns allowed scientists to scan their brains with fMRI while meditating in a state known as Unio Mystica. The results showed the brain regions that were activated when they considered themselves to be in mystical union with God.

In philosophy, noetic is a branch of metaphysics concerned with the study of the mind and intellect. There is also a reference to the science of noetics, which encompasses the fields of thinking and knowing, thought and knowledge, mental operations, processes, states, and products, as evidenced by the data of the written word.

Perfect prayer is noetic and at the same time of the heart. The mind prays within the heart, which is the centre of our existence. Thus the whole person, from their innermost self and their centre, prays, fulfilling the injunction of God: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbour as yourself. The whole person is offered to God.

Prayer Request

EMMI Christian Prayers are in a noetic way. When you request prayer for yourself, your family, or your friends, we meditate on your request and transmit it in a noetic fashion.

Several authors who write about consciousness, spirituality, and cosmology have employed the term ” noetic. The Institute of Noetic Sciences proposes noetic sciences as an alternative theory of “how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world.”

Some, such as IONS, claim that Noetics is a form of science. However, noetics have been harshly panned by the scientific community. They have been criticized for not first experimenting in the generally accepted manner and analyzing data afterward, and for equating correlation with human emotions/experiences and with falsifiable evidence.

The scientific literature on consciousness consists of studies that examine the relationship between subjects’ experiences and the activity that simultaneously occurs in their brains, that is, the neural correlates of consciousness. The hope is to find that activity in a particular part of the brain or in a specific global brain activity pattern that is strongly predictive of conscious awareness. Several brain imaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI, have been used to measure physical brain activity in these studies.

Another idea that has drawn attention for several decades is that consciousness is associated with high-frequency (gamma band) oscillations in brain activity. This idea arose from proposals in the 1980s by Christof von der Malsburg and Wolf Singer that gamma oscillations could solve the so-called binding problem by linking information represented in different parts of the brain to a unified experience.

The Noosphere is a philosophical concept developed and popularized by the biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky and the French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Vernadsky defined the Noosphere as the new state of the biosphere and described it as the planetary “sphere of reason”. The Noosphere represents the highest stage of biospheric development, its defining factor being the development of humankind’s rational activities.

Teilhard perceived directionality in evolution along an axis of increasing complexity consciousness. For Teilhard, the Noosphere is the sphere of thought encircling the earth that has emerged through evolution due to this growth in complexity/consciousness.

Therefore, the Noosphere is as much a part of nature as the barysphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.

Teilhard sees the “social phenomenon as the culmination of and not the attenuation of the biological phenomenon.” These social phenomena are part of the Noosphere and include, for example, legal, educational, religious, research, industrial and technological systems. In this sense, the Noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The Noosphere thus grows in step with the human mass organization, concerning itself as it populates the earth. Teilhard argued that the Noosphere evolves towards ever greater personalization, individuation and unification of its elements. He saw the Christian notion of love as being the principal driver of noogenesis. Evolution would culminate in the Omega Point, an apex of thought/consciousness, which he identified with the eschatological return of Christ.

When I pray, I’m in tune with the universe to access the noosphere plane, the metaphysical place that resides the Cosmic Christ.

text adapted from wikipedia.org by the Archbishop Eric Michel

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✠ Christus Universalis

Paul could not preach that the kingdom had come, Paul preached redemption through the blood of Christ

Jesus preached that the kingdom of God had come, the kingdom was there with them, the promises of Abraham to the people was the promise of David of one that would sit on the throne that would forgive sins. In 2 Samuel 7

Paul preached about Jesus shedding his blood

Jesus in Mark 1:14 and Matt.4,4,9:24 shows us that Jesus preached that the kingdom of God is with us He could not preach about his redeeming blood because he had not yet shed his blood

Paul preached about Jesus shedding his blood

Jesus told them that God was in the mist of them

Paul could not tell them that Jesus never uses the word grace in the bible that is another word used by Paul.

Jesus mention hell[she’owl’] 20 times Paul 0 times.The reason is because Jesus spoke in Hebrew and Paul
spoke in Greek.Hades or Gehenna.

Jesus baptisted for forgivness of sins Romans 6,

Paul could not do that he baptised for death and resurection,

Jesus knew of this baptism in
Mark JESUS DID NOT COME TO CHANGE THE LAW Matt.5,Matt23,Matt 19;17 Paul changed the law Romans 7, Ephesians 2:15,
Romans 10:4,Gal2, Romans 3 Matthew 19, eternal life ,Matthew 25 judgement ,Paul Ephesians 2:8.9, 2 Crointhinans5:10 Grace

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You could transform your life and the lives of so many just by showing love. If you have unkind thoughts about someone, those same unkind thoughts will return to you. What you give out you will recieve.

So what are your feelings? It only takes a minute to change your thoughts ,that can change a lifetime of misery and strife to yourself and those around you. You can go from bitterness to love and you alone have the power to change because you and you alone makes the choice of your thoughts and your feelings.

We all go through difficult times in our lives, it is how we handle them that is important. The old resentment in our lives has to be destroyed to make room for the greater good that love can bring, and this comes through meditation.

We need to always be aware of the guidance from God as to what changes we should be making for the betterment of our lives. Love life even through those difficult times when we are feeling unlovable and alone. Believe me God’s Spirit is always with us and within us even though there are times when we may not feel that presence.

We are only given this one life to live so why not live it through love rather then hate and make a better and healther place for ourselves and those around us.

God put His Love within us but not for selfish reasons He intended for it to be shared ,love can not grow if it is contained ,it must be shared. The more love that you share the more it returns to you and it only takes one small act of love to brighten someone’s day and you will feel so much better too.

Love to all

Rt. Rev. Marie.

We believe in Unity, in uniting all as one. In the Science of Mind we read that reason declares that which is infinite cannot be divided against itself. The infinite is, therefore indivisible and consequently a Perfect Unit.

It was through the Unity of Spirit that Jesus prayed, this tells us that God is within man as well as throughout all creation.It is the thread of all sustaining beauty which runs through all and unites all.”His lines have gone out into all places” ” There is no place where God is not.

“All life is bound together by one common law of love, and love is the Self-Givingness of Spirit. We must all come to sense this marvelous Presence, for this is the secret of successful metaphysical work. God in all and through all.” This makes for true unity. And this is our goal to bring all together in perfect Unity through the Love that God has put in each of us to share.

Rt. Rev. Marie Arnold, New Hope Ministry & Missions Independent Baptist
Member of the Interdenominational Assembly of Churches under EMMI.

My answer to them is that I do not go to any church and I am not of any religion.

My church is the world, Jesus said “Go into all the world and preach of God’s Kingdom” well I am not able to travel the world but I can do my small part right here but for those of you that are able it is your duty to take the true message of God’s Kingdom to the people, we cannot keep God locked up within the four walls of the churches his word has to get out among the people because the people are leaving the churches.

And as far as my religion goes I tend to follow the teachings of Jesus I hope this answers your questions.

RT. Rev. Marie Arnold

New Hope Ministry & Missions Independent Baptist

The song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829,Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember. to fit the number scheme, when you reach number 9, representing the Fruits of the Holy Ghost, the original or combined 6 to make 3, taking the 6 fruits that were similar: the fruit in each parenthesis is the that was not named separately. There are actually Twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost.

The ‘True Love” one hears in a song is not a smitten boy or girlfriend but Jesus Christ, because truly Love was born on Christmas Day. The partridge in the pear tree also represents Him because that bird is willing to sacrifice its life if necessary to protect its young by feigning injury to draw away predators.

According to Ann Ball in her book, HANDBOOK OF CATHOLIC SACRAMENTALS:

The two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments

The three French hens stood for faith, hoe, and love.

The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The five golden rings represented the first five books of the Old Testament which describe man’s fall into sin and the great love of God in sending a Savior..

The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit——Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit——-Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience, {Forbearance},Goodness, [Kindness}, Mildness, Fidelity, Modesty, Continency, {Chastity}.

The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful Apostles.

The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostle’s Creed.

Original Source: Fr Calvin Goodwin, FSSP, Nebraska

Printed with permission from Catholic Tradition.

Published 1st Nov. 23, 2019

By Julia Bettencourt

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” Psalm 139:14 One of the best things I’ve always loved about Christmas is making handmade gifts and decorations. I’m a crafty person so I guess it falls in the fun category for me, but it’s more than just fun. It’s a meaningful thing for me.

There’s such a satisfaction to see the look in someone’s face when they know you’ve taken the time to go the extra mile for them or to do something catered just for them. I’ve always enjoyed being on the receiving end of those homemade gifts and goodies as well, especially those ones that come from the oven. They envelop all of your senses and help develop some wonderful memories for the future. I really don’t think you have to be crafty or make your ornaments or gifts yourself to enjoy a handmade Christmas though. I think we can make our own handmade Christmas by just using our hands to make it a special time. You might not be cross-stitching or sewing or any of those things, but you might be putting a little time in to decorate and make things special for your family. You might be donating some time to a soup kitchen, going through your closets to make donations, taking some canned goods to the food bank. You may just be planning your activities so you can schedule in the people you love in order to spend time with them. I think it’s all those special touches we add in that makes it a Handmade Christmas. A Handmade Christmas Speaks to the Heart.

When we say someone “speaks to the heart”, we consider that what they say or do is real and genuine. That is how Christ always has spoken. We see it in the way He dealt with people when He was on earth and we see it in how His Word is written for us. We see it in how Christ deals with us and speaks to us on a continual basis. Of course not literally speaks, but how the Lord can give those words of comfort and joy to us when we most need them. He may send along a friend to encourage us, give us a sermon, or a Bible verse that we realize is just for us personally. A Handmade Christmas Requires Investment.

Being a crafter most of my life, I know there are those things you can do on a budget but I also know that creating can also cost a pretty penny. It depends what you are doing. I’ve created things for gifts that I know would have been much cheaper and easier if I’d had purchased them, but to me it was worth it to put in the money, time, and labor required. Not only do those handmade gifts take an investment but even for those who aren’t cut out for the creating scene, gift giving in general still takes time, effort, and investment. That is especially true when you have to go to ten places, fighting crowds, weather, and all the other things that tend to slow down our holiday shopping endeavors.

I love the fact that Christ invested in me. At Christmas we are reminded how Christ left His heavenly home and came to this earth, and He literally gave His life for us on the cross. A Handmade Christmas is Filled With Love.

When people take the time and effort to make homemade goodies for others, or take the time to purchase gifts for their family and friends, it is one of the ways they show their love. When Christ came on that first Christmas so long ago, look at the love that God showed toward us. John 3:16, says that “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son…”. A Handmade Christmas is Intended to be Passed On.

I like the idea of sharing gifts at Christmas. I think it is a reminder of how God gave us the Greatest Gift of His Son. We give baked goodies out to share. We give special gifts that can be kept and passed on to one’s family. We do things that can be passed on as traditions. The passing on of gifts and traditions is at the very heart of how most of us celebrate Christmas.

What better thing can we pass on than God’s love and His Son? We are admonished to “go” and tell the world, and Christmas is such an opportunity to witness to others that we should take advantage of it. Conclusion: I love all those homemade goodies at Christmas from the gingerbread men and sugar cookies that come popping out of the oven to taking out the Christmas boxes and looking through all the ornaments my kids have made for me over the years and putting them on the tree. Those are the things that give me a wonderful feeling. Handmade means made with your hands and that is what makes a Handmade Christmas so special.

It isn’t necessarily making everything with material, wood, or yarn. We aren’t all crafters and bakers, but it is putting your hands on Christmas with a special touch whether it’s for your family, friends, or community. It includes all that love and effort that people give to spend time with their families and show their love by choosing the very best gifts to give for each person. What a wonderful gift that God gave us. He knew exactly what we needed as humans. We needed a Savior. It was the greatest way He could show His love for us. Christ was our Gift made and given by God’s own hand. And oh what a treat He gave us in the Christmas story!

We have a star, angels, shepherds, wise men, and a little Baby born through a miraculous birth. You can clearly see God’s hand in all that transpired in the Christmas Story. So, what handmade touch will you give this Christmas?

Excerpts from a paper by {www.Vitin Mehta.com} Humanity is at a crossroads of mindsets. One mindset is that of Domination, which we have been swimming in for thousands of years. This insecurity creates the need to control others, and when this control is threatened then the insecurity deepens further to exercise power to rule over others. In modern civilization the political, economic and religious leaders guide humanity. When their powers are questioned and challenged, they turn to the next level which is manipulation. We see this everyday within our governments, corporation, and NGO” like the World Bank through political elections, corporate lobbying, and international lending. This mind game of manipulation is based on living in the past, which creates an unfriendly world. An example of this is the war in the Middle East . This unfriendly world creates warfare among the geopolitical nations, class warfare between the haves and the have- nots and the war on terrorism based on religious fanatic belief system. This unfriendly world drives us to the mindset of “take or be taken”. How much do I benefit or take away from this proposition? Everyone looks at each other through the eyes of suspicion. Finally, the cycle of domination brings us to “blame” or blaming each other rather than taking responsibility. At this point, no love remains.

New Hope Ministry & Missions (Baptist)

Metaphysics can be applied to every area of life. Thoughts can become so powerful along with feelings and images when we are young that we can actually believe that we have lived them. Metaphysics is a heart connection and is essential to personal happiness and success. We also have a heart connection with the earth which is essential for human survival. Our ego mind is dualistic in nature. If we ask for health then we are admitting that we are ill, if we ask for wealth we must be admitting that we are living in poverty. Metaphysics is about learning to recognize false fear-based beliefs and replace those with self-love. The heart is actually a center for consciousness and intelligence, it is the connection of our mind to Spirit. If we want to be truly happy and peaceful, healthy and prosperous then we must learn to make that connection. Some people follow a system of rituals and practices such as meditation that help to detach them from mundane activities and live a spiritual life. Now that we have discovered that meditation can improve our lives let us look at how you can attract and maintain prosperity. Some people measure prosperity by the amount of money they have while in actuality it is so much more. It also includes love, health, and happiness. In order to attract these things to us, we have to have an attitude of continued expectancy. Our mind should always be open to new ideas, inspirations, and intuitions flowing from the mind of Spirit because Spirit or our Higher Power is our only true source of supply and prosperity. We can always discover greater prosperity by keeping our mind open and receptive and clear by focusing on what is the truth, it is by knowing the truth and keeping our focus on the Spirit within that we find the peace which leads to prosperity and positive and happy life. We can know that we have the Spirit within through meditation, we are assured that He is the central core of our being and mind, producing the greatest positive attitude for achieving prosperity. We must do away with every negative thought and affirm that with this High Power within us we are already prosperous and living a fulfilled and happy life the way that it was always meant to be.

By Rev. Marie Yvonne

Today I live in the quiet joyous expectation of good.—Ernest Holmes.

As the water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.—Proverbs 27:19.

New Hope Ministry & Missions (Baptist)