stephen p mchenry

Pastor of Saint Anthony of Padua parish in Ambler, PA

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 POWERFUL MOMENT: A patron at the Machine Shed restaurant in Iowa steps up, asks President Trump if he can pray over him, and right there, in the middle of the crowd, they pray together!

God is good!

[❥❥❥ᗰoᒪᒪie❥❥❥ @mollie_don]

Joan Rivers was pure fire. Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show: “Don’t you think men really prefer intelligence in women?”

Joan with the mic drop: “No man has ever put his hand up a woman’s dress looking for a library card.” 💥🎤

She’s still a legend. ❤️‍🔥

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

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[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING

America's well-known MAGA journalist Tucker Carlson conducted an interview with Iran's President

In general, Iranian officials never agree to interviews with right-wing American media

[Bishop Michael F. Burbidge @BishopBurbidge]

Jesus invites us to stop clinging to the old way of living and all that is not of God. When we let go of bitterness, selfishness, impurity, and jealousy, there will be no void. Our Lord will fill that space with his grace, love, mercy, and peace and make us a new creation!

[Bishop Michael F. Burbidge @BishopBurbidge]

The Evil One wants our sins and flaws to discourage and overwhelm us so we stop trying to grow in virtue and holiness. Avoid such a response by embracing the assurance the Lord gave to St. Paul and to us: “My grace is sufficient for you,for power is made perfect in weakness.”

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. (St. Paul)
In me I want to present myself as a reliable, faithful & wise person. A lover of & beloved of the Lord. Strong. Not weak. But Jesus (the strongest) let the vulnerable side of him be seen. I will follow.

[Bishop Michael F. Burbidge @BishopBurbidge]

Jesus says: “Give to the one who asks of you.” What others ask of us is not usually material things. They need our quality time, attention, respect, compassion, and so often our forgiveness. Respond generously. Provide others with the gifts they truly need from you.

[Bishop Michael F. Burbidge @BishopBurbidge]

Jesus not only calls us to be reconciled with one another but he tells us to do so with a sense of urgency. Why hold on to anger, grudges, and bitterness for another day? That only destroys us and others. Now, today, is the moment to forgive and to be at peace with others.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

Ever experience a little two or three year old learning how to say “No!” with emphasis? Because they have heard it said to them w/ emphasis. But how about “Yes!” instead? To be able to say “Yes” w/ full gusto and mean it actually brings us closer to God. Chose to affirm the good.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

Jesus asks Simon a third time: Do you love me? the gospel says Simon Peter was hurt. Three times, Lord? Jesus says: Feed my sheep. Yes. But with what? How? The answer: With your love for me. Let them experience me through your love for me. The role of the priest. Even till death.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

Today there is still so much division and estrangement. The result of sin. Jesus came to end such negativity and restore original unity. He has. He has prayed for this. Now each of us, bec of his Spirit within us, can embrace what He has accomplished. We are the Body of Christ.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

Eternal life is this: that you know the one true God and his son Our Lord Jesus Christ. Eternal life is a relationship that is gracious and transformative. It begins here. We taste it now. We learn how to live in it—daily. Then. For ever.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

“You will be persecuted but take courage for I have conquered the world.” Jesus says this on the night before the cross. No one believed. Yet. But then he rises and hope is reborn. Despite all that is not of God in our world right now Jesus asks us to believe. Let’s do that.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

Good morning. Praised be Jesus Christ true God & true man. It is this same Lord who prompts me to return to my daily word of life. As you leave home this day, pause, look up into the beauty of creation, feel the sun, hear the sounds of life. Know yourself as part of all that is.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

@Wall_St_Custo @ImMeme0 Hj
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[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

Just sayin’
Born again. Born from above. Born of the Holy Spirit. The difference between what we were once upon a time in our fearfulness & where we are now in our fearless conviction born of Christ’s love. That is being born again. That is the difference. The difference is Him.

[stephen p mchenry @msgrmchenry]

Bp. Barron
The Father, in short, sent the Son all the way into time, history, and the human condition. But then the Father sent him further, into our sin & dysfunction, and finally all the way down into hatred, violence, rejection, & death itself.
God did this. What love does.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣
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The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣
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"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣ My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me. It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣
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If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣
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That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣
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Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣
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And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣
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I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣
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I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣
And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣
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Your brother,⁣⁣
Luz"⁣⁣

[Pope Benedict XVI @P_BenedictXVI]

There is only one Shepherd. The Logos who became man in Jesus is the Shepherd of all men. The Shepherd who follows after us through the thorns and deserts of our life. Carried on his shoulders, we come home. He gave his life for us. He himself is Life.