Mass Journal - Healed by His Love

In December 2013, I found myself vacationing alone in Florida between Christmas and New Years. It was unexpected that I would be traveling alone. My travel partner backed out at the last minute. The first thing that I did when I arrived in Naples was to find the nearest Catholic Church. I was in the RCIA program at the time and not able to participate in the Eucharist, but I had become a daily mass goer. I would go up for a blessing from the priest at communion. I found a fabulous church in the area that had a beautiful adoration chapel and they had a very nice gift shop. That is where I purchased the CD by Matthew Kelly. Matthew Kelly is a Roman Catholic motivational speaker and he suggested doing a Mass Journal. His point being that …

“If you do that every Sunday for a year your Mass Journal will become an incredibly powerful spiritual tool. You will be able to take it to your daily prayer and pass from page to page. Each page will inspire a deeply personal dialogue between you and God.”

Well, 2014 was the year that I became Catholic at the Easter vigil. That spring I went on a pilgrimage where I developed friendship with folks from Rockport, Texas. They invited me to come down in the fall to their ACTS retreat at the Schoenstatt Shrine in Lamar, Texas. One of the nice little gifts that was given out at the retreat was a small little blank notebook featuring Mary on the cover.

That became my first Mass Journal that I started in December of 2014.

That year was one of significant growth for me.

I decided at one point to put these inspirations in a little book. I started to develop it online on lulu, but life got hectic and they ended up deleted my book from lack of work. I probably should have been developing it offline. Well, the project laid dormant for awhile.

This summer I found myself again on pilgrimage and one of the priests in our group when he heard about my journals said, “Boy, I’d like to get a hold of them!” So that got me to thinking again about my journals and I thought, why not post them here?

So, I am going to being to post my daily thoughts about the various masses that I have attended and tag them Mass Journal. Hopefully, you will enjoy them and find some inspiration within as I did.

This was my first journal entry. “Write it One My Heart” It was inspired by a song by David Kaufmann called “Write it On My Heart” that was played at the ACTS Retreat … I posted the song below for your enjoyment. His music is really wonderful!

Dona Nobis Pacem