He is alive forevermore!

July 16, 2007

Life is a journey. It begins where you are. It ends where God is. No one

knows the distance or the time span between those points. No one... save

that One Who gave us life at the journey's outset and Who promises to be

with us along the entire winding path.

And that encourages me! Remember what Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you always,

even unto the end of the world." (Matthew 28:20). It encourages me because I

know, as you do, that life's journey can sometimes wind in tortuous paths.

When Jesus spoke these words to His disciples they had just emerged from the

greatest trial of their earthly experience. Jesus had entered that valley

called Death. They who were closest to Him never expected to see Him again.

They were exceedingly surprised on that Resurrection morning. He was alive

and assuring them of His continuing Presence even beyond their life span "to

the very end of the age." Death would not interrupt His care of them.

And so He will also care for you. He is alive forevermore. This is what He

promised: "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive

forevermore. Amen." (Revelation 1:18).

Now, what was that fear that was troubling you?

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July 16th - St. Mary Magdalen Postel

(also known as Julia Frances Catherine Postel)

Born at Barfleur, Normandy, France, November 28, 1756; died at

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, July 16, 1846; canonized 1925.

Julia Frances Catherine Postel was educated at the Benedictine convent at

Valognes. At age 18, she opened a girls' school at Barfleur in France. When

the French Revolution broke out, the revolutionaries closed the school and

she became a leader in the underground Church. Under the stairs of her home,

she created a secret chapel where priests could say Mass for those who

refused to recognize the 'constitutional' clergy imposed by the state.

During that time she was (like other women elsewhere under abnormal

conditions) given charge of the reserved Eucharist and allowed to minister

it to the sick.

Only when the pope made a concordat with Napoleon in 1801 could Julie take

up teaching again as her life's work. Then, at the age of 51, she decided to

set up a group of religious women to teach the young, inspire them to love

God, and help the poor in their misery.

In 1807, Julie and three other teachers took religious vows before Abb

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