Wow, America's got talent!

This girl isn't even in High School but she has a big time voice!

These sisters have it as well!

His voice is really a gift! Amazing!

Holy Father greeted by Salesians at Les Combes

Here is more on the vacation visit of the Holy Father to our Salesian House at Les Combes in the Val d'Aosta from ANS:

“I’m pleased to see you!” the Holy Father said when meeting Fr Pascual Chávez, Rector Major of the Salesians, as yesterday 13 July he arrived at Les Combes to welcome the Pope at the beginning of his stay in the Val d’Aosta.

The meeting was short and cordial. The Rector Major then introduced to the Holy Father the Salesians with him: Fr Cereda, Fr Martoglio, Fr Colombo, Fr Carlin, Fr Bartlomé, Fr Pellini and the Economer of the Salesian house of Châtillon, Bro. Scotto Tomaso.

“We are happy that you have returned here to Les Combes, this is your house. We shall accompany you with our prayers” concluded Fr Chávez.

On ANSchannel a short video is available showing the arrival of the Pope at Les Combes, welcomed by the civil, military and religious authorities, by the personnel of the house and by a group of the faithful who had come for the occasion. The video was made through the valuable collaboration of Stefano Bianco and Piero Giordano from Missoni Don Bosco – Media Centre in Turin.

The Prophet of the Future

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a great piece at Inside Catholic on the current crisis that we are going through. He points to St. Benedict as an example of the kind of spiritual prophet that we need in our own day and in our current cultural mess. Here is part of the story:

In the midst of this social decay, the young St. Benedict was sent from his patrician home to study in Rome. Within a year he was disgusted by the laziness, immorality, and despair of his fellow students. He dropped out of college and went to live as a hermit in Subiaco. Eventually he founded small communities of men and women living a simple life of prayer, work, and study. From those base communities the great monastic institutions grew, and from these centers of prayer, work, and learning there flowered the great civilization of medieval Christendom.

In our own time of societal decay, it is important to try to get into Benedict's mindset, first remembering several vital facts: First of all, Benedict was a layman. He saw a need and took the initiative to start his communities. While he did nothing contrary to the teachings of the Church, and did not rebel against the rightful authority, he also did not sit around waiting for a priest or bishop to give him a job. With the grace of his baptism he simply got on and did what he was called to do. Details in his famous rule suggest that Benedict was somewhat cautious in his relationship with priests and regarded them as necessary, but not necessarily trustworthy.

It is also important to understand the monastic relationship to culture. A monk sees the decaying culture and believes the only possible response is withdrawal. He despises any Christianity that compromises with the decadent society, and he does not think "dialogue" is either desirable or possible. He does not believe that prophetic imprecations and predictions of God's judgment on the immoral culture are useful. Like St. Anthony of the Desert and the first monks in Egypt, the traditional monk believes that withdrawal from the world is the only way to save the world.

The third thing to remember about Benedict is that he probably never anticipated the great resurrection of learning, culture, and spirituality that would flow from his decision to live simply in the Italian hills following a life of prayer, work, and study. In other words, he was faithful where he was with what he could do. Whether it came to something or not wasn't his to decide. The fact that his movement eventually produced phenomenal accomplishments in virtually every area of human achievement, was the foundation for a new civilization, and changed the world forever was not something he either anticipated or predicted.

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Church bombings in Iraq

I am glad this was reported by CNN. Too much of this kind of attack on Christians seems to go unnoticed. 6 Churches have been bombed in the past few days in Iraq and 35 people were killed. We need to pray for the persecuted Church around the world. Here is the CNN story:

Iraq has increased security around all Christian places of worship after a wave of church bombings that has killed four and wounded at least 35 others.

An Iraqi policeman stands next to the burned-out wreck of a car outside a Baghdad church July 13.

The latest attack happened Monday morning in the northern city of Mosul, when a car bomb detonated near a church in the al-Faisaliya district, wounding three children, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.

Six churches in and around Baghdad were bombed over the weekend, leaving four dead, officials told CNN. A total of 35 people have been wounded in the wave of attacks, including the three children Monday.

Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi "strongly condemned" the attacks on churches in a statement posted on his Web site. He called on security forces to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

The Interior Ministry issued directives Sunday evening to beef up security at churches across the country, ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf said.

In recent weeks, there were similar bombings against Shiites, Khalaf said. He blamed the attacks on those who are trying to create tensions among Iraq's various communities.

Mosul is the capital of Nineveh province, where authorities have increased police patrols and implemented a partial ban on vehicles, a security official with the provincial military command center told CNN Monday.

Only cars belonging to residents of the area can enter al-Hamadaniya, a neighborhood in northern Mosul where authorities received intelligence about possible attacks on churches, the official said.

Members of the dwindling Christian community in Baghdad expressed fear and concern after hearing about Monday's attack in Mosul, which followed five other attacks in Baghdad over the weekend.

"After a year and a half of calm and now the bombings and targeting of Christians is back?" said Father Saad Sirop Hanna, a Catholic priest in Baghdad. "We are concerned."

Many of Iraq's estimated 1 million Christians have fled the country after targeted attacks by extremists. In October, more than a thousand Iraqi families fled Mosul after they were reportedly frightened by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists, who apparently ordered them to convert to Islam or face possible death. At least 14 Christians were killed in Mosul in the first two weeks of October.

One Christian Iraqi, interviewed outside Baghdad's Sacred Heart Church -- one of three churches bombed Sunday afternoon -- said the bomb went off shortly before 5 p.m., as members were arriving for Sunday evening mass. No one was hurt, Sabhan George told CNN, but the bomb damaged the church building and some cars outside.

George said he is concerned about the church bombings. If this continues, he said, "there will be no Christians left in Iraq."

The first attack took place Saturday night at St. Joseph's Church in western Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry official. Two bombs placed inside the church exploded about 10 p.m. (1900 GMT). No one was in the church at the time of the attack.

St. Joseph's was one of six churches hit by coordinated bombings of Christian houses of worship in Baghdad and Mosul in 2004. The church is in the al-Jamiaa neighborhood of Baghdad, a former stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq. There have been recent reports of an increase in targeted attacks in the area.

Five other churches in Baghdad -- including Sacred Heart -- were bombed on Sunday, killing four people and wounding more than 30 others. Most of the churches were damaged in the bombings, according to video.

Hanna said there were more questions than answers as to why the Christians are being targeted again and who would be targeting them.

"We wonder, 'Why? Why now?'" he told CNN. "The political situation in the country is not stable and there is a lot of confusion."

The Iraqi Catholic priest was kidnapped and held for 28 days during the height of the country's sectarian conflict in 2006. He confirmed an increase in security in Baghdad, saying a police patrol was parked outside his church in central Baghdad.

Hanna said he believes some insurgents want to "stir up tensions" following the June 30 withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraqi cities. He said many Christians are now afraid of going to church again, but some are still undeterred by the latest attacks. The most direct effect, he said, is many Christians are leaving the country.

"There is little hope, that is why they are leaving," Hanna said.

Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha’s cause for sainthood going to Vatican

Today is the memorial of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha! Let's continue to pray through her intercession for all those who suffer persecution for the faith!

Monsignor Paul Lenz has informed CNA that he has submitted the Cause for the Canonization of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha to the Vatican.

Bl. Kateri has been accorded the title of the patroness of the environment and ecology and is dear to the hearts of many Native Americans. She was born in upstate New York, near Auriesville. Both of her parents were Native Americans. Her father was a Mohawk chief and her mother an Algonquin, who was raised Catholic.

In her lifetime Kateri was frequently afflicted with illness and became partially blind. In order for her to walk, she groped her way around as she walked. She was then named, Tekakwitha which literally means, “One who walks groping for her way.”

Bl. Kateri was baptized when she was 20 years old after being catechized by Father de Lambertville S.J. After her baptism, Kateri was considered an outcast by her tribal community. Living on her own, she professed a vow of perpetual virginity. Poor health and the effects of small pox led to her death in 1680 at the age of 24.

In 1943 Kateri was declared venerable and then in 1980 she was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II. She is the first Native American to be declared blessed and was the patroness of the 2002 World Youth Day.

Saint of the day: Henry

The Holy Father’s stay at Les Combes

Pope Benedict is spending his vacation at the Salesian House at Les Combes. This is the 3rd summer vacation that he has spent with us Salesians! What a blessing for us! Here is the story from Salesian News Service:

Pope Benedict XVI, arrived this morning at Les Combes, Introd in the Val d’Aosta, where as a guest at the Salesian house he will spend a period of rest.

To welcome him, as well as the Bishop of Aosta, Bishop Giuseppe Anfossi, were the Rector Major of the Salesians Fr Pascual Chávez Villanueva, his secretary Fr Juan José Bartolomé, Fr Francesco Cereda, Councillor for Formation, Fr Stefano Martoglio, Provincial of the Special Circumscription for Piedmont and the Val d’Aosta (ICP), his Vice Provincial Fr Sergio Pellini, the Provincial Economer Fr Stefano Colombo and the Rector of the Salesian house of Châtillon, Fr Carlin Silvio. Also present were the civil and military authorities of the Val d’Aosta

Benedict XVI had already been a guest at the Les Combes house in the summers of 2005 and 2006, and after spending 2007 at Lorenzago, and 2008 at Bressanone he has returned to the Aosta area.

On Sunday 19 July the Pope will go to Romano Canavese, in the Province of Ivrea, for the Angelus in the square next to the parish church of SS. Peter and Solutore, while the following Sunday’s Angelus on 26 July will be at the house of Les Combes.

The Holy Father’s stay at Les Combes will conclude on 29 July when he will go to the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

Pope Benedict: Technological 'absolutism’ could lead to ‘dark scenarios'

The Holy Father is concerned about the rise of technological absolutism. When science is divorced from morality bad things happen. Here is the story from CNA:

Before Sunday’s Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI reiterated the views expressed in his recently published social encyclical Caritas In Veritate. He reaffirmed the need for a global commitment to development and warned of “dark scenarios” for the world if an absolutist view of technology persists.

The Pope recalled the importance of the just concluded G8 summit, but above all he stressed that "there are social inequalities and structural inequities in the world that are no longer tolerable, which require, in addition to immediate action, a coordinated strategy to find durable solutions." The Church, he said, "has no technical solutions to offer, but, as an expert in humanity, it offers everyone the teaching of Sacred Scripture on truth and proclaims the Gospel of love and justice."

"A new economic plan is required that redesigns development in a holistic way, building on the foundation of ethical responsibility before God and man as a creature of God." Quoting his recently published encyclical, the Pontiff said: "In an increasingly globalized society, the common good and the effort to obtain it cannot fail to assume the dimensions of the whole human family.”

The social question has become an "anthropological” issue, which implies a way of conceiving man in truth, body and soul. Solutions to current problems of humanity cannot only be technical, but must take into account all the needs of the person, who has a soul and body.

"The absolutism of technology, which finds its clearest expression in certain practices contrary to life could draw dark scenarios for the future of humanity."

"Acts that do not respect the true dignity of the person,” the Holy Father said, “even when they seem motivated by a choice of love, in reality are the result of a material and mechanistic conception of human life, which reduces love without truth to an empty shell to fill arbitrarily and can thus result in adverse effects in integral human development."

"Despite the complexity of the current situation in the world,” the Pope concluded, “the Church looks to the future with hope and reminds Christians that the proclamation of Christ is the first and main factor of development."

After the Marian prayer, Benedict XVI expressed his "deep concern” about events in Honduras.

"I would to invite you to pray for that country so dear to the maternal intercession of Our Lady of Suyapa,” he said. “May the leaders of the nation and all its inhabitants patiently walk the path of dialogue, mutual understanding and reconciliation. This is possible if, setting aside personal interests, everyone strives to seek the truth and to tenaciously pursue the common good: this is the condition for ensuring peaceful coexistence and genuine democratic life! To the Honduran people I assure my prayers and impart a special Apostolic Blessing."

Tomorrow, the Pontiff moves to Les Combes in the Valle d'Aosta for a period of rest.
"I call on everyone,” he added, “to accompany me with prayer. Prayer knows no distance and separation: wherever we are, it makes us one heart and one mind."

Niagra Falls: At night and in motion

Niagara Falls in Motion from Matthew Wartman on Vimeo.

This is pretty amazing! Enjoy!

Louisiana governor signs expanded conscience protection laws

Great job Gov. Jindal! Let's pray other states follow suit. The following comes from the CNA:

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed a law expanding conscience protections for health care workers beyond abortion.

House Bill 517, sponsored by Democratic State Rep. Bernard LeBas, allows any person to refuse to provide abortions, distribute “abortifacient drugs,” work on human embryonic stem cell research or cloning, or participate in euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

The drug provision is intended to include the “morning-after pill” but would not extend to regular birth control, the Times-Picayune reports.

The Jindal administration said the measure is necessary to uphold the individual rights of health care workers whose personal beliefs might conflict with their profession.

Social conservatives and religious activists supported the bill, while opponents such as Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union said the law would restrict patient access to accurate information and timely services.

Benjamin Clapper, executive director of the Louisiana Right to Life Federation, told CNA previously that the passage of the bill is a victory for health care workers across the state that would help them “excel” in their profession without concerns about being coerced into providing services against their conscience.

“Even though this legislation was under sustained attack from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, Louisiana understood that conscience rights should be protected,” he said.

Kevin Skinner: America's Got Talent!

This guy is amazing! Thanks Deacon Greg!

Video: Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Canada

I found this video at the Love to be Catholic site. Very cool! Just a little something else to honor St. Benedict today!

Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, founded in 1912, numbers a little more than fifty monks living under the Rule of Saint Benedict. Separated from the world, they seek God in the celebration of the liturgy of the Church, in private prayer nourished by meditation of the Bible and in manual as well as intellectual work. They form a community under the direction of an Abbot.

Saint of the Day: St. Benedict!

Today is the feast of St. Benedict of Nursia! I almost forgot.... But, here is some good info on him! I got most of it from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert website. This is a really beatiful monastery that I would love to visit for a retreat. Since Pope Benedict XVI took Benedict as his name, I have read and learned a good deal more about this wonderful saint. Enjoy!

Saint Benedict was born around the year 480 in the district of Nursia (present-day Norcia), in Umbria, central Italy. He is regarded as the "Father of Western Monasticism" and is "Co-patron of Europe" along with Saints Cyril and Methodius.

As a young man, Benedict was sent to Rome for studies but left after a short stay, desiring to dedicate his life to God. He went to live in an isolated place near Subiaco, not far from the ruins of Emperor Nero's summer villa, about fifty miles from Rome. Today the cave is the celebrated shrine called "Sacro Speco" (The Holy Cave) and is one of Europe's most beautiful sanctuaries. At Subiaco, Benedict lived a life of solitude and prayer for about three years with the support from a monk named Romanus. Benedict's time as a hermit was interupted for a short period when he became the superior of a group of unruly monks. Ultimately unhappy with his guidance, they tried to poison him. He then withdrew to the cave at Subiaco once again.

Eventually, Benedict's sanctity attracted disciples and in time, twelve small monasteries were established around Subiaco, with Benedict as the spiritual father of them all.

Around the year 530 Benedict left Subiaco with some of his sisciples for Monte Cassino, halfway between Rome and Naples, where he began a single, close-knit community on a mountain top. There he remained until his death around the year 547. Is was at Monte Cassino that Benedict completed his "Rule for Monks," basing it on earlier monastic literature as well as his own original material. Today, the "Rule of Saint Benedict," as it is commonly called, is considered one of the most important factors in the development of Christian Europe. In time, the Rule became the norm for all monks and nuns in the West. During his lifetime, the monastery at Monte Cassino grew and a foundation was made south of Rome, at Terracina. The monasteries at Subiaco continued as well.

Benedict had a sister, Scolastica, who was consecrated to God from her youth and died shortly before her saintly brother. Both of them were buried at Monte Cassino in the oratory dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. Saint Scholastica's feast day is on February 10th and Saint Benedict's is on March 21st and July 11th. The March date is generally considered to be the date on which he died.

The life of Saint Benedict is found in "The Dialogues" written by Pope St. Gregory the Great some forty years after Benedict's death. It is not a biography as we know the genre today, but the details supply us with a basic outline of the life and times of Saint Benedict. Among the titles given to Saint Benedict over the centuries are the following: "Messenger of Peace, Architect of Unity, Teacher of Culture and Civilization, Father of Western Monasticism, Herald of the Christian Faith, and Father of the Whole of Europe." Today, Benedict's disciples, both men and women, can be found on every inhabited continent of the world, leading lives dedicated to "Prayer and Work," as the holy father Benedict taught in his rule and by his life.

For more on St. Benedict check out the Patron Saints Index!

Prayer need: Iranian Women Arrested for Converting to Christ

We need to pray for these two women and for all those persecuted for the faith. I found this story at Gateway Pundit:

Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, and Maryam Rustampoor, 27, have been held for over four months in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

Two detained Christian women are "in danger of being forgotten" amid concerns they may face execution, Iranian Christians said Tuesday, July 7.

Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, and Maryam Rustampoor, 27, have been held for over four months in Tehran's notorious Evin prison apparently for converting to Christianity from Islam.

Iranian Christians and rights investigators said the two young women, who were arrested March 5, suffered sleep deprivation as part of police interrogations and were held in solitary confinement for three weeks in May and early June.

Later, they were put together in one small cell for about two weeks before being moved to a larger area to make place for other inmates, including many protesters who were detained following last month's disputed presidential elections, said Christians with close knowledge about the situation.

About 600 women were reportedly brought to Evin prison during the protests.

There was still no clarity regarding the case of the two Christian women, Tuesday, July 7, with one judge reportedly telling them they were both to be executed as ‘apostates’. "Maryam and Marzieh have responded with courage, however, telling the judge to 'expedite his sentence'," said Pray for Iran, an Internet initiative of Iranian churches.

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Fr. Barron on "Gran Torino"

I just saw this movie and think it was amazing! The language is pretty crude, and it is violent at times, but a great movie. Fr. Barron has some insights into the main character. Don't watch this if you haven's seen the movie!

New Poll: Americans trending Pro-life

The following comes from CNA:

A new poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus supports other reports that say Americans are increasing becoming pro-life. About 49 percent of Americans now describe themselves as pro-life, while 60 percent think abortion should be legal only in a few circumstances or not at all.

The poll, undertaken in partnership with the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, conducted a telephone survey of 1,223 Americans in May 2009 and claims a margin of error of plus or minus three percent.

An October 2008 Knights of Columbus/Marist Institute poll showed 44 percent of Americans considered themselves to be pro-life. This figure increased to 49 percent among the May 2009 respondents. Men and women were about evenly split on abortion but were still slightly more pro-life than those polled in 2008.

Get prayed up!

Archbishop Chaput speaks on the role of media

The media have a huge responsibility in our country to promote the truth and to seek the truth. Archbishop Chaput challenges our media to step up to the plate! The following comes from the CNA:

At a Wednesday evening gathering of the Catholic business group Legatus, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver analyzed the influence of the media upon American Catholics. The news media, he said, has the important role in our democracy of protecting truth and pursuing reason, but it is failing to deliver.

"America’s news media have enormous opinion-shaping power," Chaput explained. "Therefore it’s vital for Catholics to understand how the media work, and especially how they work on us."

"The media’s power to shape public thought is why it’s so vital for the rest of us to understand their human element."

Instead of some impersonal organization, Catholics need to realize that the men and women who report the news bring their own cultural and political views, economic pressures and social ambitions to their reporting and editorial decisions, the Denver archbishop said.

"When we don’t recognize the personal chemistry of the men and women who bring us our news … then we fail the media by holding them to too low a standard. We also –and much more importantly—fail ourselves by neglecting to think and act as intelligent citizens."

But the media also has "an obligation to the public," Archbishop Chaput stated, "a duty to illuminate public discourse by presenting the facts of a story in a full and truthful context, regardless of the intellectual fashions of the moment."

While he noted that while "many of the reporters I talk with try to be diligent and fair," the prelate lamented, "too many news professionals don’t live up to this standard. And some, quite candidly, don’t seem to try."

There are many contributing factors to this failure, the archbishop noted, citing the "constant churn" of breaking news events created by the internet and cable news networks, the victory of visual over print media and the upsurge in tabloid-style news coverage.

The deluge of information, he said, has led to a difficulty in discerning what really matters from what doesn't. At the same time, the weakening of the longstanding American tradition of using print media to discuss the truth and matters of national importance has led to a loss of the intellectual discipline required to absorb printed thoughts.

"Visual and electronic media, today’s dominant media, need a certain kind of content. They thrive on brevity, speed, change, urgency, variety and feelings," he observed. "But thinking requires the opposite. Thinking takes time. It needs silence and the methodical skills of logic."

"Today’s advances in technology have increased the sources of human information that the average layperson can access. That’s a good thing. But they’ve also undermined the intellectual discipline that we once had when our main tools of communication were books or print publications."

"This is not a good development. In fact, it’s a very dangerous thing in a democracy, which is a form of government that demands intellectual and moral maturity from its citizens to survive," Chaput told the Catholic business leaders.

More than just focusing on important issues, the Archbishop of Denver said, the media need to "focus on them with a right spirit. In other words, journalists need to remember their profession’s proper role in America’s public order."

This role can be understood as presenting the public with reason and truth, he said, drawing on the writing of President Thomas Jefferson. In other words, the archbishop said that the media's role involves the natural law.

Turning to Fr. John Courtney Murray's thought, Chaput explained that the Jesuit "argued that the natural law – the idea that human nature is hardwired with universal, basic understandings of right and wrong – gave all Americans a common language for their democracy, regardless of their creed."

"But today our knowledge classes – the people who shape our universities, think tanks, mass media and political party leaderships -- no longer believe in the natural law. In fact, they’re often very fuzzy about what those two words – 'human nature' –even mean. They also tend to distrust religion in general and Christianity in particular. And that has consequences," Chaput stated.

"That brings us to my key point about the press," the archbishop said.

"Given the huge role Christian faith has always played, and still plays, in American life, any conversation about important public issues in our country that attempts to exclude religion will be incomplete. Yet it seems that, when it comes to religion, journalists and the people they cover are very different creatures. A 2005 study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center showed that 40 percent of Americans attend church services once a week or more -- but only 17 percent of press professionals do."

"The idea that this deep difference in religious practice doesn’t flavor our press coverage would be too strange to take seriously. In a sense, we are what we believe."

In the face of the media's failure to give a voice to the truth religion offers, Archbishop Chaput urged the audience of Catholic business professionals to "refuse to be stupid."

"We can decline to be sandbagged by our news establishment into thinking that marriage for homosexual partners is inevitable or an obligation of social justice; or that Islam and Christianity lead to pretty much the same conclusions about freedom, society and the nature of the human person; or that the abortion issue is somehow 'settled' when thousands of unborn children continue to be legally killed everyday," he said.

As he brought his address to a close, Archbishop Chaput called for Catholics to let their public moral witness "on abortion and every other vital social issue" be formed "not by the nightly news, but by learning and living an authentic Catholic faith."

Spiritual Life: 'No Excuses'

The blog Sainthood and Surrender offered this video and put it in the conext of our spiritual lives. Great idea! Check out their blog as well!

David Crowder Band - Come Thou Fount

Come thou fount of every blessing

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wondering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart Lord, take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above