Live for others

Most of the days I pass through this curved outdoor bench overlooking Conservatory water in central park new York, but have a made a pause to see what it is written and what it means to me! I did not. It has rich meaning, but only when I am able to pause and see and meditate on the words. It is same with everything in my life. It has only meaning only when I make it my own and live with it.
"Alteri vivas opportet si vis tibi vivere" (One must live for another if he wishes to live for himself). A small sundial at the back of the bench bears another Latin inscription: Ne diruatur fuga temporum (Let it not be destroyed by the passage of time).

God Provides. From Sunny John

Location:E 71st St,,United States

I said a prayer

I Said A Prayer For You

I said a prayer for you today
And know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart
Although He spoke no word
I didn't ask for wealth or fame
(I knew you wouldn't mind)
I asked him to send treasures
of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that he'd be near you
At the start of each new day;
To grant you health and blessings
And friends to share your way!
I asked for happiness for you
in all things great and small
but it was for His loving care
I prayed the most of all!
(author unknown)

Fr. Sunny (Vincent) John Pazhukkakulam O. Carm.

Location:Liberty St,Albany,United States

Saints in the painting

Prophet Elijah; Cyril of Constantinople ;Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Peacemaker; Mary Magdalene de'Pazzi; Brocard, the first Superior of Mount Carmel; Thérèse, The Little Flower; Simon Stock; Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Child Jesus; Albert of Sicily; Teresa of Jesus; Berthold, the Second Prior General of the Carmelites; Patriarch Peter Thomas; Angelus of Sicily; John of the Cross; and the Prophet Eliseus.

God Provides. From Sunny John

Location:E 71st St,,United States

Our lady of mount Carmel painting

Carmelite Saints with Our Lady and the Child Jesus


This beautiful painting depicts some of the Carmelites Saints before Our Lady and the Child Jesus.

(Left to right): Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Peacemaker; Cyril of Constantinople; the Prophet Elijah; Mary Magdalene de'Pazzi; Brocard, the first Superior of Mount Carmel; Thérèse, The Little Flower; Simon Stock; Albert of Sicily; Teresa of Jesus; Berthold, the Second Prior General of the Carmelites; Patriarch Peter Thomas; Angelus of Sicily.

(Kneeling): John of the Cross; and the Prophet Eliseus.

God Provides. From Sunny John

Location:E 71st St,,United States

St Joseph Carmelite Church in Troy

Travel's prayer

For travelers.

Our help is in the name of the Lord.
Who made heaven and earth.
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, whose glory fills the entire creation and whose presence we find wherever we go, preserve those who travel and in particular those about to begin this journey. Surrounding them with your loving care, protect them from every danger and bring them back in safety to their journey's end. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Into the way of peace and prosperity, may the almighty and merciful Lord lead us, and may the Angel Raphael be with us on the way so that we may come to our home again in peace and health.
Save your servants, my God, who hope in you.
Lord, send us your help and strengthen us out of Sion.
Be unto us, o Lord, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy.
Let not he enemy prevail against us, nor the son of the iniquity have power to harm us.
Blessed be the Lord daily and may the God of our salvation make our way prosperous.
Show us your ways, O Lord, and teach us your paths.
O Lord, hear our prayer and let our cry come unto you.
May your holy angel accompany us. Be unto us, O Lord, help when we go forward, a comfort by the way, a shadow from the heat, a covering from the rain and the cold, a refuge in trouble.
Graciously hear our supplications, we beseech you, O Lord, and grant that your family may fare onward in the path of salvation so that this journey will teach all the great less ion of patience, brotherly love, kindness, and gratitude for all the gifts bestowed on mankind by God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Travelers' blessing
Bless us in our travels. We praise you, O God, for this privilege of letting us admire these sights of nature- these mountains, these rivers, these lakes,these forests.we thank you for calling us to be your pele, to admire all appreciate what you have given us. Help us to continue in your love and to praise you for ever. Amen.


God Provides. From Sunny John

Location:3rd St,Troy,United States

Garbage collectors by john h hampsch

Garbage collectors are somewhat taken for granted as they go about their malodorous task. But their importance becomes obvious when a city - wide garbage collectors' strike erupts;that's when the maggoty garbage piles up day after day' as flies and rats breed freely. If the strike is unresolved, the threat of disease sets in. Then we realize how important our daily garbage collectors are.
Wise men says that we do not realize how blessed we are when we could see the beauty around. We realize the power of our eye sight only when it fades in our life. We forget to realize the power of friendship that we have. We will know when we loose them. Start to know and thank them and God before we loose them.
Everything we have is a grace from God, the place we are in, the people we work with, the friends who are ready to do anything for us, the people who love us and those who criticize us for our lack of understanding, etc. They are all part of our growth. When we miss them we know how great they were in our life.
Before I miss you all from my life. Let me start saying to you THANK YOU.


God Provides. From Sunny John

Location:3rd St,Troy,United States

HYMN

O Lord my God! when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed:

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul! my Savior God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul! my Savior God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

”How Great Thou Art” by Melinda Kirigin-Voss; Originally this was a Swedish folk melody, “O Store Gud” by Carl Boberg (1859-1940) and was translated by Stuart K. Hine in 1899.



God Provides. From Sunny John

A Prayer for Priest
Keep them, I pray Thee, dearest Lord,
Keep them, for they are Thine-
Thy priests whose lives burn out before
Thy consecrated shrine.
Keep them for they are in the world
Though from the world apart
When earthly pleasures tempt,allure-
Shelter them in Thy heart.
Keep them,and comfort them in hours
Of loneliness and pain
When all their life of sacrifice
For souls seems but in vain.
Keep them, and O remember Lord
They have no one but Thee
Yet they have only human hearts,
With human frailty.
Keep them as spotless as the Host,
That daily, they cares-
Their every thought and word and deed,
Design, dearest Lord, to bless.
( unknown )

Location:3rd St,Troy,United States

Fireworks 2011