{"id":192,"date":"2006-07-07T06:11:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T11:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T02:09:30","slug":"192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/192\/","title":{"rendered":"","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/St Rita's.jpg\" alt=\"Our Lady of Lourdes\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><em>Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Parish<\/em>, Violet, Louisiana. My concert was here&#8211;two weeks before Katrina pushed over 30 feet of water and Category 4 winds through the church. This photo was taken 7 months later&#8230;<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> we traveled to some of the worst areas of hurricane-damaged Louisiana recently, we saw two kinds of houses:  the ones made of wood, and those of brick.<\/p>\n<p>Some wooden houses had been razed to the ground. There was nothing left but a few splinters of lumber. On the other hand, the brick houses in Katrina&#8217;s path were gutted, with broken windows and damaged roofs. But the houses stood. Or rather, <em>withstood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>How can a person possibly withstand the forces he meets in this life&#8211;the forces of death, of illness, of unemployment, of uncertainty, of hatred, of temptation?<\/p>\n<p>Listen carefully,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? ...faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.<\/code> <span style='font-size:9.0pt'><em>&#8211;James 2:14<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good works are like bricks. Faith is the mortar (what is one without the other?)<\/p>\n<p>The one who builds his life with these, will testify how one can not only survive the painful forces of this life, but even bear them in peace and joy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<code>Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing... If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love... I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.<\/code><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> <em>&#8211;Jn 15:5, 10-11<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n<code>Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on a rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse....<\/code><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> <em>&#8211;Mt 7:24-25<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Glass Survived.jpg\" alt=\"Stain Glass\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>The new stained glass windows depicting the Eucharistic <em>miraculously<\/em> survived.<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Parish, Violet, Louisiana. 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