Crusaders for Christ
  • Blog
    • Staff only
  • About Us
  • Downloads
    • Catholic Homeschool - Study Guides
    • Handwriting
    • School Planners
    • Coloring Pictures
    • St. Catherine's Academy Gazette
    • Catholic Family Calendar
    • Printable Children's books
  • Catholic Reading
    • Saint of the Day
    • Father Muller Books
    • Chapter Books >
      • Jesus of Nazareth - The Story of His Life Simply Told
      • Little Therese
    • Sermons for Children
    • Books We Have Enjoyed
    • This and That
    • The Blessed Mother for the Child in all of us!
  • Bella's Little Shoppe
  • For Moms
    • Popular Instructions on the Bringing Up of Children

              Fifth Sunday After Pentecost                  The Eagle Who Was Killed With His Own Feather

6/23/2013

0 Comments

 
               " Let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no deceit."

THERE is a story about an Indian hunter who wanted to shoot an eagle. None of the arrows in his quiver would shoot far enough or straight enough to hit an eagle in flight. But the huntsman was clever. He went to the cliff where the eagle lived and shouted, "Come down, Eagle, I want to talk to you." "Oh, no," said the eagle. "You want to shoot an arrow into me." "But I have no arrows with me," answered the hunter. "All I want is that you come down and give me one of your feathers so that I can admire its beauty. Everyone knows that the eagle's feather is the most beautiful on earth." The eagle was so pleased to hear this that he said, " I will not come down, but I will let one of my wing feathers float down to you and you can admire it." The huntsman took the feather home with him and fitted it to his arrow.

The next day he went back and shot the eagle. The arrow went straight to the eagle's heart. He fell down at the huntsman's feet and just before he died, he saw that the arrow had been feathered with the feather from his own wing.

That is the way it is with a lie. It may be just some little thing that we let fall but it can come back and harm us. Once a lie is told it goes wafting out through the world and then we forget about it until it comes back, to us. The trouble with lies is that we seldom are able to tell just one and get away with it. We have to tell more and more to cover up the first one. Before we know it we have done serious harm to our souls.

The Devil is like the wily huntsman. He knows that if he can get us to tell a little lie it will not be long before we will be telling bigger and bigger ones. When we grow up it has become a habit. Then he can laugh at us and call us that horrible name "Liar." Watch out for the first lie. Then the others will not happen. Do not be like the foolish eagle and let fall a feather from your wing, which will come back to you on the shaft of an arrow. "Let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no deceit."

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    March 2015
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012

    Categories

    All
    13th Sun After Pentecost
    14th Sun After Pentecost
    15th Sunday After Pentecost
    16th Sun After Pentecost
    16th Sun. After Pentecost
    17th Sunday After Pentecost
    18th Sun After Pentecost
    19th Sunday After Pentecost
    1st Sun.after Epiphany
    1st Sun.after Epiphany
    1st Sun After Pentecost
    1st Sunday Of Advent
    1st Sunday Of Lent
    1st Sunday Of Lent
    24 Sunday After Pentecost
    24th Sun After Pentecost
    2nd Sun. After Easter
    2nd Sun. After Epiphany
    2nd Sun. After Pentecost
    2nd Sunday After Epiphany
    2nd Sunday Of Lent
    2nd Sunday Of Lent
    2nd Sun Of Advent
    3rd Sun After Easter
    3rd Sunday After Epiphany
    3rd Sunday Of Advent
    3rd Sunday Of Lent
    4th Sun After Easter
    4th Sun After Epiphany
    4th Sun. After Pentecost
    4th Sunday Of Advent
    4th Sunday Of Lent
    5th Sun. After Easter
    5th Sun After Epiphany
    5th Sun.after Pentecost
    6th Sun. After Easter
    7th Sun After Pentecost
    8th Sun After Pentecost
    9th Sun. After Pentecost
    Covetousness
    Epiphany
    Heavenwords
    Heirs Of The Kingdom
    Judas And St. Peter
    Old Man Reilly
    Passion Sunday
    Pentecost Sunday
    Quinquagesima Sunday
    Septuagesima Sunday
    Sermon For Epiphany
    Sermons For Children's Masses
    Sexagesima Sunday
    Trinity Sunday

    RSS Feed

© Crusaders for Christ 2012