Today is the Memorial of St. Anthony, abbot. The Communion antiphon based on Matthew 19:21 reads: If you would be perfect, go, sell what you have, give to the poor, and follow me, says the Lord. If you are a single person, that may be easy to accomplish. As for anyone who has a family or cannot practically do that for whatever reason, you can always practice getting yourself detached from all material things.
Friday, January 17, 2025
Thursday, January 16, 2025
**Believing to the Letter*
If you truly believe that Jesus is your Lord and your God, you have no choice but to follow and obey him to the full. Otherwise, you are not a true believer yet. In Matthew 5:37, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the evil one."
**Conditioning the Heart*
Today's Psalm 95 response: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Our hearts allow God to enter us or not. A closed hardened heart can shut you out of God's kingdom forever, while a soft open heart lead you to full union with him. The difference couldn't be greater! Thus, be wise and offer your heart up to God to let him make it humble and pliable for you to live the best possible life.
***A Christian's Foremost Goal
To bring all to believe in and love Christ, not minding how you'll be received by them.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
***True Love***
**If you don't care about the salvation of all the souls or don't forgive all the sinners, then the love of God is not in you, and you need to seek his forgiveness and mercy without delay.
***Total Submission
Communion experience. I wish not to possess the Lord, but rather to be possessed by him.
***Most Imporant Prayer***
It's the Our Father Christ taught us. Not only it defines the role of a Christian, it is also the prayer against which we'll be measured and by which, judged.
**Essence of Prayer
In prayer, how sincere and trustful you are matters infinitely more than how perfectly it's said. For God listens to your heart, not your voice.
**Great Consolation*
Today I feel very much what David wrote in Psalm 139:7-10: Where can I go from your spirit? From your presence, where can I flee? If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I lie down in Sheol, there you are. If I take the wings of dawn and dwell beyond the sea, even there your hand guides me, your right hand holds me fast. The Lord is everywhere present with me, and it's such a great consolation to me!
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
*****The Only One***
Love the one who loves you with the greatest possible love and trust in the one who is completely trustworthy. The two turn out to be the same one, Jesus the Christ. Alleluia!
**Getting into Heaven Ways*
We can be barely good enough to get into heaven or make it there with flying colors. The former case could be someone who sins most of his life and finally repents in the last minute of his life. The Lord has the door open just wide enough for him to squeeze through. The latter mostly likely would be someone who is quite holy and blameless, and the door to heaven is held open for him at all times. Since I want to avoid going through purgatory in order to get to the Lord without delay, I much prefer doing it the second way.
***Facing God's Wrath (Big No-No)**
God is always loving, merciful, and patient. He proclaims the truth, leaving us to decide whether to accept him or not. We won't be judged until after we leave this world. But if we totally reject, disobey, or revile him, we'll definitely face his wrath after we die. And he'll say to us, "I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers" (Matthew 7:23). This is something we should never ever hope to hear from the Lord, for even dying from a head-on collision would be better.
Monday, January 13, 2025
**Yearning for the Lord**
Once you fall in love with Christ, you just want to be with him every single moment. Today it's his holiness that especially makes me yearn for him..
***The Three L's***
They are Love, Life, and Light. We already know that God is love and Jesus is God. In John 8, Jesus declared: "I am the light of the world. In John 14, "I am the way and the truth and the life." But he is more—he is everything that's good for us!
***Wise Advice
One of my brothers-in-law just passed away. He's one I'd been praying for for decades. The good news is that he finally accepted Christ as Savior before he left. It'd be so much better that we all accept the Lord as early as possible to maximize our time of enjoying peace, freedom, and joy on earth. Christ can save us in an instant—why procrastinate? Also, when the soul is at stake, we mustn't take any risk.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
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