Today is Valentine's Day and people think of love. The love of God, agape, is so pure and powerful that it can transform us an make us heaven bound—it is really the Lord himself! So let us treasure this love with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.
Saturday, February 14, 2026
*God Cares About Us**
In today's Gospel reading from Mark 8, Jesus had a great crowd around him. He summoned the disciples and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a great distance." The Lord solved the problem by multiplying the seven loaves of bread his disciples had more than enough to feed about four thousand people. I am so happy our God knows every situation, cares about us, and will alleviate whatever problem we face.
**To Be Self-Centered the Right Way*
It's perfectly fine to focus upon ourselves this way: recognizing that we are sinners who need God's mercy to be saved, that we must be holy and blameless before the LORD, and that we must surrender ourselves to him to get all that accomplished.
Friday, February 13, 2026
**Spiritual Progress Achieved in Silence**
To be set free spiritually, we need to understand ourselves thoroughly. The best way to achieve that is to delve deep into your own inner self. There, you ask the Lord to help you examine what's truly in your heart, and you'll be amazed and delighted by the many things he reveals to you that you never thought existed. It's time for inner house-cleaning, all done in silence.
**Duty We Easily Forget**
Today's Entrance Antiphon based on Psalm 95:6—O come, let us worship God and bow low before the God who made us, for he is the Lord our God. Perhaps you believe that God exists, then are you aware that he actually made you? If you are, then shouldn't you seek to know him and develop a most special personal relationship with him? To ignore your own maker is just plain wrong!
***Urgent Notification***
The relationship we have with God, the God of Christ, must be straightened out before we leave this world. You can make it as easy or as hard as possible, depending upon how cooperative your are to the Lord. This basically involves fighting a battle against yourself. If you have a lot of pride, you may likely lose, but if you are a most humble person, you'll surely be a winner. This message is critically important for all of us to know, for the stake can't be any higher! Remember never to die in sin.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
**Two Guiding Principles**
(1) When we follow God's will, we are set free. (2) When we follow ourselves, we enslave ourselves. This is how the Lord has made us.
**God Is Forever**
The Lord God is our beginning and our end, but he himself has no beginning nor end, for he exists forever. His plan for each of us is for all eternity. And I know that the joy I received from him this morning at Mass will last forever!
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
***Putting All Your Heart into Prayers***
The Lord loves hearing us talking to him from the heart. If means a lot more to him than reading some written prayer which may not be easily comprehensible to us. Unfortunately, many Catholic are so used to reciting written prayers that they have trouble saying prayers from the heart. If the heart is not involved, you just don't get to experience the Lord. Should you not feel free saying your own prayers before others, you can always do it alone with the Lord. It's such a good feeling to be able to share all that's in your heart with him, for it can truly be life-changing!
***Free Will Wrongly Exercised*
So far since 2009 I have posted over 17,000 messages all inspired by the Holy Spirit from my heart. Perhaps there are not many who have read all my messages. Bu if you had and still did not believe that Christ is our God and our Savior, you must have a heart made of stone. Again, know that nothing is impossible with God, but we have to give him the OK.
***Most Gratifying One-Way Trip***
The process of attaining union with God through the Holy Eucharist may take a while for some, depending upon how you let yourself go. But once you get there, you'll feel so satisfied and fulfilled that you don't ever want to look back again; you simply want to go deeper into the most beautiful Lord.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
**May I Ask?**
Why don't most Christians talk about Christ when they get together informally? Aren't we supposed to love him with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our strength? If you are not very excited about the one you love, you are not really in love.
*****Only One We Need to Know on Earth*****
Almost all of us have known or heard about people who died in our lives. So we all entered this world, get to know a bunch of people, and depart again. While on earth, we either got to know Christ or not. I can speak for all of us who came to believe in and followed him: When we leave this world, we'll be going to be with the Lord in heaven forever.
****God's Drawing Power****
Communion time thought: Knowing the Lord makes you want to learn as much as possible from him. And anything he reveals to you is most sweet to the soul.
*Commandment vs. Tradition*
In today's Gospel reading fro0n Mark 7, Jesus chided the Pharisees and some scribes for disregarding God's commandment but clinging to human tradition. We are the sane today. We follow social customs in doing what we think is proper in order to look right in others' eyes, not out of true love. This is a hard nut to crack because we all so care what people think of us. I hope that if we realize that this is not right, we are not true hypocrites.
**A Lovely Feeling*
Today's Mass Response from Psalm 84 reads, "How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!" If you feel the same way and want to be there, you are close to the Lord.
**How Open Are We to God?*
In Matthew 13:12, Jesus Jesus said to his disciples, "To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away." Based on this, we can say that "To anyone who expects a lot from God, he will receive much; to anyone who doesn't, he will end up with naught." Basically, it comes down to how open we are to the Lord.
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