***Best Way to Know and Learn from Christ***

        The fastest and most expedient way of knowing and learning from Christ the Lord is to go directly to him, skipping all third parties, for he is instantly accessible to you at any time. To take any roundabout way to seek to attain union with him would be nigh impossible! So be like the Apostles, who followed and learned directly from the Lord.

***That Unique Satisfying Feeling

        To remain in union with Christ, you must remain completely open to him, hiding nothing, In fact, you pour out everything in your heart for him to know, proving to him that your heart is in union with his Sacred Heart too. Knowing that you are in union with the Lord has to be the most triumphant, satisfying, and humbling feeling you can possibly have in this life.  

***Answer to Triumphant Living***

        To live triumphantly in this chaotic evil world is a huge challenge. The best way I see to meet this challenge is to remain in solid union with Christ. Only in him will we find peace, consolation, and receive power and strength. There is not another way, for he alone is in charge of all things and the one to whom we shall all return to give an account of ourselves.

***That Heavenly Feeling***

        To know that you are heaven bound is a great feeling! Since I am going to follow Christ forever, I know that I'm going to him.

***The World Losing Its Lure**

        Once you realize and sense how special, perfect, and extraordinarily beautiful God's love for us is, all the worldly things lose their appeal and those who belong to the world just look like they are acting out their parts in some pointless play.

***Worst Unjustified Maltreatment*****

        Christ has shown that God's love for us is pure, selfless, merciful, and most tender—it's truly beautiful beyond words! It melts the hearts and transforms the souls of all those who believe in him. We truly need to love God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength. Yet so many of us still ignore, reject, or even mock him. So the Lord God is the most loved and most maltreated being at the same time. This only shows that evil is real and the God of  Christ is truly our God!  

***How Faith Begins**

        There are people who show zero interest in knowing anything about Christ. It makes you think that faith might be a gift that God gives only to those he has first chosen. I don't know. If that were the case, I'd ask the Lord to choose everyone. What I know is how I came to choose Christ. I did not consider him until I felt the emptiness of life while I was attending college. I got to know some Christian friends who shared their faith enthusiastically with me. Eventually, I opened up and accepted Christ—that was the key moment! As I received more graces, my faith started to grow. This was affirmed by what Jesus said to his disciples in Matthew 13: "To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich." In most cases, this growth goes on one's whole life. Then if you can abandon yourself to the Lord entirely, with the aid of the Holy Eucharist you can achieve union with him in a relatively short time. In conclusion, to have faith in God, we must open ourselves up to God to get started, and then by abandoning ourselves to him to keep the growth process going.

*****JESUS IS WORTH EVERYTHING*****

         All of us, Christian or Non-Christian, need to know this about Jesus. Don't miss listening to the great St. Thomas Aquinas' epiphany moment with him beginning at 9:47.

**The LORD Is Our Joy*

        Isaiah 55:1, today's entrance antiphon: All who are thirsty, come to the waters, says the Lord.  Though you have no money, come and drink with joy. The Lord is the source of our joy and is our joy!

***Love Jesus First And . . .

you'll know how to love everyone else right.