Attaining Union with God thru the Holy Eucharist

             Question #1: Do you believe that nothing is impossible with God?              Question #2: Do you believe that he wants you to...

        Today is the last day of April; time marches on relentlessly. Blessed is he or she who is ready to greet the Lord God at any moment...

        Communion experience. It's so satisfying to receive Christ in the Holy Eucharist, making me realize that the Lord our creator k...

        Today's Communion antiphon, John 14.27: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to ...

         Earlier in John 14, Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ...

        Today's Gospel reading today at Mass from John 14 more or less confirms what I said in the last post. Jesus said to his discipl...

        The closer we get to Christ, the more we are awed by his perfection, and the humbler we become. Then finally, we enter him (or rath...

        Communion experience. Being just with the Lord alone was a most private moment. The ego no longer existed and I was filled with pea...

        Achieving union with God is our greatest challenge, precisely because it make us saints. Actually, the hard part consists of just o...

        In today's Gospel reading from John 15, Jesus talks about the vine and the branches. He said to his disciples, "I am the v...

        We must evangelize ourselves first before evangelizing others. It's always between God and us, never between others and us. And...

        Communion experience. This is the Lord, my Savior, to whom I owe my existence and without whom I would not have life, let alone ete...

        God has made his intention and how we can have eternal life absolutely clear to us. Are we willing to listen to him? Do we still pr...

        When I thought that if I must give my own life so that the souls of those I love might be saved, I would do so. Then I realized tha...

        We fall short of loving God as much as we should, but focusing upon our sinfulness and asking ourselves how we can do better is not...

        Today's Gospel reading came from John 14. At the Last Supper, Jesus said to his disciples, "From now on you do know my Fat...

        Today's entrance antiphon, 1 Peter 2.9: O chosen people, proclaim the mighty works of him who called us out of darkness into hi...

        In following the Holy Spirit, I have learned not to rush ahead of him. Today I see that lagging behind the Holy Spirit can even be ...