Attaining Union with God thru the Holy Eucharist

        I am posting Fr. Mark Goring's sensible and encouraging summary of 2019 to conclude my blogging this year.               ...

        Communion thoughts. I have already received the Lord in the Holy Eucharist many thousand times in my life. Looking back, I wish I h...

      Today's Gospel reading, the first 18 verses of the Gospel of John, is so profoundly beautiful that anyone who knows Christ would ...

        If you are determined to find a lost treasure, you must be willing to take the risk that comes with going about finding it. After y...

        Today I prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. That Jesus came to us and underwent agony, physical beating, ridicule, and fi...

        It is already the last day of 2019. Let's realize that everything in this world is passing. We'll be gone soon one day too....

        This is joy you receive when you submit yourself totally to the Lord. Now you know this is going to lead you to union with him. Mor...

        When we pray to the Lord and wish to get clear, specific responses from him, we need to ask for what we wish for clearly and specif...

        Today's first reading came from 1 John 2. John advised members of the community, "Do not love the world or the things of t...

        Jesus challenges us, for we must decide whether he is the Son of God or merely a hoax. If you cannot say that he is a phony, then y...

        There are a million things you can learn in life, but there is one truth that is more important than anything else you need to kno...

        Communion experience. I approached the Lord. No questions, just total submission. I experienced great peace.

        On this Feast of the Holy Family, let's look at our own families on earth. Some families can be considered happy, but there are...

        Today is the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. In the Gospel reading from Matthew 2, after Jesus was born in Beth...

        " Be one with God and enjoy his presence every moment of your life. " This is not something you only dream about, for you...

        Communion experience. Jesus said in John 6.51: " I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread wil...

        It depends upon how open your heart is. Keep you heart closed and you won't see a thing. Open it up all the way and you see all...

        We sin, but since we have Christ, we do not need to fear sin anymore. Christ our Savior can remove our sins if we accept him and re...