Attaining Union with God thru the Holy Eucharist

        Today's first reading comes from Ecclesiastes 1, containing the familiar verses: Vanities of vanities! All things are vanity! Wh...

       (1) You realize you are a sinner and need salvation; you repent your sins and return to God. (2) You realize that you must love God w...

        God calls us. He knows exactly how he can use us, so he has a role for each one of us to perform. But we need to pay attention and r...

        Loving the evildoers is hard for us, but God measures our love by how much we love them. Just know that he loves them as much as he ...

        The Lord supplies us with material needs, but today I see (and am most grateful) that he can fulfill our spiritual needs by purifyin...

        I am glad that the Lord God looks at my intentions and not so much how well I actually get things done. This makes it possible for m...

        It is the presence of ego that causes us to lose peace. Without ego, we no longer care about ourselves, thus we become free. This is...

        Since God looks mainly into our hearts, let him make them pure and spotless. The we can do all things comfortably from the heart. 

        Because Christ is all mine, he is dearer to me than my own life, my own soul, and my very existence.

        Communion experience. The Lord invited me to receive him, so I received him to let him take all of me.  

         In today's Gospel reading from Luke 8, Jesus said to the crowd, "To anyone who has, more will be given, and from the one w...

        At my age, having fallen numerous times, I make sure that I don't fall again. This morning as I was leaving home to attend the 7...

        Being lost can be terrifying. In my lifetime it has happened to me that I completely forgot about doing something or lost something ...

        The humble person or the proud one? The humble one knows his limits. When he encounters difficulties, he turns to the Lord for help ...

       We shall all die one day, so accept that. It is where we go after we die that should be the big concern. Once you have your soul all ...

        Communion experience. I am completely satisfied with Christ. He's the only one I need and wish to please. 

        If you have sinned, just repent and move on. That is, be as holy as possible from now on. Let the past go, for it's already in y...

        Proposition 1 that will be on the November ballot in California here is totally diabolical. After the U.S. Supreme Court has overtur...