***Most Urgent and Perfect Time

          We are at a time when we urgently need to go all out to pray to God with all our heart and with all our might to ask him to save our country, the Church, and the world. We always need God, but now we need him more than ever, for so many souls are being deceived and swept away toward eternal death. It's do-or-die for us, the perfect time to surrender ourselves to God completely to help him fight the spiritual war.

***To Be the Freest Being Existing!

         In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 18, Jesus told the parable of the unforgiving servant to teach us that we must forgive others as God forgives us. If he is merciful to us, then we must be merciful to others. Not being able to forgive others is a clear sign that we do not fully know the Lord's love yet. Only knowing his love fully will you be able to love and forgive all others. And you'll feel the liberation! Nevertheless, do the will of God always and you'll be the freest being in the whole universe!

**To Be a Full Christian

         In today's second reading from Romans 14, Paul writes: "If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's." To be a full Christian, we must belong to the Lord, then we must live and die for him. Otherwise, living is meaningless. 

***Time Running Out for Sinners

         Today's first reading from Sirach 27 is what today's sinners need to hear. Let me quote part of it.
        
      Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful will suffer the Lord's vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor's injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. Remember your last days, set enmity aside; remember death and decay, and cease from sin! Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor; remember the Most High's covenant and overlook faults.

         Since these sinners don't even pray, they are not likely to heed these words. How sad that they have reached the point only some dire calamity might perhaps get their attention!

***A Great Feeling

           Today I just know that God has created me to come into the world to find and know him so that I might return to him never to leave him again. It's such a great feeling to know this!

*Mars in 4K

        The new images from Mars are amazing. They show another world. But somehow I am not amazed that much because I already know intimately the one who created Mars and the whole universe.

***Action Needed Now!

         In today's Gospel reading from Luke 6, Jesus said to his disciples: "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' but not do what I command?" Many say "I trust in the Lord" and don't do anything more. We cannot listen to God's words and not act on them. Staying lukewarm is not an option. As he promised later, "Anyone who listens to and acts on my words is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when the flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it." That's the way to go, especially as we are now entering end times. 

***Yearning for God

             Today's Gospel acclamation John 14.23: Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him. I, for one, want the Father and the Son to come to me. Just remember that the Lord God is all holy and loves us to death. He deserves to be loved with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind. And we must not sin one iota against him. Abandoning ourselves to him completely is the only possible, logical move for us to make. Let me know if you know of a better way. 

**Stay Away from the Demons

        From today's first reading from 1 Corinthians 10, Paul wrote: I do not want you to become participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons." We must discern clearly what comes from the Lord and what doesn't. It's easy to think that since everyone is doing it, it must be OK. And it's difficult to uphold your beliefs not to cave in, absent great courage and strong faith. Pity those within and without the Church who have already been deceived by the Devil and lost sight of the truth. To ground ourselves deeply in the Lord is our only salvation.

***Joy of Having Secured Eternity***

           I am so happy to have Christ all to myself because having him, I am all set to live on as one with him for ever! I feel like telling you this a million times, for his promise is absolutely trustworthy, backed by his own sacrifice on the cross to save us. There is no greater joy and satisfaction than knowing that you have secured your eternity. The most crucial problem of your existence is no more.