*****God Most Personal*****

        Today I am struck particularly by the fact that our God can become most personal to us. Through receiving the Holy Eucharist, we become one spiritually with the Lord, and he is now our soulmate. How can we possibly ask where God is? He is Jesus the Christ and he is all ours when we let ourselves be all his! Wake up to this astounding truth!

*****Time to Pray for Our own Soul

        Christ is so merciful that he never wishes to condemn us; he only wants to convert us to save us. If we get condemned, it's by our own choice, and we cause him great sorrow. Also, he had suffered so many physical blows already when he was crucified for our sake. Continuing sinning against him, we continue inflicting wounds on his Most Sacred Heart unceasingly. It's time for us to pray for our own soul like never before!

**Good Prayer Rule

        When you pray, whether you ask for anything or not, never question or doubt. You simply mean every word you say and let it go at that. 

***Christ or the World

         The more you know Christ, the less interesting the world becomes. This is a natural process. If you have gone to heaven first, I am sure you'd never want to come down to live in this world. You either fit heaven above or the world below. 

**Jesus Is "Too Much"

        Communion experience. I felt that the Lord was "too much" for me, not as a burden though. I say "too much" because I was overwhelmed by his love, mercy, generosity, understanding, as well as his holiness, humility, beauty, and omnipotence. I'd like to add that when I submitted myself totally to the Lord, I felt peace, tranquility, and total freedom from the world. No one else could have made me feel that way but the True God.

***God's Mercy Ignored*****

        I see Christ the Lord as the answer to every need of mine. What we most urgently need is God's mercy, but the people of the world are not asking for that from the Lord. This is my big sorrow.

**Letting God Make Us Holy

        It struck me at Mass this morning that God can make us holy. This is a huge deal! To become holy is not something many of us think about, even though we might believe that God would want us to be holy. If we say yes to him, he will certainly make it happen and everything will change for the better for us. This is our chance for him to make us beautiful for him to behold. Do not miss it.

****Way of Living in Christ***

        God is neither limited by space nor time. We are thus unlimited too in loving God, for we can do it anywhere and anytime. Now, do everything with love for Christ and you succeed in loving the Lord unceasingly! You now live in him. 

**Evil-Worse-than-Ever Warning*

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 6, the scribes and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely, hoping to discover a reason to accuse him. Today's hypocrites are even worse. Corrupt politicians create hoaxes and fabricate false facts in attempts to take down anyone they see as a threat to them. Then look at California. Even after the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right, the Democratic governor has proposed to make it a right in the state constitution. When evil has become even uglier, you can be sure that God's chastisement is near.

***Jesus Welcome Challenge

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 14, Jesus challenged us. He said, "If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." Also, "Anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple." So we must make Jesus foremost in our lives if we wish to follow him. All his demands are justified if he were truly our God. Personally, I am so glad that he had made clear what's required of us. For without such guidance, we would be lost, not knowing whom to follow nor how to live our lives so that we may be set free and gain eternal life. Meet his challenge and we'll be greatly rewarded in the end!