When you attain union with the Lord, you experience freedom, peace, and joy. He showed me today that if you experience only sorrow but still believe that he is with you, he will bless you extra.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
***Highest Level of Intimacy
Communion experience. By receiving the Lord into me with all my heart and soul, he raises me to the highest level of intimacy with him.
***Rejoice if You Follow Christ*****
Because Christ loves us with a pure love, we can also love him and others with a pure love. Because his love for us is infinite, our love for him and others can also be boundless. Being most holy, he can make us holy. Being most beautiful, he can make us beautiful. Last, he is the life eternal. By remaining in union with him, we have life eternal too. We can not possibly get any better!
***Sanctity alone Shines Bright
The saints are the ones that shine the brightest before the Lord. How high a position you hold within the Church on earth is not a determinant.
**Highest Level of Existence
In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 5, Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill . . . whoever obeys and teaches these commandment will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven." When we obey the Lord God in all things, he raises us to the highest level of existence!
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
*****Most Precious Food*****
Communion experience. In John 6:54, Jesus said, "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day." So the consecrated Host I consume is no ordinary food—in fact, it's going to make me live forever! This is absolutely the food that's dearest and most precious to me—it's the Lord himself.
***World on the Brink***
For most of the world, it's not God's will be done, but my or our will be done. This will bring about its downfall in the end. In trying to gain the whole world, they forfeit their lives! Saddest of all is that this is also happening within the Church, the body of the Lord. With so many souls at the risk of being lost forever, the time to pray for the world now is more urgent than ever!
***God Can Only Love*
God loves all of us and commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves (Matthew 22:39). In other words, we must not hate anyone or wish anyone ill. Yes, we should even love all evildoers and wish them well. True mercy is limitless. By obeying the Father, we glorify and honor Him.
**Going Beyond Salvation
Today is the Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua. In the Gospel reading from Matthew 5, Jesus said to his disciples: "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house." So it's not just we get ourselves saved, we must be useful to the heavenly Father by doing good deeds to glorify him.
***Logical Conclusion
Jesus has died for us on the cross, redeeming us with his own precious blood. Certainly, he will do anything for our good if we remain open to him.
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