**Christian Life Is a Celebration

         Mass is a celebration, so is the life of a Christian, for the Lord is our greatest joy. Also, how can you not celebrate when you know that you are heaven bound? A Christian not feeling any joy is not a bona fide one.

***To Be Blessed to the Max at Mass*

        Before you go to Mass, make sure that you are in a state of grace, that is, you are clean. Then at Mass, completely empty yourself so that the Lord may fill you with all the graces he has for you. When you receive him in the Eucharist, surrender yourself completely to him once again to strengthen your union with him. 

***A Universal Message***

        This succinct message is for all of us. 

**Looking Beyond This Life

        Picture life as a lit candle. As we age, that candle is slowly burning out. While we can see things immediate to us in that light, we fail to look for that what's beyond this life. The wise see the light of Christ and follow him. After the candle of this life burns out, they'll be lit by God's glorious light to shine forever.  

**Unstoppable Journey*

        Communion experience. The Lord entered me and I knew that he's going tp take care of everything for me. My journey to him may not be perfectly smooth the rest of the way, but nothing will be able to stop me from getting there, that's for sure. 

***My Great Consolation:

knowing that I can fully trust in the Lord God who knows everything that's going on and about me 

***God Is Sweet***

        The response from Psalm 119 today: How sweet to my taste is your promise! Do you know that the Lord God is not only loving, merciful, and gracious, he is also most sweet to our soul? As a matter of fact, everything about him—his love, his forgiveness, his words, his teaching, his guidance, his protection . . . his every act—is sweet!  

***Serect to Freedom

        The more you let God love you, the more you fall in love with him and the freer you become. 

***Why Care About Jesus Dying?***

        Tuesday today, again it's the day to pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary. These mysteries are more difficult for me to pray than all other ones simply because meditating upon the Passion of Christ is so poignant that it becomes unbearable easily. Why should God love me like this? I don't mind because deep down I know that I am a sinner who needs to be saved by him. Praise God!

**Christ Is Both . . .

life-changing and life-saving.