*****Amazing Fact***

        Communion time thoughts. With Christ fully accessible to us, it's so easy to become holy and heaven bound! 😇😇😇

**Worry, Anxiety, and Concern

       Jesus always teaches us not to worry about anything. Worry is a sign of lack of trust in God. In truth, worrying always worsens the situation we're in and harms our health. Anxiety is not as bad, but it still shows your lack of self-control and total trust in God. Concern is totally proper, for we need to be concerned about the safety of our souls and whether we love God enough or not always. 

***Perfect Blessing**

        Communion experience. What a blessing to have the Perfect One make you perfect!

*****Our Greatest Sign*****

        In today's Gospel reading from Mark 8, the Pharisees came to Jesus to seek from him a sign from heaven to test him. Today we also want to see signs before believing. If we don't see Jesus Christ as our greatest possible sign, then we are blind indeed! We only need to be impressed by him alone to be saved, for he is the one who can bring about our greatest spiritual transformation!

*****Serious Warning***

        Jesus is waiting for you to acknowledge that he is your Savior. If you haven't ruled out never going to believe in him, then please for your own sake don't wait until your last moment of your life to repent and ask him to save you, for you may not get that moment. Don't ever take chances when your soul is at stake!

****Most Smart Move

         Latch onto Christ and let everything else go.

***Those I Pity the Most**

        I feel sorry for those who have fallen victim to evildoers, but I feel even sorrier for the evildoers or anyone who rejects Christ.

***God Compensates All Who Endure for His Sake*

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 6, Jesus stood on the plain and said to a great crowd, "Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man." Now I see that enduring for God's sake is a great blessing, for he will compensate you to make you really happy! Never forget that we who follow Christ faithfully will enjoy eternal life in heaven! 

****Letting God's Love Transform Us!****

        God is love. So believe in God and let his love fill your every fiber and cell and cleanse your soul so that you may become holy like him. This is possible because he has made us in his image in the first place.

*****Know Where We Are Heading

        Today's entrance antiphon from Psalm 95: O come, let us worship God and bow low before the God who made us, for he is the Lord our God. Yes, the Lord has made us. From the first reading from Genesis 3, we learned that Adam and Eve ate from the tree which God had forbidden them to do, and they were duly punished and banished from the garden from Eden. As children of Adam and Eve, we inherited this original sin.  Apparently, our Lord and God still loves all of us so much that he wishes us to return to him in heaven. So we are now all proceeding along this path. What we need to do is to follow Christ faithfully and our return will assuredly be successful.