"Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48)

Sunday, May 8, 2022

***Most Satisfying Experience

        Communion experience. Receiving the Holy Eucharist has to be the most satisfying experience on earth. For the Lord touches your soul and spirit while you are still on earth.

****Enjoying God's Holiness

        In union with God, you are filled with the Holy Spirit. Where the Lord dwells, no sin exists. And you enjoy God's holiness.

***Rejoicing in Christ's Promise***

        Today's Gospel reading comes from John 10, in which Jesus said to the Jews, "My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand." How good it is to hear these assuring words from the Lord! How he loves us! Know him to hear his voice and follow him, and we are set for eternity. Rejoice in this promise now and forever!

****Unique, Special Joy

        The joy of Christ our Savior is special and unique. There is no other joy like it. Once you know the Lord, you are filled with this most sweet, selfless joy that bursts forth from your heart, making you want to share it with everyone. You have been liberated and wish to liberate everyone else too!  

**Bonding with God the Father

        We all have the natural urge to share our feelings with someone we know or trust, hoping to gain understanding and/or sympathy to relieve any burden on our hearts. Unfortunately, people who really care enough to listen to us and are also able to understand us well are hard to come by. I suggest that we always share our feelings with God the Father first. He is really the only one who understand us perfectly and can grant us true peace. Besides, every time you share your burdens with him from your heart, you bond with him intimately—something most beneficial to us.

Saturday, May 7, 2022

**Best Investment for Us

         We invest for the future of this life, But there are always risks involved, as we cannot always predict the future. For example, those who invest in the stock market can make millions one day and lose their shirt the next. I know of actual cases. Trusting in Christ is also a form of investment for the future, but it's entirely on a different level. it is 100% secure, the return is absolutely satisfying, and the future extends to eternity. It is the best investment you can ever have. 

*****Consoling Mary Our Mother

        On this first Saturday, i spent some time meditating on the role of Mary in reparation to the her Immaculate Heart. Now, we feel sorry for anyone who suffers. It Would be hard to imagine how grievous and painful Mary must have felt when she saw her own son go thru such horrific torture and suffering. Simeon's prophecy for her "You yourself a sword will pierce" came true. Now she's grieving for all of us who are "crucifying" her son again. I wish to console her as much as I can. Then I realize that she'd be most happy if we love her Divine Son even more! So that's what I'll do. It's clear that if we make Christ the Lord happy, we gladden all the saints and good angels in heaven too.

***A Poignant Question

        If you love Christ and realize that he is suffering great sorrows because most of us still reject him and his love, what would you do, if anything?

**Time Standing Still*

         This is the feeling you get when you are in union with the Lord. You remain in him, no longer rushing ahead on anything nor worrying about things to come. His time is now your time and his plan, always yours as well. In full sync with the Lord, you needn't be concerned about time anymore. With no more anxieties, you live in his peace.

Friday, May 6, 2022

*Humbled and Uplifted

        Communion experience. The Lord of heaven doesn't mind stooping so low as to enter me, a poor sinner. I am humbled and uplifted at the same time. Most grateful to my most beloved Lord.

*****Power of Love*****

        Live for Jesus and you are ready to die for him too.         

**Being Close to Jesus

        If I consider Christ to be my soul, I don't mean that he is my soul literally; I am only expressing the feeling that he is as dear and close to me as my own soul. Since he is my creator and Lord, I can even say that he is closer to me than my soul. Anyway, once you attain union with him thru the Holy Eucharist, you can't get any closer than that short of heaven.

**Faith, Our Treasure

        Faith in God must remain intact in all circumstances, not affected by anything that happens to us in the world. In fact, it should get even stronger as you go thru all the trials and tribulations of life. It is our precious gift from God

*****Our Life Giver*****

        In today's Gospel reading from John 6, the message Jesus gave to the Jews while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum can't be clearer or more affirmative. 
       
        "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last Day. For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."

          That's why I as a Catholic worship the Holy Eucharist.

**The Truth Revealer

        It is the Holy Spirit that makes us see the truth. I don't mean just coming to believe that it's the truth; I mean becoming so sharply aware that it's the truth that you want to embrace it with all your heart.

***Be Ready for Judgment***

        There is no doubt that the last day for mankind will be here on Judgment Day when Christ comes again, but we only have our present lifetime on earth to prepare for meeting the Lord. So be wise and get ready now for your judgment.

*****Christ is Real God!

        I do not see nor aurally hear Jesus, yet he is more real to me than anyone I see, hear, or touch. How can it be? That's because he is God! For only he can enter my heart and touch my soul.

Thursday, May 5, 2022

**Jesus Heals a Leper

         Here's one dramatic scene from the TV series The Chosen.