If God is willing to enter you to be in union with you, then surely you can receive all the power you need to become holy! For the Lord, nothing is impossible, and he loves to make you beautiful. So ask for all that would please him and you'll have it all!
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
*****Our Greatest Gift on Earth*****
Receiving the Lord in the Holy Eucharist is a privilege. It's no ordinary act. It's better that you don't receive it if you do not appreciate it. I see it as the most holy Lord willing to enter you to be one with you spiritually, and you must be ready for it. It is the Lord bringing the heavenly banquet personally to you, inviting you to live with him in heaven for all eternity. Know that the Holy Eucharist is God's greatest gift for you on earth! It is as holy as the Lord himself, for it is the Lord!
***Most Satisfying Life***
To be in full union with God is to live every single moment in the Lord. Now you know that you belong fully to him. Finding all your joy in Christ, you live the most satisfying life this side of heaven.
**Powerful Prayer Support
In making the penitential act at the beginning of Mass, we confess having sinned and ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and all our brothers and sisters present to pray for us. So, if we are ready to submit ourselves to God, imagine what all these prayers can do for us! The power of all the prayers from heaven alone should be enough to keep us from failing God again.
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
Highest Exaltation*****
Communion experience. First of all, the Lord has already redeemed me with his most precious blood, so I am most precious to him. Now he enters me to be one with me. Can you think of any higher exaltation? I don't think so. All in all, it's an unbelievable day!
**Double Miracles
As I received Holy Communion at Mass this morning, I encountered two great miracles simultaneously. They are Christ the Lord himself and the transformation of the bread and wine into his body and blood in the Holy Eucharist.
**Shifting Our Focus
When we face a problem, it usually gets all our attention and we easily feel the stress and lose peace in trying to solve or resolve it. Here's the superior way. Rely totally on Christ and when a problem comes up, focus on the Lord instead, trusting in his guidance and giving you the strength to deal with the problem. This way you don't ever get stressed out as you essentially let the Lord solve the problem for you.
*****Just Me and Christ*****
Without Christ, we are essentially alone. You may know a lot of people, but whom can you depend on? They will all die one day like you. I know Christ, so definitely I am not alone. I have all I need, for I can depend on him completely as my creator, my Savior, my Lord, and my God! Me and Christ, always belonging to each other!!!
Monday, July 4, 2022
**Taking God's Blessings Seriously
When Fr. Stephen ended the Mass this morning asking almighty God to bless us, it struck me that we should not take God's blessings lightly. For when God blesses us, great good things are bound to happen. This is having faith, and it's thru this faith that we get to see God's wonders.
***Bedazzled by Christ
Communion experience. Bedazzled by the beauty and majesty of the Lord, everything else faded away. He alone shines in this universe and the core of my being.
*Way of Finding Rest in God
Today is July 4th, Independence Day. It's a happy day for me, since it's the day I started attending daily Mass again at Mount St. Joseph Chapel nearby after I recovered from COVID-19. During Mass, the Lord made me see that to find rest in him, I only need to offer up all of myself—my mind, my heart, and my soul—to him. And I gladly did that.
**Believing in Your Own Faith
In today's Gospel from Matthew 9, a woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind Jesus as he was walking and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured." Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, "Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you." From that hour the woman was cured. Lesson learned: When you have strong faith in God, you believe in your own faith too. This allows miracles to happen.
***Attaining Union with God***
(1) You open completely up to God, allowing him to enter your innermost with no hindrance whatsoever. (2) He shapes and molds you so that all his ways and his thoughts become your ways and your thoughts. For this part, no effort is required from you as all the work is done by the Lord.
Sunday, July 3, 2022
*Great Joy
Communion experience. I knew that the one I was going to receive is the one I was going to follow forever. Great joy flooded my soul.
***How God Deems Us
John the Baptist didn't even consider himself to be worthy of untying Jesus' sandal strap. Yet this Lord wishes us to eat his body and drink his blood in the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist in memory of him! How he deems us is pretty incredible! We should really rejoice and love him with all our heart!
**Humility over Pride
In today's Gospel reading from Luke 10, Jesus sent seventy-two of his disciples ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit, to proclaim the kingdom of God at hand. The seventy-two returned rejoicing, and said, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of you name." Jesus said, "Behold, I have given you the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven." Lesson learned: We are not to rejoice that we are mighty and powerful, but to rejoice that God loves us even as sinners. Humility beats out pride every time.
***Listening to the Lord Speaking
To me, the words of Jesus our Lord are more palatable than anything else we might experience, for they speak the truth, enlightening our whole being and freeing the spirit. Indeed, we are to live by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God, as Scripture tells us. Listening to the Lord is a delight that surpasses all understanding.
***Forgiving, Our Big Hurdle and Test*****
To forgive our enemies is most difficult for almost all of us, Christians included. To love the unlovely just goes against our grain. But the love of God is blind—Christ has already made that crystal clear to us. God never hates anyone. If we hurt him, he feels the pain greatly, but pities us even more. Christians must be like that too to comfort our Lord. Amidst this chaotic, godless world, we must pray for the conversion, not destruction, of all evildoers.
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