(1) We be holy. (2) We trust in his plan for us and focus upon bearing fruit for his glory. This will be different for each of us. (3) We respond to God's will alone and never compare ourselves with others. That's all.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
****Happiest Thing to Do on Earth****
Communion experience. I felt that to die to ourselves so that we may live in Christ is the happiest thing we can do!
***The Breakthrough*
To surrender to God is difficult because you need first to have the humility to acknowledge that God is your Lord. If you can do it, you are set free. You've now broken down this big barrier to enable the Lord to make your life both easy and a joy to live.
**Answers to Some Questions
What's most refreshing to the soul? Ans: God's holiness. How to best live our life? Ans: Follow God's plan for you. How to know God loves us? Ans: Love God with all your heart and all your soul first.
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
***Saying "I Love You"
We say "I love you" readily to a lot of people. We say it simply because we like someone or that someone pleases us or just as a compliment. When the Lord lets you know that he loves you, he's on an entirely different level, for his love is pure and unconditional. He won't say it just to please you; he wants you to know that he loves you to the point of even willing to lay down his life for you! So we shouldn't say "I love you" to anyone lightly if our motive isn't that pure. Taste God's love by letting him love us first and we can do it better.
***Jubilant Awareness***
The Most Holy Almighty God and Father loves me, always watches over me, and now awaits my return to him in heaven.
**Communion Experience
At Mass, my Lord offered himself to unite with me bodily and in spirit. The only appropriate response I could see was "total submission." When I receive him thus, he completes me, fulfilling what I desire the most, and both he and I triumph.
Monday, July 3, 2023
**Increasing Our Love for God
Communion experience. Receiving the Body of the Lord is a heavenly feast. Receive it with all you heart and with all your soul, and your love for him knows no bounds.
****Jesus Knows Everything About Us
Today is the Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle. This is how the Gospel reading from John 20 started: Thomas, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But Thomas said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe." A week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe." Jesus wasn't there the first time, but he knew exactly what Thomas had said. The Lord knows every thought we think, every word we utter, and every deed we perform. You unbelievers better wake up and watch out. To those who already believe, it's a great consolation that the Lord knows all about and watches over them.
Sunday, July 2, 2023
***Thinking About Leaving the Church?
If you are a Catholic and see other Catholics, lay or clerical, behaving improperly and decide to leave the Church, then you are judging others and probably never knew Christ the Lord well in the first place. Christ is most holy and perfect and we must never leave him. The Church he has established as a whole is his body, so to leave the Church is to leave him, cutting yourself off from all the sacraments he has given you, especially the Eucharist which is his greatest gift to us. There will always be sinners among us. The proper thing to do is to remain in the Church and pray even harder for yourself and the Church. Always pray and ask the Lord to help you see things clearly.
*****Most Beautiful Thing We Can Do*****
In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 10, Jesus said to his apostles: "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." We are to love the Lord wholeheartedly without any reservation. This is showing our great faith in him, and our reword will be great in heaven. Loving God is the most beautiful thing we can do in our whole existence!
***Our Basic Burden
We fear facing God because deep down we know we are sinners. If we acknowledge that and repent of our sins, joy and freedom will displace all our fears. It really works, so why are you still waiting and not wake up to this truth? You see, God has so made us that we cannot live in sin and enjoy peace at the same time.
**Priority in Prayer*
It's easy to pray for others to become holier, forgetting that praying for ourselves to become more perfect should take first priority. To help others obey God, we need to obey him ourselves first. To help others become holy, we need to become holy ourselves first.
**God Knows What Suits You
God will use you for his glory and your salvation as much as you'll let him. Since he knows you thoroughly, if you are open to him, he'll let you know exactly how you can best serve him. He'll never impose upon you anything for which you are not ready or that's beyond your endurance. You can always trust in the Lord who is wise, kind, and most considerate.
Saturday, July 1, 2023
***Praying for Souls in Purgatory
I am posting this video to urge all to pray for the souls in purgatory. When you pray for them, they will in turn pray for you too. I met Vicka on one pilgrimage to Medjugorje. As our group listened to her speak, we were able to look at the bright sun comfortably, for the glare was gone.
**Sign You've Surrendered to God
The Lord God occupies you mind and soul totally so that all worldly things no longer interest you. For everything pales next to the magnificence of the Lord.
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