***How to Let Humility Grow***

        Do you know that as we worship the Lord, adore him, praise him, and thank him for his mercy and generosity, we become more and more humble ourselves? Now you can let your humility grow unceasingly.

***God More Merciful than We

        I do pray for the salvation of some family members and friends. I reason that since the Lord God is so much more merciful than I, surely he will answer my prayer—I only need to trust in him. And I find great comfort in reading what Jesus said to his disciples in Mark 11:24: "Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours." Amen.

**Ending and Beginning in Christ*

        Communion experience. I receive Christ and are now one with him. There is absolutely nothing beyond him worth seeking. I end in Christ and my eternal life begins.

***A More Serious Sin

        In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 13, Jesus mentioned those who cause others to sin. When you are tempted to sin, ask yourself if that sin will cause others to sin also. If yes, then your sin is a lot more serious and you should wisely avoid committing it. Of course, the best thing is you don't sin at all, then you won't face issues like this one. And that's what you should aim for. Seek to attain union with the Lord thru the Holy Eucharist and you are heading in the right direction.

***Main Focus at Mass

        At Mass this morning, the music was somewhat contemporary. I personally prefer more traditional music. I've attended many Masses at various churches around the world and can recall hearing some truly beautiful uplifting music. Then different music styles inspire different people. The church setting is another issue that affects people differently. Anyway, the Lord made me see that the important thing that matters at Mass is how we dispose ourselves to worship him. He alone must be our main focus and we should not let other things detract us from that. 

***Going All Out to Love God***

        Just believing in the God of Christ is not good enough. We ought to cling to him for dear life! This statement is accurate, for if we don't, we can lose eternal life. The Lord dislikes anyone who's only lukewarm (Revelation 3:16). No matter how we much we love God, we can never love him enough. So do not remain complacent. Follow the greatest and first commandment Jesus gave us: You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. Complete trust and abandonment should be our goal. Again, with God's help, this should be no sweat.

*****Reminding All One More Time

        Our time on earth is brief. Next to eternity, it's practically zero. Clearly, we are not meant to remain here permanently. While here, we do have enough time to think about our afterlife and eternity. This is something we must do, especially when Christ has already revealed to us the way to salvation and eternal happiness. It's the only message that's been spelled out clearly, positively, and definitively to all of us. I can testify to you with all my heart that Christ is truly our Lord and Savior because God loves us so much that he was willing to give his only Son, Christ, so that anyone who believes in him might have eternal life. With God, it's always true when it sounds too good to be true. Override your pride with humility and you'll see the light.

***Being Truly Smart

        We should be smart enough to know that if we always follow our ways, thing just don't always work out our way. If you are really smart, you would want to follows God's ways. Then things will always work out your way with final success and satisfaction assured to boot.

***Christ Our Fulfillment***

        We all feel the need to be loved, and Christ is the perfect one who can fulfill that need, for he loves us the most and his love is unconditional. selfless, and most pure.

***Thank God for Knowing Everything!

        God knows everything about us, in particular how much we love him. Rejoice, for now we know exactly how to be rewarded the most by him heaven. 

***Way to Live Our Lives

        God deserves the very best from us, for he created us out of love and is our Father. If we fall short of being perfect, he'd love to help us. We obey, learn, and grow holy. This is how to live our lives: to let the Father make us his best children.

**Natural Reaction to Christ*

        Once you realize Christ's holiness, selflessness, beauty, and majesty, you become wordless. You would want to submit yourself to him to let him take whole possession of you so that you may rest in his peace and his love forever.

****Huge Big Deal

        To let God make you holy is a BIG deal, for it changes your existence for all eternity! You are now freed from sin and ready for sainthood. The world can no longer shackle you, for you belong to God the Father. His love envelops you. shielding you from all evil. Heaven is assured. There's no bigger deal than letting God save you.

*****Most Special Experience!*****

        Another re-realization. Receiving the Lord in the Holy Eucharist is unique and most special—it initiates and seals our union with the Lord! It readies us for eternal living. It's an experience both humbling and uplifting.  

***Great Honor & Happy Thought*

        Many saints were martyrs. They died for Christ. Now, we are all going to die. So if we live for the Lord alone and die, we can be considered to be martyrs too. For me, this is a great honor and a happy thought. 

***God Only Knows How to Love

        Communion experience. Why would the Lord want to enter me, a both physically and spiritually impure being? I see that he's doing it out of pure love so that I might have everlasting life. That he should wish to attain union with me absolutely made me rejoice!

***Big Commitment

        Our soul is our most important treasure. If we can entrust our soul to the Lord God, that would certainly please him and give us deep peace for knowing that our soul is now secure. A win-win situation.

***Heaven and Hell Await***

        In yesterday's Gospel reading from Matthew 10, Jesus said to his Apostles: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be those of his household." This is actually happening today all around the world. The only way to heal this division is for us to repent all our sins and believe in Christ. Meanwhile, both heaven and hell are open and waiting.