To be saved, we must experience one sorrow—the sorrow for our sins (contrition). To be saved, we also need to experience one joy—the joy of surrendering ourselves to God (to become obedient to him).
Saturday, August 17, 2024
***Missing the Greatest Joy*
From today's reading 1 from Ezekiel 18, we heard "The one who sins shall die." You sin and you die—this is so common sense and clear, yet many do not take it seriously. Pity them for not knowing the great joy of salvation, the joy of knowing that God loves us all so much.
***Intenifying Our Relationship with God***
This is something all Christians should do as often as possible That is, we cry out aloud to the Lord, calling upon his holy name from our very soul to voice all our needs, desires, as well as our love for him. If you are not that type to express yourself like that, you can always do it quietly or in silence—it's the intensity you feel that matters. When we take the Lord seriously, he takes us seriously.
Friday, August 16, 2024
*****Akita Messages (Serious Warning)*****
The messages from ur Lady of Akita to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa of Japan were officially approved by the Church in 1984. Sr, Agnes just passed away yesterday on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It's good to hear these messages again as the prophecies are being fulfilled now.
*****Obedience Comes First*****
We should not do only things we enjoy doing; we should instead do only what the Lord wants us to do. If we're not pleased with or don't understand it, we should still do it out of obedience alone. Then everything we do becomes a joy!
***Most Satisfying Food***
Communion experience. I received the food that would make me live forever! If that doesn't satisfy you, you are eiher totally ignorant or out of your mind.
**God Is Almighty!
The Lord knows all about us and deals with each one of us, and there are now not just Adam and Eve, but over 8 billions of us. Obviously, he handles all of us simultaneously. It just shows that our God is omnipotent. We can certainly rejoice in that!
***Inspired by the Lord***
I arrived at Mount St. Joseph Seminary for morning Mass early, so I waited in the car prayerfully. It was a beautiful day and the view from the the top of the mount was impressively panoramic. The Lord placed these two thoughts into my mind. (1) If I stop managing my own life and let him take over, I would be set free completely. (2) Suffering in this life is OK as long as I remain with him and emerge victorious in the end. That these two thoughts revealed the truth to me was crystal clear.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
***Limitless Ways of Loving God***
The theme of this blog is essentially "to love God." Each message posted is a variation on this theme. So far I have posted more than 15,600 times. It just shows that the number of ways to say "I love you" to the Lord is limitless. This is precisely what makes following Christ exciting and exhilarating!
**Christ, Our Perfector*
Communion experience. Christ the Perfect One, is the one who can make us perfect. When the Lord makes you clean and blameless, it's the best feeling you can have, proving to me that he is our Savior.
***God's Wonderful Gift for Us*
What we see or hear may not be the truth. Look at the scams and the fake news nowadays. Then you order something online and it turns out to be fake. You trust someone and get betrayed. As long as evil exists, you can easily get gypped Then there is Christ the Lord whom I don't see nor hear physically, yet I know him to be absolutely real and trustworthy. Faith, more dependable than physical experiences, is truly a wonderful gift from God.
**Getting the Priorities Straight*
We normally do what we need to do for survival and getting ahead in this world first, and do something for God only when there's some time left. This is all wrong if God is most important to us. In that case, we should do all things for his sake, that is, we should serve him in whatever we do.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
***Awe-Inspiring Lord***
Communion experience. Receiving Christ in the Eucharist is receiving the King of kings and Lord of lords! Realizing this alone should make us want him to make us anew and holy.
**Christian Life Is a Celebration
Mass is a celebration, so is the life of a Christian, for the Lord is our greatest joy. Also, how can you not celebrate when you know that you are heaven bound? A Christian not feeling any joy is not a bona fide one.
***To Be Blessed to the Max at Mass*
Before you go to Mass, make sure that you are in a state of grace, that is, you are clean. Then at Mass, completely empty yourself so that the Lord may fill you with all the graces he has for you. When you receive him in the Eucharist, surrender yourself completely to him once again to strengthen your union with him.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
**Looking Beyond This Life
Picture life as a lit candle. As we age, that candle is slowly burning out. While we can see things immediate to us in that light, we fail to look for that what's beyond this life. The wise see the light of Christ and follow him. After the candle of this life burns out, they'll be lit by God's glorious light to shine forever.
**Unstoppable Journey*
Communion experience. The Lord entered me and I knew that he's going tp take care of everything for me. My journey to him may not be perfectly smooth the rest of the way, but nothing will be able to stop me from getting there, that's for sure.
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