Communion experience. When you are in love with Christ, you feel that you are literally already in heaven!
Sunday, March 9, 2025
**Christ Deserves Our Full Trust*
In today's Gospel reading from Luke 4, the devil tempted Jesus three times. Jesus responded to the devil's last attempt by saying to him, "It is written You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test." So let's not ever be like the devil testing Jesus, but trust in him fully always.
***Appreciating the Lord***
You can always see anything in opposite ways. For example, a glass of water may be seen as half empty or half full. Today I see the holy Lord God in the most favorable light. Because of him, I am now aware of all my imperfections (mainly sins) so that I can ask him to take them away all to make me holy. This is a huge deal! It is changing my life now, and is going to save my soul in the end—an even huger deal!
Saturday, March 8, 2025
**A Wake-Up Question**
You believe in God, but do you also seek him? If you don't follow the Lord closely, you can lose him quickly! For the Lord is a dynamic Lord, not a static one.
***Most Desirable Virtue*
Christ being most high is most humble. The more humble we are, the more we become like him and are exalted by him. Humility eradicates the ego, frees our soul to love others and brings peace to our innermost. When we remain most humble, we become invulnerable to Satan's attack and super safe in the Lord. Be humble and God will have a hard (or real easy) time judging you. Humility is the key to entering heaven.
***Greatest Spiritual Malady Today***
The Communion antiphon based upon Matthew 9:13 today—I desire mercy, not sacrifice, says the Lord, for I did not come to call the just but sinners. Mercy stems from love, and is a virtue, while sacrifice is an act. If we love God, we'll automatically perform sacrifice for him when we are called to. So start from love always, that is, be merciful always. Tragically, much of the world today does not hear the Lord and and continue to remain in sin. Witness the current wars between Israel and the Hamas and between Ukraine and Russia—the killing and dying goes on with no side willing to give in a little bit to achieve peace.
Friday, March 7, 2025
***Between Just You and God***
Today's Psalm 51:6a: Against you [God] only have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight. Yes, when we sin, we truly hurt God only, for he is the holy one. And we'll all be judged by him alone. It all comes down to whether we obey God or not. Quoting Mother Teresa:—"In the final analysis, it is between you and God."
Thursday, March 6, 2025
***Learning from the Lord***
In today's Gospel reading from Luke 9, Jesus said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?" Here are some of my thoughts. (1) The Lord has already carried his gigantic cross for our sake. How can we possibly not want to carry our own little ones and still wish to follow him? (2) "Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it": No one other than the Lord God can say this and make sense. He is awesome! (3) The last statement "What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?": This was addressed to all of us then and now. We all understand it, but how many of us take it seriously? The Lord leaves it up to us. By the way, we do reap what we sow.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
***Most Foolish Are the Ones Who . . .
live as if God doesn't exist or doesn't know what's going on with them.
*****Miracle Food*****
Communion experience. The heavenly bread nourishes, purifies, and heals the soul, wiping out all fears.
**Holy Habit
No one likes complainers. Thank the Lord for whatever you experience, pleasant or painful, and he'll reward you many-fold.
**Day to Start Looking Beautiful
Ash Wednesday is the perfect day to realize that we are nothing but dust. When we are humble, we look beautiful to the Lord. So this is also the perfect day for us to start looking beautiful to the Father if we are not that pretty yet.
*****Simple Secret We Must Know***
In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 6, Jesus told his disciples to take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that the people might see them; otherwise, they would be like the hypocrites. In other words, we must be egoless and focus upon glorifying the Lord alone. This is the whole secret to peace and salvation: Let God all in and we are in! It's so simple, but are we smart enough to handle that?
*****What the World Misses***
Today is Ash Wednesday. The response from Psalm 51 reads "Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned." It would be such an unbelievably beautiful thing if all of us in this world would want to shout this out from the heart! The deep joy the poor world sorely misses is the joy of repentance, that joy of being back in grace with our heavenly Dad!
***Greatest Miracle***
At Mass this morning, I saw that Jesus is not only the King of kings and Lord of lords, he is also our greatest miracle for having such an incredible love for us sinners.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
**Prayer Priorities*
As Pope Francis' health is faltering, many Catholics are praying for him, but there are also many who are praying for a new Pope who will keep the Church faithful to Christ and unified. I do see that the latter is urgent and encompassing. Now, at the fundamental level is praying for the conversion of all souls. So I'm going go follow this order in my prayer. As for praying for any individual, I'll alway pray for his soul before anything else.
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