If you really want to go all the way home to your heavenly Father, start trusting in and following Christ right now—there's no point in delaying. God always expects a yes or no answer from us, for responding any other way is being duplicitous.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
**Christ Needed Once More*
In today's Gospel reading from Luke 12, Jesus told the crowd to guard against all greed. I see greed to be the main sickness of all generations. We always seek more and more fame, power, money, and/or material things to feel good. Then we never become truly happy as we fall further and further away from God. Again, Christ is the only one who can turn us around to make us heaven bound.
**Christ Needed!*
In today's second reading from Colossians 3, Paul wrote, "Put to death the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that that is idolatry. Stop lying to one another." Clearly, a big change for us is necessary. Now, we cannot possibly effect all that on our own. Thus, we absolutely need Christ in our lives if we ever hope to succeed.
***A Great Disposition to Have***
Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." To be poor in spirit to me means that I do not possess anything and am ready to receive all that the Lord wants to bestow upon me.
Saturday, August 2, 2025
***Powerless Without God***
It's impossible for us to become holy and perfect without help from the Lord God of Christ. Most of us gladly offer the best advice we know of to help others to overcome their problems. But if God were not involved, no fundamental changes would take place. When the advice helped, the change never lasted long—I've seen this again and again. (An example case might be asking someone to control their temper.) Until the person you try to help can change themselves internally, the problem remains. Now, the the Lord Christ our creator is the only one who is able to change any of us open to him fundamentally. So, to help others, we need to pray to him first and bring him into the picture. Basically, converting others becomes our primary aim.
*****Highest Exaltation on Earth*****
Communion experience. When you receive the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of the Lord Jesus in the Holy Eucharist with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind, you are exalted to the highest possible degree on earth! And you become most beautiful to him!
**Only Two Ways to Live**
We either live unselfishly for God or live selfishly for ourselves. If you live for God, you become free of yourself and experience peace. On the other hand, if you live for yourself, you become your own slave and will not experience true joy ever. These two outcomes are a matter of course.
Friday, August 1, 2025
***So Easy to Know***
When God lets you know something, you know that it is true, When he forgives you, you know that you are clean. When he gives you joy, you know that it's his joy. When he promises you eternal life, you know you are heaven bound. I can go on and on.
***Direct Path to God***
All saints know God intimately because they finally go directly to Christ to let him perfect them. So the best way for us is also to go directly to the Lord, even bypassing the saints, to seek union with him, through the Holy Eucharist.
*****Secret to Knowing the Lord*****
When I was majoring in mathematics in college, the home work usually involved proving theorems. Once I was given a really difficult one to prove, I racked my brain so hard until finally I got a glimpse of the solution at the limit of my perception and quickly jotted it down before it faded away. That was exciting but exhausting. By contrast, this morning at Mass I simply remained open and the Lord unexpectedly gave me an insight which remained with me. That was exciting and uplifting.
Here's what I saw. We don't know God because basically we don't want to know him. If we really want to know him without questioning, we'll know that he is indeed our God. It works out this way because you are open to truth.
**To Be Chosen by the Lord**
John 15:16 is today's Communion antiphon: It was not you who chose me, says the Lord, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit.... The fact is that we all can choose the Lord to become his chosen ones. When we are open to him, he will show us how to bear fruit.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
***Our Super Vision***
It could even be called our supernatural vision. This is the vision God gives to our hearts and minds when we attain union with him. We see the whole truth of the Trinitarian God. We now know what pleases the Lord and what offends him, what life is all about, how we can be freed from sin and live forever with him ... all not completely known to us earlier. Returning to our creator now puts everything in perfect order!
***Joy of a Super Sharp Consciene***
To be holy, a crystal clear conscience is essential. The muddier your conscience, the easier it is for you to sin. My advice is that you aim for union with God thru the Holy Eucharist. Once you attain union, you'll possess a super sharp conscience. Now you see right and wrong as the Lord sees them. Great peace and joy ensue.
**Common Sense Advice*
God being our only judge, only he knows if we're good enough to enter heaven or not. Should we not care about the whole thing, then we're doomed. If we try to be good, we may have a chance. Anyway, common sense alone tells us that if we are serious, you should try to be as holy as possible with God's help.
****Controlling Our Destiny Now****
Today is the Memorial of St, Ignatius of Loyola. Here's the first part of the Gospel reading from Matthew 13: Jesus said to the disciples: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth." So we'll either be kept or thrown away by God at the end. Knowing this, we can now confidently choose to remain righteous and reap our reward from the Lord later.
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