It's Tuesday, the day of praying the five Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, the last one being the Crucifixion and Death. Christ was fully aware that he's going to be put to death on the cross in the end, yet he felt only agony without any fear, knowing that he's carrying out the will of God the Father. I am thinking if any of us foreknew that we're going to be put to death like that, how would we feel? I can tell you that I probably wouldn't be able to sleep well every night and totally fall apart as that day gets closer. Being aware thus, I resolve to respect, love, and obey the Lord wholeheartedly even more.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Monday, August 4, 2025
*****A World of Hardened Hearts***
Today, I see how much God loves us and how most of the world doesn't even care. God has practically bent over backwards to save us, waiting and hoping that we would at least turn and glance at him, yet we march on as if he doesn't even exist. This is the pathetic picture I see in my mind. I truly weep for those with such hardened hearts. Like those who crucified the Lord once, they know not what they do!
**Watching, the Name of the Game
Today's Communion antiphon based upon Matthew 24:46-47: Blessed is the servant whom the Lord finds watching when he comes. Amen, I say to you: He will put that servant in charge of all his property. We who follow the Lord must keep watching, for he will come unexpectedly. At the same time, we must watch whatever we do to be sure that we are ready. Anything we do, the Lord knows.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
**Healing of the Soul**
When you ask the Lord to heal your body, he may not comply right away if that's not the best thing for you then. Now, if you ask him to hear your soul, he'll alway comply, for that's what he has wanted all along.
**Returning to God Is Simple**
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.
**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.
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