I just discovered the amazingly talented Uruguayan water-color painter Alvaro Castagnet. You can see his works featured on many YouTube videos. It's true that many of our creations are beautiful, but the beauty of the Lord God who created us all is on an entirely different level. Everything beautiful we create merely reflects his beauty in an imperfect way, whereas God's beauty is more abstract, pure and righteous, affecting the soul and spirit. Once you sense it, your life's never the same again. Let his supreme beauty change you forever!
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Saturday, August 23, 2025
***God Needs to Be Taken Seriously*
Each time at Mass, we are invited to receive the Lord present in the Holy Eucharist—he's ready to lift our spirit to the highest possible level to be in union with him! Yet there are those who are not interested in such an opportunity due to their pride. And there are also those who do accept the invitation but don't take it seriously enough. They are in no better state. In the Parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22), one guest who did accept the invitation but showed up without wearing a wedding garment got cast outside into the darkness.
*** Power We Possess**
Everything we do on earth counts, and every prayer we say to the Father from the heart goes straight to him and produces fruit. This is the Lord's amazing power those of us who follow him possess!
***Daring to Be Different*
In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 23, Jesus denounced the scribes and Pharisees for being hypocrites, not practicing what they preach and performing works only to be seen. As Christians, we must exemplify Christ as shining lights in the dark world. This is our mission and we must dare to be different for the sake of Christ. This is living in the Lord and not being of the world.
Friday, August 22, 2025
**Communion Aspiration*
Communion experience. I totally let the Lord assimilate me so that I might enter the deepest possible union with him.
***Connected to God Are We**
We should know that God has created us out of love to be his children, intending that we become heirs to his kingdom. If you're unaware of this, let it be a realization that can change your perception of both God and yourself to help you connect with him most intimately!
***Simple Way to Be Saved***
When you go before the Lord, the slightest sincerity or hypocrisy he detects right away. Always approach the Lord with complete candidness and you'll have no fear and be saved by him.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
***Yearning as Christ
Communion experience. Loving the Lord automatically makes you want to save all souls, for that's what he yearns for the most!
^***Boosting Your Union with God****
The more you pray for mercy on you for falling short of loving Christ the Lord, the more he draws you into deeper union with him.
*****The LORD's Commanding Presence***
In Exodus 3:14, God said to Moses: I am who I am. Then he added: This is what you will tell the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you. The Lord God has always existed and will always exist; there is no beginning nor end for him. I see him as the only absolute reality. We now also know thru Christ that he is the very embodiment of love. Knowing all this, it behooves us to submit ourselves to him completely.
A Wake-up Warning!
In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 22, Jesus told the Parable of the Wedding Feast to the chief priests and the elders of the people. At the end, he concluded, "Many are invited, but few are chosen." This has remained true to this very day. The Lord deals with eternity and we'll have to deal with it too, for we do not live forever on earth. The day will come when we'll end up with either the greatest joy or the greatest sorrow.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
***Absorbing the Lord
Communion experience. I opened myself to absorb this heavenly bread thoroughly in order to achieve the best possible union with the Lord.
***The Lord to Be Revered and Trusted***
Today's Gospel reading from Matthew 20 was on The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. A landowner hired various laborers to work in his vineyard. Some started out early in the morning, some around noon, and still others later in the afternoon. At the end of the day, the all received the same daily wage. This made those who had worked longer hours grumble against the owner, believing that that those who had worked less should have been paid less. He said to one of them in reply, "My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?" You see, we are not to judge anyone, for the Lord God is our only judge, When we grumble against, complain about, or question the Lord, we border on judging him and that's being irreverent, to say the least. He is to be trusted always.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
***Going with God***
In today's Gospel reading from Matthew 19, Jesus said to his disciples: “It will be hard for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Again, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.” The disciples were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus answered, “For men this is impossible, but for God all things are possible.” Now, I have two statements here. (1) Since for God all things are possible, it'll be wise for us to trust in him and do his will always. (2) Since for God all things are possible, it'll be good for us to ignore him and follow our own will. Only one of them makes perfect sense and the other, no sense at all.
Monday, August 18, 2025
***Pitiable Fools*
It seems that the commandment people rampantly violate nowadays is the one You shall not bear false witness. In this country, fake news and unconscionable politicians have been spreading lies nonstop for years, if not decades. I truly feel sorry for them, for this is serious transgression and we'll all have to face the Lord God to give an account of ourselves one day..
Sunday, August 17, 2025
***Home in Christ***
Communion experience. All of me . . . my heart, my mind, my soul, and my spirit are now home in Christ and I experience an unfathomable peace.
***Why We Are Divided***
In today's reading from Luke 12, Jesus said to his disciples, "Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." This shows that Jesus is truly God and we are sinners. Do you see it? There just isn't another way to explain that.
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