**Being he Happiest Person**

        Communion experience. An unhappy person is always seeking something to keep himself happy. Since I already have Christ, I don't lack anything anymore. So I really felt that I was the happiest person in the whole world.. 

***Inportant Questions to Ask Now**

        I got to church for Mass a little early this morning, so I decided o remain in my car to pray a little bit. When I closed my eyes, I felt as if I was traveling forward, seeing the sceneries passing by. It's like being in a dream state except that you are awake. This instantly reminded me of the reality that we were all traveling toward God, something we cannot stop. When we see him, will he exalt or humble us? welcome us turn us away? These are the important questions we need to ask ourselves now.

***Communion Experience

        The more I feel unworthy of receiving the Lord, the more I appreciate his invitation to receive him. His love is truly everlasting!

**Another Wake-Up Call**

        God's love and mercy are so great that you have to be totally out of your mind (to put it mildly) not to be saved through Christ! So wake up and start to live.

***Awesome, Amazing God**

        Today's entrance antiphon: Within your will, O Lord, all things are established, and there is none that can resist your will. For you have made all things, the heaven and the earth, and all that is held within the circle of heaven; you are the Lord of all. It's awesome that all things consist of not only inanimate objects, but also living beings like us who possess a conscience, a soul, free will, intellect, and wisdom. Even more amazing, the Lord God turns out to be pure love!

***Most Expedient Way to Know God***

        Imagine that you see Jesus, all the great saints and prophets, and the multitude of all the best speakers, authors, scholars, counselors . . . all before you. Whom would you choose to follow? I have no doubt we who seek the Lord would all run straight toward Christ, bypassing all the others. And this is the way it should be when we don't see them all. Go direct to the Lord and you'll be fulfilled the soonest.

***Ego to Be Silenced***

         Here's today's entire Gospel reading from Luke 10. Jesus entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me." The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her." Here, Martha spoke from her ego. Just yesterday, I blogged about the ideal state in which we let the Lord initiate every thought and prompt every word we speak. It's so easy to want to speak out whenever we feel mistreated ever so slightly. We really should let it go if the Lord is not offended.

*****My Big Loving Tip*****

        Today's Responsorial Psalm response from Psalm 130.3: "If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand?" If the Lord exalts or humbles you, there is nothing you can do about it. Should you offend him, do not repent, and get yourself condemned, there is also nothing you can do about it. So be smart: Do all you can to secure your eternal future now when you can. To end up with God or nothing is all up to you!

*****Power to Control Our Destiny*****

        Today is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. In the first reading from Jonah 3, the LORD sent Jonah to Nineveh to announce, "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed." The people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth. When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he did not carry out what he had threatened to do to them. We see that repentance and turning away from evil is most powerful—it brings us back to the LORD our most beloved heavenly Father, not to mention the profound peace and great joy we'll experience. Only a giant fool would choose to go his own way! 

**Speaking Rule for the Christian

         A genuine Christian should always speak what he believes in from the heart without ego.

**Ideal State**

        Once we attain union with the Lord thru the Holy Eucharist, we'll be able to let the Lord initiate every thought and prompt every word we speak. This is the ideal state to be in to preserve our inner peace. When we are at peace with God, we are at peace with ourselves too.

***All Settled*

        The Lord God has to be infinite and omnipotent or he can't possibly be God. And through Jesus, we have no doubt that he loves us. Accept the above and we know we can totally trust in the God of Christ (by logic and common sense). So let's do it!! From now on, we know that the Lord will take complete care of us so that we may remain in peace always.

***We Cannot Serve God and Ourselves***

         In today's Gospel reading from Luke 17, Jesus described the proper attitude of a servant to his apostles. He said to them, "Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, 'Come here immediately and take your place at table'? Would he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for me to eat. Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink. You may eat and drink when I am finished'? Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded? So should it be with you.When you have done all you have been commanded, say, 'We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.'" Clearly, as long as the self-serving ego exists in us, we'll have no peace. Set ourselves on serving only God and we become free!

***Ultimate Joy***

         Todays is the Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi. In the Gospel reading from Luke 10, the seventy-two disciples returned rejoicing and said to Jesus, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us because of your name." Jesus said to them, "Do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven." Our ultimate joy is knowing that we'll ultimately be returning to the Lord in heaven to stay for all eternity!

**Good Fear vs. Bad Fear**

        You fear God because he is holy and you are awed and want to be holy like him—this is good fear. Here's the bad one: You are so sinful that you are afraid that God is going to punish you. We see that one is God-centered and positive, while the the other, self-centered and negative.

**Big Misunderstanding**

        People believe that if they let God be their Lord, they would lose their freedom, not realizing that they are slaves to their own sins! They will only see that this is a gross misunderstanding when they realize that they are sinners who need salvation and the Lord is indeed the one who can remove their sins and set them free. 

***Jesus Revealing His Status***

        In today's Gospel reading from Luke 10, Jesus appointed seventy-two whom he sent ahead of him to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, "Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me." This last saying which I have italicized is monumental, for rejecting Jesus is rejecting the heavenly Father! This bold claim plus the irrefutable fact that he did rise from the dead is enough to prove that he is indeed the Son of God.

***Unchanging, Everlasting Lord*

         Communion experience. I received exactly what the Apostles received at the Last Supper. Hebrew 13.8: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is to be trusted and relied upon forever!