The joy of Christ our Savior is special and unique. There is no other joy like it. Once you know the Lord, you are filled with this most sweet, selfless joy that bursts forth from your heart, making you want to share it with everyone. You have been liberated and wish to liberate everyone else too!
Sunday, May 8, 2022
**Bonding with God the Father
We all have the natural urge to share our feelings with someone we know or trust, hoping to gain understanding and/or sympathy to relieve any burden on our hearts. Unfortunately, people who really care enough to listen to us and are also able to understand us well are hard to come by. I suggest that we always share our feelings with God the Father first. He is really the only one who understand us perfectly and can grant us true peace. Besides, every time you share your burdens with him from your heart, you bond with him intimately—something most beneficial to us.
Saturday, May 7, 2022
**Best Investment for Us
We invest for the future of this life, But there are always risks involved, as we cannot always predict the future. For example, those who invest in the stock market can make millions one day and lose their shirt the next. I know of actual cases. Trusting in Christ is also a form of investment for the future, but it's entirely on a different level. it is 100% secure, the return is absolutely satisfying, and the future extends to eternity. It is the best investment you can ever have.
*****Consoling Mary Our Mother
On this first Saturday, i spent some time meditating on the role of Mary in reparation to the her Immaculate Heart. Now, we feel sorry for anyone who suffers. It Would be hard to imagine how grievous and painful Mary must have felt when she saw her own son go thru such horrific torture and suffering. Simeon's prophecy for her "You yourself a sword will pierce" came true. Now she's grieving for all of us who are "crucifying" her son again. I wish to console her as much as I can. Then I realize that she'd be most happy if we love her Divine Son even more! So that's what I'll do. It's clear that if we make Christ the Lord happy, we gladden all the saints and good angels in heaven too.
***A Poignant Question
If you love Christ and realize that he is suffering great sorrows because most of us still reject him and his love, what would you do, if anything?
**Time Standing Still*
This is the feeling you get when you are in union with the Lord. You remain in him, no longer rushing ahead on anything nor worrying about things to come. His time is now your time and his plan, always yours as well. In full sync with the Lord, you needn't be concerned about time anymore. With no more anxieties, you live in his peace.
Friday, May 6, 2022
*Humbled and Uplifted
Communion experience. The Lord of heaven doesn't mind stooping so low as to enter me, a poor sinner. I am humbled and uplifted at the same time. Most grateful to my most beloved Lord.
**Being Close to Jesus
If I consider Christ to be my soul, I don't mean that he is my soul literally; I am only expressing the feeling that he is as dear and close to me as my own soul. Since he is my creator and Lord, I can even say that he is closer to me than my soul. Anyway, once you attain union with him thru the Holy Eucharist, you can't get any closer than that short of heaven.
**Faith, Our Treasure
Faith in God must remain intact in all circumstances, not affected by anything that happens to us in the world. In fact, it should get even stronger as you go thru all the trials and tribulations of life. It is our precious gift from God
*****Our Life Giver*****
In today's Gospel reading from John 6, the message Jesus gave to the Jews while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum can't be clearer or more affirmative.
"Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last Day. For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."
That's why I as a Catholic worship the Holy Eucharist.
**The Truth Revealer
It is the Holy Spirit that makes us see the truth. I don't mean just coming to believe that it's the truth; I mean becoming so sharply aware that it's the truth that you want to embrace it with all your heart.
***Be Ready for Judgment***
There is no doubt that the last day for mankind will be here on Judgment Day when Christ comes again, but we only have our present lifetime on earth to prepare for meeting the Lord. So be wise and get ready now for your judgment.
*****Christ is Real God!
I do not see nor aurally hear Jesus, yet he is more real to me than anyone I see, hear, or touch. How can it be? That's because he is God! For only he can enter my heart and touch my soul.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
**Greatest Reversal
Going from living for oneself to living for God. This is the greatest reversal because it changes your eternal destiny!
***Joy of Obedience***
God grants many joys. The joy of obedience is a fundamental one. When we obey the Lord, we have inner peace, knowing that he guards and guides us, that we are completely with him, and that we are on a straight path to heaven. All other joys ensue from this joy.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
***Our Own Spiritual Battle
Pride with a hardened, closed heart prevents us from knowing God and saving ourselves. The cure is humility with a soft, obedient heart that's totally receptive to the Lord.
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