Love One Another

"Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of GOD, and he who loves is born of GOD and knows GOD. He who does not love does not know GOD; for GOD is love." ( 1 John 4:7-8 )

Today is the great Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Heart of Jesus is the symbol of the greatest Love the world has ever known and will ever know. His Heart beats forever for you and me, crying when we cry, laughing when we laugh. 

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is GOD's love song to us, forever courting and serenading, "Come to me, all of you are tired of carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." ( Matthew 11:28 )

Feast Days: The Sacred Heart Of Jesus

Jesus promises that whoever comes to Him will find rest. This promise becomes very real, physical and joyful when we say Yes to Jesus and be His heart and arms to those who seek Him.

Let us reunite with our lover at Holy Mass today and assure Him that we love Him too.

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Fearfully And Wonderfully Made

"You have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made." (Psalm 139:13-14)

The Bible tells us that each child is specially made by GOD and He has a plan for each one. Only GOD can create a soul and no one can force Him to do it. No child is ever an accident. Today we celebrate the birthday of Saint John the Baptist who is a prophet and the cousin of Jesus. His special mission was to prepare the world for the arrival of Jesus Christ.

Each of us is a saint in the making, created to be so like Saint John even in our mother's womb, each meant to speak and live lives that pave a way for Jesus Christ into the hearts of others.

Let us form our young ones not to be influenced by materialism, immorality and less value driven beings but to be holy children, not to be wealthy but happy, not to be senators but saints intended to be jewels that adorn GOD's crown of infinite beauty.

Do Not Judge Others

Jesus says, "Do not judge others." Judging others behind their backs stunts our spiritual growth since we see only the faults of others while we become blind to ours. It stops the flow of GOD's blessings into His Kingdom for it makes us proud judges of who are and who are not "worthy" of our help. And we end up judging GOD Himself and which of His commands are valid or not. On the other hand, Jesus is not telling us to ignore those who are living in sin.

Fraternal correction is also a command of Jesus (Matthew 18:15-17). In the First Reading, the Father sends many servants to warn His people of their sins (2Kings 17:13). Admonishing sinners is one of the Spiritual Works of Mercy. Backbiting, even if true, seeks to strip away human dignity. Fraternal correction seeks to show a brother or sister the path to heaven.

Let us pray to the Holy Spirit, to give us the wisdom to judge, not others but the things and choices in our life accordingly - not to destroy but to build.

Seek First To Promote God's Righteousness

"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more important than they?" (Matthew 6:28-30)

Look at how we treat GOD and worldly affairs separately. We have a separate time for Him and another for the "reality" of our daily concerns. Trying to serve two masters does not work. Look at how insecure we are. It's a sign that we consider barns of material security more real than GOD. But if we hold Jesus as THE treasure in our heart, we begin to look with His eyes. We begin sowing GOD's values into our corner of GOD's kingdom.

Seeking first to promote His righteousness over what we think we need, we learn to cut back and give back, to live simply so that others may simply live. Then shall we see GOD's amazing wisdom and power, arrange everything in place for us to reap our share of His bounty.

Store Up Your Treasures In Heaven

"Store up your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and robbers cannot break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be." 

 Properties, power or popularity - these treasures can be gone in a flash. Calamities, thieves and rivals can wipe them out, and along with them our heart. But neither are we to do good works simply to earn credits for deposit in a spiritual bank. That would save us our own savior, not Jesus. It is less a matter of doing and more of becoming.

 It is about becoming grafted to the mindset and heartbeat of Jesus as shown in His Gospel. Then what we become is what we will do. Let us invest more time and effort in learning and loving Jesus - in the bible study, prayer meetings and Holy Mass. Love for Jesus overflows into love for neighbor and enemy. This investment starts paying off on earth and perpetually in heaven.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread - An Invitation From Our Father

Our Father, "Give us this day our daily bread." (Matthew 6:11)

No parent can ignore the cry of a hungry child. It is a primal plea for life. Even if the child had been misbehaving, a plea for food will not fail "to turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons." (Sirach 48:10)

Our Heavenly Father loves us so much that He gives us His only Son for our endless life (John 3:16, John 3 KJV). Jesus is the bread from heaven given by the Father; whoever eats this Bread will live forever (John 6:58). Family dinners are vital for a united family. There we share the day's events and more importantly, love and reconciliation. 

Our Father invites us daily to the Eucharist Table (Matthew 22:1-4). He desires our reconciliation and to share with Him our life's events and problems. Do you have problems? Come, eat and believe in the Bread from Heaven. Our Father needs our belief to work miracles (Matthew 13:58, MT 13:58).

 

Matthew 6: The Lord's Prayer

What Do We Know Of GOD?

What do we know of GOD? Logic tells us that there has to be a "Causer" of all causes, an "uncaused" cause.

Science tells us that there is an incredibly fine tuning in the development of the universe into the livable place that it is. Art tells us that there is a beauty in nature that no random events can possibly create.

The Bible tells us that:

GOD is the Father, Cause of all life and all that is good; GOD is the Son, the Word who guides and fine-tunes our lives; and GOD is the Holy Spirit who prompts us into the beauty of holiness. GOD's being is a shared community bound by perfect love. We whom He fashioned in His image are called to live and love in the same manner, sharing the wealth of the earth and the joys of heaven.

GOD the Father, GOD the Son and GOD the Holy Spirit. Three Persons in One GOD - equal in majesty, undivided in splendor, One Lord, ever to be adored. Through this, let us remember in our hearts and minds, the feast of the Blessed Holy Trinity.

To know more about the Holy Trinity,
please visit:
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity