Reflections, Short and Long, As Inspired by the Gospel

Mission Series On the Good News and the Joy of the Coming of the Lord

Balik Sa Panginoon (Back To God)

That we are ever to return to God!

essentially means:

That we are to return to God; that we are to heed how Jesus Christ wants us to return to God, to His Kingdom.

What is his Kingdom? Who is Jesus Christ?

Jesus Christ is the Divine Anointed One, who as was anointed by the Father wants all of his Kingdom to be anointed by Him through his Spirit.

What is this anointing by Jesus through the Spirit?

It begins, and proceeds, and ends by having, receiving the Spirit!

What, or who is the Spirit? He is the one who recalls, and relives within us Jesus speaking through us, living in us, acting in us, and literally and totally "echoing"/"continuing" Jesus' mission within us, individually and in unity.

We have the Spirit speaking Jesus through us each time we are faithful to the Word.

We have the Spirit making Jesus lives in us at all time we are in the state of grace, ie, not in the state of sinning.

We have the Spirit acting in us each time, individually and in union we reach out for others, instead of seeking just ourselves.

We have the Spirit continuing Jesus' mission within us, individually and in union at all time that we perform Jesus' serving of others and not of ourselves.

This way we are back to God, when we are at all times united and one with Jesus doing what is told to Jesus by the Father, and consequently what is told to us IN CHRIST by the Father that we do because IT IS HIS WILL, it is the WILL of the Father.

That we are ever to return to God!

personally, and as a community means:

To return to God, to come back to the Father! I.e. a “balik sa Panginoon” is man's ultimate goal as a human being, as a living being.

After man, in the person of Adam, ate of the forbidden fruit of Eden, and thus disobeyed God, he, then, "was sent out of the Garden of Eden" and by "by the living creatures" with "flaming sword" was kept "from coming near the tree that gives life". But as promised by God, and as predicted in Scriptures through His sending of His only begotten Son, man was redeemed by which manner and "Divine Sacrament" was realized God's invitation to man to return to His providential love and caring through repentance and faith in The Word become flesh. With this open invitation and infinite ransoming of man's offense vs God, man has only to accept the invitation that he change his heart, ie. opt for the conversion of heart, and thus, be saved by living the new life of God, which he originally lost.

Now, this “return to God” is man's living by Christ, only with Christ, and only, at each time. through Christ. By this, alone 'via Christu', can be and is realized the journey of life . No other way, specially no old human path and manner can truly achieve this man's ultimate goal about living.

But as Christ spelled it out by the way He lived and died so it is only by the similar life of loving, and dying unto the Cross that man is always to pursue this new pathway, guide, and power to change his heart, to work out by grace a “balik sa Panginoon” (the returning to) our Heavenly Father.

Most fundamentally, like Christ, the Jews and all Christians are to realize this path of salvation by living the life of self denial, and the taking up of the Cross; and thus, by actually/literally following the Master Jesus Christ every step of the way in life.

Our brother Jews, with their manifest experience of faithfulness to their belief in the messiah through their historic moments of dying experiences, eg. their consistent becoming aliens, or alienated, and even constantly martyred for their race in unfading obedience to the Father, are a clear example for all Christians.

Nonetheless, within the Body of Christ, God's community of 'saints' and host of Angels, both in heaven and on earth, are the people's authentic copycats of the Master Lord Jesus as to the manner and ways of carrying out the life of being disciples of the Lord Jesus. Their life of love, rooted in and empowered by the grace of the Saviour Jesus Christ, as expressed in their sacrificial obedience to the Father or to the explicit commandments of the Lord Jesus, and to the prompting of the Spirit of God is the clear-cut pathway in man's coming back to the Father.

Part I.

Reflections Via Particular Topics or Particular Church Festivities/Celebrations

What is Power?

Whatever kind of power, no one has it; unless its given him. Jesus tells Pilate this. Everything is decided from above. And besides, whoever or whatever, (a system or a body politic, or a machine,etc..) everything has its diminishing return. All is ash, and everything turns to ashes. In physics, it goes to decay, among humans, its death.

But there is a sole power. Jesus is the sole power. He is the resurrection and the life. And in him alone we receive life, and life power. Now don't ask me to prove this. But we will know this at the right time. Anyone wants to deny this; that's your risk, your permanent risk after you're through with however long maybe your lifespan.

In life however, we make do with whatever given leverage we find us with, up to a point.

Although reason and philosophy can not sufficiently, (by their nature and essence), justify the authority of the Supreme Maker, and Law Legislator/Administrator -- God, on the other hand reason, philosophy, and even science can not disprove Him.

And those people like us who 'locate power in some supernatural entity or authority' are by no means "characteristically destructive fundamentalists". We just accept the truth that God spoke to man or revealed himself to his very beloved creature man. This is Revelation. And its authority and reliability is supreme because He is the supreme author and guarantor. No man and no human institutions in history and through the ages had and could ever claim to such POWER. Whereas I dare testify for God, he himself alone -- God through history and through the ages, specially upon His appointed time does affirm this truth, or His Truth.

You might say I am ultimately begging the question/issue as we leave it up to God to do the, as it were, explaining and justifying preempting us/me with directly addressing the question at hand. I could tolerate that because because I am not even the spokesman. We defer to the main Revelation, to the Divine Word, Jesus Christ, who has done the talking and communicating to everyone who will accept his words and deeds, like the marvelous deeds of raising dead people to life, including Himself.

And please do not think I am being arrogant for my claims. People like us are really honest about our professing and standing by this truth that God revealed himself to man, that God makes sense of all his words, and that God does intervene in this earthly world of men, both by natural ways and by grace.

Power is Grace!

In the context of faith in Christ, what is power? Power, as I stated in my previous posting's last sentence is the active divine intervention towards the good of the children of God, of the people of God per infused all around working of both nature and grace.

At times this power is effected manifestly like sheer excellence of nature, like many amazing natural gifts: eg. the beauty of the rainbow during a water condensation-evaporation process with a clear sunlight, any masterpiece symphonic music work of art, the conquest of altitude, gravity, and air dynamics by jet planes, the resulting optimal natural beauty and intelligence of many men and women out of certain best fertilized human sperm genes and egg genes, modern skyscrapers' architectural-engineering marvels, the natural certitude of pure mathematics, etc.. We can not absolutely confer upon all these mere natural perfection as nature as such is imperfect; we only ascribe to them some relative perfection (perfectio accidentalis) per the consistency ab 'operatione'/by how it shows to work. The rainbow is expected to demonstrate itself always under those conditions, ditto et al/same with the rest. Yet causaliter et materialiter (from cause & effect and material source) they can not all be explained just naturally or be known completely epistemologically. Here comes the more than natural and rational realms philosophy and science are inadequate to account for. And when man simply can not overreach beyond the natural and rational, to whom else can we attribute this?

Power is grace. Grace means gift, something given or better something received, where no mere willful act and effort can realize the 'gift', or the 'receiving'. E.g. some patients with terminal cancer suddenly cured without scientific medical explanation, some people's very bad day suddenly turned into a pleasant good day sans intended applied human will and effort, some people inexplicably surviving disastrous accidents, etc..

Then there are well accounted for and duly witnessed and recorded events that are simply supra-natural or supra-rational. eg. physical levitation: Padre Pio, a catholic priest sometimes levitated when saying Mass, the same Catholic saint is credited with bilocation: being in two distant places at practically the same time, etc..

Now let me go back to examples par excellence of power as attributed to Jesus: walking in water, multiplication of the bread and fish, healing the sick, exorcising demons, raising dead people, and his resurrection 3 days after his death. Many will raise the historicity of these facts. I wont go there here. Enough to say Christian believers throughout these over 2,000 years of Christendom may not be summarily called myths cultists or altogether irrational, even stupid people of beliefs.

Grace, thus, is the extra gift of God to his people, to his children through Jesus, who took on flesh, and lived as human with and among men. Jesus brought down to the world and to men the life of grace, ie. the life likened to God, the life of virtue. So men endowed with his grace receives that power of grace within time and space and despite time and space encumbrances. Though by this people of grace, people of faith do not cease being human. They just have that option each time they profess their faith.

HUBAD NA PAGKATAO By Aurel Cagahastian

(Batang Patio)

January 25, 2004

"Sapagka't ang kabayaran ng kasalanan ay kamatayan;

datapuwa't ang kaloob na walang bayad ng Diyos ay

buhay na walang hanggan." Roma 6:23

Mula sa kasaysayan ng tao:

3096 BC Adam dies (930 years old)

2030 BC Peleg Mesanapada dies (239 years old)

2020 BC Noah dies (950 years old, died 150 years after

the flood)

2000 BC Reu dies (239 years old)

1977 BC Serug dies (230 years old)

1943 BC Terah dies (205 years old)

1930 BC Arphaxad dies (438 years old)

1900 BC Shelah dies (433 years old)

1868 BC Shem dies (600 years old)

1843 BC Abraham dies (175 years old)

1770 BC Nimrod dies (500 years old)

1738 BC Isaac dies (180 years old)

1711 BC Jacob dies at age 147

1657 BC Joseph dies (110 years old)

1474 BC Aaron dies (123 years old)

1473 BC Moses dies (120 years old)

1442 BC Joshua dies (110 years old)

1037 BC David dies (70 years old)

Ang pisikal na katawan ay panlabas na pagkatao

At sa alabok muling magbabalik pagkamatay ng tao

Ang katawa'y hinuhubad pagkatapos ng kamatayan

At ang kaluluwa naman ay lalabas sa katawan.

Anuman ang nakikita natin sa panlabas na anyo

Masasalamin natin ang kalikasan ng tao

Na siyang pinagmumulan ng buhay at anyo

Kaluluwa, luklukan ng ating tunay na pagkatao.

III

Sa paniwala ng iba ang kaluluwa ay namamatay Ang ilan nama'y naniniwala na ito'y patuloy ang buhay

Ang kaluluwa'y maglalayag pagkatapos ng buhay

At ito'y mananatili sa kalagayan at di namamatay

Noong araw na ang tao ay may pakikiisa sa Diyos,

Buhay na dumadaloy sa kanya'y nanggagaling sa Diyos

Ang sumpa ng Diyos, sa araw na siya'y sinuway

Ang tao'y mahihiwalay sa Diyos at siya'y mamamatay.

Nang magkasala ang tao'y namatay sa espirituwal

Bakit nangyari na siya'y patuloy pa ring nabubuhay

Hindi ba ang sumpang kamatayan ng Diyos

Ay hindi lang sa espirituwal kundi pati ang pisikal?

Naranasan din ng tao pagkaraan ng ilang panahon

Ang pagdating ng kanyang kamatayang pisikal

Kaluluwa pa rin ang naging pangunahing dahilan

Kung bakit hindi agad namatay ang tao sa pisikal.

VII

Nang maputol ang buhay mula sa puno ng buhay.

Buhay na dumaloy sa tao'y nagmula na sa kaluluwa

Subalit ang buhay na maibibigay nito sa katawan

Ay hindi na walang hanggan mula sa puno ng buhay.

VIII

Hindi nito kayang panatilihin ang buhay ng katawan

Gaya ng bigay ng Diyos na panghabang-panahon

Kaya't ang pansamantalang buhay na nakamtan

Ng di nanampalataya'y nanggagaling sa kaluluwa.

Sa araw na sila'y manampalataya sa Diyos,

Ibinabalik ng Diyos ang buhay na nawala sa Eden

Ang pangako ng Diyos, kung sila'y mamamatay

Muling pagkabuhay, makasama sa walang hanggan.

Bago nagkasala, imortalidad ay dala ng katawan

Ngunit dahil sa pagkakasala ay naghulagpos

Natatanging kaluluwa ang siyang nanggipuspos

Ang naging mortal na katawan ay kanyang tinubos

Ang kaluluwa'y napakahalaga sa ating buhay

Kung hiwalay ito'y walang buhay ang katawan

Kaluluwa ang may kontrol ng pagkakamalay

Kung wala ang kaluluwa'y wala ang kamalayan

XII

Ito ang gumagawa ng mga makasariling desisyon

Kung hindi napapailalim ang kaluluwa sa Espiritu.

Sabihin mang sila ay gumagawa ng kabutihan,

Hindi maikakailang naroon makasariling hangarin

XIII

Sila ang mga naluluwalhati at hindi ang Diyos

Sa mga parangal madalas makita ang paggamit sa Diyos

Mga taong pinararangalan, nagpapasalamat ang gamit

Kung 'di sa tulong ng Diyos, karangala'y di makakamit!

XIV

Ang mga salitang ito'y hanggang sa bibig lamang

Kalooban ng kanilang puso ay iba ang isinisigaw

Masasalamin ito sa kanilang mga buhay araw-araw

At ang makikita natin ay ang lihis nilang patakaran

Kung anumang kakayahan mayroon ang katawan

Ang kaluluwa ang siyang natatanging dahilan

Sa pamamagitan nito ay mayroong kamalayan

At siyang makapangyarihan sa ating katawan

XVI

Kapag ang tao ay nagbago ng kaniyang daan

Lumalapit sa Dios at nagsisisi sa kasalanan

Nawawala ang kanyang pansariling hangarin

At nauuwi ang lahat ng patuwid sa Panginoon

XVII

Tayong mga tao ay nilikha lamang

Para sundin at sambahin ang Maylalang

Ang Kanyang mensahe'y kumpleto't di kulang

Upang mabatid natin ang matuwid na aral.

XVIII

Iisang mensahe sa lahat ng nilikha Niya

Dinala lahat ng mga sugo at propeta, Ang rebelasyon at utos ay ating isapuso,

Maging makatotohanan, alamin ang mga turo

XIX

Hibang ang mga taong hindi naniniwala

Sa utos ng Diyos ay nagwawalang-bahala

At ang akala baga nila sila'y makakawala

Sa kaparusahan ng Diyos na hindi maikakaila?

Estado't kayamanan ang akala'y walang hanggan

Ngunit magwawakas, ito ay walang alinlangan

Ang buhay sa daigdig ay panandalian lamang

Sa kabilang buhay-ihambing, wala sa kalingkingan!

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, the commemorating of Christ's appearing transfigured in his Divine Glory, as well as of the Father's assuring and reminding us to listen to Jesus, for He is His Son -- in whom He is well pleased.

It is well fitting for Peter, and likewise for us all to whom are made known this Transfiguration event experience of Peter, (and of James and John), to want permanently the jubilation, elation and peace feelings of Peter, (and of us), afforded him (and us by some supernatural Transfiguration equivalent) out of this most wonderful transfiguring/revealing of himself to Peter & James and John, (and to us vicareal-ly but supernaturally by faith & grace). Although, that is the promise of the eternal reward of heaven, where indeed the saved get to have that face to face vision/seeing of the wondrous, splendid, and awesome union with God in heaven. But prior to that ultimate/final destiny of blissful union with God, who is the essence and maker of happiness, whereas God every now and then blesses us with "heaven-on-earth" moments of psycho-physical & spiritual ecstasy by grace through faith, nonetheless, the essence of our journey on earth reality is yet our having to face, and put up with counter/opposite moments of suffering, passion, and dying via our God-sent sacrificial crosses of self denying acts/deeds along this earthly living onward to the new life in Christ. Hence, like Peter's wish was not honored by Christ, our own individual wishes of permanent trouble-free living can not also be honored by Christ as they are contrary to, and astray of our path of suffering and dying along with Christ within his Paschal Mystery of the passion, death, and resurrection, (altogether and in logical order). in accord with God's Divine Plan of Salvation.

Today, this Sunday before the coming of Lent, Jesus tells us, "Be ye perfect/holy (whole) as the Heavenly Father is perfect/holy (whole)!" God has given us perfection/holiness, ie. his Holy Son -- Jesus Christ. We, then, have to to give back to God the perfection of holiness, ie. the full likeness into Christ's human image. And Christ has enabled this to happen by his grace. Though, we do it within the time and space he has deigned for us to accomplish it; and if we fail to do so, by his further grace after life in Purgatory. Praised be God; thanks be to God. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit!

Jesus Christ, our Lord, is our High Priest, King, and Prophet. He is our Divine Victim & Offerer to the Heavenly Father. He has wrought man's salvation. And he eternally is both the Divine Word and Truth that overcomes all lies, un-truths, and all darkness of existence. And with him and by him, with Jesus Christ, all his faithful, trusting, and loving followers in all ages, as adopted children of God, unite and collaborate in his work of prophecying, loving service of & for the Father, and ultimate eternal co-redemptive atonement worshiping of the heavenly Father by the power of the Holy Spirit.

RE: Today's Feast of Christ's Ascension to Heaven

The Catechism provides us three (3) pointers to sum up the significance of Christ's ascension to heaven:

1. Christ's ascension marks the definitive entrance of Jesus' humanity into God's heavenly domain, whence he will come again (cf. Acts 1:11); this humanity in the meantime hides him from the eyes of men (cf. Col 3:3).

2. Jesus Christ, the head of the Church, precedes us into the Father's glorious kingdom so that we, the members of his Body, may live in the hope of one day being with him for ever.

3. Jesus Christ, having entered the sanctuary of heaven once and for all, intercedes constantly for us as the mediator who assures us of the permanent outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part One, Article 6, in Brief, pp. 173-174

All three summary pointers are indeed significant. But by method of contrast, all three speak to us of two opposing aspects of this Divine reality of Christ's ascension. One aspect, as understandably noted by the two Angels that spoke to the Apostles, who appeared hung up upon Jesus' parting from them, and disappearing from them into the clouds as he ascended to heaven, and as one pointer above refers us to, is that humanly speaking the God-Man Christ "... in the meantime hides him from the eyes of men". As much as we, supernaturally or by grace, believe and profess this God-man's return to his natural heavenly domain, which marks Jesus' vindication of his Pascal passion and death, and as much as we believe this to assure us of our promised admittance and welcome into that Divine domain; nevertheless, it yet behooves us, believers, to persevere in the faith to await the enjoyment of its glory. On the other hand, the other aspect stands already so clearly even if not so fully manifestly, namely, that as pointer two states from here on, upon Christ's ascension, believers truly can hang on, focus on, and live on under the hope that as "members of his Body" we "may live" awaiting and expecting "being with him for ever" because as pointer one states, today on this Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ, is realized Christ's humanity, which humanity he shares with us, now having become back and within God's domain of the heavens, and thus, moreover, this being so or Christ being back there 'seated' in right hand of the Father, is, as pointer three expresses, Christ is now there precisely to act as our supreme mediator/intercessor effectively making happen the outpouring of the power of the Holy Spirit to continue to work our holy perseverance in this world, and to assuredly console us, all believers of the certainty of our future enjoyment of the glory of our finally becoming manifestly united with Christ and the Father through the Holy Spirit.

Re: Today's Feast of the Coming Down of the Holy Spirit Upon the Disciples 10 Days After Jesus' Ascension To Heaven

Ultimate Caveat Re the Holy Spirit: It is Most Grieving To and Most Appalling To the Holy Spirit for Men and Women To Be Carnal or Of the Flesh, Which Endangers Them Into Actually Tempting/Disavowing the Holy Spirit

How important, and critical it is then that believers/followers live in and by the Spirit? And how wise should we be never to act, and to live UN-SPIRITUAL, or against the Holy Spirit? As an appendix of our discussion here, what should we watch out as being "un-spiritual" or being against the Holy Spirit? How are they contrasted with being of the Spirit?

Being un-spiritual means being of the flesh, being carnal. Saint Paul said, "Those who live according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh...The tendency of the flesh is toward death ...The flesh in its tendency is at enmity with God; it is not subject to God's law. Indeed it can not be; those who are in the flesh can not please God....." Earlier in this letter to the Romans Saint Paul further alluded to how unbelievers are prone to being slaves of the flesh. He said those that do hinder the truth are delivered by God ".. up in their lusts to unclean practices; women no longer wanted to have sex in a natural way, and they did things with each other that were not natural. Men behaved in the same way. They stopped wanting to have sex with women and had strong desires for sex with other men. They did shameful things with each other, and what has happened to them is punishment for their foolish deeds. Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them. That's why they do all sorts of indecent things. They are evil, wicked, and greedy, as well as mean in every possible way. They want what others have, and they murder, argue, cheat, and are hard to get along with. They gossip, say cruel things about others, and hate God. They are proud, conceited, and boastful, always thinking up new ways to do evil." Romans 1:26-32

Also in the letter to the Galatians, Saint Paul one more time contrasted what is being spiritual versus being of the flesh. ".. My point is that you should live in accord with the spirit and you will not yield to the cravings of the flesh. The flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. The two are directly opposed........ It is obvious what proceeds from the flesh: lewd conduct, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, bickering, jealousy, outburst of rage, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you as I have warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.... In contrast, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patient endurance, kindness, generosity, faith, mildness and chastity.... Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.." Galatians 6:16-24 Saint John makes reference to being of the flesh as loving the world: " Carnal allurements, enticements for the eye, the life of empty show -- all these are from the world." John 2:16

Finally, here's Saint Paul's warning about being of the flesh and promise about being of the spirit. " Make no mistake about it, no one makes a fool of God! A man will reap only what he sows. If he sows in the field of the flesh, he will reap a harvest of corruption; but if his seed-ground is the spirit, he will reap everlasting life." Galatians 6:7-8 Saint Paul is trying to tell us here that we can not proclaim and profess our faith in Christ while at the same time unashamedly and openly live a sinful lifestyle. John equally gave this warning about the lack of integrity in believing when he said: " But if we claim to know him and don't obey him we are lying and the truth is not in our hearts. We truly love God only when we obey him as we should, and then we know that we belong to him. If we say we are his we must follow the example of Christ." John 2:4-6

Clearly, and categorically Saint Paul has spelled out for us unequivocally how or when we could see the Spirit as the one leading the lives of the Saints; and how or when a soul or a person is devoid of the presence of the Holy Spirit. He who is devoid of the Holy Spirit can not say Jesus is Lord, or does not really know the Lord. For it is said it is only by the Spirit that a man can thus profess Jesus’ Lordship over him or his belonging to Jesus. It is on account of this fact that again it matters very seriously that the Spirit be in us; otherwise our claim of salvation is in vain, and our claim for wisdom is sheer folly. And woe to us; unless we get delivered from such pretenses.

In the Church at large, thus, the Indwelling by the Holy Spirit is the the unmistakable mark of the Kingdom of God, particularly the Kingdom of God in the world. We repeat an above beginning paragraph on this last aspect of this sequel about the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of God with reference to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. This indwelling is demonstrated by the 'Saints' who have passed on to Heaven, by the other 'would-be-Saints in Purgatory just finishing their term of purgation, and by the 'saints' on earth living the life of grace, and therefore of holiness. These are the believers/followers who as believers/followers have been dead to the allure of the flesh, and are alive and vibrant in the Spirit of God. Thus, the Spirit is in them, and lives in them. The Spirit reigns in them.

On Following Pope Francis That We Are To Re-focus Anew About The Real Goal of Being Catholics and Christians

Pope Francis, our new Pope, says we are not to be focused upon ourselves, but upon the poor and the needy out there.

Oftentimes and by rationalization there has indeed been the tendency among believers to settle for the minimal and by temptation the easy and casual deeds of being Catholics and being Christians. Usually it has been what is rather convenient and even self-serving activities that occupy our attention and goals in our supposed “mission tasks”.

Hence, we forget to truly reflect, investigate, and truly focus upon what the Gospel asks of us. In the context of the Pope's message, we fit in our mission tasks/goals within and conditionally according as they serve to promote, foster, and serve our “career task and goal” instead. Thus, in effect we have reduced the Gospel message in very personal and even selfish terms. Consequently, we would have circumvented the essential and authentic purposes of the Gospel mandates, like becoming the priestly people, being living witnesses to the Word of God, and working with zeal not to gain worldly deals but to be of service to the People of God.

Therefore, on this pertinent recalling of us, and reminding of us by our Supreme Shepherd of the Christian flock, let us indeed go back to the teachings and commands of the Gospel and once more try harder to becoming like Christ to others, like Christ was, is, and will always be the Father's annointed Christ to us and mankind.

Another "In-Depth Look" At the Gospel re: Jesus being the Way, the Truth, and the Life:

Jesus, the Way

Jesus is the method of living. His meaning of living has been, and continually is by way of his total giving up of his heart as the sacrificial offering of himself for the offenses of mankind and creation to the Father. He was to give us his Body and Blood, ie his total self at the cross and during the Last Supper as the expiation victim to the Father on behalf of the sins of creation.

In like manner, particularly by way of his explaining of obedience to the will of the Father by Himself, and by all of creation the key to the fullest satisfaction of His will is the total surrender of the human will, for example, to the wishes of the Father. That is why in explaining purity of heart, not only is man prohibited the actual act of adultery or fornication, man is completely forbidden the total or absolute enjoyment of the flesh as it were he/she is in worship or adoration of the pleasure of the flesh. Hence, when man or woman lusts after the opposite sex even by his/her eyes, he or she is already sinning in adultery or impurity. Likewise, it does not take the actual taking of someone's life to be guilty of act of violence against one's neighbor; by the simple desire of wanting to hurt someone in hatred is already enough to make man guilty of 5th Commandment of God.

Indeed, the paragon of the simple heart among men are the innocent children. Their way of relating as helpless creatures only dependent upon others in order to survive or to be spells out the bottom-line manner man is to look at himself, and to treat himself in relation to God, i.e. man is to be completely fearful of whatever will offend his Creator God from all his ways of existence. It says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom. Total deference to God is the key to fulfilling, like Christ, the way or manner of living life. Ultimately, to repeat, this means our life should at all times and to the end be an offering oblation to the Father of self by oneself in union with Christ. It can not be anything less; or we can not be worthy of heaven, of His Kingdom.

Jesus, the Truth

The most faithful signification of truth is being faithful to the Word, to the words of God, and to the very Word Himself: Jesus, the Son of God. To be truthful is to pay attention alone to God's revelation of Himself, to God as He speaks to man by way of God's prophets, and ultimately by way of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Only what God actually speaks is the by-word, the standard, the key, or the command to which man is to go by in life as to the real meaning of existence.

Hence, as creatures of God, we are not so much as to look, as it were, whether even inwards or outwards, for meanings or interpretation of the truth. Hence, there is no such thing as “equality” per se, or justice per se like philosophies would tell us. Whatever human goodness or human 'satisfaction' that we would demand in the name of fairness or honor could not come from mere philosophical standards, or even worldly political mandate; it can only result out of the benevolence of God according to His wisdom and design within Divine Providence. Thus, under the Divine scheme it is alright in certain divine circumstances that some men are 'slaves', or that among men there is some manner of distinction according as it is so by divine circumstance. At least, this is so until before God's final ordaining of creation during the End-times.

The key is, thus, this: What is God's word on the matter, and that man is to pay attention to the word of God.

Jesus, the Life

Finally, whereas humanly speaking, by the world pressure every individual is constrained to, as it were, make a dent in life carving out or climbing up to his/her particular niche in life, God by no means did not mean such to characterize the fulfillment of living. God does not expect man the achieving of such and such diplomas, or degrees, or credentials as the criterion of a fully lived life. Whereas it helps that we are so much more skilled in our carrying out of life tasks, yet what is asked of us, or mandated to us by God is alone to be of service to others, specially to the needy among us. Being of service, and never wanting to be served makes us authentic to our Divine calling by our Creator and Lord. Only if, and how much have we looked after Jesus when he is hungry, thirsty, sick, naked or in prison; or persecuted in the persons of them who were actually hungry, thirsty, sick, naked, in prison or persecuted, only then do we fulfill our ultimate calling in truly living our lives. To be alive means to be of service to human lives. Hence, how appalling will be the fate of whoever were involved in allowing, or actual realizing of the killing of the unborn children. Such individuals not only did not serve lives; they even killed lives. But for the mainstream the concern will be how much have they spent their lives in the pursuit of protecting, and caring for others instead of merely themselves or their selfish purposes.

Reflections On the Temptations of Christ

The general perspectives on the temptations of Christ, namely on the temptation to yield to the demand of the flesh, the temptation to be overwhelmed by the desire for worldly prosperity, and the temptation to be lax about keeping to the prudence of obeying the laws, we are to focus always upon the top priority God commands and deserves that we give Him over all aspects of living, specially when we're pressured to give preference to and for the worldly concerns.

For instance, if and when we're troubled by certain particular lack or inadequacy in our physical life we are not to readily succumb to the worldly psychology of feared withdrawal pains or anguish. No impaired emotion or unrequited feeling is beyond the cure of grace. Bottom-line, God is above his creation, God himself can satisfy any need of inadequacy. And, of course, in general terms, hunger for food could be survived per satisfaction of our prime need for the word of God. God's solace and assurances have the power to make man survive his hunger.

Then, with respect to the attraction and fantasy of material prosperity or any form of worldly recognition and fame, all of these are vanities and surely fleeting and very ephemeral in relation to our supposed primal recognizing of God in our life. We make sure God is the ultimate like and desire of our living; and all things pleasurable and delightful to us consequentially get providentially obtained for us by our caring heavenly Father, who knows each of our every need in life.

Finally, with respect to all attitude or spirit of human and worldly conquest and exploring demonstrative and fulfilling the human love for daring and prominence, whether physically or mentally, no endeavor is worth the human achieving if it is directly and irreverently breaking any single law or precept of God. Any manner of a "tower-of-Babel-like" overachieving attempt by man, which dares to put man above Divine commandment or precept is bound both to failure and futile exercise of human prominence.

Bottom-line, man must never play like "god" before his God, his Creator and :Lord.

Not To Fear All of This World's Misfortunes and Bad Fate, But Lack of Repentance for Sins, and Actual Condemnation!

During this 3rd Sunday of Lent, we are reminded of God's ultimate justice. Contrary to the wisdom of the world and to the threats from the powers of the world, man's bottom-line fears and true pain will not be ascribed to the passing and temporary causes of misfortune, disaster, or even human tragedy. Suffering of this kind are not as bad or as tormenting, as implied by the Lord in today's Gospel, in so far as they do not impute guilt upon the sufferer. But the true pain, anguish, and misery will be meted upon man,who fails to see, acknowledge, and repent for all his offenses against God, against God's truth. For both in the after-life, and even beginning from this earthly life, Divine Justice over man's sins, which are un-repented by man, shall haunt and impute upon him God's absolute justice and punishment.

Because of the Feast of the Holy Family, the consequential importance of each human family created by the Father!

Within the Mystical Body of Christ, and as a big part of the Church Militants on earth, special attention is to be addressed to the basic community unit within the larger community aggregate the Church: the human family.

The Christian families, whether blessed unitively or illuminatively, or both are the marginal units of the City of God. Pope John Paul II writes: "In our times, it is essential to deepen everyone's personal commitment to helping enrich this primary and vital cell of society. It should not be forgotten, in the general planning of ecclesial activities, that the family is the first and principal path of the Church. Awareness of its central value for evangelization must imbue the whole structure of diocesan pastoral care_... Familiaris consortio (the Pope's encyclical on the family) insists most particularly on the rights of the family for which it is as it were a Magna Carta."

The Christian families please God for heeding His admonition to use the family as the initial springboard to glorify God. Christian families become the building blocks of the greater communities of believers and children of God. As families they insure the beginning of the faith in their children. As families together forming larger communities with other families they insure to safeguard the faith passed on from ancestors through generations; and thus insure the continuity and unity among the people of God in pilgrimage.

Pope John Paul II stated: "As everyone knows, wherever the Church has been unable to carry out her usual work of evangelization, it has frequently been families that have preserved and maintained the faith, passing it on to the new generations. This function proper to the family as the first teacher of its new members expresses the true vocation and mission of Christian parents, whose primary responsibility involves their children's human and religious formation."

But precisely because of the unitive or illuminative gifts of these communities of believing Christian families, namely its gifts of love and understanding, pardon and personal repentance for sins, unity and community building, selflessness and mutual generosities through the graces of the Holy Spirit the survival and prevalence of the City of God among men is ascertained. And through each and all member families of the communities under the City of God the reign of God's peace is made real.

And so while we anchor the life of this Kingdom of God on Christ's Eucharistic & Paschal reality, and while we assert universal incorporating among believers per the Word revelation in Jesus himself and his truth teachings, as typified in the total Catholic memberships of all believers beginning from the human race base of the domestic families, we recapitulate the summed-up characterization of the Kingdom People of God the way we recapitulated who fit the Lord's standard of holiness, accordingly as defined in that Chapter on the Kingdom of God as ultimately characterized by the holiness of this Body of Christ, the Church.

Glory and praise to the very Blessed Holy Family borne on earth: Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

“I have not come to do my will; but the will of my father!”

The mission of Christ's coming down from heaven, and becoming man is but one thing: that he does the command he brings with him when he was sent by the heavenly Father. Jesus came down and became man for only one thing: to do what his heavenly Father willed for him in becoming man, namely obey the Father's wish to bringing back to Himself his lost people, the making of his Kingdom among people of God's will.

Jesus did not make up his own mission on earth, and for the heavens. Christ only fulfilled what the Father has promised in eternity that He forms back His Kingdom of men and angels that finally belong to Him for all ages.

But within this process of Christ's Father mandated forming of his New Heaven and New Earth after the fall of mankind from the grace of the Father, each individual man or woman in the unity of the one Kingdom of God needs to follow Christ's mission and act: namely that each one of the Kingdom surrender his/her will to the will of the heavenly Father according as taught, trained, and empowered by Christ in the Spirit of God.

The key here is just as Christ did not do his will but the will of the Father; so also each man or woman is not to do his/her own will about life but what the Father has ordained individually and as a community of people to obey and fulfill uniquely and together for the glory of God.

Christ's Guarantee of Salvation Against Worldly Insecurities

At every each Sunday worship service, or for that matter, at every Mass we attend during the Eucharistic Prayer right after the solemn consecration of the Sacred Host, and Adoration of the Lord, the universal Catholic prayer reminds us of the two promised, and current blessings God accords us who are in the state of grace: the blessing of freedom from sin, and freedom from the works of sin. Possessed, and equipped with such blessings, man has no need for all other kinds of blessings God has not chosen to provide him. When with these spiritual blessings, man becomes protected, insulated, and guarded against the insecurities for worldly abundances. When in such manner of the state of grace, man does actually enjoy the accompanying blessing of spiritual peace, of personal peace. And a man in peace within himself is not easily disturbed by any kind of worldly threats and menaces. In such condition of faith and trust, and love for God, man actually enjoys literally Christ's promise of an easy yoke and a light burden to them who are laboring and are even heavy laden with burdens!

A Review Overview On Real-Theological Perspectives on Existence:

Up Top Perspectives:

Jesus, upon his Becoming Man, and Re-making Man introduced the new supernatural reality of his Kingdom centered upon the new human heart.

Down Perspectives:

Jesus from the get go was in-explicit about how to manage human existence on the horizontal levels. His only cues were:Give to 'Caesar the things that belong to Caesar, BUT to God the things that belong to God'.

The minimalism of earthly values in relation to the necessary maximalism of the heavenly values.

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all the other things shall be added unto you.” Live with poverty, as you perfect yourselves like the Father is perfect.

Lose your life to gain it; lest you gain life and lost it. “Deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow me!”

But his explicit command was:“By this shall all men know that you are my disciples IF YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER.”

For God has so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son so that the world will be saved. (verify the exact quotation)

Rejoinder thoughts:

Detachment is KEY, while legal prudence remains the anchor.

The VIRTUES of Faith, Hope, and Charity

along with all other cardinal virtues, (fair or just but tempered, and, courageous but prudent)

and gifts, (fear, piety, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, counsel, and fortitude), of the Spirit are the guidelines.

But BEWARE OF ALL VICES:

Carnal 'freedom' decadence of the '60s'

Up-manship & Sensuality propaganda lies of Hollywood in the name of “business” or “being on top (materially/socially short-term)

absolutism of each politics: capitalism, communism, fascism

How the World works. VS How God works.

The world would consistently operate like it is a self sufficient machine, ie. with self sufficient goal and self sufficient strategies. The Lord works by his Providential dispensations, including his manipulation of world modus operandi. If I were to pursue the ways of the saints. I am not to succumb to the allure of trusting the world ways;but I am to absolutely listen to the prompting of the Spirit.

The world like always will speak of its “old” successes, and its presumptive stubborn belief in yet succeeding.The Lord eternally will work ways up to End-times of manifesting God's omnipotent realization of Divine Will.

The historical fact behind this radical but true perception of the real and the proper actions or deeds boils down to the Father's eternal plan and will that His Son becomes man thereby realizing the RENOVATION of the New Man so that in so far as the Old Man, who was given the top stewardship over creation, has since the Fall forfeited that physico-spiritual capability because of sin; but is now restored In Christ the lost stewardship over creation or human existence. In short, God's historical Incarnational-Redemption intervention made the fact and the certainty of a the real alternative choice about how to live our lives by God's hand versus all the natural and worldly attempts to make the best of worldly existing.

I am dying, and dying, and dying. My life problems do not seem to relent. After some moments of elation and relief, always following these positive aspects of living are inevitable irritations, shortcomings and rejections. Nonetheless, I perceive how I am little by little anyway receiving the new life of grace.

So the Spirit prompts me, “Keep on, keep on, keep on!'

The same Spirit reminds me I was given a life, and am promised an eternal life.

Meantime, I am kept aware I ought to take things in stride as I am but a pilgrim on earth. Whatever is going on in my life for as long as I keep away from direct sins, my life is headed towards a reborn new life, which I may not see or understand at all during this lifetime but about which nothing of my seeing or imagining will not matter as it shall be unfolded to me and shall be lived by me later as it is: a supernatural living, a really unimaginable and unfathomable 'divinized' human reality and phenomenon. I just have to wait and see, indeed! Meantime, I have to settle with just glimpses of this supernatural reality, via moments of spiritual awakening through circumstances of living.

And, again, meantime, life remains an outrage! Man lives against the lack of truth, the lack of total goodness, and is ever under the cloud of the shadows of darkness.

In vain are his cries against injustice! In vain, too, are his pretenses for freedom for total expression or capable action.

For, bottom-line, man is under the shackle of the Evil One. The Evil One has since then robbed man of his capacity for truth, for simple goodness, and for uncovered clarity. Likewise, the Evil One has crippled man's previously divinely endowed faculties their unconstrained actions, or their God manifesting glorious realizations.

Thus, neither can the conservative claim the pride of certain fulfillment; nor can the liberal claim a horizon so clear he could traverse a fully charted map for his exploits.

By way of illustration, Obama can not be sure of his political and economic terrains being so clearly out there to exploit with absolute results. Nor can Romney predictably unleash innate human abilities to muster masterful handling of life odd challenges, whether politically and economically, or otherwise albeit as a perfect economic master plan per se promising absolute success.

Unbeknown to both is the fact that SIN within and around humanity both hides the horizon of destination, and stifles the powers for total outreach and human dexterity. Sin, and the all-around working of sin for a fact reduces human living to their very minimum.

ONLY GRACE, both the sanctifying grace and the actual graces permits and makes happen incidental/providential human and worldly expectations, or possibilities.

In fact, GRACE, because of God being God who provides the grace, promises – and has been revealed truthful of promise, – nothing is impossible to man only if he remains obedient to the Divine Will.

Thus, to continue the use of our illustration, if neither one – Obama or Romney – acts in obedience to the will of the Father, neither liberal clarity nor conservative blossoming is a sure thing for either Obama or Romney. Both their undertakings and promises are, just in themselves, bound to be in vain and futile.

BUT GOD REIGNS, AND HIS WILL will be done always!

At the end of the day, as I go through and experience the ups and downs of life, as I face up with both the dying and the living of daily life I am to remind myself that whereas indeed the Lord Jesus, our model, example, precursor, and guide, though he experienced pain, sorrows, conflicts & adversities, and ultimately suffered on the cross and died like any man; nevertheless all throughout his stint in his life on earth, or all throughout his dealings with fellow human beings as well as with the evil spirits (demons), He did not for once panic, he did not for once waver in his trusting of the Heavenly Father. Of course, it was because of this steadiness of his leaving everything of living up to the heavenly Father that, as also a God-sent, he realized in fact his liberating or saving of all of us. Indeed his Divinity afforded him the supernatural strength and ability to bear with his experiences of dying and dying on the cross. Yet in so far as his life was both our ransom and example in order to have a new life, we are to take it to full use and application the efficacious Christian new life within us which we receive from him as the way to persevere and endure from the mere natural life to the supernatural life given and offered us.

Its not my business how the world goes, even how bad it goes. That is God's call eternally. But all that is required of me is that I stand by my faith: in truth, in sacrifice, and in service in whatever lowly circumstance I am right now.

Reminder Christian Re-Orientation About What Focally Is even Humanly Speaking Great

Folklores, literature, as well as the media use, and common language, including the English language, exercise “great” liberty in the application or use of this word “great”. Among other casually magnified pseudo realities, some very satisfying personal feat, be it in sports or in the military, or any endeavor is easily called “great”.

The dictionary provides us its following synonyms: immense, enormous, gigantic, huge, vast, grand

It also gives us the following definitions: first rate, and being such in an extreme or notable degree.

It is probably, thus, in our human nature to be extremely generous with our describing of self patronizing traits or qualities; not necessarily as a virtue, but rather as a manner of self gratification or self adulation.

Yet honesty with reality or truth should unravel to us how “unreal” or “untrue” it is to brand any human act or achieving great as to really and truly earn the meaning of being number one or extremely good.

Nothing of life can be honestly called number one good, or good par excellence. For in life, as in history, there are only moments of being good, never a state or a being in the state of lasting good. It is not so and it should never be expected to be so.

Rather, what defines reality or truth in this world or life is: “Its never enough!” Insufficiency and imperfection defines reality and world truth.

“My Kingdom is not of this world!”

Hence, over yonder, rather, in a new realm, a new reality, a new world, a new kingdom is the promised perfection, excellence, and a supernatural reality.

This is that Kingdom of which is found the new life, and the abundant life. This is that Kingdom that Jesus has talked about, and which he has guaranteed to all who believe. The living of this Kingdom is entered through the threshold of love. If we want Christ's Kingdom, then we must live the life of love: love of God and love of our neighbor.

This alone is the great reality, the great truth, the great act and event a man or mankind could have through the God-Man, Jesus Christ.

I admit as I have pounded on the intrinsic toughness and manifest pains involved, ("Deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow me!"), again and again; and I wont be surprised if many folks out there have possibly mis-equated such adamance on my part to brand me a cynic and a pessimist.

But truth be told, and not to deny some fun here or there, and indeed enumerable “blessings”, which naturally create some events of joy or happiness, within the mere horizontal realm of existing, man can not restore to this earthly world its previous Eden-like identity. This world remains a world very much inhabited and influenced by evil. Of course, that is not to condescend to the power of the Devil as all of created natures yet belong to their Creator, Almighty God, upon whom ultimately depend providential dispensations over all events of life. To repeat, within the human or horizontal level life events or world events are no more man's complete domain. A good part of the world has been permitted to the evil one's influence and control over among the unbelieving people; and as an unfortunate circumstance the believers have to live with.

Hence, man can not deny the taking place of the holocaust at Auschwitz, the Saddam massacres, the race cleansing genocides in Bosnia or in Rwanda, and the often repeated recent individual acts of gun rampage of many lives committed right in our supposedly more civilized western societies. And the above are just samples of human atrocities man commits against fellow human beings. Thus, even early on, our memory of history will not fail us to recall other similar human monstrosities between and among human beings or human races.

The question, thus, is: “Would not man act otherwise? Would man realistically choose the Auschwitz history not to take place?” Since time immemorial, up to the end time when the very last man shall finally live and die, we could most probably presume 'this circumstance' of earthly or worldly existing shall persist both to the damnation of unbelievers and to the severe earthly misfortune of the believers.

Consequently, what is a human mindset about life realities, about human existence? It is namely this: that nothing, within the natural realm, is a sure thing. And that human expectations are to be tempered according to human limitations. And any human valuation magnifying about creatures is both human idolatry and Divine disavowal. Indeed, to make sure man never abnegates trust in the Divine, mankind ought to be moderate in his trusting of himself.

Yet the Kingdom of God in the world, and, thus, a changed reality even within the world, emerge when man loves according as he has become empowered anew with Christ's re-transformation of the new man. And when men do, as the saints of the Church have done and continually do, all the 'negativity' behind the command of self denial, taking up of the cross, and the following of the Lord Jesus daily proclaim attest to the authentic 'positiveness' that human life could ever be! And so, appropriately how 'great' are they 'true heroes' of the times, and of the age: them legendary champions of honesty, courage, justice, mercy, and truth.

Mother Mary reminds us of the insecurity with worldly goods or favors. “For God has stretched out his mighty arms and scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart, He has put down the mighty while exalting the humble, has filled the hungry with good things and the rich He has sent empty away, and remembered our fathers, and all their seeds forever.” By these is meant, when God so decides, no man's individual magnificence is ever so honorable, no man's might is so durable, and no man's wealth is ever imperishable. Yet as God so desires, his poor people shall be filled, his abject children shall be raised up, and his humble ones', beginning from Mary, shall be magnified. In fact, all those who so attached-ly seek after mere recognition from the world would have already temporally enjoyed whatever they could receive and are no more to be rewarded in the hereafter; in so far as they were already rewarded for their show-off prayers, alms, or human deeds.

Thus, when the Lord exhorted mankind to seek first the things that are of God before the things that are of world, He was ordering us to be correctly focused not upon these things of the world, but upon the Lord Himself. Nevertheless, the Master gives us the assurance not to be afraid as He has overcome the world; nor to worry about human needs as our heavenly Father is fully aware of them.

"Rejoice in the Lord! And I say, 'Rejoice!'." Words of St. Paul we are to focus on this Gaudete Sunday

Each time we enter the Church, inescapably we do gaze at the image of Christ, crucified; a constant reminder that to live, like with Christ, is to be bound to our daily crosses which the Lord Jesus mandates us to embrace if we are to be his faithful followers. And so as living is predominantly embroiled in putting up with this or that type of human suffering, we are tempted to question the relevance of St. Paul's exhortation to be happy in being a Christian. Was he advising us an impractical and, as it were, an unreal counsel in life? A priest, from the Mass I attended this gaudete week remarked that life circumstances will most of the time be characteristically negative and sad; but he emphasized our focus is not upon the negative and unhappy circumstances of the moment, but rather in the Lord Jesus. He was saying that far from the mere externalities and physicalities of unhappy circumstances, there within us and upon us is the reality of the God-within, the Emmanuel. And if God is there in us, something good, very good, is definitely within our day to day living. John the Baptist is to remind us that during our baptism, though what we see and give account for are the baptizing minister, the priest, and the faithful witnesses to the baptism, in reality St. John the Baptist declared when we are baptized with water by the minister, there inside us is the invisible Spirit of Jesus Christ, who is the one principally baptizing us into following Him. Later this season of the year as led on by Advent, we are indeed to celebrate the joy of the Coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ on Christmas. And on account of this world event of Christ Jesus' becoming a man like all of us, we are given the greatest assurance life is no longer just pain and suffering; life is joy, life is peace. With this peace of Christ within us, we become equipped and empowered not just to survive this messed-up life and world; but we become sustained and strengthened to believe in the meaningfulness of living, and to expect the destined final fulfillment for our human life in the everlasting perfection of heaven, even as we are guaranteed an abundantly 'rich' life on earth: the richness in the abilities to love our neighbors, whether through many acts of forgiveness, understanding & compassion, kindness & gratefulness, and all those gifts of the Holy Spirit living life in holy fear of the Lord, in the piety of worshiping our awesome God, the courage to witness to the truth, the great gift of coming to the counsel of our distressed neighbor, and the supreme peacefulness inside us on account of all the infused nuggets of understanding and wisdom God endows our finite and weak heart and mind.

And so, we echo St. Paul, and we urge every believer of Christ,

and say to all, "Rejoice in the Lord, and we say, 'Rejoice' !"

Not to disrespect our holy St. Peter, St. John, St. Paul, and St. James, but if --

we were to place within a box some characterizing of these our first saints and followers of Christ, and of course, all within the scope of grace and according to the planned working of the Spirit, the following are probably safe perceptions on Peter, John, Paul, and James:

Saint Peter is one who from the start has "always aimed from his heart to copycat the Master",

Saint John, the beloved, in the end, "best paraphrases the Master",

Saint Paul is so good at "elaborating the Master", and

then, you could bet, Saint James would always be the one "singling out any faking of the Master".

What is the Christian's true happiness? What is his true blessing?

Ordinarily and oftentimes, man's rejoicing or expression of joy is easily identified with an event of no-ordinary endowment or reception of certain 'goodies' , ie. certain sum of money, certain acquired property, equipment/device, including certain abundance of food or of clothes, certain honor or recognition as well as certain distinction of looks, intelligence, or skills. In other words, human happiness is invariably 'defined' by possession or acquisition of certain materially manifested blessings.

The gratitude and the simple pleasure of gratification out of such are surely a good thing. But the above do not essentially and necessarily match what may equal man's real pleasure of being under the favor and approbation of God. If any moment realizes man's choosing what is not the Divine will for man with respect to any given supposed blessing, that human moment does not essentially and necessarily express man's true fulfilment or real happiness. In simple terms, man's happiness is always ultimately what pleases him to God. And what pleases man to God is each time he is or his action is favorable to the will of God.

And so what are the occasions or the situations when man is in full accord with God, being-wise or action-wise?

They are the following:

upon his moment of baptism into Christ,

upon his uniting with Christ in the Eucharist,

upon reconciliation of a sinful man with Christ during confession of & contrition for his sins,

every each time he has become compassionate or merciful to one needing compassion or mercy, and

ultimately, (and par excellence-wise), if or when he meets martyrdom as a price of his witness to Christ.

In each of the above cases, being or becoming happy as a Christian is not necessarily accompanied with or by great emotional exhilaration or psycho-physical human excitement. There is not necessarily a manifest earthly hurrah or cheer-leading about it. As a matter of fact, invariably, the situations almost always look dry, actually uncolorful, and even outright miserable and depressing. Yet, in spirit, in each authentic and grace effected moment of fully God agreeable act or situation, you can bet there is absolute heavenly rejoicing and singing, which God sometimes allows the person involved to experience per the highest human act to actually “enjoy” in true inward happiness. E.g. the type of experience of the Johns of the Cross of this world.

Let us remember what the verses from Philippians describe to be the greatest act of Christ by which he is glorified by the heavenly Father: namely, Christ's ultimate denial of himself of an honor that belongs to him in obedience to the Father. As a matter of fact, he sought not to be carried in glory by the miracle awed crowd of Jews; but to be ever in faithful fidelity to the will of the Father.

In the Church, there is the festiveness at every celebrating of each saint of the Church, specially over a martyr of the Church.

On This Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ

During this most solemn feast of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus and the Church remind us of this great gift and blessing that he has left us by way of assuring us of his promise, "I shall be with you until the end of times!"

And the Lord is indeed with us according as was written for us by the evangelist St. John: namely, that at all times that we love God, the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit dwells within us, in our loving community and in each one of us. Otherwise, there is no way we could unite us with God or with the Lord Jesus Christ unless we have the Holy Spirit in us, "No one can say Jesus is Lord, unless he has the Spirit in him." But as the greatest manifestation of the reality of the Incarnation, the presence of God in us, the meaning behind the Emmanuel God, St. John categorically and in truth speaks of this revelation of God or of himself to human beings during and when human beings comply with Christ's command, ie. during and when human beings behave with one another in love. For it is both the identity and the power of the Divine that enables man to love. It is, thus, this way how the people of God assume and become the Body of Christ. And this is further elaborately understood and expressed via the total understanding of what and how the Church shows herself the Body of Christ.

But in a very special way, and precisely as the very instrument of the realizing of the Body of Christ, the reality and the institution of the Holy Eucharist, namely the Eucharistic becoming of the bread and wine into the very Body and Blood of Christ, or into the Holy Eucharist is one very blessing and miraculous frequent event of and within the Catholic Church. It is miraculous because because only by the supernatural act of the Holy Spirit does this reality of the Eucharist comes to be at every celebration of the Last Supper, the Mass. No sole human action by any member of the Church can make this happen; only with the cooperation and by the power of the Holy Spirit is the Lord Jesus summoned to come in presence in the Eucharist.

Moreover, the Eucharist is one constant blessing act, of Jesus through the Holy Spirit upon each one who receives in communion the sacred body and blood of Jesus. It is a blessing act, or a sanctifying act, thus, of the Holy Spirit because it is through the Eucharist that the believer receives the power of grace to change his own body into the Body of Christ. Whereas per se each human body is just material, is made up of the human flesh; upon devout & holy receiving of the Eucharist the individual body is being transformed from its mere materiality or fleshness quality into the kind of physicality of the very risen body of the Lord Jesus.

In effect, the transforming human being becomes enabled in its total personality, including 'physically' in some spiritualized physical or bodily actions. Hence, such an individual becomes able to forgive or pardon an offense against him, becomes able to be gentle, kind, and generous towards his neighbor without regret, resentment, or any second thought.

In other words, according as explained to us by St. Paul in his letter to the Galatians, under the above holy predicament a believing and ,thus, practicing Christian finds himself living not according to the flesh and therefore not by ways illustrated as being of the flesh, but by ways illustrated as being spiritual.

But that the Eucharist is so accessible to each devout Catholic is really and truly -- to repeat -- one daily or frequent act of wonder and blessing of God to the Church.

That we are to abandon ourselves in holy suffering.

“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” Thus was the cry of the man, Jesus, hanging on the Cross. Yet earlier, in compassion for and in pardoning of the good thief, his were words of authoritative tone, “Today, you shall be with me in Paradise!”

God tells us there would be necessary moments, even prolonged moments, like years during which time we are destined to cry like he himself cried on the Cross. Why? Because the cross is the Way for all of mankind where he is to encounter Jesus; the way of the cross or the way of sacrificial offering of man in atonement uniting with Christ for the glory of the Father. This Father of Jesus, who is every man's Father, according to St. Paul glorifies Jesus His Son, whereby every knee shall bow in adoration of him for his humbling himself to die on the cross a a sacrificial victim to the Father for the sins of mankind. Hence, every human being, if he is to be a follower of the Master Lord Jesus has to copy exactly what this Master asked of his disciples: become broken hearted for all kinds of suffering. And through these sufferings, borne but sacrificially offered in union with Christ's suffering, man, then, gets the promise of sharing the glory of Christ in heaven.

And upon that moment of humble abandonment of oneself and of one's kind of living, like the sacrificial bearing of life's burdens, then we could and shall be rewarded with those similar most consoling confirmation words from the Lord Jesus: today my friend you are assured of your reward in heaven.

Catholic Vigil Rites, A bit long; but a mine treasure of our faith's sacramental life and reminder we are God's people.

Each year, on the great festivity of Christ's reality of his resurrection from the death, (the very promise of our own individual resurrection), we, Catholics, get this once a year treat to the treasures of our faith being showcased magnificently and fervently.

Of course, all year long and throughout our Christian life we are benefited by the life of grace to live at all times the reality of our faith in the risen Christ, and the reality of the graces afforded us by the reception of the sacraments: from baptism, confession,and the Eucharist through all of the seven (7) sacraments of the Church.

On the one hand, while the faith enables and empowers us live through all the trials and tribulations of the year; and while we do have manifold access to all the sacraments day and day out; nevertheless during this Easter Vigil and Resurrection celebration we get to witness our brothers and sisters in the faith actually receive the Holy Spirit per the rites of baptism and confirmation officiated specially by the Local Ordinary (the Bishop). On top of it, the present faithful get to share with the newly baptized and newly confirmed the confession of our faith by the together affirmation of it by the Creed.

In addition we get to experience the rich symbolism of our faith: eg. the initial fire burning, (beginning presence of the Holy Spirit), at the faithful's gathering with the Bishop/Celebrant in front of the Church, the light of Christ each borne by everyone per the lighted candles in contrast to the total darkness within the Church, then, the turning on of all lights simultaneous with the loud pelting of Church bells upon the singing of the Gloria, and then the individualized act of baptizing and confirming by the Bishop of each of the new members of the faithful all witnessed and participated in by the entire faithful celebrating with the Bishop/Celebrant. The ensuing loud applause of welcome by the faithful of them even more so highlight the great festiveness of the occasion: an expression of the oneness of the Church of God. (Of course, previous to these, the pre-selected set of Scriptural Readings remind the faithful and the new-would-be members of the faithful of the heritage of the faith as begun in the life of the Israelites and professed and confessed by the Christian people of God.)

Alleluia, alleluia, allelluia! Indeed, Christ is risen, and alive in all of us baptized and professing, practicing Christian believers! Both by heaven-connected sacraments and faith lived lives, is manifest really and truly the risen Christ and the New life in Christ present in his Church. Amen, Alleluia!

Man's Divine Fate how to live: that all men become like other 'Jobs', and to live abandoning themselves to God like Job did?

The Catechism teaches us that the purpose of human life is that man aims and attempts, with the grace of God, to know, love, and serve God. This is the human finality that is often overlooked and missed out every time the world tells man to think of himself and for himself what his nature is and what his life is for as he becomes born in life and proceeds to live his life. Under the guise of human honesty and 'alleged' integrity, man is worldlily led to act initially and continually through his life introspectively, even albeit, sociologically. The world urges man to account for his life in terms of himself and of his interrelating with his fellow human creatures. As though man originally willed his own existence, and as though man owes his living upon other human creatures he found existing along with him? But the fundamental truth of his being a creature denotes his having a Creator who created him, and who alone is eternally responsible about his existence as His created freedom endowed human being. As a freedom endowed human creature, man finds himself capable of thought and will. Yet such a discovery of his faculties does not necessarily provide him what defines his existence as God's human creature. First and foremost, man has to be aware of his maker, and everything that his Maker has eternally willed for himself as His human creature. Human knowledge and Divine faith provides man some perspectives about his Maker-God. Yet the infinite and absolute wisdom of man's Maker-God is only known per se to God; man can never be essentially a privy to such Divine wisdom. Only what God allows his finite heart and mind to have glimpses of characterize and define whatever knowledge and intuiting man can have of God. Whatever divine revelation & teaching God lets man to be availed of, whether blissfully making man experience God temporarily, or painfully permitting man to fathom of his utter helplessness before the Divine majesty and transcendence, man remains the infinitely distant human and earthly creature of the God-head. And so, if at all, man thinks his purpose of life is to stay focused and open to this infiniteness of God. God, however, by His greatest love and plan for his creature: the mankind precisely intended and willed that man direct such focus and openness, and actual welcome & acceptance to His Son, whom He sent to mankind as the very face and person that images and represents His Divine nature. Man, thus, is destined to get to know, love, and serve God by getting to know, love, and serve God's Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the God-Made-Man.

By God's means, by God's grace man has to focus upon Jesus, has to learn of Jesus, and has to come to terms with Jesus. This consists in man's complete turning to Jesus or total turning around of his living according to Jesus' teachings and deeds. Jesus' Incarnation and mission of the salvation of mankind is defined by his Paschal Mystery, ie. namely: his manner of living on earth, his dying on the Cross, his rising from the death, his ascending back to the Father, and his promised final return for mankind. Within time and eternity, the fullest glory of Christ's Paschal Mystery of Incarnation & Redemption of mankind has yet to be made ultimately manifest upon his end-time final coming; likewise, even though all saved men and women, are already given the grace of salvation and the supernatural new life with God upon total embrace of Jesus Christ, nonetheless, until the consummation of God's Paschal Mysteries, mankind continues to await for the real and complete glory of God's union with his saved people. Thus, while awaiting with lived faith and love for God, and for fellow human beings, whereas already assured of the security of salvation, man nevertheless has to persist in his state of still 'utter depending, trusting, and obeying' the inscrutable divine precepts of the New Life united with the God-Made-Man, Jesus Christ: both to Himself and to his Body – the People of God, the Church. And just like the first Christians, the earliest followers of Jesus suffered martyrdom for their faith in Christ, so also all of believing mankind, through generations unto the God destined End-Time, are to continue to suffer the Christian crosses of life as faithful expectant/hopeful children of their Maker, God. Christ promised that each follower who suffers the ignominy of the Cross with him, shall also assuredly share of his glory of resurrection when God shall raise up each saved man 'upon the last day'.

How Glorious it is to be beneficiaries of God's many miracles per simple and ordinary living of our Christian, Catholic faith!

From this Sunday's Reading from St. Paul, we are reminded of one great fact for all who have received the heavenly peace of God announced by the Angels to the Shepherds during the birth of our Saviour. First off, because of the season, we are reminded that upon the Saviour's birth men and women upon whom God's favor rests, have been given that inestimable and elusive (to the worldly people) peace of man. Then, secondly, back to the referred-to-Reading from St. Paul, we are reminded that upon receiving Christ into our heart, upon being born again into Christ, we have become his brothers and sisters,i.e. as truly become children, adopted children, of God the Father. Meaning: we have become entitled to say, 'Abba, Father!'. Meaning again, we have been given the ability to claim God the Father, the father of Jesus, our Father. Then St. Paul, inferred, if we have become the children of the Father, then we have become heirs of the Father to the divine wealth, honor, posterity, and blessings of God. What other fact of life can ever beat this? None ever so closer! All the endowments and 'pleasures' on earth that the world could give just do not compare to the unfathomable providence of God! And of course, the one's that really count are what have been stored for us by God in the heavenly mansions He has prepared for all his beloved! These are even more the stuff that man can not imagine, nor any man's thinking could ever decipher and size up! Bottom-line: what God gives are glorious gifts, whether in heaven or on earth. Except the heavenly one's are eternal, and never ever tiresome or passing. The experiences of the saints, even while they were yet on earth are proofs of these. These evidences are not necessarily out of the ordinary. Even now, individuals or people of simple heart are witnesses to many a 'miracle' in their daily life which are happenings scripted & directed from the heaven. Yes, miracles about regular events of life do happen, and happen all the time. This one Catholic lady in Los Angeles, a certain Ms. Amy … , for instance, can relay many such regular miracles of life, e.g. ordinary future events foretold, or favors granted per St. Anthony's communicating with her. Both Pope Benedict and the late Pope John Paul II attest for this Filipino lady in L.A. Nonetheless, ask or look about them even real simple folks of professed faith how God has made intercessionary acts of providence for them during their moments of great need: their witness will be most illustrative. Finally, let us remember the testimony of the shepherds, who had seen the Holy Infant in the manger of Bethlehem because of their most made known encounter with the singing hosts of Angels which announced to them the birth of the Saviour. They could only exclaim how glorious their experience was!

A Deeper Meaning of Christ's Coming Into the World

Gaudete Sunday, 2011

On this Easter Sunday of 2010

THE PROMISES OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION

Thus, I repeat here previous particular statements I have said in another section of this site with respect to this supreme example of God’s active intervention in this one event of Christ’s resurrection : "This is not to say Christ’s resurrection has to be proved, ie. logically demonstrated to be so before men or before some sort of historical commission, in order for the Church to be able to teach or convince mankind of the salvation in Christ." For the Church’s dogma of Christ’s resurrection is a dogma of faith ; it is not a human declaration by reason. It was enough that Christ said he was to rise from death, and that he did appear to ‘some’, or has shown very positive sign he had done so. Any, as it were, big circus displaying or formalistic assembly demonstrating of his immediate rising by Christ was/is not fundamental; like it is not fundamental that God necessarily prove himself to us at every whimsical human demand to satisfy our fleshy insecurity. But the universal preaching of his resurrection, and of the validity of any serious act of faith is fundamental as part and parcel in the preaching of salvation in God.

All the above brings us to the teaching of or about faith. The belief in Christ’s resurrection, or for that matter in the reality of God’s moment to moment love of man in whatever circumstances he may be, is a gift of faith from God by the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ. The Christians’ concern about the resurrection of Christ, and for that matter about all his other teachings are that they exercise an act of faith: an act of accepting the truth of resurrection or of the doctrines of salvation or God’s life favors amidst unfavorable circumstances because God revealed it to us as dispensed by the power of the Holy Spirit through words and the sacraments as administered by Christ’s Apostles.

Let us recall again, the words of Jesus to the unbelieving Thomas, "Blessed are those who have not seen; and have believed " As regards human relating with God, the Lord puts a high premium on believing.

In contrast the world puts the accent upon seeing, or touching, or facing up to the real thing. No wonder many a man rushed their aging process. They could not wait. They want instant gratification in everything. And so they ended up forcing the issue, even twisting some facts, so they could right away get their premature rewards and untimely finishes. How often do we see these people winding up in trouble with the law on account they forced their way to the obtaining of their heart’s desire.

The Lord ever unfolds to us how many times something good happens to them who waited. It is not a cliche why it is often alluded the golden years of experience when applauding some people who have truly deserved having arrived in their lives.

We are not here, however, merely making considerations about wise living, or exercises in prudence and discipline. For these are really praiseworthy virtues but are virtues extolling mere human efforts & diligence, or crediting mere human works.

But we are dealing here with faith; we are dealing with a human condition or state whereby man gets to believe because of grace. We are talking about the gift of faith. It is that God’s love for man which enables man to love him back; but never the other way around. God is always the initiator in calling man back to himself, and in establishing a loving relation with man. With God’s loving grace, man just needs to respond with the very means God provides him: grace. Thus, we are dealing here with a virtue that is arrived at not by sheer power of the will, mind, and body; but by an opportune taking advantage of the graciousness of God whose Spirit itself affords us to collaborate with the Spirit in loving back the God who is after us.

And the only clear cut major events promised and predicted by the Lord speaking of the vindication of Divine and universal justice are the personal judgment event of every after death experience, and the Final Judgment at the End-Times when Jesus Christ comes the last time around to this mere physical world to introduce the New Earth and the New Heaven and the crowning of the elect during God’s glorious ultimate Divine Manifestation of Himself as God and Master of the Universe and as the central and all encompassing Force and Power as well as Fulfillment of all that responded to his Commandment of unity or love, ie universal and Kingdom-wise Peace with God.

And so we do say, "Alleluia! Christ is risen! Alleluia!" But unless we are in that specially gifted state of being in a trance like a Margaret A La Coque, or a Padre Pio, and other very privileged saints given the gift of outright contemplation of God, the phrase we just invoked would understandably sound not as exciting. It might be boring even to some believers who somehow imagine greater expectations from the reality of Christ’s resurrection, even prior to truly experiencing the resurrection of Christ . They do not necessarily not believe; they just might be feeling & saying, all these years as believers in the Resurrection of Christ like, "Alright, how many more years in my lifetime do I keep my supposed excitement on hold before all these marvelous things really dawn on me, before they fully realistically flash upon me in full vision?" I am committed not to envy the fun and ‘frolic free’ abandonment of the worldly people to their hedonistic pleasures and vain braggadocios. Meantime, what else can I say, except profess that Christ has risen, and that it promises great rewards for me later. And I just have to allow them to rub it on me, "Hey, believers; watch me, watch us, we’re having fun. Too bad to me, to us, you in there look all so stuck up in your beliefs!" THIS we can not deny! For indeed, the words of Christ state, the world will oppress us, will persecute us. YET ITS NOT TRUE what they accuse us, ie stuck up believers. On the contrary, with the resurrection of Christ we are made ever more assured, and we are strengthened ever more steadfastly; our deal as believers is the better deal, the best deal absolutely unimaginable to any man.

For without necessarily antedating, pushing forward Divine fulfillment of the promise, "Blessed are those who do not see, but believe"; already right on we could enjoy in spirit the reality of Christ’s resurrection. Not only does it empower us to live a moral life, ie being enabled to stop sin, or being enabled to make acts of charity to others, including forgiving of those who offended us; but the reality of Christ’s resurrection empowers us to envision or pre-configure the incomparable rewards that will belong to us for believing, and continuing to wait in believing.

Yet, in the context of Christ’s resurrection, we are to mark here God’s promise to the elect: they shall see God face to face. This means the saved man shall be able to behold the absolutely perfect God in all his awesomeness, majesty, and glory. What other human act can beat that? That is the fulfillment par excellence awaiting man, who is saved. Now, with that divine and heavenly statement and reality, used as a premise there are zillion possibilities that we could even now decipher as infer-able or deducible from it. A whole night session of fellowship could not do the job. To quote a phrase used by John the Evangelist, no book can be finished to write all that the saved man can inferentially see, understand, behold, experience, be gratified with after becoming empowered the ability to see God face to face.

Let us attempt to enumerate

some: the only God-given ability to speak many human tongues, or even angelic tongues (languages), the understanding of how certain people then prophecied, and the knowing & comprehending of what were or are mysteries, or mystical to our previously mere human mental perceiving, for examples:

the "talking-in-tonques" (the hearing of sounded out foreign languages that were then preached), the previous "slaying-by-the-Spirit" (physical collapsing over a complete taking over by the Spirit, good Spirit, along with consequent disappearance of some ailments), the previous incidents of "bi-location" (pious individuals being seen in two or more places at almost the same time), the previous "locution" by saints (the then speaking of past or future events or informations related to the Saint), the previous "apparitions" (like the countless appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary all over the world throughout these last centuries), the previous incidents of actual physical levitation in space while in deep prayer, (Father Pio’s rising to elevation while in prayers a few times), Saint Stephen’s actually seeing ".... heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right side of God" during his ecstatic dying and uniting with the Saints of Heaven, how the Blessed Mother was assumed to the Heaven, body and soul, including Jesus’ having ascended there also body and soul; then also Jesus’ – his own supernatural human feats like his previous "walking in water", "penetrating through closed doors", "multiplying loaves of bread and fishes", and healing of many many sick even dead people; the understanding of how true believers by their faith can move mountains; then how the apostles’ received of the Holy Spirit & how they consequentially spoke in tonques, like I initially mentioned above, and henceforth how they powerfully preached, healed of many sick individuals, and performed many other miracles,...... AND then, the understanding, as a matter of fact, the elects own experiencing of the glorious human experience on earth, then, by the three Apostles of the splendor of the Divine per their witnessing of the "transfigured Jesus", – with Moses, and Elias – in a state of glory, ie. their seeing the three men, specially Jesus, in the most humanly unimaginable state of heavenly blessedness, (not as visualizations by their human eyes or senses, or mental faculties but by some spiritual enlightening upon Simon, James, & John), which by then, I repeat, will have become their own experience and precise reward of glory.

Part II - Personalized Approach

Let us look at this in a much more common sense manner of looking at things.

Individually, when we get to heaven, or even more importantly when during Christ’s Final Return all the elects gather together in union with God seeing God face to face, aside from our expecting there will no longer be the negatives of life, no more sadness, no more poverty, no more enemies to fear, no more sickness to give us problems, and no more fear of dying or death; or in positive terms, when & where we shall be happy and forever happy; how can we define that moment of salvation in heaven?

Commonsensical-ly, what are all the things we could figure ?

To repeat, because we shall have the ability to see God face to face, the highest faculty activity par excellence, then it is going to be a piece of cake to do or enjoy the following:

We will no longer be mystified by numbers, ie how the division and multiplication with exponents and in loops of polynomials could all look so simple, all expandable to unlimited or infinite numbers but all reducible to the number one, all so complicatedly systematized but all shown so coherently. No effort, no sweat, like we say in human terms. Similarly, by then, we shall be made to understand how great music, even just the earthly music of Mendellson, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikofsky, Irving Berlin, Bach, etc. were configured out of those mere eight notes!

We shall be able to quote-unquote view the humanly unviewable vastness of God’s space and constellations, which just by imaginations even now gives us the feeling of the Creator’s awesomeness. Imagine seeing the endless intertwining of heavenly bodies, galaxies of moons and stars with God and us in the midst of all of these!

We shall be able to relate with Angels, spiritual beings because we shall have become "spiritualized bodies" with our personal souls united with our resurrected bodies. Imagine us together with God and his angels appearing with the clouds of heaven. Scriptures did say this: the elect appearing with the returning Jesus with the clouds of heaven.

And we shall, thus, see, witness, and enjoy the perfected "New Earth", and the revealed "New Heaven"! Imagine here the most soothing choir of angels making perfect music, with our ever joyfully enjoying it without getting tired or bored.

Shall I continue some more; or do you want to do your own figuring out? Okay, this an encore: how about witnessing the prediction the lions feeding along side the lambs, not feeding on lambs, but feeding along side the lambs!

PART III - METAPHYSICAL APPROACH

THE WORD OF LIFE. Some verses from John 1: 1-16

"In the beginning the Word already existed, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to the people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out......

The Word was in the world, and though God made the world through him, yet the world did not recognize him. He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him. Some, however, did receive him and believed in him; so he gave them the right to become God’s children. They did not become God’s children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God himself was their Father.

THE WORD BECAME A HUMAN BEING, and full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father’s only Son......

Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after another. God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at he Father’s side, he has made him known."

God is God, and man remains man. Yet God made man, God became man. And so man as he has received"divinity", has become a son of God. With Christ’s Incarnation, suffering & dying, and then, resurrection, God has 'divinized' mankind. God has given back to man the Divine Life, the life of grace, the life by which man could be, and live united with the Divine. God has thus, exalted the redeemed mankind. And by this has permitted Divine possibilities for man and man’s supernaturalized existence. Thus, with Christ’s work of Incarnational Salvation God has, forever, created a New Earth along with a New Heaven.

Within the Divine Plan of salvation, and thus yet within God’s and man’s time the fullness of this New Earth and New Heaven is awaiting Christ’s final coming of judgment and culmination of Divine Plan and God’s mercy and love.

And so God has revealed himself, his love, and his total plan how much loves man. After Adam and Eve have lost him, God has reached out to Adam and Eve and their children to come back to God’s fold and embrace. And so he spoke through Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, and through the prophets, including the last one in the person of John the Baptist, and finally spoke in the very person of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then through his Apostles and the CHURCH, the mystical Body of Christ, continues to do his continually unfolding work of loving man as through these latter God works by the grace of his Son, the renovating of his Earth and his Heaven anew until the End-Times. And so let us go back to some verses of Divine Revelation through John:

"Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him. The Word was the source of life ,... Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after another. God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at he Father’s side, he has made him known."

Thus in the re-working of God’s Earth and Heaven, only God through Jesus Christ does it and will continually fulfill it. Yet God does and will do it in terms understandable to us, ie by his words, by his Word. God continues to speak his words, and we are to continue to listen and receive the working of his Divine Word/’words’.

And thus as perfected per Christ’s resurrection, words about the re-working of the earth and heaven tell us how things that we can never by natural human faculty know or do are actually being done, and will continually be done by God. For example, that per Christ’s resurrection we shall be given a body that like his body can walk on water, a body that can be touched but penetrate closed doors, a body that can appear so glorious like Jesus’ transfigured Body, and a body that can, like Jesus’ Body, appear through and stay by the clouds, a body that can show itself where ever in instant time like the Lord did appear here and there after his resurrection. And of course, we shall get to have back our bodies that will no longer turn to dust like our natural bodies did during death; but will have bodies that can actually go and reside in Heaven, like Jesus and Mary are in heaven, body and soul.

Then, let us talk exactly about this earth, this world. Per Christ’s Incarnation and Resurrection, this earth and this world is due for Divine Renovation up till by the End-Times. And so along with the human bodies, all other terrestrial entities, which decay or get corrupted, will be changed or replaced with 'divinized' entities that will not be subject to disolution or perishing. Per Christ’s Incarnation and Resurrection, there will be a new matter, a 'divinized' matter that stays for the glory of God. (Even people of science, and of this imperfect world refers to such a "God matter", except they describe it and ascribe its constituency as well its making to supposedly possible natural processes. But of course, this is not likely nor even possible under the presumed natural possibility. This is precluding God’s redemption work; and is rather, assuming human/natural powers that just do not and will not exist for as long as is denied the Divine Salvation intervention of Christ’s Incarnation and Resurrection.

To end this discourse now, like we began invoking the fulfillment of the promise to the "elect"/saved people of God to be able to "TO SEE GOD FACE TO FACE" in heaven, and so in the End-Times, who knows if God’s new Earth and New Heaven is initially already partially what we are allowed to see and fancy? God became man is also called God the Emmanuel, God with us. And so could it be his works are exactly partially made manifest to us, like for example in the beautiful skies, beautiful clouds, and the awesome vastness of the space of the universe? No human-made rocket ship has ever circumnavigated the space of the universe. Who knows; maybe in the End-Times this is one we shall be made to see, the endlessness of God’s universe space. In the same token, those of us who kept wondering in mathematics about what the "infinite number" is, maybe during the End-Times we shall be made to perceive the "infiniteness" of numbers. As God is the Alpha and the Omega, when we see God face to face, we most probably recognize the infinite number in him!

SOME REFLECTIONS AGAIN DURING THIS LENT TIME OF THE YEAR

Jesus Christ, Our Lord, and King!

By our faith we profess that Jesus Christ is indeed our Lord, and our King. He affirmed this from this Gospel narrative. And now the following verses:

Pilate asked him,

(S3) Are you the King of the Jews?

(N) He answered him,

(J) You say so.

Then, also the ff.

Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

(N) Jesus said,

(J) I am; and "you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power," and "coming with the clouds of heaven."

But yet for our Lord and King, and for ourselves NO LORDLY, AND KINGLY RECOGNITION, and for us no similar respect and fairness WILL BE ACCORDED BY THIS WORLD. Jesus throughout this Palm Sunday narrative, notwithstanding a brief accolade given him upon his entry to Jerusalem, we witness to an unmistakable and evident rejection and abuse of him by the people and authorities of religion unto his dying on the Cross.

And so therefore with respect to our testimonial living of our life for Christ in this world, we should not expect to be spared the suffering imputed, and cast on us by this world. On the contrary, for as long as within the standards of what is rational and natural, where we are only trying our best to be safe, to be in good health, and to be protected & safeguarded about our basic needs, and most importantly where are only precisely wanting to keep our sanity of mind and spirit, specifically the spirit to persevere in our faith in God, who is loving and caring for his children that we are; nevertheless, we are to welcome and embrace all the unavoidable NEGATIVES, bad luck, and unfairness and injustice that will come our way in life. The world will confuse us, and ridicule us calling us masochists, (weird people lovers of pain), and will look down upon us as stupid and wimpy. But it has to be so, for now; for like the Lord predicted to become like a lamb being brought unto its slaughter, we are going to have to be just like our Lord, become as lambs sacrificially bearing all the unavoidable pains, anguish, sadness, and hardships as a way of our suffering together with Christ for the atonement of all our sins, and the sins of the world.

Precisely so do we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday right after the 1st week of Christ’s resurrection Sunday. We proclaim it is by being merciful and forgiving of people’s sinfulness, specifically, their sinful treatment of us that we could legitimately proclaim the power of Christ’s victory over death, Christ’s triumph over sins: eg. evil and all its negative manifestations we have lined up here. Unless we do so, we will not, like Jesus said, have a share in his resurrection glory. Let us make this message clear and well defined. Yes; we are to enjoy and be grateful to God’s blessings in life; but even much more so we are to willingly embrace Christ’s suffering and dying within us as the more essential and fundamental way of living our temporal and earthly life. Because it is only in this manner that we can, together with Jesus, get to receive both the later heavenly glory of victory as well as the Divine grace of a new human life of the spirit even while still living our natural life on earth. It goes without saying, thus; that as we live this life on earth, we are not to seek to live for the sake of beautiful women, we are not to seek to live for the sake of earthly power and honors, we are not to seek to live for material opulence and money luxury entitlements & enjoyments, we are not to seek even for permanent physical longevity and worldly perpetuity. No! We are just to be passing pilgrims on this life in order that we shall arrive to our proper and final destination of union with God in the New Heaven and the New Earth, beginning at our individual death until God’s End-times for all at Jesus Christ’s Second Coming on earth.

GOD DOES NOT ESSENTIALLY HATE THE SINNER, BUT THE SIN!

Before we even tackle understanding the morale behind this story of the woman caught in adultery, let us bear in mind that Christ's fundamental message is LOVE. Saint John the Apostle writes the Lord's exhortation: "By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." And Jesus maximized the extent of this act of love of neighbors by telling us to love even our enemies. As Christians, compassion, not condemnation, is our initial and primary call.

On the other hand, we never compromise truth in heeding the call for compassion towards our neighbor. In the context of the present day history, if we use as example the violent war engagements between the U.S. Forces and the Iraqi militants or the Talibans, and the killing and dying, or deaths and destruction of people, including innocent people, we want to believe that despite these coincidental images of violence, what our Armed Forces are after is justice and truth!

And so for the sake of the truth we can not condone evil!

Then as baptized believers we pray during our profession of our faith, a prayer which we made to particularly pray together on Easter Sunday, a prayer of a strong negative profession that we renounce sins and the chief advocate of sin: Satan and his protegees. Even initially during our baptism, we say, whether individually or by proxy through our sponsors: We renounce Satan, and all his works.

And so with regards to our example of our American soldiers engaging a war in Iraq or Afghanistan, we act to define our non-condoning of the acts of terrorism, particularly the terrorists’ hostage holding, and killing of innocent victims. Remember 9-11, the innocent thousands murdered. Potential victims of these atrocities must be protected, and perpetrators of violence must be hunted down and put to justice. In other words, where direct and un-stopped committing of evil exists, a reprising condemnation of sin is warranted.

For example, through circumspect, prayerful, and faith-abiding discernment of the wise and prudent decisive social activism and effective militancy just wars are but tolerable and maybe commendable. In like manner, prudent censure and discipline of an individual’s addiction to sin is justifiable.

Let’s tackle another very controversial issue related to our story. Recently, "..the Vatican launched a global campaign against gay marriages, warning Catholic politicians that support of same-sex unions was ``gravely immoral'' and urging non-Catholics to join the offensive.

The Vatican's orthodoxy watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a 12-page set of guidelines with the approval of Pope John Paul II in a bid to stem the increase in laws granting legal rights to homosexual unions in Europe and North America.

``There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family,'' the document said. ``Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law.''` To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral,'' the document said.

The Vatican said its guidelines were not only intended for Catholic lawmakers but for non-Christians and everyone ``committed to promoting and defending the common good of society'' since the issue concerned natural moral law, not just Church doctrine. It said homosexuals should not be discriminated against, but said denying gay couples the rights afforded in traditional marriages does not constitute discrimination.

For my part, I am not to deny of my own weaknesses and sinfulness. (Hindi po ako nagkukulang ng pagtanggap ng kung sino ako: isa ring makasalanan. Tahasan ko pong ipinapahayag ito.)

That is why I acknowledge my own need for all the graces of God to overcome my own sinfulness. (Yan po ang dahilan kung kaya kailangan ko at nating lahat ang biyaya ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng Sakripisyo ni Kristo.) I do not claim self-righteousness for the words I utter. ( Hindi po ako nagmamagaling kung nagsasaad ako ng payak na mga salita; maging galing sa akin o sagot ko sa aking kapwa.) (Sinasabi ko lamang po ang totoo!) And everything I noted to be the mistakes and sins of others, I am readily admitting to be most probably the same mistakes or sins of my own, my same kinds of sins and weaknesses. (Dahil kung ano ang kamalian ng aking kapwa ay talos kong iyon din marahil ang aking mga kamalian. At kung ano ang aking payo sa aking kapwa; iyon ay sariling payo ko sa saking mga pagkakamali. Sa aking lampas nang taong gulang ay alam ko na napakalayo ko pa sa kahilingang pagpapakabuti ng Ating Panginoon. (Dahil nga po sinasabi natin, ".. sapagkat ako'y tao lamang"!) Indeed we are all but human! (Bagaman, aking pong paniwala higit na malaki ang pagtubos sa atin ng Panginoon kaysa sa ating pagiging makasalanan.) At hindi masukat ang kayamanan ng biyaya ng Diyos, kasama na ang mga biyayang tinanggap na ating mga kapatid na nakarating sa sa kanilang kabanalan, na tutulong sa atin upang maibhan ang ating abang pagkamakasalanan.

Now having said all the above, let us not be blind to a very clear and defined example set to us by our Lord Jesus in relation to the woman caught in adultery. After confronting the woman’s accusers that only someone among them who was without sin may cast the very first stone on the woman, Jesus himself declared neither he will judge her. For as long as she confesses herself sorry for her sins, and promises to, thus, sin no more, to the Lord Jesus she was already as clean as snow. Therefore, let us not make the Jews’ mistake; nobody among us is somebody’s judge. For it is also said, "Judge not lest you be judged. Under any human circumstances, we are not to be judgmental. But in the spirit of charity we are always to be open for opportunities to commend the helpless downthrodden, to help encourage, edify, build-up one another when in need for each one, when down needs help being encouraged, edified, and built-up to the utmost that is necessary. Hence, the rationale behind community prayer for everyone most in need of forgiveness; and the edification need of everyone in the Body of Christ.

To repeat we are not indeed to be, or to imply any air of patronage over anybody; like we are any better than everyone else. Certainly not; for it is said in Hebrews no one is found worthy or holy in the eyes of the Lord. Everyone is a sinner; and everyone is in need of God. That is why we are to acknowledge our poor estate before God; and when we do so we open up our heart to full occupation only by God. And there consists the blessedness of poverty.

But of course, we are not to declare any day a holiday or a free day from God’s commands and precepts, we are not to declare any holiday/free day from sin or from committing any grievous sin.

Nevertheless, in the spirit of Lenten humility and poverty let us ease up on our perceiving of other people. After all God alone sees the heart of individual human beings.

Besides, the same Beatitudes implicitly warn about being a conspirator in any form of persecution as the persecuted has the most tender attention of God; and consequently the persecutor is to watch out about angering God. But we commend upon each one, his/her own discretion and care in the respectful tolerance for everybody, and the humility about each ones peculiar & different conditions. It is with faith that we are tp praise God, and give thanks to him for His graces for our sorrow and repentance for sins. This is the only way to open up His coming into our hearts, the only way to welcome his Kingdom for us on earth.

Our guide here to the understanding of the message of this Gospel is our awareness that except by the grace of God, because of original sin all of us carry a flawed humanity, ie. a sin-inclined human self. Saint Paul says, ".. no man is found just..." Jesus said, "Apart from Me you can do nothing!" All human beings are, by their actions, guilty of human selfishness. It would be hypocrisy and sheer sanctimoniousness to deny this. No man but Jesus, along with Mary, are holy and without sin.

In whatsoever situation we are in, whether or not we're the adulterous man or woman of the story, is immaterial to God. Ultimately, as God alone is the judge of all human acts, whether our human actions are edifying and touching to people or even scandalous and hurting to others, our human actions or behaviour are not for man to judge but only for and by God.

Anyone in the maze of entangled lives and situations many times are perplexed, confused, and disheartened about how to disentangle themselves from the complex trap of their lives. In reality, however, whatever burdens or disgrace they are encumbered in, these individuals should not be judged, nor be given an ill refutation. Amazing grace is not bound except in death in making wonders and miracles of the most problematic lives. For as long as both the heart and mind hang on to the true inner prompting of the Spirit the downcast of this world could at any time turn to the right judge and advocate of their desperate conditions and be graced with the inner peace of the Spirit and assurances of relief of their troubles. In effect what is seemingly most negative can turn to be very, very positive. But only by the grace of God!

In conclusion, God hates the sin, not the sinner. God condemns the sin, not the sinner. God came down on earth not for the righteous but for the sinners. But when we are in the state of sin; nonetheless, we are advised to cast away our lifestyle of sins. We are, as a matter of fact, warned to precisely stay away from sin lest in the end God will be forced to judge and condemn us as stubborn sinners to the eternal Divine justice and punishment of hell.

Relevant meditations this Christmas Season of 2009

A light shone unto the world, and gave light to the world in darkness.

Jesus is the Truth. In Jesus, man receives the truth; in Jesus, man is enabled to be truthful.

But woe to the world, or to the people of the world that remain in darkness. Woe to the people of the world who remain in their sins. For they have not received the Lord; for they have not received the Light; and they have remained in darkness as they have remained in their love of sins.

Thus, if per chance we are stuck in the love of the sinful ways, we remain without Jesus, and therefore, we remain without the Truth. Men and women who are without the truth are the men and women who remain incapable of being truthful, are men and women who therefore are not truthful, are men and women who continue to live in lies, dishonesties, and thus are hypocrites and deceitful.

In effect these people who are without the truth of Jesus Christ are in essence stubborn unbelievers who therefore have not learned/received of Jesus the Way, and have not learned/received of Jesus the Life. Incapable of fundamental honesty and truthfulness, they can not be capable of Jesus’way of self-denial and self sacrifice, and even more unworthy & devoid of Jesus’ gift of the grace-life of love, service of others and supernatural uniting with God.

Without Jesus’ Truth, they are necessarily without Jesus’ Way & Jesus’ Life.

In what consists the truth of Christ? It consists in the following essential characteristics:

1. Man’s living must be founded or plugged to the Word of God, to the revealed words of God. If man relies more upon human fables or even human reasons and human resources, he may have a human belief, but does not have the requisite faith in the living God.

2. Man must be linked and in supernatural life-support with the Sacraments & divine sacramentals. Ie. he must have the only God-provided sanctifying grace received in baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, etc.. and he must always make use of the sacramental means of prayers, and he must be clinging to the one sacrament of God, Mary for ever ready dependence upon her help and assistance, albeit intercession to her Son, the Chief Sacrament in the Eucharist. The sacraments are God’s pro-offered linking of himself with weak human beings.

3. Man must profess his faith-&-grace given knowledge of the truth both by mouth and by deeds, sharing it to others who are called upon by God to listen to man’s evangelizing faith profession. The fig tree that remains without fruit shall account for its un-productivity. The un-responsible steward shall be punished for his/her wasted stewardship.

The bottom-line characteristic of having the Truth of Christ is to be authentically serving Jesus’ purpose for divine human truthfulness; namely, men and women of Christian Faith are truly to become his extended light to the world, salt of the earth. As light they shall champion the battle against darkness of sins, as well as ascertain the preserving power of the truth to forever endure in its steadiness against the fleetingness and changeableness of the world.

Thoughts this year end .............

God’s number one commandment is love: my love for him, and for my neighbor. This I have to make certain I comply with.

As of this weekend, within the confines of loving – or the commandment of love – the Spirit prompts me of the following:

"Tough love" , as a special variety of love demands absolute faith, trust, and obedience to Divine Providence, mercy, and Christian sacrificing, truthfulness, and service ie. in essence I have to accept whatever I/we are dealt with by Divine fate because it is Divine Fate; and God knows best, and loves best. Nonetheless, we are to expect to find our human/world circumstance modify or suit up, in the most acceptable – at least humanly speaking – while the Spirit dwells within & around us affording us the most serene peace of mind, heart, and even of body.

Essentially, love or the act of loving by man is something that is characterized by a most honest spiritual expression, most cordial/heart-originating act of the will, and a most single hearted truthfulness, which are altogether an act of obedience to God.

As a continuation of the first and as a developing of the second, in the realizing of this Divine Will for man, and as a daily or moment-to-moment manifestation of the grace of God for man, the concrete living expression of obedience to the will of God for man will have to manifest first the element of humility that the act is an act of faith not merely of human nature; and it will again by grace manifest very fundamental meeting of man’s human well-being and spiritual security of salvation. Finally, again because the human act is an act of faith and of love it is bound to demand and to challenge man’s genuine and faithful steadiness and perseverance as God’s resolving of man’s tough predicament will supernaturally demonstrate itself as a testing human experience over time and space. Man has to wait on God’s intervention according to His mysterious, and inscrutable wise dispensation of actual grace to man again in time and space. But man is not to worry, is not to be disgraced. He is ever under God’s watchful eye; and actually is held "in the palm of his mighty hand"!

About freedom in the light of weak human sinful nature:

Freedom is not free? Loving is not love?

Supposed all kinds of freedom are no freedom at all. They are all nothing but varied exercises of passion given categorizations and sanctions by either legislated laws, or conventionally approved ethos, or physiologically defined & legally controlled human faculties. Bottom line, each one is whatever individuals desire as options by conventional recognition and consensus. All as governed by some governmental regulations or laws. But neither one is what any individual might fancy to be some complete or un-reined romantic freedom. Truly nothing under heaven is free. One way or another there is going to be some constraint if not actual prohibition.

Likewise, as regards the second by-line, as we repeat, loving is not love. We could say, as in the above, all kinds of loving are no love at all. They are all nothing but varied exercises of passion given typologies and license by either legislated laws or conventionally approved ethos, or physiologically defined & legally controlled human faculties. Again, bottom line, each one is whatever individuals expresses as options by personal-conventional mutual recognizing and social consensus. Everything is governed by some civic or cultural regulating or license. But neither one is whatever any individual might fancy to commit absolutely or licentiously. Truly nothing under heaven can be found love. In one way or another, any supposed love expression is wanting in essential faithfulness, albeit honest protestation of fidelity.

May 29, 2009

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT SPIRITUALITY:

Essential DEED of evangelizing

Evangelizing is getting anybody or any group of individuals/people to be enabled by grace in mind & heart to will to do the good in itself, but especially the good for others. Negatively, it also consists in getting the same people to be enabled by grace in mind & heart to want to refuse doing evil: evil per se, and evil things particularly against other people.

The double face ACT behind the Golden Rule

One face, and its good face consists in God prompting an individual to love others, which can possibly motivate the other to reciprocate love, whether in thought or in deed. Or in similarly prompting an individual not to omit doing for others what others might not want being neglected to be done for them.

Now, the other face consists in the Devil tempting an individual to do wrong to others, while simultaneously urging these others to pay him back with similar wrong-doing. Then, the opposite parallel to the above where the Devil leads an individual to be un-mindful of his obligations to others, while equally urging others to be forgetful of the individual needs or concerns.

More about ways of the Devil

Remember the saying, what goes around – comes around. Realize the reality of backlash. In essence, the warning is that – following more of the thread of the Golden Rule application – in the context of the Devil’s consistent business of malicious meddling and casual betrayal, contrary to the moral precept, the world as corrupted by the Prince of the world makes it the conventional thinking to counteract, even initiate, force or violence with equal force or violence. Let an end ‘justify" an erroneous means; or rather, let capriciousness be met with equivalent capriciousness.

One more time, what goes around comes around!

For as long as any individual makes himself an open instrument to all the varied promptings and manipulating by the Devil, the individual will be his captive agent & victim. The Devil will work upon him deceptions &lies, provocations & passions, fancies & despair, etc.. whatever could get him seeming victories over his perceived enemies.

On the other hand, ......

a soul that places himself completely in the hands of God only really smartly let go of the infinite & truly marvelous and mysterious working of the Divine hands both in terms of getting the individual through his ordeals as well in keeping him in safe and peaceful state of mind, of heart, and of body. The key here is, where the situations are precisely humanly overwhelming to the individual that’s when he best leave aside his human smarts and turn to a trusting invisible free operating by God. These are situations where man is welcome to cry inside but collaborating outside with God’s play of circumstances.

The Big Lie consists in this:

The belief and the orientation sheer human determination and even total resourcefulness spells success for any man or any human endeavour, including human righteousness. Fat chance.

The Gist of Truth, however, consists in the following:

Jesus’ becoming part of humanity becomes both man’s leverage and leaner when faced and in the midst of the human predicament of helplessness and inadequacy. But only so long as man accepts his humble state as well as his challenged freedom to keep standing and going in spite of his helplessness and inadequacy on account that he believes the Lord is always about him and inside giving him cover and assurances.

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Part II.

Reflections Via Calendared Events or Topics of the Day

Oct 21 7:25:42 2008

These last couple of weeks of election campaign will be an even tougher hurdle for Mc Cain. It will be an un-even playing field between him and Obama as Obama has purchased prime time advertising on the three major networks. Ie. 24/7 advantage of last minute almost exclusive exposure for Obama. It seems like the Mc Cain campaign is always a step behind in planning and in aggressiveness?

Oct 20 12:56:34 2008

Under a prosperity headed US economy, Obama's Middle Class uplift promises, mainly in terms of substantial tax credits - including a total subsidizing of the health care insurance of those without health care -- are surely a great leveraging for the small people of America. But under the present precarious, depression threatened US economy, his uplifts could spell disaster for the entire US, both each individual Americans - rich & poor - and the nation as a whole.

Oct 19 22:21:05 2008

On the other hand, Mc Cain intends to freeze spending for one year, and to work on sparking the most productivity of the economy within the meager money resource the country still has. Mc Cain is not as persuasive as Obama; but his plan seems to address the present daunting crisis of the country, and of the world.

Oct 19 22:17:23 2008

To repeat, Obama promises plenty of social benefits. But can the country afford them during these next few years? Use the scant money resource of the country, and nothing will be left to further facilitate America's economic engine.

Oct 19 22:14:05 2008

Big-Time players of America's corporate/business world have been wiped out; and along with them naturally is America's mainstream economy. The country, if the rescue package does not work out right away, is in danger of depression. Ie. businesses will shut down, jobs will disappear, and consequently basic staples and utilities will be gone. Thus, it matters who between Obama & Mc Cain knows better the situation and the appropriate action for these next couple years

Oct 19 17:53:19 2008

Right now, however, America is already above board in indebtedness, and the economy about to stand still. The nation is quite tied up to be giving socialized benefits. Mc Cain intends to fittingly prevent the US from the feared depression. Thus, he plans to simultaneously stimulate business and generate employment, which we will need precisely to prevent the economy, during these critical years, from shutting down. Necessarily he would prop this up w/ a year of freeze on spending

Oct 19 17:15:30 200

Obama promises to give a lift to the poor, particularly the middle class.

Oct 19 16:57:26 2008

God bless this US election this November. Let the Spirit enlighten us which one between Mc Cain and Obama could better serve America, the US citizens, and the world economy and peace during these next immediate years

Oct 19 12:23:45 2008

Thank God, this Reflection page of Balik Sa Panginoon again shows up! Thanks too to Guestbook Depot.com

Sep 22 12:35:22 2008The more prayer meetings evangelicals hold, and repeatedly; and the more Catholics in real prayerfulness say together the Rosary, the more alive the Church, the Body of Christ, will thrive and prosper. And more so as even more and more individuals or groups perform acts of forgiveness & mercy, and charity being extended and tendered to all of them who need assistance, understanding, mercy, and love. Praise the Lord

Sep 22 12:26:21 2008

The hands of God are ever at work in positive intervention for each one in need who seeks after the will of God. But the same hands of God are also at work in justice retribution upon all of them who have deemed to become cohorts with evil.

Sep 20 22:36:15 2008

The last will be first; and the first will be last We better watch it if we constantly refuse embarrassing roles, and the uncomfortable toil of dirty hands-on tasks; while we also always seek every type of recognition for each big or little credit we think belongs to us. The Lord might later tell us we already got our reward; he has got nothing for us to be awarded for when it finally counts. Thus we will indeed get to be last, if not at all out of God's heavenly loop.

Sep 20 1:02:46 2008

Give us this day our daily bread.. is Jesus' advice and desire that we get to say every day, and every moment. Why? Because this is the only true and real way we'll get our duties and tasks done, when we make God our Boss like He REALLY is. When and if we lift every work we do to him, then we cease the foolhardiness of us pretending to be our own bosses . Although he still requires that we cooperate with him as we still work hard on every work we do.

Sep 16 23:43:27 2008

We would find ourselves occasionally in the midst of varied communities, which are supposedly entrusted and enfranchised about delivering the common good or their more noble duties. Instead they could become agents and promoters of scandalous enterprises. When evidently there's nothing much we could do to correct the situation, it is best we just lift it up to God. God reigns; and his omnipotence covers all miscues, mistakes, and accidents to turn into what is providentially proper. Prayers are certainly appropriate. If they are not terribly engaged in the acts with great malice; maybe they learn from the experience; and maybe they shall be enlightened somehow? Howsoever the effects upon us, God is ever our infinite cover

Sep 14 20:59:07 2008

Praise the Lord Thanks the Lord This Guestbook Depot is back; I am pretty sure God had a hand in the Owner's/Administrator's getting it back to operation.

(This when this used to be part of the former Guestbook Depot.)

Aug 15 16:32:44 2008We have done so in the past recalling and re-celebrating God's very special blessedness for Mary, the Mother of God and our Mother. But repeatedly we are going to do so again and again the beneficial re-celebrating of Mary, whose feast of being assumed into heaven body and soul, we celebrate today. For those of us, and most of us, who could not muster enough knowledgeableness and fidelity to the Gospel, only might, would, and should invoke Mary's help to be on the safe side of our salvation. God is so glorified for her becoming the Mother of God, and by her Son's decision, for being our caring Mother.

Aug 10 22:38:25 2008

As recalled in today's Sunday Gospel Reading, for all the while that Peter was paying attention to the Lord's command to walk over to him in water in that stormy sea Peter was able to miraculously indeed WALK ON WATER. But immediately as he looked away from Jesus and feared the rushing giant waves over him, he began to sink The truth & the reality is we can do everything we ask of Jesus, (as long as it is okay with him), which was his promise to them that follow him, BUT WE MUST NOT FOCUS AWAY from Jesus, from whatever he is exactly & personally telling us, like in prayers or life circumstances. Look away and we remain weak & inadequate; focus straight upon him, and we're always empowered by grace.

Aug 08 10:25:17 2008

In the Catholic Church, one very simple and convenient occasion that fosters fellowship and unity in faith is the praying of the Rosary together with Mary. Among the Evangelicals, the common way is per fellowship in the Word of God, the Scriptures. In the world, by a very minute degree, perchance, by gathering together in sports, like the Olympics? Not per the often intrigued-filled and per likely air of superiority complex among competitors, but by unanimous acceptance of winners as well as gallant acceptance too of defeats.

Aug 08 10:02:18 2008

St. John specially cited the Master's commandment of love as the mark of true discipleship in Jesus. Love one another The Lord himself, with encouragement assured the fact that, Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in their midst. St. Paul repeatedly referred to Christ's Mystical Body, the Church: the people of God. Perhaps, in this will consist the New Earth & New Heaven, the time and the awaited moment when believers and all the holies of God shall have become one with the Triune God in all the glory of holy and joyous UNITY

Aug 04 10:42:35 2008

White, or black, or brown rich or poor, man or woman, affluent or unknown, influential & empowered or lowly and small, educated or illiterate, old or young, experienced or rookie ---- everyone is a subject to the Lord, whether fo his span of life or his means to move up in life. Unless God allows it per his mysterious designs, NOTHING WHATSOEVER could take form or being for itself or by itself. Human marvels or natural wonders ultimately are all the Lord's making. Ultimately what is, IS because God willed it so according to his divine schemes, designs, and glory, human prowess & distinctions included.

Aug 02 21:39:25 2008

You, who don't have money, come, receive of the food, and eat; come without paying, and without cost.. Words from this Sunday's Reading. Free, the Lord fed the over 5000 multitude. Moreover, free, the Lord continues to feed multitudes of souls with his Bread of Life.

Aug 02 14:00:03 2008

Living life abundantly like Christ has promised, and assured his faithful followers primarily consist in our precisely faithfully or obediently and thus, successfully, living our lives according to the will of God. It is only consequentially that amazing temporal blessings come along, and indeed also superabundantly, or in the world's vocabulary, also successfully . It is never the other way around. Remember what Jesus said, Seek ye FIRST the Kingdom of God; and all these things shall be given unto you...

Aug 02 0:48:01 2008

If we want complete peace of God, let us always try to comply with every commandment the Lord has clearly taught us. Our life might be looked at a failure; but if inside us we have always worked hard at being faithful to God's will, this is all that matters.

Aug 02 0:43:47 2008

Lest any man get carried away with whatever achievement, honor, or asset he may brag about, let him remember he came into this world out of nothing and with nothing; and he will leave this world leaving to it whatever he may claim ownership of.

Aug 01 12:26:01 2008

The time will come to each human being when he/she can not command any thing at will and at pleasure; nor with his/her full power of faculty. Yet if in that moment, he/she fully accepts God's will, he/she is most pleasing and glorifying to God. And for this he/she shall be rewarded most amply and super-abounding-ly by the Lord.

Aug 01 12:21:33 2008

Only for the greater glory of God This has always been the attitude and guide of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Like him, nothing whatsoever that we plan, scheme, design, program, or for which we are so proudly, and determinedly dedicated to in life and in our dreams counts ever more than doing and agreeing to the will of God.

Wed Jul 16 8:57:58 2008

Thanks be to God, and praises to God for the bi-annual World Youth Day. Let the Church pray and rejoice for the World Youth Day being celebrated this week in Australia by Christ's faithful, together with Pope Benedict all over the world. Come oh Holy Spirit. Come oh people of God.

Jun 29 15:22:14 2008

St. Peter, and St. Paul, pray for us. Today, the Church celebrates the Solemnity Feast of these two great disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, St. Peter and St. Paul. Praise God for all his Saints and Angels.

Jun 20 9:55:38 2008

In this day and age of liberal thinking and liberal ethos, everyone seems repelled by every sort of behaviour or lifestyle regimentation or system regulations. The saying is Like a bird, or a free 'spirit' everything goes. Creativity is the name of the game. The trouble with this orientation is the fact that in the world there two kinds of spirits prompting us every which way. If we follow the good spirits, like our guardian angels; we'll be okay. But woe to us if we become the followers of the bad spirits, the demons, who -- as the Scriptures say -- abound all around us waiting to devour us, ie. to lead us into jeopardies.

Jun 20 9:44:10 2008

Jesus said, I have not come to abolish the law; but to fulfill it . Indeed it makes sense what one saint said, Love, then do everything . Like if we have the spirit of love, it matters not if we do not completely understand the morality or immorality of certain of our actions. The trouble is we don't always possess the spirit of love; or we do not seem instantly availed of this spirit. Hence, we still need the basic law to guide our ethical actions. We should never ever stray into the so-called gray area of behaving; or we'll be in some sort of trouble with the Spirit.

Jun 15 11:20:04 2008

There's a beautiful Scripture verse from this Sunday's Gospel. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. Matthew 10:8 A truthful description of our receiving everything from God. Also the strongest justification why we are to be generous to each other.

Jun 08 23:25:44 2008

More often than not, despite our desire to be good, to do good, or to avoid the bad, life situations will always present themselves entrapping us away from this desire of holiness. Chances are we end up going along, not willingly, with the complex situations. Unless we pray, and act prudently, we would end up frequently yielding to the situations. When we do we just have to gain back our spiritual composure. We are to humbly admit this is the reason we need Jesus. We have to be repeatedly sorry, repeatedly praying for help, and be determined to try to always to renew to want to do good or avoid the bad, ie. to desire to be holy.

Jun 05 22:28:41 2008

It is the world's adage, Seeing is believing . Yet the Lord Jesus made it very clear: More blessed are those who have not seen; but who believe .

Jun 02 22:15:34 2008

We can never overly repeat reminding ourselves in the midst of tragedy, calamity, failure, or hardship, including terrible death or desperate illness, that it is not what we see but what we do not see taking place in our life at that moment, which bears the imprint of God's hand in our particular life happening of the moment. It is our faith in God's active handling of our life moment, not our best rational interpretation that will enable us to live through the ordeal with glorious trusting in God's wise providence and peaceful abandonment to his care.

Jun 02 21:56:34 2008

It is during the moment when we fail, either human-lily or spiritually, or when we realize we have strayed away from the security of God's care that we most realize how much we need God, or his grace. It is also at that moment that we have make our best efforts at seeking him back, our union with him back. Only our humble declaring our strength lies only in him, or with him will restore to us the peace that alone is genuinely divine.

May 27 23:10:06 2008

When someone hurts our feelings, even injures us, or when some people actually did us serious injustice, we should never be anxious to get our grievances & damages addressed or get our satisfaction. Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. God takes care of every offense against us or anybody or any people. If not here in this world per a malaise life, in the next world shall they be dealt with by the Lord. This is the irrevocable truth

May 27 16:14:15 2008

Every each Memorial Day Anniversary, we are shown and reminded of the many lives so seemingly easily taken away from us on account of wars. Just like these previous weeks, when we are similarly reminded of the frailty of human lives: ie. the thousands of men and women who passed away because of calamities. Depending upon the race or nationalities involved, their deaths touched our own lives. Which makes us wonder & think, there ought to be an after-life much better and much more durable than earthly living Let us call upon our God to assure us thus of this: the more lasting than temporal and spatial life, an eternal life with him who made us in the first place.

May 22 23:22:10 2008

God's ways are not man's ways We keep abreast of our focal wants for accomplishment, and they seem consistently elusive or hard to come by. Yet each time we look around inside and outside of us we invariably catch up with this and that good break making our moment or/and our day. At the end of the day, they all sum up to our good score and stead. With the outcome even better than our preferred outcome. Must be so we always trust the Lord genuinely, and not ourselves.

May 18 18:43:01 2008

Today is the Feast of the Holy Trinity, the Triune God. Logically, it is a struggle to understand this mystery of our Faith. But we believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit; three persons, who are all Almighty and Divine. The prime reality of unity or love, understanding & co-existence.

May 17 5:22:18 2008

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May 14 7:19:17 2008

Our little problems, including our little aches could overwhelm us today; as they always pestered us many a day. Yet around us are taking place great disasters on other people: the thousands of earthquake victims of China, thousands of cyclone deaths in Myanmar, as well as the repeatedly tornado visited people of the American midwest which might very casually pass up our attention, or our compassion & prayers.

May 13 16:13:48 200

During moments when God allows us those ad interim experiencing of lawful divine glories as during his showering upon us with earthly blessings, we feel so profusely grateful to the Lord. Then during those opposite Christ-like calvary moments when everything around us seems like a putting up with all kinds of hardship we feel we're loaded up with more than our share of burdens. Yet this is all so normal in the via crucis of Christian persevering.

May 11 23:43:38 2008

It is an opportune day to be celebrating Mothers' Day on Pentecost Sunday. As families all around give homage to all Mothers, the Holy Spirit uses this occasion to pour forth his many gifts to families and to needy family relationships, especially those struggling with life. Come oh Holy Spirit, come Praises to the Lord.

May 01 21:22:50 200

As we are confronted in the world around us by all kinds of problems, international, national, family, work, or personal, let us realize each one is responsible to do only whatever is within his means and ability to contribute to attempt for the solutions to problems. But we are to trust providentially there will be an answer to each problem. When some resolutions are done it will be our hope and confidence whatever our input God will have some use for some type of resolutions to whichever problems.

May 01 21:06:40 2008

The only time we will be ready to face God and render an account of our life is that stage of life when, by the grace of God, we shall have valued everything being not so important if it is not the will of God; and when acknowledging so submit ourselves to the exact life God has destined us to have.

May 01 20:54:06 2008

Faith is a gift of grace. There will be a point in time when man will be knocked down from his natural self confidence to find himself groping for something or someone really strong to hold on to; and find none. With the succor from the Holy Spirit, and when man acknowledges his helplessness, and prays about it God will bestow upon him the grace of precisely finding Him. He will rise up with renewed hope and confidence; but only because God gives it to him then

Apr 10 23:56:49 2008

Ultimately, sanctified acts or actions must always testify or witness to the profound genuine teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. They must invariably reflect the teaching of the beatitude. Ie. a holy 'work' for God & for men declaring & exemplifying a total entrusting to the Lord of the 'work' as well as a total detachment whether or not it actually works externally and individually for as long as prayerful & humble diligence is applied to the work.

Apr 10 23:48:55 2008

Sanctified acts or actions also denote their being realized not by and on account of the individual's isolated, even if heroic and humanitarian or philanthropic, activity/activities. The individual act/action & activity has to be part and parcel of the total Church's mission of community sanctification or edification. It must therefore be an involved participation within and for the Church's community interest or needs as conducive to souls' salvation or uniting with the Lord. One way or another, it has to be what the Bishop would desire for his flock according as Christ himself will like it.

Apr 10 23:35:54 2008

Sanctified living denotes any individual act, whether it be just thought, feeling, or a complete internal-external individual act that is good; but which is expressed prayerfully or charitably. Either the fear of God or the inspiration of pleasing God has to accompany the human act in order for it to be a manifestation/realization of God's grace in the individual.

Apr 10 16:11:44 2008

It doesn’t matter when we feel rotten a good many times. What matters is that God comes through for us, whether we feel good or we feel rotten; but especially when we feel rotten. That’s when we realize the graces of God are at work in us.

Mar 26 10:15:04 2008

(continuation of the previous...) Likewise, all other human believers, for as long as they are made up of the human flesh and blood, remain only capable of mind and heart, no matter how honest; but will need the individual calling, or revealing in the Spirit by our Lord God in order to be able to see into the reality of the risen Jesus. Through baptism and the other sacraments, ie. faith and grace receiving & living of these sacraments, chiefly the Eucharist, Jesus reveals himself to other believers. For only by transcendentally being above mere natural or physical experiencing of the Lord are believers to truly encounter and receive the faith experiencing of God; only through faith lived by grace are believers entering the threshold of salvation in God. Only in this supernatural level could believers claim ownership to the Divine Shepherd’s declaration, "I know them, (my sheep), and mine know me "

Mar 26 10:11:21 2008

Mary Magdalene's experience, like the Apostles', is the experience most probably shared by every would-be honest believer. Specifically, like the Apostle Thomas, Mary and the rest of the Apostles were still looking and wanting the personal Jesus they knew; and were only very naturally encumbered by their natural – physical – perceptions & memories of Jesus. And their perception and memory was that he was dead the last time they saw him at Golgotha. But they needed the Lord’s calling them, showing himself to them anew in order for them to discover he is back to life. Yet because Jesus knew them ,ie. their honestly longing hearts, the Lord one more time revealed himself to them. Likewise, all other human believers, for as long as they are made up of the human flesh and blood, remain only capable of mind and heart, no matter how honest; but will need the individual calling, or revealing in the Spirit by our Lord God in order to be able to see into the reality of the risen Jesus.

Mar 24 22:13:22 2008

When God became man, early on God's heavenly graces opened up for bestowing upon mankind. But with Christ's resurrection from death, the overflowing abundance of life graces have become even more unleashed by the Godhead, the Triune, Father-Son-Holy Spirit through the Church. Per the Sacraments and all types of spiritual sacramentals, God's medium to mankind and the universe, miracles of wondrous blessings and assistance are being transmitted by the Holy Spirit upon and via the people of God. Angels and Saints, including Mother Mary are busy doing their chores for the Church to the benefitting of all needy souls, beginning from the souls in Purgatory to every single individual man and woman on earth receiving the graces of God. Take stock and acknowledge our inventories of God's manifold interventions in our million/billion 'behalf'. Praise God. Alleluia to the Lord

Mar 23 11:44:09 2008

With the fact of Christ's resurrection, it has become demonstrated how his mission of salvation is being effective. Rising from death Christ defeated death. In the same act, good always being overcome; but with Christ's victory over death, his minions are become empowered to get the good once and for all triumph over the bad. The Christian, if he believes, can never be perturbed by the wrong; and whatever he champions to stand against the wrong will never be put down by evil. This is guaranteed by Christ's resurrection grace becoming handy to the believers.

Mar 22 14:07:07 2008

In a few hours in the West, and right now in the East it is Easter Day once again For mankind, this is the glorious Church celebration: the marking and the the recalling of Christ's rising from the death, with its promise of the same rising from death by each believing faithful soul in Christ. Eternally this will be the joyous faith of believing souls; while presently, and even to some extent, yester-lily this is the relieving rescue of actual believers in this present world: the existing empowerment of being on top of whatever essential problem every individual human being encounters in this tough, hurting, even in some cases murderous, cruel and unkind world. Alleluia Praise to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of man

Mar 16 9:16:05 2008

What is the most awesome sacramental sign/presence of God in the world? His Eucharist, Christ's continuing Eucharistic celebration of the paschal mystery of sacrificial loving and atoning offering of God's people through Christ and in Christ as realized in the acts of charity and suffering martyrdom of the one people of God who are united with Christ, and thus, with God in faith fellowship by grace. The only reason or rationale why and how the world survives over all its evils.

Mar 15 10:21:40 2008

With Christ, becoming man, whe have come to have an entirely New Creation. This shall culminate upon his Second Coming and upon the inauguration of the New Heaven and the New Earth. Yet the ever glorious Triune Godhead, Father, Son, and the Spirit, deems that the Son's work of salvation effectually ushers in this new human and natural/supernatural reality of mankind' new lives in grace, and the world's newly grace touched manifestations of God's immanence , ie Christ's sacramental signs/presence in the world.

Mar 13 1:46:40 2008

Only with the touch of grace is a scientific statement, an artistic stroke, an artisan's producing, a leader's leadership, a philosophical analysis or philosophical definition of real value, meaningfulness, or of truthful significance. The basic Incarnational theology teaches that only a Christ renewed humanity and reality makes up the new Reality of the saved world. Outside of Christ or of his salvation grace are all flawed nature; just contradictory words or acts.

Feb 25 7:35:29 2008

Starting with that first moment of life upon birth when we came into this world naked and so helpless, down through the years of our individual lives, we can not but admit of our many repeated moments of helplessness and moments of great need for God. How so enumerable has he delivered us out of our necessities and dangers? Yet how easy, as well, how we forget of such moments of limitations, inadequacies, or imperfections But only by God did we, or do we ever survive our living

Feb 24 23:16:33 2008

In order to be alive from moment to moment in the spirit of God, we make sure we say prayers at all times, we frequent the opening up of the Gospel, and we never yield to anger, envy, and carelessness with the im-modesties of our eyes. Plus, being alert at every chance of charitable acts.

Feb 24 11:26:22 2008

My prayer to you, Lord, that you grant my final destiny while here on earth -- if it is for your glory; and if by it I shall be able to contribute to the salvation of more souls This I pray through the mediation of all Christ's Body -- the Church, particularly Mother Mary, by the merits of Christ's redemption of the people of God.

Feb 21 16:24:32 2008

If we are to seek them which alone were/are the moments we were/are truly content and freed in expression of productivity or fun, they are only the select moments when we were/are operating under the grace of God. All other moments, moments when we are relapsed or suspended about our trusting in God, are simply moments of toils and drudgeries. Sweat or no sweat during such moments we just did not/do not have the relaxed fun and enjoyment we seek at all times. We might have finished the run; but without real joy.

Feb 17 8:19:50 2008

I thank you God for my life, especially your promised eternal life. I thank you for my life's good breaks & bad breaks, for my parents, countries, my Church & my faith, my education & personal formation, and for all in my family, as well as my friends, and enemies too.

Feb 13 7:26:43 2008

Thanks be to God for its national faith hymn, Amazing Grace Indeed, America or Americans have been endowed with amazing grace. God bless the special composer/lyricist of the song; and God bless Americans' persevering singing, praying, and believing in God's amazing grace

Feb 13 7:23:22 2008

God's amazing graces to America: the Catholic Church in America, the Evangelical Churches of America, and the American Mormon Church. They stand tall battling the secular forces of the world in America. They proclaim as American institutions, In God We Trust And for them we give thanks and praises to God.

Feb 03 13:50:46 2008

Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving: the spirit of Lent. Let us be ever more conscious of our heavenly Father, of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the present Holy Spirit within men, and in the world. Fasting asks us to act out during this time of the year our dying to ourselves. Almsgiving reminds us to look after our neighbors, especially them who are in need and brokenhearted.

Feb 02 9:25:25 2008

My Lord and my God , the Apostle Thomas words, are my words to you, Lord. And thank you. Your intervention saves me daily, and I pray, for the hereafter. Mother Mary, the Saints and Angels of God, thank you too. Praises and glory to God Almighty

Jan 25 7:24:07 2008

But then again to suffer, especially on account of something that is not your fault, is to become like a poor lamb, a holocaust pawned sacrificially, precisely in participation with the paschal sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. Doing so in full accord with the will of God is a sharing in the priestliness of Christ; and this all makes suffering all so meaningful. But all these as realized in man by the grace of Christ.

Jan 24 21:47:58 2008

How easy human circumstances could change Yesterday, you seem to be on top of everything; today, as life seems to turn all upside down, you feel like you're all lost and without hope. This is, probably, how God tells me: You depend only on ME; your actions and schemes, and energetic-ness and high minded-ness could always go to the dumps. But, worry not; you are ever in my hands .

Jan 20 23:00:31 2008

How close the face of death around each one of us Individuals known to us personally, gone facing their destiny. My wondering, and my prayers for them: at the very least, two co-workers, three Church associates, as well as about 10 classmates & contemporaries I still remember; and then my own father & mother, etc.. Nevertheless, St. Paul assures us death has no sting. We are not to fear

Jan 20 22:46:09 2008

The unpredictability of life. Yesterday alive, today dead. How not infrequently have I been to the funeral home witnessing someone's passing away Our prayers and our concern should be to ever be ready when God calls. For we never know when will be our turn to give an account to our Maker? Of course, the Lord Jesus intercedes for us; yet our flesh is weak, and we could easily lose our focus and our precious destiny.

Jan 19 17:33:45 2008

The mystery of Divine Providence is summed up in the verse, God gives, God takes.. Divine mathematics is at play when God schemes to give us blessings or take away our blessings (even for our own good). He uses this simple disciplinary principle according to how it will benefit us long term, or short term. Kind of like the Chinese belief in the forces of Ying and Yang; nature's forces balancing each other?

Jan 13 10:22:36 2008

Except if our action is an act of the grace of God, our deed does not mean much; in fact we do not achieve or really accomplish anything if our doing is nothing but an expression of our fleshly nature. On both counts, whatever we do, without the grace of God, does not lead us to Christ's heavenly mansion he has prepared for us; nor does it give us any essential or meaningful satisfaction in this world.

Jan 13 0:41:43 2008

The Lord Jesus, by asking John to baptize him, showed us getting baptized is most important. During his baptism, the heavenly Father spoke how pleased he was with Jesus. Thus when each one of us get baptized, we become instantly most pleasing to the Father. Baptism creates within us that likeness to Jesus, the becoming children of God, ie adopted children of the Father. This divine childhood begets in us the new divine life in grace. For as long as we hold on to this divine life, the grace entitles us our ticket to heaven. If by mortal sin we incidentally lose this life of grace, the sacrament of penance can restore it. But we better not be without it at any prolonged time if we do not want to endanger losing this life permanently.

Jan 11 21:46:34 2008

When we pray the Our Father we are being reminded our business is being about the Kingdom of God as we live. In the process, however, we have to ask God of our every need and want & joy, we have to ask forgiveness of our sins as well ask that we always forgive them that offend us, we have to ask that we never involve ourselves in the business of sins & occasions of sins, and ask that we ever more be enabled to entrust to God our every undertaking, challenge, and dreams.

Jan 07 23:50:40 2008

The key behind good judgments, success pursuit, along side meek, humble, and faith filled compliance to the will of God are prayerful acts of discerning of dynamic Holy Spirit's invoking, acts of discerning non-grieving of the Holy Spirit per conscientious stopping of sins, and avoiding of occasions of sins, and the discerning of actual fruits of the Holy Spirit, particularly the pious fear of sacrilegious disrespecting of his Temple, our body & soul. Faithfully attending to the above alerts will assure us of the peace of mind/heart, which alone empowers us stability in the act of our will.

Jan 07 15:59:23 2008

Remember NEVER to sweat over the little things; they are just little things. You will always get over even the most upsetting little things. Instead do not forget the great things God has given, and has been giving you each day, and each moment. It is never meaningless to constantly take stock of your blessings. It pleases God as often as we're grateful.

Jan 05 9:23:58 2008

On account of the human myopic view of reality and the truth, people easily fall victims to the inclinations of despair, depressions, or/and frequent worries. Humanly and by our nature we tend to judge events and actions based upon things that we see. Yet the bigger and the greater scope of reality and truth lie on the horizon of the unseen . Man's human sight is a very limited faculty of nature. Whereas what is there to know or what are there actually are way, way much more than human eyes can ever see.

Jan 05 1:54:48 2008

The bottom-line formula for living by grace consists in believing in the good, (the very simple definition of God's persisting presence), in trusting Somebody constantly looks out for us in our every diligent & uphill laboring and fighting, and in loving, caring for each poor soul as much as we want to, and need to be doing for ourselves individually.

Jan 04 21:49:04 2008

This is the truth & reality: God himself until the culmination of God's plan for creation puts up with evil/devil. We see how the bad continues to be perpetuated in every age and in every corner of the world. Yet in this co-existence between the bad and the good, or God, realize that the ultimate loser is the bad. The axiom crime does not pay seems to be an irrevocable & un-eradicable tombstone mark of every badly strayed soul. Living amidst many wrongs therefore man is not to fear.

Jan 03 13:14:21 2008

Yet nothing else really matters If we lose everything but have God, v.g. God's peace within us, then we have what alone matters.

Jan 03 13:11:18 2008

No matter the supposed honesty behind our claim for self righteousness and undeniable proof of our human diligence, if God wants us beat just so we get to see and give ultimate credit that truly belongs to HIM; then expect to be beat. If this is what it takes for us to die and be born to his new life

Jan 02 12:22:53 2008

Whatsoever is the condition we are in at the beginning of this new year, let us be mindful of the greatest world/human event we are reminded of every before New Year's Day: namely the prior and much more significant celebration of the coming down to earth/man of the Savior Jesus Christ, as celebrated every December Christmas Day. The Saviour alone can truly and really make the new year for each one of us.

Dec 30 14:50:34 2007

No matter the state of the world, or precisely because of the state of the world our real recourse is turning to our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, he came; to redeem this sinful world, and the world's sinners starting from you and me. And he has saved the world; we only have to embrace his salvation. We only have to ask, pray, and use his many, many graces. Let Mary, the Saints, and God's angels, who all enjoys of his graces, assist us in the living by God's grace.

Dec 29 7:58:54 2007

Upon waking up in the morning, after saying our morning prayers,let it not be our first thought or first silent word: What do I think I want to do today? Rather, we we are to begin with, What do I hear God is telling me to do today?

Dec 28 20:34:13 2007

.. but where ever you are not received, shake the dust off your feet, and move on. We have received the Great Commission to proclaim the Gospel of Christ. But he does not want us to be evangelizing at a permanent place or venue. Specially if we had proclaimed enough to such a community, we are to move on to others needing our evangelizing.

Dec 06 7:34:40 2007

We must never for one moment let off our guard about acting/operating just by sheer cleverness and without invoking the grace of God. If we do the Prince of this world, the Devil, will jump on the opportunity to plot things around us against us. Let us rather always prayerfully and most prudently seek after the more conservative divine ways or less daring ways.

Nov 22 20:21:44 2007

In order to become ever more aware of the other and higher kind of realm of both consciousness or attitude and targeted later existence we could repeatedly read St. Paul's many Epistles. they always make many, many references to turning to the things above, to the heavenly ways, to the living in virtues, to the expressions of kindliness and love. In essence, St. Paul always exhorts us to the living in or by the grace of Christ.

Nov 22 20:14:39 2007

Regarding Thankfulness to each other, and even to God, we humanly are moved with gratitude mainly on account of material gifts we are enjoying or have received from God. But by faith, we should rather be most grateful for the life principle or life characteristic by which we are alive, and well. In theological terms, we are to be thankful for the 'soul' within each one of us. When we are most virtuous, ie kindly and loving, this soul makes us so very beautiful a person to God and to all inhabitants of heaven.

Nov 22 9:03:31 2007

On this Thanksgiving Day, we give you thanks, Lord. Today, we take stock of the inventory of gifts you have created and given all men. Bottomline: we have received life. But the ultimate bottomline: we have your promise of an 'eternal and genuinely and absolutely fulfilling life'.

Nov 18 9:31:50 2007

The negatives that comprise major circumstantial aspects and events of our lives are the character and essential make up of our faithful following of the Lord's path of earthly life. He was the Lamb of God, sacrificial offering for the atonement of men's sins to the Father. Our sufferings, accepted in faith, are part of that one Penance sacrifice to the Father. By HIS Cross, and our crosses, HE has redeemed the world

Nov 11 2:35:17 2007

Good and legitimate blessings, (ie actual graces), that they are: good looks, beautiful body, long and strong physical stature and all other personal human attributes & properties typically describing individual profiles, (including wealth, career, position at work, & all the good breaks); all these do not constitute our heavenly 'profile'. But rather, what type of heart we shall present to the Lord will indicate the look of profile we shall have in the heavenly company of God. Including the kind of heavenly riches that are not cumbersome & worry-accompanied; but simply fulfilling

Nov 11 2:23:15 2007

Ultimately, in living only two personal activities matter in order to be ready for God and for a heavenly reward: 1) avoid falling into sins, 2) and, seek & pursue virtues. If we obey God's command of love, we in effect realize the above two acts, and ascertain our reaching our proper destination: union with God, and simply happiness.

Nov 11 2:10:54 2007

In today's Gospel, it is being impressed upon us how spiritually different will be our after earth-life existence and personalities. They are not to be what we would like to imagine they are going to be. We shall remain the individual selves that we are; but we are not going to be, for example sexual physical beings that we would have had experienced. We are going to be way better than what we could ever perceive. We'll be what God has eternally conceived we shall be in the glory of his heaven, personalities much more spirit like or intellect like. It will not matter if hypothetically we shall have had married once or seven times.

Nov 10 16:35:54 2007

Realize this No matter how guilty we have become against God, once forgiven by him in the Sacrament of Confession, we are as energized as a newly spirited soul, with God making us forget of the unworthy sinfulness we had just been through. We just become refreshed and confident anew. God perpetually welcomes a repentant soul. But with the resolve to avoid falling into sins again.

Nov 10 16:27:51 2007

Yet again, if ever we do fail, and stray away a bit from the Lord, let us not hesitate, nor waste time, to seek him back via the Sacrament of Confession. It is not the best motivation; but it enough to keep us safe from Hell. Yet, God willing, our motivation indeed is never ever to be displeasing to the Lord.

Nov 10 16:12:18 2007

In our daily or moment to moment walk with God, let us never forget our walk is never by any means just our human and natural walk. Let us ever bear in mind every step of the way, it is walk with God holding a lease around us lest we drift away from himself, and his chosen paths for us.

Nov 10 16:07:26 2007

Indeed, as the Mystery of Salvation, Christ is both God made man, the Divine Incarnate,which makes his mission both supernatural and natural. But let the Holy Spirit ever be invoked by us in our struggling to humbly utilize all natural means and venues while we faithfully pursue every step in our mission both as God's manifest empowerment and man's utter dependence upon God's assistances.

Nov 10 16:00:18 2007

In the middle of important but delicately very worldly and mundane involvements, albeit for some very noble causes, it is critical that we always seek ways and means procured by/as God's actual graces, and appropriately within the parameters of God's saving graces to ascertain both some degree of success, as well as the maximum peace of the heart/soul.

Nov 10 15:50:26 2007

Aside from the devotion to Mary via a meditative Rosary praying, and the soaking in daily Scriptures reading at least 15 minutes a day, frequenting the going to Confession, and the consequential often reception of the Eucharist, are God's very favored divine channels by which to keep us close to his watch and care. Plus establish ourselves ever ready with acts of generosity & kindness, including a forgiving heart & tonque.

Nov 08 12:17:18 2007

God is good; and everything about him is a mystery. But we should always pray never to grieve the Holy Spirit, and never to be abandoned by him, even if only for a moment. Lest we suffer disastrously to fall out of grace, and be left alone to even one great misfortune.

Sep 30 17:14:11 2007

But by the grace of God This sums up the secret of living and being alive. Only if or each time that we act by the act of trust in the heavenly God the Father, or in his Son, the Lord Jesus, or through the 3rd Person of God, the Holy Spirit could be safe, right, and peacefully assuring our human or individual action of any moment or of any day. Not to do so is a very weak relying upon our unreliable faculty and ability, and is bound to be a liable and dangerous reckoning with the evil spirits. Mary, all you saints, and angels, please assist us in always leaning upon God.

Jul 28 22:03:29 2007

It is easy to be cynical and pessimistic under the pretext of false humility and effortless popularity & camaraderie. And there is also the temptation of simplistic optimism and fanatic politico-social activism, albeit for the faith. Notwithstanding both, the simple reality is to trust the Lord at every moment of life. No over-explaining about God, whom we do not fully know; but no stupid dismissive-ness of Him either. Just trusting him one day at a a time, or one moment at at time we shall get by our every need and even want.

Apr 20 19:50:21 2007

We, like the Saints that have gone our way, are capable of professing for all the truths we stand for according as God demands of us. Howsoever painful and humiliating the crosses we carry because we do so to be united w/ Christ's sacrifice his presence within us sanctifies us & divinizes us. In effect, it empowers us for love & service; while we genuinely manifest the life of grace, which for itself both endows us with some comfort & joy, and the peace of God.

Apr 20 19:34:04 2007

Nobody and nothing of the world is to be feared. No matter how threatening or menacing what they might do to us. Rather, what we are to be most concerned and afraid of is for us to cause God's abandoning us. If we are wont to drive God away from us, especially from within us, this is the one thing most fearsome. By this we give an open door welcome to evil and all the devils for a free for all handling of us. Then horrid and inexplicable untoward events get perpetrated. Without God, and with all sorts of demons such men are bound for destroyed lives

Apr 20 6:03:00 2007

We are to remember Jesus started his Church alone. Then he found the 12; although lost one. Then at the Cross when he needed their company, he was left alone again, except by his Mother. Likewise, we shall find ourselves alone during our moments of Calvary. Yet alone, like Christ, the immense company of God like an ocean divinely engulfs such insignificant seeming solitariness. Nothing of creation could ever be overwhelming. Only God is.

Apr 20 5:52:30 2007

Seek out friends, only to share with them the Good News of God, including to bring them the authentic spirit of Christian fellowship even as you dine and drink wine with them. But never go nor desire after their pleasant company and approval. Only to evangelize and to love is our goal. Thank God if we are blessed in return. Jesus alone will provide our rest and joy by his Spirit.

Apr 19 14:08:24 2007

In the midst of approaching or engaging battles, acts of humility and real passionate prayers of faith and for mercy and charity is our genuine defense. The battles are after all involving in the fray the much more powerful spirits & principalities egging on them manipulated foolish men. Hence, it is only wise and proper to turn to God who has the power and the destiny control over all beings, including and specially against malignant beings in the whole creation.

Apr 19 13:58:10 2007

Vengeance is mine says the Lord. When the road we tread is simply blocked, or when our neighborly reaching out is met with enumerable casual, NOs' our tendency is either to fight back or make a fortress island shell of ourselves. It is a temptation to fool us capable of delivering lethal blows upon our enemies, or of heroically be taking on all kinds of assault like an invincible fortress indeed. Only to be bewildered to complete despair we are no match against enemies, who are unscrupulous about destroying us. But the reality is our victory is only in God, and through God accd to his will & divine designs. We are to wise up to this truth before we only hurt ourselves even more; nay even lose our lives.

Apr 10 6:35:18 2007

But in the name of Jesus, nothing is impossible to God for those who truly believe.

Apr 10 6:31:34 2007

It is best when we do things not because we think it is good; or because there seem so much fun out of it. Rather, it is well on account that we are led to it by the promptings of the Holy Spirit. For when things materialize despite all odds; then we know it is the hand of God that directs it, not our flesh and not our vain thoughts & aspirations.

Apr 09 8:07:39 2007

It matters not so much to experience our great needs and wants, or to feel how so poor we are. It matters more to turn instead to our absolutely caring and providing God; and it matters more to soak ourselves in his mercy, providence, and love. He will deliver us through our needs and wants if we do trust him. After all he did say, Come to me you who have no money. Come and drink milk and honey without pay . Its when we realize how weak we are when we can be strongest in Christ.

Apr 07 8:43:10 2007

Our temporal blessedness in Christ's grace does not assure our having all our ultimate earthly desires. Rather, grace shall bear us through our life longings empowering us with the freedom over and above natural wants & needs. In effect w/ our total self denial it becomes our efficacious Eucharistic sacrificial breaking up of self/dying to our self, most pleasing to the Father & glorifying of the Church. Yet though made poor, broken up, or left dead rest assured we shall have life abundantly here or hereafter. Godâ ™s grace makes it up for us, here or hereafter.

Apr 06 8:43:13 2007

Peace of mind always rests upon conservative realism that is always conscientiously hooked on truth. Its power & strength originate not from PMA, positive mental attitude, but from the steady trust in the Lord generated in prayerfulness and with actively generous heart and hands.

Mar 27 12:03:37 2007

Truly our day to day, or even moment to moment Christian living is replete with countless and incredible little miracles wrought by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nonetheless pervasively in our regular and common living as believers we shall experience and encounter the demand & challenge of our faith: namely, the duty to find blessedness or peace & joy at not seeing or expecting too much of God's private manifestations of his presence. We are rather to profess our belief he is always with us; notwithstanding if he doesn't seem like he is there. Christ said true blessedness is if .. we believe even if we have not seen .

Mar 26 22:04:39 2007

There is the easy temptation to direct our focus and ground our evaluation when looking for fruits of our labor in the service of the Lord within the Church environment upon the world standard called success. Hence, we are to remember Mother Teresa's advice to look at how faithful we are to the Lord's command; rather than how successful our labors have become. Besides, who alone but God actually sees what is sown, and what is being harvested in the spiritual vineyard of the Lord? Human yardstick is only of the external; God's is internal & external.

Mar 08 15:59:46 2007

Some over zealous believers tend to define being holy as being simply happy. They would say a, ..gloomy saint is no saint This is not quite the reality of life. Notwithstanding the invincible and undeniable power of grace by virtue of salvation in Christ, the truth is this is not yet the Glory Times of the Second Coming of Christ. That is the time, when the New Earth and the New Heaven will usher in perfectly happy men and women followers/believers of Christ. Nonetheless, indeed when we are under the fulness of grace blessing, we are most happy even when we're hurting. But this total fulness, I repeat, takes place later; not yet now.

Mar 08 7:15:42 2007

About anything and everything, whereever human expectations are bound to be expressed, they better not lean upon trusting any mere human beings, no matter how looking trustworthy they may be. With man, nothing is a sure thing; no endeavor or enterprise, not even acts of token response or word of assurances could have any form of being guaranteed. Man is unreliable and undependable even granted that he might very well mean to be reliable or dependable. As always, we should only pin our hopes and trusts upon the Lord. Only his Spirit has the purity and stability of realizing promises or true commitments. The Lord alone governs and strengthens the hearts of men. Only in the Lord can men be made trustworthy.

Mar 05 7:15:54 2007

Lip-service acts of supposed love, like casual How you doin..? , or even public declarations that we love our neighbor are no true acts of love unless it does break us in some degree. Phony praises and affected niceties are the equivalents of what the Lord referred of saying to God, My Lord, My Lord .. with their lips while yet practicing deeds of selfishness or unfairness towards their neighbors. If our loving cost us nothing, our love is nothing.

Mar 04 18:03:58 2007

If you, like many among us, are living with some bad health or physical faculty impairment especially during these twilight years of our life; it is well to start preparing with the most diligent personal cleansing, purification, and acts of pieties. These are what they say people with one leg already practically half buried. Instead of feeling sorry for life misgivings, the mind-set should be a looking forward for a prepared transition from this life journey towards our God-promised eternal destination. Do not frequent the casinos; frequent the Church instead this is the smart thing to do.

Mar 04 17:47:28 2007

Our appropriate prayer in Lent: We adore thee oh Christ, and we bless thee Because by thy holy Cross you have redeemed the world. Jesus' glory was on account of his dying on the Cross, and his resurrection after being nailed to the Cross. So just like he constantly reminds us at Mass his breaking his body and shedding of blood by which many are saved; so must we obey his command that we do likewise: offer up ourselves to be broken in the name of love. Only then can we hope to rise up with Christ from our death in glory at Endtimes: us w/ our unique body & soul risen back to the new earth & new heaven.

Feb 09 12:00:23 2007

In the same token and spirit, of Ash Wednesday and the coming Lenten Season, I also beg pardon from everyone that I have offended, particularly with them I have had some conflicts against.

Feb 09 7:10:20 2007As Ash Wednesday is nearby again, Lord, let me be the first one to declare of my sinfulness. I am a sinful one and I need your mercy and forgiveness, Lord

Jan 26 16:22:44 2007

God is love; and whoever abides in love, abides in God. Likewise even before the everlasting abiding in God upon admission to heaven, souls ever actively, restlessly loving already get to abide in God while yet journeying in this world. For as they love they manifest the presence of God first to themselves, and to all others around them, who can not but witness to the manifestation of good deeds only Godly human beings are capable of.

Fri Jan 26 16:15:14 2007

Blessed are the pure of heart, they shall see God. A prelude experience before the promised glorious face-to-face vision of God is that exalted human grace virtue of a body, mind, heart, & soul completely lifted up towards things heavenly. Such a person ever looking up to things heavenly is granted some vision of Godly realities even if yet on earth. In effect his physical actions all exude nobleness, forebearance, and indefatigableness as the spirit is its ever force behind all activities.

Jan 26 1:09:25 2007

What is heaven? Heaven is where the 3 Divine Persons perfectly act out perfect union, as is imitated perfectly by angels & sainted souls thus loving God and each other. It is also that blissfulness awaiting in time within eternity that divinely 'calendared' destined union of all God's inhabitants & elects; and the consummate glory belonging to God and his favored beings in the perfect eternal Kingdom. Beings' perfection is like unto God, except God is God.

Jan 24 22:07:13 2007

Our Master Saviour totally believed, trusted, and loved the Father, and all his neighbors/mankind by sacrificially leaving it all up, his life, accd. to the will of the Father, and not by enjoying his sollicited desire to be spared such will of the Father. Likewise, we his followers, his saved souls, are not principally to want as it were his completely & constantly demonstrated RESURRECTED GLORIOUS person with/by wanting here & now his empowered earthly fulfilment of all our heart's desires, ie all sorts of miracles here & there whenever we ask for them. As his faithful ones, however, we are rather to be ever more strongest witnesses of united sacrificing with him because we believe, trust, and love HIM. Heaven can wait.

Jan 16 22:26:05 2007

Along with Prayers, however, are equally bunched together the similarly more valuable Deeds of Charity or Mercy for or between members of the Church, or for the needy. With equal referencing, deeds of love and mercy, likewise effect the essential health and welfare of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church. And a single big part of the deeds of love & mercy is forgiveness of others. The greater forgiveness is practiced by believers, the healthier again the Church will be. But whether with prayers, good deeds, or forgiveness; thus is Christ lived and shown by the members of the Church, or by the Church itself.

Jan 16 22:05:05 2007

Between giving donations to the Church and saying prayers for your Church, whereas the donations easily get the credit and appreciation, prayers, however, far more outweigh the impact the Church gets or receives than your donations. For whereas your money indeed immediately serves its usefulness to the needs of your particular Church; on the other hand prayers impacts the greater Church, which is the totality of its Body, the one people of God. Prayers are the one that really edifies and builds up the Church into its strong, healthy, and holy Mystical Body of Christ. In the same token, this is why it is the much more important concern and duty of all believers to be aware of, to be personally propitious for, and to be ever ready to take care and defend this One Body of Christ, the Church. Howsoever more that we communally love and nurture our Church, so much more also do we get to be aided by itself with our own personal spiritual and material needs.

Jan 09 22:30:23 2007

In the real world, the poor who are always a plenty, are bound to experience poverty and get the feel and touch of it all around them exactly how poverty makes of people. Nevertheless, amidst poverty and probably sometime down the road of life these individuals, if they believe as well as work for it, are also promised and are rewarded their fill of decent prosperity. The sick of the world can attest indeed to what it means to be sick; yet also within their lifetime especially whereas they have their own destinies tasks to accomplish these individuals are to enjoy as well their healing and enjoyment of good health. Finally, many a man shall testify to equally enumerable lost personal battles. But when it really counts, as is in accord with the will of God, for these individuals too God will deliver their victories, ... including the ultimate victory at the End-times. Christ's life of grace in the Spirit & the Church, to which the people of God belong, assures this.

Dec 25 11:38:56 2006

In the meantime, let us hold on to trusting in the Lord, who from here on and ever, is holding us in his hands as we await in perseverance, love, and prayerfulness for that eschatological finality of this grace union with God and his Saints even as we already grasp bits and pieces of such glory in this journeying towards His judgment/rewarding time. This is God's gift, and already unfolding covenant promise. He does not and will not fail us whereas we are yet treading our way of our glorification of him and our purification & sanctification by grace of our lives.

Dec 25 10:56:52 2006

Oh Lord, we could never completely ponder and relish at the moment that you our God has become one with us, a human being; but through which becoming a man you have once and for all enabled us for the opportunity of having received your divine life in grace. Gifted thus by you with this faith and grace in our new human life now we have become united back with you and your heavenly gloried inhabitants Such an incomprehensible, awesome, and most truly fulfilling new state of us men who believed Here's our un-eradicable trusting in its absolutely joyful and rewarding final realization on that eschatological time of your shared perfect glory with your believing people.

Dec 25 9:00:26 2006

Simple but steadfastly believing and trusting St. Joseph, please help us practice our faith like you did. God asked you to be the one to decide, act, and work through hard & troubling circumstances, while ever trusting in God in the making sure it happens he, who is supposed to be Lord and Saviour, be delivered by Mary and be kept safe from harm. You did not dare complain and challenge God to do the above himself if he, who is to be born, is God indeed.

Dec 23 21:26:03 2006

Gaudete! Rejoice! One and All This is the season to be happy. Today like the shepherds of that first holy night we all have the opportunity to experience peace & joy The very Word of joy is celebrating his Good News to all, especially to them that seek true happiness and quiet. Heavenly graces just pour down this most sacred of time of the year. He, who is the fulness of joy, brings it to all who yearn for it.

Nov 25 17:50:39 2006

Whether we're talking about sanctifying grace or actual graces, and whether we are under the holy condition of unity with God or the unfortunate condition of being apart from God spiritually, the grace of and from God is never cheap. No man could and should take it for granted being availed the merciful and bounteous providential blessings. And whether we receive of Divine breaks when we have great need for them or not, we are ever to be most appreciative of God's gifts in whatever form or another. For it is said, God gives and God takes away . And yet it is also said He takes care of each single sparrow lest he goes hungry, and makes each single lily of the field look its best. And neither are we to be overconfident having and enjoying His gifts, for the Lord also said, Apart from me you can do nothing Finally, through it all being a recipient of His every single grace should make us acknowledge being blessed. Grace should ultimately lead us to His union in the life of grace.

Nov 17 12:25:52 2006

Finally, re: the third part on this essence of living the life of grace. Like Jesus was made flesh, was made obedient unto the Father, and was made humble as a man, (by which he in a lamb-like fashion sacrificed himself to the Father for the ransoming of "men"). Thus are we also to be always mindfully humble and meek, or lamb-like in our offering up to the Father (in unity with Christ) of all sorts of expressions of self denial, taking up of our crosses, and actual bearing of our own daily life sacrifices as our co-laboring & participation in Christ’s work of salvation. This way we profess and manifest the one Body of Christ, both holy and glorifying for the Father and edifying of all members of the People of God, the Church.

Nov 17 12:08:24 2006

Receive the presence of God within us sacramentally. Number one, Catholics must seek to receive the Eucharist, Christ's Body, Blood, Soul, & Divinity given us by the Lord in his daily celebration of both his salvation act in Calvary and Last Thursday's Supper. If we do not eat his Body and Blood.. we do not have his eternal life. For our other brethren, the evangelicals, I commend to them the generic sacramental uniting with the Divine through spiritual fellowships and all types of praying. Jesus said, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."

Nov 17 7:27:17 2006

Listen to the words of God: read and contemplate on the Words of Scriptures, and Jesus' words handed over to us by his Apostles in the Church's Deposit of Faith. Read, among others, the Church's Catechism of the Catholic Church. Spend at least 15 minutes of daily reading.

Fri Nov 17 7:13:45 2006

But three things comprise the essence of the life of grace: God's revelation, sacrament, and Christ's sacrifice. For us to enjoy, manifest, and be initially enabled with this life of grace, we must listen to God's words, receive his presence within us sacramentally, and unite with God's Son's lamblike sacrificing of ourselves together with Jesus.

Nov 15 14:34:02 2006

To cap the enjoying of both the life of grace and the blessings of actual graces, whereas God could and does bestow ample actual graces to individual men and women, like mostly natural blessings of daily living, even if they be in the state of grave sin; nevertheless, the superabundance of God's blessings are showered by him upon men and women who strive to live and keep their life of grace: their sanctifying graces received from the sacraments. Out of God's beneficence and mercy are grave sinners same partakers of the blessings like of the sunlight and breathing air, etc; yet because they persist stubbornly in their sinful lifestyles their receiving of the greater bounties of God's blessings, specifically of peaceable living, is very much limited; and at times are dangerously cut-off.

Nov 12 9:42:58 2006

To continue, out of divine providence, bounty and generosity, whether man asks or not, accepts or not, humanity as a whole and individuals in diverse and varied ways have been and are continually being gifted with a gamut of all other graces. Again, whether man uses these graces or not towards his salvation or his growing in the life of grace is all up to man. Yet they are all divine empowerments to incline man to glorify God and to gratefully appropriate such graces for his own spiritual good. Woe to him if and when he does not do so. These graces are called actual graces. They range from man

â ™s initial creation life through the myriad explosions and varieties of divine bounties, both spiritual and material: eg. blessings referred to in our Blessings/Chapter Twelve, and all other enumerable blessings contained within the universe, earth & space, time & history, and human/world/individual situations & circumstances all shaped and directed towards the good. Again, thanks be to God

Nov 06 14:41:42 2006

The new life of grace received in baptism or penance and in the other Christ instituted Church Sacraments constitutes the primary overflow of Christ

â ™s salvation work by the Father through the Holy Spirit and the Church for mankind, particularly for them who embraced salvation. These graces are also called sanctifying graces because they nurture & nourish and develop virtues in man, both the theological virtues of believing, trusting, and loving as well as human virtues of holiness like poverty, meekness, patience, humility, and purity/chastity. These graces, like all others as coming from the Holy Spirit, thus, include the gifts of the Spirit: fear of the Lord, understanding, wisdom, knowledge, counsel, courage, and piety. Inclusively, as lined up by St. Paul, the virtue of charity covers many other virtues, like not being angry, envious, hateful, intemperant, imprudent, etc.. For these, let us thank our Father Lord.

Nov 05 8:41:04 2006

Possible Phases of Death: First Phase. Life’s sorrows and pains, and hurts & injuries and sicknesses, toils and discomforts, disappointments and struggles, ie. life sufferings. Second Phase. Actual dying moments. Moments of hanging on to dear life even as death is already most imminent. Third Phase. If God wills it, residual/lingering spiritual presence evenif the body has already lost its physical breath, and is legally dead. A presence that presumably lasts till the third day after physical death. Some speculate there might also be allegedly some 40 day suspended status of the soul, before perchance getting the final hearing and ‘awaiting’ final divine and eternal judgments; while the community of saints intercede for the souls.

Oct 27 22:35:22 2006

Next several days and weeks are the time of the year we are confronted with the reality of death. We reminiscingly remember previous intimate people of our lives. More imminently we recall and witness how day in and day out lives are lost and gone irrevocably forever. The implications of death is that fate of no-return, no second chance. If perchance we have made the better judgments for our lives according as pleasing to our Maker we trust nothing to fear; but if otherwise, then it spells the main reason for all our fears: a fate forever lost indeed

Oct 26 12:41:17 2006

Lord, I pray through all your saints, starting from Mother Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the merits of Christ's total work of salvation that I die a salutary death ie, that I die saved and safe into your 'embrace' into the next life. Eternal rest grant unto me oh Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon me; and may I rest in peace. Amen. PS. Let me not carry an unfinished earthly 'baggage' upon your call of my time.

Oct 26 12:34:44 2006

The Fear of Death is normal and real. It actually translates as the healthy fear of God. And fear of God is the beginning of all wisdom. We must abandon to God our final fate; HE alone has the absolute control over our life. And we naturally should be concerned we do not make an oversight of not asking God for forgiveness and welcome into his Kingdom.

Oct 26 12:29:06 2006

By faith, death is not to fear. For with and by grace, death forebears the expectations of man's final Embracing or Facing of God, our truly most caring heavenly Father.

Oct 18 11:58:09 2006

The Church has been gifted with hermits, monks, or the so-called contemplatives members of the Church. Their lifestyle is geared towards 24 hours life of prayers. Their's is God's company all day and all night of their everyday lives. In reality, however, such a spiritual state is every Christian believer's goal: eventual 24 hour encountering of the divine. Per sacramental unions, sacramental praying & working, and sacramental knowing & experiencing of the Godhead a truly spiritual man/woman gets to receive a greater and greater understanding of Jesus per the Holy Spirit. Man's headstart heaven.

Oct 17 7:47:58 2006

LORD JESUS, HAVE MERCY UPON ALL SOULS IN PURGATORY Let them finally graduate to that final bliss of heaven. Let perpetual light shine upon them; let them rest in peace. Amen

Oct 15 22:55:10 2006

By the grace of God, we pray, watch, and will never to lose our life of grace by stopping at ALL COST & with the price of our physical life if necessary ANY SERIOUS OFFENSE against God. At times,however, we would fail to act by or through God's actual graces ; yet we have to try to do so always anyway. That's the only way to ever have the Lord's peace & comfort.

Oct 13 12:52:10 2006

Mercy, Jesus Mary, help Instantly say the ejaculations when you are without peace, and in some sort of trouble. God's grace shall empower you.

Oct 10 13:39:08 2006

Beware when you come across and get to read the site Mary's Message of Love . I perused through their articles and the site is commercializing the Medjugorje Messages of Mary. It is even twisting Catholic Teachings about the Cross and about Suffering.

Oct 08 0:59:40 2006

...Woe to you who have your fill, you shall go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, you shall weep in your grief. Woe to you when all speak well of you. Their fathers treated the false prophets the same way.

Oct 08 0:54:04 2006

If a man is ashamed of me and my doctrine, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and that of his Father and his holy angels.

Oct 08 0:49:23 2006

He who hears you hears me. He who rejects you rejects me. And he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.

Oct 08 0:46:06 2006

Some Scriptures: Woe to you Pharisees You love the FRONT SEATS in synagogues and marks of respect IN PUBLIC. Woe to you You are like hidden tombs over which men walk unawares.

Oct 08 0:31:46 2006

Christ tells his followers they are not of this world, the world will reject them, but also that they have rejected him first. Hence, what matters, is not the company of the world but his company.

Oct 08 0:21:44 2006

We are to become more and more like sacrificial lambs in our earthly life if we are to truly become Christ-like to enter our heavenly mansions, promised by God. He who loses his life ..gains it.. , Jesus says.

Oct 08 0:14:02 2006

At the Last Supper, which preludes the Lord's ensuing sacrificial crucifixion & death, Jesus says: ..this is my body which shall be offered up for you.. May our last 'banquets on earth', (last neighborly fellowships w/ others) be moments of personal dying sacrifices of our living in this world.

Sep 21 12:35:53 2006

The Truth hurts Pope Benedict just implied the truth behind the words of a Medieval Emperor regarding what Muslims with Jijadic orientation would do as a statement of their type of Islamic faith, which are illustrated by some contemporary events involving acts of violence against innocent people. And for the guilt about certain actually implied true acts of violence against the innocent, the Pope is being used as the diversionary scapegoat for blame. Yet the Pope was just being truthful.

Sep 15 13:07:11 2006

Brothers and sisters, we are to be faithful to God for God is good. As you express your trust in him along with diligent praying and obeying of his moment to moment will everyday, God just manifests himself intervening for you about your needs particularly when you tell him, .. give us this day our daily bread.. We are not to ask him to prove his love and providence for us. We just trust and obey him. And you will simply discover how good God is

Apr 10 2:55:23 2006

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Dec 26 13:28:49 2005

My family, both my immediate family, and my bigger and all inclusive VALDELLON families, thank you oh God for this year's most merry Christmas. And as I, along with my loved ones, praise YOU on your birthday, in YOUR unity with the Father and the Spirit, and along with all the Saints of your Kingdom, I wish to extend to all my friends, (and enemies - too) YOUR PEACE and JOY of Christmas.

Oct 31 13:01:45 2005

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Oct 27 9:50:31 2005

I was impressed with your site since this theme is very close and important for me. Do not stop and continue You know, I even have written to myself to the future letter with a reminder on your site (http://www.LetterInFuture.net). I hope, in 30 years I shall be again the visitor of your site. Up to a meeting

Sep 17 16:33:18 2005

I am not anyone's slave. But I have become a slave to everyone so that I can win as many people as possible....... when I am with people who are not ruled by the Law, I forget about the Law to win them. Of course, I never really forget about the law of God. In fact, I am ruled by the law of Christ. When I am with people whose faith is weak, I live as they do to win them. I do everything I can to win everyone I possibly can. I do all this for the good news because I want to share in its blessings. 1 Cor 9:19-23

Sep 05 11:24:44 2005

Heavenly Father, in the name of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, I thank you for your having created me years ago, and for my continuing life. I thank you all the more for the promise of an eternal life after I finish my pilgrim life on earth. Before 58 years ago I was nowhere in existence; and was in the world of nothingness. But you chose me by way of my parents to have a life, and to receive the even greater and unimaginable life of grace of your Son, Jesus Christ. Praises to you, oh God for your giving me to me and to the Church, and to YOU You still will reveal the fullest mystery of my life, and of every other saved life; but by my faith, I already look forward for it because it is your promise.

Sep 04 12:46:34 2005

Thank God for Chief Justice Rehnquist He was crucial for checking the unpleasant liberalism of the 70's. He was one of the dissenting votes against the infamous Roe Vs Wade Law, law approving abortion. He providentially was key to our conservative President Bush's election. His last conservative act was the approval for the display of the 10 Commandments in the Court. He was also against the ban of public prayers. And he wished, and favored the constitutionality of the pharase .. under God.. in the US Pledge of Allegiance. God rest his soul

Aug 31 21:57:41 2005

.. everyone who loves is begotten of God and has knowledge of God. The man without love has known nothing of God, for God is love... 1 John 4:7-8

Aug 31 21:51:01 2005

See what love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called children of God The reason the world does not recognize us is that it never recognized the Son. Dearly beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall later be has not yet come to light. We know that when it comes to light we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:1-2

Aug 31 21:11:58 2005

You are of God, you little ones; and thus you have conquered the false prophets. For THERE IS IN YOU ONE GREATER than there is in the world. Those others belong to the world; that is why their's is the language of the world and why the world listens to them. We belong to God and any one who has knowledge of God gives us a hearing, while anyone who is not of God refuses to hear us. Thus do we distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of deception. 1 John 4:4-6

Aug 30 14:28:07 2005

Whoever makes himself lowly, becoming like this child, is of greatest importance in that heavenly reign. Mtt. 18:4

Aug 30 14:22:54 2005

He who plants and he who waters work to the same end. Each will receive his wages in proportion to his toil. I Cor 3:8

Aug 30 14:19:08 2005

GOD WILL BLESS YOU WHEN PEOPLE INSULT YOU, MISTREAT YOU, AND TELL ALL KINDS OF EVIL LIES ABOUT YOU BECAUSE OF ME. BE HAPPY AND EXCITED YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT REWARD IN HEAVEN. PEOPLE DID THESE SAME THINGS TO THE PROPHETS WHO LIVED LONG AGO.

Jul 31 8:42:18 2005

To be alive is to live only by the grace of God. But to live by grace is to live renouncing each moment, and each day human sinfulness. And as God is the source and the empowerer of grace, God will fail NOBODY that asks for grace. And no matter what type of hardship or cross we bear God will supply the grace we need to bear with our sacrificial atoning and personal purifying suffering in Christ for our relief and only true joy, and for the glorification of God. We are to go through inescapable pain, hurting, and anguish; but we are assured to come out of them relieved, refreshed, and re-strengthened, and persevering. And if God allows it, for some they are to be rewarded with final glorious temporal love union with God while even yet on earth. And for everyone who is erring, and failing yet striving to be faithful God assures him as well his ever reliable company and providence. Come to me all you who labor and are burdened, and I shall give you rest , Jesus said.

Jul 26 6:38:38 2005

It is truly amazing how in God's creations, he has made man in his image; and somehow, the dogs in man's image, (or in man's better image).As my family experience today the passing of one of our pet dogs we could not help feeling very human emotions for Bunso , our pet name for our younger dog. How beautiful it is that these pet dogs of ours, for whom we have tendered and received mutual affections, behaved so human in many ways. Beckon them to you, and they come to your beckoning no matter how repeatedly you could make them come back to you again and again. No complaints Tell them to stop from something; and they stop. Scold them, and punish them; and the next moment they are every ready to be petted. Beautiful same creatures like man; like we are all creatures of God. And creatures made as man's best friend.

Jul 24 19:29:42 2005

How truly we need God and his grace every each moment of our living, and going. Without his grace, our tendencies and likelihoods are bound to be sins and sinfulness, and the accompanying errors, mistakes, and drudgeries and dismays. Whether just by our eyes, our thoughts & imaginations, or our physical feelings and deportment when abandoned-ly given up to their mere physical commands or wishes would always opt for the inappropriate stuff. Through the power of grace, thus, we are challenged and exhorted by the Spirit to make daily hundred NOS' to temptations, and daily hundred YESES' to the grace. And all the time we do so, the Spirit commends us with his internal peace for us for the moment, and even for the whole day.

Jul 23 20:00:38 2005

In this Sunday's Gospel, and Reading, we are exhorted to go after our true wealth and treasure: the truth and wisdom of God or our salvation in God. We are not to be blinded by other seeming treasures of this world. Besides, God also makes sure his treasure for us gets to us by his providence. Such that he makes things happen for our own good. But he reminds us by the example of Solomon that our ultimate good, and therefore our real divine treasure usually comes to us by way of human understanding and divine wisdom. Thus to seek for our treasure is to chase after the wiser ways in life, ie the ways of God.

Jul 09 23:32:01 2005

Make my day That is what Clint Eastwood would say when he senses he'll get his way no matter what, and for sure. Accomplishing results especially here and now in any business transactions defines the moment of success and some kind of victory. One advertising says, What a feeling People of the world sort of preach like you could expect success. Supposedly you just want it very badly; and dream will be yours. Oh how the world has 'conned' most every one to believe so. But, how many men and women also have found themselves a burnt-out case. The truth is Jesus said, Apart from me you can do nothing He also advised us that we ask the Father to .. give us this day our daily bread.. That is the only way we will have our way , which is asking God's way. And only when go his way, chances are he will make our dreams come true, anyway. At least we know were working with the greatest backer and support. How can it go wrong?

Jul 07 0:11:40 2005

When testifying for the Lord we have to make sure: we confess of our unworthy sinfulness while we LOUDLY proclaim our trust in the mercy,goodness, and power of the Lord. Let us declare we need God in our life; and let us confess he will come to deliver us through in living, and in living with true joy in the midst of the seemingly most un-heavenly-like world that surrounds us.

Jul 06 23:59:10 2005

When face to face with a near death situation, when witnessing a live and current disaster, or bloody accident, or an obvious radical change of fortune, or simply when confronted by tragic life circumstances we testify grace is sufficient. For Christ declared, he has overcome the world, ie the evils of the world. We are not to twist any negative into something positive; but we are to trust the Lord. His yoke will make whatever life's cross BEARABLE; for he will surely be there to carry it with us

Jul 04 11:35:10 2005

The Lord Jesus said, it is not he who calls on him, Lord, Lord , who enters the Kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of his Father. St James said faith without works is dead. Surely important is the inner heart conviction and faithfulness of the Catholic/christian. Only thus will it bear fruit out there in the world. Yet the Holy Spirit must be most pleased and encouraging when we are initially prayerful and individually diligent about our faith devotions. These prayerfulness and devotions faithfulness do not indeed suffice to to qualify us entry to God's total pleasure, and heavenly rewards. But by law of averages, they who busy the Church, who are frequently on their knees beseeching the Lord, and who seek after every which Saint's or Angel's intercession are likely the ones who will be disposed to do acts of charity; and are the ones in access to the manifold Church graces which aid them in living their true faith.

Jul 04 11:19:04 2005

The Lord Jesus said, it is not he who calls on him, Lord, Lord , who enters the Kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of his Father. St James said faith without works is dead. Our Priest of St George clearly and emphatically often dwells on the importance of the inner heart conviction and faithfulness of the Catholic as he concretely expresses it out there in the world, starting in his/her family. And surely we can not fault Christ himself, nor St James, nor any of our Pastors about their pointing to the necessity of action-proving manifestations of our Catholic or Christian faith. Yet the Holy Spirit must be most pleased and encouraging when we are initially prayerful and individually diligent about our faith devotions. These prayerfulness and devotions faithfulness do not indeed suffice to to qualify us entry to God's total pleasure, and heavenly rewards. But by law of averages, they who busy the Church, who are frequently on their knees beseeching the Lord, and who see

Jun 28 5:17:03 2005

The first man and woman, Adam and Eve, had fallen away from the good grace of God, and had listened to the Devil. Then, God dwelt inside man. But with their falling away from God, man lost God, and received a new in-dweller, the Devil. Thus began the Devil-possession of man. But the Son of God came to save man. If man receives the Saviour he/she receives God back; and drives the occupier -Devil out. Before the Fall man knew only God. In Jesus God has made himself known again to man, namely Goodness. Yet because the Devil, had occupied/dwelt inside man; hence man came to know also its opposite, evil. So man gets to choose between Goodness and evil. Thus, all our life we decide whose faithfuls we are, God's faithfuls or the Devil's followers. Each time we accept the grace of God, we are God's now and forever. But each time we refuse or believe not in God's grace, God is our's to lose now, and maybe forever. Let us pray we persevere in God's grace for ever and ever.

Jun 26 15:22:48 2005

Lord Jesus, teach us by your Spirit to understand how to be by your grace. Open our eyes of faith to see that the Father revealed himself to us by way of you. You in turn revealed/reveal yourself by way of your Divine Humanity. All humans, therefore, must be recipients of your grace, and must extend the graces through your combined divinity and humanity. All the time it must be manifesting the Father's heavenly reaching out through some divine-human reaching-out. Consequently, we must bear and extend grace, thus, sacramentally, ie. as an act from God, manifesting God, and for the sacralization of, through, and between the receiver of God's grace and the messenger/bringer of the grace. Any act of hospitality, which is nothing more than mere earthly/worldly hospitality does not manifest the presence of God. For if our loving is only a loving of our father, or mother, son, or daughter, brother or sister it will not make us worthy of God. Just loving the family gets its reward.

Jun 22 21:34:09 2005

With the passing of Archbishop Jaime Sin, the retired Cardinal Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Manila, we Filipinos, and all citizens of the world and of God's Kingdom on earth thank you Holy Spirit for having used him your spiritual vessel of love, truth, and justice. You have made him a true Shepherd of his flock in Manila and the Philippines, as well as in the Church. We give praise to God; as we also pray for his final repose in peace and happiness with You, together with Jesus Christ, and the heavenly Father, along with all the 'Saints' and Angels of God's Kingdom. Amen.

Jun 19 9:17:46 2005

Thank you, Spirit, for your sustaining and maintaining of the Legion of Mary movement and organization. Since 1921's founding by Frank Duff in Ireland, the Legion of Mary continues to survive and flourish in Catholic parishes all over the world performing and propagating its mission of personal sanctification of members, and the reaching out to and the bringing in of souls to the Catholic faith or to their faith in Mary's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. I ask everyone, especially Legion members to pray for the process of the beatification of Frank Duff towards his being declared a Saint of the Church. And so God may be glorified more through his lived sanctity, so his pioneered Legion of Mary mission may continue to blossom, and so the idea and call for all individuals to be holy may ever more sound loudly upon all believers of Jesus Christ.

Jun 14 12:46:54 2005

Jesus, you made it clear, unless we learn to lose of ourselves, to deny ourselves, and take up our crosses, reach out outside of us we can not really save what is important to us, we can not be your disciples, we can not ever learn how to love, nor even understand what love is. In effect, we will never know nor ever get to be like you, the essence of LOVE. To see the universe of TRUTH & LOVE, we can not be too absorbed just looking at the mirror of ourselves; we have to focus as well beyond, around, and at the back of us. Then we get to see the whole of reality, the totality of life, of existence; albeit a glimpse at the immensity of the DIVINE We do this in a supernatural way; not by our natural efforts, but by the embrace of Godâ ™s graces, ie through moments of self sacrifices for others.

Jun 03 22:33:37 2005

You said, Lord Jesus, Apart from me you can do nothing Then you added also saying if we believe nothing is impossible. Lord, we pray that all the time we aim to do your will that we first seek the assistance of your Spirit so we be empowered at the doing of good deeds; and so we may experience the relief you also promised if we ask for your help when we are burdened doing the good deeds.

Jun 02 7:50:21 2005

Lord Jesus, make me see, realize, and remember as well as thank you that I am able to live every moment of my life ONLY because of you: because of the Father's providential gift of my life, because of your saving me from my sinfulness, and because of the Spirit's non-stop work of leading me away from sinfulness, and drawing me to grace and holiness. Make it ever clear to me that all circumstances of my life bear ever more your presence in my living. This as I am assisted by the communion of the Saints and Angels. My faith and love for you shall always win over my fears and doubts.

May 28 21:19:54 2005

On this Sunday of the Feast of the Eucharist, the Body & Blood of Jesus, God is reminding us the following. When we receive of his body and blood in communion we get to keep Christ's eternal life. But we are made to realize and appreciate that God wants us to keep too the physicality of our life into eternity in the manner Jesus brings his humanity along with his divinity into heaven and the eternity. In God's new heaven and new earth we shall rise into Christ's glory rewarded with divine sonship/daughterhood but retaining our humanity in its perfected, resurrected Christ's shape and form. What an awesome promise

May 22 21:32:03 2005

Lord Jesus, my only concern should be to aim, desire, and do my best to lead the way for what is right and good. If the world around me chooses otherwise, after praying for them; it is their own destiny they are embracing for themselves. But they can never do real harm against us who opt to be faithful to you, and your commandments. In the end the faithful will be triumphant along with you in the glory of your Kingdom; for such is your promise.

May 21 21:31:34 2005

Praise and glory in the heavens and God's Kingdom for the mystery of the Divine Unity of the 3 Persons in God Three divine persons ever united and in accord in the expressing and manifesting of one Divine Goodness. This is most marvellously unveiled in the enabling of love between and among selfish humans by the power of Christ's salvation grace as realized by the Spirit.

May 16 15:50:01 2005

Let's learn.

May 15 22:59:55 2005

How marvellous to live the new life by grace How wonderful when our heart is able to tune in to and delightfully opt for the righteous and the good notwitstanding the allurements for the flesh, and to stray away into all the wrong stuff. But this new freedom because of the ever present Holy Spirit, whose Feast Day we celebrate this Sunday, who is the source of all the graces which empower us.

Apr 23 9:42:56 2005

Oh heavenly Father, how ironic but how relieving it is that you, our God, want us your adopted children in Christ to come and approach you according exactly as we are, poor and of humble state. And it pleases you most if we behave this way: poor and humble like the manner your Son lived -- a poor and humble man. To, for, and with the people of the world, no matter how close to us, we tire, toil, and often cover up what we are in order just to even fit not to mention to be welcome by or to be pleasing to them. Thus, in you alone oh Lord my soul pines and finds rest

Apr 19 12:02:11 2005

Praised be God, we have a new Pope God bless Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany. His former Office as the Guardian of the Faith's Doctrines, or Teachings of the Church, is a good sign we have an earthly Holy Father who will be an assiduous defender of the Faith particularly in this age of relativistic thinking. As Pope however he remains solidly under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Apr 12 11:41:03 2005

Father, your Son's merited graces by his Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection are infinite and everlasting. But man's use or acceptance and embrace of salvation is an on-going event. Until more and more get to believe, and be converted into the embrace of salvation, members of Christ's mystical body, the Church, have to continually ask and accumulate of His graces to help out more and more of mankind to open up,embrace, and partake of the graces of salvation unto the salvation of more and more believers. Christ’s work of salvation is done; but man’s work of entering into it isn’t yet. Christ’s graces have been merited by him; but man’s or the people’s individual and collective choosing and channeling/distributing through the Church of these graces have not yet finished. Hence, what St Paul said is lacking in Christ’s (channeled) graces have to continue to flourish among old and further new believers of Christ’s growing Kingdom before the end of time.

Apr 07 23:49:57 2005

Heavenly Father, we give you thanks for the explosion of the graces of your Son, Jesus Christ, on the occasion of the last days and death of Pope John Paul II. Thousands of Masses, and Rosaries, and Prayer Services all over the world have been, are, and will be offered for John Paul's behalf. Yet as God has called him back on the Sunday of Mercy we are given the sign that he probably has gone straight to heaven; and thus wont need the extra abounding prayer graces for his intentions. This only opens the depository of graces in the Communion of Saints, including the graces accumulated on behalf of John Paul II. Already, therefore, Pope John Paul is making a difference in the distribution of blessings to those in need of graces bestowed upon him by Christ's generous salvific outpouring of the Spirit graces via the prayers of the greaving and loving Christians and secular admirers of John Paul, which un-used intercessionary/indulgential graces redound to be shared by most in-need souls.

Apr 05 12:57:29 2005

Oh Holy Spirit, inspire each and all souls stirred presently to opportune reflections about and for the faith on this occasion of the Holy Father's culmination of his earthly journey into the glorious afterlife. Focus the peoples' mind towards the prominence of the everlasting fate of salvation; and lift their hearts into the realm of reality of embracing salvation right now and right here as we journey on this pilgrimage of spiritual & physical sanctification and purification; and as we get inspired, motivated, and finally converted into the primordial faith and love for God and the requisite life of charity for our neighbors, especially the needy.

Apr 02 0:43:10 2005

Thanks be to God for each and all Masses celebrated all over the world And thanks for all the Block Rosaries being held and said by all Catholic communities devoted to Mother Mary Thanks also for all pious group fellowships of Bible studies by all christians. Also thanks be to God for all Church services and fellowships in the name of the Lord Jesus Finally thanks be to God when each individual soul makes his best effort at listening to the Holy Spirit each time he follows his conscience at reaching out/forgiving his/her neighbor; and each time another soul in conscience seeks and abides by whatever is honest, true, and charitable. In all of these situations man is being focused, attentive, and worshipful of God Such individuals make true and real the Kingdom of God on earth; as it is real and glorious in the heavens.

Mar 31 20:35:56 2005

Dear Lord Jesus, for the glory of the Father, we pray by the power of the Holy Spirit for the most peaceful last days, if it is bound to be, of our earthly Holy Father, John Paul II. We commend to you both his earthly fate, and your Church's well-being if and when he finally finishes his life's journey. May Mother Mary, and the Saints accompany him during his final passing days. Amen.

Mar 27 8:33:24 2005

ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again to give us who believe the new life with our new bodies Today marks the great promise of final fulfilment for every believing man and woman. The believers will be avenged for all the wrongs they have been done. And they will be fulfilled of their total human-divine longings and aspirations ONCE AND FOR ALL For now, however, Christ's power of resurrection empowers believers that hope in the future, and the perseverance and joy in belonging and doing the right deeds while continuing on this journey of faith, ie the living the life of grace through the Spirit, and as supported by the communion of Saints both from up there and from us here below. Praised be God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

Feb 20 15:53:36 2000

On this Sunday's celebration of Christ's TRANSFIGURATION, and in the Spirit of the Lenten Season, the Father and the Lord Jesus through the Holy Spirit is conveying to us per Christ's transfiguring into the real image of himself: the glorious Divine Person that he is eternally, as unveiled to Peter, James, and John, we are implicitly being assured momentary earthly spiritual visions/inspirations and fulfilment/emotions of the delightful experiencing of God within and around our lives during God chosen instances of our lives. These mainly during our faith moments of suffering, charitable assisting of our neighbors in need, and during profound moments of prayer-life and Scriptures reading/meditating. Precious little glimpses of the heaven on earth. And only as we live the life of grace

Feb 13 12:17:36 2005

The Spirit reminds us on how not to behave on 3 things this Sunday. Per the account of the TEMPTATIONS OF JESUS, we are not (1) to make materialism and success determine our life priority more than the opposite WORD OF GOD. (2) We are never to attempt or engage in an endeavour or decision that is clearly beyond our abilities, circumstances, and resources;(but we could ask God for it, and wait..;) but we must obediently see just what is the will of God for the moment.. (3) And lastly, given some seeming opportunities and breaks which are evidently contrary to the will of God, we are not to succumb to the temptations of desiring them; lest we profess them LORDING OVER our true object of worship, who is God. Amen

Feb 08 13:37:13 2005

Let us invoke the power of the Holy Spirit to unleash the forces of the heavens, and of Christ's Kingdom on earth to stop and defeat the malicious intentioned MEDIA PAPERS & SHOWS, in France, Great Britain, and the rest of Europe, as well as within the United States, into the unraveling of their own socially and attitudinally harmful manipulation of the press. Let the Spirit empower all honest, even small-time, media forces at serving as its salt of the earth and light up the hill in preserving and 'conserving' fundamental and wholesome truthful informations.

Feb 08 13:24:56 2005

Thanks be to God for today's explosive pouring of his graces upon the people of God, sanctifying graces and actual graces to his faithful and to the unbelieving of God, respectively. We appreciate the continued physical company of Christ's Vicar, John Paul II. And we thank God for President Bush's renewed vigor and enthusiasm about leading the United States according to the demands of the present day Americans' 21st century needs. May God also maximally utilize America in leading the world in peace, adequate sustainance of people the world over, and in conquest of sicknesses, also the world over.

Jan 08 15:21:15 2005

Jesus' words: Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them If we want us, our family, our nation, our community, or any of our enterprise to succeed or simply go great, the only secret is to pursue prayer and fellowship in the name of Jesus. This is the power of the Church: that no matter its sinful earthly members, Christ and his already holy Saints pull the Church together, and sanctify it. Even sinners that just repent in the name of Jesus de facto make their fellowship of repentance a great Church, or reality event. Not even any grandeur worldly event can compare Because Christ is in the middle of the fray. And what or who can be bigger or greater than our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God the Father, and the sender of the Holy Spirit?

Dec 28 0:22:36 2004

Saint Paul said, Rejoice in the Lord, always I say, REJOICE While journeying on earth we remain human; therefore limited, and therefore ever suffering at times, and many times. But if we lift up our souls to the heavens, and if we live up to the wonders of graces, our's is and will be the peace that is of Christ. We will have the peace that He carried even as he hang on the cross. Hence, Christians are never to be supposedly unhappy; only tired and tested, and disappointed, but never really unhappy.

Dec 27 0:36:46 2004

ALL THINGS WORK FOR THE GOOD TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE... WITH GOD NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE... Under the power of the Spirit and ever uniting with Christ those who have made up their mind and heart not to foul up with God's law within them are bound to always be right in their ways of life. Their's is the sureness of foothold on the path of righteousness. For as long as they do not sell short God's manifest favors upon them.

Dec 19 12:27:14 2004

Hindi sa mga marangya, mga titulado, at mga puno ng pandaigdig na kariwasaan at mga pangkatawang kasiyahan UNANG IPINA-ALAM ng Diyos at Kalangitan ang magandang balita ng pagdating ng Diyos na Mananakop. Bagkus ay sa mga mahirap at maliit na mga taong PASTOL. Ito ay binigyang natatanging pansin ng aking kaibigang Raul. Bagamat ang kaligatasan ay ibinibigay sa LAHAT,gayunpaman sa mga taong hubad ng sobrang ikapagkakalinga sa mga bagay na makapaglalayo sa kanila sa Panginoon ay higit na malapit ang tinig ng pagtawag ng Panginoon. Hindi masama ang pagtamasahan ang mga mabuting bagay na pawang galing sa Diyos. Subalit higit na katuwatuwa sa Panginoon ang gawin Siyang unang pagpukulan ng atensyon at interest, o pag-ibig na nga, na madalas na nangyayaring makalimutan at matakpan ng pagkabuhos ng pusot isipan at mga panahon at kilos sa mga bigay ng Diyos sa halip ng sa nagbibigay na Diyos. Panginoon, pagyamanin mo nga Po ang aming wastong pananampalataya

Dec 11 9:44:31 2004

Salamat, Panginoon, sa hiwaga ng Iyong Kabiyayaan. Makasalanan at hindi iyong pinagkakalooban ang lahat ng kanilang pangangailangan, pangkatawan at pangkaluluwa. Subalit lalot higit ang kagalingang tinatanggap nilang sa kanilay nagbibigay ng tunay na kaganapan ang tinatanggap nilang mga biyaya. Hndi lamang pisikal o sosyal na katuparan bagkus espirituwal at makaligtasang kasiyahan at mga pag-asang higit na kaloob sa kanila. Tunay na dakilang pakundangan ng kanilang tinataglay na kapayapaan maging dito sa lupa, at siglang walang pagka-ubos sa kanilang pang-araw-araw na buhay. Salamat Hesus, aming Manunubos, at salamat sa iyong Simbahan/Kaharian na sa amiy kumukupkop. Salamat, Diyos Ama; at salamat Diyos Espiritu Santo, na nagsasakatuparan ng lahat na ito dito sa aming pangkaligtasang paglalakbay sa mundo.

Dec 04 11:14:12 2004

Thank you Lord for the fall season, and winter too. But during fall you free us from summer's irritating and withering heat, and yet prevent us from the sure coldness of winter. But still we thank you for winter, for the comfortable nights of sleep under a blanket. Then we thank you anyway for summer as the season's sun is busiest in nurturing and ripening the season's food harvest. Then, when spring comes, we thank you for its symbolism of hope: new lives from the earth; hence, reminders of the new lives of people being transformed by the Incarnational Spring of graces from the Lord Jesus. Spring delights us with the bright new colors of varieties of flowers blossoming. Thank you Father, and the Spirit, who is the principal Divine agent of transformation and change both upon man and natures.

Nov 28 13:06:03 2004

Once again, it is the season of Advent, ie. the season when we are filled with expectations for the good things, all summed up in the Person of the Child Jesus whose birth we shall celebrate within the next 5 weeks. Thank you Father for Jesus Your Son, and our Lord. Thank you Spirit for your greatest Instrumentality in materializing Christmas. Thank you Mother Mary, and Saint Joseph for your crucial roles in this Story of Salvation of men. Thank you Angels and Saints, and God's communion of saints within the universal and eternal Church: the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Let all this reminder of joy strengthen all in accepting with faith the crosses of living.

Nov 25 9:57:49 2004

On this American day of thanksgiving, we thank you Heavenly Father for all of our blessings as a nation or people and for our individual life blessings. I thank you for my American citizenship, and for my Philippine birthrights. And I thank you for our Kingdom here on earth, the Body of Christ, His Church, which is the same one and final KINGDOM we trust to belong for ever and ever with You and the Angels and Saints upon the consummation of our earthly lives.

Nov 20 23:53:05 2004

Lord Jesus, we proclaim You as our King More than a few times you proved yourself to be powerfully Divine, and therefore most appropriately a King. Yet it is by faith that You deigned believers and followers to acknowledge your being our Saviour from our sinfulness, and our Deliverer to our salvation. Your revealed words, and your Incarnational redemptive life of love and sacrifice to the Father on behalf of mankind are far more important than the greater disclosure about Your Divinity and Kingship over all creations, including over all men. Specifically it is the believers' following acts of love for God and for fellow human beings that should matter most to the people, who claim You as God. By being people of love do we loudly proclaim Your message of reign over mankind.

Nov 15 12:30:57 2004

Come oh Holy Spirit, and come all ye Angels and Saints Holy Spirit, please continue to protect, nourish, and enlighten, guide, and strengthen your Kingdom on earth, the Church. You, holies of the heaven unite and embrace all believers and followers yet on their pilgrim journey. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, Your Son, bless and secure Your Church's persevering growing up and sanctifying living under the shepherdship of Christ's Vicar on earth, our Pope.

Nov 12 8:30:22 2004

The flesh, the world, and the Devil altogether work non-stop against the believers' new life in Christ. But someone said if we stay focused and faithful to Christ or His teachings our life of grace by the Spirit in Christ will prevail for us.

Nov 06 12:15:23 2004

It is only by the Spirit, or in the manner afforded by the life of grace of Christ that the life jewels of blessedness or fulfillment and peace could materialize in human living on earth. Abundance in the midst of poverty, beauty resplendent out of crassness and ordinariness, strength and steadiness notwitstanding enveloping setbacks. Only by the magic of grace, and visible only through discernment by grace.

Nov 04 12:33:44 2004

Thank you God in the name of Your Son, Jesus, and by way of the Holy Spirit. You listened to the prayers, and wishes of your faithful people. You have granted protection of your fundamental teachings and precepts for your people, and your land, for the United States of America, and consequently for the world. You have granted our prayers and wish for a continuing leadership which abides by our traditional beliefs and practices that are pleasing to you. We pray further that you ever enlighten and strengthen our re-elected President for the good of the country, of the world, but particularly for the protection of them helpless and defenseless among us.

Oct 31 13:52:48 2004

Oh Holy Spirit, enlighten and embolden the people of the United States this November 2 with Christ's power of grace to decisively vote/re-elect President Bush to the country's elevated Office of the President. Stir up in the Americans their correct patriotic and conservative spirits they profess precisely when they fondly and devoutly sing that favorite American hymn, AMAZING GRACE.

Oct 04 14:39:46 2004

Oh Holy Spirit teach, enlighten, and convict American electorate that they place in office once again a leader who speaks not so much from elegance as from the heart. Commend upon your people President Bush who unashamedly profess the importance of reckoning and trusting in You as he wisely and intelligently, and faithfully performs the task of leadership over the well-being of all your people particularly the victims of oppression and injustice. Let not the people choose by popularity as by the integrity of the leader.

Oct 04 14:26:40 2004

Lord, we commend to You through the Saints' patronage President Bush's re-election this November. He bears and imparts a clear championing of more of Your will on earth, and on the United States. Send your Spirit upon your people that they may prudently and strongly re-elect him again in office. And through the same Spirit may President Bush continue to be wise and courageous to shoulder the responsibility and burden of leading this nation and the world. Assure him with a humble confidence of leadership.

Aug 28 22:41:37 2004

Lord Jesus, humanly imperfect and sinful as we are, yet with repentant submission to grace the Spirit empowers us to limitless possibilities about living, including some reaching out for some decent worldly success which is glorifying to the Father. The Spirit guarantees the yokeful hardships bearing as well as the peaceful stewardships over worldly beneficence for both the community good and our individual well-being. God is ever so good; nevertheless real universal human glory, except Christ's and the heavenly citizens', is an after-end-of-the-world promise. Only God's covenant of salvation and deliverance through earth unto heavenly destiny, if embraced by man in lived faith, is guaranteed. Ie. a foretaste of and a destination for heaven in this valley of tears.

Aug 26 20:47:26 2004

Heavenly Father, you sent Your Divine Son on earth, according to Your salvation plan for the mankind whom you have loved, to become and live precisely like all men and women: a poor, humbled, and helplessly insufficient human. Jesus lived with encompassing imperfections, including, as notoriously dramatized and famed by Gibson's movie, his passion's real pain. Only his Divine Nature prevented him from morally breaking down, and giving up on trusting the Father. Jesus absolutely suffered, and absolutely put up with pain till death. Result: man is gifted with grace. Through this empowering grace, every man is able to follow Christ and live the life of grace. Thus man is enabled to accept totally human insufficiencies and perseveres in trusting God's Providence and protection in the midst of all evils.

Aug 24 21:21:04 2004

Lord Jesus you made sure you taught us in the Our Father prayer two distinct contrasts between the Father and us. In the first part you make us acknowledge the Father's transcendent and immanent divinity that belong to Him. In the second part you made us aware the sinful creatures that we are ONLY needing daily provisions, and constant forgiveness and repentance as well as protection and safeguard against evil and the wrong. Amen, Lord

Aug 21 21:23:08 2004

Heavenly Father, today your Son exhorts us and reminds us to seek to go the narrow gate if we want to assure to enter your Kingdom. Grant us the grace to ever focus on his word, and ever persevere in loyalty to You. By the power of the Spirit we pray. Amen.

Jul 29 16:20:20 2004

Lord Jesus, through your Holy Spirit and in union with all of your mystical body, the Church's baptized, followers, and believers let all your modern day prophets ever clearly pronounce to the people of the world the recognition of human sinfulness, and the necessity to renounce and turn away from sins as the pre-condition to the entering and living in your Kingdom, which is right here physically and temporally before us, and to which You are strongly beckoning all to knock open, enter and embrace. The Kingdom is here But we have to repent and turn our sinful ways

Jul 28 11:26:11 2004

Jesus, by your Spirit, protect and strengthen even more our President Bush and his leadership. His moral clarities to obliterate agents of terrorism, champion the peace and security of the middleeast, including the existence of the ever unpopular people of Israel, stopping continuous murder of voice-less unborn children, safeguard the lawfulness and sanctity of marriage and family, etc.. are being branded spirits of divisiveness. Meantime films, books & articles, and entertainment shows brandishing half-truths and outright personal attacks are tolerated and cheered as come-ons to supposedly 'claim-back' America Lord, each moral battle is your battle. Stop the de-sensitizing of American truthfulness. Amen.

Jul 20 11:02:17 2004

Thanks be to God Angelo dela Cruz is alive A move backward, but somehow a forward thing in so far as one life is spared Just like with Hassoun His circumstances did not look at all edifying ideologically; yet he too is alive Nevertheless the sacrifices of the Bergs' or Pearls' remain most invalueable without disparaging the spared lives of dela Cruz and Hassoun

Jul 01 12:44:17 2004

The Bible says, 'The wages of sin is death'. With all the crimes and human abuses perpetrated by Saddam and his cohorts of his former Iraqi regime upon their own people, now is the beginning of reckoning in time and eternity. We shall witness now God's hounding of justice from Saddam and his evil accomplices. We are going to see again how in life God avenges his people

Jun 28 11:59:29 2004

Praised God Thanks be to God Today is a day of great blessings to the people and nation of Iraq Today is their first taste of the experience of national sovereignthy towards their formal full sovereignthy in their most imminent time according to their scheduled process of indigeneous Iraqification. Guide the leaders of Iraq, oh Holy Spirit

Jun 26 10:29:52 2004

Our prayer, Lord, that your Spirit dwell upon our bishops, enlighten them, and unite them in their prophetic teaching and shepherding over Your flock. Let them zealously protect the lives of unborn children. Unite them in stopping politicians who support abortions of children.

Jun 07 13:47:51 2004

You said, Lord Jesus, that blessed are the poor, the meek, the suffering, the persecuted, and the merciful. Also that unless we become like LITTLE children, ie. accepting human estate of being small, abject, (a sinful people precisely in need of salvation), we can not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Let your Spirit make us realize all our human tendencies for self- sufficiency block your deliverance of us to our salvation.

Jun 06 10:07:06 2004

Glory, praise, and thanks to God for his divine humility. When the Son of God came down to earth and became man God has re-defined humanity through Incarnation as God's absolute reaching out to the sinful wretched man whom God has saved and divinized. Incarnation means divine reaching out to everyone who is characteristically least and unfortunate. New humanity is humble humanity.

Jun 03 21:41:41 2004

Oh holy Spirit, during this time of your Feast of coming down on the world per the Incarnation of Christ I pray that you re-enforce and energize conservative forces, and enable them with the power of true clarity to refute and unveil ultra-liberal false and licentious notions of freedom: the liberals' easy disrespect for morality and authority figures, and the liberals' secularistic disdain for culture, history, and divine care for the people.

Jun 03 21:16:56 2004

My prayer, Lord, that the President be re-elected for very basic political reasons: abortions must not freely continue to sacrifice innocent babies, and the President's aggressive & decisive pursuit of terrorists should not be dampened by a new experimental and less than sufficient strategizing.

Jun 03 20:32:22 2004

Thank you Lord, signs show Iraq is headed for order; developments are shaping up towards the rise of a democratic Iraq. Now the sensationalized bad news of the media is being outshined by the positive political stances in Iraq towards the birth of a new Iraq.

May 15 22:10:08 2004

Nicholas Berg is a 'saintly' sacrificial lamb united with Jesus' sacrifice. The world is saddened by the apparent victory of evil. But the truth is NICK BERG has sacrificed for the world. His, and others' bloody sacrifices in Iraq and around the world are the most potent antidote against the forces of evil in the world. Thank God for BERG, PEARL,and others like them

May 15 9:56:42 2004

It is our prayer that you Spirit counter and disempower those who have been trying to disseminate un-truth about SIMPLE TRUSTING through faith. They try to reduce everything about faith to mere rationality. They put limit to the mysterious possibilities of faith. Yet your assurances and powers are not dependent upon their analytical logic. Your grace works according to the working of your own realm of the heavenly mysterious powers sought by simple trusting hearts though solely dispensed by YOU.

May 02 11:26:05 2004

Oh Holy Spirit, please awaken, enlighten and embolden a united Iraqi populace to publicly and patriotically embrace their cause of freedom and peace. Fortify their fears, and enliven their hopes and faith in Allah's providence of life and peace through their own witness of courage & untainted patriotism.

May 02 11:13:11 2004

Heavenly Father we thank you too for the ever zealous spirit and convictions of the American/Coalition Forces in their mission for freedom and peace. We thank you and ask that you bless them that have sacrificed on the mission of freedom. Bless the likes of Pat Tillman and similar other heroes of the war.

May 02 11:07:03 2004

Heavenly Father, when it is Your will, even under and precisely through irrational circumstances through grace a moment of need which carries faith will deliver liberation and safety. Spirit, thank you for the safety of Jessica Lynch and of Thomas Hammil If you will, pls save also the other American Maupin, and the other hostages.

Apr 29 8:01:18 2004

Lord Jesus, You came down from the heavens a poor man, lived a poor man, and died a poor man. Because it is in being poor that You showed HOW to richly and solely trust the DIVINE FATHERLY protection, providence, and LIFE in grace. Spirit, that we may appreciate this truth ever more, and be fruitful for being so like your Saint Francis of Assisi He accepted poverty yet You made him so richly productive all over and through all time.

Apr 24 21:11:54 2004

Heavenly Father by your Spirit through the merit of Your Son, Jesus Christ, open up for us the vision of your much greater plan and promises for us via the life of grace in Jesus Christ. By Your Spirit make us understand our greater STAKE is not so much to avoid missing out merely in this world as to aim NEVER to miss out TRULY for YOUR type of world from within this world that will lead into your REAL heavenly WORLD everlasting

Apr 24 21:03:04 2004

Master Lord Jesus, individually teach us through your Spirit the secret of having a poor spirit. Holy Spirit uncover for us the threshold of Your Divine perspectives, powers, and infinite freshness in energy IF ONLY we would put our trust not in our flawed natural abilities but in Your unlimited generosity and providence.

Apr 24 20:54:23 2004

Holy Spirit, ever remind us PMA (positive mental attitude philosophy) can not cut it; supposedly going 100%, and even over 100% is a deception (finite man is always only under 100% in capability); but rather its the poor spirit that can open up 100% and actually immeasurable way over 100% miraculous results along the way of any human undertaking. A meek and humble heart, create within us, oh Lord

Apr 24 13:17:21 2004

Thank you Father, and Spirit for the following: the throngs of christian believers that went to see The Passion of the Christ movie, the law against late-term abortion & the law against infanticide during pregnancy, the sacrifices of the American & Coalition troops for FREEDOM, the continuous prospering work of EWTN & and other christian broadcasting networks, and for every single true conservative voice in the media that offsets the liberal relativism or populism in the modern culture.

Apr 15 14:29:12 2004

Remind us Spirit our opportunity to live even right now per Christ's work of redemption that New Human Life by grace. Make us ever to ask you each day or each moment to spiritualize our every action, whether inwardly or outwardly. Make us renounce and turn away from whatever is merely an act of the 'flesh'. And together with all the Saints ours' be your constant peace even in the midst of our mundane surrounding.

Apr 12 12:56:18 2004

Praises to God Christ came back from death to life; the ONLY man that did, and had the power to do it. And by His will, all christian believers will take back their dead bodies resurrected and transformed by Christ Yet even before this, believers have become empowered already to live the life of grace in the Spirit. Hence man, from time to time, is enabled to be good even now

Apr 10 0:18:12 2004

Thank you Jesus for your Initial Good Friday And thank you Holy Spirit for each one of our own Christ-united good fridays of our lives. Christ paved the way for our corporate co-offering with Christ our ecclesial redemptive participation with the Lord in Christ's sacrificial Lamb dying for the Father and resurrecting with HIM by way of the life of grace.

Apr 07 10:27:26 2004

Lord Jesus, whatever the message it stands for, I personally thank you for your Mother's apparent appearance yesterday to three of our kids-legionaries The kids said she looked serious, and along with her was another lady who was faceless? Was she sad for many faceless women committing abortion? Mother Mary, pray for us

Apr 07 10:14:41 2004

Oh Holy Spirit, enlighten me and all your believers,both individually and collectively as a nation, or race, or family, or group,ie. all communities of believers that only trusting in God in the person of Jesus can we personally and as a community be right, successful, and peaceful Self sufficiency, whether as an individual or as a group/nation/race is an illusion Likewise, as with any mere human or social pursuit and endeavour,eg politics, science,technology, or sports. But by God's grace

Apr 06 9:24:37 2004

Heavenly Father, during these holy days of our commemorating of the Passion & Death and Resurrection of Your Son, our Saviour, give us by Your Spirit the grace of greater faith and hope that we are always under Your watchful care. Also grant that we experience the joy of Your Son's victorious resurrection not only then but now in the hearts of your believers Amen.

Apr 05 8:53:04 2004

Special thanks too oh Holy Spirit for your supporting and using the Legion of Mary and the Knights of Columbus & all pro-life organizations to serve as able helpers of your Church apostolate through the years, especially during these ominous times of materialism, hedonism, and violent sacrifices of the innocent and the poor by secularists and terrorists.

Apr 05 8:40:23 2004

Thanks be to God, especially to you Holy Spirit your Church continues its fidelity and zeal for the TRUTH, WAY, and NEW human LIFE in Christ. Thanks in particular for Pope John Paul II, and for the American Catholic Church and the brothers and sisters of other christian churches for their vibrant leadership for the faith.

Mar 30 21:34:22 2004

Come Holy Spirit These are crucial times. We are choosing worthy leaders to act legitimate stewards of your truth, and of the people's security and welfare, both material and spiritual. These are also your predicted times when people are being tempted to listen to truth-values accordingly as are only pleasing to their ears even if they run contrary to your TRUTH.

Mar 21 22:27:02 2004

Praises and thanks to God Mother Mary's army of the Legion of Mary gathered together in Stockton Diocese at St. George Church in an act of consecration with her for the cause of her Son's battle against the forces of evil in the world.

Feb 19 13:06:44 2004

Thanks heavens Notwitstanding all the widespread and prevalent bad stuff from the world, and by the world God is so good First, all of God's wonderful creations, including us human beings. Second, His gifting us with His very own Son so we could have an eternal life. Third, His gift of the Spirit, which sanctifies our weak nature. And then all the graces which cover all our needs, both spiritual & material.

Feb 17 15:50:34 2004

Heavenly Father, until we personally and really personally fear offending You individually we will continue to be blinded in our dealings with, and behaving in the world. Unless we see through the finiteness and fakeness of all natural pursuits, ventures, and promises we shall never get to see and know the Father that you are to each one of us. Spirit, please ever pull us to our Heavenly Father by the mediation of His Son Jesus Christ And thus let Him make us instead fruitful stewards of the goods of the world.

Feb 17 12:45:32 2004

Heavenly Father, by the merit of Your Son, and by the enlightenment and encouragement of the Spirit we pray that we understand clearly and persuasively that only by divine configuration and implementation of human wills and circumstances could lucky turn of events materialize. As with supposed evolutionary occurences, it is YOU oh God who fill in the missing link even in our, and especially in our human affairs for Your glory, and our good, temporal and eternal.

Feb 16 16:49:28 2004

Oh Heavenly Father Your Son came down so the world might have the chance for salvation. But if certain countries, certain governments, certain groups of the media, or the whole of the institutions of the world choose to go completely secular let your churches and fellowship communities stick it up in worship of you, and in obedience to the christian faith Inspire ardor, perseverance, and courageous witness among your believers and followers

Feb 16 10:20:19 2004

Heavenly Father, it is with fear and trembling that we seek and remain by your holy will for us. A single act, in a single moment by us could easily go astray. But we trust the watchful care of your Spirit. As long as we turn to you we are ever in your hands until our final refuge and security in Heaven Per Christum Dominum nostrum.

Jan 02 13:18:45 2004

Holy Spirit, we pray that we may remember it is only by the power of your grace that we could humbly enjoy the goods of this world, and peacefully bear with all the unexpected unpleasantness and mishaps in our day-to-day living. We pray for a persevering trust in our Lord Jesus and for remaining faithful to his commandments. Praised be to God

Dec 28 13:22:35 2003

Thank you Father for providing us the foundational family in Joseph, Mary, and the Baby Jesus Come oh Holy Spirit and dwell in each of our christian or blessed families so that they may serve as the catalysts of moral preservation and forces of loving intra-families relations domestically, nationally, globally, and ecclesiastically on earth and throughout Your Kingdom In Jesus' name Amen.

Dec 26 19:34:23 2003

Let all remember most compassionately through prayers the victims of the devastating earthquake in Iran. It is hard for them to deal with the mystery of pain and death with this hard blow of fate or of mother nature. But through Christ's salvation, let them that perish from earth be received to eternal rest in the afterlife of peace with the Divine And they that survived, though hurt or injured, be enlightened with the inner peace of faith and sacrifice.

Dec 25 13:17:47 2003

Its your day of birth, Lord Jesus the Emmanuel You have come down from the heavens to this human earth. So those who receive your coming by their changed hearts can now also exclaim and acclaim: We have now arrived We are new men and women We now live not by flesh but by HIS grace, by HIS Spirit Now and forever, believing mankind has become heavenly; and the promise of eternal heaven is assured Praised be the Father, Son, and the Spirit

Dec 19 6:06:10 2003

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Dec 08 14:24:24 2003

Praised the Lord On this great feast day of Mary's Immaculate Concepcion , in the Church and in the heavens Mary, the greatest member of the Church is being honored for her being a most special faithful believer and follower of our Lord, her Son. It is no wonder she was chosen in all time and eternity by the power of the Spirit to carry within her bosom and deliver to the world the greatest gift of the Father to mankind: our Saviour Lord Jesus Christ.

Nov 30 11:53:56 2003

Holy Spirit, prompt, inspire, and bring your believers faithfully to regular community worship and fellowship at churches Keep us unfailingly attuned to you, Holy Spirit, that we may not lose our fear of God, and zeal for justice and love. Only if we stay under your care and protection can we save ourselves from the overwhelming materialistic and secularistic ways and orientation all around us. We pray through Jesus through Mary and the Saints.

Nov 30 11:42:05 2003

Holy Spirit, bless and inspire our individual homes that a life of faith and prayerfulness may characterize its atmosphere from morning till night. Let us never forget to give thanks at every meal. Let Dad and Mom lead the family in the fidelity to saying of evening prayers, and the Rosary. Let the pictures of Jesus, Mary and the Saints point us to the life of worship and obedience to God, the Father of the one family of believers.

Nov 15 14:21:11 2003

By the power of the Holy Spirit, Heavenly Father, and by the merits and example of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, may we not worry so much if we lose out physically even to the point of death. But that we at least always try to proclaim christian values of reason, and wage the battle of pro-active militant christian testifying Let the minds and hearts of the christians prevail; never mind if we have to sacrifice our bodies or physical lives

Nov 09 21:03:51 2003

Let it be our prayer, Lord Jesus, that Catholic and Christian churches, as well as truly devout Muslim mosques of worship ever push it up both on the airwaves, and in local places of worship, both as communities, and as individuals to proclaim true and loving adoring of the FATHER, and to safeguard the morality of living, including the fidelity to the 10 commandments, and the love of neighbors because of their love for God.

Nov 09 20:53:42 2003

Lord Jesus, we can not thank you enough for your blessings to the world that we have Pope John Paul II, a beatified Mother Teresa, a devout EWTN Nun leader - Mother Angelica, Billy Graham, and some God-fearing national & international heads of government, particularly President Bush & Prime Minister Blair. The world is not so bad because of these blessed people of leadership.

Nov 09 20:46:36 2003

God, because of Your Son, and Your Spirit, we thank you for the Catholic grade schools, and high schools, some Catholic Colleges & Universities, your seminaries for the Priests, and the CCD, RCIA, Confirmation classes, holy retreats, and specially for the devout homilies of your prayerful bishops, priests, deacons, and lay preachers.

Nov 03 0:53:40 2003

Through the prayers of all the happy Saints of Heaven, by the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray for a heavenly commendation from our Father to our latest martyrs in Iraq By the blood of all of them sacrificial victims for the mission in Iraq we pray too for an eventual resolution of this mission so our military missionaries may finally come home

Oct 25 11:46:07 2003

As we focus today on our little parish of Saint George, thank God for our regularly filled Sunday masses, and the thriving services of the Cenacle Devotion to Mary, the Fatima block Rosary, the healing prayer meetings, the Legion of Mary, the VIATICUM to many sick elderlies, the visits to the jail, and the seasonal penitents' use of confession. Thanks for our active Priests & all lay ministers Here's praying till our next focus on another parish church

Oct 11 22:08:40 2003

Jesus, we pray that by the Spirit we get to know and realize that your message of salvation places on us the condition that we acknowledge our sins, that we repent of them, and that we make amends to make every effort not to sin anymore Your saving grace enables us with the will, strength, and the hope to be victorious over sins. Your grace not only frees us from sinning; but more so elevates our natural life into a life of grace, ie. a life of virtue, including of love.

Oct 11 7:55:35 2003

Oh Holy Spirit by the FULNESS of the graces of Jesus Christ, our Saviour, we pray particularly for the CLERGY, particulary all the BISHOPS all over the world, including them here in the United States. Preserve the clergy, and the holy zeal and watchfulness of each one of them especially and individually chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ. Mother Mary, and the Saints & Angels please pray and protect the clergy.

Oct 11 7:49:26 2003

Oh Jesus and the Holy Spirit, along with the Heavenly Father, bless the believing people of the world to be inspired to ever PRAY UNCEASINGLY, and ever live the faith UNSWERVINGLY by the power of the Holy Spirit Make us realize we need to pray ever more in order to sustain our faith, and propagate the faith in You Yet YOU have loved Your people and Your mercy and love will empower us to believe and to pray, and be ever faithful to You

Oct 11 7:40:18 2003

Thank you, also Oh Lord, for your Mystical Body the Church, particularly its head, your Vicar on earth, Pope John Paul II. Please bless the Pope's greater lasting influence upon the Church and the world. And please give the Pope his most peaceful exit out of this life into the next. Let his admission into your heavenly mansion serve for the Church and the world a bountiful blessing even more for the Church he has dutifully served for You

Oct 11 7:33:21 2003

Thank you Oh Holy Spirit for your working and blessing upon all christian/catholic faith devotional/liturgical assemblies all over the world, particularly those aired and broadcasted on TV, in the Internet, and all public venues. May we, and more people do pray for the this faithfulness in proclaiming public worship of you on the air for your glory, and the edification and salvation of more and more souls.

Oct 11 7:24:58 2003

Thank you God, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit for the EWTN, The Eternal Word Television Network, and its head and founder, Mother Angelica, and all of its people, doing EWTN work and apostolate, particularly Doug Keck, who supervises the programming of this Catholic Network. Please continue to bless EWTN, and its missionary and ecclesiastical work by the power of your Holy Spirit

Sep 27 23:29:33 2003

As Catholics, as believers, and as adopted children of God, there's no better gift than receiving the Body and Blood of Christ during the holy Eucharistic communion, and be united with God Himself, the source, holder, and owner of all powers in the universe

Sep 14 18:48:40 2003

We adore Thee Oh Christ, and we bless Thee Because by Thy holy Cross You have redeemed the world We pray that we testify as your faithful followers by taking up our cross daily, deny ourselves, and do follow You Do not let us be misled into a christian faith which does away with the cross

Sep 04 13:06:39 2003

Holy Mary, Mother of God, (the closest pure human to the Divine), you are our Mediatrix to your Son, who is our Lord and God; you are our protector and benefactress, and our mother Ora pro nobis

Sep 03 23:53:27 2003

Jesus says ..People who are like these little children belong to the kingdom of God. He adds we cannot get into God's kingdom, unless we accept it the way a child does. Children simply trust their most important dreams and desires to Dad, Mom, Auntie, Uncle, or a favorite teacher. So must we trust our HEAVENLY FATHER Then we shall not mess up at all Talents get us working; but God finishes the job for us God doesn't want us to ignore He is our Father

Sep 03 1:26:06 2003

I pray Lord that I courageously profess the faith that the only thing that matters about living my life is that I may be united with You in Heaven. Save me from my sins and weaknesses Make me hang on perseveringly not to sin; and to be resigned to your will for me. Give me only this peace every each time I go to bed each night; and each time I press on my every waking day In nomine Christi

Sep 03 1:14:46 2003

Lord Jesus, I am poor, unknown, and not very capable But I believe I have access to Your Infinite graces for all my needs, aspirations, and even dreams. But actually, the love of my two children is actually enough blessing for me Besides the gifts I haven't got, they seem to have got; but only by way of your graces So Lord, thanks

Aug 31 9:13:08 2003

Oh Holy Spirit, give us an obedient heart to want to comply with all the laws. Yet teach us to discern primarily your spirit behind every law and regulation, namely that we realize the true purpose of the law, and that in the process we give glory to Your Trinitarian Godhead. This we pray through the merit of our Lord Jesus Christ's salvation of mankind

Aug 30 9:48:26 2003

My simple prayer Lord Jesus, that through your Holy Spirit I always increase in my faith, that I never stop praying for it, and that I do not fail to always act upon the Spirit's prompting to profess my faith And that I profess my faith specially through all acts of love you ask of me.

Aug 25 23:37:12 2003

I offer up to you Father, Holy Spirit, and our Lord Jesus Christ, all my sacrificial crosses during these current weeks. I accept all the suffering you sent my way these days. I entrust my judgments, thoughts, and reactions under your Divine Providence and love. Take care lest I fail and fall; for you know how weak I am. But whatsoever your will for me, let your will be done Pray for me all you Saints, especially you Mother Mary, and Saint Joseph

Aug 23 14:30:36 2003

We adore You, oh Christ and we bless You Because by Your holy cross You have redeemed the world Come oh Holy Spirit To the heavenly Father, also all our thanksgiving

Aug 18 1:11:48 2003

Dear God, thank you for our earthly father He was a model in meekness,humility, patience, and trustworthiness. His faith and hope in You was the source of his human virtues, including both his devotedness to You, and to his family. We pray for his final repose with You, together with our mother, in the name of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ in unity with the Holy Spirit of Love.

Aug 13 13:26:28 2003

Dear Jesus, I just want to thank you for your daily graces, upon me and my loved ones, and upon all who have your good will. I can not over-repeat this fact of repeated miracles You make happen each day, or each moment. Things go well only because of your grace; and certain things go well. That every ordinary event, which You have made to transpire just like You want it to transpire according to our needs, and for your glorification.

Aug 07 11:45:09 2003

Lord Jesus, your Angels are in awe over the vastness of the heaven and the universe; your Saints are in ecstacy in their final heavenly union with the Triune Godhead and all heavenly citizens; and faithful believers bear witness to the Spirit's non-stop working of grace above and over life's toils and emptiness which afford believers the from-out-of-this-world peace . Praises and thanks be to God

Aug 04 20:09:42 2003

The enemy is never too great. Problems are never too insurmountable. And the time is never so bad. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ overpowers all odds Thank you Father, and praise to you Oh Holy Spirit, your Triune Godhead rules the world and the universe Steady my faith that I may not fail to focus on this divine reality of God's incomprehensible majesty over all evil Materially and spiritually our fate is in Your hands

Aug 01 4:22:05 2003

Salamat sa Iyo, Espiritu Santo; at aking panalangin sa Iyo, na kaisa ni Kristo at Diyos Ama, dahilan at alang-alang sa magkasamang pagtatanggol ng Santo Papa at ng Pangulong Bush sa kabanalan ng moralidad ng likas na pagmamahalan at pag-iisa sa matrimonyo ng isang lalaki at babae tungo sa mabungang pagsisilang ng isa or marami pang buhay Bigyan mo ng liwanag at lakas ng Espiritu ang mga homosexual na igalang itong Iyong katotohan.

Aug 01 4:13:17 2003

Salamat, Panginoong Hesus Ipinagkaloob mong magkakasundo kaming lahat na ina-nak nina Casiano at Tecla sa pangangalaga ni Birheng Maria, Ina ng lahat na napapasakop sa Iyo, kaniyang Anak. Alagaat arugain mo kaming maging tapat sa aming pananampalataya kasamat kaisa ng lahat ng mga pamilyang kristiyano sa ilalim ng Iyong Iglesya

Aug 01 4:05:59 2003

Salamat po, Banal na Espiritu Santo Binigyan mo ng biyaya ang aking anak na si Teresa na mapanibago ang pormat nitong Iyong Balik Sa Panginoon na website. Wala pa siyang dose anyos subalit kinakasangkapan Mo na sa pagkakalat ng ebanghelyo ni Kristo. Aking panalanging sundan niya ang yapak ni Hesus: kapa-alamin ang tungkol sa Diyos Ama sa gulang na labindalawa

Jul 27 12:27:08 2003

Salamat Panginoon Pinamayani Mo ang marapat na kalooban ng bayan at ang pinagpala Mong maykapangyarihan sa aming sinilangang bansang Pilipinas Ipagkaloob po Ninyo ang higit na kaisipang makapamayanan sa bawat isang Pilipino. Arugain Mo't liwanagan silang mga nasa katungkulan, at silang pinagkakatiwalaang mga miyembro ng militar. Papangyarihin po Ninyo ang pag-ibig sa bansa at pagkatakot sa paglabag sa Iyong sagradong batas na itangkilik ang Iyong niloob na pamahalaan ng bansa

Jul 26 9:47:43 2003

Lord Jesus, wearing rose-colored glasses can not hide to us all the troubles of life But the wonders of your grace lift us through both the maze, the strides, and the fears. Because of your Holy Spirit We receive the gift of hope: there's the sunrise, and the calm between storms. And that you never let us walk alone Praise to the Triune Godhead, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit The Saints attest to this experience of Your reaching & holding hand.

Jul 26 2:09:00 2003

Heavenly Father, you look with great mercy upon the children of broken families, children who miss either a father or a mother for reasons that was not their fault, and who suffer the consequences of family brokenness that they did not deserve Take each one of them under the special bosom of your Church. Through Jesus & the Spirit Let your Angels and Saints work to protect them

Jul 25 8:51:47 2003

Thank you Father By your Divine Wisdom you tell us how small we are, and how little what we have and do Made humble and meek You open our hearts and mind to a glimpse of your Infinite Being, Powers, and Grandeur. A share of these attributes you have in store for your adopted children, the men of good will Through Christ, by the Spirit, and as already participated in by your Angels and Saints already in glory with You in Heaven

Jul 21 22:18:49 2003

Come Holy Spirit Come Lord Jesus Come all you Angels and Saints Come all ye believers in Jesus Christ Come all you adopted children of the Father As we gather together with the Triune Godhead, let us praise God, thank God, and ask God for our refuge only in Him Let all assemblies under the Name of Jesus proclaim God's reign, and profess ONE fellowship under Christ Let all the Churches praise our Loving God

Jul 20 13:06:00 2003

Lord, do not allow the ultra-liberals to weave their lies under the guise of democratic concern Protect your media evangelists from their being neutralized by media sensationalism Yes we pray that sinners be forgiven and enlightened; but we pray more that SIN never be put on some pedestal, eg. SINS OF SODOMY, & promoting of homosexual practices.

Jul 19 11:57:26 2003

Come, oh Holy Spirit, and protect this site Commission your Angels to safeguard the mission of the site Let your power of Spirit in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ deter demonic blockers of this evangelizing site of Yours

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Jul 13 11:38:11 2003

Praised be God Today is the Feast of the Coming Down of the Holy Spirit. Each time of the year this festivity is a most opportune time to begin again to let the Spirit in on our lives. Jesus said no one can claim to know Him except if he/she be under the power of the Holy Spirit. Let us therefore pray that we may have the grace of faith of oneness with the Spirit Then let the Spirit make us once and for all know and love Jesus

Jul 12 18:39:33 2003

Thank you God, Father in Heaven for sending us your visible image in Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you too that by the power of Your Holy Spirit, Christ's Church manifests the shining presence of your Kingdom: the Kingdom of Understanding, Forgiveness, and Love. We pray that beginning from each one of us, then from each family of ours on and on your Kingdom by Your grace shall continue to shine and flourish till our final union with you in judgment times

Jul 03 15:06:12 2003

Thank God for Norman Vincent Pearl's wise words: What a mind could conceive, a mind could achieve But thanks to Jesus even more for His words: Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.... for with God nothing is impossible Norman teaches us to expand our thinking, Christ teaches us to believe

Jun 22 17:41:06 2003

Thank God for John Quincy Adams II. He set afire the liberty cause of the American civil war. Thank God for Abraham Lincoln. He spearheaded through the end the liberty cause of the American civil war; and ended the un-democratic practice of slavery in the American South. Thank God for the historical AMISTAD, it became the fire that kindled the righteousness to champion American freedom and democracy via the civil war

Jun 19 11:49:01 2003

Heavenly Father, thank you for each day that turned out good It did only because your graces provided for it. We pray that more of our days, for more individuals, believers and honest-doers, we may be blessed with more of Christ's graces by the non-stop working of your Holy Spirit so that indeed most everything works well with us, whether with material goods or spiritual blessings

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Apr 24 1:12:30 2003

Lord, please bless the offshoot of democracy in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq. Please give the Iraqis a good headstart at learning and the practice of democratic government and civic lifestyle. And let it brim over to the region, along with Kuwait, and Qatar. Let your universal gift of human freedom for once be exercised in the Middle East.

Apr 20 16:55:41 2003

Salamat, Panginoon sa pagkabuhay ng Iyong Anak na si Hesus Salamat nagkaroon kami ng bagong buhay sa grasya Aming pag-asa na aming tatamuhin ang isang bagong katawang magsasakatawan ng nga nitong bagong buhay ng grasya ni Kristo. Bagong buhay ngayon; bagong katawan bukas sa katapusan ng panahon

Apr 13 14:01:23 2003

Salamat, Panginoon, ligtas at buhay ang mga POWs. They could easily have been killed out of spite and revenge; but You have protected them. Bless, Lord, all of the troops for their sacrifices for freedom.

Apr 13 4:15:56 2003

Salamat po, Panginoon, sa tagumpay ng lakas ng Kalayaan at Katarungan sa digmaan sa Iraq Ngayo'y bigyan mo ng panibagong lakas, pag-asa, at liwanag ng isip ang Pangulong Bush at Prime Minister Blair tungo sa pagbabangon ng isang malayang pamahalaan ng mga mamamayan ng Iraq. Gisingin mo, gabayan, at palakasin ang marapat na pamunuan mula sa mga mamamayang Iraqis sa pagsasa-ayos ng bansang Iraq

Mar 29 13:51:01 2003

All you Saints, pray for President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, and for America and England. Saint Michael the Archangel and all you Angels of God, protect all the innocent Iraquis and the coalition troops God bless America and all freedom-loving citizens of the world. For all of these intentions we pray to the Father in the name of Jesus, and through the power of the Holy Spirit

Mar 18 1:49:14 2003

In this moment of great crisis in the world, come oh Holy Spirit, and fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in us the fire of Your love. Send forth, your Spirit, and we shall be changed; and You shall renew the face of the earth. Incline to our aid, oh God, and make haste to help us. Spirit of God, let our President stay on moral grounds, and be absorbed in prayerfulness to You. Lead him and deliver all your people of peace

Mar 10 14:19:19 2003

Amin ding panalangin, Panginoon, sa pagdaraos ng Semana Santa ang maganap namin ang Iyong kaloobang tapat naming pagsisi sa aming mga kasalanan, ang natatanging taos puso't matindi naming pagdarasal, at ang bukod-tanging pag-alaalang makapag-abuloy sa mga nanganga-ilangan at pagsasakripisyong abstinensya at ayunong, pakundangan na nga sa aming mga pagkakasala, sa mga araw na itinalaga ng Iyong Iglesia.

Mar 10 14:10:47 2003

Panginoon, ngayong mga araw tungo sa Semana Santa, at sa panahon ng Semana Santa aking panalangin ang tanggapin nami't gamitin ang mga biyayang inihahatid ng ating Iglesia sa pamamagitan ni Kristo upang lalo pang mangyari ang pagbabalik ng aming puso't kaluluwa sa Kaharian ni Kristo at sa Walang Hanggang buhay sa kaluwalhatian kay Kristo, kasama ng Diyos Ama at Espiritu Santo; at kasama na rin ng lahat ng mga Angel at mga Santo.

Mar 09 11:07:55 2003

Panginoon, salamat sa biyaya ng pananampalatayang ipinagkaloob mo sa lahat ng miyembro ng Knights of the Altar, at Altar Boys ng Paete. Aking panalangin, sa ngalan ni Hesus, ang gamitin mo ang kanilang pananampalataya sa lalong paglago at ika-aantas ng kanilang pagkilala sa Iyo at pagpapa-alam sa aming kapwa tungkol sa Iyo. Manatili po sanang fundasyon ito tungo sa kanilang/aming kaligtasan sa Kalangitan.

Mar 08 1:24:28 2003

Panginoon, sa liwanag ng Espiritu Santo ipaalam at lagi nang ituro mo sa amin na hindi namin dapat gawing kaligayahan ang sobrang katuwaan sa alin mang bagay sa mundo. Hindi marapat ang labis na pag-aalaala sa trabaho, pagbabahay, kotse, at mga pinagkakalibangang mga rekreyo. Obligasyon namin ang isakatuparan ang aming mga responsibilidad sa abot ng aming makakaya subalit gawin mong ilagay namin sa Iyo ang aming paniwala sa kaganapan ng mga ito.

Mar 04 14:43:01 2003

As we commemorate this year's Ash Wednesday, please give us the grace of a discernment of all the areas where we have shown weakness and tendencies towards sins. And through the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Spirit please grant to us Heavenly Father a more resolute purpose of amendment to repent of our sins and to turn away from them. Show us how much more joyful and peaceful it is to live in your grace.

Feb 28 14:00:48 2003

Heavenly Father, thank you for Jesus's re-making for us a new humanity, a humanity made divine I pray that by the Holy Spirit we embrace and manifest within us, and around us this love-capable and grace empowered new human nature. I pray also that we resolve to let die our old selfishness inclined human selves

Feb 26 21:31:18 2003

Oh Heavenly Father, through the working of the Holy Spirit, let Jesus's message of the triumph of liberty and freedom be spearheaded by the freedom loving United States under the courageous leadership of President George W. Bush. Like a strong Father who with a strong hand keeps a misbehaving son on line and on the right path, let God use the fatherly authority of the United States to place those stubbornly out of order under compliances with authorities of free governments

Feb 25 3:42:01 2003

Oh Holy Spirit, you have taught me: not to be bothered by impurities is to resolve to act always toward what is spiritual; not to be bothered by material worries is to remember you yourself told us not to worry; and not to get entangled with intrigue is to avoid at all times mixing up with worldly people's fun & jokes. And to remember always Jesus said, Apart from me you can do nothing

Feb 19 1:41:27 2003

Thank you Jesus for your presence among the handicapped kids I transport every day. They don't run out of stories to each other. They never seem to get tired of each other. And they never seem to worry about their incapacities. They are lacking in normal physical and mental equipments but they are filled with your spirit of simple joy. You are very much with them much more than with a great many who are strange to the simplest of happiness

Name: Joel Valdellon (carmelita del rosario _mita_delr@hotmail.com)

Feb 15 13:44:49 2003

Pope John Paul II, is suffering from a painful arthritic knee. He is adamant not to let go as long as he can. Hence, when you get this e-mail, please say one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be for our Pope that God will grant him the strength to carry on his mission. Please forward this email to all your friends to pray for our Holy Father. Would appreciate if you could forward this email to all our Catholic friends so that the Holy Father receives maximum prayer support.

Feb 08 23:18:57 2003

Ipagadya mo Panginoon at kalingain silang pitong American Astronauts sa kanilang nakakalagim na pagyao dito sa mundo. Pagpalain mo ang kanilang misyong pangka-alaman upang magbigay bunga ang kanilang masaklap na pagpanaw sa buhay sa mundo. Dulutan mo ng kapayapaa't pag-asa ang kanilang mga nagdadalamhating mga mahal sa buhay. Requiescant in pace, Domine Jesuchriste

Feb 03 3:14:30 2003

Panginoong Hesus, lagi nang kaawaan mo kami sa aming pagkakasala at mga pagkukulang sa Iyo at sa aming kapwa. Aking panalanging parati kaming maka-isa ng Espiritu Santo upang lagi naming tahakin ang landas ng kabutihan at pag-ibig. Huwag po ninyong ipahintulot ang datnan kami ng Iyong paghuhukom na hindi handa ang aming puso't kaluluwa. Santa Maria, San Jose, mga Santo at Santa, at lahat kayong mga Angel, tulungan ninyo kami sa oras ng aming kamatayan

Feb 01 2:40:21 2003

Salamat, Panginoon, sa ibinibigay mong aming kakanin sa araw-araw. Ang buhos ng iyong biyaya ay walang kapatiran;bagkus ay naghihintay lamang ng aming walang sawang pagtawag at pagdulog sa Iyong bukas na pagpapala. Danga't laging kulang ang aming pagtitiwala't paniniwala. Subalit sa tuwing maala-ala naming tapat na lumingon sa Iyo tiyak na darating ang biyayang kailangan namin. Hindi kung kailan namin gusto kundi sang-ayon sa kalendaryo ng iyong pag-aaruga

Jan 24 13:57:49 2003

Panginoon ipagkaloob Mo po ang Iyong karagdagang biyaya ngayong araw na ito sa lalong ikalalaki ng aking pananampalataya. Samantala'y aking pasasalamat ang biyaya ng pagkilala sa Iyo Salamat sa Iyong Espiritu Santo ipinakilala mo sa amin na si Hesus ang larawan ng Iyong pag-ibig, pang-unawa, pagpapatawad, pagtuturo't paggabay sa bawat sandali ng aming buhay. Siya ang kahulugan ng aming buhay. Tanging siya ang dahilan ng iba pang bagay sa buhay

Jan 19 11:47:33 2003

Panginoon, gabayan mo ang Pangulong George Bush sa kaniyang katungkulan tungo sa kapayapaan.Kung kalooban mo ang kapayapaan bigyan mo siya ng liwanag ng isip upang matanto ito; kung kalooban mo ang pag-aalis ng tiyak na peligro at banta sa katahimikan ng mundo bigyan mo siya ng lakas ng loob at tibay ng dibdib upang maisakatuparan niya ito. Banal na Espiritu Santo, pangalagaan mo ang Pangulo at ang lahat ng mga nakatayang buhay sa gusot na ito ng mundo.

Jan 11 11:24:14 2003

Aking panalangin't kahilingan Panginoon, sa ngalan ni Hesus, iyong Anak at sa kapangyarihan ng Espiritu Santo at sa tulong na rin ng lahat ng Kalangitan, mga Angel at mga banal na kaluluwa na ibigay mo sa amin itong biyayang ito: ang lagi nang makilala namin kung alin ang iyong Kaharian at ang dito'y manatili kami. Gayundin linawan mo tuwina ang aming puso't kaisipan na kilalanin at tanggihan tuwina din ang makamundong kaharian

Jan 07 14:49:18 2003

Salamat Panginoon sa pumanaw naming kapatid. Pinahintulutan mong lisanin niya sa tatlong taong gulang lamang ang kaniyang murang buhay at ang aming pamilya. Lalong kasakit-sakit ang pagpanaw niya dahilan sa aksidente sa sasakyan. Subalit ang kaniyang ma-agang pagkaputol ng buhay at ang hapding idinulot nito lalo na sa aming mga magulang ang naghatid sa kaniya sa kabanalan ng Langit. Salamat na rin, dahil dito'y nagkaroon kami ng isang tagapanalanging kaisa ni Kristo sa Panginoon.

Jan 06 18:30:34 2003

Salamat, Panginoon, today I encounter another of your believers. We just spontaneously exchanged mutual testimony about your life saving and strengthening grace; and saw in each other that firm perception and trusting in you alone.

Jan 01 15:14:39 2003

Aking panalangin, Panginoon, ang Iyong biyaya ng lakas ng loob at liwanag ng kaisipan na galing sa Espiritu Santo. Walang tigil ang kampon ng malisya at kadiliman sa kanilang tangkang ligawin kami sa pananampalataya sa Iyo. Iyong salita na nagapi mo na ang masama at tanang kumunduhan. Ipanatili mo ito sa aming isip at puso. Kamahal-mahalang Puso ni Hesus, maawa ka sa amin Kalinis-linisang puso ni Maria, ipanalangin mo kami

Dec 24 21:25:15 2002

Thank you God for the gift of your Son to us. And thank you for the Pope, and all the Priests, and every each one that works faithfully to continue the salvation mission of your Son. And thank you for the Holy Spirit's presence in all of these workers of Christ's Mission of Salvation.

Dec 21 10:00:30 2002

Praise God the Son of God is born to mankind Now meaningfulness is restored to humanity. Love is now possible again. Peace and internal concord has become a reality again between and among people with good will

Dec 14 8:45:47 2002

Lord, I pray the prayer of your beloved prophet Saint John the Baptist. Lord, that I may decrease; and that You may increase My true joy, happiness, and peace depends upon my more and more receiving and living your life of grace, my becoming more and more like You according as You want it. Then I shall be less of a sinner and more a believer and follower of You Through You, Christ our Lord

Nov 24 15:41:38 2002

Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat! Christ conquers! Christ reigns! Christ rules! Thank you Jesus for your Most Royal Kingship over the world and the universe. In the midst of our poverty, hardship, suffering and death, thank you for embracing us to your Kingdom.

Nov 18 13:14:53 2002

Salamat Panginoon sa nakaraang gabi, mga oras ng pagtulog na pamamahinga, magkaminsa'y mga mahabang sandali ng pagkatakot o kalungkutan, subalit mga sandali rin ng pakikipag-usap sa nangangalagang Panginoon Salamat Panginoon sa bagong umaga at araw, sa muling pagsasalikup ng kaliwanagan sa kadiliman, sa malamyos na dampi ng umagang init sa ating katawan, sa muling paggalaw ng buhay sa kapaligiran.

Nov 11 23:22:21 2002

Thank God for our families: the individual's first and last recourse during his/her real moment of need. Pope John Paul II writes: "In our times, it is essential to deepen everyone's personal commitment to helping enrich this primary and vital cell of society. It should not be forgotten, in the general planning of ecclesial activities, that the family is the first and principal path of the Church. God bless our families Jesus, Mary and Joseph Protect our families

Name: Michelle (nicemake@hotmail.com)

Nov 07 12:54:43 2002

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Nov 07 6:22:49 2002

Lord, I acknowledge all of my sinfulness Have mercy on me Save me from the wages of my sinfulness Mother Mary, protect me and take care of me

Nov 02 10:15:51 2002

Maawa ka Panginoon sa lahat ng mga yumao sa mundo. Sa pamamagitan ng biyaya ng Inkarnasyon: pagkakatawang tao ni Hesus, at ng Kaniyang Kalbaryo sa Krus at Banal na Eukaristiya, aming panalangin na ang lahat ng mga namatay ay magtamo ng kapayapaan ng kanilang kaluluwa sa kabilang buhay. Ipinanalangin namin unang una ang aming mga kamag-anak, lahat ng walang nakaka-alaala, at lalo't higit silang mga nasa panganib ng malaking pagkakasala.

Nov 02 10:06:43 2002

Salamat Panginoon sa isa pang araw ng Kapiyestahan ng taong ito ng Araw ng Iyong mga Santo All Saints' Day glorifies you oh Lord And all the Saints are at work yesterday interceeding for us in union with Jesus Christ to the Father. Oh how great the explosions of your graces, oh Holy Spirit Yesterday, too is your busiest day of holy outpouring of blessings through your Saints and Angels, as well How happy the Church was yesterday

Oct 31 7:46:48 2002

Purihin ang Kapangyarihan ng Diyos Sa pamamagitan ni Kristo at sa hatid biyaya ng Espiritu Santo, iligtas mo ang mga nagkasala sa Iyo sa lahat ng karahasan sa at pag-iiskandalo ng mga murang isip na kabataan. Ang laking upasala ito sa Iyo, O Diyos. At anong laking kaparusahan ang sa kanila'y Iyong ipapataw. Bigyan mo sila ng pagkakataong mapagsisihan't mapagdusahan sa pamamagitan ng biyaya ng sakripisyo ng Iyong Anak na si Hesus iyang napakalaking pagkakasala nila.

Oct 31 7:35:59 2002

Salamat o Diyos Ama, punong puno ka ng awa at kapatawaran. Kay Kristo'y pinatatawad mo ang tanang pagkakasala naming aming pinagsisihang lubos. Hatid ng Espiritu Santo ang kapayapaan ng Iyong pagpapatawad. Subalit purihin Ka rin dahilan sa iyong katarungan upang matanggap mo kami sa Iyong Kalangitan kinakailangan mong aming pagdusaha't linisin sa pamamagitan ni Kristo, at kaisa ng Kaniyang Banal na pasyon at kamatayan, ang narumhan naming kaluluwa.

Oct 29 14:27:40 2002

Purihin ang Panginoong Hesukristo Anong laki man ng ating pagkakasala; at anong laki ng ating pagkakamali ang Kaniyang Biyaya ng kapatawaran at Pagtutuwid ay di-hamak na mas malaki Magsisi lamang tayo ng taos puso, at tumanggap tayo ng hihingin Niyang munting kabalikan, mapapasa-atin ang Kaniyang kapayapaan. Dumalangin tayo sa Kaniya.

Oct 28 13:30:12 2002

Purihin ang Diyos sa Kaniyang Dakilang awa at kapatawaran Anong daming mga pagkakasala ng mundo, at anong lubha ng mga kasalanan ng mga tao itong libong taon ng kanilang pag-iral Samantala'y nanatiling bukas ang pag-asa ng Langit at Kaligtasan sa pamamagitan ni Kristo. Salamat po o Diyos

Oct 28 13:24:14 2002

Purihin ang Diyos Mahal ng Diyos ang tao sa kabila ng kasalanan ng tao. Kaniyang layon ang ipa-alam at ibigay sa tao ang Kaniyang Pag-ibig. At ang sinumang kumilala at tumanggap ng Kaniyang maluwalhating pagmamahal ay nararapat gayahin ang pag-ibig ng Diyos at ibigay din ito sa kapwa tao. Ito ang Kaniyang ninanais para sa lahat ng may mapayapang kalooban.

Oct 27 7:54:48 2002

Praise to you Lord of Truth Great is your abhorrence against man's adulterating of your truth. Save me from the temptation of surrendering orthodoxy to the truth in the name of being humanly liberal. Thank you for your graces of prayers, and of the sacraments. But thank you, and indeed praises to you Lord; the clarity of your statutes and every single law are a continuing assurance of your mercy and love.

Oct 27 7:53:13 2002

Thank you also for the grace of watchfulness about being charitable and merciful to my neighbors. Without fidelity to your demands for piety, fear of YOU, and devoted acknowledgement of your presence in our neigbors, especially the needy ones I shall very easily succumb to the pressure of the liberal world, the world that does not know LOVE. Save us Lord

Oct 27 7:47:50 2002

Praises too, to the Holy Spirit, the Very Safeguard of the Truth. And praises to the the Eucharist, the very Word of God made flesh to show us how to be truly, and genuinely human. Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit Amen.

Oct 20 10:36:28 2002

Salamat po Diyos Ama sa bawat isa naming kalbaryo at tiyak na kamatayan. Kaisa ng Kalbaryo at pagkamatay ng Iyong Anak na si Hesus, tanging iyan ang daan sa aming Bagong Buhay na walang hanggan. Manatili po sana kami sa pagtanggap nito bilang pagpapahayag ng aming tunay na pananampalataya at pagsunod sa Iyong mahiwagang kalooban para sa amin. Mapasa-amin po tuwina ang lakas-biyaya ng Espiritu Santo sa pagyakap nitong Daang Ito sa aming tunay na buhay na walang hanggan.

Oct 18 12:56:02 2002

Salamat po Panginoon sa lahat ng mga ipinadala mong mga Pari sa amin Dahilan sa kanila ay patuloy na nagaganap ang Iyong Kalbaryong Pagsasakripisyo sa Diyos Ama at Pagpapakain sa amin ng iyong Sarili, Ang Tinapay na galing sa Langit. Salamat po sa iyong mga Pari na naghahatid sa amin ng Iyong kapatawaran sa tuwinang pangungumpisal ng aming kasalanan.

Oct 17 15:41:15 2002

Salamat Panginoon at kami ay mayroong mga pulis at sundalo. Dahil sa kanila ay napipigilan Mo ang puersa ng kasamaan, mayroon kaming katahimikan sa kapaligiran, at mayroon kaming matatakbuhan laban sa kamay ng mga mapagsamantala at mararahas. Salamat sa iyong mga sundalo kinakatulong mo silang ipagtanggol ang laya ng mga bansa at bawat isang tao.

Oct 17 15:34:57 2002

Salamat Panginoon sa lahat ng mga guro na kinakasangkapan mo sa pagbibigay kaalaman sa mga kabataan at sa pagga-gawi sa kanilang mamulat sa wasto at tamang kaisipan, kalooban, at kaugalian. Panalangin namin ang manatili ang Liwanag ng Espiritu Santo dito sa iyong mga tinawag na mga tagapagturo. Magpatuloy sana silang Iyong mga 'alagad' at hindi ng mundo.

Oct 16 1:19:17 2002

Salamat, Panginoon, hindi mo hinahanap sa amin ang kamiy maging mga genio , o mga masasalapi, o mga adonis/Madonna, o mga nasa mataas na katungkulan o kapangyarihan. Tanging ang aming tapat na puso, at agad at masipag na pagsunod ang sa iyo ay siyang unang nakapagbibigay Kapurihan at Kaluguran

Oct 13 22:04:25 2002

Purihin ang Diyos dahilan sa mga tulong na ipinagkakaloob Niya sa mga kaluluwa dito sa lupa na inihahatid ng Reyna ng mga Angel at mga Santo na si Santa Mariyang Birhen, at Ina ng Diyos O Santa Maria, Ina ng Diyos at Ina namin, nakatutuwa na ginagamit ka ng Iyong Anak na si Hesus upang matulungan kami sa pag-iwas sa kasalanan at sa wasto at pinagpalang pamumuhay namin araw-araw dito sa lupa.

Oct 13 17:06:04 2002

Purihin ang Diyos dahilan sa Kaniyang mga Anghel, mga Santo, at sa Kaniyang Simbahan Salamat O Diyos sa pangangalaga sa amin ng mga Anghel laban sa mga tukso at kasamaan sa mundo Salamat O Diyos sa pananalangin sa amin ng Iyong mga Santo sa Langit Hindi kami nag-iisa sa pakikibaka laban sa mga kasamaan Salamat sa Iyong Simbahan na nagtuturo, naggagabay, at naghahatid sa amin ng Iyong mga biyaya.

Oct 05 9:50:20 2002

O Panginoon, kami'y makasalanan. Ilang makasampung beses na kami'y nagkasala Subalit salamat sa Iyong Awa at Kalinga dito sa lupa at binigyan mo kami ng kapatawaran at kapayapaan sa pagpapatawad ng Iyong Anak na si Hesus sa pamamagitan ng Iyong sakramento ng Kumpisal. O anong sigla ng aming kaluluwa pagkaraang mangumpisal O kay sarap ng biyayang ipinagkakaloob mo sa aming kapatawaran Purihin Kayo O Diyos

Oct 05 9:39:46 2002

Salamat Panginoon sa Iyong Anak na si Hesus na lagi naming tinatanggap sa Eukaristiya Buong katawan, dugo, pagkatao at pagkaDiyos ng Panginoong Hesukristo na narito sa lupa upang maging ka-Isa namin habang kami'y naglalakbay dito sa lupa patungo sa Kaligtasan ng Kalangitan. Aming pag-asa ang makarating sa Walang Katulad na Kaligayahan ng Langit Samantala'y aming kapayapaan na dito pa lamang ay maka-Isa na namin ang Ka-ibig-ibig naming Panginoong Hesus

Oct 05 9:29:10 2002

Salamat Panginoon ipinadala mo sa amin ang Diyos Espiritu Santo. Siya ang ang nagbibigay liwanag sa aming isip, nagbibigay lakas sa aming katawang lupa na tanggihan ang mga makasalanang ligaya, at nagbibigay laya sa aming kalooban na piliin lagi na ang Inyong Kaharian dito sa lupa at talikurang tuwina ang mga lisyang pangako ng mundo. O Espiritu Santo, huwag mo kaming pababayaang magtiwala sa aming abang kaisipan. Bagkus ay pagyamanin mo ang aming isip sa lahat ng oras at panahon

Oct 05 9:15:02 2002

Purihin ang Diyos sa Kaniyang Kaharian ng Langit Purihin ang Diyos sa Kaniyang Kadakilaan sa Langit at sa Lupa, at sa Purgatoryo Anong ligaya ng mga Santo at ng mga Anghel Kasama nila ang Panginoong Diyos sa Kaniyang Kaharian ng Langit Anong pag-asa ng mga banal sa lupa Ina-asam-asam nila ang pangakong hantungang Kalangitan Mga kaluluwa sa Purgatoryo, sandali pa at magiging inyo rin ang Kalangitan Para sa kanila at sa atin, tayo'y manalangin

Sep 26 1:57:32 2002

Papuri sa Panginoon ng Katotohanan Salamat sa kalawakan ng Iyong Katotohanan. Kalangitan sa lupa ang tuwina'y maka-aninaw ng pabaha-bahagya mong pagbubukas ng Iyong Katotohanan. At sa unti-unti naming pag-alam sa Panginoong Hesus ay unti-unti din namin Kayong nakikilala, Diyos Ama.

Sep 25 0:11:45 2002Salamat, Panginoon, sa Iyong pagkakatawang tao. Salamat sa Iyong pagpanaog mula sa Kalangitan dito sa sangkatauhan upang mabigyan kami ng panibagong makataong buhay. Ibinigay mo sa amin ang tunay na buhay. Lalo't higit salamat dahil ito'y buhay na walang hanggan For a while we were bound to dust; now, if we believe, we are bound for eternal life

Sep 21 23:03:03 2002

23rd Psalm, Part Two You prepare the table before me in the sight of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Only goodness and kindness shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Sep 21 22:59:27 2002

23rd Psalm: Part One The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In green pastures he gives me repose, beside restful waters he leads me, he refreshes my soul. He guides me in the right paths for his name's sake. Even though I walk in the valley of darkness I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage.

Sep 15 10:18:49 2002

Praised the Lord for He is slow to anger, but quick in compassion Thank you for giving us Saint Francis, and his prayer of peace. Prayer of Saint Francis, Part 1. And so we pray: Lord make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.

Sep 15 10:11:39 2002

Prayer of Saint Francis, Part 2 O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning thata we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Sep 12 20:45:58 2002

Mary's song of Praise, Part Two. He has showed might in his arm, has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. He has put down the powerful from their seat but exalted the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things while the rich He has sent away empty. He has received Israel His servant who remembers His mercy. As He spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to hs seed for ever.

Sep 12 20:44:35 2002

Mary's Song of Praise, Part One. My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour. Because He has regarded the littleness of His servant as behold from now all people shall call me blessed in so far as He, who is mighty, has done great things to me; and so, holy is His name. And His mercy is from generation to generations to all people who fear Him.

Sep 11 20:02:25 2002

Praised God for the sacrifices of the NINE-ELEVEN martyrs and victims In union with the sacrificial death of Christ the lost loved ones ignominious tragedy of 9-11 are a re-oblation, together with Christ, of His calvary's ignominious dying for the sake of others.

Sep 11 1:56:38 2002

Salamat Panginoong Hesus, ginawa mo akong mahirap at maliit. Dahilan sa aking kahirapan at kaliitan lagi kong kinakailangang lumapit sa Iyo. But you Lord are my Shepherd And so there is nothing I shall want. Kung ako'y nabuhay na laging sapat at pinangingimihan ng lahat hindi ko marahil matututunang lumapit sa iyo sa tuwina

Sep 10 12:46:50 2002

Praise the Lord for He is good, his mercy endures forever Praise the Lord For no matter how greatly I have offended him through repentance and a resolute purpose of amendment to do my best not offend him again, by the grace of the Lord Jesus, God's mercy and forgiveness, and consolation are upon me

Sep 10 1:43:38 2002

Panginoon, salamat ipinadala mo sa mga Kastila ang pananampalatayang Kristiyano sa Pilipinas Panginoon, salamat pinaturuan mo sa mga Amerikano ang Pilipinas na matuto ng English, at sibilisasyong Amerikano. Panginoon, salamat binigyan mo ang Pilipinas ng kaniyang sariling kapamamayanan.