Whoever has ears ought to hear. Matthew 11:15
Different generations have had different people that they have listened to, followed, imitated, and been entertained by. Each of us have both the responsibility and the ability to share the Good News with others, to use our lives to evangelize. This does not mean fire and brimstone oration on street corners or in parks on Saturday afternoons. Each choice we make, each word we speak is important when it is done for the Lord. Each of our little decisions when done with charity, humility, and obedience to God’s rules can lead others to follow us, to deepen their relationship with God.
Our goal is to nurture and grow the grace of Lord in our daily lives. We must always remember to proceed with faith and love in Jesus Christ.
Our goal is to trust in Jesus Christ and to allow ourselves and our faith to be strengthened by the grace that flows from Jesus Christ.
As we search for salvation we must also want our neighbors to find and experience salvation. Our prayers are always inclusive, our hearts are always open, our souls are always filled with hope, love, compassion.
When you attend Mass listen attentively, actively with all your senses, participate actively with all your senses. Allow yourself to be vulnerable, allow yourself to listen and feel the words of the Good News. Allow yourself to be God’s “Beloved.” Understand and accept the responsibility of being God’s servant.
The Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist feed and nurture our minds, our souls.
As Christians we are encouraged to find our individual way to examine the beauty of living life following in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is so many things happening within our lives, so many opportunities to evangelize, so many questions to discern.
We each can and must create our own snapshot of our life with Christ.
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Comfort, give comfort - December 7, 2010
A voice says, "Cry out!" I answer, "What shall I cry out?" "All mankind is grass, and all their glory like the flower of the field. Isaiah 40:6
Fact and opinion are often in conflict now. Intelligent men often use rhetorical tricks to help opinion masquerade as fact. There is so much anxiety, so much angst. Everyone is always looking for the quick answer, the easy answer.
Please accept these generalizations. The generalizations are true. Our society is always in a hurry to get somewhere, to approve a new wonder drug, to make a quick dollar.
It is often difficult to know what is right and wrong in our society because so many conflicting messages are sent. Christians have one set rules which theoretically form the structure of our society. But, society has watered down the application of these rules.
Being good is not always the most desirable thing anymore. Everyone is allowed to exist within an area of grey, neither good, neither bad flexible, ready to go either way based upon changing conditions.
Living in the greyness often allows and encourages modern life to speeds by an individual at such a fast, dangerous pace, that common sense urges him to slow down, to evaluate his decisions, to discern whether he is doing the right thing. The brave ones will ask themselves whether they are serving God. Discernment is a beautiful frightening thing. Looking at our lives, asking ourselves if our lives are based upon charity, humility, and obedience to God can be a frightening thing. Discernment can help us escape the greyness, the confusion of modern life.
Each individual should slow down, reflect upon all parts of his life, both good and bad, rough and gentle, and then listen for a soft voice to give direction, a soft voice to give hope.
Each Christian should allow and encourage his heart, mind, and soul to always listen for the voice of God.
In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.” Matthew 18:14
Fact and opinion are often in conflict now. Intelligent men often use rhetorical tricks to help opinion masquerade as fact. There is so much anxiety, so much angst. Everyone is always looking for the quick answer, the easy answer.
Please accept these generalizations. The generalizations are true. Our society is always in a hurry to get somewhere, to approve a new wonder drug, to make a quick dollar.
It is often difficult to know what is right and wrong in our society because so many conflicting messages are sent. Christians have one set rules which theoretically form the structure of our society. But, society has watered down the application of these rules.
Being good is not always the most desirable thing anymore. Everyone is allowed to exist within an area of grey, neither good, neither bad flexible, ready to go either way based upon changing conditions.
Living in the greyness often allows and encourages modern life to speeds by an individual at such a fast, dangerous pace, that common sense urges him to slow down, to evaluate his decisions, to discern whether he is doing the right thing. The brave ones will ask themselves whether they are serving God. Discernment is a beautiful frightening thing. Looking at our lives, asking ourselves if our lives are based upon charity, humility, and obedience to God can be a frightening thing. Discernment can help us escape the greyness, the confusion of modern life.
Each individual should slow down, reflect upon all parts of his life, both good and bad, rough and gentle, and then listen for a soft voice to give direction, a soft voice to give hope.
Each Christian should allow and encourage his heart, mind, and soul to always listen for the voice of God.
In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.” Matthew 18:14
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