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Jesus is Passionate

02APR23 (23aPalm). The Passion of Jesus Christ not only refers to his suffering, but also his passionate love for us. He is so in love with us that he is willing to suffer and die for us. Wow! We should also be passionate for him. Two great ways that He shows us to be perfect in love is humility and obedience. Let us grow in our passionate love through this humility and obedience.

God Wants to be Imminently Close

19MAR23 (23aL4). God uses physical things to effect things. With David he used Samuel’s anointing that made the Spirit rush upon him. In the Gospel Jesus uses spit and clay with the man’s action of washing to bring about healing. He continues to want to affect us with physical things in the Sacraments and most especially the Eucharist.

God Proves His Love

12MAR23 (23aL3). Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners. Think about that. Not while we were perfect or had our life together, but while we were sinners with no proof of correction. This is the unconditional love of God which we can not fathom. This is the knowledge we are called to live in.

Spiritual Amnesia

05MAR23 (23aL2). God wants to strengthen us for difficulties. However, our tendency is to forget. Let us build up the memory of what God has done so we never forget. Don’t allow Spiritual Amnesia to ruin your life, fight against it and talk to God.

Don’t Grasp, Receive

26FEB23 (23aL1). Adam and Eve didn’t trust God and grasped. Lent helps us to let go and receive from the Lord. Let us grow be learning the obedience of Mary and Jesus in love.

Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving

22FEB23 (23Ash). Convert and believe in the Gospel. This Lent let us orientate our life towards Christ.

Be Perfect

19FEB23 (23aO7). Be Perfect… simple and clear? We do not need to be perfect by human standards, but by God’s. God wants us to be perfect in love. A radical and foolish love which always “Wills the good of the other, for the other’s sake”. What is keeping you from love?

Prepare for Lent- Silence

05FEB23 (23aO5). It is time to start thinking about lent. The more you put in the more you will get out. God speaks through silence. So give him some silence.

We Are All Weak

28JAN23 (23aO4). We are all weak and struggle. Pride and insecurity often cause us the biggest problems in life. If we admit our weakness and seek help from God (in prayer) and from help around us (mental health). “Praying it away” is not always the answer, sometimes we need good faith and reason and the support of the amazing mental health advances. One of the gravest mental health problems is suicide. It is frightening and often avoided, but it is important for us to talk about and learn to help ourselves and others. Let us be weak in the Lord and seek the strength that he wants to give us.

To Be Catholic Is to Serve the Poor

21JAN23 (23aO3). It is easy to get taken by political debate and rhetoric. We need to be Christian in our world view and not political. We follow Jesus. We need to serve the poor or else we will go to hell. We can do everything right, but if we don’t do that we are not falling on the right side. The most poor and vulnerable are those in the womb and we need to create a pro-life culture of life that values all, especially the most vulnerable. We believe that abortion is wrong but what have we done about it?