Studies report that Loneliness is like a plague today. Thankfully our faith can give us resources that go deeper than the best resources you can find in the secular sphere.
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"We won't know ourselves unless we know Him, because as St. Paul explained to the Romans: God decided beforehand those who were destined to be formed in the image of the Son—and that’s us (Rom.8:29)."
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Mike French reflects on the power of daily prayer, specifically the Angelus, and how it guides them to consider the "promises of Christ." They delve into the promise in Luke 11:9, and how it is a "Blessed Assurance" but also the beginning of a conversation with Jesus, inviting them to humility and dependence on His love and providence. The post encourages readers to take time to reflect on the promises that the Lord is making to them, as it will lead to grace.
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God became a human in Jesus. God didn't just become a man, but he actually became flesh and blood, just like us. All the matter and energy in the universe is connected to God because he created it. So, in a way, we are all made of the same stuff as God. And when Jesus was here on earth, he went through all the same stuff we go through, like happiness and sadness, and he understands us because of it. God isn't just some distant being, but he's right here with us, and he knows us inside and out.
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The psalms were a source of comfort and faith for the people of the Old Testament, who sang them in both good times and bad, and passed them down through the generations. Jesus prayed them too. At Mass, we continue this tradition and remember the perseverance and faith of those who came before us.
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3 simple primary colors open the door to many others. It’s not so different in the Spiritual Life.
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When we feel like a candle burning in an empty room, we find out that our loneliness is God’s gift to
us, telling us that all of us are for each other
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hope nudges me to take flight.
Never again will I be the same;
because my heart is a blazing flame.
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"Forgiveness is a process that takes time... Forgiveness is a grace..." -
-Fr. Tony Rauschuber, S.J. (Adapted from The Art of Forgiveness)
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Loving yourself? Well, if you put God first, you’re loving yourself because we are created to love God, and loving Him leads to eternal life.
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Our times demand that we imitate Christ, not that we live for ourselves.
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Forgiving myself might not be the best way of going about forgiving myself, but instead replacing that self-despair with the blessed assurance of God’s Love for me.
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There are many Purposes we can choose for our lives, they are not all the same.
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We can be simply Okay, given the circumstances or cruise above the circumstances.
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Jesus’ shortest parable is about the old and the new. We learn from Jesus so we can live it out.
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Ordinary Time does not mean unimportant or not special. Ordinary Time could be a continued chance to receive “extraordinary grace”. Ordinary time proclaims that “There’s more to come”.
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“Jesus also knew, and we learn, that the Commandments guide us to personal fulfillment… We don’t outlive the Commandments. We obey them because we love Him. This is both our personal fulfillment and abiding in His love.”
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Love is, after all, where our strength came from in the first place if we were to trace its origins, the Lord of love being the original source.
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Hear in your mind a beautiful, harmonious harp. That harmony, as Hildegard of Bingen pointed out, reminds us of God creating everything in all the universes to fit harmoniously with everything else.
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