Immaculate Heart of Mary

A Sword shall pierce your heart Lk. 2:35

It was prophesied by Simeon in the Temple

That a sword would pierce the heart of Mary,

So that the thoughts of others might be revealed.

Unless we are willing to Open our Hearts up like Mary,

and let the sword of suffering pierce our own hearts.

No one will trust us and open up to us their their hearts.

For It is through our suffering that others see we are sincere and authentic.

And then they will feel safe to reveal the secrets of their hearts to us.

And then our hearts will become one with them.

Like the Hearts of Jesus and Mary are one with each other.

God Bless

Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Make Our hearts like unto Thine

Our opinions are not driven by what we think but by what we love.

No one has ever shed their blood or given up their life for an opinion.

Only for what they Love, Passionately.

This is Jesus,

He loved us passionately!

So He endured His Passion and died for us,

Because He loved us.

This is why we pray,

O Sacred Heart of Jesus,

Make our Hearts like unto Thine.

So that we might Love Jesus as passionately as He loves us!

God Bless

Thursday 11th Week of Ordinary Time Forgiveness

How do we win God’s Forgiveness?

Do we have to Fast?

Pray lots of Prayers?

Do Penance and mortification?

And if so,

How much do we have to Fast?

How many prayers do we have to say?

How much Penance and mortification do we have to do

In order for God to Forgive us.

Well we do not have to do any of those things for God to forgive us.

All we have to do is

Forgive others, and then God will forgive us? Mt. 6:15

God Bless

Wednesday 11th Week of Ordinary Time

God has X-ray eyes

People notice the car we drive, the house we live in, the clothes we wear and who we associate with.

But do they really know who we are?

God however has x-ray eyes.

God sees into our hearts.

Into every dark space and corner

God sees the things we keep hidden from everyone else

And even from ourselves.

Nothing is hidden from God. Mt. 6:18

We are only fooling ourselves if we think we are hiding anything from God.

Not even our most private thoughts or most personal sins are hidden from God.

So when we pray,

We should pray from the darkest and most secret places of our heart.

For it is then that our prayer is most real and honest.

God Bless

Tuesday 11th Week of Ordinary Time

Limitless Love

How far does your love extend?

Family?

Friends?

Neighbors?

How about enemies?

Or those who have hurt you?

Or just get on your nerves?

Jesus tells us that our Love must extend to everyone. Mt. 5:43-44

No matter who they are.

No matter what their race or creed is.

No matter whether we like them or get along with them or not.

Jesus reminds us,

That if our love has limits,

We are really no different than the pagans and tax collectors. Mt. 5:47-48

God Bless

Monday 11th Week of Ordinary Time

Ending violence

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth

is what most people live by.

It seems to make sense.

But Not to the Christian.

Christians turn the other cheek. Mt. 5:39

They offer no resistance to evil.

To the non believer this makes no sense.

It will only get your other cheek slapped,

And evil will only grow unabated.

But for those who have Faith,

They know it is the only way to end the violence

And put a stop to evil.

Any other way has failed and will continue to fail

As it has for centuries.

God Bless

Feast of St. Anthony

A sermon by St Antony of Padua

Actions speak louder than words

The man who is filled with the Holy Spirit speaks in different languages. These different languages are different ways of witnessing to Christ, such as humility, poverty, patience and obedience; we speak in those languages when we reveal in ourselves these virtues to others. Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak. We are full of words but empty of actions, and therefore are cursed by the Lord, since he himself cursed the fig tree when he found no fruit but only leaves. Gregory says: “A law is laid upon the preacher to practise what he preaches.” It is useless for a man to flaunt his knowledge of the law if he undermines its teaching by his actions.

But the apostles spoke as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech. Happy the man whose words issue from the Holy Spirit and not from himself! For some men speak as their own character dictates, but steal the words of others and present them as their own and claim the credit for them. The Lord refers to such men and others like them in Jeremiah: So, then, I have a quarrel with the prophets that steal my words from each other. I have a quarrel with the prophets, says the Lord, who have only to move their tongues to utter oracles. I have a quarrel with the prophets who make prophecies out of lying dreams, who recount them and lead my people astray with their lies and their pretensions. I certainly never sent them or commissioned them, and they serve no good purpose for this people, says the Lord.

We should speak, then, as the Holy Spirit gives us the gift of speech. Our humble and sincere request to the Spirit for ourselves should be that we may bring the day of Pentecost to fulfilment, insofar as he infuses us with his grace, by using our bodily senses in a perfect manner and by keeping the commandments. Likewise we shall request that we may be filled with a keen sense of sorrow and with fiery tongues for confessing the faith, so that our deserved reward may be to stand in the blazing splendour of the saints and to look upon the triune God.

God Bless