Love the Creator and not the Creations

 Readings

Wisdom of Solomon 13:1-9,Luke 17:26-37,Psalm 19:2-5

For all men who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know him who exists, nor did they recognize the craftsman while paying heed to his works;if men were amazed at their power and working, let them perceive from them how much more powerful is he who formed.For as they live among his works they keep searching, and they trust in what they see, because the things that are seen are beautiful.Yet again, not even they are to be excused;for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things.
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man.They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed

Let's not get carried away by the creations,so as to forget our creator. Instead,let's accept the creations thankfully from Lord and use it to lead us to the everlasting truth ,Our Lord,who through thy amazing grace showed us the way of salvation, Jesus. Let glorify His name with all the creations of this world.

Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse; for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened.  Claiming to be wise, they became fools;  and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves,  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.Romans 1:20-25

Prayer

Lord help us experience your care love grace and mercy through all blessings that you give us. You give us freely out of love ,help us to share it without selfishness to others and spread your love. Help us to see you,acknowledge you and walk to you through all the creations around us and be ready to receive you when you come. Let us love and live for the Creator...

Amen

Immerse in Gods Love....

This is a dream that changed my life....

I was sleeping near my beloved,in the most restful peaceful place. My beloved,who symbolizes the perfection of love. My father,my mother, my husband,my kid-all in one.  Suddenly a voice is heard from the toilet behind. Sounds of people arise. I hear them saying," thief thief,he has broken into your house". But my beloved said"stay close to me,don't get up and go to look,it's nothing to fear". This time I laid down. Again I heard the voice, this time I couldn't resist and I went off to look. All I saw was a mice. But the moment mice saw me,it started following me ,chasing me to bite me. This made me run away out of the house were my beloved is and made me run far away from him. The mice chased  me to bite. After running for a while, suddenly I stopped. Something forced me to turn to the mice and say, 'with the sign of the holy cross, save us from evil,dear lord' and I did the sign of cross in front of the mice. From then on the mice started moving away and got thrown to side.
I realized,I am delivered. From then on, I begin to experience love. Love filling in my heart. This made me free, I began to dance and sing and hop and walk. While going on the way like this,I saw my friends,I hugged them and kissed them. I saw people that even dint liked to see, but I was seen hugging them and kissing them too..there was no discrimination but just love. I was singing "Kuroshil ninnum paanjozhugeedunna daivasnehathin van krupayal.. Ozhugi ozhugi adiyanil nirayenamey sneha sagaramai...it's a beautiful song meaning "the grace of love of god that flows from the cross flowed and flowed into me as a sea of love". This was my dream

When I got up I was crying...I was in sea of lords love...it flowed bubbled and showered . I began to thank god for making me experience the freedom in his love and its anesthetic effect. Then God prompted me in prayer to send a message "God loves you so much..say I love you Lord" to everyone in my whatsapp list personally. I did it. The response was still great as when Fulton j sheen said "God is love" many years ago that made lot many souls to repent. 

Some couldn't believe message was for them, some replied it was the right message the right time, some said I really needed it more,some said yes lord I love you. But definitely this unique love for each must have strikes each one.. Because Lord says even now to you....

GOD LOVES YOU SO MUCH....say I LOVE YOU LORD... 

From this day on...I am not able to go far from my Lord...it's hard for me to compromise this love for any love of mine...because This love Is perfect Satisfaction...flowing more and more forever...and once it gets filling us, let it flow to others...make others say I love you lord...then we will find we are immersing in his love...sharing gods love proliferates love in us through more love flowing from above.

Amen praise lord.

To Jesus through Mother..

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!" Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.(-John 19:26-27)

Mary Mother of God you ,through your purity humility and submission delivered the Living word to flesh for the world..through suffering and pain you submitted Jesus for the world..With the hand you received the little Jesus with happiness and satisfaction as all mothers have while receiving their on baby, with the same hand you held Jesus, who suffered bled and died for us and the whole world..we feel your depth of emotions...still your remained calm..silent..pondering everything in your heart..With this power you were hailed the queen in heaven..with this power you remain with us in earth to protect us from evil..to deliver us from bonds of world..to help us in nurturing the living word in us amidst the trials and temptations..to bring into us the presence of Holy Spirit gifting us with gift of knowledge and wisdom..guiding us to the way, truth and life-JESUS-the way of salvation. Your intercessions invites holy spirit into us..as when you visited Elizabeth(Luke1:41 and as you prayed with disciples in the upper room..(Acts1:14-17). Lead us to the truth..

Thank you Jesus for giving us our dear Mother Mary..We are receiving Her into us as St John..into our heart, into our life, into our home...As she was with you "in the days of your flesh" from the manger to the foot of the cross..nurturing you in her,delivering you(the living word)into life for this world..following you and pondering everything in her heart...she is with us to guide us to You- "our way, life and truth" interceding for all of us , helping to give life to the living word in us....helping to break the bonds of world and free us in the presence of Holy Spirit opening our hearts to receive Your love...Thank you Lord.

Mother Mary pray for us, gives us your purity ,humility and courage to submit "the living word" growing in us ; to the world..and to submit ourselves as you; did for the accomplishment of lords plan through us...Hail Mary....Amen

Readings

Luke 1:26-56

Acts 1:12-17

Wisdom 9

The Exaltation of Holy Cross

Moses lifted up the snake in the desert.It is the same with the Son of Man. He must be lifted up too.Then everyone who believes in him can have eternal life.Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world. He did not send him to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him(John 3:14-17)

"And through him, God was happy to bring all things back to himself again—things on earth and things in heaven.God made peace by using the blood sacrifice of his Son on the cross.(Colossians1:20).The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those who are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God.(1 Corinthians 1:18)"

"How splendid the cross of Christ! It brings life, not death; light, not darkness; Paradise, not its loss. It is the wood on which the Lord, like a great warrior, was wounded in hands and feet and side, but healed thereby our wounds. A tree has destroyed us, a tree now brought us life" (Theodore of Studios).

Lets Be the True Christian..

‘If you wish to anoint me king over you in good faith,
come and take refuge in my shadow.
Otherwise, let fire come from the buck thorn and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
                                                                                                               -Judges 9:6-15

Jesus told his disciples this parable:
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a landowner
who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.
After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage,
he sent them into his vineyard.
Going out about nine o’clock,
he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard,
and I will give you what is just.’
So they went off.
And he went out again around noon,
and around three o’clock, and did likewise.
Going out about five o’clock,
he found others standing around, and said to them,
‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’
They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’
He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’
When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman,
‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay,
beginning with the last and ending with the first.’
When those who had started about five o’clock came,
each received the usual daily wage.
So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more,
but each of them also got the usual wage.
And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner, saying,
‘These last ones worked only one hour,
and you have made them equal to us,
who bore the day’s burden and the heat.’
He said to one of them in reply,
‘My friend, I am not cheating you.
Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?
Take what is yours and go.
What if I wish to give this last one the same as you?
Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money?
Are you envious because I am generous?’
Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”- Mathew 20:1-16

Our Lord is the king of our life and is reigning in our hearts. WHY HAVE WE MADE JESUS OUR KING? WHAT IS OUR BASIS AND AIM? Is it for some benefits or a status or to justify our actions or out of sincere Love?

If it is the pure and sincere love to our saviour that we follow Him,then there wont be questions in our life to others..but we will be only satisfied in His voice. There wont be episodes of justifications for our actions because we wont be able to compromise anything for His love.There wont be stubbornness or unsatisfactions or rushes to daily work or to stand for Him because we will be perfectly used by Him in His mission according to His plans. We become the change,transforming and living ,following Christ,who lives for accomplishing Gods will- the christian in heart full in grace hope and faith.

But if our basis is not love..we rarely will transform as Christian in heart..ending in so called practicing christian. We will work day long or life long for God,doing this and that to satisfy us that we are doing something for God. But left aimless or unsatisfied or complaining like the workers comparing others..because we fail to renew ourselves or change ourselves or submit for God to use us. As pope said"evangilisation is a consequence not a programme".

The change should start from within us. Feeding and nourishing on Gods words..every moment in awareness that God is our authority(prayer),talking to Him and doing everything in submission to His plan. Living in Christ-likeness. This is the fuel to blaze the fire in us forever if this fuel is not there at first the fire will be large but later the worlds pressure turns it to coal. It is this change that mold us to reflect in ourselves,our relations,society,works..

Lets reflect our inner minds. Find and nurture true love for God in us realizing the depth of His love for us..and do everything in His love for His glory in His will..empowering Lord as king with a sincere heart.

Prayer

Thank you Lord for your amazing love. Help us to realize the depths of Your love, grow and transform ourselves in your love; ever growing in your love by flowing it to others. We will be satisfied only when your love fills us and when we live for'thy will be done"

Amen.

God bless you abundantly to share abundantly in everything....

Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work.As it is written, “He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;his righteousness endures forever.” He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.-2 Corinthians-10

 Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be.The Father will honor whoever serves me.”- John 12:24-26

 Blessed the man who fears the LORD,who greatly delights in his commands.His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth; the upright generation shall be blessed.Well for the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice;He shall never be moved; the just one shall be in everlasting remembrance.An evil report he shall not fear;his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.His heart is steadfast; he shall not fear till he looks down upon his foes. Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those in need. - Psalms-9 

we are nourished each moment by our Lord with the Living word,love,care,sacrifice, patience...reflect in our day the daily providence of our Lord.. Lets give ,what we are nourished by God to the needy.....this giving can crush us pain us or get us into a disturbed state..that the flesh in us cannot tolerate...but the strength of God in us can..hence lets seek His strength which conquered all in this world..with Him all things are possible. But instead "Whoever loves his life loses it,".. Lets be ready to be like the grain.. "unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,it remains just a grain of wheat;but if it dies, it produces much fruit."Lets do this with happiness and not by compulsion..we can tune our mind to be a generous unselfish giver by building trust in Our Lord.. "God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work"He bless us abundantly to share....give love to receive more love..share more to break the selfish mind..

 Prayer 

Thank you lord for giving us this beautiful message..we pray humbly by submitting ourselves unto You..mold us like You..our hate with your love,our pride with your humbleness.. replace our weaknesses with Your strength..so that we give happily to others and we give You in all that we give.. Amen 

Try to discover our weaknesses in each of our actions,submit in Holy Mass..as we receive His Body and Blood lets receive Lords Strength in each..slowly uniting with Our Lord each time..

God Chooses the Ineligible

“when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus' feet, saying, "Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”- Luke 5:8

Simon Peter was fed up with all the nights work as it turned unfruitful. After the rushes of his efforts, Simon Peter was washing the nets to set off. He might be having a heavy heart of complaints and concerns of an unsatisfied effort in the deep far sea. He might be reflecting upon the wastefulness of a night with a hope set to next night but without a guarantee in success.

This is when Jesus intervened. He asked Simon,

“Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”Simon answered, “Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.” - Luke 5:4-5

Simon Peter tried this chance because He was facing a failure and His unfruitful efforts reflected on Him

When he submitted to try as Jesus said,

“When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.”- Luke 5:6-8

The futility of human efforts was turned into a surplus catch when Jesus intervened. This made Simon realize his nothingness and ineligibility, he confessed;

“But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!” Luke 5:8

Here appears the amazing plan of Our Lord, immersed in His mercy and love for His children,

“Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.” -Luke 5:10

This touch of living word melts the hard crust of earth

“The Lord, God of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts,”-Amos 9:5

Even though the catch of fish was beyond his imagination and could have brought him good fortune in world, he left all of them and followed Jesus. “When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him”- Luke 5:11

This is how Lord chooses us.

In the life of this world we wander in its rushes, we do many things that keeps us happy and content but still go for more because we are never satisfied. This is the coarse of the regular worldly life. A search for satisfaction. In this journey, we often come across a check point were we breakdown as a response from the world. This is when we look into us and reflect our past efforts. In the rushes we blast out but in silence our inner self reflects to us.

The self reflection brings out the unrighteous, impatient ways that we went through, the unfruitful efforts we made. The wound that it inflicted on us and the wounds that we inflicted on others, the selfish motives, proud approaches and painful separations. We realize, we are defeated by this world. This is when we realize Our Lord. All the time He was near us, but we were busy that we missed His presence. But when are lonely now, lost and depressed, we hear this silent call from our Lord. “I call you in your ineligibility”

He says, “I chose you because of your ineligibility. I am building you as My house, to shelter many. You -the house may loose its paint, or may get affected by fungus turning you black, you may be exposed to severe weather but DO NOT BE AFRAID, I am seeing You. Just expose your damages to Me, I shall repair you with my mercy and paint you with my Love. Your maintenance may cause you to suffer a bit, but it is for your good, to renew you and purify you again, so that you are built and maintained in perfection. But the thing you must do, is perfect submission by accepting Me as your master, never hide your patchworks, expose your damages to Me, so that I can refurbish you and use you for many. So that along with you I save many.”

When He say this to us, we feel the warm touch of love in our heart, no matter how we are God needs us, He loves us and wishes to envelope us with His love and purify us with His mercy. This melts us, our hard hearts, to flow like a stream and join the fathoms of love and mercy of Lord. Our submission not only saves us, but many through us. This is the perfect satisfaction and it is everlasting and ever increasing.

But If we fail to submit our self to Lord, our efforts will go in vain”.

“Unless the Lord builds the house,

those who build it labor in vain.” -Psalms 127:1

“(For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. Christ, however, was faithful over God’s house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.” -Hebrews 3:4-6

Let us submit all our efforts and past life to the caring hands of God, lets accept Him as our Lord and Master, Confess all our damages to Him as and when it appears, let Him envelope us with His mercy and love and thus we are built for Him and whom He gives us. Leave all our worldly surplus supplies and follow Him, let Him use us fruitfully.

For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. -1 Corinthians 1:25

Prayer

Thank you Lord for loving us unconditionally.

We cry out to You oh Lord, we are not worthy, we are ineligible. Even though we knew You, we fail in our submissions unto You. Cleanse us, we expose us to You, envelop us in Your unending Love and mercy. Build us as Your house in Your perfection for You mission. Thank You Lord for speaking to us today. Thank You for filling us with Your spirit and renewing us towards Your hope and strength.

Hail Mary, full of grace. Our Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Readings

Ephesians 1:3-14

1 John 4:10

Ephesians 2:19-22

Psalms 31

Trust in Gods Providence

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’...your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. - Mathew 6:30-33

"but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.- 2 Corinthians 12:9-10

"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. “-1 Thessalonians 5:16-19

We will be sad and depressed because of our situations, or our habits or our unrighteousness. We may be thinking about the low situations we are, we may be feeling that we are lost beyond recovery. We may be troubled even now for the condition we are in….but God says,

“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness”- 2Corinthians 12:19

Let us praise God for the situation we are in...trust that it is for Gods glory to be manifested through us..There is an intention behind our weaknesses..you know what?

“I won’t say any more, because I don’t want people to think more of me than what they see me do or hear me say. But I must not be too proud of the wonderful things that were shown to me. So a painful problem was given to me—an angel from Satan, sent to make me suffer, so that I would not think that I am better than anyone else.”- 2Corinthians 12:6-7

When we look around, the marvels of nature and the natural phenomenons, we realize that Gods creations are just amazing. Our manipulations reach no where. Lets admire the nature around us and understand How wonderfully He is nurturing all creations. Look at the birds, the animals, the flowers, even though they don't toil and run around the world like us, they are perfect in the way they are created. We feel to praise God by seeing the beauty of the nature. We are His prime ones- His Children, it is beyond our imagination, of the ways, how great He is able to care us..lets acknowledge God in all we have and is going to have. Let us seek Him first and put trust in Him and His power working in us. He knows what is good for us even better than us. Do not restrict God with our solutions by forgetting to realize his power of providence.

“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us “-Ephesians 3:20

Be content in the way we are, because it is Gods plan that we should be so. May be we are weak, ineligible, or great and productive, God has called us to be so. In whatever situation we are, our aim is to glorify God in us, this is His will for us.

Let us remain humble under Gods hands. Take out all our anxieties about life, commit our ways unto Him and seek Our Lords face and His providence, He will raise us at the right time. Admire the Natures Marvels and Adore our Lord for a perfect trust and submission.

Prayer

Oh Lord Heavenly Father, thank you for showing us Your amazing power through the wonderful Nature around us. Help us to have a STOP in our rushing life and praise You through Nature so that Our trust in You increases and we learn to submit unto Your providence for the perfect satisfaction comes from You. Let us receive everything from Your hands. Thank You Lord.

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

Christ- Our Treasure

Others are boasting about their lives in the world. So I will boast too.-2 Corinthians 11:18

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show I am weak. - 2 Corinthians 11:30

“Don’t save treasures for yourselves here on earth. Moths and rust will destroy them. And thieves can break into your house and steal them. Instead, save your treasures in heaven .Your heart will be where your treasure is.- Mathew 6:19-21

Those who look to God will shine;
    their faces are never ashamed.On every side, the Lord’s messenger protects those who honor God; and he delivers them. 

-Psalm 34: 5,7

Most of our time,Our heart is upon our worldly deposits and we may boast upon what we have gained here.. Our Lord says to us, the worldly treasures are perishable and can be stolen. What about our hearts that we put on it? It will also shatter.

Don't save treasures here on earth, let it be saved in Heaven, so that our hearts are set above. We are raised in Christ and is a new creation. Being so we live in perfect submission to Gods will ,depositing in heaven.

'Therefore, if you were raised with Christ, look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God’s right side. Think about the things above and not things on earth. '(Colossians 3:1-2)

While on earth, let us boast about our weaknesses and not on our gains of world. Gains of world shows our satisfaction for this world, but through weaknesses Gods power is manifested. We do what we cannot.

He said to me, " My grace is enough for you, because power is made perfect in weakness. "So I'll gladly spend my time bragging about my weaknesses so that Christ's power can rest on me.

- 2 Corinthians 12:9

Let us turn our focus from the world to Christ and Lord ,from what is below to what is above, from dark to light. Let us turn our eyes to the source of light, so that we shine through Him and let others receive the light through us and shine in the ultimate Light together.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how terrible that darkness will be! - Mathew 6:22-23

Those who look to God will shine;
    their faces are never ashamed.On every side, the Lord’s messenger protects those who honor God; and he delivers them. (Psalm 34:5,7)

God protects us and delivers those who have kept focus and trust on Him and their deposit is everlasting.Hence what is best, looking on world or looking to God ?

Prayer

Oh lord ,source of our light and perfect satisfaction, help us to set our focus unto you. Help us to realise and accept our weaknesses and use it to glorify You because in our weaknesses we see you acting for us. Let us be able to say in deep faith ,'my Lord is my treasure and life.'

'I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ' - Colossians 3:8

In the name of the Father Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

The Nature of Our Call

2 Corinthians 6:1-10

“We are workers together with God. So we beg you: Don’t let the grace that you received from God be for nothing. We are servants of God. We never give up, even though we face troubles, difficulties, and problems of every kind.”

Jesus say..”don’t fight back against someone who wants to do harm to you. If they hit you on the right cheek, let them hit the other cheek too.If anyone wants to sue you in court and take your shirt, let them have your coat too.If a soldier forces you to walk with him one mile, go with him two.Give to anyone who asks you for something. Don’t refuse to give to anyone who wants to borrow from you. -Mathew 5:38-42

We are all called for Gods mission like Jesus. “ the Holy Spirit will come on you and give you power. You will be my witnesses. You will tell people everywhere about me “-Acts 1:8

We receive the power to humbly submit us for this mission through the holy spirit that strengthened Jesus during all His trials. Jesus says ”I can assure you that whoever believes in me will do the same things I have done. And they will do even greater things than I have done, because I am going to the Father”- John14:12

If we believe we can see the glory of God. The nature of our call in our life is to follow the same as Jesus did. It is said”If we say we live in God, we must live the way Jesus lived. “- 1John 2:6 and in this mission “In your life together, think the way Christ Jesus thought.”- Philippians 2:6. Giving love for those who hate us and our enemies, sacrificing for those in need with what we have all in Gods love for his children and for His glory.

Hence He says”don’t fight back against someone who wants to do harm to you. If they hit you on the right cheek, let them hit the other cheek too. If anyone wants to sue you in court and take your shirt, let them have your coat too. If a soldier forces you to walk with him one mile, go with him two. Give to anyone who asks you for something. Don’t refuse to give to anyone who wants to borrow from you.”

Hence let us take up the mission that our Father have entrusted us, with the same attitude and feeling of mercy love and kindness, letting not the grace that we received from God go in vain. Let us humbly submit our life for God to act through us and use us. We do this by our perfect obedience to the inner voice of the Holy spirit gaining strength to all the trials we face in our way of life. Let us pray like Jesus did “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done. “Luke 22:42 and let us pray like our Mother Mary who pondered on the living word of god from the beginning till Calvary and even now, by interceding for us in our weaknesses, “And Mary said, "Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. “-Luke 1:38

God gives us strength for what we are called for...just we must believe in Him and submit in perfection unto Him.

"Jesus has the power of God. And his power has given us everything we need to live a life devoted to God. We have these things because we know him. Jesus chose us by his glory and goodness, 4 through which he also gave us the very great and rich gifts that he promised us. With these gifts you can share in being like God. And so you will escape the ruin that comes to people in the world because of the evil things they want."2Peter1:3-4

Prayer

God loving Father thank you for giving us the right to called as your Children. Help us to submit ourselves unto you and fill us with strength of Holy Spirit so that we never give up in our mission of life, even though we face troubles, difficulties, and problems of every kind. Fill us with Your love.

In the name of the Father ,The son and The Holy Spirit. Amen

Reading

2 Peter 1:3-15

Psalm 25

Psalms 51

The Crosses of Life- " arm yourselves with Jesus attitude"

 As Jesus prayed in Gethsemane with great anguish and fear..he poured out his heart to Father Almighty. He raised His heart full of troubles and anxieties to heavens and cried to Lord ,“Father, if it’s your will, take this cup of suffering away from me. However, not my will but your will must be done.” A prayer out of helplessness and prayer of perfect submission. Abba Father Help me!!

This is when Father sent out His strength through angel, “Then a heavenly angel appeared to him and strengthened him”. Heavenly Father sent out His strength and filled Jesus heart with Spirit and love. God is love (1John 4:8) .What was the nature of this strength and love that Heavenly Father filled Jesus. Strength- the strngth of the spirit to endure the cross and offer himself as a living sacrifice. Love- Was this love for His only son Jesus? If so , this love would have saved Jesus from the sufferings...it did'nt. Hence the nature of the love was different- this love was the deep fathoms of love that our Father has for His children- this love filled in Jesus hearts that;

God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us -Romans 5:8

Jesus prayer during the situation of suffering the cross for us, he raised his own heart to Heavenly Father, which filled him with Gods spirit of strength and love in his heart which changed the entire face of suffering and sacrifice. Jesus was filled with love of God to his children, Jesus was filled with spirit of courage to sacrifice himself for the sake of this love.

“ He was pierced because of our rebellions
  and crushed because of our crimes.
  He bore the punishment that made us whole;
  by his wounds we are healed. -Isaiah 53:5

Jesus endured the cross with the Love and strength of Heavenly Father.

This is the perfect model for us to endure crosses in our life.“Therefore, since Christ suffered as a human, you should also arm yourselves with his way of thinking..so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by human desires but by the will of God.”1 Peter 4:1-2

In every Holy Eucharist this is what we should do, just as Jesus prayed with perfect submission by raising His heart to Lord , as we enter the Holy Mass the priest says “lift up your hearts” Response: “We lift them up to you oh Lord”..Priest: let us give thanks and praises to Him...Response: “It is right and just”...We have to raise our heart with our cross humbly towards our Lord give thanks and praises to Him..no matter how troubled we are...pray more intensely as Jesus did..and do the perfect submission and out of helplessness--,“Father, if it’s your will, take this cup of suffering away from me. However, not my will but your will must be done.”

After submission of our offerings we enter the most important event – Jesus gives His own Body and Blood for us – it dissolve in us when we receive the Holy Eucharist – the spirit of Jesus,Holy Spirit fills in us – the spirit of Love and endurance, the spirit of the perfect sacrifice for the children of God. Once this fills in us, it is by this spirit that we are going to carry the crosses of troubles that we have. The entire outlook of our suffering or trouble transforms to a holy mission. 

In each Holy Eucharist, let us pour out our heart to Our lord. Let us cry out of helplessness raising our hearts unto Him, then he shall fill us with His spirit and life -the living God in us as body and blood- the living word. We are renewed in life each time we receive it. We get the power of Jesus who has already overcome the world and sufferings...'In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world." - John 16:33

As we submit “He will change our humble bodies and make them like his own glorious body. Christ can do this by his power, with which he is able to rule everything.” Philippians 3:21

Let the spirit of Christ fill in us through our perfect submission of our life...the spirit with which Jesus suffered for us in love, so that we carry our cross in the same spirit.

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world-- our faith. Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God”- 1John 5:4

Our crosses for the day might be our job, or kids, or partner or a friend or a stranger or a disease or a pain...whatever it is...let us face carry our crosses filling ourselves with love and sacrifice of our lord. Let us take cloth ourselves with the attitude of Our lord….It is by denying ourselves ,taking our cross and following Him..we near to Him - the perfect satisfaction of love. We cannot attain it by denying our problems or crosses but we are getting near to God  by carrying them filled with Gods love and sacrifice, by denying our "self" (our comforts and selfish intentions that satisfies us).

Prayer

Thank You for talking to us and helping us realize Your strength for enduring the Cross and giving us your strong loving and sacrificial spirit by receiving Your Body and Blood in the Holy Mass. Let us now carry the cross with Your attitude in your Holy Spirit...with love and sacrifice to all You give us. Let us from now experience your real presence in the Holy Eucharist. Purify us and transform us to You as new creation in Christ. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen

Readings

Isaiah 53

Philippians 2:5-11

John 17

1 John 4:7-21

Preparing for Pentecost

The Great day of Pentecost (May 24th) is nearing.Pentecost is a time of the gift of the Holy Spirit being "fanned into a flame ", "rekindled", "kept alive", so that we may bear witness to the Gospel with the strength that comes from God. It is He who saved us and calls us everyday to be his hands and voice in the home, neighborhood and world in which we live.

As Jesus said, “Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I am sending you.” Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you don’t forgive them, they aren’t forgiven.”.John 20:21-23

He is sending us too..

"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life" - John 6:63.

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.  For,

“All people are like grass,

    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is the word that was preached to you.(1 Peter 1:23-25)

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”-Mathew 28:19-20

“when God our savior’s kindness and love appeared,  he saved us because of his mercy, not because of righteous things we had done. He did it through the washing of new birth and the renewing by the Holy Spirit, which God poured out upon us generously through Jesus Christ our savior.  So, since we have been made righteous by his grace, we can inherit the hope for eternal life.”-Titus 3:5-7

You are saved by God’s grace because of your faith.This salvation is God’s gift. It’s not something you possessed. It’s not something you did that you can be proud of.  Instead, we are God’s accomplishment, created in Christ Jesus to do good things. God planned for these good things to be the way that we live our lives. -Ephesians 2:8-10

Christ is building you into a place where God lives through the Spirit.(-Ephesians 2:22), as living stones, being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ(1 Peter 2:5).your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19)

Let us renew the Holy Spirit and realize its fruits, as we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves (2 Corinthians 4:7).you are our father.We are the clay, and you are our potter.All of us are the work of your hand.( Isaiah 64:8)

Don’t neglect the spiritual gift in you that was given through prophecy when the elders laid hands on you.  Practice these things, and live by them so that your progress will be visible to all.  Focus on working on your own development and on what you teach. If you do this, you will save yourself and those who hear you.

-1Timothy 4:14

 Lets seek god with all our heart, all our strength and all our life."You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.I will be found by you"-'Jeremiah 29:13-14

 He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.(-Phillippians 1:6). For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life." (Phillippians 2:13-16)

The Novena of Holy Spirit begins on Friday the 15th of May. The Novena can be downloaded from the Jesus youth sites below.

http://jesusyouth.org/sites/default/files/Holy%20Spirit%20Novena%20(English).pdf

http://jesusyouth.org/sites/default/files/Holy%20Spirit%20Novena%20(Malayalam)_0.pdf

Let us renew the Holy Spirit in Pentecost.

Prayer

God, create a pure heart in me,

    and make my spirit strong again.

Don’t push me away

    or take your Holy Spirit from me.

Your help made me so happy.

    Give me that joy again.

    Make my spirit strong and ready to obey you.

 I will teach the guilty how you want them to live,

    and the sinners will come back to you.

-Psalms 51:10-13

Amen

Novena of Holy Spirit

http://uk.jesusyouth.org/events/novena-holy-spirit