Back ground:
during last few sundays, we focused as how to develop our life river strong in order to enjoy our present life thru catholicism. Last sunday thru' cannaaite women,
A.1- God is for everybody
(1)we got to know that there are no denomination for God for human, whether you are a catholic, christian or Buddhist, but if you keep your MIND CALM, with LOVING OTHERS, even non christians can enjoy HAPPINESS!. Main thing for christians or catholics is to understand the Jesus new teaching of love and practically see how you implement those things into your life!.(You will find Jesus teaching can be easily realized, independent of where you live in this world)
A.2- value of intercessionary prayers for Catholics!
(2) We got to know, the value of intercession prayers in christianity. God never asked Cannaaite women daughter to come!. With intercession prayers, you become a bigger family. If I asked you to pray for me, what I am requesting is to include me in your family!. This will enhance that God is single father of every human being!.
Today it invites you to have self assessment about your self with regard to your happiness!
Today readings invites us, to review our faith and realize how much God has done individual to me!
Sayings:
TO RENEW ALL THINGS IN CHRIST
Pope St Pius X(1835-1914) feast day 21/8
B.
Preamble to today's reading:
B.1
Quality: quality is defined as the experience between, what you expect and what you achieve. If your expectation match to your achievement, you say it is good quality!.
From a religion, you expect to be happy with,every minute of your life. Always TIME is moving. Hence always you have to analyze the present moment and die to the past moment. If you happy with present moment with christianity, have a self evaluation WHY?
If you are not happy, first be clear,as what you expect from your religion, then identify it's basic rules and see whether you are implementing correctly!
B.2 Example of Holy Mary
Holy Mary identifies very clearly even before jesus was born, HOW MUCH GOD HAS DONE TO HER!
What she uttered, before a single gospel has been written, before the SON OF THE GOD has seen the light of the flesh.
" HE HAS MERCY UPON THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION; HE HAS DONE VALIENTLY WITH STRENGTH OF HIS ARM DRIVING THE PROUD ASTRAY IN THE CONCEIT OF THEIR HEARTS; HE HAS PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM THEIR SEAT, AND EXHAULTED THE LOVELY; HE HAS FILLED THE HUNGRY WITH GOOD THINGS, AND SENT THE RICH AWAY WITH EMPTY HANDED; HE HAS PROTECTED HIS SERVENT ISRAEL, KEEPING HIS MERCIFUL DESIGN IN REMEMBERENCE, ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE WHICH HE MADE TO OUR FOREFATHERS, ABRAHAM
AND HIS PROSTERITY FOR EVER MORE"
This part of the MAGNIFICAT is most revolutionary document ever written!
Similarly all saint's and martyrs are witness what God has done to them.
C.
Today's reading:
C.1. HOW TO DEVELOP OUR ENERGY?
Paul says:"ALL THAT EXIST COMES FROM GOD"reminds that God has created everything in this universe. Only God is
Eternal and Powerful.(Normally we understand Powerful means that you can do what ever you want,at any time/ but the correct word is OMNIPOTENT and OMNIPRESENT-able to do every thing and able to present every where at all times).
when we think about ourself, I cannot replace my aching knee by myself or I cannot kill the worm, in my own stomach!. So I need support of medicine or a doctor etc. So I am powerless. If I can get the support of another human, for my convenience, I become powerful. Here powerful means, THE ABILITY TO CONTROL AND INFLUENCE EVENTS AND OTHER PEOPLES ACTIONS!.
God POWERFULNESS(OMNIPOTENT and OMNIPRESENT) should be clearly understood!.
Most of developing countries, assume the PARENTS are GOD at home and they start WORSHIPPING them. This is due to lack of knowledge about words WORSHIPPING TO RESPECT and POWERFULNESS TO OMNIPOTENT with OMNIPRESENCE
Hence human life is powerless! Human life is time dependent, and the body is perishable. ONLY SOUL(mind+free will) will be eternal!
Our talents can be converted to energy by(1)be happy(peaceful mind)(2) with good health(without lazy)(3) using latest technology(be efficient-per unit time many works can be carried out)
Your life river, water flow can be strong, by developing your talents to ENERGY!
So paul word is still haunting our mind to develop our energy!
C.2 IF WE DONT DEVELOP OUR ENERGY?
Prophet Issaias reminds that you are subject to change,if God finds you IDLING!
Modern science still haunting to find reasons about the behavior of weather and how to control the weather! Still they are miles far away!
Also science doesn't know how your cells in your body dies and the pattern of regeneration!
Modern science knows how a mobile telephone or data communication works. Telephone operator of your mobile knows what you are doing, where you travel and the telephone operator is a having a record of that!. For him to do everything, he doesn't have a physical connection that you can see or feel from your telephone to outside network.
But air is produce by God. Without air you cannot live!. We don't know from where air is coming,still science is searching!. From air we can think that God will get to know what is in our mind. Only my free will, I can decide what to do? Where God will not interfere, if I ignore HIM!. God can influnce my body cell, through the physical connection of air!. This may be a analogy for us to understand, how God can influence our body!
If we don't convert our talents to energy, today thru' Issaiah God's invite our attention to remove our Laziness( worldly attraction) to get His blessings!
C.3 WHO I AM?
Today's gospel, invites you individually to answer a question "who I am"
Mt:16:13-20;Jesus question"WHO DO U SAY THAT I AM"!. Peter's response from his personal experience of Jesus over 3 years.
But, you have been associating Jesus more than 3 years!. To that question if you(1) enjoy your life now(2) reasons for that enjoyement, God is requesting you to analyse!
See how HE has brought you to this stage of HAPPINESS, despite your silly decisions you made thr' your free will upto now!
Can you confidently answer for same question? "Yes,I lead a happy life thru' following catholic principles',
Then God says, you are having KEY OF YOUR ROOM AT KINDOM OF HEAVEN!.
D.
CONCLUSION:
D.1 YOUR LIFE RIVER
Your life is like a river. From your birth you start
(1) Breathing
(2) Subject to earthly gravitation
(3) Water flow to sea
This is equivalent to 2 banks of the river with water flow!
From your death, you leave all banks and carry only water to sea. This is analogous to your soul(mind+freewill) to be carried to heaven(not to death sea!)
All most all religions in the world, supports developing of your 2 banks to have a healthy MIND and BODY!
Religion differs with respect to philosophy, as to the treatment of fear and sorrow, that is coming thru' your life( in your life river, the blocks that will come across to your water flow). Catholicism gives a very simple solutions as how to treat with HOLY MARY and SAINTS!
D.2 SELFEVALUATION!
Today readings invites us to have a self evaluation. This is similar Gospel sentence about Jesus;" HE SENT THE PEOPLE AWAY,AND AFTER DOING THAT HE WENT UPTO THE MOUNTAIN TO PRAY ALONE. IT GREW LATE AND HE WAS THERE ALL BY HIMSELF"M this is what LOVE is all about. Has it ever occured to you that you can only love when you are alone! WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOVE? It means to see a person, a situation, a thing as it really is, NOT AS YOU IMAGINE IT TO BE!. And to give the response it deserves. You can hardly be said to LOVE what you do not even see! What prevent us from seeing? Our conditioning, our concepts, our categories, our prejudices,our projections, the labels that we have drawn from our cultures!.
D.3 catholics duty!
CATHOLISM tells you, how to practice Jesus teaching in a conducive way and the CHURCH help us to do that!.(Thru' affording sacraments, with Catechism,Cannon law and Roman curia!)
Majority of church is baptized laymen!. Unless these laymen first acquire the jesus teaching, then practice to be HAPPY in their life, is the responsibility of individual. If individual person is happy, if he convince the reason for his happiness, he cannot keep his mouth shut. He has to tell to others!, that we are going to discuss next sunday!
GBU
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