Back ground: last few sundays we were reminded about the importance of not loosing our focus towards Jesus' message, in order not to develop our own"truth" as against the real truth providing by the Trinity. Today it concentrate on How to develop the"truth" in Christianity. In this regard, one can easily identify the participation of Holy Spirit, in the administration of the church. Certain mistakes of church prior to 1500 AD, has caused divisions among catholics. Though our previous Popes have corrected those mistakes, specially after Pope Pius V, it has become difficult to reunite our other christian denomination leaders!. One important point to be noted, is the progress catholic church has made to organize a very strong management structure,(work of Holy spirit can be seen), to disseminate the Jesus messages and actions to be followed to reach our Happiness,as intended by GOD THE ALMIGHTY FATHER. One area is the ROLE OF HOLY MARY in Christianity!. The actual dogma's introduced with regard to Holy Mary is so recent like 1950. Around 1000 for othodox or 500 years for other catholic denominations have already gone, with their management structure, may be not progressing on the Role of Mary, like catholic church.
2 good practical example for this is the availability of 2 un corrupt bodies of St catherine labore(at Paris) and St Bernedethe(in Nevere/france).
B. Preamble for today's reading:
B.1. Free Will and God's Will
God created you to his image(free will) to lead a happy life,in this world as well as outside. God will never forced your Free Will. Responsibility of using free will is entirely yours. Catholic has to follow God's will or surrender your will. What is the basic requirement to receive God's direction for you. Always have a peaceful mind. In order to do that you should be free with anger, sorrow and fear. How to control anger?, Judging others leading to Gossiping. Without your knowledge you develop silence anger in your body. If you are having an angry mind you cannot absorb others views. Anger will take you to many unwanted silly destinies, causing dis harmony among your society, making you sick.
How to be free with fear and sorrow. You should invite Holy Mary into your life by(1) wearing miraculous medal(2) reciting daily individual rosary. Then Holy Mary will intercede with God on behalf of your self to give you happiness, similar to cana wine. But remember, that you should follow 10 commandments, with a charitable heart, similar to water in Cana incident
When you are happy,(free of worries), God will direct His Will, towards you!.
OTHERWISE YOU SAY YOU CARRY GOD'S WILL,BUT HIS WILL BE FAR FROM YOU,IF YOU HAVE A WORRIED MIND.INSTEAD YOU CARRY YOUR OWN WILL!
B.2 HOLY MASS :
SUNDAY MASS
You have scientific reason for the formation of a Day(earth rotate itself), a month(moon rotating right round of earth) and for a year(earth rotating round of sun). How a week is formed, no other reason than Eternal reasons!(God created world in 7 days) to at least review the Word of God weekly.
TO DEVELOP FAITH
Like climbing a ladder, you should contemplate, specially sunday readings, to get the knowledge of Jesus' teaching!
Unfortunately, we confuse this knowledge with the study we made at school. If you are a medical doctor, the biology you learned at school is not at all, sufficient enough to practice as a doctor. Similarly, the root less faith, that we learn and develop from school has to be further enhanced in every Sunday mass, with the readings given.
ATTENDING SUNDAY MASS AND HOMILY GIVEN
We are ever grateful to our catholic church in formulating and preparing sunday readings, in a orderly manner, which connects all sundays like a ladder, to get the full knowledge.
But there is major difficulty of delivering Homily by the priest at the mass. Why ?, in the Mass attendees are of wide age groups. Hence delivering homily to suit for all the attendees is a challenge faced by priest.
Hence to understand about sunday readings one has to individually read and try to contemplate about the readings given in sunday Mass well ahead to Mass. This will help you to participate fully in Sunday Mass. Another difficulty find by the catholics are there is no way that his questions deriving from the readings can be answered. Modern social media systems has to be deployed to address this!.
IMPORTANCE 3 READINGS OF SUNDAY MASS
Holy mass is wedding banquet of God for us. At the mass HE gives us His body and Blood for us to be nourished. Eucharist is to digested into your body,not physically take it home.
Every sunday readings that is been contemplated is different from one sunday to another sunday. Catholic church has well organized in a uniform method to be implemented at each sunday, so that where ever you are following sunday mass, the readings that will contemplate is same. All Readings are centered on the 3rd reading of Gospel. To support that there is 1st and 2 nd readings. 1 st reading tries to show the relationship to the gospel message from the old testament. 2 nd reading tries to show how the main message of gospel is being implemented, during the changeover period, Before Christ to after Christ Era. Hence each sunday you will have 3 categories of readings.
1st reading- generally from old testament
(2 nd reading- generally from new testament(apostolic letters etc, 3rd and most important is Gospel reading. This is called missal.
In 3 years all sets of readings will be completed and named year 1,2,3 readings respectively.
All these readings has been carefully prepared by the catholic church, for us to understand and easily contemplate of Jesus teaching and actions, to be implemented in our lives. For what? To lead a happy life with the direction of God.
(Note: daily mass readings covers in 2 years)
B.3 value and relevance of sunday readings:
Food is one of basic needs of our life. Food is there for us to eat.(not to paste on your body) when you eat food, you enjoy its taste and you get nourishment to your body. Similarly if you don't contemplate the readings and see how to implement into your life, your just galloping the food without enjoying the taste. Similarly if you receive communion without the proper reflections of the readings, you are without the taste of the Jesus' message. The full benefit of Euchrist at a Holy Mass, you may not receive!.
B.4- pioneers of making readings at mass(missal)
We are ever grateful for the pioneers who formulated mass readings, specially on sundays,since it is obligatory.
Pope st Pius V
St Pius V and Holy Rosary
POPE ST PIUS V,the great dominican pope, WAS THE FATHER OF THE MODERN CATHOLIC CHURCH(counter reformation), WHO HAS PIONERED VERY PROMINENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SUCH AS MISSAL FOR MASS, RECITING ROSARY, very powerful tools to develop faith on jesus' teachings. Unfortunately these developments evolved after the formations of other christian denominations, so that the full benefit of these systems are properly harped by them is a question!.
Today, we don't have to analyze, the reasons for departing by other christians such as othodox,protestants or anglicans, since all of them follows the same scripture, old and new testaments, the new approaches made to contemplate more on Jesus sayings and actions, has to be considered in implementing, by any christian denomination to gather the full knowledge of Jesus' teachings!.
C. Todays reading:
Paul reminds with God's strength,U can master anything reminds that you should develop anger free mind(peaceful mind) and active life(lazy less) to master any subject.
prop: Isaiah says"LORD OF HOST PREPARE FOR ALL PEOPLES A BANQUET OF FINE WINES OF FOOD RICH." And Mt22:1-14says"WHEN THE KING COME TO LOOK AT THE GUEST HE NOTICED ONE MAN WHO WAS NOT WEARING WEDDING GARMENT".
Reminds that
Every mass is banquet of God. you receive eternal food Eucharist,to be digest to your body, not to be physically taken home. Wedding garment of this banquet are readings given (missal).If you are not contemplating readings,you are without proper garments.
D.
Conclusions
Today, we are being invited, how to prepare our dress, for the banquet of God. Banquet without proper costume is rejected by God. This mean every Baptised catholic is obliged to develop his faith, through sunday readings and daily rosary!, which has been really reformed by Pope st Pius V.
There is enough assistance provided by church to you, to convert your root less faith to full faith to enjoy this life too.
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!
GBU
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