Last few sundays, we reflected, the major characteristics of a catholic. ie. He should avoid pride,jealousy and forming any form of cast. Hence he should respect all humans, irrespective of any form of cast(even religion),creed etc. Also we analyzed the back ground of formation of church.(1) cast-less(2) universal(3)easy to practice(4)Pope as the leader(5) church is run by Holy Spirit
Today
We are reminded, the characteristics of freedom, reintroduce by God, with the formation of the church. Why, in every action of yours, you get a cross? How to achieve peace of mind in your every action?.
Otherwise, your life will be scattered with fear and sorrow!.
These readings will invite you to follow the following actions:
(1) Go to a lonely place
(2) Identify an incident where God has saved you thank HIM and associated people
(3) Look at the cross, identify your 5 wounds(sin against 5 senses (wrt to 10 commandments) get it pardoned
(4) Sunday readings reflect all 3, request Holy Spirit support.
(Which has been further summarized, in B2)
B. Preamble to today's readings:
B.1: value of prayer!
In our life,when we depend too much on reasoning and logic there is a little place for faith. The real knowledge of God is contemplative. This knowledge cannot be obtained through self efforts. For this we need to be still and passive like a poor man expecting to get something from the rich.
When we know how we obtain knowledge of God we are on the right path without interfering in the work of God in our soul.(Identify an incident, where God saved you, thank HIM for that incident). The power to remember is part of the identity and continuity of the person and a means by which he comes to know God. The people of God have a long collective memory of all those events in which he has acted to save,revealing Himself and HIS love.
We should know that to obtain supernatural and spiritual knowledge mere ascetic practices do not suffice. Even mere suppression of all thoughts and ideas cannot be of help. It is obtained through God's generous intervention and initiative. We can receive this knowledge only in total passivity, being open to the spirit of God. We need to keep ourself completely passive, when we do not feel that we are progressing in prayer. We should try to be there simply without active role. When we are totally open to God(make sure that you are without worries+ no enemies+adhere 10 commandments), HE flows into our soul without making us feel anything in our body and senses(cf. Ascent II,15,ii). This is done through active purification, which is nothing else but elevating our heart to God and placing less emphasis on the material realities.
Hence we become passively active. The effect of such passive energizing of our soul in prayer is experienced in our daily life, when we are capable of accepting our daily crosses, difficulties, problems, surrendering ourselves to events and situations which have no explanation and answers through natural logic. The mysterious passive energy imparted to us in prayer helps us to put up with any difficult situation even without an extraordinary active effort in our part. Such an attitude is simply flows from within us and becomes a part of our nature.
B.2 forming habits
Concentration for prayer should be a constant habit. when you are in serious work, you concentrate, unconsciously. Isaac Newton always forgot his meals while working. You may laugh such character,but it is such men who have made mark! by concentration. This is an age of distraction Ex: TV,internet,games,friends,
(1)be interested to your prayer
(2)make it daily habit with definite time & in definite place
(3)be relax,remove all other thoughts
(4)hand over all of your worries to Holy Mary+Saints
(5)Think about incident that God has saved you thank HIM
(6)remember that God created U to lead a happy life.
(7)pray.
Mind is THOUGHT FACTORY. Concentration means,you INHIBIT ALL THOUGHTS EXCEPT ONE.
B.3 out come of your life:
Each human is having it's own talents. If you don't develop your talents to develop a skill, you are betraying God. How to develop energy in your life. You should be(1)happy(2)healthy(3)
Happy- Catholicism provides easy path to lead a happy life by following God's will.
Healthy- you should maintain the God given body, by doing excercise+drink plenty of water+not to over eat.
Efficient- always use the latest technology to improve your talents. Ex: sending a sms or talking over phone:
HELL IS FULL OF TALANTED PEOPLE, WHILE HEAVEN IS FULL OF ENERGETIC PEOPLE.
Any human's during his life, acquire knowledge, which leads to develop skills, as well as attitudes.
Skill: an ability to do something well,specially because you have learned and practice the work.
Attitude: opinion and feeling that you usually have about something:(sapecially God)
Energy of your life is knowledge + skill +attitude.
In order to develop, attitude of LOVE, from Catholicism, one has to gather sufficient knowledge of Jesus teachings, which is available in 3 year sunday readings.
To gather knowledge, one has to follow 6 steps:
Remembering/understanding/
You have to convert your talents to energy, so that you can create happiness to others, in addition to you.
These 6 steps are part of dynamic process that you have to do!
C. Today's reading:
Jeremiah says(Jr 23:1-6)" Doom.. Shepherds.. flock of my pastures..destroyed..U hv let my flock to be scattered..not taken care..bring back them to pastures..increase in numbers.. not one shall be lost.."
Paul (Eph:2:13-18) says"..new man by restoring peace through Cross..& reconciled with God.
Mk 6:30-34) says"..'U..Come..lonely place..rest..large crowd..like a sheep without shepard..pity on them.."
(1) You were given full freedom to act,after Jesus teaching. Now God's Will for you, is not directly conveyed to you. But you are having full freedom, to take any decision action, But 100% out come of that action is not known to you. Hence you are always encounter a cross. That is why Paul says you are a new man, your peace has to be resolved with the cross. New method of action is always through a cross.
(2) You have been given full freedom. Your mind will decide what is truth and your free will carry out what is good.
(3) When you don't carry out actions, contrary to the commandments given by Jesus, you will encounter misery in your life. (sheep without a Shepard).
(4) Commandments can be summarized as follows:
(A) follow 10 commandments,
(B) pardon your enemies
(C) avoid 7 vices
(D) avoid any form of cast formation.
(E) follow God's will.
(F) convert your talents to energy
(G)Then God will, guarantee your happiness
D. Conclusions: up to last sunday, we were trained, how our, 2 machines, in our brain to be configured, NOT TO ACCOMODATE, Pride,Jealousy and cast. So that any thought coming to accommodate such vices cannot be entertained from our brain!
From this sunday, we are invited to think, how to control our body, avoid laziness, and how to maximize our talents or convert our talents to energy. When you are not skillful for a subject, you become lazy, at one stage of your life(specially during old age). Time is available nothing to do!. Then your chimp machine will start jumping from one thought to another thought, making a devil's work shop. This sunday we are warned, how to keep our brain and heart healthy!
GBU
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