A. Back ground: Catholicism provides a very short method to lead a happy life. Major concepts of Catholicism are given below.
(1) God created Human to lead happy life, using full freedom. Always freedom is subject to law. But failure to adhere to law, make God to introduce fear,sorrow and disagreements among humans
(2) God selected Jews, to train how to reintroduce freedom, through various prophets, talking directly with humans. In this process, management method was Master/Slave operation. This phase concluded after John the Baptist. In this phase 10 commandments with eye to eye operation was introduced.
(3) God came as Son, to the same Jews, and practically showed, how to exercise our free will, in managing fear and sorrow. He clearly showed our life will swing from Gethsamani to Golgotha. He reintroduced 10 commandments, now with' turn your other cheek'. He mainly showed following important points.
(A)With full freedom given to human,out come of any action, human cannot predict 100% outcome. God has retain that functionality.
(B)more you become Slave to God, your happiness is more probable. Hence follow all commandments, identifying God in every action.
(C) certain actions, you might think logical, may not become reality, since all outcomes are known only to God.
(D) Risen Jesus shown importance of controlling 5 senses(mouth,ear,nose,skin &eyes) since He has risen with 5 wounds not with other wounds.
(F) Role of human, starting with Holy Mary was shown, with regard to handling worries of any human. This has been extended to all saints.
(G) Jesus has risen frm death within 3 days. Just to show us, 3 days are enough for you to settle your worries from catholic principles.
(4) After 10 days with accension of Jesus, on pentecost day, God shown how to enjoy your freedom, with formation of church by Holy Spirit. Church is having following major characteristics
(A) Cast less society, to treat all human as 1 family, loving each other/ not restricted only to Jews
(B) laws to be introduced by church(how to manage morality deriving from technological/scientific advancement),in enjoying the freedom , to lead happy life.
Infallibility of pope become prominent and belief of direction of Holy spirit through Pope is essential factor. Under this function, catholic church become more dynamic and unique among other religions, in resolving day to day technological problems that may arise, from time to time.
For example other than major doctrinal dogma's pertaining to Holy mary, many other decisions have been taken with regard to restriction on food, circumcision, artificial birth control, abortion or Euthanasia. This will go on till end of the world.
Today readings allow us to focus Characteristics of God's will, how to renounce God in our life,and how human remonstrate, with human thinking!.
Remonstrate: formal to tell someone, that you strongly disapprove of something they have said or done.
Renounce: To publically says that you will no longer keep something, or stay an important position, because you no longer have the right to it.
B. Preamble for today's readings;
B.1 God's Will
You are always happy. You live for the grace of God. while you convert many talents to skills, you enjoy good health and you use latest technology to interact with other people. You will be able to manage the crosses coming in your life, with the support of Holy Spirit.
B.2 Denying your self means!
When your tooth is aching, you realize that there is a tooth. Otherwise you forget about your tooth. So symptoms of denying self means happiness. When you are happy you forget yourself.
B.3 Look like a fool?
God has little use for people whose main concern is" WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBOUR THINK?" Catholics must be willing to sacrifice and take risks with their public image. Good examples are find in Bible
: Noah(designed and built the ark in middle of a desert
:Moses(Turned water into blood)
:Nehemaih(was cub bearer to a king)
:Isiah(went naked for 3 years)
:Elijah(had to ask widow for food)
:King David(acted insane to escape his captors)
:Queen Esther(made her way to the top of the kings list)
:Mary(conceived a child before marriege)
:Jesus(claimed to be equal to God).
Sometimes people will Remonstrate you, when you implement God's Will. Holy Mary is one of best examples.
B.4 - Renouncing:
From your life, you should be able to show that God is leading. It is mostly by action, not only by mouth. In order to convince that God created you,to lead happy life,you have to follow His rules:
10 comms+pardoning+avoid7vices+
Last few sundays,you reflected Pre conditioned, needed to receive Eucharist. Avoid cast,Pride+Jealousy are main things,in addition to commandments:
When Mary received Jesus(God)to her womb,she sings with Joy" God has done great things for me".
Similarly when you receive Eucharist,are you ready to renounce about what Good, God has done to you?to lead your present life? Then you are following God's Will with happy mind,serving your society,like light house-TOWER WITH POWERFUL FLASHING LIGHTS THAT GUIDES SHIPS AWAY FROM DANGER. What is your house?
B. 5 example of mother Thresa!
Born in Albania(26/8/1910)& baptised as Agnes,She is the founder of Missionaries of Charity (1950–1997), who serves poorest of the poor.Their mission is to care all unwanted & unloved in society,as carriers of CHRIST Love in the Slums.On the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,22/8/1952,she opened her1st home for dying,named "nirmal Hriday"(pure heart) at Kalighat.
She saw,over 20000 people dying.One of them said"I have lived like an animal in the street,but I am going to die like an angel,loved and cared for"1971she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.She died on5/9/97in India,beatified by JP2 in 2003.Church recognised the healing of an non christian Indian woman in 2002,who had a huge abdominal tumour.Her Motto was'WE DO IT FOR JESUS'.
Mother Theresa, was living example, to show the reality of today's reading.
She died on September 5, 1997 (aged 87)
Calcutta, India.
C. Today's reading
Isaiah says(Is 50:5-9)"..Lord..opened my ear..I..No resistance..I offered my back..who stuck me..Lord comes..my help.."
James says(Jm 2:14-18)"..brothers..never done..good act..claims..faith. will..save him?..if good works do not go with it..quite dead.."
Mark says(Mk 8:27-35) "..Jesus.. questioned..'Who do people say I am?'..Peter 'You are..Christ'..Son of man..destined.. suffer..put to death..after 3 days..rise.. Peter..remonstrate..He rebuked..'Get behind me Satan..you think not God's way but man's..to be a follower..renounce himself..follow me..who loses..life..my sake..save.."
Reminds: That after Jesus Christ, God has given full freedom to human. HE will not intervene too our free Will, unless we requested to do so.
Before HE trained humans through Jews, what we should do to enjoy happiness, with the Freedom given. With Freedom, you are having a free will to take any decision of your actions. BUT 100% out come of your action is not known to you. Only God knows. Unless you lead your. Actions or life, with God's direction, you are not certain about out puts to your actions. For most of success, you can praise God. This is the remedy for avoiding 7 major vices(such as Sloth,Anger,Pride,lust, envy, Gluttony,Avarice).
Conclusions: Today, you are told, that when you follow Commandments+church rules, you can manage any worries stemming in your life, Since Holy Spirit will support you.
Your actions will show (renounce) that you are leading happy life with the grace f God.
GBU
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