A. Back ground:
From 23rd sunday, to 33 rd sunday,(10 sundays) church invited us to reflect how to be a practical catholic to enjoy Happiness as guaranteed by God. First 7 sundays(23rd to 30 th) we analyzed spiritual deafness,and how to remove spiritual blindness. Then next 4 sundays, we were told how to live, in various living condition, like married life/single life/how to develop wisdom/characteristics of generosity etc. Last sunday it reflected how to develop twig in our life tree. See progress of your life towards God.
Summary is given below:
23 rd sunday-deaf catholic-CHURCH IS FORMED AND RUN BY HOLY SPIRIT
VALUE OF FOLLOWING CHURCH RULES: castless, no restriction on food,no artificial birth control,no abortion, no euthanasia etc.
Dogma's on saints,purgatory,Holy Mary
24 th sunday-Renounce Catholic-
YOUR WILL IS NOT THE GOD'S WILL. HOW TO RENOUNCE GOD IN OUR LIFE.
25 th sunday-seadless catholic-
CATHOLISM IS SIMILAR TO GROW A SEED. YOU TREAT THE SEED TO BECOME A BIG TREE, WHICH IS USEFUL TO THE SOCIETY,BY FORMING GOOD HABITS LIKE PRAYING, ANLYSING EVERY DAY!, YOUR LIFE CANNOT ACHIEVE ANTICPATED HAPPINESS!
26th sunday-disciplined Catholic-BEFORE JUDGING OTHER RELIGIONS, FIRST YOU VERIFY WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND COMMANDMENTS OF CATHOLISM AND YOU FOLLOW THOSE!
27th sunday-Childish catholic-HOW TO FOLLOW GOD'S WILL IN FAMILY ENVIROMENT!
28th Sunday: adaptable catholic;
HOW TO FOLLOW GOD'S WILL IN YOUR PERSONAL ENVIROMENT!
29th sunday- Serving catholic-WHEN YOU FOLLOW GOD'S WILL,UNLESS YOU ARE NOT CAREFUL TO SURRENDER YOUR PRIDE FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, YOU WILL BE VICTIM OF EGOTISM. YOU TEND TO FORM CAST.
30 th sunday: verify your blind ness
31st sunday: when you follow God's will, you get enough knowledge about happiness of life.- God's wisdom
32 nd sunday: how to convert your talents to good attitudes in carrying out actions for the love of God
33 last sunday: How to develop Twig in your life tree. 2 primary conditions(1) good attitude(2)Sin less.
Today the last day of this cycle 2, we were invited to reflect final outcome of catholic life-how to enjoy happiness,as guaranteed by God.
B. Pre amble for todays reading:
B.1- One self
How does you loose oneself?Did you ever try to lose something? Harder you try,harder it gets. It is when you are not trying that you lose things. You lose something when you are not aware. How does one die to oneself-(not suicide).Not to kill self,but to die. Causing pain to self,causing suffering to self, would be self defeating. It would be counter productive. You are never full of your self,as when you are in pain. You are never so centered yourself, as when you are depressed. You are never so ready to forget yourself,as when you are happy. Happiness releases you from self. It is suffering,pain, that tie you to self. Look how conscious you are of your tooth when you have tooth ache. When you don't have tooth ache,you are not even aware that you have a tooth. So it is false,to think that way to deny self is to cause pain. To deny self,to die to it,to lose it,is to understand its true nature. When you do that,it will vanish. Mt6 says"..LILES OF FIELD..THEY NEITHER TOIL NOR SPIN".
B.2 flying Catholic
Mt(28:16-20) says"you to teach all commands that Jesus has given to you & HE assures that all time HE is with you"
Now God is invisible!& HE is always waiting to see you. With birth you
(1)start Breathing-physical body
(2)subject to gravitation-belongs to world
(3)subject to your Free Will-develop your SOUL. When you die only SOUL exist. If you can overcome-gravitation you can fly!.
This indicates if you can overcome worldly passions you can fly!
When your SOUL is over joyed, you feel like a bird!.The main attraction to the world are DESIRES,POWER & WEALTH. Simple method of balancing these are given by Jesus-LOVE and PARDNING!. Following Jesus commands lead you to achieve lovable heart! with pardoning qualities.
B.3 management
There are 2 types of managements: (1)alpha-based on masculine, authoritative use of power &
(2)beta-based on feminine,cooperative use of power.
But management Jesus used was omega-which incorporate & enhance both.
HE achieved:
(1)trained 12humans who went on to so influence world that time itself is now recorded as being before(B.C) or after(A.D) from HIS existence
(2)HE worked with a staff that was totally human & not divine..a staff that in spite of illiteracy,questionable back grounds, fractious feelings & momentarily cowardice went on to accomplish task HE trained them to do. They did this for one main reason-to be with HIM again.
(3)HIS leadership style was intended to be put to use by any of us. World is crying for leaders whose goals are to build up,not to tear down;to nurture,not to exploit;to undergrid&enhance,rather than to dominate. He harnessed spirituality with omega management,which is urgently needed Today
C. Today's reading:
Prophet Daniel says(Dn 7:13-14)"..gazed..saw..clouds of heaven..like a son of man..glory..men..became his servants.."
Book of Apocalypse says(Rv 1:5-8)"Jesus..witness..washed away our sins..I am..Alpha..omega..who is..was..is to come.."
John (Jn 18:33-37) says" Are you..king..Jews? Pilate asked..mine is not a kingdom..this world..So you..king..?..yes..to bear witness to the truth.."
Reminds: the characteristics of total outcome of catholic life is to be happy. When you are happy, you feel like a bird flying over world over riding to the gravitational pull towards earth. Primary conditions need for happiness
(1) Earth bound requirements like Money,power and desires are short lived. Unless you control such requirements, you tend to go against commandments, sinning yourself,leading for fear and sorrow in this life. When You overcome earth bound needs to spirituality, you forget your self.
(2) You are born with many talent. First convert that talent to skills,(by removing laziness and Anger)by many practice. Then you gather knowledge. By hard work you can disseminate that knowledge to the society. Then you develop good attitude
(3) As catholic you are being assured for a happy life free of worries and sorrows. Hence to reach that happiness, you have to carry out your work, for the love of God.
When you practice above 1,2,3, you will see impossible things are possible.
Conclusions: To day, it sums up all out come of sunday readings in ordinary times, how to be happy in our life by following Catholicism we are ending liturgical cycle 2 from this sunday, start a new cycle 3, from next sunday!. Every liturgical cycle is a retreat for a catholic,or a new twig for you to grow! where his knowledge about God can be renewed. The knowledge is structured to provide following 5 phases of christianity:
(1)Advent ; for us to reflect how to give birth to Jesus in our life(2nd coming of christ).
(2)Christmas-How Jesus came to this world &History+major characteristics of Holy Family.
(3) LENT-Jesus examples of managing fear & sorrows.
(4) Easter-value of spirituality for our happy life.
(5)Ordinary Time-how you convert your talents to energy& follow God's will to serve living society.
So from next sunday, we start from cycle 3 advent: HOW TO GIVE BIRTH TO CHRIST IN UR LIFE?
GBU
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