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L Board Catholic Sunday 27/11 Brief Version

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QHigh lights
(1)You go out,thinking returning home,but you end up in a hospital?Why unexpected things happening in your life?
(2)What are the limitation of your free will,to take action for a particular outcomes?
(3)Why Jesus,came to this world? Before to Jesus,Why God,trained only Israelis?Now Why Holy Spirit guiding all of us?
(4)To get driving license, why you should sit for exam to test your knowledge? Why you need to show practically how to drive?
(5)To know About God,and practice what HE asked U to do to lead your life happily, why you should follow 3 years sunday readings?
(6) What is the difference between Miracle(Mt21:18) & parable(Lk13:6) about fig tree,& how many liturgical 3year cycles,have you gone to church?

Reflection for 27th november 2016 we start a new Cycle 1: celebrating 1st Sunday mass of advent season, inviting us to analyze how you can give birth to Christianity, how God revealed HIMSELF as humans, for us, to manage our free will,with using our full freedom. How God reintroduce freedom, that has been given to our original parents,before their betrayal. This advent season will have 4 sundays until Christmas day, the 25th of December. Today specially you are invited to
analyze, (1) how church has organized 3 year liturgical cycle With 5 basic seasons n each year(2)the purpose of these seasons to your life(3)why you need a religion,

Liturgical Cycle:

3 year liturgical cycle introduced by pope St Pius V, from 1563, has been revised by vatican II council, is a beautiful method of imparting knowledge about God, into your life.

Why church has introduced 3 year cycle to cover whole scripture with sunday reading, why not 5 years?,

The importance of following lithurgical cycle, is clearly given in the Gospel. Your life is like the fig tree. God has created you to carry out some purpose to the society, accoding t HIS Wish!. Let us try to understand, What gospel says:

There are 2 major stories with regard to Fig tree in the Gospel, one is a miracle and other is parable, given in Mt 21:18) & Lk 13:6) respectively. Miracle indicated, when you don't convert your talents to energy, you are not pleasing God,and like the cursed fig tree, your life become unhappy. Instead the parable shows that for 3 years one farmer was waiting fig from fig tree and no fruits produced, so he is going to wait for another year with special attention to tree to bear fruits. These 2 stories tell you how much God is eager about your outputs towards the society. It is very coincidence that church has introduced 3 year sunday reading cycle for you to get full knowledge about God revealed truths.

Think about how many sunday masses that already attended. How many lithugical 3 year cycles. HAve you advance in knowing God? Are you satisfied?

In order to understand about converting your knowledge to learning let us analyze about
L Board you used for driving.

When you want to drive you need license. For that you 1st need to gather knowledge about traffic rules etc, then you drive with L board,before you get license,with that you can enjoy life by traveling in your vehicle. Similarly God,has assured you to lead a happy life.

For that1st you should get to know HIM. Church has beautifully organised 3 year sunday readings(each sunday mass you get 3 readings from Bible).Each year begins in november with 1st sunday of advent & ends with the feast of Christ the king.
Gospel readings matthew,Mark&luke are primary Gospel readings in each year respectively,while John gospel readings are taken in special sundays. When you follow all sunday's for 3 years you will get to know revealed truth of God.

In each liturgical calendar,you get 5 main seasons:
advent/christmas/lent/easter/

ordinary times.27/11/2016 is 1st sunday of advent in cycle1.

Let us analyze the relevance 5 seasons of each liturgical year into our life:
(1)ADVENT/4 weeks before to christmas/how to give birth of Jesus in your life
(2)CHRISTMAS/12 days from christmas day(25dec)/How Jesus is revealed in your life
(3)LENT/40 days-ash Wednesday to Good Friday/how to manage your mental+physical agonies
(4)EASTER/40 days from easter sunday-the date of eater sunday varies, it is the 1st Sunday after 1st full moon that occurs on or after March 21/how to lead a happy life as catholic/
(5)ORDINARY TIMES/34 weeks with 2periods -epiphany to ash Wednesday,easter sunday to next advent/
Reflect+practice revealed truths of God, in your life:

Now let us analyze

Today's readnigs:
Issiah 2:1-5 foresee a peaceful time, where house of jacob will come.
Paul says to Romans in Rm 13:11-14,time has come for you to wake up.
Gospel mt 24:37-44, Jesus reminded Noah's days,where he went to ark,most of others swept away &HE will test you like gold in the furnace. By trusting HIM, you will understand truth.

Reminds:
(1) you cannot escape death,sufferings in this life
(2) by converting your trust to faith on God, you will overcome the pain of those & be happy
(3) for that, you should give birth to Jesus, in your life
(4)Why God became flesh(human)?
God first trained Israelis how to manage his own free will,under the direction of God, then HE showed, practically, as a human, how to live, when full freedom is given, With the life of Jesus, then HE is guiding now thu' Holy Spirit, how to use our free will to follow his purpose of creation. The 3rd phase has beeing extended to Whole World, with the option whether you can believe God or not: we are following this era now.

(5) HE has reintroduce the lost human freedom due to sin,& show us a path how to manage our life
Church has introduced 7 ethics to leAd your life, happily and to follow His Will. They are follow 10 commandments, Avoid 7 vices, practice 7 sacraments, practice 7 eAch corporal and spiritual mercy's, practice pardoning and love.

(6)Why the characters of Holy family is important for us to know about how God became flesh?
God has chosen Holy Mary to become human. Holy Mary has fully obeyed to God's Will, similarly Joseph showed how he followed god's will to brought up child Jesus. MAry and Joseph marriege is virginal. They shoWed us, they led pure life, keeping virginity. When you analyse their life, you will get to know, how to follow God's Will n your life

(7) why Holy mary has to be immaculately concept for her to give birth to God, as Jesus?
God is omni potent, omni sense and omni presence: to bear such person, n her body, God has to create holy mAry, as immaculately concept. This has being confirmed with the un corrupt bodies of St catherine and st benedethe.

All these points has to be reflected, for you to understand, how God became human. There are 2 major points to analyze
(1) God has trained humans, thru' prophets, how to use our free will, then HE wanted to show practically, with the character of Jesus, how to use your freedom, independent to him, with your own choice,either by developing faith on HIM,or rejecting Him.

In conclusion starting of a new year, you have to look back and see what you have gain on previous year, and revise, your spiritual plan for the new liturgical year. Like today Paul says to romans:" let us give all things under cover of dark and walk in day light. For the forth coming liturgical new cycle, which will end in year 2019 nov. When you follow God's Will, you might get sufferings, like gospel today reminding that God will test you like Gold in the furnace. So today is a starting point of another 3 year liturgical cycle. Jesus is inviting you to follow HIM in this 3 years, develop knowledge and practice it for learning more about HIM. Many liturgical cycles you may be fortunate to live, but all these future periods,you will enjoy with novel reflections of sunday readings

For more details follow this links :
http://weeklycatholicreflection.blogspot.com
Or
http://www.sundayreading.net/ ‬

Or for more details about Mary

http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com

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Cycle 1: Season: Advent: Sunday: No 1:date: 27/11/016- L Board Catholc

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High lights
(1)You go out,thinking returning home,but you end up in a hospital?Why unexpected things happening in your life?
(2)What are the limitation of your free will,to take action for a particular outcomes?
(3)Why Jesus,came to this world? Before to Jesus,Why God,trained only Israelis?Now Why Holy Spirit guiding all of us?
(4)To get driving license, why you should sit for exam to test your knowledge? Why you need to show practically how to drive?
(5)To know About God,and practice what HE asked you to do to lead your life happily, why you should follow 3 years sunday readings?
(6) What is the difference between Miracle(Mt21:18) & parable(Lk13:6) about fig tree,& how many liturgical 3year cycles,have you gone to church?

Pl spare 9 minutes to listen to this:

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/1stsundayAdventLboardcatholic.html

Reflection for 27th november 2016 we start a new liturgical Cycle, celebrating 1st Sunday mass of advent season,of cycle 1. inviting us to analyze how you can give birth to Christianity, how God revealed HIMSELF as humans, for us, to manage our free will,with using our full freedom. How God reintroduce freedom, that has been given to our original parents,before their betrayal. This advent season will have 4 sundays until Christmas day, the 25th of December. Today specially you are invited to
analyze, (1) how church has organized 3 year liturgical cycle With 5 basic seasons n each year(2)the purpose of these seasons to your life(3)why you need a religion,

Liturgical Cycle:

3 year liturgical cycle introduced by pope St Pius V, from 1563, has been revised by vatican II council, is a beautiful method of imparting knowledge about God, into your life.

Why church has introduced 3 year cycle to cover whole scripture with sunday reading, why not 5 years?,

The importance of following liturgical cycle, is clearly given in the Gospel. Your life is like the fig tree. God has created you to carry out some purpose to the society, according to HIS Wish!. Let us try to understand, What gospel says:

There are 2 major stories with regard to Fig tree in the Gospel, one is a miracle and other is parable, given in Mt 21:18) & Lk 13:6) respectively. Miracle indicated, when you don't convert your talents to energy, you are not pleasing God,and like the cursed fig tree, your life become unhappy. Instead the parable shows that for 3 years one farmer was waiting fig from fig tree and no fruits produced, so he is going to wait for another year with special attention to tree to bear fruits. These 2 stories tell you how much God is eager about your outputs towards the society. It is very coincidence that church has introduced 3 year sunday reading cycle for you to get full knowledge about God revealed truths.

Think about how many sunday masses that you haave already attended. How many liturgical 3 year cycles, you have followed Have you advance in knowing God? Are you satisfied?

In order to understand about converting your knowledge to learning let us analyze about
L Board you used for driving.

When you want to drive you need license. For that you 1st need to gather knowledge about traffic rules etc, then you drive with L board,before you get license,with that you can enjoy life by traveling in your vehicle. Similarly God,has assured you to lead a happy life.

For that1st you should get to know HIM. Church has beautifully organized 3 year sunday readings(each sunday mass you get 3 readings from Bible).Each year begins in november with 1st sunday of advent & ends with the feast of Christ the king.
Gospel readings matthew,Mark&luke are primary Gospel readings in each year respectively,while John gospel readings are taken in special sundays. When you follow all sunday's for 3 years you will get to know revealed truth of God.

In each liturgical calendar,you get 5 main seasons:
advent/christmas/lent/easter/ordinary times.27/11/2016 is 1st sunday of advent in cycle1.

Let us analyze the relevance 5 seasons of each liturgical year into our life:
(1)ADVENT/4 weeks before to christmas/how to give birth of Jesus in your life
(2)CHRISTMAS/12 days from christmas day(25dec)/How Jesus is revealed in your life
(3)LENT/40 days-ash Wednesday to Good Friday/how to manage your mental+physical agonies
(4)EASTER/40 days from easter sunday-the date of eater sunday varies, it is the 1st Sunday after 1st full moon that occurs on or after March 21/how to lead a happy life as catholic/
(5)ORDINARY TIMES/34 weeks with 2periods -epiphany to ash Wednesday,easter sunday to next advent/
Reflect+practice revealed truths of God, in your life:

Now let us analyze

Today's readnigs:
Issiah 2:1-5 foresee a peaceful time, where house of jacob will come.
Paul says to Romans in Rm 13:11-14,time has come for you to wake up.
Gospel mt 24:37-44, Jesus reminded Noah's days,where he went to ark,most of others swept away &HE will test you like gold in the furnace. By trusting HIM, you will understand truth.

Reminds:
(1) you cannot escape death,sufferings in this life, resulting for you to follow a religion.
(2) by converting your trust to faith on God, you will overcome the pain of those & be happy
(3) for that, you should give birth to Jesus, in your life
(4)Why God became flesh(human)?
God first trained Israelis how to manage his own free will,under the direction of God, then HE showed, practically, as a human, how to live, when full freedom is given, With the life of Jesus, then HE is guiding now thu' Holy Spirit, how to use our free will to follow his purpose of creation. The 3rd phase has beeing extended to Whole World, with the option whether you can believe God or not: we are following this era now.

(5) HE has reintroduce the lost human freedom due to sin,& show us a path how to manage our life
Church has introduced 7 ethics to lead your life, happily and to follow His Will. They are follow 10 commandments, Avoid 7 vices, practice 7 sacraments, practice 7 eAch corporal and spiritual mercy's, practice pardoning and love.
(6)Why the characters of Holy family is important for us to know about how God became flesh?
God has chosen Holy Mary to become human. Holy Mary has fully obeyed to God's Will, similarly Joseph showed how he followed god's will to brought up child Jesus. MAry and Joseph marriege is virginal. They shoWed us, they led pure life, keeping virginity. When you analyse their life, you will get to know, how to follow God's Will n your life

(7) why Holy mary has to be immaculately concept for her to give birth to God, as Jesus?
God is omni potent, omni sense and omni presence: to bear such person, n her body, God has to create holy mAry, as immaculately concept. This has being confirmed with the un corrupt bodies of St catherine and st Benedethe.

All these points has to be reflected, for you to understand, how God became human. There are 2 major points to analyze
(1) God has trained humans, thru' prophets, how to use our free will, then HE wanted to show practically, with the character of Jesus, how to use your freedom, independent to him, with your own choice,either by developing faith on HIM,or rejecting Him.

In conclusion starting of a new year, you have to look back and see what you have gain on previous year, and revise, your spiritual plan for the new liturgical year. Like today Paul says to romans:" let us give all things under cover of dark and walk in day light. For the forth coming liturgical new cycle, which will end in year 2019 nov. When you follow God's Will, you might get sufferings, like gospel today reminding that God will test you like Gold in the furnace. So today is a starting point of another 3 year liturgical cycle. Jesus is inviting you to follow HIM in this 3 years, develop knowledge and practice it for learning more about HIM. Many liturgical cycles you may be fortunate to live, but all these future periods,you will enjoy with novel reflections of sunday readings

Thank you!
God Bless you!

For more pl visit:
http://weeklycatholicreflection.blogspot.com Or
http://www.sundayreading.net/
Or
http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com

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Cycle 3:season: Ordinary Sunday No:34 Date: 13/11/2016- Vinegar Catholic feast of Christ the king(last sunday of the cycle)

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Highlights:
(1)How,the cross at Golgotha, shows us 3 types of people in the world?
(2) What are these 3 types?
(3)Why soldiers offered 'thirsty jesus'(which is difficult to find) With Vinegar? What it resembles in your life?
(4) If you are present, at that time, instead of vinegar, can you offer him water?. To find water in your life, why you should practice, 7 ethics in Catholicism?(10 commds, 7 corporl+7 spiritual mercy's, 7 sacraments, avoid 7 vices,practice pardoning & love)
(5)Why Holy mary's slogan 'LET IT BE DONE to ME' is so important to your life? To identify God as the king?

Please spare little time(8 mnutes) to listen this!

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/34ordsunday-vinegarcatholic.html

Reflection for 20th november 2016 we are in Cycle 3: celebrating 34th Ordinary Sunday mass,(the last of this cycle), celebrating the feast of Christ the king. Church invite us to analyze the symbolic meaning of the Jesus hanging on cross. Imagine that scenario! You will see jesus hanging on cross with 3 nails, on top of cross, you get name plate, King of Jews, by the side of cross, you get 2 crosses hanging with 2 thieves, on the floor you get soldiers and Holy mary and John.
What does this scenario reveals?: that there are 3 major types of people.

(1) Some people fail to understand,that God has decided your parent for you to come to this world? Or that only God knows 100% outcome for your all actions
(2) Other kind of people, trust God, and failed or lazy to follow his revealed truths,they will not correct themselves to follow 10 commandments and offer God vinegar similar to soldiers
(3)Last kind of people convert their trust to faith, by converting knowledge to learning, by practicing 7 ethics, they offer to God instead of vinegar, water: similar to Holy mary, who told that' let it be done to me as you wish' unlike soldiers.

Let's analyze further of God fearing people and their Morality: extension to, what we discussed, in above category 3.

People are moral either for one of 2 reasons:
(1)Either like slaves, they are afraid of God's judgment, if they sin or
(2)Like children, they love their father God, and want to please HIM, and they avoid sins

Sin is a stench to God. Stench is very bad odor. Yet those Who live in sin,don't notice. They will become immune to evil. These sinner as Isaiah(24:5-6) says,"have transfigured the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant, there fore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin and therefore they that dwell therein shall grow mad.

Like prophet Isaiah identify the insanity(doing the same thing over and over again)of those who break God's law. Their sinner are cursed not only for those sinners, but also for those whom they inspire to sin.

They alter the natural golden rule: What ever you do not want done to you, do not do to others.

Now let us analyze, why soldiers at the cross, opt to offer, Vinegar, instead of water, for the thirsty Jesus?

Vinegar Is sour liquid consisting of dilute & impure acetic acid,obtained by acetous fermentation from wine or the like: used as a condiment, preservative,etc.
When Jesus shouted I am thirsty,HE was offered vinegar,instead of water. How soldiers find vinegar at Golgotha?Why HE rejected vinegar?

In life U can develop faith&learn about God(similar to water)or give in to earth bound cravings(money,power&desires)-U ferment &produce your life similar to vinegar. With vinegar you can make a good pickle. It is tasty. But pickles,you cannot eat more & will have an expiry date,like earth bound cravings.

Water, you can drink more &enjoy your life. That is why Jesus asked to fill jars with water to convert new wine in Cana. When you sin,you go against God's wishes& resembles the soldiers by Jesus at Cross.
Like right thief,when you confess your sins with a priest,you are offering water, not vinegar to thirsty Jesus at cross.

Today's reading:

2 sam 5:1-3 the people ask david to be their king. He agrees and is anointed king of Israel.

Col 1:12-20 paul says" Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the first born of All creation. HE is the head of body,the church.

Lk 23:35-43 says" This is the King of jews is the inscription over the head of Jesus hanging on the cross.

Reading one and two shows who is God. Gospel reading shows, how human will see the practical God.
(1) For some God doe not exist, and they ridicule God
(2) For another, they believe in God, due to earth bound cravings they offer Jesus at Cross vinegar, instead of water
(3) For the last, their belief will convert to trust and then convert to faith: they follow 7 ethics, and they try to offer water for the Jesus at Cross.

On top of the cross, they have written KING OF JEWS means God is the king. Cross shows the difference of opinions that you might come across,in your daily life or experience of suffering in your life. There are variety of Suffering to the people, when they lead their lives. Starving,home less, persecution,diseases are some to mention. Jesus shows hanging on the cross, how to manage your sufferings: It is men, women and children who suffer and agonize every where, who cry out to Jesus on the cross," Jesus remember me when you enter upon your reign.

What did the good thief mean when he asked Jesus to remember him?. He surely meant much more than don't forget that you saw me at you side up there on that hill. Remember that I am someone a human person who, despite every thing I have done, despite my criminal past, I am still someone who wants to count as human being created in the image and likeness of God. And Jesus answer, "I assure you this day you will be with me in paradise"

Without doubt the relation between Jesus and good thief has deep meaning for us. The thief sees Jesus as a fellow sufferer, but he also sees his personal salvation in this dying Jesus. When he begs Jesus to remember him. He is not asking for a miraculous cure deliverance from the cross. What he want is some meaning for his wretched life. Some kind of self identity for a man. We are like good thief. Life cannot make much sense until we find out who we are and accept ourself for who we are.
The good news about the image of Jesus on the cross and Paul' description of him as lord and king of all is that, whoever we are, what ever our failures, how much we are hurting, God comes to us, in this Jesus tells us that we are his beloved children and that HE loves us totally and irrevocably. And God not only gave us the crucified Jesus as sign of HIS love but also a sign that he is Working in and through out daily suffering to bring us to fulfillment as mature Christians.

Jesus on the cross with that sign over his head has to give us a new or renewed sense of our being worthwhile. To be Christian means to recognize who we are in the sight of God, to realize God'S love for us, that divine love made flesh in God's son Jesus hanging on the Cross. The Jesus Who continues to live with and in us. Who guides us along the way, nourish us daily with His body and blood and with His word.

In conclusion, the last sunday of this liturgical cycle 3, church invite us to analyze,
the relevance of Catholicism to your life!. Why God has introduce Hanging Jesus on the cross?. Practical Catholicism start with Sinai desert!.When we think about Mount Sinai

Sinai & Horeb is used for same mountain in Bible.This is a small mountain chain,with3(holy mountain)peaks-mount Serbal/catherine/Jebel- musa.you can climb this mountain by foot or by stair case 3750 steps)in3 hrs. One of the most dramatic appearances of God to the people of Israel occurred on mount Sinai. HE appeared to moses in the form of burning bush(fire which is not consumed) to(1)liberate God's people from slavery+to lead them to promised land.(2)to reveal God's name-YAHWEH. HE gave 10 commandments-revealing what HE expect from people to please HIM & to lead a happy life. HE appeared to Elijah,in the form of whispering Breeze,showing that you have to be attentive to the almost invisible ways in which God is changing the world & your heart. Moses,people of Isreal,Elijah, all met God on this mountain,reminding that you have to seek holy ground in your own lives in every event of your life. Simlarly we are being told today, the releavance of Golgotha, to manage our life. For that Holy mary will guide and intercede on behalf of us to lead a happy life.

Thank you!
God Bless you!

For more pl visit:
http://weeklycatholicreflection.blogspot.com Or
http://www.sundayreading.net/
Or
http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com

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