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Cycle 1:season: Lent Sunday No :2; Date 12/3/2017 Comfortable Catholic - in detail

High light
(1) Why you don't realize that there is a tooth,when U'r without tooth ache?. Why you have to remove your oneness to be happy?
(2)Can you allow your hair or beard to grow, without cutting?. Why pruning allow you to be better?.what pruning actions you take during this lent,for(a)yourself(b)your society(c)world as one society.
(3)Why you should NOT allow, your comfortable thoughts and actions,going against God commandments(10 comms+7 vices)?when you prune such comfortable wrong things, why your life become comfortable?
(4) When your life become COMFATABLE, why you forget yourself and happy?.then why all you actions are going to be based on LOVE?
(5) Why Jesus climbed a hill, to show transfiguration of HIM?.when you follow God's Will,is your life going to be shined?. For that what you should do?
Pl spent 10 mnutes to listen to this!

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/2ndsundaylentcycle1COMFORTABLEcatholic.html 


Reflection for 12th march 2017, celebrating 2nd Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your God given body that is Me, to lead a comfortable life.

How to lead a comfortable life? For that you should be healthy! Hence you should
 analyze the value of maintaining your body weight!

If you want to increase your  weight by 1 Kg, you need 9000 K calories of energy. This is very easy to achieve by eating 1 kg of butter or margarine which has been made by oil or fat. Otherwise if you eat just over 1kg of pork

 BUT TO REDUCE WEIGHT IS VERY DIFFICULT. Any hard labour worker can burn only 3500 K calories,if he work for a day. Even he need more than 3 days full work to reduce on 1kg of his weight.
 If you do exercise for 30minutes/day, you need at least 1 month to reduce 1 kg. You become over weight due to the accumulation of additional energy you take by food. Controlling the food intake becomes essential for your happy life,it does not mean not to eat!.

Over eating:
over eating is a weakness and you will become fat. Also food consumed in excess accumulates at different levels in the digestive track and ferments. Due to this impaired condition of toxins build up in the body leading to several diseases. Normally in their tummy for men, while at the hip for women. Hence shedding weight is necessary to add years to life and life to years!.

One method of shedding weight is walking.
Most common exercise one can do is walking:


Let us analyze the value of Walking
Human Body has over 100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier,when you Walk atleast 30 minutes/day(cumulative). It reduces risk of having strokes,hypertension(reduce blood pressure by five points for over 20 hours),diabetic, breast/colon/prostate cancer,blood clots in your legs,deep vein thrombosis,hip fracture& need for gall stone surgery,catch colds..With walk,human body will resists diseases& heals faster. It improves your{biological, physical,psycho social & emotional}health. ALL ACCUPRESSURE POINTS ARE IN THE SOLE OF YOUR FEET.JUST LIKE YOUR HANDS !!.

Having identified the need to maintain your body, you ought to manage your mind, to be healthy.

Another method of shedding weight is fasting.
Fasting require will power,mental discipline and capacity to withstand the emotional desire to eat!.

What is the difference between fasting and starving?

Our body always possess adequate body reserves required to maintain the normal functioning of body at the hour of need. If we keep away from food for sometime, the body will still maintain itself. when once the reserve food stored in the body gets exhausted,it is said that the person is starving. Abstaining from taking any food when the body is able to maintain itself utilising the reserve food in store is called fasting. But fasting in the absence of reserve food is called starving!. Fasting will not result in decay & death; where as prolonged starvation results in decay & death!. On the other hand fasting will help to clean the system & throwout the toxins(poisons) present in the body, thus helping cure the diseases that take birth from the toxins present in the body. Aversion to food,diarrhoea,vomiting & recurrence of fever are some of the devices our body adopts to throw away the toxins present that are produced on account of impaired digestion of food consumed. But one can prevent the recurrence of such things by fasting periodically.

In order to lead happy and stress free mind, one has to be clear how to control his mind.

Let us analyze Effect of mind control

People have worldly passions which lead them into delusion and suffering. There are 5 ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions. They should have the correct ideas of things, based on the principles of creation!(Given by Catholicism).
Then they can get rid of these mistaken observations and resulting worldly passions by careful and patient mind control. With efficient mind control they can avoid desires arising from the stimulation of the eyes,ears, tongue,skin and subsequent mental processes and by so doing, cut off the very root of all worldly passions, which is not based on Jesus' teachings.

There are 5 groups of desires in the world.
Desires arising from the forms of the eyes see
From the sounds the ears hear
From the fragrances the nose smells
From the tastes pleasant to tongue
From things that are agreeable to the sense of touch
FROM THESE 5 DOORS TO DESIRE COME THE BODIES OF LOVE OF COMFORT.

Most people, being influenced by the body's love of comfort, do not notice the evils that follow comfort(by craving into it) they are caught in the devil's trap like a deer in the forest caught in hunter's(Satan's) trap.

There is no one way to get free from the trap of worldly passions. Suppose you caught a snake, a crocodile, a bird, a dog, a fox and a monkey, 6 creatures of very different natures, and you tie them together with a strong rope and let them go. Each of these 6 creatures will try to go back to its own lair by its own method.

The snake will seek covering of grass, the crocodile will seek water, the bird will want to fly in the air, the dog will seek a villege, the fox will seek a solitary ledges,while monkey will seek the trees of the forest. IN THE ATTEMPT OF EACH TO GO ITS OWN WAY THERE WILL BE A STRUGGLE,BUT, BEING TIED TOGETHER BY A ROPE, THE STRONGEST AT ANY ONE TIME WILL DRAG THE REST.

Like the creatures in this story, a man is tempted different ways by the desires of his 6 senses,EYES,EARS,NOSE,TONGUE,TOUCH AND MIND, and is controlled by the predominate desire.
If the 6 creatures are all tied to a post, they will try to get free until they are tired out, and then will lie down by the post. Just like this, if people will train and control the mind there will be no further trouble from the other 5 senses. IF THE MIND IS UNDER CONTROL PEOPLE WILL HAVE HAPPINESS BOTH NOW AND FUTURE!.
Identify the rope for each desire in this example then tie that rope to Post of God, to see Happiness in this life too!. Lent period is there for you to do that, and be progressive happiness in your life!
Unhappiness occurs only when actively,knowingly, and willingly centering our joy in temporal objects rather than in God. But joy for the sake of Joy,ignoring the source of joy, can be detrimental to real Happiness. John writes: many today, in various ways belong to this category of seeking joy in temporal objects. Out there in the world, their reason darkened through covetousness in spiritual matters, they serve money and not God, and they are motivated by money not God, and they give first consideration to the temporal price and not to the divine value and reward. In countless ways they make money their principle God and Goal; and give it precedence over God,their ultimate end.

To day's reading:
Book of Genesis says(Gn 12:1-4)"the call of abraham,the father of God's people"
Paul to tiimothi(2 TIM 1:8-10) says" God call and enlighten us"
Mattew 17:1-9 says' HIS face shone like the sun"

Reflection: every so often we catch the glimpse of the"something more" that God has in store for us. These fleeting experienced are to be treasured. the birth of my first child, falling in love,a sense of being held by God's presence. Such experience may help us the transfiguration. Like all transcendent experience, it is fleeting and yet it etches a memory and leaves a longing. what should we do? Practice listening to HIM. Be not afraid. We cannot always be" on mountain" and yet what happens on the heights can help us on lowlands of the every day.

In conclusion:
Today it allows us to analyze,
What is the most expensive bed in the world?SICK BED. Someone can be employed to drive a car for you but you cannot have someone to bear an illness for you. When material things are lost,they can be found. But one thing can never be found when lost-LIFE. When someone has to undergo an operation,he realizes that he has yet to finish reading the BOOK OF HEALTHY LIFE. When you become a different person during this lent,by regular fasting(exercise+ drinking water)+NOT to have dialogue with temptations against God given laws,you convert your sick bed to a comfortable bed. Your Body has over100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier when U walk atleast 30 minutes/day. Pruning yourselves during this lent will help you to preserve your God given body to be healthy. Whichever stage in life you are at now,with time you will face the day when God will ask curtain to come down for you to hand over your Body.

 In order to control your weight
(1)Identify the need(develop interest) and determine to achieve that- love your body,understand it is your duty to manage your body: since it has given by God to you! You have responsibility towards God to maintain your body, to carry out HIS will.
(2)Control of your food intake-(mind control)
(3)exercise(physical control)
(4)happy and stress free mind(Christianity)

Finally rainbow is having 7 colours, representing that you will forget God, even if you follow God's command but attracted to 7 wises in your life(anger,sloth, pride,lust, envy,avarice,gluttony). Catholicism gives your the shortest path to be happy even in this world!

Thank you!
GBU

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

Cycle 1:season: Lent Sunday No :2; Date 12/3/2017 Comfortable Catholic - in summary

​

High light
(1) Why you don't realize that there is a tooth,when U'r without tooth ache?. Why you have to remove your oneness to be happy?
(2)Can you allow your hair or beard to grow, without cutting?. Why pruning allow you to be better?.what pruning actions you take during this lent,for(a)yourself(b)your society(c)world as one society.
(3)Why you should NOT allow, your comfortable thoughts and actions,going against God commandments(10 comms+7 vices)?when you prune such comfortable wrong things, why your life become comfortable?
(4) When your life become COMFATABLE, why you forget yourself and happy?.then why all you actions are going to be based on LOVE?
(5) Why Jesus climbed a hill, to show transfiguration of HIM?.when you follow God's Will,is your life going to be shined?. For that what you should do?
Pl spent 10 mnutes to listen to this!

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/2ndsundaylentcycle1COMFORTABLEcatholic.html

​​
Reflection for 12th march 2017, celebrating 2nd Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your God given body that is Me, to lead a comfortable life.

How to lead a comfortable life? For that you should be healthy! Hence you should
analyze the value of maintaining your body weight!

​
If you want to increase your weight by 1 Kg, you need 9000 K calories of energy. This is very easy to achieve by eating 1 kg of butter or margarine which has been made by oil or fat. Otherwise if you eat just over 1kg of pork

BUT TO REDUCE WEIGHT IS VERY DIFFICULT. Any hard labour worker can burn only 3500 K calories,if he work for a day. Even he need more than 3 days full work to reduce on 1kg of his weight.
If you do exercise for 30minutes/day, you need at least 1 month to reduce 1 kg. You become over weight due to the accumulation of additional energy you take by food. Controlling the food intake becomes essential for your happy life,it does not mean not to eat!.

​
Over eating:
over eating is a weakness and you will become fat. Also food consumed in excess accumulates at different levels in the digestive track and ferments. Due to this impaired condition of toxins build up in the body leading to several diseases. Normally in their tummy for men, while at the hip for women. Hence shedding weight is necessary to add years to life and life to years!.

One method of shedding weight is walking.
Most common exercise one can do is walking:


​
Let us analyze the value of Walking
Human Body has over 100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier,when you Walk atleast 30 minutes/day(cumulative). It reduces risk of having strokes,hypertension(reduce blood pressure by five points for over 20 hours),diabetic, breast/colon/prostate cancer,blood clots in your legs,deep vein thrombosis,hip fracture& need for gall stone surgery,catch colds..With walk,human body will resists diseases& heals faster. It improves your{biological, physical,psycho social & emotional}health. ALL ACCUPRESSURE POINTS ARE IN THE SOLE OF YOUR FEET.JUST LIKE YOUR HANDS !!.

Having identified the need to maintain your body, you ought to manage your mind, to be healthy.

​
Another method of shedding weight is fasting.
Fasting require will power,mental discipline and capacity to withstand the emotional desire to eat!.

What is the difference between fasting and starving?

Our body always possess adequate body reserves required to maintain the normal functioning of body at the hour of need. If we keep away from food for sometime, the body will still maintain itself. when once the reserve food stored in the body gets exhausted,it is said that the person is starving. Abstaining from taking any food when the body is able to maintain itself utilising the reserve food in store is called fasting. But fasting in the absence of reserve food is called starving!. Fasting will not result in decay & death; where as prolonged starvation results in decay & death!. On the other hand fasting will help to clean the system & throwout the toxins(poisons) present in the body, thus helping cure the diseases that take birth from the toxins present in the body. Aversion to food,diarrhoea,vomiting & recurrence of fever are some of the devices our body adopts to throw away the toxins present that are produced on account of impaired digestion of food consumed. But one can prevent the recurrence of such things by fasting periodically.

​
In order to lead happy and stress free mind, one has to be clear how to control his mind.

Let us analyze Effect of mind control

People have worldly passions which lead them into delusion and suffering. There are 5 ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions. They should have the correct ideas of things, based on the principles of creation!(Given by Catholicism).
Then they can get rid of these mistaken observations and resulting worldly passions by careful and patient mind control. With efficient mind control they can avoid desires arising from the stimulation of the eyes,ears, tongue,skin and subsequent mental processes and by so doing, cut off the very root of all worldly passions, which is not based on Jesus' teachings.

​There are 5 groups of desires in the world.
Desires arising from the forms of the eyes see
From the sounds the ears hear
From the fragrances the nose smells
From the tastes pleasant to tongue
From things that are agreeable to the sense of touch
FROM THESE 5 DOORS TO DESIRE COME THE BODIES OF LOVE OF COMFORT.

Most people, being influenced by the body's love of comfort, do not notice the evils that follow comfort(by craving into it) they are caught in the devil's trap like a deer in the forest caught in hunter's(Satan's) trap.

​
There is no one way to get free from the trap of worldly passions. Suppose you caught a snake, a crocodile, a bird, a dog, a fox and a monkey, 6 creatures of very different natures, and you tie them together with a strong rope and let them go. Each of these 6 creatures will try to go back to its own lair by its own method.

The snake will seek covering of grass, the crocodile will seek water, the bird will want to fly in the air, the dog will seek a villege, the fox will seek a solitary ledges,while monkey will seek the trees of the forest. IN THE ATTEMPT OF EACH TO GO ITS OWN WAY THERE WILL BE A STRUGGLE,BUT, BEING TIED TOGETHER BY A ROPE, THE STRONGEST AT ANY ONE TIME WILL DRAG THE REST.

Like the creatures in this story, a man is tempted different ways by the desires of his 6 senses,EYES,EARS,NOSE,TONGUE,TOUCH AND MIND, and is controlled by the predominate desire.
If the 6 creatures are all tied to a post, they will try to get free until they are tired out, and then will lie down by the post. Just like this, if people will train and control the mind there will be no further trouble from the other 5 senses. IF THE MIND IS UNDER CONTROL PEOPLE WILL HAVE HAPPINESS BOTH NOW AND FUTURE!.
Identify the rope for each desire in this example then tie that rope to Post of God, to see Happiness in this life too!. Lent period is there for you to do that, and be progressive happiness in your life!
Unhappiness occurs only when actively,knowingly, and willingly centering our joy in temporal objects rather than in God. But joy for the sake of Joy,ignoring the source of joy, can be detrimental to real Happiness. John writes: many today, in various ways belong to this category of seeking joy in temporal objects. Out there in the world, their reason darkened through covetousness in spiritual matters, they serve money and not God, and they are motivated by money not God, and they give first consideration to the temporal price and not to the divine value and reward. In countless ways they make money their principle God and Goal; and give it precedence over God,their ultimate end.

​

To day's reading:
Book of Genesis says(Gn 12:1-4)"the call of abraham,the father of God's people"
Paul to tiimothi(2 TIM 1:8-10) says" God call and enlighten us"
Mattew 17:1-9 says' HIS face shone like the sun"

Reflection: every so often we catch the glimpse of the"something more" that God has in store for us. These fleeting experienced are to be treasured. the birth of my first child, falling in love,a sense of being held by God's presence. Such experience may help us the transfiguration. Like all transcendent experience, it is fleeting and yet it etches a memory and leaves a longing. what should we do? Practice listening to HIM. Be not afraid. We cannot always be" on mountain" and yet what happens on the heights can help us on lowlands of the every day.

​
In conclusion:
Today it allows us to analyze,
What is the most expensive bed in the world?SICK BED. Someone can be employed to drive a car for you but you cannot have someone to bear an illness for you. When material things are lost,they can be found. But one thing can never be found when lost-LIFE. When someone has to undergo an operation,he realizes that he has yet to finish reading the BOOK OF HEALTHY LIFE. When you become a different person during this lent,by regular fasting(exercise+ drinking water)+NOT to have dialogue with temptations against God given laws,you convert your sick bed to a comfortable bed. Your Body has over100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier when U walk atleast 30 minutes/day. Pruning yourselves during this lent will help you to preserve your God given body to be healthy. Whichever stage in life you are at now,with time you will face the day when God will ask curtain to come down for you to hand over your Body.

In order to control your weight
(1)Identify the need(develop interest) and determine to achieve that- love your body,understand it is your duty to manage your body: since it has given by God to you! You have responsibility towards God to maintain your body, to carry out HIS will.
(2)Control of your food intake-(mind control)
(3)exercise(physical control)
(4)happy and stress free mind(Christianity)

Finally rainbow is having 7 colours, representing that you will forget God, even if you follow God's command but attracted to 7 wises in your life(anger,sloth, pride,lust, envy,avarice,gluttony). Catholicism gives your the shortest path to be happy even in this world!

Thank you!
GBU

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

Cycle 1:season: Lent Sunday No :1; Date 5/3/2017 pruned Catholic - in detail

High light
(1) Why you take a hair cut?. Why you prune a plant? Why Jesus was tested 3 times? Is it connected how to manage earth bound needs of food, power and desires?
(2)During lent why you say"I die to sin and develop friendship with God?"
(3)Lent allows you to prune yourself with regard to your wrong habits,& consider your and universal community. What are the 3 actions you decide to carry out during this lent? (For each category)
(4) Why date of ash wednesday varies each year? How the date decided?
(5)Why God asking you to pray in secret place and carry out fasting with a happy face?what is the difference between fasting & starving?

Pl spend 9 minutes to listen to this:


Reflection for 5th march 2017, celebrating 1st Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to prune ourself to lead a happy life.

This is lent season. It allowed you to become a renewed person!with change your life to form new discipline. Our life is flowing like a river. when river is flowing it forms it's own bank. Forming it's own bank means the discipline that you created with respect to earth bound and spiritual need. If a river has a good bank, it flows nicely. Similarly if you make a new discipline, your life will be flowing happily.
Major 2 seasons surrounded by good friday and easter sunday are lent and easter. During lent, you identify where you are going out of track and correct yourself like a geo stationary satellite moving in earth orbit 10 000km above ground. Maximum energy it consumes is to keep in track when it goes out of track. Lent allows you to keep tract with in following what God has asked us to do!.

Lent season start from Ash wednesday.
Date of Ash wednesday varies from year to year! Implying date of easter sunday to Vary, unlike Christmas!. Why easter sunday varies?
It has a relation with Judaism, where the Pass Over ceremony is commonly accepted by Christians & Judaism!. Pass over week is based on solar + Lunar calendar!.
How?
Gregorian calendar is based on Earth's orbiting around SUN(365.25days).If a year is divisible by4(but not by400)it results in a leap year(366days).
Equinox occurs when sun is closest to earth's equator. when SUN is directly over earth equator(no shadow).This happens twice/year;Vernal(Mar)&Autumnal (Sept).
Easter Sunday is selected as1st Sunday,following Full Moon(10/4/2017)after vernal equinox(20/3).ASH WEDNESDAY(1/3/2017)is placed 46days(40 days lent+last 6 days for pass over)before Easter Sunday(16/4).

On the other hand, CHRISTMAS is always on Dec 25(from this day onwards there will be more daylight time than night time until June 24-birth of John the baptist). Jn said he should decrease and Jesus should increase.  Hence Catholic liturgical year revolves around CHRISTMAS & EASTER,representing BIRTH&RESURECTION of Jesus. The theme of the first half of the year is CHRIST IS OUR LIGHT while the rest of the year it is CHRIST IS OUR LIFE. Both epitomizes christmas&Easter respectively. It is obligatory to fast on ash weds & Good Friday.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FASTING AND STARVING!(Enforcing discipline or control in to your life)

Our body always possess adequate body reserves required to maintain the normal functioning of body at the hour of need. If we keep away from food for sometime, the body will still maintain itself. when once the reserve food stored in the body gets exhausted, it is said that the person is starving. Abstaining from taking any food when the body is able to maintain itself utilizing the reserve food in store is called fasting.

But fasting in the absence of reserve food is called starving!.

Fasting helps to enjoy life!

Fasting will not result in decay & death; where as prolonged starvation results in decay & death!. On the other hand fasting will help to clean the system and  throw out the toxins(poisons)present in the body, thus helping cure the diseases that take birth from the toxins present in the body. Aversion to food,diarrhea,vomiting & recurrence of fever are some of the devices our body adopts to throw away the toxins that are produced an account of impaired digestion of food consumed. But one can prevent the recurrence of such things by fasting periodically.



Today's readings:

Book of genesis(Gn 2:7-9;3:1-7) says about"creation & sin of our people"
Paul says to RomAns(Rm 5:12-19)" however great the number of sins committed,grace was even greater" Mt(4:1-11) says"Jesus fast for 40 days and is tempted"
Readings remind us : the temptation of today's gospel are not at all temptations to this or that sin,but rather fundamental option which matter for the direction of life. Jesus was tempted in the course of his ministry to choose another way of being God's prophet the messiah or anointed. In A less spectacular way,we too can be attracted by choices which shape the way of our life unfolds. We ask ourselves, what do I live on? What's my true goal? Where is my nourishment? The human no less than the kingdom, is more than food and drink. Only the word of God truly nourished and illuminates.

During lent we die to selfishness and rise to generosity towards others. We pruned ourself a bit, through penance, so that we may grow into stronger, more healthy catholic. If anyone wants to be follower of myself let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me' (Mt 16:24). We do penance for 40 days in imitation of our lord's 40 days fasting in the desert. So lent is really a challenging time.
During lent, you should determine to give up sin. To do that clearly identify 7 ethics of catholicism. Make lent dying to sin and living to God.  Then do 3 actions: personal,communal, universal.
Personal: you may used to drink alcohol every day or smoking cigarettes or eating chocolates: or you may used to gossip of others or you may used to judge others, when you identify there is something wrong in you, lent is a good time to prune yourself to be a new person. Identify clearly what is 10 commandment and 7 vices. Try to avoid sins for the love of God.
Communal: think about your nearest neighbors, see what actions that you can carry out for them.
Universal: be alert about outside world, analyze whether they are suffering: see what you can do: if nothing you can pray for them!

In Conclusions:

If we know, that fasting on Ash wednesday, is for our own health, it becomes,easy to develop the mind control. Otherwise, you eat too much in the morning and fast at lunch, then again cover up at dinner. You will fast as excusetic (excuse for not to do a thing)!. It will not help you to develop mind control, the benefit of fasting in to your life!. Hence during lent period, we should be clear, as how to control our physical body, as well as mental, to be happy in this life. This 40 days one has to analyze, whether my desires(or thoughts) are going against jesus' teachings. LENT INVITED US TO REFLECT TO CHANGE POSTIVILY OF REACHING HAPPINESS IN THIS LIFE !

We like to have hair cut? Why? It will help us to be comfortable n your life,as well as you will produce pleasant feeling for others. How many times you have hair cuts up to now? Similarly for your own benefit, church is providing you to confess with a priest, be Spiritually comfortable in your life. For that you should be prepared to prune yourself. It is for your own happiness. Every year lent will provide that opportunity for you.


Thank you
GBU

For more pl visit:
Or

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1st sunday of lent cycle 1 pruned catholic 5/3/2017 - in summary


High light


(1) Why you take a hair cut?. Why you prune a plant? Why Jesus was tested 3 times? Is it connected how to manage earth bound needs of food, power and desires?


(2)During lent why you say"I die to sin and develop friendship with God?"


(3)Lent allows you to prune yourself with regard to your wrong habits,& consider your and universal community. What are the 3 actions you decide to carry out during this lent? (For each category)


(4) Why date of ash wednesday varies each year? How the date decided?


(5)Why God asking you to pray in secret place and carry out fasting with a happy face?what is the difference between fasting & starving?


Reflection for 5th march 2017, celebrating 1st Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to prune ourself to lead a happy life.


This is lent season. It allowed you to become a renewed person!with change your life to form new discipline. Our life is flowing like a river. when river is flowing it forms it's own bank. Forming it's own bank means the discipline that you created with respect to earth bound and spiritual need. If a river has a good bank, it flows nicely. Similarly if you make a new discipline, your life will be flowing happily.


Major 2 seasons surrounded by good friday and easter sunday are lent and easter. During lent, you identify where you are going out of track and correct yourself like a geo stationary satellite moving in earth orbit 10 000km above ground. Maximum energy it consumes is to keep in track when it goes out of track. Lent allows you to keep tract with in following what God has asked us to do!.


Lent season start from Ash wednesday.


Date of Ash wednesday varies from year to year! Implying date of easter sunday to Vary, unlike Christmas!. Why easter sunday varies?


It has a relation with Judaism, where the Pass Over ceremony is commonly accepted by Christians & Judaism!. Pass over week is based on solar + Lunar calendar!.


How?


Gregorian calendar is based on Earth's orbiting around SUN(365.25days).If a year is divisible by4(but not by400)it results in a leap year(366days).


Equinox occurs when sun is closest to earth's equator. when SUN is directly over earth equator(no shadow).This happens twice/year;Vernal(Mar)&Autumnal (Sept).


Easter Sunday is selected as1st Sunday,following Full Moon(10/4/2017)after vernal equinox(20/3).ASH WEDNESDAY(1/3/2017)is placed 46days(40 days lent+last 6 days for pass over)before Easter Sunday(16/4).


On the other hand, CHRISTMAS is always on Dec 25(from this day onwards there will be more daylight time than night time until June 24-birth of John the baptist). Jn said he should decrease and Jesus should increase.  Hence Catholic liturgical year revolves around CHRISTMAS & EASTER,representing BIRTH&RESURECTION of Jesus. The theme of the first half of the year is CHRIST IS OUR LIGHT while the rest of the year it is CHRIST IS OUR LIFE. Both epitomizes christmas&Easter respectively. It is obligatory to fast on ash weds & Good Friday.


DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FASTING AND STARVING!(Enforcing discipline or control in to your life)


Our body always possess adequate body reserves required to maintain the normal functioning of body at the hour of need. If we keep away from food for sometime, the body will still maintain itself. when once the reserve food stored in the body gets exhausted, it is said that the person is starving. Abstaining from taking any food when the body is able to maintain itself utilizing the reserve food in store is called fasting.


But fasting in the absence of reserve food is called starving!.


Fasting helps to enjoy life!


Fasting will not result in decay & death; where as prolonged starvation results in decay & death!. On the other hand fasting will help to clean the system and  throw out the toxins(poisons)present in the body, thus helping cure the diseases that take birth from the toxins present in the body. Aversion to food,diarrhea,vomiting & recurrence of fever are some of the devices our body adopts to throw away the toxins that are produced an account of impaired digestion of food consumed. But one can prevent the recurrence of such things by fasting periodically.


Today's readings:

Book of genesis(Gn 2:7-9;3:1-7) says about"creation & sin of our people"


Paul says to RomAns(Rm 5:12-19)" however great the number of sins committed,grace was even greater" Mt(4:1-11) says"Jesus fast for 40 days and is tempted"


Readings remind us : the temptation of today's gospel are not at all temptations to this or that sin,but rather fundamental option which matter for the direction of life. Jesus was tempted in the course of his ministry to choose another way of being God's prophet the messiah or anointed. In A less spectacular way,we too can be attracted by choices which shape the way of our life unfolds. We ask ourselves, what do I live on? What's my true goal? Where is my nourishment? The human no less than the kingdom, is more than food and drink. Only the word of God truly nourished and illuminates.


During lent we die to selfishness and rise to generosity towards others. We pruned ourself a bit, through penance, so that we may grow into stronger, more healthy catholic. If anyone wants to be follower of myself let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me' (Mt 16:24). We do penance for 40 days in imitation of our lord's 40 days fasting in the desert. So lent is really a challenging time.

During lent, you should determine to give up sin. To do that clearly identify 7 ethics of catholicism. Make lent dying to sin and living to God.  Then do 3 actions: personal,communal, universal.


Personal: you may used to drink alcohol every day or smoking cigarettes or eating chocolates: or you may used to gossip of others or you may used to judge others, when you identify there is something wrong in you, lent is a good time to prune yourself to be a new person. Identify clearly what is 10 commandment and 7 vices. Try to avoid sins for the love of God.


Communal: think about your nearest neighbors, see what actions that you can carry out for them.


Universal: be alert about outside world, analyze whether they are suffering: see what you can do: if nothing you can pray for them!


In Conclusions:


If we know, that fasting on Ash wednesday, is for our own health, it becomes,easy to develop the mind control. Otherwise, you eat too much in the morning and fast at lunch, then again cover up at dinner. You will fast as excusetic (excuse for not to do a thing)!. It will not help you to develop mind control, the benefit of fasting in to your life!. Hence during lent period, we should be clear, as how to control our physical body, as well as mental, to be happy in this life. This 40 days one has to analyze, whether my desires(or thoughts) are going against jesus' teachings. LENT INVITED US TO REFLECT TO CHANGE POSTIVILY OF REACHING HAPPINESS IN THIS LIFE !

We like to have hair cut? Why? It will help us to be comfortable n your life,as well as you will produce pleasant feeling for others. How many times you have hair cuts up to now? Similarly for your own benefit, church is providing you to confess with a priest, be Spiritually comfortable in your life. For that you should be prepared to prune yourself. It is for your own happiness. Every year lent will provide that opportunity for you.


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Cycle 1: Season: ordinary 1: Sunday no-8 Date:26/2/2017 Stable catholic - in detail

High light:
(1)When U don't hv a tooth ache,UR not even aware that U hv a tooth. Why U say HAPPINESS release U from self?.
(2) What U mean by self?.why U say suffering/pain/misery/depression tie U to self?
(3)Why Jesus said in Mt 6" Consider the Lilies of the field.....they neither toil nor spin? Is it loosing oneself, in order to find oneself?
(4) How to be stable and happy when confronting misery?
(5)What is the role of God in your life?

Pl spend around 9 minutes to listen to this

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/8thordinarysundaycycle1stablecatholic26-2-2017.html


Reflection for 26th Feb 2017, celebrating 8th Sunday mass of ordinary season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to lead a stable life. How to be happy. What you mean by happiness?.how to loose oneself, to find one self!

Major problem of human character is to label or branding of persons! To understand this let us listen to the following story about labeling:
A man bought a stallion& his friends said THAT'S GOOD. Next day the stallion ran away& his friends said "THAT'S BAD". Two weeks later, the stallion returned with a herd of mares. His friends said THAT'S GOOD. One day his son broke his shoulder when the stallion threw him off &friends said THAT'S BAD. Later on, war broke out &since the boy was injured,he could not go to war! The story goes on& on highlighting people judging events as GOOD or BAD when in reality, all events are connected & have an impact on each other. Trying to sort good from bad& putting labels on events that are constantly changing their shape can make you crazy & unstable. When you convert your trust to FAITH WITH GOD(by following 7Ethics  & carry out actions out of love),you ignore labels,without going mad,since God leads U to Happiness! Hence God is your only source in control of your life.

If you can stay stable and steady when confronting misery and happy, you are experiencing true freedom of life. This is catholic life!

Stability
stable as applied for you, is the state of equilibrium of your body(such as pendulum hanging directly down ward from its point of support)such that when the body is slightly displaced it tries to return to its original position
(2)here the original position is your happiness(remove oneness ex: when you don't have tooth ache,you are not concise about your teeth)
(3)how quick you can convert your unhappiness to happiness,is a measure of your stability
(4)God has created you to be happy
(5)when you follow HIS 7 Ethics out of love,your happiness is guaranteed by HIM
(6) then you can easily pardon your enemies too
(7)when you make HIM 1st in your life,God will not allow you to carry today's worry till Tomorrow,like lile in the field..they neither toil..,nor spin.

As you see, labeling and stability plays a vital role in your life. When you forget God you start labeling. Then your stability moves. Labeling you start comparing with yourself. Sometimes this might lead to anger and jealousy. What is happiness?. When there is a tooth ache, then only you realize that there is a tooth. When there is no tooth ache you forget the tooth. Happiness means how to forget Self. When you say, my friends are not coming to see me, you are thinking about yourself. Then you start worrying.
Stability means how can you train yourself to Quickly forget about yourself: when there is a tooth ache you try to curb the ache with medicine. When you are unhappy how quick that you can make yourself happy?. is the stability of your life. When you can forget"oneself", you can become happy: to do that you should know about God. To know about HIM, you should know HIS commandments: that is 7 ethics: practice those out of love to the society. The rest God will look after you!. For ths important aspects that we should take treatment is for anger, for jealousy, for Gossiping, for unnecessary worrying yourself etc. For this main action one should practice is pardoning and develop love for God and always think God created you to lead a happy life. Always think that your body is a rented house of God. It is God who will maintain your body.  For this you should forget your oneness.
When you develop oneness, it will cause you depression and you become unhealthy in your life. God actions cannot implement thru' you!. You might become angry, but don't keep that anger for long period, specially don't keep it more than a day.

Todays reading:

Prophet isaiah says(Is 49:14-15) says" I will never forget you".
Paul says to coranthians(1 cor 4:1-5)" The lord will reveal the secret intentions of mens heart"
Mt:(6:25-32) says"do not worry about to morrow".

Reflection: what is the true message for us?
It is the question of what we put 1st in our lives? We recognize this by going back over recent choices and decisions- even simple observations, such as what to I devote time to?jesus? Teaching is to put the kingdom, first and after that every thing will find it's just place".

Mt 10:29-31 says" not one sparrow falls to the ground without your father knowing.. So there is no need to be afraid you are worthy more than many sparrows". God providence is protective as long as you have faith on HIM. No harm what ever fall us that his role is similar to father or mother, who keeps a child from falling into fire or running out on the road in front of a moving car. But God's providence appears to be discriminating.  God knows or ought to know,the people who least deserve to suffer or who have already suffered enough. It appears God providence to be responsive that there should be a proportionate response of God, to the prayers we say, or the sacrifice that we have made for a particular intentions.
No doubt that God answered our specific situations. As example: Christ cured the centurion servant, as requested by centurion. He cured the cananite woman who knelt at HIS from faith( Mt 15:26).HE cured blind Barthalomus, whose faith Would not let HIM shut up. HE healed 10 osterised lepers, whose prayers carried the full distance, because HE pitied them from HIS heart.(Lk 17:14). Time and again, God intervene to heal people, and always linked with faith, but HE didn't heal,every body, in every where, so that the world became a disease free zone. The forces of disease or death are still, destructive at work.  God providence is not protective in the sense,that it preserve us from all these forces. It is not discriminating either in that it makes a nice distinction between the wicked and the good. Nor is it responsive to all specific requests. If it were, we would get every thing for which what we asked!.

To worry excessively, Jesus tells us in the gospel, is to risk becoming an un believer. The unbelievers always running after these things. Then comes the convincer," your heavenly father knows all that you need. Seek HIS kinship over you, HIS way of holiness,and all these thing will give you beside.

In conclusions:
Can you judge events to be good/bad since you don't have access to all information? No. When you forget God is the only source of controlling your life, you become crazy one time, since you cannot rationalize the continuity of events happening and become frustrated at any stage in your life.

During this 8 sundays: church direct us to understand the basic christianity & the outcome you reach following catholism.
During these 8 sundays,(about 20% average ordinary times)you got to know How our trust in God is converted to faith/thru' repentance,how we can experience God’s Grace/how we can balance our life like salt and light/how we can receive God’s gift of wisdom/how we can understand the morality of life/how to mange matters outside the accepted or taught morality/how to increase Ur Tolerrability/ value of pardoning. We should have a good understanding of all these factors to convert the 7 ethical actions to be carried out of love! Today’s God further reassure our happiness.
How to train yourself to remove oneness!
Finally, what does God's providence means"HE is personally concern each one of us that we are more precise to HIM than the birds of the air or the lilies of the field.
Catholicism provide you the easy path to achieve happiness!

Thank you
GBU

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