Good evening/morning every one. I am so happy to welcome you for today’s Holy Mass. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we celebrate the love of God, every time we come to church, we celebrate the forgiveness of Christ our Lord and every time we come to church, we are blessed to experience divine love and forgiveness in our brothers and sisters.
Today we celebrate the second Sunday in Lent. This season invites us to deepen our faith in God through the means of prayer, fasting and helping others. We are especially called today to know that we belong to God and He is our Father.
One day a baby camel looked so sad and depressed. The Mother looked at her with kindness and said, “Child, why are you looking so sad and depressed?” The baby camel looked at his mother and said, “Mom, why do we have long legs with three toed feet?” The mother laughed at him and said, ‘these long legs and the feet help us to walk comfortably in the desert in son” And why do we have long eyelashes?’ they protect us from sand in the desert my son. God gave us everything for a reason my son. The son again looked at his mother and said, “Mom, tell me why do we have a big hump on our back?’ The mom said, because God is so good to us and He created us with the big hump to store water so that we could survive in the desert for long time without water”. Then the baby camel looked at the mom and said, “If God is so good and created us in such a way to live in the desert, what are we doing here in Toronto Zoo?’
Some times we all struggle to fix on earth, because it is not our home, we belong to heaven and we are all heavenly creatures and then what are we doing here on earth facing challenges and sufferings, pain and hardships? And how can we separate ourselves from them? The only way to separate ourselves from earthly things is Prayer. Prayer takes us to God and every time we connect ourselves with God, we disconnect from unwanted earthly things.
One day a holy man was traveling with a group of people in a beautiful ship. Before the departure, all people came together and prayed to God for protection and they noticed that the Holy man did not pray and then before and after meal, every one prayed but the holy man did not. Then one day they faced with huge waves in the ocean and they were all in big danger, so every one knelt before God and prayed for life but the holy man did not utter a single prayer. So the people got so mad and said, ‘you are a holy man and you supposed to pray to God but you did not. Why are you not praying at all? The holy man looked at them and said, “Would you ask a fish that is in the water to take a bath. I live, move and have my being in prayer. My whole life is prayer. Yes, prayer should be our way of life and when we keep Christ at the center of our life, our whole life becomes a prayer.
In today’s gospel we see the immense power of prayer, when our Lord Christ prayed to God on the mountain, His face was shining like the sun, His cloths became dazzling white and there came Moses and Eliza were talking to Him. The disciple who were with Him were all amazed to here a voice from heaven saying, “This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased’.
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