18th Sunday.
Good morning everyone, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we prepare ourselves to go back home namely the divine abode, heaven. Every time we come to church, we begin to store up treasures in heaven and every time we receive any of church’s sacraments, we receive blessings upon blessings to know more about our heavenly home.
Do you know why men die before their wives? Because they want to.
A husband and wife were fighting over who was going to make coffee. The wife said that the Bible says that it is husbands’ job making coffee. where in the bible you found it. The wife opened the bible and it said, ’Hebrews’.
1. Meditation
2. Transformation
3. Action
Today’s gospel invites us to think about our eternal home-heaven. Reflecting or meditating upon heaven will change us into new spiritual beings. There are so many saints and holy people meditated upon the glory of God and thus gave less important to earthly things and knew how to use material things to find heavenly things.
1. Reflection or meditation:Meditation is a form of prayer that helps to deepen our faith in God. Our faith in God will help us to differentiate things namely earthly and heavenly. There are saints like St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Theresa of Avila and De Sales who spent time in meditation and prayer to know God more fully.
Once St. Thomas Aquinas theologian who wrote Summa Theologica namely summery of theology stopped writing and his assistants came to him asking, “Father, what happened to you. you are a famous theologian and you changed people’s understanding about Catholicism and why are you not writing?’ And St. Thomas said, “Some moths ago, as I meditated and reflected upon the mystery of God and thus I experienced a glimpse of Almighty and before that experience all my writings and fame are nothing”.
Those who experience the presence of God will know how to hold on to heavenly things and store up treasure only in heaven.
2. Transformation
Reflection and meditation upon God will transform a person into new spiritual being. He will become new and will know how to leave behind things that stop him from loving God and divine things.
once a man found an eagle’s egg and put it in the nest of a hen. some days later, the eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life, the eagle did what the chickens did, scratching earth for food and running around for fear of others. Years went by, the eagle grew old and then one day, he saw a majestic bird flying in the sky so big and beautiful. He asked the neighbor who he was, the neighbor said, “He is called eagle king of birds. He belongs to the sky and we belong to the earth”. And the old eagle believed, lived and died a chicken- because that is what he thought he was.
But we belong to the sky and our prayer and meditation and coming to church will slowly transform us into new spiritual beings. As we spend time in prayers, we begin to find God in everything we do. God called us to know that we belong to the sky. we are heavenly beings.
3. Action:
Once during a battle between Muslims and Christians, a Christian water boy was giving water to wounded Muslim soldiers as they lay suffering under the hot sun. He was brought to the king and was accused of being a traitor. The king asked what he was going to say. The soldier bowed before the king and said, “As they were suffering I saw no Muslim or Christian, all I saw was the face of Christ in every suffering person”. The king praised him saying, “You are the true disciple of Christ”.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
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17th Sunday-C
Good morning every one. I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Brothers and sisters in Christ, every time we come to Church and ask God with faith, we receive of things thirty, sixty and hundred fold and every time, we come to church and search God with hope, we find Him in our brothers and sisters and every time we come to church and knock the divine door with love, it is wide opened and takes us to heaven where we will be surrounded by angels and archangels, saints and holy men and women.
In today’s gospel, The apostles is asking Christ saying, we heard all other rabbis teaching prayers and different methods of spiritual worship to approach God and John the Baptist too taught his disciples to pray and we see you going to lonely places, deserted areas and top of the hills alone and praying to God. We see you different in your approach and sayings, your miracles and wonders bring more people to God and please help us to pray like you. We want to be like you.
Some times we see how grandchildren come to their grandparents and parents and ask them to help in their prayer life. They go to them because they see something new, attractive and spiritual in them. They see how they create a non-judgmental surroundings. They do not criticize or put others down instead they find the presence of God in every person. Not only children and many people are being attracted to people who pray more and thank God for everything that is happening around them.
Once a grand child looked at his grandpa being sad and asked, “Grandpa, I never saw you being sad and why are you looking sad”. The grandpa said, ‘you know what there are two wolves fighting with each other in m, one is good and the other is bad”. The boy innocently asked him which one is going to win grandpa. The grandpa looked at him and said the one I feed.
People accumulate more wisdom and knowledge through their prayers. Prayers shape a person into
Good morning every one. I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Brothers and sisters in Christ, every time we come to Church and ask God with faith, we receive of things thirty, sixty and hundred fold and every time, we come to church and search God with hope, we find Him in our brothers and sisters and every time we come to church and knock the divine door with love, it is wide opened and takes us to heaven where we will be surrounded by angels and archangels, saints and holy men and women.
In today’s gospel, The apostles is asking Christ saying, we heard all other rabbis teaching prayers and different methods of spiritual worship to approach God and John the Baptist too taught his disciples to pray and we see you going to lonely places, deserted areas and top of the hills alone and praying to God. We see you different in your approach and sayings, your miracles and wonders bring more people to God and please help us to pray like you. We want to be like you.
Some times we see how grandchildren come to their grandparents and parents and ask them to help in their prayer life. They go to them because they see something new, attractive and spiritual in them. They see how they create a non-judgmental surroundings. They do not criticize or put others down instead they find the presence of God in every person. Not only children and many people are being attracted to people who pray more and thank God for everything that is happening around them.
Once a grand child looked at his grandpa being sad and asked, “Grandpa, I never saw you being sad and why are you looking sad”. The grandpa said, ‘you know what there are two wolves fighting with each other in m, one is good and the other is bad”. The boy innocently asked him which one is going to win grandpa. The grandpa looked at him and said the one I feed.
People accumulate more wisdom and knowledge through their prayers. Prayers shape a person into
1. Ask:
My Father will give you anything that you ask in my name. And then a man came to Jesus and Jesus said, “What do you want from me?’ I want to see again, Jesus. please help me. Do you believe that I can do this for you and when he said, “Yes”, I believe and then the man immediately regained his sight and began to praise and glorify God. By asking, he received sight and faith. His faith in God multiplied hundred fold. He then began to follow Christ.
And before we ask, we thank God for what we are given. we praise His holy name and we worship and adore Him for our life and living. What we with our power can do we should do.
One day a man as he was walking noticed a fox with a broken leg and he wanted to know how the fox was feeding himself and then a strange thing happened, a lion came bringing a piece of meat and dropped before the fox. The man was so surprised to see the greatness of God and thought to himself, If God does great things to a limping fox how much more he would do to me. so he went home and began to pray and ask God continuously for food but nothing happened and then one day God appeared to him and said, “Son, you should have taken the lesson from the lion not from the limping
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16th Sunday-CGood morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Dear friends, every time you come to Church, God speaks to us in silence and every time you come to church and pray silently, Christ our Lord showers upon you the Spirit and heals you all and every time you receive the church’s sacraments, we understand the language of silence.
Once a man tried his best to find a job but nothing happened and then at last he got a job in a local zoo. All he had to do was just dressing like a monkey and entertain people. Though in the beginning, he could not do it well and then he began to entertain people well jumping up and down, rolling over and screaming and yelling. One day as he was jumping, he fell into the lion’s cage. He knew that he was going to die. He began to cry and cream saying, “ please, Lion let me go and I don’t want to die”. The lion came closer to him and said, ‘Do not scream and we both are going to lose our job”.
Today I invite you all to meditate upon the value of Silence. People say that Silence is gold. Silence is the source of great strength. Silence is a fence around wisdom. When all the noise is gone there is only God.
One day a man went to his spiritual Master and said, “Master, I want to find god and what should I do”. The master said, ‘go and close your door and be still and the silence will teach you the way to find God”.
UNQUIET SILENCE Today we see many people practicing silence but sometimes their silence is more like an exterior absence of words or a stillness from noise. They do not use words but their mind is unquiet, filled with words, noise, ideas, questions, doubts and conflicts. They are confused inside and they are having mind conversation. Silence is only on the surface but inside they are so confused and talking louder and louder. This is called unquiet silence.
Once a teacher wanted to show his students a new technique of shooting an arrow. They covered his eyes with a cloth and then he shot his arrow. when he opened his eyes, he saw the target with no arrow in it and when he looked at his students they looked so embarrassed because their teacher failed. He asked them what lesson he intended to teach them and they said, “you wanted to teach us how to shoot at the target without looking. The teacher said, “No’ I wanted to teach you if you wanted to achieve anything you should not forget your target and keep an eye on the target. Concentrate. and practice of silence helps you to concentrate and keep an eye on your target.
SPEECHLESS SILENCE persons under sudden shock and deeply excited by fear also experience silence. This silence may be wordless and it may give someone for sometime speechlessness or momentary silence. But it does not have lasting peace in it. It only causes confusion and chaos and it also creates anxiety and tension.
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TRANQUIL OR MINDFUL SILENCE Mindful silence is not forced by external or internal factors. It is natural and spontaneous, active and sublime. It wells up form the depth of one’s personality and overflows with a certain rhythm. This silence radiates energy and emanates vitality. In its very essence, you see peace and joy. For example, in today’s first reading, As Abraham was sitting in stillness and silence, there happened something extraordinary. He began to recognize Angels. And we see how he conversed with them and invited them to dine with him. The angels delivered a good news to him. All these things happened because of his stillness and silence and all these things happened because of his deep connection with God in silence. when all the noise is gone, there we see only God.
And in today’s gospel reading, What is Mary doing? Though every one was so busy and running around and even her own sister Martha was anxious and worried about cooking, cleaning and doing something, She was sitting at the feet of Christ silently and because of her stillness, she began to recognize every word that came from the mouth of God. she knew that people do not live on bread alone but every word that comes from the mouth of God. And Christ our Lord says that being in stillness at his feet is the better way and being in silence and listening to Him is the way to experience peace, harmony, joy and happiness. Only practicing silence, we recognize angels around us and only in silence we experience God in Christ and only practicing silence we become god’s Messengers to our brothers and sisters in need. So let us practice silence and find God in our brothers and sisters Amen.
Once a man tried his best to find a job but nothing happened and then at last he got a job in a local zoo. All he had to do was just dressing like a monkey and entertain people. Though in the beginning, he could not do it well and then he began to entertain people well jumping up and down, rolling over and screaming and yelling. One day as he was jumping, he fell into the lion’s cage. He knew that he was going to die. He began to cry and cream saying, “ please, Lion let me go and I don’t want to die”. The lion came closer to him and said, ‘Do not scream and we both are going to lose our job”.
Today I invite you all to meditate upon the value of Silence. People say that Silence is gold. Silence is the source of great strength. Silence is a fence around wisdom. When all the noise is gone there is only God.
One day a man went to his spiritual Master and said, “Master, I want to find god and what should I do”. The master said, ‘go and close your door and be still and the silence will teach you the way to find God”.
UNQUIET SILENCE Today we see many people practicing silence but sometimes their silence is more like an exterior absence of words or a stillness from noise. They do not use words but their mind is unquiet, filled with words, noise, ideas, questions, doubts and conflicts. They are confused inside and they are having mind conversation. Silence is only on the surface but inside they are so confused and talking louder and louder. This is called unquiet silence.
Once a teacher wanted to show his students a new technique of shooting an arrow. They covered his eyes with a cloth and then he shot his arrow. when he opened his eyes, he saw the target with no arrow in it and when he looked at his students they looked so embarrassed because their teacher failed. He asked them what lesson he intended to teach them and they said, “you wanted to teach us how to shoot at the target without looking. The teacher said, “No’ I wanted to teach you if you wanted to achieve anything you should not forget your target and keep an eye on the target. Concentrate. and practice of silence helps you to concentrate and keep an eye on your target.
SPEECHLESS SILENCE persons under sudden shock and deeply excited by fear also experience silence. This silence may be wordless and it may give someone for sometime speechlessness or momentary silence. But it does not have lasting peace in it. It only causes confusion and chaos and it also creates anxiety and tension.
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TRANQUIL OR MINDFUL SILENCE Mindful silence is not forced by external or internal factors. It is natural and spontaneous, active and sublime. It wells up form the depth of one’s personality and overflows with a certain rhythm. This silence radiates energy and emanates vitality. In its very essence, you see peace and joy. For example, in today’s first reading, As Abraham was sitting in stillness and silence, there happened something extraordinary. He began to recognize Angels. And we see how he conversed with them and invited them to dine with him. The angels delivered a good news to him. All these things happened because of his stillness and silence and all these things happened because of his deep connection with God in silence. when all the noise is gone, there we see only God.
And in today’s gospel reading, What is Mary doing? Though every one was so busy and running around and even her own sister Martha was anxious and worried about cooking, cleaning and doing something, She was sitting at the feet of Christ silently and because of her stillness, she began to recognize every word that came from the mouth of God. she knew that people do not live on bread alone but every word that comes from the mouth of God. And Christ our Lord says that being in stillness at his feet is the better way and being in silence and listening to Him is the way to experience peace, harmony, joy and happiness. Only practicing silence, we recognize angels around us and only in silence we experience God in Christ and only practicing silence we become god’s Messengers to our brothers and sisters in need. So let us practice silence and find God in our brothers and sisters Amen.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
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12th Sunday in ordinary time-C
Good morning/evening every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Our special welcome to all our parishioners, cottagers, visitors and every one here today. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we are blessed to join the apostles and say, ‘Jesus, you are the only Son of God and Savior”. Every time we come here, we praise and glorify Christ and say, “Jesus, you are the beginning and End and because of you, we live, move and have our being. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we are given enough grace to take up the cross and follow the Lord.
Once after reading this exact gospel, a bishop looked at people and said, “Now I am going to bless you all with your crosses. So please life your crosses up, thinking that they were going to lift their pain, suffering and challenges up but instead, they all lifted up their spouses”.
In today’s gospel, Jesus our Lord says, if you want to become my disciple, renounce or deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me”
Once a man who was really suffering because his cross, continued to pray to God saying, “God, please kindly take this cross away from me. you may give any cross except this one. His prayers went on for many months and then one day, God appeared to him saying, “ My child, I heard your prayer and I am going to remove your cross and I am also going to let you choose your own cross”. He then took him to a big place where he was so many crosses, big and small, heavy and light. He looked at all the crosses but he did not like anything at all. he then finally looked at a little beautiful cross in a corner and he right away grabbed that one saying, “Dear God, please let me have this one. I will be so satisfied with this little cross”. God said, “Of course my son, you can have this little cross”. As he was walking out with that beautiful little cross, God said, ’Son by the way, you should know that this is the cross, you were all along crossing”. Then God said, “I will never give you anything that you can not carry”.
That is our God. He loves us unconditionally and fills us all with more strength and courage.
And in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, If we want to become His disciples, we should deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him.
1. Becoming His disciple means, investing more time to know the invisible. It is going beyond reality. We are so limited with what we see and understand. But as disciples of Christ we are so blessed to know the invisible through visible that is Christ our Lord. He was an ordinary human person like you and me and taught us how to surpass visible things and connect ourselves with invisible and heavenly things. we should sit at His feet and listen to His divine words as Mary did. people criticized her for sitting at His feet and listening. Even her own sister came to Jesus and said, “Jesus, tell my sister to help me. she is just sitting at your feet and listening to what you are saying’. She is not active but passive. She is not productive but useless. And Christ our Lord, looked at her and said, “Martha...Martha... you are busy and anxious and you are worried about so many world things but look at your sister Mary. She has chosen the best part and that will never be taken away from her. Becoming a disciple of Christ means, just sitting at His feet and listening.
Jesus says if you want to become my disciple, deny yourself .It means denying your human nature and hold on to your new self. As Christ died on the Cross for our sins, we became new in Christ. We are God’s children. we should let the old self go. We should replace our old angers with new acceptance; we should replace our hated with love and forgiveness. Denying oneself means having courage to let our anxiety and stress go and embrace with peace and harmony.
Jesus our Lord asks us to take up our cross and follow Him.
A disciple is the one who reflects the Master and by seeing the disciple, the world will come to know the Master. if we are to be disciples of Christ, then we have to like our Master should carry our crosses, not for our own welfare but for the sake of others and for our community. As we carry the cross, then we will begin to have a deeper spiritual experiences and join the apostles and say, “Jesus, you are the only son of God. you are the beginning and end. with you, everything becomes possible.
Therefore let us deny ourselves and carry our crosses and follow Christ our Lord. Amen.
Good morning/evening every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Our special welcome to all our parishioners, cottagers, visitors and every one here today. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we are blessed to join the apostles and say, ‘Jesus, you are the only Son of God and Savior”. Every time we come here, we praise and glorify Christ and say, “Jesus, you are the beginning and End and because of you, we live, move and have our being. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we are given enough grace to take up the cross and follow the Lord.
Once after reading this exact gospel, a bishop looked at people and said, “Now I am going to bless you all with your crosses. So please life your crosses up, thinking that they were going to lift their pain, suffering and challenges up but instead, they all lifted up their spouses”.
In today’s gospel, Jesus our Lord says, if you want to become my disciple, renounce or deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me”
Once a man who was really suffering because his cross, continued to pray to God saying, “God, please kindly take this cross away from me. you may give any cross except this one. His prayers went on for many months and then one day, God appeared to him saying, “ My child, I heard your prayer and I am going to remove your cross and I am also going to let you choose your own cross”. He then took him to a big place where he was so many crosses, big and small, heavy and light. He looked at all the crosses but he did not like anything at all. he then finally looked at a little beautiful cross in a corner and he right away grabbed that one saying, “Dear God, please let me have this one. I will be so satisfied with this little cross”. God said, “Of course my son, you can have this little cross”. As he was walking out with that beautiful little cross, God said, ’Son by the way, you should know that this is the cross, you were all along crossing”. Then God said, “I will never give you anything that you can not carry”.
That is our God. He loves us unconditionally and fills us all with more strength and courage.
And in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, If we want to become His disciples, we should deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him.
1. Becoming His disciple means, investing more time to know the invisible. It is going beyond reality. We are so limited with what we see and understand. But as disciples of Christ we are so blessed to know the invisible through visible that is Christ our Lord. He was an ordinary human person like you and me and taught us how to surpass visible things and connect ourselves with invisible and heavenly things. we should sit at His feet and listen to His divine words as Mary did. people criticized her for sitting at His feet and listening. Even her own sister came to Jesus and said, “Jesus, tell my sister to help me. she is just sitting at your feet and listening to what you are saying’. She is not active but passive. She is not productive but useless. And Christ our Lord, looked at her and said, “Martha...Martha... you are busy and anxious and you are worried about so many world things but look at your sister Mary. She has chosen the best part and that will never be taken away from her. Becoming a disciple of Christ means, just sitting at His feet and listening.
Jesus says if you want to become my disciple, deny yourself .It means denying your human nature and hold on to your new self. As Christ died on the Cross for our sins, we became new in Christ. We are God’s children. we should let the old self go. We should replace our old angers with new acceptance; we should replace our hated with love and forgiveness. Denying oneself means having courage to let our anxiety and stress go and embrace with peace and harmony.
Jesus our Lord asks us to take up our cross and follow Him.
A disciple is the one who reflects the Master and by seeing the disciple, the world will come to know the Master. if we are to be disciples of Christ, then we have to like our Master should carry our crosses, not for our own welfare but for the sake of others and for our community. As we carry the cross, then we will begin to have a deeper spiritual experiences and join the apostles and say, “Jesus, you are the only son of God. you are the beginning and end. with you, everything becomes possible.
Therefore let us deny ourselves and carry our crosses and follow Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Dear friends in Christ Jesus, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we meditate upon the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, every time we come to church, we profess our faith saying, “ Christ who has died and is risen will come again, not to judge us but give us life that will never end. Every time we come to Church and receive any of church’s sacraments, we begin to prepare and celebrate our unending life with Christ our Lord.
In today’s Gospel, we are so blessed to know how the end is going to be and what the gifts we are given to face it.
1. On the Last day, the divine created universe will begin to react differently. The Sun and the Moon; the stars and the sky will begin to manifest the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. yes, Our Lord Christ very particularly communicated with His disciples about His second coming. Though Christ our Lord openly spoke everything, sometimes because of their limited understanding and human condition, the disciples could not understand everything. Even today, though we live in an advanced sophisticated world, we too still struggle to understand so many things. And that is why, when Christ our Lord was taken up to heaven, the apostles looked sad and confused and then the angel of the Lord appeared to them and said, “ O men of Galilee what are you looking up in the heaven?’ The Christ who was taken up to heaven, will come back in the same way surrounded by angels and arch angels”. Yes, Christ our Lord is coming. He is coming not to punish us but to take us with Him so that where He is we may be too.
2. On the day, the divine created earth will begin to react differently. there will be earthquakes and destruction; calamities, war and famine. The whole earth will be shaken and many false prophets and people will appear among us and proclaim that they are the living son of God, they are Christ but we who believe in Christ will know how to identify the coming of Christ. We know that the coming of Christ is not to destroy us but to give us life. we are all given enough grace and blessing to know the difference between good and evil. we know how to say “No” to pain and suffering and Yes to love and forgiveness because each and every day, we put our faith into practice and love more and more everything and forgive more and more everything.
3. Today the question is how can we know the presence of God with us? Today’s gospel says that there is a way to know the living presence of God among us. yes, as we face spiritual challenges, we do not need to be afraid of what to say and how to react and all we have to do is just put our strong trust in the Lord. Christ who loves us so much will give words and show how to react according to the situation. many prophets, saints, holy men and women experienced the presence of God
Conclusion: So we are here not to be afraid of the destruction, war and calamity but to celebrate and live our life to the fullest. Because Christ is coming not to punish us but give us life that will never end. Amen.
In today’s Gospel, we are so blessed to know how the end is going to be and what the gifts we are given to face it.
1. On the Last day, the divine created universe will begin to react differently. The Sun and the Moon; the stars and the sky will begin to manifest the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. yes, Our Lord Christ very particularly communicated with His disciples about His second coming. Though Christ our Lord openly spoke everything, sometimes because of their limited understanding and human condition, the disciples could not understand everything. Even today, though we live in an advanced sophisticated world, we too still struggle to understand so many things. And that is why, when Christ our Lord was taken up to heaven, the apostles looked sad and confused and then the angel of the Lord appeared to them and said, “ O men of Galilee what are you looking up in the heaven?’ The Christ who was taken up to heaven, will come back in the same way surrounded by angels and arch angels”. Yes, Christ our Lord is coming. He is coming not to punish us but to take us with Him so that where He is we may be too.
2. On the day, the divine created earth will begin to react differently. there will be earthquakes and destruction; calamities, war and famine. The whole earth will be shaken and many false prophets and people will appear among us and proclaim that they are the living son of God, they are Christ but we who believe in Christ will know how to identify the coming of Christ. We know that the coming of Christ is not to destroy us but to give us life. we are all given enough grace and blessing to know the difference between good and evil. we know how to say “No” to pain and suffering and Yes to love and forgiveness because each and every day, we put our faith into practice and love more and more everything and forgive more and more everything.
3. Today the question is how can we know the presence of God with us? Today’s gospel says that there is a way to know the living presence of God among us. yes, as we face spiritual challenges, we do not need to be afraid of what to say and how to react and all we have to do is just put our strong trust in the Lord. Christ who loves us so much will give words and show how to react according to the situation. many prophets, saints, holy men and women experienced the presence of God
Conclusion: So we are here not to be afraid of the destruction, war and calamity but to celebrate and live our life to the fullest. Because Christ is coming not to punish us but give us life that will never end. Amen.
Monday, June 24, 2013
12th Sunday in ordinary time-C
Good morning/evening every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Our special welcome to all our parishioners, cottagers, visitors and every one here today. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we are blessed to join the apostles and say, ‘Jesus, you are the only Son of God and Savior”. Every time we come here, we praise and glorify Christ and say, “Jesus, you are the beginning and End and because of you, we live, move and have our being. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we are given enough grace to take up the cross and follow the Lord.
Once after reading this exact gospel, a bishop looked at people and said, “Now I am going to bless you all with your crosses. So please life your crosses up, thinking that they were going to lift their pain, suffering and challenges up but instead, they all lifted up their spouses”.
In today’s gospel, Jesus our Lord says, if you want to become my disciple, renounce or deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me”
Once a man who was really suffering because his cross, continued to pray to God saying, “God, please kindly take this cross away from me. you may give any cross except this one. His prayers went on for many months and then one day, God appeared to him saying, “ My child, I heard your prayer and I am going to remove your cross and I am also going to let you choose your own cross”. He then took him to a big place where he was so many crosses, big and small, heavy and light. He looked at all the crosses but he did not like anything at all. he then finally looked at a little beautiful cross in a corner and he right away grabbed that one saying, “Dear God, please let me have this one. I will be so satisfied with this little cross”. God said, “Of course my son, you can have this little cross”. As he was walking out with that beautiful little cross, God said, ’Son by the way, you should know that this is the cross, you were all along crossing”. Then God said, “I will never give you anything that you can not carry”.
That is our God. He loves us unconditionally and fills us all with more strength and courage.
And in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, If we want to become His disciples, we should deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him.
1. Becoming His disciple means, investing more time to know the invisible. It is going beyond reality. We are so limited with what we see and understand. But as disciples of Christ we are so blessed to know the invisible through visible that is Christ our Lord. He was an ordinary human person like you and me and taught us how to surpass visible things and connect ourselves with invisible and heavenly things. we should sit at His feet and listen to His divine words as Mary did. people criticized her for sitting at His feet and listening. Even her own sister came to Jesus and said, “Jesus, tell my sister to help me. she is just sitting at your feet and listening to what you are saying’. She is not active but passive. She is not productive but useless. And Christ our Lord, looked at her and said, “Martha...Martha... you are busy and anxious and you are worried about so many world things but look at your sister Mary. She has chosen the best part and that will never be taken away from her. Becoming a disciple of Christ means, just sitting at His feet and listening.
Jesus says if you want to become my disciple, deny yourself .
It means denying your human nature and hold on to your new self. As Christ died on the Cross for our sins, we became new in Christ. We are God’s children. we should let the old self go. We should replace our old angers with new acceptance; we should replace our hated with love and forgiveness. Denying oneself means having courage to let our anxiety and stress go and embrace with peace and harmony.
Jesus our Lord asks us to take up our cross and follow Him.
A disciple is the one who reflects the Master and by seeing the disciple, the world will come to know the Master. if we are to be disciples of Christ, then we have to like our Master should carry our crosses, not for our own welfare but for the sake of others and for our community. As we carry the cross, then we will begin to have a deeper spiritual experiences and join the apostles and say, “Jesus, you are the only son of God. you are the beginning and end. with you, everything becomes possible.
Therefore let us deny ourselves and carry our crosses and follow Christ our Lord. Amen.
Good morning/evening every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Our special welcome to all our parishioners, cottagers, visitors and every one here today. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we are blessed to join the apostles and say, ‘Jesus, you are the only Son of God and Savior”. Every time we come here, we praise and glorify Christ and say, “Jesus, you are the beginning and End and because of you, we live, move and have our being. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we are given enough grace to take up the cross and follow the Lord.
Once after reading this exact gospel, a bishop looked at people and said, “Now I am going to bless you all with your crosses. So please life your crosses up, thinking that they were going to lift their pain, suffering and challenges up but instead, they all lifted up their spouses”.
In today’s gospel, Jesus our Lord says, if you want to become my disciple, renounce or deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me”
Once a man who was really suffering because his cross, continued to pray to God saying, “God, please kindly take this cross away from me. you may give any cross except this one. His prayers went on for many months and then one day, God appeared to him saying, “ My child, I heard your prayer and I am going to remove your cross and I am also going to let you choose your own cross”. He then took him to a big place where he was so many crosses, big and small, heavy and light. He looked at all the crosses but he did not like anything at all. he then finally looked at a little beautiful cross in a corner and he right away grabbed that one saying, “Dear God, please let me have this one. I will be so satisfied with this little cross”. God said, “Of course my son, you can have this little cross”. As he was walking out with that beautiful little cross, God said, ’Son by the way, you should know that this is the cross, you were all along crossing”. Then God said, “I will never give you anything that you can not carry”.
That is our God. He loves us unconditionally and fills us all with more strength and courage.
And in today’s Gospel, Jesus says, If we want to become His disciples, we should deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him.
1. Becoming His disciple means, investing more time to know the invisible. It is going beyond reality. We are so limited with what we see and understand. But as disciples of Christ we are so blessed to know the invisible through visible that is Christ our Lord. He was an ordinary human person like you and me and taught us how to surpass visible things and connect ourselves with invisible and heavenly things. we should sit at His feet and listen to His divine words as Mary did. people criticized her for sitting at His feet and listening. Even her own sister came to Jesus and said, “Jesus, tell my sister to help me. she is just sitting at your feet and listening to what you are saying’. She is not active but passive. She is not productive but useless. And Christ our Lord, looked at her and said, “Martha...Martha... you are busy and anxious and you are worried about so many world things but look at your sister Mary. She has chosen the best part and that will never be taken away from her. Becoming a disciple of Christ means, just sitting at His feet and listening.
Jesus says if you want to become my disciple, deny yourself .
It means denying your human nature and hold on to your new self. As Christ died on the Cross for our sins, we became new in Christ. We are God’s children. we should let the old self go. We should replace our old angers with new acceptance; we should replace our hated with love and forgiveness. Denying oneself means having courage to let our anxiety and stress go and embrace with peace and harmony.
Jesus our Lord asks us to take up our cross and follow Him.
A disciple is the one who reflects the Master and by seeing the disciple, the world will come to know the Master. if we are to be disciples of Christ, then we have to like our Master should carry our crosses, not for our own welfare but for the sake of others and for our community. As we carry the cross, then we will begin to have a deeper spiritual experiences and join the apostles and say, “Jesus, you are the only son of God. you are the beginning and end. with you, everything becomes possible.
Therefore let us deny ourselves and carry our crosses and follow Christ our Lord. Amen.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Ascension and Mother's day
The Ascension of the Lord
Good morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Our special welcome to all our parishioners, cottagers, visitors and everyone. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we celebrate God our Father who has motherly love for us all, every time we come here we celebrate Christ the descendent one who ascended for us to take us with Him and every time we come to church, we celebrate life in the spirit.
once an angel of the Lord appeared to three wise men and said, “I want to conceal the most precious gift of God namely His own image from man and how can I do it?’ The first wise man said, “you may hide it on the top of the highest mountain on earth where no one can go”. But the angel refused saying man could reach it. The second wise man said, ‘hide it in the depth of the deepest sea”. The angel again refused the idea saying man could reach it and then the last wise man said, “please hide it on the far side of the moon and man can not reach it’. The angel smiled at him and said even there man could reach it. Then the angel said, “I am going to conceal the image of God where people would never think of looking. I will put it into their hearts. There it will never be discovered”.
Thus the image and likeness of God was concealed in the hearts of people and they could not find it at all. Many tried their best but they all failed. They longed for someone to descend from heaven to discover their God-given image. Then finally our Lord Jesus Christ who descended from heaven and saying that we belong to God and God alone. He gave us the courage to call God Father. By His preaching and teaching, miracles and wonders, He let the people to see the image and likeness of God in them. When people discovered their divine belonging, they began to long for God. Christ our Lord brought love, kindness and forgiveness of God almighty to all and thus they began to see the image of god in them.
Even after His resurrection, He stayed with them for forty day appearing to them and giving them peace and prosperity to grow stronger and at last on the fortieth day, in their
their presence the descended one ascended to heaven. Christ our Lord before His ascension asked His apostles, disciples and followers to go everywhere to preach the good news of salvation to all saying, therefore go everywhere and baptized them all in the name of the father, son and the holy spirit. As He ascended, He promised his disciples that He would send the Holy Spirit to guide and protect them. The disciples after Pentecost went everywhere as Christ our Lord directed and began to preach the Good News of salvation to all.
Christ our Lord, after His resurrection, for forty days stayed on earth, appearing to His disciples and preparing them to send them out to preach the Good News of the gospel. Then on the fortieth day, in the presence of His disciples and of all his followers, was taken up to heaven. Yes, He who descended ascended into heaven.
1. The Ascension of the Lord tells us where the Risen Christ is now: He is now sitting at the right hand of the father, and fulfilling all our needs. The good Shepherd is looking after his sheep. The Jesus who lived, died and came back to life is still with us, every time we pray, read the bible and come to Church, we can experience his presence among us.
2. The Ascension of our Lord Jesus tells us why Christ appeared to His disciples: He appeared to them to leave behind their fears and anxieties. They were afraid of authorities and were hiding behind locked doors. Every time, Christ appeared to them, he gave them peace and hope and strengthened them to face the world with his love and kindness. He promised them saying, 'don't be afraid, I will be with you until the end of time".
3. The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ will come again on the last day. His coming will be our glory and joy. He comes to judge us and those who follow him, will have life everlasting. And we who follow him will be given new life, so let us eagerly wait for the day.
4. The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that those who follow him should go out and preach the good news to all, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus says we don't need to be worried of what to say and how to say, because everything will be given to us at that time. So let us celebrate his resurrection and ascension and celebrate our life in Him.
Good morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Our special welcome to all our parishioners, cottagers, visitors and everyone. Dear friends, every time we come to church, we celebrate God our Father who has motherly love for us all, every time we come here we celebrate Christ the descendent one who ascended for us to take us with Him and every time we come to church, we celebrate life in the spirit.
once an angel of the Lord appeared to three wise men and said, “I want to conceal the most precious gift of God namely His own image from man and how can I do it?’ The first wise man said, “you may hide it on the top of the highest mountain on earth where no one can go”. But the angel refused saying man could reach it. The second wise man said, ‘hide it in the depth of the deepest sea”. The angel again refused the idea saying man could reach it and then the last wise man said, “please hide it on the far side of the moon and man can not reach it’. The angel smiled at him and said even there man could reach it. Then the angel said, “I am going to conceal the image of God where people would never think of looking. I will put it into their hearts. There it will never be discovered”.
Thus the image and likeness of God was concealed in the hearts of people and they could not find it at all. Many tried their best but they all failed. They longed for someone to descend from heaven to discover their God-given image. Then finally our Lord Jesus Christ who descended from heaven and saying that we belong to God and God alone. He gave us the courage to call God Father. By His preaching and teaching, miracles and wonders, He let the people to see the image and likeness of God in them. When people discovered their divine belonging, they began to long for God. Christ our Lord brought love, kindness and forgiveness of God almighty to all and thus they began to see the image of god in them.
Even after His resurrection, He stayed with them for forty day appearing to them and giving them peace and prosperity to grow stronger and at last on the fortieth day, in their
their presence the descended one ascended to heaven. Christ our Lord before His ascension asked His apostles, disciples and followers to go everywhere to preach the good news of salvation to all saying, therefore go everywhere and baptized them all in the name of the father, son and the holy spirit. As He ascended, He promised his disciples that He would send the Holy Spirit to guide and protect them. The disciples after Pentecost went everywhere as Christ our Lord directed and began to preach the Good News of salvation to all.
Christ our Lord, after His resurrection, for forty days stayed on earth, appearing to His disciples and preparing them to send them out to preach the Good News of the gospel. Then on the fortieth day, in the presence of His disciples and of all his followers, was taken up to heaven. Yes, He who descended ascended into heaven.
1. The Ascension of the Lord tells us where the Risen Christ is now: He is now sitting at the right hand of the father, and fulfilling all our needs. The good Shepherd is looking after his sheep. The Jesus who lived, died and came back to life is still with us, every time we pray, read the bible and come to Church, we can experience his presence among us.
2. The Ascension of our Lord Jesus tells us why Christ appeared to His disciples: He appeared to them to leave behind their fears and anxieties. They were afraid of authorities and were hiding behind locked doors. Every time, Christ appeared to them, he gave them peace and hope and strengthened them to face the world with his love and kindness. He promised them saying, 'don't be afraid, I will be with you until the end of time".
3. The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ will come again on the last day. His coming will be our glory and joy. He comes to judge us and those who follow him, will have life everlasting. And we who follow him will be given new life, so let us eagerly wait for the day.
4. The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that those who follow him should go out and preach the good news to all, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus says we don't need to be worried of what to say and how to say, because everything will be given to us at that time. So let us celebrate his resurrection and ascension and celebrate our life in Him.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Divine Mercy Sunday
Good morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Today the Holy Catholic Church celebrates the solemn feast of the divine mercy called divine mercy Sunday. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we celebrate divine mercy, we are given divine mercy to continue our mission of preaching the Good News of our Risen Christ to all and every time we come to Church, we are called to share divine mercy with our brothers and sisters in need.
Once there was a servant who used to bring fresh fruits to the king every morning. The king enjoyed the fresh fruits and one day, the king was in a very bad mood. As the servant brought some fresh black berries, he tasted it and did not like it so he vented his anger by throwing the berries on his face. Then the servant bowed before the king and said, “God is merciful”. The king looked at him and said, ‘why do you say God is merciful?’ The servant said because this morning I thought of bringing you pineapple but I changed my mind for that I am saying that God is merciful.
Once a mother sought from King Napoleon pardon of her son. But the king said that it was the man’s second offence and justice demanded his death. She then looked at him and said, “I am here not for justice but for mercy. The king said, he does not deserve mercy. She then said it would not be mercy if he deserved it and mercy is all I ask. Then the king looked at her and said, “Then I have mercy for your son”.
Dear friends, we do not need justice from our God but mercy and compassion. Our God is full of mercy and compassion and that is why He sent His only Son Christ to us all. Today we celebrate divine mercy Sunday. Pope John Paul the second blessed the second Sunday of Easter as divine mercy Sunday. As we all know the story of Sister Faustina to whom Jesus our Lord appeared and asked her to let the world know how much he loves us and has compassion for us all. This private apparition and revelation does not reveal some thing new to the world but instead give us reassurance of God’s mercy and compassion for the world.
This divine mercy we are going to recall three importance things such as Ask trust and share. Yes, we are called to ask God for his mercy and compassion without any hesitation. Jesus promises that those who ask will receive not thirty or sixty but hundred fold of love, kindness and mercy. To those who ask the gift of the Holy Spirit is given. Let our prayer of thanksgiving and spiritual celebration becomes a form of asking God our father.
The divine mercy Sunday also invites us to trust in the mercy of god our father. Yes, every time people came to Christ for healing, all He asked them was, “ do you have faith? Or do you believe and trust and when they said, “Yes” lord we trust in you and Christ said, your faith has healed you, go in peace. Let us trust in God and celebrate as though we have received it already.
And the divine mercy Sunday invites us to share the divine mercy with others. The whole of Christianity is based on serving others. Dear friends, our loving saviour will judge us on how we served and helped others. Any thing we do to the least of our brothers and sisters, we do to the Lord. So let us celebrate divine mercy and recall the goodness of the Lord. Amen.
Good morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Today the Holy Catholic Church celebrates the solemn feast of the divine mercy called divine mercy Sunday. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we celebrate divine mercy, we are given divine mercy to continue our mission of preaching the Good News of our Risen Christ to all and every time we come to Church, we are called to share divine mercy with our brothers and sisters in need.
Once there was a servant who used to bring fresh fruits to the king every morning. The king enjoyed the fresh fruits and one day, the king was in a very bad mood. As the servant brought some fresh black berries, he tasted it and did not like it so he vented his anger by throwing the berries on his face. Then the servant bowed before the king and said, “God is merciful”. The king looked at him and said, ‘why do you say God is merciful?’ The servant said because this morning I thought of bringing you pineapple but I changed my mind for that I am saying that God is merciful.
Once a mother sought from King Napoleon pardon of her son. But the king said that it was the man’s second offence and justice demanded his death. She then looked at him and said, “I am here not for justice but for mercy. The king said, he does not deserve mercy. She then said it would not be mercy if he deserved it and mercy is all I ask. Then the king looked at her and said, “Then I have mercy for your son”.
Dear friends, we do not need justice from our God but mercy and compassion. Our God is full of mercy and compassion and that is why He sent His only Son Christ to us all. Today we celebrate divine mercy Sunday. Pope John Paul the second blessed the second Sunday of Easter as divine mercy Sunday. As we all know the story of Sister Faustina to whom Jesus our Lord appeared and asked her to let the world know how much he loves us and has compassion for us all. This private apparition and revelation does not reveal some thing new to the world but instead give us reassurance of God’s mercy and compassion for the world.
This divine mercy we are going to recall three importance things such as Ask trust and share. Yes, we are called to ask God for his mercy and compassion without any hesitation. Jesus promises that those who ask will receive not thirty or sixty but hundred fold of love, kindness and mercy. To those who ask the gift of the Holy Spirit is given. Let our prayer of thanksgiving and spiritual celebration becomes a form of asking God our father.
The divine mercy Sunday also invites us to trust in the mercy of god our father. Yes, every time people came to Christ for healing, all He asked them was, “ do you have faith? Or do you believe and trust and when they said, “Yes” lord we trust in you and Christ said, your faith has healed you, go in peace. Let us trust in God and celebrate as though we have received it already.
And the divine mercy Sunday invites us to share the divine mercy with others. The whole of Christianity is based on serving others. Dear friends, our loving saviour will judge us on how we served and helped others. Any thing we do to the least of our brothers and sisters, we do to the Lord. So let us celebrate divine mercy and recall the goodness of the Lord. Amen.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
holy Thursday
Holy Thursday…
Good evening every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Today our Holy Catholic Church celebrates Holy Thursday. It is called Maundy Thursday. The word Maundy comes from the Latin word ‘Mandatum’ which means commandment. On this day, Jesus gives a new commandment to His apostles saying, “Love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another”. Yes, it’s divine love that makes the world beautiful. It is out of love, God made this world and out of love for humanity. God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to us. When we think about God, we right away think about His unending love. Today on this Holy Thursday, Jesus gives His apostles a new commandment saying love one another as I have loved you. How much did He love us? When a man asked Jesus, “Jesus how much do you love me?’ He stretched out His hands and said, this much and died on the cross for us all.
On this day we celebrate the washing of the feet. This event shows the humility of the Master. Jesus not only said that He came to serve but He put it into practice. He knelt before His disciples who called Him Master, Teacher, Lord, Messiah and Son of God and washed their feet and died them with a towel. By doing this He proved to all that He came for humanity and humanity belonged to Him. He wants His people to belong to God alone who is full of love and compassion. Their sins and wrongs doings cannot stop God from loving them.
Today we celebrate the institution of the Holy Eucharist, During last supper, Jesus our Lord took the bread and broke it and gave it to his disciples saying, “take this all of you and eat it. This is my body, which is given up for you. Do this in memory of me. In the same manner, He look the wine and gave it to His disciples and said, ‘take this all of you and drink from it. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me”.
Dear friends, every time thus we celebrate the holy Eucharist we remember the greatest event, the body and blood of Christ we eat and become like Christ our lord. Yes we receive the new commandment namely loving one another as he our master loved us.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
4 lent-C
4lent-C
Today’s gospel is all about how precious we are in the sight of God. We are human and we fall into sin, go away from God and His goodness but He never changes His love towards us. He remains the same, yesterday, today and forever. Our sins will not change the loving heart of God but as we come to church and meditate upon the graciousness and loving kindness of God our Father, then we change. We leave our old ways behind and hold on to His love and immense kindness.
Once there was a sailor whose job was capturing people from Africa and selling them to other countries. Since he did not believe in God, he never felt morally responsible for what he was doing and then one day as he was taking people to sell other countries as slaves, he encountered a huge cyclone and tsunami and he knew that he was going to die with all those people, so he finally knelt before God and prayed saying, ‘Almighty God, I never believed in you and I sinned against you. Please forgive and save me and I will dedicate my whole life for you”. Then a miraculous thing happened, the sea was calm and so was his mind. He released all the people and dedicated his life to God and God alone. He was John Newton who wrote his experience in a beautiful poem and even today we sing his poem in the Church. He wrote, ‘Amazing grace how great thou art. I was lost but now I am found and I was blind and now I see’.
He was a prodigal son and as he came back, he experienced only love. We are today asked to come back to God who is full of love and compassion. Though the son went away from his father and squandered all his property, as he came back to senses and asked for forgiveness. The father said, “my son was dead and now he is alive. He was lost and now he was found’. Then there was a celebration of love and acceptance. It is our God who loves us all without limit or any condition.
One day a woman came to her parish priest and said, ‘Father, last night I had a vision and Jesus appeared and He talked to me”. The priest did not believe her and smiled and said, ‘that is good thing, keep praying”. But she came to him every day saying the same thing, ‘O Father, Jesus appeared and talked to me’ he was kind of annoyed and said to her, ‘if Jesus appears to you the next time, Just ask Him about my private sins. Then I will know weather it is really Jesus”. The next weekend, the priest waited for her but she did not show up. Three weeks later she again came to the priest and said, ‘Jesus appeared to me and talked to me”. He then looked at her and said, ‘did you ask Jesus about my private sins”. She said, “yes, I did and He said, ‘He does not remember your sins”.
Good morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Every time we come to Church, we celebrate God Our Father who is full of love and compassion; we celebrate Christ who says that there is no sin that can not be forgiven by God and It’s our duty to go to Him to experience forgiveness and love and every time we come to Church, we become Christ our Lord by our love and forgiveness.
One day a teacher showed his students a crisp hundred dollar bill and asked who wanted it and every one raised their hands saying, ‘I want it… I want it”. Then he purposely soiled and rumpled the hundred-dollar bill and showed to his students and said, “Now who wants the soiled and rumpled hundred dollar bill?” Again everyone raised their hands and said, “I want it. I want it”. Then he looked at them all and said, ‘weather the hundred dollar bill is crisp or soiled it has the same value and likewise whether a person is good or bad, he is precious in the sight of God. Nothing can change the heart of God from loving His children and we are all equal in His sight”.
Today’s gospel is all about how precious we are in the sight of God. We are human and we fall into sin, go away from God and His goodness but He never changes His love towards us. He remains the same, yesterday, today and forever. Our sins will not change the loving heart of God but as we come to church and meditate upon the graciousness and loving kindness of God our Father, then we change. We leave our old ways behind and hold on to His love and immense kindness.
Once there was a sailor whose job was capturing people from Africa and selling them to other countries. Since he did not believe in God, he never felt morally responsible for what he was doing and then one day as he was taking people to sell other countries as slaves, he encountered a huge cyclone and tsunami and he knew that he was going to die with all those people, so he finally knelt before God and prayed saying, ‘Almighty God, I never believed in you and I sinned against you. Please forgive and save me and I will dedicate my whole life for you”. Then a miraculous thing happened, the sea was calm and so was his mind. He released all the people and dedicated his life to God and God alone. He was John Newton who wrote his experience in a beautiful poem and even today we sing his poem in the Church. He wrote, ‘Amazing grace how great thou art. I was lost but now I am found and I was blind and now I see’.
He was a prodigal son and as he came back, he experienced only love. We are today asked to come back to God who is full of love and compassion. Though the son went away from his father and squandered all his property, as he came back to senses and asked for forgiveness. The father said, “my son was dead and now he is alive. He was lost and now he was found’. Then there was a celebration of love and acceptance. It is our God who loves us all without limit or any condition.
One day a woman came to her parish priest and said, ‘Father, last night I had a vision and Jesus appeared and He talked to me”. The priest did not believe her and smiled and said, ‘that is good thing, keep praying”. But she came to him every day saying the same thing, ‘O Father, Jesus appeared and talked to me’ he was kind of annoyed and said to her, ‘if Jesus appears to you the next time, Just ask Him about my private sins. Then I will know weather it is really Jesus”. The next weekend, the priest waited for her but she did not show up. Three weeks later she again came to the priest and said, ‘Jesus appeared to me and talked to me”. He then looked at her and said, ‘did you ask Jesus about my private sins”. She said, “yes, I did and He said, ‘He does not remember your sins”.
That is our God who forgives all our sins and accepts as we are. When we go to Him, He never says “No” but showers upon us all His countless blessings.
Once there was a holy man who prayed to God five times and day fasted three times a week and did every thing according to the will of God and followed the commandments of God in all he was doing and then one day he met with a woman who was leading an immoral life. He condemned her saying, ‘you are living against God and He will definitely punish you. You will go to eternal punishment’. She then pleaded him to do something for her but he refused saying, ‘there is no salvation for you people’. You will die in your sins. Then one day the holy man died and went to heaven. He was celebrating everlasting life there. Two weeks later the woman also died and went to heaven. When the holy man saw the woman in heaven, he got so mad and asked god what was going on? God said, “ son, you lived your life well and good and thus you are given life everlasting and this child of mine was a prodigal one but she came back to me and she was lost but now she is alive. Join her and celebrate life”.
Conclusion: Let us thank God for He is good and His love surpasses everything. Let us not judge others but accept and pray for them. Let us see the presence of Christ our Savior in them all. Amen.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
3Lent-C
Good morning every one, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Dear friends, every time we come to church we come to know that Our God is slow to anger and ready to forgive, every time we come to church we come to know that we are all given blessings upon blessings to live according to our call and every time we come to church, we come to know that our divine Savior Jesus Christ continues to plead for our cause.
In today’s gospel, we hear from the people two major calamities that happened during their time and they thought that those calamities happened because of the sin of the people and thus they questioned Jesus about the punishment of God. And Christ our Lord answered them that there was no connection between the calamities and the sinfulness of people.
Even today there are many people make the connection between natural calamities and sin. God, who created us to be happy and wants u to live our life to the fullest, will not destroy us because of our human weakness and sin but on the other hand we will be given more blessings to think about the compassion and kindness of God. We will be given more blessings to think about the forgiveness and acceptance of God our Father. Yes, the divine blessing will help us to know how God is slow to anger and ready to forgive and then we will say “No” to our sinful ways and “Yes” to His gracious love.
If our God is really punishing God who brings natural calamities, He might have been completely destroyed the earth. Where Tsunami happened, where earthquake happened, though people died, the earth is still alive there and many people are still living there comfortably. Our God is not a punishing God but He loves us unconditionally giving us enough time for us to change and go to Him our Creator.
Then our Lord Jesus Christ is giving them the parable of the fig tree. The tree was standing so majestic with full of leaves. It looked so glittering and attractive but it did not do what it supposed to do. The tree didn’t bear any fruit. Though owner gave so many changes and waited three years, nothing happened with the tree. So he was disappointed. Though people achieve great things in life, their duty is to love God and others and that is why we are here and are given life. When we fail to do so, we fail God.
As Jesus who represents both the owner and gardener is pleading for our cause and giving us change upon change. It is our duty to leave behind what hinder us from loving God and do what He asks us to do namely loving God and others. So let us make use of this Lenten season to renew our baptismal promises and love God and others. Amen.
In today’s gospel, we hear from the people two major calamities that happened during their time and they thought that those calamities happened because of the sin of the people and thus they questioned Jesus about the punishment of God. And Christ our Lord answered them that there was no connection between the calamities and the sinfulness of people.
Even today there are many people make the connection between natural calamities and sin. God, who created us to be happy and wants u to live our life to the fullest, will not destroy us because of our human weakness and sin but on the other hand we will be given more blessings to think about the compassion and kindness of God. We will be given more blessings to think about the forgiveness and acceptance of God our Father. Yes, the divine blessing will help us to know how God is slow to anger and ready to forgive and then we will say “No” to our sinful ways and “Yes” to His gracious love.
If our God is really punishing God who brings natural calamities, He might have been completely destroyed the earth. Where Tsunami happened, where earthquake happened, though people died, the earth is still alive there and many people are still living there comfortably. Our God is not a punishing God but He loves us unconditionally giving us enough time for us to change and go to Him our Creator.
Then our Lord Jesus Christ is giving them the parable of the fig tree. The tree was standing so majestic with full of leaves. It looked so glittering and attractive but it did not do what it supposed to do. The tree didn’t bear any fruit. Though owner gave so many changes and waited three years, nothing happened with the tree. So he was disappointed. Though people achieve great things in life, their duty is to love God and others and that is why we are here and are given life. When we fail to do so, we fail God.
As Jesus who represents both the owner and gardener is pleading for our cause and giving us change upon change. It is our duty to leave behind what hinder us from loving God and do what He asks us to do namely loving God and others. So let us make use of this Lenten season to renew our baptismal promises and love God and others. Amen.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
2lent-C
Good morning everyone, I am so happy to welcome you all for today’s Holy Mass. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we get closer to God Almighty through prayer and every time we come to Church, because of our sincere prayer, our appearance begin to change and we become more spiritual and begin to reflect Christ in our every day activities. Every time we come to Church, we hear God saying, “you are my beloved child and with you I am so happy”
Once a mother saw his son being bad and asked him to pray to God so that god could change him. After his prayer the mother looked at him and said, ‘did you pray to God to make you good’ the boy said, ‘no, I prayed for you so that God can give you enough strength to put up with me.
Once a rich man was building a liquor store and bar in a small town and a group of Christians from a local church were worried and thus they planned an all- night prayer meeting to ask god to intervene. Then a shocking thing happened. Lighting struck the building and destroyed it completely. The rich man sued the church saying, “because of their prayer, my building was struck by lighting” and the Christian said, ‘No, not because of our prayers”. Then the judge finally looked at them both and said, “No matter how this case is going to out, one thing is clear. The owner of the building believes in prayer and the Christians don’t”
Once some people looked at Mother Theresa and said, “Mother, when you pray what do you say to God?” Mother said, ‘I don’t say anything. I just listen”. Then they asked, ‘what does God say to you as you listen?” She again looked at them and smiled and said, “He doesn’t talk either”. He listens.
Prayer means communion, being with God. It is being one with God. It is having a holy experience.
Prayer helps to identify good from evil. It helps us to say, “no” to sin and Satan. For example, last weekend gospel, as Jesus was finishing His forty days and forty nights prayer and fasting, He was tempted by Satan. We saw how He said No to Satan and yes to the love of God. It is because of His prayer, everything happened. As we deeply enter into prayer life, we will know how to say no to temptations and evil and says to the love of God.
And in today’s gospel, Jesus goes to a mountain with His three disciples and while He was praying to His father God, another important change happened in Him and around Him. His appearance began to change. He becomes full of light and because of that change, His clothes became dazzling white. There the disciples witnessed How Moses and Elijah came to Christ and they were talking to Him. Then they hear a voice from heaven saying to them, ‘this is my beloved Son with whom I am so happy, listen to Him and him alone”.
Even today so many spiritual leaders, mystics and holy people as they entered deeply in prayer, begin to experience altered state of conciseness. It is one of the qualities of prayer. A person who spends time in prayer knows how to separate good from evil and he begins to experience the oneness of body and soul and thus his appearance will change, his surrounding will change. People who are with him will know that he is a man of prayer and though they do not spend time in prayer or doing diving things, they too experience god in their daily lives.
Conclusion: Dear friends, as we celebrate the season of lent, we are called to get closer to god, and we are called to know that we belong to God. Yes, the Lenten observances of prayer, fasting and works of charity help us to do so. So let us pray without ceasing for us and for others. Amen.
Once a mother saw his son being bad and asked him to pray to God so that god could change him. After his prayer the mother looked at him and said, ‘did you pray to God to make you good’ the boy said, ‘no, I prayed for you so that God can give you enough strength to put up with me.
Once a rich man was building a liquor store and bar in a small town and a group of Christians from a local church were worried and thus they planned an all- night prayer meeting to ask god to intervene. Then a shocking thing happened. Lighting struck the building and destroyed it completely. The rich man sued the church saying, “because of their prayer, my building was struck by lighting” and the Christian said, ‘No, not because of our prayers”. Then the judge finally looked at them both and said, “No matter how this case is going to out, one thing is clear. The owner of the building believes in prayer and the Christians don’t”
Once some people looked at Mother Theresa and said, “Mother, when you pray what do you say to God?” Mother said, ‘I don’t say anything. I just listen”. Then they asked, ‘what does God say to you as you listen?” She again looked at them and smiled and said, “He doesn’t talk either”. He listens.
Prayer means communion, being with God. It is being one with God. It is having a holy experience.
Prayer helps to identify good from evil. It helps us to say, “no” to sin and Satan. For example, last weekend gospel, as Jesus was finishing His forty days and forty nights prayer and fasting, He was tempted by Satan. We saw how He said No to Satan and yes to the love of God. It is because of His prayer, everything happened. As we deeply enter into prayer life, we will know how to say no to temptations and evil and says to the love of God.
And in today’s gospel, Jesus goes to a mountain with His three disciples and while He was praying to His father God, another important change happened in Him and around Him. His appearance began to change. He becomes full of light and because of that change, His clothes became dazzling white. There the disciples witnessed How Moses and Elijah came to Christ and they were talking to Him. Then they hear a voice from heaven saying to them, ‘this is my beloved Son with whom I am so happy, listen to Him and him alone”.
Even today so many spiritual leaders, mystics and holy people as they entered deeply in prayer, begin to experience altered state of conciseness. It is one of the qualities of prayer. A person who spends time in prayer knows how to separate good from evil and he begins to experience the oneness of body and soul and thus his appearance will change, his surrounding will change. People who are with him will know that he is a man of prayer and though they do not spend time in prayer or doing diving things, they too experience god in their daily lives.
Conclusion: Dear friends, as we celebrate the season of lent, we are called to get closer to god, and we are called to know that we belong to God. Yes, the Lenten observances of prayer, fasting and works of charity help us to do so. So let us pray without ceasing for us and for others. Amen.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
First Sunday in Lent-C
Good morning everyone, I am so happy to welcome you all for the first Sunday in Lent. Dear friends, every time we come to Church, we are given a special blessing to say “No’ to our temptations and “yes” to the love and kindness of God our Father in Christ our Lord. Every time we come to Church, we hear Christ our Lord saying to us that, “We do not live on bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” And every time we come to Church, we are called to know and serve God alone.
Yes, he asked Jesus to change the stone into bread and thus to go against God’s divine will and the devil then showed Christ the whole universe in an instant and asked him to obey him, Jesus was tempted to have authority over all people and go against others and Christ said that he came to serve only God. Yes, Christ came to serve and not to be served. Then the devil asked him to jump from the pinnacle of the temple, asked him to go against his own will but Christ our Lord said, ‘do not tempt the Lord our God”
Once there lived an old man in an island. He loved his island so much. He saw God’s loving presence in every moving and unmoving things. Then one day, as he was dying, he called his children and said, put me outside and I want to see, smell and touch the land while I die. And as he about to die, he reached down by his side and clutched some soil onto his hand and died as a happy man.
And before entering into heaven, the angel came out to welcome him saying, “You who are chosen by the father enter into the kingdom of God prepared for you”. As the angel opened the gates, the angel noticed that the old man was holding on something in his hand and asked what it was. He said, ‘I loved my island so much and I brought some soil from there”. The angel said, ‘that is wonderful but in order to enter into heaven, you have to let the soil go” But the man refused. He was left outside at the gate. He was there for ten years and then one day the angel came and asked what he decided. He said, ‘I love my island so much and I cannot let the soil go” so he was left again ten more years. Then one day the angel of the lord came and asked his decision and he said, ‘now I am a very old man and I do realize that I have to let certain things go to enter into heaven. I am strong now to say “No’ to my temptations. There he dropped the soil and entered into heaven. When he entered into heaven, the first thing he saw was his beautiful island waiting for him.
Dear friends these forty days of lent invite us to say once again “NO” to our temptations and say, “YES” to lord our God. Christ our Lord after His baptism at Jordan where every heard a voice from heaven saying, “This is my beloved son with whom I am so happy and pleased, listen to Him’ was let by the spirit in the wilderness and there in the desert Christ our Lord spent forty days and forty nights in prayer and fasting. On the fortieth day, the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, change this stone into bread and satisfy your huger’. The devil knew that He was the only Son of God and he tried to stop the salvation mission of Christ our Lord.
What is sin? Sin is what one does against God, others and oneself. And in today’s gospel, the devil was tempting Jesus to go against God, others and himself.
Dear friends, we are called these forty days to have our desert experience doing prayer, fasting and penance. These Lenten observances help to say “no” to sin and temptations and “Yes” to Christ’s love and kindness. So let us leave behind things that hinder us from loving God, others and ourselves and submit ourselves to God almighty. Amen.
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