May you find and experience the greatest solace within the company of our Lords Mother Mary! Her Feast Day represents remembrance, honor, respect, in growing in the knowledge and faith of our Lord through his holy Mother. She is holy. We should be asking her to pray for us so that we too may desire that exact holiness. I believe if we were to all become prayerful warriors of Christ, we would return to the basics and we would all try just a little harder to get along with everyone. Dissention has revealed its ugly head! And God has to be very saddened by this negativity that continues to seperate souls when unification is necessary. I love the life we were all given. I love it because it is an important part of God's plans for us. I believe he wants to see how well we do with it. I would imagine he is keeping close tabs on all of his children throughout the history of humankind. Some choose obedience their entire lives and others go living astray. The real beauty of our faith lives within everyone our God has ever created. After all he creates only the best! Because he loves us, he wants our love in return, and when we cooperate with God, our lives are alot less complicated. Our lives flow and we get to see God's hand in everything. Blessed Carlos Acutis is a very beautiful example of Gods love living in him. He chose to be obedient. And he died very young, but his mission to document all the eucharistic miracles was an assignment from God. We too have the opportunity to tap into Gods love and ask him in prayer what our personal mission in life is. And then prayerfully begin working toward that mission with great zeal. God has answered many prayers for me in my lifetime of almost sixty years. He waits very patiently upon us, and wants our prayer requests, and even if they are not answered exactly the way we want them to be, he gives us exactly what we need. Prayer plays a vital role in every Christians life. A Catholic christian is no different. Prayer is the fuel in the tank that helps us to navigate through the noise, with poise, honesty, respect, and human character of grace, that defines us as Christians. Only God can make us holy. Only God can help us come out of our problems, stronger believing that He will shield us from all harm, and at the same time allow great growth to take place within us. Christians study the faith, living out their best years, serving Christ, and the true Christian, realizes that Christ lives in every person they meet. Jesus himself appeared in their midst, and were part of their company. We accompany Jesus when we accompany any of our brothers and sisters in faith. Christ comes alive in us because he transforms our conscience through our desire to be obedient, sacrificial in our prayer life, all the above speaks volumes to us, to Christ, and to everyone we will ever meet. We greet others with love, because Jesus became the greatest example of love, greatly suffering on the cross, for the forgiveness of our sins. Jesus is always ready to forgive us through our examination of conscience/and a real good confession. We on the other hand, struggle with forgiving ourselves, struggle with forgiving others who have hurt us. Forgiveness is the most healing of all options. When we forgive, we live! And when we live in Christ, our life changes, it becomes enhanced with the riches of eternal truths that frees us/preparing us for eternity. We must be ready for this by preparing our consciences, we must purge our heart, soul,mind,body, spirit, of every single stain of sin, so that we can be absolved and truly live free again, in Christ and in one another. Prayer makes this all very possible. Pray without ceasing!
