On a Age Coming Soon

I will be using the first part of tomorrow’s Gospel reading on this: 

Gospel Mt 13:24-43

 

“Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying:
“The kingdom of heaven may be likened
to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came
and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
The slaves of the householder came to him and said,
‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from?’
He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’
His slaves said to him,
‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds
you might uproot the wheat along with them.
Let them grow together until harvest;
then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,
“First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;
but gather the wheat into my barn.”

 

My dear friends in Christ,

 

This passage has a lot to do with the Rule of St. Benedict; because he tells us to prepare for death and always keep judgment before our eyes; because we do not know when Jesus will come and when He does, we will be judged and sent to where our hearts desire most; for now Purgatory is still there; but at the end; only two places will remain: Heaven and hell. 

 

We know the one who sows the field is the Son of Man and the seeds is the Word of God and the field is the world; but then there are those in the world who are the weeds; the children of the evil one.  A type of person who has made up his or her heart to desire hell and to take people with them.  These are the people who plant the bad seed which turns into weeds.

 

When you plant and weeds grow right with the good crop; you never pull out the weeds; because you may pull out the crop.  Those who harvest the field and seperate the good crop from the weeds or dead crop because of the weeds; they are the Angels and they will seperate us out like this: goat from the sheep.  Instead of a normal fire to get rid of the dead crop and weeds; they will put those who are dead and weeds into the eternal flames of hell for all eternity and those who are good crop and who heard the Word of God and made their house on solid Rock; Jesus; they will be put with the good crop to be taken to Heaven for all eternity.

 

We learn that this life is a temptation; by reading the works by Thomas A Kempis; how do we not fold from the tempting that is given by the children of the evil one?  Using the Sacrament of Confession, receiving Our Lord’s Body and Blood free from all sin and receiving it devoutly.  Praying the Rosary daily; giving your entire heart and self to Jesus is how. 

 

We do these good and holy things and we are giving our entire self over to Christ to be transformed into His image; only by His grace and help; we can resist the temptations and vanities of this world.  Our hearts truly must be transformed into His Sacred Heart; because our heart is restless until it rests in Thee as St. Augustine put in the beginning of his Confession. 

 

We must stay away from bad places, people who lead us into sin, bad movies, bad books, bad magazines, bad tv shows, anything that will lead us into sin; we must stay away from it and run from it as if it has a plague; which it does; eternal death. 

 

We must stay True to the Church and be faithful to Her and Her bride; Jesus and His vicar on earth; the Pope and the bishops and priests who are in full communion with him.  We must always be watchful for the coming attacks of the devil and the other demons.

 

Give all your work; your entire life to God as a spiritual sacrifice; including your pains, illnesses, good days, bad days, whatever and never stop begging for His help and mercy.  Carry the Cross of Christ wherever you go and while you are doing whatever you are doing.  Accept the pains and torements he bore while He carried it.

 

We all must learn true humility like a lamb, learn not lose our temper; unless it is justified as it was for Jesus in the Temple; learn patiences also; we must learn all the virtues and practice them as much as we can.  Read holy books by the saints, pray, pray, pray; read what the Pope writes or says. 

 

Stay near Jesus in the Eucharist and make frequent Confessions.  When you are hit by temptations are all directions and you may stumble and fall; do not be afraid to get up real quick and clean yourself up in Confession; use God’s mercy while He is still giving it; because when this Age comes to a close; God’s mercy will be no more; then it will be time for Justice in God’s way.  I am sure we all can cheer for that; but we ourselves need to make sure we are prepared to go at death; whenever that may be or if make it to the end and see the Age come to a close; then we better be ready for something horrible; the gates of hell will open up on earth and we will see the damned come forth unwilling and the screams and howls will make us beg for mercy but it will be too late St. John Vianney says in his sermon on the Last Judgment and those who are damned will be blamming everyone around him or her; except themselves for sending their ownself to hell; yes it will be the parents fault; as well as the person who sinned; because the parents didn’t stop them from sinning under their roof and the one who sinned chose to do that.

 

Yes, we must be ready either for our personal judgment; when we die or the final judgment at the end of the world; no one know which will come. 

 

God bless

 

 

“This is the Lamb of God”

Book IV:V

The greatest words that strike cords in people who are thinking on coming home, when the priest holds up the Eucharist and says, “This is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. Happy are those who are called to His supper.”

I just watched the encore of the Journey Home with Fr. Carl Beekman; the vocation director of the Diocese of Rockford Illnoise. He was struck by those words. I say the Lord did the “Shock and Awe” on his soul; kicked the door in and said “I AM here in the Eucharist and come and be with Me.”

He made a wonderful point to his friend who woke up and started to barbeque for lunch; Fr. Beekman; who was at the time not a Catholic; told his friend about his experience and asked since you believe Jesus is there; “why wasn’t you at Mass?”

That should be a question to all of us; if we truly believe that the Eucharist is Jesus: Body, blood, soul and divinity. He is truly present.

That is why I am so disappointed in many people; my dad, people in the parishes I go to and people I know.

When I watch Mass on EWTN every day of the week; I am trying to focus on the Mass and dad comes and sits down to eat; without thinking that this is live and it’s Holy Mass; not only that; he is butt naked too.

People at Mass dress kind of like that too; so many times I have gone to Mass and it’s been the First Holy Communion Mass and a relative of a child is dressed so horrible where her chest is open and showing. Or a woman dressed in a sports bra and Fr. allowed it; I was like, “you have to be kidding me!”

That in the Eucharist is not bread and in the chalice is not wine; it is Jesus Christ, Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity. He is Here People! Dress and act like it!

That is the Lamb of God in the tabernacle or in the Monstrance! The Lamb of God is Jesus; John proclaims when he sees Jesus coming back from the desert and says, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!”

Jesus is the Lamb of God; that is why we are to be dressed properly and when we enter the church; we are to be silent or if we need to ask a question; we whisper. Women are to have their veils on. We are to be silent and reverent for God but also to show respect or be respectful to everyone else who is praying; so we do not disturb them.

Jesus is the Lamb who was slain to ransom us from the grip of the devil and to offer the perfect sacrifice to God the Father to make peace with Him for the fall of Man Kind and to redeem us from our sins.

The Lamb is pure and white and through His blood we are washed clean in the Sacrament of Confession and when we enter the Church to come home to Rome; we are baptized and all our sins are washed away. After that; we go to Confession and our souls are made pure once again; through the blood of the Lamb.

God bless

The Eucharist and Sunday

My dear brethren,

on Sundays we come to Mass and also confess our sins before Mass; but what does some of you do after Mass? Go shopping? Talk inside the church where talking is not allowed; saying bad words? Why do we do this?

Because we have not the Love of God we are to have as a Catholic.

Every Sunday and Holy Day is the Day of the Lord. Where we are to stop working and relax and give thanks to Lord. We are to read Scripture, rest from work. But we can cook, we can go to plays, movies and go out to eat.

We are to give thanks to Lord for the Eucharist; which means Thanks Giving in Greek. We are to work for six days; until the time for Sunday vigil Mass on Saturday night or evening; because when it’s that time; Sunday is here.

Now my brethren,

The Eucharist must be the center of our Catholic Faith. If we could see one glimps of Jesus in the Eucharist; we would not want to leave the church where the Tabernacle is. That is why, if you work where you can see the bell tower; think of the bell tower as the Tabernacle and give thanks to Him who is in the tabernacle. If you live where you can see the bell tower; give thanks to Him.

The Holy Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. He is fully present right now in the Tabernacle who longs for you to visit Him and to tell Him how much you Love Him. Turn to where the bell tower is and say, “Jesus I love You and thank You for Your Real Presence in the Tabernacle and for allowing us to receive You hidden in the Eucharistic Species.”

Love Him who made you out of nothing. Love Him who knew you before you where created. If someone is making fun of Our Eucharistic Lord or saying it is just a symbol or a piece of bread and cup of wine; Defend the Lord.

Our Lord is always with us; even bodily form in the Tabernacle.

My Brethren,

when the priest has the host on the paten, we are to place all our works on there; so that when he offers them up to God; those works become God and become special to Him.

Offer up everything to God; so that they become God’s and so that God can make holy.

When Jesus speaks through the priest at Mass when the offering is taking place; we too place ourself in the chalice and paten; so our life becomes a gift to God and God takes our life and makes it holy.

Offer our illnesses, sufferings, injuries, works, relax time, study time, sleep time to God so God will make them holy through His hands.

The Power of the Eucharist is so great; if we all repented in confession and then had Mass right after Confession; that one Mass would make us saints; that is how powerful the Eucharist is. Because the Eucharist is God Himself.

God Himself is the Eucharist. We do know about the two disciples who went on the road where Jesus came to them and then broke bread at night. When He disappeared from them; this shows in a way how God is in the Eucharist. Even though God is in Heaven and we can’t see Him; but He is also on earth in the Tabernacle in the Eucharist. It is a mystery; our faith has a lot of mysteries; more than a good crime novel.

These mysteries keep us on our feet; because we want to know but can’t know or even wrap our brain around them; because God is pure Simplicity and we make things even harder than they should be. Jesus is God and He is in the Eucharist.

He is fully God and in Heaven but yet He is also on earth in every tabernacle. Every Eucharist is fully Jesus; when we receive a corner or end piece of the Eucharist; it’s fully Jesus.

If we can see Jesus in the Eucharist; every time we enter the church to pray or confess our sins or go to Mass; we would not want to leave but stay there with Him in prayer and adoration. So, do you believe Jesus is in the Holy Eucharist in the tabernacle?

Would you change your ways on how you act during and after Mass and watch what you say and how you dress?

I hope so; because if you don’t put fully into the Mass; then there is no way you will be changed into becoming a saint.

If you put nothing in at Mass; you won’t receive anything or get anything out of the Mass. You must be fully awake; physically and spiritually at Mass to see with the eyes of faith that Jesus is truly present on the altar at Mass and in the Tabernacle at anymoment we want to make a visit.

Open your eyes of faith and close the eyes of the world; so you may see Jesus present at Calvary, in the tomb and at the Resurrection.

God bless