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cassini · « **Reply #35 on:** February 07, 2024, 10:55:10 AM »

Fr Sean again:

Humility and Faith Bring Jesus’ Cleansing Touch

A leper approached Jesus, expressed his faith in Him, and pleaded to be cured. St. Mark relates that Jesus felt pity for the man. Pity is defined as “sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed, or unhappy.” Leprosy was a dreaded disease. It brought much pain, distress, and unhappiness to the sufferer since it meant isolation from family and community. It caused the person’s bodily extremities to rot, creating a bad smell. Jєωιѕн law banned lepers from any interaction with their families and friends to prevent contagion. Out of fear of contagion and an attempt at containment the Mosaic Law stipulated that, “The one who bears the sore of leprosy … shall declare himself unclean … he shall dwell apart making his abode outside the camp.” (Lv 13:1-2, 44-46).

Jesus, acting out of faith rather than obedience to a man-made law, “stretched out His hand and touched him” (Mk 1:41). Jesus sees no one as untouchable, except those who choose to reject Him. The leper had two qualities going for him, namely faith and humility. By “Kneeling down as he addressed Him” (Mk 1:40) the man humbly requested Jesus’ power to restore him to health and family. He displayed His faith in Jesus when he said, “If you will to do so, you can cure me” (Mk 1:40). Jesus responded to the man’s humble prayer of faith: “I do will it. Be made clean.” (Mk 1:40-41). Then He told the man, “Go off and present yourself to the priest and offer for your cure what Moses prescribed. That should be proof for them” (Mk 1:44). Only the priest had the authority to declare a leper cleansed from his disease and reunited with his family. Similarly, only a priest of the Church has the authority to declare a penitent to be cleansed of his or her sin and be reunited with God’s family.

Humility and faith are essential qualities in our requests for God’s help to cope with our infirmities and receive forgiveness for our sins. The Psalmist exemplifies these virtues when he proclaimed, “I turn to You, Lord, in time of trouble. You fill me with the joy of salvation. Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile” (Ps 32:1, 2, 5, 11). Humility and Faith force us to admit that we cannot save ourselves. The leper knew he couldn’t save himself. He was receptive to the Holy Spirit of truth who enabled him to see Jesus as his Saviour. This is the challenge to each of us. Am I receptive to the Holy Spirit who alone is able to enlighten my spirit with the truth of who I am and what I need to be free, to belong, to be powerful, and to enjoy myself as God’s creation? This is why we should begin each day inviting the Holy Spirit to fill our heart and enkindle in us the fire of His divine love so that we may be created in accord with God’s will, be truly wise, share in His consolations, and with His help renew the face of the earth. That’s our vocation.

None of us is immune to physical disease. Neither are we immune to spiritual disease - sin. We can’t cleanse our soul from the stain of sin. We can clean our body but we can’t clean our soul. We need the Holy Spirit to cleanse our soul. Since God is the Creator of our soul, our self, only He can cleanse it of its diseases. The soul becomes sick through sin. Like leprosy, sin deforms us, making our soul ugly, which is reflected in our spirit, causing us to alienate one another. Only the love of God binds us together and purifies our soul that’s reflected in a positive spirit. Sin – taking for ourselves - is the opposite of love – giving to others. Since we inherit a sin-stained nature due to Original Sin we come into the world prone to selfishness. Jesus didn’t come to cleanse us from bodily leprosy, but He did come to cleanse us from spiritual leprosy, namely the sinfulness that disfigures who God created us to be, namely His image and likeness. “Jesus said to them, ‘The healthy do not need a doctor; sick people do. I have not come to invite the self-righteous to a change of heart, but sinners’” (Lk 5:31). Self-righteous people don’t recognize their spiritual disfigurement. Sinners do. They’re the ones who, in faith, recognize Jesus as the Cleanser, the Saviour, and, like the leper, humbly kneel and ask to be made clean and restored to the community, Jesus’ Church. This is what happens in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Coming to call sinners, Jesus knew that spiritual cleansing would be an ongoing human need. This is why He delegated His power of forgiveness to Peter and the other Apostles which they handed on through the ordained priests of His Church. Thus Jesus made cleansing from sin available to the repentant sinner until the end of time. He does so through His Church’s Sacraments. In Baptism He frees us from Satan’s grip on our soul and from our disordered bodily desires. In Reconciliation He washes away our personal sins, especially those that are serious or mortal. In the Holy Mass He cleanses us from our venial sins. In the Anointing of the Sick He cleanses those who’re too weak to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Jas 5:13ff). But, like the leper, to be cured, cleansed of our spiritual diseases we need humility and faith. Just like the leper who wanted to follow Him, Jesus told him to go back home and tell his family what happened to him, he wants us to do the same. In the words of St. Paul (1 Cor 10:31-11:1), “Do everything for the glory of God.” Then we’ll hear Jesus’ words through His Church when we ask Him to cleanse us: “I do will it. Be cured, clean, forgiven, made whole, and reconciled to God’s family!”

Jesus’ Church provides us with a special season during which God’s cleansing graces flow in a special way. This period of time is known as Lent. It begins this coming Wednesday – Ash Wednesday. Interestingly, Wednesday is also the feast of St. Valentine, a priest, who ministered to persecuted Christians, is the patron of chaste love and those suffering from epilepsy. He was martyred for his Catholic Faith. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent calling us to “repent and believe in the Gospel” as people whose bodies will become dust one day. Valentine believed in the Gospel so much that He gave his life for it because it brought him to Jesus. Following in the footsteps of Valentine Lent is a time to become purified from our sins by practicing humility, deepening our faith in Jesus Christ, and living chaste lives. The Lord wants to touch us with His healing hand but, like the leper and St. Valentine, we must humbly request His help and completely trust in Him. Through humble and faithful fasting, prayer, and generosity may each of us be restored to full spiritual health and be reunited to Jesus’ Church as the leper was after Jesus restored him to his health and family. May the joy of God’s cleansing grace be yours this holy Lenten season (fr sean)

cassini · « **Reply #36 on:** February 14, 2024, 11:40:09 AM »

Fr Sean again:

Lent: Lead Us not Into Temptation

Beginning with Ash Wednesday Jesus’ Church devotes the following six weeks to emphasizing the need for us to more deeply embed prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in our daily routine so that we can be purified from our sinfulness and experience the joy of Easter Resurrection. These activities open our minds to be seeded by God’s thoughts, so they can take root in our soul, influence our heart, and strengthen us against evil. This is essential if we want to give witness to the world that Jesus Christ is the only true Saviour of mankind. As members of Jesus’ Church we’re called to be His witnesses in the world displaying His powerful presence within us. This requires training and exercise, which involves humble prayer, fasting, and the practise of generosity. Lent is the Church’s yearly retreat when she helps us to stop and ask our self “Am I as Christian and faithful to Jesus as I ought to be” It’s a time when we stop and ask “If I were to die today would God say to me, ‘Welcome, good and faithful servant’ or ‘Depart from me, I don’t know you’”? The somber Biblical words uttered by the priest on Ash Wednesday as he makes the Sign of the Cross on our foreheads with blessed ashes, “Remember, man, that you are dust and into dust you will return,” (Ps103) are a stark reminder that our meeting with God gets nearer every day. The priest then follows with Jesus’ command: “Repent and believe in the Gospel” (Mk 1:15), which spells out what we must do if we want that meeting to be joyful. The ashes remind us that this body of ours, whose desires demand instant gratification that takes up so much of our time and energy, will one day be reduced to dust. Then what? Every day we live is one day closer to the grave. Our body’s desire is for pleasure. Our soul’s desire is for God. Do you and I give equal time to both? The purpose of the body is to serve the soul, not vice versa. This is why God reminds us, especially during Lent, to focus on nurturing what survives death and doesn’t become ashes, namely our soul, whose destiny is either Heaven or hell, depending on our choices here on earth. The Holy Spirit warns us that, “If a man sows in the field of the flesh he will reap a harvest of corruption; but if his seed-ground is the spirit, he will reap everlasting life” (Gal 6:8).

It makes sense to invest in what gives us the best and most long-lasting return. The more we focus on our soul the more we realize our need for God because the soul cries out for His love. We need God if we want to be with Him in Heaven because only He can make that possible. Therefore, we need to discipline our body and use material things in a manner that makes us more conscious that only the things of Heaven really fulfil us. The things of this earth will pass away; but the things of Heaven never pass away - they are eternal (Mt 6:33).

Jesus spent forty days in the desert fasting and praying in preparation for His public ministry (Mk 1:12-15). There Satan tempted Him to abandon God’s will promising power, populsarity, pleasure, and possessions. Jesus countered the temptations with God’s word of truth. After His desert experience Jesus announced that, “This is a time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the Gospel.” Jesus showed God to be faithful to His Old Testament promises. We must ask ourselves if we’re faithful to our promises to God in the way we live. Do we pay more attention to what others say and do than to what Jesus says and does? As Christians we’re in a difficult position because we live in the world that’s Satan’s kingdom, but through Baptism we belong to Jesus’ Kingdom. Jesus tells us clearly that His Kingdom doesn’t belong to this world (Jn 18:36). We need to reflect on this to make sure we’re not living in Satan’s Kingdom while saying we belong to God’s Kingdom. Jesus warns us: “But because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth!” (Rev 3:16).

Satan loves lukewarm people because he can easily manipulate them. This is why Jesus’s prayer calls us to ask God our Father to “lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” (Mt 6:13). Why is temptation so tempting? Because Satan makes what’s bad for us look good and pleasurable. We all want what’s good and pleasurable. But looks can be deceiving. We need Jesus, who is the truth, to help us see that Satan’s promises are always false by exposing him as “a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44). We give in to temptation because we don’t listen to Jesus who tells us through the Holy Scriptures what’s good and bad for us. If we don’t know Jesus and hear His teaching we have no one to expose Satan’s lies until it’s too late for us. The devil is sly, he paints evil to look desirable, just like he did with Eve. We therefore must be wise to his wiles and ways. Thus we need to examine everything through the eyes of Jesus to see what’s true or false. He gives us the grace to see what’s of God and what isn’t. On our own we’re no match for Satan’s manipulation. Hence the need to sharpen our spiritual radar through prayer, fasting, and acts of generosity, good catechesis and Christian conscience formation.

Each of us is fair game for Satan’s take-down when we give him the opportunity. He attracts us to the seven deadly sins. He never presents anything that looks bad. He covers his lies with attractive wrapping. Because our will is attracted only to the good we choose only what looks good. The reason we give in to temptation is because we see it as desirable and fulfilling. We need the Holy Spirit to show us what’s good and what only looks good but isn’t. Our human spirit is either influenced by the Spirit of God or the spirit of evil. We would have no problem rejecting evil if we saw its real ugliness. Hence the need for sound moral teaching and self-discipline. The problem is we don't always think or ask or discuss, or pray about our decisions until it’s too late. Were it not for our God-given emotion of guilt and His grace of repentance we would all be doomed to hell. We need to pray daily with the Psalmist, “Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my Saviour… Good and upright is the Lord, thus He shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice, and He teaches the humble His way” (Ps 25:4-9).

Only God can fulfill us; the world cannot. We must reject the false promise of an earthly utopia, which is tempting because we all want perfection. Since God created the world only He can save and perfect it. We can neither save ourselves nor the planet. We have to be humble and wise enough to admit that perfection is impossible without God and can only be fully realized in Heaven with Him. Because Jesus knew the power of Satan and the gullibility of human beings He knew we would fall victim to temptation. This is why He gave His Church the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

St. Peter reminds us that, “Christ suffered for sins once, the just for the sake of the unjust, that He might lead you to God” (1 Peter 3:18-22). One of the conditions to be a disciple of Jesus and live in His Kingdom is to “repent and believe in the Gospel.” God speaks to us through Jesus’ Church this Lent asking us to flavor our daily routine with prayer, fasting, almsgiving, Bible reading, and acts of repentance. Thus we prepare ourselves to resist temptation to gratify our body rather than our soul and so live in God’s Kingdom rather than Satan’s. Have a Spirit-filled Lent. (fr sean sheehy)

cassini · « **Reply #37 on:** February 21, 2024, 10:04:01 AM »

Fr Sean again:
Passing The Test

Often when offering a catechetical course to adults the first question asked is, “Will there be tests?” Both teachers and students are known to opine that school would be great if it weren’t for tests. Wouldn’t life be cozy if it weren’t for tests? Testing is the bane of so many things. Love, peace, relationships, friendships, faith would be a breeze if they weren’t tested? Mechanical things look so good and capable until they’re tested and found to be not as good as they looked. Why are we so uncomfortable with tests? Probably it’s because we fear the results might not be as good as we would like. We don’t like being put in a situation where we risk finding out that something isn’t what we hoped for. Someone said that the test is the thing that makes us weep or causes us to sing.

But we need tests in order to determine where we’re successful or failing. It lets us see whether or not we’re achieving what we want to achieve. We don’t look for tests, but we need them. At work an evaluation lets us know whether or not we’re being productive. In school we need tests to let us know if we are or aren’t mastering the subject. In religious life temptation tests our love for God and others. To be tempted is to be tested on how strong is our commitment to our beliefs, values, and truths. Do we really value this or that, or are we just pretending? Are we simply virtue signalers? The test separates the believers from the hypocrites, saints from sinners, life-givers from life-takers, the real from the phony, the Christian from the humanist. The test clarifies for us what we’ve mastered or what masters us. The test is also a reminder that nothing worthwhile is easy. Inspiration is useless without perspiration.

Jesus’ Church uses Lent to test our willingness to make prayer, fasting, and generosity part and parcel of our daily life as Christians. During this holy season is an opportunity to see whether we’re taking our relationship with God seriously or whether convenience and self-gratification are the guiding principles of our daily life.

God introduces us to Abraham’s test in Genesis (22:1-18). God loved Abraham, so much so that He blessed him and Sarah with a son, Isaac, in their old age. He was their pride and joy and the hope of the family’s continuity. God wanted to test Abraham’s priorities. Perhaps now Abraham loved his son more than he loved God! God told Abraham that He wanted him to offer up his only son, Isaac, as a sacrifice in a place He would show him. Try to imagine yourself in Abraham’s place. What would you do? God continually gives us opportunities to test whether our love for Him takes precedence over the things in our life we deem important.

Would Abraham’s love for God take precedence over his love for his only son? By getting everything ready to kill his son, Abraham demonstrated that he passed the test. Today the Church calls Abraham “our Father in Faith.” Why? He showed that no matter what God asked of him, regardless of the pain, he would obey. He totally trusted in God’s plan for him. The angel ordered Abraham, “Do not lay a hand on the boy.” Abraham, I’m sure was relieved and gladly killed the ram God provided for him to sacrifice in place of Isaac. In this action God also taught Abraham that child sacrifice would have no place in the people’s worship of Him. Abraham lived among people who practiced child sacrifice to their gods. So the ritual killing of children wasn’t unheard of. God revealed that human life is precious to Him and must always be treated with dignity and respect. When God is ignored, replaced by human egos, the sanctity of human life is forgotten and people are sacrificed on the altar of convenience and selfishness. The culture of death is upheld in abortion, assisted ѕυιcιdє, and euthanasia demonstrating society’s choice of convenience and self-gratification over God. The killing of human life is a direct result of the rejection of God as its Creator and Sanctifier. Many have failed the test of whether love of God and trust in Him take precedence over self-love. Where is God in our daily priorities?

St. Paul (Rom 8:31-34) follows up this theme regarding putting God first. He says, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” There’s no doubt that God is for us - despite our sinfulness. “He who did not spare His own Son but handed Him over for us all, how will He not give us everything else along with Him?” The problem is that we aren’t always for God. If we were, we wouldn’t focus on satisfying ourselves. Abraham could have become totally absorbed with his son and, since he now had what he wanted, could conclude that he didn’t need God anymore. That happens to us sometimes. We cry to God when we need something and when we get it we forget Him. We become absorbed with what we have and forget who the source of all good things is. We become obsessed with some individual or ideology and forget that only God can save us from hell. When that happens we lose our sense of direction and end up lost, hurt, and betrayed. Love without God is lust. Any time we put another human being at the center of our life we push God out. Then we’re disappointed because we find out that no human being can meet our needs. Only the Creator can fully satisfy the creature. A human being didn’t create our soul, which makes us human, therefore no human being can fulfill or satisfy us. We’re truly free only when we put God first and are willing to give up everything for the love of Him. Without God we can’t be free. Sin is slavery.

In St. Mark’s Gospel (Mk 9:2-10) Jesus passed the test posed by those who questioned or doubted whether He really was the Son of God? St. Mark records Jesus’ transfiguration. Peter, James and John were privileged to hear God the Father identify Jesus: “This is My Son, My beloved. Listen to Him.” They experienced Jesus as the Son of God and it was so awesome that Peter wanted to keep the experience forever. He couldn’t. Jesus passed the test of the Messiah. What did that mean? It meant that He came to fulfil God’s Old Testament covenantal promises identified in the Law and the Prophets, represented by Moses and Elijah. He brought the good news that God was now making it possible for men and women to overcome their sinfulness and once again, as it was in the beginning. How? By becoming obedient to God’s rule, order would be restored to one’s life despite living in a disordered world.

Where does this leave us? First of all, the test of our Faith is an everyday experience – choose God or fulfil our own desires. Every decision we make is a choice between obeying Jesus or becoming our own god (a false god). Do we support a culture of life or a culture of death? Who we listen to makes the difference in our decisions. What do we sow in our mind? Our decisions, in turn, show clearly whom we’re trusting. Jesus confronts us at this time: “If you trust me, then do what I am telling you?” We say we listen to Jesus; we say we trust in Him; but do we really? The test is whether we’re willing to let Him be our Master and Savior. Do we pray daily with the Psalmist (116:10-19), “O Lord, I am Your servant … You have loosed my bonds. To You will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the Name of the Lord”?

The test during Lent is to witness our love for Jesus as our first priority by taking the time to pray, fast, and be generous towards others with our time, talent, and treasure – that is Jesus’ way - the Way of the Cross. Thus we become transformed and pass the test. (fr. sean)

cassini · « **Reply #38 on:** February 29, 2024, 10:31:44 AM »

Fr Sean again:
What’s in Your Heart?

On this 3rd Sunday of Lent we hear the Jesus’ Church proclaiming God’s word from Exodus 20: 1-17, Psalm 19:8-11, 1 Cor 1:22-25, and John 2: 13-25. God speaks to us about His Commandments and the purpose of the Temple. We hear from St. Paul how Jesus’ crucifixion was a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles.

Because autonomy is so important to us we don’t like to be told what to do. We want to govern ourselves. So we’re very quick to demand our rights but slow to carry out our duties. Knowing this, God gave us commandments that identify our duties to Him and to our neighbor. A commandment isn’t the same as a suggestion. We’re free to accept or reject a suggestion but a commandment requires obedience. When you issue a command it means you’re specifying something that’s essential for either the good of the individual or the society or both. Commandments identify what’s necessary for order, harmony and progress in one’s life as a member of the community. Commandments are to be obeyed whether or not we feel like it. They provide a level playing field that regulates actions of a community’s members and carry with them penalties for disobeying them. In the absence of commandments or law there’s only anarchy and chaos that bring severe suffering to the innocent. God wants His people to live harmoniously so He has revealed Ten Commandments to ensure that freedom, justice, peace, and truth reign in the hearts of His people.

For God’s people to live harmoniously it’s essential to obey His will. The first thing we must do is recognize that He is the only true God and there are no others. Anyone else or thing that’s adored is a false god and false gods are impotent. The true God demands that we reverence His Name and worship Him especially on the Sabbath. Reverencing His Name demonstrates that we recognize Him as all holy and the source of our holiness. We recognize God as Our Creator through love of our father and mother, protecting human life, upholding marriage as a sacred covenant between a man and a woman whose purpose is to use their sɛҳuąƖity to transmit life, respect other people’s property, being truthful, avoiding being envious and jealous. The violation of any of these commands is a rejection of God and creates disharmony, alienation and abuse of our humanity.

God issued 10 Commandments – 10 “Words” - to let us know what’s needed in order to be fully human and fully alive. They point us to eternal life that Christ made possible. The Holy Spirit inspired the Psalmist to proclaim, “Lord, You have the words of everlasting life” (Ps 19). If we believe that God has the words of everlasting life, and we want to live eternally, our reason says that we should be more than willing to accept God’s words? So why does God command us to accept His words? Does it make sense to have to be commanded to receive something we want more than anything, namely eternal happiness? He knew that, because of our fallen nature, we would try to live according to our way rather than His and ruin ourselves in the process.

Through the Psalmist God tells us that His Law is “perfect, refreshing the soul.” If you want to achieve perfection and refresh your soul, you must obey God’s law. His Law will never lead you in the wrong direction. It is “trustworthy … gives wisdom to the simple … it’s right… rejoices the heart…it’s clear…enlightening the eye… it’s pure… enduring… true… just… precious…and sweet.” This Law is fulfilled and personified in Jesus who makes all these qualities possible for us to enjoy. Given all this, why would the crucified Christ be a “stumbling block for the Jews, and an absurdity to the Gentiles...” (1 Cor. 1:22-25). Is it because we focus only on what we see rather than on what God tells us? Jesus tells us that laying down one’s life for one’s friends is the greatest display of love (Jn 15:13).

We tend to use the things of God for our own purposes rather than for why He has given them to us. An example of this is the use of the Temple as a place for commerce rather than a place for worshipping God. Jesus gets very angry when He sees the Temple being abused (John 2:13-25). We see that today when the sacred space is used for holding concerts. Clergy try to justify it by framing it as a fundraiser. It’s still using God’s house of prayer for commercial purposes. Using the Church building for something other than worship is a desecration of sacred space. Jesus became angry at the abuse of the “house of prayer” and drove the worldly abusers out. St. John tells us that, “He needed no one to give Him testimony about human nature. He was well aware of what was in man’s heart.”

So what’s in man’s heart? What’s in our heart is what we’ve planted in our soul; what’s growing in our soul are the thoughts we’ve freely sown in our mind. This is what supplies the contents of our heart. Our behavior shows whether what’s in our heart is or isn’t compatible with God’s Law and Jesus’ teaching. In many instances our heart and God’s will are diametrically opposed. What’s in our heart reflects a culture of life or a culture of death. Because of our fallen nature we’ve an unconscious death wish placed there by Satan. There’s something inside us that’s basically destructive. The thing we want most, namely life, we’ll end up destroying if we don’t obey God’s Law.

The materialistic culture rejects God or tries to use Him for its selfish purposes. I saw an ad in a magazine which showed a woman wearing a T-shirt on which was written: “Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere!” As I read it I thought how stupid. They go everywhere but where they need to go. The notion was that the “bad girls” who go “everywhere” are really living free and enjoying themselves, while the “good girls” who “go to heaven” don’t live at all. The good girls go to heaven while the bad girls try to escape their emptiness and dead-end relationships with drugs, promiscuity, and ѕυιcιdє. What they consider to be a “good time” leads to a bad time not just temporarily but also eternally.

Jesus revealed that what makes a man or woman impure is what comes from the heart. “Whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart and this is what defiles or dishonours a man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts and plans, murders, adulteries, sɛҳuąƖ immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slanders, verbal abuse, irreverent speech, blaspheming” (Mt 15:18-19). What influences the heart begins with the thoughts we sow in our mind.

This Lent we must examine what kind of thoughts we’re sowing in our mind, planting in our soul, that provide the contents of our heart. What’s in our heart makes us the kind of people we are – either promoters of life or death. We need to fill our mind with God’s thoughts that give us supernatural Faith, Hope, and Love. Let’s fill our minds with God’s Ten Commandments so that we may live a harmonious and ordered life sustained by practicing faith, hope, and charity. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. Only Jesus can give us life. Jesus said, “If you love me keep my Commandments” (Jn 14:15). If we don’t then we so not love Him without Whom we are doomed

Fasting, prayer, and generosity prepare our mind for sowing thoughts in it about God’s Law that’s already written in our heart (Rom 2:15). Thus we need to take the time to meditate on God’s perfect law that leads us to a perfect life made possible by loving Jesus which we demonstrate by keeping His commandments as faithful members of His Church. May our hearts be refreshed by lovingly obeying God’s Law. Then our life will be lively and joyful. Following any other law will lead us to where we don’t want to be.

(fr sean)

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #39 on:** February 29, 2024, 11:13:50 AM »

Thank you, Father Sean. A rosary for Father Sean and Cassini. We will pray for them.

(Please pray for friends/family in County Donegal.)

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