When people make demands on us or keep depending on us, we may end up stressed, tired and irritable. But this is not the case with Jesus. When people draw from Him, He is strengthened and refreshed! Jesus is, after all, God.
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To ride the waves with God, you must lean into it. When we get in the big waves where the big issues are, we have to lean into the waves. That is what the disciples did. It was not just getting out there. It was doing the job when they were there. It was becoming involved. It was leaning into the thing.
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While on the road we cannot help wondering about God. What is He like? What does He want for us? What does He expect of us? Life is a pilgrimage. We are on the march, and sooner or later we shall reach our destination. That destination we call heaven.
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Like the weather, we have spring, then summer and then autumn and winter. So where are we now? What is the temperature of the climate within us? For some maybe spring has dawned but for others the bleak of winter continues on and on. We must understand the seasons. If we do not understand that there are seasons in life, we may draw the wrong conclusions about what is happening in our lives, or the reasons for it. God has a plan and a purpose to make our life beautiful.
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his is a heart that is fully alive. In our hearts the world longs to see the heart of Jesus. Pope Francis has reminded us that this is our gift; to carry the merciful heart of Jesus in our own heart. It is such a heart, overflowing with compassion, that is the dynamic core of our Christian witness and the mission of the Church.
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Jesus took bread and wine, gave it to his apostles to share and said, “This is my body . . . This is my blood.” Catholics believe that in receiving the Bread and Wine, we are actually receiving Jesus Himself.
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The entire tenet as Catholic Christians about salvation rests on the reality – that is to say, the existence – of the Blessed Trinity. If there is no Trinity, then Jesus Christ was certainly not the divine and only-begotten Son of God. Jesus would simply be an ordinary, finite human person, whose actions were only ordinary and finite – like yours and mine…
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Pentecost is the day when we commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Spirit that Christ promised them before His ascension back to His Father in heaven. Pentecost comes from the word Pente, the Greek word for fifty. So Pentecost is fifty days after Jesus has risen from the dead at Easter.
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Counting our Blessings – To be thankful can seem rather difficult for most of us right now with the circuit breaker period and lockdown in many parts of the world during this Pandemic which no one knows when it will end.
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Psalm 91 has supplied both Jews and Christians with a refuge in times of trouble of all kinds, including supernatural assault, deadly plague, and worldly violence. It imagines the believer surrounded by threats but nevertheless passing through unharmed, defended by angels.Thus girded, the faithful may tread on supernatural enemies – lions and serpents – yet remain secure.
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