Receiving Mary’s Hospitality (Rewind)
Do you wonder about Mary’s firsthand memory or experience of God? We can relive Mary’s memory and experience of God through the Rosary. Rosary is like experiencing God with Mary—in her heart, her hospitality. Mary is the most perfect Christian, the most perfect woman who’s all about Jesus, and on this month of the Rosary, we are invited to take time and be…
Stop Social Climbing
Stop social climbing. That should be the tagline for this Sunday’s gospel. Jesus is saying that, trying to gain social status, trying to reach the highest seat, which we will never truly satisfy. Jesus is saying, Your identity is in me. When we forget about our identity in Jesus, that’s when we try to gain status. That’s when we try to find love in all of the wrong places. And so Jesus says, “Stop doing that and see me….
The Asceticism of Silence (Rewind)
What’s the most prevalent voice that you hear in your life? Is it God’s or someone’s/something else? We long to teach people how to pray, contemplative silence, inner recollection, and interior stillness are ways to live in a relationship with God. But, there’s a silver bullet to make people live in chaos and noise, exteriorly or interiorly. Every day, through general media…
Done or Half-Baked
So, the bottom line is that you are never a done muffin. You are always half-baked. In the gospel for this Sunday, Jesus tells the scribe, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” He doesn’t say to the scribe, “You made it. You did it. Success.” He says, yeah, you’ve said all the right things, but still, you have some work to do. Still, I want to go deeper with you. This is the beautiful reality that Jesus…
Work-Life Balance
You know that the Lord created the universe in six days. And on the seventh day, He rested. And the commandments said, “Keep the Sabbath Day holy.” But then there is an exception, and that exception is one the Lord made. He cured on the Sabbath to show that you can also do certain things on the Sabbath. If you’re working in a hospital, you need to save lives. What of the priests? One of their main work is to say…
Will you WALK with Jesus?
We all need healing, yet many of us are separated from the very source of our strength. Every one of us is a sinner and we need Jesus to rescue us. Jesus Christ invites us to return to the source and summit of our faith in the celebration of the Eucharist. God has given us the chance to ignore Him and to hate Him, this is the God who has given everything because He loves us. But what God is inviting us to do on this Eucharistic revival is to go out there and take Him with us—to go and follow Jesus Christ.