Today Our Lady of Mount Caritas and The Hermitage of Peace celebrate their Religious Founder!
May St. Benedict intercede for us all!
Pax.
Happy Solemnity of St. Benedict!
Go To Jesus!
Learn From Him!
“For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”
Matthew 11:30
Life gets crazy!
Normal people like us have many challenges that we have to deal with on a regular basis. And these things can become overwhelming! Yet Jesus wants us to use His Way to meet these situations.
What is the Jesus technique?
Jesus uses the Divine Power of Love!
When we allow love to be the reason that we do the things that we do, our situations change. Love means to take care of ourselves. It means to eat healthy, to get enough rest, and to stay away from things that that could harm us.
When we allow love to be the way we deal with people we encounter, even those who want to hurt us, we do the best that we can to live in peace and not to try to hurt the person back. This releases us from a terribly heavy burden and put the burden that Jesus wants us to have, love. We learn to do what we are able to do, loving ourselves in the process, and then letting go, and moving onward!
Jesus on the Cross is the Divine Example of the Power of Love at work. Jesus did what He was sent to do, He loved us to the end, but in actuality, it was the Beginning for us! Hate tried to kill Love, but on the Third Day, Love Rose Never To Die Again!
This Love is our power and how we are to maintain peace in our struggles!
Learn from Jesus and live in love!
Pax.
Little Things Matter!
Share Love!
“And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.”
Matthew 10:42
A cup of cold water may seem to be insignificant, but it is not! Any act of love is holy and keeping with our lives in Jesus! We are true disciples of Jesus when we show love to one another!
We are called to make a difference in the world! Remember the old children‘s Church song, “They will know we are Christians by our love.” We can look at it the other way, they will know we are not Christians because we hate! We have many things in our lives that we can easily react with hateful words and actions, but we are challenged, by Jesus, to “not go there”!
Jesus reminds us, “And he who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.”
Matthew 10: 38
Loving people we encounter and carrying our crosses can not be separated! There will be people we are forced to deal with who will try to harm us. What will be our response? We are called to follow Jesus! Jesus returned love even as He was dying on the Cross!
The Cross of Jesus is our example of how we are to carry our crosses. We are called to even be kind to people who are not kind to us! This approach to living will not be always easy, but our efforts matter and in the process we will become better Disciples of Jesus in our world!
Be Jesuslike!
Pax.
We Are Important!
We Are Loved!
“Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.”
Matthew 10:31
Jesus reminds us of how much we are important to God. It is important that we are reminded of this often because that may not me the message we have to deal with in self talk, or in the relationships that we have with the people we encounter on the daily basis.
Jesus lived a life that tells us that we are valuable! Our value is not based on what we have done, or how much we have, but simply because we are!
Wow!
If we truly believed that we are valuable because we are, how would that change how we approach life? Perhaps we would take better care of ourselves. Maybe we would not have to self medicate ourselves with alcohol, or drugs, or anything else we use to make ourselves feel better about ourselves!
An ouch moment!
What if we read about Jesus’ messages as much as we follow our heroes in the world, would not our lives be changed!?
My friend, God joined us in Jesus Christ Our Lord to tell us of our true worth. May we not fear but trust and become the wonderful people we were created to be!
Pax.
Happy Father’s Day!
Spread the Love of the Father!
When He saw the crowds, He had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 9:36
The Father as a shepherd!
Without the shepherd, the sheep are lost. Without direction, we are lost. We all need a father! The greatest father is God! God sent God’s Self in Jesus Christ our Lord to direct us through the maze of life’s journey. Jesus commissioned us to follow His example and teaching that we can father one another, to help direct one another out of love.
The Gift of the Father
Many of us have had wonderful and loving fathers. But not all. However, I think we all have had Father figures in our lives, a grandfather, an uncle, a friend, a mother who had to be father too!
We give honor to all of those wonderful people, both living and deceased, who love us and direct us, and may we also be good fathers and father figures to those whom we love and guide in our lives.
May the Creator who guides the Creation lead us to love and support those who have guided us on life’s way, and fill us with the Holy Spirit, so that we can love and guide those we have been given to serve. We make our prayer though Jesus Christ Our Lord!
Amen!
Again, Happy Father Day!
Pax.
We Remember, We Celebrate!
Happy Corpus Christi!
“As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.”
John 6: 57
Being in communion with Jesus means being truly alive in God. God became one of us in our Lord Jesus Christ. At the Last Supper, Jesus gave us Himself, His Body and Blood, so that we could be connected to Him in a most intimate way. Jesus becomes one with us and in us!
In this intimate oneness, we are given the food that helps us focus our lives and continue our journey in the world.
We become more like Jesus and if we receive Him well, that is , with open hearts, we gradually become more like Him and help change our world through Him!
We become the Living Tabernacles of the Divine! Our egos decline and the Great I Am rises in us! We become more of the image and likeness of the Divine! We become who we were meant to be.
We are intimately joined to Jesus!
May those who encounter us know, by the way we live, that we are at one with God!
Happy Feast Day!
Pax.
Holy, Holy, Holy!
Happy Most Holy Trinity Sunday!
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
This is the love affair our Creator initiated with us. We celebrate this when we celebrate the Holy Trinity. The Father sent the Son through the power of Holy Spirit. The Creator has wrapped us in the love affair that is eternal. We have the choice to join this love exchange and live eternally, and eternity begins now, if we surrender ourselves and join Jesus, the Son.
When we join this Trinitarian Love Affair, our lives change. Many people try to find love and often they find it in the wrong places, yet if our first love is in God’s perfect love, we can deal with the disappointments that human love can bring to us.
When we join the Divine Love, we have to rise to the challenge of that Love! We must love our sisters and brothers! These sisters and brothers might hurt us, but if we faithfully follow the Divine Love, we return love to those who hurt us! Jesus showed us what this love looked like on the Cross when He forgave those who murdered Him.
Living in the Trinity means to become like Jesus!
Loving in the Divine Way requires Supernatural Power and that power is provided by the Holy Spirit that allows Jesus to be reborn in us!
God loves us first, God invites us to join in this love affair, and when we surrender to Divine Love we become love itself. This Love changes the world in the way we live! May we be the Love-change the world so desperately needs!
“Finally, sisters and brothers, rejoice. Mend your ways, heed my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.”
2 Corinthians 13:11
Pax.
The Divine Presence Is Available!
Receive God’s Spirit!
Change Your World!
Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. “
John 20: 21-22
Today brings Eastertide to a close. We close with the receiving of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Divine! With this Divine Presence we can continue the Way of Love and Peace that the Divine Presence entered into our world in Jesus Christ Our Lord.
God the Father sent God the Son, in Jesus, to live among us and show us by word and deed what Divine Living is all about, Total Trust in God! Trust includes the choice of love even in times of hate.
We are to be other Christs!
Jesus was conceived in the womb of Mary, we as other Christs, we were conceived at Pentecost when the Divine Spirit came in power and entered us!
However, there is a great challenge for us here!
Do not block the Divine Spirit!
Jesus did not hate anyone! Remember on the Cross when He was falsely accused, scourged and carried His instrument of execution, He said;
“Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
Luke 23: 34
Hate blocks the Divine Presence!
May we be vessels of the Divine Presence, may we experience Pentecost always, and be the change in the world that Love brings!
Again, Happy Pentecost Sunday!
Pax.
May We Be One!
Thank You Jesus!
And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy Name, which Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, even as We are one.
John 17:11
The Eastertide is coming to a close; one Sunday away from Pentecost. We have come to this point that the Incarnation, Life, Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus is made clear to us who follow Him.
We are called to be one with the Creator of all things!
The work of salvation has one purpose and that is union with the One who loves us and brought us into being.
Jesus Ascended and is seated at the Right Hand of the Creator and He brings us there.
“When two or more are gathered in My Name, I am there in their midst.”
Matthew 18:20
Jesus is everywhere! His followers make Him present in the world and they will do His Will!
May we be His presence in the here and now and may we all be one!
Thank you for bringing Jesus here and may we be the change that the Creator wants in the world!
Pax.
Live Love!
Live Jesus’ Commandments!
“Whoever has My commandments and observes them is the one who loves Me. And whoever loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love them and reveal Myself to them.”
John 14:21
Love is an action word!
Love is such a huge concept and can be miss leading if it is not concrete in the way we treat each other. God concretely made the universe and this was an act of love. However, we may choose to not love and destroy the creation, including ourselves.
God entered into the world that God created to model for us what love means. Jesus is that model of love that God wants. However, this love challenged how the culture of sin and death controlled human relations, and those in power nailed Love, Jesus, to the Cross.
But Love Wins!
Love could not be kept in the tomb! God will not stay dead!
Love Wins!
If we want to be on the winning side, then we must keep the Commandments! The Commandments are God’s Love in concrete form! When we keep the Commandments, we are in God! And here is where True Peace Reigns!
Today we celebrate in the USA, Mother’s Day. This is one of the most important days of the year. Why? Simply because Mothers teach us how to love, and in doing so, brings us into the great Love Affair with God. Mothers keeps us growing and loving, and protects us from being overwhelmed by the hate in the world! Mothers create the home that we carry with us!
Have an amazing Mother’s Day!
Pax.
