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!
Tag: #LoveWins
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.
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.
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.
Jesus Frees Us!
Live In Freedom!
“It Is Finished!”
John 19:30
Happy and Glorious Holy Saturday!
On Good Friday Jesus finish recreating Creation! He took Six Days of Holy Week and He took the Sabbath Rest. We rest in silence in all anticipation for His Glorious Resurrection on the Eighth Day, Resurrection Sunday!
Jesus took all creation with Him, the dead, the living and those who would come in the future. All creation was recreated in Him! Jesus opened the Doors of Heaven! All are welcome to come in. The key is simple:
“A new commandment I give to you: Love one another. As I have loved you, you must love one another.”
John 13:34
May we meditate on Jesus’ Love! May we live His Love!
May we share in Love that leads to Victory and Freedom!
In the final analysis: LOVE WINS!
Pax.
Happy Palm Sunday!
Love Still Wins!
And the crowds that went before Him and those that followed Him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
Matthew 21: 9
People can be fickle!
What a glorious scene of Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem! It is a scene that brings joy to the heart, and has been doing so for almost two thousand years! This day is celebrated with such pomp and circumstance throughout most of the world and the symbol of palms are brought back to the homes to remember how great a celebration of this day is.
Yet we know that this same week would end with the Lord Jesus being nailed to the Cross! How quickly people change!
However, one thing did not change, the Love that flowed out from Jesus remained constant though out, even to the end, as He said:
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Luke 23:34
Jesus had total trust in the Father! Jesus surrendered all to the Divine Will and Love!
Love Wins!
We know the end of the story! On the Eighth Day, that Sunday Most Glorious, Jesus Rose From The Dead! Hate loses!
Our Story and His Story!
We live in the world when people can be good to us or mean to us. But we have the model of Jesus to follow. If we live like Him, no matter what we have to go through, Love Wins! We will have the final Victory!
TotalTrustInTheDivineWillAndLove
Happy Palm Sunday!
Pax.
Enter into Jesus’ Way!
Be Your True Self!
“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father who is in Heaven…”
Matthew 5: 44-45
We are made in the Image of God!
Some times we may forget our true essence. Some times we may allow our anger at some one to lead us to hurting them. We need to stop and look at Jesus! No matter who hurts us, our response is to follow the Master, Jesus! Pray for those who hurt us!
His Yoke is easy and His Burden is light (Matthew 11:30)!
When we give our lives to Jesus, He will give us peace. Never let hate win, let Love Win in every circumstance! Learn from those who hurt us, do not put ourselves in situations that they can hurt us again, if at all possible.
Peace is marvelous; keep it!
22 February 2023, many people who follow Jesus will be entering into the special time of preparation for the celebration of the Life, Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus. May this be a time that truly we enter into Jesus and become who we are truly meant to be!
Pax.
Hermitage of Peace 