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Thirty.third Sunday B in Ordinary Time, Mk 13,24.32
The word “end” has many meanings. The end also means the beginning of something new. Today’s Sunday is penultimate at the end of the church year. Autumn in nature, our cemeteries, the view in the mirror, and our aging also speak of a lot. The end of life is a great fear for many, and others are afraid of the end of the world. The future is also time to evaluate, thanks, beg and enjoy.
The Lord Jesus, about his words, as marked by the evangelist St. Mark and to whom we paid attention during the church year, say: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Mark 13:31).
In today’s gospel, they have a unique memento role. The Lord Jesus tells the disciples of the day and events of the day when people “will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory” (Mark 13:26). The events that took place at that time will not capture the fantastic works of the human spirit. God’s work – the world will cease to exist. The mission assigned to him by the Creator will end. Those God created in his image (cf. Gen 1:27) will see their God, the Redeemer, the Son of Man, in his power and glory. The end comes to the beginning.
The Lord Jesus does not want to frighten us with these words. On the contrary, when the parable speaks of a fig tree casting leaves, it is a precursor that summer is coming. The myth is a challenge to notice things and events around you. Be reasonably prepared to meet your God Judge. Jesus often uses the familiar words of the prophets during his ministry. So that Jews, Christians, and all people will realize their mission and goal on earth in simple terms. It doesn’t matter how and when this moment of the end comes, but our readiness for this moment is essential. Life ends with death, and a new one begins with death. Being ready for death is everyone’s duty. The mementos are our words: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” (Mark 13:31) History speaks of the end of individuals and nations. Account will cease with the second coming of Christ into the world. “No man knows that day or hour, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father” (Mark 13:32). God, put your things in a state of truth and Love. Then we will not be filled with fear, but in fear, we will expect our God, the Judge, whom we call merciful and righteous.
He must come to meet God at the hour of death and the end of the world so that God can justly reward and punish the pinnacle of his creation, the man whom he not only created but for whom he died and whom he directed and sanctified. Our lives are like tasks given by the teacher to the students. Every day we fulfill them in knowledge, wisdom, Love… The teacher cannot do them for us; he would not be a good teacher. Our tasks are of different quality. Our lives also go through different stages. What matters is how we work all the time. However, the end decides. At the hour of our death, God will reward our whole lives. The reward will be fair. Each role will be included in the premium or punishment. It cannot be described. Life cannot be repeated. We believe we only live once. Incarnation, to finish something, to do something for something, is not part of our faith. The more we take our lives responsibly. We each accept a reward or punishment for ourselves. There will be no need to explain things, argue, blame others, speculate. We will have no time, no desire to change anything, no strength. God is the Judge who has the best information about our thoughts, words and deeds. The statement of the Judge God will be eternal, final, unchangeable. However, a man who dies in enmity with God will not desire to live forever with him in his Kingdom. He condemns himself. On the contrary, God fulfills man’s desire to live with him in his Kingdom. He gives a share, a reward, to all who have equally expressed their friendship with God.
Therefore, there must be a meeting with God the Judge to all know the Love and justice of God. God gave everyone in his righteousness a reasonable opportunity and opportunity to show him his Love. God did not predestine anyone to salvation or perdition in the beginning. The Father created the world for all, just as the Son of God died for every man, and the Holy Spirit, who is Love, gave his gifts to everyone to use.
The time of the last judgment must come to separate the wicked from the good. The murderers of their God and their brothers and themselves will be justly punished. Both good and evil will receive a reward for their lives. Our eternity, therefore, begins with our use of reason and free will. It is in our hands—God of every man of respect.
Today’s Sunday reminds us that it is suitable for our lives to be compared to the constant cry, “Marana tha!” – “Come, our Lord!” We live so that we are always ready: whether at midnight, in the morning, or during the day. We live in the hall or the shadow of eternity. We have no reason for hysteria but mercy. We believe that the second coming will be different than it was in Bethlehem. He came then as an unknown. Now, in his words, we expect him to come with divine power to take over the Kingdom over those who have accepted the invitation and worked to build his Kingdom. The thought of Christ’s coming to the faithful evokes joy and consolation in being co-heirs of the Kingdom of God.
And so today, we want to resemble the sailor that Sigmund Freud, the creator of psychoanalysis, writes in the short story that we should always be ready.
The sailor finds himself on an island somewhere near the equator. He was surprised by the behavior of the local natives, who greeted him with applause, singing and carried him to their capital. There he was crowned his king, but only for one year. In one year, the king was granted all the wishes and orders. True, the sailor began to take an interest in things around him. What he learned took his breath away. After a year, the inhabitants will take him to a deserted island, where he will be left without any means of subsistence; he will be a sacrifice to the gods. When the sailor king recovered from his shock, he began to wonder what to do. First, he began building a kind of warship. He then ordered the island to plant fruit and other trees, sow and plant vegetables. Finally, he gave the order to build a lovely house on the island. So the sailor king prepared for the day when the natives of the island would expel him from their island.
We can say that the thinking sailor in Freud’s short story prepared for a change of life. The idea of eternity, of meeting our God, should be similar. Do everything we can to be accepted into the Kingdom of God. The prophet Daniel has already written: “The wise will shine as the brightness of the sky, and those who have brought many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever” (Dan. 12: 3).
And such a view at the end pleases and fills with hope. Today, Sunday before Christ King, is an opportunity to realize what, change, leave, and start a new life so that we can continue in His Kingdom after meeting our God.
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Be what you are.
“If you want to fly fast as a thought and to any place, you must first start with the conviction that you’ve already gotten there…” (Richard Bach, The Seagull, Jonathan Livingstone)
“The baptized man is a perfect being, a “new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17).
He is deified.” (Christoph Cardinal Schönborn)
Adam and Eve in Eden were already like this. In the very essence, as far as God is concerned, they are already de facto like God; they were gods in God. They didn’t realize it yet. On the contrary, they succumbed to the delusion and illusion that they were wrong, indeed that God even denied them. And so they decided to go in search of deification away from God, away from Paradise. They went looking for what they already had where they didn’t have it and lost it all… Through baptism, God corrects this sin. He gives it all back to us again. As Cardinal Schönborn explains, the early Christians were firmly convinced that a baptized person is already perfect and deified. He had already arrived, as he would say, Richard Bach. He needs to realize it, accept it, and begin to live what he already has. That’s what faith is all about. Believing what we already are and starting to be it. Gods in God. Sons in the Son.
“Though we were dead in sins, he made us alive with Christ – by grace you are saved – and with him raised us up and gave us a place in heaven in Christ Jesus.” (Eph 2:5-6)
“You were buried with him in baptism, and in him, you were raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. You also, who were dead in sins and circumcision of your flesh, hath quickened us together with him, and forgiven us all our sins.” (Col 2, 12-13)
The secret of a perfect being. Being like God. To be God in God. Yes, everything this is already here, already know. You have to believe. Just leave the world of lack, the world of insecurity, the world of thirst and fear, to let go of these patterns of thought and behavior that have been ingrained in us from a young age, where man is a threat to man and where we are still searching to become and what we might gain and so satisfy that terrible hunger of the soul. Just leave the world and enter the world that is God. To realize and believe that God, Himself, is the real world, the one actual world, the universe in which we are destined to live in and find ourselves.
To realize that bliss is not about things and gifts that we have acquired or received from God. Bliss is being. It is being. To be in God. To be gods. In God. Perfectly free. Perfectly normal. Without the scourge of lust, without the mania of fear. In the only normal, that is, in love, in the sharing of love, in the unity of love, as God is love. All this is already here. All this we had already received when we were born again in baptism. All of this we already are. We don’t know it yet. Or we do, but somehow we can’t believe with our hearts and not just our minds. The mind learns, but the seat sticks to the old schemes. It doesn’t want to part with the bondage of the world because the prison of the world is its only home so far, its only bar, and its only miserable security it has had.
And so the spiritual struggle becomes a struggle of faith, a struggle to believe in what it already is, to take possession of what has already been given, to become what we already are, and to discover the bliss of being ourselves as God in God. “Fight the good fight of faith and take possession of eternal life; for to it, you are called and thou hast made a good confession before many witnesses.” (1Tim 6:12)
“And when evening was come, the disciples came unto him, saying: “This place is lonely, and the time is now advanced. Let the multitudes disperse into the villages to buy, “And they shall go to the villages, and gather food.” But Jesus said to them: “They don’t have to go anywhere; you give them something to eat!” Mt 14, 15-16)
“Peter said: “Silver and gold have I none; but what I have I give thee:
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk!” (Acts 3:6)
Everything that still touches our body, health or sickness, pain or comfort, heat or cold, satiety or hunger, everything that still affects it and the world has on us, and we are just unimportant trifles, details that do not matter. To those who have already discovered who and what they are and genuinely are, dwelling in God. “I didn’t fall in love with you as a joke! I didn’t just love you from a distance. You are me and I am you. You are what you are meant to be for me. You dwell on the heights of my majesty.” (God to Bl. Angela of Foligno)
“To experience the love of Christ, that was his [Paul’s] life, his world, his angel, his presence, his future, his kingdom, his promise, and innumerable good. Except for what was related to it, he considered nothing even as sad nor as joyful. For if what we have here, nothing seemed to him even hard, nor pleasant. And so he despised all that we see, as we despise rotten …and the cabbage… Even to bullies and angry mobs, he looked only as to some mosquitoes. A death, torture, and a thousand torments he regarded as mere child’s play, if only he could to endure something for Christ’s sake.” (St. John Chrysostom)
To believe and accept in God what we are in Him means at the same time to let go and letting go of the world and the things of the world as already surpassed and therefore already useless. Once upon a time, when we did not know God or His Gift, we were important and precious, and we fought over them. But that has passed; it just has been. “The old has passed away, and the new has come.” (2 Cor 5:17)
And even that which we fled from and thought was evil; we now perceive pretty differently because the same being, the same essence, is present in it. “Therefore, I have pleasure in weakness, in reproach, in distress, in too.
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John Wheeler
He is one of the greatest physicists of all time, a collaborator of Niels Bohr, who for 30 years has been a lecturer at Prince town and a friend of A. Einstein and wrote to others. This is the r that I can willingly explore and not become a part of its reality. We have to give in to the old term and come up with a new time, like the participant-Wheeler assumes that the most critical aspect of today’s physics is the convergence of physics and philosophy. Physics itself compels us to think philosophically. There is no space or time outside the universe, and space and time will disappear when it disappears. Even physics fails because no physics law can be expressed beyond the concepts of space and time. The universe is destined to disappear.
We have a mystery. It’s ridiculous to think of Wheeler as a vast system and a man as insignificant, isolated. Wheeler is convinced that any understanding of physics that deals solely with physics will not explain physics. At some point, it will be necessary to link these concepts to the mystery of man. Perhaps this journey will give us a chance to get ahead. This is how the natural world itself finds its limits, how it renounces all knowledge, how it recognizes that research into the world’s purely material relationships has not produced the desired results and has not enriched life as expected. Some issues cannot be solved with a microscope or a microscope. They are different for which general knowledge and methods of science are not sufficient. Throughout the 19th century, there was only an abundance of knowledge of the natural sciences, only what could be measured, weighed, seen under a microscope. The idea could not be seen, so it was denied. God couldn’t be seen, so they rejected him. The whole of human knowledge has been reduced to knowing the senses of what can be felt. They developed a so-called theory of reflection that our fundamental knowledge is just a reflection of the physical reality in our minds. But it’s a hoax; let’s read what the biologist Leila wrote about it. Let’s think that, despite all the anticipation, the glass doesn’t let go of the ultraviolet, however bright it may seem to us.
On the other hand, it releases these sheet metals, which we consider unsuitable for any sheet metal. Similar to the X-rays. There’s a discrepancy with our previous impressions. They’re passing through, but they’re barely passing through the glass. Our senses are becoming more and more disconnected from what nature’s science is finding out.
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Gratitude Lk 17,11-19
Warn believers that “ordinary gifts” are not “ordinary.”
If we ever really needed a thing, and it came to us, we certainly are
very grateful for her. It is natural for an average person to be able to thank you for gifts. Imagine a person who has been worried for a long time because he has pain and doctors can’t help him. Will, he is not grateful to the one who will help him ?! It seems so obvious, and yet we see that it is not always so.
In the Gospels, we heard about the gift of Jesus to the ten lepers. She bothered them a lot with the insidious disease. They could not live with their peers and had to stay outside towns and villages not to infect anyone. They heard about Jesus and waited for him. They hoped it would help them. That’s how it happened. We would expect them to heal, the first reaction will be an expression of gratitude to Jesus. However, we see that not everyone is, they mentioned him. Only one, and that was the Samaritan. This image is not just a thing of the past. Today we could talk about several similar situations in our lives. Except for the many gifts that we get, they seem kind of obvious. If we get something without our merit, it is a gift for which you must thank. Have we never received any contribution to make we didn’t have to thank anyone ?! We’re not just thinking about the fantastic things that happen, they can get us. After all, every good, every minute of life, is a gift from God for us. We receive a lot of good from God through our neighbors, primarily through our parents.
It is, therefore, necessary to thank both God and the people. Our gratitude should be seen. Let’s turn a grateful mind into words and deeds that express our attitude toward God and our neighbors. A natural, genuine expression of gratitude must show in life. Piere Lefevre mentions one instructive event. In the radio competition, there was such a question: “Which is the most beautiful sentence a woman can hear the first prize at all?” After a long decision, a young woman won the first prize. “The most beautiful sentence, “she said,” what a woman can hear at all is when a child cries at three in the morning and the husband says, “Stay down, I’m leaving.”
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The wife felt her husband’s gratitude in the story. He knew how to appreciate her work; he was grateful for her and turned it into a concrete deed. If he just talked about how demanding her job is and how it has affected her, it would, it was not enough. Let us also learn to act so that our surroundings know that we are grateful to them for what they do for us. Let’s appreciate the gifts, and thank you for them. At the same time, let’s realize that a gift is a smile, a good word, a prepared breakfast, and many other minor things.
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The older man of days
You, Lord, are so ancient, so age-old, You are from ancient times, Your wisdom goes beyond my every understanding, and your kindness, compassion, understanding,mercy my every idea. And I’m sitting here in front of you like a young man, sprout green and immature, and You gently and tenderly take me,
I can rest in Your presence, in Your love. Everything is suddenly filled with peace, peace beyond all imagination, peaceful of loving understanding, loving tenderness, closeness, friendship.
I’m where I should be. I was created for this. Teach me. Transform me. Turn me inside. “I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abide in me, and I in
it bears a lot of fruit; for without me, you can do nothing.” (Jn 15: 5) An image of God seemed before my eyes as an age-like creature a tree, a living tree, a tree that has a face and eyes as deep as the Universe itself, which is ancient, older than the world, whose branches overgrow everything in a world that carries wisdom far beyond our imagination, who sees everything and has seen everything, remembers everything, holds everything, is on the one hand, it is foreign to all that is in this world because it is not of this world, and yet closer than anything that exists in this world, because it is everything the originator of it is in everything and carries and maintains everything. It is full of deep wisdom, deep compassion, and love, goodness, and tenderness. God is indeed the whole great actual Universe into which one can be immersed and delve deeper and deeper and never hit the limits of his miracles. The world in which it is possible to live forever and be blissful forever. He Is Heaven. That’s why you are?
We are already choosing Him for our world; we are already choosing to live in Him. Is that so simple? And so fulfilling. Just break up with the world, let go of it and throw yourself without insurance in trust in depth.
“I treat you and tenderly. I am the friend of your heart, the most faithful and the most compassionate of friends. Never doubt my friendship: it is unwavering. I want you to rest in the assurance of my love for you. “(In Sinu Jesu) “Trust your ways to the Lord and trust him, he will take care of him.” (Ps. 37: 5). “Put all your worries on him, for he cares for you.” (1Pt 5,7)
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Forgive.
Does that mean forgetting?
Many of the life situations and religious dimensions are often.
They complicate things because the wrong name is one of the basics.
The importance of forgiveness. It’s a necessary page in Every valuable relationship, and for the creative system of faith is Substantial. There is no life without forgiveness. If we accept this, then we often have a problem because we need to understand what the difference is between what to forgive, and to what it means to forget. Forgive the person who has given us. It’s a different thing than ignoring what she did to us. However, we often see these two things as the same — wrongly so. We think that if we did forgive, we would immediately afterward they should have forgotten. A multitude of useless thus victimizes us in Emotional and spiritual conflicts. Such a conflict may be caused by an unhealthy sense of guilt. This makes our already complex mental state difficult. And we’re getting in the sack with ourselves. Because we know that we want to forgive, but we still have this negative feeling of no forgiveness; we feel like hypocrites.
This confusion – and this is an unfortunate problem – persists almost
As an epidemic among religious cartoonists, both young and old, educated and uneducated, traditional progressives. What’s this all about? People cannot reach the simple, but the crucial distinction between forgiveness as an act and forgiveness is a sentiment. If we don’t make this distinction, we’ll find ourselves in the grip, let’s see what we have. The act of forgiveness is precisely this: It’s a choice, a decision based on in our creative belief; it is an act of will and intention, based on our common sense. It’s a shot of the hand to the man, an invitation to go back to the past relationship. It may be an act of brutal but decisive, it may be cold and may not be accompanied by Kindness, positive feelings, but it must always be genuine, genuine.
I think that Christ’s act of forgiveness on the cross: ‘Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they’re doing, “was of this nature. It isn’t easy to imagine that. In all his physical and emotional suffering, Jewish had some warm, positive feelings! The fact that a person may be forgiven may still be a fact, but the feeling of being ignored. It can continue over time. When « not waived » We will build it directly; we will deal with it honestly, and We chew through it, it gradually dissolves? Then the process begins. Forgetfulness. The process of forgetting is precisely the process that involves our feelings which we must consider and give to them. We don’t have a chance. Checks on how we feel, but only checks on how we act and how we work with our feelings. We let our emotions get the better of us, or do we control them? They hold us when, for example, we behave towards to another person, subtly, measured or hostile when it comes to feelings, people are often unclear about what is sinful. Sin is not in our senses but our behavior. If the spouse, it will release its partner; it must use its negative feelings to they retreated, and the feelings returned thoughtfully. Because even if we forgive, feelings of resistance often remains, and that’s normal. But if it’s repulsive, reporting, that’s sinful.
It takes time and effort to feel negative feelings. How much time and you have to try; it’s different. It depends on our personalities, temperament, and how much we have enjoyed each other. When, however, we have realized that not everyone may accompany the feelings of forgiveness act of forgiveness, we got rid of contradictory emotions: Self-condemnation and a lot of internal confusion. This way we can avoid The gratuitous guilt and start dealing with the actual blame. The negative feelings of anger and hatred that result from the fact that we are some people, they’re not only normal, but we wouldn’t be human if we were they didn’t feel them. People sometimes deny these feelings because they can not they want to avoid dealing with them. They feel embarrassed, dissatisfied, and guilty. However, these feelings are real, although they are not always justified. We have to look at them directly, and we have to accept them. What we need to do is the counter-intuitive feelings of guilt that are the result of our temporary inability to forget so that our situation does not become a burden; and they didn’t make us feel any less valuable.
People often feel like hypocrites and culprits because of one the parties admit that they are Christians and want to forgive, but on the other hand, parties may not express their negative feelings towards each other. Such a man takes note of: “If I have forgiven this person, why do I have these terrible feelings, What about the resistance? I guess I didn’t really forgive her! ” However, the truth is that we can indeed forgive, even if to forget and to heal our negative feelings, we need time. We have to live with these feelings for a while. Divorce, victimization, terrorism and war, the birth of their children and those who have been rejected, children neglected and lived by their parents,
Unnoticed by the elderly and young whose elderly do not belong to them — all of whom they are made to suffer from a lack of awareness and sensitivity of each day’s life, they can forgive. However, we must realize that time is needed, before they forget about it. We can’t let any of the time set by the frame of forgetting. Each of us has a different ability. Makeup with each other. All mental, emotional and physical factors should be considered.
Spiritual and religious means to help ourselves Grow up and forget. When people sometimes feel that they are losing control of their lives,
They seek a unique counseling service to help them with their feelings.
To master, conquer and heal them. Some of them maybe We will never forget; even when wounds heal, scars often remain. These scars, such as the scars of Krião, may be signs that we are with him. By being able to forgive as he forgave. As we take time to forgive, we have to be willing. Give time to those who have offended us. Even though they’ve forgiven us, we have to let them. To be loved again and to be loved again, to give us space and time. This is often not understood in the context of marriage and family life. We’re getting impatient; we’re expecting the ruptured. He’ll go straight back to normal. It can often be used to subsequent forgiveness is the basis of a relationship. However, still, some relationships will never be the same. Another essential aspect of this topic is that forgetting doesn’t necessarily mean forgiving. The experience of forgiveness may be forgotten in a way that.
How to avoid the pain and injury caused by the rash. In the wounded City game, we defend ourselves to Truly forgive. We’ll never forget you if you’re first we don’t admit that we’ve been lied to, and then we don’t go through with the fight, and the satisfaction of forgiveness. Watch out for people who very soon: “Forget it! “They don’t leave us hanging in the dark about what s in the’re feeling things. We don’t know if they’ve forgiven us. When people forget, the negative feelings usually get under the skin, and this can be very dangerous. Hidden negative emotions can be conveyed overtime “in the same negative form. The act of forgiveness is one thing, but the art of forgetting is another. No.
It takes time, and it is a human process that can be facilitated by prayer and prayer. Use and possibly expert advice. Like God, we can also often forgive right away. But only God can forget right away.
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Adam’s grave sin.
When Adam committed a grave sin, he lost his original justice. And his sin is passed on to all his descendants. There is talk of inherited sin. St. Paul is a great theologian of inherited sin. After him, St. Augustine and then St. Thomas. First, the nature of the test our grandparents had to pass and the burden of their guilt must be well understood. It is often possible to hear such words. What could have been wrong with eating ordinary fruit? In this case, it is not just disobedience but rebellion. If God were forbidden to eat from all but one of the trees, they could accuse God of trying to pity the first man who would be exposed to constant temptation. But we know that God behaved differently. Paradise abounded in a variety of trees. They were full of tasty fruit.
Only one tree was removed. Our grandparents were able to show obedience to God. St. Augustine devised the following conversation between God and man. The man whom God created received such a prohibition: It does not concern him. Of what? That tree. But what is a tree? If he’s good, why shouldn’t I touch him? And if he is evil, what is he looking for here in paradise? Indeed, when he is in heaven, he must be good. But I wish you didn’t touch him. Why shouldn’t I concern him? Because I want your obedience and not your resistance. This tree is good, and I still wish you didn’t touch it. But why? Because I am a master, and you are a servant. Nothing serves you as much as serving a master. But how can you help the lord if you do not obey his commands? This fruit is good, but obedience is better. And if you eat the fruit of this tree, will the fruit of this tree become evil? Will it cause you death? It is not just your disobedience that will condemn you to death for moving you to eat the forbidden fruit, what the first man lacked in paradise, amid so many pleasures, especially when he had the pleasure of looking at God. Man wanted to be his master. He tried to break free from every addiction, from every domination. To become like God, who has no master over him. A fatal mistake. The first parents sinned freely and voluntarily. There is no question of ignorance here. Therefore, they were fully responsible for sin. And one more thing to say here. Their sin breeds more evils and will bear fruit to the end of the world. All the sins that people commit originate in the first sin of our grandparents. If Adam and Eve had not sinned, human history would have looked very different.
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Thirty-second Sunday B in Ordinary Time Mk 12,38-44
Allegiance to God (Mk 12,38-44)
To be faithful to God is to be accurate in little things.
Can you say what the great ones are: Rodeos, mother and father to their children; student to their duties; sportsman to sport; model to her activities; artist to his work; Christian Catholic to what he believes; and others and others to what they do out of love, conviction? These are all ‘excellent’ people who act out of passion and conviction and not out of compulsion or calculation, who have one thing in common: They are faithful in their little ways.
Great parents don’t miss out on anything for their kids. Some parents call themselves a father or a mother who doesn’t live, and they’re not great. Can a great model sit in a candy store every day? Who would pay a model – a chick?
To us Christian Catholics, believing what we want to be great, Jesus, in the example of the poor widow who threw two small coins into the treasury, says:
“In her poverty, she gave everything she had, her whole life. “(Mk 12.44)
Jesus’ words and miracles need interpretation, explanation. Even a simple event such as the behavior of the lawmakers and the behavior of a poor woman, a widow, may not be clear and may be poorly explained.
To behave as a widow would be ill-advised, to claim that this woman overreacted by putting her entire life in the temple treasury. After all, God doesn’t ask everything of us. Who’s going to leave it? Another person can make a false remark. If she gave everything, why put it in the temple treasury? She could have given it to the socially weak.
To properly understand the behavior of a widow assumes that we know of the Jews’ faith that their fate depends only on God and not on their work or the care of society. Therefore, the behavior of a widow, when she gives everything, even if it is very little, two small coins, quadrant, her behavior is an expression of total reliance on God, who is both the giver of life and the giver of all the means necessary for life. It is not an act of social superiority or righteousness, as the rich did, which they gave out from their surplus, but in the case of a widow, it is an act of faith. The Widow-Woman did not perform this act for the admiration of the lawmakers, whom Jesus criticizes. It decides the inside of a person. Jesus not only sees what they throw in the treasury and how because he sits there, he sees the treasury, but God sees inside the man, and he has no hidden thoughts, no motives for behavior.
The Gospel teaches us that we must not live our lives as those who know the law, sweat, give tens, but only for the people’s admiration. Jesus is giving us a personal example through the widow-wife. Jesus is addicted to the Father, and he only wants what the Father wants. True Christianity is that we faithfully fulfill everything, even the little things that God asks of us. God wants us all, and he doesn’t want anything. God wants our free brains and free will. He doesn’t, but he does. Is that a fact?
This event is multifaceted. For a small gift of conviction, Jesus promises a great reward. With God, the smallest donation can be significant. God can’t be bought or bribed. God is looking at the heart, not the wallet. Jesus puts emphasis not only on the size of the gift but on the love with which we give the gift. We can buy a lot from God for a bit of money, and he who gives or acts with the love of God gives more.
God created the world from nothing. Is the world made up of small parts (atoms, protons, quartz)? The oceans are made of drops. The time of our lives in seconds. Our Christianity from small, everyday good deeds.
St. The Shadow: “You want to be big? Start with the smallest. “When everything, even the little things in your life, is done with the love of God, it is the reward of the great that awaits us. There are no small people, no small deeds, no minor duties, no small gifts. There can only be little hearts and little love. Our lives may consist of little things, but done with the love of God and people, and we will be extraordinary Christians. Anyone can be significant, and the smallest can be the largest. St. Theresa of Jesus is already a Church reader.
The cook doesn’t appreciate the taste of the food. A little thing? No! No! No! Little things like spices mean a lot.
Why are we taking medicine as it is intended? A little thing? No! No! No! Even a little pill can ease the pain.
Why do we keep the details in the regulations, the regulations, the laws? We want to get there safely, like my car. We want this thing to serve us for a long time. The artist will donate to the exhibition or sell the finished work. A little thing? What about the critic?
And a Christian Catholic doesn’t go to Mass on Sundays and the holidays or stay away from the church. He’ll say it’s a small thing. There’s meat on Friday, and he’s not making the refund. It’s a small thing. Slander, theft, slander, disobedience, and utterance: It’s a small thing. Let us not forget to be generous to God. – Why not? The money and everything we have gained and gained on this earth will lose our value, us. Relatives, friends, acquaintances will escort us to the cemetery, but they will return home. Our good deeds, done for the love of God and kindred, we take before our God – the Judgement, and we bow to the merciful God so that he may forgive us and grant us eternal bliss.
Someone has correctly stated that three groups of donors are the reluctant donor, the duty donor, and the joyful donor. The unwilling donor says, “I hate giving, I hate giving.” I put off giving, and when I give, I share with contempt. Take it, and leave me alone. An unwilling donor also gives unwillingly. The less he does it of his own accord. It gives because it’s mandatory to provide. A joyous donor gives willingly from the heart and enjoys it.
Being simply good and doing what is right has never been and will never be easy. Even in today’s world, which only knows to have, to own as much as possible, generosity is very difficult. Even in the time of Jesus, some Pharisees and the lawmen were good, and Jesus was friendly with them. Others pretended to be holy. Jesus didn’t have them in his heart; he felt a kind of anger toward them.
What category are we in? Generosity to God, our neighbor, and ourselves, with what love, motivation, how often, and in what way do we realize? It’s up to us to act, the court to God, and it does not establish its activities in material terms. We also share the gifts of the spirit, talents, talent, skill, and resourcefulness…
That’s probably what Gogol thought when he said, “We’re never so poor that we can’t share with our fellow man. ‘
And Francis Balfour put it into words: “The best gift for our killer is that we forgive him. For a friend, our loyalty is our gift. That’s an excellent example for the kid. For Father, when we show him our allegiance. For mother, our heart. And for our hand, willing to help. ‘
We see how easy it is to make a lot of money with God, and we don’t have to work hard. There are unspeakable things that happen to us in doing good. It’s not what we gave; it’s what we helped with, but what love. God will not ask who you were, but what you were. Great men with their great works, but done without love, will be petite. Let us not burden ourselves with egos.
On the contrary, let us practice in small and small things, piquant willingness, cordiality… We will not be judged harshly. I don’t mistake that a man is as big as his love. Only God can get millions for a penny. Before God, our gift is as great as the love with which we have made it. Let us accept love as the measure of a man, but first, let us measure ourselves.
He’s talking about a ruler who decided to take on a temple on his dime. After it was built, he placed a table at the entrance with the words: The temple was created solely for Emperor X. He was surprised, however, when he was informed the following morning that his name was not on the marble tablet, but that of a woman. He had her called and asked what extraordinary thing she’d done when her name was on the board. A surprised woman admitted that when the temple was being built, and the horses were hauling a hefty load, tired and hungry, she threw them some hay and thought of God. “Is that all?” The monarch cried out in surprise—more chalk. A good deed done with the love of this woman was more valuable according to God than all the costs he had incurred in building it. That woman threw a horse with the thought of God. He made a temple with an idea for himself, not for God.
Jesus’ words from the Gospel are monstrous. “Everyone gave from their surplus, but she, in her poverty, gave everything, all her life. “(Mk 12.44). To avoid fearing God for once, to be ashamed of our lives, we have already adapted our attitudes and relationships to the little things we do.
All: Excellent parents, students, artists, models, but let us also have one thing in common: Let us do everything with the love of God, even if it is just ‘little things.
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Jesus sees into the heart
If I love, I see good in that evil Jews often saw Jesus in the company of prostitutes and sinners. They said about him being drunk. Why Jesus walked among them. If we saw him nowadays in such a society, what we would probably think. Some would they would offend, and if they said, why not me? Or someone would start wondering why this is so and trying to find the positive side. Jesus would like he did not go among them to enjoy, drink and sin with them. The only thing that got him to love led to it. He wanted to help them find hope for a better life again. He tried to help them discover a new meaning of life, a new goal. First, they needed it and not those who were already on the right track. He did not hesitate to come and look at one, for or lost person.
How is it with us? Jesus saw in every grain of goodness. Even in the biggest, he was able to discover it for the sinner. We know how tough it is. Such as very hard to find a piece of good who still hurts us and cuts on our mistakes or weakness, and it is very hard. As the Lord Jesus did.
With what “telescope” he was able to discover it. That telescope was love. Jesus loves us so much that He is willing to endure spiritual tricks from us. He loves us even if we trip him many times. Although you do many times, we will choose something else, but not his. Then he sees the good in us and knows that we are not yet lost for heaven. One mother used to visit her son in the hospital regularly. She had six children, but she preferred this affected son. And now, let’s listen to what happened once happened. “His mother ran to meet him, dropped to her knees to see him straight in the eye. But the child looked indifferently sideways. When she wanted to kiss him, the boy reached out and struck her on the cheek. Fascinated by the noise he made, he beat again and again and always louder. But the mother did
she looked at me happy and whispered with tears in her eyes, “Look how she laughs!
How he laughs!” This child was sorry. For what I saw was a poor man,
undeveloped, mentally insane. But the mother in the squinting, hitting boy she saw something else, she saw treasure in her, preciousness. And no one could say he was exaggerating. No, she knew best herself because only she loved him. And only love knows perfect.” 1 So is Jesus, since he loves us, willing to bear our blows. He is willing because he loves us. How is it with us? We are willing to see even a piece of the worst person good. Only he who loves can see good and overlook evil. The one who he loves, he also lacks a sinful person in his heart. Let’s not be fooled by this world, influenced by prejudices that obscure our eyes and prevent us from seeing it all right. After all, God loves each one. Jesus sacrificed for everyone. Every one of us is entitled to salvation. Each of us needs help from Christ, and most importantly, they need sinners who are in constant danger of their salvation. To them, to today, Jesus is coming and trying to heal the wounds of sins. He just because of it, one is willing to leave the whole herd. This testifies to his great love for us. About his immense pain over the loss of one because true love hurts and to one loves not the indifferent face of a neighbor, just as he is not indifferent to Jesus our destiny in the other world. Let us open the hearts of his love and let it work. Let her heal our mistakes, and then we can see evil as well suited for a man. Just like Jesus in us. Love reveals spiritual sight and reveals to us the truth about others, but also about himself.
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