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Today’s young Christians are not so indifferent to the faith. Many among them are not satisfied with the mere fact that the Church has a holiday, such as today; Sacrifice of the Lord – Groundhog Day; they will go to church, but they want to know as much as possible about the holiday. It is right when a person knows something and can be convinced of the correctness, and so he finds a way to fulfill his duties, not only among young people but at any age. The passage from the Gospel we read describes the precepts given by the Lord Jesus to the Jews as Mary and Joseph complied with him around this event. We know from the Old Testament how God showed His power over Pharaoh when he did not want to release the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery. The last blow was difficult for them. The angel of death killed all the firstborn, both human and animal, in houses whose doors were not marked with the blood of a lamb. In memory of the salvation of the firstborn Jews, each firstborn son was considered God’s property. Therefore, on the 40th day after the boy’s birth, they carried the child to Jerusalem, placed it in the hands of the priest, and redeemed the son by making the prescribed sacrifice. It was 5 hips, which was a reward for five working days. There was also another church celebration at that time – the cleansing of the child’s mother. On that occasion, the mother was obliged to offer the sacrifice of a lamb, and when she did not have one, it was enough to offer the sacrifice of two doves or pigeons. The fact that Maria and Joseph brought a couple of doves proves that they were inferior. In each parish, some people regularly attend Holy Mass and other liturgical bows. So it was in the temple in Jerusalem. Many Jews, when they heard the voice of the trumpets ringing like our bells into the temple, left their jobs and went to pray. It is true that the Jerusalem Temple was large and had precise laws, both liturgical and orderly, who and where could stay. Women were separated from men. In this context, we read about Simeon and Anne. They were among the faithful to God. For this, by God’s permission, they had the grace to see the Redeemer here on earth. At the Holy Spirit’s prompting, Simeon offered Mary a prophecy about her suffering with her Son. We understand the words that Joseph and Mary returned to Nazareth with the child so that Matthew does not describe events such as the flight to Egypt. When Luke writes, believers already know the Gospel of Matthew. Therefore, he does not write about what we already know from Matthew but immediately writes that they returned to Nazareth after all these events.

The feast tells us about the great events of the life of Jesus and Mary. From this came various speculations about whether today’s feast is the feast of the Virgin Mary or the Lord Jesus. Today’s holiday is not commanded. We consider this feast day to be the feast of the Lord because the Lord Jesus shows us faithfulness by the commandment of his Father, who commanded the sacrifice to the nation through Moses. Jesus became like us in everything but sin, and therefore in keeping the law. The Virgin Mary gave this holiday a Marian character in that she also did the will of God the Father. This holiday is one of the oldest in the Church. After the persecution of the persecution in the 4th century, a procession with candles in Rome is mentioned. The content of today’s celebration is that the Lord Jesus, as a child, is brought to the temple, the priesthood of the Old Testament ends, and it is through him and him that the new priesthood begins. For a thousand years, accompanied by lighted candles, the Church recalls Simeon’s words: “…. a light for the enlightenment of the Gentiles” (Lk 2:32).
Today’s symbolism of light draws our attention to the pattern and following of Jesus, especially when today’s celebration occurs in the evening and in a solemn manner accompanied by lighted candles. Today’s symbolism of light draws our attention to the pattern and following of Jesus, especially when today’s celebration occurs in the evening and in a festive manner accompanied by lighted candles. Today’s celebration is also called a holiday – the Maid of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This holiday is known in many countries around the world. We call on the Virgin Mary as a guardian in trouble. In the past, the fire has often caused many misfortunes, especially when lit with candles. This light was entrusted to the Virgin Mary. Lightning also caused a great deal of disaster. If it became a long time ago that today candles were blessed, lit during disasters, and in their light, the believers prayed and asked for the Virgin Mary’s protection – the Groundhog.
Today we shine with electric light, and lightning conductors protect our homes. However, this is no reason to say that what was in the past was a superstition; this holiday is losing its significance today. On the contrary, today, we ask Jesus and Mary for help in even worse calamities and storms. The candles we bless today will remind us with their light of the closeness and presence of Jesus and Mary in our prayers. Today is 40 days since we spent the holidays of peace and love in the family circle. Today, we cannot, and especially not children, imagine a Christmas tree without colored electric candles. When the family prays together, it is the candle and its light that can help us focus, take ourselves into the presence of God, and improve our conversation. Or with God. In prayer, we are to know Simeon and Anna our God. We are to approach prayer with such naturalness and fidelity to God as they performed their duties to the Law of Mary and Joseph. Today we must realize that a good Christian should not shirk his duties to his soul. In the case of Mary and Joseph, we do not encounter the excuse that Herod is reaching for their child. They perform everything faithfully and conscientiously.

We realize that Simeon’s words are being fulfilled today: “He is ordained to fall and to rise up for many in Israel, and to a sign to which they will oppose” (Luke 2:34). Jesus is unrecognized, denied, and mocked. The second prophecy of Simeon is fulfilled: “And the sword shall pierce thy own soul” (Luke 2:35).

And today we see real respect for Mary, but also public and open attacks on her mission in the Church. Some believers are open to God. Although not every day, but as determined by ecclesiastical law on Sunday and the commanded feast, they participate in holy masses or church events. The second part of the believers ignores the spiritual life. Judgment is left to Christ. However, who here on earth consciously and voluntarily denies the light of the teachings of Christ, must reckon with the words of Jesus, who speaks of darkness and pain for those who despised the invitation to a wedding feast or exchanged the wedding robe in their lives for something insignificant and secondary. The lighted candle in our hands is an address for us from Mary and Jesus so that we do not extinguish the light of grace in our hearts. It is a challenge for each of us to be a role model, an example, and an encouragement in our lives.

At one stadium, where a liturgical celebration was held, during the intercession, the preacher asked the organizers to turn off all the lights. It was dark in the stadium. The preacher then lit a candle. He asked those present if they saw her. On the other hand, they also answered – yes. They saw a small light. The preacher then called on anyone with a match, lighter, flashlight, or other light to light it. The darkness in the stadium was gone. The more sources they ignited, the more light there was. Finally, the preacher remarks: – This is how it should be in our society. When one shines a good example, others will see it. When we all strive for this, in our environment, the darkness of unbelief and sin will turn into a pleasant light of peace and love. –

And something similar wants to remind us today of this holiday – the Sacrifice of the Lord. Let us sacrifice ourselves for the salvation of our souls. Let us sacrifice our examples for the encouragement of faith for our neighbors. On this feast day, Mary and Jesus invite us to follow them with their light of the good Christian life. And this is what our young friends need today. They need it more than we adults think. Our young people are not satisfied with phrases, words without deeds, but examples of our lives. And they are right.

Let us do deeds of love. 
Which one of you doesn’t like it? Such a person is not here, but someone will say it is just him. It is said to be a problem today, but many psychologists claim that it is only the problem of expressing your love.
The possessor wanted to go with Jesus, but he told him, “Go home
to yours, and declare unto them how great things the Lord hath done unto thee, and how thou hast done thee he had mercy ”(Mark 5:19).
So about 2,000 pigs is a pretty big asset: They could be big shops. And some wandering teacher kills them. That’s probably the owner of pigs properly angry, so much so that they did not realize much of a man who, in a few words, experience about 2,000 enemies. That is a powerful word.
Today, it may seem to us that miracles do not happen, and even if something happens unusual, it is an attempt to explain it “intellectually.” But God still works in the world; he is here among us; in a moment, the bread and wine will be transformed into the living Christ. But what everyday life. There, too, Jesus is present in every brother, in every sister. He does no miracles there. Many people die of hunger; he could multiply a piece of bread.
Many people suffer from problems; he could do some miracles. But he did the miracle makes dear believers! He has given us the commandment of love and also gives us the strength to abide by him if he is, please. And we are to live this love! How many people do we meet on the street, and how many would they need help? And we are obliged to help; we are obliged to give to our neighbors this love. Or will we wait for someone else to do it for us? You know we care about every single person! We don’t want to be like the inhabitants of its cities that expelled Christ because he helped “only” a poor man and not them.
Even because of him, they lost property, and they only loved property, poor thing, who needed help they are not interested. And yet, we care more about our neighbors than on the property. Many saints gave away their possessions and went to serve the poor and sick. We don’t have to give up property, but our hands can be ready for kind help to a neighbor.
Many miracles can happen with our hands, as the story of a certain hunter mentions from Africa. He once saw a fox in the desert. She could be seen not having hind legs, crawling on her front. The hunter saw that she had lost them long ago and watched her because he was curious, like in fact, he can survive when he can’t grab food. He found himself watching one lion and finished eating the remnants of his prey. You said how wise God is to arrange it this way. However, when
he was walking through a settlement, he saw an indigenous girl who had no hands. He asked, and he learned that she was born that way. “Why did the Lord affect her in this way? Why did you allow her to be tormented, the hunter asked God. And the Lord said to him, “Help her; yet I created them you. ”
God gives everyone different opportunities, different talents but gives each of us a chance to help our neighbors. We don’t just have to go to Africa to feed the hungry; we have had needy enough here. Let’s help each other. Let’s help with love. Jesus gave us an example of his love, but neither he expected gratitude nor received it, let us do it only that the love which he hath given us may shine forth among us.

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“(The case of one young priest, Opus Dei): He had just been ordained and lived in Rome, near the historical and administrative core of the Catholic Church, and especially with Monsignor Escrivá, who was still alive at the time and very interested in the daily life of the Work. What a joy it must have been when this young priest was invited to give a meditation in the center of Opus Dei, where the founder lived and worked. The theme was “humility.” Like all members, Opus Dei priests are encouraged to do their work with the utmost professional perfection because they sacrifice it to God. The preacher should prepare sermons with due diligence, examining what the saints have said on the subject. A member of any ecclesiastical institution will also consult on the founder of his institution’s important works. There is no problem in that, as Monsignor Escrivá wrote a great deal of material on humility, so we can be sure that our young priest prepared very well for the conversation about humility. There is no doubt that before the immensity of this subject, he even felt humble and portrayed it in life-size in his mind and his sermon in the dimly lit chapel. At one point in his meditation, he exclaimed with great conviction, “The spiritual foundation of Opus Dei is humility.”
Into this small pause, however, a firm and fatherly voice suddenly came, “No, it is not!” St. Josemaría emerged from the darkness, walking decisively to the place where the young man was preaching. The old saint addressed the young man as “my son.” and instructed him to let him go. However, we must be careful not to misunderstand this moment. Sv. Josemaría paid great attention to consideration. He was not a man to interrupt others to correct them whenever they said something inaccurate. But he also didn’t consider it rude to shout “Burn!” When a fire broke out. Distorting the spirit of Opus Dei – albeit out of youthful recklessness – was just such a moment. Expectations – he revealed the real basis of Opus Dei. He is, he said, the sonship of God. ” (Scott Hahn)
In the words of the Bible: “34 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever sinned is a servant. 35 And the servant abide not in the house for ever: the son abides forever. (John 8: 34-35 ).” “6 And he said unto me; It is done: I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give the thirsty for free from the fountain of living water. 6-7 ) “

“6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, and he cries out,” Abba, Father! ” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. (Gal 4: 6-7 )

“15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to fear again, but ye have received the spirit of adoptive sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit itself, together with our spirit, testifies that we are children of God. 17 But if we are children, we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ; (Rom 8: 15-17 )

“Behold, how great a love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we are called the children of God, and we also are. (1 John 3: 1) “

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. (Math. 5: 44-45 ) “

In the words of the Church, “Baptism not only cleanses all sins but also makes the newly baptized a” new creation “(2 Cor 5:17), the adoptive son of God who has become partakers of God’s nature, Christ’s condemnation, Christ’s co-heir and the temple of the Holy Spirit.
“Jesus, the new Adam, begins his new birth of adoptive children in the Holy Spirit through faith with his virgin conception.” (CCC 505)
“We can worship the Father because he gave us to be born again to his life by adopting us as his children in his only Son: by baptism, he incorporates us into the body of his Christ (the Anointed One) and by anointing his Spirit, which is pouring from Head to Head. , also makes us “anointed”: “God, who predestined us for adoption, made us like Christ’s glorified body. Since you have become partakers of Christ, you are rightly called “anointed.” “A new man, born again and returned to his God by his grace, will say in the first place: Father, for he has already become a son. “
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“4 Remain in me, and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself if it does not remain in the vineyard, neither can you if it does not remain in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. He that abide in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 And if any man abides not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; Then they collect them, throw them into the fire and burn them. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be fulfilled for you. 8 My Father is glorified in that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 9 As the Father loves me, so I love you. Stay in my love! (John 15: 4-9 )
In the center is the sonship…
“(The case of one young priest, Opus Dei): He had just been ordained and lived in Rome, near the historical and administrative core of the Catholic Church, and especially with Monsignor Escrivá, who was still alive at the time and very interested in the daily life of the Work. What a joy it must have been when this young priest was invited to give a meditation in the center of Opus Dei, where the founder lived and worked. The theme was “humility.” Like all members, Opus Dei priests are encouraged to do their work with the utmost professional perfection because they sacrifice it to God. The preacher should prepare sermons with due diligence, examining what the saints have said on the subject. A member of any ecclesiastical institution will also consult on the founder of his institution’s important works. There is no problem in that, as Monsignor Escrivá wrote a great deal of material on humility, so we can be sure that our young priest prepared very well for the conversation about humility. There is no doubt that before the immensity of this subject, he even felt humble and portrayed it in life-size in his mind and his sermon in the dimly lit chapel. At one point in his meditation, he exclaimed with great conviction, “The spiritual foundation of Opus Dei is humility.”
Into this small pause, however, a firm and fatherly voice suddenly came, “No, it is not!” St. Josemaría emerged from the darkness, walking decisively to the place where the young man was preaching. The old saint addressed the young man as “my son.” and instructed him to let him go. However, we must be careful not to misunderstand this moment. St. Josemaría paid great attention to consideration. He was not a man to interrupt others to correct them whenever they said something inaccurate. But he also didn’t consider it rude to shout “Burn!” When a fire broke out. Distorting the spirit of Opus Dei – albeit out of youthful recklessness – was just such a moment. Expectations – he revealed the real basis of Opus Dei. He is, he said, the sonship of God. ” (Scott Hahn)
In the words of the Bible: “34 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever sinned is a servant. 35 And the servant abide not in the house for ever: the son abides forever. (John 8: 34-35 ).”

“6 And he said unto me; It is done: I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give the thirsty for free from the fountain of living water. 6-7 ) “

“6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, and he cries out,” Abba, Father! ” 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. (Gal 4: 6-7 )

“15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage to fear again, but ye have received the spirit of adoptive sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit itself, together with our spirit, testifies that we are children of God. 17 But if we are children, we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ; (Rom 8: 15-17 )

“Behold, how great a love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we are called the children of God, and we also are. (1 John 3: 1 ) “

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. (Math. 5: 44-45 ) “
In the words of the Church
“Baptism not only cleanses all sins but also makes the newly baptized a” new creation “(2 Cor 5:17), the adoptive son of God who has become partakers of God’s nature, Christ’s condemnation, Christ’s co-heir and the temple of the Holy Spirit.
“Jesus, the new Adam, begins his new birth of adoptive children in the Holy Spirit through faith with his virgin conception.” (CCC 505)
“We can worship the Father because he gave us to be born again to his life by adopting us as his children in his only Son: by baptism, he incorporates us into the body of his Christ (the Anointed One) and by anointing his Spirit, which is pouring from Head to Head. , also makes us “anointed”: “God, who predestined us for adoption, made us like Christ’s glorified body. Since you have become partakers of Christ, you are rightly called “anointed.” “A new man, born again and returned to his God by his grace, will say in the first place: Father, for he has already become a son. “

The will is innate to every individual, but not to the same extent. Strong will, energy can be cultivated through exercise. To develop, I have to have an idea. Without this idea, the will is blind and will not awaken. We would be wrong if we looked for a strong will only in a healthy, strong person. We often find a strong will in people who have had to struggle with life’s difficulties, who have constantly had to overcome. Such overcoming awakens oneself and creates a strong will. We also gain a strong will through daily exercise. Some people have worries over their heads. And they can’t get rid of them even after work. He cannot secure peace of mind with great worries. If I have a strong will, I will call her for help. A strong will,  can ensure peace.

When I put my strong will into action, there is an extremely increased activity in the gray bark, the silo tones are released, and the clairvoyants detect strong radiation around the head. The relaxed siloton can give direction so that it can act on a certain person. Stronger rays emanate from a man who has a firm will than from the eyes of a man with a weaker will. The will alone is blind power; reason must dictate direction to it. Strong-will attacks on an unprepared person are amazing. I will give an example. Mr. John went with his friend Karol on the way. Mr. Jakub used to be about 400 meters away. Karl asked John if it would be possible to summon only by force of the idea of ​​summoning James. James was known to them together. I’ll try it. John began to work with the will for James to come to them. After about 7 minutes, James approached them, and when he arrived, he asked. What do you want from me? Could you talk to us? However, he objected that he did not have time, that he had a job, and he left. At about a quarter of an hour, John began to work again with the will for Jakub to come. In a moment, he came again and asked. What do you want again? To sit with us. Give me a break. Give me a break. And he left. John started working for Jakub again. And James came again. So, what do you want from me? And what do you want here? We’re not calling you after all. Are we yelling at you? No, but I feel like you want me to come to you quickly. This is a true story that proves the power of a strong will.

Christ came to deliver us from the Devil and sin (Mark 1: 21-28)
Realize that you can live without sin.

Dear brothers and sisters, today is characterized by a great plurality of sins. The performance of Jesus Christ is an example to us, for he was sent to redeem us from the bondage of sin.

Jesus Christ heals a man possessed by an evil spirit.
The gospel tells us how the listeners in the synagogue of Capernaum marveled at the teachings of Jesus. They were in the presence of Jesus when, with his powerful word, he freed man from an impure spirit who was suffering from a terrible ailment of obsession. This liberation of man from the impure spirit stunned them. Until then, the impure spirit was the greatest and most terrible power they encountered in their daily lives because, at that time, many people were possessed by the impure spirit. The listeners in the synagogue recognized that Jesus had power, was more powerful, and cried out, “He also commands by an unclean spirit and obeys him” (Mark 1:27). And there was a swift spread throughout the land, that a mighty Jesus had come to deliver the people from sin.

This victory over the impure spirit is further evidence of the Messiah’s coming, who came to free the people from the oldest bondage of the devil and sin. John Paul II says that an evil spirit can act not only on material things but also on the human body, where it also affects the human soul, and here we can talk about possession of an impure spirit. In the Gospels, obsession is usually accompanied by morbid symptoms. From the time of Christ’s coming, the devil must make concessions, even though he has great power, and his presence is real in proportion to the extent to which man and society move away from God. Through mortal sin, many people submit to the devil’s bondage, moving away from the kingdom of God to enter the kingdom of darkness and evil. These people are becoming instruments of the devil in the world. The fact that God’s kingdom is open to everyone, that God always has an open door for man is the reason why many people still love God today. They love him most because he ended salvation with his death and resurrection. Thus, he gained us eternal life, the grace of the remission of sins and conversion. The stream of God’s grace flows into the heart at every sacrament of reconciliation. When a priest makes a cross over a repentant sinner in a shaded confession, the greatest wonder of the supernatural world takes place. The two oceans, the ocean of our misery, connect with the boundless ocean of God’s mercy.
We must remain vigilant to recognize and reject the lies of a tempter who continues to decide to harm us. He knows that we have a propensity for evil as a result of inherited sin; we are vulnerable in our passions and exposed to attacks of lust and the devil. A person’s whole life seems like a constant struggle between good and evil. In fact, one finds that he cannot effectively overcome the plots of evil on his own so that everyone feels chained. Therefore, we must adapt the proper importance of Christ’s last prayer, which he taught us in our Father’s prayer: “… free us from evil” (Mt 6:13). We must keep our lust in check and fight the harmful influence of the ever-lurking devil with God’s help.

The holy Aryan parish priest John Mary Vianney once told the children a story he had invented: The two-year-old girl was in the field. A wolf ran out of the forest. He grabbed the little girl by the dress with his teeth and pulled him away. Her father and the men who worked in the fields noticed. They took the sticks, and all ran after the wolf. They overtook him, surrounded him, and forced him to leave the prey. They saved the poor girl.
He explained his story as follows: The wolf represents the great enemy of our soul. The little girl represents us and our weakness, our affection for sin. The Father and the men represent Jesus Christ, our Savior. The stick represents the power of Jesus Christ, which saves our souls in the sacrament of reconciliation. The joy of the saviors is the joy of Jesus Christ over the conversion of the sinner.

Each of us should embrace the lamentation of the prophet Jeremiah, who has a strong sense of repentance and satisfaction: “Be astonished at this, O heavens, and be astonished exceedingly, saith the Lord. My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, a fountain of living waters, to dig up cracked cisterns that cannot sustain water.

In this special historical event spoken to us by the gospel, brothers, and sisters, we can all see in the light of faith possessed every sinner who wants to turn to God, every sinner who wants to be freed from Satan and sin. Jesus did not come to deliver us from the dominion of nations but the captivity of the soul. Let us ask God for mercy so that we do not fall into unfaithfulness, into which he who dares to be unfaithful from the very beginning dares to encourage us. Let us be encouraged by the words of Blessed Pope John XXIII: “Even though evil is an unfortunate reality, today, as well as yesterday, it can never – and we know it well – overcome good.”

Jesus requires each of us to work for ourselves.
I’m sure all athletes will agree with me when I say I can’t whip up the one who does not train to great football performance. The one on training flak can not be a star like Gigs, Roberto Carlos, or Zidane. 
The stars were also boys who learned to play football, and if you ask them now, how can they do a handle like Zidane, sprint with a ball like Gigs, or in the helter-skelter bodies fire such a cannonball as Roberto Carlos and score a goal, they will say it goes on their own, and they have it in their blood.
Jesus also says today that it goes on its own: “The earth brings of its own accord harvest: first the stalk, then the ear, and finally the full grain in the class ”(Mk 4:28). What did he mean by that? How can the earth bring forth fruit by itself? So that receives semen. This is the only condition that is not expressed externally here. If there is talk of a harvest, so surely the land had to receive the seed, the land had to be good, it must not be a hard way, a stone, or overgrown with thorns, as Jesus says on elsewhere (Cf. Mk 4: 1-9).
Just as the ground without taking the seed will not yield a crop, like an athlete without training, he will not be a star, so even a man without virtue will not be a good man; without God does not build a paradise on earth. We already had that here in the form of communism. A man without he became a despot and a murderer of God. Another question that comes to mind is: What exactly is the seed’s acceptance, which will cause the earth to bear fruit on its own? The answer is expressed in Jesus’ words, “The time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is approaching. Repent be true of the gospel ”(Mk 1:15). That is, building the kingdom of God stands for repentance.
A man who is exhorted nowadays to enjoy all that he has the world offers itself rightly asks: What is repentance? What does it mean to repent? Repentance is constantly turning away from sin, living the gospel; it is a constant return home to the Father. That is, we must first believe that we are loved by Godchildren redeemed by Jesus Christ, for the good news for man today is: Whatever thug you may have, Jesus died and rose from the dead to live! If we have this truth in our eyes, then repentance is easier for us, for in repentance we will not see a restriction on the part of the Church, but joyous return home, to the Father of all people. This repentance will then cause the kingdom of God to grow. If a person grows in the deeds, in the deeds of good, in the deeds of merit, and thus the building, God’s kingdom goes by the hand, so to speak, it gets into our blood groups. It goes like a sprint to gigs, handles to Zidan, or shots Carlos. These gentlemen worked hard to make them stars. We, too, are from, in the beginning, we have to try to win over ourselves and do good, right deed, talk to children about God, believe in Him, pray in the rosary family, etc., read something from the Scriptures. The harvest that turns out after a short time balances the effort expended to practice virtues.
If we grow in virtue, they themselves will cause me to be around us
to build the kingdom of God, which is the kingdom of love and peace, truth and grace, the kingdom of holiness, justice, and joy. One more word remains to be explained. What is a deed of merit? Meritorious
an act is a good deed done in a state of sanctifying grace. Only by this
by deeds, we deserve a reward in heaven, for we can do good deeds as well in a state of mortal sin, but such deeds have no meritorious value. For us, it is important to do meritorious deeds. The Russians say, “No hardship, you can’t catch fish from the hardship.” Slovak proverb: “There are no cakes without work.” And that’s right. Just like footballers, they will not become stars without effort, nor will man build a paradise on earth without God; likewise, without virtue, God will not build the kingdom of God, for it is a virtue that causes us will bring forth the fruit of our own accord. We will build by merit work The kingdom of God.

Jesus places a condition on us.
Life brings us different situations. Once we are happy, undressed, because we are at the wedding, once we are in overalls with an ax in hand, and we are preparing wood for winter … I use different means for different life events. Axe, which is for chopping wood, we can not use for washing windows. The windows would be “Clean,” but we would definitely bang our heads against the wall in the winter. Jesus presents something similar to us today. A candle for lighting belongs to a candlestick and is not placed under a bed or couch. That’s how it is for us, says today’s gospel, Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or the bed and not to be placed on a lampstand? ”(Mark 4:24)

If we give the lamp under the meter goes out, if we put it under the bed, we light it, and it’s out of it more harm than good. We can rightly ask: Is there such a person who would do this, to put a candle under the couch? The answer is: a candle under the couch is every Christian,
who knows to do good, but he chooses evil. He knows he has to live by
the gospel, but the gospel to him is his will; he does what he wants. “He wasn’t paying attention to what he listened to ”(Cf. Mk 4:24),“ they shall be kindled by the doctrine of the prince of this world ”—the devil, and he does not trust us as well as Jesus does. Jesus tells us, “Be careful with what you are listening ”(Mk 4,24), t. j. choose my teaching, you will be a candle on the candlestick, you will shine to others, and you will have the light yourself. Christians’ task to consecrate the world (a candle on a candlestick) is not to desecrate the couch).
Our job is to let people see our good example and thus take ourselves away from us; they set it on fire. If the people of us take an example and live the gospel, that’s what we are he will count as a reward, for it is written, “Those who have brought many people to God, they will be like stars in heaven ”(Dan. 12: 3), but if we offend people “He shall not reckon with any good work” (cf. Ezekiel 18:24), that is, “he will take to us also what we had ”(Mt 25:29).
It scares me how short the gospel is today, but how serious it is. Maybe you are we will say that this is a great responsibility that God has given us. Yes, it’s a very great role and responsibility, but it gave us a role and gave us an example of possible. That example is Jesus Christ himself. But also the people who lived here and lived according to Jesus. These were also all sorts of things, but they used the right means to do that. They ruled to live according to Christ. These means are: st. Mass, daily St. reception, frequent St. confession, reading St. scripture, meditation reverence of the Virgin Mary, angels, and saints …. There are many of them. Each of them contains one essential element, and that is the love of God. We could compare this love to traffic signs. If we follow these, we will definitely reach our destination. Similarly, this love for God will tell us what to do or to go to St. Mass, read Scripture, helping parents, free up space on the bus as the first to respond to the other person… It follows that if I live according to God, we will be the candle that is on the candlestick. In this way, we will fulfill our most basic task, “to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth ”(Mathew 5: 13-16), just as Jesus commanded us.

Jesus redeemed and saved everyone.
When a person gets to the hospital, he often asks, “Doctor, what is the hope? ” The doctor may answer differently, depending on the circumstances. We are a real surprise if we hear, “You have no hope. You are sure. ” Jesus is giving us the same words today when he says, “It is given to you to know the mystery of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is served in parables, to seek and to seek, but not to see, to hear, and to hear, but they did not understand that they might not be converted and that they would not be forgiven ”(Mark 4: 11-12).
At first glance, this may seem not kind. What about those who are outside? Are they doomed to hell? Don’t they have hope? We can say that God is merciful when he commits this? Let’s be fine. “Outside” are those who do not cooperate with the “seed” or the word of God because, in the first place, they give anything but God. So we don’t get there among those “who are outside,” it is necessary to plow through the soil of our hearts, collect stones, rip out and burn the thorns. If we do these three things, our hearts will become good oil. How simple, but only to the eye, because a third person enters the game, who is in St. scripture called Satan – the adversary. We confirmed that with his “help” heart to God’s word. In cooperation (in a sin) with this accomplice from our heart became a stone. We look at his ad, and it says: “You need a computer, a car, a chat, a mobile phone for children, grandchildren in a few years the golden chain …, ” and for Holy Mass, the word of God is no time.
God always speaks to us. Well, when we’re so upset about the search.
He wants to stop us behind everything, and then he will send us an illness, a problem, pain … this then serves as a stop. It should be time to listen to God’s voice that it should be time to cultivate the soil of our heart. Then there are two solutions at hand. Either we stand against God in defiance of what he did to us – what will never pay us back, or we will humbly accept what we do send, and by this, we will prepare our hearts to receive the word of God. Modern people and psychologists call it that it is necessary to think positively and get the most out of pain in difficulty. We normal people call it the Lord God visited by disease; through us, He converted us and praised God that we had heard him. It’s easy to say but harder to do, but the reward is a harvest, “thirty multiple, sixty-fold, or hundredfold ”(Mark 4: 9).

 From God’s side, there is a certainty that He will help us. He has power by his word over the scriptures – if we read it – plow through the hard soil of our hearts. He has power in sacraments, especially in the Eucharist, to collect or break our heart’s stone, under which is good soil. He has the power to burn the thorns of the vain with his love thoughts and worries in our hearts. This merciful love of his is manifested especially in St. confession. Therefore, if we ask God now, “God, I have hope for a change of life? ” He replies,“ You have no hope. ” You are sure if you will use the funds earmarked for it. Approach the sacraments often. Mainly to St. confession, vol. Communion, read the Scriptures, pray, be a little with you, patient, and I will help you through my son Jesus Christ. “

Evolution is a “crane” that allows us to imagine the origin and evolution of life without God. A mechanism that explains how everything around us could have come into being: “Even before Darwin, philosophers like Hume understood that the improbability of life did not mean that it had to be designed, but they could not imagine an alternative. After Darwin, we should all feel suspicion in the tip of our bones at the hint of a design idea. …

Daniel Dennett, a common-minded philosopher, found that development contradicts one of the oldest ideas we have: “Contradicts the idea that a big, clever thing is needed to do a smaller thing. I call it the drop theory of creation from top to bottom. You will never see a spear as a spear maker does. You will never see a horseshoe making a blacksmith. You will never see a pot make a potter. ” Darwin’s discovery of a feasible process that makes this antisense idea acceptable was a revolutionary contribution to human thinking, charged with the power to raise awareness. …

Natural selection works because it is a cumulative one-way path for the better. He needs a certain amount of luck to start, and this is guaranteed by the anthropic principle of “billions of planets.” There may be a few other gaps in developmental history that require coincidence with anthropic reasoning. Who do not have consciousness awakened in the sense I suggest, but who gladly accept natural selection as the “divine way of creation.” They recognize that evolving by natural selection is a straightforward and clever way to create a world full of life. At the same time, God does not have to do absolutely anything! Peter Atkins leads to a rather ungodly conclusion in this book when he suggests the existence of a supposedly lazy God who tries to do as little as possible in creating a life-containing universe. ” Natural selection is NOT a coincidence – and therefore living creatures they did not arise by chance, but by a selection mechanism that can make their existence imaginable even without God.

We don’t have such a concept in physics yet – but it is to be hoped that one day it will be… (it could be the Theory of Everything)
Religion is a matter of subjective experience and emotions: “The most important of these other paths of knowledge was the personal, subjective experience of God. Several Cambridge discussants claimed that God had spoken to them, in their heads, just as vividly and personally as any other person was saying to them. Many people believe in God because they believe that they saw him with their own eyes or had an equally misleading idea of ​​something unreal, the vision of an angel or a virgin in blue. Or God spoke to them in their minds. This argument from personal experience is one of the most convincing for those who claim to have experienced it. But he is the least convincing for everyone else and for those who know psychology. Are you saying that you have directly experienced God? Well, some people say they met a pink elephant, but that probably won’t impress you. Peter Sutcliffe, a Yorkshire ripper, clearly heard the voice of Christ, showing him to kill women and was given a life sentence. ”

OUR CONCLUSION: Theories, theories, theories – which might have some value1 if they were not opposed by tangible FACTS (to which Dawkins does not respond at all because he has essentially no) and the equally tangible, widespread, and largely universal experience of humanity with God. So – the surprise does not happen…
SAM HARRIS – LETTER TO THE CHRISTIAN NATION
Evangelicals adopted Jesus’ biography to the prophecies. He gives two examples where he said it happened2: Mary conceived as a virgin… 30 silver to Judas…
OUR CONCLUSION: Speaking of Prophecies… There are a total of 456 messianic prophecies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ! Not everything is a prophecy in the strict sense of the word. Rather an analogy. (This includes the “virgin” and “30 silver” of Sam Harris). But some are full-fledged prophecies and truly predict things from Jesus’ life.

Let us be healed of Jesus’ sins.
Surely we have heard the words to our address or the address of others: “Hey, you don’t have it right in your head, “or someone evaluated us with the words:” How are you? He did it; someone had to help you. ” Such statements touch a person because they attack his honor and indirectly say that he is a fraud. Even Jesus did not evade such a judgment when they said of him. “Beelzebub possesses him “and by the power of the prince of evil spirits casteth out evil spirits” (Mark 3:22).

If we got into such a situation, we could say that we were with Jesus on the same boat because we sometimes hear about us Christians. Nothing new under the sun. The Lord Jesus foretold it: “If me they will also persecute you ”(Johan 15:20). But sometimes such an explanation is not enough, and one asks: Why? Why, because people often evaluate things only from their own perspective: If it’s not possible for me, then neither can you. It is a manifestation of the greatest unbelief caliber when this is said of Jesus, and his power is identified with the devil’s power. To distinguish the spirits, Jesus left us a rule: “You will know them by the fruit.” (Cf. Mt 7:16).

So the devil cannot do good; he does not bring peace. He divides people to each other, sin separates people from God, promises what he can never give, and wants to rule by violence, misery, and pride. So we don’t evaluate things only from our perspective; we should look at things from the perspective of eternity. This means that it is good for us to bring us closer to the Lord God; it will help us to heaven.
In the Gospels, we often see Jesus performing miracles, healing. The same thing happens today, only in a different form. Unfortunately, we hear then, “It was the healing water that healed him.” as if we were afraid to say, “God healed him,” for he gave him much water in Lourdes or elsewhere.

Something similar is happening in the spiritual realm. Here, too, Jesus works miracles and much more visible because healing from cancer is not always visible at first glance, but the change of life is visible. Especially in the field of faith. Imagine a man who always criticizes, is not satisfied with anything, is always in opposition, and knows what he will say and suddenly nothing. Not a single critical word will settle for standing on the bus, does not swear in the rain, in the sun, sees things in a positive light. That there is a good shower for the surroundings. Well, we have to say that quite pleasant because if an annoyed man to whom even the Lord God did not comply will become a man who in she sees in all the hand of God, who cannot be wrong, nothing escapes her power, that we can only blame God.
Surely we would find more cases from the environment that we could prove fit what was said. But the problem arises when we look at ourselves. Why? Because, this also applies to ourselves to a greater or lesser extent. We, too we often attribute the power of human change to everything, but not to God. We can do it attributed to a chance that does not exist. There is only a coincidence. We attribute it illness, fear, or pain. What if it affects us – illness, pain, fear. Should we despair? Not! Because in St. scripture, we have instructions for changing lives.
In Tobias’s book, the father gives such a lesson to young Tobias: “What is it? You do not like it, neither do you another ”(Tob 4:15). That’s a little small because our task is not just to do evil but to do good. And so about 230 years after the writing of the book of Tobias, the Lord Jesus improves on this negative command and says, you want people to do you, do you to them ”(Mt 7:12).
To carry out the previous command, young Tobias sent him.
Lord God of Angel Raphael (Raphael means: God heals). We have angels two guardians, but the Lord Jesus left us something more, left us the Eucharist as strengthen us to rule and carry out his command. It follows that we also have angels, as helpers, and the Eucharist as food, so there is no reason for us to they broke the bat over themselves, that we could not do it, because we were already in this matter they have failed many times. It is said that he does not even like to eat. We are not alone working on ourselves, on to pull out of our lives judgments, slanders, or other ills.
We have the Eucharist as bread for strengthening. We have a guardian angel and a helper; let us trust in the power of God and ask our protector for help. I’d rather let us speak to him as if we were to misjudge the deeds that others are doing, for if I judge others, I judge the Lord Jesus.