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Who do you like better: a man devoted to God or a mammon man? The Lord says, “Spend the number of your feast” (Luke 16: 2).

The foresight of the sons of the world forces us to use all available means and things to hear the words once: “Right, good servant, for you, have been faithful in a little, have power over ten cities” (Luke 19:17). We are to think in the ordinary things of life for the future, for our purpose in life. It is right to find time to pray. We know that we need to talk to God regularly. We can pray alone and even better together. How many brothers and sisters know and can and pray, when they travel, when they have to wait, etc. How many brothers and sisters, whatever their kind, not only begin and end with exaggeration but their work, even if they do not think directly of God during it, their work is a prayer. The intention that they want to be with God.

What is our priority in life? Count a little? God gives us 8,760 hours a year. Sociologists say we spend 3,000 hours of sleep, 3,600 hours of work, 900 hours of body saturation, 600 hours on the toilet, more than 500 hours on television. And the Lord God? Many today re-evaluate with whom to make friends, with whom to have contacts, to bring them acquaintance, connections, but they no longer think about the soul. We do not consider whether what we buy will benefit our souls. We believe that we procure under the influence of advertising, public opinion, but we forget that we become slaves to things, equipment, what is said, to have, to own. In the thought of Mary Brooks: The Touch of a Master’s Hand, it says: Many things were auctioned at the auction. Among other things, old dusty violins. The summoner thought that dealing with old violins was a waste of time. He picked them up and said, “What are you going to pay for them?” after a moment, he said quietly to those present, “What kind of instrument will you put now?” The supply for the violin was incomparably higher. What changed the price of the violin? Master touch. A souvenir for each of us.

We know what God believes in us. We know this and often do not act accordingly. It’s similar to a violin. It is right to realize that we must not be like the sons of the world, but we want to learn from them that by working with God’s graces, we can live our lives fuller, more precisely, and more confidently to eternal life. We each divide according to our responsibilities, into our families, and that is why it is right that we want to become salt, leaven, and light according to the words of the Lord Jesus, and so we will serve God, and that is what God wants from us for our benefit.

The first man was sins deprived of mental happiness. He lost his sanctifying grace by knowing evil, his reason blacked out, evil was inlaid, and animal instincts began to rebel. The first people made a living with a plant-based diet. When she was not enough to live, they took up hunting – they switched to a meaty diet. The search for the game has spread to people all over the world. But only hunting a man did not allow a man to develop a spirit, his brain could not, the skull with the frontal lobe fell back, but. It was only when a man from the lack of game had to return to the plant diet, the skull changed by developing the brain, less strain on the jaws, knowledge of the fire on the original formed shape, as inherited by Adam’s offspring. God could have created man’s body by acting from an existing animal cell as a foundation and revived it with an immortal soul. God is made up of reason and will. According to the eternal plan, he could have made the body, either immediately or by gradual dividing the cells, from an organic section. It is undeniable that God did not use the organism of the entire body of a monkey to create man by removing a sensitive soul and replacing it with a soul endowed with reason and will because it contradicts God’s wisdom that God once created disturbed or changed, but unify all three mental mightiness, unite and elevate them over other creations may. We know that the animal cell is the same essence as the earth’s clay, and that’s why we come from it.
The use of the biological basis of an existing animal cell and sperm explains the instinctive traits and properties that humans share with animals, which reside in genes and the biological construction of cells and are transferred from offspring to offspring.

The body’s body functions resemble animals and have a lot in common with them. The main difference between man and animal is that man can think and want freely. Man is a living creature that can achieve the highest moral perfection intelligence. However, the robustness of reason is in a potential state, and if a person does not try to raise it for awakening and mental growth, it does not develop sufficiently. Hence, the instinct, which is a common feature of all animals, prevails. The ill-behaved man instinct wholly pulls to the mass, to the crowd, where the lower spiritual functions stay over the common-sense functions, letting them lead the spirit of the stronger.
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Why does anger appear in our country, costing the good that is bestowed on our neighbors? Very often, those who have changed or are returning say, that the Christian community to which they are returning does not accept them with joy, but often indifferently and suspiciously. Therefore, some prefer to stay in their old place. Doesn’t all this cause unrest for the “righteous” who think they are perfect ?! It is often evil that we consider ourselves to be perfecter than others and that we want us to be specially marked by God’s care from this motive. They need God’s forgiveness. Can we pray for those who have caused us to pain, the harm that has offended us, if not with our mouths, then at least in our hearts we do not wish them punishment?

God wants us to change our attitude to sin in ourselves and to those whom the Lord calls and for whom He forgives so that we may be accepted among ourselves. As God endows us with love, so let us leave our lost brothers and sisters on their return to the basket like a sheep the Lord has found. Let’s look forward as a woman to her neighbors when she finds a coin. Let us open our arms and our hearts to every prodigal son, and let us not be like an older brother, who, though faithful to his father, did not treat his brother as his father intended.

Let us awaken this intention, and we will break up today, enriched, and happier. It will be a big win for us. It will be an enrichment for those who return and let them feel welcome among us, that we look forward to their return and meeting.

Let us admit, from the point of view of common sense, that man evolved from a single primordial flame. Science can connect with faith and come to the same explanation. Man is a vertebrate; it belongs to mammals and of them to primates. Primates and humans’ brains differ from other animals in that it is divided into threads and is wrinkled. In this respect, the chimpanzee and the gorilla stand very close to humans. However, man does not come directly from monkeys, but rather from a certain related animal species. Armed with perfect vegetative and sensory, mental powers, living in droves under the laws of instincts, this human ancestor could be designated by God as a material human ancestor to create a new species by the creative power of gene transmutation in embryonic development, and thus a new pair was born. This new species, this new pair, overcame their primitive parents by the perfection of the whole body, by a permanently upright gait, by a more powerful brain, and there they became able to receive a rational soul. God could inhale this being a soul similar to His image, endowed with reason and faith. This first man, Adam, learned by the light of his sense that he excelled in spirit and body over other creatures and that he was a child of God. His body and the lower spiritual principle of vegetation and sensory arose indirectly from the animal cell and the higher principle’s soul with reason. They will directly from the direct action of God’s will. God united all three mental powers into unity, into one being,

The first man had a brain to develop his spirit, unlike the animal extended by the frontal lobe and more orderly, used higher reason and free will, until he knew sin, he was happy. Who decides freely, shows his intelligence, and was elevated by sanctifying grace to supernatural participation in God’s life. Man has taken the forefront in visible creation with figure, reason, and will. However, Adam did not find a helper similar to himself in behavior and reason. In his sleep, God brought him a comparable helper because she was conceived simultaneously as Adam, and in his advanced age, God breathed into her a reasonable soul. This helper was created either from the simultaneous fertilization of two eggs with two sperms, or both originated from one egg fertilized by one germ cell. When the fertilized egg was further divided, it was further divided into two halves, each half evolving into a separate individual gender. With his intelligence, Adam immediately recognized that it was a bone from his bone. It was equivalent to him because it had been separated from his side by embryonic division. Adam and Eve were not interested in their ancestors, who differed significantly in their physique and purely instinctive life. Because they used to have an animal soul that was not endowed with intellectual power, it could not realize anything from a previous life. The only reason is aware of itself, and only by reason do we know that we are. Animal instinctual memory does not realize itself. If God endowed the animal egg with the intellectual soul immediately at conception, Adam and Eve would know of their childhood about their animal parents with animal carcasses and signs.

 Paul Tillich contemplates the fear of death from death. The fear of death reflects not only the consciousness of our fineness but also the consciousness of our infinity. The consciousness that we are destined for eternity and that we have lost eternity. We are not slaves of fear because we have to die, but because we deserve to die. Salvation means to pardon; it means continuing life no matter what we have done or not done in life. But where to get the certainty that there is something after death? How to gain courage, live life to the fullest with the knowledge that we walk to end every second. Mother Teresa, who became synonymous with selflessness and humility, experienced a period of terrible darkness. That dark time lasted fifty years. Benedict XVI said that she suffered from God’s silence despite her Christian love and the power of her faith. Mother Teresa reminds honest atheists that it would be enough for them to take a step to get on the same level as the mystics. Mother Teresa was not the only one; such conditions were experienced by St. John of the Cross, Theresa of Jesus, Theresa of Avila. In Lincoln Barnett’s book: The Universe and Dr. Einstein, we find Einstein’s formulations. The most profound and most sublime feeling we are ever capable of is a mystical experience. Only from it is real science born. He who does not know this feeling, whoever cannot admire, is mentally dead. Therefore, the knowledge that there really is what cannot be explored and manifests itself as the truth and radiant beauty of things that we can only have a vague idea of ​​is the core of every true religion. My religion consists of a real reverence for the infinite spiritual being of the higher essence, which we can know by our weak and insufficient senses. This deeply felt belief in the existence of a thinking power that manifests itself in the unexplored universe forms the content of my idea of ​​God. We can describe the external signs that are associated with the dead. They reflect man and culture. The rest is a secret in which there are doubt and hope. This is where it all begins.

An invitation to an important celebration is required. Sometimes we look forward to it impatiently. Jesus says to each of us: “Blessed is every one that shall partake of the feast in the kingdom of God” (Luke 14:15). Thanks to human words, we cannot so easily express God’s communion with his people. The fullness of happiness and joy that flows from this community uses the image of the feast, and the kingdom of God is likened to a dinner that many refuse to come to, so the host must invite dubious guests to fill the wedding hall.

The wedding feast parable has two parts: an invitation and a rejection.
In Jewish and early Christian literature, the kingdom of God is often compared to a feast. Jesus’ dining with the torments and sinners, and especially the last supper with his disciples, symbolize what life will be like in the kingdom of God. Using the image of a wedding feast to teach about God’s kingdom is part of the tradition. A significant motif of the parable we have heard is the invitation. Some accept the king’s invitation; others do not. God, through His servants, Jesus, and his disciples, expresses his invitation. It was most suitable for those for whom Jewish leaders rejected him and even treated the messengers forcefully. Therefore, the invitation was offered to people outside on the road, and they accepted it. This group represented people on the fringes of society in Israel (torments and sinners who received Jesus’ message). This parable is a sketch of the history of salvation from a Christian perspective. It is not enough to be called – baptized; it is not enough to accept an invitation to a wedding reception. It depends much more on what we will look like before God. The parable tells us that God wanted to establish a society that would live with his son Jesus Christ in the same relationship as a bride with his bridegroom.

The Lord offers us unimaginable good things, and we reject them and often do not appreciate them properly. Invitations to the wedding represent, e.g., those who are swallowed up in their activity as if they did not need God. Time and time again, God reiterates his desire to engage in a loving dialogue with creatures that will take its final form in heaven. Rejecting God’s invitation, the way of life as if God were not important in him. People’s excuses from the parable are essentially the same as some people use today. However, the Lord wants his house to be filled. He never resigns from his saving effort. No one is left out of God’s plan of salvation. But a person who chooses to ignore the invitations offered by the Lord excludes himself.

A wedding feast from the Gospel awaits all those invited today. Jesus, in the manner of bread and in his giving love, reiterates his invitation. Not forcing, but waiting for our answer. God is continually looking for a way to approach everyone. The Eucharist and its frequent communion are certain for us that we are on the right path to an eternal wedding feast.

Today comes to life eternal.

You’ve built boundaries between yourself. We have had to endure this problem for many years. We could not travel, meet, admire the new and unknown, enjoy friendships with others. This statement applies not only to material and material life but also to the spiritual. Man – Adam built a line between God and people with his sin. Sin brought death to humanity. Sin caused painful parting, the rupture of love and friendship’s shackles, often quickly and without a word of farewell. Those who were here yesterday are no longer alive. With their life-saving body and their grave, many rightly ask the question: What is after death?

Today, as we remember those who have prevented us from eternity and realize the importance of the Lord Jesus’ teachings on death, let us stop by the words of the parable of the ten virgins, where wise virgins say unwisely: “Perhaps neither we nor you are little, let us go to the salesmen and buy!” (Mt 25.9).

Jesus brings a new and clear view of death and everything related to it. Jesus, not only in his word but also in his life, proves his love for us. It accepts man’s form, and although God is in the human body, he also accepts death. He agrees with the punishment that a man has drawn upon himself. He dies to rise from the dead on the third day and to fulfill the words of the Prophet Hosea: “I will free them from the power of the underworld, I will redeem them from death. Where’s your plague, death, where’s your infection, the underworld? Compassion is in my sight” (Hosea 13.14). And so, quite differently, Paul and the Apostle are looking at our resurrection. “Not all of us die, but we all turn: once, at one point, into the sound of the last field. Because when he hears, the dead will be resurrected and inviolable, and we will be transformed. After all, this intrusive must wear invincibility and fatally wear immortality” (1 Cor 15.51-53).

After death, life doesn’t end. After death, we only go to where God wanted us to be, if Adam—the Father of all people, stood the test. Jesus will become a Judge of believers and infidels. He is a righteous God and rewards everyone according to his deeds. His father left him a trial over the world. “Before him, every knee bends in the sky and on the ground” (Philip 2.10). Our first meeting at death with Jesus-Judge is not the last. We know there’s one more, the last one at the end of the day. That’s when Jesus comes as the Judge of the World. That’s when everything comes to an end. The living will not die; they will only pass from this world into a state of bliss or damnation according to the state of the soul in which they will be present at that moment. The dead get up the same way. No longer in the mortal body, but the new – glorified. That’s when purgatory loses its meaning. There will be the most significant division of humanity. “That’s when all the nations gather in front of him, and he separates one from the other, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the caps. The sheep will build from the right and the caps from the left. Then the King will say to those on his right: Come, bless my Father, take the kingdom that is prepared for you from the creation of the world” (Matthew. 25.32-34). And he’ll name the deeds that decided their reward. They are acts of bodily and spiritual mercy. He’ll say, “Whatever you did to one of my littlest brothers, you did to me” (Matthew. 24.40). And these same deeds, but unenforced, neglected, and underestimated, will become a condemnation for them when they are told, “Whatever you did not do to one of these little ones, even to me, you did not do it to me. And they will go into eternal misery while righteous into eternal life” (Matthew. 25.45-46). Today, therefore, we are also aware of the acts that decide. It is the love of a neighbor in these acts of bodily mercy:

 1. Hungry to feed,2. thirsty to provide,3. naked look,4. road to take hold,5. prisoners redeem 6. sick to attend,7—dead bury.

And also acts of spiritual mercy:

1. Sinners admonish,2. Unconscious of teaching,3. Doubtful well advises 4. Saddened to enjoy,5. Wrongs patiently endure 6. Hurtful forgiveness,7. For the living and the dead to pray.

And this is the last one that is most up to date with us today. Our visit to the church and cemetery today must not and cannot be just a manifestation of external attention, respect, and love for the deceased. That would be very little and insufficient for us Christians.

Today we realize the size of prayer. Yes, we can stop over the grave, remember them, imagine their face, hands, eyes, recall their words, wishes, pleas that concerned perhaps us when they feared for the salvation of our soul. But this isn’t enough today. Neither flowers nor candles nor tears are enough today. Today, our prayer is decided. If we want to break what separates us from them today, let us pray. In those pleas to God for their mental peace, the best of our love will manifest, thanks to what we owe them, what we are obliged to show them today.
A scoop of clay hides body remains, but not the soul. The sky is not up, but everywhere. And so, at the grave today, we can indeed make direct contact with our deceased through conversation– prayer. They died only physically, but the soul lives to them as ours lives in us. And that’s why we can say: Today, eternity comes to life. Although it is said today that no one has come back from there, even if it is not the Church’s teachings, we still have more evidence from the biographies of saints that God has given some souls the grace to express their status. We know from St. Don Bosco’s biography that a friend came to tell him he was damned. St. Margita Maria Alacoque assured her co-sister not to worry about her father. Her father avoided purgatory on his deathbed with noble acts of love for the poor. It was revealed to the same saint that a certain lady would suffer for a long time in purgatory, even though many holy Masses were served for her, because the Lord of the Holy Mass, which had done for her soul, credited her poor maid, to whom the lady in person was hard and ruthless. Behold, acts of mercy.
In the Saints’ biography, we read about a little boy, Peter, who died by his parents. He had older brothers. One of them, who had his parents’ property left, took charge of his brother. The other was a priest and lived far away. At the time, communication was very difficult for distance. Boy Peter had to spend days with cattle. One day, a time-old man walked past. When he passed, Peter found the golden duke. He didn’t know who the duke belonged to, so he didn’t know who to return it to. Because he loved his parents very much, he decided and brought his treasure to the priest to serve as his parent’s Holy Mass. The priest listened to the boy. He saw that he was a smart and pious boy. He decided to help him. He wrote a letter to Peter’s distant brother-priest.

He took care of his brother. He put him on the studios, and Peter became a priest, then a bishop and a cardinal, and after death a saint. It’s Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072). In his life, Peter often mentioned that the souls of his parents, for whom he gave his golden duke for holy Mass, had given him the priesthood calling.
With this example, today, we also recall another fact that we can help souls in purgatory, but souls in purgatory can help us. May our hearts, reason and will be convinced at this moment that heaven is tilting and connecting with us today. Our deceased, who have left this world associated with Jesus, live in a state of celebration, possibly, in a state of cleansing and want to cooperate with us. Those in heaven will be to stand our way to eternity in our trials. We don’t have to help those in heaven anymore because they’ve already received a reward. Then our prayers may God give to those souls that no one remembers and deservedly suffer for their sins in purgatory. And when our dears, before they enter a state of salvation, suffer from a form of cleansing, let our cause find according to Jesus the grace of shortening the punishment they did not serve here on earth. But let us ask the souls of the dead in both heaven and purgatory for help. They can help us.

Today, let us realize that although sin has laid a line between the living and the dead, and we do not see our eyes, we do not hear our ears, but we can also overcome this limit in our hearts through faith. From today, our present day, the daily “eternal rest” may become a binder and a source of grace for both parties.

However, the man was promoted above the rest of the creation by inching the intangible, spiritual, i.e., immortal soul. We ask where the man comes from. The man was deliberately built into the creative whole by direct divine intervention. It appears suddenly, both as a perfect being. However, biology teaches that man rose from every perspective by developing from lower organisms, from animals.
In contrast, it is known that, under the law of heredity, the immutability of species persists. This animal was still perfected – until a half-human rose from it. This half-animal, semi-human, resembled a human, until one day it came to human consciousness, self-consciousness, speech, and reasoned thinking. However, paleontology has not discovered any transient semi-human species. The new species appear suddenly and can be assumed to have been created by the direct intervention of God’s will under the biogenetic Act, triggering gene transmutation during fertilization – because it induces biological changes already in the growth of the plant and the case of an animal in the embryonic stage. Christian teaching does not reject the possibility of the human body’s animal origin and admits that God used already existing lower organisms to create a man’s body.

Holiness is another expression for the growth of love. In Romance and Anglo-Saxon languages, the word holiness has the same root as words that can help us understand what holiness means: salvation, protection, wholeness, healing (Sanctus, santo, saint, healing, holy .). Nevertheless, holiness primarily refers to the process of recovery from sins and its aftermath, overcoming temptations and trials, as well as growing according to God’s will. No one can grow in holiness and yet not grow in merciful love for himself, for others, for God, for nature. So he who resists growth in holiness – and man can defy God’s will and force his will – does not love himself, let alone others, God, nature. Purity is not proved by great deeds but by doing what we do with great love. It would be wrong to think that miracles or extraordinary gifts are proof of holiness, even though the saints have always performed excellent, truly miraculous deeds. Righteousness is a great challenge to resist sin and to Satan, who wants to stop it. That is why every Christian is, by nature, invited to holiness, which is not and cannot be only for some elect. The Virgin Mary, as the Holy Mother, knows all this. He wants to educate us in holiness, which means education in love for his life, for others’ lives, for all creation, and finally for the Creator. In other words, it also means a decision against death, sin, and the influence of Satan. These are also the conditions of our happiness here on earth and the only way to heaven. Our Lady is with us, as she speaks, precisely because of this upbringing in holiness, because of which she remains so long. As a Mother, she can want nothing but our growth and development. Only in this way can she become a Woman who crushes the head of Satan and his descendants, opening the free passage to her children. Only in this way can a Woman be clothed with the Sun, under whose feet is the Moon, when her children dress in the robe of holiness. It is difficult when he tells us that he is reckless, that is, rapidly, we hand over to Satan. We choose to be holy and begin to pray daily for this grace.

Pope John Paul II is the Pope of Records. Did you register that on October 6, 2002, we have 761 saints in the Catholic Church? John Paul II canonized four hundred sixty-three of them. His predecessors proclaimed 298 saints. Also, he announced the Blessed 1297. This pope declared the saints and blessed, so he raised them to the altar and set us as an example, an example of men and women consecrated to God, priests, and monks, but also laypeople, fathers and mothers, but also single, different jobs, age, nationality, education, who lived in our times. Today, their loved ones still live, witnesses of their lives still remember them. Several have remarked about Pope John Paul that he “spews,” declares power to be saints.

Let’s ask: Why? Can saints still reach today’s world? Is holiness possible today? Do we want to be holy? Who is a saint? And similarly. The Apostle St. John writes in the Book of Revelation whether the Apocalypse: “Then I saw; and behold a great multitude that no man could number, of all nations, tribes, breeds, and tongues. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm trees in their hands, and cried out with a loud voice, “Salvation to our God” (Revelation 7: 9-10). When our earthly life is over, to receive from Christ after our personal judgment, the reward for life on earth, to share in God’s kingdom.