The Church

The Church WANDERING
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If Jesus says to strive to enter by the strait gate, we must necessarily seek to follow in his footsteps on his way. And his footsteps are in the form of human feet: there are two of them, and the footprints from them lead in only one direction, always only forward. Never to the left, or the right, or backward.

Our faith is not confined to the precincts of churches but is to permeate our whole earthly life.

The vocation to holiness – that is, to communion with God – is part of God’s eternal plan, which embraces all the men and women of the world because it is a universal vocation.

The life of faith is a matter of the moment. Just as life is made up of individual events, the life of faith is made up of moments. What is missed in a moment, no eternity can restore. Our life of faith is to be judged by how it manifests itself at the moment. Our eternity, our salvation, depends on moments.

God excludes no one, for his plan is only love…

The Church PURIFYING
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Let us look at the heart of Jesus and listen. It is a heart that overflows with God’s all-giving love, and even the most significant pain does not prevent it from loving. He loves with love and willingly suffers. His heart is a fountain of mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. In such love, every sin burns.

To pray for the souls in Purgatory is a duty of love.

God lets us “suffer in the storm to test our faithfulness. He does so for our greater spiritual welfare. At such times He seems deaf to our prayers. But let us be assured that God hears us, secretly helps us and strengthens us by His grace to repel every enemy attack. He assures us of this in the words of the Psalmist, “In trouble thou didst call upon me, and I delivered thee; behind the veil of the storm I heard thee, I tried thee.” (Psalm 81:8).

To rid oneself of oneself, ridding oneself of all reservations, makes one truly accessible, and then one becomes a fundamental instrument in God’s hands.

We must all be convinced that we are hanging almost over the precipice of all sin, and that we are held only by a hair of grace. If this hair were loosened, we should fall into this abyss and commit the most terrible crimes. “If the Lord keep not the city, his watchmen watch in vain” (Ps. 127:1). If God does not guard the soul against sins, in vain will the soul defend itself in its strength…

The church BLESSED
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We believe in eternal life. We believe in a God who rewards and also punishes. We believe in a Teacher – Christ – who has taught us everything we need for salvation. Let us not underestimate our salvation! We look upon the soul as a great gift and grace.

The Lamb of God shed His blood on the wood of the cross and won for us salvation from eternal death. He gives us His body and blood, offered for us at Mass in the transfigured bread and wine, as spiritual food, and as a deposit of our resurrection. He becomes for us the bread that strengthens us on the way to true freedom and to the new promised homeland, which is the Kingdom of God.

The resurrection is the center of the Christian faith. Without the renewal, everything would lose its meaning.

If Christ has not risen, then our faith is futile, then our preaching is pointless, and everything is empty, and we would be the most miserable of creatures. But since Christ is risen, then everything takes on a new dimension, everything takes on the true meaning, then it is joyful to live, but also pleased to suffer because everything leads to one goal – the loving arms of God, which has been prepared for us from eternity.

To love means to live fully.