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Sunday 26 March 2017

Cycle 1:season: Lent Sunday No :4; Date 26/3/2017 Stressful Catholic - in detail

(1)What do U mean by stress? What is stress factor?. How to handle Ur stress?
(2) With stress U lead Ur life with fear or with anger?. Is it good for Ur health? Can U achieve happiness as promised by God?
(3) When curing a blind man, why Jesus apply paste with spittle and asked him to wash at Silome? Why all this rigmarole? He should have cured him without doing anything?. What do U mean by a process?.
Cooking means process U adopt to make Ur food tasty. Do U like raw meat to eat everyday?.what is the process U adopt to follow God's will?
(4) Though U can give reasons for Ur Stress, can U find direct solutions,without support of 3rd party?
(5)Stress- is defined as feeling being over loaded. Did Jesus showed us how to mange our mental & physical stress from Gethsamani & Golgotha?.Have U seen Holy mary being stressed at any time? Why?
 Pl spend 9 minutes to listen to this:
http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/ sundayreadingAudio/ 4thsundaylentcycle1STRESSFULCA THOLIC.html


Reflection for 26th march 2017, celebrating 4th Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your stresses and worries and be healthy. Also to analyze value of following process. Very valuable reflection in anticipating today's problems!

Let us analyze the effects of
Stress & Worries, into your life!

A lecturer raised a glass of water&asked how heavy it is?
Answers ranged around 10 ozs.
Her answer?
The heaviness does not depend on the ABSOLUTE WEIGHT but on how long she holds the glass!
 It will be MORE HEAVY if it was held for 1 hr (leading to an ache)& LESS if it was held only for 1 min.If it was held for a DAY her arm'll feel NUMB& PARALYSED.
In each case weight of the glass does not change,but the longer It was held,the heavier it become.
Stresses&Worries in life are like the glass of water. More you hold worries more you get hurt and if you think about them all day,you will feel paralysed- incapable of being happy.

Hence it's important to let go of stress.

There is a process to hand over such implied from Gospel
(1)convert you trust to FAITH in God, every sensible person have realized God in his life. He trust the existence of God. But he failed
to convert that trust to Faith, without following what God has asked him to do?
This is the problem with many people. There is a process to follow!

(2)then HAND OVER all stress to Mary(just like what the wedding couple did in Cana)so that U can put glass down,without hurting your selves.

Stress factor can be defned as = No of worries you suffer/day X average time you spend for each of worrying

Effect of Stress!

When you don't know how to manage your worries, without your knowledge you over load your mind making you unhealthy!. You can easily become sick, when you let worry to persist in your mind. Can you avoid worries in leading your life. Any person in this world will have worries, otherwise he is abnormal!. When you don't know how to manage your worry or fear, you keep on analyzing too much on it. Analyze how to resolve your worry,have a plan how to clear it by your self. But sometimes you might be worried about a problem which you cannot resolve by yourself. Under such, you stop worrying and hand over your problem to Holy mary, for her to have intercession with God for a resolution.  For that you have to be friendly with mary.

How to be friendly with Mary?
Mary introduced miraculious medal to catherine, and asked you to wear it for her maternal intercession. Still St catherine in corrupt body, you can see at paris.
Then mary has introduced very good meditation method: I.e rosary. Pray the daily rosary!

Any person, who wears a miraculious medal and pray daily rosary, will never go astray. Holy mary will intercede with God, on behalf of him, for his guaranteed happiness.


Today's reading:
Book of samuel says(1S 16:1.6-7.10-13 " david is anointed king of Isreal"
Paul to Episians says (Ep 5:8-14)"rise from the death And Christ will shine on you"

Jn 9:1-41 says"he went off and washed himself came away with his sight restored"

Reflection: how we respond to persure can vary from person to person. In john gospel there are 2 related stories, where men being healed. One in chapter 5 and other in chapter 9,today's reading. man at the pool eventually betrayed Jesus. Man born blind eventually resists pressure and even grows on the strength of it. Part of his energy comes from his experience- no matter what others say about Jesus. He Himself once was blind and now he sees. His courageous attachment to what he knows from his personal encounter when Jesus leads eventually to a full act of faith.

Jesus showed a process of curing a blind man. With his spittle and making and paste and applying to blind mans eye, HE clearly shows that we should follow a process to manage our worries. Otherwise HE should have cleared blindness, with nothing:

Process is defined as sequence of interdependent and linked procedures which at every stage consume one or more resources (employee time,energy, money or mAchines) into outputs. These out put next serve as input to the next stage until a known Goal or end result achieved. For every output, human need a process to be followed. JESUS too showed here how to use a process to clear blindness and remind us for treatment of our worries, a clear process to follow.
What is the process, HE showed us?
Take today's gospel, as an example, HE should have cleared the blindness, without dong anything! But HE didnot use that method. HE cleArly showed a process has to be followed. Take another Example: at cana, HE pretended not to know the wine is depleted at the wedding: HE allowed Holy MAry to know: why HE is showing us a process that has to be followed to get the required out put wine.  What is the process (1) filling water (2) be friendly with Holy Mary.  Filling water means you follow 7 ethics And be friendly with mary is to wear miraculous medal+pray daily rosary.
When you have all fish or meat and other ingredients, without following a process, can you cook Without a process?. Without cooking can you enjoy?. Human needs a process to be followed for any outputs, otherwise they become like an animAl.
Very clear processes are being given to reach the happiness under the control of God:
(1) Convert your trust to faith with God. Most of the people in the world trust that they cannot do every thing in this world. So they believe about God. But they failed to convert trust to faith, either due to lack of knowledge, as what God has asked to do to follow HIM.
(2)Identify clearly what HE has asked you to follow HIM. Know clearly 10 commandments+ 7 vices. Know 7 ethics. PrActice these to remove your blindness With knowledge
(3) Follow the process given by God, for the treatments of your sins.(Going against 7 Ethics) process is REPENTANCE, CONFESSION WITH A PRIEST+ INDULGENCE
(4)Part of the process attend Sunday mass, concentrate more on 3 readings:.
(5)Part of the process receive Eucharist+follow church rules+love another+pardoned all.



Process
Is Sequence of interdependent and linked procedures which,at every stage, consume one/more resources (time, energy,machines,money) to convert inputs(data,material,parts,etc) into outputs.These outputs then serve as inputs for the next stage until a known goal/end result is reached. Can U cook a good meal without any process?.Purpose of living of humans are to lead a happy,worry less life,in contrary any output of their actions are not known by them 100%.Catholic believes only God. When U convert Ur trust to faith to God, by following HIS comms,Ur happiness guaranteed. God showed how to remove ur blindness,with a process:using a paste make out of HIS spittle & apply to blind & asked him to wash at Silome:HE has given clear process to be followed. For that understand 7 ethics+follow the process to be adopted, without having Ur own process, for Ur own convenience by following 7 vices(sloth,pride,anger,


Reason for your worry and holding that worry?
You can find many reasons for your worry but when your worry cannot be treated, some people attribute that worry to karma, and keep on worrying. The only treatment for your worries, which you cannot treat is to hand over such to God, whom you have develop faith, whom you think that HE can resolve anything, Which can lead to +ve thinking, to resolve your stress. In doing so follow the process, that God asked you to do?

In conclusion, today church invite us to analyze, 5 major factors
(1) How to manage our human worries and be healthy in our life
(2) What is the value of process to be followed, in every action in your life?
(3) What is the role of Mary and saints, in resolving stresses in your life?
(4) Why you get stresses and worries? Can you avoid this?
(5) Why catholic church guide you the easy path to resolve your worries?

Thank you!
GBU

For more pl visit:
http://weeklycatholicreflection.blogspot.com Or
http://www.sundayreading.net/
Or
http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com

4th sunday lent of cycle 1 STRESSFUL CATHOLIC - in summary


(1)What do U mean by stress? What is stress factor?. How to handle Ur stress?

(2) With stress U lead Ur life with fear or with anger?. Is it good for Ur health? Can U achieve happiness as promised by God?

(3) When curing a blind man, why Jesus apply paste with spittle and asked him to wash at Silome? Why all this rigmarole? He should have cured him without doing anything?. What do U mean by a process?.

Cooking means process U adopt to make Ur food tasty. Do U like raw meat to eat everyday?.what is the process U adopt to follow God's will?

(4) Though U can give reasons for Ur Stress, can U find direct solutions,without support of 3rd party?

(5)Stress- is defined as feeling being over loaded. Did Jesus showed us how to mange our mental & physical stress from Gethsamani & Golgotha?.Have U seen Holy mary being stressed at any time? Why?

Pl spend 9 minutes to listen to this:

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/4thsundaylentcycle1STRESSFULCA THOLIC.html


Reflection for 26th march 2017, celebrating 4th Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your stresses and worries and be healthy. Also to analyze value of following process. Very valuable reflection in anticipating today's problems!



Let us analyze the effects of
Stress & Worries, into your life!



A lecturer raised a glass of water&asked how heavy it is?

Answers ranged around 10 ozs.

Her answer?

The heaviness does not depend on the ABSOLUTE WEIGHT but on how long she holds the glass!

It will be MORE HEAVY if it was held for 1 hr (leading to an ache)& LESS if it was held only for 1 min.If it was held for a DAY her arm'll feel NUMB& PARALYSED.

In each case weight of the glass does not change,but the longer It was held,the heavier it become.

Stresses&Worries in life are like the glass of water. More you hold worries more you get hurt and if you think about them all day,you will feel paralysed- incapable of being happy.

Hence it's important to let go of stress.



There is a process to hand over such implied from Gospel

(1)convert you trust to FAITH in God, every sensible person have realized God in his life. He trust the existence of God. But he failed

to convert that trust to Faith, without following what God has asked him to do?

This is the problem with many people. There is a process to follow!

(2)then HAND OVER all stress to Mary(just like what the wedding couple did in Cana)so that U can put glass down,without hurting your selves.

Stress factor can be defned as = No of worries you suffer/day X average time you spend for each of worrying



Effect of Stress!

When you don't know how to manage your worries, without your knowledge you over load your mind making you unhealthy!. You can easily become sick, when you let worry to persist in your mind. Can you avoid worries in leading your life. Any person in this world will have worries, otherwise he is abnormal!. When you don't know how to manage your worry or fear, you keep on analyzing too much on it. Analyze how to resolve your worry,have a plan how to clear it by your self. But sometimes you might be worried about a problem which you cannot resolve by yourself. Under such, you stop worrying and hand over your problem to Holy mary, for her to have intercession with God for a resolution. For that you have to be friendly with mary.



How to be friendly with Mary?

Mary introduced miraculious medal to catherine, and asked you to wear it for her maternal intercession. Still St catherine in corrupt body, you can see at paris.


Then Mary has introduced very good meditation method: I.e rosary. Pray the daily rosary!


Any person, who wears a miraculious medal and pray daily rosary, will never go astray. Holy mary will intercede with God, on behalf of him, for his guaranteed happiness.



Today's reading:


Book of samuel says(1S 16:1.6-7.10-13 " david is anointed king of Isreal"

Paul to Episians says (Ep 5:8-14)"rise from the death And Christ will shine on you"

Jn 9:1-41 says"he went off and washed himself came away with his sight restored"

Reflection: how we respond to persure can vary from person to person. In john gospel there are 2 related stories, where men being healed. One in chapter 5 and other in chapter 9,today's reading. man at the pool eventually betrayed Jesus. Man born blind eventually resists pressure and even grows on the strength of it. Part of his energy comes from his experience- no matter what others say about Jesus. He Himself once was blind and now he sees. His courageous attachment to what he knows from his personal encounter when Jesus leads eventually to a full act of faith.


Jesus showed a process of curing a blind man. With his spittle and making and paste and applying to blind mans eye, HE clearly shows that we should follow a process to manage our worries. Otherwise HE should have cleared blindness, with nothing:

Process is defined as sequence of interdependent and linked procedures which at every stage consume one or more resources (employee time,energy, money or mAchines) into outputs. These out put next serve as input to the next stage until a known Goal or end result achieved. For every output, human need a process to be followed. JESUS too showed here how to use a process to clear blindness and remind us for treatment of our worries, a clear process to follow.


What is the process, HE showed us?


Take today's gospel, as an example, HE should have cleared the blindness, without dong anything! But HE didnot use that method. HE cleArly showed a process has to be followed. Take another Example: at cana, HE pretended not to know the wine is depleted at the wedding: HE allowed Holy MAry to know: why HE is showing us a process that has to be followed to get the required out put wine. What is the process (1) filling water (2) be friendly with Holy Mary. Filling water means you follow 7 ethics And be friendly with mary is to wear miraculous medal+pray daily rosary.


When you have all fish or meat and other ingredients, without following a process, can you cook Without a process?. Without cooking can you enjoy?. Human needs a process to be followed for any outputs, otherwise they become like an animAl.


Very clear processes are being given to reach the happiness under the control of God:


(1) Convert your trust to faith with God. Most of the people in the world trust that they cannot do every thing in this world. So they believe about God. But they failed to convert trust to faith, either due to lack of knowledge, as what God has asked to do to follow HIM.


(2)Identify clearly what HE has asked you to follow HIM. Know clearly 10 commandments+ 7 vices. Know 7 ethics. PrActice these to remove your blindness With knowledge


(3) Follow the process given by God, for the treatments of your sins.(Going against 7 Ethics) process is REPENTANCE, CONFESSION WITH A PRIEST+ INDULGENCE


(4)Part of the process attend Sunday mass, concentrate more on 3 readings:.


(5)Part of the process receive Eucharist+follow church rules+love another+pardoned all.



Process


Is Sequence of interdependent and linked procedures which,at every stage, consume one/more resources (time, energy,machines,money) to convert inputs(data,material,parts,etc) into outputs.These outputs then serve as inputs for the next stage until a known goal/end result is reached. Can U cook a good meal without any process?.Purpose of living of humans are to lead a happy,worry less life,in contrary any output of their actions are not known by them 100%.Catholic believes only God. When U convert Ur trust to faith to God, by following HIS comms,Ur happiness guaranteed. God showed how to remove ur blindness,with a process:using a paste make out of HIS spittle & apply to blind & asked him to wash at Silome:HE has given clear process to be followed. For that understand 7 ethics+follow the process to be adopted, without having Ur own process, for Ur own convenience by following 7 vices(sloth,pride,anger,


Reason for your worry and holding that worry?


You can find many reasons for your worry but when your worry cannot be treated, some people attribute that worry to karma, and keep on worrying. The only treatment for your worries, which you cannot treat is to hand over such to God, whom you have develop faith, whom you think that HE can resolve anything, Which can lead to +ve thinking, to resolve your stress. In doing so follow the process, that God asked you to do?




In conclusion, today church invite us to analyze, 5 major factors


(1) How to manage our human worries and be healthy in our life

(2) What is the value of process to be followed, in every action in your life?

(3) What is the role of Mary and saints, in resolving stresses in your life?

(4) Why you get stresses and worries? Can you avoid this?

(5) Why catholic church guide you the easy path to resolve your worries?



Thank you!


GBU

For more pl visit:
http://weeklycatholicreflection.blogspot.com Or
http://www.sundayreading.net/
Or
http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com

Saturday 18 March 2017

Cycle 1:season: Lent Sunday No :3; Date 19/3/2017 Corrupt Catholic - in detail

High light:
(1) Corruption means,use of public power for private gain, but What is catholic corruption?
(2) Is Adam and Eve were deceived or corrupted by satan?. Why they couldn't over come the temptation?
(3) How you become friendly with God? And unfriendly with satan?
(4) Why U say 'satan is bad pay master or liar?' How He promised everything and when you have dialogue with satan,without following God's laws,u end of with nothing?,like adam & eve nakedness!
(5)Why Jesus said"when U drink God' water, U'll never become thirsty again"? How to achieve this state?.

Pl listen the following for 8 minutes!
http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/3rdsundaylentcycle1CorruptedCatholic.html



Reflection for 19th march 2017, celebrating 3rd Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your temptations and not to be a corrupted person in the eyes of God.

What is Corruption?

It is a misuse of public power for private gain,but for Catholics it will have new meanings. It begins in small things.?No, it's not true that this fruit will harm you. Eat,it is good?It is little things,no one will notice. Do it & little by little,you fall into sin,you fall into corruption. Temptations against 7 Ethics lead you to hide yourselves from God & you remain with your fault,sin & corruption. You take temptation of Eve,as an example. Devil appears as a serpent; he is "attractive & with his cunning ness he seeks & deceives. In this,he is a specialist;he is the father of lies. So he knows how to deceive & how to cheat people. He manipulated Eve; he made her feel good &began to talk to her & gradually(dialogue with her),Satan led her where he wanted. With Jesus, it ended badly for devil. Unless you practice 7 ethics,U can't dialogue with devil? You will end up, like Adam&Eve"NAKED". Devil is a cheat!He promise you all & leave you NAKED.

 Why Adam Eve was not able to over come the temptation?

When Eve opt to dialogue with satan, He gradually deceives Eve. Satan can manipulate easy a weak human. What do you mean by weak?. When you are not following God's laws, you become weak. It is similar to your immune system. When you are not mentally and physically fit you can easily attract many diseases!. Similarly when you are not following God's law, not only you are following God's Will but satan can easily can have dialogue with you to deceive you.
What is the characteristics of Satan?. He is a liar: he promised you many things and gives you nothing. He is happy to give you worries and suffering. God has not created you to lead an unhappy life. But when you go out of HIM, it is not HIS mistake, that you become unhappy.
In order to follow God laws, first be clear what HE has asked you to do:
(1) 10 commandments:

10 commandments:
(1) Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me
(2) Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
(3) Keep holy the Sabbath Day
(4) Honor thy father and mother
(5) Thou shalt not kill (means only HUMANS)(reson: 10 comandment exist before to JESUS, during that time one of the method of WORSHIPPING GOD was, slaughtering of animals, spreading of blood over the offering table.)
(6) Thou shall not commit adultery
(7) Thou shall not steal
(8) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
(9) Thou shall not covert thy neighbor's wife
(10) Thou shalt not covert thy neighbors goods
Note: Obs: there are 3 parts, com 1- 5 God & you, com 6-8 deals personal to you, com 9-10 deals with you & society.


Adam&eve,were fallen to trap of satan, by wanting to be like God.7vices lead U to be like God,unintentionally
(1)laziness(sloth)
(2)Anger:U'r strong feeling,that other is wrong
(3)Pride:Great an admiration of oneself:boasting,love for publicity,hyprocrisy,discord,hard headness,quarreling&disobedience/U'r OWN EGO,forgetting God
(4)envy:"WHY SHOULD NOT I HAVE EVERY THING THAT OTHERS HAVE?(when U forget God has created U for unique purpose)(5)lust:It is a disoriented love that seeks not other but individual pleasure& satisfaction for all your action(forget God,for achievements)
(6)avarice: lead us to be greedy& ends up with fraud,perjury,dishonesty& harshness
(7)gluttony: flows from disorderly animal appetite,obsession with food&drink to point of living to eat,rather than eating to live.

WHEN YOU FORGET GOD

                (1)IN ALL YOUR ACTION
                (2)FORGET PURPOSE OF U'R CREATION-you may attract towards these vices,unknownly





Today's readings:
Book of exodus(Ex 17:3-7) says" Give us water to drink
Paul to Romans(RM 5:1-2,5-8) says"the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us"
John 4:5-42 says" A spring of water welling up to eternal life".
Reflection: today, we are greatly helped by the wonderful gospel of the women, at the well. On the 3rd attempt Jesus finally get through to her but after that there is no stopping her. She represent us. What do I thirst for? What is the most important thing in my life?. Where do I now find God?. By relentless challenge and resolute honesty, we too that be let to that encounter with Jesus,which changes every thing" giving life a new horizon and decisive direction. May we come to believe because we have heard HIM ourselves,and we know that HE really is the savior of the world.

Today it reminds about thirst. You can develop thirst for earth bound things or spiritual things. When you develop for eath bound things, your thirst will never quench and you are being attracted towards satan.
To know the spiritual things, you Should know whAt God wanted you to do. For that you should convert your trust to faith, by following HIS commandments.

In conclusion:
Temptation begins small &little by little we fall into greater sin, justifying our actions to be of no harm. In old paintings, the devil is shown as a monk. Why? Because the devil begins tempting by reasoning the action as good and thereby justifying it. For example, the serpent tempted Eve saying that she’ll be like God if she eats forbidden fruit. Of course, being like God is a good thing and therefore Eve eats the fruit. This is how devil tempts us as well, disguising temptation with a perfectly justifiable good cause! Once we fall into temptation, he then fills our conscience with such shame (nakedness), that we may lose all “hope” for ourselves (despair). This creates a barrier between us and God. In order to be prepared to answer temptations, we need to practice the 7 ethics and be strong in faith. Then we will be able to withstand temptation like Jesus did in the desert.
  


In the old testament there was a man (Adam), a woman (Eve), a garden (Eden), a tree (Forbidden tree), the FALL of mankind. In the new testament, there was a man (Jesus), a woman (Mary), a garden (Gethsemane), a tree (the cross), the SALVATION of mankind. Both stories are opposite projections of each other and depict response to temptation. In the old testament, mankind falls into temptation and become naked (conscious of good and evil) and in the new testament, a man (fully human while fully divine) overcomes temptation and redeems mankind. Jesus demonstrated that we have the capacity to overcome temptation. In order to do so, we must try our best to avoid “small temptations” which will eventually lead to greater sin. The best weapon against temptation is prayer. Pray daily Rosary to get the support of Holy MAry to manage temptations going against God's law. Or when you get such temptation pray a hail mary to manage such!
Thank you!
God bless you!


For more pl visit:
http://weeklycatholicreflection.blogspot.com Or
http://www.sundayreading.net/
Or
http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com

3rd Sunday of Lent of Cycle 1 Corrupt Catholic - in summary


(1) Corruption means,use of public power for private gain, but What is catholic corruption?

(2) Is Adam and Eve were deceived or corrupted by satan?. Why they couldn't over come the temptation?

(3) How you become friendly with God? And unfriendly with satan?

(4) Why U say 'satan is bad pay master or liar?' How He promised everything and when you have dialogue with satan,without following God's laws,u end of with nothing?,like adam & eve nakedness!

(5)Why Jesus said"when U drink God' water, U'll never become thirsty again"? How to achieve this state?.

Pl listen the following for 8 minutes!


http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/3rdsundaylentcycle1CorruptedCatholic.html

Reflection for 19th march 2017, celebrating 3rd Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your temptations and not to be a corrupted person in the eyes of God.


What is Corruption?

It is a misuse of public power for private gain,but for Catholics it will have new meanings. It begins in small things.?No, it's not true that this fruit will harm you. Eat,it is good?It is little things,no one will notice. Do it & little by little,you fall into sin,you fall into corruption. Temptations against 7 Ethics lead you to hide yourselves from God & you remain with your fault,sin & corruption. You take temptation of Eve,as an example. Devil appears as a serpent; he is "attractive & with his cunning ness he seeks & deceives. In this,he is a specialist;he is the father of lies. So he knows how to deceive & how to cheat people. He manipulated Eve; he made her feel good &began to talk to her & gradually(dialogue with her),Satan led her where he wanted. With Jesus, it ended badly for devil. Unless you practice 7 ethics,U can't dialogue with devil? You will end up, like Adam&Eve"NAKED". Devil is a cheat!He promise you all & leave you NAKED.



Why Adam Eve was not able to over come the temptation?

When Eve opt to dialogue with satan, He gradually deceives Eve. Satan can manipulate easy a weak human. What do you mean by weak?. When you are not following God's laws, you become weak. It is similar to your immune system. When you are not mentally and physically fit you can easily attract many diseases!. Similarly when you are not following God's law, not only you are following God's Will but satan can easily can have dialogue with you to deceive you.

What is the characteristics of Satan?. He is a liar: he promised you many things and gives you nothing. He is happy to give you worries and suffering. God has not created you to lead an unhappy life. But when you go out of HIM, it is not HIS mistake, that you become unhappy.

In order to follow God laws, first be clear what HE has asked you to do:



10 commandments:

(1) Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me

(2) Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain

(3) Keep holy the Sabbath Day

(4) Honor thy father and mother

(5) Thou shalt not kill (means only HUMANS)(reson: 10 comandment exist before to JESUS, during that time one of the method of WORSHIPPING GOD was, slaughtering of animals, spreading of blood over the offering table.)

(6) Thou shall not commit adultery

(7) Thou shall not steal

(8) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor

(9) Thou shall not covert thy neighbor's wife

(10) Thou shalt not covert thy neighbors goods

Note: Obs: there are 3 parts, com 1- 5 God & you, com 6-8 deals personal to you, com 9-10 deals with you & society.


Adam&eve,were fallen to trap of satan, by wanting to be like God.7vices lead U to be like God,unintentionally


(1)laziness(sloth)

(2)Anger:U'r strong feeling,that other is wrong

(3)Pride:Great an admiration of oneself:boasting,love for publicity,hyprocrisy,discord,hard headness,quarreling&disobedience/U'r OWN EGO,forgetting God

(4)envy:"WHY SHOULD NOT I HAVE EVERY THING THAT OTHERS HAVE?(when U forget God has created U for unique purpose)(5)lust:It is a disoriented love that seeks not other but individual pleasure& satisfaction for all your action(forget God,for achievements)

(6)avarice: lead us to be greedy& ends up with fraud,perjury,dishonesty& harshness

(7)gluttony: flows from disorderly animal appetite,obsession with food&drink to point of living to eat,rather than eating to live.

WHEN YOU FORGET GOD


(1)IN ALL YOUR ACTION


(2)FORGET PURPOSE OF U'R CREATION-you may attract towards these vices,unknownly



Today's readings:

Book of exodus(Ex 17:3-7) says" Give us water to drink

Paul to Romans(RM 5:1-2,5-8) says"the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us"

John 4:5-42 says" A spring of water welling up to eternal life".

Reflection: today, we are greatly helped by the wonderful gospel of the women, at the well. On the 3rd attempt Jesus finally get through to her but after that there is no stopping her. She represent us. What do I thirst for? What is the most important thing in my life?. Where do I now find God?. By relentless challenge and resolute honesty, we too that be let to that encounter with Jesus,which changes every thing" giving life a new horizon and decisive direction. May we come to believe because we have heard HIM ourselves,and we know that HE really is the savior of the world.



Today it reminds about thirst. You can develop thirst for earth bound things or spiritual things. When you develop for eath bound things, your thirst will never quench and you are being attracted towards satan.


To know the spiritual things, you Should know whAt God wanted you to do. For that you should convert your trust to faith, by following HIS commandments.


In conclusion:

Temptation begins small &little by little we fall into greater sin, justifying our actions to be of no harm. In old paintings, the devil is shown as a monk. Why? Because the devil begins tempting by reasoning the action as good and thereby justifying it. For example, the serpent tempted Eve saying that she’ll be like God if she eats forbidden fruit. Of course, being like God is a good thing and therefore Eve eats the fruit. This is how devil tempts us as well, disguising temptation with a perfectly justifiable good cause! Once we fall into temptation, he then fills our conscience with such shame (nakedness), that we may lose all “hope” for ourselves (despair). This creates a barrier between us and God. In order to be prepared to answer temptations, we need to practice the 7 ethics and be strong in faith. Then we will be able to withstand temptation like Jesus did in the desert.



In the old testament there was a man (Adam), a woman (Eve), a garden (Eden), a tree (Forbidden tree), the FALL of mankind. In the new testament, there was a man (Jesus), a woman (Mary), a garden (Gethsemane), a tree (the cross), the SALVATION of mankind. Both stories are opposite projections of each other and depict response to temptation. In the old testament, mankind falls into temptation and become naked (conscious of good and evil) and in the new testament, a man (fully human while fully divine) overcomes temptation and redeems mankind. Jesus demonstrated that we have the capacity to overcome temptation. In order to do so, we must try our best to avoid “small temptations” which will eventually lead to greater sin. The best weapon against temptation is prayer. Pray daily Rosary to get the support of Holy MAry to manage temptations going against God's law. Or when you get such temptation pray a hail mary to manage such!


Thank you!

God bless you!

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Friday 10 March 2017

Cycle 1:season: Lent Sunday No :2; Date 12/3/2017 Comfortable Catholic - in detail

High light
(1) Why you don't realize that there is a tooth,when U'r without tooth ache?. Why you have to remove your oneness to be happy?
(2)Can you allow your hair or beard to grow, without cutting?. Why pruning allow you to be better?.what pruning actions you take during this lent,for(a)yourself(b)your society(c)world as one society.
(3)Why you should NOT allow, your comfortable thoughts and actions,going against God commandments(10 comms+7 vices)?when you prune such comfortable wrong things, why your life become comfortable?
(4) When your life become COMFATABLE, why you forget yourself and happy?.then why all you actions are going to be based on LOVE?
(5) Why Jesus climbed a hill, to show transfiguration of HIM?.when you follow God's Will,is your life going to be shined?. For that what you should do?
Pl spent 10 mnutes to listen to this!

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/2ndsundaylentcycle1COMFORTABLEcatholic.html 


Reflection for 12th march 2017, celebrating 2nd Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to manage your God given body that is Me, to lead a comfortable life.

How to lead a comfortable life? For that you should be healthy! Hence you should
 analyze the value of maintaining your body weight!

If you want to increase your  weight by 1 Kg, you need 9000 K calories of energy. This is very easy to achieve by eating 1 kg of butter or margarine which has been made by oil or fat. Otherwise if you eat just over 1kg of pork

 BUT TO REDUCE WEIGHT IS VERY DIFFICULT. Any hard labour worker can burn only 3500 K calories,if he work for a day. Even he need more than 3 days full work to reduce on 1kg of his weight.
 If you do exercise for 30minutes/day, you need at least 1 month to reduce 1 kg. You become over weight due to the accumulation of additional energy you take by food. Controlling the food intake becomes essential for your happy life,it does not mean not to eat!.

Over eating:
over eating is a weakness and you will become fat. Also food consumed in excess accumulates at different levels in the digestive track and ferments. Due to this impaired condition of toxins build up in the body leading to several diseases. Normally in their tummy for men, while at the hip for women. Hence shedding weight is necessary to add years to life and life to years!.

One method of shedding weight is walking.
Most common exercise one can do is walking:


Let us analyze the value of Walking
Human Body has over 100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier,when you Walk atleast 30 minutes/day(cumulative). It reduces risk of having strokes,hypertension(reduce blood pressure by five points for over 20 hours),diabetic, breast/colon/prostate cancer,blood clots in your legs,deep vein thrombosis,hip fracture& need for gall stone surgery,catch colds..With walk,human body will resists diseases& heals faster. It improves your{biological, physical,psycho social & emotional}health. ALL ACCUPRESSURE POINTS ARE IN THE SOLE OF YOUR FEET.JUST LIKE YOUR HANDS !!.

Having identified the need to maintain your body, you ought to manage your mind, to be healthy.

Another method of shedding weight is fasting.
Fasting require will power,mental discipline and capacity to withstand the emotional desire to eat!.

What is the difference between fasting and starving?

Our body always possess adequate body reserves required to maintain the normal functioning of body at the hour of need. If we keep away from food for sometime, the body will still maintain itself. when once the reserve food stored in the body gets exhausted,it is said that the person is starving. Abstaining from taking any food when the body is able to maintain itself utilising the reserve food in store is called fasting. But fasting in the absence of reserve food is called starving!. Fasting will not result in decay & death; where as prolonged starvation results in decay & death!. On the other hand fasting will help to clean the system & throwout the toxins(poisons) present in the body, thus helping cure the diseases that take birth from the toxins present in the body. Aversion to food,diarrhoea,vomiting & recurrence of fever are some of the devices our body adopts to throw away the toxins present that are produced on account of impaired digestion of food consumed. But one can prevent the recurrence of such things by fasting periodically.

In order to lead happy and stress free mind, one has to be clear how to control his mind.

Let us analyze Effect of mind control

People have worldly passions which lead them into delusion and suffering. There are 5 ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions. They should have the correct ideas of things, based on the principles of creation!(Given by Catholicism).
Then they can get rid of these mistaken observations and resulting worldly passions by careful and patient mind control. With efficient mind control they can avoid desires arising from the stimulation of the eyes,ears, tongue,skin and subsequent mental processes and by so doing, cut off the very root of all worldly passions, which is not based on Jesus' teachings.

There are 5 groups of desires in the world.
Desires arising from the forms of the eyes see
From the sounds the ears hear
From the fragrances the nose smells
From the tastes pleasant to tongue
From things that are agreeable to the sense of touch
FROM THESE 5 DOORS TO DESIRE COME THE BODIES OF LOVE OF COMFORT.

Most people, being influenced by the body's love of comfort, do not notice the evils that follow comfort(by craving into it) they are caught in the devil's trap like a deer in the forest caught in hunter's(Satan's) trap.

There is no one way to get free from the trap of worldly passions. Suppose you caught a snake, a crocodile, a bird, a dog, a fox and a monkey, 6 creatures of very different natures, and you tie them together with a strong rope and let them go. Each of these 6 creatures will try to go back to its own lair by its own method.

The snake will seek covering of grass, the crocodile will seek water, the bird will want to fly in the air, the dog will seek a villege, the fox will seek a solitary ledges,while monkey will seek the trees of the forest. IN THE ATTEMPT OF EACH TO GO ITS OWN WAY THERE WILL BE A STRUGGLE,BUT, BEING TIED TOGETHER BY A ROPE, THE STRONGEST AT ANY ONE TIME WILL DRAG THE REST.

Like the creatures in this story, a man is tempted different ways by the desires of his 6 senses,EYES,EARS,NOSE,TONGUE,TOUCH AND MIND, and is controlled by the predominate desire.
If the 6 creatures are all tied to a post, they will try to get free until they are tired out, and then will lie down by the post. Just like this, if people will train and control the mind there will be no further trouble from the other 5 senses. IF THE MIND IS UNDER CONTROL PEOPLE WILL HAVE HAPPINESS BOTH NOW AND FUTURE!.
Identify the rope for each desire in this example then tie that rope to Post of God, to see Happiness in this life too!. Lent period is there for you to do that, and be progressive happiness in your life!
Unhappiness occurs only when actively,knowingly, and willingly centering our joy in temporal objects rather than in God. But joy for the sake of Joy,ignoring the source of joy, can be detrimental to real Happiness. John writes: many today, in various ways belong to this category of seeking joy in temporal objects. Out there in the world, their reason darkened through covetousness in spiritual matters, they serve money and not God, and they are motivated by money not God, and they give first consideration to the temporal price and not to the divine value and reward. In countless ways they make money their principle God and Goal; and give it precedence over God,their ultimate end.

To day's reading:
Book of Genesis says(Gn 12:1-4)"the call of abraham,the father of God's people"
Paul to tiimothi(2 TIM 1:8-10) says" God call and enlighten us"
Mattew 17:1-9 says' HIS face shone like the sun"

Reflection: every so often we catch the glimpse of the"something more" that God has in store for us. These fleeting experienced are to be treasured. the birth of my first child, falling in love,a sense of being held by God's presence. Such experience may help us the transfiguration. Like all transcendent experience, it is fleeting and yet it etches a memory and leaves a longing. what should we do? Practice listening to HIM. Be not afraid. We cannot always be" on mountain" and yet what happens on the heights can help us on lowlands of the every day.

In conclusion:
Today it allows us to analyze,
What is the most expensive bed in the world?SICK BED. Someone can be employed to drive a car for you but you cannot have someone to bear an illness for you. When material things are lost,they can be found. But one thing can never be found when lost-LIFE. When someone has to undergo an operation,he realizes that he has yet to finish reading the BOOK OF HEALTHY LIFE. When you become a different person during this lent,by regular fasting(exercise+ drinking water)+NOT to have dialogue with temptations against God given laws,you convert your sick bed to a comfortable bed. Your Body has over100,000 miles of blood vessels& will become more supple & healthier when U walk atleast 30 minutes/day. Pruning yourselves during this lent will help you to preserve your God given body to be healthy. Whichever stage in life you are at now,with time you will face the day when God will ask curtain to come down for you to hand over your Body.

 In order to control your weight
(1)Identify the need(develop interest) and determine to achieve that- love your body,understand it is your duty to manage your body: since it has given by God to you! You have responsibility towards God to maintain your body, to carry out HIS will.
(2)Control of your food intake-(mind control)
(3)exercise(physical control)
(4)happy and stress free mind(Christianity)

Finally rainbow is having 7 colours, representing that you will forget God, even if you follow God's command but attracted to 7 wises in your life(anger,sloth, pride,lust, envy,avarice,gluttony). Catholicism gives your the shortest path to be happy even in this world!

Thank you!
GBU

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