Cycle 2: Season: Lent, Sunday No 4: Date:11/3/2018; Challenged Catholic - in detail

High light:
(1)Challenge have many meanings! What is the challenge of catholic? Is it following God' Will?
(2)When U follow God's will, what U get?
(3)What is earth bound challenge?. Is it in search of money, power & desires?. Can U live without those things?
(4)Do U hv any person, who can challenge U to give happiness other than God?.
(5) God knows every things. Can U control climate? Can U make artificial blood? Can U have artificial human, without male sperm+woman egg?
(6)Without knowing 4 pillars of Catholicism(BELIEF/WORSHIP/PRAYER/MORALITY) can U practice it? Without practicing can we understand what Jesus told to Nicodemus?
(7)Why lent become challenge for u?

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Reflection for 11th march 2018, celebrating 4th Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 2.Today church invite us to revisit abut challenges in our life!. And to manage these challenges!.

What is challenge?


Challenge has many meanings; a call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or a fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength or
 something that put you to the test.

Latin word meaning is "to accuse falsely" &it is still used much as it was in the 13th century, as to questioning whether something is true or right. Similar to these meanings

1)Adam &Eve wanted to become God;

2)Jesus was called to wilderness to show us how to regulate our will;

3)Atheist still question if God created U to lead an happy life.

BUT as catholic, you KNOW your challenge in this life is to follow God's will, controlling Ur earth bound needs to lead a happy life.

Today,Jesus tell to Nicodemus the values of understanding & practice the 4 pillars of Christianity; Belief,Worship,Prayer&Morality for. Your own happiness!

Most of the time, our challenges in life is connected to our ambitions!

We have many ambitions in life. How do we know if we can realize those? Is God responsible to make your ambitions come true? How do you know your ambitions are good for you & for the society?

First train ourselves to follow God's will, controlling our ambitions. When U follow God's will, HE assures your happiness irrespective of time.


During lent: we start FASTING- remove toxin in our body; REGULATING OUR WILL- train to regulate our desires, to achieve good health, where normally we cannot control.(Resisting short term urge, to achieve long term benefit). All these 2 things are generally good to be practices irrespective of any religion, to lead a healthy life.

 Our main activities of life, is it connected to shadow TRINITY

When you are born, without your knowledge, you do the following 3 things:
(1) Start breathing: you breath average of 21000 times/day until you die
(2) You start to walk on the ground, you stop this when you die
(3) You start developing your mind, try to communicate with other people/ try to develop the ability to choose. This appears continuing even after death

All these 3 actions in your life represent shadow Trinity;FATHER-happiness(above 2 how you control your earth bound desires), SON- behavior(above1), HOLY SPIRIT- knowledge(above3).

Also you note that all these 3 you start developing without your knowledge.

Breathing you are doing, to organize your behavior- 10 commandments in Catholicism.
Walking you are doing, resembling the attraction of earth bound needs such as Money, power and worldly desires.
Developing your mind resembles your happiness. How much you can go against gravity.(Fasting,regulating your will, charity,doing exercises etc)

What is Catholic Freedom:
As catholic are you losing your freedom?
Freedom is defined as what you ought to do NOT what you can do!.Hence human freedom is always subject to law. There are 3 types of freedom. External- government, internal- religious, personal- matters lying in between government and religious freedom). As catholics our law is 10 commandment. You should know how 10 commandments came. It derived from Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21

St Augustine(354-430A.D), bishop of Hippo, was the first to assign numbers to the ten commandments. There are slight variations of 10 commandments, with one christian denomination to another!.

Out of these 3 types of freedom, peronal freedom plays vital role, where you, yourelf identify what has gone wrong and correct yourself



C.Today's reading:
Book of Chronicles says(2 ch 36:14-16. 19-23)"The wrath & mercy of the God are revealed in the exile and in the release of HIS people

Paul says(Eph 2:4-10)" you who were death thru' your sins have been saved thru' grace
John says(3:14-21)" God sent HIS SON thru' HIM, the world might be saved:


reminds: biggest challenge today is people wants God to follow their Will, instead searching what is God's will for them

(2)to know what is God will for U 1st revisit whether 4 pillars of catholism are enforced in Ur life+hv a worriless mind,handining over worries to mary & saints
(3)know clearly what is Ur belief-21 points in the creed
(4)worship-Only God NoT elders+7 sacraments
(5)establishing connection with God-Lords +intercessionary Prayers
(6)Morality(10 comms+avoid 7 vices+practice 14 mercies(spiritual+corporal)(7)then U'll see that U follow Unique God's will,practising love+pardoning to society.

Do U worry about God's will for others?

Thank you
GBU


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