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!

For more pl visit:

http://weeklycatholicreflection.blogspot.com Or

http://www.sundayreading.net/

Or

http://holymaryreflection.blogspot.com

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

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

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

​

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Cycle 1:season: Lent Sunday No :1; Date 5/3/2017 pruned Catholic - in detail

High light
(1) Why you take a hair cut?. Why you prune a plant? Why Jesus was tested 3 times? Is it connected how to manage earth bound needs of food, power and desires?
(2)During lent why you say"I die to sin and develop friendship with God?"
(3)Lent allows you to prune yourself with regard to your wrong habits,& consider your and universal community. What are the 3 actions you decide to carry out during this lent? (For each category)
(4) Why date of ash wednesday varies each year? How the date decided?
(5)Why God asking you to pray in secret place and carry out fasting with a happy face?what is the difference between fasting & starving?

Pl spend 9 minutes to listen to this:

http://www.sinhalagospel.lk/sundayreadingAudio/1sundaylentcycle1prunedcatholic5-3-2017.html 

Reflection for 5th march 2017, celebrating 1st Sunday mass of lent season,of cycle 1. Church invite us to analyze, how to prune ourself to lead a happy life.

This is lent season. It allowed you to become a renewed person!with change your life to form new discipline. Our life is flowing like a river. when river is flowing it forms it's own bank. Forming it's own bank means the discipline that you created with respect to earth bound and spiritual need. If a river has a good bank, it flows nicely. Similarly if you make a new discipline, your life will be flowing happily.
Major 2 seasons surrounded by good friday and easter sunday are lent and easter. During lent, you identify where you are going out of track and correct yourself like a geo stationary satellite moving in earth orbit 10 000km above ground. Maximum energy it consumes is to keep in track when it goes out of track. Lent allows you to keep tract with in following what God has asked us to do!.

Lent season start from Ash wednesday.
Date of Ash wednesday varies from year to year! Implying date of easter sunday to Vary, unlike Christmas!. Why easter sunday varies?
It has a relation with Judaism, where the Pass Over ceremony is commonly accepted by Christians & Judaism!. Pass over week is based on solar + Lunar calendar!.
How?
Gregorian calendar is based on Earth's orbiting around SUN(365.25days).If a year is divisible by4(but not by400)it results in a leap year(366days).
Equinox occurs when sun is closest to earth's equator. when SUN is directly over earth equator(no shadow).This happens twice/year;Vernal(Mar)&Autumnal (Sept).
Easter Sunday is selected as1st Sunday,following Full Moon(10/4/2017)after vernal equinox(20/3).ASH WEDNESDAY(1/3/2017)is placed 46days(40 days lent+last 6 days for pass over)before Easter Sunday(16/4).

On the other hand, CHRISTMAS is always on Dec 25(from this day onwards there will be more daylight time than night time until June 24-birth of John the baptist). Jn said he should decrease and Jesus should increase.  Hence Catholic liturgical year revolves around CHRISTMAS & EASTER,representing BIRTH&RESURECTION of Jesus. The theme of the first half of the year is CHRIST IS OUR LIGHT while the rest of the year it is CHRIST IS OUR LIFE. Both epitomizes christmas&Easter respectively. It is obligatory to fast on ash weds & Good Friday.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FASTING AND STARVING!(Enforcing discipline or control in to your life)

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 utilizing the reserve food in store is called fasting.

But fasting in the absence of reserve food is called starving!.

Fasting helps to enjoy life!

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 and  throw out 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,diarrhea,vomiting & recurrence of fever are some of the devices our body adopts to throw away the toxins that are produced an account of impaired digestion of food consumed. But one can prevent the recurrence of such things by fasting periodically.



Today's readings:

Book of genesis(Gn 2:7-9;3:1-7) says about"creation & sin of our people"
Paul says to RomAns(Rm 5:12-19)" however great the number of sins committed,grace was even greater" Mt(4:1-11) says"Jesus fast for 40 days and is tempted"
Readings remind us : the temptation of today's gospel are not at all temptations to this or that sin,but rather fundamental option which matter for the direction of life. Jesus was tempted in the course of his ministry to choose another way of being God's prophet the messiah or anointed. In A less spectacular way,we too can be attracted by choices which shape the way of our life unfolds. We ask ourselves, what do I live on? What's my true goal? Where is my nourishment? The human no less than the kingdom, is more than food and drink. Only the word of God truly nourished and illuminates.

During lent we die to selfishness and rise to generosity towards others. We pruned ourself a bit, through penance, so that we may grow into stronger, more healthy catholic. If anyone wants to be follower of myself let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me' (Mt 16:24). We do penance for 40 days in imitation of our lord's 40 days fasting in the desert. So lent is really a challenging time.
During lent, you should determine to give up sin. To do that clearly identify 7 ethics of catholicism. Make lent dying to sin and living to God.  Then do 3 actions: personal,communal, universal.
Personal: you may used to drink alcohol every day or smoking cigarettes or eating chocolates: or you may used to gossip of others or you may used to judge others, when you identify there is something wrong in you, lent is a good time to prune yourself to be a new person. Identify clearly what is 10 commandment and 7 vices. Try to avoid sins for the love of God.
Communal: think about your nearest neighbors, see what actions that you can carry out for them.
Universal: be alert about outside world, analyze whether they are suffering: see what you can do: if nothing you can pray for them!

In Conclusions:

If we know, that fasting on Ash wednesday, is for our own health, it becomes,easy to develop the mind control. Otherwise, you eat too much in the morning and fast at lunch, then again cover up at dinner. You will fast as excusetic (excuse for not to do a thing)!. It will not help you to develop mind control, the benefit of fasting in to your life!. Hence during lent period, we should be clear, as how to control our physical body, as well as mental, to be happy in this life. This 40 days one has to analyze, whether my desires(or thoughts) are going against jesus' teachings. LENT INVITED US TO REFLECT TO CHANGE POSTIVILY OF REACHING HAPPINESS IN THIS LIFE !

We like to have hair cut? Why? It will help us to be comfortable n your life,as well as you will produce pleasant feeling for others. How many times you have hair cuts up to now? Similarly for your own benefit, church is providing you to confess with a priest, be Spiritually comfortable in your life. For that you should be prepared to prune yourself. It is for your own happiness. Every year lent will provide that opportunity for you.


Thank you
GBU

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