Adaptable Catholic(sunday 11/10) - in summary

WHAT IS THERE IN MY LIFE THAT POSSES ME MORE THAN JESUS? WHAT DO I FIND IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE UP?
NOT ONLY WEALTH,LAND,BUILDING ETC BUT WIDER MEANING LIKE FOOD, ALCOHOL,TOBOCCO,PREJUDICES, ETC.

Take st paul,he gave up his entire past, including his hatred to christianity, in order to follow christ.

 Today's reading:

Book of wisdom says(Ws7:7-11) ".. prayed..understanding..given..entreated..spirit of wisdom came..riches as nothing..gold..sand..silver..mud I loved..more than..health.. preferred..to.. light..her hands riches not..numbered.

Hebrew says(Heb 4:12-13) says"..word of God..alive..active..double edge sword..it can slip..joints from marrow..can judge emtions..thoughts..no created..hide.. every thing uncovered.."

Mark says(Mk 10:17-30)"Jesus..what..I do..eternal life?"..you know.. commandments..I kept..one thing lack..sell everything..give..poor..his face fell..went.. sad..how hard..riches.. enter..easer for a camel..eye of a needle..who..saved..men.. impossible..for God..possible..peter..us?.. jesus..left..my sake..will..repaid..100 times over..present..eternal.."

Reminds:  no name for the young person implies-all of us and he is the only one in the Gospel who refuses to follow,yet Jesus loved him. We can follow HIM at a distance alright, but close-up is something else

Conditioning your self, too much, will be difficult for you to change!
Think about actions/comforts, that you cannot change? Identify, whether it is contravene to the commandments given by Trinity
Father- 10 Commandments:
Son-Pardoned others+ love your neighbour
Holy spirit- you should not form cast/ no artificial birth control/no abortion/no euthanasia/No divorce/...other sacraments+church rules.

Withdraw actions which contravene, then you are sure God's will come to you!.

Example set by St Francis Assisi and Pope Francis

St Francis Assisi's and pope Francis example:

St Francis, easily changed to sell all his wealth, to support poor, after understanding the meaning of life.
Francis was son of wealthy cloth merchant of Assisi/Italy.At the age of 20yrs,he was sick& Changed his life,starting with charity among poor. He said"HE WHO SERVES POOR,SERVES CHRIST HIMSELF"One day he heard GOD "REPAIR MY HOUSE WHICH IS FALLING IN TO RUIN" Francis gladly surrendered his  possessions & lived like a hermit!He pioneered Franciscans order

& to adore Holy Babe, in1223 by making a crib-in a forest-cave with a live Ox&Ass. During his preaching,image of Babe in his arms was seen. 1224 he received Stigmata(5 wounds which risen Jesus had). At 44yrs he died4/10/1226& was canonised in1228.

Present 266thPope(Argentenian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio/Jesuit76yrs)elected on19/3/2013,feast day of St Joseph,took suddenly name as Francis1& follows his footsteps,poor in character&repairing church!.He represent head of catholic church-Holy Spirit&guide you towards God Kingdom,for happiness now& future.

Conclusions: when God,personal call comes to us in the circumstances of our daily lives, may we have the vision and generosity to respond?.
Great worth of wisdom, which is insight into life's meaning, is knowing how to live.
God's word is living;it penetrates in to the core of our being and lays bare our inner most thoughts.
Salvation lies in observing the commandments, but Jesus says that to be perfect one must be prepared to give up one's most precious procession and follow Him.


GOD WILL IN FAMILY AND IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE!

Last sunday we reflected how to follow God's will, in a family environment. It allowed us to think more how to treat, disagreements deriving in a family. After you follow god's commandments, when disagreements still persist, you act as a floating element. This will allow you to understand God's Will,at subsequent stage(there is no other way that God can influence your decision otherwise)

Today it allows us to reflect, how to implement God's will personal to you.
Assume that you are following commandments given by father(10 commandments),Son pardoning +love, Holy spirit- church rules, and doing well, as a good catholic. How to find God's Will for you.
Today it will be analyses further! How to be an adaptable catholic?

GBU

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Cycle 2:season:ordinary(2): Sunday No:27: Date:4/10/2015. childish Catholic - in detail

A. Back ground:
Today,church addresses very vital question, what is the purpose of life,catholic answer is follow the God's will. How to know HiS WiLL for you? Now there are no Angels tell his will, neither dreams,no prophets etc
This is one side of the coin. What is the other side?

Easiness of forming disagreements! How?

 When you decide upon an action,always, in your mind you encounter a cross, since you don't know 100% outcome of your action. In a Family when you take an action,this cross will be squared. Why, you might think different output than your other half.

How to balance of these 2 aspects? God's will and treatment for disagreements among family members?.

B. Preamble for today's reading

B.1 How God created human?

Creation story
(1)God made Adam out of dirt/ground
(2)animated(life) by HIS spirit.
(3)Adam name animals,implying that human are different to animal
(4)HE told"It is not good for man to be alone (Gen2:18)",then HE performs 1st surgery,even administering1st anesthetic. HE causes deep sleep in Adam &removes a rib &form woman, showing intimate relation ship of male &female.
(5)God witness 1st wedding,by escorting Eve down isle,garden of Eden(paradise), by presenting her to Adam. In Eden,No{weeds, crime,violence,etc}" man&his wife is naked& unashamed"Gen2:25.
(6)There were2 special trees. Tree of(1)life &(2)knowledge of good&evil. Latter tree God told"U shall not eat from it,for U eat,U'll die"allowing them to use their Free Will
(7)But they ate.
(8)God showed how to reestablish Happiness,
as Father gave 10 commandments,
as Son told forgive+love,
as Holy Spirit formed church law(cast less society+no circumscion, no restriction to eat Pork,celibacy, no artificial birth control, no abortion, no euthanasia and certain other laws..)

We always say" in the name of the father.....and of the Holy Spirit" this implies that we adhere all above commandments given by Father,Son and Holy Spirit.

When we follow all commandments, the ground is ready for us to receive God's will.

B.2 Disagreements in Married life.

With the freedom given to human, (after Jesus), human can take any decisions, but the 100 % out come for that decisions is known only to God. Due to this fact normal human will have a cross in his brain, when he implement a decision. This cross will be squared, when there are 2 people involved in decision making. This is what is happening to married couples. Creating many frustrations and disagreements!.
It is true that marriege can be very difficult for one or both partners, part of the time or nearly all the time. But God has told in mark 10:9"WHAT GOD HAS UNITED HUMAN BEINGS MUST NOT DIVIDE"

Jesus comes out strongly for indissolubility of marriege. HE then declares that we must become like little children in order to enter kingdom of God.

B.3 God's Will to be effective in Married life!

As discussed, today married life become challenging due to (1) global villege- access to information is easy. Unless you are intelligent enough to verify the information, you are liable to develop many disagreements!
(2) Decision making in a family become complex, and create disagreement among members
(3) God says"Don't break", but it will be hard  not to break. How God suggest to treat the disagreement?
(4) Follow all commandments given by father,Son and Holy Spirit by yourself, then ask solution from God for the disagreement. Be like a child who ask many things from his father and wait for his decision. Follow" if any body ask you to carry 1 kg, carry 2 kg"
If your other half insisting to follow certain actions,(even if you disagree/action has to be not going against commandments) implement action, leaving your disagreement with God. By this method you will see God's will be implemented in a family.

C. Todays readings:

Genesis says(Gen 2:18-24)"..God said"..not good..man..be alone..make..help mate..soil..fashioned..Wild beast..birds..man..call them..man..gave names..No helpmate..man..for him.. Deep sleep..took..one..ribs..enclosed flesh..man into a women..why..man leaves his father..mother..join his wife..one body.
Hebrew says"(Heb 2:9-11)"..Jesus..submitted to death..for all mankind..purpose..sons..glory..make..perfect..suffering..brothers."

Mark(10:2-16)says"..pharsees..Jesus..'..against..man..divorce..wife?"..moses command..Divorce..Jesus..You.. unteachable..creation of God..made.. male.. female..man..leave father..mother..two..one body..God..united..man..not divide..man.. divorced..wife..marries..guilty..adultery..People..bringing children..turned away..Jesus let..come to me..to such..kingdom of God belongs"..anyone..welcome..like a little child will never enter it."..
Reminds:
1) God's creation of all living animals &birds, followed by creation of women

(2) Jesus tested death"for sake of all human"HE was made perfect by suffering

(3) Jesus comes out strongly for indissolubility of marriege. HE then declares that we must become like little children in order to enter kingdom of God.

D. Conclusions:
Sufferings comes due to lack of awareness of life, as well as mistrust about God(who is a loving Father). As weak human we suffer. Jesus showed us suffering make you perfect. You are allowed to aware about life. What is the purpose of living?. Then you become happy thru' your suffering.
FOLLOW THE COMMANDMENTS GIVEN BY TRNITY, THEN FOLLOW ACTONS LIKE A CHILD TO BE HAPPY IN THIS LIFE TOO"

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Sunday (4/10) Childish Catholic - in summary

How to follow God's Will in married life or implement action under disagreements?

FOLLOW THE COMMANDMENTS GIVEN BY TRNITY, THEN FOLLOW ACTONS LIKE A CHILD TO BE HAPPY IN THIS LIFE TOO"

Genesis says(Gen 2:18-24)"..God said"..not good..man..be alone..make..help mate..soil..fashioned..Wild beast..birds..man..call them..man..gave names..No help mate..man..for him.. Deep sleep..took..one..ribs..enclosed flesh..man into a women..why..man leaves his father..mother..join his wife..one body.
Picture Jesus on the cross

Hebrew says"(Heb 2:9-11)"..Jesus..submitted to death..for all mankind..purpose..sons..glory..make..perfect..suffering..brothers."

Mark(10:2-16)says"..pharsees..Jesus..'..against..man..divorce..wife?"..moses command..Divorce..Jesus..You.. unteachable..creation of God..made.. male.. female..man..leave father..mother..two..one body..God..united..man..not divide..man.. divorced..wife..marries..guilty..adultery..People..bringing children..turned away..Jesus let..come to me..to such..kingdom of God belongs"..anyone..welcome..like a little child will never enter it."..

Reminds: about creation story, how man and woman were created. How they were living in the Garden of Eden-Paradise. Always freedom is given subject to law. In this case too, God told not to eat fruit from the forbidden tree. But Adam and Eve betrayed, causing death,sorrow,fear,disagreements to be present into our life. Then God came as Father, as Son, and as Holy Spirit to re introduce Happiness to human. This can be summarised as follows:

Creation story

(1)God made Adam out of dirt/ground
(2)animated(life) by HIS spirit.
(3)Adam name animals,implying that human are different to animal
(4)HE told"It is not good for man to be alone (Gen2:18)",then HE performs 1st surgery,even administering1st anaesthetic. HE causes deep sleep in Adam &removes a rib &form woman, showing intimate relation ship of male &female.

Similarly we have to analysed, how God's Will to be implemented in married life?.
(5)God witness 1st wedding,by escorting Eve down isle,garden of Eden(paradise), by presenting her to Adam. In Eden,No{weeds, crime,violence,etc}" man&his wife is naked& unashamed"Gen2:25.
(6)There were2 special trees. Tree of(1)life &(2)knowledge of good&evil. Latter tree God told"U shall not eat from it,for U eat,U'll die"allowing them to use their Free Will
(7)But they ate.
(8)God showed how to reestablish Happiness,
as Father gave 10 comms,
as Son told forgive+love,
as Holy Spirit formed church law(castless society+no circumscion, no restriction to eat Pork,celibacy, no artificial birth control, no abortion, no euthanasia and certain other laws..)

We always say" in the name of the father.....and of the Holy Spirit" this implies that we adhere all above commandments given by Father,Son and Holy Spirit.

When we follow all commandments, the ground is ready for us to receive God's will.

Difficulty in decision making in married life?
Though catholic principle of no divorce in marriege, it will be difficult to maintain 2 in 1, due easy distraction of informations as at today. In order to preserve married life, one has to follow the commandments given by holy trinity. Then listen to the most strong voice. Now God will, show HIS WILL, thru' a third party. May be your other half!.
When you follow this kind of action, you suffer for a short period but for long period you will be happy. You have to like a child, who is eagerly waiting something from His Father.
GBU

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Cycle 2:season:ordinary(2): Sunday No:26: Date:27/9/2015. Disciplined catholic - in detail

A. Back ground:
 we reflected last few sundays, how to follow God's Will!. Today it Will further analyze, about a common weakness of church going catholics, thinking that they are more closer to God, than other christian denominations. Today it stressed that first, you should know how to follow Catholicism, be clear about what God wants from you and check whether You are Good catholic before we criticize others;



B. Preamble for todays reading:


B.1 what is Catholicism?
Catholicism basically centered on 2 major logical reasons:
(1) You cannot decide from which parents you will come to this world? Who has decided?
(2) 100% results of your action you will not know? Then who knows?

Catholic answer to these 2 questions is GOD.
Having understood the role of God, into our life, now we should know, how to know HiM, more to know HIM, there are 3 phases, to understand
(1)God,as the Father, gave 10 commandments to follow:
(2) God, as Son, told us to in addition
Following 10 commandments, love each other and pardoned others misgivings towards you
(3)God, as Holy Spirit, formed catholic church, drives the church, thru' Pope and cardinals/bishops/priests in resolving day to problems,arising from technological advancement, forming, new dogma's to support God's kingdom(ex pope will never tell"you can steal")

B.2 How to be a good catholic?

There are 2 sides(like 2 sides of coin) to become a catholic.
(1) Get to know the rules/ 10 commandments+ church rules declared by Holy Spirit! Ex: (7 sacraments, artificial birth control,abortion, Euthanasia...)
(2) To become a member of the church- Baptism/then confirmation

With these 2 You can be a member of the catholic church.

How to practice to reach anticipated Happiness in this world?

2 sacraments, Penance and either matrimony/single life, are the main leading  activities anticipated by church, in addition to following sunday mass.

Major principal Catholicism harps on is to convert your talents to skill. It doesn't support laziness, but encourage to develop a vocation by yourself. It advocates to use your free will, to develop under the rules of church. It does not support the western thinking of man can do everything, neither,eastern thinking God will do every thing!. It supports your initiative to develop yourself, with the grace of God. Your initiative become no 1.

Summary of Catholic life!
7Sacraments are visible sign of GOD's invisible actions that sanctifies human life!-consists of 3 major parts: INITIATION TO CHURCH(Baptism,Eucharist & Confirmation): HEALING(Penanc confession or reconciliation)&anointing sick: COMMUNITY-Matrimony& Holy orders. Your root less faith will be converted to a seed of faith at confirmation & will have to develop your life with God to become big tree until you depart. For that follow{FATHER-10 commands+Son Pardoning/love+Holy Spirit-Church rules} Church run by Holy Spirit is assured U(7joys)to acquire necessary understanding, counseling, knowledge,piety,fortitude(courage in pain or during trouble), leading to Wisdom(good sense& judgment, based specially on your experience of life).God has created you,with a vocation to work,to be Happy now & eternally. As catholic, there is a clear path!,for you to follow to reach happiness now and eternally.


B.3.global villege and information Explosion.
Unlike in the last millennium, you can be contactable by anybody from any corner of this globe with a matter of a second. This has led to positive as well as negative effects towards your life. Positive effects will be that you can update your knowledge very quickly. Negative effects will be that if you deviate from moral laws, you can easily deviate resulting in attracting Sin(going against the rules of the religion), deviating your focus of life, without your knowledge.

Due to many reasons disagreements among family members are growing.(They tend to forget, that catholic principle making 2 in 1 in marriege) On the other hand, church laws with respect to birth control are not been practice properly. This leads many marriages to break down, due to easy contacts of illicit affairs, thru' telephones or face book!. This has become cancerous in mainly the 3 world societies causing crimes to increase. This coupled with drugs creating crimes similar to bush fire.
Solution for these are not to use telephones or face books, but to understand the catholic principles of marriege(2 in 1), it's principles of birth control and like gospel indicate today, eradicate any unwanted affairs, however reasonable it is!, and how much hard it is!.

B.4- Family and responsibility of parents/guardian towards children
With artificial birth control, producing children, implies, like production in the factory. It kills, the concept of God's creation of human. It makes mother like a machine and child like production output. It kills, idea of God's creation of human being and God is the sole owner of human. You can produce a baby, but you cannot
(1) Decide upon his life span
(2) Decide upon how he should develop his knowledge.
(3)Only for your laziness, you use technology making you to become a passive machine, rather than enjoying your life, as a child of God, Where HE will look after your interest.
(4) Your child is a gift of God, your main task is to maintain him, until he get maturity (about 20 years/this time can vary). At maturity you should ensure that  he can directly go to God, and have direct contact. This what is your responsibility with regard to your child.  When you don't follow commandments, you cannot set examples for your child, how he should follow God, in his life.

B.5- Fornication create out of focus in family life,creating havoc with children
Easy ness to go for sin, is the characteristics of modern era. When your mind is distracted with sin, your focus to family life getting affected. This will create wrong signals among children. Your responsibility with regard to children is hampered. Child life will be distorted throughout his life, which you are responsible.


C. Today's readings;
Book of numbers says(Nb 11:25-29)"..Lord..cloud..spoke..Moses..Spirit..70 elders..they prophesied..not again..Eldad..medad..spirit came..not gone..tent..prophesying..camp.."My Lord Moses stop them"..jealous..whole people..Prophets..Lord gave..Spirit..
St james says(Jm 5:1-6)"..answer..rich.. Crying..weep..miseries..coming..wealth..rotting..clothes..eaten..Gold..silver..corroding..Your own sentence.. burning.. fire..stored..treasure..on earth..life..comport and luxury..you..condemn..innocence.."
Mk(9:38-43.45. 47-48) says"John.." Master..man..not one of us casting devils"..to stop..Jesus said"..not stop..anyone..not against for us.."..cup of water..to christ..He will certainly not lose ..your..foot..cause..sin..cut feet.."

Reminds: Due to global villege concepts, that has already been achieved, tendency for you to betray God's commandments are much more, specially for sins(even mentally) with regard to flesh!.Here readings are focused, to create awareness and warning, to correct your self.
Following 10 commandments, avoiding 7 vices, handing over your worries to Mary, will make you happy even in this life. But always you are tempted to attract sins, even mental, depriving God's will to you. First we have to be good followers of Jesus+ adhere to church rules. Then we will be able to know what others are doing correct or not.

Conclusions:
Today God invite us to reflect on human distraction stemming from technological development, specially sins against flesh, which effect married life,(not only eyes and foot) as well as children, making in effect to a unhappy society. We think that we are real followers of Jesus, where others may be better than us towards God. Todays Gospel reading has simplified and omitted repetition, just for us to indicate how much church(thru' Holy Spirit) has considered about message and reflections of sunday readngs are important for catholic life!.
Mk(9:38-43.45. 47-48)
GBU

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Sunday (27/9) disciplined Catholic - in summary

IF YOUR FOOT IS CAUSE YOU TO SIN CUT IT OFF- shows how much we have to be careful to avoid sins both mentally and physically for us to have God's Grace!

Last sunday we are reminded how to achieve our goals(mainly happiness in this life), by praying and surrendering our will to God. Today we were told to be more disciplined about our self not to commit Sin.

Today's reading!

Book of numbers says(Nb 11:25-29)"..Lord..cloud..spoke..Moses..Spirit..70 elders..they prophesied..not again..Eldad..medad..spirit came..not gone..tent..prophesying..camp.."My Lord Moses stop them"..jealous..whole people..Prophets..Lord gave..Spirit..

St james says(Jm 5:1-6)"..answer..rich.. Crying..weep..miseries..coming..wealth..rotting..clothes..eaten..Gold..silver..corroding..Your own sentence.. burning.. fire..stored..treasure..on earth..life..comport and luxury..you..condemn..innocence.."

Mk(9:38-43.45. 47-48) says"John.." Master..man..not one of us casting devils"..to stop..Jesus said"..not stop..anyone..not against for us.."..cup of water..to christ..He will certainly not lose ..your..foot..cause..sin..cut feet.."

Reminds: before criticising others, we should be double careful, whether we follow the catholic rules properly.

Always we remember "in the name of father......"  What does this means: God the Father-has given us 10 commandments to follow.
The Son- ask us to pardoned each other and love each other
The Holy Spirit- runs the church with church rules-(more dynamic) ex: you cannot form cast, no need circumscised,no artificial birth control, no abortion, follow 7 sacraments..etc
When we don't follow the above rules given by Father,Son and Holy spirit, we sin. Sin causes you to be unhappy during this life.  To day James talk about, the value of eternal Happiness, and compares your conditioning of your mind for your sole convenience, deveiating the Church Rules. Mark reminds the importance of your action, to understand what is sin, and painfully even not to sin.
Book of wisdom says that not to judge others, but be disciplined your self!

With the present day technology of information explosion, internet, telephones,facebook become very influential to day to day life. The contactibility of people become more easy and past.

This creates more disagreements to grow, more conditioning to grow, more illicit affairs to grow, without much knowledge. This will hamper, the main focus of a family. Today reflection is very much pertinent, to consider how to disciplined our self, to form a  happy society!

GBU

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St Matthew (21/9) - in general

Ten of Jesus disciples were fisherman. They are Peter&his brother,Andrew. Philip, Bartholomew,Thomas,James,Thaddaeus, Judas Iscariot. James&John,brothers of whom,Jesus affectionately calls"SONS OF THUNDER",due to their explosive temperament. Other 2 disciples,tax collector- Levi(Matthew)& simon.

Paul converted Luke,physician,to christianity. He stress on Christian purity,gathered information from Mary,hence his Gospel is termed as"Our Lady's Gospel".

Mark,(son of mary from Jeruselem- an old friend of Peter)gathered oral teaching of St peter for his Gospel, since he acted as secretary + interpreter to St peter. St Mark is great Venetian patron saint. His body have been stolen from Alexandria -Egypt, by venetian soldiers in 815: and in Venice it has rested ever since under the high altar of his magnificent basilica. His feast is on april 25.

Levi,was tax collector for king Herod at Capernaum,when Jesus called him, overjoyed,he held a great home party for Jesus & disciples,his fellow tax collectors with many sinners!,caused amazement of Pharisees. Leaders of Israel would not think of eating,like this!.Jesus said"I HAVE COME NOT TO CALL JUST BUT SINNERS" Matthew("Gift of Jahweh") tried to convince Jews that Messiah had come in person of Jesus. Hence he groups together all acts to show Jesus completely fulfilled all familiar propercies concerning Messiah. Isaias- Emanuel who was born with a virgin/at Bethlehem(Micheas)/who fled to Egypt(Osee)/ was heralded by a precursor,curing sick,His passion & death- Isaias. His symbol is young man. He pioneered to write essential events of Jesus life,as witnessed by him & taught by all apostles. He was stoned to death. He is the patron of bankers & book keepers.

Gospel means Good News. Gospels were originally written as anonymous-to focus attention on subject of work& not author,later Church attached names,after studying the writings.

Mt,Mk&Lk share number of similarities,even using exact same words. Hence these 3 works are called Synoptic Gospels,means"to view together"

Gospel of John is unique,using very distinctive language& theological concepts.

Yet,even Synoptic Gospels,for all their similarities,have different perspectives on life of Jesus.



Knowing perspective of 4Gospels writers helps us to interpret their works& better understand Jesus life.

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