Eucharistic Adoration following Holy Hour and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
this morning.
God's love for us is absolutely limitless, and there is so much of Him to discover or rediscover.
Make it a point to know God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit better.
How well do you know your Creator, your Judge, your Redeemer, your Inspiration and Guide, the Love of your eternal life? Have you ever asked the Lord to help you know Him better?
He knows and loves you!
"People have a false idea of Me. They take Me for a master who distributes his favors at his caprice and who enforces His will. Do you understand that I enforce nothing? I am powerless before your liberty. It is I who beg for your love. Look at Me gasping for breath upon the Cross; behold My royalty! I have expiated your sins, but I do not even force you to believe it. I show you My Passion -does it speak to you? -and I wait. Behold My Divinity; -an indefatigable patience. Throughout the centuries I await souls. I never refuse them. Ask to know Me better.
"Do the same with your life. Make reparation; expiate; love without asking for anything in return; and wait patiently until you too are loved. Never refuse to give love. It is I whom you honor and serve so tenderly; I have such need of it." ~ Jesus to Sr. Mary of the Holy Trinity
Jesus cares about our welfare, always and forever and so much. that He became Man, lived a life of poverty, service, and sacrifice, and then gave up His very life to redeem every one of us.
Jesus longs for every human heart to accept His love and to love Him in return.
Loving relationships were designed by God to include more than one person and to be reciprocal. Yet so often the Lord calls our names and knocks at the doors of our hearts but we do not (care to) hear Him. Or we hear Jesus and refuse to let Him in! Sometimes it takes hardship to get our attention, and then as soon as things once again go the way we would have them, we forget all about our responsibilities to our Creator.
As Christians we have obligations and duties. Our responsibilities include loving God for His sake, honoring His majesty, recognizing His sovereignty over all things, seeing ourselves properly in relation to Him, worshiping Him every single day, and honoring His commandments. We are to live, love, serve, and suffer in imitation of Christ. The Lord wants us to live Sacramental lives. That means we are to assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as often as we are able to (not just when we feel like it or when we want something) and at least every Sunday, and are to make Sacramental confessions at least once a month, if possible.
Perhaps He will call you into the confessional even more often than that for your own spiritual growth, to draw you into closer union with the Divine, and to obtain graces for other precious souls through Confessions of Devotion. Perhaps after you absolutely fall in love with the Sacrament of Divine Mercy, He will sometimes have you obediently wait for a time before telling you when to once again kneel beneath His Cross in the Great Tribunal of His Mercy.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation and spending time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament are great ways to obtain insight from God into how we are living.
Nothing at all is hidden from His light, not ever. God knows and sees all, He knows us better than we know ourselves, so naturally He is the best One to ask!
We will be held accountable for our actions and inactions on judgment day, a moment that every single person will experience when God determines that our missions in this life are complete. Wise are those who seek God's counsel now instead of waiting for the moment when we will see our lives through God's Eyes, for at that moment all will become known to us and nothing can be changed.
Right now we have the opportunity to acquire so many graces for ourselves and for others! May we never waste these precious, priceless opportunities!
"Oh, how full I am of compassion! and how I desire -I need- the generosity of some to make reparation for others. It is love that makes reparation." ~ Jesus to Sr. Mary of the Holy Trinity
Those who are maturing spiritually would never say "What does God have to do with anything?" or "What I do doesn't matter," or "No one is going to control me," or "God doesn't love me," or "God won't forgive me," or "I'm spiritual but not religious," or "That's okay for other people but not for me," or "God doesn't hear my prayers," or "God doesn't care about me," or "Holy Mass is boring," or "I don't need to confess my sins to a priest."
Those are all temptations to doubt God, His authority, and our membership in God's family.
God has everything to do with anything, He loves us unconditionally, and gave us rules to follow for our own salvation and happiness and also for the good of others. He never seeks to control us, always respects our free will, is always with us while we reap what we sow, and gave us many fine examples of how we are to behave through Jesus, Blessed Mother, Saint Joseph, the apostles, the saints and the martyrs. God loves us unconditionally and His mercy is beyond our human comprehension; He will forgive us of our sins during sacramental confessions every time we are sincere and genuinely remorseful, and when we are willing to change for the better.
May we want all the good things that God wants for us!
He not only loves us and forgives us, He wants to use us as extraordinary channels of His grace, which He wishes to lavishly pour out upon others. When we refuse to allow God to have dominion over us, when we shut out His love and grace and forgiveness, when we think we know better than God, we block His wonderful actions within us and through us. When that happens, we not only settle for so little for ourselves, we also block the good that God wants to accomplish through us for other people.
Don't ever, ever settle for so little! Grow in humility, simplicity, obedience, and charity, and you will grow so much closer to God. Hand your life over to Him completely, and strive to love and serve Him all the days of your life. Accept His graces, for they are very necessary.
Those who know the Catholic Faith could never leave it or surrender it. Rather, they would die for It. Never surrender to evil; fight it! The only One we are to surrender to is God. We can trust Him with everything.
So much happens around us that we are unaware of; ask God to reveal His love for you and for others and He will, in the most striking, profound, and beautiful ways.
Prove your desire to become more intimate with God by spending time with Him in prayer, by visiting with Him in the Blessed Sacrament, by striving to treat everyone kindly, by giving and serving instead of demanding and taking from others, and by living a Sacramental life.
Live, love, serve, and suffer in imitation of Jesus and Blessed Mother.
Prove to God that your desire to know Him better is authentic, and that you mean it. Promising to love God in return through good times and bad demonstrates your love is genuine and not selfish. How beautiful!!
Imagine people that you care a great deal about only seeking you out when they want something from
you. Not one of us enjoys having our love rejected, our rules mocked, or being approached with arrogance and coldness. Imagine what that feels like to God, who is all-loving and who gives us so much! We do this to the Lord so often. S o o f t e n . And yet He always offers us more love, grace and strength in the Sacraments of Divine Intimacy, and is always willing to wash our souls clean from sin with His very own Precious Blood in the confessional. May we never reject so many gifts that are so freely given!
Aspire to greater Divine Intimacy. God's love is eternal and so, so astonishingly beautiful!
His love just keeps coming and coming and coming.
On Good Friday the Lord took us to His tomb. Jesus had us visit with His Sacred Body for a while following His bitter Passion and Crucifixion because He continues to offer Himself to us completely, all the time; He loves us and longs for our love in return. How often we make time for so many things other than Him, things that meaningless (and/or detrimental) for our salvation and the salvation of others.
Together with Jesus and Blessed Mother in the tomb, the Lord had us pray for the salvation of every soul through all time.Remember what happened? Here's that story: A Holy Saturday Visit to Jesus' Tomb
On Easter Sunday, Jesus visited each of us at our bedside upon awakening, this time to spend time with us. Jesus was so grateful that we took time to visit with Him in the tomb on Good Friday. He held our hands this time, and prayed with us for all mankind. Here are the details of what happened: With God, All Things Are Possible
God's love did not stop there until the next Feast Day or event; He keeps loving and loving and loving us. Yesterday morning, as our hearts continued to prepare for the great Feast of Divine Mercy this coming weekend, Jesus and Blessed Mother joined us to pray just after Holy Communion.
There in the tomb not even a week ago, Jesus had us take the souls of every single person and place them not just in His Sacred Hand, but place them in the wound in His Hand made by the nail, close His hand to seal them carefully inside, take His hand in our own hands, and then Blessed Mother covered our hands with her own. In this manner, each of us reverenced Christ and prayed with Jesus and Blessed Mother for God's entire family.
Then yesterday, as the Feast of Divine Mercy drew closer, Blessed Mother held the souls of every single person in her hands, we placed our hands around hers, and Jesus placed His Sacred Hands over ours, and together in this way, prayed for every single person ever created.
Divine Mercy in Our Souls and on Our Lips
Today is a First Friday! Arrive at the church to pray a Holy Hour before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, right up in the front row during Eucharistic Adoration. Adore God, thank Him, give yourself to Him completely, ask what you can do for Him, and pray for the welfare of all of humanity. Spend precious time with Jesus accepting His love, loving Him in return, and loving others together with Him.
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The Lord is very pleased when we accept His magnificent offer of salvation and sanctification, when we work hard to grow in holiness, when we keep Him company, and when we are so grateful to Him for so many gifts that we have been so freely given.After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, stay for Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction, and offer the Lord more honor and praise as He Blesses everyone personally. Pray the First Friday prayers and sing with great love and devotion, as His Sacred Body still reposes on your tongue following Holy Communion! He inspires you to sing not only on your own behalf but also on behalf of every single person, especially those who refuse His love and His gifts.
Worship, pray, and sing on behalf of every single soul ever created and yet to be created.
God is so pleased with your accepting His love, with your loving Him properly in return, and with your interceding for the souls of all our brothers and sisters.
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Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy on your knees before the Eucharist in the monstrance while adoring the Lord.
The Precious Blood of Christ, Whom you just received in Holy Communion, purified the mouth that you now use to pray for others. In addition, you pray for humanity through the redemptive power of Christ's Blood, just as He did all along the Way of Sacrificial Love and while suffering on the Cross.
In this manner, Jesus allows you to obtain even more graces for precious, immortal souls through the merits of His Passion and Crucifixion.
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