Catholic vibes and life 🇲🇽🇺🇸: Recent Episodes
Gustavo Ruiz de Chavez
We look at ourselves when we look at Peter. God knows we will fail, He is there to pick us up every time in our weakness 😎
My souls yearn for you in the night, yes my spirit within me keeps vigil for you. Isaiah 26:8-9. Even in the sleep that prefigures death, we rest in the confident trust that gives true joy because we are safe in the sure promise of the risen Christ. 🙏🏽
Palm Sunday: We dive into why Judas committed suicide and why Peter asked for forgiveness instead, after both betrayed the Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
Lent season is a time to come back to God or strengthen more our existing relationship with him. It is a time where we learn about Jesus death and resurrection🙏🏽❤️
Light always wins. God always wins. If we follow him, we always win. And PATIENCE? Pfff, but 🙏🏽 Lord knows I need it 😂
Faith, love and HOPE. There it is! May we follow the lone Star as the magi did to find a baby Jesus, what they really found laying there was exactly that: faith, love and hope.
As we figure out who this baby Jesus is, we ask ourselves? Why? The answer is love, but also the Old Testament says something about love too 🤔
Let’s allow ourselves to be devoted to Jesus and the Father, through the Holy Spirit which is a Devine doctor for our souls. 🙏🏽
“Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” In the story of Martha and Mary, Mary who is Saint Teresa of Jesus, is described as a faithful follower of Christ. What makes her story so interesting: working or praying, she found her delight in Christ’s company.
“For those who suffer the diseases of poverty, – that they may find help from those who suffer the diseases of affluence” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wether we are to serve by active work or contemplative listening is God’s decision. In either case, how do we serve?
The Lord God formes man out of clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. - Gen 2:7
I have called to you, Lord; hasten to help me! Hear my voice when I cry to you. Let my prayer arise before you like incense
In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? (Jn 14:2)
The wind ceased and there was great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
No matter how far the sheep go, Jesus always find us and invites us to come join his flock. He is a just and merciful master! Let us adore
O Lord, you mete out peace to us, for it is you who have accomplished all we have done.
After the profound pain of Jesus’ suffering and death, and of their own failure, the Apostles were impelled by the joy of Easter to proclaim with exuberant conviction the amazing news: Jesus lives! Death has died!
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.
When Gos takes possession of our soul we no longer say: why are you cast down my soul? Let us feel the healing calm of your forgiveness.
The great church fathers St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas taught that in God’s relationship with His creatures, mercy is His greatest attribute.
As Jesus was “brought to his knees las” to bare the sins of the world. Let’s ya reconcile with him, no matter the sin. No matter the time away. Jesus is ready for us!
“Judas and Peter both betrayed Jesus, but while Judas committed suicide, Peter put his trust in love, mercy and forgiveness of God. Peter kept fighting to be a good disciple.” 🙏🏽
Let us put into Gods hands our heart, our soul the deepest recesses of our being wherein dwell those beliefs and thoughts that govern our actions, so that he may guide us in the ways of the Gospel.
Our help comes from the Lord Jesus Christ, crucified upon Mount Calvary for our salvation. In his shelter, we can face with confidence the approaching night.
One dimension of God is mystery so awesome that in its brightness and before it, we are blinded. We imagine God of mystery as dwelling far away, above and beyond the heavens he has made. Yet this same God of mystery dwells very near us, in our midst, in Jesus Christ!