Everyway Reflections: Recent Episodes
Imelda Say
Let's help each other be more regular in reading the gospel. Tune in for reflections and action points on how to live His words in our life.
Jesus is the Truth and those whonlive in Him loves the truth and spreads the truth. Unity of life is important in.every Christian.
To want the will of God. To love the will of God. To abandon ourselves to His providence.
The Gospel recounts how on many occassions Jesus withdraw from the multitude to unite himself in prayer with the Father. Jesus teaches us the importance of spending time in prayer in the midst of our ordinary activities.
One thing is needful: an ever-increasing friendship with the Lord. This should be the constant object of our heart. Everything that separates us from this goal, no matter how important it may appear, has to take second place to that which is our ultimate end.
The world is in need of many things. But there is no doubt that it is in need of apostles who are holy, cheerful, loyal to the church and eager to make Christ known.
Living poverty is not the same as condition of poverty. Detachment and use of our means to get closer to Christ is required. Detachment brings peace to the soul.
Progress in the interior life requires knowledge of our dominant defect. "Lord keep away from me whatever keeps me away from you".
Jesus offers us a new way to look at visiting the sick (or doingbother corporal works of mercy). "I was sick and you visited me".
Although we have been called by the Lord in different hours of the day we should be one in thanksgiving. It is never too early or too late. GOD'S grace is infinitely greater than what anyone has done in life.
There are three prerequisites for our becoming good ground: to listen with a contrite and humbe heart, to be earnest in prayer and mortification, and finally, to be disposed to begin and begin again in the interior struggle.
Through the example of the holy women of the Gospel, we find that service is a way to find and follow Christ.
Forgive always, promptly and wholeheartedly. When we do so, it becomes unnecessary because we are no longer offended.
The more we love God, the more our soul is enabled to love Him firther and to receive more grace.
We are all God's children. The Master invites us to look at others without the prejudices that arise from our own faults, or from the pride which tends to magnify the weakness of others and diminish our own.
Offer your day to Christ and realize that we can congruously merit the conversion of others. Take full advantage of every opportunity to help others along the path to heaven.
Blessed are you when persecuted for the sake of God. Let this bring you joy and even more fervour to make Him known.
Stretch out your hands by doing favir for your neighbors, by protecting from harm one who suffers, stretch out your hand to the poor man who begs from you, stretch out your hand to the Lord, asking pardon for your sins. This is how you stretch out your hand, and this is how you will be cured.
The family that prays together stays together, a family that prays is a family that is saved. Act in such a way that your homes may be places of Christian faith and virtue through your praying together.
Saturday is a special day dedicated to Mary. "If you look for Mary, you will necessarily find Jesus; and you will learn, in greater and greater depth, what there is in the Heart of God".
We are regarded by Christ as intimate friends. "We have to exercise a loyal friendship with all men, based on a prior loyal friendship with God."
Peter began by obeying in small things and Our Lord showed him the wonderful plans which He had prepared from all eternity for him. Peter never suspected the transcendence and the value of his life.
"Singulis Manus Imponens" , laying His hands on each. Persist in the apostolate. " Just one single soul saved through another's mediation can be the source of pardon for many sins." Reflections from "In Conversation with God" by Francis Fernandez
Jesus taught with power and authority. The people who listened to Him perceived clearly his radical difference from the Scribes and Pharisees through the certainty and vitality with which Christ pronounced His doctrine. The importance of meeting Jesus in daily Gospel Reading - in Conversation with God by Francis Fernandez