Catholics too often need to suffer the famine of grace, the drought of love and peace, before they are willing to consider that just maybe life’s answers aren’t found in their own self-reliance. Interior freedom is only found by surrendering to God.
Advent continues, Gaudete Sunday is here, yet preparing our heart to receive our Lord on Christmas day in challenging. Mass readings from these first weeks of Advent focused on Jesus’ second coming and the final judgement. But ultimately, whether we end up in Heaven or Hell is our choice…
Everything acts in accord to its nature and so does God. He is love, His nature is love, so He can only be loving. He cannot not love you…
What comes to mind when asked, “What if today were your last?” Some people would try to cram as many pleasurable experiences as possible into their last 24 hours. “I’m going to do what I want!”. Others might prepare their will and other legal documents, relieving their loved ones of some burden and complications post-death. Still others would spend every moment with their loved ones telling and showing their love for them. But what about God—does He enter your mind?
The sign of the cross isn’t a symbol nor a superstition. It’s a Trinitarian prayer and consecration to Jesus used since the first century.