God gives us his phone number for emergency calls, God wants us to call him for help and we never even recognize it as such:
Jeremiah 33:3 (ESV)
Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that
you have not known.
Jeremias 33:3(Vulgate)
clama ad me et exaudiam te et adnuntiabo tibi grandia et firma quae nescis
Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not.
Meditation |
"My great God, you know all that is in the universe, because you yourself have made it. It is the very work of your hands. You are omniscient because you are omnicreative. You know each part, however minute, as perfectly as you know the whole. You know mind as perfectly as you know matter. You know the thoughts and purposes of every soul as perfectly as if there were no other soul in the whole of your creation. You know me through and through; all my present, past, and future are before you as one whole. You see all those delicate and evanescent motions of my thought which altogether escape myself. You can trace every act, whether deed or thought, to its origin and can follow it into its whole growth and consequences. You know how it will be with me at the end; you have before you that hour when I shall come to you to be judged. How awful is the prospect of finding myself in the presence of my judge! Yet, O Lord, I would not that you should not know me. It is my greatest stay to know that you read my heart. Oh, give me more of that openhearted sincerity which I have desired. Keep me ever from being afraid of your eye, from the inward consciousness that I am not honestly trying to please you. Teach me to love you more, and then I shall be at peace, without any fear of you at all." —St. John Henry Newman |
Roman 8
8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
"We are the holy Church. But I do not say ‘we’ as though to indicate only we who are here, you who have just been listening to me. I mean all of us who are here and by the grace of God faithful Christians in this church, that is, in this city; all those in this region, in this province, across the sea, all those in the whole world. Such is the Catholic Church, our true mother, the true spouse of so great a husband." —St. Augustine
"What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct."
— Matthew: 16:26-27
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"Psalms 27:1
"With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless; with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse. For thou dost deliver a humble people; but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down. Yea, thou dost light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness. Yea, by thee I can crush a troop; and by my God I can leap over a wall. This God—his way is perfect; the promise of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him."
— Psalm 18:25-30I ran across this and liked it, so I thought I would share
Lord, my God, I adore You and thank You for all the graces You have given me this day. I offer You my sleep and all the moments of this night. I place myself and all my loved ones, wherever they may be, in Your sacred side and under the mantle of Our Blessed Mother. Let Your holy angels stand watch and keep us in peace. Amen.
"I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
— John 13:34-35
Today’s Meditation |
"There is, actually, only one person in all humanity of whom God has one picture and in whom there is a perfect conformity between what he wanted her to be and what she is, and that is his own mother. Most of us are a minus sign, in the sense that we do not fulfill the high hopes the heavenly Father has for us. But Mary is the equal sign. The ideal that God had of her, that she is, and in the flesh. The model and the copy are perfect; she is all that was foreseen, planned, and dreamed. The melody of her life is played just as it was written." —Archbishop Fulton Sheen |
Colossians 1:21-24 NASV
"Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
— Isaiah 1:18-20"What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna."
— Matthew 10:27-28Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
-Matthew 16:24-25"Heaven is the birth-place and home of love. Its blessed inhabitants love much, love forever, and love only what is worthy of love. Joseph, however, was blessed by anticipation, for he passed all his days in the exercise of divine love, and lived a life of love upon earth. The Evangelists do not record a single word of this great saint; he observed, indeed, a marvelous silence. Not, however, an ungracious silence. The silence of ordinary men, as well as their irrepressible flow of words, is often merely selfish. But Joseph’s silence and his speech were alike prompted and regulated by the law of charity ... His words, indeed, were never superfluous, for they had their source in love, but they were also ruled by his will, not forced from him as the expression of his feelings." —Edward Healy Thompson
"For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God."
— 2 Timothy 1:7-8If any of you have picked up the Bible and started reading it, and you have chosen to read it, so you can worship it, the Bible, God, and worship Jesus. You have taken the long and the wrong approach to finding understanding and salvation. What you need to do is read it for Jesus' teachings and lessons. To drill deeper into what he wanted. His followers and Christianity needed to be what they were meant to be, to save the world, as he believed. It needed to be saved, so if you are reading the Bible. And you get out that his teachings or lessons are only good for Christians, and only if you're straight, and only if you're against abortion or anything else, you have not gotten. You are missing his lessons.
His lessons were pretty clear. You love everyone. You forgive everyone. When he was being persecuted, he did not tell his followers that his teachings were only for those who agreed with him, who followed his teachings, and who understood what he was about. No, he said they were for everyone. He forgave all of those who had sided against him; he had forgiven all of those who did not understand. he said it was for Gentiles and Jews for all. His religion was supposed to be universal. As the old Latin word, we're supposed to be Catholic. Catholic means universal, but because protestants are so hateful. As is most other religions against the word Catholic, we use universal or unify. So his religion that came from him and his teachings were meant to be universal for everyone, for the Roman generals and the Greek pagans that still followed their pantheon, for the Jews who persecuted him, and for his followers, everyone. It still is for everyone if you read the lessons. And the teachings in the Bible. They were for everyone. The gay's deliberals to conservatives the hardcore right-wing evangelicals. Even the profiteers, he believed, everyone should have a chance at salvation. He didn't care about the religious background. As long as they understood the teachings of love your fellow man as he had loved you. So, I offer you my closing thought: if you cannot look at a person with whom you disagree. You find yourself being hateful, too, and say I disagree, but I still love you. As Jesus loves you, then, you are not following his teachings. You are not following his lessons. You have just been reading a book, so you can worship it in a way that suits your reading of it. And use it as a weapon to exclude people and oppress people."The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe."
— Proverbs 18:10A daily Meditation:
"This God of all goodness has made those things easy which are common and necessary in the order of nature, such as breathing, eating, and sleeping. No less necessary in the supernatural order are love and fidelity, therefore it must needs be that the difficulty of acquiring them is by no means so great as is generally represented. Review your life. Is it not composed of innumerable actions of very little importance? Well, God is quite satisfied with these. They are the share that the soul must take in the work of its perfection." —Jean-Pierre de Caussade
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, 'Your God reigns.'"
— Isaiah 52:7