Blessed are you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,
for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom
to mere children. MT 11:25
My Soul's Beloved,
We the people of God wait in the dark valley with great longing and hope for Your glorious return while we continue to live in a world filled with terror and gloom for it is a world dominated by sin, selfishness, violence, hatred, and greed. Each week on the glorious Day of the Lord Your people who are called by Your Name gather faithfully to offer to God the only wholly perfect and acceptable to God our Father in the Holy Spirit Your unrepeatable Sacrifice on Calvary. We pray, praise, worship, and hope offering to God the unworthy sacrifice of our own poverty-stricken lives in union with Yours while we wait with eager longing for the day of Your return.
Everywhere we look we see the powerful crushing the poor under their heel, robbing the people of their legitimate lives, and promoting violence and war in order to bring about the reign of evil over a world they wish to subjugate and rule. The innocent are declared guilty, and the guilty are set free. Robbers and murderers have put puppets in place in order to wreak havoc and confusion so they can murder, steal, and destroy all that is good, true, beautiful, decent, praiseworthy, and Godly.
How much longer O Lord will Your people and all creation groan for relief, for justice, for mercy, for release?
Abba Father, the Blood of the Lamb has been spilled on the earth and consecrated it. His Sacrifice has purchased our salvation. How much longer O Lord will evil dominate the world that You have handed over to the rule and dominion of Your Son? Shorten the length of our tribulation O Lord and hasten His coming as we wait with eager longing for His return.
Maranatha! Lord Jesus, Maranatha!
PSALM 125(126) ©
When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage,
it seemed like a dream.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
on our lips there were songs.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter,
on our lips there were songs.
The heathens themselves said: ‘What marvels
the Lord worked for them!’
What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad.
What marvels the Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad.
Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage
as streams in dry land.
Those who are sowing in tears
will sing when they reap.
Those who are sowing in tears
will sing when they reap.
They go out, they go out, full of tears,
carrying seed for the sowing:
they come back, they come back, full of song,
carrying their sheaves.
they come back, they come back, full of song,
carrying their sheaves.
What marvels the Lord worked for us.
LUKE 13:18-21 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
Your Word O Lord is the mustard seed that possesses in itself the power and glory of God and His Kingdom planted in good soil and nurtured by Your Holy Spirit. Every Catholic is privileged to belong to the Church which contains in herself the fullness of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness for she is the sanctuary where the Holy Spirit makes His abode. Holy Mother Church is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit - it is the Spirit of God that animates her and fills her with the life and the power of the Son of God giving her and her children the ability to act in Your Name O Lord and to do all that You did while on earth and as You have assured us, even greater things since the Spirit now dwells in her and in us.
The Church is the home to which the people of every nation, language, and tribe are invited to enter and make their home. It is within the embrace of Holy Mother Church alone that the world will find the answer to which it is looking and longing for - You O Lord. You came into the world to take our death and pay our debt in order that we may receive Your life and freedom from slavery to sin.
Jesus said, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and threw into his garden: it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air sheltered in its branches.’
You instruct us - the people You have redeemed and called by Your Name, the people whom You have claimed for Yourself and imprinted on our hearts the Seal of the Holy Spirit to be leaven in the world. By the witness of our lives in close conformity to You and as children of the Father as well as children of Mary our Mother, we are to so mingle with the fallen world that the power of Your Love will be infused in every human heart and will hasten Your return in glory.
Another thing he said, ‘What shall I compare the kingdom of God with? It is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.’
Until now Beloved, we have not fully accepted and embraced the great mission to which You have called us. The time is now, Lord, the time for sleeping and dragging our feet and for self-centredness is long past - we need to wake up and be vigilant in prayer as we undertake the great task of setting the whole world ablaze with the love and the power of the Gospel.
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