Posts tagged God
A Thought on the Death Penalty
For everyone who thinks the death penalty is just the best thing since lynching, go read Genesis 4:8-16.
On Suffering
If you are suffering it is because of this - God is trying to tell you this message through the loudest possible bullhorn…
I TRUST YOU.
I trust you with pain. I trust you with hurt. I trust you with loneliness. I trust you with THE VERY MEANS THAT BOUGHT YOUR SALVATION. I trust you with my life. I trust you.
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God’s Story
New video I made based on an old post (for those of you who have been around since the beginning!), about God’s plan to reveal his love for us through salvation history. Please share and a blessed Triduum to all!
PASSIONate Love
A meditation I gave on the Passion of Jesus seen through the eyes of God the Father.
This Sunday is Palm Sunday. Let this help remind you what heaven saw when you hear it at Mass this Sunday!
Catholicism is a celebration, in words and imagery, of the God who takes infinite delight in bringing human beings to fulness of life.
Seriously, sometimes God is over the top. I made it onto the most visited blog on the internet, three of the Little Brothers from the community I’m joining are just chillin at my house right now, and best of all, got to witness some of the most beautiful conversions I’ve ever seen in my life this weekend helping lead a retreat. Dear God, I’m in love.
I ask each of you, first and foremost, to look into your own heart. Think of all the love that your heart was made to receive, and all the love it is meant to give. After all, we were made for love. This is what the Bible means when it says that we are made in the image and likeness of God: we were made to know the God of love, the God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and to find our supreme fulfillment in that divine love that knows no beginning or end.
That moment when I THINK about praying has got to be the most astonishing and unique experience I could ever have. It is literally in invitation to talk to God. And the invitation comes from him. Nothing else in daily life even comes close to that.
Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where the is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
Never fear to take your emotions to God. Especially in the Psalms, you will find that they are already there in the heart of God. Give them to Him, and find peace.
From St. Thomas Aquinas’ Sermon on the Hail Mary
In the second place, the Blessed Virgin excels the Angels in divine familiarity. The Angels designated this, saying “the Lord is with you,” as if to say, “I proffer you reverence, because you are on more intimate terms with GOD than I am, for “the Lord is with you.” The Lord, I say, the Father is in the very Son, Whom no Angel nor any other creature has. But “that which is to be born of you shall be called Holy, the Son of GOD” (Lk 1,35). The Lord, the Son, is present in her womb. “Shout and sing for joy, O dwelling, Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel” (Is 12,6). The Lord is with the Blessed Virgin in one way, and in another with the Angel. He is with her as a Son, but with the Angel as the latter’s Lord. The Lord, the Holy Spirit, is with her as in His temple, when it is said: “the temple of GOD, the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit,” since she conceived by the Holy Spirit: “the Holy Spirit shall come upon thee” (Lk 1,35). Thus, the Blessed Virgin is more familiar with GOD than is the Angel, for with her is the Lord Father, the Lord Son and the Lord Holy Spirit, the entire Trinity. Concerning her is sung the verse: “noble repose of the entire Trinity.”
That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect; but I press on to make it my own because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
-Philippians 3:10:12
I continue to be amazed and inspired by the confidence St. Paul has in his sonship in God. He readily admits his weaknesses and faults, yet has complete trust in God’s promise of conversion and new life. Most often, for me, my failings and sins are huge roadblocks to change. I feel frozen in my old ways or shamed by new lows. And I hide my face, subconsciously regarding conversion as the stuff of men far better than me. And little wonder how little I change. But then here is St. Paul, saying Press On! If God has made me his own, then he will stay with me, even in my weakness, and will never cease to bring me closer to his heart!
For I want you to know how greatly I strive for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for all how have not seen my face, that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Colossians 2:1-3
One of the most beautiful and affectionate passages in Scripture, in my humble opinion. I am moved every time I read it.
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