I promise in my previous blog that I will write more about the Sacraments the Holy Catholic Church have. Before I enumerate each one I have to say there are 7 Sacraments needed for man to fulfilled in his lifetime before we go back to God.
1. Baptism 2.Eucharist 3.Reconciliation 4. Confirmation 5 Marriage 6. Holy Order 7. Anointing the Sick. All this is a Holy gift, because it was given to the church to make us "clean" spiritually. I promise I will make it short and brief. Why Baptism can clean, it is becuase through the baptism of the water, the original sin was removed.
The Eucharist is the food of our soul, as a small children learning Cathecism they know that this sacraments prepare us to receive Jesus in communion. This alone can make us holy especially when we recieved Jesus as often as everyday throughout our life time. It is also very important to remember to receive Jesus with a contrite heart (no mortal sin) or we are throwing Jesus to the den of lions.
The reconciliation is basically the confession, why we must confess our sins to the Priest. Because this is the way to humble ourselves before the representative of God. (to ask to be forgiven, and be granteed absolution of ones sins). Some people will tell you that you can confess directly to God, yeah sure, nothing is hidden from Him, He knows every detail of your sins, but Jesus told sister Faustina how important this is to our soul, and that we should not be afraid to tell the Priest how sorry we are of committing all those sins, and that Jesus Himself is standing behind the Priest when we come in humility to make amends with God through confession... Jesus promise to anoint the words of the Priest. (Many times in the gospel we read sinners who come to Jesus in confession and received alsolution of their sins. When Jesus build His church with Peter He give this task to His representative, to His Priest.... ordain by Jesus Himself to forgive sins.)
Now the Confirmation, we are anointed with the Holy Spirit. And here we are anoited to do a bigger responsibility to be the Apostles of Christ, and we recieved the 7 the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and Holy fear of the Lord. These are vast to discuss here and I leave these for you to do some home work online what are these things for better understanding.
Marriage is the union of man and woman, holy because God wants us all become Holy family or else we are no difference from of animals, and since the union of man and woman is a "sign of faithful love" and the source of that Love is God, for He is love Himself. Not a carnal love, or lust love. This is why marriage is not for woman to woman or man to man, period. Or else the real essence of this sacrament will be in mockery.
Holy Order, is for special vocation to serve the Lord, the Priesthood... but this is not only limited only to Priesthood, it also applies to the vocation of being a nun or parents. Parenting is also a vocation because they raise children and mold the body and mind of children, for the good of soul (a life time commitment). You see everything is in line for holiness....
The anointing the sick, or the last rite, you all know what this does... people who are dying received this sacrament, this is healing, not just for physical healing but also for the soul. Some people who are dying, will strengthen physically too, [ many times, dying people restored their lives in another couple of years after getting this sacrament]... if one dies with this sacrament, their soul will be restored to life eternally.
Other Christians have only 3 sacraments, like baptism, marriage, some kinda Holy order. They omitted some of sacraments because they thought the rest are not applicable to them, they dont have confirmation because its not necessary to received this, it became automatic for others, and most small Christians dont believe on confessions. And they don't have Eucharist either, although they have same memorial of the last supper but they cannot comprehend the real presence of Jesus and the transubstantiation is still in question in many churches... But I'm not here to reproach them, in fact some of our brother and sister in Christ having 3 or 4 Sacraments they are a lot better than most Catholics... God loves them thesame and no distinctions. So therefore I would say freely that the Catholics being given so much that they should not shrink in their faith. Instead must strive to live and use all the 7 sacraments and put it to active work in our lives. The sacaments are the holy tools to ascend to holiness, sainthood which is "perfection"....
The gifts if not use become stagnant, although its not useless, but it must be in cooperation with our will to become holy and rightfully be called Christians. Like Jesus have said on faith, 'faith that has no works is dead'. Sacraments that is taken and is not in used and applied is also dead.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Jesus Our Nourishment
Oh! to remained in the state of grace is to remain with Jesus. Many of us cannot comprehend that thoughts. And I will elaborate a little bit further quoting the perfect words of Jesus about this things, as His words is perfect and I would not try to change a bit on it, so the soul that reads this will come to understand Jesus and without me in it... so here we go:
This is the nourishment that I recommend for consumption.
THE EUCHARIST
"If you live in Me, and My Doctrine lives in you, you will receive whatever you ask for."
I descend into you and I become your nourishment. But, being the Center that I am, I attract you towards Myself. You nourish yourselves with Me, but for a greater reason I nourish Myself with you. Our two appetites are insatiable and continuous. The vine nourishes the buds. The buds shape the vine. Water swells the oceans, but it is the oceans that give water by evaporating into clouds and descending again in the form of rain. That is why you must remain in Me, as I remain in you. Our separation would bring death, not my death, but yours.
I am nourishment for the spirit and nourishment for the mind. The spirit nourishes itself on the Flesh of a God. All that is an emanation of God can only receive nourishment from God, who is the mold that formed it. Your mind nourishes itself on My Word, which is the Thought of God.
Your own mind! Intelligence is what makes you resemble to God. In intelligence, there is memory, understanding, and also will. As in the spirit there is a resemblance to God in being a free and immortal spirit.
Your own mind must be nourished by My Doctrine, to be capable of memory, understanding, and will for what is good. My Doctrine reminds you of the kindnesses and the works of God, it reminds you who God is, and what you owe Him. It causes you to understand goodness, and to discern evil. It gives you the will to do good. Without My doctrine you become slaves of other doctrines that carry the name of "doctrine", but are only fables, and, like ships deprived of their rudders and without a compass, you head for a shipwreck. You go off the pre-established course. How, then, can you say: "God abandoned me" if its you who abandoned God?
Remain in Me. If you do not remain in Me, it means that you hate Me. And My Father will give the same back to you because whoever hates Me, hates the Father, since the Father and I make only one God. Remain in Me. Act in such a way that the Father will not be able to make the distinction between the tree and its branch, because of the sap that unites them and permits them to form one inseparable being. Act so the Father can't determine where I end and where you begin, we are so much alike. Whoever loves ends up by borrowing the expressions, the ways, the gestures of the person who is loved."..... Jesus...
[I will speak more of the Holy Eucharist in my own understanding on it, as simple as I perceived and believed. I read and take in what I believe is true, because I also believe that the Holy Spirit guides us to the truth, because I pray and adore Jesus and God the Father... Now, the Holy Eucharist is the real body and blood of Christ, letterally... veil with the white form of bread, contains the real Jesus...after the Priest prayed over it called the transubtantiation, you can believe it. Because if we can conceived the thoughts and knowledge of replications that we are only human, how much more GOD, who thought everything that exist in this whole universe, nay, just around us to be specific. And I will give all the credits back to God... then Jesus is trully in every pieces of bread... I would not say it is symbolism because its not a symbol at all. It is what it is! Many Eucharistic miracle have happened all over the world that have photos and the Holy Eucharist bleeds and pulsates. They brought them to the high tech laboratory and examin them, they all prove that it is alive.
Therefore I am fully convinced that Jesus is alive in us when we recieved Him in communion. This is our Jesus our nourishment.]
This is the nourishment that I recommend for consumption.
THE EUCHARIST
"If you live in Me, and My Doctrine lives in you, you will receive whatever you ask for."
I descend into you and I become your nourishment. But, being the Center that I am, I attract you towards Myself. You nourish yourselves with Me, but for a greater reason I nourish Myself with you. Our two appetites are insatiable and continuous. The vine nourishes the buds. The buds shape the vine. Water swells the oceans, but it is the oceans that give water by evaporating into clouds and descending again in the form of rain. That is why you must remain in Me, as I remain in you. Our separation would bring death, not my death, but yours.
I am nourishment for the spirit and nourishment for the mind. The spirit nourishes itself on the Flesh of a God. All that is an emanation of God can only receive nourishment from God, who is the mold that formed it. Your mind nourishes itself on My Word, which is the Thought of God.
Your own mind! Intelligence is what makes you resemble to God. In intelligence, there is memory, understanding, and also will. As in the spirit there is a resemblance to God in being a free and immortal spirit.
Your own mind must be nourished by My Doctrine, to be capable of memory, understanding, and will for what is good. My Doctrine reminds you of the kindnesses and the works of God, it reminds you who God is, and what you owe Him. It causes you to understand goodness, and to discern evil. It gives you the will to do good. Without My doctrine you become slaves of other doctrines that carry the name of "doctrine", but are only fables, and, like ships deprived of their rudders and without a compass, you head for a shipwreck. You go off the pre-established course. How, then, can you say: "God abandoned me" if its you who abandoned God?
Remain in Me. If you do not remain in Me, it means that you hate Me. And My Father will give the same back to you because whoever hates Me, hates the Father, since the Father and I make only one God. Remain in Me. Act in such a way that the Father will not be able to make the distinction between the tree and its branch, because of the sap that unites them and permits them to form one inseparable being. Act so the Father can't determine where I end and where you begin, we are so much alike. Whoever loves ends up by borrowing the expressions, the ways, the gestures of the person who is loved."..... Jesus...
[I will speak more of the Holy Eucharist in my own understanding on it, as simple as I perceived and believed. I read and take in what I believe is true, because I also believe that the Holy Spirit guides us to the truth, because I pray and adore Jesus and God the Father... Now, the Holy Eucharist is the real body and blood of Christ, letterally... veil with the white form of bread, contains the real Jesus...after the Priest prayed over it called the transubtantiation, you can believe it. Because if we can conceived the thoughts and knowledge of replications that we are only human, how much more GOD, who thought everything that exist in this whole universe, nay, just around us to be specific. And I will give all the credits back to God... then Jesus is trully in every pieces of bread... I would not say it is symbolism because its not a symbol at all. It is what it is! Many Eucharistic miracle have happened all over the world that have photos and the Holy Eucharist bleeds and pulsates. They brought them to the high tech laboratory and examin them, they all prove that it is alive.
Therefore I am fully convinced that Jesus is alive in us when we recieved Him in communion. This is our Jesus our nourishment.]
Jesus Second Coming
The first thing we can ask to our selves is are we ready for the second coming of Jesus? Most of us are still idle, chasing winds, and gathering the trifles of the earth. Living life like theirs no tomorrow... But I'm not here to reproach anyone but hope to enlighten ones mind and awaken their awareness of cleaning up ourselves, washing our clothes and preparing our garlands and make sure our oil lamp is burning and always we are vigilant in Jesus coming. Because we dont know when He is coming. Jesus promise us though, that He surely will come back... the hour is near, He had given us so much graces and ways to wash ourselves and get clean that on His return, so we will be ready to face Him.
"Through penance, we can wash, detoxicates, cures and recomposes our poor souls. And with the help of God, who does not refuses assistance to anyone who ask Him for a holy help, and through his own will elevated to super heroism".
"With untiring penance, relentless against his sinful ego, he will take his soul back to the freshenss of a child. A new freshness, made precious by experience which makes him the master of other people who were once like him, that is, sinners."
Practice humility- "Humility is the candid veil worn to defend the good we do and good God grants us". "We must not be proud of the previleded love granted to us by God, nor seek foolish human glory. The gift would be taken away at once. But from the depth of our hearts we must sing to our God."
"A soul must weave its daily garland of virtuous deeds, because nothing withered or slovenly looking is to appear in the presence of the Most High. Also the flesh of man nourished with faith seems to become brighter and more spiritual, even in this world. "-Jesus
Be Prayerful, everything we need is made available from the source, GOD... to possess God in daily life is trully the 'constant will to feed that light forever' as Jesus described...
The Catholic church has everything we need to redeem our soul from the corruption of the world. And that is the sacraments. I would like to elaborate the sacraments on my next blog.
You will wonder why we have to go through so much to get "cleaned" because it is required, as we are living in world of filth; it is hard to imagine we dont get contaminated with these filth- sins.... from sinful thoughts down to the words that comes out our mouth every moment, to our writings and the from our violations of the Laws of God. One might say we never violate any of those... we never covet our neighbors wives, we did not steal, we rest on Sunday,... but we are only human, slackish, get bored on praying and lazy in helping other people or deny many times to be obedient even our parents... no one is perfect... although its not impossible to ascend to perfection if we desire it, and through prayers Jesus helps, the saints can help us with their intercessory prayers for us infront of our God. The angels also can pray for us if we ask them to pray for us. Our number one intercessor, to come closer to Jesus is Mother Mary, through the rosary... the rosary contents so much graces that we dont even able to comprehend by our human mind. But our soul can perceive it because we begin to live a different prospectives in life... Prayers is like food that sustain our body, mind and soul... and good deeds is our fuel to fire up to ascend that ladder to holiness and to climb some more as to reach that height of perfection "with prudence, perseverance, purity, confidence, so that may be always ready for God's call, because you really do not know when Jesus will come."
"Through penance, we can wash, detoxicates, cures and recomposes our poor souls. And with the help of God, who does not refuses assistance to anyone who ask Him for a holy help, and through his own will elevated to super heroism".
"With untiring penance, relentless against his sinful ego, he will take his soul back to the freshenss of a child. A new freshness, made precious by experience which makes him the master of other people who were once like him, that is, sinners."
Practice humility- "Humility is the candid veil worn to defend the good we do and good God grants us". "We must not be proud of the previleded love granted to us by God, nor seek foolish human glory. The gift would be taken away at once. But from the depth of our hearts we must sing to our God."
"A soul must weave its daily garland of virtuous deeds, because nothing withered or slovenly looking is to appear in the presence of the Most High. Also the flesh of man nourished with faith seems to become brighter and more spiritual, even in this world. "-Jesus
Be Prayerful, everything we need is made available from the source, GOD... to possess God in daily life is trully the 'constant will to feed that light forever' as Jesus described...
The Catholic church has everything we need to redeem our soul from the corruption of the world. And that is the sacraments. I would like to elaborate the sacraments on my next blog.
You will wonder why we have to go through so much to get "cleaned" because it is required, as we are living in world of filth; it is hard to imagine we dont get contaminated with these filth- sins.... from sinful thoughts down to the words that comes out our mouth every moment, to our writings and the from our violations of the Laws of God. One might say we never violate any of those... we never covet our neighbors wives, we did not steal, we rest on Sunday,... but we are only human, slackish, get bored on praying and lazy in helping other people or deny many times to be obedient even our parents... no one is perfect... although its not impossible to ascend to perfection if we desire it, and through prayers Jesus helps, the saints can help us with their intercessory prayers for us infront of our God. The angels also can pray for us if we ask them to pray for us. Our number one intercessor, to come closer to Jesus is Mother Mary, through the rosary... the rosary contents so much graces that we dont even able to comprehend by our human mind. But our soul can perceive it because we begin to live a different prospectives in life... Prayers is like food that sustain our body, mind and soul... and good deeds is our fuel to fire up to ascend that ladder to holiness and to climb some more as to reach that height of perfection "with prudence, perseverance, purity, confidence, so that may be always ready for God's call, because you really do not know when Jesus will come."
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