Meditation to pray, and to know better our religion, to increase our faith, end become better catholics.
jueves, 29 de octubre de 2020
HOMILIE ABOUT FAMILY OF THE 1 SEPT. IN TORRECIUDAD, BY PRELATE OF OPUS DEI.
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"Share this joyful and hope-filled vision of the family"
Homily of Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, at the 28th Marian Day of the Family held in the shrine of Torreciudad on September 1, with over 16,000 people taking part.
“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior” (Responsorial Psalm: Lk 1:46-47). When repeating these words of Our Lady in the responsorial psalm, we have expressed our desire to accompany our Mother in her attitude of thanksgiving and praise to God. We have many reasons to raise our hearts to God, who wants to carry out great things in us, and through us in our families, in society and in the whole world.
Today, in celebrating this Marian Day of the Family close to Our Lady of Torreciudad, we raise our hearts to God with these words of holy Mary. Certainly, we are and we realize we are very little, greatly in need of God’s help in order to be good children of his and bring forward our families in accord with his will. But with our Mother in Heaven we can pray this prayer of thanksgiving to God: “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”
In the Gospel we have seen how an angel restored peace to Saint Joseph’s heart, in a complicated moment in the history of the family of Nazareth (cf. Mt 1:18-23). We are amazed to see how Mary and Joseph also encountered difficulties in bringing forward their family! The history of their home is not an idealized one. The Holy Family was without doubt the happiest family the world has ever seen or will see, but nevertheless they had to confront real setbacks and problems.
“We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him” (Rom 8:28). We have heard these words of Saint Paul in the second reading. Many of us will recall how Saint Josemaria summed them up in three words: omnia in bonum, everything works for the good. How often these words will have helped us to embrace God’s will, also when we don’t understand why He allows something that makes us suffer or that causes others to suffer. We can also apply them in the context of each home. Everything works for the good: a financial problem that requires a change of plans, the challenges involved in raising children, the difficulties in trying to make compatible a demanding job with the needs of the home… Everything works for the good, if we put everything in God’s hands. He will give us the strength needed to turn it into an opportunity to grow as a family, to find in these small or great challenges a way to be more united, because everyone bears them with love.
“I thank God,” says Pope Francis, “that many families, which are far from considering themselves perfect, live in love, fulfil their calling and keep moving forward, even if they fall many times along the way” (Apost. Exhort. Amoris laetitia, 57). These are hope-filled words. At the same time, they invite us to ask ourselves: are we aware of the great good that families do when they strive to be a school of communion, of forgiveness, of solidarity? Truly, families can give light and warmth to other families, to friends, neighbors, school or work colleagues. “God wants every family to be a beacon of the joy of his love in our world. What does this mean?” the Holy Father asked a few days ago in Ireland. “It means that we, who have encountered God’s saving love, try, with or without words, to express it in little acts of kindness in our daily routine and in the most hidden moments of our day” (Address, Dublin, 25 August 2018).
To attain this, there is no need to wait until everything in one’s own home is going perfectly. “Every Christian home,” Saint Josemaria said, “should be a place of peace and serenity. In spite of the small frustrations of daily life, an atmosphere of profound and sincere affection should reign there together with a deep‑rooted calm, which is the result of authentic faith that is put into practice” (Christ is Passing By, no. 22). This is how families can cooperate very directly and effectively in building up and strengthening the civilization of love that Saint John Paul II spoke about.
In the Collect prayer today we have addressed God with these words: “In your commandments the family finds its authentic and sure foundation.” This is truly the rock that gives stability to the family: the loving and wise plan of our Creator and Father for the family. Therefore we want to get to know and appreciate ever better the features of this marvelous divine plan, and spread it joyfully in every sector of society.
Let us also renew today, close to Our Lady, the resolution to live the Communion of Saints intensely. Let us pray for the Church, for the Pope, and for all the shepherds and faithful. And may we raise our prayer to Heaven today especially for all the world’s families, asking that they receive the strength of the prayer and sacrifice that accompanies each of our days.
Our Mother, Our Lady of Torreciudad, with your help we want to share this joyful and hope-filled vision of the family with those around us. We ask you to teach us to go forward together, as a family, towards the encounter with God and with other men and women. And that we not become discouraged when the path becomes hard, or when we stumble, because we know that you always accompany us.
lunes, 12 de octubre de 2020
Taken from 31 to 36 of Enciclical from Pope Franciscus, Fratteli Tutti, Oct. 2020.
31. In this world that races ahead, yet lacks a shared roadmap, we increasingly sense that “the gap between concern for one’s personal well-being and the prosperity of the larger human family seems to be stretching to the point of complete division between individuals and human community… It is one thing to feel forced to live together, but something entirely different to value the richness and beauty of those seeds of common life that need to be sought out and cultivated”.[29] Technology is constantly advancing, yet “how wonderful it would be if the growth of scientific and technological innovation could come with more equality and social inclusion. How wonderful would it be, even as we discover faraway planets, to rediscover the needs of the brothers and sisters who orbit around us”.[30]
PANDEMICS AND OTHER CALAMITIES IN HISTORY
32. True, a worldwide tragedy like the Covid-19 pandemic momentarily revived the sense that we are a global community, all in the same boat, where one person’s problems are the problems of all. Once more we realized that no one is saved alone; we can only be saved together. As I said in those days, “the storm has exposed our vulnerability and uncovered those false and superfluous certainties around which we constructed our daily schedules, our projects, our habits and priorities… Amid this storm, the façade of those stereotypes with which we camouflaged our egos, always worrying about appearances, has fallen away, revealing once more the ineluctable and blessed awareness that we are part of one another, that we are brothers and sisters of one another”.[31]
33. The world was relentlessly moving towards an economy that, thanks to technological progress, sought to reduce “human costs”; there were those who would have had us believe that freedom of the market was sufficient to keep everything secure. Yet the brutal and unforeseen blow of this uncontrolled pandemic forced us to recover our concern for human beings, for everyone, rather than for the benefit of a few. Today we can recognize that “we fed ourselves on dreams of splendour and grandeur, and ended up consuming distraction, insularity and solitude. We gorged ourselves on networking, and lost the taste of fraternity. We looked for quick and safe results, only to find ourselves overwhelmed by impatience and anxiety. Prisoners of a virtual reality, we lost the taste and flavour of the truly real”.[32] The pain, uncertainty and fear, and the realization of our own limitations, brought on by the pandemic have only made it all the more urgent that we rethink our styles of life, our relationships, the organization of our societies and, above all, the meaning of our existence.
34. If everything is connected, it is hard to imagine that this global disaster is unrelated to our way of approaching reality, our claim to be absolute masters of our own lives and of all that exists. I do not want to speak of divine retribution, nor would it be sufficient to say that the harm we do to nature is itself the punishment for our offences. The world is itself crying out in rebellion. We are reminded of the well-known verse of the poet Virgil that evokes the “tears of things”, the misfortunes of life and history.[33]
35. All too quickly, however, we forget the lessons of history, “the teacher of life”.[34] Once this health crisis passes, our worst response would be to plunge even more deeply into feverish consumerism and new forms of egotistic self-preservation. God willing, after all this, we will think no longer in terms of “them” and “those”, but only “us”. If only this may prove not to be just another tragedy of history from which we learned nothing. If only we might keep in mind all those elderly persons who died for lack of respirators, partly as a result of the dismantling, year after year, of healthcare systems. If only this immense sorrow may not prove useless, but enable us to take a step forward towards a new style of life. If only we might rediscover once for all that we need one another, and that in this way our human family can experience a rebirth, with all its faces, all its hands and all its voices, beyond the walls that we have erected.
36. Unless we recover the shared passion to create a community of belonging and solidarity worthy of our time, our energy and our resources, the global illusion that misled us will collapse and leave many in the grip of anguish and emptiness. Nor should we naively refuse to recognize that “obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction”.[35] The notion of “every man for himself” will rapidly degenerate into a free-for-all that would prove worse than any pandemic.
lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2020
SOME THINGS ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT
SOMETHING ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT.
It has been said that the great
unknown is Thy Holy Spirit, it is allwais good to remember Thy, pray to Thy and
maditate about all what Thy does for each one of us and for the the unique
Church of Christ. To start, we can say that Thy is the source of all unity,
that in Pentecost gave the Apostols the gift of tongues, and since then they
remembered and understood all the teachings of Jesus, that came to form the
writen Gospels and the Holy Christian Tradition. We should not expect the same
gifts, this are other times and circumstances, but Thy gives us gifts that are
very valuable, to start the possibility of intuition of God. He came to it´s
church and to us, as promised by Jesus Christ himself, after his Resurection
and before going to his Father in Heaven.
The Psalm 104,30 says:
WHEN YOU SEND YOUR SPIRIT, THEY
ARE CREATED, AND YOU RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
The Psalmist celebrates the glory
of Creation. The earth was not in order, and was empty, darkness covered the
abism and THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED OVER
THE SURFACE OF THE WATERS.
It is Jesus Christ who will make
clear to us that the Holy Spirit is one of the three Persons of the Holy
Trinity, God´s love for menkind is aforded to us throug the Holy Spirit, God is
love and his love to us is given trough his Spirit.
“The Grace of Jesus Christ, the
Charity of God, and the communion of the HolySpirit, be with us all”. We have
to be able to discern of the action of the Holy Spirit , over our children, if
one of them shows a vocation of a religious life, we should not take away the opportunity,
and without forcing, take her or to a well prepared priest in these matters, or
a the ideal person to chat with. It migth be a vocation or just devotion, God
is who gives the vocations, so we as parents, should prudently investigate.
When we are bautized, the Grace
of God Father is our new reborn, it is given to us by the Holy Spirit, in Jesus
Christ. Due to the conduction of the Son, since the Son presents them to the
Father and the Father in return gives the incorruptibiity, so without the Holy
Spirit it would be imposible to see the Son of God, and without Son no one can
get near God, because the knowledgment of the Father is through the Son and
knowing of the Father is through the Holy Spirit.
Our faith also comes to us by the
Holy Spirit, and along all our lifes Thy will be with us, with his inspiration,
in the words of Christ in his last dinner with his Apostols he said that it
would be the Holy Spirit who would keep them in the truth of his Revelation,
and until the end of times.
The Holy Spirit is a gift to us
by God, and he has 7 gifts to us, and this allows us to make our life a gift to
God. these gifts are:
1) WISDOM.- that allows a person to know the truth.
2) UNDERSTANDING.- trough it, we gain a certitude about our
beliefs.
3) COUNSEL.-
because Thy will guide us in defending those truths
4) FORTITUDE.-
courage against evil.
5) KNOWLEDGE.- desire to live up to the meaning and purpose
of God, as ability of knowing.
6) PIETY.-
the perfection of the virtue of religión, to worship God and serve Thy.
7) FEAR
OF THE LORD.- taking in account our smallness and Thy greatness, puts us in
perspective.
These
informations are taken from the sciptures, and are and will be for all mankind
the effective forum of the faith that saves us. We should prey or the capacity
and comprehension of the messages that come from Jesus Gospels, that are a set
of truths and comming from his own voice. The Gospels are Christ Thyself,
Eucaristy, Confession, Praying.
Discerning
about the the influence in our children is an important matter, if one or more
of them show, signs of a religious vocation, we should not ignore it, but
without forcing them they shoud be taken to a wise priest or a well prepared
person in this, and let them talk alone, as many times as necessary. The Holy
Spirit will do the rest.
The enemies of
our Church, Religion, and beliefs, are alwais trying to influence our children,
with idelogys that are bad for them, being nowdays the “Gender Ideology”, of
wich we have to take all posible precautions, and get information that allows
to know its dangers and corruption of the tiny minds of our minors. Lets pray
to the Holy Spirit to donate us, what is necessary to guide our minors agaist
the perverse influence of the Ideology of Gender.
Jorge Casas y
Sánchez.
miércoles, 23 de septiembre de 2020
IN THIS OPPORTUNITY LETS PRAY WITH HOMILY OF POPE FRANCISCO.
lunes, 7 de septiembre de 2020
PRAYING
PRAYING.-
Praying is the most important
activity that a human person can have. There is no other activity that can be
called better than it. So we should not
miss our daily time dedicated to God,
concentrated on Christ of course. Thereis a wide panorama of forms of
prayer, all with beneficent effects, personal, to the human living society, and
for those in purgatory. ¿Why concentrated in Christ?, lets follow this advice
from the Church, “the best way to God Father is trough the Second Person of the
Holy Trinity, with the Holy Virgen, Mother of God Jesus Christ, son of the Living
Father”.
It is our faith that prepares us
to speak with the Trinity, we could say: “chat with God”, due to the confidence
that we have with thy. And there are many things to chat about, our happenings,
our family, the difficulties of life, our needs, the needs of the others, our
main concerns of piety, mortificatios, acomplishments, our professional activity,
the proper and others health, for peace,in the world, the Pope, the Church,
remembering the death, and a long Etc., remembering that by ourselves alone we
can not acomplish any thing, but with God´s help we could move mountains. Some times
it may be necessary to be guided, by readings, it is a good idea to have the Gospels at hand, and other apropiate books,
nothing is better for us than being
evangelical persons.
Our testimony of our believes, is
an example to others, that in no way can be better showed than in our behavior
inspired by love, our love of God, must grow to loving thy creatures, specially
the humans, and after that the natural world, that we should treat in the best
of our capacity, keeping it as clean of contamination as posible. It is a task,
not easy, not agreeable some times, but it is what takes us to Christian adulthood,
and gain of inner mayurity, if, to this way of life, we add the frecuency of
Sacraments, and prayer, we are in the way to salvation, ¿what can beat this? Noting
absolutely.
Christ risen from the dead after
his Passion gave his apostols, several advices, one episode of those forty days
that he spent among us, before his elevation to God Father, was in a mount, we
do not know wich, but we know that in order to pray he, on many times went
to mounts, since there he found the lonlyness,
and tranquility, he wanted so as to pray. In this opportunity he told his
apostols, among other things: “go and predicate all men, all razes and baptism
them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them all what I have ordered you”, and
in those orders, there was, that of
praying.
After they returned from the mount,
they were together in hope, waiting to
the promise received, that in due time
would take place, they were in prayer when at the Pentecostes celebration the
Holy Spitit came to them.
In our life, praying, is
something that God expects from us, it is said that praying is talking to God,
and listening to what he has to say to us. Lets have frecuent daily
conversatios with our Lord.
Jorge Casas y Sánchez.
jueves, 30 de julio de 2020
SALVATION BY FAITH
domingo, 7 de junio de 2020
GAUDETE ET EXULTATE 18-32.
THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION.
martes, 12 de mayo de 2020
1 TO 17 PAROGRAPHS OF GAUDETE ET EXULTATE
sábado, 2 de mayo de 2020
JOY OF RESURRECTION. EASTER.
sábado, 4 de abril de 2020
HOLY WEEK
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