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Elijah’s Whisper – My Whisper
Then the LORD said (to Elijah), “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by.” A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the LORD – but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake – but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake there was fire – but the LORD was not in the fire. After the fire there was a tiny whispering sound. When he heard this, Elijah hid his face in his cloak and went and stood at the entrance of the cave. A voice said to him, “Elijah, why are you here?” 1 Kings 19:11-13
Why are YOU here, beloved?
Was it to discover magnificent colors? Was it to find colorful music or awesome videos? Was it just curiosity? Was it accidental? Were you really looking for God, for Hope, for true LOVE somewhere in this menagerie we call the web?
Or were you just hiding in a cave, waiting on the Lord to Whisper in your ear – a Word – LIFE! Life, it’s in You! And YOU are beautiful in the Eyes of God, no matter what the world may say or think.
You are Loved!!
Every day the Lord whispers in our ears – Words of HOPE, Words of LOVE, and maybe not even words – just His JOY in our hearts.
Let’s follow the Scriptures of our daily Mass and see if we can catch those Words – simple but beautiful – Whispers to the Wind . . .
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05-31-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 31, 2023
(Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Lk_1:39-56
This was the first conversation between John the Baptist and his cousin Jesus (in the wombs of their moms). Through the voice and hearing of these two women, were the messenger and the Savior first connected. And they were not just ordinary women either. They were women whose childrens’ conceptions were rather miraculous. Jesus conceived through the Holy Spirit in Mary, and John conceived in the barren and aged Elizabeth. And yet, beloved, aren’t every woman and every conception and every child in the womb precious in God’s eyes and miraculous!! Blessed are ALL women and husbands who assist in God’s creation of new life. And blessed, especially are these two, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Elizabeth, who assisted God in the salvation of the world. Blessed!!!
05-30-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 30, 2023
Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come. But many that are first will be last, and the last will be first.” Mk_10:28-31
God will see to it that we do not go unrewarded. Our trick is perseverance. And that is only possible through our reliance on the Holy Spirit. A hope-filled, endless cycle of love!
05-29-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quote
May 29, 2023
(Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church)
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. Jn_19:25-34
And just as John was to take Mary into his home, so are we, beloved! Mary, as the Mother of the Church, is a mother to us all. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and our Mother, are our heavenly family, both now and forever! Of course never forgetting our earthly model in St. Joseph!
05-28-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 28, 2023
(Pentecost)
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit . . . Acts_2:1-11
The accounting of that first Pentecost, forty days after the Ascension of Jesus was one of great mystery, awe and wonder. Even though they had lived with Jesus throughout the three years of His Ministry, there was something that happened this day that suddenly made it all make perfect sense. They were “converted!” Within themselves there was this movement that broke down all barriers of fear and doubt and silence. They were “on fire,” in love with Jesus and one another. It was the fire of the Holy Spirit.
Ever say things or even think things that make us wonder where those words or thoughts were coming from, beloved? It’s almost an ‘out of body experience,’ where we see ourselves from outside of ourselves. That’s the Holy Spirit working within us. It’s a letting go our our simple minded, self-centered selves and allowing the Spirit to expand our being beyond anything we could ever have imagined. Wondrous thoughts, beautiful words, caring, loving, forgiving. They’re all there, right inside of us, beloved! All we have to do is get out of His way. Jesus wants us to truly live. Why don’t we – starting now!
05-27-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 27, 2023
(St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop)
St. John concluded his Gospel saying, “There are also many other things that Jesus did, but if these were to be described individually, I do not think the whole world would contain the books that would be written.” Jn_21:20-25
Imagine, in 30-some years, having done so much in the world that there would not be enough books to describe it all. Jesus, our Lord and God, is beyond books. He is beyond description. And He has written every moment of every one of our lives. And it’s not by force, but by choice that we choose Him in every breath we take. We choose love and we choose life. And we offer Him, through us, for others to choose to live and to love, as well. Blessed be our God forever!
05-26-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 26, 2023
(St. Philip Neri, Priest)
After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them, he said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” Jn_21:15-19
How much do we “love” Jesus, beloved? Does it really matter how much other people do? But do we love Him more than our cars and our movies and our sports teams and our homes, and even our own lives??? Maybe it’s time to take a reconnoitering of how much we really love Jesus compared to all the other loves in our lives. He should be on top!
05-25-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 25, 2023
(St. Bede (the Venerable), Priest and Doctor of the Church)
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying: “I pray not only for these, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.” Jn_17:20-26
Just as He blessed us in our unseeing faith when Thomas doubted, today we hear Jesus’ prayer extending from the apostles to us, ‘hearers of the Word,’ through their passing on of that faith, that Word, to us. As difficult as it was for the first witnesses of Jesus to let go of their pride and take to heart all that He said, not only about Himself, but in how we should interact with one another (in humble love), we need even more faith to believe the unseen and to follow the narrow path to righteousness rather than the broad way of the world. Now it’s up to us to continue in that heritage of passing on God’s love TO that world!
05-24-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 24, 2023
Jesus prayed to God His Father for His disciples saying, “I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth.” Jn_17:11b-19
Ever feel that you just don’t belong in this world any more, beloved. Has it changed so very much, that you just can’t wait to move on. Or have we changed! Maybe it’s all getting a little old. The wars, the political squabbles, the ignorance, the evil, the idiocracy of it all. Maybe we’ve finally gotten the Truth of all that Jesus taught. And rather than ever thinking that we can change it, the world, we should just be looking to save one soul at a time. God still, and always will, love us. Maybe it’s time to start sharing that love with our wounded world, and being a little less judgmental of it!
Happy, happy birthday to our awesome daughter, Gina!
Hope it’s a blessed day for you!
05-23-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 23, 2023
St. Paul said to the leaders of the Church in Ephesus, “But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again. And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you, for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.” Acts_20:17-27
Jesus prayed to His Father saying, “I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. . . . And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.” Jn_17:1-11a
Two farewells. St. Paul knew that his destiny was imprisonment and a cruel death. But knew that he did the best he could to pass on the Gospel message of Jesus. And it was now in their hands to do the same. Jesus also knew of His impending imprisonment, torture and crucifixion and prayed both as an accounting to His Father that He had done His utmost to prepare and inform His disciples, and He prayed for their well-being after His departure to be back home with the Father and away from them.
Someday, beloved, we will be on our final journey as well. We pray that our lives will have been as productive, giving, loving and informational as were the lives of Jesus and St. Paul. Maybe a stretch, but something to shoot for with every breath we have left. Love. Give. And spread the Good News of God’s love for us all!
05-22-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 22, 2023
(St. Rita of Cascia, Religious)
Jesus told His disciples, “In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.” Jn_16:29-33
Trust in Jesus, beloved, and when it’s all said and done, know that He is and always was in control!
05-21-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 21, 2023
(The Ascension of the Lord)
Jesus said to His Apostles, “you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.” Acts_1:1-11
Jesus said, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” Mt_28:16-20
Will return. Is with us. Go! Baptize! Teach!
Our Call. Our love. Jesus!
05-20-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 20, 2023
(St. Bernardine of Siena, OFM Priest)
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.” Jn_16:23b-28
The HOLY Name of Jesus! Respect it. Reverence it. Worship it. Honor it. And whenever we ask the Father anything, remember to reference His Son, Jesus, and as He tells us, it will be done!
“Dating all the way back to the third century, Christians shortened the name of Jesus by only writing the first three letters of his name in Greek, ΙΗΣ (from his full name ΙΗΣΟΥΣ). The Greek letter Σ (sigma), is written in the Latin alphabet as an “S,” resulting in the monogram being commonly represented as ΙΗS.” Aleteia
05-19-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 19, 2023
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.” . . . “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.” Jn_16:20-23
The image of a woman giving birth is often used by the Old Testament Prophets to symbolize the intense pain necessary to bring about a significant Change, something or someone NEW.
In the case of the ancient Israelites, it would be the pain of the loss of their homes, their Temple, and the seat of their worship, Jerusalem; besides their 70-years of slavery in Babylon and Assyria; that would bring about their return and conversion back to God.
In the case of Jesus’ disciples, it would be the pain of the loss of their Master. A pain that Jesus was warning them, was sure to come; that would finally bring about their TRUE belief through the Holy Spirit.
In the case of Jesus himself, it would be His horrendous Passion and Death. A suffering that was required to bring about the birth of a redeemed people. Visualized by His own, we might say, “Rebirth”, in the Resurrection, Jesus, through our belief in him, brings about OUR Rebirth, through the waters of Baptism, our “death to sin and new life in the Spirit.”
The world describes this profound Spiritual Truth with the simple cliché, “No pain, no gain.” Which, brings us back to the present.
Yes, we believe. And yes, we were baptized and confirmed as young kids, or maybe, later in life. But that was just the beginning, or the middle, of a long life of pain. And, if we lived that life in the constant knowledge and council of the Holy Spirit within us, maybe that pain was lessened, just a little. And maybe we even convinced, or deceived ourselves that within it all there was JOY. But, in the end, our greatest consolation was really more about HOPE than Joy!
You see, rather than living our lives in total desperation, that our next raise always came with another jump in inflation, that the big promotion always went to the colleague, regardless of how many extra hours we volunteered, that the bones still broke, and the diseases still ravaged, and the companies still folded, and the stocks still plummeted, leaving the unbeliever totally hopeless with life; Rather than all of that, WE KNOW, that after this pregnancy, that we call ‘life in the flesh’, is done, after we’ve been through the ultimate pain of death and rebirth, we will truly have the JOY of Real Life with Jesus and all of our loved ones, forever and ever, amen.
THAT is our HOPE and our Promise!
And all the pain will be done and over with. And the injustice forgotten. And the threats of doom, and the separations, and the poverty, and the hunger, and the suffering dissolved away, And all that will be left then will be the LOVE. Oh, the sweet love; immersing, and enveloping, and permeating every cell, and every atom, and every spark of whatever makes up our souls.
THERE is our Hope, and our Promise, and our JOY!
And all of this we ask of our Father, to be our Truth, in the Name of Jesus, Amen, Amen, Alleluia!
05-18-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 18, 2023
(St. John I, Pope and Martyr)
Jesus said to his disciples: “A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me. . . . Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” Jn_16:16-20
Whether it’s a night from sleep to waking, a weekend away, a summer vacation, a going off to college, a getting married and moving away, or even a death, we will all experience the “little while” of separation from our loved ones, and then the reunion that Jesus speaks of. Are we separated from someone very close to us, beloved? Are our hearts burning with loneliness, anxiety, even depression? Then, take heart, for there is always the hope of God. The “little while” of separation, grief and hopelessness, will all be washed away when we will see them again. All discord resolved, all anxiety relieved, we will be one again . . .
In a little while!!!
05-17-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 17, 2023
Jesus told his disciples that the Holy Spirit “will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.” Jn_16:12-15
Always speaking in coordination, cooperation and relationship with His Father and the Holy Spirit, Jesus demonstrates for us the true meaning of Community. We are called to relationship with Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit, along with one another. Give credit where credit is due. Act in empathy, integrity and compassion with one another. Do not judge, because in our next breath we may be just as ‘at fault’ as those we judge, if not worse. Forgive and be forgiven. Encourage and edify one another. And most importantly, Love! Love like there’s no tomorrow, because, who knows, there just may not be one for us or them!
05-16-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 16, 2023
Jesus said that when the Holy Spirit comes, “he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation: sin, because they do not believe in me; righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.” Jn_16:5-11
All the more reason to FULLY believe in Jesus and follow His command . . .
Love!
05-15-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 15, 2023
(St. Isadore, Farmer)
Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.” Jn_15:26-16:4a
Are we listening, beloved? Can we discern “Truth,” through the Spirit working within us? Is it not obvious and sometimes even painful to see the un-truth within ourselves and others? We are called to live that truth, beloved. We are called to stand up for it as well. Jesus is calling us today to testify!
05-14-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 14, 2023
(6th Sunday of Easter, A)
Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Acts_8:5-8,14-17
St. Peter wrote: “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence,” 1_Pt_3:15-18
Jesus said, “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.” Jn_14:15-21
In these post-resurrection weeks of our Easter Season, our Church readings have been organized to reveal Jesus to us in a marvelous, slightly mysterious, but beautifully arranged sequence that all begins after His Easter, resurrection appearance to Mary Magdalene.
In our Second week of Easter, Jesus, then, makes a personal appearance to His Apostles, who were hiding behind locked doors, out of fear, and in mourning for the loss of their Master. He offers them, PEACE. He offers them the Blessing of the Holy Spirit, the Authority to forgive sins, and then, in light of Thomas’s reluctant faith, Jesus blesses us for our TRUE, unseeing Faith. It prompts us to ponder our own Fears, and Losses, and Sins, and to remember that in the midst of it all, Jesus is always right here with us – to offer us – His Peace, and Blessing, and Spiritual Strength, as well.
In our Third week, Jesus moves out to some of His other disciples, on the Road to Emmaus. To them, He reveals Himself, both, as the One who was written about throughout the Old Testament Scriptures, and in the Breaking of the Bread. It’s the perfect Revelation of Jesus in every Mass we celebrate. In Word and Eucharist, Jesus is right here with us – every Sunday, and even every Day. Ever feel lonely or abandoned, left out or persecuted? That’s when we should be looking for Jesus in the Books of Ezekiel, or Samuel, or Job, or the Song of Songs. He’s there, just waiting to connect with us!
In our Fourth week of Easter, Jesus reveals the HOW of ‘His WAY,’ when He tells us that HE IS the ‘Good Shepherd’ and the Gateway to our Salvation. Not the Chiefs. Not our Cars, or Jobs, or Houses. Not our Pets, or even our Families, (sorry moms), but JESUS alone is the WAY! As a matter of fact, in Week Five, we learned that Jesus is not only ‘The WAY,’ but He is “the Truth and the Life,” as well! And not just the Way, the Truth and the Life for the Apostles and for His First Century disciples, but for absolutely EVERYONE who believes in Him – in every place and at every time.
Jesus told His disciples and us last week, that “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.” And He told us that ‘He will take us to Himself, so that where He is, we also may be‘ (paraphrased). So then, the question we might logically ask, is: “Do we really believe that there are eight billion mansions there in Heaven, let alone, enough for all of those other souls who came before us?”
You see, all of this leads us to our Scriptures today, where, Deacon Philip and the Apostles – Peter and John, are already hauling in massive catches of new, Christian Fishermen (and women). Not just the Apostles, the Disciples, or even, just the Jews, but everyday Gentiles, just like you and me. Baptized in the waters of “death to sin” and “new life in Christ,” Confirmed through the “Laying on of Hands” and the strengthening of the Holy Spirit, those neophyte Christians were about to discover something marvelously, mysteriously and miraculously AMAZING! . . .
Heaven really DOES have billions, upon billions, upon billions of Dwelling Places. And they’re NOT – “Out There!” They’re RIGHT HERE, already within every one of us! And it just makes us wonder, “How many people, out there, are living like paupers in a Mansion that God has given to Every One of us, and they/we don’t even realize it.”
In preparing His disciples for the ultimate Revelation, the Pentecost Revelation, the endowment of the Holy Spirit, Jesus said that: “On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.” You see, beloved, what we learn from it all is that: Jesus is the Way. The ONLY Way! We learn that God IS Love, and that we were CREATED in that Love. We learn that God is One: the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit; in unity, in Trinity, and in Community. And we learn that through our Baptisms and Confirmations, that Oneness of God, that Love dwells – right Here within US! We ARE the Dwelling Place of God! We ARE His Temple: Individually and Together, as ONE, one Church, one Body!
As Christians, we are driven, NOT by our flesh, and passions, and emotions, but by the Spirit. The Holy Spirit within us, within our very souls, is God’s “advocate” and our “Guidance System.” When we truly realize what we’ve GOT: in our Trinitarian God, in our Universal Church, and in our very Beings, how can we NOT “Cry out to God with Joy,” as the Psalmist proclaims, and give the world the “Reason for our hope,” which could be theirs as well.
Jesus Christ IS –
our Lord and our Salvation,
our Love and our Commandment!
05-13-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 13, 2023
Jesus said to his disciples: “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.” Jn_15:18-21
And yet! And yet, even in the world today, no one seems to love anyone. You’re a this or a that, and no one even seems to agree with one another on anything. So being a God fearing, Christ believing Christian, hated by the world, is not much different than any other group, hated by somebody or other. But, as Christians we have no fear of the world and its hatred, because Jesus has conquered the world by His own death and resurrection. And thus, we also have no fear of death, because we know that death is only the entrance to eternal life with Christ. Yes, there are some who may hate us. But despite it all we will still and always choose Love. We will choose Life, despite a whole culture of death. God is with us!
05-12-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 12, 2023
Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.” Jn_15:12-17
Clear as spring water, Jesus makes it strikingly obvious, we are to love! Love God, Love one another. Imagine, beloved, if the world could take this seriously! No more wars, no more jealousy, anger, hatred. Just LOVE!
05-11-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 11, 2023
Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.” Jn_15:9-11
Love – not just in words and thoughts, but in ACTION.
KEEPING His commandments. Dt_5:6-21
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Commandments that Jesus simplified as Loving God and Loving neighbor!
Mt_22:36-40
And elucidated in His “Works of Mercy.” Mt_25:31-46 and CCC_2447
L O V E !
05-10-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 10, 2023
(St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, Priest and St. John of Avila, Priest and Doctor of the Church)
Jesus said to His disciples, “I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.” Jn_15:1-8
In revealing Himself to His disciples, Jesus used many different analogies. But the key was always ‘being IN one another.’ Jesus is IN the Father and the Father is in Him. Jesus is IN us, as we should always be IN Jesus. And the Holy Spirit is IN all! If we separate ourselves from being IN Jesus, IN the Holy Spirit, and in the Father, then we will wither and fade away just like a branch separated from the tree, the stem from the vine, or the child from its mother. If we want the eternal life Jesus promises, we must remain in LIFE, in Jesus. And the Holy Spirit, the Love of God, will bind us together forever! REMAIN in Him!
05-09-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 9, 2023
Jesus said to his disciples: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.” Jn_14:27-31a
P E A C E !
05-08-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 8, 2023
Jesus said, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.” Jn_14:21-26
And why would we want God, Jesus to dwell with us? Well, Jesus told us that He is the way and the truth and the life. The way to eternal life, the Truth that He is God the Son, and the life, that is the very best of life that we could possibly ever have. And then we ask, why would we ever not want all of that? Why struggle without hope? Why think that this worldly life is all there is? And why not have the hope that we could live a life of paradise forever? All it takes is a little belief, a little obedience, a little love!
05-07-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 7, 2023
(Fifth Sunday Easter, A)
St. Peter wrote, “Beloved: Come to him (Jesus), a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” 1_Pt 2:4-9
Through our baptism, beloved, we become those “living stones,” for use in construction of God’s living temple – the Body of Christ on earth, in our own world. Our sacrifices, then, being every time we let go of our “self” to care for the needs of others, just as Jesus did for us!
05-06-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 6, 2023
Both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first, but since you reject it and condemn yourselves as unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For so the Lord has commanded us, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, that you may be an instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth.’” Acts_13:44-52
Be cautious then, beloved, to never reject God’s Word and thus condemn ourselves as unworthy of Life with Christ forever! We have been so blessed as to know, and knowing to believe, and believing to be saved for eternal life. Blessed be God forever!
05-05-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 5, 2023
Thomas said to Jesus, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Jn_14:1-6
On Paul’s first missionary journey, as a pretty new disciple of Jesus, he boldly went out to the island of Cyprus, and from there, on to Antioch, in what, today, we call Turkey. And there, he taught the Jews, who were well familiar with the ancient stories of Abraham, and Moses, and David. He taught them that their long-awaited Messiah, their Savior, had come, and gone. and returned, never to leave our side again.
And while many of the Jews were quick to reject that Gospel – Good News, Paul also founded equal numbers of new believers in both the Jews and the Gentiles, who would spread their faith out into the farthest reaches of the world.
And yet, we can see, through all of their struggles of trying to convince the Jews of the Divinity of Jesus, we can see, in the early skepticism of the Apostles themselves, while Jesus was still with them in the flesh, and we can even see in the monumental task that it took Jesus to convert Paul, through a literal blinding light, we can see, why God called those early Israelites such a “stiff-necked” people.
And yet, and yet, how many of us, (and I’m no exception at times) still fit that same mold? “I won’t believe until I see it.” Or worse yet, like the Pharisees, “You can blind me with the Truth, but I’m still going to follow the lies of the masses, like sheep being led to the slaughter.” (Simply because I’m independently stubborn!)
You see, the moment we think that our faith is easy. The moment we take for granted that term “Cradle Catholic” or “born again Christian,” that is the very moment we miss the Truth – of the struggle of Birth. For every Birth, and Death, and Challenge we go through in this life of ours, is another sign of God’s, of Jesus’s Love for us, because – we are still here, through it all.
And we SO believe in God’s great Love for us, that we’re even willing to share that love with the unlovable, because we’ve been through that blinding light ourselves. And we’re still going through it, until that Light finally becomes us, itself. And we become One – through Jesus, with the Father, in the Holy Spirit, through the water, and the blood, and with one another.
And, along with St. Paul, we too will profess, “I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and has given himself up for me.” Gal 2:20
05-04-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 4, 2023
Jesus said to His disciples, “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.” Jn_13:16-20
Believe and receive the Father, then, through our prayer to Jesus, through our neighbors who are God’s “sent,” and through the poor and needy whom God has also sent that we may act in His name ourselves. And do it all in LOVE!
05-03-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 3, 2023
(Ss. Philip and James, Apostles)
Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Jn_14:6-14
The Pharisees wanted to see a sign, even though Jesus gave them sign after sign that He is God. The Apostles wanted to see the Father, even though Jesus repeatedly told them that He and the Father are ONE and the same God. Sometimes we can be so blind, even though God gave us eyes and ears and senses and wisdom. Jesus IS our Lord and God: Father and Son and Holy Spirit. Know Him. Believe Him. Trust in Him. And that’s all that really matters!
05-02-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 2, 2023
(St. Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church)
Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” Jn_10:22-30
Listen for His voice, beloved, and live in His Love and salvation.
05-01-23 Catholic Daily Mass Quotes
May 1, 2023
(St. Joseph the Worker)
Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.” Jn_10:11-18
So, why would we put all our stock in the uncommitted, hired man, when we could be following the “Good Shepherd”? Why would we BE that imperfect hired man ourselves, when we could be the true Shepherds that God created us to be? Stop following “the world,” beloved, and seek the Truth, BE the Truth, follow Jesus, and Him alone!
Happy May Day!
God’s blessings, in Christ, always!
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Happy May, beloved!
God’s blessings!
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