Fruits of the Mass

I. The purpose that the Savior gave His sacrifice on the Cross and its sacramental renewal in the Mass are synthesized in four. The goals that directly relate to God, worship or praise, and thanksgiving, infallible always occur fully with its infinite value, even without our contest, but not a single faithful attend, or attend distracted. However, the other two ends of the Eucharistic sacrifice, propitiation and petition, reversed in favor of men, and they are called fruits of the Mass, could be infinite because they are based on the merits of Christ, but in fact never received in such a degree that we apply as personal dispositions. To receive the fruits of the Holy Mass, the Church invites us to unite to the sacrifice of Christ in praise, thanksgiving, and supplication atonement of Jesus Christ, and to offer all our being and daily activities, along with the body of the Lord in the celebration of the Eucharist.

II. For us to get more and more fruit of the Holy Mass, our Mother, the Church wants us to attend, not as "strangers or silent spectators," but trying to understand it better and better, through the rites and prayers, participating in the action consciously holy, pious and active with mood straight, putting the soul in tune with the voice and collaborating with divine grace (Second Vatican Council, Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium). Our internal participation, our union with Jesus Christ offered Himself, consists mainly of acts of faith, hope and love, and will be supported with external elements that are also part of the liturgy: the positions, and the recitation or singing parts in common. Our preparation begins with due punctuality, for nothing in the world more important than mass.

III. The Mass is the most pleasing to God that men can offer, so we have to have our soul to approach the sublime event. It is the ultimate occasion to give thanks for the many benefits we receive, to apologize for so many sins and failures of love ... and many material and spiritual things we need, the people you deal with. Our apostolate emerges stronger from mass. The minutes of thanksgiving complete the most important moment of our day. The Virgin was present at Calvary, and is present in the Mass, which is an extension of Calvary. Let us try to keep it in mind, and she will help us to participate in the Mass with greater piety and devotion

Raíces...

"Raices Profundas"

Un escritor para un periodico local entrevistaba a un granjero sobre los efectos del tiempo reciente en sus cultivos. La lluvia abundante y las cosechas de soja y maiz del granjero estaban altas y lozanas.

Mis cultivos son muy vulnerables ahora, dijo el granjero.

Esta declaracion sorprendio al periodista. Habia planeado enfocar su articulo en la buena cosecha que se esperaba y la prosperidad económica que le traeria a la ciudad.

El granjero continuo: Hasta una sequia corta tendria efectos devastadores.

¿Por que?, le pregunto el reportero.

El granjero le explico que mientras vemos la lluvia frecuentemente como un beneficio, durante tiempos de lluvia las plantas no se ven obligadas a empujar sus raices a lo profundo en busca de agua. Las raices permanecen cerca de la superficie, dejando a las plantas sin preparacion para la sequia.

Su cultivo tambien corria peligro de vientos fuertes y tormentosos. De nuevo, debido a la estructura de raices superficiales, un viento fuerte le haria perder toda su cosecha en unos pocos minutos.

Algunos creyentes disfrutan mucho en tiempo de bendicion, pero cuando el estres entra a sus vidas, se desaniman, abandonan a Dios o creen que El es infiel. ¿Por que? Sus raices nunca crecieron mas alla de la superficie.

Su vida espiritual es fuerte en la superficie, confiando en otros antes que en el tiempo que pasan con Dios en oracion. Son vulnerables a los fuertes vientos de la adversidad o al calor intenso del estres.

Solo las raices que crecen profundas en Dios nos ayudaran a soportar los tiempos dificiles. Haz que tus raices se profundicen mas hoy. Pasa tiempo con el Señor...

Dios le Bendiga!!

Spiritual childhood

Obedience.

Scripture says that man sing victory obedient. And Jesus was obedient man, because not only has obeyed God, his Father, but also as a good son obeyed the Virgin and St. Joseph. But even more, He obeyed even his executioners, and now still obeying the priests, that when they utter the words of consecration, Jesus comes down from Heaven to their hands, but the priest is good or bad.

What about us? How is our obedience of children? And our faithful obedience? Recall that we want to practice spiritual childhood, and good children are obedient to their parents.

Obedience is what most men costs us because we think we know everything and we know more than others. But many times the Lord shows us that others have something to say, and that once they have given tips for not following, has gone wrong.

Obedience and humility were the two main virtues of Jesus. I hope those same are also ours, precisely because they are the most opposed to Satan, who must overcome in ourselves and in others.

hola a todas mis amistades...
felíz miércoles y deseos de muchas bendiciones...
están en mi corazón y en mis pensamientos...
y son mi companía de todos los días...

hello to all my friends ...
happy Wednesday and desires of many blessings ...
are in my heart and in my thoughts ...
and my company are everyday ...

By their fruits ye shall know

I. The Lord repeatedly insists on the danger of false prophets, who lead many to spiritual ruin (Matthew 24, 11). In the Old Testament also refers to these bad shepherds who wreak havoc on the people of God (Jeremiah 23, 9-40). Soon also appeared within the Church. St. Paul calls false brethren and false apostles (St. Paul 2, 44, 2 Corinthians 11, 26, 1 Corinthians 11, 13), and warns the early Christians to be saved from them. St. Peter calls false teachers (2 Peter 2, 1). Nowadays teachers have also proliferated of error has been abundant sowing bad seeds, and have caused confusion and ruin for many. The Lord tells us that both the true and the false apostles know them by their fruits, the preachers of false doctrines and reforms will entail not only fruitful trunk disunity of the Church and the confusion and ruin of souls.

II. Healthy trees give good fruit. And the tree is healthy when he sap runs good. The sap of the Christian is the very life of Christ, personal holiness, you can not replace with anything else. So we should not separate us from Him In dealing with Jesus we learn to be effective, to be happy, to understand, to love truly, to be ultimately good Christians. The life of union with Christ necessarily transcends the Christian individual for the benefit of others: hence arises the apostolic, since "the apostolate, of whatever kind, is an overabundance of inner life" (J. Escriva, Friends of God). If you neglect this deep union with God, our apostolic effectiveness should fall to be zero, and the fruit would become bitter, unworthy to be presented to the Lord.

III. Just as the man who excludes God from his life becomes diseased tree with bad fruit, the company seeks to evict God from their customs and laws produces countless evils and serious damage to the citizens within it. The phenomenon of secularism seeks to supplant morality based on transcendent principles, ideals and standards by merely human behavior, which end up being subhuman. Man and dehumanize society when they have God as loving Father who gives conservation laws of human nature and for people to find their own dignity and achieve the purpose for which they were created. Faced with such bitter fruit, Christians should be salt and light wherever we are. By the grace of God and the intercession of St. Joseph, we give abundant fruit if our life is informed by the light of Christ.

domingo 23/JUN/13

Evangelio del día 

Lc 9, 18-24. 

Perder para ganar. 

Un día en que Jesús oraba a solas y sus discípulos estaban con él, les preguntó: “¿Quién dice la gente que soy yo?”. Ellos le respondieron: “Unos dicen que eres Juan el Bautista; otros, Elías; y otros, alguno de los antiguos profetas que ha resucitado”. “Pero ustedes, les preguntó, ¿quién dicen que soy yo?”. Pedro, tomando la palabra, respondió: “Tú eres el Mesías de Dios”. Y él les ordenó terminantemente que no lo anunciaran a nadie, diciéndoles: “El Hijo del hombre debe sufrir mucho, ser rechazado por los ancianos, los sumos sacerdotes y los escribas, ser condenado a muerte y resucitar al tercer día”. Después dijo a todos: “El que quiera seguirme, que renuncie a sí mismo, que cargue con su cruz cada día y me siga. Porque el que quiera salvar su vida, la perderá; y el que pierda su vida por mí, la salvará”.  

Reflexión: 

Esta vida terrena que tenemos, es tiempo de prueba. Hay muchos que la viven como si está fuera la única vida y después no hubiera nada más. Se atan a las cosas de aquí abajo y tratan de gozarlas y poseer la mayor cantidad de bienes, de honores y de poder. ¡Pobrecitos! Han confundido la visión real de las cosas y Satanás los tiene atrapados. Pero que eso no nos suceda también a nosotros los católicos. Sepamos que esta vida es prueba y combate para obtener la verdadera Vida, que vendrá después de la muerte y en donde recibiremos premio o castigo según haya sido nuestro obrar en este mundo. Más vale perderlo todo en este mundo pero teniendo a Jesús en el corazón; que tener todo lo de este mundo pero no tener a Jesús en el alma, y morir así, en pecado y condenarnos.

Pidamos a la Santísima Virgen la gracia de imitarla a Ella que lo perdió todo en este mundo, pero que conquistó el puesto más elevado en el Cielo, después de Jesús.

Jesús, María, os amo, salvad las almas.

Message confidence

Do not worry about the future
God provides our needs. "Therefore do not worry," says the Lord.
What is the exact meaning of this advice?
Why obey the direction of the Master, we must be completely negligent in the care of temporal matters?
No doubt that grace may ask, sometimes, certain souls, the sacrifice of strict poverty and total abandonment to Providence. It is necessary to mention, however, of what they are rare these vocations. Everyone else, religious communities or individuals have assets they must manage them wisely.
The Holy Spirit praises strong women who knew how to rule his house. In the Book of Proverbs shows us getting up early for the servants to distribute the daily task and also working with their own hands. Nothing escapes his vigilance. Your people have nothing to fear: find all thanks to his foresight, as needed, nice and even some moderate luxury. Her children proclaim blessed and her husband extols the virtues.
Truth does not have so magnificently praised that woman, if she had not done his duty.
We grieve, but reasonably minding chores, let us not dominate the future prospects bleak anguish and count, without hesitation, with the aid of Providence.
None of illusions and trust is a big strength of soul. We have to avoid double hurdle: lack and excess. One who, through negligence, is uninterested in their business obligations and can not, without tempting God, expect an exceptional aid of Heaven. He who gives to the material concerns the top of their concerns, one that has less to God himself, he deceives even more crassly, so robs the Almighty the place that rightfully fits into our lives.
"In medio stat virtus" between these two extremes is a duty.
If we take care of our interests wisely, grief for the future will be through ignorance and contempt of the power and goodness of God.
During the many years in which St. Paul the Hermit, lived in the desert, a raven brought him every day, half a loaf. Well, it happened that San Antonio was to visit the illustrious solo. They talked at length the two saints, forgotten in his pious meditations of the need for food. Thought of them, however, Providence: the raven came, as usual, but this time bringing the whole loaf! The Father created the whole universe with a single word could perhaps be hard help their children in the hour of need?
St. Camillus de Lellis had borrowed to help the sick poor. The monks were alarmed. "He never should doubt of Providence", he told the saint to reassure them. Is it difficult to Our Lord give us some of those goods with which filled the Jews and the Turks, enemies each other in our faith. " Camilo's confidence was not misplaced, one month later, one of his protectors bequeathed at death, a considerable sum.
Grieving the future is mistrust that offends God and provokes his wrath.
When the Hebrews fled Egypt, they were lost in the sands of the desert, they forgot the miracles that the Lord had done for him. They were afraid, murmured: "Will not God furnish a table in the wilderness?" "Can he give bread and put a table to his people?" Those words angered the Lord. Launched against them the fire of heaven. His anger fell on Israel, "they did not believe in God or salvation He waited for"
Nothing useless afflictions: the Father watches over us.
 (From "The Book of Confidence", Thomas P. Raymond of Saint Laurent)