Spiritual childhood...

spiritual childhood

Guide us.

Children, when little ones are, the more they need the guidance of their parents to walk and not stumble. And we who want to be children in the spiritual life, we also need a guide to walk on the path of holiness. This guide is God himself, and his mother, and they guide us through the top. So it would be good that we have a spiritual director, we will indicate the will of God and secure in the way. For whoever wants to do his own will, ends by becoming a disciple of a fool, ie himself.

As children need guidance, so we also need spiritual guides that lead us directly to the Heart of God and help us avoid the dangers that lurk in the way that leads to Heaven.

Recall that we fight spiritual beings that are far superior to us in intelligence, demons, and also hate us furiously. So we would be in great danger if we go by ourselves, without having a good counselor and guide.

Pray to God for a spiritual guide assigned to us by heart, and when they have designated, obedezcámosle at all because as it is written: "The obedient man sing victory."

And we see when children obey their parents and want to walk their way, often stumble and hurt themselves, sometimes irreparable. We must also move this to the spiritual life and try to be obedient children of our spiritual directors.

Message...

Message conversion
Obey God.
10/02/87 (Intention of the Ninth of 17 to 25) 1094
My children ask in this novena, for all peoples of the earth, to seek God's forgiveness, in order to establish the true encounter between the Lord and men.
No man wants to go it alone, because alone, will be destroyed.
Praise the Name of God.
Be it known to all.
Read: Isaiah C. 50, V. 10

     10 Who among you fears the Lord and listen to the voice of your server?

         Even though I walk in darkness, without a ray of light, trust in the name of the Lord and lean on his God.

 (Message of Mary of the Rosary of San Nicolás)
Comment:
They say those who follow their own will be a disciple of a fool. And indeed this is what is happening in the world, since man, moving farther away from God, is guided by its own criteria, but they really are not yours, but behind them is Satan, the master of this world, with its cunning is leading humanity to a dead end.
The only chance is that mankind back to God, to develop. So whatever we do in this regard will be a lot of good for everyone, because unbelievers can not even imagine what awaits the world if atheism is growing.
It's time to go down to the arena and bring the good fight for God and for souls.
Let's pretend that today we have died and entered eternity, where we realize the stupidity of so many things we spend time in mortality, losing in vanities and trifles. And then, as we have not died yet, let's start the serious purpose of today, right now, a new life, more serious, more responsible, taking responsibility for souls, because each of us must answer not only for his own soul but also why the Lord has entrusted to us, as not only the priests and pastors have souls in charge, but in his providence God wants us to save in community, and this has put in our hands means that we must use to save us, because every Christian is a small redeemer, who must save souls by penance, prayer, word and example.
Let's do this and see how our own environment things start to change, and at least we will save your soul, because we have fulfilled our mission, large or small does not matter, it is our mission and we must fulfill to perfection with the help of God.

Daily living...

daily living

Concerns.

In daily life we have many concerns, and like Martha, we are attending to a thousand things at once and many times we forget the main and most important, in fact the only really important it is to save our souls.

Let us resolve in our daily lives, to stop and think several times a day, on this critical issue: our eternal salvation. Because if we do not, we risk increasingly identify ourselves in world affairs to the point of forgetting why we are in this world.

In this land we are to live so that we deserve heaven, and earthly life is proof that well exceeded, will open the gates of Paradise. Consider this from time to time or very often, because if we're wrong on this point, we are missing the road with serious risk of being lost forever. Do not be like those people of the Gospel whom Jesus told them snuck a gnat and swallowing a camel. We ought to lay greater emphasis on what really has, is, our own eternal salvation, and others should always come second, but we must not neglect those things either. But you must always order our whole life to achieve the purpose for which they were created by God, which is Heaven.

If we do so, then we will have a different look at all human affairs, and see the world through the eyes of God and the Holy Spirit will give us the gift of Science, with which we understand things in their essence and root.

In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Thougth of the day...

THOUGHT OF THE DAY
First, last and only.
In the sacristy of the church is usually a registration for the priest to be coated, which says something like, "Priest, celebrates this Mass as if it were your first Mass, your only your last Mass and Mass".
Translating this to the common life of each one of us, we should also make every action of life, every prayer, every act of mercy like the first one and the last, and so then what good would employ the time often wasted on nonsense and useless pastimes.How well we do all things! And we would enjoy would realize more and more responsibility, trying to make the best possible.
Let us resolve, as of now, start with this mood, and as the first action we have to do, let us strive to make it perfectly, but especially like the first, the only and last. And a good incentive to do this is doing everything to Mary, having her as our engine to act, and so then our actions will not only be excellent, but will have a great redemptive value and to be more useful even from the point of human perspective.

Reflection...

Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Cycle B
Second Reading 1, Book of Exodus 16, 2-4. 12-15
Psalm 77, 3-4BC. 23-25. 54
2 nd Reading Letter of Paul to the Ephesians 4: 17. 20-24
Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John 6, 24-35
"I say and I recommend on behalf of the Lord, do not come like the heathen, who are led by the frivolity of his thoughts and mind are obscured. They are separated from the life of God through ignorance and obstinacy, and having lost the moral sense, have given to vice, wantonly committing every kind of impurity.
But that's not what you learned from Christ. " (Eph 4, 17-20).
The pagan abandon life, we asked the Apostle Paul in the 2nd reading, is to reject one's own self, ill will that holds captive the truth, or emptiness of thought. Means freedom from all that life away from human reality, thought and willed by the Creator to find again as a gift a heart sensitive to all calls of goodness, truth, beauty.
"Listen, son, the precepts of the Master, and incline the ear of your heart gladly receives the advice of a godly father, and stick to it really. So come back for the work of obedience to Him from whom you were away. " (Prologue of the Rule of St. Benedict).

"If today you hear his voice, harden not your heart." (Ps 94.8).
In the Gospel of John, Jesus calls us one thing: adherence to God's plan is, "what God expects of us is to believe in him whom he has sent." (V 29).
The crowd like many of us today, waiting for a particular sign and loud, to recognize Jesus as the prophet of messianic times. Jesus really, truly gives us the new manna, because their food is much higher than the parents ate in the wilderness, he gives eternal life to all. But only he who has faith can receive that gift. The real food is the gift of the Son, the Father offers us men, because he is "the true bread from heaven." (V33).
Whoever adheres to Jesus, gives meaning to your life and get your own happiness.
"Download your concerns in the Lord and He will sustain you" (Ps. 55.23). What worries you? Why are you troubled? He who has made deals with you. The already took care of you before you were born did not take care of you now, you're what he wanted you? Do not take care of you who "makes his sun rise on good and bad and sends rain on the just and unjust? (Mt 5.45). Does desentenderá you leave, you leave him alone you, you're right and you live in the faith? Instead, he crowns you with benefits, it helps, it gives you is what is necessary, defends you from adversity. Granting you gifts to comfort you persevere, quitándotelos corrects you lest you be consumed. The Lord cares for you, rest assured, you hold that you have done: you will not fall by the hand of your Creator. (Augustine, Commentary on the Psalms, 38.18).
Brother Fernando Fortunato OSB.
Have a good weekendRegards

Reflection...

From sinners to saints

Have mercy.

We must have mercy on all men, because if we have been great sinners, then we know from experience how weak we are men to temptation. If we are righteous, then we know the wisdom that resides in us, how easy it is human nature to give in to temptation!

When we see someone who sins, think: Maybe that person has suffered much in his life and reacts well, perhaps he lacked love.

There are thousands of mitigating that God can know and that we do not know, and therefore we should not judge because we do not know why people act one way or another.

Always remember that if we have the grace not commit grave sins and faults and is not only our merit, but because God sustains us with His grace, so that if He left us from his hand, fall into the sins more severe and humiliating.

Learning from the Blessed Virgin, purest creature that being hated sin, but did not judge the sinners, and was compassionate and loving to everyone, and even if Satan himself asked her forgiveness, she would forgive him, something that will never happen because the devil never humble as it is confirmed in sin and pride.

Let us also good to all, compassionate and remember that what we are today we might not tomorrow, because as the Apostle says: He who stands take heed lest he fall. And do not judge the sinners, for whom today is a great sinner, maybe tomorrow will be a great saint.

Queen - 'I Want To Break Free' (Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert)