Sunday, July 16, 2017

Jul 16 - 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 +The first reading today from the Prophet Isaiah gives a very brief but powerful insight – when God speaks: things happen: his Will will be accomplished “achieving the end for which [he] sent it,” how could it logically be otherwise – after all he is GOD!

But this needs to be understood also in the context of another Prophet, Hosea (whom we read during our weekday readings of Mass this past week): God has an overwhelming ache in his divine heart to show us his compassionate and merciful love – especially when we end up going against his word and will – which is just so plain easy to do – and we seem to do it over and over again (like the ancient people of Israel). We need to allow ourselves to be loved by God – and be brought into his divine heart!

Jesus speaks (on behalf of his Father) just after the Last Supper: “May they be one, as we are one – all sharing our same life and love!” From what came above, if God said it: it will be done: (someway, somehow, sooner or later).

If as the second reading tells us we eagerly await “the revelation of the children of God” – God speaking what can only contribute to our happiness: then it is up to us to respond as fully as we are able, as fully as we are graced to be able to do: the things that he speaks to us.

In the gospel passage Jesus basically is telling us to be the rich soil that accepts, takes-in and lets the Word and Will of God have its way with us: trusting that its chief goal is indeed our happiness both here, but more importantly hereafter where a place of unimaginable joy and beauty awaits us – and that of course is heaven.

Speak, Lord, your servant is listening: let your word produce a rich harvest in me, and let me share that word with others in my life for your glory and their sanctification and overall well-being!

The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest.


Saturday, July 15, 2017

Jul 15 - St. Bonaventure

+ Saint Bonaventure, born in 1221 in Tuscany, Italy is also known as the Seraphic Doctor and is one of the greatest theologians in the Church. A Franciscan, he is sometimes referred to as the second founder of the order. His intellectual gifts were quickly recognized and he was sent to Paris to study. There he became a friend of St. Thomas Aquinas who was a classmate. In the intellectual world, Bonaventure emphasized the affective over the rational approach to the study of divine mysteries: for Bonaventure, the purpose of human knowledge, including theology, is not to speculate, but to love. He graduated from the University, being awarded a Doctorate of Theology.

Among his friends was King Saint Louis IX of France, with whom he often dined. Soon his order tapped Bonaventure to become their General; this occurred when he was just 35 years old. But, his pastoral zeal and continued writings of not only academic theology but also a biography of St. Francis, and works on spiritual theology led to his being nominated as archbishop-cardinal of Albano – an invitation by Pope Gregory X he could not refuse. He then took a leading part in the Second Council of Lyons which tried to reconcile the differences between the Churches of the East and West. Bonaventure died in Lyons before the end of the Council on July 15, 1274.

Our readings today are specially chosen for the feast: Bonaventure knew that knowledge of Christ was of supreme importance only if it reached the heart and filled us with deep desire to love God and love others the way we have been loved by him by the sending of his Son to redeem us of our sins!

In all of his work for the Church, Bonaventure was a truly humble servant not only to his Franciscan brothers, but also to all the members of God’s flock whose lives his touched. And now he is exalted and praised not for being great in himself, but for being an outstanding vessel of God’s grace, and knowledge and love!

May we imitate St. Bonaventure today and be lovers, true honest and authentic lovers of God – and one another – especially the people that God will put right in our path today - with Christ’s own love emanating from us!

St. Bonaventure, pray for us!


Friday, July 14, 2017

Jul 14 - St. Kateri Tekakwitha

+ Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (born 1656 – died 1680 at the age of 24) is the first Native American to have been canonized. She is known as the “Lily of the Mohawks.” Born Tekakwitha, Kateri or Catherine was her Christian name; she was daughter of a Christian Algonquin mother and a pagan Mohawk chief in Auriesville, New York. She was orphaned at age four. A bout of smallpox left her disfigured and partially blind. At a very young age, Catherine made a vow not to marry, which ran counter to the culture of her people and created great personal difficulty for her.

In 1667, she met Christian missionaries for the first time, but did not seek baptism at that time; it was only eight years later when she met Fr. Jacques de Lamberville, a Jesuit, that she was baptized on Easter Sunday, 1676. Finding life in her village stressful, she walked two hundred miles to settle in a Christian mission in Sault St. Louis, near Montreal, where she made her First Holy Communion in October 1677. For the next three years Kateri led a devout Catholic life, attending Mass twice a day, fasting on Wednesdays and Saturdays, teaching children and caring for the sick and the aged. She died on April 17, 1680.

A number of miracles and appearances were reported after her death and were attested to by the Jesuit missionaries. The Council of Baltimore in 1884 petitioned the Holy See to begin Kateri’s beatification process which bore fruit only in 1980. In October of 2012, this “Lily of the Mohawks” was canonized at the same time in Rome as another saintly personage from Central New York State: Mother Mary Anne Cope, OSF who was both an educator and a worker with lepers with Fr. Damien on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii.

These beloved daughters of the church were true Brides of Christ who were led into the desert by the Lord so that he could speak his love to their hearts, so that he could espouse them to himself forever in right and in justice, in love and mercy and fidelity: so that they should know their Lord.

Let us respond to the same Lord who invites us this very day into an intimate relationship with him, so that having our lives saturated with his grace and his power, (as was Kateri Tekakwitha’s), we can witness to all we meet each day of the magnificence and splendor of the Christ-grounded life that we are all called to participate in.

Young men and women, praise the name of the Lord.


Thursday, July 13, 2017

Jul 13 - 14th Week in Ordinary Time - Thursday

+ Again, powerful readings as we approach the mid-point of July.  The gospel passage posits a spiritual principle that “works every time.” Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.” This is a very basic and fundamental principle that most everyone can agree on: if one really stops to think about it, ponder it and pray about it, it becomes obvious and apparent: there must have been a time when there was nothing, except God: and then out of his goodness and love, he created the world, and most astoundingly us: human beings “in his own image and likeness.”

That would have been enough, but when the natural scheme of things (most especially: the created man and woman) failed: they failed the test of obedience and humility: then God once again reached in and gave an enormously gratuitous gift of “salvation and reconciliation,” And the only way it could be justifiable worked out was form him to send his own Son, to become Son of Man, so that his sacrifice could count for all of us.

And so the gospel tells us: without cost you have received; without cost you are to give! Our days then should be spent in dealing justly, compassionately, patiently, creatively and soberly doing what we can just for the people he puts in our path. Each are there for a reason, beginning with the ones in this room, and great things can happen as the Lord works through us for the good of his “sheep” – his children, our brothers and sisters.

Let us announce by our words and actions: the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, let us do what we have been commanded to do: cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. And he will be pleased with us, and the lives of those we touch will be o so much brighter and lighter.
This was exemplified in the dramatic, and heartwarming story of the revelation of himself of Joseph to his brothers in the first reading. Joseph was a prime example of one who was given much, but who knew the best response would be to give likewise, generously and from the heart – even to those who treated him shamefully.

Let us do the same today!

Proclaim it on the housetops: the Kingdom of God is at hand: and it’s not what you thought it might be like, its subtle, its genuine, it’s for real: REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THIS GOOD NEWS, repent and believe in the gospel.


Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Jul 12 - 14th Week of OT - Wednesday

+ Powerful readings today! The first reading is about the suspenseful interaction between Joseph and his brothers who threw him into a well and then sold him into slavery. It is a perfect example of the old proverb: “what goes around, comes around,” or “you get what you give” or “surprise! it’s me.”

Sometimes the ones who are dismissed as insignificant, or a threat to the system, even a family system, are actually specially chosen figures in an entirely different system, such as Joseph, who became governor of the land of Egypt, and the sole distributor of rations in a time of national famine and starvation. And it is here that he comes face to face with his brothers who disowned him.

What goes around, comes around. Now Joseph is the one who could, at a single command or signal deny them of their life-saving provisions – but in effect, he dealt with them, as he had been dealt by them: he saved their lives, and gave them food – but not before he heard their confirming story that identified them as his brothers, and how they had a change of heart.

The change of heart saved their lives, and for us it is the same, a change of heart can save us, even us who have been given and gift of independent life, from the ones who disowned, disavowed and disconnected from us.

What goes around comes around, but when good gifts are given to the perpetrators: then God’s justice is done, God’s compassion becomes manifest, and God’s mercy rules.

The gospel passage confirms all this: when Jesus selects those who his wishes to go out and distribute God’s kind of mercy, a disproportionate kind that show an overabundance of overlooking past offense and wants only the physical and spiritual welfare of these sheep, the “lost sheep” – who most of the time in their own naivety and ignorance do all kinds of uncharitable, and even cruel things to their own “brothers and sisters” of the human family!

May God be praised for dealing mercifully and lovingly with us, who actually don’t deserve it, often times because of our immature and self-seeking inclinations!
Amen.

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Jul 11 - St. Benedict of Nursia

+ St. Benedict was born at Nursia, in central Italy in 480. He studied in Rome, but was soon disgusted with the rampant immorality that he saw there, and so he “headed for the hills:” he went up Mount Subiaco and lived in a cave there as a hermit for a year. Others found him, however, and asked to join him in his monastic observance: and so he set up 12 deaneries with 10 monks each. Soon though he left the region and went to Monte Cassino, near Naples, where he finished his Rule borrowing inspiration from Sts. Basil, John Cassian, and Augustine and other “monastic writers” of the times.

His Rule emphasized authority and obedience (modeled after the Incarnation and Crucifixion of Jesus), and stability and community life (the only way to progress in spiritual life is the given tension of life-together that is lasting, not just temporary and fleeting). The duties of the monk are to pray the Office and read complementary readings and texts; and manual labor. The flexibility of the Rule allowed it to be instrumental in shaping centers of scholarship, agriculture, medicine and hospitality – indeed it because the foundation of kingdoms, countries, and large manufacturing industries through the middle ages up to our own times. It is considered one of the three major documents of Western Civilization, along with the Magna Carta and the United States Constitution.

 Benedict stayed at Monte Cassino for the rest of his life. Though never becoming a priest and not intending to even found a religious order, St. Benedict soon became known as the Father of Western Monasticism: sometimes your destiny has your name written all over it. St. Benedict is one of the most widely known saints in Church history, along with his sister St. Scholastica, who founded an order of nuns who followed his Rule. His patronage is of monks, of course, but also against the forces of evil and Pope Paul VI named him a patron saint of all of Europe. He died in 550 and was buried near his sister! In the year 2000 there were 8,000 Benedictine monks, and 7,000 Benedictine nuns and 10,000 active Benedictine Sisters – this does not include the many perhaps even millions of persons following benedictine principles in their own personal and business lives.

The purpose and goal of the monastic life is to seek and find God, using among other tools, the tools of poverty, humility and obedience – and then to do his holy will. The Benedictine way is a sure-fired way to do that – not only in a formal way by joining the Order proper, but there are thousands who belong in the Professed Oblate Program – and there are many other organizations and groupings that adhere to the chief tenets of the grand and glorious, tried, tested and true Rule of St. Benedict! [We are such an association – and we are thankful to Benedict, and for his Rule.]

Just as Jesus assures Peter (in the gospel passage) that he will receive a great deal for his sacrifice, the Lord assures us the same; and Peter received his reward because he did all for love of Jesus; may we do the same – armed by the mighty and ancient Holy Rule of the Saintly Patriarch of Nursia!


The key to advancement along the Benedictine way is to begin in silent listening, any day, any project, any undertaking: thus many statues of St. Benedict have him placing a finger on his lips to encourage stillness and quiet as a starting point: BE STILL AND KNOW GOD; BE STILL AND BE INSPIRED; BE STILL SO THAT YOU WILL HAVE MUCH TO SAY AND DO, AND MUCH ENERGY TO SAY IT AND DO IT!

Monday, July 10, 2017

Jul 10 - 14th Week in Ordinary Time - Monday

+ We have amazingly timely and non-coincidental readings today at mass. The first reading shows us the famous and classic “Jacob’s Ladder Dream.” Jacob was chosen by God to be a vital and essential link in the “chain of believers in the one God,” His grandfather Abraham was the first to believe in God as we know him, as he has revealed himself to us. He received from his father Isaac, what he is now commissioned to hand on to generations of future believers – who would be innumerable, yet each unique, yet each thought of before the ages by God the Father / Creator.

What Jacob has to hand on is the assurance of a real connection between mankind and God – a “ladder” whose rungs are acts of faith, acts of trust, act of love and service to others.” This concept, this dynamic is what connects us, this day, to the reality of prayer / work / study / action that God intends for us by his willing it.

We are to “light world” by our personal witness to the vision of Jacob, the trust of Isaac, and the faith of Abraham.

In the gospel passage Jesus does what he does – restores life to a young girl – in a human scene filled with to this point false assumptions and prejudices. The biggest error of the times was to think that sickness and death was a punishment from God. This is not the case. Sickness is sickness, and death is natural – but the baseline reality here is that God has control over everything and that altering states of disease and death is an easy thing for him to do – as he does it – oftentimes – but with the cost of an act of trust, of faith, of hope, of love for the person.

All these requirements were met and so Jesus – in his own sometimes brusque way shouts out: STOP EVERYTHING! STOP THE DIN! STOP THE REHEARSED MACHINATIONS: “she is not dead” – “she is not being punished, nor are her parents” “she is quite alive now, stand up little girl” – AND SHE STANDS UP! And all begin now to praise God.

Today God will use us, to wake people up, some from a dis-ease of sorts, some from death-of-sorts – and he working through us can even use a brusque mannerism to accomplish his task – but always with a heart overflowing with charity, always with love in the eyes!

Let us be vessels of joy today, brother, coming from tuning in to God’s dynamic word and being fed by his real and living Presence eucharistically!

Amen.


Sunday, July 9, 2017

Jul 9 - 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

+ The readings today continue of season of listening and learning from the words of the readings and homilies with the portrayal of Jesus given fresh from a week ago Friday’s celebration of the Solemnity of His Most Sacred Heart. The Incarnate Word Made Flesh is “meekness and humility,” is “self-sacrificial love extraordinaire” housed now in our own frail humanity, so to redeem it and transform it to resemble his own self, his own image, his own glory!

St. Paul tells the Romans in the first reading that the baptized simply live primarily from a spiritual point of view and reality: after the water is poured and the words are said: You are not in the flesh, on the contrary, you are in the spirit…and so, live by the Spirit and put to death the [idolatrous and evil] deeds of the body…and you will live [a wonderful spiritual life now, that will last into eternity]!

In the gospel passage Jesus praises his Father for keeping this message of “life in the Spirit” available and understandable especially, and quite frankly, exclusively, to the little ones, the simple and the childlike, the meek and the humble – who like Jesus himself lives entirely for God and his glory and for the building up of his kingdom! The task of doing this, Jesus announces, is easy and light – for those who go to him, and place their hearts in his heart’s embrace, their hands in his and conform their wills and ways to those assigned by him!
By our listening, reflecting and resolving to allow ourselves to be motivated to action, and then fed by the very Eucharistic presence of Jesus, who is our spiritual energy – we can go forth from this mass to make a calming, peaceful, but very significant impact on the persons and situations that await us, for the rest of this day, and for all of the coming days of the new week that stretches out before us.

Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the kingdom! – thank you for making us your children.


Thursday, July 6, 2017

Jul 6 - 13th Week in OT - Thursday

+ We have interesting readings today at mass. The first reading demonstrates Abraham’s ultimate act of trust in God, it gives evidence of a faith in the Master Designer and Planner that seems illogical and unthinkable, it gives us all a lesson in letting God have his way – which always ultimately has our very best interest in mind.

At the Lord’s bidding Abraham was willing to go so far as to sacrifice the life of his own son.

What is so remarkable is the speed, and alacrity at which Abraham obeyed the command of the Lord. He did not stop to think, process and begin a bargaining process that any right-thinking parent would do. He simply did what God asked – unconditionally and without arguing.

What resulted was a change in the course of salvation history: God rewarded Abraham for his absolute trust and confidence, loyalty and immediate decisiveness and he not only spared the life of his son, Isaac, but he made Isaac, along with his brother Jacob, and himself the launching point for a host of descendants that cannot be numbered to this day: of BELIEVERS in the LOVING DESIGNS of a FATHER GOD who would always look out for the welfare of his spiritual children.

The only thing that would mess things up, and it did many times, is when the children take matters into their own hands, and decided to be God: the one with the Master Plan, the Master Potter, the Master Gardner. This never works out – and God is always ready and willing to take the errant children back “when they come to their senses” and “turn back to him, the very source of their entire lives.”
The gospel passage shows how Jesus and his Father are truly our brother and our Father – who has immediate and ultimate control over not only nature – that is, all of creation, in its many and varied aspects, but also over moral rectitude and the process of reconciliation for sin.

Jesus, in healing the paralytic showed his supreme power over both disease and bodily ailments, as well as spiritual disease and spiritual ailments: “Your sins are forgiven, stand up and walk,” Jesus commanded, thus multitasking and amazing his audience who will shortly condemn him for blasphemy, as they say, “only God can forgive sin,” obviously missing the point that they were right, but that Jesus was indeed God made man.

Jesus can heal us of physical, mental and spiritual ailments if we simply ask! And so we do, we simply ask for healings, deep healings not only for ourselves, but for our families, our visiting family, friends, acquaintances and even those we do not want to associate with, or find it difficult to do so!

Then God will smile on us, grant our request, and place us squarely among a family of brothers and sisters – who daily march toward the kingdom and a life prepared beyond all our wildest imagining!


Amen.

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Jul 4 - Independence Day in the United States

+ The readings today do what the daily readings so often do: they speak in a timely fashion the mood, climate and reality of the situations that we find ourselves in.

On this Independence Day, in the United States, like no other time in our history, the very “fabric of the flag,” the “substance of our being,” the “framework of our existence” is in jeopardy of a fatal encounter with destiny of a modern nation which has lost its vision, lost its guts, lost its mind! Something needs to be done – and soon!

The metastatic cancerous presence of a man who is preeminently demonstrating his unfitness for holding the office of president of the union, by the hour degrades, devalues and destroys what holds us together, and not only us, but also the stability of the family of world nations of which we are a part. He is unraveling and dismantling a basic dynamic of trust / loyalty / right action!

And just as Sodom and Gomorrah, of the first reading today, suffered grave consequences for their lack of moral judgement, accountability and right action, so too, the very Author of all Law, Justice and Consequence will bring to naught the ignorant and foolish people who not only perpetrate the offense, but also, those who stood by and said and did nothing to help counter the downslide.

This of course will negate and mock all of the sacrifices and lives given to establish and defend the rights and freedoms of our nation, it will be a travesty of unparalleled proportions if the people of the country, who are at the same time people of God in some form or fashion do not rise up and make their objections known.

The gospel passage today reflects the ease and immediate relief that can come from God himself, to calm the winds, the waves and the storms that are buffeting and bruising Lady Liberty in the harbor of man-made misery.

All we need do is to ask with faith, turn to Jesus and say: HELP US LORD, WE HAVE BEEN FOOLISH, CALM THE STORM, SHOW US THE WAY TO A SAFE HARBOR, TO A LAND OF MUTUAL RESPECT, COMPASSION, AND HUMAN HELPFULNESS!

And he will do it. But we have to ask! We have to ask from our hearts, freely, voluntarily and responsibly!


Monday, July 3, 2017

Jul 3 - St. Thomas, Apostle

+ Today we celebrate the feast day of one of the most quoted Apostles of them all: St. Thomas the Apostle. There was a time when we would immediately connect the name “Thomas” with “Doubting” – but in our day we have come to the certain realization that the other side of the coin is the more important one: Thomas’s resounding act of FAITH, by which he cries out (when he touches the sacred wounds of Christ): MY LORD, AND MY GOD! -  and which redounds throughout the ages as the most perfect prayer of FAITH and ADORATION that were ever spoken!

That Thomas first shot off his mouth in a barrage of disbelief was absolutely normal for a human being, the human being that he was. It resembled quite a bit the times when Peter, James and John and some of the other Apostles shot their mouths off as well in a rain shower of ignorant and senseless words. But that is all they were: words, words with no real substance or meaning. We all shoot off our mouths from time to time.

But the great and wonderful message today on this feast of St. Thomas is that forgiveness and reconciliation is always more important than holding a grudge and harboring resentments: if Jesus did that: no one would be forgiven and no one would go to heaven.

In the gospel passage, we see that what triggered Thomas’s act of faith and renewed zest for apostolic work was “touching the wounds of Christ” – if we need a retriggering of our faith: the most direct way is to “touch the sacred wounds of Christ in the poor and needy around us” – we must reach out to them and touch them physically (when appropriate) but always prayerfully, spiritually and even monetarily: they are after all depending on us for their lives!

There is uncertainty about Thomas’s missionary activity after Pentecost, but it is generally believed that he spent a great deal of time in India, and was martyred there: there is a cathedral there bearing his name!

May our faith be as strong as this “doubter’s” was; and may we like Thomas know when to cooperate with grace given and allow our acts of doubt to melt into acts of faith: faith and belief that Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God – made flesh – for us and for our salvation!

Let us go out to all the world and tell this Good News!


Sunday, July 2, 2017

Jul 3 - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fourth of July Weekend

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 2, 2017
I –Elisha is a holy man of God, let him remain.
R –I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
II – Buried with Christ in baptism, we shall walk in the newness of life.
A – You are a chosen race,  a royal priesthood, a holy nation; announce the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
G –Whoever does not take up his cross is not worthy of me. Whoever receives you, receives me.

+ The “Magna Carta” and “Constitution” of the Church founded by Christ is “The Beatitudes.” – pure and simple. Each of these three documents encourages those who follow them, and adhere to them, something to live by and to die for. Each of these involves not only “freedom” of the human spirit, but also “responsibility and accountability” to enter into the “giving/receiving” dynamic that is part of the “dance of human life on this planet.”

In the divine plan – which created and inaugurated the “dance” – no one is to live alone, no one is to dance alone, no one is to die alone.

The gospel passage today outlines for us the rationale behind this dynamic: it is in giving one’s life entirely “for the cause” “for the plan of another” “for good and welfare of another” – that we will gain an experience of life that was meant to be, a life of receiving reward, and a feeling of satisfaction, but at the price of self-sacrifice, (carrying our own tailor-made cross), even to the extreme point of physical death. This is how a Christian should live, this is how a private citizen of the United States should live, this is how those volunteering to defend and protect our freedoms, especially in military service do live and die.

On this particular Fourth of July in our nation’s history – we have reason and cause to pause our traditional care-free and party-like celebratory activities – and to reflect, if only for a brief moment, in our family picnics and hometown parades, entertainment and fireworks – in a moment of profound silence - on the fact that at no other time in our nation, and our world’s history – have  political and governmental systems been so out of whack, so out of control, so out of touch with the reality of right human interrelatedness that is part of our innate genetic makeup – no matter our race, nationality or personal creeds.

The utter contempt and vulgar banality of the president of our beloved country, for example - the utter and complete disregard for this sacred, God-given role that he holds, and the ramifications that penetrate the entire fabric not only of our own country but all of the countries on earth which interact with us, and depend on us and our intelligent participation in world balance of power and sharing of resources: is a catastrophic dismantling of everything we hold dear, sacred and true – and those who kowtow to him, and hide behind his office to save their own political necks are guilty by association – and ought to be ashamed of themselves for putting politics about the true needs of their constituents who put them into office.

It is time, dear people of God, to “storm the citadel” in many ways great and small to make known our rightly educated and conscience formed objections to what the heck is going on in DC. It is time to “march on Washington!” It is time to cry out: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY!

As St Paul tells all who bear the name of Christian in the second reading today: a Christian is one who has died with Christ, has been buried with him, and has risen from the waters of baptism a new creation, a joyful and happy creation, a clear thinking, and rightly motivated creation: service of others being a number one priority. Now is the time to BE ACTIVELY CHRISTIAN, to BE A NEW CREATON, to be THE PARENT where circumstances warrant it, to BE CLEAR THINKING and RIGHTLY CONSCIENCE MOTIVATED and to “banish the bully” in the White House, to ensure his removal from office, for his sake and safety, and for the good of the presidency, the nation and the world. If there is no provision in the Constitution of the United States for such removal – due to sheer unmitigated and blatant disrespect of the office and inability to govern and guide in a way foreseen by the founding fathers – then it is broken – and needs to be fixed NOW!

As Christians, our native land is now heaven, but we do live here on the earth that God commissioned us to “take care of and master in an intelligent way” – now is this time to do that – NOW IS THE TIME!

We have been chosen by God to be a holy nation - GOD HAS BLESSED AMERICA – and now we need to announce the praises of this blessing God who has called us out of darkness into his wonderful light!

Let us therefore live in the light – let us each reflect the glory of God in all we think, say and do!
 


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