Tuesday, April 10, 2018

April 10 - 2nd Week of Easter - Tuesday


­­+ Today we have very important, even I may add “critical” readings for mass – especially the gospel passage. The whole incarnation of the Word of God, which really happened, the enfleshment of God-Speech, as Jesus! God only spoke one Creative Word – by the working of the Holy Spirit – and that word is WORD! And this WORD became flesh – so as to save us from sure and certain eternal doom and damnation – the result of the sin of our first parents!

And so, we have just recalled and celebrated the great high holy days of our religious observance: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil!

Now there is likewise only one way to get totally connected and hooked up to these eternal life saving events: and that is the method that Jesus himself prescribes: saying to Nicodemus in the gospel passage: “YOU MUST BE BORN FROM ABOVE!” you MUST be BORN FROM ABOVE – you must access God in the way in which will be salvific for your life here and hereafter!

YOU MUST BE “BORN AGAIN”! – of the SPIRIT! but Nicodemus is tripped up by the phrase: “BORN AGAIN” How can this happen?? Can a fully grown man crawl back inside his mother’s womb, for a second birth, a second launching into the world. Well, no and yes!

Jesus begins to assure Nicodemus that it is a supernatural, spiritual reality that he is talking about, not the natural event that Nicodemus is thinking about!

Being born again and truly living the life we were meant to live consists in this: Jesus further extrapolates: you must be baptized, first for the forgiveness of sin, in my Name; then later you must affirm and confirm this “sacrament” by another deepening sacrament: Confirmation; and then if you want the fullness of the life of the Spirit, you must be baptized in the Holy Spirit – so the same experience that happened on Pentecost Day can happen to you – then you will be fully armed, charged and launched as a spiritual force into the world to help combat the opposing force that wants to deter people on earth from their rightful eternal inheritance of peace, and joy and love!

More on all this later as this Season and the Season of Pentecost unfolds in a few weeks.

Let it suffice to say: that subsequent actions, which speak louder than words, testify to the fact that this Spirit life in the Mystical Body of Christ is real, palpable and accessible to anyone at all who wants it: and the action involved are actions of self-sacrifice, love, sharing, caring, compassion, empathy and Service after the Heart of the Lord Jesus who washed his disciples feet at the Last Supper he ate with them in the pre-resurrected human life form that he possessed.

In whatever degree we now possess the Spirit – always knowing we can proceed to the next and more deep level – let us live our faith joyfully, recklessly, peacefully and happily this day as we help in some way every single person God puts in our path!

Belief in the Son of Man who was lifted up from the earth is essential for eternal life! I BELIEVE LORD JESUS, LORD CHRIST, LORD SAVIOR! how can I help you today!


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