Gratitude & Thanksgiving

          A friend was down with the flu bug and we were chatting on whatsapp about Lent, and about suffering. She thought aloud with me....” how to love our suffering?  I can’t say I love my bad flu bug….rather, it's more of quiet acceptance & not complaining…" Are we called to love our suffering?  Or do we mean we are called to e mbrace our suffering.    It’s not about loving our flu bug, but about embracing it and glorifying the Lord by our response to it. My friend shared what Pope John Paul II said about Padre Pio at his  canonisation: "The life and mission of Padre Pio  testify that the difficulties and sorrows , if accepted with love , transform themselves into a privileged journey of holiness, which opens the person toward a greater good , known only to the Lord. ”   Pope John Paul II  What came to mind was George Yeo’s wife Jennifer ’ s attitude towards cancer cells that invaded her bo...

  7 March 2019 Thursday "Prompt our actions with your inspiration, we pray, O Lord,  and further them with your constant help, that all we do may always  begin from you  and by you be brought to completion...."

  What is eternal life?   In Biblical terms, to have "eternal life" means to know the only true God. " And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." John 17:3' The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches us that to have "eternal life" is to have the knowledge of God. "God put us in the world to know, to love, and to serve him, and so to come to paradise. Beatitude makes us "partakers of the divine nature" and of eternal life." CCC1721   The word "KNOW" in the Bible The word "know": knowledge in which personal involvement is always supposed.  knowledge which is the fruit of faith and love So, eternal life refers to "the soul's knowledge of God on a personal basis."   Eternal life is divine life     Eternal life is not natural life (psyche), but divine life (zoe)    Divine life is a key concept in the Gospel of John. I am the Way, ...

  3 March 2019 Sunday The defects of a man appears in his talk The test of a man is in his conversation A man’s words betrays what he feels Ecclesiasticus 27:5-8 A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart A bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart. Luke 6:39-45