Gratitude & Thanksgiving

(Scripture reflection from The Magnificat, Luke 13:10-17) “Woman, you are set free” Now I am going to tell you how I experience God, his divine presence and the effects it produces in me. I experience God at all times and in all places—when I am working, when I am eating, and even when I am in bed—but not always in the same manner nor with the same intensity. Thus, when I am alone in my cell and not distracted by physical occupations, I feel drawn by an infinite sweetness and power. My soul enjoys a complete and serene peacefulness, like a sky without any clouds. At other times it seems as if God is carrying me in his arms and he hugs me as a mother does her child. Then I say to him—no, I don’t say anything, I feel—“My God, why are you so good and why do you love this unworthy creature so much?” And I hear him say to me, although rather than hear I understand: “I do the same to all…. My desires are to unite myself with souls.”  In order that you may understand, I am...

Beautiful reading from  Romans 8:12-17  about the Trinitarian Love (and commentary from Universalis) Romans 8:12-17  My brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live.   Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God . The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons , and it makes us cry out, ‘ Abba, Father !’ The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of God . And if we are children we are heirs as well: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, sharing his sufferings so as to share his glory. Commentary This is a wonderful Trinitarian passage. To begin with, in the Lord’s Prayer Jesus has himself authorized us to call God our Father , giving us the Aramaic word , which he himself used in the A...

https://www.facebook.com/mamamia/videos/no-filter-with-eddie-jaku/348981262623281/ (if you cant view it on FB, check this link:  https://www.mamamia.com.au/eddie-jaku-died/ ) My mum forwarded this video, it is good.  It is short, and wise, by Eddie Jaku, a Holocaust survivor who died aged 101 on 12 Oct 2021, just give days ago*.   He had two messages in the short video: Do not hate Give 

  To be forgiven and to be in the family of God, we don’t earn it, it comes from the blood of Christ. But to stay in the family of God, we have to be faithful to that love that He has given us.