Are we ready to travel the same path as Jesus? Do we have the mental and spiritual strength to counter animosity and rejection with love and forgiveness? As true disciples, we must embrace ignominy, if that be our lot, with absolute joy. Today’s Gospel forces us to question our status as “followers of Christ.”
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a devotion that offers us a clear appreciation of God’s love for us. In Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross, we find redemptive love that offers us a second chance through reconciliation and the courage to follow in his footsteps even unto death.
Learning the importance of struggle and suffering is something that is largely missing in this modern culture of easy living. When we look back to Christ, we find that only by living his sacrifice can we arrive at “Jerusalem.”
Can we claim a reward for a good deed? Can we merit anything with our works? Or is it God’s grace and mercy alone that saves us?
Conceived by Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Eucharistic Miracles of the World international exhibition was inaugurated at the Diocesan Center on Rua Formosa. The photographic exhibition highlights 17 Eucharistic miracles approved by the Church.
Everything we encounter here on earth must serve as a conduit to God, to union with his eternal love. Even our earthly marriage must serve as a reflection and preparation of this ultimate communion with God.
When we offer up goodness to the world, we will have it reciprocated in kind in one way or the other. Antoine de Saint-Exupery has an important lesson on what compassion and kindness and the acknowledgement of such is able to beget in this world; it is a lesson we should all heed with zeal.
Steering away from our status as fallible humans with a penchant to grasp at the tangible, it behoves us, as Catholics, to accept that the answer to every question we have lies in the silence of the most blessed sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
The feast of Corpus Christi allows us to recall that Jesus, the representation of the Old Covenant Passover lamb, gave up his body for us that we might be spiritually nourished and be exempt from sin. As Catholics, we are also called to renew our awareness of the dignity of the human person, created in the image of God.
The most precious Body and Blood of Jesus are a constant reminder of how God draws us to the spiritual through the material. The solemnity of the most holy Body and Blood of Christ exceptionally emphasizes that while the material aspect of life should never control us, we must allow God to direct the use of the material to lead to a stronger spiritual life.
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