(The Body and Blood of Christ call us to be reflections of Christ in being “broken bread” to our family, community, and the world. We must die unto ourselves in order to follow Christ and receive His salvation.)
Tag: Sunday Reflection
The Trinity in Grandmom’s kitchen
God’s sacrificial love for us offers us eternal salvation, and we are allowed to choose it for ourselves. Despite having the freedom to choose, we are integrally connected to God, just like the Triune God, in whose image we are all created, remains a communion of Three Persons.
The God We Believe In
In Jesus, the sacrificial lamb, a compassionate God is revealed, one that waits patiently for our positive response to Him. He is with us forever, the very core of our existence. It is entirely up to us to acknowledge the love of God and accept His warm embrace.
Come Holy Spirit, and lead us out of our hiding places!
To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to detach ourselves from our individualistic mentality, become part of God’s plan to evangelize and fulfill His vision for the world.
The Spirit: Hope for a new world
The transformative power of the Holy Spirit is so utterly sublime and powerful. It takes what would be considered completely useless and turns it into gold to be offered in obeisance to the Lord. The Spirit fills us with the love of God and opens the Church to all peoples, irrespective of origin.
How can we experience Christ’s presence after His Ascension?
Jesus remains with us in the suffering and the poor, but most especially in the Eucharist. Christ also entrusts us with the responsibility of representing Him to those that do not know Him through our words and deeds.
Mandate of the Church to continue His mission
Christians are not perfect people. They are imperfect people who have doubts despite their belief in the Savior. And it is still these imperfect people that Jesus chose to carry His word to those that do not know Him. The imperfect Church must carry the light of the unblemished lamb to every corner of the earth.
We in God and God in us: The fullness of our life in God
The disciples’ sadness at Jesus’ second departure was alleviated by the joy and hope that the Paraclete He promised to send gave them. In the same way, Jesus remains in us, in an intangible manner, so that we experience Him through faith and He can be present to all people at all times.
Without the Spirit, the Gospel is but a doctrine
The Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, is Jesus’ gift to us to comfort us, to breathe life into His Word, to inspire us with wisdom and prudence, and guide us in our battle against the spirit of this world.
The Risen Christ is our way home
Meeting the physical need of shelter is important, but even more important is the offer of love and an eternal dwelling place that God offers us – heaven. This is the home all of us must aspire to.