The Harvest

Day's Saints
Bridget of Sweden, Franciscan

Gospel Mt 13:24-43

Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying:
"The kingdom of heaven may be likened
to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came
and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
The slaves of the householder came to him and said,
'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from?'
He answered, 'An enemy has done this.'
His slaves said to him,
'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'
He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weeds
you might uproot the wheat along with them.
Let them grow together until harvest;
then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,
"First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;
but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

He proposed another parable to them.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed
that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds,
yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.
It becomes a large bush,
and the 'birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'"

He spoke to them another parable.
"The kingdom of heaven is like yeast
that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch was leavened."

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables.
He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation
of the world.

Then, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house.
His disciples approached him and said,
"Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."
He said in reply, "He who sows good seed is the Son of Man,
the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom.
The weeds are the children of the evil one,
and the enemy who sows them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire,
so will it be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send his angels,
and they will collect out of his kingdom
all who cause others to sin and all evildoers.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun
in the kingdom of their Father.
Whoever has ears ought to hear."

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Even in the belly of the whale, God safeguards
His beloved.

Let us rather not dwell on the evil done by the wicked, but remember the good done by the just, who will shine like the sun one day, and who did the Will of God and so built up the land and the people of God.

Let your patience be your defining attribute, so your love will shine out to dispel darkness. Be like the Lord who worked obscurely in the midst of His people, so that He could bring them into the light some day to shine like heaven itself.

God brings healing out of suffering and darkness so that all that is left is the strong patience of the holy, who imitating God, gladden the hearts of his brothers.

God causes your suffering and despair to be healing and salvation; the burning of the damned will be all the more striking beside the bliss of those who loved God and his brothers and sisters.

Jesus drank from the sponge dipped into common wine, and having drunk, commended His soul to God and died. He rose again in due time and ascended back to God to return to His side to judge and to bless, for the good men do reflects His glory so that He may gether them to His side.

The bitterness of our pain reflects the passion of Our Lord, and sweetness is tasted by the faithful who love God and act for the salvation of the children of God.

Will not the just man cry out for the man for whom he suffers so the Lord may be moved to save them? You must know that he will, and the just Lord will reward appropriately, all those who displayed their love of God through their good deeds. God does not punish us for the good we were prevented from doing by evil, but for the love we fail to do willfully, so that the relief cannot come until God acts to requite all.

The Lord's rest will come as surely as dawn follows nightfall, and those who labored so the Lord may rest, will never lack rest for themselves. Neither will despair overcome the just man who labors to love the children of God and bring them good things.

You who wish you could say something comforting to your brothers and sisters will not lack the encouragement of the man consecrated and approved by God, but will speak His holy words to heal and comfort all. For God did not create us for suffering and death, but for the life of Jesus which He proposes to share with everyone who will dispose himself appropriately.

Though it was brief, I woke from my sleep rested for the journey ahead, where I laid down for Him who fixed me to the cross out of my desire placed there burning in my heart like desire itself.

Great things are being done, great things burst out like joy that cannot be constrained. Men are lifted up to God to know Him by the fire of His love in their hearts, warming and purifying and buoying up all who are fastened to the bottom of the sea, stayed like an anchor in God Himself.

It is the nature of fire that the air around it becomes light and bouyant to rise until it cools. I have burned greatly in my youth, and now I settle back down to wait on His pleasure who lavished so much of Himself on me who did not deserve it and and was not grateful to please Him enough. He kindles me, and He will kindle you, for He alone knows if you sinned or fell short of the mark, but He will still be glad we are near Him, and we will rise again, our hearts wafted up in the warmth of the fire of His love.

Trim your lamps and carry oil with you, for out of the night, the Bridegroom comes to enter His home and welcome into it all who kept His vigil in their hearts, eagerly awaiting His coming.

The Harvest

Day's Saints
Bridget of Sweden, Franciscan

Gospel Mt 13:24-43

Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying:
"The kingdom of heaven may be likened
to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came
and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
The slaves of the householder came to him and said,
'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from?'
He answered, 'An enemy has done this.'
His slaves said to him,
'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'
He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weeds
you might uproot the wheat along with them.
Let them grow together until harvest;
then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,
"First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;
but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

He proposed another parable to them.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed
that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds,
yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.
It becomes a large bush,
and the 'birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'"

He spoke to them another parable.
"The kingdom of heaven is like yeast
that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch was leavened."

All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables.
He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation
of the world.

Then, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house.
His disciples approached him and said,
"Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."
He said in reply, "He who sows good seed is the Son of Man,
the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom.
The weeds are the children of the evil one,
and the enemy who sows them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire,
so will it be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send his angels,
and they will collect out of his kingdom
all who cause others to sin and all evildoers.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun
in the kingdom of their Father.
Whoever has ears ought to hear."

+

Even in the belly of the whale, God safeguards
His beloved.

Let us rather not dwell on the evil done by the wicked, but remember the good done by the just, who will shine like the sun one day, and who did the Will of God and so built up the land and the people of God.

Let your patience be your defining attribute, so your love will shine out to dispel darkness. Be like the Lord who worked obscurely in the midst of His people, so that He could bring them into the light some day to shine like heaven itself.

God brings healing out of suffering and darkness so that all that is left is the strong patience of the holy, who imitating God, gladden the hearts of his brothers.

God causes your suffering and despair to be healing and salvation; the burning of the damned will be all the more striking beside the bliss of those who loved God and his brothers and sisters.

Jesus drank from the sponge dipped into common wine, and having drunk, commended His soul to God and died. He rose again in due time and ascended back to God to return to His side to judge and to bless, for the good men do reflects His glory so that He may gether them to His side.

The bitterness of our pain reflects the passion of Our Lord, and sweetness is tasted by the faithful who love God and act for the salvation of the children of God.

Will not the just man cry out for the man for whom he suffers so the Lord may be moved to save them? You must know that he will, and the just Lord will reward appropriately, all those who displayed their love of God through their good deeds. God does not punish us for the good we were prevented from doing by evil, but for the love we fail to do willfully, so that the relief cannot come until God acts to requite all.

The Lord's rest will come as surely as dawn follows nightfall, and those who labored so the Lord may rest, will never lack rest for themselves. Neither will despair overcome the just man who labors to love the children of God and bring them good things.

You who wish you could say something comforting to your brothers and sisters will not lack the encouragement of the man consecrated and approved by God, but will speak His holy words to heal and comfort all. For God did not create us for suffering and death, but for the life of Jesus which He proposes to share with everyone who will dispose himself appropriately.

Though it was brief, I woke from my sleep rested for the journey ahead, where I laid down for Him who fixed me to the cross out of my desire placed there burning in my heart like desire itself.

Great things are being done, great things burst out like joy that cannot be constrained. Men are lifted up to God to know Him by the fire of His love in their hearts, warming and purifying and buoying up all who are fastened to the bottom of the sea, stayed like an anchor in God Himself.

It is the nature of fire that the air around it becomes light and bouyant to rise until it cools. I have burned greatly in my youth, and now I settle back down to wait on His pleasure who lavished so much of Himself on me who did not deserve it and and was not grateful to please Him enough. He kindles me, and He will kindle you, for He alone knows if you sinned or fell short of the mark, but He will still be glad we are near Him, and we will rise again, our hearts wafted up in the warmth of the fire of His love.

Trim your lamps and carry oil with you, for out of the night, the Bridegroom comes to enter His home and welcome into it all who kept His vigil in their hearts, eagerly awaiting His coming.

Fire

DAY'S SAINTS
Daniel, Prophet
Alberic Crescitelli, Martyr

Gospel Mt 12:1-8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
"See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath."
He said to the them, "Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath
the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath
and are innocent?
I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

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The Lord is gracious and generous toward us His children, and looks for our love and affection with longing. Purification of hearts is the watchword of our days.

We can participate in His passon-life, and in so doing, strengthen the fires of His love in His Sacred Heart, from which He shed His Precious Blood. If we participate in that, at the very least we will be purified so His love may cleanse our deficits, and at the most, atone for sins arrogant men presume are not held to account for.

How may we so participate? Loving one another, and serving one another as brothers and sisters, and forgiving sins against ourselves or other people. It is plain that if we desire to live in peace, we will need to desire even more to  be absolutely pure for the Lord.

But what is it to live in peace? Is it simply that no war has broken out and men are not exceeding the limit of transgressions against others?  is it that while we wait on this earth, we are elevated to the embrace of the ecstatic and holy Lord? He holds out to us that participation in Himself and His happiness He desires us to have. The key to obtaining that is that He is all our desire. Might He not wish us to participate in the sorrows and disappointments of others so they may be free of them? Should we be so inclined to pray for others and we find ourselves going beyond that point, we might very well suffer their suffering just when we were hoping to rest ourselves. But if the Lord sees they have succumbed to their cross, would He trouble us to suffer instead of them? Yes. Consider it. At the very least, your disappointments can save souls, and if that is all He asks, are we big enough of heart not to mind?

In the movie (on Youtube), "Shoes of the Fisherman", ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=in+the+shoes+of+the+fisherman), 

the pope proposes to the Chinese that they forsake invasion and war and that the Church will provide money to feed the Chineses by selling all the worldly possessions and treasures and properties of the entire Catholic Church. Such a real event would be apropos and timely in these days, and also absolutely stunning.

Ordinary people throughout time have done exactly that, stirring controvery when they did, by challenging their contemporaries to live the virtues Jesus extolled in His thrity years of life. Jesus warned those who were listening to Him that He would be accused falsely, taken into custody to be tried unfairly and in such a way that He would be guilty of what they considered blasphemy, with the result, that He was crucified with two criminals by the Romans.

His disciples were holed-up together in a building fearful of the same people who crucified Jesus, when He appeared in their midst and gave them the Holy Spirit and told them to go forth into the whole world to spread the good news of the coming of the Kingdom of God.

How we  might do the same requires vision and purpose, and the more vision we have and the more purposeful we became, the more we would see what Jesus always sees in Heaven, and the closer this world would get to being ready for the last day.

No one need wait for some tremendous vision or revelation in the sky; children are being canonized as saints for the simple love they held in their hearts and manifested to others, appearing like great lights in their midst.

Do not decry the darkness if you have not at least lit a candle to shed some light, praying a Rosary with others, or attending the celebration of the Mass with devotion. If He finds devotion in your midst, He will fan the flames of His love to enkindle everyone nearby, and the earth can start enjoying Heaven now instead of thirty years from now.

Who knows how many souls such illumination might save out of darkness seeking God; those seeking with all their heart and more will be blessed. The excess of love will inflame an indifferent world.

Fire

DAY'S SAINTS
Daniel, Prophet
Alberic Crescitelli, Martyr

Gospel Mt 12:1-8
Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
"See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath."
He said to the them, "Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath
the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath
and are innocent?
I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

+

The Lord is gracious and generous toward us His children, and looks for our love and affection with longing. Purification of hearts is the watchword of our days.

We can participate in His passon-life, and in so doing, strengthen the fires of His love in His Sacred Heart, from which He shed His Precious Blood. If we participate in that, at the very least we will be purified so His love may cleanse our deficits, and at the most, atone for sins arrogant men presume are not held to account for.

How may we so participate? Loving one another, and serving one another as brothers and sisters, and forgiving sins against ourselves or other people. It is plain that if we desire to live in peace, we will need to desire even more to  be absolutely pure for the Lord.

But what is it to live in peace? Is it simply that no war has broken out and men are not exceeding the limit of transgressions against others?  is it that while we wait on this earth, we are elevated to the embrace of the ecstatic and holy Lord? He holds out to us that participation in Himself and His happiness He desires us to have. The key to obtaining that is that He is all our desire. Might He not wish us to participate in the sorrows and disappointments of others so they may be free of them? Should we be so inclined to pray for others and we find ourselves going beyond that point, we might very well suffer their suffering just when we were hoping to rest ourselves. But if the Lord sees they have succumbed to their cross, would He trouble us to suffer instead of them? Yes. Consider it. At the very least, your disappointments can save souls, and if that is all He asks, are we big enough of heart not to mind?

In the movie (on Youtube), "Shoes of the Fisherman", ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=in+the+shoes+of+the+fisherman), 

the pope proposes to the Chinese that they forsake invasion and war and that the Church will provide money to feed the Chineses by selling all the worldly possessions and treasures and properties of the entire Catholic Church. Such a real event would be apropos and timely in these days, and also absolutely stunning.

Ordinary people throughout time have done exactly that, stirring controvery when they did, by challenging their contemporaries to live the virtues Jesus extolled in His thrity years of life. Jesus warned those who were listening to Him that He would be accused falsely, taken into custody to be tried unfairly and in such a way that He would be guilty of what they considered blasphemy, with the result, that He was crucified with two criminals by the Romans.

His disciples were holed-up together in a building fearful of the same people who crucified Jesus, when He appeared in their midst and gave them the Holy Spirit and told them to go forth into the whole world to spread the good news of the coming of the Kingdom of God.

How we  might do the same requires vision and purpose, and the more vision we have and the more purposeful we became, the more we would see what Jesus always sees in Heaven, and the closer this world would get to being ready for the last day.

No one need wait for some tremendous vision or revelation in the sky; children are being canonized as saints for the simple love they held in their hearts and manifested to others, appearing like great lights in their midst.

Do not decry the darkness if you have not at least lit a candle to shed some light, praying a Rosary with others, or attending the celebration of the Mass with devotion. If He finds devotion in your midst, He will fan the flames of His love to enkindle everyone nearby, and the earth can start enjoying Heaven now instead of thirty years from now.

Who knows how many souls such illumination might save out of darkness seeking God; those seeking with all their heart and more will be blessed. The excess of love will inflame an indifferent world.

Saints

 

A saint whose life spanned so many years and so difficult to live ought to be examined and celebrated  as much as possible. Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina was one such saint. His life is full of significance, and it is being revealed more and more every day. He never hid his meaning in clever riddles, but was plain for all to see, and easy to understand; you either love the Lord or not, and His representitvrd are either loved or not, and the age reflects the light that we have been allowed to see.

I say that "we have been allowed to see" because evil is busy obfuscating and operating against God and the love He has for us and our love of Him.

This age particularly has need of the light of Christ and to love Jesus as He deserves. The age is dark to begin with, but with so much turmoil dimming the light of God, we are left few choices for seeing the truth and clinging to it come what may. Doubt casts a pall over truth and divine realities which God Himself has made plain to us, which is to say revealed to us so there may be no ambiguity, because on the last day, there will be no ambiguity before the judgement seat of God. Either you love God or not. But if you feel the foundations of your existence crumbling, reach out to God to restore your faith so you may respond to Him and categorically choose Him as Lord and love of your life. He knows those who really do love Him, there is no ambiguity, and as He said, by their fruits you will know them.

Do not be afraid of this age; things happen for a reason, and one part of the reason they happen as they do is that suffering with the ambiguities is necessary in order to see the truth, but as the truth is seen, so too is the evil made obvious, so that we have need of the light of God all the more, the longer we live.

You can find no peace in evil, it exists only in God. So much is this so, that one attribute of the divine is an obvious peace. A mature soul quells the longings in it, so it cannot be disturbed and caused to deviate from a course which leads securely to God and salvation. Do not reach out to evil for salvation because it is dedicated to destroying faith and love of God, of one's self and of other people.

The Blessed Mother requested the consecration of Russia and the nations of the world for a reason; it is not an arbitrary request. If the world wants peace, then it must want the consecration and to do everything possible to make it happen. The liars that have sprung up in the world are there to mislead God's children and separate them from God. All the more should the children of God trust and love God and one another, sparing nothing, spiritually and corporally to advance the cause of the loving Immaculate Heart of Mary the Mother of God.

The lives of the saints are plain signs and show the ways we may individually and corporately live so that we are saved and do not lose the salvation brought about by Jesus. Each one sacrificed their life to foster love of God and belief in Him and to be strong against evil so that little by little, the Kingdom is made ready for its debut.

We know there will be wars and calamities whose aim is to destroy our faith in God and one another. By separating individuals one by one, evil desires to weaken and destroy all of us and the Church. I reiterate that by prayer, we cement our relationship to God and foster the building of the Kingdom of God so it is sound and splendid to see.

The number of souls dedicated to living the passion-life of Jesus is great, and the building of the Church and the Kingdom of God continues and grows stronger and there is no greater weapon against evil than that some souls might surrender themselves without defense, to the Will of God through the suffering with Jesus of His passion-life.

The orginal sin happened and the calamitous effects of its happening remain to this day through all the long ages of time until now. That sin was destroyed by the salavation of Jesus and His crucifixion and death. He gave us Baptism, and through the ministry of the Church, Jesus prolongs and intensifies its effects so that a Kingdom will soon be completed and revealed to replace all that has gone before. There is still a day set to arrive, when Jesus will reveal Himself to everyone all at the same time so that chasms that exist in the Faith can be reduced into the necessary unity in which all human beings will be inducted. What remains after that will continue to follow the Will of God so that all things are brought to completion, for the world suffers greatly from not knowing and not seeing the light of God.

Evil can produce nothing that truly resembles or rivals the truth and light of God, which is His presence and His love penetrating everywhere to drive out evil away from God and so the children of God might be drawn infinitely close the the love of His Sacred Heart.

Lift up your hearts and know your freedom, and flight given to holy souls through love. God wishes freedom for all people, and He is perfectly willing to wait until it is revealed and gathered together in Him forever, where nothing will surpass it or touch it or enjoy or possess it that does not love God.

Such a light waits for us to be ready to gaze upon it as no one has gazed before, and it will eradicate evil so that no trace persists. This is what drew saints to their sainthood long before they were even pronounced to be saints. Heaven exists to provide us a place to live in God free of distraction or suffering and without the dangers that exist in the world as it is today. Be at peace and give thanks to God for it; use it to draw closer to God and to prepare to be lovers of God who will not be unable to love Him infinitely as He intended. 

Saints

 

A saint whose life spanned so many years and so difficult to live ought to be examined and celebrated  as much as possible. Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina was one such saint. His life is full of significance, and it is being revealed more and more every day. He never hid his meaning in clever riddles, but was plain for all to see, and easy to understand; you either love the Lord or not, and His representitvrd are either loved or not, and the age reflects the light that we have been allowed to see.

I say that "we have been allowed to see" because evil is busy obfuscating and operating against God and the love He has for us and our love of Him.

This age particularly has need of the light of Christ and to love Jesus as He deserves. The age is dark to begin with, but with so much turmoil dimming the light of God, we are left few choices for seeing the truth and clinging to it come what may. Doubt casts a pall over truth and divine realities which God Himself has made plain to us, which is to say revealed to us so there may be no ambiguity, because on the last day, there will be no ambiguity before the judgement seat of God. Either you love God or not. But if you feel the foundations of your existence crumbling, reach out to God to restore your faith so you may respond to Him and categorically choose Him as Lord and love of your life. He knows those who really do love Him, there is no ambiguity, and as He said, by their fruits you will know them.

Do not be afraid of this age; things happen for a reason, and one part of the reason they happen as they do is that suffering with the ambiguities is necessary in order to see the truth, but as the truth is seen, so too is the evil made obvious, so that we have need of the light of God all the more, the longer we live.

You can find no peace in evil, it exists only in God. So much is this so, that one attribute of the divine is an obvious peace. A mature soul quells the longings in it, so it cannot be disturbed and caused to deviate from a course which leads securely to God and salvation. Do not reach out to evil for salvation because it is dedicated to destroying faith and love of God, of one's self and of other people.

The Blessed Mother requested the consecration of Russia and the nations of the world for a reason; it is not an arbitrary request. If the world wants peace, then it must want the consecration and to do everything possible to make it happen. The liars that have sprung up in the world are there to mislead God's children and separate them from God. All the more should the children of God trust and love God and one another, sparing nothing, spiritually and corporally to advance the cause of the loving Immaculate Heart of Mary the Mother of God.

The lives of the saints are plain signs and show the ways we may individually and corporately live so that we are saved and do not lose the salvation brought about by Jesus. Each one sacrificed their life to foster love of God and belief in Him and to be strong against evil so that little by little, the Kingdom is made ready for its debut.

We know there will be wars and calamities whose aim is to destroy our faith in God and one another. By separating individuals one by one, evil desires to weaken and destroy all of us and the Church. I reiterate that by prayer, we cement our relationship to God and foster the building of the Kingdom of God so it is sound and splendid to see.

The number of souls dedicated to living the passion-life of Jesus is great, and the building of the Church and the Kingdom of God continues and grows stronger and there is no greater weapon against evil than that some souls might surrender themselves without defense, to the Will of God through the suffering with Jesus of His passion-life.

The orginal sin happened and the calamitous effects of its happening remain to this day through all the long ages of time until now. That sin was destroyed by the salavation of Jesus and His crucifixion and death. He gave us Baptism, and through the ministry of the Church, Jesus prolongs and intensifies its effects so that a Kingdom will soon be completed and revealed to replace all that has gone before. There is still a day set to arrive, when Jesus will reveal Himself to everyone all at the same time so that chasms that exist in the Faith can be reduced into the necessary unity in which all human beings will be inducted. What remains after that will continue to follow the Will of God so that all things are brought to completion, for the world suffers greatly from not knowing and not seeing the light of God.

Evil can produce nothing that truly resembles or rivals the truth and light of God, which is His presence and His love penetrating everywhere to drive out evil away from God and so the children of God might be drawn infinitely close the the love of His Sacred Heart.

Lift up your hearts and know your freedom, and flight given to holy souls through love. God wishes freedom for all people, and He is perfectly willing to wait until it is revealed and gathered together in Him forever, where nothing will surpass it or touch it or enjoy or possess it that does not love God.

Such a light waits for us to be ready to gaze upon it as no one has gazed before, and it will eradicate evil so that no trace persists. This is what drew saints to their sainthood long before they were even pronounced to be saints. Heaven exists to provide us a place to live in God free of distraction or suffering and without the dangers that exist in the world as it is today. Be at peace and give thanks to God for it; use it to draw closer to God and to prepare to be lovers of God who will not be unable to love Him infinitely as He intended. 

Seeing

The life of a Catholic is a rich life. Not only do we have very many beautiful prayers, but the Rosary and the Mass as well.

It is not like Jesus was among us and then departed back to heaven to leave us impoverished and abandoned in despair. Neither did He leave us inky blackness without His light or any inkling of His presence. 

Thinking persons can achieve a capacity to appreciate what they can see, enlightened by the light of Christ. Do not say, I cannot achieve enlightenment or unity with Jesus because I am a sinner and I have not been given the gifts of the saints by which to see. You have most certainly been allowed enough light to see the Lord in your life, if only you will distract yourself from things less than God long enough to turn you mind toward Him so He may mature your vision to see according to His grace.

As for sin, if you are aware that you have sinned, and others around you live in sin, then it is time to do something to atone for the sins and to enable you to live without the sins. Doing something instead of sinning is to give thanks to God for grace and for working in your life so you may mature and be able to perceive your life in His light.

That light is gentle but very powerful, and in spite of calamities and catastrophes, you cannot be cut off from it easilly. By means of His light He attracts your soul to Him and begins to make you desire Him more defintely than any earthly thing, so that the soul is not devastated to see wars or hear threats of destruction, because you know Jesus and are familiar with His love which makes up for the blustering evil in the world that works so hard to terrify you away from Him. Do not be frightened away from His light, but seek it out all the more diligently, the more the malicious monseter blusters to distract you from God and His light.

Mature vision comes through negotiating difficulties and trials so that your seeing improves. He will surely show you how you have grown and what you are now capable of that was impossible before.

A baby learns to speak because it desires to speak so much, and because it knows that the ability to speak will fill its parents with a great deal of joy. If you wish to see better and know better, then you need the exercise that comes from trials and difficulty.

Modern life certainly is full of trails and difficulties, but it is most important to know the function of trials and difficlties in life. In the past, life was simpler, though by way of comparison, certainly not more difficult. We worked harder, and our communications and entertainments were different and more difficult. But so often, the instant communication is merely an avenue for disappointment and despair as bad news overwhelms us and saps our strength, energy and faiths. Thus, the necessity of constant prayer as a habit. We can help each other by repeating the call to penance and prayer and the simplification of life by sacraficing things we think we need. 

I need to share in the passion-life of Jesus, and so He makes possible the sharing in accordance with His own needs and what is best for me. I have a lot pain which constantly renews itself to remind me of Jesus and the needs of His people, so I will be moved to offer prayers for them so they may have what they need of the treasures of His goodness.

He gives me deep peace, but from time to time, I endure periods of deep disturbance from one source or another, then I must renew my resolve to pray unselfishly for souls who are weakest and most intensely suffering. Though it all, I am reminded what is important and what is not of priority, and crisis passes as He had intended from the beginning.

Neither is my pain as intense as the Lord's, for I am not that strong. My strength is what is should be according to His Will, and whereas one man's strength may be sufficient against a great stone, that same man may be completely overwhelmed by a simple misfortune that would hardly trouble another man; our strength is appropriate to what His need is, and in accordance with what it is possible for us to endure. When maturity is of the essense, the trials are instructive for us if we apply ourselves and are willing to offer our sufferings for the intentions of His Sacred Heart. I am not St. Padre Pio by any means, but I admire him greatly and hope to be pleasing in his sight.. By such means we may be edified and gain the desire to grow in Christ.

Things do not need to be complex to be profound, though they may be complex from our perspective as His children. As the mature Christians we hope to be, some things are not complicated any more, since we have become greater than we were. It stands to reason that we will do greater things as we mature for Jesus in our daily life. It is good that He shows us what we need to be encouraged and even overjoyed, that we have pleased Him. We might be able to appreciate the grace by which we overcame a sin and live now in the peace of God which He wished to give us abundantly. We just have to be mature in the charity we have for God and others.