tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52734146467023283192024-02-19T20:20:43.043-08:00CovenantReflections on the mystery of covenants, the means by which God relates to us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-36269696791631694592015-03-22T03:14:00.001-07:002015-03-22T03:14:27.341-07:00God and me.Here am I again,
to say something about God,
who seems so far away from me
Yet, how can that be?
How can God be far away?
Far away where?
Far away when?
Isn't the One, who is Being, everywhere?
Isn't the One, who is Being,  everywhen?
Isn't the One, who is Being, ever Present?
So I am the one who is far away.
I am the one who lost track of The ever Present!
I wonder in the past and the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-78824417170295749012011-08-09T12:12:00.000-07:002011-08-21T23:27:39.438-07:00What is God? What is Creation?After watching the first Curiosity show on Discovery Channel last weekend, I was reminded on this question and how it is generally assumed that everyone share the same understanding of the answer to it.
Even Physicist Stephen Hawking does not provide a background to 'God' before dismissing Him as non-existant. I believe that, with his brilliant mind, if he would look into 'God' nearly as much as Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-34390683007497906622011-04-03T00:56:00.000-07:002011-04-03T15:42:50.630-07:00Truth on trial: First Station: Jesus is condemned to deathAdam was created in the image of GodHis nature, the human nature is to magnify the truth.
Adam failed, we fail all the time to magnify the truth.
When scared to death, we rather betray the truth than die.
Jesus the perfect man, he rather die than betray the truth.
Real Life is in the truth not in the flesh
Adam separated from truth and become corruptible and died.
Jesus holds our nature in the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-40361566410894397922011-04-03T00:03:00.000-07:002011-04-03T00:03:25.924-07:00The Truth on trialAll problems in the world without exception are grounded in hostility against truth. So when people are trying to solve problem they talk about truth all the time. They say that people have lied, that truth has been suppressed or revealed or this and that. They say that the truth is this or the truth is that. The truth is always at the center of the issues. Last Friday when I was in Adoration, I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-84805768090002533532011-03-10T16:00:00.000-08:002011-03-10T16:10:03.458-08:00Lying for Jesus and Christian Identity 1There is a controversy going on about how it may be okay to lie in some special cases for Jesus. The more I reflect on the arguments, the more I am realizing that we are talking about the very Christian identity here.
Now, it is clear to me that a Christian can be defined in few words like this:
A person who pledged absolute trust in the truth.
Explanation:
A Christian is a person who Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-90326012524705369222011-03-10T14:52:00.000-08:002011-03-10T14:54:19.373-08:00Litany of HumilityO Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being praised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of beingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-78839852075762702612011-02-27T19:45:00.000-08:002011-02-27T19:52:02.507-08:00Look at birds and flowers...not worthier than you, yet better off!This is it!Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Ivory Cost,..., Wisconsin, Greece, China,...Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Marxism, Jamahiriya, Democracy,...None of these works, and none will ever work. I don't feel like waiting for the Lord to speak louder than this.We are not even meant to have borders! Let alone cities!All these scheming started with a man in a distant past: Cain.He was the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-67929541388778439722011-02-05T23:40:00.000-08:002011-02-07T09:26:16.972-08:00God is himself the GiftI have been pondering on God's love with special focus on the subject of 'gift'.Now I have some good news to share.God, in the most basic terms, is internal exchange of self-gift. This is because God is love. This love is so infinite that it is personal.So God was revealed as the Blessed Trinity to those who are grown in love.Here is a progressing way through which I discover this great Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-50191242736672725432011-02-05T23:39:00.000-08:002011-02-05T23:40:51.845-08:00Hopefully BackHmm! I have been away for a long time. However, I have been feeling inspired these days, so perhaps I am coming back...This remains to be seen!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-48874754405020682912010-05-02T23:15:00.000-07:002010-05-02T23:22:19.629-07:00The Glory of Jesus is the Glory of LoveAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-24905181930486565092009-08-31T20:11:00.000-07:002009-08-31T20:16:12.756-07:00Intro of "Charity in Truth"1. Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death and resurrection, is the principal driving force behind the authentic development of every person and of all humanity. Love — caritas — is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. It is a force that has its originAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-38138750099607194472009-06-07T15:11:00.000-07:002009-06-07T15:17:15.482-07:00Feast of the Most Holy Trinity ...some quotes from the CCC257 "O blessed light, O Trinity and first Unity!" God is eternal blessedness, undying life, unfading light. God is love: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God freely wills to communicate the glory of his blessed life. Such is the "plan of his loving kindness", conceived by the Father before the foundation of the world, in his beloved Son: "He destined us in love to be his sons" and "to be conformed toAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-75675989334265897772008-08-04T14:32:00.000-07:002008-08-04T14:41:04.540-07:00Job 38[1] Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:[2] "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?[3] Gird up your loins like a man,I will question you, and you shall declare to me.[4] "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?Tell me, if you have understanding.[5] Who determined its measurements -- surely you know!Or who stretched the line upon it?[6] On what Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-29521043438878850182008-07-27T20:52:00.001-07:002008-07-27T20:52:59.883-07:00God is LoveGod is Love218 In the course of its history, Israel was able to discover that God had only one reason to reveal himself to them, a single motive for choosing them from among all peoples as his special possession: his sheer gratuitous love.38 And thanks to the prophets Israel understood that it was again out of love that God never stopped saving them and pardoning their unfaithfulness and sins.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-3259290468274836872008-07-27T20:51:00.001-07:002008-07-27T20:51:54.183-07:00God is TruthGod is Truth215 "The sum of your word is truth; and every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever."30 "And now, O LORD God, you are God, and your words are true";31 this is why God's promises always come true.32 God is Truth itself, whose words cannot deceive. This is why one can abandon oneself in full trust to the truth and faithfulness of his word in all things. The beginning of sin Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-50447958540588881772008-07-27T20:48:00.000-07:002008-07-27T20:49:50.847-07:00GOD, "HE WHO IS", IS TRUTH AND LOVEIII. GOD, "HE WHO IS", IS TRUTH AND LOVE214 God, "HE WHO IS", revealed himself to Israel as the one "abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness".27 These two terms express summarily the riches of the divine name. In all his works God displays, not only his kindness, goodness, grace and steadfast love, but also his trustworthiness, constancy, faithfulness and truth. "I give thanks to your name Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-70889319447808008922008-07-25T00:58:00.000-07:002008-07-25T01:03:21.012-07:00Creatures in the image of God108. The fundamental message of Sacred Scripture proclaims that the human person is a creature of God (cf. Ps 139:14-18), and sees in his being in the image of God the element that characterizes and distinguishes him: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen 1:27). God places the human creature at the centre and summit of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-36708284767168841092008-07-25T00:40:00.000-07:002008-07-25T00:46:01.527-07:00Creation: A Work of LoveGod is such a superabundance of love that he wanted to share his love with others, so he chose to create the visible world. All of creation reflects imperfectly the infinite perfections of God. But man in particular, God chose to give a special participation in his being, a special likeness to himself.So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-65780998334905257252008-07-25T00:34:00.000-07:002008-07-25T00:38:38.613-07:00The Most Holy Trinity: a Union of LoveIt is said that a people's values can be seen in the god they worship. For Christians, ``God is love'' (1 Jn 4:8). But a God who is love seems like a philosophical impossibility. How can one God, who is perfect, lacking nothing in himself and possessed of no dependence on creatures, be love when love necessitates a relation to another?The resolution of this paradox God himself has revealed to us:Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-90098141802258931562008-07-24T01:12:00.000-07:002008-07-24T01:16:00.432-07:00Adam the priest-king, the sanctuary, and the sacrificeGen 2:16 And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat:Gen 2:17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-81717585114301653882008-07-24T01:08:00.000-07:002008-07-24T01:12:22.762-07:00Adam the Priest and Eden the SanctuaryGen 2:10 And a river went out of the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.Gen 2:11 The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.Gen 2:12 And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.Gen 2:13 And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-73002846886230790882008-07-24T01:03:00.000-07:002008-07-24T01:08:21.789-07:00The Universe, a Temple: Holy of Holies, the Sanctuary and Adam the PriestGen 2:8 And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.Gen 2:9 And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-7387181709863724002008-07-24T00:57:00.000-07:002008-07-24T01:02:26.965-07:00The Universe: a Temple - WorshippersGen 2:4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.Gen 2:6 But a spring rose out of the earth, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-61417582488321763402008-07-24T00:50:00.000-07:002008-07-24T01:03:12.512-07:007th day Covenant making complete: The Universe: A TempleGen 2:1 So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.Gen 2:3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5273414646702328319.post-48581926143644747052008-07-24T00:33:00.000-07:002008-07-24T00:46:47.181-07:00Creation ordered by the word of God -6 : crowning of man: King, Family communion in the image of GodGen 1:27 And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.Gen 1:29 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738245401208792308noreply@blogger.com0