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Word of God, On 20th September 2024

Lord, let us fulfil our pledges to You by giving up our desires

 We must observe certain days and periods for the Lord, which are pleasant to Him. We can fulfill our pledges to the Lord by giving up our desires. Everything we do should be for the glory of the Lord. Whatever we eat and drink contributes to the glory of the Lord. Many fleshly sins may persuade our bodies to turn us away from the Lord. Fasting, prayer, and penance are vital for our mortification in Christ Jesus, which provides us with the ability to overcome temptations. Abstinence is another sort of spiritual formation in Christ that honors God. There are numerous ways to keep the abstinence, mortify ourselves by bringing reverence to the Lord, which will empower us to grow spiritually.. Rm 14: 6 . He who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. He also who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 

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Word of God, On 18th September 2024

Lord, bind us together with love and peace of Christ 

  Ep 4: 1-6 (NJB) I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you therefore to lead a life worthy of the vocation to which you were called. With all humility and gentleness, and with patience, support each other in love. Take every care to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as one hope is the goal of your calling by God. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of all, over all, through all and within all.

We are all for living a devoted Catholic Christian life. Whatever vocations we chose, we must be answerable to God. We can choose to be priests, religious, married, or live as lay people consecrated to Christ. St. Paul claims to have been a prisoner for Christ in order to live his life for the Lord. When we are for the Lord, we live as prisoners for Him, not in the worldly sense, but in a pious manner. It is like a chamber we live in with all goodness of Lord, but we should strive for that to enter this narrow gate.  “As far as I can understand, the door of entry into this castle is prayer and meditation”. St Therese Avila said in interior castle. We are required to live a life of holiness and in all virtues in order to practice spiritual life in Christ Jesus. Always have to be joined in the Spirit of God, which can be bound with the love and peace of Christ. Everything is in God, in all of its fullness, through one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. When we associate with the Lord, He will provide us with numerous brothers and sisters who are not born of flesh but of God Himself. Jn 1: 12-13 But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believed in his name who were   born not from human stock or human desire or human will but from God himself