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Daily Word On 31st Jan 2024

Jesus is the Living Bread came down from Heaven

John 6:48–51 (NJB): I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate manna in the desert and they are dead; 50 but this is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’ 

Jesus is the bread of life, he gives his flesh which is came down from Heaven. Our fathers are ate manna in the desert, but could not sustain in the eternal life. Jesus establish this new covenant by shedding his own life and this way he renewed the old covenant and established the new covenant which is the New Everlasing Covenant. Jesus is giving this heavenly bread by shedding his blood and died for us on the Cross in Calvery for us. When we eat his Body and Blood we will not die, we will have eternal life which is his promise. This is the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the one and only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord! 

The Light and Darkness

 

Jesus is the Light in Darkness

PART XXXVI

Lord, bring us out of the darkness of this world, bring us Your light to this world.

  Jesus accepted the darkness for three days to fulfil the will of the Father to make a way of perfection for all humanity, for to establish the ever-lasting covenant through the sacrifice of his own life. Jesus told Jews about his descend to the dead in darkness. ‘Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this Temple, and three days I will raise it up. The Jews replied, ‘it has taken forty-six years to build this Temple: are you going to raise it up again in three days?’ But he was speaking of the Temple that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what he had said.’ (Jon. 2: 19-22)  

But he never wasted any time in the darkness and he gave us the eternal life as a promise from the Father by his death and resurrection. It was God’s eternal mercy towards us sinners. ‘Christ himself died once and for all our sins, the upright for the sake of the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit, he went to preach to the spirits in the prison. They refused to believe long ago, while God patiently waited to receive them, in Noah’s time when the ark was being built. In it only a few, that is eight souls, were saved though water. It is the baptism corresponding to this water which saves you now—not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience given to God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has entered heaven and is at God’s right hand, with angels, ruling forces and powers subject to him.’ (1Peter. 3: 18-22) He entered the black prison of purgatory. What a love! He wants for us to save our ancestors who were imprisoned by Satan the liar. Many hearts waited for him to hear God's Word, which was both light and life for them. See how merciful He is, for He is God. He went to see all the dead and rebellious sinners who were in the depths of the darkness. Who can go to Purgatory? Except that only God is capable of doing this. He resurrected the souls from the darkness and handed them over to Heavenly Father on the third day.  God transformed the corrupted body of human nature into a glorious one by offering His own Son's life for us. This is an incredible secret that God is revealing to us. Many people today still do not realize the Truth that is contained in Jesus Christ. 

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Daily Word On 27th Jan 2024 

Lord, increase our faith by listening and obeying Your Holy Word, Amen!!

  Jeremiah 7:23–24 (NJB): My one command to them was this: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. In everything, follow the way that I mark out for you, and you shall prosper. 24 But they did not listen, they did not pay attention; they followed their own devices, their own stubborn and wicked inclinations, and got worse rather than better. 

  Here God is referring to one command: listen to His voice, which ultimately means listen to and obey His Word. Every day, we read and listen to many Words of God. He promises that if we follow him, we will prosper spiritually and materially, and we will not lack anything in our lives. But He complains that we didn't listen and instead followed our own inclinations.  Our hearts grew hard, and we followed our natural desires, which displeased God. As a result, our lives deteriorated rather than improved.

  Lord, we pray for our material needs and not pleading for our strength, which is obstructing our spiritual life. Lord we lament for our lack of faith which is keeping us away from You. 

The Light and Darkness

 

PART XXXV

Yahweh, God of my salvation, when I cry out to you in the night, may my prayer reach your presence, hear my cry for help.

  In Psalm Chapter 88 is very much connected to the passion of Jesus. He was thrown into this pit of darkness because of our sins, which Psalmist. It was full of darkness and there were nobody is there to save him, because it was the darkness of the sins of the whole world since the beginning and till the end. Jesus brought the Light into the world to win over the darkness as per the plan of Heavenly Father. Through his death, Jesus gave us the salvation for the dead, living and for those still to be born. We always calculate the mysteries of heavenly kingdom by our own mind and knowledge. God is speaking to us through the Prophet Isiah in the scriptures: for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways, declares Yahweh. For the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.’ (Is. 55: 8-9)

Psalmist prophesy about Jesus’ suffering in the pit of darkness 

‘Yahweh, God of my salvation, 

when I cry out to you in the night, 

may my prayer reach your presence,

hear my cry for help.

For I am filled with misery,

My life is on the brink of Sheol;

Already numbered among those who sink into oblivion,

I am as one bereft of strength,

Left alone among the dead,

Like the slaughtered lying in the grave,

Whom you remember no more,

Cut off as they are from your protection.

You have plunged me to the bottom of the grave,

In the darkness, in the depths;

Weighted down by your anger,

Kept low by your waves.

You have deprived me of my friends,

Made me repulsive to them,

Imprisoned, with no escape;

My eyes are worn out with suffering.

I call to you, Yahweh, all day,

I stretch out my hands to you.

Do you work wonders for the dead,

Can shadows rise up to praise to you?

Do they speak in the grave of your faithful love?

of your constancy in the place of perdition?

Are your wonders known in the darkness?

your saving justice in the land of oblivion?

But for my part, I cry to you, Yahweh,

Every morning my prayer comes before you;

Why, Yahweh, do you rebuff me?

Turn your face away from me?

Wretched and close to death since childhood, 

 I have borne your terrors—I am finished!

Your anger has overwhelmed me,

Your terrors annihilated me.

They flood around me all day long,

Close in on me all at once.

You have deprived me of friends and companions, 

And all that I know is the dark. (Ps. 88)

  Everything was darkness there as Psalmist mentioned here. Jesus experienced this darkness throughout his passion. In this deep dungeon, he was alone for one day. During last day of his suffering and in perscicution his friends the apostles and all other disciples were left him alone except some women companions and of course Mother Mary. 

(The hymn that David sung is fulfilled in this pit of darkness, where Jesus was imprisoned for one day and night before being crucified. Khaiaphas, the high priest, imprisoned Jesus in this cell alone. While visiting the Holy Land with Fr Eugiene, we read Psalm 88 under the pit of Jail where Jesus was imprisoned. The place resembles a deep dungeon with a little opening from above. It's a kind of well, with steps leading to the end. In the time of Jesus, there was no step to descend to this dungeon. After reaching down into the dungeon, the guide turned out the light. Light cannot enter this pit, which is completely dark. And we sensed Jesus' presence in our midst and shared his pain. Fr Eugiene led us to a pedestal where the Bible was stored, and one of our group members recited Psalm 88 from the Bible using a candlelight without turning on the light. We could feel Jesus' anguish when a lector read the Psalm, and most of us cried in the middle and at the end.) 

  Lord, protect us from the darkness of this world. In the time of Prophet Noah: Lord, with your anger you throw all the people into deepest of the water. You gave them the time for repentance, but they didn’t obey. Lord, give us the humility and obedience to do your will. St Michael Archangel, pray for us. 

  

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Daily Word On 23rd March 2022

We all will be taught by God 

  John 6:44–45 (NJB):  44 ‘No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45  It is written in the prophets: They will all be taught by God; everyone who has listened to the Father, and learnt from him, comes to me.

  Jesus is saying clearly about the Father, how He is choosing each one of us for our salvation. We cannot come to Jesus of our own, but by the Father alone. When we are drawn by the Father, we will not die but He will raise us on the last day, when the judgement comes. 

 We should avoid the worldly illusions and concept about God. Trust in God and He will allow us to learn everything from Him. 

We all will be taught by God, whoever listen the Word of the Father will be learned from Him. This way we will come to meet Jesus and he will make us able to see the Father and will be blessed with the salvation. 

The Light and Darkness

 

PART XXXIV

Lord Jesus we entrust our souls to you, have mercy on us 

   God is telling us all:  ‘then I shall inflict trouble on Ariel, and there will be sighting and sobbing, and I shall make it truly Ariel. I shall lay siege to you and mount siege-works against you. You will be laid low, will speak from the underworld, your words will rise like a murmur from the dust. Your voice from the earth will be like a ghost’s, it will whisper as though coming from the dust. (Is. 29: 2-4) We should be terrified of His strength and power. When we turn away from the light of our Lord, Jesus, darkness surrounds us, and this is how sin enters our lives. Who can stand in front of God? Only Moses could. Even Moses veiled his face because he was scared to behold Him.'God called to him from the middle of the bush. ‘Moses, Moses’! He said ‘Here I am,’ he answered. Come no nearer,’ he said. ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. I am the God of your ancestors.’ He said, ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Issac and the God of Jacob.’ Then what will be our situation when we see Him face to face? Even His small whispering will be like heavy thunder of the lightening. God is looking into our hearts rather than the actions we do. He knows we are wretched and poor and we need His mercy all the time.  

  The time has come; darkness surrounds us at all times. We would never miss an opportunity to approach our Lord. God is looking at us, searching our souls, and asking, "Is anyone seeking God?" ‘God looks down from heaven at the children of Adam, to see if a single one is wise, a single one seeks God.’ (Ps. 53: 2) The time will not wait for us, and the ruin of our soul will occur at any time. Never strive to accumulate so many valuable worldly possessions. We can buy many things, but we can't buy anything for our spiritual lives or God's Kingdom. Our soul belongs to God, and He is anxiously seeking it; if we lose our soul to Satan, we shall lose everything. St. Ignatius asked St. Francis Xavier ‘what, then, will anyone gain by winning the whole world and forfeiting his life? Or what can anyone offer in exchange for his life?’  Matt. 16: 26 Jesus values our soul highly, and Satan, too, desires it.

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Daily Word On 16 Jan 2023

Lord, examine me and know my heart. 

 John 6:40 (NJB): It is my Father’s will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and that I should raise that person up on the last day. Jesus says when we know Jesus and sees him and believes in him we will have eternal life and it is the will of the Father! How can we see Jesus by meditating the Holy Scriptures, as Jesus says: John 5:24 (NJB):  In all truth I tell you, whoever listens to my words, and believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life; without being brought to judgement such a person has passed from death to life. When we keep the Word of God in our heart, we receive Jesus himself. John 12:46 (NJB): I have come into the world as light, to prevent anyone who believes in me from staying in the dark any more. We are ensnared in the darkness because we do not believe his Word. Jesus is the light; embrace him as the only way to escape evil. When we believe this with complete awareness and conviction, Jesus will raise us on the day of judgment! 

  Psalm 139:23–24 (NJB): God, examine me and know my heart, test me and know my concerns. 24 Make sure that I am not on my way to ruin, and guide me on the road of eternity. These verses are a beautiful prayer to recite before we sleep in the night or while get up in the morning. 

  Lord, give us the faith to believe what you have commanded us to do! Lord, let our only aim be to do your will, always and forever! Amen!!