Daily Prayer

Day 3 

Lord, have mercy on us, we are sinners

First of all we have to pray for the Spirit of Prayer to be unite with God. Lord says: ‘I shall pour out a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look to me. They will mourn for the one whom they have pierced as though for an only child, and weep for him as people weep for a first born child.’ Zach. 12: 10. 

God the Father has promised this gift of the grace of prayer to all of us. We will mourn for our sins, He says about His only Son Jesus Christ will be crucified for our salvation. When we meditate on the death of Jesus, we will realize he is the First born of our Father in Heaven also for all of us. When we pray in front of the crucifix, we get the repentance and Jesus will bless us with the tears and the love of God

Daily Prayer

Day 2

Lord, Teach us to Pray 

  The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray: He said to them, 'When you pray, this is what to say: Father, may your name be held holy, your kingdom come; 3 give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, 4 for we ourselves forgive each one who is in debt to us. And do not put us to the test.’ LK 11: 2-4. Jesus teaches us how to pray, and gives us the Holy Spirit to guide us to pray. We have to start our prayer life with a small act of constant prayer. 

When we get up from bed, we should remember our God and lift our hands and hearts to Heaven. Then, with a grateful heart we should say, one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be. This is what Br. Joemon taught me to grow in prayer during the first years of my Community life. It was difficult at first for me to get that constancy in prayer, to say this simple and short prayer without forgetting the intentions. It has taken months for me to get that grace to pray.

Daily Prayer

 Prayer is an act of a soul seeks to unite with God. Those who love God will pray unceasingly. The soul listen the voice of her Master in silently or without any word from her mouth but only wish of her to be united with Him at all the time. ‘At dawn and with all his heart he turns to the Lord his Creator; he pleads in the presence of the Most High, he opens his mouth in prayer and makes entreaty for his sins. If such are be the will of the great Lord, he will be filled with the spirit of intelligence, he will shower forth words of wisdom and in prayer give thanks to the Lord.’ Sir.39: 5-6. 

Jesus also prayed alone in the mountian, he spent whole night in porayer to God, then how much we have to pray. Luke 6:12 (NJB): Now it happened in those days that he went onto the mountain to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. After the prayer he chose the twelve apostles among his disciples. Jesus is teaching us how fervently we have to pray to God. We have to pray until our prayers are answered by Him.  

Cross the Tree of Life

The Cross Tree of Life

Jesus came into this world to destroy the work of Evil

He is the incarnation of the Heavenly Father 

He brought him into this world for the salvation of the world

God allowed him to carry the Cross 

Jesus, our Lord is blameless , spotless and a real victim 

Like a sapling he grew up before God 

He had no form or charm to attract us, 

No beauty to win our hearts; he was despised, 

The lowest of men, a man of sorrows, 

So familiar with suffering, one from whom, as it were, 

We averted our gaze, despised, for whom we had no regard

Yet ours were the sufferings he was bearing,

Ours the sorrows he was carrying, 

While we thought of him as someone being punished and 

He was struck with affliction by God; 

He was being wounded for our rebellions, 

He was crushed because of our guilt; 

The punishment reconciling us fell on him, 

We have been healed by his bruises

He took all the shame, our sins, our weaknesses, our pain

Through Mary's obedience God has forgiven the sin of Eve

Mary crushed the fruit of sin by her humility

Through Jesus God crushed the head of Satan

The love of Jesus conquered all the world

Jesus chose death by himself

But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, 

Becoming as human beings are; in every way like a human being, 

He was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.

The flesh of his body was torn into pieces

His hands were pierced by nails

His legs were also pierced by nails 

The nails are pieced through his flesh and bones

What sin has he done to die on the Cross?

He embraced the cross to make it the Tree of Life

The disobedience of Adam and Eve could not accept the will of God 

The obedience of Mary and Jesus returned Tree of Life into Heaven

The blood of Jesus oozed out from the Cross

The lance of the Roman soldier pierced his side 

Even at death blood and water came out from his side

The Holy Blood of Jesus was poured on the bones of Adam and abolished death

Jesus you are saviour of the world, by your Holy Cross you redeemed the world!

Name of God

 

Name of God, On 16th Aug 2022

‘Every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord to the glory of God the Father’

  Jesus is shared his personality equal with God the Father, he became like a slave to die on the Cross. Cross is the symbol of curse in the time of Jesus in Palestine. This kind of punishment is given to the people who do most shameful sins in the society. He took the Cross to remove the sins of the old parents by plucking the fruit of the forbidden tree and ate it. God commanded them not to eat the fruit of the tree. So Jesus sacrificed his body on the Cross of wood of the tree. The tree which was symbolising the tree which Adam and Eve was tempted by Devil. Jesus made it as a libation of his blood to bring salvation for the dead and alive. ‘Should bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that every tongue should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord to the glory of God the Father. Ph 2: 11. Here God acknowledge His name of Lord to Jesus. gave this Name, because everything in heavens, earth and underworld to bend the knee in-front
of Jesus Christ to glorify God the Father. ‘Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped. But he emptied himself, Taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beingare; and being in every way like a human being he was humbler yet, even to accept death, death on a cross. And for this God raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names; So that all beings In the heavens, on earth and in underworld, (Phi. 2: 6-11) Jesus did not consider his divinity as Son with the Father. He emptied himself to be crucified on the Cross to bring all the humanity into salvation.  

Happy Feast on Assumption of Virgin Mary

 

The Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

St John Damascene 

On the Assumption of Mother Mary

Thus St John Damascene, who is the greatest exponent of this tradition, compares the bodily Assumption of the revered Mother of God with her other gifts and privileges: It was right that she who had kept her virginity unimpaired virginity unimpaired through the process of giving birth should have kept her body without decay through death. It was right that she who had given her Creator, as a child, a place at her breast should be given a place in the dwelling-place of her God. It was right that the bride espoused by the Father should dwell in the heavenly bridal chamber. It was right that she who had gazed on her Son on the cross, her heart pierced at that moment by the sword of sorrow that she had escaped at his birth, should now gaze on him seated with his Father. It was right that the Mother of God should possess what belongs to her Son and be honoured by every creature as God’s Mother and handmaid.

Name of God

 

Jesus we believe, you and the Father is One God

   Lord, when you said you are Son of God they tried to kill you. He answer to them was, ‘My Father still goes on working, and I am at work, too.’ But that only made Jews even more intent on killing him, because not only was breaking the Sabbath, but he spoke of God as his own Father and so made himself God’s equal. Here Jesus said God is "My Father". Jesus and Father is doing the Heavenly mysterious work together for His own creation. This made the Jews got angry towards Jesus and they made up their mind to kill him. He again said, whatever the Father do he does also, this means Jesus and Father is One and cannot be separated. When we honor the Son,  we honor the Father too, this is the way the unity of God the Father and God the Son is an inseparable dignity. When Jesus said he and the Father is One God and Jews got angry because of this: Jesus answered ‘To this Jesus replied: In all truth I tell you, by himself the Son can do nothing: and whatever the Father does the Son does too. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he himself does, and he will show him even greater things than these, works that will astonish you. Thus, as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son gives life to anyone he chooses; for the Father judges no one; he has entrusted all judgements to the Son, so that all may honour Son as they honour the Father. Whoever refuses honour to the Son refuses honour to the Father who sent him? In all truth I tell you, whoever listens to my words, and believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life…’(Jon. 5:17-24)’ Whatever Father do, the Son also does and Jesus doesn’t do any thing of his own but he do always the Father’s will. Father entrusted all the judgements to the Son, Jesus Christ. Whoever refuses to honor the Son, refuses the Father and they never believe in God. Those who disrespect the One God; the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit would be perished and they will not enter eternal life.