The veneration of relics

http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/is-veneration-of-relics-condemned-by-the-bible

The Kingdom of God is Like Buried Treasure

The first of these parables tells us that the Kingdom is not always obvious.  It’s like “treasure buried.”  There’s no billboard saying, “TRUE CHURCH, EXIT LEFT 1 MILE.”  In fact, those speeding by on the highway of life will never find it.  You have to be digging.  Digging in the vineyard, perhaps.  Suddenly you hit something with your spade.  Can it be?  Is it?  Yes!


http://www.thesacredpage.com/2014/07/getting-wisdom-17th-sunday-of-ot.html

Te Diem Prayer

Canticle
Te Deum

You are God: we praise you;
You are the Lord; we acclaim you;
You are the eternal Father:
All creation worships you.

To you all angels, all the powers of heaven,
Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise:
    Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
    heaven and earth are full of your glory.

The glorious company of apostles praise you.
The noble fellowship of prophets praise you.
The white-robed army of martyrs praise you.

Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you;
    Father, of majesty unbounded,
    your true and only Son, worthy of all worship,
    and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide.

You, Christ, are the king of glory,
the eternal Son of the Father.

When you became man to set us free
you did not shun the Virgin’s womb.

You overcame the sting of death
and opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers.

You are seated at God’s right hand in glory.
We believe that you will come and be our judge.

Come then, Lord, and help your people,
bought with the price of your own blood,
and bring us with your saints
to glory everlasting.

The final part of the hymn may be omitted:

Save your people, Lord, and bless your inheritance;
    govern and uphold them, now and always.
Day by day we bless you;
    we praise your name for ever.
Keep us today, Lord, from all sin;
    have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy.
Lord, show us your love and mercy;
    for we put our trust in you.
In you, Lord, is our hope;
    and we shall never hope in vain.

Rich Mullins

Rich Mullins conversion.

Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament

So had a good message today.  The Lord tells Moses to "set the bread of the Presence on the table before me always". For the Israelites, bread was a sign of what the Lord had done for them both when he freed them from the Egyptians and when he gave them "bread from heaven" for forty years in the desert.  In the giving of the pattern, the Lord also tells Moses "There [in the ark of the covenant] I will meet with you ....and I will speak with you" Ex. 25:22.  

So, then King David "had it in his heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord" (1 Chr 28:2), but it is actually his son that the Lord chose "to build a house for the name of the Lord," the first Temple, which was built according to the same pattern as was given to Moses, except that the temple was stationary. After Solomon had built the Temple, moved the Ark of the Covenant and the Bread of the Presence inside, and prayed a prayer of dedication, "fire came down from heaven....and the glory of the Lord filled the temple" (2 Chr 7:1).  "When all the children of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the earth on the pavement, and worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, "for his is good, for his steadfast love endures forever" (2 Chr 7:3).

    Then the Lord appeared to Solomon and said: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice....if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.  Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there for ever: (2 Chr 7:12-16)

    Let our adoration never cease!!

    Pope Paul VI taught that to visit the Blessed Sacrament is "a proof of gratitude and a pledge of love, and a display of the adoration that is owed to Christ the Lord who is present there" (Mysterium Fidei).

Catholic examination of conscience

Examination-of-conscience

What does the word Catholic mean? By Steve Ray

What does the word Catholic mean? By Steve Ray

Do you know Christ?

Do you know Christ?  Knowing....what does that really mean? I have read in Genesis, the first book of the bible, Chapter 4 Verse 1 that, "Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain", so for me this "knowing" is pretty intimate. They have a child.

So, my understanding of knowing Christ would correlate to this type of knowing in a sense.  I receive and take in my Lord as often as I can. Literally and figuratively.  Literally because when the host is consecrated by a priest in the person of Christ, the host is changed into the body and blood of Christ.  I consume this Word made flesh that dwells among us and I am being made new.  That's knowing.

Christ said ask and it shall be given. Of course the priest is part of the succession of the Apostles and has this authority and so I believe fully that what he prays happens.  Christ said that this is his body.  His Words. Christ's words that change reality.  "Lazareth come forth" and a dead man walked. "Little girl get up" and a dead girl got up. God created through speech alone and the earth was formed.

Christ still speaks through his Church and things change. Miracles happen every day! We do not have to believe that it does, but it still is going to happen because He is God in the flesh. His reality doesn't rely on our belief or on our comprehension of God's reality. 

To know Him...Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to you. What are you waiting for? To truly know Him you must receive Him fully!

Life started in a garden. Death occured by the fruit of a tree.  Humanity waited for redemption. Sacrifices were offered time and time again. Then an ultimate sacrifice occured. Death of humanity by representation of God in the flesh on a tree created the door back to the garden, where the fruit of the tree that once killed humanity has given us eternal life. BUT.... we MUST eat of the fruit of the tree of eternal life, which is Christ in the flesh. It is the risen Lord that we must consume! Divinity! Glory! His glorified body, risen to eternal life that we might parttake of this divine nature! Taste and see that the Lord is good. His love endures forever.