When I posted my blog, “Blessed are they who weep, for they shall be comforted“, I know a lot of people didn’t really understand fully the depth of this wisdom. I didn’t understand it before, too.
How do I desolate myself?
How do I forsake my life?
How do I lose my own life?
It downright sounds like suicide is the best choice. And yes, my dearest brothers and sisters. Suicide is the answer.
Know that when you really want to FOLLOW CHRIST, you must remember what He did in His Life. HE DIED. He died for both those who love Him and those who loathe Him. This is what we should all aim to do, if we want to be REAL CHRISTIANS.
We must KILL all our earthly wants and desires- ALL our pride, our greed, our gluttony, our laziness, our lust, our selfishness, our anger and our jealousy. For ALL THESE ARE WHAT ROBBED US OF OUR CHILD-LIKE INNOCENCE AND TRUST in our Father in Heaven.
So whenever we’re feeling proud, greedy, gluttonous, lazy, lusty, selfish, angry and jealous of our neighbors- let us pray that we always remember to FOLLOW CHRIST. To ABANDON OURSELVES TO HIM because WE CANNOT TAKE CARE OF IT.
PRAY. PRAY ALWAYS AND NEVER LET ONE DECISION PASS WITHOUT PRAYING FOR IT. For we are all children of God, and like children- we don’t know what is best for us. We want a lot of things that are bad for us and push ourselves and others to get these- but our parents, Papa God and Mama Mary, they know what is best for us. They even gave us their Only Beloved Son to die for even those who nailed Him to the cross.
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“Even so, however, to be clothed with Christ we must die to ourselves.” Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
“I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
Commentary of the Day from DGO
For the Gospel today, September 30, 2009
Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), Founder of the Jesuits
Spiritual Exercises, 2nd.Week, 12th.Day (trans.Thomas Corbishley)
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The three ways of humility.
The first way of humility is necessary for salvation.
It consists in my subjecting and abasing myself as far as I can,
so that I always obey the law of God our Lord, at least to this extent:
even if men were to offer to make me Lord of the entire creation, even were
my life threatened, I should yet not think of breaking any commandment,
divine or human…
The second way of humility is more perfect than the first.
It means that I so submit myself that I neither seek nor desire to be rich rather than poor, I do not try to be well thought of rather than disregarded, I do not want to live many years rather than few,
where the service of our Lord God and my own salvation are equally
promoted…
The third way of humility is the most perfect.
Supposing that I have attained to the first two ways, and granted an equal
measure of praise and glory to God, I desire to be poor along with Christ
in poverty rather than rich, to be insulted along with Christ so grossly
insulted, rather than to be thought well of: I would rather be thought a
helpless fool for the sake of Christ who was so treated, rather than to be
thought «wise and prudent» in the world’s eyes (Mt 11,25).
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Help me be humble, O Jesus. Help me abandon everything and trust You with my everything. You are My Everything. Help me not want nor desire anything but You.