How to better recognize the presence of sin in your life.  We do this by having an examination of conscience.  We can honestly reflect upon our thoughts, words, deeds, omissions, and place a magnifier over our ourselves, our actions, our inactions, and look with honest eyes, at the person we have become.  Rid ourselves completely of the seven deadly sins:  pride, envy, jealousy, gluttony, sloth, greed,lust. In order to live with the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord, we must examine our way of life.  Looking deep within the darkest corners of our soul takes desire.  One must desire to look deep within with honest eyes into the person they have become.  Only then can we put on the mind set of Christ.

Facing our imperfections head on, can be a really daunting/difficult experience, but necessary in order for spiritual maturity to begin within the heart, mind, and soul, of every human being desiring to become a Christian.  Searching for perfection begins within the eye of the beholder.  You.  Now, finding the perfect pastor/confessor/spiritual director/fraternity etcetera within the Catholic church isn't always possible, however, when we patiently take on this task, we know it is a process of time, patience, prayer, and endurance. One can receive all the above and have a powerful Catholic faith, but one must continually work consistently at it in keeping it sacred.  Keeping our souls holy requires giving the soul the silent environment it needs to hear the truth, directly being communicated to us within the company of God.  We experience this great silence by attending annual retreat weekends, a day of reflection, and on a much larger scale taking a holy pilgrimage.  When we make the time to be alone with God, we can hear him speak to us and guide us and prepare us properly for the duration of our journey on earth leading us toward him, preparing us for the eternal life that we enter into upon our death.  We must be prepared.  We can call on God and ask him to prepare us for the journey.  In no way do we get there on our own, we get there by entering into a relationship with Jesus Christ.  I cannot express how important it is for us to get on board with this reality.  The reality of living in Christ, while still living on earth.  Yes we have many choices to choose from, but none of them are more important than choosing Christ!  Most Christians are working their way towards Him as I write this podcast.  Today Father Patrick mentioned we are all racing to know the truth, racing because we want to know eveything before he the Christ comes for us.  So yes I agree we are all in this race with time in getting to know Jesus before he comes back for us.  How awkward it would be to meet him and not know him.  I know he is using me as his instrument to bring you closer to him right in this moment. To open completely your heart, mind, soul, to his love.  Because Christ is love.  We were made in his likeness and in his image to LOVE.  Even the most wounded in the universe are crying out for his love and his healing and they dont realize, that it is Jesus they are in need of.  Christ is the ultimate healer of our infirmaties. He sees us as we are.  He wants heal our wounded nature.  He wants our trust.  Our commitment.  Our yes! Our surrender.  When we give him our loyalty we gain heavenly insights into the eternal life. Something this great aught not to be missed!!  And yet it is!!!  But for those who get it really get it, receive the power of Christ and slowly begin to change.  The most hardened heart softens,  loves, forgives, and truly lives again.  

Reflecting upon the wisdom of faith/love of our creator we can enter into the holiness of our Lord.  He can change us and he can change our very course of life. But we have to first desire it!  Desire to be in Him.  Desire to be in His holy mother.  Desire to surrender ourselves to the most high.  It is then we can grow, mature, and understand the true meaning of our existence, and when we do, we die to our desires only desiring to be in Christ.  This book The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will is a special one.  There are daily readings in this book to help you focus totally on Divine Will.  What exactly is the Divine Will?  From what I am reading I believe it is the will of our Holy Mother guiding us properly through this life on earth and preparing us for our lifetime in heaven.  An eternal life, we are receiving the tools that we need to get there.  We don't get there on our own, we get there through the people we meet who are on fire for Christ.  En fuego!  Yes, those special individuals have found the key to unlocking the mysteries of faith that reveal perfect truths that set us on the path of correction in living a life that involves Christ, reflects Christ, and in the end one becomes like Christ.  Prayer, meditation, reflection, repetition, we arrive at the front door step of our Lord and His Mother's heart.  We are reminded not to follow our ways because they lead us astray.  We are called to follow in the way of Mary in accepting Gods most perfect will for our very lives that will lead us properly and profoundly toward him instead of away from him.  No words are truer my dear brothers and sisters.  We have to awaken our very souls to this reality.  We are in a great slumber when are lives are filled with everything but our Lord and his Mother.  Chaos follows, and leads us astray.  For our God is a God of order.  And when we desire to be orderly, our lives fall into perfect unison.  According to the perfect plans in store for us.  But when we try to create the tapestry we zig and zag throughout life creating a catastrophic mosaic, instead of a beautiful tapestry.  Why is that, I believe we tend to lean toward our selfish desires and we get into trouble. There is good but there is also evil and when we choose poorly the price to pay is very high.  To live simple, is to live a life in Christ.  How can we do this without failing?  We can if we learn to become disciplined and prayerful, Christ can enter into the heart and soul and mind and body of one who surrenders.  Are you ready to surrender your life to Christ in exchange for his blessings to you?  If you are, God will bring his holy Mother Mary into your life through the men and women who are his greatest instruments.  They are intelligent in faith, they are holy people desiring to only do the will of God.  There are many of us and we live to serve in honor and in glory because our souls purpose has already been revealed.  To live in the divine will is to give Mary and Jesus everything.  We allow them to possess our free will and in return we are free to live a life abundant yet free, holy and obedient to the practice of faith.  Where joy and mercy prevail.  And peace begins to dwell inside the very heart that was given to us from the very beginning.  We can live in the heart of Jesus and Mary.  A great conversion can take root deep within us converting even the very society that we live in. We can and we will, you wanna know why?  Because we were all created in the image and likeness of Mary.  Jesus our savior came from Mary. We are all descendants of Mary, meant to reflect the divine will.  Instead of running away, run towards Mary she will listen and respond and teach you "The Way"...       

Enter into a new year with a newfound appreciation in becoming a stronger faithfilled Catholic.  Why is this one of the most important decisions you will ever make in your entire life?  Because you are made in the likeness and image of our creator.  Our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Before the world was created you were in the mind of Christ.  You still are, its just that he has given you the most powerful gift, it is called free will.  And with that gift you can bless your life and the lives of others exponentially or you can deny him the privilege, the honor, of seeing his creation become their best self.  At age 60 I have learned about this most important decision and it is so critical to each and every person created because whether they like it or not, they are God's children.  And as a Father, God wants only the very best for all humanity.  We go through life without a manual, ah so others say so, but I will tell you differently.  If you were born, baptized, confirmed, married in the Catholic Church, your mom, your dad, your grandparents, great grandparents, great aunts and great uncles received their first holy bible for a gift upon their wedding day.  I was given from my mother the bible her mother gave her, and decided to open it on my way to begin a new career as a live in caregiver.  That booked opened up my eyes, opened up my mind, and freed me.  How did it free me?  It revealed to me that I needed only to trust Christ with everything.  Afterall I was beginning a new career, I had walked away from a great successful career as a beautician and barber for a lesser paying position, but, I felt in my spirit, I was being asked to do so at this point in time by God.  Sometimes we need to take two steps back in order to go two steps forward.  Because there is a lesson in the experience we were meant to have.  My lesson was this.  To keep my eyes focused totally on Christ and what he wanted for me.  So as a caregiver God gave me a 93 year old women from England to care for.  She was very active, healthy, we both exercised together, and went to mass daily, fortunately she had lived steps away from Saint Vincents Catholic Church. Thanks be to God that exact church is still there and my mom and I walked through those doors in 2023 two years after my fathers passing.  However, ironically, I was being inspired by God to care for an infirmed woman living at home.  Fast forward 30 years that exact building where I lived as a caregiver became a doctors office where my dad went for treatment and experienced miraculous healing.  Like a mosiac, I was able to see Gods hands in that healing process reflecting upon the prayers that were recited by me within that exact building as I worked 7 days a week caregiving. I trusted God, I fully surrendered my heart to him, in deep trustful prayer, and he in turn took care of my father.  The power of almighty God must never-ever be underestimated.  When I was asked to consider allowing my lady to pass away without treatment, I quit on the spot.  Every human being is allowed to receive proper treatment and not be left alone to die.  My upbringing was such, I could not continue with that particular request.  In my heart it didn't feel right.  In my soul, the soul God gave me was so full of his love and his compassion, I moved back home, and that pleased my father greatly.  It wasn't too long after that I had submitted and graciously donated underwater photography to a new book being  published, promising myself if I were to become published that was my sign from God to proceed with my move to Florida.  I received a letter in the mail, and I gave all of my prized possessions to a orphange and followed Christ!             

Sin.  It has a way of taking us down all the wrong paths of life.  Sin keeps us stuck in darkness.  Sin sets our lives back.  Sin must be purged in its entirety in order to move forward in life.  If we hold onto sin it literally paralyzes us.  The good news is in the beautiful Catholic Faith, we do not have to be slaves to sin.  We can go to a really good Catholic church and experience forgiveness of our sins.  We can speak directly with a holy Catholic priest willing to listen to our deepest heartfelt confession.  We can prepare ourselves by writing down our past sins, and when we arrive at the confessional we can read off the list.  Being absolved is an amazing experience.  Because you are forgiven by God through a properly trained priest, there is a difference when you walk out of the confessional.  You can be so moved to tears because of past sin, and then God removes that sorrow and replaces it with joy.  As we mature in our walk with God and in faith, we can see ourselves in a beautiful light, the light of Gods love shining within us.  We are his children, we fail, we make mistakes, but we endure in this life because it is all about our journey with God.  Once it begins, we are never ever the same people.  We are God's children, we are special, and HE wants the absolute best for our lives.  He wants for us to be with HIM forever, for all eternity.  But we have to give HIM our free will.  When we cooperate with his grace, something special happens.  We mature greatly in HIM.  We realize the importance of this relationship, and we do everything in our power to make Christ a new priority in our lives moving forward.  With him we can never go backwards, halleluia for that!  I invite you today in joining me at Deb's Podcast honoring our Holiest Mother Mary, in living out our very best life together in Christ Jesus!  You see, its simple, when we choose Christ, HE can work through us and what HE accomplishes in us we could never do alone.  When we want to rise above our situation in life, and we see that its an impossible task, I encourage you to pray and ask God to assist you through it.  Prayer removes a multitude of sin.  We can be sinning and not pay attention at all to our sins.  And they pile up and we become a mess inside of ourselves.  And that mess can only be undone fully undone through prayer, fasting, and in desiring to be cleansed by God himself.  So yeah, we need God to come out of it completely.  We can try to work through our sins on our own, but we will only get so far, and then we fall right back into sin.  We need Gods Divine Intervention.  We need Jesus, his Holy Mother Mary, and we need really good Catholic faithfilled men and women who love Christ first and foremost, to help us cross over from darkness and sin, into the light of Gods truth!  We as Christians, as Catholics have an advantage, to do something really great with the gift of faith we were given at our Baptism.  All we need to do is say Yes Lord, I come to do your most perfect will.  And watch God's miraculous love unfold in you!  It's simple.  It's yours for the taking, question is, are you ready?  I was 25 when I got serious about my relationship with Christ.  That was 36 years ago, I have confessed my deepest darkest sins and I am free. Free to live for all eternity with my creator!  I want that for you.  I believe God wants that for all of us.  We get there by loving one another.  Helping one another.  Encouraging one another.  By being honest.  It is then we can begin to see Christ in everyone.  It is then we begin to live our eternal life here on earth.  In every set of eyes you see, it is Christ, and you and I were made to  reflect HIS image.  

The words of Saint Benedict come to mind.  I was very fortunate to travel twice to Italy, once with my paternal grandparents in 1983, and once with my mother/father in law/husband in 2003.  We were on a beautiful pilgrimage inside Monte Cassino.  I have in my possession a Saint Benedict Crucifix.  It is known that Saint Benedict made the sign of the cross against the assaults of the demon narrated by Saint Gregorio, Benedict XIV established the design of this medal.  On one side it carries the image of St. Benedict holding a cross in his hand and on the other side there is a larger cross with Latin Initials.  Due to the fact that the cross is represented here is an essential element of the medal, it is called the medal crucifix of Saint Benedict.  On the back there is a cup from which a serpent is escaping (a recollection of the poisoned wine from which he miraculously escaped on the left we have a crow taking away the poisoned bread).  Unerneath, we can read the words  from the Holy Mount Cassino 1880.  On the two sides around the image he defends us in our death with his presence, on the front medal across is represented which carries several inscriptions in the arms, the explantion of which follows:  The Cross of Holy Father Benedict.  May The Holy Cross Be My Light.  Let The Devil Not Be My Leader.  Get Behind Me Satan.  Don't Persuade Me Of Wicked Things.  What You Are Showing Me Is Bad.  Drink Your Poison Yourself. We can learn alot from Saint Benedict. If we truly want to live a joyous life, a prayerful life, a eucharistic life, a peaceful life, we need to get serious about our relationship with Christ.  A Joyous Life comes out of my desire to live daily in Christ Jesus.  A Prayerful Life continues when I desire to experience Christ more deeply when I set aside time time every day to be silent in his holy presence.  The adoration chapel is a great place to meet Him again for the first time!  A Eucharistic Life feeds me and my soul for the duration of my earthly journey and a Peaceful Life endures with Christ living within me.  Because I desire placing Christ as an integral part of my life the moment my eyes open and my feet touch the floor.  We have choices, very important choices to make that are going to pave the way for our future and our eternal destiny.  We must be reminded of that, and take seriously, how we want our soul to endure through infinity with our creator.  I am very excited to share this with you, hopefully your mind is open and ready to receive this reality.  And if we are not ready just yet to embrace this greatest of all mysteries, we can pray to God our almighty Father to help give to us the grace, the hope, to endure, through the unknown and the mysterious, trusting the final outcome to him, with us doing our small part, by saying yes Lord and making every effort to live a good life, God can work with us when we are in that place, when we surrender our free will and align ours completely with HIS, it is then we  die to sin and all sinful tendencies.  Christ steps in and does a miraculous work in us--- unlike any experience seen by us in our lifetime!  We many never be nailed/ hung on a cross to die, the brutal way that our precious Lord was, but we can hang up our sins to dry if we so choose, by dying to our old self, so a new self can be born.  If we truly want to stop sinning, and an eternity with Christ means everything to your souls salvation, take that solemn promise directly to Christ and  begin again your best life forever in HIM.  You have my prayers to count on everyday for this your beautiful intention in living out your best life in Christ! And as Father Patrick Francis O Doherty has said, "It Is God That Makes You Holy".

How can we thank our Lord for everything good he has ever done for us? When I take the time to sit in silence and reflect upon his goodness to me, I am amazed everytime by his graciousness...This weekend was no different.  He opened the door wide and I saw his beauty in nature, and in our friendship's blossom!  Old friends, new friends, both are God's friends given to me for a season.  God speaks to us through the people he places in our lives.  And when we take the time to make time to be in their company we receive a gift!  God is opening up our hearts in total honesty and on levels we not always want to touch on and discuss but need to get off of our chest.  In those moments we help eachother to grow out of any stagnancy we may be caught up in.  I believe that God wants more from us and sometimes our friends are his best instruments in getting us out of A so we can grow into B, the next phase of our lives.  Like a tapestry woven he silently weaves us into his fold.  He brings us to marvelous places, only to find ourselves,rediscovering who we are today and what we were yesterday is gone! And so God does bring to the surface, what we need to let go of.  I saw this happen this week and I believe God was doing his marvelous work.  And we were cooperating with his grace.  I saw the blessing, and I heard the truths surface, as too often, we surpress what needs to come out of us.  Just like the "air artists" I was priviledged to see and meet this past weekend.  They were just quietly retreating near a cow pasture, painting their best version of what they saw.  (Hello Kai) It was so sweet meeting you and all your artist friends, so relaxed welcoming our friends to chat and view your art work as you were oil painting, so chill, on your picnic blanket.  The sky so clear, the air so fresh, the scenery so pristine, it was one of the better most amazing hello's I could ever remember.  We all captured the moment, and were wrapped up in God's beauty.  We all decided to take time off and just delve deeper into the natures amazing surroundings.  A kind greeting, on a beautiful Saturday afternoon did something very special that went even further and deeper into our souls.  I think we were defintely in the company of our creator, and everyone present tapped into their creative talent using a palette of color with a stroke of the brush bringing to life a moment that will never be again.  And we were all there for it, enjoying conversation, sharing our stories, and loving life!  There is alot to be said about that.  I believe there are only god incidences!  And this was defintely one of them.  For that period of time, time stopped for all of us and we encountered peace and everyone was happy and it was so beautiful--- I just had to write about it.  The fall leaves blanketed the grass and the street, and we were all caught up in the beauty of color!  Yellow, orange, red, leaves blowing in the sunlight, glistening in the wind, as we walked, some were brown but beautiful and others ginormous and rich in fall tones just absolutely exquiste to see them all dried up and broken, their beauty still existed, and it was still worth seeing... So similiar to us as people, when we take the time to notice.  I am so glad to have taken notice of all of you with our friends, and thank you for warmly greeting us along the way, it made that experience, that much more sweeter! As if we were all in the painting together, gathered by God in one glorious landscape!   

A positive read, can be life changing.  My hope is that you are choosing well.  When we open the bible to read the word, we are putting on Christ Jesus!  We are entering into his powerful realm of knowledge and grace.  He graces us when we are living obediently in him.  Why is this important?  I believe it is because, when we choose to live in Christ Jesus, we are living out our very best life!!!  We should daily experience the great power of our own choice.  Why because when we make a positive choice for ourself we are in essence effecting the world in which we live in.  Christ is a positive role model in my life.  So positive that he has never steered me in the wrong direction.  Oh I have done a marvelous job at failing all on my own, but when I welcomed the Lord into my life, I was taken away on a course I never imagined.  I began to live taking life much more to heart.  I grew up.  Christ grew within me, and he has made all of the difference.  Christ led me to him through my mom at age 28.  When I had left home to become a live in caregiver to a 93 year old woman from England.  I also was in charge of cleaning her home, cooking her meals, exercising with her, and taking her to the Catholic Church.  It was on that first day I moved in, I had opened the bible that was given to my grandparents on their wedding day as a gift from my moms parents, which in the perfect moment I believe was then passed onto me.  In the nick of time, if I may say so myself.  I am reading from that bible today. And it continues to enrich my very soul for this solitary journey back to my creator.  Sixty years of life given never to be taken for granted, but to be truly lived, truly understood, and in living and in learning, I want to pass along the torch of light burning brightly for Jesus, my saviour, my rock, and my all.  My podcasters this journey we are embarking upon is very real and very serious and my prayer, my hope, my wish, for everyone, is to turn back the darkness, and turn toward the light.  Choose love rather than hate.  Choose God and not the devil.  Choose heaven and never hell.  The importance of these greatest of all truths will save your soul and mine forever.  Eternity is forever. Dont be mistaken, do not be misled, do not follow the wicked, the war continues and it is within our spiritual realm of self, choose to win this race, choose righteousness, choose the armour of Christ, choose to be a prayerful warrior, for prayer will have power over the demonic, and remember you are greatly loved by the great I AM.  Never forget it, tone down the noise in your ears, the evil whispers, deny them entry, and your guardian angel is there the entire way to listen, to protect, and to guide you toward our precious Lord and saviour.  I was once very fortunate.  For God allowed me to see my guardian angel.  And when I had first met my future husband, all doubts dissapated, when the angel revealed himself and said audibly and phyically, "This is a perfect and holy union". I never doubted anything that my Lord was doing in my life, but the devil tried to intercept and my guardian angel physically and supernaturally appeared to me at sunset overlooking the gorgeous bird sanctuary, I saw the larger than life body with wings cover us both, how ingenious of my guardian angel to show his appearance, he knew I needed proof, and that proof so surreal until this day has left an endellible impression on my heart and soul.  For I was given my soul mate, my love, the person I had prayed for, for six straight years, not only that, I flew to him, and we were introduced through a great woman from Holland.  She is still alive, God bless you Lukina!  Setting our lives on a course for the past thirty years with Christ, we live in his joy and we remember all that he did for us.   

These are truthful words.  Because when we honor our priests who were sent by God to teach all of us "The Way" - we should be more appreciative than we are.  More gracious and grateful when we speak to them or speak of within their company and outside of their company.  The same holds true for all our Catholic Sisters who have sacrificed their entire lives to be teachers of the truth, a truth, we need to desperately hear, comprehend, and immitate.  The truth will always have a beautiful meaningful outcome.  Lies on the other hand, create webs, knotting up  ones life and for some even causing spiritual and physical death.  So the truth is always positive, and mistruths are always negative.  The truth ends up being more positive and the lies end up being more destructive. So with good and evil, with right and wrong, it pays to be obedient to self and to Christ and to others.  When we choose to love we lift each other up, we never tear each other apart.  That is not love.  Love always wants what is best for self and for others.  To desire only the good in all circumstances and within all peoples is in fact the best choice, because in choosing the good, we desire, what Christ desires.  To forgive is divine.  To not forgive is to hold and constrain another with ball and chain leading to mental bondage.  A choice God would never honor.  There is more joy in choosing love, by choosing good, we are choosing Christ!  There is only sadness, evil, and destruction, when we choose not to love, not to forgive, we are choosing death, both spiritual and eventually phyical.  So today we choose to Honor Christ and live in his ways.  So different than our own when we are hurt or angry.  Of course we do not think clearly nor do we say or act properly under those circumstances.  That is exactly why we need God.  He protects us from all that is evil!!!  He is needed to set us on the right path, so that our life journey will be spirit filled, and knowledgeable in every way that is beautiful.  Walking on that corrected path, each and everyone of our steps will lead us directly toward him, either in sickness or in health, we will leave earth and we will be with him when our time here is finished.  Hoping we will finish in HIM.  We are born for HIS purposes.  We dont figure that out as soon as we should, but we are his, and he is ours, and once we make that connection, we are placed on a path driven by his power, through his spirit, we begin to do many great things.  These are all truthful words.  Sometimes we have to throw away our hard drive, all the lessons that may have been wrong and start again.  Begin the begain, so that all is gained in Christ Jesus!  It's never too late to begin anew slate in our Lord.  It is never too late to say Christ Save Me!  Christ knows exactly where you are at, even though you are just now figuring it all out.  Just say Yes to Christ, and Begin living the life that only Christ himself can perfect.  Until we are all perfected in Christ Jesus, we are a living with less meaning, less purpose, less joy, everything lesser than this word can describe.  So let us not be wasteful of the gift of time he has given to us this day.  Lets make it count for something useful, effective, and show our love and appreciation for the gift of life God allowed in us.  Yes, we happened.  Yes, we are all his children, yes we have a real purpose, and only with God can we find out exactly what that is.        

All of creation, created by God were meant to imitate Christ!  Men and women living etxraordinary lives through their mystical and spiritual practices and experiences who have gone before us leave behind a remenant of truths for us to uncover.  In essence they are our mentors, we look up to them and their great works, I believe they are Gods living treasures withstanding the test of time, given to us, to imitate, to inspire us to live centered and truly holier lives in the Holy Spirit, because we are in fact sons and daughters of the holy one, the Christ!  We immitate Christ, not only through our love, but the great love for the church, from the very beginning of the Catholic Faith and Church History.  Holy scripture is one of the greatest of all books read and meditated upon and studied by scholars, theologians, and seculars like you and me, who greatly desire a more of an indepth meaningful purposeful life and faith walk with Christ Jesus that is genuine.  When I denounced my life and gave my life totally back to Christ, on March 16, 1990, Saint Patricks Day, it was then a new life had begun within me, my paternal grandmother had to die before my eyes in order for me to see life more clearly.  My old self died to the selfish tendencies that I began to notice was really drying up my soul leaving me empty and void as a person, I had nothing to offer myself or anyone.  But, fortunately something very good came out of something very bad.  Thanks to Saint Patrick, and being reminded of him on his very special feast day, I was completely awakened, alarmingly so to the truth of my soul.  St Patrick, came to me personally, God knew that I had needed a big event in my life  to acknowledge in God's great timing, I was no longer to remain a person outside of Gods ways.  Totally I became awaken from my stuper, and that light of truth had me on a journey figuring out who had been, and who I had wanted to become in Christ.  Do you ever feel God tugging on your heart asking you to reawaken?  I think when we are living in the darkness, for too long, it is that much harder for the light to penetrate, but with a huge event such as this was for me, a death of a cherished loved, because thats what it took for me to realize, I was spiralling out of control.  We have to ask ourselves this question, does something feel terribly wrong deep  within our inner being, and then we need to go and search out our Lord to help us find the answers we are looking for.  We are either growing in our faith or we are falling prey to the evil tendencies.  It takes maturity, honesty, and a desire to be obedient in Christ, to overcome our past weakness to sin.  When we are forgiven of our every sin, when we receive reconciliation with a great priest, a holy priest, joy refills the heart once wounded from sin, cleansed fully, because Christ wants all of us to live in his Joy.  And to live in him is Purest Joy.  So do not ever fear to empty out the filth lining the very depth of your soul to the holy one.  He wants to forgive you. Because you are divinely his.To be locked into sin, ball and chain,and remain there indefintely- is to live in perpetual darkness with the evil one.  Sure he would have you stay there forever and stop you from getting to heaven.  So we as Catholics must have this keen awarness of how the evil one works, versus the holy one who draws you closer to imitating the lives of the saints who have earned their eternal reward, and one day we too will have our turn to do the same.  There is no time to waste.  We must take the gift of time and do something extraordinary with it- for Christ, his people, who were meant to be the living fruit as future saints!  God never takes his eyes off of us, so then, we too, should never-ever - take our eyes off of Him!      

At holy mass, our inner character is disciplined in the knowledge of truth and love of our Lord, we are guided spiritually and devoutly by traditional priests who want each and every one of us to get to heaven.  It is important to have a clean slate.  A Heart Contrite and Humble O'God You Will Not Spurn...and a mind so pure and clean so that Jesus can enter into our midst and we can hear him speak and guide us throughout our lifetime.  We certainly need mentors to assist us because we were not meant to figure out our Catholic faith, all on our own.  We were given select guardians such as men and women, priests and sisters, to spiritually guide us on our journey.  Those interactions will help us to decide whether we will accept or deny His invitation.  My hope is you are ready and prepared to say yes to God today!  So why is it important for Catholic men and women to attend First Holy Saturday?  I believe solely in my heart our prayers are needed, not only for ourselves and all of our loved ones, but more importantly, for the next generation of believers.  God invites us to enter into the allegiance of his silent company, and it is there that we can tone down a deaf ear, to the grandiose noise of untruths being told to us by the enemy.  When enter into Gods holy presence at every mass and we pray, listen, learn from sacred scripture and through the recitation of our prayers.  I believe when we enter into God's presence, each prayer unlocks the truth about our destiny, of who we are and what our true purpose in life was meant to be.  For each and every person created by God has been given a very special unique gift yet to be revealed in this world.  I know in my heart and soul that God does want the absolute best for us, but he doesn't force this reality upon us, instead we are given the option to choose.  And in recognizing this most important reality, we instinctively, have the good sense and grace (From God himself) to listen and step aside of our selfish wants and desires in exchange of allowing Gods will to overthrow our own desires.  In other words, by chooseing not stand in His way, He can reveal to us beyond what our mind has been able to comprehend in the past and break free from the bonds and chains that have set us back from identifying and becoming our best self.  Even as I write this to you, I know I have not yet become fully the woman of God that He himself wants from me.  We cannot hold a candle to what God can do in and through us when we walk and live in Him.  Greater Is He That Is In You, Than Is In The World!  It takes a lifetime to undo the knots we have created when we were not fully living in Christ.  But the greatest news here is, once we discover Christ, we never ever desire to live apart from Him.  The maturity of Christ living in us hits us all at different times.  So some of us are much further along in our walk with Him.  Be not discouraged!  As long as you are in Him and you are allowing his will to form your life anew every single day, you will receive your best self in Him.  The process must begin somewhere.  Whether you came to Christ at 25 as I did or even younger,(Praise God), we all must rejoice in thanking God for His inspiration of Living In Us... Having his grace, hope, love, and truth to count on, to believe in, knowing He will form deep within us powerful beautiful Christian meant to set this world on fire with His love and truth, is everything!!!  Having an open heart, and a prayerful life, definitely opens the door very wide to the heart/soul of Christ who made us in his image and likeness, whose love was so willing for us, that He chose to die on the cross, so that we can all go to heaven, and remain in Him forever.