Journeying With The Saints

This week we are reading from the 42nd number from "Way to Inner Peace." We get to talk about one of my favorite topics to discuss. It causes a lot of controversy when I bring it up on my social media platforms. It's the topic of judgment. It's such an interesting topic to talk about because we all judge, we must to get through this world. Judgment is such a dirty world even though we must make judgment calls about numerous things.

Three Key Points: Truth, moral issues, and influences.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1433-1436.

Is God allowed to be angry? I have heard numerous people over the years talk about how it's wrong for God to ever be angry. "The Old Testament God is just an angry God." Sister Faustina is going to write a lot about God's anger in our readings today and she spells out exactly what God gets angry about. Hint: It's sin.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1428-1432.

You are going to feel for Sister Faustina today. She is suffering greatly and the other Sisters around her are not being very compassionate or understanding. We will be talking about how we are not privy to all that is going on in someone's life. We need to realize that there may be inner turmoil going on that may explain why someone is acting a certain way.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1423-1427.

I think one of the hardest things about being a Catholic today is when you have to hold the line and defend the teachings of the Catholic Church. They are not popular with the culture and even with some Catholics. It can be hard to be the only one, it seems, not relishing in everyone else's sin, as many in the culture do. Sister Faustina shares in some joy with another Sister when she knows that she shouldn't.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1417-1422.

Christians are often accused of being all faith and no science. Which is ridiculous seeing as hundreds of scientific discoveries have been found by people of faith. As Christians, we are free to follow both faith and science. Science is a tool given to us by God to understand the material world. However, Christ today is going to talk about the importance of having a deep faith in things that can't be seen.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1412-1416.

Can you imagine saying the "Hail Mary" one thousand times each day for nine days? Today, we are going to read about how Sister Faustina does, in fact, just that. Count me as impressed. Our topics for today will be about Mary's Immaculate Conception and the Rosary.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1406-1411.

Have you ever felt abandoned by God? I'm willing to bet that many of us have felt that way. Even Christ, Himself, cries out from the Cross, "My God, My God, why have You abandoned me?" The very human side of Him felt the weight of the suffering and sin and He felt abandoned. But, the important thing to remember is that God never abandons us. He is always right there holding us together if we invite Him into our suffering.

This week we are reading from the 41st number from "Way to Inner Peace." This week's reading is dense. As we read through it together, we are just going to talk about it on the other end. I would encourage you to give it a second reading as I think it will give you a ton to pray about and meditate on. It's so packed full of really great thoughts, I think we need to spend some more time with it. We will be talking about: What happened to reason?

Three Key Points: Rationalization, passions, and introspection.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1401-1405.

Do you have the patience of Sister Faustina to carry on work for so many years, knowing the you may never see the fruits of your labor? She realizes that she will never see the fullness of all the work she has done. Yet, she still wants to do God's Will because she knows it will bless others. God often does not let us see the fruits of our labor and I think there are good reasons for it.

Today's readings are from Notebook 5, numbers 1394-1400.

Congratulations on making it through another 100 numbers!

So, we are getting closer and closer to the end, so after today's readings, I'm going to talk about what's in store for next year. We are going to go over some "business" issues. Also, I'll discuss why it's important to read the writings of the saints.