Sunday Homily

We are all on a journey. It is important to reflect on where you have been on your journey and see how you are moving toward a relationship with Jesus.

The beauty of intentional prayer and how it causes the one praying to search his/her heart and pour the heart out to God. When practicing intentional prayer in a group, also helps us understand other’s trials and joys.

We have been given the grace to get into heaven.  God chose us; God chose you. Grace is the free and undeserved gift we are given of God’s favor and life. We are given grace at our baptism, and it is a lot like a seed. At our baptism we were given grace, God’s very life, and it was placed inside each of us.

God’s power is God’s Love. Nothing can separate you from God’s love. No matter how difficult things may get, how broken life may feel, or how broken you may feel at times, nothing, nothing can separate you from the love of Jesus Christ. This is a perfect example of God’s love, his generosity.

Even though we experience brokenness in our lives, there is good news for those who love God. “We know that all things work for good for those who love God…..

The Holy Spirit Groaning” The Holy Spirit wants to come to the aid of our weakness. Our weakness could refer to the general sense of vulnerability in the conditions of our present age. It also refers to the fact that we can not even imagine the goal to which God is leading us. Hence we do not know what to pray for and we do not know what is the appropriate prayer to make.

God will bring restoration, in spite of our pain and brokenness. Christ has won the victory over death; our suffering has an end. This should not only give us comfort, but a great hope in a God who loves us so much he would share in our suffering so we could live eternally with Him.

Jesus calls us to rest. The ability to step away from the busy world, and to enter into a divine rest, is a blessing that can be yours. Stepping away from the world and trying to figure everything out never works. “For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Give your worries to Jesus and trust in Him.

In Baptism, we are united to Christ and His Church as an accepted and redeemed member of the family of God.

Jesus becomes like us, so we can become like him. We read in the bible that we are created in God’s image. Throughout our life we should be growing, maturing, from God’s image into God’s likeness, and the Son of God, Jesus, makes that possible because he remakes us, recreates us, and leads the way, showing us how to mature through life from God’s image to his likeness.