Why do we pray for those who have died? Because there is hope! Hope that they can make it to heaven.

 Why do we pray for those who have died? Because there is hope! Hope that they can make it to heaven even though they were not perfect and needing further purification before being able to take part in the fullness of joy in Heaven. We believe in purgatory which is a place of purification where the faithfully departed need our prayers. Let us offer up those prayers to help them and prepare our life so we can spend as little time in purgatory ourselves.

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every Saint has a past, and every sinner has a future” (Oscar Wilde). What is your future?

 What is the process of canonization of saints? It is a hard rode to canonization, but it is even harder to actually live it out sanctity in our life. We are all called to be saints; to live heroic virtue according to the Beatitudes.

You can’t give what you haven’t first received. Do we receive the Love of God so we can give Divine Love and not broken human love?

 We can’t give what we haven’t first received. We cannot teach something that we haven’t first learned. We learn how to love from our family. We also need to learn how to love from God and learn how to receive His love so we can share it with others. God loved us while we were yet sinners, and so when we realize that and receive that we can start to live out that merciful love to all that might hurt us or offend us.

Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and give to God what is God’s. The coin is made in the image of Caesar, and we are made in the image of God.

 We don’t give 10% to God we must give it all to God. We are made in the image of God in a special way to have self-possession, reason, and truly love. We can think about what we are thinking. So, let’s make that choice after thinking about what we are thinking and choose to Love God and give Him all.

You have the best invitation ever!!!! To go to Mass.

 If Pope Francis invited you to a party in Rome would you be excited to go? There is something even better here. Isaiah tells us about the richness of the future. We get to experience it today in Mass. The reality is that Mass is a foretaste of Heaven and its heavenly banquet. But do we experience it that way? Do we show up as Judas or Peter?

The Eucharist is the Source and Summit of our faith because it is Jesus Christ Himself. Where do you seek out the presence of God?

 We are such an anxious world because we are pulled in so many ways. St. Paul wishes us to be free of anxiety like himself trusting and present to reality. Adoration in the Blessed Sacrament is a place of practicing that presence that frees one from anxiety. You have lots of hours in a week. You spend one in Mass can you also spend one in Adoration?

What will make you happy? A motorcycle? Money? Marriage? Obedience to God on the Cross?

 Jesus shows us true fulfillment of life in perfect obedience to the Father even on the Cross. Where do we try to grasp for happiness and fulfillment in things that are finite and lacking? Even good things made by God can distract us from the greatest of God. We come to the Eucharist to receive the humility and obedience in perfect fulfillment of life.

Life is not fair! You can either die unhappy or get over it. God does not operate in our view of fairness.

 We think too small. We are like children when we approach God with our view of the world and a distorted view of fairness. God’s ways are not unfair, our ways are unfair. God is more then fair, he allows mercy to triumph over justice which give us an opportunity to be saved. Thank God that he is not perfectly fair according to our view or we would be condemned to hell, but instead have his fairness of mercy of God seeks us out to save us.

We are called to love. Love is to desire the good of another for the other’s sake. Correcting a bad behavior is love of a parent or friend. But do we forget to do this in faith?

 We know the corporal works of mercy, but do we know the spiritual works of mercy? One of the spiritual works of mercy is Admonish the Sinner. Jesus tells us how to do that today. Also to remember James 5:19-20 "My brethren, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins."

WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? Sometimes not what we would think in our hedonistic mindset.

 Who are we formed by? The World or by the Word of God? Are we professing Jesus Christ as Lord or rebuking him for His controversial stances? Peter tries to correct Jesus and gets rebuked himself. Do we also trying to correct Jesus on what he should do or teach? Jesus does not teach us to follow the wide and easy road, but the narrow and difficult road of the cross.