MARY, OUR MOTHER: The true Golden Compass for humanity is Jesus Christ.

Monday, December 21, 2009

The true Golden Compass for humanity is Jesus Christ.

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The true Golden Compass for humanity is Jesus Christ. He is not just the Compass. He is the way who leads us to the Father. Finding Him means finding the Father because He and the Father are one. Christmas is the ideal occasion for us to discover that He became man only because He is madly in love with each and every one of us. Christmas is the time when we reciprocate His love by trying to love others the way He loves them. Christmas is the time when we discover the joy of all this.
It's the season to be jolly Pope Benedict XVI spoke about this joy on December 13, just before reciting the Angelus. The secret to experiencing true joy is not found in accumulating lots of things, but from feeling loved by the Lord and being generous to others, he said. Real joy is feeling that one's personal and social life "is touched and filled by a great mystery, the mystery of God's love."
How can one experience joy when one lives in a sea of problems and difficulties? The Pope said that the Holy Family, gathered in a stable and facing so many hardships, does not on the surface, look like a very lucky family.
"And yet, they are full of an intimate joy because they love each other, they help each other" and above all they are certain that their lives are fulfilling God's work, commented Pope Benedict. True joy, therefore, "does not consist in having lots of things, but in feeling loved by the Lord, in letting ourselves be a gift to others, and in loving ourselves," he said. To feel joy, people need love and truth and to be close to God, who "warms our hearts and responds to our deepest needs," added the Pope.

It's the season to be radical

Christmas brings with it a radical development in the history of humanity. God shared our humanity so that we humans could have a share in His divinity. Quite naturally this has myriad implication on the level of personal, communal and political way of living for all men and women. Christmas should be the guarantee that all humans should share in the freedom of God and live in true freedom. God is a community of persons so Christmas should instill a spirit of solidarity and community. By becoming man, God got involved in human history to free humanity. Involvement is the name of the game for Christians.

Christmas is the promotion of a way of life. It promotes the integral development and the freedom of all men and women. Christmas promotes human dignity. We preach this Gospel. This is our mission of evangelisation. John Paul II said that "Human promotion must be the logical consequence of evangelisation, which tends to the integral liberation of the person."

Christmas is an eminently political feast. It is a celebration of involvement in the human condition; it is the clarion call of the victory of the meek and the humble; it is the ultimate defeat of the haughty; it is the bridgehead of solidarity. This is the looking glass that Christians must be gazing at during Christmas time. This is the looking glass which shows the real solution to the economic difficulties that we are facing. We should resist the temptation of looking for salvation at the neo-liberal theories that value the market more than the human person.

A really happy Christmas can only be enjoyed to the full if we Christians individually and together as a church discover and incarnate in our society the social and political dimension of Christmas which emanate from its religious dimension.

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Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 25- "On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility"

19. It is one thing to be humble, another to strive for humilty, and another to praise the humble. The first belongs to the perfect, the second to the truly obedient, and the third to all the faithful.

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Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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The true Golden Compass for humanity is Jesus Christ.

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