Saturday 12 January 2013

Be a saint!

Mummy Maria, all the Angels and Saints, pray for me that I may love Lord Jesus more ardently.

With all the pains, and sorrows in those years, I am so glad to bear my cross which Lord Jesus gave me in my birth, because I know this is the way I learn how to become a saint together with Immaculate Heart of Mummy Mary, after the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Like Saint Dominic Savio who said, "If I do not become a saint I am doing nothing", if I do not become the saint, then there is no point for me to invest all my heart, mind and strength in the Most Holy Trinity, Only One God. If I tell you that I want to be the saint, it is because Lord Jesus asked me to be holy and perfect in virtues as God Himself is totally holy and perfect. Why must I suffer all the difficulties and trials those years? It is because Blessed Mummy Mary, all the Angels and Saints intercede for me to have long life on the earth so that with the graces of God I can work hard to become perfect in virtues and holiness. God wants the hardworking children who are able to love Him wholeheartedly. Not the spoilt brats who fail to appreciate everything. But now, I am very happy and have nothing to complain because I already have intimate relationship with God as He Himself came into me sacramentally through Holy Communion. Saint Augustine said, "Why are we so sad? Why do we blame God? Evils abound in the world so that the world will fail to seduce us into loving it." We learn the three virtues: love, faith and hope. But Love is really the greatest virtue because it just keeps growing and growing as if there is no limit. It transcends above everything for God Himself is Love. Faith gives way to our eternal life, which our Catholic Church taught. Hope gives way to the vision of our belief in God. My physical deafness is nothing much because God already healed and restored my hearing ability so that I could hear Him through the Holy Scriptures and Gospels. I was once blind but now I can see His ever Great Divine Love more clearly. Importantly I can see His Presence on the Eucharistic Host in the Holy Mass daily. Recently God made me cry my heart out of the joy through Holy Communion. I am forever grateful to Him for having found me and I have found Him. I have not forgotten the visions when Lord Jesus appeared to me. My brothers and sisters, why don't we aim for the sainthood together? Find your own vocations in the deepest desire of your hearts. In short, what do you really want? :) Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori said, "God wishes everyone to be a saint, but in accordance with their own state in life- the religious as religious, the person in the world as a person in the world, the priest as a priest, a married person as a married person, a soldier as a soldier, and so on for every other way of life."

"Be Holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am Holy." (Leviticus 19:2)

"You must ... be perfect just as your Heavenly Father is perfect." - Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:48)

"You cannot be half a saint. You must be a whole saint or no saint at all. Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors." - Saint Therese of Lisieux

"Jesus is the Teacher of Holiness. I go to Him because I want Him to teach me how to become a Saint. Of what use to me is all I learn in school if I do not become holy?" - Saint Francis de Sales

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