11/2/10 cblog ONE LIFE, like ONE SPARK, NO MATTER HOW SMALL CAN DO WONDERFUL THINGS St. Brendan 8a m: " book of wisdom talks about just souls..those who led righteous lives..2 images dynamic...not static..1 is gold being refined..fired tested..pure gold melts..shaped into jewelry..2nd image is a spark..one spark can set a place on fire..& must be fed by something else..something combustible...book of wisdom...a life, no matter how small can do wonderful things..2 worlds..corporeal + heavenly kingdom..consoled re most people are good people..so its not about damnation but about being better prepared..the imp thing is that the goal is there..its attainable..stop today..week..month of al souls..people who tried..the sparks..they were gold..being tested..spaerk in stubble..combined w gospel material its a fire that cleanses..understanding ..john says fathers mansion has many room..there are vacancies....future generations will understand what that their ancestors did..very powerful..taled with lived with..ancestors give us encorgment..way to goal of eternal happiness.....remembrances..all can focus our minds & souls on these wondereful people.." 1 Wis 3:1-9 The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them. They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was thought an affliction and their going forth from us, utter destruction. But they are in peace. For if before men, indeed, they be punished yet is their hope full of immortality; chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself. As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself. In the time of their visitation they shall shine and shall dart about as sparks through stubble; they shall judge nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord shall be their King forever Those who trust in him shall understand truth and the faithful shall abide with him in love: because grace and mercy are with his holy ones, and his care is with his elect ." R. (1) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. or R. Though I walk in the valley of darkness, I fear no evil, for you are wi ROMANS 5.5-11 "Brothers and sisters: Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. How much more then, since we are now justified by his Blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath. Indeed, if, while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by his life,..not only that but we boast of our Lord Jesus Christ,...Not only that, but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. PPPPPP or Brothers and sisters: Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his we shall also be united with him in the resurrection. We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with that we might no longer be in slavery to sin. For a dead person has been absolved from sin. If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. Jn 6:3 Jesus said to the crowds“Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will... but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life and I shall raise him on the last day.”
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