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Omnia Pro Iesu Per Mariam!
Omnia Pro Iesu Per Mariam!
CHRIST IS OUR HOPE! When we have a living and active faith in Jesus Christ, and come to Him with trust in His Divine Mercy, then He will raise us from the paralysis of fear, anxiety, worry, doubt and the other emotions and thoughts that disable us. Just as Jesus looked at the paralytic with love and said: "Rise, pick up your mat and go home" (St. Mark 2: 11), Jesus looks at those who approach Him with faith and lifts us up from the paralyses of sin and the consequences of sin.
The world in which we live is filled with fear, anxiety, worry, doubt and other forms of paralysis. Jesus came to heal us and set us free. Jesus wants us to have faith and place our Trust in Him because He loves us and we belong to Him. Jesus came to gift us life, abundant life and eternal life.
God is making all things new in Christ! CHRIST IS OUR HOPE! Christ has the victories over sin, Satan, death, the flesh and the world. Claim these victories in Christ. Do not let the enemies of our soul put you back into paralysis. Rather, live a life of faith in Jesus Christ and enjoy the freedom and fullness of life that Jesus has won for you.
We learn from Our Blessed Mother how to keep our vision fixed on Christ so that we can be made new in Christ and, God willing, realize the hope of our calling to holiness of life. Our Lady is our Mother and our model. Ask Our Lady how to live a life of faith, hope and Charity. It is through a living faith, an unwavering hope and a love of God and neighbor that we "Rise" IN CHRIST.
Remember CHRIST IS OUR HOPE and, thus, MARY IS THE MOTHER OF HOLY HOPE! We do not rely on ourselves as our hope. Furthermore, the economy is not our hope. Politicians are not our hope. The world is not our hope. CHRIST IS OUR HOPE!
I leave you to reflect on St. Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 6: 24-33, where Jesus continues the Sermon on the Mount: "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."
Jesus continues: "Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. BUT SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE YOURS AS WELL."
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Through the intercession of Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. Michael, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John, St. James, St. Therese, St. Rita, St. Philomena, St. Jude, St. Nicholas, St. Alphonsus, St. Peter Chrysologus, St. Zachary, St. Elizabeth, St. John the Baptist, St. Perpetua, St. Felicity, St. Francis, St. Veronica Guiliani, St. Joan of Arc, St. Louis, St. Joseph Calasanz, St. Padre Pio, St. Patrick, St. Bridget, St. Columban and all the Holy Angels and Saints may you be abundantly blessed in the Covenant of Communion of the Most Holy Trinity, with my Priestly blessing,
Father Zachary of the Mother of God, SOLT
