Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary.

Jesus said to his Apostles: 
“No disciple is above his teacher,
no slave above his master.
It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher,
for the slave that he become like his master.
If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,
how much more those of his household!

“Therefore do not be afraid of them.
Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed,
nor secret that will not be known.
What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light;
what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy
both soul and body in Gehenna.
Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin?
Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.
Even all the hairs of your head are counted.
So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Everyone who acknowledges me before others
I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.
But whoever denies me before others,
I will deny before my heavenly Father.”  MT 10:24-33

This Gospel is full of knowledge of the central theme of who Jesus is and what weighs on our belief in Jesus as the Son of Man and judgment day.  Jesus sees everything.  ”Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known”.  Next, Jesus hits us with something even more powerful, “And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in Gehenna”.  Our fallen human nature, the seven deadly sins are weighing on us plus the temptations of the most powerful angel who fell, Satan.  We must daily ask Jesus through Mary to keep us in the light and away from the cliff that leads to darkness.  We can form good habits through fasting, discipline, and God’s grace to form virtues which help us to make these temptations less daunting,  We all know that we love certain sins and temptations.  Again, nothing is concealed or hidden from God.  We have the spiritual powers of mind, will, and memory to know, love, and serve God which help us to fight these deadly sins.  It is a daily battlefield which starts in our minds.  The beauty of this Gospel is God’s love for us and that Christ died for us and gave us the power to overcome these things.  If we do not fight, we take the power of the cross away.  ”Even all the hairs on your head are counted.  So do not be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows”.  God created us in His image and likeness, and through Jesus’s death and resurrection in Baptism we are called to be fighters.  If we do not fight or learn from the Word of God, Jesus made Flesh, that we are called to fight we have a very serious judgment coming our way.  Last, Jesus warns us “Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.  But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father”.  Ouch!  Often we are afraid to talk about Jesus or pray in a restaurant.  We are even afraid to read the Bible in our homes or have someone notice us on our knees praying in our homes.  We are sometimes afraid to ask our own family to pray the rosary in the car.  We struggle to mix religion with politics.  Jesus reminds us not to be afraid.  We may be humiliated or persecuted even in our own homes, but I would rather go through that short term hardship to make sure I am not humiliated or persecuted in front of my Creator.  Eternity is forever, our time on earth is temporary.

Today’s challenge: Be bold, pray publicly, ask other to pray with you, kneel and pray everyday in your home no matter who might see you, get caught reading the Bible and saying your daily rosary.  God sees everything.  Read about the saints who had heroic virtue and did these things when many knew they would die for it!!!!!

Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YOLO