Prayer Prompt before reading MK 3:13-19: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray well, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and who God the Son is so that I may know who I am.
“JESUS WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN AND SUMMONED THOSE WHOM HE WANTED AND THEY CAME TO HIM.” MK 3:13-19
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary
The Chosen 12 had their mission and purpose. God chose certain positions in the Church to be anointed and ordained for specific purposes and apostolates that we do not have but may be called to. May we honor them and revere them for their calling and pray for them. If we are called to marriage, we are still called for a specific mission and purpose to be holy and become a saint!
One thought the devil puts in our minds is that we are not as holy as someone else or worthy of God’s love because we have sinned too much. We downplay ourselves because we think certain people never sin. The most important thing we must understand is that all of us are baptized in the same waters and are called to be holy.
Pope Leo XIV is NOT more baptized than you and I. St. Francis is not more baptized than us. By baptism we are all called to the same holiness as the pope, bishops, priests, religious brothers and sisters; we are all called to this high calling, to be saints. We are all sealed in the same Holy Spirit. Today, Jesus in this Gospel is calling you. He wants to have an encounter with you and tell you what God made you for.
Holiness is perfection through submitting your will to God, remaining in God’s love in the 10 commandments, and living a sacramental life to receive the graces we need to keep fighting the good fight. When we die to self and put on Christ, offer our crosses up when we suffer (thank God we have something to offer our suffering up to-thank you Jesus!), and help those in need we are imitating Christ.
When we fast and sacrifice to strengthen our self-control and discipline, we are striving for holiness. Most importantly when we love we are imitating the One who is love and gave us our mission and purpose. God has a dream for your life ask Him what it is! Every human soul is called to do this through Baptism.
May we not take the power of the cross away from Jesus and think we are less holy or any less called to sainthood. We are doing ourselves, the Church, and the world a great disservice. Recognize your identity as an adopted son or daughter of God, brother or sister in Christ, inspired by the Holy Spirit to be a saint.
Today’s challenge: Pray for your vocation. God is calling you, are you listening. Go to adoration and listen.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
***We are praying for all of you on the March for Life trip, may we protect the most innocent in our country by law!!! May we be a voice for the voiceless!
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