“GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILY AND ANNOUNCE TO THEM ALL THAT THE LORD IN HIS PITY HAS DONE FOR YOU.” MK 5:1-20
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Prayer Prompt before reading MK 5:1-20: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
Today, we see a man possessed. Just by the sight of Jesus from a distance he runs up to Jesus and lays prostrate. Then, he reveals who Jesus is, ““What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?” Jesus has pity on him and releases the unclean spirit from him. Later, the man wants Jesus to stay with him. Jesus tells him and all of us that He must go and our mission is to, ““Go home to your family and announce to them all that the Lord in his pity has done for you.”
What pity has the Lord done for us? Our Father is chasing after us every day. He created us to be holy and without blemish before the foundation of the world, but then the Fall happened. So, He sent his only Son Jesus to heal our relationship with the Father. We killed God with our sins and He came back with loving forgiveness. Our mission through Baptism is to die to ourselves/our ego and put on Christ. When someone sees us word and action, do they see Christ? God has given us a chance to be other Christ’s through Baptism. What a great challenge!
“In Baptism, Christ grafts Himself onto us” says Bishop Barron. We have an identity as a child of God, never alone again, receiving Divine life within us through the Holy Spirit in the sacraments through the power of Jesus dying and conquering the Cross, resurrecting, and giving us a new life.
We are called to bring this Good News to our families, parishes, communities and the whole world. What an opportunity! We only have one life to live which is a gift (which God gave us) YOLO, take time to get to know God, fall in love with HIm, serve HIm and return to Him (Christian YOLO)! Put on the armor of God and be ready to fight, it will be one heck of a ride!
Today’s challenge: Start making a conscious decision to commit yourself to Christ each day through Mary, prayer, coming to God’s grace, fighting sin, doing good deeds, and being a good example. Learn about Fr. Kapuan and how he lived his life in service to God and others. Total Surrender and Trust
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; We will live again!)
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