Prayer is us immersing ourselves into Who He is.

04/10/25                      Happy sacred season of Love (Holy Lent)

God is Love (1 John 4:7); therefore, the act of loving Him and others, as well as receiving love from Him and others, becomes holy and sacred. That’s why Lent is sacred and holy, because it is the season that offers us the tremendous honor to step into the holy forty days that our Lord spent in the wilderness out of love for us, as well as to journey with Him “side by side” during His holy passion that He went through for us.

Our Lenten journey is our “heart-to-heart” walk with Love Himself. It is a sacred time that we are asked to give our loving and total “yes” to the Giver of graces so that He may take full possession of our senses, appetites, intellect, desires, and of our whole being and to purify us inside out through His Holy Passion so we might be rooted in love and love alone and to truly live out our sacred unity with Him through our reception of the Most Holy Eucharist in a state of grace.

 So, brothers and sisters, let’s fast from our hearts. How? First, by imitating our Blessed Mother, the Immaculata, who pondered, nurtured, and treasured what is sacred. 

 Therefore, let us too ponder the sacred nature of the One Who is Love Himself, our Incarnated Lord and God, Jesus Christ, Who is Kindness, Patience, Wisdom, Forgiveness, Peace, Compassion, Obedience to the Most Holy Will of the Father, Humility, Purity, Selflessness, Gentleness incarnate and Who is a total gift of oneself through His Holy Incarnation and Holy Presence in the Most Holy Eucharist (through transubstantiation).

 Let’s nurture, ponder, and treasure Who He is daily (a virtue a day), for by doing so, all these virtues will take root within us and will be the genesis of our actions, thoughts, words, appetites and desires; and the virtuous life that people around us will witness, will be just an overflow of what is within us.

 Now, brothers and sisters, let us beg the Holy Spirit for His Mighty help, for though we may have the will to do good, we are incapable of doing anything on our own. Let’s pray (If you can, I would like to invite you to pray in front of the Most Blessed Sacrament and if you are unable to go see the Lord, FaceTime Him by putting an online live holy adoration.)

 In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Breathe in, breathe out; breathe in, breathe out; Spirit of Gentleness and Love, Unfailing Spirit, I beg you, take me before my Heavenly Father, for I yearn to be in His Mighty Presence. (Breathe in, breathe out, you are now before the One Who loves you infinitely. Breathe in, breathe out;)

“Heavenly Father, my Lord and my God, You are Love, and all you do is Love. I beg You, through the merit of the Holy Passion of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and through the Immaculate Heart of my Blessed Mother, to purify all my senses. I (say your name) submit myself to You and You alone, for I belong to you:

My eyes are at Your service, to contemplate the work of Your Holy Hands;

My tongue is at Your service, to praise You; to proclaim the good news; to speak the truth and only the truth, and to say only what edifies others and glorifies Your Holy name;

My hands are at Your service to serve You and You alone;

My mind is at Your service, to ponder only what is good, and holy;

My ears are at Your service, to listen to Your Holy Words and what glorifies Your Holy name;

My sense of smell is at Your service, to be attentive to the movements of Your Spirit;

My feet are at Your service, to go wholeheartedly in haste to serve You , for I yearn to love You and others with the Pierced Living Heart of my Savior;

I yearn to work and serve You with the Pierced Hands of my Redeemer;

I yearn to walk on the path that You are calling me, to go wherever You desire me to go with the Pierced Feet of my Master, for I live to serve You, my Lord and my God. Heavenly Father, into Your hands I entrust myself as my Savior entrusted His Spirit to You. I seal this prayer with the Mighty name of my Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen

 Second, we are in the great holy season of Love, and as we stated above, we are journeying with our Lord in the desert where He was tempted. We too, will be greatly tempted. But when we are tempted, the sin that the evil one is tempting us to do or the sin that we find ourselves struggling with, let’s resist by pondering, nurturing, and treasuring the virtue opposite to that sin. Let’s make the evil one work for us by using the area he is challenging us as a “light” to the part of our hearts that we need to immerse in the infinite Mercy of our Savior by going to confession and sincerely practicing what we talked above. It will require a lot of dying to oneself, which will be very challenging and painful, but let’s remember that we can do anything through the One Who strengthens us, and the victory is already His and therefore ours. Let us embrace the pain of our crosses as people who are witnesses to the Holy Resurrection of our Lord, as those who know the beautiful and unfathomable end of the story.

When our Lord Jesus Christ was in the flesh, before His Holy Passion, the first Apostles journeyed with Him as followers but were not yet witnesses of His Holy Resurrection. We, on the other hand, are highly privileged to journey with Him in the desert as followers and witnesses of His victory over death, for we undergo our penances, begging for our Lord’s purification as Easter people, singing our alleluia through our daily actions, words, thoughts, and minds.

 Lastly, brothers and sisters, let us, before speaking, looking, asking a question, listening to something, and before acting, ask ourselves, “Is love the root of my actions? Of what I am going to say or ask? Will what I am going to say, listen to, or look at bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit in me and the person (s) that I am interacting with?  

 Now, we are going to conclude our reflection with the holy words of our big brother saint Paul in Roman 12:1, “I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship”, and with this poem:

Squeeze Your Glory out of me my Lord and my God

 My Lord, echoing our big brother saint Augustine of Hippo, late have I recognized You;

Late have I recognized Your voice;

Late have I recognized that Love Himself dwells in me;

Late have I recognized that Love Himself was proposing to me;

Late have I recognized that the King of Glory was calling me to be totally His;

Late have I said yes to You my Lord;

Late have I given up everything for You;

Late have I made myself completely available to You my Lord;

Late have I recognized that Beauty Himself was wedding Himself to me;

Late have I known my true identity;

Late have I been submissive to You my only Love;

Late have I sung my hymn of gratitude for Who You are and for what You have done for me;

Late have I adored You and served You with my heart;

Late have I seen You in me;

Late have I honored our sacred union in the Most Holy Eucharist;

Late have I been docile to Your Spirit;

Late have I sought Your ways.

My Lord, and my God, now I have recognized You and I have heard You calling me. 

I fully and wholeheartedly give myself to You and You alone. Squeeze Your glory out of me my Lord, for I live to give glory to Your Mighty name.

Praise be to our Living Savior in the Most Blessed Sacrament, now and forever.

We love You Heavenly Father!

01/31/25                            Another day…, Another day to love You more…

Happy blessings day sons and daughters of the Most High God!

Today I would like to invite you to join me to ponder this poem of love for Love Himself. I hope it will bear fruits in mine and your daily life for the glory of God. Amen 

Another day…, Another day to love You more…

My Love, this is another day, another day to love You;

Another day to choose You over myself;

Another day to die to myself for love of You;

Another day, another opportunity to suffer imperfectly but with sincere love for You and You alone;

Another day, another tremendous honor that I don’t deserve to console Your Sacred living Heart;

Another day with You, another day to look at You, to talk to You, to smile at You and to spend time with You in the Most Blessed Sacrament; 

Another day to sit before Your Mighty Throne, and listen to Your words, worship You and give You glory;

Another day to unite myself to You in the Most Holy Eucharist;

Another day to look at others through Your Holy Eyes;

Another day to love others with Your pierced Heart;

Another day to work and serve You with Your pierced Holy Hands;

Another day to walk with Your pierced Feet;

Another day to submit myself to Your Most Holy Will;

Another day for my heart to grow in love for You and You alone;

Another day of tremendous blessings;

Another day to forgive like You, to be patient like You, to be kind like You;

Another day to be obedient to our Heavenly Father like You;

Another day to be a recipient and a witness of Your untold Goodness, unfailing Faithfulness, and unfathomable Love and Patience;

Another day to be fed by You, cared by You, and loved by You;

Another day to rejoice in Your real presence in the Most Holy Eucharist;

Another day to cling unto You like a child at the breast;

Another day to learn something new about You;

Another day to live life with You;

Another day to just LOVE YOU…

My Lord and my God, my only Love, I will cherish this day as if it was my last day with You.

We LOVE You Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. I SO LOVE YOU!

May the Living Heart of the King in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world and in our hearts, His living holy Tabernacle, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Abba, Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

11/26/24 Who is my Lover?

He is humble and meek of heart.

He always forgives regardless of the offence as long as one truly repents.

He is always gentle and patient.

When He was in the flesh, He always died to Himself for the sake of others. The sacrifice of dying to oneself is His love language.

When He was in the flesh, He had a full agenda where all His 12,045 days on earth were planned. On all the pages of His agenda, all one can read from 7 AM to 7 AM was “love, love and love”.

Who is my Lover?

He is Love Himself and I am called to keep striving to love like Him.

I will unceasingly ponder Who He is and allow myself to rest in Him so that I may be soaked with Who He is, because Who He is quenches my thirst for Him.

My sinful heart beats for Who He is.

Who I am loves Who He is unconditionally, with a love that only He can satisfy.

Oh how I love Him;

Oh how I love my Lover.

I love Him very deeply.

09/13/24                          My One and Only Joy (Let joy spring out of it!)

What is joy?

I don’t know about you, but if my joy was based on having everything I wanted; things going my way; being loved and accepted by everyone; having everyone honor my humanity by the way they talked and acted towards me; having the rest my body needs; being healed from all diseases; eating the meals I want; having all my desires fulfilled…in other words, if my joy was dependent on a life of total comfort where everything was perfect, I would only experience sorrow and depression, because a perfect life does not exist on this side of heaven.

With this reality in mind, the question then becomes, do you choose to live a life seeking comfort, or virtue?

Therefore, what is joy?

Joy can be defined as the fruit of a grateful heart grounded in the truth of who Jesus Christ is and His infinite love and care for us.

To believe in Him is also to believe that He is Truth Himself. Thus, whatever Truth Himself says is true indeed.

Truth Himself said that the Most Holy of Holies, the Holy Eucharist, is His Body and Blood; hence I believe in His true presence in the Most Holy Host.

Due to this truth, whenever you and I are at Holy Mass, we, despite being sinners, are allowed into the sacredness of His holy presence.

Furthermore, whenever we receive the Holy Eucharist, we, the imperfect ones, unite ourselves with the Perfect One, the Holy One Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God; and as a result we, as little as we are, become the living inner chamber of the Holy Tabernacle, the dwelling place of the Most Holy Trinity.  From this truth springs the Christian’s unshakable joy upon which our daily joy is renewed and strengthened…the joy of a heart that is beyond grateful to be one with God Himself.

Now let’s have a “heart to heart” with the Master:

Rabboni, on my baptism day, I entered into an unbreakable covenant with You; You are mine and I am Yours now and for eternity.

So please take possession of what belongs to You

My mind belongs to You

My heart belongs to You

My appetite belongs to You

My desires belong to You

My sorrows belong to You

Anything and everyone that belongs to You becomes holy because You are the Holy One

My crosses, what keeps me up at night, belong to You

My hands belong to You

My feet belong to You,

and You alone belong to me.

During my hardships, when I unconsciously allow myself to be consumed by anything besides complete trust in You, I put myself in starvation of who I truly am, the little child of the Most High God who does not lack anything because in You, I already have everything.

All of me yearns for all of You, because my whole being belongs to You and You alone.

Consequently, I should not and will no longer worry about what does not belong to me. With complete dependance on my Immaculate Mother, I (say your full name slowly) will focus on You and You alone. On loving You as You taught me to do in Holy Scriptures, and on receiving Your love.

I will let joy spring out of my knowledge and awareness that as broken as I am, I belong to the Mighty God, and every day, out of His tremendous Mercy and love for me, He allows me to step into His Mighty and Holy presence, to receive Him and to be united to Him. 

Yes, I will let the reality of the true presence of my Lord in the Holy of Holies and the reality of our Holy and sacred union be my one and only Joy. 

From now on, my only One Love, with the Mighty help of my Master the Holy Spirit, and with complete dependence on my Immaculate Mother, I vow to embrace the reality and the truthfulness of Your words that it is Your Body and Blood that I receive every day at Holy Mass, and I will let that be my one and only joy.

May the Sacred Heart of our Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, and in our hearts which are His living tabernacles, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Abba, Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

07/19/24                                  Happy Birthday

Happy day of blessings sons and daughters of the Most High.

Today we are going to reflect on our birthday.

What is a birthday? It is the anniversary of the birth of a person. It is a celebration of the day that you and I were born. On the irreplaceable day of your birthday, had you been granted the gift to articulate what you saw and experienced, you would have likely said something along the lines of, “All I remember is the gazing look of love beyond words in the eyes of my parents; their smile that reflected glimpses of their hearts full of joy; the gentleness and the care of how I was being held, and the warmness of their arms.” On that day, all we had to do was soak in the love given to us and to love them just by existing, and being completely dependent on them for everything.

Similarly, when we receive the Holy of Holies, the Most Holy Eucharist in a state of grace, we are renewed from within; it is a new birth of our interior life. If we had the eyes of angels, we will see that in that specific moment, all creation is on pause, all hell is trembling of fear; all the angels, archangels, and saints in Heaven are attentively looking with awe and deep joy at the unfathomable unity between the All Mighty One and His creature. Him in us, transfigures everything in us; and all that remains is Him, and Him alone. We now have a new heart, His. We now have a new appetite, His. we now have one will, His. We now have a new body, His. We now have a new life His: the life of the Immortal One, the Omnipotent One, the Omniscient One, the very life of the Most High God.

How can we respond to this undeserved grace beyond words? How can one live and honor this gift of eternity on this side of Heaven? By simply reminding ourselves that as on our actual birthday we were so powerless in this new world gifted to us, that we had to be completely dependent on our parents to take care of us, similarly we ought to spiritually remain newborns in the arms of the One Who has been given to us as a Mother, the Queen Mother. She will unfailingly take care of Her little ones that you and I are, and we will not lack anything.

How does it look like to be a newborn spiritually in the arms of our Holy Mother? This will be our reflection for next week. In the meantime, happy birthday to all those who went Home today and received with honor the Holy Eucharist.

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Abba, Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

06/07/24    Sacred Heart of the King, Living Heart, We will serve.

Happy Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, our King!

How does one talk about a reality that is beyond our understanding?

What can seem like a “fairytale” is actually our reality. Our Lord created for Himself a human Heart, like ours, for only one reason, to beat out of love for you and I.

I invite you to intentionally set aside a few minutes to ponder this reality on this great feast day. If you can, go visit Him in the Most Blessed Sacrament, that would be ideal, but if you are unable to, find a quiet place and FaceTime Him (you can Stream live perpetual adoration online), and let’s together step into Heaven through the power of the Holy Spirit and the help of Our Queen Mother, our Mama.

My Lord and my God, kneeling before You today, I want to just say, thank You. Thank You for allowing me to approach You and talk to You;

Thank You for being my Lord and Savior.

My Jesus, You are fully God and fully Man, the Son of the Living God. Thank You for Knowing me and thank You for loving me.

On this day, in which we humbly honor and celebrate the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I invite you to renew your love and commitment to Him by joining me in the prayer of proclamation below. 

Before all my brothers and sisters in Heaven, I (say your name), willingly, joyfully and freely, with complete dependence on the Immaculata, and through the power of the Holy Spirit,  promise to offer my life to console Your Sacred Heart.

I vow to love You with all my strength and mind;

I vow to love through pain and suffering;

I vow to love through fatigue;

I vow to love through sickness;

I vow to love through disappointments;

I vow to love through irritation and discomfort;

I vow to love through loss;

I vow to love through hunger

I (say your name), vow to love through all the challenges of my daily life, and I will serve my Lord; I will serve through Love, with Love, and in Love, because You, my God, are Love, and as it is written in Phil 4:13, “I can do all things in Him Who strengthens me”. I seal this prayer with the Mighty name of my Redeemer Jesus Christ, Amen.

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Abba, Father.

Our act for today: Send an “I love you” message or email to the person, or persons, the Holy Spirit brings to your mind today.

05/17/24    Peace

Happy blessings day sons and daughters of the Most High,

Today, we are going to pray for peace:

Master, with Your permission, today we are going to kneel before You to beg for peace; peace within us and peace in the world.

Peace in the world takes its roots from the peace within us. The world cannot have what we ourselves don’t have because we are the world. As baptized people, we totally belong to Christ Who is peace Himself. When we receive Him in the Holy Communion, we are allowing ourselves to become one with Peace. Because of our holy union with Him, wherever we go, whatever we do, we are called to spread peace like a sweet perfume. Peace must be the reason for all of our actions, words and thoughts.

So let’s pray. Find a quiet place and let’s kneel before the Lord and invite the Paraclete:

“Holy Spirit, Spirit of light and love, Spirit of gentleness, unfailing Spirit, we are begging You to make us aware of Your Holy presence. Thank You, Your Majesty, for allowing Your servant that I am, to talk directly to You and to bring my petitions to You.

I, (say your name) belong to Christ Who is the Prince of peace, Peace Himself. Please bring to my mind anything that is working against my complete union with Him.

Breathe in and breathe out (stay quiet and just be in His presence, He will talk to you).

Do not be afraid, do not be ashamed. Anything that matters to you matter to Christ.  Whatever He will bring to your mind remember that you are in the presence of the One Who is crazy about you.

After your awareness of the things that disturb your peace let’s pray”

“I, Your little one, beg You my King to please take authority over (name all of them). May nothing disturb my holy union with You. May I have peace with tears falling; may I have peace through pain and suffering; may I have peace in every moment of my day because I am one with You and You are peace, You, Jesus Christ Son of the living God is my PEACE and You are unshakable. I seal this prayer with Your mighty name Jesus Christ.

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Abba, Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

01/19/24                “The Woman for the job.”

 Hi, daughters and sons of the Most High,

For today’s prayer, we will lean on the annunciation in Luke 1:26-38 from the Holy Scripture:

 In the sixth month the archangel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel told her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to Him the throne of his father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there will be no end.” And Mary said to the angel, “How can this be since I have no husband?” And the angel said to Her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called Holy, the Son of God. And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God, nothing will be impossible.” And Mary said, “Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from Her.

 We can ponder on this passage for days, even years, and its richness will still be intact.

 If I was chosen as the blessed Mother, after hearing what the angel Gabriel said, the first thing I would have probably expected was for my daily life to become easier and my comfort a priority since I had said “yes.” If that were the case, my “yes” and Mary’s “yes” would not have been the same.

 Mary’s “yes” was, and is, a yes of docility; a yes to be the servant of the Holy Will of the Most High out of pure love for Him. His Holy Will reflects who He is. He is all good and will always be good, because His Holy Will is Goodness itself. His Goodness will always triumph over whatever His permissible Will allows in our lives.

 To give a “yes” like Hers, a yes to be a servant of His Holy Will, one needs to know who God is.

 Is He trustworthy?

Yes, He is truth Himself

 Is He a good person?

Yes, He is goodness Himself

 Is He able to provide for me, take care of me, and always protect me?

Yes, He is omnipotent which means all powerful; omniscient which means all knowing; omnipresent which means that He is in every place. He is eternal, always was, is, and ever will be. He is Almighty. He can do all that He wills.

 Does He love me?

His love for you and I is infinite and unchanging. God, Love Himself, is madly in love with you and me. We don’t know what the future holds, but one thing we know without a doubt is that Jesus will still be equally madly in love with you and me as He was at calvary, and His Mercy will still be there for us. 

 His love for you and me will never stop nor change regardless of what we do, say, or accomplish. The Loving Bridegroom Who freely gave His life for you and I, out of love for us, is still madly in love with each one of us.

 We might, from time to time, feel worthless, alone, abandoned, and ignored (which are very important feelings that we shouldn’t shy away from, but with tenderness and humility, bring them to the Divine Doctor), but one thing you and I must be certain of, is that His Sacred Heart belongs to us.

 He is Love Himself, and He created you and I out of love, for love.

 As John 3:16 says, “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

 Our loving Mother knew perfectly well the Person to Whom She was saying “yes” to, and Her love for Him was undeniable.

 She said “yes,” not because She knew that She had what it took to do what the Lord was asking of Her, nor because She knew how the future would unfold, but only because of the One who chose Her.

 Her childlike trust in Him, and Her deep assurance of who She is to Her Beloved, were the roots of Her humble and loving response to the Archangel Gabriel, “Behold I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word”, (Luke 1:38) as well as the source of her daily strength.

 Though sinless, She felt pain, fatigue, sadness…and experienced hardships of life similar to you and I. But She kept on moving, because love makes everything possible.

 When someone is truly in love with Love Himself, nothing and no one can stop her or him, because as the archangel Gabriel said, “For with God, nothing will be impossible” (Luke 1:37). Therefore, since God is Love Himself, nothing is impossible when we are in love with Him.

 Yes, brothers and sisters, the One Who was to become the Mother of God gave a “yes” of “a little girl” to Her heavenly Father. The Fiat of our Queen Mother can be summarized by this, “Yes, my Lord, with deep joy and tremendous honor, I offer You my life and my days. I am Your servant, the servant of Your Holy Will, of Your dream, and of Your days. Use me, my Lord, as You wish, for I know that You are Good and You love me, and I have the deep assurance that You will give me all the graces I need to serve You as You deserve.”

 The Woman who dared believe, who dared trust, who dared obey, who dared serve His Holy Will has become the perfect living glimpse of the Mercy, Power, Love, and Humility of the Most High.

 This Woman is the one that you and I should dare imitate and listen to. This Holy Woman is the Mother of our incarnated Lord, whom The Lord Himself, at the Holy Cross, also gave to us as our Holy Mother when He spoke the words, “Woman, behold your son” (John 19:26), and in turn to His disciple stated, “Behold your mother” (John 19:27). In essence, the Lord missioned His disciple to never grow out of the need of His Mother.

 Are you a disciple of Christ? If your answer is “yes,” then The Queen Mother is your Holy Mother too. No one can be a true disciple of Christ without being a child of Mary.

 To take Her into the home of our hearts is to live according to the desire of our King and it is to walk on the path of perfect humility. When we talk to Her, remember that our Christ talked to Her first. When we smile at Her, remember that our Christ smiled at Her first. When we worship the Father with Her, remember that Jesus did it with Her first. When we are praying to the Father with Her, remember that Jesus prayed to the Father with Her first.

 When we spend time with Her, hold Her Holy hands, thank Her, ask Her for what we need, make ourselves completely dependent on Her, obey Her, look Her in the eyes, call Her mama, and love Her, remember that Jesus did all these things first.

 When we trust that She is the Mother to look after us, protect us, feed us, and to help us accomplish the mission the Lord has entrusted to each one of us, remember that Jesus did all these first.

 When we believe that She is the Woman for the job, to help us become servants of the Holy Will of the Father, by allowing Her to teach us how to trust the Lord, like a child, when our plans and dreams get disrupted; how to keep moving through pain and sorrow; and how to live like Her Holy Son, who She raised through profound humility, trust, and obedience to the Holy Spirit…

let’s remember that our Christ did all these things first.

By doing so, we are imitating Jesus our Master, and we are stepping into the Holy and sacred hidden life of the infancy, childhood, and teenage life of our Master and part of His adulthood. Our intimacy with our incarnated Lord is incomplete if we don’t have a relationship with His Mother, because He was and still is truly Man and truly God.

 May the heart of the King, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Abba, Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

11/28/23     “The Altar of the Most High”

 Good morning beloved sons and daughters of the Most High.

Our today’s prayer will be centered around the Holy Altar.

An Altar, “God’s table” is a sacred place for sacrifice, where God meets man. The word altar comes from the Latin word adolere which means “to ritually do sacrifices”. In the Catholic Church, during Holy Mass, the altar is where the Lord becomes physically present among us in the Eucharist. It is where the one eternal sacrifice of Christ is made present to us.

 Every single word and action of the Holy Mass, from the introductory Rites (Sign of the cross…) to the concluding Rites (Dismissal words…) are sanctifying and healing. I always imagine myself as a sponge to absorb these precious and Heavenly blessings that I don’t want to lose a drop of. 

Holy Mass is where one discovers the true identity of Love. The daily highest point of Love can only be seen at Holy Mass when the priest takes the bread and says the words of our Savior, “Take this, all of you, and eat of it. FOR THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.”

The priest holds up the consecrated Host which is now the Body of Christ.

 Similarly, when the priest holds up the chalice, the cup of wine, and says the exact words of our Redeemer,

“Take this, all of you, and drink from it. This is the cup of my Blood, the Blood of the new and everlasting covenant. IT WILL BE SHED FOR YOU AND FOR ALL SO THAT SINS MAY BE FORGIVEN. Do this in memory of me.”

The Priest holds up the chalice of consecrated wine that is now the Blood of Christ.

 Relationship with Christ is an unending love story. You haven’t loved until you fall in love with Jesus Christ, Love Himself. It is a love that increases every day and that will never stop increasing because He is Love Himself. So the more we get to know Him, the more our love for Him grows. That love will never stop growing because no one can fully know Him. You will never be bored in your relationship with the King. It is a love that makes you want more of Him and all of Him, and He is giving Himself completely to us every day in the Holy Eucharist. To be one with Love Himself is possible, and He is inviting us to not be afraid to be One with Him, because He is gentle and lowly in heart, and we will find rest for our souls.

 If you ever wonder about the summit of love, find a Catholic Church (you can easily find one online), enquire about the time when Eternity is made present, and make time to go. You won’t regret it. As the Master Himself said, “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends.”: That is the summit of love and you have the privilege to be part of it. Do not miss it because it is a Heavenly reality that you need to be part of. No one has ever been sick of being loved by Love Himself, so go and never stop going.

 How can we respond to a love like this?

Our big brother Saint John of the Cross beautifully said, “Love can only be repaid with love.”

So with the help of The Paraclete, let’s you and I  imitate His love for us and be a holocaust for Love for the rest of our lives and to make a little altar for the Lord wherever we are in the present moment when we make an act of self-denial for love of Him; whether we are at home, at the grocery store, at work, whenever someone treats us unkindly or fails in honoring our dignity as human beings, let’s remind ourselves that this is an opportunity for us to offer ourselves as a complete sacrifice for Love and to make out of the place where it is happening a holy little altar by calling upon the Holy Spirit to give us the grace to love out of love for Him so that our offering might be pleasing to Him. Let’s also pray that anyone who will step on that place will be given the grace to love. 

If you and I stay close to the Sacraments, wherever we are, the Lord is there with us. Where the Eucharist is, there is the King, and where the King is, there is the Kingdom as He said on John 14:23, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him…”, so if you and I, in a state of grace, are receiving the Holy Eucharist, the Holy Trinity will make His dwelling in us. The Kingdom of God will be within us. We are servants of the King; therefore, you and I should be ready with His help to offer to our Master the complete sacrifice of our own desires and feelings, at the place where we are in the present moment; and by doing so we are allowing love to triumph in our daily life. Love will triumph over our justified anger, our self-righteousness, our fatigue, our irritations, our impatience, our desire to give justice to ourselves…and we are making ourselves His vessels to bring His Kingdom, that is within us, to anyone that we encounter. The questions that should stay close to our minds are: 

“Will this action or words that I am about to do or say make love triumph? Or will it make my desire for justice, my anger, my irritations…triumph?” 

What is the root of my thoughts and desires? What is the root of my words that I am about to say and will love triumph if I say it? What is the root of the action I am about to do?

If the answer isn’t love then let’s don’t say anything, don’t do anything and bring the matter to the foot of the Holy Cross, and offer it to the Master.

Love can only be repaid by love. Thus, love should be the only reason behind the words we say; love should be the reason of all our actions; love should be the reason of our days. 

The real personal question that we all should ask ourselves is, “Is Jesus my only love, or do I have other “loves” that are above my love for Jesus? Is Jesus my only Hope or do I hope on myself, on someone else, or on things?”.

The honest truth is that it is not easy brothers and sisters to be a daily holocaust for love because it is a sacrifice. Consequently, it is painful, but it is possible, and nothing should stand in our way. Neither illness, nor darkness, nor uncertainty, etc., should stand between love and us, because we are not doing these daily little martyrdoms on our own or alone but Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God is with us, and we are being holocausts of love out of love for Him, in Him, with Him and through Him, and nothing is impossible for Him.

In addition, Love Himself has given to us His Holy Mother, our Holy Queen Mother, and she is carrying every one of us in her Holy maternal arms, lifting the weight of our burdens for us. All we have to do is to say “yes” by always choosing love over anything else and to be still, even when tears run down our faces like rain. Brothers and sisters, let’s keep pondering the good He has done for us, and let’s keep saying when things get hard, Jesus Christ Son of the Living God, I (say your full name) LOVE YOU and I (say your full name) TRUST IN YOU.

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Abba, Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

11/03/23      Day of fasting, prayer and penance 

Happy Jesus’ day,

Today we are going to offer our today’s penances and prayers for peace in the world as Pope Francis invited us to do.

What is peace?

It is often defined as the most luxurious thing that only those who have authority and power can buy. It is also often defined as a dream that is meant to stay a dream.

Peace, if peace was an object, we would easily think that it is stored on the top of the highest mountain which makes it unreachable for many people except for those who are brave enough to climb the mountain.

What is peace?

If peace was a dream, it would be the easiest one for all of us to realize.

If peace was an object, it would be on the ground where any one of us can reach it.

Finally, if peace was a thing that is sold, it would be the most affordable item on earth that everyone even the poorest of the poorest can buy because Peace is us loving each other as Christ loves us and as we love ourselves.

 May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you, Abba Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

       10/06/23         Religious and consecrated life

You must know them as religious sisters or consecrated women, but I call them women who are in love; I call them heroes of love, I call them lovers of the Sacred Heart; I call them the faces of The Living Christ; Who are they? They are servants who have been set aside for Love alone; they are living glimpses of our life in Heaven; They are women who are in love. They are servants of Love; Love Himself chose them, not because they deserve it but because of Who He is, Mercy Himself. And He is the One who will shape their hearts like His so they can beat in unison with His Holy Heart.

I call them soldiers for Love, the women who never leave His side: they walk with Him in His passion; sit at the foot of His Holy Cross; wait for Him in front of His tomb, and praise the Risen Lord.

And finally, I call them women who are at the school of the Holy Spirit, continually learning how to love and serve Him. If you are one of them and you are reading this, with the permission of your and my Master, I would like to Thank you for your yes and for your everyday yesses to Him. I pray that you might know and come to believe that you are His love, His perfect one, His dove. His Soul is failing Him when He spoke because words cannot express His unique love for you. For Him, you are radiant, outstanding among thousands… (Song of Solomon: The Groom’s song of Love);

We are begging our Holy Mama to intercede for each one of you so you will always choose love, and serve love in your daily life (In your look; in your smile; in your words; in your actions and interactions with others.)

If you are hearing Him calling you, do not be afraid. It is your beloved speaking to you: “Arise my love, my dove, my fair one, and come away;… Song of song 2:10” He is sick with love for you and you alone. Love is seeking you; Love is calling you. The living King has His left knee on the floor, asking you if you would like to go on an Eternal journey of love with Him. (And the King fell in love with His servant…)

It won’t be without storms but be assured that He will always, always be by your side. For better (when you have spiritual consolations), for worse (when you will experience challenges and (or) spiritual aridity or darkness), in sickness, and in health now and for eternity. (This call for intimacy with Him, is also for all the faithful. Religious sisters, with the help of the Holy Spirit, dedicate their lives to live that out, and to be a reminder, and an example to those around them of the universal call of union with Him and inviting and helping them to do the same through their prayers and different ministries.)

Ps: If you have discerned religious life and found out that your “road to Heaven” isn’t through religious or consecrated life, be at peace because your holiness isn’t based on “your road to Heaven” but on your love for Him expressed in your daily life and interactions with others.

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Father.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

09/22/23 “Through him, and with him, and in him,
O God, almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is yours,
forever and ever.”

       The Master is calling: “I want you as you are.”

On my journey on earth, I have met love through people around me. One thing I have believed for a very long time is that love was an unsolvable equation, and I was the variable. But it seemed like there was not any value in me that would make the equation true no matter how hard I tried. I was wrestling with myself for years until I encountered Him and discovered this unchangeable truth: there is no variable in love, and I have no part in it. Love is not an equation but Who He is.

Who is He? The One Who was, Who is, and will always be, Elohim, The Holy One. So, Love was, is, and will always be regardless of how we look, how we feel, what we do and say, and how things are going in our lives… because Love cannot deny His nature. 

Love is a person. In order for you and me to be aware that we are loved, and to learn how to love, we need to be very close to Him, study Him, worship Him, and praise Him. As many of us know, we were made by Love, for Love. So, there is nothing that you and I can do to earn it or to make Him stop loving us. With the permission of the One who created you, and if you allow me, I would like to talk to you as an individual, you who is reading this:

 “He loves you. Yes, He loves you. He loves everything about you; your smile, your features, your skin tone, your hair, your accent… But I know that like me, you have failed Him in many ways. But know that there is nothing you can do to make Him stop loving you or diminish His love and care for you. His love for you increases every day independently of you. He wants you as you are, but like me, you must make a choice and take back the rights that you gave to the devil by going to confession.

Like me, every time you willingly sin, you are hurting yourself. In other words, anything you willingly do or say without love will hurt you because you were created by Love for love. 

The action of sinning gives rights to the evil because sin is who he is. For example, if you lie, gossip, or steal something from someone, you are acting in the very nature of satan. You are using something from him to satisfy your desire and nothing coming from him is free. Without realizing it, like me, when you sin you are welcoming the father of lies into your life and he is going to steal everything from you starting with your peace and your joy by sowing confusing lies about their true meaning. 

Dear “heart of Jesus”, this is not to scare you but like me, to open your eyes to how destructive sin is. You might be wondering, “What about when I unintentionally sin?”

Repent and do an act of reparation if you are able to (For example, apologize if you have hurt someone; if you have stolen something from someone, return it to that person…), and whenever you have time make it a priority to go to confession. The Master is calling you, with all your imperfections to be completely His. Love wants to be one with you, but He cannot unite Himself to someone attached to sin. So, make it intentional to end the era of sin in your life by first, going regularly to confession; and secondly, going to daily Mass. The only way to fight our addictions to sin is by clinging to Him and there is no better way to cling to Him than uniting ourselves to Him in the reception of Holy Communion. If you are not Catholic, I would like to humbly invite you to join the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). Find the nearest Catholic Church near you for more information about it (you will easily find one on Google).

(If you are a devout Catholic and like me, you must have challenging seasons in which you don’t experience Jesus’ peace and joy or you don’t feel His presence as you used to. During those times, I would like to humbly encourage you to keep on loving and trusting Him and to remind yourself daily that He is in you, so His peace and joy are in you. Talk back to the dryness, “I might be going through a hard time right now, and it might have been a very long time since I experienced His peace and joy, but I believe in His real presence in the Holy Eucharist, so I believe that my King is alive, and I am a living monstrance of His Majesty.)

In the meantime, join us to give Him glory:

“Through Him: We will go about our days doing everything through Him. Let’s make it intentional before doing anything, from brushing our teeth in the morning to turning off the light at night to do every little action through Him. For example, “Jesus I am going to talk to my wife, my children, my coworker, my sibling, my friend… (name the person with whom you are about to talk to even if it is to just say hi.) through You. We are doing everything through Love Himself. 

“and with Him”: We are the Little children of the Most High. We cannot do anything good without our Father. So we are going to try to go about our daily duties doing everything with Him and try to remember that we are not doing them alone but with Him. For example, if you have an important meeting or a job interview, after preparing yourself, you should try to remember that you are doing this with Jesus. Same thing if we are cooking or cleaning our house, let’s remind ourselves that we are His little children and we want to cook and clean the house with Him because we do not want to do anything without Him.

“and in Him
O God, almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is Yours,
forever and ever.”: We live to give Him Glory. Every single word that comes out of our mouth and any action that we do should be to give Him glory. Let’s intentionally examine the root of our actions and before saying anything let’s ask ourselves, “ Is love the reason why I am about to say what I want to say? In my honest opinion, will Love be the fruit of what I am about to say?

But we cannot achieve all these good desires without His help. Every morning, let’s beg Him through the Immaculate Heart of Mama Mary to give us the graces that we need to live out in our daily lives these eloquent words from Holy Mass.

Our today act: Send an “I love you.” message or email to someone (the person or persons the Holy Spirit will bring to your mind).

Why do we do this act? First, because we want to accustom ourselves to frequently saying out loud to our loved ones that we love them. Jesus is loving them through us, and His Love heals. Us saying it to them is allowing the Master to say these life-giving words to them. Secondly, we want to keep reminding ourselves of its true meaning: “To consistently will and choose the good of the other.”, St Thomas Aquinas. 

May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

We love you Father.

09/08/2023 Human Beings, who are we and who are You, Good Lord?

As our big brother St. Francis, at one point in our lives, we all have asked ourselves this question not specifically using the same exact words but seeking the same meaning, “Who are you, Lord my God, and who am I?”.

Who God is, is a question that we can start answering here on earth based on how He revealed Himself to us and keeps revealing Himself to us but to fully know who He is and to give a definitive answer to this question that is beyond our human comprehension, we will have to wait until we step into eternity to get to fully know the One who is an Eternal being.

Sometimes, we can find ourselves faced with this question from unbelievers and sometimes from our own hearts “If He is real why no one can fully know Him? The answer is simply that He is God, and it is fitting that we are not able to fully know Him, and the reality is that us being unable to fully know Him is Him loving us because our little human minds are too weak to be able to bear and comprehend fully who He is.

But on this side of heaven, He doesn’t want to be completely unknown to us, so He has revealed Himself in the Holy Bible and through the lives of the saints in a way that our human mind can bear.

I would like to share with you the story of Erica who is an angel. Erica is in love with her Master and lives with Him in Heaven. But like most of us when we love, we want to meet people that our loved one loves. So, one day, she asked Him if she could come on earth to see what He has created, to meet those He created, and to have the opportunity to serve Him as a human. Her request was granted but He told her that He was going to partially and temporarily erase her memory and when she would come down, she would have to seek Him.

These are her own words:

“I woke up one day in someone’s garden. It was breezy which felt good on my skin. Colorful leaves were covering the ground, some were falling from the tree, they were beautiful. My Lord granted me a human body, so I will fit in. But He didn’t tell me that there is a Power in my being, an intelligent and powerful One who knows how to work independently and perfectly in each part of my body. It is not a thing because the power is beyond my own intellect and knowledge since I wouldn’t have known and even be able to create for example what my eyes need to be able to allow me to see or what I need to be able to walk. He is beyond my humanity. But one thing I know without a doubt is that He knows how to love because I was only few minutes on earth and yet the Power at work in me allowed me to be able to see, recognize, and delight before the beauty of nature and to be able to feel the gentle caress of the breeze. I also realized that He is the One Who is at work in the tree that I was just admiring. He is regulating everything in it as He is doing in my body to allow it to be.

I stood up and started walking. A woman was walking in front of me with her dog while talking on the phone. Three other people, a couple pushing a stroller were walking on the other side of the road while talking and laughing. I noticed an elderly woman in a wheelchair who was reading a book on the porch of a house.

On the road, I saw people driving. I realized that all of those people’s abilities to move, see, act, and just be, were similar to mine. It confirmed my marvelous discovery: It is not only me but all humans and living creatures without exception have a mysterious Power in them. Though being the same power, He was uniquely working in them in a way one would think that He is different. Our Humanity is exuding His omnipotence.

What struck me is that none of us needed anyone to stop using “The power” in order to allow any of us to use it. All of us were strangers but able to multitask using the same Power. For example, the people who were driving, none of the drivers needed the other drivers driving next to him or her to stop using The Power to allow him or her to use it in order to be able to drive. It is the same Power Who was working in all of us at the same time but powerfully and independently.

I looked to my left and saw lilies. Each flower was shaped differently but perfectly and beautifully as if someone took his or her time to shape them and flawlessly color them one by one and brought them to life. I recognized in them the same power Who was quietly and mysteriously monitoring to perfection everything in us with a tremendous respect for our will. 

I couldn’t contain my curiosity, so I asked a man who was walking next to me, “Hi sir, may I please ask you an important question? If it is confidential, please know that I won’t be offended if you can’t answer me. What is “The Power” that allows you and I to be able to live?”

He said, “I wouldn’t be able to explain it well to you but centuries ago, the scientists discovered how our body works so I would recommend you read about it.” I thanked him and I did as he recommended. I didn’t only read about it, I studied it for fourteen years, but it left me thirstier for the truth because I knew now that my body is a work of outstanding artistry, and I discovered that “The Power” that I am using is actually the same Who created me. I saw Him at work in every sign of life, but I still don’t know how He is working, and the person behind it since He is invisible; invisible but yet very present in His works. But after I studied the needs of my body, I found out that He doesn’t only know how to love, He is Love Himself:

Most of our human bodies are water, yet He created it in a way we can adapt it to our needs. Also, no human can survive without food. He could have made it taste blank or deprived us of the ability to taste it for our entire life and no one would have ever known the real taste of what we eat. But every time I take a bite of my favorite meal, I enjoy it. The Power who created the ingredients of my favorite dish uniquely created them with my taste buds in mind. To capture what I am saying, it is like a parent who goes to the grocery store to buy food for her or his child. With an idea of what her or his child likes, that parent will buy the ingredients to make a meal that the child will enjoy.  But in our case, He didn’t buy the ingredients, He created them ahead of time, before we were, knowing what each one of us would like.

From the quiet beauty of a tomato or an avocado for example, to the smell of garlic or thyme, to the delicious flavor of a well-cooked steak, I know with certitude that they have been carefully and purposely made so I can eat with my eyes, my nose, and taste with my mouth.

I realized that whenever I am enjoying a meal, I am eating His love. Every time I am thirsty and drinking water or my favorite beverage, I am drinking His love for me; every time I smell my favorite fragrance, even my ability to be able to smell the good smell is me smelling His love for me and when a loved one give me a hug or a handshake, I am touching His love. I can see, smell, eat, taste, and touch His love. Every time I am able to feel whether it is anger, joy, or depression, it is the Power working in me that allows me to express the feelings of my heart. Even that is also because He loves me. I cannot imagine living without being able to feel joy or sadness when I am actually experiencing it. Quite often, I take that for granted.

All these left me still wondering, “Love, who are you?”

I know now without a doubt that even if I was naked on the street, I am loved; even if I was starving, I am loved because to even be able to feel hunger is “The Power” Who loves me Who is allowing me to feel that; even if I am an outcast, a leper begging on the street, I might be in pain, crying but I am loved. I am loved whether I am sad or happy; I am loved regardless of what I have and who is by my side; I am loved whether I have food or not, whether I feel pretty or not; I am loved, that’s one thing I know, I am loved not because I have … or don’t have …(Fill in the blanks) but because Love is my power, The source of my being and Who is quietly working in me.

I started asking everyone about His identity until one day, one of my oldest patients told me with a smile “You are seeking Him and He is waiting for you in the Holy Tabernacle.” Then everything came back to me, “I will erase your memory and you will have to seek me.”

As I pushed the door of my “Home”, I fell right on my knees before Him, and said like Thomas, “My Lord and my God”. “The Power is Your Spirit, The Holy Spirit. Lord, I know who you are, You are Love and I am loved.”

This is the sum up of a fiction book called “Came from Heaven.”, and Erica is just one of the characters of the book. But who He is for Erica, is also who He is for you and I, Love Himself. And who Erica is, is who we are, we are loved, created by Love for love. So let’s relearn how to love by getting to know Him and how He loves us.

Let’s give Him glory:

Glory be to God,

Glory be to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Glory be to Emmanuel

Glory be to the Great I am

Glory be to Jehovah

Glory be to The One who sits on the Throne

Glory be to our Savior

Glory be to the One who is Our Shield

Glory be to the One who is our Unfailing provider

Glory be to our Unfailing protector

Glory be to You Father,

We love You, we adore You and we give You glory.