Death is Sweet

Death is sweet. Many people had experience clinical death and when they came back to life they shared common experience, i.e. they never felt being loved and cared for as that when they died.

We don't like to die because it is innate in us to cling to life, in other words this so called survival instinct. Without this many will never care dying, hence the purpose of life whatever it is will be defeated.

But the turth is, death is sweet.

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DAILY GOSPEL «Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68 Thursday, 24 July 2008 Thursday of the Sixteenth week in Ordinary Time Today the Church celebrates : Sts. John Boste, George Swallowell, & John Ingram, Blessed Louise of Savoy See commentary below or click here Saint Justin : "Many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see" Book of Jeremiah 2,1-3.7-8.12-13. This word of the LORD came to me: Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the desert, in a land unsown. Sacred to the LORD was Israel, the first fruits of his harvest; Should anyone presume to partake of them, evil would befall him, says the LORD. When I brought you into the garden land to eat its goodly fruits, You entered and defiled my land, you made my heritage loathsome. The priests asked not, "Where is the LORD?" Those who dealt with the law knew me not: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols. Be amazed at this, O heavens, and shudder with sheer horror, says the LORD. Two evils have my people done: they have forsaken me, the source of living waters; They have dug themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that hold no water. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13,10-17. The disciples approached him and said, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" He said to them in reply, "Because knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been granted to you, but to them it has not been granted. To anyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what he has will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in parables, because 'they look but do not see and hear but do not listen or understand.' Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: 'You shall indeed hear but not understand you shall indeed look but never see. Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.' But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Saint Justin (c.100-160), philosopher, martys First Apology, 1.30-31 "Many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see" To the Emperor Hadrian, Augustus Caesar, and to Verissimus, his son, the philosopher, and to Licius, the philosopher, and to the Senate and all the Roman people, on behalf of people of every race who are hated and persecuted unjustly: I, who am one of them, Justin of Neapolis [Nablus] in Syria of Palestine, address this discourse... The objection is put forward that the one whom we call Christ is no more than a man, born of man, that the miracles we ascribe to him are caused by magic art, and that he has successfully passed himself off as Son of God. Our demonstration will not rest on rumors but on prophecies made before the event in which we cannot but believe: for we have seen, and continue to see, the realization of what had been predicted ... Among the Jews there were prophets of God through whom the prophetic Spirit announced beforehand future events. Their prophecies were diligently kept in the form in which they had been uttered by successive kings of Judah, in books written in Hebrew by the very hand of those prophets... Now, in the books of the prophets, we read that Jesus, our Christ, must come, that he will be born of a virgin, will reach manhood, will heal every sickness and infirmity, will raise the dead, that, misunderstood and persecuted, he will be crucified, will die, will rise again and ascend to heaven, that he is and will be recognised as Son of God, that he will send out certain men to proclaim these things in all the world and that it will be the pagans, above all, who will believe in him. These prophecies were made five thousand, three thousand, two thousand, a thousand, eight hundred years before his coming since the prophets followed one after the other from generation to generation. Manage your subscription directly clicking HERE ---------------------------------------- The DGO is sent every day to more than 280.000 subscribers ! Do you want to help us maintain this free service? The Daily Gospel is free of charge, but it is not free of cost. Make a tax-deductible donation directly at "The Daily Gospel", 6375 New Hope RD, New Hope, KY 40052. USA. Thank you and God bless you.

Thanks, Mother

Mothers are not perfect but they know best. Children got the impression that there’s nothing their mother can not do for them. This is exactly what I thought of my mother way back some thirty odd years ago.

There were times when I got frustrated because mothers are after all humans. Yet still they know best. You don’t have to be perfect to know what is best. Relative to others ideas mothers are always the best.

We are seven siblings in the family. My mother, a university graduate had to make a big sacrifice not to get a full time job in favour of being a full time mum. It was not an easy task. There were ups and downs but in the end we all end up successful in out own respective careers. Thanks to our mother who knew what is best for us.

There times of frustrations but as long as the mother intention are pure and sincere, she may not be able to solve all the problems that we encountered but in the end we had managed to weather the down side and up-hills of our lives.

My only regret is that during those times when my mother had to stay home and work full time as mother at 24/7 she was not able to find ways to make some descent means of earning, i.e. something that could have given her a sense of being productive and not being put all her university learning in her hidden cabinet.

Perhaps if interned had existed before, she could have earned some and maybe lots by monetising her blog.

I could never be where I am now without the support of my mother. Thanks a lot, mom.

Exosfear Dancer

When praying you should not do it by your lips alone, nor by your mind alone. Your entire body should give worship and glory to God.

Singing and dancing, mind, body and soul, the entire you should pray to God.

Silence is important but self expression is equally important. Dancing as a form of prayer is ideal.

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Whether your eyes are still in good condition or whether you are already wearing eye glasses you can maintain or improve your eyesight by exercising your eyes everyday.

You can do it by rotating your eyeballs through the perimeter of your eyes by looking around you surrounding from left then up and to your right and down. Look as far left or right or up or down as much as you can. In this way you are developing eye muscles which could then control the curve of your eyes' lense. This exercise is also believed to prevent catarac.

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God Is Watching Us from a distance

God is watching us from a distance

In good times and bad times, God is watching us from a distance.

When you are happy and when you are sad God is watching you from a distance.

In sickness and in health God is watching us from a distance.

When Nadal won the Wimbledon title and when the Celtics took the NBA championship God is watching from a distance.

When the twin towers were bombed when Tsumani took place when The Princess of the Star sank God is watching from a distance.

Everything that we need is here all the answers to your prayers had been given to you in advance.

In al tragedies and great calamities, God stays at a distance. No big deal. It's only us who take too much. In the next life, we will surely understand, they are nothing but cliches.

God doesn't have to pamper us, He know we are able enough so He simply watch from a distance.

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DAILY GOSPEL «Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68 Monday, 07 July 2008 Monday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time Today the Church celebrates : Bl. Ralph Milner & Roger Dickenson See commentary below or click here Saint Cyril of Alexandria : "He came and took her by the hand" Book of Hosea 2,16.17-18.21-22. Then will I remove from her mouth the names of the Baals, so that they shall no longer be invoked. I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, and with the things that crawl on the ground. Bow and sword and war I will destroy from the land, and I will let them take their rest in security. I will espouse you to me forever: I will espouse you in right and in justice, in love and in mercy; The earth shall respond to the grain, and wine, and oil, and these shall respond to Jezreel. I will sow him for myself in the land, and I will have pity on Lo-ruhama. I will say to Lo-ammi, "You are my people," and he shall say, "My God!" Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 9,18-26. While he was saying these things to them, an official came forward, knelt down before him, and said, "My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live." Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples. A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak. She said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured." Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, "Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you." And from that hour the woman was cured. When Jesus arrived at the official's house and saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion, he said, "Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping." And they ridiculed him. When the crowd was put out, he came and took her by the hand, and the little girl arose. And news of this spread throughout all that land. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Saint Cyril of Alexandria (380-444), Bishop, Doctor of the Church Commentary on Saint John's Gospel, 4; PG 73, 560 "He came and took her by the hand" As soon as Christ has entered us with his own flesh, we shall be wholly brought to life. It is inconceivable – or, rather, impossible – that life should not give life to those into whom it enters. Just as people put a cover over a burning brand taken from a heap of straw so as to keep the spark of fire going, so our Lord Jesus Christ conceals the life within us with his own flesh and sets, as it were, a seed of immortality there that casts out all the corruption we bear within us. So it is not just by his word that he brings about the resurrection of the dead. To show that his body gives life, as we said, he touches corpses and gives life with his own body to bodies already in process of decomposition. If the touch of his sacred flesh alone restores life to these dead people, what benefit shall we not find in his life-giving eucharist when we receive it!... It would not be enough if only our souls were to be regenerated into new life by the Spirit. Our solid, earthly body also has to be made holy by its participation in a body that is as solid as our own and of the same origin, and it, too, must thus be called to incorruptibility. Manage your subscription directly clicking HERE ---------------------------------------- The DGO is sent every day to more than 280.000 subscribers ! Do you want to help us maintain this free service? The Daily Gospel is free of charge, but it is not free of cost. Make a tax-deductible donation directly at "The Daily Gospel", 6375 New Hope RD, New Hope, KY 40052. USA. Thank you and God bless you.