Category: The Daily Decade

Christ offers us a Kingdom, the authority in which comes from our giving of ourselves in this land we are in for a short time. He offers us a simple, though not an easy, path to Him.

God reaches out to us by taking on our flesh, and He gives us the means to reach back up to Him by the fire of the Holy Ghost – purity for purity, sanctification for sanctification.

A personal relationship with Jesus cannot be selfish, or it is no relationship. We do not try our friends’ patience, make ourselves burdensome to them, or purposely do things we know are contrary to their good will – so why would we do these things to God?

The life of man on Earth is war, but we are taught that we fight not as one beating the air, neither do we run for a corruptible crown, but rather we know all our struggles have meaning in Christ.

In the midst of our battles with the flesh and the devil we will be tempted to imagine ourselves alone; but God anticipated this, and has left us reminders of His presence.

Just as Christ seeks respite in the desert place of the garden, so too the Blessed Mother responds to her special mission by going out of her daily life and serving in a remote place, where Elizabeth had reserved herself for the duration of her pregnancy.

For the duration of Lent, Christ calls us to His Garden retreat to kneel beside Him in His Agony, that we might unite our resistant humanity to his longsuffering divinity.

The Resurrection is the victory Christ places before us as our goal, the kingdom which we win by uniting to His Sacrifice. The Resurrection is the Life that must define our lives if we want a part in it.

Christ promises us no servant is greater than his master – our wage is our imitation of the master we choose, whether Christ who suffers at the hands of the world for eternal reward, or Satan, who rewards worldly thought and action, but is punished in eternity.

The pain of the Cross manifests less God’s anger or justice than His love and mercy, taking upon Himself the curse He placed on our first parents and drawing out of it our greatest blessing.