Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving Message

Thanksgiving Message


Philippians 4:6
Be nothing solicitous; but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God


Brothers and Sisters I write to you in the Selfless Love and peace of the Union and Marriage of Jesus Christ and of His Sacred Heart and all the blessings that flow forth from it. Nay, let us not fail to reflect on this day, the manifold benefits of God Who is Our Redemption. For often  we shall thank Him for the materials provided in this journey of life but how often we neglect to thank Him for the grace which helps us to rise above human nature and these “things”. It is not enough to simply have one day out of the year to thank God; for it is God who gives to us each and everyday. It is not enough to say one prayer out of the year before the meal but rather before all meals each and everyday. It is not enough to thank God for the reception of His Body on any given day but moreso to give Him thanks for all those who participate in this Sacrament of Selfless Love everywhere and for all times. Until the heart learns to stay attached to its Source, His Sacred Heart, a man will wander on the surface always forgetting the God to Whom the heart seeks to rest In. Yea, everyday is a day of thanksgiving. It is not enough to thank those who have traveled from a far to join us on this Thanksgiving day but rather we ought thank God for those He chooses to surround us with each and everyday. For it is in those He chooses to surround us with that we can truly encounter Him. Many are the opportunities daily that pass us by to love one another. And just as the many will pass the turkey and stuffing around routinely this day without thought…. how many will pass by these opportunities daily “to act” for Christ. May the Lord forgive us all. Without God there is no “us” and without our daily thanksgiving we cannot hope to please the God Who continually “gives” almost without notice. Be instant in prayer; watching in it with thanksgiving.  Colossians 4:2  Is this not sad and ought we not be ashamed for such neglectfulness? Will not Our Lord soon awaken the masses in chastisement in hopes of rerouting hearts back unto Him and Catholic Truth?
 


Verily, our only End is in God and the Saints who behold Him this day face to Face do so continually in thanksgiving. Saying: Amen. Benediction, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, honour, and power, and strength to our God for ever and ever. Amen. Apocalypse 7:12  The man who cannot give thanks to God is exalted in self and can only see that all things return unto him and not the God who provides these things in the first place. Thus, let us, this day, be committed to examining the movements of our own hearts and render thanks in all things. For whether the weather is fair or stormy in all things does He have a plan. For whether He “seemingly” takes “something” from or “out” of your life do you not consider that in this “taking” that He seeks to replace it with something better which is Him alone? Yea, all of our intentions must be purified if we are to remain in purity long enough to have the slightest glimpse of His Face. Therefore, let us not complain nor grumble when things do not go as we plan but rather rather let us continually “stumble” upon His Love, our Rock,  in our weak human nature. For we have eyes which can only see “so far” and yet He knows what is good for thee for it is thy salvation which is at hand.


Furthermore, it is simplicity which will produce this thanksgiving. That being enriched in all things, you may abound unto all simplicity, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God. 2 Corinthians 9:11  The man who is not simple does not give thanks and how sad it is to behold modern man who is a slave of “things”.  Modern man is not simple but rather complex and yet it is the simple man who God chooses to use. Therefore, on this day let us not succumb to “busyness”; let not this day pass by so fast as even our lives shall. Let us learn to slow down our lives and remain in that silence and solitude long enough for us to realize that we all need to be more simple. Let us follow the model of Our Blessed Virgin both in speech and conduct. And let us arise in the morning with thanksgiving for another sunrise and then let us lay our heads down at night with this same thanksgiving in the hopes of having another day to serve God. Let us thank God this day for His Catholic Church, His priests, the Sacraments, the Saints and so forth. Ultimately, let us fly as eagles, who do continually detach at heart from this world of “things”. Yea, make this day, a new beginning wherein each and every day is something to be thankful for; that every meal be eaten with deep gratitude; that every glass of water be taken in as if were thy last. 



Lastly, we can see this thankfulness in the simplicity and poverty of the Manger wherein Our Lord was found.  We ought travel that same road as the Magi in humility everyday, within our own hearts, to arrive at this place where it is just Our Lord and Lady and nothing more. Is it not enough to behold Our Lord and further to hear Him speak just One Word? Therefore, we have a lot to be thankful for on a daily basis and yet does a quick two minute prayer suffice?  Or ought we not stay attached to God continually in the root of our hearts dialoguing and giving Him thanks for all things which are used for our eternal salvation, Amen  May thee Immaculate Heart of Our Lady guide, protect and guard your heart everyday in this exile, Ave Maria – Amen.


"If today, Thou were to sit with us O’ Lord
What would we each say?
Would we offer Thee the highest Seat in the Home of our Soul
Would we offer Thee a long term stay?
Would I glance over at Thee, My Beloved
Only in an hour to forget Ye and thus from Thy Heart stray?
Are we not so self exalted that in our blindness
We refuse Thy Presence and Thy Heart’s Endless Rays?
Do we not grumble in winter with the hopes of the spring in May?
Do we not in our nature seek to run from Thy grace and complain?
So why do many think that with this one meal all of our “problems” will just go away?
For after it is all done; it is Faith thru constant prayer
Which exalts an eagle so that only Love can remain
Nay, It is therefore not enough to simply give “brief thanks” on this day

And then walk from the table & You to simply be on our way….

“His life was a testament to Love. Our life is a test of Love”.


1 comment:

  1. Bergolio plays at being a Catholic just as Timothy Dolan or Nancy Pelosi do or as Bush plays at being a Republican and Obama a Democrat but increasingly it is seen that all these people actually belong to the same party, share the same platform and have the same One World (Novus Ordo) agenda, and so-called personal religion or political background is really just their less important secondary role; merely their scam ladders to power, ladders that can be easily left behind. All of these people who own and control America and the Church are members of the Jew World Order. But they don't control Jesus and they don't control Our Blessed Mother and when they have raped and corrupted America to the point that every true patriot will pray to heaven for the nation's destruction as a fruit so rotten it is beyond redemption, Heaven will still beckon for those who have lost everything that used to be good on earth; all that is now fouled in the hands of Satan and his minions. In the end our thanksgiving is only for God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, Our Blessed Mother and the Saints and all those who helped us turn around and start walking back to our True Eternal Home.

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