1st Sunday, November 2015

Hi! and happy holy and family day to all of us; and, it's just 54 days to go before Christmas, GUYS.  Our first-thing-first today:

 

THE GOOD NEWS (01 November 2015)

 

                1st Reading  :  Revelation 7:2-14

 

                Psalm           :  Psalm 24:1-6

 

                2nd Reading:  1 John 3:1-3

 

                Gospel         :  Matthew 5:1-12

"See what singular love the FATHER has for us:  we are called children of GOD, and we really are.  This is why the world does not know us, because it did not know HIM.

Beloved we are GOD's children and what we shall be has not yet been shown.  Yet when HE appears in HIS glory, we know that we shall be like HIM, for then we shall see HIM as HE is.  All who have such a hope try to be pure as HE is pure." - 1 John 3:1-3 

(Here begins the second part of the letter:  we are GOD's children and we must live as such.  How do we prove that we are GOD's children?  According to the same criteria that we have already see:  breaking away from sin, keeping the commandment of love, proclaiming our faith.  There are many ways of saying we are GOD's children.  One person might simply think:  "GOD loves people" means that human beings have great dignity.  Here John calls our attention to two points:

- you are sons and daughters, but in order to become like GOD, do not seek anything else but to be perfect as GOD is perfect; 

- you are children who will return to the FATHER.  Do you really think about the unique and transcendent end for which GOD has chosen you?  Being aware of this, let us understand that GOD purifies us in a thousand ways, because only in this way can we attain our goal.

We shall be like HIM:  sharing all that GOD is and somehow becoming GOD with GOD.  Those who now bear their lives of suffering with CHRIST will be transfigured like HIM.  Then the universe will reach its goal, having the children of GOD as its center or better, the New Creature.)