Lent 2010

Hesed we Shalom my dear brothers and sisters in Christ..Lenten season this year started with the point given by the Lord that whoever want to find life must be competely in Him and He in you all.like Pope Benedict XVI has stated that Conversion to Christ break the bond of selfishness..it is true my brothers and sisters in The Lord that we often deceive ourself when we say that we do love our brothers and sisters when we did good things and did not act towards mortal sins and venial sins..but now i would like to share with you all that 'yes' to that but it is not enough for us..why all of this insufficient?..here we come that the Holy Church taught us that we should Pray,Fasting and Almsgiving. we often hear it but did we already start and how to start?

Pray
When we pray,is it mean that we need to please God with a lot of kind of prayers?Not yet to judge on that.we do need prayers.For those who have to grant or give the blessing,all of this rest upon Him alone.it is not us to 'command' the Lord to receive it and make all the things we prayed happens(even for good things). The Word of God revealed to us that we should pray without ceasing in spirit and truth. that is the true fruit of prayers that the Lord want us to do. In this blessed month of Lent, i would like to invite all of us steadfast in every prayer especially Holy Rosary. how to open ourself with prayers and to proceed with what we did honestly? pray with our heart completely believing in Him and surrender every burden and temptation that broke our bond with Him. then afterwards that may be He will kindly 'speak' to you as friend, and hold on that we need to be humble for He is humble even though He is mighty Lord. for when the Lord is in the centre of us, we will feel Divinely Shalom, a peace that neither any body could give and us to tell.

Fasting
This is very hard to distinguish between Bodily and Subjectively form of knowledge upon this. but we need both of this element. Many Catholics failed to see how precious this beauty of the ancient act of mortification. Mortification meant that we deny ourself of our need and work in order to give the needy(i'll share more on 'Almsgiving'section later). St.Paul told us that let put to death the work of the flesh. He did not give us null and false example to be 'cruel' towards ourself and desacreting our body. Our body is holy indeed as our own spirit is holy because we are the Holy Temple or Tabernacle of the living God. so, we do need to understand that the Bodily fasting is necessary for ourselves but not God for God did not need our fast but we did. that is why the Lord our healer and counsellor knew very well that this kind of mortification is accepted. See the example of the people of Nineveh that they have ordered the fast and extra thing,abstinence in order to repent even though they did not sure what kind of sins they have commited. the Lord accepted their fasting(because their kind of fasting is what the Lord favour) but even more are their humbleness and repentance that reconciled themself fully towards Him.
Bodily fasting is carried out from the ancient time till now and the Church never abolish this kind of fasting. even the saints also attached to this act. we could do Bodily fasting outside Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. for those who already practice this act, i would like to remind or more from me is to share, why not that we share with others how great and wonderful this Bodily fasting to others. Not to make ourself holier than others but talk to others as friend and never claim ourself that 'oh i've fast, and why not you tried it' but better we use the word 'the Church has a lot of kind of tradition inspired by the Lord included fasting,...(so on and so on on)...even the saints and holy people including sinners could have this'

Almsgiving
on this section i have to stop for a while, and hopefully that in near time that i could share with all of you...and may be some one will share with us also about this section and plus the sections on above..

From the simple witness of the servants of the Lord's children