Prayer

Prayer is what you make it. Private and intimate or in a group. Prayer can take all shapes. Song, thoughts words anything you want. As long as you focus on the thing that matters. God. Tell him your wants and needs. Tell him your fears. Ask for strength. It doesn't matter what he'll be there.

God is there

Sometimes you feel just plain sad or alone. We've all felt it. And the toughest thing to remember is that God is always there. Most people look for some big miracle to see God's presence but sometimes it's as slight as a brief feeling of happiness. Or a painting you've never noticed in the corner of the room that you realize you love. God is present always but look for him in the small things.

A reflection on John Martyr

John Martyr was an early Church members in A.D. 150 who wrote a letter to the Roman emperor to try to convince him that the Christians are not crazy people but a harmless and loving religion. Probably what amazed me the most about this was how even at the beginning they believed in the transmutation of the bread and wine to flesh and blood. Another interesting thing was that the early church had reading, had Eucharistic prayers, they even had a collection! So the mass has not changed all that much.

Treating People Like People

Today I watched a video of a homeless man named Ronald Davis. He talked about people calling him a bum and not having respect for him. This made me start to think. How should we treat people? As a Catholics we must treat all people equally.

Treating people equally means all people from the homeless people on the corner to the prominent business man. He spoke of the people just ignoring him and telling him  to get a job. He said the problem is that people are judging him and not treating him like a person.
Here is the Video

All Are Welcome

The Church teaches that all people are welcome but also gives specific rules that its members are required to live by. The Church accepts all people just does not necessarily accept their actions. The Church is open for all including those who are in a state of sin. The Church does not accept their actions.

The Church accepts all people but has its ground rules that must be followed. Just being a member of the Church does not guarantee salvation. To receive salvation one must work toward it through their actions. People must strive toward holiness it is not just given.

Helpful link here.