The Good News

This is a copied from “Living the Liturgical Year With Catholics” https://liturgicalyear.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/come-follow-me/ Come, Follow Me! Today we celebrate the feast of St. Matthew,  the apostle.  He’s an interesting character because as a tax collector for the Roman authorities, he was hated by the Jews.  He was among the low of the low of society, and yet he became the evangelist to the Jewish people and among the most memorable names in the bible.  I also think Matthew was a remarkable man for his prompt, faithful response to Jesus’ call. We first meet him  when “… Jesus passed by, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post.  He said to him, ‘Follow me.'”  Matthew “got up and followed him.” (Mt 9:9-10) Matthew’s immediate response challenges us all.   He just got up & followed Jesus.  No hesitation, he just went.   Jesus invites us to do the same.  “Come follow me,” He calls....

                                        Here is an image and a prayer by St. Therese of Lisieux "O Jesus, who, in Thy cruel Passion didst become the 'reproach of men and the Man of Sorrows,' I worship Thy divine Face. Once it shone with the beauty and sweetness of the Divinity; but now, for my sake, it is become as 'the face of a leper.' Yet, in that disfigured Countenance, I recognize Thy infinite love, and I am consumed with the desire of making Thee loved by all mankind. The tears that flowed so abundantly from Thy Eyes are to me as precious pearls that I delight to gather, that with their worth I may ransom the souls of poor sinners. O Jesus, whose Face is the sole beauty that ravishes my heart, I may not see here below the sweetness of Thy glance, nor feel the ineffable tenderness of Thy kiss, I bow to Thy Will—but I pray Thee to imprint in me Thy divine likeness, and I implore ...

This is a link from instagram of Francis Chan. Maybe you have seen news if him around social media   sites. He is an evangelical preacher formally a pastor of the Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, California. He recently went viral with a talk about Holy Communion. It was pretty awesome in the fact that he was discovering the Catholic history and doctrine. When I relocate that clip I will post it also https://www.instagram.com/p/B8dSg0_AMN5/?igshid=bvddm6v7kevr