Religious blog

I have finally decided to separate this blog into my religious blog, because then I can focus more on the wonderful reality of God in my life, and focus on nothing but Him and Jesus Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than something like that, in a world where God, out of all things, is forgotten, and we fade away listless and unresponsive to God's true call into our lives. Often than not, my life is full of sinfulness, so much venial sin, unavoidable from our humaneness that transforms our lives gradually into sorrow. But if we focus on Godly sorrow and upon Godly things, imagine what wonderful things lie for us in the future!

As much as I struggle with my own sins and my own doings, I wish to live in a life of holiness. After all, we are all called unto a life of holiness to better serve Yahweh. he is the main reason why we remain in the churches, why we still worship Him through our daily lives and at the Blessed Eucharist, because without Him, then we would certainly not be Christians, but instead some pseudo-religion that focuses on nothing but traditionalism. Traditions without Jesus would become vain traditionalism.

I wish to become a priest some day, and I believe that God is calling me to the priesthood, despite how I have almost no leadership skills at all. I am quite quiet, shy and soft-spoken, but that does not stop me from fulfilling God's will in my life. We all need a place in which we can express the utmost of our desires within our hearts, and I intend to do so in my blog.

Too often do we all get caught up in our own selfishness, especially me. We ignore our spiritual duties and lie in idleness, unresponsive to what God calls all of us to do in order to build up the Holy Kingdom of God. Yahweh does not ask much of us, but to worship Him in Spirit and Truth, and to do His Holy Will everyday in our lives, in hopes that others will realise that Yahweh is calling them too to His Body, His true Church on Earth.

I mean, on Friday, last week I went to the Vocations Office, and was told that I need to research syllabi or curricula in order to find the courses that I want, and I would have to wait at least three years because I was a revert to the Catholic Church; thus they can not see much seriousness until the person is immersed more so within the religion. I guess they worry that the desire to priesthood may be instead during a subjective high, in which gradually lowers again into a fading facade. But ever since I have reverted, this desire has not gone away from me, and I fully intend to fulfill God's will in my life, because I know that God will do great things if we truly act as the vessels which carry God's sanctifying grace.

But just as the Vocations Director has said to me that there is such a thing as trying to get ahead of God, I myself need to learn the value of patience, and three years actually is not too long. Within the Archdiocese Prayer of the Reverence for Life, it itself says "...For the life of the elderly, witnessing to the ageless values of patience and wisdom." Just as St. Thérèse had emphasised the Little Way to praise Jesus all her life, also will I, in all patience and attempted humility, wish to raise Him into my life, and leave my own selfishness behind. I hope to get everything in order soon enough, apply for college, get a job, and become settled into the secular world as a member of society. And through it all, I also hope to utilise every opportunity to give the Lord His proper Glory deserved in wholeness.

That day, I went to the Mass and saw a homeless person praising the Lord at Mass, and even before Mass began, he prayed the Rosary without any beads and knew the whole Angelus. I was amazed as he told me, that the Holy Spirit causes all of us to pray at Mass, and how the Holy Spirit is through it all. Now that in its simplicity is a charismatic soul, and that fact even makes me humble, a sinner who has more material things than Him. The last will be first, and the first will be last, and no doubt will that homeless person, who has total faith in Yahweh, will truly enjoy the fruits of Heaven.

So many people inspire me in my walk of life, to learn the value of patience and wisdom. A little Indian girl and her brother at my church knew all the prayers at Mass, at she is at least only five years old. And out of all the children of the Children's Liturgy of the Word, she probably knows more saints than I do. If there are children like those two who truly believe in their heart in the power of Jesus Christ our Lord, let them come unto Him, because even they have greater faith than me. An African woman veiled at Latin Tridentine Mass singing with gusto with the choir in Latin chanting, mesmerised me, and shows that African-Canadians do not all fall into the ways of Protestantism. These are just a few of the many examples of Christ-like people whom I have seen through my observations. So many people, albeit a few, share such a beautiful resemblance to the way of Christ, and it makes me feel so humbly ashamed of myself. As Lent approaches, I hope to make myself humble and loosen myself from worldly things. We do these things at Lent for the alleviation of the sufferings of others, for the penance of sin in our lives, and to regard our own sinfulness as we meditate on the Death of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is because of His Sacrifice, that we are saved in His blood.