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As Catholics, we do not only
draw ourselves in the active participation in the institution of the Eucharist
but we manage to relate ourselves in the act of sharing our life and religious
experiences in the context of what was written in the Sunday gospel. We should
not only display the Bible without reading it, but we should live a
contemplative life closely associating ourselves to what was written in those
pages of the scriptures.

We should be aware of the danger of what will substitute in our
minds if we allow ourselves to be influenced by the evil things around. We
should find ourselves drawn away from vices and vigilant as we go back to the
basic reality of our lives, that we are created through the word of God. Each
word God says gives life. We should go back to the reality where when we see
our life, we do not only live by the bread we eat but also by the Bible we
read.

We should celebrate the word of God in the community even in the
midst of terrorism, bombings and immorality. We ought to be guided by the word
of God everywhere even in our family life. Husband should love their wives and
wives should do the same to their husbands. The concrete example why many
couples today do not agree with each other is because no one cares of the
concern that their life should be focused on God.

The Bible changes the life of a person. Hosea every time for
example has to run after Gomer, his wife who live the life of a prostitute.
This is because of love and the word God said to Hosea that greatly influenced
his life. He forgives his wife not only once, and not only in praise for the
Lord but for love.

The word of God should be
powerful enough to touch our lives. It must not remain as the word but it should
open to us its flesh, that it be made flesh and should dwell among us. This is
why we celebrate Christmas where the word becomes our companion. We join
singing the praises for the Lord meant for this highest gift of God being with
us. With this gift of God sharing himself, we should endure life with patience
and that we should learn to forgive and forget the mistakes done to us by our
neighbor.

The greatest gift is to forgive others. We should connect
ourselves to the meaning of Christmas that we open ourselves to a new life
where we learn to forgive and manage to forget the stain of evil long ago. We
should reflect on our being a gift and we should be reflecting on the role of
the Holy Spirit in the life of Christ, even on the wound we receive long ago.

It is foolishness to say, I have sinned because I am weak. With
the hardness of lives in our midst, our life should be open to the good, which
is the act to learn the Bible. Why is it that the Bible is inspired? Don’t you
know that many writers in the community write the Bible? It was not written in
one sitting. Stories occurs in the 13th century up the to time of Moses till
the Baptism of Jesus. The history of the bible begins with Abraham on the
context of his family life. It was the history of Holy Theism or a holy belief
in One God. Where before there is a god of Fertility, the god of Fire, the god
of Harvest and Agriculture; Abraham followed the God who endures with him, and
leaves his family where God drew him to

Canaan

.

When Sarah conceives Isaac, she was 80 years old while Abraham
was 100 years old, Isaac married Rebecca and like Sarah, God opened the womb of
Rebecca, where to her were born Esau and Jacob. Abraham became rich through her
wife Sarah with whom the Pharaoh falls in love with. Abraham was asked to take
everything he wants that he may leave

Egypt

to tread a way back to

Canaan

. The Pharaoh was told
that Sarah is precious to God because she would be the mother of the nations.

Jacob begot twelve boys. His brothers sold Joseph the youngest
to the merchants going to

Egypt

. Joseph has the ability
to interpret dreams and from being imprisoned for a long time, he was hailed
from being a slave to a governor who was in-charge of the grains sold. Many
years later, God through Moses delivered the Israelites from being subjects of
the Egyptians. It was destined that people may know that God was their Creator.
The whole community of Israelites wanted their God to save them that’s why they
see hope through Moses. But not all believe Moses that’s why not all first born
of Israelites did live for some refuse to put blood above their doorpost.

The beauty of writing the scripture was the very nature of
experiencing the word of God for the word could save us. God, who saves the
Israelites from

Egypt

, was the same God who
helps the disciples to write the Bible, and it was preserved whole all
throughout life with the word affecting our life in a concrete form making our
spiritual life more active. Let us allow getting hold of this religious
experience where we attribute the miracles and the changes in our lives to the
experience that God help us in the very time of our need like the way he helped
the Israelites away from

Egypt

.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra

As I receive from God the
dispensation giving light to my possible total healing, I am disposed to forget
thoroughly everything that had transpired in my past even with my childhood
regarding some incidents that was not known by my parents unaware of what
happened to me while I was yet a child.

The miracle is that things no longer disturbs me and it is enough
that I receive compassion from those involved and there’s no need anymore that
somebody admit it because it was totally resolved. I’m even revitalized and
feel a new person and had been freed totally from my past unmindful of the
details and there’s no need for a dialogue because I have already accepted what
happened and did resolved to forgive and forget totally that those incidents
did happen.

Even Jesus though he was God had forgiven his oppressor. Who am I
to hold in my heart a clear picture of old scenes? I’m already happy of the
present bonding and God is so good to bestow divine intervention taking away
from me those scales of past that had covered my eyes before. I believe that
I’ll not be going back to my past anymore even with the eventual occurrence of
pressure. The Divine Mercy did helped me a lot, even as of all the
organizations, I try to avoid this one before for some very personal reason.

Though at first I have some fear of entering this religious
organization, I’m glad now that I was proven wrong regarding my fear, and have
benefited from the miracles and enlightenment I gained. I did not stop till I
was drawn to the enticement to such sort of religious gathering for the reason
that if I prevent myself from establishing healthy ties with everyone and
everything, I would be preventing my healing too.

Even Jesus extended help to the centurion and the Gentile woman
that each of their children might be healed. Though I’m not Jesus, I want to
put to garbage everything that had to do with the filth of my past resolved or
unresolved, even the tiny single memory of whatever occurred long long ago
because as Jesus became man, it is his desire that man also may become of God.
Who am I to prevent the grace of God that things may happen according to his
desire that I may also live happily in a very healthy way.

As I bring to mind one of the colorful mirages I have had with
him, I’m convinced that he really had been human in all sense of the word
human. The pain he endured with the cross as it tears his shoulder, the twinge
of the thorns in his head, and the paroxysm of the tearing flesh in his palms
and feet was not some kind of fable but a reality one cannot deny or ignore.

And who is He that endures all these things? The scripture states
clearly: Jesus said to her (Mary of Magdala), “Stop holding unto me, for I have
not yet ascended to the Father (John

20:17

).” And what can Jesus say
of the Father? In John 10:29-30, Jesus declared: “My Father, who has given them
to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.
The Father and I are one.”

Furthermore Jesus plainly explained in clear terms: “All things
have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except
the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son
wishes to reveal himself to (Luke 10:22).” Somehow though the Father and Jesus
here are fused as one, they are subject to each other’s wishes and desire even
though they have the same feeling having one spirit as attested in the
scriptures.

Philip somehow is insistent of one thing: that Jesus would show
them the Father. Likewise Jesus having compassion with him said to Philip:
“Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words
that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is
doing his works (John 14:9-10).

In the above statement, there is plain clarification here of the
one whom are being indwelt with and the one dwelling into with Christ not
saying ‘I am the Father’, but ‘the Father is in him and he is in the Father’.
This instance does not say that the one who is in the person becomes he except
if they share the same Divinity or one spirit Holy Ghost. What is clear here is
that there is a God in a God that we may sometimes say Christ Jesus if we refer
to his humanity and Jesus Christ if we are referring to his Divinity.

Somehow the spirit of the Lord did rest upon Jesus (Isaiah 11:2).
It rested in such a way that it remained in him. On the other hand, the Father
did dwell in Jesus (John 14:10), meaning it did reside in Jesus. For the entire
time that Jesus lived on earth as a human, he continue to function with the
intelligence of the Father not that he may be highly exalted but that though he
was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God as something to be
grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in
human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming
obedient to death, even death on a cross (Philippians 2:6-8).

In John 3:16, God gave his only begotten Son, that everyone who
believes in him may have eternal life. But this is not the only thing that God
did. Because Jesus was lowly, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the
name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should
bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians
2:9-11). God also asserts this to himself in Isaiah. Somehow, in I John 3:16,
there is this God who laid down his life for us, so we ought to lay down our
lives for our brothers.

-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra