But notice what Jesus said: “to such as these [referring to the infants and children who had been brought to him by their mothers] belongs the kingdom of heaven.” The Lord did not require them to make a conscious decision. He says that they are precisely the kind of people who can come to him and receive the kingdom.
Just as Mary and Joseph presented the child Jesus in the temple, in many Latino cultures parents “Present” their children to the Church when they are 3 years old. While not a sacrament (children who are presented are already baptized), it can be an important day for the whole community to offer their recognition and support to a family and their young child.
“All you have to do is masturbate!”
“You are going to like it!”
Ménage à trois
Yahh
This will go on for years.
There is nothing here.
stop screwing your daughter
I will give you anything and I will not stop,
This is your place and I will be here.
Do without evil.
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“We’re just doing what you want us to do!” daughters and sons of the father “Is she beautiful?”
Acts 7:55 But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God’s right hand. 56 ‘I can see heaven thrown open’ he said ‘and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.’ 57 At this all the members of the council shouted out and stopped their ears with their hands; then they all rushed at him, 58 sent him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses put down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.
Here are the two ways we can see God:
1. We use the word “see” to mean that we finally understand and discern the beauty and glory of God after being blind to it. Like when we say: Oh, now I see. Our soul is tuned in to the glory so that the glory of God that shines through the gospel is seen as glorious, and we are no longer spiritually blind to it. That is the first way we see him.
2. And the second way is that, in the narrative of the Bible, we see the glory of God and finally we will see Him face to face through Christ — by seeing Christ. So, John 1:14, 18 says, “The Word was made flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that is his as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth…18 No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, who nearest to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.” So, we see God by seeing Jesus. And 1 John 3:2, “We know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.”
So, the implication is: Pursue purity of heart, purity of faith, purity of life so that your heart is able to see God’s beauty as what it really is in the Scripture, and so that, when He comes or when He calls us in death, we will see Him face to face and be glorified with Him.
John 1:14 The Word was made flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that is his as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John appears as His witness. He proclaims: ‘This is the one of whom I said: He who comes after me ranks before me because He existed before me’. 16 Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us, received—yes, grace in return for grace, 17 since though the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, who nearest to the Father’s heart, who has made Him known.
There will come a time when we see Jesus Christ clearly, with no earthly or demonic distractions.
…You have three months to get married…
Could this not be true of all THINGS not far from the kingdom of heaven? I only see a clip, a picture, obscured by my own desires, obscured by their desire, obscured by the noise of the world…One day I will see her purely and understand her fully and not be distracted by any foreign influence.
May 28, 2019
