May 10 Sun
What moved God to create me?
His love and His goodness.
For what purpose did He create me?
To reveal and communicate his glory through the benefits which He bestows on me, his creature.
Among all earthly creatures, we, human beings, are specially privileged because we alone can know this and consciously enjoy it.
Why should we worship and praise God?
Because He does all good things for us, He answers our prayers, and loves us.
Christians who are really living their faith have something that the world does not: hope for salvation.
The world constantly seeks happiness in all kinds of behavior that are not good or not good enough. Yet the world often maligns us for doing good and for rejecting the evil the world calls good.
This is a kind of blindness the world has. The world does not see or know and so, cannot accept the Holy Spirit of truth.
But that is not the end of the story. We can instruct anyone who asks “a reason for our hope.”
To speak effectively to the world, we must first be doing good, and then we can explain our hope “with gentleness and reverence.”
It may be God’s will that we suffer for doing good. Why? So, we can do what Christ did: suffer for our sins to lead us to God.
Keeping the commandments is the proof of our love for Christ.
“Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.”
This is what St. Peter meant by saying, “Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.”
This loving obedience “unlocks” the life of the Blessed Trinity for us.
“And whoever loves me, will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
At the Son’s request, the Father will send to us the Holy Spirit (the Advocate).
What will the Holy Spirit do for us?
He will be with us always, and we will know it.
He will reveal to us the truth, because He is the Spirit of truth.
He will make us children of God.
He will show us Christ and that He lives.
He will show us that we have life through Christ.
He will show us that Christ is in the Father.
He will show us that we are in Christ, and Christ is in us.
In other words, through the gift of the Holy Spirit, we will see that there is a communion of life and love in God, between Christ and his Church, and among all of us, her members.
Yes, this is so on two levels: first, in the relationship between Christ and all the members; and second, among her members on earth, in purgatory, and in heaven.
This communion is what heaven is: a communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels, and all the blessed: the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.
Heaven is the state of perfect friendship that fulfills our deepest needs and desires as social beings.