Mercy and Compassion

A blessed new year everyone!

"... The Church greets the Blessed Virgin Mary, invoking her as Mother of God. In her the eternal Son of the Father took our very flesh and through Her became "son of David and son of Abraham" (Mt 1,1). Thus Mary is His true Mother: the Theotokos, Mother of God!

If Jesus is Life, Mary is the Mother of Life.
If Jesus is Hope, Mary is the Mother of Hope.
If Jesus is Peace, Mary is the Mother of Peace, Mother of the Prince of Peace... " - Pope John Paul II

May this new year bring you and your Family with greater Hope, Faith, and Love as you fulfill the mission entrusted to you by God with joy and serenity as you embrace both the coming trials and joy. May all aspect of your life be blessed.

God bless you!!!!

To all our darkness and sin, our perplexity and despair, to all our questioning and fears, our longings and hopes, there is a God who is near us.,

A God who loves us beyond measure and imagination..,

A God who gives us no explanation, but what He gave to us is His Son...

The word made flesh..

Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given... He is Jesus...
Emnanuel- God who abides with us!

Come let us adore Him!!!

To the one who is in the midst of pain and suffering,

Perhaps you are just like the others who have kept your pain in silence and wondered until when it will last.

Remember, Every inch of sorrow that you feel is not unknown to God. There is not a tear that has fallen from your eye that He has not seen.

Every pain you have is visible to Him who created you; Him who is deeply inlove with you.

In the story of Lazarus, we have seen the Lord weep because of the death of His beloved, Jesus knew what pain is, and because of His love and for God's greater glorification, He made the impossible possible. He resuscitate Lazarus back to life. All the weepings are gone, the mourning ends, and the joy begins to shine once again.

May we not loose hope, that God will make all things possible and new. We need to learn to trust Him even more. Mayroong mabuting magagawa ang Panginoon!

Tonight, lst me pray for you.

Dear God,

The one you love is hurting right now. I may not know exactly how painful it is, but You know and I know that you will come in your perfect time to comfort and bind the wounds of this grieving heart. It could look a lot harder right now, but thank you God, For I believe that you already know how this story will end in victory. That this pain is not the end of the story, rather it will serve a much greater purpose. That is for Your greater glory to be revealed. Help your beloved to trust You even more., that the pains of yesterday and today will soon be gone.

Lord, Thank you because in the midst of present sufferings and changing trials, one thing remains unchanging- that You are good, that you are a loving God who is not strenger to pain: You are a Father who makes all thing possible and new.

In Jesus name, I entrust this beloved of yours to you love and mercy.

Amen.
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Cor 4: 16-18

I know that there is that deep desire in your heart that you have been praying for the longest time..

Remember, Waiting truly can test not just our patience but also our confidence in His Love and Goodness. That waiting time is an opportunity to purify our intentions, and that in the unhurried pace, wisdom, purity and clarity comes.

Sometimes, it is when we wait, then we realize what truly matters in our life..

May we remember that our God always has a perfect timing.. He has set the right moment for everything and He has made everything beautiful in its time (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

Nothing in all creation is hidden in His sight for everything is uncovered and laid before His eyes (Hebrews 4:13), our hearts included.

He knows our wants yet what He gives is what is best and what He knows we truly need. If it is according to His will, it will surely come to pass, through His perfect way in His perfect time, even if it entails waiting for now.

This is His promise: No good thing does He withhold from His children (Psalm 84:11). If He withholds something, it is for our good and protection, it is for His greater glory. There are some things maybe that we have been holding on for so long which are not meant for us to have. So if He tells us no or not for now, no matter how painful it is going to be, may we with all our hearts, surrender to His will and praise Him still.

And in His perfect time,
we will better realize, taste and see, that He is a God who knows and wants only what is best for us.

Do you feel alone and abandoned?
Do you feel that no one understands you?

Tonight as you close this day, Remember Him: The Man of suffering who was despised, rejected, stricken and held in low esteem (Isaiah 53:3) understands and sympathizes with us (Hebrews 4:15).

When our anguish are too deep for words, or when all is too much that even crying no longer becomes an option, may we be reminded that God sees through our pain.

Remember Him who is not stranger to pain. Him who knows everything you are going through. He knows you and calls you by your name.

He knows your pain, because He has been there.

In these times of your heartbreak, He does not push you to skip the suffering. Not that He wants us to suffer, but for us to see that despite of where we are-in highs and in lows, in scarcity or in abundance, in sickness and in health- He remains to be the God who remains with us, a God who understands us, a God that never abandons us. He is with the us: one He trully oves.

He chooses what seems to us to be the hardest thing to do-
He chooses to stay.

My prayer for you tonight is that you may see Him and feel His pressence in whatever situition you are in.

He is your refuge, your strength and your present help.
He knows. He understands. He will help you. Because He cares. Even your wordless sobbings are being translated into the wisdom of His Merciful love.

Call Him and present yourself to Him with Trust-There you will surely receive His mercy and grace. (Hebrews 4:16).

God promissed to Jeremiah in verse 29:12-13: “you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

Let us re echoe the psalmist saying, 'I cried out to Him with my mouth; His praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld His love from me." Psalm 66:17-20

Let Him be the One to tell you Good Night and trust that tomorrow is a new day to start knowing in your heart that you are nit really alone and someone understands you when everyone seems failed to do.