NINETEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR II: MONDAY
Psalm 148:1-2
‘Praise the Lord from Heaven, you that live in the heights above. Praise Him, all His angels, all His Heavenly armies.’ (Here I searched for the word praise in Hebrew and it was stated, ‘Praise (Hallelu) ye the Lord, praise (Hallelu) o ye servants of the Lord, praise (Hallelu) the Name of the Lord”. Psalm 113:1
The root for Hallel gives us two more important words. One is Hallelujah, a combination of ‘praise’ (Hallel) and the Name Yahweh—God’s Personal Name in Hebrew.
Here I would like to explain how we could use our bodies that God had consecrated to be temples of the Holy Spirit because God through Christ is living inside and making His homes in our bodies. We could use our whole bodies to worship and praise God as Jesus Christ always do as His Body is the Instrument of worship for His Father. So, when we allow ourselves to be drawn to God through Christ in the working of the Holy Spirit, Christ alone through His Spirit teaches us as we unite our hearts with His Sacred Heart, our souls with His Glorious Soul and our human spirits with His Victorious Human Spirit and so our bodies are drawn into His Divinity as the Second Person, then we are all drawn into the First through the working and power of the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. This is the worship that God desires from human beings who are being trained and taught to be saints while they are in this world. Although how frail and imperfect we are, God desires that we have humble and contrite hearts that are teachable, so that whatever weaknesses and imperfection that we have, God through Christ is going to patiently and gently leads us to conversions of hearts so that we will culminate to be perfect instruments of worships as we reside in the Body of Christ.
Indeed we could worship God in our families, places of works and in all relationships when within our hearts, we are guided and molded by the Laws of God and His Teachings which come to us through Christ in the Holy Spirit, so as Christ is the Perfect Role Model of all children of God, so if we humbly submit ourselves to His Spirit, we will see that when we died, our souls will instantly be ready to be embraced by God as we soar high, by the Graces of God through the Holy Spirit, we will reach the Holy of Holies in His Holy Sanctuary instantly, faster than speed of lightning or light, because the speed of the Spirit is through the will of God and our will, so when He wants us to be in the Holy of holies, this very split of a second, we will immediately be there and when He wanted us to be there, there is no powers and forces that could stop God from exercising His will as He is the Omnipotent and Almighty, All-powerful and Supreme Lord, God and King. We are all indeed at His Mercy and disposal but as He respects and honors our freewill, these become the greatest obstacles for our human and spiritual restorations, unless we make decisions and trust in God, so we surrender this freewill to God to do as He pleases; we will be witnesses of His Powers and Authorities at works in our lives because we personally choose not to interfere in how God manage our human hearts, souls and human spirits as we would be given the Sight of God within our spiritual bodies, so instead of us being cocooned by the flesh, especially the sinful flesh and spirits, we move out from our bodies as we come into Communion with God through Christ and we could see the wonders and might of God over our bodies and we ourselves will be in awe and amaze by what God can and will do in order to save us through His Personal transformations and restorations of our human hearts, souls and human spirits. So let the Spirit of Christ within us bring us into perfect praise and worship of “Yahweh” God. Let the Hallelujah continues to resound within our hearts, souls and minds. Let our bodies be the instruments of worships and praises to God. Amen.)
Psalm148:14
‘He made His nation strong, so that all His people praise Him—the people of Israel, so dear to Him.’ (Here we are the new people of Israel and we are indeed so dear to Him, that He chose not to spare His Son in order to Redeem the whole human race, from Adam till the generations before the End of Time. Jesus Christ is God-in-Flesh or to be précised He is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity-in-Flesh, so as the Second Person cannot be divided, although by Names with the First and Third Person, so it is simply “Yahweh” God-in-Flesh, so it is the Physical Body of God in Jesus Christ and this Physical Body is His only Begotten Son, so it is through the Son of Man, our Lord Jesus Christ that we are once again ‘adopted’ by God to be His children, but that is not the exact word as adoption would mean that we are from different parentage of which we are not as we are created in God’s Image and Likeness, so we are created to be His offspring, but if adoption should mean that we were once children of Satan and belonged to the world, but God took us back from the hands of Satan, then ‘adoption’ will be correct.
So now we are being restored to be children of God or ‘sons’ of God in the Son of God, the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and He makes His nation strong, so that all His people praise Him. So indeed, our food and drink are to praise the Lord all the times and to give Him the glory and honor that He deserved. But saints in Heaven are glorified by the Glory of God and they are perfect, good and holy because of the Holiness, Goodness and Perfection of God in their human spiritual bodies, so while we are still saints-to-be on earth, our Goal needed to be the same with the saints in Heaven.)
Matthew 17:22-27
… “The Son of Man is about to be handed over to men who will kill Him; but three days later He will be raised to life.” (So here we need to know that not only were the killers, like the religious leaders and rulers, Pontius Pilate and the crowds of Jews, guilty of being murders of Jesus Christ, but Jesus stated ‘men’ so these are not only males but females from the whole human race who were then and now guilty of killing Jesus Christ. We need to humbly identified ourselves within this word ‘men’ because these are humanity God created in His Image and Likeness and all of us are guilty. So, when we read how God told Moses to raise a bronze serpent on a pole, so that everyone who looked at it will be healed from the serpent bites. So, this bronze serpent is the symbol of the Son of Man as He had allowed His Body to be filled with the entirety of the sins of humanity from the beginning till the End of Time, so inside His Body is the filth of sins and activities of Satan’s evil spirits; do we admit that we poured all these evils inside His Body? If we looked at Him and see our sins, repented and be converted to God through Christ, we will be ‘healed’ so we will be saved by our conversions of hearts.)
… “Well, then,” replied Jesus, “that means that the citizens don’t have to pay.” (Jesus was trying to point out justice in the Eyes of God, but let us take His Words into the Mystery of the Kingdom of God whereby we as children of God are given free access into the Kingdom of God and the Riches of Heaven and God gives generously to all His children, even the Life of His Son, God the Father will not spare, so as He would not spare the Life of the Son of Man, He will gives us all we need in order that we can enter the Kingdom of Heaven and feast in the Heavenly Banquet, not only at the End of Time when this Banquet that we are feasting will turned to be the Grand of the grandest Banquet, where we will feast in the abundance of God’s graces and blessings, as all human beings whom God had chosen to be His own will return to Heaven and have all that they need in Happiness and Joy as of the likeness of the Grand of grandest Wedding Feast that we had not experience before. So, we are not ‘taxed’ for all those Heavenly luxurious for all His saints. Christ the Son of Man had paid in full for our Redemption and there is nothing we need to do to be saved, except that we accept Jesus Christ to be our Redeemer, Lord and Master. All the crosses that we needed to carry will be lifted to become the sharing of the Yoke of Christ, so the most we could do is the share in the Yoke of Christ and join Christ in the Mystery of His Paschal Passions and their Remedies brought about through the Paschal Passion. Do we want to join Christ and share the Yoke of His Paschal Passion, so that we and others will reap the Fruit of what Christ had done for us? If we truly Love as Christ Loves us, we will join Christ in the Mystery of the Cross or Yoke, in expressions of our authentic loves for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and human race in spiritual acts of Mercies. Because when we are suffering and struggling, with the Spirit of Christ within us, instead of missing the graces that would come with these sufferings and pains; we offer these as our shares in the Yoke of Christ, so that souls in Purgatory will be comforted, consoled and released by God, together with those still alive in this world who needed God and by the sharing of the Yoke of Christ, those human beings dear to us would receive God’s attentions, graces and mercies.)
Amen.
7th August 2022.
Lily Wee.