The secret is - God is found in a whisper - That is the secret - Its really that simple

Today at Holy Mass some of the religious leaders ask Jesus a question in a round about way about heaven - What will it be like?….Jesus gives an answer….."The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called 'Lord' the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive”……The idea of heaven has been described by many - But I believe “the many” have created a misunderstanding of what it is exactly…Heaven is simply perfect union with God…..Being of one mind - one spirit & one heart……Heaven will not be a “party” as some secular minded people many think…..God is love in the here and now but because we are all sinners and flawed, we can not fully perceive God as He is…..Only Our Lady could - But that is a reflection for another day….With that said, the closer we get to God, the more we understand what heaven will be like……When we sit before the Blessed Sacrament, there is a tangible peace felt…Again, because “we are who we are” - We cannot fully appreciate what and who God is in those moments sitting before the Eucharist…However, sitting before the Blessed Sacrament gives us a “glimpse” into what heaven will be like….Perfect and lasting joy - Deep peace - And a burning love, which is fully comprehend and deeply felt…And that reality will never end - This is heaven

“Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life to light through the Gospel”

What is the secret to life?…Philosophers have asked this question for as long as mankind has walked the earth…..Being I am from New Jersey and Italian, I am going to “throw my hat in the ring” and answer that question for you? - So buckle up!…….The secret to life is finding God….All people are clearly different but in many ways we are all the same…We all come from the “same place” and that “place” is God….Our longing for the infinite is woven into human DNA…..Before we come to understand this, man chases after “things” trying to fill this deep longing for the infinite - From the Investment Banker on Wall Street to the street cleaner in New Delhi…And for those of us who have “been around”…We know that while our achievements - No matter how large, “Experiences” - No matter how great, "Things" we have acquire - No matter how lavish…All that “stuff” after time grows old and what we find is - That deep longing for “something” is still there….Until we realize the “secret” to life - That we were made by and for a loving God - That longing will never go away until we “figure this out” - That my friends is the “secret”…….And when we “figure this out” - The goal then is to grow closer and closer to God each day…We do that by dying to ourself, allowing the Holy Spirit to fill us….Whether you are single, married or called to be a priest…The goal is the same - To die to yourself……This is how God fills you and believe it or not - Those who live this way are the happiest people on earth - Why? - Because they not only “figured out” the “secret to life”, they committed to pursuing it radically……Of all the vocations mankind is called too, I believe the highest vocation of all are contemplative nuns and monks….What is a contemplative?….These are people who pray before the Blessed Sacrament for most of the day….To the secular mind, one may think this is crazy…How boring - Right?!?……How wrong you are to think this way…..The contemplatives of the world have purified their hearts to such a degree that they “see” God in a way that the rest of us do not….They also feel God deep within themselves in a way we do not either…This my friends is a foretaste of heaven…Heaven is not “a party”…Heaven is perfect union with God…That is the secret!

“For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor shall the hope of the afflicted forever perish”

Today at Mass we hear how the people of Jesus’ day ask the same question many of us ask - What will happen when we die?…..And Jesus answers them……Our world today for as advanced as it is, looks for God in all the wrong places…..When I walk the streets of New York City, I see so many different kinds of people, but all of them share the same need - They are looking for “something” - They just don’t know what it is……..God is not the mystery we make him out to be and in many ways we complicate things……This is why Jesus tells us in Scripture…..”Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me”…Our world today desperately tries to acquire sophistication when all that is needed is childlike simplicity to find what we are all looking for…….The secret is - God is found in a whisper - That is the secret - Its really that simple………….JMJ

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