New title

Yes Our name has now changed to life of us and saints. I changed it because i mostly talk about our life with the bible and sometimes i will compare it to saints.

Don't worry about the change, just enjoy

Thanks

Love One Another

God loved the world very much that he gave is only son. God loved us very much that he died on a cross to save our souls from beeing burned in the lake of fire from where satan comes from.

 And now i give you a new commandment: love one another as i have loved you. - John 13: 34 

 God gives us this Thirteeth commandment( The other two is the ones he talks about that are the greatest two earlier in his life) to live has the true lord did himself. he was greatly the teached of love and kindness and so we have to live by exaple of gods holy ways.

This is not new to most of us. this verse from the bible  is named The Golden Rule while growing up i knew that has the golden rule, what respect I have for it. But when i was young I didn't understand it fully. Heres how I didn't:

1.  I only thought it ment to be good in life ( and so i tried) Some might argue with that fact)
2. I took it to the  T. It was allways on my mind thinking " if i say this to someone they can say it back freely... the golden rule even says that.

But what ways i've come along.

After reading this verse in the bible i had to make that part of this.
to me it speaks out alot because it's talking about how we should live, and how his diciples should live. We are his diciples so we need to follow this commandment.

i find the world today we live in has really ruined this commandment in actions and words that people say/do. the world changes so much, to quickly. We are called to be diciples of god the almighty father the great onw in the heavenly kindom. And this rule leads us closer to becoming that diciple that he wants us to be.

 Now, this says " love one another has i'ved loved you"

Love one another =  don't be like satan and the evil spirit. Come and live in gods mercy of goodness.Be friends with one another, live by gods word.

As i have loved you= to treat/ love others the way god loved/treated us. to be kind to all around. and to live by his exaple.

In 1 John(not the gospile)Notice the 1 in front of john) the letter that john is writting has to do with this one commandment. 1 John  2 says " this commandment you have already heard about, when jesus was still around" This commandment is impressive to come from the life of jesus to now. We have already heard this commandment for thoudsands of years and thousands of more years we will hear it, and may when we do hear it, that we will ive by gods exaple and peace and joy in life and spirituality of god the almight father Amen.

Inspiration daily

Hello everyone.

Anyways, i thought i would just say some words on this inspiration item i have at the bottom of this blog. One of them was "God is to big to fit in one religion"


 Which is very true.

most religions are based on one thing A god. most religions they believe in the same God we do. Yes they may be a different religion but if you actually think we all believe in the same god. Yes some religions have a "Gold Calf, OR a Buddha or a god that does this or that, but if you think the god in heaven can do the same things all of the other Gods can do. This is nothing to laugh about. I know in catholic we don't believe in a Buddha or something else .but it's nothing to laugh at someone else for. How would you like people being mean to you and bugging you because of your religion? i don't think you would feel to good.

So why make fun of what someone else believes? people could make fun of our god. You might not be to happy about that. Even think people in Jesus time didn't believe that he was the son of god, and still believed in other gods. bur thats why Jesus came to stop people from worshiping fake gods.

Again i say God is in all religions, so if you make fun of one religion you are making fun of your own.

Friday will be a "Reflection" sorta way on something that i will keep a secret

Thanks,
sorry for the delay.

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year…

The most wonderful time of the year, as been destroyed by the tale of “Santa”. How distracted most kids are from the true meaning of Christmas because of Santa and his gift giving. I always like to see younger kids talk about Jesus being born around Christmas time rather that talking about Christmas. The world Young kids live in today is all in advertisement of “Santa clause”. Which I mean could be a good thing (they will act really nice so the are not on the naughty list. But anyways I  hate to see the true meaning  of Christmas ruined by Santa.

 Santa comes from a long tale ago about a marvelous saint. St Nickolas. He was Such a generous man. He was truly indeed a man from God. St Nick was very generous, has I mentioned, he was so generous he made “gifts” for kids on  any day of the year. And then as centuries went by, the world made it on one day… Christmas Day…. The worst day possible  it ruins the meaning of Christmas. What is the route word it Christmas?

Christ.  So where does gifts come in? I don’t know, I am guessing from the wise men that brought Jesus the gifts of gold incense and myrrh.

 St Nickolas… The greatest, generous, loving, caring you will ever meet.(if you were alive back then) Yes I might be upset about Santa clause, but I love the saint Nickolas. One thing that is for sure about him is that his family was wealthy(like St Francis) but, he didn’t like all this money. He noticed three girls (in separate families) who are poor and going in the wrong direction. So what he did, is on three separate occasions he would stop at there houses and drop off a bag of money. St Nicholas also, was said to have made gifts for young girls and boys, to make them happy. (because their families would have been poor)  for this reason he his often shown with bags * bags of gold*.

Nicholas was a bishop in Myra. This is where he did most of is teaching, but he moved out in the world and became quite popular… 

Their isn’t a lot about St Nicholas that is “For Real” or that is confirmed real…. About this saint, but one thing we do know is by his charity, Santa was created, and love and peace, and charity ,by him sets us an example of how to live our lives.

*If you would like a Saint put has a blog, you can email me at: saintsofsaints@gmail.com *

One Great thing in Our Life… We Were to Young to Understand.

One of the greatest things that happens to us in our lives, that most people don’t think of is baptism. This is the “Confirmation” that we are in Gods great family. Being Baptized is a great thing that most of us are to young to remember it, know what’s going on, and why this event is so great.

Without being baptized we can not get the Eucharistic at church, because first you got to get baptized then you go through some classes about the bread and first communion. Once you have your first communion you can get confirmed and fully be in god's family.But, none of this would not have happened if you were not baptized.

Some people get baptized has young adults, the most common reason is that they were not brought up in a catholic family, but know they do want to become catholic and worship the love of God. This leads me into this saint and holy person on earth, that some called the son of god….

 St John the Baptist, he was a great man preparing the people for the Son Of God. Everyone must know the great story of Jesus getting baptized in the Jordan River.  after all the people had been baptized, Jesus was also baptized. While he was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit came down upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my own dear son. I am pleased with you.” Lk 3.21-22. Jesus was baptized with the waters of the great Jordan river. Back then 2000 years ago it was normal to be baptized has a adult. Most that turned to Jesus were adults and to be a true follower of god they had to be baptized……

Now, how about some back round/history on St John the Baptist? John was born by Zechariah and Elizabeth. Zechariah was the priest in the temple that held the temple ceremonies and to sacrifice the offerings of the people. When john was growing up he grew up in the desert and lived on bugs and honey from bees. His clothes were made of camel’s hair, so was his belt around his waist. When john was thirty he was lead by the Holy Spirit to go and preach, and so he did… 

John preached many things, but there is one line that sticks out the most to me “He existed before I was even born” God was, indeed existed millions of years before John, before the world was created, God was always there. He existed before I was even born, (at this age John would have been 30-35 years old) Jesus exist when Adam and Eve were made!

  

This is how john died. King Herod had a birthday, and their was a dancer their performing for the king, and Herod loved the dancing and said to the dancer “ whatever you wish to have it will be done/ given to you” the dancers name was Salome and asked that john could be beheaded and his head brought out on a tray. The king was very upset with this choice, but he had to keep his word and they beheaded John.

Today’s baptism is a whole lot different then they were 2000 years ago. Like, really how would you like to be dunked into a deep river by a guy with camel fur?( I think that would have been cool J) But, today we have the “fancy” way in baptism. We have fonts, a priest, a deacons or even a bishop (not so much a bishop). The world changes and so do styles in the church. Many things are constantly changing. Except one thing, we get baptized with holy water and annotated with the power of salvation.

The One Whom Doubts...

Today’s world is full of doubts, disbelieves, betrayals and lies….We all doubt about this and about that… But, when it comes to disbelieves and doubts in Jesus the almighty sun of god after his resurrection that goes to far. Like come on, you knew him for more than three years, you came to know him, he trusted you and you Doubt that he his risen… Come on. Some might think that Thomas was not one of his disciples!

   Saint Thomas the doubter. He got his “doubter” title, by not believing in the resurrected Lord, God. “My Lord and my God” he says when he sees the risen lord, and puts his hands in Jesus’ side and hands. Why didn’t he believe? Well no one really knows why… Think, if you were a disciple of a Jesus back then, he dies… (You would probably be sad and not thinking straight) and then you hear that he risen and showed himself to the others! (Actually think about this. Don’t just think I’m nuts in righting this, or don’t jump to a conclusion.)  Would you believe? I think,I would of believed.

We all have times where we doubt the things we do, the things we see, and the news that someone lived/died. How do I know? Well we are only human and humans make mistakes…. God never made us perfect… He didn’t make his disciples, perfect, like Peter (the denier), Judas (the betrayer). How can we be perfect if his disciples weren’t? Most of the saints (that lived on the earth) lied, cheated, and were mostly from a poor family (only some because St Francis had a wealthy father).

St Thomas lived a good life, even though he did doubt the almighty lord, but we all make mistakes, Right? Wouldn’t life be boring if it was prefect all the time? We need these struggles to help us grow in the love of God the almighty father.

  Humans made in God’s image and go down the right path are good … but humans that are made by God and go down the wrong path, God is there to bring you back to the right path…

Saint Francis of Assisi: The Brother of Nature...

  Saint Francis of Assisi One loving, caring, great, human/ saint. Everyone knows the beautiful story of St Francis. The Beloved nature brother is known for his great prayer “Lord make me and instrument of your peace” What a wonderful prayer he made to thank god for creation.

You all know the story of how he loved animals, and cared for all creation; one thing you might not know is that he came from a wealthy family. He was a great kid, but he was just like you and me. He loved to party, loved to be with his friends and wanted to be strong in battle. Becoming a Franciscan never came to his mind while he was young, yes maybe one or twice in the blue moon, but not that whole often. His Wealthy father wanted him to become a business man, for indeed he was good at that, but didn’t want to be in business. He wanted to be strong and a head of an army. And so he did, he got his armor on, made an army and attacked Assisi strongest enemies.

God didn’t want this from Francis, so god spoke to him in a dream to return to Assisi (he was coming back from an the place where he was attacking)  Now Francis did become a Priest/ Franciscan and rebuilt a church that the bishop gave money and said “ let god lead you through this” and that’s what he did.

 

Francis would spend his time in the forest and  would make friends with the lions, bears, wolves, and many dangerous and friendly animals…. He would praise god for all that he did and all that god created. There is a story of a deadly wolf attacking the people of Assisi, because all the people were scared they ran. But one person didn’t… that was Francis, who made friends with the wolf and told him not to attack and to become friendly because gods with him….

Now, that’s a bit about St. Francis, but I want to  focus on the part were he became a priest. This past Sunday ( May 15, 2011) was the weekend for Vocations, and people would like to become a priest. God Called St. Francis and so God calls us(men)to become priests. But, with this big problem now in days with not enough priests, some parishes won’t have a priest. This means not many people are answering Gods call to become priest. This is very unfortunate, and I pray for those that do want to become priest and a dearly ask you to too. 

Thank You,
God Bless.

The Mythical Saint

    The Mythical saint is Saint Christopher. He is well know for travelling. Now How did He get know has the one to pray to for travelling? Well there is this legend   that this very large, large man (Christopher) was going to cross a high current river, and before he did cross he met this boy that asked to be carried to the other side of the river. So Christopher accepted the child’s request and got the child on his shoulders and started to walk across the river. While Christopher was crossing, he noticed that the child was very, very heavy. This child was Christ, the weight of Christ came for him carrying the whole world in is hands the whole time while crossing the river.( So for this reason many medals and pictures of St Christopher are seen with him and a child)

Back in the day,( Fifteenth Century) it was a whole lot easier that it is today to become a saint. Most of them that did become saints were based on there legends. Then when time came closer to today century (1969)  they took a deeper look at these Some saints like St Christopher, they were taken off of the liturgical calendar.

St Christopher still remains a saint to most people. But to the liturgical calendar/ church this saint is just a myth based on legends…. But you never do know, in 1969 the church looked into it and found no realistic Character in this saint, doesn’t mean this saint didn’t exist. We that live today will never know, else we lived in the Fifteenth century and still live today… ( which is  100% unlikely).

People still pray to this “saint” for help in travel, and in any trouble they may be experiencing. The world today could not know if St Christopher did ever live or if he did actually carry the Christ… we will never know… until  we go to heaven…

Pope John Paul II

  Pope John Paul the second was born on May 18, 1920 and sadly died on April 2, 2005. As we may all know, this amazing pope was Beatified  on May 1, 2011. For most people to become saints takes years like Mother Teresa who died on September 5,  1997 but, For this lucky Pope he had one miracle  done in is name to make him Known has  "blessed". this pope just needs one more to become a Saint...


You may be asking " What is the miracle he did?"


There was a women (sister) who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2001. When His holiness died in 2005 the other sisters started to pray to Pope john paul the second for his intersession to come and heal the sister from her disease...  it was only in 2007 that the sister came out and told Rome this miracle....


For a miracle to be given by/ through a future saint it has to go through Rome and after a few years of looking into Rome will/will not, declare it if it is or isn't a miracle.... Rome has many people bring up miracles by people, but Most of them are not Scientific.... 


Pope John Paul is an excellent saint... I am thinking by 2015 he will be a saint... Who knows it could be earlier or later.  You never know... it's in Gods hands.


Science is nothing with out religion and religion is nothing without science"- Albert Einstein


"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."
-Pope John Paul the Second