Easter Meditation

My Dearest Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

Book 3 Chapter 6: On the Proof of a True Lover

In a communication between Christ and His Disciple –

            Christ:                         My child, you are not a valiant and wise lover.

            Disciple:         Why, Lord?

            Christ:             Because when the going gets tough, you seek the world and not Me.

How true is this for all of us?  God asks one thing from us, that we love Him with all our heart, mind and soul.  In doing so, He wants us to place all our trust and needs in Him.  God gives us so many gifts and provides the comfort we need to live from day to day.  We must learn to appreciate the Love which is poured out for us by Him.  We must mediate on the love that He has given us and not the gifts.  Once we start to account for the gifts, we lose site of the love.  We must remember that God is far more valuable than any gift we receive from Him. We should be thankful for the gifts He gives us, but more importantly, we should be thankful for Him.  We should be thankful that Jesus came to this earth to teach us and to help free us from slavery.  In freeing us, He opened the gates of Heaven that were closed by the sin of Adam and Eve. But more importantly, He came so we could see Him and love Him even more.  Even though He died for us on the cross, this gift does not exceed Him.  He is still greater than the sacrifice He made for us.  Our eyes should remain focused on Him and we should love Him and everything we do should be for Him because He loves us without condition 24-7.  We must remember that we are constantly tempted by the devil to deviate from God.  We must struggle to avoid these temptations.  And more importantly, we must despise those occasions of sin even when we fall.  It is in the rising to Him who created us that we focus our gaze on Him and turn away from those sins and temptations.  We must strive to worship God, to venerate the Saints, mediate on His Passion, reflect on our sins, keep watch over our heart and resolve to advance in virtue.  We do this through prayer, spiritual reading, confession, and receiving Holy Communion.  We can only do this by giving of ourselves daily to Christ.  We must avoid the temptation that one hour on Sunday is enough.  We must even avoid the temptation that one hour a day is enough.  We must resolve to pray and rest in Him 24 hours a day 7 days a week. We must resolve to give Him absolutely everything with no hold backs. It is only then that you place all your trust in our Lover, our Lord and Savior in Heaven. It is then that you deny Satan and his wicked spirit, because now there is no room for him in your heart. 

A Simple Prayer

Lord, you are my Lover and my Savior;

Whom should I fear when I rest in You?

You are the light who puts out the darkness.

You are my help and my deliverer.

You are my everything.

Yours in Christ

Michael Marcon