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Deuteronomy, Chapter 10, Verse 20 The LORD, your God, shall you fear , and him shall you serve; to him hold fast and by his name shall you swear. Be resolute! Have you fallen? Get up! Have your dreams been crushed? Have your expectations been dulled? Have the five fears overtaken your mind? Has the fear of isolation, demons, darkness, suffering and death kept you from holding fast to our Lord? Rejoice for today is your salvation! Just as Moses lifted u p the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

Deuteronomy, Chapter 10, Verse 12-13 12 Now, therefore, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, to follow in all his ways, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with your whole heart and with your whole being, 13 to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am commanding you today for your own well-being? What is meant by serving God? Doing the will of God in all things which He requires of us, in whatever state of life we may be placed, and doing this with fidelity, with unwearied zeal, and out of love for Him. (Goffine’s Devout Instructions, 1896) When we are bored and familiar with routine work, let us be like the old washer woman Oseola McCarty and generously offer ourselves to the Lord for He indeed knows our needs and will take care of our well-being. Each one should judge his own conduct without having to compare it with what someone else has done. (Gal. 6:4) In the twilight of life, God will not judge...

Deuteronomy, Chapter 8, Verse 5-6 5 So you must know in your heart that, even as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD, your God, disciplines you.  6 Therefore, keep the commandments of the LORD, your God, by walking in his ways and fearing him. When we fear the Lord our contentment does not come from any absence of problems but from knowingly choosing how to respond to them righteously.  God does not want to squash our dreams with His commandments. No he listens and smiles like we do when we see and hear the dreams of a child. Yet, He knows that all dreams must be founded in reality and the truth. When our dreams work against His commandments; our dreams work against us. Every dream must have a foundation of love and in some way must increase the life, liberty or the happiness of others. Yes, on the Day of Judgment the homes of the poor will be honored more than the great mansions of the rich. Simple obedience to His laws will be more highly praised than the br...

Deuteronomy, Chapter 7, Verse 24-25 17 If you say to yourselves, “These nations are more numerous than we. How can we dispossess them?” 18 do not be afraid of them. Rather, remember clearly what the LORD, your God, did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: 19 the great testings which your own eyes have seen, the signs and wonders, the strong hand and outstretched arm with which the LORD, your God, brought you out. The same also will he do to all the peoples of whom you are now afraid . We in America have much to be afraid of If we have not been obedient to God’s word but If we have been obedient we also have nothing to fear from those nations and peoples which hate us. We on our own have no power to defeat the devil and his evil forces but with God fighting for us nothing can defeat us. Do you believe this? Then we as a people must be a nation, that follows the precepts of the Lord or clearly we too will be dispossessed of our land.  You must know that those who are loy...

Deuteronomy, Chapter 6, Verse 24-25 24 The LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the LORD, our God, that we may always have as good a life as we have today. 25 This is our justice before the LORD, our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.” Today being the day before the anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center it is good to reflect on Christ’s mind given in the gospel. “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person, who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good...

Deuteronomy, Chapter 6, Verse 1-2 1 This then is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which the LORD, your God, has commanded that you be taught to observe in the land you are about to cross into to possess, 2 so that you, that is, you, your child, and your grandchild, may fear the LORD, your God, by keeping, as long as you live, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. Those that fear the Lord have a great love for Him. “If you love me you will keep my commandments” (Jn. 14:15) Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry. Because of these the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient. By these you too once conducted yourselves, when you lived in that way. But now you must put them all away: anger, fury, malice, slander, and obscene language out of your mouths. Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with...

Deuteronomy, Chapter 5, Verse 29 Would that they might always be of such a mind, to fear me and to keep all my commandments! Then they and their descendants would prosper forever. Our loving God knew Israel would become full of hubris and haughtiness and forget the commandments that He enjoined them and they needed a savior. Today is the Feast of the Nativity of Mary the mother of our savior: Jesus Christ. Let us will all humility; honor her is some small way today.  Let us not be like the Angels of God who fell from heaven by an act of pride and rebellion by refusing to honor her. Let us be like unto Gabriel who on announcing the conception of Christ said to Mary: "Hail" "Full of Grace" "The Lord is with you" Let us this day emulate Christ’s mother and ours: Mary and never weary of union with Christ through the most Holy Eucharist. This day try to spend some time in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.