{"id":17448,"date":"2016-05-04T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17448"},"modified":"2016-04-30T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:58:07","slug":"jesus-words-are-light-to-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2016\/05\/04\/jesus-words-are-light-to-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus' Words Are Light to Our Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<hgroup class=\"content-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><strong>Our souls, our hearts and our entire being need, every day, the words of life that come from the heart of Jesus<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n<div id=\"content-post\">\n<article id=\"post-23550\" class=\"post-23550 homilia type-homilia status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;<\/span><i><span lang=\"en\">Verily, verily, I say, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life.<\/span><span lang=\"en\">Will not be condemned, as it has passed from death to life &#8220;<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"en\"> (John 5:24).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">We want life! <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We don&#8217;t want to remain in death or live in the abyss forever. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">On the contrary, we want life in God, the eternal life. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We want this replendent life to shine is in us and that we live in the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">What does it\u00a0take to have life? <\/span><span lang=\"en\">What do you need to do to qualify our life and give meaning to it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s to us that Jesus says, <em>&#8220;Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life&#8221;<\/em>(John 5.24)<\/span><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">First, you need to <strong>hear the word<\/strong>, and dedicate yourself to it. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">When we didn&#8217;t hear the words of God, we&#8217;re just left with the words of the world, we get our knowledge and theories, with our science and what we hear of this or that. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">However, we need to hear Jesus, let His\u00a0words be life for our life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">To whom shall we go, Lord? <\/span><span lang=\"en\">God alone\u00a0has words of eternal life. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">And because his words are life,we need them. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So, devote yourself to hear His word, put your ears and your heart to, every day, to hear the word of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">As well as our life needs food, daily care; our soul, heart and our all need, every day, the words of life that come from the heart of Jesus. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">But it is not enough to just listen to him, you have to believe, demonstrate faith, trust and give credit to the words of the Lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en\">Faith is a divine gift, a grace that comes from God, so we must ask the Lord for this gift sublime and so necessary to grow in intimacy with Him. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">It is not enough to believe in the Lord, you must have full confidence and faith that his words are light to our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">We pray to the heart of Jesus, so that in this Lenten walk, He may give us the grace to hear his word, believe in them, for we see life according to his will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en\">God bless you!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\">Fr. Roger Araujo<\/h2>\n<p lang=\"en\">New song community priest, journalist and collaborator of the new song Portal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rogeraraujo.cn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rogeraraujo.cn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our souls, our hearts and our entire being need, every day, the words of life that come from the heart of Jesus &#8220;Verily, verily, I say, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life.Will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141739],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions\/17451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}