{"id":18553,"date":"2017-07-10T01:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=18553"},"modified":"2017-05-23T06:35:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T11:35:13","slug":"jesus-points-out-the-direction-that-we-must-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/07\/10\/jesus-points-out-the-direction-that-we-must-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Points Out the Direction that We Must Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The direction that our life needs is sobriety, temperance and calm<\/h2>\n<p lang=\"pt-PT\"><span lang=\"en\"><em>&#8220;I came into the world as light, that whoever believes in me will not remain in darkness&#8221;<\/em> <\/span><span lang=\"en\">(John 12.45).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Adora\u00e7\u00e3o ao Sant\u00edssimo Sacramento\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cancaonova\/15127664293\/in\/album-72157649162636365\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5616\/15127664293_0ebb7cc609.jpg\" alt=\"Adora\u00e7\u00e3o ao Sant\u00edssimo Sacramento\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"pt-PT\"><span lang=\"en\">We&#8217;re in the midst of \u00a0the darkness of the world, and that darkness in the world comes into to our heart. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Our souls and our hearts are in a real abyss, we&#8217;re lost, disoriented, not knowing where we&#8217;re going and where we&#8217;re going to stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Jesus is telling us that He came into this world as light and to be light. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">I was thinking: &#8220;if the lights went out and, it was dark, you could even hear my voice, but you would be lost: &#8216; Where is he? &#8216;. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">I&#8217;d be lost even to lead myself to you, in fact, I couldn&#8217;t even record, why wouldn&#8217;t the camera in front of me work, because it would be lacking light [says the father referring to video].<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"pt-PT\"><span lang=\"en\">The light brightens, illuminates, gives firmness, direction, proximity and sure. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The darkness causes hurt in us, we stumble and fall; it<\/span><span lang=\"en\">\u00a0takes us to the depths and stumbling of life, to the eternal darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"pt-PT\"><span lang=\"en\">We need to live and walk in the light. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">So when I look at Jesus, He is the light I need to do many things. Inside of me, it is obscure, there are paths that I do not understand, situations that I don&#8217;t know how to solve, I don&#8217;t know where to walk, which way to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The first thing to do: collect myself in sobriety of Spirit. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We find no light when everything is very choppy, heated and exciteable. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The light of God brings calm and sobriety to the spirit. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">However, let&#8217;s not stay only in the comparative, but bring it to the practical life. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The light of God&#8217;s direction for our lives, and the direction that our life needs is sobriety, temperance and calm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"pt-PT\"><span lang=\"en\">Calm often makes us often flee. Agitation that makes us solve so many things. W<\/span><span lang=\"en\">hen we do it all so jumpy and brusque, when we trip, it is because we lack the light that is Jesus, a light that brings serenity to our soul and our heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Whoever believes in Jesus does not remain in darkness, does not remain in doubt even in the dark.<\/span><span lang=\"en\">We can even go through dark paths, walk in the doubts and uncertainties of life, but we don&#8217;t stay in them, because the light of Jesus will light up our walk giving direction to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">I can&#8217;t live in Jesus and walk amid the false lights the world gives us, but when I let Jesus be light to my life, he points the way and direction that I must follow.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">God bless you!<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Fr. Roger Araujo, Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Community<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><a href=\"mailto:padrerogercn@gmail.com\">padrerogercn@gmail.com<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pe.rogeraraujo\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/homilia.cancaonova.com\/homilia\/jesus-aponta-que-direcao-devemos-seguir\/\">Portuguese version<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The direction that our life needs is sobriety, temperance and calm &#8220;I came into the world as light, that whoever believes in me will not remain in darkness&#8221; (John 12.45). 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