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The Poor in Spirit

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August 25, 2026   Dreamstime.com Hello!  How is each and every one? Who does not want to go to Heaven?  At present I am reading Bishop Fulton Sheen’s Go to Heaven, A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity .  I am sure you and I would like to qualify to this beatitude ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit’ because Heaven will be ours. And it is said that even now on earth we can enjoy this beatitude though not perfectly as in the next life.  So how do you and I level up to that enjoyment now?  Being poor in spirit means we enjoy all of God’s provisions (our life, faith, talents, time, work, family, everything you and I are and have) while we use them in knowing Him, in loving Him and in serving Him in this life.   And yet being detached from all of those provisions, implies not setting them as ends but rather as means to the end, that is, to be with God in His kingdom in Heaven after life. Hence, in whatever we desire, think, say and do, we do all for the glory...
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My God! My God! Why hast Thou Forsaken me?

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  August 18, 2026 St Josemaria Institute Hello!   How is each and every one? I thought I had finished working on this post last week by mistake.   Yes, it was done but not completed.   I just realized it now.   Anyway, this post is delayed by two days.   I had to do a new version of the book, ‘Give It One More Year, Sir’ so it could be printed soon. And just now I got distracted with my Jurassic Nokia phone. I was gluing the keypad buttons and then the phone stopped functioning. Glue got into contact with the circuit board.   This is an opportunity to learn and to get myself up to date with technology.  And yet I still am hoping my Jurassic Nokia will be revived.   Challenges come when there is already an ongoing challenge.   Life is exciting and dynamic, right?   I want to sing ‘I will survive’! Let us now start the fourth word of Christ from the Cross (From The Cries of Jesus from the Cross , A Fulton J. Sheen’s Anthology). ...
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It is Truly Right and Just! Our Duty and our Salvation

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  August 11, 2026 Hello!   How is each and every one? What are we looking forward to this week?   We hope for sunny days this week. On the 15 th , we will be celebrating with the Church the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Following from the Daily Roman Missal:   15 August The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Aleteia November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith: “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.” The Pope proclaimed this dogma only after a broad consultation of bishops, theologians and laity. There were few dissenting voices. What the Pope solemnly declared was already a common belief in the Catholic Church.  We find homilies on the Assumption going back to the sixth century. In following centuries the ...
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