tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post113582279462517183..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Grief is not about "me"Adorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1136287299040204022006-01-03T05:21:00.000-06:002006-01-03T05:21:00.000-06:00Thank you for the mental reminder.I have been cryi...Thank you for the mental reminder.<BR/><BR/>I have been crying during the past, when my own grandfather passed away whilst my childhood, and from then on did I realise the aspect of death. I spent so much time with him, and he seemed to die without even a goodbye. He suffered death under a sudden heat stroke while vacationing in the Philippines.<BR/><BR/>Even then, my uncle also died a few years later from cancer.<BR/><BR/>But I realise, death is an inevitability, and it will happen eventually, whether now or in the future.<BR/><BR/>"For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:" Wisdom 16:13<BR/><BR/>"Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. <BR/>For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more."<BR/>Psalm 102(103):15-16<BR/><BR/>"Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.<BR/>And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together."<BR/>Ecclesiastes 3:19-20<BR/><BR/>"Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord."<BR/>Job 1:21<BR/><BR/>"For dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return."<BR/>Genesis 3:19b<BR/><BR/>When the Lord takes us away, we only have hope in our faith that God will deliver us from Hell, and lead us into eternal salvation. And because it is an inevitability, we appreciate that we ourselves are still here to serve. I believe that we will not die until we are finally finished with what God's will for us is on earth.<BR/><BR/>Everything has the breath of God within it, especially in his special creation of mankind. He is merely taking back that which is His, to spend in eternity praising His Holy name and becoming prayer warriors for us on earth. They become powerful intercessors, and we have faith in that power which Christ gave to us.<BR/><BR/>May the souls of the departed rest in peace.<BR/><BR/>Amen.<BR/><BR/><BR/>In pax Christi,<BR/>Kevyn.Keihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10091600550102121828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1135949509502863282005-12-30T07:31:00.000-06:002005-12-30T07:31:00.000-06:00I sympathize with you, I lost my brother now almos...I sympathize with you, I lost my brother now almost 10 years ago (he was born Christmas eve) and my father now 5 years and it never gets easier, just different, someone once told me it is like a wound that does scab over and at times something reminds you and it gets torn off and open and bloody then heals till the next time<BR/><BR/>All we can do is pray for their souls and know that we to will be with them. Another thing that I do find troubling today is the premise that the church is teaching that anyone, even those that dont belive in Christ can get to heaven, and that is just not true as scripture and pre council teachings have illustrated. This among other liberalized teachings is one of the reasons I went back and got recatechised in the Baltimore Catechism as well as our children, as we wanted to learn the true teachings of the church before ecumenism and the changes<BR/><BR/>So what we need to do is continue every day to pray for their souls, as they are in a better place and in the event they are in pergatory for their safe passage on to heaven, where hopefully, if we are deemed worthy, will meet up with them<BR/><BR/>God bless youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com