Thought for Sunday Homily

We may ask what is special in this gospel ? Unless we see this event with the eyes of faith we may not find anything special in it. And the speciality is, the moment in which Peter and other apostles recognise in Jesus the Messiah, there begins the kingdom of God. This small group is the mustard seed which will give origin to the gigantic tree. This fact changes the whole content of the preaching of Jesus. No more this group longs for the food that perishes but from now on they long for the food that lasts for eternal life. And from this moment Jesus occupies himself in the formation of this particular group which will be head of his church. It means the Christian life begins with faith and recognising in Jesus the promised Messiah. Church cannot be church as long as it is worried about the food that perishes. Unfortunately the same thoughts which the crowd entertained about Jesus exists until today in the hearts of vast majority of Christians.

Once you recognise who is Jesus for you – begins your journey of faith. And once Jesus recognises in you the required faith He begins reforming your life as he began reforming the life of apostles. But what is the first step of this formation ? "And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and by the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed…". The first step is "the Cross". He makes them to understand that the life which they embraced is not a way to success or to power, but an existence which will be full of fatigue, suffering and obscurity. A path which is full of thorns and thistles.

Thought for Sunday homily

Jesus Heals the Deaf and Blind (Mark 7:31-37)

AM I DEAF?
In today’s Gospel reading we enter into a central part of Mark’s Gospel. The section begins with the healing of a deaf man and ends with the healing of a blind man. These are not just miracle stories about Jesus’ power but have a teaching purpose. Jesus has just been in the Gentile area of Tyre and Sidon (on the Mediterranean coast in modern Lebanon) and has moved on to the area of the Decapolis (Ten Towns), on the east bank of the Jordan River. It was basically a Gentile, a non-Jewish area.
There a man is brought for Jesus to heal. He was deaf, that is, he could not hear and he had an impediment in his speech, that is, he could not speak properly.
Today we are consoled by human and technological advancements can address impairments of hearing.
But the big impairment we experience in our life today is the spiritual impairment.
Spiritual deafness shutting our ears to God who speaks to us. Sometimes we go on with our sinful ways of life as if we didn’t hear anything from God. He wants to heal our spiritual deafness. Am I ready? Am I deaf?
What can I do?
We have to seek out Jesus, go off with Him, away from the crowd, and spend time in His healing presence.So, let us pray today for the gift of hearing, to hear the voice of God calling to us in everything that will happen this day. Let us pray for the gift of speech, that is, to be so filled with the liberating experience of knowing Jesus that we simply cannot refrain from sharing that experience with all those around us.

ONAM GREETINGS!!

Thought for Sunday homily

Jesus Wants Hearts, not Hypocrites

God cares more about what happens on the inside of our lives than what happens on the outside: he wants our hearts.
That's what he's trying to explain to the Pharisees, and to all his disciples, and to us.
It is quite possible to appear perfectly Christian on the outside while being perfectly selfish on the inside.
We can go to Mass regularly, avoid obviously lewd or sinful behavior in public, say prayers so that others will notice - we can do all those things exteriorly while constantly entertaining evil thoughts and self-centered desires in our hearts.
That kind of divided life, which is called hypocrisy, can't last.
As the old saying goes, unless we live according to what we believe, we will soon start believing in accordance with what we live.
Or, as Jesus puts it elsewhere in the Gospels (cf. Matthew 6:21): where our hearts are, there our treasure is.
True followers of Jesus Christ can never be satisfied with merely exterior piety; we can never consider ourselves superior to others just because our sins are less visible.
That's what the Pharisees did, and it blinded them to God's love; in fact, it tragically turned them into enemies of God.
True religion has exterior manifestations, certainly, but they are meant to flow from and give expression to the experience of the heart.
The heart is the place where we decide for or against our conscience, for or against God's will.
Our friendship with Christ, and the purpose, strength, and vigor that flows out of that friendship, depend on our inner allegiance to him; looking like goody-two-shoes on the outside can never substitute for that.
Jesus doesn't care what we look like to others; he cares about who we really are.
And so, that's what we should care about too.

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IF LOVE HURTS, then LOVE MORE.
IF LOVE STILL HURTS, then LOVE EVEN MORE.
IF LOVE EVEN HURTS MORE, then LOVE
‘TILL IT HURTS NO MORE.

Remember that your presence
is a present to the world.

Remember that you are a unique
and unrepeatable creation.

Remember to take the days just one at a time.

Remember to count your blessings,
not your troubles.

Remember that you will make it through
whatever comes along.

Remember that most the answer you need
are within you.

Remember that those dreams are waiting
to be realized.

Remember that decisions are too important
to leave to chance.

Remember to always reach for the best
that is within you.

Remember that nothing wastes more energy
than worry.

Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Remember that the longer you carry a grudge,
the heavier it gets.

Remember not to take things too seriously.

Remember to laugh.

Remember that a little love
goes a long way.

Remember that a lot goes forever.

Remember that happiness is more often found
in giving than getting.

Remember that life’s treasures are people,
not things.

Remember that miracles can still happen.

Origin of Famous Names.. Informative

There are many companies / brands / products whose
names were derived from strange circumstances.

Mercedes
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.

Adobe
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ranbehind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. Hewas three months late in filing a name for thebusiness, and he threatened to call his company AppleComputers if the other colleagues didn't suggest abetter name by 5 O'clock.

CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It isshort for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, andPAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amountof information the search-engine would be able tosearch. It was originally named 'Googol', a word forthe number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brinand Larry Page presented their project to an angelinvestor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'

Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mailvia the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan forthe mail service, he tried all kinds of names endingin'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it includedthe letters "html" - the programming language used towrite web pages. It was initially referred to asHoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.


Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decidewhether the company they founded would be calledHewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their newcompany 'Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarkedby a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronymof INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'TheLotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be ateacher of Transcendental Meditation of MaharishiMahesh Yogi.


Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that wasdevoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originallychristened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when hiscompany started manufacturing radios for cars. Thepopular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on aconsulting project for the CIA (Central IntelligenceAgency). The code name for the project was calledOracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answersto all questions or something such). The project wasdesigned to help use the newly written SQL code byIBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larryand Bob decided to finish what they started and bringit to the world. They kept the name Oracle and createdthe RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name forthe company.

Sony
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaningsound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to referto a bright youngster.

SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is theacronym for Stanford University Network. AndreasBechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khoslarecruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacturecomputers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop aUNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used inhis book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a personwho is repulsive in appearance and action and isbarely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and DavidFilo selected the name because they consideredthemselves yahoos.

Hi ..check the origin of your name too....
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then u have a good eyesight...

enjoy....

Dear friend,
WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL ???
Try it without looking at the answers......
Please don't look down until you do it; you'll love it I promise.
GET A CALCULATOR, IF NEEDED, (YOUR COMPUTER HAS ONE ON IT).1) Pick your favorite number between 1-92) Multiply by 3 then3) Add 3, then again Multiply by 34) You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number….5) Add the digits together
Now Scroll down..............


Now with that number see who your ROLE MODEL is from the list below:









1. Einstein2.
Queen Elizabeth
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Helen Keller
5. Bill Gates
6. Mahatma Gandhi
7. Pope John Paul
8. Thomas Edison
9. JESUS CHRIST
10. Ronald Reagan
I know... i know...he just has that effect on people for the last two thousand years....one day you too can be like him....
;-) read the Bible to believe it!
P.S.: Stop picking different numbers. He is your role model and there is no other, just deal with it !!!! NOW SEND IT ON to all your friends!!