We Walk By Faith

Brothers and sisters:

We are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord. Therefore, we aspire to please him,  whether we are at home or away. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.

There is one problem we modern Christians have that the Apostles and the people that lived in the time of Jesus did not have.  That problem is that we cannot see or hear Jesus in the flesh.  Jesus knew that this would be a problem in the future for He said, "Blessed are those who do not see but believe."   It was not the Father's plan for Jesus to be present in actual flesh and blood for all times although He did give us the Eucharist which is His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity and through this wonder Sacrament Most Holy He truly is present in a real way for us. Although it is His Real Presence, it is under the veil of bread and wine and the beauty and majesty of His holy countenance is withheld from our eyes. 

To see Him, we have to abandon this body that we call home and stand before Him to be judged for what we have done with our lives both the evil and the good.  This does put a nail in the coffin of sola fide because we are not going to be judged on whether we had faith but on what actions our faith caused us to carry out. 

Soon this torridly hot Sunday let us continue with the eyes of faith and love the One who loved us so very much that He, in His physical body, showed us how much we are to love one another.  In the example He left us, He stretched out his arms and died on the cross for us. 

Please say one Our Father, One Hail Mary, and one Glory Be for the Poor Souls in Purgatory this Sunday.