Cristy Li

The Lord loves those who hate evil;
He guards the lives of the faithful;
He rescues them from the hand of the wicked. –Psalm 97:10
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The Glory of God’s Reign

The Lord is King! Let the earth rejoice;

Let the many coast lands be glad!

Clouds and thick darkness are all around Him

righteousness and justice are the foundation of His

Throne.

Fire goes before Him and consumes His adversaries

on every side. His lightnings light up the world;

The earth sees and trembles.

The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,

before the Lord of all the earth.

The heavens proclaim His righteousness

and all the people His glory.

All worshipers of (graven) images are put to shame (Tehillim 97:7)

those who make their boast in worthless idols;

all gods bow down before Him.

Zion hears and is glad and the towns of Judah

rejoice because of Your judgments, O God.

For You, O Lord are Most High over all the earth;

You are (very much) exalted far above all gods. (Tehillim 97:9)

The Lord loves those who hate evil;

He guards the lives of the faithful;

He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.

Light dawns for the righteous and joy for the upright in heart.

Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous

and give thanks to His Holy Name!  –Psalm 97:1-12

Regarding Prayer

Jesus taught His Disciples:

“Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites

for they love to stand and pray in the Synagogues

and at the street corners, so that they may be seen

by others. Truly I tell you, they have received

their reward but whenever you pray,

go into your room and shut the door and pray

to Your Father who is in secret

and Your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases

as the Gentiles do; For they think that they will be

heard because of their many words. Do not be like them,

for Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.”

“Pray then in this way:

Our Father in Heaven
hallowed be Your Name.
Your Kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our debts (sins)
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Do not bring us to the time of trial
but rescue us from the evil one.”

“For if you forgive others their trespasses,

Your Heavenly Father will also forgive you

but if you do not forgive others, neither will

Your Father forgive your trespasses.”  –Matthew 6:5-15

• Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled and
  the Kingdom of God has come near;
  Repent and Believe in The Good News!”  –Mark 1:15

• You May Know the Joy of Salvation and Eternal Life in Heaven Today Through The Good News of Christ Jesus!

“The Beasts of Revelation” Matthias Gerung (1500-1570)
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What the Holy Scriptures Teach
About the Dangers of the Last Days

There will be terrifying (distressing) times in the Last Days. People will be self-centered (lovers of themselves) and lovers of money, proud, haughty, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as they make a pretense of religion but deny its power. Avoid Them!  –2 Timothy 3:1-5

“When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first but the end will not follow immediately.” Then Jesus continued, “Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes and in various places famines and plagues (sound familiar?) and there will be dreadful portents (signs, warnings) and great signs from Heaven.”  –Luke 21:9-11

What the Catechism of The Catholic Church
Teaches About the Last Days!

675: Before Christ’s Second Coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many Believers. (Luke 18:8; Matthew 24:12) The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage  on earth (Luke 21:12; John 15:19-20) will unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism  by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh. (2 Thessalonians 2:4-12;
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3;  2 John 1:7; 1 John 2:18-22)

676: The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the ‘intrinsically perverse’ political form of secular messianism.

677: The Church will enter the Glory of the Kingdom only through this final Passover, when She will follow her Lord in His death and resurrection. (Revelation 19:1-9) The Kingdom will be fulfilled, then not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause His Bride to come down from Heaven. (Revelation 13:8; 20:7-10; 21:2-4) God’s triumphant over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world. (Revelation 20:12; 2 Peter 3:12-13)

• Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled
  and the Kingdom of God has come near;
  Repent and Believe in The Good News!” –Mark 1:15

• You May Know the Joy of Salvation
  and Eternal Life Today
  Through The Good News of Christ Jesus!

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It is Christ Jesus, who died, was raised
and who is at the right hand of God,
who indeed intercedes for us! –Cf. Romans 8:34

Jesus: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations
— remember, I am with you always
to the end of the age.” –Matthew 28:19A-20B

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when He was taken up to Heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the Apostles whom He had chosen. After His suffering (passion and death on the Cross) He presented Himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the Kingdom of God. While staying with them, He ordered them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait there for the promise of the Father. “This,” He said, “is what you have heard from Me, for John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” (See: Luke 24:49; John 14:16)

The Ascension of Jesus!

So when they had come together, they (Apostles) asked Him, ‘Lord, is this the time You will restore the Kingdom of Israel?’ Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth.” When Jesus had said this, as they were watching, He was lifted up and a cloud took Him out of their sight. While Jesus was going and they were gazing up toward Heaven, suddenly two men in white robes stood by them. They said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward Heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into Heaven.’ –Acts 1:1-11

St. Paul’s Prayer

Brothers and Sisters: “I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the Saints and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know Him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance among the Saints and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power for us who believe, according to the working of His great power. God put this power to work in Christ Jesus when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the Heavenly places, far above all rule, authority, power and dominion, above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come and He has put all things under His (Jesus’) feet and has made Him the head over all things for the Church, which is His Body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” Amen! –Ephesians 1:15-23

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Our Lady of Fatima – Please Pray For Us!
Image Courtesy: Our Lady of Fatima Parish

Prayers of the Angel

“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you. I ask pardon of you for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love you.”

Lady of the Rosary
-Image Courtesy: Blue Army Shrine Our Lady of Fatima

“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly and I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is offended and through the infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You for the conversion of poor sinners.”

Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

“Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our Mother to your Immaculate Heart, we consecrate ourselves in an act of total entrustment to the Lord. By you, we will be led by Christ, by Him and with Him we will be led to the Father. We will walk in the light of faith and we will do everything so that the world may believe that Jesus Christ is the One sent by the Father. With Him we wish to carry His love and Salvation to the ends of the earth. Under the protection of your Immaculate Heart, we will be one people with Christ. We will be witnesses of His resurrection. By Him we will be led to the Father, for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity whom we adore, praise and bless forever.” -Amen!

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The ungodly by their words and deeds summoned (eternal) death; considering him a friend, they pined away and made a covenant with him (Satan) because they are fit to belong to his company.
Wisdom 1:16

Godlessness in The Last Days

Mark This! There will be terrible times in The Last Days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good — having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.

They are the kind who worm their way into your homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as faith is concerned, are rejected but they will not get very far because as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
2 Timothy 3:1-9

God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

The wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and Divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse!

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave Thanks to Him but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claim to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the Immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being, birds, animals and reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen!

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. –Romans 1:18-32

Remember therefore, what you have received and heard, hold it fast and repent but if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief and you will not know at what time I will come to you. –Revelation 3:3

You May Know the Joy of Salvation and Eternal Life in Heaven Today, Through The Good News
of Christ Jesus!