Cristy Li

Ying and I Wish Everyone a Very Merry Christmas — God Bless

As some have realized my absence during the last week, I wanted to take this opportunity to share that my Mother went home to be with Jesus on Friday — I am happy that shes in a better place and her days of pain and suffering are over.

“We need not fear death but rather welcome it as the door to heaven
and to the joy of eternal life.” –Pope Francis

It is always a difficult time to say good bye to those whom we have loved but as Christians we know that life is only changed and not ended, death is merely a passage to a new and fuller life, ultimately to the resurrection and eternal union with God.

Thank You all who have expressed their condolences.

May you all find peace and joy in your lives during this Season of Advent and Christmas when we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, who knew when He was born that He was going to die as our sacrifice, defeating sin and death.

“In you O Lord, I take refuge, let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me, incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue you me O my God from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. For you, O Lord are my hope, my trust, O Lord from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from my birth, it was you who took me from my mother’s womb, my praise is continually of you…My mouth is filled with your praise and with your glory all day long.

O God do not be far from me…I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all day long, though their number is past my knowledge. I will come praising the mighty deeds of the Lord God, I will praise your righteousness, yours alone.

O God from my youth you have taught me and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and grey hairs, O God do not forsake me until I proclaim your might to all the generations to come. Your power and your righteousness O God, reach the high heavens.

You who have done great things O God, who is like you? You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again, from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

I will praise you with the harp, for your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to you, my soul also, which you have rescued. All day long my tongue will talk of your righteous help, for those who tried to do me harm have been put to shame and disgraced.” –Psalm 71:1-6; 8; 12; 14-24

• Taken from Today’s Daily Mass Bible Readings -USCCB

Image Courtesy: Archbishop Jose Gomez

May You Have Peace in Your Heart and Know Many Blessings
in Your Lives -Image Courtesy: Sister Vernonica Paul

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, thankful for your partnership in the Gospel from the first day until now and I am sure that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

It is right for me to feel thus about you all because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus and it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more with knowledge and discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. –Philippians 1:2-11

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First Sunday of Advent — Let Us Reflect on the Beauty of Life
During These Festive Days Ahead -Image: Respect Life Los Angeles

“May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you and may He so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His Saint’s.”
1 Thessalonians 3:12-13

Life Pleasing To God

“Finally brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, you should do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.” –1 Thessalonians 4:1-2

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“Tomorrow is the beginning of Advent — Are you ready? This year in this Holy Season, let us really try to awaken our hearts to all the many ways that God is with us. Let us really try to grow in our gratitude for all the gifts of His grace in our lives.” –Archbishop Jose Gomez

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