Blog Post 11/16/2021 – What is Joy?

 

Blog Post 11/16/2021 – What is Joy?

Pierre Teihard de Chardin said, “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” 

Advent is a few weeks away, so reflecting on Joy can help us prepare for the Christmas Season by choosing to use the Advent Season as advance work in the garden of God’s Joy.

 

"Christmas is the feast when God becomes so close to human beings that he shares the same fact of being born to reveal to them their deepest dignity, that of being sons and daughters of God.

In that way, the dream of humanity that began in paradise -- we want to be like God -- is realized in an unexpected way: not because of the greatness of man, who cannot make himself God, but through the humility of God, who descends ….

“Give joy to your servant, Lord; to you I lift up my heart.”  [Antiphon I, Morning Prayer Pss III]

 

Accepting that we are passing through this life to be with God for eternity is an ongoing lesson. Joy comes when we give our life totally to the Lord, allow Jesus to guide us, to heal us and to love us.

 

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pray for us.

St. Andre Bessette, intercede for us. 

St. Francis de Sales, pray for us.

“Tune my spirit to the music of heaven.”  [St. Brendan the Navigator]

 

May God Be Praised and your day be Blessed.