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00:32:06 Final Thoughts on Being Just and Support for the Mission
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At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and President of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace, love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now and forever and ever. Amen. Let us pray, my friends. This week in the United States, mainly in Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., our nation definitely witnessed and suffered from a tragedy with this accident that happened between the helicopter and the passengers’ airplanes. And we want to pray for the safety of the families of the victims, their psychological safety, their emotional safety. And definitely we want to pray for healing inside these families. We want to also pray for the rest of the souls of all those who perish in this terrible accident. Accidents happen in life. And you know when accidents happen in life, the human being usually, after they absorb the shock, if they ever absorb such a shock, they try to reflect. They try to reflect on the conditions, the motives, and the meaning. As a person who suffered major persecution in life, as a person who suffered also from disappointments in life, but as a person also had many successes in this life. I tell you that the best answer usually when things like this happen is to go back into our conscience, have a still the peace. Don’t react. I know it is hard. I know it is hard because we as a human being stand if we have common sense, of course. If we have the right ethics, of course. If we have the right human character made of balanced intellect, emotions, thought process, a critical thought process, good desires in life, goodwill, an active will, a professional character in our life, of course, we get shocked somehow. We get absorbed a little bit by the sadness of the incident that happened. Yet at the same time, we reflect immediately after that, knowing that we need to survive. See, humanity is in mode of survival, not only in a mode of active living. Accidents are a proof that humanity is in mode of survival, depending on how large these accidents could be, right? Sometimes accidents could be personal. Sometimes they could attack multiple families. company or multiple companies, institution or multiple institutions, an entire neighborhood or an entire city, or an entire nation. An incident like the explosion that happened, unfortunately, after the two planes hit, the helicopter hit the actual commercial airplane or the passenger airplane. It’s an incident that hits the states. It hits the people. It hit the skating team in the United States. It hit families. It hit the airplane companies, the U.S. government, because the helicopter hit. as a military helicopter. So it really hits us on multiple levels. And we sit and we try to wonder about the reasons. But you know, this is good to do. Yet also based on our common sense, we have immediately to pray to God and pray for one another for the safety Dozens of millions of Americans, at least only in our nation, fly on daily basis in the skies of the United States and abroad, going across oceans, plains, snow, mountains, deserts. And we fly. This is a part of our living style in the century and the century before, since aviation age in the early 1900s in the United States. Many accidents happen, but we have to always thank God for the safety of the millions who still, and cut in time short, can travel, go to see their beloved ones or go to do their businesses or go to achieve the objectives and the goals of their conferences or tourism or whatever goals they set for themselves from the travel. I think in a particular way about the people who usually travel for medical purposes to be treated in hospitals outside of their near neighborhoods, areas, to seek a specialized medicine, for instance. We pray so for the safety of all the travelers in the United States of America. Two, we have to remember that the salvation is always from the Lord. I know it is hard to believe that. I know it is hard to believe that we as human beings, even though we die, we actually will enter into life, right? We go to meet our Lord. It doesn’t mean immediately we enter into paradise, right? But we are ready. We go to the place of awaiting. We go to the place of the encounter. And there we will settle our personal judgment between us and our Lord Jesus Christ there outside the spectrum of time. Have you ever thought that are multiple the reasons of death, right? Multiples are the reasons for why a human being died. But in the end, it is an absolute reality of our life that the human beings are born and the human beings die. And it is also almost the unfortunate reality of all human beings that when we die, we die, until we see the first resurrection of a human being happening. But only one man who was a son of God and is a son of God, who was a redeemer of humankind, only one man, and his name is Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach. the savior, the anointed one, the Lord and savior Jesus Christ, him alone we have seen that rose from the dead and came back to life. And he is in his glorified body and his soul and his perfect humanity and his perfect divinity in his divine blood, in his beatified and blessed human flesh rose from the dead, broke the chains of death, and he actually raised people from death themselves, even though after the passing life, they died again, awaiting the ultimate resurrection of all the mortal bodies when Christ the King comes back in the fullness of his glory to judge the living and the dead. Where am I going with all of this, my friends? Speaking about the incident that happened in Ronald Reagan National Airport on the Sunday morning show, I know it is a sad story, but it’s a reason for us to reflect on the reasons of death and if we are ready to embrace what comes after death. So whether we die a happy death in our beds, like St. Joseph, we call it the happy death, or like the Virgin Mary, or even if we die from sicknesses or illnesses or old age or shortage of age, unfortunately, pain accompanies death. And to a certain level, we know that this is unfair. Have you ever thought, so this is the opportunity why I’m talking about this. The pain is so rooted in our life that even at the time of our death, pain tends to want to be the last memory that it wants us to remember it before we die. I know it’s a weird statement. It’s a strong statement. But I want our listeners on Good Sunday Morning with Father Andre and 33 Minutes on the Lord’s Day and on this radio show to reflect a little bit and to think about how much the pain and the suffering accompany us in our life. That even at the last moment in our life when our soul leaves our body, we suffer pain. Look how much medication they do. to keep the sick people comfortable upon their deathbed. For the people also, suffering is contagious in time of death, right? So not only the person who suffers the death suffers death, but also their loved ones. They suffer the pain of the separation. They suffer the pain of the impotency, not being able to do something to change the outcome of life. They suffer the pain of compassion and of sympathy with one another. At least again, these are the normal human beings that we know in the past existed a lot, and in our days, few still exist. So the relationship between suffering and death, the relationship between the way we live our life, and if you are ready to encounter this last moment of our life, the relationship between our Creator, our Savior, and us after death. The relationship was life and death. This is what I like to cover with you and converse with you over on the Sunday morning radio show. So I want to tell you good Sunday morning, my friends, and let us spend these minutes together in praising our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and trying to to hold on to true hope, true faith, and true love, and know the best way to live our life is always to realize and to admit and to know that the salvation comes always from the Lord. But this is a salvation of the just. So my friends, Death is a , shall we say. It’s this place of balance. It’s this place where we have to submit our death, basically. Death is not only the death of the body where the soul leaves the body and it returns to its creator. there is an ultimate death. That ultimate death is actually the pain behind death, the pain beyond death itself. Did you ever think that even after death, when we are subjected to the final judgment by our Lord, what stays from that judgment is either eternal life and the reward of it therefore, where there is peace, there is no pain, There are no moths, no enemies, no thieves, nobody can steal, nobody can hurt us, but there is life eternal with the angels, with the glory of the most glorious Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, with the Virgin Mary and the community of the saints. And with the beauty of the splendor of God, who in his face, in his presence, he shines upon us with the angels, a life everlasting. He is our sunlight and he is our sun. He becomes our temple in which we live. He is our dwelling place where we will dwell forever and ever. Praise in him. The image of the eternal life in the Christian theology and in the history of the saints is something amazing to look at. What eyes could not see, what ears could not hear, what minds could not perceive is what God has prepared in this eternal life for those who witnessed for him, for those who loved him, and for those God loved. Come to me, all who have labored and are burdened. Come and take my yoke, for my yoke is easy and my burden light. This is the sympathy Jesus gives to us in his sacred heart, even before we die, throughout life, to give us consolation and to ease our pain. Yet in eternal life, he tells us, come to me, O blessed of my father, come to me, O you who are blessed of my father, and inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. So today on this morning with our radio show, we are reflecting because of the incident that happened in Ronald Reagan’s National Airport in Washington, D.C. area. We are really trying to reflect on our readiness about our life and the way we live it, about our death, if we are ready to embrace death no matter how it comes to us. And how can we prepare not to die an eternal death after this life? And how can we prepare to live an eternal life and be rewarded with the grace of God, with the eternal reward of living in the eternal peace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, in God the Father and in the Holy Spirit? This is the level upon which in our conversation today, I want us to rise up to, I want us to go up to. Because if we pray together in Psalm 37 today, so let us pray a little bit in Psalm 37. I want you to know it is true that all people die, right? But remember, the death of righteous ones, even though we die probably in accidents, we die, sometimes they persecute us, right? Sometimes we die from illnesses. And sometimes, as I said before, we die as a happy death. No matter how we die, we have to realize that if we lived our life in a just way, regardless of persecution, regardless of what people laid in snares against us, regardless of the tribulation we received in this life. Remember, my friends, that as Psalm 37 tells us, the salvation of the just comes from the Lord. So again, in the objective of our radio show on this Sunday morning, and again, I want to thank all those who join us every Sunday morning, on Good Sunday Morning with Father Andre, and on these 33 minutes with the Lord as we spend them together. This is Father Andre, and let us pray together with Psalm 37. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Trust in the Lord and do good, that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security. Take delight in the Lord, and he will grant you your heart’s requests. Commit to the Lord your way, trust in him, and he will act. He will make justice done for you like the light, bright as the noonday shall be your vindication. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord. By the Lord are the steps of a man made firm, and he approves his way. Though he fall, he does not lie prostrate, for the hand of the Lord sustains him. The salvation of the just is from the Lord. He is their refuge in time of distress. And the Lord helps them and delivers them. He delivers them from the wicked and saves them because they take refuge in him. The salvation of the just comes from the Lord. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Good Holy Sunday morning, my dear friends and dear beloved brothers and sisters in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It’s amazing you saw and I hope you heard with intensity this wonderful, wonderful prayer that we prayed together from the Psalm 39. It’s amazing, actually. Remember, God has merciful love, right? Remember, God receives us. in the midst of His temple as well. Remember that God makes His dwelling in our body. Listen, we are so privileged as human beings if we know how to live in relationship with the Holy Spirit and with our faith as Christians. Can you imagine Jesus Christ told us that we become actually the indwelling of the Holy Spirit? Isn’t that something? Isn’t that amazing? Can you believe that the Lord makes not only his dwelling in us, but Jesus Christ said, I’m knocking the door of your heart. If you let me in, I bring my father and I shall dwell in you. Wow. Wow. No matter what happens in our lives, my friends, sickness is horrible. Persecution is terrible. And when people decide to hurt us, you can only defend yourselves. We shall rise and rise again until lambs become lions. Yes, we have the lion in us, the lion of Judah. His name is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Yet we do recognize that we are like sheep, like lambs led to the slaughter, and we do not open our mouth, just like Jesus Christ, just like the prophet Isaiah foretold, like a lamb led to the slaughter and sheep before shearers. He was silent and did not open his mouth, tells us the prophet. Yet with that, my friend, The Lord teaches us character. He raises up to be heroes in our faith, to give a testimony on his behalf that no matter how much persecution and falsehood there is around us, no matter how much political witch hunt there is around us, no matter how much people, sometimes including our own leaders, the leaders in our religions or the leaders of our faith or the leaders in our nation that we ourselves voted for or accepted as our leaders. They cheat us, right? They end up serving their own desires. They end up abusing their offices and not doing what is right. They end up beating the little servants of the Lord. These are examples that Jesus Christ warned us about in the gospel. He says, who is the faithful servant? who is the faithful and good servant of mine, who upon return the master sees him given food in time to his other friends, to his other brothers and sisters, the servants of the Lord. Yet the Lord Jesus says as well, but if the master of the house comes and he finds that slave, squandering the money with the prostitutes and beating the other servants of the lord and spending time with the drunkards and doing fornications and all sorts of abominations you know the lord is gonna kill that man he’s gonna slaughter him in his own hands We do actually see in our days how bishops, sometimes the popes, sometimes religious leaders, and nations leaders, kings and queens in history, popes in history, and leaders of all sorts, how they abused the power that was given to them, how they abused their office, how they abused the law. Today in the US, and also unfortunately, in the realm of the church, we speak about the law affairs, right? The law affairs. And we speak about canon law affairs. We speak about Vatican affairs. You know, we speak about leaks. We speak about how the agencies and institutions of the governments and the institutions of the church have been weaponized, have been weaponized so gravely. Woe to those people who have weaponized the tools and the reflection of the divine justice that God put in our hands in order to give us life, not in order to condemn, not in order to slander, not in order to falsely accuse, not in order to persecute, not in order to give death instead of life. Woe to those stewards who the Lord has given to them the opportunity power from above to judge for the sake of life, to judge for the sake of goodness, to judge for the sake of peace, to judge for the sake of mercy. Yet they end up using this authority or this power that was given to them from God to dismantle the flock of the Lord, to hurt the citizens over whom they were given authority. and to put their own people in jails with no mercy, and to cancel their own ministers, to cancel their own people. and not giving them the rights to life and to worship and to the freedom of conscience and to the freedom of exercising the right of equal rights, equal protections, equal opportunity, just like anyone else in this life. The abuse of the governments, my friends, against their own people, the abuse of the law and weaponizing the law, weaponizing the media, weaponizing the canon laws of the churches, weaponizing the internal laws of religion to use them in order to justify killing in the name of God, hurting somebody in the name of God. and canceling somebody in the name of the law. Trust me, my friends, these people will be severely judged by God, for they have not been faithful to what has been given to them in their hands. And there is an authority to give life and the power to share the gift of life and mercy and peace with the others. Instead of serving justice, they weaponize it by lying and by giving wrong outcomes to the law. Instead of applying the rules of the law in order to create a real peace and to manage the life of society in a real way so that people will know equally they are protected, they end up abusing this law to practice favoritism and to apply narcissism. Be careful, my friends, of narcissism. We want to pray today in our world that the conscience of these leaders does not continue embracing a real death. because they inflict a pain upon us. Just like the incident we learned from when an airplane falls from the sky and those who were on it, they all perished. My friends, sometimes we in this life, we live in a nation or we live in a given religion and sometimes our own captains, our own leaders, not by fault of accident, unfortunately, like the accident that happened in DC, but by a personal intended fault, By decisive evil decision they make, they actually lead their flock to death. And these people we have to be careful of and we have to stop giving them power by not consenting to their abuses. But run to the true shepherd, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. With that, we say amen. And don’t forget to continue your support to the missionofhopeandmercy.org. Please make sure you always go to missionofhopeandmercy.org and support the good work we’re doing on your behalf with the persecuted Christians in the Middle East and to promote and protect the Christians’ presence in Lebanon and elsewhere in the world. And now, my friends, we shall continue with our radio show as we prayed. You know, I’d like us to speak a little bit about the error of communism. So we’re trying to draw the symbolism, this relationship between the incident of the airplane in Washington, D.C., over which we spoke a lot. And unfortunately, this incident rendered many families very sad. Our heart goes to these families, really, with the fullness of compassion, sympathy, and we ask the Lord to grant trust to all of these faithful departed who have died in this incident, that they will be embraced by God’s mercy. And when God comes to judge them, according each to their own deeds, God will look to them with his eye of mercy. And if any one of them had done and accomplished evil things during their days, we offer the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, trusting that the judgment of God is a judgment that is good, a judgment that sees and seeks and wants to give life and not death. And in all of that symbolism, we’re also establishing that sometimes we in a given nation, like in the United States of America, it is similar almost as if we are taking a ride on a plane, right? And if we are members of a church, it is also as we are in a ship. You know, one of the old, old images of the church is that the church looks like a big ship and all the faithful people on it. And these faithful people on a ship, they have to synchronize. They have to act together. Every one of them is a part of leading the ship with the captain until the ship across, cross through the stormy seas and arrives to the safe harbor or to the harbor of safety. Today, the church could resemble also an airplane, right? That is driven by a captain. Yet each and every one of us still have to do their job. You know, they tell you on the plane, you don’t take explosives, right? You have a steward on a plane who’s supposed to give you the food when you need to help us, to serve us, to indicate the rules of safety for us, to make sure that our time of travel is actually easy. Sometimes you have paramedics and you have areas where they treat people to a certain extent to make sure that until a safe landing is happening, people, if they suffer some sort of accidents on a plane, they are taken care of to the extent of what is possible. Life is like this. It’s like a big ship. It’s like a large, big airplane. Yes, and there are captains in this life. There are captains in the church known as popes or known as ministers and pastors, cardinals and bishops and archbishops, entities who support and help these entities, such as charities instituted by the church and in the name of the church, you know, Christian charities such as Catholic charities or such as Protestant charities programs, or diocesan charities programs, they’re supposed actually to engage in distributing from the goods that we have on earth and from the gifts that we give to the church, that they will redistribute them for the poor, for the oppressed, for the weary, and for the unfortunate, for the homeless, for the sick, for the widows, for the orphans, for the education, for all those who are less fortunate than the rest of us. And they’re supposed to, in such a way, everybody will receive it from the gift of God, each according to the measure, and each according to their needs, and nobody goes hungry. Yet I wonder, with all these existing formal charity programs of the big churches and the big parishes, you know, sometimes they end up spending, and now we now realize, you know, sometimes an organ in a parish costs millions of dollars. Do you know that? Well, there are many poor people. we would wonder about those things. Sometimes, while even inside the same parish school in a given parish, many families cannot have their children attend the private education inside the parochial school, even though this family probably supports and go to these parishes. the parish for years and years. And sometimes since our fathers and our mothers and our grandparents and ancestors times, many families still live and die within the same boundaries of the same parish. Sometimes parish decide to build the hall that costs $4 million, $5 million instead of bringing more children into their school. Sometimes in our charity programs, as we see, and we are seeing this scandal from the Catholic charities and other institutions, you know, where 85,000 children were missing amongst the illegal people who crossed the borders, children, unaccompanied minors, and God knows what’s been happening on the southern borders in the U.S., and why these Christian charities engaged and asked for the money, not only from the government, they took money, but from us in appeals, from the people in appeals. They take funds, and then they go under support, the human trafficking and they allow the exploitation of these children. Unfortunately, my friends, the pilots of our churches, the big pilots on high level, probably at this point, their destination may not necessarily be to take us towards God. The destination may not no longer be to give food and bread to those who are poor and to heal the brokenhearted in time. They have become the leaders of the problem. They are part of the problem. They have become almost tyrants themselves, yet they still have on themselves the image of the shepherds. Remember what Jesus Christ told us. He warned us. Behold, be aware and beware of those who come to you as wolves yet in lamb skins. These are fake shepherds, my friends. So with this, I want us to just meditate upon all of this and think about it all. We as true and good Christians, first of all, go back to your conscience. Act as being just a people in your life. Do not condemn, do not judge, yet discern and observe and seek the light of the Holy Spirit that through the critical truth we will make a clear distinction between what is sin and what is evil, yet we still embrace the light of God that heals and that gives us pardon, forgiveness of sins, mercy, justice, and life everlasting, of course, for us and for all our loved ones. This is Father Andre. Please go to our website, missionofhopeandmercy.org, and please continue to support the good work that the mission has been doing. Thanks to you and on your behalf. Almighty God, bless us all. Protect us from all evil. Forgive us our sins and bring us all to peace, joy, and victory in our Lord Jesus Christ and to everlasting life. Amen.
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