God gave to man such gifts, and Adam and Eve sinned against God. God gives us such gifts today and man continues to sin against God. Let us help make reparation to God for the offenses against Him. Tell Him that we are sorry for the ingratitude of sinful men.

God showed His love and His faithfulness to His promise by the Incarnation and by the life, death, and Resurrection of the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity.

God knows and loves Himself. He was perfectly happy and did not have to create man. He created him out of His great goodness. Creation is usually attributed to the First Person, knowledge to the Second Person, and love to the Third Person, but all share in these actions.

All I want to do is to know Him more. To know Him is to love Him.

Jn. 1:1-13:

In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
except through him.
What has come into being in him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not over power it.

A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.

The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognize him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God Himself.

Life flows from the pierced Heart of Christ. Man is redeemed by the blood of Jesus. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness grasped it not.

I love You. I love You. I love You. I want to know You, to seek You, to have You more and more and more. My heart craves Your love - You are my Beloved.

We were born because God wanted us to be born. If we are baptized, we have a special sharing in His divine life. We are sons of God and heirs of His kingdom if we love and serve the Lord.

God existed. He was completely happy. He lacked nothing. He wanted to communicate His goodness and love so He created man.

Adam and Eve, our first parents, sinned. God prepared men for the coming of the Jesus. This is given in the Old Testament. The New Eve, Mary, and the New Adam, Jesus, came to this earth. Mary is our Spiritual Mother, the Mother of our spiritual life. Eve is the mother of the living. God promises to send a Redeemer. Jesus comes and gives Himself that we will have life, that we will share in His divine life. God keeps His promise. God is always faithful to His Word.

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