This year's Holy Week here in Metro Manila is the one that made me feel like I am reborn. For after so many years I successfully took the courage to talk to a priest and made a confession heart to heart.
I talk to God every night before I sleep, silently. I thank Him for all the blessings we have and for my family's good health and safety, but most importantly, for forgiveness. But I know, a confession with a priest is better.
My eldest joined his school's event for their level's first confession and communion. We attend Sunday mass, and he's keep asking me why I am not having a communion. I explained to him that I do not deserve to receive the body of Christ. I told him many times that I must make a confession first. That is why I decided to do it before the Holy Week.
I was also able to attend the Last Seven Words during the Good Friday and heard life sharings from different people. Their story moved me. It was my first time and it did a great impact to me.
For the past years, I have encountered so many challenges in life that almost made me decide to give up. But just last year, He made me gain my Faith again. I was diagnosed with an ovarian cyst in my right ovary. And on January this year, it was gone. Without any medication. With my prayers and my stronger Faith, I am healed.
We attended the Easter Sunday Mass, and the readings, the homily, the prayers, and the ceremony during baptism where the priest blessed everyone while holding a lighted candle, made me feel I am a new person. I do deserve to receive the body of Christ again.
And so, after so many years, I once again feel that I am a good child of God. On Easter Sunday. On the day Jesus has risen. I have recieved His body again.
Easter Sunday is truly the new beginning. New Hope. New Faith. New Life.
The life sharings and the Easter Sunday mass, made me realized that whatever challenges you're facing today will be gone tomorrow. All the sacrifices will be rewarded with God's love on his right timing. All the sorrows, the pains, and sickness will pass. Just make your Faith stronger.
I feel so blessed for another chance He had given me to fix myself, my Faith, my Life. And hope that I will be forgiven.
God Bless everyone.
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