We don't just live for our families; we live through them.
The closest we come to eternal life on earth isn't through science, but through memory and legacy. Every story shared, every lesson taught, every tradition upheld—that is a piece of us made eternal. It's how the love we gave yesterday lives on today.
Just as in this life we are made eternal through our families, so it is in heaven.
#EternalLife #Legacy #familylove

Is Your Faith Rooted in the True Christ? ✝️🌍 #shorts

Discover God's will: to know the true Christ and receive eternal life. Paul warns against believing in vain and the dangers of following a false Christ. Only the true Christ, born of David, offers salvation. #TrueChrist #EternalLife #Faith #Salvation #Gospel from Christic Academy

https://christicacademy.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/is-your-faith-rooted-in-the-true-christ-%e2%9c%9d%ef%b8%8f%f0%9f%8c%8d-shorts/

The True Significance of Christ’s Humanity and Suffering #shorts

Discover if believing in the Christian Jesus saves, according to biblical prophecy. The true Christ reveals God's work: knowing Him. Eternal life hinges on this truth, as Paul warns against vain belief. #TrueChrist #Salvation #BiblicalProphecy #EternalLife from Christic Academy

https://christicacademy.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/the-true-significance-of-christs-humanity-and-suffering-shorts/

Unfailing Love (Christian Music) = Another beautiful worship song 💫 for Christ! - #God #Jesus #TheLord #Praise #ChristianMusic #Bible #Music #Song #Faith #Hope #Love #Jesus #Prayer #Grace #Worship #Community #SpiritualJourney #Redemption #Salvation #TrustInGod #GodsPlan #Strength #Devotion #Bible #ChristianLife #Forgiveness #EternalLife #Peace #Joy #Heart #Soul #Praise #Discipleship - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_vAfUHRbtY

Humanity deserves punishment, but he doesn't punish. Instead, he loves so much that whoever believes in him will have eternal life. #love #eternalLife #beliefs #punishment #unconditionalLove

A perfect God can't be with sin, so how can we have eternal life? Sin must be washed away, and someone must pay the debt. The wages of sin is death, paid with perfect blood. #sin #eternalLife #perfectBlood #God #washedAway

The Rock of Our Redeemer: Anchoring Your Soul in Faith, Hope, and Divine Power
The Rock of Our Redeemer is a powerful, concise guide for Latter-day Saints, focusing on how to build a spiritual foundation anchored to Jesus Christ amid life’s challenges. Author David... More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/rock-of-our-redeemer-faith-hope-power/
#redeemer #christtheredeemer #holyredeemer #therockofourredeemer #faithhopeandpower #jesuschrist #spiritualgrowth #faithfulness #trustingod #eternallife

Why is forgiveness so vital? Life is a journey of choices. Will one settle accounts along the way, or face an eternal reckoning? Jesus offers grace, but the decision rests with each soul. Don't wait until it's too late; embrace redemption. #Forgiveness #Repentance #EternalLife #Grace #Faith

A stark reminder of life's fleeting nature: when the soul is required, where will it go? Is one prepared for the inevitable? The choice, it seems, is starkly binary. #eternallife #soul #faithjourney #spiritualawakening

Earthly treasures fade, but faith endures. Discover why trusting in Jesus matters more than wealth or possessions. Are you storing up the right riches? Find lasting peace and grace. #FaithOverFear #TrustInJesus #EternalLife #SpiritualGrowth

Do we view God's promises as a distant wafting smell of barbecue or a mouthwatering meal served up to us? Tonight we continue in John 5:25-26... https://youtube.com/live/ZwEnGilveLU

#Christianity #PromisesOfGod #Gospel #GospelOfJohn #EternalLife #Resurrection

Life's 'sticky fuzzy dust bunnies' can feel overwhelming. How can one truly bear life's inevitable 'winds'? Discover the strength found in faith and trust, even in the face of uncertainty. Find true cleansing and eternal life. #FaithJourney #TrustInGod #EternalLife #BearingBurdens #SpiritualGrowth

Is there life after death? Discover why faith offers hope of eternal life and reunification. What happens when belief falters? Trust in God's promise; the choice has eternal consequences. #faith #eternallife #hope #trustGod

Але не надав ані доказів, ані привів прикладів. Тільки розкрив їхнє взаємне бажання жити вічно і страхи померти, як звичайні смертні. А до цього все йде, бо годинник невблаганно цокає, слава Заратустрі #huylo #xi #laptyekanda #china #eternallife #ukrainian

Yet, he failed to provide any evidence or illustrative examples. Instead, he merely revealed their mutual longing for eternal life and their fears of mortality, akin to ordinary mortals. Everything progresses inexorably toward this fate, as the clock relentlessly ticks away — glory to Zarathustra #huylo #xi #laptyekanda #china #eternallife #huylo #xi #laptyekanda #china #eternallife

What if death isn’t the end, but a dimensional transfer? 🌌

Our bodies return to the universe, atoms scattered like stardust ✨…
But consciousness — the soul — continues its journey into realms we cannot yet imagine.

Explore the full idea in my latest article:
🔗https://medium.com/@naudealmir/is-death-a-dimensional-transfer-rather-than-an-end-c05d4495c0bb

#Consciousness #Afterlife #QuantumPhysics #EternalLife #Philosophy #DimensionalTransfer

Does God want people to guard matters of the heart? The ultimate defense attorney isn't who you think. It was an honor to understand that true trust and following lead to eternal life. #heartmatters #defenseattorney #eternalLife #trustGod

The Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass at Saint Petronille, Glen Elllyn | Today’s readings

In my first priestly assignment, at Saint Raphael in Naperville, there was a huge football program for elementary school kids called Saint Raphael Football. It was not just a team, but a league, and lots of surrounding churches had teams in the league. You couldn’t live in Naperville and not have heard of Saint Raphael Football. It had a rather tangential relationship to the parish. So once in a while, in a social setting, someone would ask me what church I was from, and I’d tell them, Saint Raphael. And they would say to me, “Oh yes, we go there, our son is in that football league.” I always wanted to tell them, “How nice. By the way, we also celebrate the Eucharist there.” Maybe I should have. Today’s gospel reading makes me think I should.

We – as a society – have it all wrong. Our priorities are all messed up. I think we’re in real danger, now more than ever, and today’s Liturgy of the Word is a wake-up call for us to get it right. We live in a society that has not just lost its moral compass, but has actually taken pains to bury it away and never look at it again. Everyone seems to think that something is okay if it works for them in their current circumstance, regardless of how it affects others, regardless of how it affects even them in the long-run. In many alarming ways, our moral compass has been buried for so long that we hardly know what it looks like anymore.

So this homily is probably going to come off sounding kind of harsh to some of you, but if I don’t say what I have to say, I’m not doing my job as a priest. And I know, really I know, that most of you get this. So please indulge me; if this doesn’t apply to you, please pray for someone who needs to hear it, because you know someone who does.

When Jesus is asked whether only a few will be saved, he deflects the question. His answer indicates that it’s not the number of those who will be saved – that’s not the issue. The issue is that some people think they will be saved because they call themselves Christian, or religious, or spiritual, or whatever. It’s kind of like the people I talked to who considered themselves practicing Catholics simply because their children played in a football league that was marginally affiliated with the parish.

Jesus says that’s not how it works. We have to strive to enter the narrow gate. So what does that mean? For Jesus, entering eternity through the narrow gate means not just calling yourself religious; that would be a pretty wide gate. It certainly wouldn’t mean saying that you’re basically a good person, since that criterion is pretty subjective, and so widely misunderstood. The narrow gate means actually practicing the faith: taking time for prayer and worship, receiving the Eucharist for strength, living the gospel, reaching out to the needy, showing love to your neighbor. It means making one’s faith the first priority, loving God first, worshiping first, loving others first. Because “some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

And I’ll be the first to tell you that it’s hard to do that. Saint Paul says today that we have to strengthen our drooping hands and weak knees; Jesus says that many will attempt to enter that narrow gate but won’t be strong enough to do it. That narrow gate of love is hard to enter: it takes effort, it takes grace; it takes strength, and we can only get that grace and strength in one place, and that place is the Church. That’s why Jesus gives us the Church: to strengthen us for eternal life.

That’s not the best news, however, because so many people these days settle for simply calling themselves religious, or being “spiritual” – whatever that means. They’ll play football on the team, but won’t make an effort to come to Church to receive the strength they need to live this life and to enter eternal life. It is here, in the Eucharist, freely given by our gracious Lord, that we receive the strength we need to love, the strength necessary to live our faith and be united with our God. It is here, in the proclamation of the Word, that we find instruction to live as disciples and are more and more conformed into the image of Christ. But it’s hard to get to Church because Billy has a soccer game, or Sally has a dance recital, or because Mom and Dad just want to sleep in after a really trying week.

But those decisions, friends, have eternal consequences. So let me be clear: God is more important than soccer, or football, or cheer, or whatever sport you’re playing; God is more important than the dance recital, and as for sleeping in on Sunday, well, as my grandfather used to say, you can sleep when you’re dead. And it’s not like it’s an either/or proposition: people don’t have to choose between soccer and Mass or dance and Mass or even sleeping and Mass. Certainly not in our section of the world. This parish has Mass on Saturday evening, on Sunday morning, and even Sunday evening. If those don’t work, there are a bunch of parishes within a short driving distance that have other schedules. There’s probably a church within a few driving minutes of every football or soccer field in the area; I know a lot of families choose to take that option when schedules are hectic.

The point is, we make time for what’s important to us. And eternal life is the only thing that we have of lasting importance. So we have to build up the strength to get through that narrow gate one day. We’ve got to worship God with consistency; we have to live the gospel with consistency.

We’re not going to be able to say one day: “We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets and we played football on your team.” We can’t just call ourselves Catholic; we have to live our faith. We have to worship and pray; we have to reach out to the needy, stand up for truth and justice, make a real effort to love even when it’s not convenient to love, or even when the person who faces us is not as lovable as we’d like.

All of this requires commitment and effort and real work from all of us. We have to strive to enter through that narrow gate, because we don’t ever want to hear those bone-chilling words from today’s Gospel: “I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, you evildoers!” The good news is we don’t ever have to hear those words: all we have to do is nourish our relationship with Jesus that will give us strength to enter the narrow gate. After all, the narrow gate is love, and the love of God in Jesus is more than enough to get us through it.

#eternalLife #priorities #salvation

Happy anniversary to Jeff Buckley's masterpiece, 'Grace'. Released this week in 1994. #jeffbuckley #jeffbuckleygrace #icon #grace #lastgoodbye #soreal #eternallife #forgether #hallelujah

Will mercy triumph over judgment? One man bargains with the divine, seeking salvation for the faithful. Can even ten righteous souls avert eternal damnation? The clock is ticking… #FaithTest #EternalLife #MoralDebate #Theology #Inspiration