Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A (Matthew 4:12-23) - The Word of God for Everyone Dear people of God,
In today's Word of God, God the Father calls all humanity to listen to the Word of God the Father and put it into practice, just as Jesus Christ personally came down to earth as a man and went out to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven, calling people to repent, abandon the path of sin, and return to reconcile with God the Father through a life of holiness, love, forgiveness, and obedience to the holy will of God the Father, and to love one's neighbor as oneself.
Today’s present Word of God continues to recall the teaching of Jesus Christ from the past: repent of your sin and reconcile with God the Father, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near. This is the reminder of Jesus Christ both in the past and today.
Put on the spirit of awaiting the Lord's coming, prepare your soul and body, return to God the Father, and reconcile with Him by recognizing your sin, resolving to renounce sin, asking God to forgive you, and performing acts of atonement right here on earth—that is the appropriate way for humanity to attain the happiness of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Abandon your old self and put on a new self—a person who lives a holy life and follows Jesus Christ, a person of meekness, humility, reverence, and obedience to the holy will of God the Father through the activity of the Holy Spirit in your very soul and body, which is peace, charity, joy, cheerfulness, gentleness, humility, compassion, kindness, faithfulness, mildness, and temperance.
God the Father desires His children in the world today to be vigilant against the temptation of Satan.
For the activity of the Holy Spirit is very powerful, and He reveals Himself in a flexible and mysterious way, in accordance with the mystery of the Triune God.
Satan is also very cunning and sophisticated; they seek every way to tempt humanity to oppose the holy will of God the Father, to oppose the Present Word of God, to oppose the activity of the Holy Spirit, and instead act according to Satan's temptation.
Satan is also very cunning and sophisticated; they seek every way to tempt humanity to oppose the holy will of God the Father, to oppose the Present Word of God, to oppose the activity of the Holy Spirit, and instead act according to Satan's temptation.
Therefore, in the Word of God today, God the Father calls upon all His children to unite more closely with God the Father through prayer, through sacrifice, through self-denial, through fasting, through abandoning their own will, their selfish ego, anger, and hatred, so as to completely submit to the holy will of God the Father with meekness, humility, and the grace, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Present Word of God, which instructs humanity during the time of the Holy Spirit's activity, recalling the Word that Jesus Christ taught in the Eternal Word of God in the Bible and putting them into practice, so that they may hope to be freed from the captivity of Satan in their soul and body, which has held them for so long, from the time they gained reason until the present.
God the Father desires to teach His children today not to yield to the temptation of Satan any longer!
Resist them and constantly obey the holy will of God the Father in all places and at all times; submit to His holy will, bow down in reverence, and turn towards God the Father, and He Himself will cast Satan out of our souls and bodies with the assistance of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Angels, and the Saints in this new era, so that we may do all that God the Father desires of us, which is obedience, listening to the Word of God the Father, and putting it into practice according to the call of Jesus Christ in the past and through the activity of the Holy Spirit in the Present Word of God today.
Thanks be to God. Amen.