happy three year anniversary to me three
years now
of doing a sense presents happy to be on
this journey with you to celebrate i got
some new glasses
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hey i'm father mark mary with the
franciscan friars of the renewal and
this is ascension presents today i got a
lenten
challenge for you and the challenge it's
pretty straightforward
but it doesn't necessarily mean it's
gonna be easy the challenge is this i
challenge you
i invite you i encourage you to use the
name of jesus
explicitly in one conversation this week
where you wouldn't normally do so just
mention jesus
one time in your school amongst your
co-workers amongst your family right and
there's a two-fold reason why i'm going
to propose this is something we want to
do
like number one is this it just it just
makes sense
it just makes sense if jesus is to us
who we say he is to us
why wouldn't we be talking about jesus
all the time
right i have some friends who are having
like newborn babies and you know their
social media all of a sudden
all that's on their social media is
their newborn baby boy or baby girl
right like
when you love somebody uh when someone
is coming to your life who fills your
life
like you can't help you can't help but
speak their name
constantly over and over and over again
and so my brothers and sisters my
invitation to you
is just to reflect again upon who jesus
is to you jesus is savior
jesus is the one through him all things
were made creator right he is
he is the the fulfillment of all desire
like
jesus jesus is jesus the lord
our god um the spouse of our souls
it just makes sense like it's
unreasonable
and it's like a counter witness for us
not to be speaking the name of jesus
and so i'm only going to ask you right
as a starting place as a starting place
that's super concrete and clear
i'm just going to ask you one time to
one time
to mention jesus like okay how's it
going how's it going today you know i
had some prayer time like jesus is just
so good and he said this word to me
or i was at mass and you know i i just
to being to receive jesus it meant this
to me
or like i'm just really having i'm like
discerning and i'm struggling but but
i'm working through it with jesus like
just to bring up the name of jesus one
time to start to cultivate that habit
and because right like if nothing
changes nothing changes in our world
our world is forgotten about god and our
world has kind of gone deaf to the idea
of god and we're just he's not
the lord is not in the midst of our
day-to-day stuff
and but but like the if the lord's not
in the midst of our day-to-day stuff he
who keeps all existence in being like
like and also this right if nothing
changes
nothing changes like if we want the
world to come back to faith
if we if we're kind of discouraged and
frustrated by the fact and rightly so
that that god is no longer like at the
center of families
or our friendships or of our community
of our society like
well how is he going to get back and and
and no one's going to be thinking about
god and no one's going to be responding
to god and no one's going to be taking a
divine law into consideration if we're
not speaking his name right
if christians if christians who profess
to be saved by the blood of the lamb
are not talking about jesus like of
course of course the world's going to
forget about the lord
and so my brothers and sisters like if
we want to change the world
and we want people to know jesus the way
we've come to know jesus
and to to taste the sweetness of a
relationship with god the way that we
have like we got to just say the name of
jesus say the name of jesus
and just super concrete super practical
one time this week
one time this week it might be hard it
might be uncomfortable but it's it's
for jesus who is worthy of his name
being spoken right like
one time this week family friends
business just say the name of jesus say
the name of jesus like let's proclaim it
that's it short and sweet short and
sweet
let's live it let's put into practice
the name of jesus let's proclaim his
name god bless you poco poco bomb cigar
we're gonna make it
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