Preach it Mother Teresa!!!!

"Of my free will, dear JESUS, I shall follow YOU wherever YOU shall go in search of souls, at any cost to myself and out of pure love of YOU." She told a group of young sisters that she does not need "numbers." If any of them is not willing to offer her free and wholehearted service to the poorest of the poor with love and joy~~ with the lepers, the old and lonely, the little ones, the AIDS patients~~ and others, then it's time to pack up their bags and go home. No need to stay.

You know, sometimes it's that simple. To read the BIBLE and do what it says. THANK YOU JESUS for simplicity: On the last day, JESUS will say to those on his right hand, "Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was sick and you visited me." Then JESUS will turn to those on HIS left hand and say, "Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not feed me, I was thirsty and you did not give me to drink, I was sick and did not come visit me. " These will ask HIM, "When did we see YOU hungry or thirsty or sick and did not come to Y OUR help?" And JESUS will answer them, "Whatever you neglected to do unto one of the least of these, you neglected to do unto Me!"

As we have gathered here to pray together, I think it will be beautiful if we begin with a prayer that expresses very well what JESUS wants us to do for the least: "Let us thank God for the opportunity HE has given us today to have come here to pray together. We have come here especially to pray for peace, joy and love. We are reminded that JESUS came to bring the good news to the poor. He told us what is that good news when HE said: "My peace I leave with you My peace I give unto you." He came not to give the peace of the world, which is only wthat we don't bother each other. He came to give the peace of heart that comes from loving~~ from doing good to others.

He died for you and for me, and for that leper and for that man dying of hunger and that naked person lying in the street.

It is not enough for us to say:"I love God," but I also have to love my neighbor. It hurt JESUS to love us. We have been created in HIS image for greater things, to love and be loved. We must "put on Christ" as Scripture tells us. And so, we have been created to love as HE lvoes us. JESUS makes HIMSELF the hungry one, the naked one, the homeless one, the unwanted one, and HE says, "You did it to me." On the last day HE will say to those on HIS right, "Whatever you did to the least of these you did to ME." And He will also say to those on his left, "Whatever you neglected to do for the least of these you neglected to do it for Me."