​God’s Love Opened the Door of Heaven for Us

​Composed by: Sr. Catherine of Siena

​We praise God for His love and marvelous work!  Through our Mother Mary, God sent His Son Jesus Christ to become a Man to free humanity from sin.  When Jesus began His journey, He preached and healed and asked people to pray to His Father but it was not all easy.  Toward the end of this journey as He was beginning His passion, His heart became sorrowful to the point that He went off to pray to His heavenly Father for strength to endure the cross but ended:  “My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass without My drinking, Your will be done!” (Matthew 26:42).  In obedience to His Father’s will and for the sake of humanity, Jesus suffered His passion and then died on the cross. 
 
This brings to mind part of a hymn I once sang:  “He would not come down from the cross to save Himself.  He desired to stay there and die for me.”  Jesus wanted us to seek God through all His works—His ministry, the healing, miracles and yes, His suffering.  But then, on the third day, He rose from the dead.  By Jesus’s passion, death and resurrection, the door of heaven became open to everyone. 
 
Jesus always encourages us to pray, ask, seek and knock, and the door will be opened:  “For everyone that asks receives and he that seeks finds, and unto him that knocks it shall be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8).  We must be persistent in our asking.  My prayer is that people would see Jesus Christ in their life! 
 
Thanks be to God.

Image Source: The Triumph Of Christianity Over Paganism by Gustave Doré