Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Saturday after Ash Wednesday<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Steps to Take as You Follow Christ<br> Ask—How does viewing Jesus as my savior from death help me to face head-on the deaths of loved ones and even my own death?<br> Seek—Fast from passing judgment on anyone today. Realize in this little dying to yourself you are opening yourself to see others as God sees them.<br> Knock—Meditate on Revelation 1:17-18<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> When I saw him, I fell in a dead faint at his feet, but he touched me with his right hand and said, ‘Do not be afraid; it is I, the First and the Last; I am the Living One, I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Imagine Jesus touching you with his right hand and lifting you up from your death. What other areas of your life are dominated by death rather than the life of Christ Ask Our Lord to free you from all death.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Transform Your Life—Do not shy away from death. Attend the funerals of loved ones and use the experience to engage your faith in Christ. Pray for others, ask the saints to pray for you, seeing in them living examples of the promise of Christ to save us from death.<br> <a href="http://amywelborn.com/Michael_Dubruiel.html" rel="attachment wp-att-21024"></a><br> The author of <a href="http://amywelborn.com/Michael_Dubruiel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Power of the Cross: Applying the Passion of Christ in Your Life</a>, Michael Dubriuel, passed away in 2009. His wife, author Amy Welborn, has made his book available as a free e-book! We HIGHLY encourage you to download this exceptional work.<br> <a href="http://amywelborn.com/Michael_Dubruiel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Power of the Cross </a>is now available as a free e-book,<br> check out more information by going <a href="http://amywelborn.com/Michael_Dubruiel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a><br> Check out more at the <a href="https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/michael-dubruiel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discerning Hearts’ Michael Dubruiel page</a><br> <br> Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM BIBLE, copyright (c) 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd. and Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc. Reprinted by Permission.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
