Strengthening our belief in our heavenly destination

With the celebration the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady, we are reminded that though we feel so unworthy of it, we are actually meant to be in heaven in our definitive state of life. And that, not only spiritually, but also corporally. We are meant for heaven body and soul.

- Fr. Roy Cimagala [e-mail]

Thus, we need to see to it that even as we immerse ourselves as deeply as possible in our earthly affairs, we should not lose our sense of heaven and eternity. In fact, the ideal is that as we go deeper in our temporal affairs, our sense of heaven and eternity should also become sharper.

This is always possible and doable as long as we are guided first of all by our faith rather than by our feelings and by our merely human estimation of things. Let’s always remember that it is our faith, our Christian faith, that gives the whole picture of our life --where we come from, where we are supposed to go, the purpose of our life here on earth, the true value of our mundane concerns, etc.