Inspirations at your Fingertips!

Integrity Matthew 3:1-12  The readings for the second Sunday of Advent reflect a quality that is present in John the Baptist and of course, God himself - integrity. Integrity is a state of wholeness or completeness.  Isaiah points out a situation where the child sits side by side with a panther, symbolizing a state of peace.  God rules with justice and compassion.  There is life everywhere. Alas, we are not people of integrity.  We compromise completeness with sin.  We are a divided people according to the PCP II.  How do we attain the state of integrity? We can only do so if we align ourselves with God's plan and not our own.  God wants everyone to live; we want to live only for ourselves.  By heeding the idealism of God we shall start traveling in the path of righteousness and integrity. Second, like John the Baptist, let's walk the talk.  John lived in poverty to show to the people to cease worldliness.  If we walk th...

Integrity  Luke 21:25-28,34-36 Integrity, from thefreedictionary.com means: 1. Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code. 2. The state of being unimpaired; soundness. 3. The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church, integrity may apply to any of the following: 1. integrity of creation - the way we take care of creation as mandated to us by God; 2. integrity of the body - to regarding the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death as coming from God; 3. integrity of human life - in all its forms, relationships, and structures; to cause the communion of mankind in God.  Integrity is what the new, renewed Judah is to be called after the coming of the branch of David, "The Lord our integrity." (Jeremiah 33:14-16)