Offerings

What more can we give other than carrying our Daily cross and praising God for our Lives.
What more can we given other than our Cry of agony to him
What more can we give when we cry for our Brethren's pain

Offering is not something that needs to be given only in Temple.

Smiling at Strangers
Going a mile extra than your are demanded
Being humble

Micah : Ch: 6 Ver 6-8 sums it all.

With what shall I come before the Lord
    and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
    And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
    and to walk humbly[a] with your God.

Where does your Offering Goes

What Can I offer to God?, What will Please him?

God doesnt ask anything from us,  Gold Diamonds Precious metals, Sweets, Cattle... Nothing will please God if our Intention has any Hidden motives. God sees our Heart, he reads our minds for he know what is our Wicked intentions. Caine offered, Abel also offered but there is a sea of attitude by which both of them Offered, one offering was taken and other not. In every book of Prophets in Bible clearly says God doesnt want your Offering, it Irritates him, He hates it.

We Offer God as a commitment out of Fear, compulsion, Status, commission to our Deadly Sins. God will not even look at them. For he knows our Intentions by our Heart. This words really touched me" If you cannot help fellow Human being with Love, How can you Love an Invicible God", There is ample chance God came in Disguised to you, you chased him away..
Jesus say "Buy what you cannot buy with what you have", this summarize everything. Golds , Precious metal are just lying in store of Holy Places unused or being taken by people or theives. where it could have served a meal for many hungry people, the money did not serve it purpose.

Why would God wants these metals, for he created them. Whereas a food or little money or hug or Smile or Shoulder to Cry or all of them will help many people around us feel God worked through us to them. This is What St.Mother Theresa said and did in her life. we take inspiration from them but we fail to live even 10% to change.
The Money which Goes to Institutions is not serving purpose.  People who manages it assume it is given to them, Spending on personal comforts and luxuries. God says woe to them for they take all the intention of the giver unfullfilled to their Grave. They will Suffer every penny of it to their count until all the money is given back. And Whoever Receives it knowing it is God's Money will also suffer to the Last penny to be given back.
Giving stolen articles, money of the Poor, money from wrong doings and anything which make God angry will need to be settled in Suffering, either now or after death.

Why Should we Venerate Saints in Catholicism

Why Saints are Venerated in Catholicism

I often get doubts about Saints and their role in Christianity, it is just a mere history or Stories we know about Saints till many Centuries in the history of Christianity. Why do Catholicism give more prominence to Saints and their history when they are supposed to focus on Christ alone?, a Common Question in everyone's mind. are we over indulging in Praying to them and seeking favors when we can ask God directly. why should we need a person in between us and God, if they can do it themselves are they better than Christ?,

Keeping aside all the Questions and Doubts, one thing we Should understand is the So called Saints have not asked to Pray to them when they lived in this world. They  just lived a life like you and me but the life of them Replicated the Life of Christ, that after their death God has raised them to a High Soul that remembering them they intercede to us. Why should they Intercede for us?

When you have a full glass of water you cannot Pour anything more than it can hold, when you have the Happiest life on Earth we dont even think of  God, Leave aside the saints. But in most cases we dont have luxury of living a Happiest life, we suffer in our daily life and when we lost all our Hope we tend to move away from God intending to punish him by committing Sin. Our Lives change so much that even thinking of God becomes so irritating. The Enemy occupies the whole of our Heart. The Presence of God is not reflecting in our daily Lives, God is Good Shepherd he needs to bring our lives towards him.
These Saints intercedes for us to God to make our lives not end in Hell or in Disaster, they put the Righteous thoughts in our minds, they hold us by hands , they walk us through the toughest narrow path to ensure we are saved by our Soul.
In Catholicism there is a Patron saint for every situation who intercedes for particular requests, it is same like a Big Orgnanized and Just Office, Everyone has a role to play and every department has a task to complete in the presence of the Lord.
We have seen Angels , Prophets from the Start of the World carrying messages to People all chapters of Bible are just that. God did not Write The BIBLE but his Spirit made Prophets do it. The Cycle of sending messages, healing and bringing Good News is still there.
Some are Gifted to give Visions, InCorrupt bodies etc., are only the Manifestation of God's Gift to each Saints. They Never asked but they are Honored, Believing or not is our discretion but it shows just one Message. God Still Loves Us, He cares for us and He is Still around us through his Saints to Express his Love for us and Save us.