THERE IS MORE JOY IN GIVING THAN IN RECEIVING   I urgently need the readers of this newsletter to know this, I am aware that today, thousands of people live paycheck to paycheck or that people are living in lack of something or worse are in debt; when we do not listen to what God tells us or do not believe in Him and therefore do not put His message into practice we can easily fall into scarcity. Conversely, if we apply what He tells us in His Word, then we will live under His promises and lack nothing. Better still, we will not only have what we need to live but actually more than we need and can therefore share from our abundance with others, family, friends, neighbors or even strangers. As a volunteer with 40 years of service in the hard work of abiding by God’s Word, I testify that therein lies the secret to an abundant life, putting it into practice the Word of God and truly believing it. God’s Word gives us life and abundance! (John 10:10). These are not just nice thoughts, this is my life in practice; I am telling you that if I can do you can do it too, in through and with the Church. In this Jubilee Year, the Holy Door opens to let us into the Joy of God’s Love, to experience His Mercy and to live in Hope as a result of the generosity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit by sharing and guiding us in His Word. I am addressing three groups of people in this newsletter. 1). Those who do not listen to the voice of Jesus and abide by their own beliefs, who generally lacking something in their lives. 2). Those who abide by the Gospel in their everyday lives, who lack nothing and receive even more by generously sharing what God has given them. 3). Those who value every day of their lives and what God gives them, being aware of who they are and who Jesus is, who give until it hurts, recognizing that the greatest abundance is to have the Lord in their life; thus, the more generous they are the more abundance that will come to them. The word “jubilee” comes from the Hebrew yobel, the typical sound made using a sheep’s horns to announce the beginning of a special year that was later called the Jubilee. The idea is that such sound means the announcement of Good News, a time of happiness, of stripping ourselves away from what has restrained us; a time to settle accounts, debts and go to the source of Mercy for forgiveness which is God. This time is like a time in the Old Testament when the poor were given what they needed to live by those who had a better quality of life and material abundance. It was the time of GENEROSITY, for both the rich and the poor, the willingness to give more…