Deep in the hearts of all people in the world is a common hope for peace in the new year but in the minds corrupted by Sin, peace is impossible until the Son of God comes again in glory. Until that day arrives, time continues to advance on earth within the timelessness of an expansive universe and the Heaven above, and it is this annual advancement of time on this tiny planet earth that man of God's creation celebrates in accordance to an orderly rhythm, at different times, depending on where one is at, as listed here: http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/firstnewyear.html.
The hope for peace is a definitive sign that God is still pervasive in a secular world. God has never left, rather it is God's children who have left God to pursue Satanic gifts of power and control, of self-righteousness and arrogance, of ruthlessness and deceit that are the stepping stones to Hell.
It is not enough for those to hope quietly that peace can be achieved without acting in accordance with the teachings of the Prince of Peace Who is Christ Who called on all to love God and to love one's neighbor.
To act in accordance with the Truth is to lead fearlessly and faithfully in order to counteract the fear-mongers, the anxiety-builders and the faithless secularists. Not everyone will want to face the Truth and many envious opportunists will continue with their selfish, prideful and self-centered behaviors and continue to exist in denial, believing that they are entitled, that everyone else owes them, that their time on earth belongs to them and not God. For them, the new year will be a continuation of the last unenlightened one. These naysayers to God will have to be left behind for there are many who are willing to listen, learn and begin their difficult journeys away from darkness. To the willing the angels incarnate will need to give their time and attention.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Conversation With A Homeless Veteran
Last evening on my return home from the gym to the car I had a chance to chat with a homeless veteran of the Iraq war. His name was Jay. Why he was homeless I still am not entirely sure.
I asked him why he did not move back with his parents. He was a bit reluctant with his reply. I asked if they were divorced. He admitted with a sound that was hardly audible but the pain that he conveyed was clear. Then he told me that they lived in Pennsylvania, that he was a divorced father of three girls whom he loved dearly. He also told me he was bipolar and about his other health issues, and was taking methadone for pain prescribed by the VA hospital.
I asked him if he was Catholic since he was camped out under a display window in front of the office of the Archdiocese showing a Nativity Scene. His answer was no but that he was spiritual, that there was one God with many names for different cultures, including Allah, and they are all about being good. He told me many other things while I was freezing in my workout shorts.
One of the things he said was that he knew about the time before he was born. He also said that Original Sin existed before anyone was born, that Free Will was inherent in the spirit form before birth, and that as soon as the spirit chose freely to leave God to be born, sin was committed, and then there was the flesh and "everything goes." And he laughed.
I grinned. Then I told him that I, too, knew about the time before my birth, although our analysis of what came after was different. I did not expand on it too much because I was ready to leave.
Then he said, "You were, before you were, before you were." That was so cryptic that it took me some time to decipher after I got home. I would have to ask him I was right if I see him next time.
He wanted to meet up again. I told him where and when he could find me on Sunday. It would be at Mass.
He is in my mind an "angel incarnate" to do the work of God [1] in this darkening, God-irrelevant world even though he now has a few issues that need to resolved before he takes his next steps. I believe that they will be, and that his current station in life is preparing him well for the challenges ahead.
[1] At one point, he indicated that he wanted to protect children. With his success in shielding them from Satan's influence, those in the business of saving adult souls would have less work to do and more time for fun, wholesome fun.
I asked him why he did not move back with his parents. He was a bit reluctant with his reply. I asked if they were divorced. He admitted with a sound that was hardly audible but the pain that he conveyed was clear. Then he told me that they lived in Pennsylvania, that he was a divorced father of three girls whom he loved dearly. He also told me he was bipolar and about his other health issues, and was taking methadone for pain prescribed by the VA hospital.
I asked him if he was Catholic since he was camped out under a display window in front of the office of the Archdiocese showing a Nativity Scene. His answer was no but that he was spiritual, that there was one God with many names for different cultures, including Allah, and they are all about being good. He told me many other things while I was freezing in my workout shorts.
One of the things he said was that he knew about the time before he was born. He also said that Original Sin existed before anyone was born, that Free Will was inherent in the spirit form before birth, and that as soon as the spirit chose freely to leave God to be born, sin was committed, and then there was the flesh and "everything goes." And he laughed.
I grinned. Then I told him that I, too, knew about the time before my birth, although our analysis of what came after was different. I did not expand on it too much because I was ready to leave.
Then he said, "You were, before you were, before you were." That was so cryptic that it took me some time to decipher after I got home. I would have to ask him I was right if I see him next time.
He wanted to meet up again. I told him where and when he could find me on Sunday. It would be at Mass.
He is in my mind an "angel incarnate" to do the work of God [1] in this darkening, God-irrelevant world even though he now has a few issues that need to resolved before he takes his next steps. I believe that they will be, and that his current station in life is preparing him well for the challenges ahead.
[1] At one point, he indicated that he wanted to protect children. With his success in shielding them from Satan's influence, those in the business of saving adult souls would have less work to do and more time for fun, wholesome fun.
Saintliness Captured
The innocence and kindness of saintliness can be seen in the angelic face below [1]:
Who is giving a blessing to whom? In my mind, only one answer is correct. The boy is blessing the pope who needs all the blessings he can get. His kind eyes gazing at the pope and his gentle and caring hand holding the pope's reassures the pope that God is very real and is with him (the boy but not the pope) and the pope, I imagine, knows that keenly. There is nothing the pope can do but adore the child, as he should.
This photograph by Paul Haring is as classic as any painting by any of the grand masters. If it were a painting, it could very well be part of the permanent collection of one the world's most well-known museums.
[1] This is a Catholic News Service ("CNS") photograph by Paul Haring. This photograph was taken on December 14, 2014, at Saint Joseph Parish in Rome, Italy (see page 8 at http://www.catholic-sf.org/files/digital_paper_201412162555.pdf)
A close-up:
This photograph by Paul Haring is as classic as any painting by any of the grand masters. If it were a painting, it could very well be part of the permanent collection of one the world's most well-known museums.
[1] This is a Catholic News Service ("CNS") photograph by Paul Haring. This photograph was taken on December 14, 2014, at Saint Joseph Parish in Rome, Italy (see page 8 at http://www.catholic-sf.org/files/digital_paper_201412162555.pdf)
Saturday, December 27, 2014
The Conversion Of Souls
Those who have the gift of faith must reach out and convert the non-believers, one soul at a time, as impossible as the task is, is not one that can be set aside, hoping that someone else will do it because no one else will, or that somehow non-believers would themselves awaken to the Truth from their hypnotic state of denial because that will not happen, not without Divine intervention, and Divine intervention can only happen when one's heart is open to God freely, willingly and lovingly, but non-believers have exercised their Free Will to close themselves off to God, and it is up to God's messengers of the world, the angels incarnate, to give sight to the spiritually blind and hearing to the spiritually deaf.
It is important, although not enough to just "preach to the choir," to those who already attend Mass and listen to the sermons regularly, to keep them vigilant and safe from the influence of Satan.
It is also important, that the religious who exist within an organizational structure, to realize the limits of the structure which necessarily demands administrative time, time that could otherwise be spent in prayer and in the conversion of souls.
The more complex the structure, the more people would be necessary to uphold it, and therefore the more political the entity, causing the focus to shift away from the spiritual to the carnal aspects of existence dominated by the sins of egoism and pride which diminish the importance of God and neutralizes the meaning of Whose Son Who came to the world in humility to sacrifice Himself for the salvation of souls, and perverting the intended purity of such a structure by stripping away its holiness, leaving it to become yet another vapid, self-serving and self-perpetuating secular institution with God in the periphery, on the lips but not in the heart, and that is the Vatican today.
A new group of people, the angels incarnate of the world, will need to arise from obscurity, and rise to the Light from which they came, to illuminate the darkness and speak the Truth to the people of the world.
It is important, although not enough to just "preach to the choir," to those who already attend Mass and listen to the sermons regularly, to keep them vigilant and safe from the influence of Satan.
It is also important, that the religious who exist within an organizational structure, to realize the limits of the structure which necessarily demands administrative time, time that could otherwise be spent in prayer and in the conversion of souls.
The more complex the structure, the more people would be necessary to uphold it, and therefore the more political the entity, causing the focus to shift away from the spiritual to the carnal aspects of existence dominated by the sins of egoism and pride which diminish the importance of God and neutralizes the meaning of Whose Son Who came to the world in humility to sacrifice Himself for the salvation of souls, and perverting the intended purity of such a structure by stripping away its holiness, leaving it to become yet another vapid, self-serving and self-perpetuating secular institution with God in the periphery, on the lips but not in the heart, and that is the Vatican today.
A new group of people, the angels incarnate of the world, will need to arise from obscurity, and rise to the Light from which they came, to illuminate the darkness and speak the Truth to the people of the world.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Christmas Day Thoughts - 2014
Throughout this blog, a presumption has been made that the birth of Christ falls on December 25 when the calender changed from B.C. (before Christ) to A.D. (Anno Domine) [1]. Whether Jesus was actually born on December 25 at midnight between B.C. and A.D. is uncertain, but interest generated by the Star of Bethlehem among astronomers is evident [2].
This entry is not about science but rather a chronology of miracles. Readers are urged to add to or subtract from the miracle count surrounding the birth of Jesus starting with The Immaculate Conception:
1. The Immaculate Conception. [3], [4], [5]
2. The Annunciation. [6]
3. An angel appeared to Joseph. [7], [8]
4. Angels appeared to the shepherds. [9]
5. The Magi and the Star of Bethlehem. [10]
6. An angel appeared to Joseph a second time. [11]
Miracles are continuing to take place, even in the midst of great suffering. They are as invisible as the gifts of life and Free Will for those who choose not to acknowledge them.
Have a Blessed Christmas!
[1] http://historymedren.about.com/od/aterms/g/ad.htm
[2] http://epistle.us/articles/star.html
[3] http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/lourdes.htm
[4] http://catholicism.about.com/od/beliefsteachings/f/Imm_Concept_FAQ.htm
[5] http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/marian/scotus&immac.htm
[6] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1%3A26-56&version=NIV;NASB;ESV;NKJV;DRA
[7] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201:18-25
[8] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p2.htm
[9] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+2%3A2-21&version=NIV
[10] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202:1-12
[11] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+2%3A13-23&version=NIV
This entry is not about science but rather a chronology of miracles. Readers are urged to add to or subtract from the miracle count surrounding the birth of Jesus starting with The Immaculate Conception:
1. The Immaculate Conception. [3], [4], [5]
2. The Annunciation. [6]
3. An angel appeared to Joseph. [7], [8]
4. Angels appeared to the shepherds. [9]
5. The Magi and the Star of Bethlehem. [10]
6. An angel appeared to Joseph a second time. [11]
Miracles are continuing to take place, even in the midst of great suffering. They are as invisible as the gifts of life and Free Will for those who choose not to acknowledge them.
Have a Blessed Christmas!
[1] http://historymedren.about.com/od/aterms/g/ad.htm
[2] http://epistle.us/articles/star.html
[3] http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/lourdes.htm
[4] http://catholicism.about.com/od/beliefsteachings/f/Imm_Concept_FAQ.htm
[5] http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/marian/scotus&immac.htm
[6] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1%3A26-56&version=NIV;NASB;ESV;NKJV;DRA
[7] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201:18-25
[8] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p2.htm
[9] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+2%3A2-21&version=NIV
[10] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202:1-12
[11] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+2%3A13-23&version=NIV
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
My Blog's Refrain
I would like the following to be this blog's refrain:
[1] What was given to all of us on Christmas Day was the Son of God. What humanity has made of this Gift has been abominable.
[2] Whether the imagination can be completed is God's call.
What I am is God's gift to me;
what I make of it is my gift back to God. [1]
what I make of it is my gift back to God. [1]
The refrain could be one of the cornerstones of God's universal Church, as restored, alluded to in my last entry. A restored church is still being imagined [2] and will be the antithesis of the current Vatican, a religious organization that has lost all credibility.
[1] What was given to all of us on Christmas Day was the Son of God. What humanity has made of this Gift has been abominable.
[2] Whether the imagination can be completed is God's call.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
The Darkening Skies
My last entry ended with this question: "Christmas will be here in two days. What do people have on their minds?"
Imagine if people of the world are preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ 2,014 years ago in earnest, without guise, by loving God and loving their neighbors, then nothing on their minds would cause fear or anxiety, or lead to an obsession with doing Satan's work that destroys the family, the Church and one another [1], and people can exist in peace.
The way things are going, the world is going to be enveloped by total darkness and those who continue to do the work of Satan will eventually never again see the light. Even as the skies are beginning to be blackened, a new light will be forming in the midst of blackness. This bright light will shine forth from the faces and smiles of all the people, regardless of religion or race, who are willing to return to Christ and His simple ways that lead to the Truth.
Simplicity is straightforward but difficult and painful to achieve. Its success will require discipline, determination and patience, honest and apolitical leadership, purity of heart and love of God. A single leader, or many leaders in various nations, cannot accomplish this, but many, many small groups of twos and threes that will roam, and spread, throughout the world can. Together, they will pierce holes through the pitch black forces of Evil with nothing more than basic goodness.
Basic goodness requires the people in these small groups to first reform their own bodies and transform them into individual temples of God. That means their bodies shall not be desecrated by the abuse of food [2], alcohol and drugs (overeating, over drinking and over medicating) and shall be preserved through a regiment of exercises and proper rest. Simultaneously, they shall reform their minds and transform them into unique reservoirs of the Truth through daily prayers with love (prayers must always be prayed with undiluted love). Then they shall become themselves examples of God's gift, having realized the potential and the splendor of life at its very core. And they shall take the vow of celibacy and adhere to it.
This shall be the signature image of each and every small group of people who will spread not only the word of God but will live the life of Christ and His disciples. Together, they will be a diverse nation of priests, replacing the Jews who had failed to deliver to the world a kingdom of priests [3]. These groups of Gentiles and converted Jews will succeed. They cannot, and must not fail. For them to fail is for Satan to win. Satan will not win again. These Gentiles and converted Jews will not betray the Son of God because they love God. Because they love God, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the angels of Heaven will be with them and guide them along the way.
[1] There is much evidence to show the disintegration of the family, the dismantling of the Catholic Church, growing unrest in many nations and the beginnings of another world war. The daily events, political, military and economic, that are unfolding tell the story and it would be too voluminous to cite them all here.
[2] Food shall not be contaminated by any genetic modification and shall be fertilized naturally.
[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2019:6
Imagine if people of the world are preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ 2,014 years ago in earnest, without guise, by loving God and loving their neighbors, then nothing on their minds would cause fear or anxiety, or lead to an obsession with doing Satan's work that destroys the family, the Church and one another [1], and people can exist in peace.
The way things are going, the world is going to be enveloped by total darkness and those who continue to do the work of Satan will eventually never again see the light. Even as the skies are beginning to be blackened, a new light will be forming in the midst of blackness. This bright light will shine forth from the faces and smiles of all the people, regardless of religion or race, who are willing to return to Christ and His simple ways that lead to the Truth.
Simplicity is straightforward but difficult and painful to achieve. Its success will require discipline, determination and patience, honest and apolitical leadership, purity of heart and love of God. A single leader, or many leaders in various nations, cannot accomplish this, but many, many small groups of twos and threes that will roam, and spread, throughout the world can. Together, they will pierce holes through the pitch black forces of Evil with nothing more than basic goodness.
Basic goodness requires the people in these small groups to first reform their own bodies and transform them into individual temples of God. That means their bodies shall not be desecrated by the abuse of food [2], alcohol and drugs (overeating, over drinking and over medicating) and shall be preserved through a regiment of exercises and proper rest. Simultaneously, they shall reform their minds and transform them into unique reservoirs of the Truth through daily prayers with love (prayers must always be prayed with undiluted love). Then they shall become themselves examples of God's gift, having realized the potential and the splendor of life at its very core. And they shall take the vow of celibacy and adhere to it.
This shall be the signature image of each and every small group of people who will spread not only the word of God but will live the life of Christ and His disciples. Together, they will be a diverse nation of priests, replacing the Jews who had failed to deliver to the world a kingdom of priests [3]. These groups of Gentiles and converted Jews will succeed. They cannot, and must not fail. For them to fail is for Satan to win. Satan will not win again. These Gentiles and converted Jews will not betray the Son of God because they love God. Because they love God, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the angels of Heaven will be with them and guide them along the way.
[1] There is much evidence to show the disintegration of the family, the dismantling of the Catholic Church, growing unrest in many nations and the beginnings of another world war. The daily events, political, military and economic, that are unfolding tell the story and it would be too voluminous to cite them all here.
[2] Food shall not be contaminated by any genetic modification and shall be fertilized naturally.
[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2019:6
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