tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134563212024-03-14T18:25:20.289+08:00Gloria Olivae"To promote the messages of Pope Benedict XVI and harness small monastic Benedictine communities in his and the service of the Church."Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.comBlogger793125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-81679340788468207662021-07-18T22:30:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:38.854+08:00The BISHOP and the Liturgist. 15th Weekday in Ordinary time.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The bishop and the Liturgist.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A bishop had just established a new parish Chapel and visited a Liturgist.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop: Father, can you please visit my newly reconstructed chapel and give me some suggestions on how to decorate it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist: Bishop, a chapel is the visible sign of the spiritual state of the members of your diocese. The chapel will be large depending on the size of the Faith of the members of your diocese. It will be splendidly decorated as the soul of your members are filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If the chapel is richly decorated and large but if the spiritual state of the members of your diocese have no spirituality the rich decoration and the vastness of the chapel will both look ugly. The physical chapel, always, reflect the state of the spirituality of the diocese or the parish. Note how beautiful are the cathedrals during the golden age of Christianity. And how ugly are the highly decorated and vast church of today. As we say in the Liturgy; there is no sacrality, a description of the true Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop: what do you do to beautify the chapel?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; Beautify the souls of the members of your church and this will reflect in your chapel. A church with holy souls will be reflected in the chapel spiritually, not physically. Your chapel could be a very old Spanish time, dark adobe and moss covered unpainted walls. But anyone who looks at it, if your members are holy, will find the chapel beautiful. The spiritual beauty will be reflected in the chapel. You will not need any superficial decorations or art work. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop: where do you begin?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist: begin with the Liturgy, not with the building. A well celebrated Liturgy can transform an ugly chapel into a heavenly kingdom. Because the kingdom of God will be there for everybody to see. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop: but every chapel have the Liturgy. How come many of them look ugly?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist: because the Liturgy is not celebrated well. I do not have to recall to you the Liturgical abuses that is common in most churches. From African dances, to circus performers, to same sex marriages to women preachers. This is not Liturgy. These are shows and a very cheap kind at that. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; what aspects of the Liturgy are you referring to. We have nice vestments, nice chalices, nice altars and nice sound systems.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; the Liturgy is directed to the spiritual faculties of the soul of the people, the intellect and the free will. They must know the doctrines Jesus taught; these are directed towards the intellect. They must know and obey the commandments Christ taught; these are directed towards the free will. As St. James the apostle wrote; disobedience to one command is disobedience to all the commands. And St. Augustine added; rejection of one doctrine is rejection of all doctrines. The Liturgy teaches all the doctrines of Christ but more so teaches all the commands of Christ, starting from the easiest to the hardest. The order must not be changed; and the correct order are seen in the Liturgy of the Mass, i.e. during the Sunday and weekly Masses, during the Gospels. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; do you mean that all the doctrines and all the commands of Christ as presented during the Sunday and weekly Masses must be taught ?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; yes, together with the correct interpretation of the Gospels as taken from the writings of the Father of the Church. The interpretation of the Gospel message is the 'how' which Christ commanded His first apostles to teach in the Apostolic Commission. These interpretations were made by Christ, Himself, but it was never written down due to physical impossibility, no pens and papers. But these interpretations made by Christ and collected by the first Christian communities were, later on, written down by the first holy bishops of the Church. These are referred to as the Fathers of the Church. Each Gospel must be explained with the interpretation of the Father of the Church, which is Christ's own interpretation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; I never heard these official interpretations of the Church in the seminary. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; it was taught in general as Patristic theology but they never went into detail so most priests do not know this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; Is this the main reason why the congregation do not have the Faith necessary to beautify their churches?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; The reason why most so called 'catholics' never really entered the Catholic Church is because the 'how,' i.e. the correct interpretation, was never given to them by the preachers. Thus, they have no true Faith that beautifies the souls and which eventually is reflected in the beauty of the churches. No church or cathedral erected after Vatican II is 'sacral,' i.e. have a sacred atmosphere that makes them truly beautiful. This is supposed to reflect the 'Holy' visible sign of the true Church of Christ. Not being 'Holy' the church is neither One, Catholic and apostolic. This is reflected in the physical buildings. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; where do we start?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; the Liturgy states that we must all begin instructing the people with the spirit of Advent, which is Old Testament. But a more skilful teacher or evangelist may start with the Liturgy of Ash Wednesday up to Pentecost. The whole world, today, have not started this first lesson found in the Liturgy; not even the so-called Catholics. The reason why most Catholics are ignorant of the first lesson is because the bishops and priests do not know this first step. They were not properly evangelised. It is the fault of the seminary schools. But the continuous negligence of each person is more to blame. Even if the seminary did not really teach this important subject, Holy Mother the Church has these treasures of Holy Readings that everybody could have availed of. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; it is getting a little complicated. Can you just give me the first thing we bishops and priest should do to begin beautifying our churches. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; again, begin with the soul of the people, not the buildings and statues. Teach them how to develop the virtue of Penance as well described by St. Thomas of Aquinas. The virtue of Penance is different from the sacrament of Penance. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Sacrament of Penance is what Catholics do when they go to confession to a priest. That is alright. But what forgives sins is the virtue of Penance that should accompany the Sacrament of Penance. The Sacrament does not forgive sins. The virtue is what forgives sin. The soul must be cleansed before God can begin beautifying the soul that will be reflected in the buildings. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; do you mean that all the confessions we encouraged the people to do did not forgive their past sins because we did not teach them how to acquire the virtue of Penance?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; all the Fathers of the Church say 'yes.' The people were taught the wrong teachings. You must begin by, first, correcting this error. Right now, with this wrong notion, they are all living in the state of sin and could go to hell if they die.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; this is hard saying. We cannot embarrass our priests. This will cause a lot of confusion. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; it will certainly cause a lot of confusion. But they are headed towards hell with their unrepentant sins. They must change their course. And begin in the right way, again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Bishop; I am afraid, we cannot do this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Liturgist; yes, the institutional church could not do it since the Council of Trent. We, really , expect it to continue as can be seen by the continuous effort of church authorities to destroy the Liturgy. Because it keeps reminding mankind that the institutional Church is going towards the wrong direction. So since 1972, its churches had been ugly. Is has no sacredness in it because its visible sign 'Holy' is not in it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-85878917294283094822021-07-01T21:00:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:39.514+08:00SIN - The main reason for world events. 13 Weekday in Ordinary time. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. What are sins?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To have a complete knowledge of Catholic Doctrines, we must listen to the Gospels of every Sunday and weekdays together with their correct interpretations given by Christ, Himself, to the first Christian communities but written down by the Fathers of the Church and further clarified by the Doctors of the Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These lesson are arranged in the proper order in the Liturgy, from Advent up to Christ the King, but is summarised from Ash Wednesday up to Pentecost. Unable to do a day to day explanation, we put together several days lesson in one post. We are putting together the whole of last weeks Liturgy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> For the last few weeks, the Liturgy had been differentiating the man of Faith, who are the true members of the Catholic Church, and the man without Faith, the sinner who are outside the Catholic Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The commemorations in the Mass.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We have noted that in every Gospel in each Mass, there are sometimes commemorations of saints. These saints are the examples that illustrates the message of the Gospel. In every homily, both the Gospel, the interpretation from the Fathers of the Church and the example of the saint commemorated must be intertwined for a full understanding of the Mass. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Recently, the Liturgy of the Mass described what is perfect Faith; it is Faith enlivened with Charity. This is the true definition of the Catholic Faith. St. Peter and Paul were the examples par excellence of perfect Christian Faith. While the two men from Gerasene, possessed by the devil is the example of those without Faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy of the Mass is supposed to inform the masses who have Faith and who do not have so that the Mass goers can see where they belong and act accordingly. Repent and believe, if they do not have Faith. Repent and believe further if they have Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. The faithless are those in the state of mortal sin. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Gospel described the state of the devil before the end times. The devils are not yet in hell; they are allowed by God to remain on the earth to test the children of men. Most of them are in the air, looking for sinful souls to dwell in. St. Thomas noted that devils cannot stand remaining outside of human souls. It is a torture for them. So they seek for sinful souls and their favourite are worldly souls that, like pigs, are wallowing in the mud of worldliness. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Augustine describe souls wallowing in worldliness, lost most men, as pigs. Like pigs, they cannot look up to heaven. They constantly have their eyes down on the earth. For the devils to beg Christ to be sent to pigs was a request to allow them to possess such worldly lovers of the world. Which Christ allowed. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. What are the effects of sin and how does the devil subsequently possess the human soul. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The three wounds of the soul, according to St. Bede as quoted by St. Thomas of Aquinas. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A. The first wound is the loss of sanctifying grace which makes the soul displeasing to God, and therefore, destined to hell. With sin, the soul completely loses its ability to rise up to the supernatural level. He cannot know God, he cannot know how to save his soul, he cannot love anybody with true love. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The sinful soul cannot know the Blessed Trinity. He cannot know the true religion and the true Church. He cannot know who is truly Catholic and who is not. He does not know who is the true Pope. HE cannot know the approach of General Judgment Day. </span><span style="font-size: large;">He is, truly a lost soul. He cannot know any solution to spiritual problems and have a very poor knowledge of solutions to natural problems, as part of his punishment for his sins.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> On the other hand, those with Faith know all supernatural truths. They know the Blessed Trinity, the true religion, the true Church, the true Catholics, the souls who are going to heaven, and the true Pope. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ, testing the knowledge of His apostles based on their Faith asked them the question; 'who do people say I am.' A few apostles gave the ordinary human answers of the common people; 'John the Baptist, Elijah. Or one of the prophets.' And Christ asked His believing apostles; 'and you, who do you say I am. ' Peter answered; you are Christ, the Son of the Living God. All bishops and priest learned from men. Unless taught directly through the mercy of God, all of them have no Faith. Aggravated by the fact that many have serious sins of perversion that deprives them of sanctifying grace. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Watch what Christ said; No man taught you that but My Father in heaven. No man; because supernatural truths cannot be taught by men. Catholic truths, being supernatural truths cannot be taught by men, either in the seminaries or theological schools, as having been happening. They cannot. Supernatural truths can only be taught by the Father in Heaven, including who is the true Pope. Only a St. Catherine of Sienna who communicates with God could say who was the true Pope among the several pretenders. Not even the cardinals, bishops and priest during her time knew who was the true Pope, because they were not in the state of sanctifying grace. Just like the bishops and priests theologians during the trial of St. Joan of Arc. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Those in the state of grace know all supernatural truths, including who is the true Pope. And the true Pope know who they are among the bishops, priests and laymen. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The state of the institutional Church with head quarters in the Vatican and of the whole world is that they are all in the natural level, if not down in the unnatural level of sin. None of them are being taught by the Father in heaven; so no one seem to know the true Catholic Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> B. The wounded mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Due to sin, especially original, the mind of man is wounded so that, though, ordinarily God made the mind to know the truth, the mind suddenly does not know the truth. It only knows lies, speaks lies and believes lies. And he cannot know that a lie is a lie because it does not know any truth. The greater the sin the more ignorant is the mind to whatever is true. The world today lives on lies, especially politicians.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Thomas of Aquinas, however, wrote that the mind does not completely lose its knowledge of the truth because God retains the conscience to enable sinful man to know its sins and repent. Conscience is so effective is that if the sinful man insist in not admitting his sins and repent, conscience drives him crazy as punishment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> When man insists in his sins, the devil, finding that his soul is empty of God, dwells in the soul of the sinner. This is called spiritual possession, like that of Judas. This is different from physical possession often seen in movies. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The wounded mind cannot reason logically and philosophically. So it is utterly useless to discuss anything with such. This is why 'common sense', philosophy and logic is gone, today. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> C. The wounded free will.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Due to sin, the free will cannot desire any spiritual good or even physical or political good. Such ideas as 'the common good,' 'the salvation of the soul,' cannot be heard anymore. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. As a consequence of these three wounds, mankind is sliding straight to hell. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It was for this fact that Christ became man; to save mankind because nobody else can do it. It was mission impossible. Today, the situation is, also, mission impossible. No human institution can solve the present problems of the world, except God. But God, as in the day of Noah and the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, won't do it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> God has taught mankind how to cooperate with Him in the salvation of their souls. The Liturgy repeats this 'Plan of salvation' every year from Ash Wednesday up to Pentecost. Man can cooperate in the salvation of his soul. We have just heard the lesson twice during this pandemic on how to repent. But due to unrepentant sins, he won't. Indeed, mankind is spiritually wounded. God have given the medication. But mankind won't use it......out of pride. Mankind is going where the author of pride Lucifer is going. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We are living in an atmosphere where God is saying; Enough is enough!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-46110516060319859312021-06-27T17:03:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:39.642+08:00GOD'S FAMILY - The REAL Members of the Catholic Church. FRIDAY of the 12th Weekday in Ordinary Time. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. Jesus Christ described the members of His Mystical Body.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> 'Who is My mother, my sister, my brother. He who keeps My commandments.' This was Christ's answer to those who informed Him that his relatives were waiting outside for Him. Not that He disowned His mother and relatives. But that He emphasised that they are His relatives not because of blood relationship but because they obeyed His commandments.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We have emphasised the importance of hearing Mass everyday because the entire teaching of the Catholic Church is learned in the Gospels as presented on Sundays and every day at the Liturgy of the Mass. Since Ash Wednesday up to the present, Friday of the 12th weekday in Ordinary time, we have been taught the ideal atmosphere necessary to learn how to save one's soul. First, we must have a good curriculum. Second, good teachers. Third, an ideal classroom. Fourth, we must be good disciples. And, lastly, we must have a good review class before we die.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. For the last week, 12th Weekday in ordinary time, the Liturgy had been giving us an image of a good class of disciples. Who are those who are truly inside the Catholic Church; who truly belongs to the Family of God; who are those within the kingdom of God; who are those who will go to heaven. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The examples given in the entire Liturgy is that we must have Faith. The Gospels gave the examples; first, Jesus Christ, who was conceived without original sin, born without sin, grew up without sin and died without any stain of sin. Secondly, the Blessed Virgin Mary who was conceived without original sin, born without sin, grew up without sin and died without any stain of sin. Thirdly, St. John the Baptist whose feast we recently celebrated, who was conceived with original sin, born without sin, grew up without sin and died without any stain of sin. And in today's Gospel, we have Mary Magdalene, who was conceived with original sin, born with sin, grew up with seven devils and died without sin. The Friday and Saturday Gospels added the man with leprosy, the centurion and the mother in law of St. Peter.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Sign that one is within the kingdom of God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The sign of a community that is Church is that one who has Faith can discern the Faith in others and both minister to each other physically and spiritually. It is the description of 'two or three gathered together in the name of Christ, wherein Christ is in their midst.' That is the image of the members of the Catholic Church.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today, nobody knows if they have Faith. They do not know if the other have Faith. And, though they could be ministering with one another physically, they are not ministering to one another spiritually. The Catholic Church, the Kingdom of God, is nowhere around. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Faith in oneself that gives us the power to notice the Faith in others who have it, therefore, makes us minister to each other physically and spiritually. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Many of us fall under this last category, in that, hopefully, we die without any sin, i.e. that we die in the state of grace.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But it is impossible for anyone to know if they are in the state of grace when they die. In some way, as St. Paul wrote, our conscience can inform us if we are in the state of grace or not. But without certainty. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ gave us many signs in the Gospel by which we can find out if we are in the state of grace or not. But these sign are available only to those who have the supernatural and theological virtue of Faith enlivened with Charity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The man with leprosy was a sinner, especially shown by his leprosy. But he had Faith enough to cure his leprosy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There is the ruler in a synagogue with the ill daughter who had great Faith. With St. Peter's mother in law and the woman with haemorrhage. All were described as having great Faith and their physical cure is a sign of the spiritual cure they underwent that made them disposed to receive the virtue of Faith from God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Today's Gospel, an image of the Catholic Church.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Gospel describes Jesus Christ, with His apostles and disciples. Together with them are women who were ministering to their needs. It was an image of the early Catholic Church living in community. All were ministering to Jesus Christ. Both the apostles, the disciples and the women were ministering to Christ. That is an image of the Catholic Church as described by Christ 'as My family.' 'Those who obey My commandments.' All of them have the Catholic Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. How can we know that we have Faith enlivened with Charity, that puts a soul within the kingdom of God, i.e. the Catholic Church?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> As Christ answered; 'by keeping My commandments.' Specifically what command; two commands, to repent and believe, as Christ, Himself, personally preached at the beginning of His public life. A soul must repent according to the Old Testament and repent according to the New Testament by acquiring the virtue of Penance that is prelude to receiving the virtue of Faith that forgives all his past sins. This is the beginning how a soul begins to be inside the Kingdom of God, i.e. the Catholic Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This initial Faith empowers the converted soul to follow Christ. But before he can follow Christ, he must remove all obstacles to the following of Christ, thus the necessity for Christ to tell the young rich man, 'to go home, sell all your things and give it to the poor.' Or, 'the other version of this command, 'to leave father, mother, brothers, sisters, wife and lands. ' This command of Christ to the young rich man is identical command Christ gave to all His apostles, to the young lawyer, to Matthew and to everybody because this is the first command of the New Testament. Without obeying this first command of the New Testament a soul cannot follow Christ to be a better Catholic. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Pope John Paul II very well described this first command of the New Testament in his encyclical 'Veritatis Splendor,' ordering the addressee of this encyclical, i.e. all bishops, to teach it to all their priests and eventually to all the faithful. Nobody did it. Nobody could preach what they have not done. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This is the answer to the question; where are all the Catholics. Nowhere, because it is impossible to find Faith in the earth, Christ, Himself, prophesied. Of course, there should be a few, but only those with Faith can find those with Faith, because they have in themselves what they are looking for in another. The faithless will not be able to find what they do not have in another. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The sign a soul has Faith is when one's educated conscience informs him that he has repented perfectly for all his past sins, therefore, he is at present sinless or immaculate or pure in heart. Thus he is worthy to see the face of God. Such a soul is within the Kingdom of God, is, in fact, in heaven while he is still on earth. And the Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to today shows the steps a soul must take that he may be 'perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-72127936482299924072021-06-22T16:08:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:39.751+08:00TEST OF FAITH......12th Sunday in Ordinary Time. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1, Faith is the basis for salvation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ clearly said that there is no condemnation to those who have Faith. Then, added, that those without Faith are already condemned. That is; those who have Faith will not have to face God in judgment because they are certain of their salvation, while whose without Faith will, also, not face in judgment because they have been judged. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Those who will be judged at the last Judgment are a completely different set of people as clearly described in the Gospel of Christ the King. But they are not the subject of this Gospel. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. What is Faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Faith is knowledge and obedience to the commands of Christ. Ignorance and disobedience to the commands of Christ is the sin against Faith that shows one has no Faith. It has become very important for a Christian to know whether he has Faith or not. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> So God has made it a point to test mankind every second of their lives so man can know if he has Faith or not. God, always, knows if a man has Faith or not. But man does not know it. The test is for man's sake. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Thus God tested, even, the angels. Then Adam and Eve who sinned against Faith. To show how serious is the sin against Faith, Adam and Eve together with the human race was condemned to hell for it. Thus Christ had to come and become man to save the human race. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. How did Christ save man?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> By giving man commandments to obey. Every time man obeys Christ's command he grows in Faith. Man must grow in Faith until his Faith is perfected with the eventual help with the grace of God. The occasion to grow in grace comes in the form of a test.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If man passes the test, he grows in Faith. If he fails, he loses his Faith. To recover his Faith and proceed to the perfection of Faith, God gave mankind the life of repentance wherein man receives the grace of Penance that forgives his sin against Faith and the grace to proceed to the perfection of Faith that becomes enlivened with the theological virtue of Charity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. The test of Faith of the disciples in the storm at sea.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> For their training in the life of Faith, the disciples was constantly tested, and they were helped by Christ, Himself, to pass their test and progress towards the perfection of Faith, attained on Easter and whose Faith was enlivened with Charity on Pentecost. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In today's Gospel, the disciples were having some beginner's test. The test, always, consist in asking the question; 'do you believe that Jesus is God? If your answer is 'yes,' you pass the test. If 'no,' you fail the test. When your answer is correct, you grow in Faith, if wrong, you commit the sin against Faith and regress in the spiritual life.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Here comes the disciple's test. Christ pulls His disciples away from the crowd to enter the boat and set sail. He pulled His disciples away from the crowd because He knew the disciples will fail the test and wanted to spare them of the embarrasment. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ boarded the boat and went to sleep as the disciples set said. The 'sleep' was the test. As the journey proceeded, a storm broke, the wind was strong and waves high. The disciples was afraid, went to Christ saying, 'Lord, help us. We are in danger of sinking.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The disciples knew Christ was God who could calm the wind and the sea. That is all fine. Their Faith was good up to there. But then they thought that Christ could not calm the wind and sea if He was sleeping. There is where they failed the test. Their idea that Christ had to wake up to calm the wind and sea was their lack of Faith. God does not have to wake up to calm a storm. Christ corrected His disciples, 'why you weak of Faith.' With this correction, the disciples grew more in Faith. When God corrects, it is for man to grow in Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. God corrects man in two ways.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> When a soul is growing to perfection in the right way, God, sorts of, corrects him so he can go faster forward. This is rare and occurs only in great saints. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The more common correction that God gives is in the form of chastisements, when man sins and is in the state of being condemned for all eternity. Such a man does not realise he has sinned against Faith. He has no Faith, has sinned against Faith and is going to hell. The Corona virus is a chastisement God is giving mankind to inform mankind that they have sinned grievously, they have not repented, and they die they will go straight to hell.....unless they repent by acquiring through a life of repentance the virtue of Penance that will forgive their sins. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The length of the pandemic that is now on the second year shows mankind is not repenting. And as expected when man is not repenting, mankind is getting worse by sinning more and more against God. In fact, most of the human solution to stop the pandemic consist in committing more sins against God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Sinners are getting richer, sinners are getting everything they want, sinners are released from jail, sinners win elections, sinners are financed to commit more sins like abortion. While the good are punished for doing good, are prevented from doing good like going to Mass. The good are punished for having Faith in God and not in man. To have faith in man is a sin. With this arrangement, the world is getting worse and millions of souls will be going to hell.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> People are dying. We have to ask the question, 'where are their souls going?' Without Faith, they go straight to hell. And nobody cares. Nobody is teaching why there is a chastisement. Nobody is teaching what is the test and how to pass the test. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The world is like a boat in the middle of a storm amidst strong winds and high waves. And everybody is boring holes in the boat. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. God save us.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Like the disciples in the boat, amidst the strong wind and waves, the Catholic world have ordered the praying of the rosary and pray 'God save us from this pandemic.' But they are not expecting the sleeping Christ to wake up and save the world. They expect the vaccine to be distributed and save the world. That is total lack of Faith in God. It is mere human faith on a vial of vaccine. That cannot save souls. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> That world wide prayer, led by the Vatican, will not stop the pandemic. God will not stop something that He had sent for the good of mankind. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It is all right to wear masks, like the priest who said Mass with a face mask because he forgot his false teeth. That was a great need. It is all right to wear face shields and observe social distancing. It is even all right to take the vaccine. But your Faith must not be on these. Man will still, eventually, die. He needs Faith in God, who controls all of creation. Right now, there is no Faith in God. The world is going downhill to hell. The fire of Hell is already showing in many cities. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-71049125324214762082021-06-20T16:41:00.003+08:002021-10-19T15:04:39.881+08:00YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS..... Saturday in the 11 weekday of the Year. St. Romuald.<p><span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Liturgy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy of the whole of last week was about 'being perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect.' This is required for the salvation of one's soul. Christ said so. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To be perfect means to know what are all the commands of Christ, to know how to observe them, and to actually obey or observe them.... until we can love our enemies.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Where can you find the commands of Christ? From the Gospels of the Masses every Sunday and every day of the week. To miss one command of Christ by missing one Gospel in a missed Mass makes one's Faith imperfect and salvation is doubtful. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Where can we find 'how to obey those commandments?' The 'how' was, also, given by Christ to the first Christian communities but the evangelists did not write it down because it was too long. St. John wrote that the 'how' could fill up the libraries of the world. Fortunately the first holy bishops, called the Fathers of the Church, found time to write it down. We have them all, now. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> How do we put these commands into practice. This is the third element of Faith found in the Apostolic Commission, and this is called ascetical theology. This is difficult to do. But these are all found arranged to be observed in proper order in the Liturgy of the Mass. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To know all the commands of Christ, to know how to observe them, and to actually put them into practice......is to serve God, alone. It, also means, loving God alone, the consequence of which is that one will hate the world and will never serve the world. Christ said; you cannot serve two masters. You will surely love one and hate the other. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> He who loves the world, i.e. anything in the world, like money, position, etc, he will surely hate God, his wife, children, friends and all men in the world. Since all men can really be divided into 'those for Me and those against Me,' the world can really be divided into those for God and those against God, the devil. You cannot serve two master; God and the devil. You will love one and hate the other. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. St. Augustine's 'aversion ad Deo, conversio ad creaturam, ' and vice versa.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The above command of Christ was explained by St. Augustine in this way. If a soul is converted to God he will have aversion towards everything in the world. On the other hand, if a soul is converted to the world or loves the world, he will hate everything that is of God and hate all his neighbour, his wife, children, etc. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Love of God is in the spiritual level. Love for worldly things, which is in the natural level, cannot co-exist with something spiritual. According to one's preference, the other one will be excluded. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> All men are born loving the world, therefore, hate God and all their neighbour. Man needs the help of God to turn around and love God through a process wherein that will turn him gradually from the love of the world to the love of God. The Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to Pentecost shows man how to go about it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. A simple formula.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Fathers of the Church in commenting upon the words of Christ in the New Testament pointed out the way to turn around from the love of the world to love of God. First, follow the easier path as presented by the Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to Holy Week as graphically presented in the Rule of St. Benedict. Secondly, proceed towards the more difficult path as presented by the Liturgy from Holy Week to Pentecost as presented in the Rule of St. Romuald.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Note that the Liturgy contains always the commemoration of a saint or event in the Life of the saints. These commemorations are examples in the life of the saints on how the main message of the Liturgy is put into actual practice.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Rule of St. Benedict was observed both by St. Benedict and St. Romuald. So the same Rule is for beginners, like St. Benedict,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and for the perfect, like St. Romuald. Because the Rule of St. Benedict contains the entire Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to Pentecost. The latter saint, simply observe the same identical Rule in a deeper way; While some followers of St. Benedict who were beginners, prayed the Psalms in the Old Testament way, the followers of St. Benedict who were advanced like St. Romuald prayed the Psalms in the New Testament way. They prayed exactly the same Divine Office. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">4. Serving the master perfectly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy of the last week had been emphasising the need to be 'perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect.' To deserve to go to heaven, a follower of Christ must 'perfectly' serve God and have 'aversio' towards 'creaturas.' To serve God means to love God with all your mind, all your heart, all your will and all your strength. In short, there must be, absolutely, no place for worldly creatures in one's mind, heart, will and strength. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today, that is impossible. We live in a era where mankind loves the world, is caring only for the world and who is, in fact, worshipping the Mother World. All have chosen their master. Very few have chosen God; so few we cannot even find them. Almost all have chosen the world whose prince is Lucifer; thus most have consciously chosen to be the subject of its prince. </span></p><p> </p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-14109549583189701222021-06-19T13:11:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:40.009+08:00WHY IS DAILY MASS NECESSARY Thursday of the 11th week in Ordinary time.<p><span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Liturgy of the Mass.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Why is daily Mass necessary? To go to heaven we must love God. Christ said; 'If you love Me, keep My commandments.' Where do we find all the commandments of Christ that we must know and observe? In Divine Revelation. Is it enough for us to read the Bible, master and obey the commands of Christ as found there? No. We don't just read the Bible. We learn our religion from the official teaching of the Church as laid down in the Liturgy of the Mass.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The order in obeying the commands of Christ.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There are several commands of God the Father in the Old Testament and several commands of God the Son in the New Testament. Both are available in Divine Revelation or the Bible. But to find those commands in the Bible, learn how to obey them and actually obey them is total confusion. And St. Thomas said so. He said that God had intentionally jumble up all the commands of God in the Bible so that nobody can know them, nobody can interpret them correctly and nobody can obey them. In short, We can learn how to love God by obeying His commands through the Liturgy of the daily Mass. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> God had, intentionally, jumbled up all the commands in Scriptures to confuse those false preachers who intend to use Christ's teaching to enrich themselves as all false preachers do. Most of them are millionaires with private jets. God made it in such a way that no false preacher can be a source of salvation. The Liturgy of the Catholic Church, also, describes who our true preachers should be. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. The proper order in learning and obeying the commands of Christ.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The commands of Christ are all jumbled in total confusion in the four Gospels. Its proper interpretation, given by Christ, Himself, is not found in the Gospels. Though given by Christ to the first Christian community verbally, it was later on written down by the Fathers of the Church. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The best experts in Scripture cannot know the proper order in observing the commands of Christ and its proper interpretation. Christ, alone, can teach souls both......in prayer during the Liturgy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. The Liturgy is the official school house of Catholic teaching. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The teachings of Christ is presented in the form of commandments and in proper order, from the easiest to the most perfect within the Liturgy of the Mass. The soul must follow this regimen zealously and with haste. Never slacking, never stopping, and never regressing. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To aid the soul to progress to perfection 'as the Heavenly Father is perfect' the Liturgy informs the soul the steps; in what step the soul is and the next step the soul must take. So his progress is continuous, keeping in mind the words of St. Thomas; the soul who stops, regresses. So the soul must continue to progress.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy shows all the steps from the first, for beginners, to the last, for the perfect. And in proper order. This proper order is not found in the Gospel purposely. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. For example, during the on going pandemic. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Let us take an example on how the Liturgy works. Two years ago, God was going to chastise the world for its sinfulness. Before He chastised the world, the Liturgy prepared the world with Ash Wednesday. The pandemic was going to be like an angel of death; people will be dying over the entire world. Since this pandemic is a chastisement to remind the world that it has sinned and in danger of going to hell, the Liturgy taught how sins are forgiven according to the New Testament, on Ash Wednesday last year, just before the pandemic. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If the world listened, learned and obeyed the daily Gospel lessons from Ash Wednesday up to Easter, like Nineveh, God would have restrained His hands and not chastised the world. There would have not been a pandemic. The lesson on how to prepare one's soul to repent to stop the chastisement was taught by the Liturgy in its Sunday and daily Masses from Ash Wednesday up to Easter. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> No priest, bishops and not even Pope Francis preached the necessity of the virtue of Penance from Ash Wednesday. So God let His hand fall and the world was chastised with this pandemic. Since the world had not stop sinning and refused to acquire the virtue of Penance (as described by St. Thomas of Aquinas) the pandemic continues. As such, it has no end. It could go worse into another chastisement. Maybe a great earthquake, a super volcano or even a world war. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Though there was Sunday and daily Masses before the pandemic, it seems that no one preached the 50 commands of Christ from Ash Wednesday up to Easter. Because no one knew those commands, how to observe them and how to obey them, which is the work of evangelization as described by Christ in His Apostolic Commission to His apostles. Evidently, no one knew the commands of Christ and the proper order in observing those commands. Not last year and not this year. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These things can be learned in the Liturgy of the Mass. Why did God cancel the Liturgy</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">world wide. There were no Sunday and daily Masses. As Ezechiel wrote; when God sees that people are not interested in saving their souls, God does not send good preachers and teachers. Both preachers and listeners remain totally ignorant of the way to salvation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A few may really be interested in saving their souls, God, personally intervenes on their behalf. This is extraordinary, but it often happens today.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. Sunday Mass, alone, cannot perfect the Faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To be saved, a soul must have perfect repentance and perfect Faith enlivened with Charity. Faith and Charity is obedience to all the commands of Christ. The commands of Christ is given in each Gospel of the Mass, both during Sundays and daily Masses. So those hearing Mass on Sundays only cannot learn seven commands every week. Ignorance of seven commands, the soul cannot have perfect Faith enlivened with Charity, i.e. he cannot be saved. Having missed the Gospels of the Sunday and daily Masses for the last two years during the pandemic, nobody can know all the commands of Christ. No such person can be saved. And that is you and me. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">7. What are you going to do about it?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In your locked down home, study the Liturgy of the Mass with you Daily Missal. Read the Gospel. Look for the correct interpretation from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, short cut, Summa theological, by St. Thomas of Aquinas can combines all the Fathers and doctors of the Church. Then put it into practice. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The pandemic is a test, if you do the above or not. If you do it, there is nothing to worry. </span></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-26397686639262144112021-06-16T18:07:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:40.270+08:00BE PERFECT AS YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS PERFECT. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Liturgy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy had been teaching how man must progress from being a slave of original sin and, recently, teaching how one must be perfect to deserve everlasting life in heaven.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> God made man, Adam and Eve, almost perfect. And they could have remained perfect if they passed their test in the garden of Eden. But they failed by disobeying God. This disobedience had been called original sin which all man inherited. This state is the lowest sinful state man can be. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy had been describing how man can rise up from this lowly state and reach the state of being perfect like God. This is God's requirement for the salvation of one's soul after He has taught the human race through the Liturgy how to rise from the state of abominable sinfulness to the heights of being perfect like God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Of course, man cannot be as perfect as God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Man can only be like God. But up to what point? God gave the maximum required for salvation; perfect Faith with love of God, love of neighbour, love of husband, wife, children, friends. Up to love of enemy.That's it. Christ showed the example on the cross, martyrs showed it in the Coliseum. Christians, today, are showing it in Egypt, Nigeria, etc. We must show it today.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We must love our enemies to be 'as perfect as God.' And we do it by praying for him that he may be saved. We do not have to do anything else. Just pray for him that he may be converted. Probably he will never be converted but we, on our part, must pray for the salvation of his soul, that we may become as perfect as God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. The stages leading towards Christian perfection. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> First stage. Each man begins as a child with natural holiness, thus Christ said, 'unless you become like little children.' But he loses this natural holiness when he reaches the age of reason and makes his first act of free will to sin. A man becomes a deplorable sinner in the image of Cain. He has the inward tendency to kill 'the good,' because of the rising evil in him influenced by original sin. Cain killed his brother Abel, not because he was his brother but because he saw him as 'pleasing to God,' a good person. From this stage God taught man to rise up to the natural law with the 'golden rule,' to do to others what you want others to do unto you.' </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Second stage, the natural law. With 'do unto others what you want others to do unto you,' man was given a rule of life to be able to do good to others and avoid doing evil to others. But due to original sin, man keeps on making mistakes on what 'good' to do to others and what 'evil' to avoid. In fact, in an attempt to worship God they tend to commit more mistakes by worshipping the wrong god and the mistake of offering human sacrifices to the wrong god, like the Aztecs at the time of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Third stage. To guide man higher, God gave them the 10 commandments in the Old Testament where it is written ' not to kill.' But man continue to kill. It seems mankind was having great difficulty to advance from sinfulness towards 'perfection.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Fourth stage. So Christ was born to begin the era of grace where God, Himself, will teach man what is right and what is wrong, teach him how to choose what is right and give him the power to obey God's commands that lead towards being 'perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect.' This last stage is impossible without grace. It is attainable, only, with the help of grace. God, only, requires that man have the proper disposition, which is humility; i.e. man must fully realise that he cannot be perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect without the grace from God. Unfortunately, most of the human race believe they can be perfect all by themselves without any help from God. In fact, man's greatest sin is that he thinks he is god, who, only, needs a little help from science and he can do thing perfectly without God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. To be saved.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To remain in the three lower stages means condemnation. To be saved man must rise up to the level of grace and be 'perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To be perfect means to rise up to the level of grace. It means to have perfect Faith, the theological virtue. And to have the beginnings of the theological virtue of Charity. The Liturgy from Ash Wednesday, which was celebrated last year just before God chastised the world with the Corona virus, was meant to teach mankind how to prepare for the eventuality of death due to the virus. We are now in the second year of the Liturgy and man has not learned how to prepare for the eventuality of death. The effort is still in trying to avoid death which could come in a hundred different ways. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Here is the complete steps to reach perfection. First, one must live a perfect life of repentance. This is attained when a soul receives from God the virtue of Penance through a life of prayer, fasting and good works. Having attained perfect Penance, a soul receives from God the theological virtue of Faith together with graces and the theological virtue of Charity. The virtue of Charity must be perfected until one receives from Christ the first breath of the Holy Spirit that will enable the soul to love one's neighbour. With love of neighbour, the soul must rise up to loving parents, husband, wife, children, relatives and friends. And lastly, the soul must love one's enemies. Loving all the above is from the same virtue of Charity that includes love of God's creatures. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> That is the highest perfection that man can achieve with the help of the grace of God. Man does not become as perfect as God; he, simply, become perfect 'as God is perfect.' Man imitates in a lower degree the perfection of God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> For Catholics, he must be perfect as God the Father is perfect, otherwise, he is not even a Catholic. He cannot do this on his own. He cannot reach this without the grace of God. Thus he must, in fact, be a contemplative in his way of prayer, to be able to reach this stage. Being a highly spiritual state, no one can see or discern this. It is impossible for most to know who these people are.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To be 'perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect,' is the first requirement for canonisation of a saint. The present Vatican bureaucracy does not know this, thus they are canonising without fulfilling this requirement which make their canonisation process doubtful. All the recent documents for the process of canonisation lacks this requirement, which is present in the process in the canonisation of St. Therese of Lisieux. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To be truly Catholic, we must be as 'perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect.' Most men are not even observing the 10 commandments of God. Most have not even graduated from being Aztecs, offering human sacrifices. The whole world, like the G7 had even fostered the killing of babies world wide, while US citizens pay taxes to support abortion with the consent of many of the US bishops. Some have not even stopped being Cains, killing the 'good' Abel. The human race have not progressed at all towards the life of grace. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> And, yet, God said clearly, that only those who are 'perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect' can go to heaven. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-74185789679087444522021-06-07T00:46:00.002+08:002021-10-19T15:04:40.527+08:00C O R P U S C H R I S T I.<p> <span style="font-size: large;">1. The Liturgy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> After teaching the life of repentance, Faith and Charity, from Ash Wednesday up to Ascension, the Ordinary Sundays begun to teach the three steps of evangelization, i.e. on how apostles are supposed to save souls referred to as the Apostolic Commission by Christ. The steps are, first, to go and teach all nations. Secondly, to baptise them. Thirdly, to teach them all the commands of Christ and how to observe them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These three steps may be described in a more specific way as to teach all nations how to reason well in the natural way referred to as philosophy in the form of a syllogism. To teach all nations how to receive the necessary graces from God to proceed to the third step; which is to be able to obey the commands of Christ on Faith and Charity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Putting it in a very personal way.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To be evangelised properly, I must reason properly that there is only one God and He is the Lord. I must pray for graces from God either through baptism and if I lose the baptismal grace through keeping the baptismal character, I must live a life of repentance unto the acquisition of the virtue of Penance for the forgiveness of my past sins.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With this grace, I must proceed to fill my mind with heavenly things and my heart with Divine Charity which consist in loving God and neighbour. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. St. Thomas of Aquinas.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These four things mentioned above, good reasoning, graces, wisdom in the mind and love of God and neighbour in the free will can be attained through the Holy Eucharist as celebrated in the feast of Corpus Christi. The four above things can be attained through the sacrifice of the Mass, from the 'confiteor,' through the readings, the consecration and the receiving of Holy Communion. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy of the Mass, in other words, is the official instrument of evangelization of the Catholic Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Thomas of Aquinas is one saint who attained the four above things through the Sacrifice of the Mass. He is a saint known to reason philosophically very well, to have received countless from God, had acquired great knowledge and wisdom through the celebration of the Mass. Anyone can do the same. He composed countless hymns, poems, prayers and a Mass for Corpus Christi showing through his treatises how the Apostolic Commission of Christ to His apostles can be achieved through the Liturgy of the Mass. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Mass can evangelise souls and it for this reason that the devil had deprived the human race of the Mass during this pandemic. The end of evangelization can be attained through the Liturgy of the Mass even if there is no available priest, bishops or even Pope to celebrate the Mass. The monastic movement did not have frequent Masses and yet monks were very well catechised and the best missionaries like St.Boniface of Germany, and St. Austin of England, St. Bede. Because they lived the Liturgy in their daily lives.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It is for this reason that the devil had been trying to destroy the Liturgy with abuses but have not succeeded as of now. </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-64194930048272482522021-05-28T18:25:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:40.906+08:00I M A G E of the CHURCH. Tuesday of the 8th Weekday. St. Pope Gregory VII, St. Bede, St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi. <p> <span style="font-size: large;">1. The Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> During the Ascension, Jesus had completed the image of the Catholic Church that He had just established. That was the job He was sent by the Father to do. The Liturgy described how that Church looks like, its teachings, its teachers, its classrooms, its pupils. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Tuesday and Wednesday shows with the commemoration of St. Gregory VII, St. Bede and St Mary Magdalene de Pazzi how the Church look like years after its establishment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Gregory VII, the Pope, shows how a Pope should look like. St. Bede shows how a priest should look like. St. Mary Magdalene shows how a layman should look like. All of them have one thing in common which united them into one Church. They all knew the commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament; they knew how those commands should be put into practice; and they put into practice all those commands. In short, they recipients of the Apostolic Commission Christ gave the first Apostles and they put them into practice. They conformed to the image of the Church, Christ established before He ascended to heaven. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> How does our Catholic parish or diocese look like? How does the Vatican look like? Nowhere near the Church before the Ascension and nowhere near the Church of Gregory VII, Venerable Bede and Mary Magdalene de Pazzi. In fact, just the opposite. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The Catholic Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Catholic Faith is established by obeying the Apostolic Commission given by Christ to the apostles. The last two phrases are the significant points whose goal is for listeners to make an Act of Catholic Faith; 'teach them all that I have commanded, and how to observe them.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Catholic Faith is to know all the commandments of Christ as found in the New Testament, and how to observe them as taught by Christ to the first Christian communities but written down later by the Fathers of the Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> For the above Faith to be alive, it must be enlivened by Charity which consist in obeying the commandments of Christ. Theologians describe this as Faith and Charity, or Faith and Good works. There are approximately 82 commandments of Christ as found in the Gospel of Matthew. True Faith with Charity consist in obeying all of them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The image of the true Catholic Church described before the Ascension of Christ to heaven is that the Pope must have mastered all the 82 commandments of Christ and have obeyed them. He must, in turn, teach these to the cardinals, bishops and priests, who in turn must master them and obey them. And lastly they must teach these commandments to the laity in the dioceses and parishes, who, in turn must obey all of them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> When Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests and lay people have obeyed them all, then God will send them the Holy Spirit to unite them into One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. This is how the true Catholic Church looked liked before the Ascension; this is how it should look like today. But it does not look like this today; not before the pandemic, more so during this pandemic. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> During the ongoing pandemic, neither the Pope, nor the cardinals and bishops, nor the priest or nuns, nor the laity have heard the commandments of Christ as laid down in the Liturgy of the Mass since the last two Holy Weeks up to today, Tuesday of the 8th week of Easter. No one is showing he has the Catholic Faith, except a very few who have it through a very special intervention of Almighty God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Proof of what Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in the 1980s on the 'crisis of Faith,' in his best selling 'Ratzinger Report.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In the above treatise, Ratzinger noted that the crisis in the Church is due to lack of Faith. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Unbelief or the sin against Faith is the greatest sin. Through unbelief, man remains in sin and becomes totally incapable of progressing forward. Chastisement is a punishment for unbelief.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> 4. The sin of unbelief during the Corona pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The present pandemic is a chastisement from God for man to see what is his sin. His sin is unbelief and the punishment is condemnation according to Christ. What does the world not believe in? It does not believe in the Divine Providence of God, i.e. in that God controls all of creation. That God decides when a man lives and when he dies. And nobody can change God's Providence. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Man may wear anything; he may wear a mask, a face shield, a gas mask, a hood. He can wear anything and that is alright. He can observe social distancing and live in the opposite side of the earth if he wants.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. The Church.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But Faith consist in that man must believe that God dictates who the virus will infect and who will not be infected; who will die and who will live. And most importantly, who will go to heaven when he dies and who will go to hell.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Faith, also, consist in believing that there is a direct Will of God wherein He willed to create the Chinese and the Americans. And that there is a permissive Will of God that made Him allow the Chinese to make the Corona virus and for the Americans to have a new President. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Faith consist in believing that God allowed the Corona pandemic to test the Faith of all men with the end of rewarding the faithful while punishing the unfaithful. True Catholics are those who believe in this Divine Providence of God and have passed this on going test of Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">6. He who does not believe in God's truth will believe in every lie.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> He who does not believe in Divine Providence but believes in every lie does not belong to the true church completely established by Christ before His Ascension. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">7. The reaction of the whole world shows it has no Faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This reaction of unbelief is more pronounced in the institutional Catholic Church; The behaviour of the Vatican and almost all Diocese and parishes is total unbelief in the doctrine of Divine Providence. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There is nothing wrong with the face masks, face shields and social distancing. It is the reason for wearing and doing these that shows no Faith. One can use five masks and shields and still believe in the doctrine of Divine Providence. Unbelief is an act of the mind and will; it is not a physical act. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There is nothing wrong with not attending Mass if one is ill. But it is a sign of unbelief if one misses Mass due to fear of the virus; 'fear not what can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Fear God who can kill both body and soul.' God kills those guilty of unbelief. Unbelief was the Chosen People's greatest sin when Christ preached to them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ, Himself, prophesied that an age will come when people will experience 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity.' Perfect Faith goes hand in hand with Charity; both are theological virtues that go together. Both are needed for salvation, because God gives the virtue of Charity, only, to those with perfect Faith. That is why God did not send the Holy Spirit, the author of Charity, on Pentecost until the apostles had perfect Faith which they had before Christ ascended to heaven.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Most of mankind, today, do not have Charity, i.e. love of God and neighbour. St. Augustine wrote; if you do not love God, you will hate everybody. So what we have is hate crimes. And the only love man know is 'love of concupiscence,' the love one has for another for what pleasure he can get from the other. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There is no Charity because there is no perfect Faith upon which Charity is based. And there is no perfect Faith because man has not repented of their sins; it is for this reason that God sent the on going Corona virus pandemic, because man has not repented for his sins. And why has man not repented? Because he does not know his sins. How come he does not know his sins? Because he does not know the commandments of Christ, the violation of which is called sin. If Pope Francis and most of the US bishops do not know that abortionist cannot receive Holy Communion, demonstrators will not know that looting is wrong. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">8. How does the true Catholic Church look like. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It should look like the day before Ascension Day as described above. We must have a Pope like Gregory VII, priests like Venerable Bede and a laymen like Mary Magdalene of Pazzi. Is the present institutional Church like that? Reading how the Church look like before Ascension, and reading the lives of the above saints commemorated in today's Mass...........it is not. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-49004264756245488082021-05-20T02:03:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:41.162+08:00P E A C E . Signs of the true Church. ASCENSION WEEKDAYS. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. Ascension. Christ's work is done.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Before He ascended to His Father, Jesus saw to it that his work on earth is done. His work was to establish His Church on earth for the salvation of mankind. Thus the Liturgy is now showing how that Church looks like. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The true Church of Christ can be recognised in many ways; through the 4 visible signs found in the Nicene Creed. Through the 15 Marks of the true Church by St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church, which is an expanded version of the four visible marks from the Creed. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Souls with grace can recognise the true Church through the Moral and theological virtues. But for most Catholic, the true Church can be recognised through the parables on the kingdom of God as narrated in the Liturgy; especially as summarised in the Gospel of the feast of the Ascension of Christ and during the following Gospels of the following weekdays. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Signs of the true Church established on Ascension.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Its head, either the Pope, Bishop or priest is teaching them all the commands of Christ as found in the New Testament, is teaching them how to put those commands into practice as taught by Christ to the first Christian communities and written down by the Fathers of the Church and further explained by the Doctors of the Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> And the followers are obeying those commands as instructed. This was the Apostolic Commission of Christ to the apostles and all their successors must obey them. If these are not taught they are not Catholic. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The next signs the Liturgy gave is the power God had given His true Church. The power to drive devils from their souls, the power to expose heresies and to remain in the truth in the midst of heretical teachings. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> After being given wisdom and powers, Christ saw to it that they are not of the world as He was not of the world. The Church is like the City of God and not the City of man, as St. Augustine differentiated them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. They have the gift of PEACE. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This 'peace' is a gift of the Holy Spirit. No man can give this nor any institution demand or agree on it. Peace is given, only, to those who have undergone the four steps the Liturgy have shown from Ash Wednesday up to Ascension; i.e. know your sin, repent for your past sins, have perfect Faith enlivened by Charity. Then and only then can a soul have peace. It is a sign that a soul has become truly a Catholic. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Thomas wrote that 'peace' is, exclusively, a gift from God. Nobody can just have it. That is why no organisation can promise it nor can produce peace anywhere. Neither the UN nor the institutional Church who is uselessly trying to make peace among different religions. Who do they think they are. Gods?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Peace is possible only in souls that are in the state of grace, i.e. souls who have no sins. That is why there is no peace in the world, among nations, among husband and wives, not even among brothers and sisters, because all have sinned. It is impossible for Israel and Hamas to have peace. All human efforts are futile in making peace because a sinner does not even have peace within himself. St. James wrote that all battles begin within each person before it goes public. Man, due to sin, is at war with himself, and this war will go external. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. The word 'peace' is usually plastered all over monastery walls. Because that is the goal of monastic spirituality, the attainment of the gift of 'peace.' After which they are supposed to go out into the world and become peace makers. To be a peace maker is a Beatitude and a soul must be very holy before he can become a peace maker; he must, first, have peace. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today's peace makers, like the UN. is full of sins. They don't have the gift of peace. Even in the Vatican whose offices are filled with gay and heretics, they cannot have peace due to their sins. Thus it is impossible for them to create their beloved one-world religion wherein all are in the state of sin and, therefore, do not have peace. What they have is guilty conscience that gives them no peace, and which is driving them crazy unless they repent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The lack of peace is the cause for all the hate crimes in the world. It is not so much that the other person is hateful. It is each person, due to their own sins who hates all the others. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. Considering the Church, the finished job done by Christ before His Ascension, today, no institutional church is identical to it based on the signs already enumerated in the Liturgy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. So where is the Church?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It is, still, there on earth. But it seems no one knows the description of the true Church just before Ascension Day. The church in the Vatican is not even a shadow of the Church before the Ascension. And neither any diocese or parish. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today, as Christ said to the Samaritan woman, true worshippers worship in spirit and in truth. But they, still, possess their human bodies so they can be seen. The man of peace, still, has his human body so he can be seen, he can be found and he can, still, aid in teaching the way of peace to the Israelites and Palestinians. And to the whole world. The man or woman who have followed Christ from Ash Wednesday up to Ascension Day is the man of peace. Only he or she can lead others to a life of peace because God the Holy Spirit, who alone is the giver of the gift of peace, is in them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-88034155735752238122021-05-10T23:53:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:41.543+08:00Being a BRANCH ATTACHED TO THE VINE in China, Africa, Middle East, USA....and in the whole world. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The third level interpretation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The third level of interpretation of the parable of the Vine and the branches, according to St. Thomas of Aquinas, refers to the free will, the faculty of Charity or love, and is impossible without the grace of God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It is the way souls become truly Christian through the direct intervention of God. Pagans and even Catholics enter the true Church this way. The incident is common among saints that do not show human interventions, like the example of St. Therese of Lisieux.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> As in the previous post, it is the way a soul is saved though he is alone in an island in the middle of the Pacific with absolutely nothing. No telephone, no books, no radio, no computer, no nothing. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Firstly, if this soul looks up to heaven and sees the sky, the sun, the moon and stars ..... and say, I think a Divine Being created all these and how I greatly wish to know who he is. Secondly, if he further say, this Divine Being had commanded the sun to move from East to West, the moon and the stars. How I wish I know His commands for me. And thirdly, if this soul says, If I knew his commands I will obey them. This soul had just become a branch attached to the Vine.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Act of the Free Will.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Note that the three above acts are acts of the free will and, therefore, acts of love. Since these acts are directed towards a Supreme Being, grace had been given to him to enable him to make an act of Faith, Hope and Charity. This soul is truly a member of the Catholic Church, and will surely be saved. The above three acts were done by both the intellect and free will. But since the intellect is completely ignorant of Catholic teaching, the above act was reduced to mainly an act of the free will, i.e. an act of Love, Charity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ mentioned to the Samaritan Woman that one day she did not have to go to Samaria or Jerusalem in order to worship God because the day will come when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This is that day. Souls do not have to go to the Vatican, to cathedrals or parishes because people do not worship God properly in those places. We have come to those days when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. With the spiritual faculties of intellect and free will and based on natural truths, like there is a God of nature. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Chinese, Africans, Middle East Catholic Christians persecuted in these places should worship God in this way to minimise their exposure to the wrath of pagans. They must worship God by going to their rooms and locking the door, as Christ exhorted. They should not show external signs of Catholicity unless forcefully demanded by circumstances to confess their Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These persecuted Catholics know the basic Catholic truths upon which they can base their acts of free will, i.e. their act of desire. Though their knowledge is incomplete due to their persecuted situation, this very situation will not prevent them from making the act of free will, i.e. by wishing. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. This is the deepest interpretation on how a branch is attached to the Vine, i.e. through the free will. It is an act of love, an act of Charity that is moved by the grace of God. God intervenes directly in such special situations when He sees the proper disposition of a soul that is predestined. True Catholics in such situations similar to a soul alone in an island in the midst of the Pacific should not depend on instructions from the Vatican, from the diocesan office or anywhere else. The age has come, Christ prophesied to the Samaritan Woman, that going to the Vatican, the diocese and parish for instruction, is over. True worshippers will worship in spirit, i.e. with their spiritual faculties of intellect and free Will, and in Truth, i.e. there is One God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. Period of Pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This is the same situation in areas where there is pandemic. They are like in an island in that there are no Sacraments, no Masses and no one preaching the Catholic truths because Christ had prophesied that we are in an age where there is a decay of Faith and the waxing cold of Charity. That is as bad as being in an island in the middle of nowhere. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Droplets of truth can still be found in Scriptures, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church but these truths cannot be understood without the grace of God. And this grace is given only to the humble, not to the proud of which most people are. So today, we must worship, also, in spirit and in truth. Nobody seems to know how to do that, except God and He is not talking too much. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. The Ark of the Covenant is gone. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The ark of the covenant was the place where God, in the form of cloud and fire, use to speak to the priests who will eventually transmits God's Will to the people. Because of the infidelity of both priest and people God took away the Ark of the Covenant. It was still missing at the time of Christ. God stopped speaking to the priests. And the priest could not convey God's Will to the people. The priest and the people ended up just doing their own will, just like Adam and Eve. Mankind had returned with vengeance to original sin.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today, God no longer speak to priests and bishops. So they only tell people their own opinion that is why their homilies are all written down. Their homilies are written by men and copied from men. They know nothing about the Will of God. And so, rightly, have God cancelled everything because mankind is just talking nonsense to one another. God is not talking to mankind and man is not talking to God. No branch is attached to the Vine. The branches are all dead and dried. It is ready for the fire. Except for a few that have gone to be alone in a spiritual island......or in the middle of the spiritual desert in the middle of China, Africa or the Middle East. Or lock down in spiritual cell in Manhattan, St. Louise, or South Carolina,......like St. Catherine of Sienna who was always within her monastic cell everywhere she went. With her mind and free will in constant communion with God. </span></p><p><br /></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-21695057267978002682021-04-07T01:59:00.003+08:002021-10-19T15:04:42.570+08:00Philippines' 500 years of Christianity Anniversary.<p><span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The church that never resurrected.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Churches in Europe were churches that were established firmly during its golden age but which eventually died out. All of them, like France and Ireland, who were once upon a time Catholic, do not have a single drop of Catholicism in them today. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The middle east once upon a time seat beds of Catholicism have only tiny groups of Catholicism today. Asia and the Philippines were never fully Catholic. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The Philippines, which celebrates its 500 years anniversary of Catholicism was never a Catholic nation. The official text book of History of the Catholic Church used in Philippine seminaries noted that the archipelago was never fully christianised because most of the missionaries who went there to evangelised the nation where tainted already by the heresy of modernism coming from the Reign of terror in France. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The poor catechising of the Filipino people were continued by the fact that problem priests in Europe were sent to the Philippines as place of exile. If there are missionary saints in the Philippines it was more because, by the providence of God, they were among those martyred in Asian pagan countries like Japan and Korea. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. The influence of the 'illustrados.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A group of Filipino known as 'gente de razor,' were like the 'enlightened' equivalent in Europe and in the States. They were mainly members of secret societies with anti-Catholic sentiments. The more popular of them, Jose Rizal, was pro-Catholic and pro-Spain. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The decay of Catholicism in Europe had its heavy toll in preventing the Philippines into developing into a true Catholic nation. The anti-Catholic movement brought by these 'gente de razor,' the equivalent of the 'enlightened' of the French reign of terror was joined by the conquest of the USA of the Philippines. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. The Thomasites.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The USA, born from the the same philosophy of the Reign of Terror from France, joined the 'illustrados' to </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">further pushed the Philippines to become more liberal and less Catholic. From this time on, the progress of the Philippines into becoming a true Catholic nation completely stopped. It would never become a truly Catholic nation. It would remain as non-Catholic as Europe and other non- Catholic nations. It would remain as a conglomeration of a thousand different religions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">5. A return.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The middle East and Europe were once upon a time truly Catholic. Now, they are no longer. But they can easily return since they know from whence they came from. The Philippines was never Catholic. It would not know where she came from and, therefore, cannot return. There had been good catholic bishops and priest in the Philippines; but they were known for a few virtues in which they excelled. But there was not one single known Catholic who can be described as knowledgeable of the entire Catholic Faith, like a St. Augustine or St.Thomas of Aquinas. Not a single bishops or priest. Today, many are known for heresies, like certain officers of the Bishop's conference who do not believe in hell or in the continuity of the existence of the Catholic Church.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. The Filipino people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> By God's extraordinary intervention, the Filipinos had been described as the people who believed most in God. This is basic natural Faith. It cannot save but can easily be transformed into theological Faith and save souls. This natural Faith is ingrained in the nation and God, Himself, can easily build the theological virtue of Faith in their soul. And God has done it in many cases without the help of priests, bishops and nuns. The grace of God is maintaining this state of 'blissful ignorance' to build upon it the virtue of Faith. This is a Divine Intervention. It is not the work of men or of a church. In fact, it cannot be explained how this state of affair have remained in the nation and slowly guiding a very few towards the perfection of the Catholic Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> An attempt to explain this is because the people live in an island separated from the rest of the world. They had been in a lock down for centuries. This is an ideal environment for a life of repentance that leads to Faith in God. It is for this reason God had caused the world into a lock down; to foster a natural Faith in souls upon which true theological Faith can grow. What kept the Filipinos God-conscious is what God is doing to the whole world to make it God conscious. Hopefully, by the grace of God, may God find souls with the disposition of natural Faith, upon whom He may bestow the theological virtue of Faith unto the salvation of their souls. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p> </p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-49745664449901744392021-03-24T13:58:00.002+08:002021-10-19T15:04:42.952+08:00The GOD given genius of ST. BENEDICT and the LENTEN LITURGY<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Liturgy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We are still within the Liturgical Season of Lent. The Lenten message, made more pronounced by the Corona virus is the necessity of Repentance. Like Nineveh, the world is living in sin and the Corona virus, like Jonah, was sent to threaten the world with chastisement unless it repents. Nineveh repented because of Jonah and the chastisement was withheld. On the other hand, the present world did not repent so the Corona virus devastated the world. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. A background.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It all begun with Shrove Tuesday last year. Like Jonah, the Liturgy warned the Catholic world and the human race that God had been very displeased with them and a grievous chastisement is coming unless the Catholics repent and teach the rest of mankind to repent. Neither the Catholics nor mankind repented for, only, one reason. Neither knew how to repent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Both could not practice the message of Shrove Tuesday, to know one's sins. People did not know what is right or wrong, what is moral and immoral, what is sinful and what is not. They did not know the commandments of God in the O.T. and they did not know the commands of Christ in the N. T. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Unable to repent, God chastised the world with the Corona virus; in effect God was saying, 'you have all sinned, you have not repented and I am sending you this pandemic to remind you of your unrepentant sins. This pandemic can kill and send you to hell. So repent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The world could not repent because the world did not know what sin to repent for. Because the Catholic Church head quartered in the Vatican, who is supposed to teach what are sinful, did not know what were the unrepentant sins of the world. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> How come they did not know? Sins are disobediences to the commands of God the Father in the O.T. and the commands of God the Son in the New Testament. The commands of God are explained in the Gospels of the Liturgy from Shrove Tuesday up to the 5th Sunday of Lent. 84 commands of God were explained in every Gospel in every daily Mass from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Sunday of Lent.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Why the total ignorance of the commands of God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Because there were no Masses during that year from the start of the pandemic. No priest were teaching the commands of God and how to obey them. And no soul were interested in know those commands and how to obey them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The few priests who dared celebrate Mass and give homilies did not explain the command of Christ from the Gospel and how to put the command into practice as explained by the Fathers of the Church. With priests totally ignorant of God's commands and how to obey them and people who were not interested in knowing the above, God found is useless to have the Masses celebrated. God always did this whenever He saw, both, the priest and people were unfaithful. And this is what we have today. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. God provides.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The goal of the Lenten observance is to attain the theological virtue of Faith. And the purpose of the Corona virus is to force man to repent and progress towards Faith. Because it is Faith that saves soul. 'There is condemnation for those who have Faith,' Christ said. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. What is Faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Faith is believing and knowing what are the commands of Christ and how to obey them. Charity. that goes with living Faith, is putting into practice the commands of Christ in the way it should be observed. And the Liturgy, from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Sunday Lent enumerates 84 commands to be obeyed in following Christ. Those are 84 Gospels read both on Sundays and Weekday Masses. To show a good Catholic should really hear Mass every day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Those commands are arranged in proper order. The order cannot be changed otherwise it won't work. That is why in obeying the commands of God, we must follow the order presented in the Liturgy and not the order found in the Bible. St. Augustine noted that the disorder in the Bible is meant to confuse those who just want to use the bible for other means, like to get rich like the Protestant, rather than for the salvation of soul. It is for this same reason that the Council of Orange prohibited Catholics from reading the bible. They will just get confused. The Bible should be explained by an expert based on the Liturgy and interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To save souls the 84 commands as interpreted by the Fathers must be preached. And souls must be encouraged to put them into practice. These are taught every year from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Sunday of Lent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The 5th Weekday of Lent describes the goal. Faith and the salvation of one's soul. The whole week describes how Faith looks like so everyone can see if they have Faith or not. After two years of pandemic, its mere continuation to devastate the world, shows that the world, especially most Catholics, does not have Faith. Nobody seems to be going to heaven. Except probably a few. 'And few shall enter it.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. The God given genius of St. Benedict.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It is impossible to know the 84 commands and even more impossible to know how to put them into practice. Because in both cases, the help of Divine Grace is needed. And God does not give it easily to anybody. God gives grace to the humble. And nobody seems to know how to be humble because it should be the 'humility of Christ.' Not anybody's humility. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It is, also, near impossible to observe the commands in its proper order as can be seen in the fact that no priest, no bishops and not even the present Pope had explained the proper order. One can clearly see the proof in You Tube. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Benedict placed the 84 commands in perfect order and in just the right amount to form them into a daily way of life. So that anyone who puts into practice the Rule of St. Benedict would be obeying all the 84 commands daily. In effect, a soul can attain Faith in one day and attain eternal salvation at the end of the day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Thus the entire Liturgy, from Ash Wednesday up to the Easter can be lived in one day by living a life in accordance to the Rule of St. Benedict. Thus Charlemagne, in desiring to save the souls of the subjects of his entire empire imposed the Rule of St Benedict in his realm. What a splendid king. No secular ruler could ever think of this. And he did it at the year 800 A.D. They were much brighter that time because they were good Catholics. Today our rulers are Catholic abortionists. What can you expect from slaves of sin? More evil. Nothing good. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">7. Pope Benedict XVI</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Well versed in Catholic History and Theology, Pope Benedict gave the same wise suggestions by the end of his papacy. Seeing the utter confusion in Europe and in the world with no solution in sight, Benedict suggested that the world, especially Europe return to observe the Rule of St. Benedict, its patron saint, as the only solution to its problems. Just like Charlemagne. But nobody listened to Benedict.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Just like God, who saw it was useless to continue the celebration of the Masses because priest neither said Mass with Faith nor preach the Faith and church goers who just went to be entertained with Liturgical abuses, Pope Benedict saw it was useless to be the Pope of an unbelieving institutional Church. What for?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">8. The hidden treasure in the pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. John Chrysostom wrote that the way of life of St. Benedict's Rule, wherein he put together a simple way of daily life observing the 84 commands of Christ, taught in the Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Week of Lent, can easily be put into practice while locked down in one's home with the entire family. Done well with knowledge and a good will, an entire family can become holy in one day and if they die the next day, they can all go straight to heaven. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> And when you see God face to face, please pray for me. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-52327740718764835272021-03-20T15:04:00.002+08:002021-10-19T15:04:43.084+08:00 There is no condemnation for those with Faith. But for those without Faith ........4th Sunday of LENT<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. First reading.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The first Reading shows God destroying a nation, first, by sending no prophets who would preach repentance, happiness and the salvation of one's soul. If this does not work, it is followed by Divine chastisements, the total destruction of that nation. What was their sin? Infidelity. The people did not believe in the true God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A person does not have to die nor be judged by God to be saved or be condemned. A person is saved or condemned while they are alive here on earth. When? When he believes or have Faith, he is already saved. There is no condemnation for those who believe. But for those who do not believe, he is already condemned unless he repents before he dies. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Thus it is wrong reasoning to prepare oneself for death just before one dies. He would have been judged long before he dies depending on whether he has Faith or not. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Basil the great wrote that, ordinarily, a well catechised child can attain Faith at the age of 14. After which he has nothing to worry about preparing oneself for death and judgment. He just have to grow in virtue with the grace of God that he receives with the virtue of Faith.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> What is happening today is identical to that nation whom God was preparing for Divine punishment. The first step is on going; there are no preachers on how to repent due to the lock downs. And the few who are preaching are not preaching repentance that leads to Faith. So based on the first reading, we must expect the next step, the destruction body and soul, of those without Faith in God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. So.....</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> At this very moment, if any one has no Faith, there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to save his soul unless he repents in the proper way. On the other hand, if anyone has Faith, there is nothing anyone can do to destroy his soul. Thus the Catholic rule is to have Faith as early as possible in one's life. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If one has Faith, God will grant that soul graces so that everything he does will be virtuous that will raise him to the heights of knowledge, wisdom and holiness. By the grace of God everything he does will benefit all body and soul. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> On the other hand, if one does not have Faith he will continue to fall deeper into more serious sins. In fact, the faithless cannot do anything good either for the body and soul of anyone. Even for himself. . This is a punishment from God. Christ said; 'If you continue to sin, worse things will happen to you.' Everything a politician will do if he is pro abortion will be evil. And he will be punished by God to continue doing, only, what is evil. He will be completely incompetent to do any good for himself or for his country. He will continuously do what is worse for everybody. This is Christ's condemnation for such. A warning to pro-abortion politicians and to those who vote for them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. What is Faith?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> One cause of confusion in the world today is the inability to define words in the proper way. The Catholic church has its proper definition for all Catholic words based on its philosophic definition. Its Catholic definition is the perfected definition of the philosophic definition. Sort of, the philosophy of the Old Testament is perfected by the New Testament Catholic definitions. So it is expected that very few understands the Catholic definition unless well versed with the philosophic definition of terms. A man of Faith can never be understood by a man without Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Faith is to know all the commands of Christ and how to observe them. This is the Apostolic Commission given by Christ to the apostles when they were commanded to go to the whole world to save souls. They must teach all the commands of Christ; and they must teach how to put those commands into practice. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ taught the apostles both, the 'what' and the 'how'. What are the commands and how to observe them. While the 'what' is found in the Gospel, the 'how' are not written in the Gospels. So preachers should explain both the 'what' and the 'how'. But from where can they learn the 'how'? From the Fathers and Doctors of the Church who wrote down Christ teachings on the 'how' but, only later on, written down by them and referred to as 'tradition'. Nobody is interpreting the 'how' these days. And more often than not, they do not explain the Gospel 'spiritually'. Most , only, give the dictionary meaning. So the people are left without the 'bread of life'. No bread, norepentance, no Faith......and, therefore, in danger of being condemned unless they learn how to repent and attain Faith; which is impossible seeing the faithless state of the priesthood.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This is the reason God sent the pandemic seeing priests do not know the right doctrines and the people are not interested in saving their souls. Why have Masses, and have priest preach sweet nothings while the listeners just want to be entertained. Both can just go to the theatre. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The very few who are really interested in saving their souls are instructed directly by God as He did to St. Paul, St. John Newman and Gilbert Chesterton. They were true Catholics even before becoming Catholics. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The people do not know the commands of Christ and how to observe them. There is no Faith so most are in a state of condemnation. For those who know the commands of Christ and how to observe them, it is very easy to classify each man, especially those in public life like the politicians and bishops. And label them 'saved' or 'condemned' unless they soon repent.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. Perfect atmosphere to have our past sins forgiven.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It is important for the salvation of our souls that our past sins be forgiven and, by the grace of God, we avoid sins in the future. This is attained by a life of repentance until death. Repentance serve both purpose; the forgiveness of one's past sins and the avoidance of new sins in the future. This life of repentance is taught by the Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to Easter. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With this pandemic, God gave mankind the perfect atmosphere to start one's life of repentance. Everyone lives in community, their families. They have the leisure to find out their sins with the help of their computers. They can pray, are in effect fasting and they can help each member of their family by teaching them how to save their souls. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Mystically, that is like living in community in the desert, just like the first Christians. Who is their instructor? Like the first hermits, God, Himself. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Just as Scriptures is very good for those who wish to be good, it can be used by the devil to destroy souls. Thus the present pandemic is a grace of God to make souls good. But the devil's co-horts are using it to push forward their communist evil goals. These events are like a two edged sword. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. The first reading. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The pandemic, together with its accessories, like the snow storm, the black out, the earthquakes, an atheistic government, a faithless church... these are all signs that God is about to punish a nation for its sins. Maybe not as soon as Sodom and Gomorrah. But more like the days of Noah. Where those without Faith could not have Faith while they were slowly drowning for they have run out of time. And the good are so few, as Christ prophesied; 'the way is narrow and many will try to enter heaven, but very few, very few, will be able to do so. We, alone, can decide if we are among the few. </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-23042487390745416802021-03-14T01:52:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:43.214+08:00The HUMBLE and the PROUD.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. God will judge every one.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There are interminable debates going on around the world. The issues are as diverse as there are people talking. It is a cacophony of sounds from TV debates, to newspapers opinions, to political issues... and even to religious issues. But there is only one thing that matters...whether it is the Will of God or not. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If man is doing the Will of God, he is all right and will be rewarded with eternal happiness in heaven. If a man is against the Will of God, he is in big trouble and is in danger of losing his body and soul to the eternal flames of hell. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This is the only thing that matters. Everything else can be reduced to whether it is in accordance of God's Will or not. Everything else is Byzantine discussion......errrrr..a totally useless discussion.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Let us take an example; border crossing, a prominent headline all around the world; a serious situation in the US and equally distressing situation in Europe. Unnoticeable but equally problem in the rest of the world, if a person is born in Argentina, it is God's Will that he is an Argentinian. If a person is born in Mexico, it is God's Will that he is a Mexican venerating Our Lady of Guadalupe. If a person is born in Africa or Asia or the Middle East, it is God's Will for them to belong to their own country. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In God's great power and wisdom, He would not have a man born in Africa or Mexico if He wanted him to be an American. God is simple; he is not complicated like man. Man is unlike God; he is complicated. Born in Mexico, he will travel far and in grave danger to be in a place God never wanted him to be in. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> So, this great migration going on, encouraged by the new US government and, also, encouraged by the Vatican, is totally against the Wisdom of God. If an African needs help, Charity demands that all help be given him where he is. And Charity equally demands that he is returned to where God willed him to be. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Man may be divided into two groups; those who do the Will of God as expressed in His commandments. And those who disobey the Will of God as expressed in the same commandments. The obedient is represented by the Publican who prayed well. The disobedient is represented by the Pharisees who prayed badly. Christ declared that the proud will be punished; while the humble will be exalted. One goes to heaven, the other to hell......both for all eternity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We chose where we go. God simply confirms our choice. Our choice is of the utmost importance because our eternity will depend on it. Christ declared where you will go depending on what you chose, pride or humility.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The proud Pharisees who prayed. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Pharisee was praying and yet he sinned. Well, Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Paradise and yet they sinned. Sin is from the faculties of the soul, the mind and the heart. One can sin anywhere as long as he has his mind and heart. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> What is in the mind and heart is what counts. The Pharisee had pride in him; because he could not see his sins while he saw the sins of the publican. He sinned interiorly, in his mind and heart. So while externally he was in front of the altar seemingly praying, his soul was engaging in the highest form of pride. St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote that he was not praying to God. He was talking to himself. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Like a typical politician, he attributed to himself all the good that God did through him. While blaming all the sins to everybody else except to himself. A politician may enumerate his accomplishment, but as long as he attributes them to God by saying 'In God I trust,' he is all right. He is not proud. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A common sign of extreme pride is; self-sufficiency, wherewith a person thinks he can do things all by himself without any aid from God. He thinks he can be a president without God's help, just with a little help from a little dominion machine; and that he can abort babies without being immediately punished by God. This pride is painted in the face of all men and women. But not in very young children who are naturally humble. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Like the Pharisee, they cannot see their sins that are published in the headlines and shouted on TV, like their sin of murdering babies, but they see the non- existing sin of collusion of their neighbour Trump.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> God loves and gives graces to the humble. He hates the proud and punishes them with insanity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. The humble publican.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The publicans, like the tax collectors, were considered sinners for their known corruptions. But this publican saw, only, his own sin and unworthiness while blind to the defects of the Pharisees. This ability of seeing his own faults while not seeing the faults of others is a sign of humility, a virtue praised by Christ wherewith the publican left justified, i.e. pleasing in the eyes of God. This virtue is rare these days, while at the same time difficult to detect. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. St. John Chrysostom and the two chariot drivers.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. John described the proud Pharisee as a chariot with two drivers; righteousness and pride. And the humble publican as a chariot with two drivers; sinner and humility. Which chariot will win the race or reach their goal first. His answer, the sinner and humility. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But better still, who will race the fastest and reach the goal of heavenly happiness? The Chariot with righteousness and humility. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. Salvation is a gift for the humble, not for the proud.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ, Himself, had prophesied that the world today will be populated with mankind filled with the pride of life. And it is. With a little knowledge of the virtue of humility and the vice of pride, it is very easy to see who are proud and who are humble. Thus it is easy to see who will be judged for heaven and for hell. We can even judge ourselves. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-18973627836848411422021-03-11T23:32:00.004+08:002021-10-19T15:04:43.349+08:00A HOUSE OF PRAYER. 3rd Sunday of LENT.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. House of Prayer.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy describes five elements of a good education. This is in the spiritual level, but it is the same in the natural level. First, a good curriculum. Secondly, a good teacher. Thirdly, an ideal classroom. Fourthly, a good pupil and lastly, you must know the tests and the correct answer to the tests. With these five elements, a student should easily graduate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These five elements are even more necessary in the spiritual level for a soul to know how his soul may be saved. Firstly, the curriculum is the plan of salvation as found in these two words; repent and believe. These were Christ's first words; to repent and to believe. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Secondly, the teacher must be Christ together with the Fathers and the Doctors of the Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Thirdly, the classroom must be the 'kingdom of God,' i.e. the Christian community.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Fourthly, the pupil must be a fertile soil, possessed with a humble spirit. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Fifthly, we must know the tests that we will undergo and the correct response to the tests. All of these may be found in the Liturgy of the Mass from Ash Wednesday to Easter. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We learned these last year as a preparation for the coming test, the Corona virus pandemic. But nobody seems to have learned from this ideal environment. So the pandemic continues. Since nobody seems to be learning, the pandemic will continue until mankind learn his lesson. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The ideal classroom had been explained by the Liturgy when discussing the parables on the Kingdom of God. This is a clear description of the Catholic Church. And today's Gospel describes the Catholic Church as a House of Prayer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Prayer is a spiritual activity by the mind and the free will. Before this spiritual activity can be spiritual it must be raised to the supernatural level by the grace of God. No aspect of prayer is in the natural level. So the Gospel condemns all natural activities; selling of cows, oxens and pigeons. Changing of money. Buying and selling. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Gospel specially condemns priests, bishops and cardinals who are engaged in global warming, immigration, social and political issues and social activities. Because a soul cannot combine a natural with a supernatural activity within it. He will be faithful to one and unfaithful to the other. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. The prophecy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The events of the Gospels are both historical and prophetic. Christ, historically, really cleansed the temple of those engaged in purely natural activities and restored the nature of the Catholic Church in that it must be a house of prayer.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> A house of prayer is where one or two who have perfect Faith and the beginnings of Charity are gathered together seeking the salvation of their souls. The two or three can be the husband and wife with their child. Two or three people in a parish, in a diocese or in the Vatican. But it is the two or three who make up the house of prayer, the Church. They must be praying in the way Christ taught in the Gospel on the Our Father.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. Every moment Christ enters the temple.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Every moment Christ enters the family, parish, diocese and even the Vatican to see who is praying and who is engage in Global warming. He, then, makes a whip and drives away those engage in global warming, social and political issues and retain the two or three who are praying with perfect Faith and the beginnings of Charity thus keeping the Church in being a House of Prayer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But to be truly a house of prayer, the church must, also, have the four other characteristic mentioned above. </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-43830137789983309522021-02-24T23:53:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:43.738+08:00TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL. !st Sunday of LENT.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The devil. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy of the Mass described the steps towards salvation. First, we must know what we have done to offend God; this was taught during Shrove Tuesday. Secondly, we must know how to repent for those past sins; the Church begun to teach us this from Ash Wednesday and forward up to Easter. This consist in living a life of repentance that consist in prayer, fasting and good works. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Neither, merely, knowing one's sin nor the life of prayer, fasting and good works can forgive our past sins. Thirdly, we must attain the gift of the Holy Spirit called the fear of God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> With the 'fear of God,' the soul, also, obtains the theological virtue of Faith and Charity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The devil who, through jealousy, wants to destroy the souls of men, knows that upon reaching Faith and Charity there is nothing he can do to destroy souls. Satan knows he has to destroy souls before the souls repents or at least when they are in the process of repentance. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Most men don't bother repenting so the devil has nothing to do to destroy them. They are, effectively, destroying their souls without any help from the devil. The devil loves to destroy those repenting, especially those who are approaching the virtues of Faith and Charity.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The devil does his dirty work through temptations. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. God uses the devil in two ways.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The devil cannot approach or tempt any soul without the permission of God. If God ever allows the devil the approach or tempt men it is for two reasons. First, God allows the devil to tempt men with the virtue of Faith in order to help them advance in virtue and holiness. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ in the Gospel for today was tempted by the devil. He allowed this to show those who have Faith how to use temptations to progress in the life of virtue and holiness. St. Veronica Giuliani, John Vianney, Padre Pio were some of the saints who were accosted by devil that they may overcome the devil and advance in the spiritual life. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The second reason why God allows the devil to tempt, especially, those who have no Faith is this. Those who have no Faith are usually in the state of moral sin, that is why they have no Faith. If these sinners do not immediately repent for their past sins, their punishment from God is that God allows them to fall further into sin. And as they fall deeper into sin more devils possess their souls. So they go from worse to worse to the point that they cannot do anything good either for themselves, for their love ones, for their country or for the whole world. In fact, God punishes them by making them do evil to themselves, their love ones, to their countrymen and to the whole world. And there is nothing they can do to stop this;.....except to stop sinning, repenting and undergo the first among three conversions. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> However, the deeper they commit more evil, the harder it is to repent. It is still possible but considering all matters especially that the devil will do everything to prevent them, it will be near impossible to save their souls. This is clearly seen in the much publicised lives of Catholic politicians who are pubic sinners, like those proposing abortion; everything they do after their first mortal sins is a descend to greater evil according to the moral theology of their Catholic Faith. They cannot do any thing good, they can only do evil things because this is God's punishment for them for having sinned, while refusing to repent. This is a punishment from God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3.The world is in this descend into the bottomless pit..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Lead by the two leading figures, the Vatican and the USA, God has allowed the devil to tempt them into greater evils because both of them have sinned, the Vatican with Idolatry, the USA with abortion and with their continuous refusal to repent, God has allowed the devil to tempt them to commit more and more sin, driving them deeper into greater evil.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Thomas have written, he who sins against one command of Christ will sin against all the commands of Christ. One who go against one teaching of Christ goes against all the commands of Christ. Everybody seems to be at the bottom of sinfulness and possessed by legions of devils. </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-78592920005927114842021-02-11T18:22:00.006+08:002021-10-19T15:04:44.127+08:00THEY TOLD HIM ALL THEY TAUGHT AND DONE. Saturday in the 4th Weekday in Ordinary Time.<p><span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Gospel.</span> </p><p> <span style="font-size: large;"> After the apostles preached and performed miracles, they returned to Christ to report to Him what they have preached and what they had done. And Christ led them to the desert to rest.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The apostles have preached and had done some good works after which they returned to Christ to report what they preached and what they did, to find out if they did things right. Then Christ led them to desert so they can examine their consciences if they had done thing right. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> At this time, the apostles were just beginners. It can happen that they have preached wrongly and have done things wrongly. So they had to report to Christ so they can be corrected. Then they went on a retreat to find out what mistakes they have done and correct their mistakes.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> After Pentecost, the apostles will be doing everything right; but now, they were beginners and in humility they knew they could make a mistake so they report to Christ for correction. Then they went to the desert for their life of repentance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Life of repentance</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The apostles were brought by Christ to the desert to train them how to examine their consciences so they can correct their mistakes. Nobody does that today. So we hear priests say wrong things and do wrong things and they do nothing to correct their errors. It is a total lack of repentance when all priests are preaching wrong things and doing wrong things, all contrary to the teachings of Christ. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If all our bishops and priests go to Christ and report on what they have taught and done, they would be getting a stern scolding. Nobody is doing this today, that is why we are in such as mess. Yet the Liturgy reminds all priests and bishops to do this, if they must remain the good teachers of the Faith. We are having very bad teachers. Thus one of the five elements of perfect atmosphere for the salvation of souls is lacking. When one is lacking, all the five are lacking. Again the five elements are, first, souls must know the complete plan of salvation. Secondly, they must have good teachers, i.e. Christ, the apostles, the Fathers and the doctors of the Church. Thirdly, the souls must be fertile soil. Fourthly, they must be in the ideal classroom, i.e. the Community where all have Faith. And fifty, they must know what test they will have and what is the right answer to their tests. All of these are found in the Liturgy of the Mass. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today's Gospel describes good teachers as those, who being beginners, should, always, check with Christ, it they are teaching and doing the right things when teaching. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Bishops conference on the Corona virus and the vaccines. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Philippines Bishop's conference on the Corona virus and the vaccines was on line for all to see and hear. They had a Dominican friar as resource person. They were expected to discuss the Catholic response to the Corona virus and the vaccines. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> They should be discussing the Doctrine of Divine Providence and the theology of Chastisements as the proper backdrop of their discussion on the virus and the vaccines. They discussed the virus and the vaccines but, absolutely, nothing on the Catholic doctrines on Divine Providence and Chastisements. So they all looked like Pharmaciutical agents selling drugs, rather than clergy saving souls. Not one drop of advice on how to save one's soul before the onslaught of a pandemic where the very vaccine can kill. The Catholic faithful are left completely in the dark. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Even the Dominican friar did not mention St. Thomas' treatise on Divine Providence and Divine Chastisement. He sounded more like a stock holder of a medical company. So what about the souls, reverend father bishops? Absolutely nothing for the salvation of souls. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. What did they say?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> They were going on, publicly, on TV. They should have checked on what they were going to say and what they were going to do. In fact, St. Francis de Sales developed the above principle into this; they should check what they were going to say and do before they talk and do things. They should check what they were going to say and do during their talk. They should check on what they were going to say and do after they say and do them. This is the better way. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Yet, the bishop's conference did neither what the Gospel said and what St. Francis de Sales wrote. So everything they said and did were purely in the pharmaceutical level. Not a single word on the benefits for the soul. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. What they should have said?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> It must be a description of the Doctrine of Divine Providence and the teachings on Chastisement, i.e, the corona virus, like all creatures, are all under God's direct control. God controls them for men to see if they are for God or against God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The present pandemic is a reminder that men have sinned. They have not repented. Through justice God will have to punish them to the eternal fires of hell. If man does not still repent, then God will send them greater chastisements. Their worse chastisement is that God will allow them to commit more serious sins, they will be unable to do anything good and right. And the devil will possess their souls. At this latter worse state, repentance will be more difficult or even be impossible. And yet they must repent or else.......</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The lock downs, social distancing, face mask and face shield cannot stop God's action of testing men. If they obey God's message, they can set aside all those useless purely social practices. Because God decides who will live and who will die, and nobody can stop that.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The vaccine will not make you live longer or shorter. For your lack of Faith by not believing the doctrines of Divine Providence and chastisement, it can even kill you as God's punishment. If the vaccine is imposed on you, as most states will do because they are faithless, take it but don't believe it can save you physically. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> God is in full control. The only thing man must do is pass his test by showing Faith in God. And the pandemic has been the perfect set up in making an act of Faith. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p> </p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-24891242774348860062021-01-25T08:43:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:44.660+08:00 Philosophically speaking, there can only be one God. 2nd Week in Ordinary Time.<p><span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The One true God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This God must have created all things and all thing are under his control, from life and death to every drop of rain to the swaying of a leaf. There is nothing outside of his control. He will, definitely, judge each man when he dies. And this God wants every man to know Him and His Will. He, actually revealed Himself to mankind. Eternal happiness will depend on whether man does His Will. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Nobody believes that there is such a God. But as Blaise Pascal wisely wrote, whether the above statement is right or wrong, the wisest thing to do is to believe it. If there is no such God, we have nothing to loose. But if the above statement is true, then most men, bishops and priests are in a lot of hot trouble. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If we believe in the above statement, then God alone dictates where the Corona virus will hit, who will get sick and die, and who will remain healthy and live. The virus have nothing to do with it except to earn a lot of money for the manufacturer whom God will judge for being covetous. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> To accuse one person for the pandemic shows total ignorance of medicine, total ignorance of philosophy and ignorance of theology. But politicians will always use it to win votes which makes him a liar. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Sent by God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The virus was sent by God to remind mankind that he has sinned and have not repented. Being sent by God man can only alleviate the pain and symptoms. Man cannot cure nor save lives, unless man thinks he is God, which is the greatest diabolical sin. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Some well intentioned priests have held processions, others have exorcised the virus. No. You cannot pray to God to stop the virus that He sent</span><span style="font-size: large;">. There is nothing that can be done to stop it. Good souls should not stop God's Will. We must, instead, do His Will, 'to repent' and believe. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> That is God sent. 'Your Will be done' I will repent. Whatever man does, even inventing a vaccine, will not stop the virus. Men will still die, either of the virus, of the vaccine, of a heart attack or from an earthquake. Men will still die and be judged by God. We should, instead, concentrate on the judgment that follows death. Because seeing how man disobeys God's commands, everybody seems to be going to hell. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. 'Let's go on.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Everybody is insisting, 'let's go on.' No we cannot go on unless questions are resolved. Philosophy has it; 'do not act in doubt.' We cannot go on unless we first, know our sins and repent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> There are a lot of valid and well proven proofs that there were frauds during the last election. We cannot go on unless those allegations are answered and resolved. We cannot go on when, clearly, if we die this minute, we are going straight to hell for acting in doubt. No, we must know the truth before we can go on. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We are going straight to hell and you say, 'let us go on?' That is crazy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Because Biden was inaugurated was clearly God's permissive will. But only during the day that he was inaugurated. But the inauguration did not resolve the countless proofs of election fraud. So that after the inauguration when it is no longer God's permissive will that we consider him president, we must act considering the unresolved fraud accusations, in that Biden is probably not the president. Of course, another election and another recount is the only way that can revolve the issue. But those who cheated and defrauded would not tolerate another election and recount because they will be exposed. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> So they must refuse a recount. The doubt continues. Yet the truth must prevail; there is a doubt that he is President. Trump has nothing to prove. He did not declare anyone a winner. Negatively, he insisted he was cheated. But no one is helping him to prove it. Neither the AG nor any judges. So the issue remains, who is truly the president and vice president of the US. The fact that Jesus was crucified was no proof that Pontius Pilate was right. That Biden was inaugurated is no proof that he was elected. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. He is hated, he is mad, let us imprison him, let us kill him.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> 'They hate him that rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him that speakers uprightly,' Amos.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These are words in the minds of the Pharisees towards Christ who was simply going about doing good. These same thing is happening to Trump. Not that Trump is like Christ; but that his accusers are like Pharisees. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> He is mad, even if his achievements are for the common good. And the Pharisees were thinking how to kill Him, since his assassination had been on the table, explicitly played on fake news. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> These peopled are abortionists. As Mother Teresa said; 'if they can kill babies, they can kill anybody else.' The hatred the crowd has for Trump is so great it is near being diabolical, similar to the hatred the devil has for man because man can be good and go to heaven. Maybe Trump is good and more probable to go to heaven than most of the US Catholic bishops. This should make those possessed by the devil raged towards him. And this seems to be the case. It is pure rage, as defined by St. Thomas of Aquinas. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Anger is a mortal sin if there is anger for no valid reason. It is a very serious sin if it is anger towards others for being good, like being pro-life. God reserves awful punishment for such persons. Did anybody really think they can hate and get away with it? Not with a Living God around. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. There is a worldwide diabolical activity going on, targeting the good. We can never understand why the Jews crucified Christ for trying to save their souls. Neither can we understand why they would deface or throw down statues of Mary and the saints when they do not know them and have done them no harm. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The press themselves said it; because they hate Trump, the Blessed Virgin and Junipero Serra. And hating for no reason is a very serious sin. It is the beam in the eye of the accuser that prevents them to see the defects of others but makes them see their own defect as the defect of others. Catholics know that. That is why their sins are more serious in that they know that it is a serious sin. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. The chastisement is getting more serious because mankind refuse to repent but instead continues to deteriorate into committing more serious sins. They have just abrogated all executive orders aimed at benefitting the common good. They have just expanded opportunities for abortion. They have allowed more sinners to join them and practically sold their souls to the devil for a price. Who? The US citizens? No! The US Catholic bishops whom the entire </span><span style="font-size: large;">Catholic bishop's conference follow and imitate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">7. There is only One God and He reminded all men that there will be a day of judgment. And He, also, gave the basis for that judgment that all men know. It is love. But the world, especially those whom we know are filled with hatred. We really have a big problem. It is not the virus and the vaccine. It is hatred, the 'waxing cold of love,' as Christ prophesied. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p> </p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-69556252348754658842020-12-02T07:23:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:46.212+08:00SIGNS SUMMER IS NEAR. Friday of the last week in Ordinary time.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The signs of summer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In the Gospel, Christ mentiones that people know that summer is near because of the new leaves in the fig trees. Men, also, know if it is autumn and if winter is approaching. Men knows what is coming from signs that occur before. A red sky in the afternoon informs the farmer that there will be rain the next day. But how come, though Christ mentioned all the signs of the approach of general judgment day so men can prepare their souls, nobody seems to know that it is coming soon. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> General judgment day is when each man will be judged by Christ for every word they said, every thought he had, every action he did and every duty he omitted. For everything, even for every useless word they said, St. Paul writes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> What we see in the world is man's utter carelessness in that everything he does is reason for God to condemn him. And at a time when man is fast approaching the general judgment day. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ complains of man's stupidity. Man usually knows when summer is approaching because of the new saplings that grow in the trees. Or he knows when winter is approaching because of autumn. How come man does not know the approach of the most important day of his life; when he will be judged where he will spend his eternity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The Liturgy gives many signs.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Christ declared to His apostles that nobody knows the exact day of the last judgment or when a person will die. Then He adds, not even the angels, nor the Son. Only the Father. Christ did not want to satisfy the useless curiosity of the apostles. He wanted them to concentrate on the essentials. So He did not want to tell them. But the Son and the angels know the exact time. And Christ gave His apostles signs when general judgment day is by the doorstep. He gave these signs on Holy Week because the events of Holy Week were the prophetic signs that general judgment is by the doorstep. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The sign was the spiritual state of both the state and the church in Jerusalem on Holy Week. Both were faithless, both were sinners, both had no Charity, both were filled with hatred, both were murderers. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Which goes first. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The state is in the natural level of politics. The Church has two levels; the level of politics which is referred to as the institutional church and the supernatural level, the spiritual level, which is the true Church of Christ. Ordinarily, the church deteriorates before society deteriorates. And vice versa, society improves as the church spiritually improves. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> On Holy Week, both the Synagogue, which was the church of God's chosen people, and the Jewish society hit the bottom of immorality. Both had no Charity, no Faith and no knowledge of God's religion. Both regressed down to the unnatural level. Thus God declared condemnation both to the city and its religions......death and destruction that will be fulfilled 40 years later. The religion, first, loses its Faith then the nation loses its reason to exist. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Many nations, today, are in this deplorable state. Their Catholic Church has lost its Faith thus the nation has lost its reason to continue existing. Let us not talk about those nation who do not have the right religion thus nations without souls. These nations have no reason to exist and, in fact, they are not a nation at all but just a conglomeration of many people of different minds and hearts. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We are talking about the sign of the times that shows that general judgment day is by the door. This sign is when the Catholic Church in that nation have lost its Faith and the nation have lost its nationality i.e. the nation has become a nation full of squatters with no single norm of unity. These are usually former Catholic nations. They have become signs identical to Jerusalem, ready for the slaughter; like Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Korea, China, Japan, etc. They will be destroyed at the same time. And true Catholics are just waiting for that dreaded moment while preparing themselves for the general judgment that will follow soon. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> What are we waiting for? Babylon. The nation that represents the state of the whole world. When Babylon falls, the entire sinful world will fall with it. Babylon, the modern world Jerusalem who crucified Christ, is about to fall. Summer is coming and nobody seems to notice it. Most of its inhabitants are even hastening its fall. "O Babylon, Babylon. You devastator of morals. " </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. The 6th day is today.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Pope Benedict mentioned briefly in a talk on St. Bonaventure that we are in the 6th day, referring to the 6th day as discussed by St. Bonaventure. The saint was referring to that day when both the state and the institutional church will be faithless thus deserving to be destroyed by the Romans as they did to Jerusalem.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The crisis of Faith was noticeable after Vatican II in the US. Then it spread all over the world that we cannot find a Catholic parish or diocese that has the four visible marks of the Catholic Church because they are faithless. Gradually, it begun to show among the laymen especially among so called Catholic politicians. Being in the limelight they were clearly faithless. The same goes with the more better known bishops and cardinals precisely because they are in the lime light. No one can hide the fact that one is faithless. And no one can hide that he has Faith. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The US, being the most prominent nation, is being watched by the whole Christian world on whether state and church are on the slippery way down to great evils. The inevitable way down which no one can stop started with Vatican II, it rapidly descended with Obama as head of the US. It temporarily slowed down in its descend with President Trump. And everybody is expecting the descend to continue with great speed with Biden. In which case the world is expecting the Divine punishment, the destruction of Jerusalem to occur. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-63780636869283382562020-11-09T22:52:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:47.024+08:00The GOD FACTOR after an Election. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. Divine Providence. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Catholics judge everything based on the doctrine of Divine Providence. This is the law by which God govern all the things He has created, like elections. Divine providence explains why God does things this or that way. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The first general rule of Providence is that all men must obey the commandments of God. If he does this all his activities will lead him to happiness here on earth and everlasting happiness in heaven with God for all eternity. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The negative rule that is contrary to the above rule is; if man disobeys God's commandments, he will be punished both here and in the next life. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The natural commands of God are written in the hearts of all men. It is called natural law. The spiritual or supernatural commands of Christ is based on the natural commands but being on a higher level is not available to others. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> So in analysing the post election events, the natural analysis will be very complicated because of the countless human variables involved. The analysis from the supernatural view will be easier to understand. It is similar to a bird's eye view, with a supernatural view which only those in that high level can appreciate. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Let us return to the basic principle of Divine Providence; man will be doing what is true and good if they obey the commands of God; the commands of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. These commands must be interpreted by the Fathers and the Doctors of the Church. Let's start and look at a just finished election.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The two contending sides. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Evidently one side is on the side of 'good' because it is pro-life; and that is in accordance to the Will of God. Majority of their platforms are good. They may have a little immoral and bad platform. But, in general, majority of their platform is naturally and morally good.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Evidently, the other side is 'evil' because it is pro-abortion, a very serious disobedience to the commands of God. They may have some good but since majority is evil, the little good they have, is tainted with evil. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Basing it on the General norm of Divine Providence, the good should win the election. And the bad should lose the election. But there is another principle of Divine Providence. God gives people the leader they deserve; God gives good leaders to good people. And He gives bad leaders to bad people. Example is how God treated the Israelites, His chosen people. When they were good, God gave them good leaders in Moses and Aaron. When they were bad, God have them King Saul who mistreated them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> How come the evidently moral good lost in a recent election; while the evidently immoral won the election? From the above principle, because majority of the people who voted for the pro-abortion candidate are immoral themselves. It is natural that there is a confederacy of evil; the evil will side with the evil, while the good with the good. So does it mean that there are fewer 'good' among the voters, and there are more evil? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Not necessarily. It can happen that there are fewer evil but that they cheated which they would naturally do because evil people tend to fall into deeper evils. People who abort will naturally cheat, deny they cheated and refuse to be investigated. They cannot avoid going deeper into more serious evils because that is God's punishment to them for being evil. After killing babies, they will naturally cheat in elections, refuse to have their evil frauds investigated and demand the sitting president leave the white house when the law allows him to stay up to a certain time. In fact, they have descended to further evils by hanging and decapitating him in effigy. This is evidently a continuous descend to greater evils as Divine punishment, precisely, for those who sin and do not repent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Next level of Providence. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If pro-abortionist truly cheated, which is naturally expected from them, Divine Providence demands that they repent and undo the cheating. Repentance should re-align them to the right flow of Divine Providence that leads to salvation. If they keep on denying the cheating, they would be propagating a lie, another evil, and, therefore, will descend to greater evil. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> On the other hand, if the good detects cheating, which is an act against the moral virtue of Justice, they are bound to seek justice to undo the evil of cheating. This will make the good rise up to a higher degree of morality that is more pleasing to God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> At this point we are seeing two sides that are separating further from one another. It is impossible to unite the two; the separation is between what is natural evil and what is supernatural good. There is no way to unite the two. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. Another level of Divine Providence.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Returning to the question; why did the 'good' lose the election; while the evil win? God is setting the evil aside for severe chastisemen. The virus was chastisement to the evil for being unrepentant sinners. They are insisting on committing more evil, from abortion, to cheating, to refusing to practice Justice and, now, by threatening to drive out a president before justice is served. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. Conclusion</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Where are we standing right now? Evil continue to deteriorate to greater evil. sGood continue to progress to greater goodness. Because of the distance between the two, it has become impossible to transfer from one side to the other.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> What is expected from Divine Providence? God</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> will reward the good and punish the evil. The ancient people were punish with a deluge, with fire and brimstone. God could have postponed it for a latter date, but He did not. Chastisements come on schedule. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The Just God will always reward the good and punish the bad. Nobody can escape that. Nineveh was threatened for their sins; they repented and were spared. Sodom and Gomorrah did not repent. God rained on them fire and brimstones. If the evil had been threatened with Corona virus and does not repent but instead continue their evils in imposing their evil agenda on a nation upon winning an election, that nation is deserving of a great chastisement. By letting evil win an election, God wishes to show that they are the reason for the chastisement.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The evil will always deteriorate to greater evil. Their Divine punishment is that they can never do what is good or true. Everything they say will be lies because they have become the children of the father of lies. They claim they can unite. Not even the Vatican can do that because unity is a work of a Good God and done among good people. Divine Providence will expose all their lies. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Everything is under God's control; He continues to use all these to test where each man stands; is he for God or against God. Evil falls under the Permissive will of God. God does not directly will it. He allows it. Goodness is God's direct will. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> God allows evil to get a greater good from it. Peter was allowed to deny, Paul to persecute the Christians, Judas permitted to betray Christ unto death. But note the great good that came out of it. From Christ's crucifixion, the Redemption of the Human race. From betrayal and persecution two great preachers of the Faith. Right now, it is not clear what greater good will come out in the seeming defeat of the good pro-life candidate, and the winning of an evil pro-abortion evil candidate. But surely a greater good will come out of it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">6. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">What direction will Divine Providence follow? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> First, Divine Providence may wait for the proper judicial process to take its course, which the evil refuses to recognise. Then God may, still, give victory to the good to show the above theological truth that God decides on everything, not men. The good will love this because it will give the good further opportunities to be better in peace while giving the evil occasion for repentance. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Second, Divine Providence may decide to reward the good with peace of mind by teaching them the truth that all that happens is part of Divine Providence that is always advantageous to the good. Or God may make the evil win, then severely punish the evil as in the days of old, with a deluge or rain of fire and brimstone. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">7. The great Divide.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The great divide is very clear and every individual can be placed in either side, good or evil. Those who are obedient to God against those who are disobedient to God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The good are those who obey the commands of God, i.e. the Divine, Moral and natural laws. They have no problem here. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> On the side of the morally evil are those who disobeys the commands of God, the Divine, Moral and natural law. All the problem is here because they will surely go to hell and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Most of them are institutional Catholics. These are not the true Catholics. They are mostly cardinals, bishops, many among the priests and nuns. They are evil because they go against the commands of God. As such they don't love God who said, 'if you love Me keep My commandments.' By not loving God, they hate God and they hate everybody else. They cannot love anybody, anyone, or anything. Imagine being ruled by people who disobey God's commands. It is like being ruled by people who greatly hate you. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The evil ones are the lovers of money, the root of all evil, which is most of mankind; the UN, Hollywood, Mass Media, international organisations, pagans,....etc, personalised by Baphomet, the devil who wants to reset all things to organise his own kingdom. They can easily be bought by money. They will do anything for a price. The Vatican excels in disobeying the commands of its own God. The evil that is happening in the US and in the entire world, is just a reflection of what is already happening in the Vatican. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today, every individual is being tested by God. Each one must confess publicly his stand, St. Paul wrote. Either for good or for evil. Everybody. It will be a great help if we study what is right and wrong. The Liturgy of the Mass is the best teacher. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-84525798181559908572020-11-07T14:31:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:47.156+08:00YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS First Saturday of the 31st weekday.<p><span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Gospel.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Liturgy of the Mass is far advanced in its topics of discussion. It is, already, describing the Kingdom of God, the Church nearing its perfection and ready for its heavenly wedding with the Divine Bridegroom. We are no longer talking of beginners, like pagans, Protestants, etc. We are talking about souls inside the institutional Church. And the Liturgy is showing the difference between the institutional church from the true kingdom of God, the true Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> In previous Masses, the Liturgy described the true Church as those 'obeying the commandments of Christ' and those who 'love God with all their hearts, all their soul, all their strength and all their mind.' The institutional church does not do either; they do not obey the commands of Christ and they do not love God with any of the spiritual and affective faculties of their souls. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The true members of the Church know that they are inside the Church. The members of the institutional church think they are inside but cannot prove that they are in, because they are not really in. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Previous Gospels had already proven this in the parable of the wedding feast. Both institutional and true church members were inside the wedding banquet. The true members were with wedding garment. The institutional members were in the banquet but they did not have a wedding garment. This is a figure of the Church as it approaches graduation day. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Todays Gospel describes the kingdom of God, again. The way it should look when it is near graduation day. Christ said; 'you cannot serve two master.' There is only one true master, God. And you should serve Him alone. How do you serve God? We saw it in the previous Gospel; 'by obeying His commandments' or by 'loving Him with all you heart, mind, soul and strength.' </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Who is the other master? One's own will by satisfying oneself with the world of which Satan is the prince. Or sin. Christ said; 'you cannot serve two master. You will love one and hate the other. When a soul obeys the commandments of Christ, he will hate sin, the pleasures of the flesh and worldly things. As St. Augustine wrote, you should only use the world but never love it. The moment you love something in the world, you cannot love God. The world and God are in two different levels. You cannot love both. And when you do not love God, you hate God and everything else. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> That is why Christ said 'you must hate father, mother, brother, sister, etc. You cannot love humans because they will prevent you from loving God. You must love God first, then humans, your enemies and the entire creation. But God first. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If you love to sin, worldly pleasures, worldly things, you cannot love God. You hate him and as further consequences, you hate everybody and God's nature. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Automatic progressions and regressions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Every soul who advances in obedience to the commandments of God will automatic advance in the love of God towards perfection, the wedding gown. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Every soul who commits sin and does not repent is punished by God by falling deeper into more serious sins. He cannot stop the regression without the help of God's grace; which he can only get if he has repented perfectly. Imagine how fast Judas regressed from being an apostle to being a traitor. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Today, we see in the news the spiralling of events towards the deepest evils committed by sinners in the process of regressions towards a point where repentance is impossible. They were known to be guilty of the serious sin of abortion. From there the way down is fast, smooth and wide. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> We see, also, souls who are progressing in serving God, their master. These souls are fighting for the common good; for Justice, in a tough situation because many in the benches are grievous violators of Divine and Natural law. In such situation, souls may not win their battles for Justice due to the corrupt justice environment, but they are still obliged to stand for justice, to pass God's test and progress in the service of God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. Who are those who are serving God.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Those who know His commandments from the Gospels, and those who obey His commandments as interpreted by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Who are those serving the 'other master?' The pagans who are serving the wrong gods. The US bishops because they are disobeying many of the commands of God like being in favour of pro-abortion candidates. The Filipino bishops because they just disobeyed another command of Christ by approving same- sex civil union which is against Chastity, after getting signals from the Vatican. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> While most are serving the wrong 'master' most Catholics are trying to serve two master. They go to Mass, then sin, and enjoy the world. Christ said. No. You cannot. You will love one and hate the other. You cannot love both. But everybody is doing it. In truth, the world is divided into two. The servants of God, which are so few, can't hardly find them. And the servants of sin and Satan that fill up the world. We better make sure where we belong. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p> </p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-88836436290177179612020-11-05T14:32:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:47.286+08:00The GOD FACTOR in an Election. <p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Doctrine of Divine Providence.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The Doctrine of Divine Providence is the most difficult theological topic to understand. Very few priests or bishops understand it, thus everybody is going against this most important doctrine of the Catholic Church. Going against this doctrine is called original sin, the desire to be like gods. To run things as if man is god. This is the highest degree of pride, which was the sin of the devil. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The devil had always wanted to be like God. And God will give him one last time as a last test for mankind on whether man will be part of the devil's kingdom by doing his own will; or be part of God's kingdom by doing the Will of God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> That has always been God's test for mankind; whether man will do his own selfish will that will lead him to eternal punishment or will man do God's Will that leads him to salvation. God had always tested mankind from the beginning, not so much as He does not know the state of the soul of man; but for man to know the state of his own soul thus understanding why he deserves to go to heaven and why he is going to hell. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> During the whole process of testing each man, God is in complete control of everything He had created. There is absolutely nothing that is not in God's control. God controls the results of elections. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> God's Divine Providence works this way. If the populace is aiming at goodness, God will give that nation a good leader to aid them to greater goodness. While if the populace is aiming at evil, God will give that nation an evil leader to punish them to go deeper into further evil. It is against Divine Providence for God to give a good populace an evil leader; and He will never give an evil populace a good leader. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. The fear of the 'good bishop.'</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The 'good bishop' was concerned of one thing. It was what concerned St. Bonaventure during his time; 'the last Divine test'. Bonaventure called it the 6th day, i.e. Good Friday. Good Friday was God's test for the unbelieving Jews. It was foretelling the last test for the world. Christ said so. The last test will be like what is happening on Good Friday. Because of the great evil in the world led by Catholic bishops, a last test will be given by God and that's it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The whole Christian world feared this last test, after which there will be no other tests. General Judgment will follow together with the destruction of Jerusalem. God will release all the devils during that day, so much so that the devil would rule the earth on that day. No. The devil did not rule that day. God will still rule and will use that day for bringing the Bride to Heaven. It will be a glorious day for the Church but a day of wrath for evil men. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The 'good bishop' wanted this day postponed for a latter day to give souls more time to prepare themselves for judgment day. He can pray for the delay but God will have the last word. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Forebodings.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The 'Chosen People', the Jews was not believing in Christ, their Messiah. They were disobeying His teachings. This disobedience was being led by most of the Pharisees, the spiritual leaders at that time. Due to the Pharisees neglect of the people, the Jews were, also, not believing in Christ that the entire 'Chosen People' would cry out for the Crucifixion of their Messiah. The entire scenario of Holy Week will be repeated on the 6th Day described by Bonaventure that the whole Christian world is awaiting. Benedict XVI feels it has began.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The whole monastic movement was in preparation for this fateful day. Thus Benedict informed the world to follow St. Benedict.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. Bonaventure thought it was occurring during his time. But he, himself, saw that it was not. The first sign that it is occurring today was the assassination of President Kennedy, followed by the Twin Tower incident. No Catholic bishops took note, showing their ignorance of eschatology, an important aspect of the Liturgy. The common laymen were supposed to be informed by the bishops and priests of the forebodings of the approach of the 6th Day. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The clearer sign was during the election of Obama. Catholics were voting like heretics and schismatics. They were voting for furtherance of great evils to enjoy some worldly advantage. They were selling their souls to the devil for some worldly advantage promised by politicians. And Obama won twice because of the Catholics selling out their religion. For worldly advantage the US Catholics elected the most anti-Catholic president ever. With Catholics like these you don't need enemies. And they were led by their US Bishops. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The bad state of the Catholics was due to the bad US bishops leading them. The scandals would eventually erupt showing what kind of men they were; sodomites and pedophiles. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Pope Benedict, as a young priest worked on the treatise of St. Bonaventure to study the signs of the impending 6th Day that Christ described as prelude to the destruction of Jerusalem. By the time he was Pope, he saw it had begun during his papacy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Benedict XVI resigned because it was part of 6th Day prophesy. He had to give way for the treason of the Judas bishop. Vatican II showed Benedict that the rebellion of the new 'Chosen People' was on. Satan had been allowed by God to fulfil his dream, his own kingdom. It was man's last test; to join the kingdom of God or the kingdom of Satan. Good bishops had been waiting for this. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. The institutional church had abandoned the Faith, Pope Benedict XVI had noticed it in the 1980s. The Vatican, the US, the South American, the European, the Asian Church, etc, were no longer Catholics. Benedict, himself, noted that the Church had become very small. He knew he was its Pope but he did not know where it was physically. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">5. In short......</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The spiritual sign of the 6th day, the apostasy of the Jews is present today; the lost of Faith of the institutional Vatican church. The political sign is present in all world governments. Then the prophetic Scriptures described a brief 'respite' to allow the good to prepare for the general judgment. The 'good bishop' believed that President's Trump term is the beginning of the respite before the destruction of Jerusalem. And his re-election would give the good more time to prepare before the destruction of Jerusalem. So he begged Trump to do something to prolong the respite by running for election. It was good for Trump to do so but it does not depend on him to be able to prolong the respite. I God thinks it is time for the destruction of Jerusalem, then it is time. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The 'good bishop' is certain that after the Divinely imposed respite, Jerusalem will be destroyed. He was not sure whether after the first term of Trump or the second term of Trump. He was hoping it would be after the second term of Trump to give the good more time to prepare for that 'dreadful day.' The true Church knows this and is looking with dreadful expectation for the result of the election. If the day of respite is over, the institutional Church that is filled with Sodomites and Pedophiles, and the entire political world will be chastised by God. And God will make sure everybody gets the message; that He is the one who is destroying the world for their sinfulness. The US bishops for being accomplishes to abortion, the Filipino bishops for agreeing to Sodomy and pederastry, and the rest of the world for their unpublished sins. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-17454474759311272252020-10-15T09:11:00.002+08:002021-10-19T15:04:48.280+08:00YOU PHARISEES, you pass over judgment and Love of God. WEDNESDAY of the 28th Weeday in Ordinary Time.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. The Gospel.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Whenever Christ scolds the Pharisees, we better not do what they did. In the Gospel, the Pharisees were concerned with physical and temporal matters, like tithes which are the contributions to the temple, like the washing of the hands, washing of pots and pans, etc. Christ says, it is all right to do some of those things like washing of the hands, etc. But they should be concerned with the more important things, especially two things, first, judgment. And secondly the Love of God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> If they do not concern themselves with the more important things and concentrate on the temporal things, Woe to them. They are like graves, nice on the outside but corrupt in the inside. Worse are those who lay heavy burdens without helping carry them. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. That is what is happening today.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Everybody is concerned with, merely, temporal things; with face mask, face shields, social distancing, jobs, going to beaches, pulling down statues and vaccines. No one is concerned with judgments and the Love of God. The situation is worse in the institutional Catholic Church (which is not the true Church.) They are concerned with mother nature, which is no mother at all. With pagan religions which is not even one's neighbour in the strict theological sense. Their Concern is with luxury apartments in London and Pachama, an idol, and the 20 billion Chinese donation to the Vatican to suppress the underground Catholic Church in China. They have absolutely no concern with spiritual matters, like judgment and Loving God, as Christ complained referring to the Pharisees. It seems the institutional Church is filled with Pharisees doing exactly what Christ condemned in the Pharisees of His time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. Background. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Since Ash Wednesday this year, The Liturgy had been warning the whole world of the coming pandemic. People will die, as in other years. And man must prepare for the judgment that follows death. So Ash Wednesday taught what must be done to prepare. As in Nineveh, we must repent. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Repentance consist of three activities; Prayer, Fasting and Good works. The Liturgy taught how to pray in the Gospels on the Our Father last week. Fasting was taught during Holy Week. And Good works had been taught a few days ago and today. Good works consist in doing the Corporal Works of mercy and the Spiritual Works of mercy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The corporal works of mercy are acts directed towards the physical bodies on one's neighbour. The spiritual works of mercy are acts directed towards the spiritual needs of one's neighbour. The rule is do these works, first, to yourself. Before you do it to others. Almsgiving must start directed to one's body and soul; before it is done to the bodies and souls of others. These are acts of Charity that prepares a soul to have a holy death and receive a favourable judgment before God. No one can know and perform the acts of mercy unless they have perfect Faith. In fact, the ability to do the acts of mercy, especially the spiritual acts are gifts from God and is not humanly possible. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> This complete the preparation for death and for the following judgment before God that will make a soul deserving of eternal happiness according to the Liturgy. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4. The two more important acts.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The first is judgment. The second is acts of charity or acts of love of God. Judgment is when a soul judges himself as unworthy of everlasting life because he does not obey the command of Christ 'to deny oneself.' He is always doing his own will. He does not do things that is displeasing to himself. It is essentially the 'original sin' of Adam and Eve. Judgment means a soul must judge himself as guilty of this sin. If he does so, God promises He will not judge and condemn such a soul. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The second is 'to love God,' by obeying His commands. 'If you love Me, keep My commandments. And the corporal and spiritual works of mercy are the acts of Charity towards neighbour. If you love your neighbour whom you see, it will be easier to love God whom you do not see. Obedience to the acts of mercy, which are acts of Charity, is to love God. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> What are the corporal acts of mercy? The first is to feed the hungry. The last is to bury the dead, not to cremate them. The spiritual acts of mercy; the first is to instruct the ignorant on how to save their souls. The last is to pray for the living and the dead. Both acts of mercy are the signs that a soul loves his neighbour. This is Charity, which is necessary to prepare a soul for judgment when he dies. </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-45129246487151290452020-10-11T21:25:00.001+08:002021-10-19T15:04:48.409+08:00US Election. A MORAL CHOICE.<p> <span style="font-size: large;"> 1. Adam and Eve and the moral choice.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Adam and Eve were tested by God to make a choice between two trees. They chose the wrong tree. Both Adam, Eve and all their children up to the end of time were punished with eternal condemnation unless they repented as taught by Christ who became man for that purpose. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> That test was not just a matter of choosing a fruit. It was making a moral choice between good and evil, between obedience to God and disobedience to God. The consequence is eternal reward or eternal condemnation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Most election issues are merely political, like how many hectares of land to give tenants, five or seven. But today, moral issues are involved. Like in Ireland. And they are failing their test by making the wrong moral choices. These Irishmen cannot join their holy comrade in heaven. They are going somewhere else. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> During Kennedy's presidency, a Catholic president, his platform was purely political. He said that his Faith will not influence his decisions. That was bad; it meant that he was willing to make immoral choices as a Catholic President of the US. Fortunately, he decided to make choices according to Catholic morality in a speech described as 'the speech that made the deep state assassinate him.' A short time later he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He passed away having chosen a moral decisions. Good for him. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The same stand was made by Justice Barrett, Trump's appointee to the Supreme Court. When asked by Feinstein, Barrett confessed she was Catholic but added that her religion will not influence her court decisions. That was, also, bad. Her appointment is her test. She will only pass her own test if she intends to be morally sound in her court decisions. Will her appointment make her a better Catholic or a worse Catholic. Like all of us she is being tested, today, as it was in the beginning of history.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">2. Suddenly the US election is not mere political choice between two parties. It has become a moral choice between Good which God will reward, and Evil which God will punish. No one can vote and that is all that is to it. Each voter will make a moral or immoral choice. Even those who do not vote or cannot vote have interiorly made a choice which God will judge. Silence is a vote for immorality. St. Paul wrote that all man must confess their Faith, i.e. make a choice for what is morally good. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The choice in the US election is very evident. On one side is a Catholic moral platform, the saving of babies. To which Christ said; 'whatever you do to these little ones, you do it to Me.' And with a speech the President had narrowed it down, specifically, to Catholicity. In fact the issue on Justice Barrett is her Catholicity, too, where we hope she will overcome her wavering moral stand . </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> St. James wrote that wherever someone makes a pure good moral stand, all his platforms will surely be morally upright. Being morally right as a pro-life, the rest of President Trump's platform are for the common good of the Americans, which is morally upright. And all who vote for this platform are accomplices to this upright moral act that deserves a reward from God on judgment day.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The same goes to the other side who are clearly murderers of children. Their very serious immoral act is; what they are doing to these little ones, they are doing it to Christ. These abortionists are not, only, killing children. They are crucifying Christ again. Their sin is Deicide, killing a God. The stupidity of this sin is that God cannot be killed. Yet they will be condemned for the crime of killing a God. Just like Judas. Judas could not have Christ crucified. But by his action of selling Christ, he was guilty of having killed Christ. Imagine, being condemned for a crime that cannot be done and yet condemned for it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">3. From the Catholic point of view.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> Hypothetically, if all voting Americans die after election, those who voted for President Trump will be rewarded by God, not because they voted for Trump. But because they voted for good moral actions in accordance to the commands of God. It could be an issue about how babies are treated. It could be an issue on the indissolubility of marriage. That candidate could have been anybody.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> And those who voted for Biden and Kamala will be punished by God, not because they voted for Biden and Kamala. But because they voted for an issue which is in disobedience to God's command, a highly immoral act either theologically or philosophically. The issue could be abortion or simply for being proud, impatient or unkind. </span></p>Gloria Olivaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11938143085231904739noreply@blogger.com0