WHOM DO I BELIEVE?

 

ON THIS SUNDAY, June 2, 2013, WE CELEBRATE THE GREAT FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI   THE FEAST OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.  ON THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRIST, 60 YEARS AGO I WAS ORDAINED A PRIEST.  MAY I ASK ALL MY BELOVED STUDENTS AND FRIENDS TO OFFER THEIR HOLY MASS IN THANKSGIVING TO ALMIGHTY LORD FOR MY 60 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF JESUS´  PRIESTLY MINISTRY.  SINCERE THANKS FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP.  Fr Louis George Dupuis,       your professor.

 

TO BELIEVE IS THE MOST INTRICATE AND CONFUSE ACT OF THE HUMAN WILL. 

WHOM DO I BELIEVE?  WHEN THE PREACHER WITH THE BIBLE IN HIS HANDS TEACHES ME, WHOM DO I BELIEVE?

1)-DO I BELIEVE GOD? DO I BELIEVE THE BIBLE? DO I BELIEVE THE PREACHER?

Pope John Paul II teaches that our faith is SUPERNATURAL.  Faith is always accepting what someone else tells me. Therefore, when the preacher teaches me, I believe the preacher. If that person tells me what I believe to be the truth, I accept, I believe the preacher.  How do I know if someone tells me the truth!  In most cases, it is too difficult to decipher the truth or not the truth.  Help is needed.

2)-JESUS KNEW ALL THE PROBLEMS FAITH PRESENTS.

The divine wisdom of Jesus appears in his institution of the Catholic Church.  The mission of the Church is to save souls.  However, to bring men and women to salvation, Jesus must teach them his doctrine of salvation.  Thus, he gives to his apostles the order to teach. 

May we read Jesus in his own words in Matthew 28:19-20:                 

^“ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.   Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

3)-JESUS’ COMMAND IS CLEAR TO HIS APOSTLES.

The apostles must teach all Jesus commanded them to teach.  This is the mandate the apostles received from the Lord Jesus:

“teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you”

Pope Francis 1 in his March 10 catequesis begs bishops and priests to teach the entire doctrine of Jesus:

“The Pope also begs bishops and priests not to shrink in proclaiming “the entire Plan of God to save us.”

This is very important, says the Pope.  The apostle must not teach a Christianity  “cafeteria style.”

The Apostle does not preach Christianity ‘a la carte,’ according to his own tastes, he does not preach a Gospel according to his own preferred theological ideas; he does not take away from his commitment to announce the entire will of God, even when uncomfortable, nor the themes he may least like personally.”

4)-THE BISHOPS HAVE A MANDATE STRAIGHT FROM THE LORD TO TEACH THE DOCTRINE OF JESUS TO ALL.

Pope John Paul II, in his Apostolic Exhortation, CATECHESI TRADENDAE, begs the bishops to teach themselves catechism.

May we read the Pope in his own words CT #63:

 “To begin with, I turn to my brother Bishops: The Second Vatican Council has already explicitly reminded you of your task in the catechetical area.

Dearly beloved brothers, you have here a special mission within your Churches: You are beyond all others the ones primarily responsible for catechesis, the catechists par excellence. Together with the Pope, in the spirit of episcopal collegiality, you too have charge of catechesis throughout the Church. Accept therefore what I say to you from my heart.

I know that your ministry as Bishops is growing daily more complex and overwhelming. A thousand duties call you: from the training of new priests to being actively present within the lay communities, …  But let the concern to foster active and effective catechesis yield to no other care whatever in any way. This concern will lead you to transmit personally to your faithful the doctrine of life.”

Lay people have the obligation to remind the bishops their obligation to teach catechism.

5)-JESUS ALSO MANDATED TO ALL TO OBEY TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE BISHOPS.

Thus, the bishops are to teach us to obey the Church teaching us the doctrine of salvation.

6)-OBEYING THE BISHOPS IS NOT AN OPTION.

To obey the teachings of the Church is to accept the priestly means of salvation. 

7)-WHAT ARE THE PRIESTLY MEANS OF SALVATION?

Saint Paul reveals to us we must work our salvation (Phil 2:12). However, we cannot get into heaven on our own human powers.  Heaven is out of reach to humans.  In John 14:6, Jesus tells us we can do nothing without him.  So Jesus offers us his priestly means to help us work our salvation.  His priestly means are to be found in the Priestly Church He founded on the twelve apostles.

8)-JESUS ENTRUSTED HIS PRIESTLY CHURCH TO SAINT PETER.

In the Gospel of Matthew, (Mt 16:16-19), Jesus makes a remarkable revelation.  He gives to Saint Peter the KEYS to the Kingdom of Heaven.  Thus saint Peter is now endowed with this heavenly power to open and to close the doors of  heaven.  He holds the keys to our ultimate happiness in the presence of the Blessed Trinity.  

9)-JESUS ENTRUSTED ALL OF US TO SAINT PETER’S GUIDING MISSION ON OUR WAY TO HEAVEN.

In saint Matthew, Jesus entrusted Peter with the very special mission to guide us on our way to heaven.  He gives Peter the divine power to bind with these words: “whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

This is an extraordinary divine power Jesus gives to a man!  And this power of the keys is related to our salvation.  Thus Peter has the divine power to throw a heretic out of the Church.  And he gives Peter the divine power to bring heretics who repent back into the Church.

10)-MANY THINK PETER GUIDES THE CHURCH FROM HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN.

Saint Peter does not guide the Church from his celestial throne.  Jesus gave Peter successors to guide the Church on earth.  When Jesus reveals to Peter “whatever you bind on earth,” Jesus mentioned an action that takes place on earth, an action visible to all men. 

11)-JESUS ENTRUSTED ALL OF US TO PETER TO GUARD US AGAINST IMPOSTERS.

Someone who follows the Pope, the successor to Peter, is sure he or she does not believe in vain.  We are sure their beliefs are exactly the doctrine Jesus taught to the apostles.  Jesus promised us that he is with Peter until the end of the world.  Jesus is faithful to his words.  He will do what he says.

12)-MANY BELIEVE ALL RELIGIONS TEACH THE SAME JESUS.

Only the Priestly Jesus of the apostles has the power to save. However, it is NOT reasonable to think and to accept that all religions are good, as we hear,  or all religions teach the same Jesus, and all religions lead to the same God.  Jesus reveals to us a very different doctrine in “the narrow gate”.  Jesus bluntly reveals that the majority of men and women will be damned (Mt 7:13).  The majority of men and women who will be damned are people who believed in vain.  They thought by following their own beliefs or the preacher’s beliefs would bring them to salvation.  They made a big mistake as Jesus reveals to us in saint Matthew (Mt 25:41-46).

13)-GOD OFFERS SALVATION TO ALL AND TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. (1Tim 2:4; Acts 1:8)

Saint Paul, in his letter to the Galatians reveals there is only one gospel that brings salvation to all.    The apostle is upset to find out his Galatians left Jesus and followed imposters. 

May we read saint Paul in his own words, Galatians 1:6-9:

“if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed.”

14)-POPE BENEDICT XVI TEACHES OUR FREEDOM TO REFUSE SETS THE LIMIT TO GOD’S SALVATION.

God is offering his salvation to all.  However, God must also respect each one freedom.  God cannot impose his Will on us.  He does all in his power to show us the way to salvation.  However, our freedom to refuse sets the limit to salvation.

15)-WE SET LIMITS TO SALVATION WHEN WE ACCEPT A JESUS THAT HAS NO POWER TO SAVE.

Jesus is the High Priest of God as revealed in Hebrews (Heb 4:14).  Only the priestly Jesus of the apostles has the divine power to save us.  Believing Jesus of the apostles is accepting Jesus divine power to save.  A fictitious Jesus is a Jesus invented by a preacher.  Accepting a Jesus who is not a priest, or a Jesus who founded a priestless church is a fictitious Jesus.

 16)-TO ACCEPT A PREACHER WHO IS NOT A PRIEST OR DOES NOT ACCEPT THE POPE  IS TO SET THE LIMIT TO SALVATION.

A preacher who does not belong to the Apostolic Succession is not to be followed.  He did not receive the laying on of the hands  from an apostolic bishop.  To follow such a preacher is to refuse willingly salvation God is offering.

17)-CAN WE AFFORD TO ENTER INTO HEAVEN WITHOUT THE MAN HOLDING THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM?  

18)-THE GREATEST ACT OF CHARITY IS TO TEACH CATECHISM TO SOMEONE.

Pope Benedict xvi in his encyclical DEUS ES CARITAS teaches the greatest act of love for a neighbor is to teach catechism.  Each believer must be a catechist not only in faith but in action.  To teach the Word of God is to bring someone to the Light that saves.

May the good Lord bless us all in our endeavor to help bring the Word of God in Truth to each person we meet.  The professor.

 

 

 

 

HOW WE DECEIVE OURSELVES DECEIVING OTHERS

 

HOW WE DECEIVE OURSELVES WHEN DECEIVING OTHERS!

HOW CAN I HELP JESUS CARRYING MY CROSS.

1)-TO DECEIVE OURSELVES IS THE HEAVY BURDEN OF OUR LIVES ON EARTH.

To deceive ourselves means to accept a lie as the truth.  This may happen in any field of life.  We long for the truth!  Every moment of life, we knock on someone’s conscience to tell us the truth.   We have our own personal problem to always tell the truth.  At time we find it impossible!

2)-THE OBLIGATION WE FEEL TO SECRECY.

Personally, the very first problem not to deceive others begins at home.  We have an intimate need to keep secrets!  May they be secrets concerning our personal life; may they be secret concerning others’ lives.  We must avoid deceive or being deceived.

3)-SAINT PAUL BEGS US TO AVOID BEING DECEIVED.

In his letter to the Corinthians, saint Paul clarifies how we choose to be deceived.

May we read saint Paul in his own words in 1 Cor 6:9-10:

“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? DO NOT BE DECEIVED:  Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men  nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

The list of deceivers is long, and the deceivers are real.  The danger to be deceived is imminent since so many bishops and priests were deceived.  The tendency in the Church is to minimize such deceptions.  Sunday sermons from catholic pulpit will never attack such deceptions.  Bishops and priests fear  condemnation may it be from their own conscience or from  corrupt cultures.

4)-HUMAN FEELINGS ARE VERY STRONG TO DECEIVE OTHERS.

There is no doubt, it seems natural to deceive others about ourselves.  Very often the consequences of such deceptions are not serious since they deal with happy matters.  Women like to deceive others about their age!  So do many men! 

5)-WE ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF FALLEN ADAM AND EVE.

The Church keeps teaching us that the Fall of our first parents has changed us forever.  Even though baptism restores us in the Life of God, baptism does not restore us to our original justice in Paradise.

May we read our Mother Church in her divine wisdom CCC #398, 400:

“Created in a state of holiness, man was destined to be fully “divinized” by God in glory.  Seduced by the devil, he wanted to “be like God,” but without God, before God, and not in accordance with God. …  Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will return to the ground for out of it he was taken.  Death makes its entrance into human history.  … After the first sin, the world is virtually inundated by sin. … and the universal corruption which follows in the wake of sin.”

Thus the Holy Scriptures reveal to us in Gen 3:5-19:

… Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life.  Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to you, as you eat of the plants of the field.  By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat, until you return to the ground from which you were taken; for you are dirt, and to dirt you shall return.”

6)-WITH ADAM’S SIN THE ORIGINAL HARMONY OF CREATION HAS BEEN SHATTERED.

May we read our Mother Church in CCC  #400:

“The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul’s spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and dominations…”

7)-ONE OF THE MISTERIOUS EFFECTS OF THE ORIGINAL SIN IS DECEPTION.

Each human being has a profound tendency to deceive may it be him or herself or the neighbor.   Adam and Eve themselves tried to deceive God when they engaged into a dialogue with satan.  Thinking satan was telling them the truth about God’s cunnings, they thought they could outdo God in deceiving the Almighty.  That fruit is powerful, as satan told them.  So our first parents triumphantly thought they unveiled God’s secret.  Let’s do it, they told themselves.  By trying to deceive God, they only deceived themselves.

8)-DECEIVING OTHERS ON GRAVE MATTERS WE ALWAYS GRAVELY DECEIVE OURSELVES.

To deceive others on grave matters may lead to grave damages and serious sin.  When we deceive others, we always deceive ourselves.  Typical examples are found in marital status.  Spouses committing adultery assert their faithful marital commitments.  They are always in very serious sins when committing such deceptions. Such deceptions when discovered may lead to homicide, suicide, and so on!

9)-SERIOUSLY DECEIVING OTHERS IN SELLING A PROPERTY IS ALWAYS A GRAVE MATTER.

Selling properties when failing to declare seen and unseen  grave defects are grave sins.   

10)-SELLING A STOLEN PROPERTY IS ALWAYS A SERIOUS MATTER.

Selling a stolen bicycle is a serious matter since it may deprive the owner from the only means of transportation he or she has to earn his or her living. 

11)-STEALING IS THE WORST DECEPTION SINCE IT ALWAYS CLOSES HEAVEN.

The thief profoundly deceives him or herself when stealing.  To repent, the thief must give back to the owner the object stolen. To give to charities is not the answer to repent.  The stolen object does not belong to the charity.  The owner must be found and the stolen object must be returned to its rightful owner.  

12)-GOD REWARDS EACH PERSON WHO SEACHES FOR HIS WAYS.    Heb 11:6

Normally nobody looks for hell.  However, one does not need to look for hell in order to go to hell.  To go to hell, one only needs to choose what God prohibits.  One deceives him or herself  cherishing a love-relationship with God while choosing to live in adultery.  Adultery chooses hell without realizing it.  However, God never abandons us with one condition: to believe.

May we read how God rewards those who look for him in  Heb 11:6

“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”

13)-SALVATION CONSISTS IN MEETING JESUS’ REQUIREMENTS IN OUR WORKS.

In the JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS, in Matthew 25,  Jesus clearly states God’s requirements to gain to everlasting life.

May we read Jesus in his own words in Mat 25:34-40:

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,   I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?   When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?   When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

 “THE KING WILL REPLY, ‘TRULY I TELL YOU, WHATEVER YOU DID FOR ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF MINE, YOU DID FOR ME.’”

This is the price to pay to enter the kingdom of  heaven.

To the ones on his left, the king has only this to say:

“Then he will say to those at his left hand,   ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels;  …

Not one of the condemned accepts their being condemned to hell.   It´s impossible they yell!  They did not realize their egoism and faithless life.  They yell their condemnation is unjust.  (Mateo 25:44).

God answers them:

 “Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did NOT do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.”

“And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

It seems very difficult to treat the neighbor as we are to treat God Himself.  Respect the neighbor first of all. It is each one responsibility to teach the neighbor not to commit adultery with the neighbor, not to steal the neighbor, and so on!

14)-JESUS HIMSELF REVEALS THE MAJORITY OF MEN AND WOMEN REFUSE TO FULFILL GOD’S DEMANDS.

Teaching the door of heaven, Jesus reveals the “few” will find it.  The majority of men and women, “the many” with their believing in vain, will be lost.

To believe in vain is simple to understand.  Someone lives in adultery but believes going to heaven, such a person believes in vain.  Hoping for a last minute conversion is hoping in vain!  Our last minute finds us in the state of mind that we lived.

Happiness consists in loving God in the neighbor! In Mt 25, Jesus shows us a bunch of good living people who were very happy in their selfish lives. They believed in vain without realizing it.

 May we read Jesus in his own words in Matthew 7:13:

“ENTER THROUG THE NARROW GATE; FOR THE GATE IS WIDE AND THE ROAD BROAD THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION, AND THOSE WHO ENTER THROUGH IT ARE “MANY.”  HOW NARROW THE GATE AND CONSTRICTED THE ROAD THAT LEADS TO SALVATION.  AND THOSE WHO FIND IT ARE “FEW.”  (Matthew 7:13)

15)-HUMAN LAWS APRROVING GAY MARRIAGES, ABORTIONS, ADULTERY,  DECEIVE THE MAJORITY OF BELIEVERS.

Saint Paul, in his message to the Corinthians warns us not to be led astray by a world gone BAD. 

May we read saint Paul in 1Corinthians 15:1-2:

“ Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.   BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, YOU HAVE BELIEVED IN VAIN.”

Our governments legislate against God.  Let us not be deceived!  Now we must choose.  Do we choose to be with “THE MANY” or with “THE FEW”?   May we sing WHEN ALL THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN,  I WANT TO BE WITH THE FEW destined to heaven.

May Jesus continue blessing us in our determination to learn our faith so as to teach others the right path to salvation.  The professor.

THEN WHO CAN BE SAVED?

 

THEN WHO CAN BE SAVED?  DO NOT FALL IN FALSE HOPE

Pope Francis I, during the month of May,  the month dedicated to honor Mary, our heavenly Mother, consecrated his Pontificate to OUR LADY OF FATIMA. May we read the Holy Father in his own words:

 “Our Lady of Fatima, intercede for the Church in this troubled hour when the unclean waves of an open immorality, which has even lost the sense of sin, exalt the filthiness of the flesh in the face of the very Cross of Your Son, threatening not only to choke in this world the lily of virtue nourished by the Eucharistic Blood of Jesus, but even to sully, if it were possible, His spotless Bride, the Church.  Virgin most Powerful, pray for us!

Our Lady of Fatima, intercede for our troubled world in this hour of passions and errors, when the defenseless are despised and killed, when even the good run the risk of being lost.  Use the present pontificate to unite all men around Your Son in His one universal Church, in the cultivation of virtue; with respect for human life and with fraternal charity everywhere.  Queen of Peace,  pray for us!

Only 2 paragraphs are quoted to show the Pope’s views of the world of this present age.  OUR BISHOPS TEACH US A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD.  They teach the child is born good, God does not castigate, sin is only saying NO to God, and finally everybody is saved  because God is good.

1)-THE APOSTLES ASKED JESUS “THEN WHO CAN BE SAVED?”  LISTENING TO JESUS THE APOSTLES LOSE HOPE.

Listening to Jesus revealing how difficult it is to enter heaven, the apostles somewhat rebuke Jesus  for giving them such a dark picture of  salvation.

The search for the unknown beyond the tomb  is the greatest quest in one’s life.  Nobody is indifferent when faced with death.  Many are atheist during their life, but mostly all become believers on their deathbed! 

2)-DEATH IS GOD KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. 

What is so interesting about God knocking at my door?  Death is an event unique in one’s life. As saint Paul says we die only once.

May we read saint Paul in Hebrews 9:27:

“Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment, …”

3)-ONE OF THE GREAT LIES THE DEVIL SUCCEEDS TO HAVE PRIESTS AND BISHOPS TEACH US WE ARE OUR OWN JUDGE NOT GOD.

Bishop and priests preach not to worry about death and the judgment!  All catholic pulpits preach each one is his or her own judge. God is love, God does not castigate, everyone is saved!  It seems so many priests are afraid of death and the final judgment for a valid and good reason!  All of them never taught a class of catechism to their people during their priestly life. They chose to be mercenaries on earth!

4)-I MUST PREPARE MY DEATH AND THE JUDGMENT.

There is a false notion that each person is its own judge!  Divine Revelation has it that God is our judge.  First of all in the Creed we profess!      In our profession of faith, we pray:

“We believe in God, the Father Almighty,… we believe in Jesus Christ … who will come in glory  TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD and his reign will have no end.”

Divine Revelation attests to the fact that we are not our own judge. Beginning with Adam and Eve in Paradise, God is their judge as we read in Genesis 2:16-17.

“From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you surely will die.”

Our first parents did not choose to die.  For disobeying God’s mandate, God judged them and  punished with death.  And so it is with the judgment of the nations in Matthew 25.  God judges and God sentences all the guilty to hell.  May we read Mt 25:41:

“Then he will say to those on his left, Depart from me, you accursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”

5)-GOD ALSO REWARD ALL THOSE FOUND WORTHY OF GOD’S LOVE.

The greatest fulfillment of one’s life is to hear from God’s mouth proclaiming the final happiness with the saints in the kingdom of God.  May we read in Mt 25:34:

“Then the king  will say to those on his right, Come you who are blessed  by my Father, Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”

And so the judgment of the nations ends with the final conclusion of creation.  May we read in verse 46:

“And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

So God makes a difference between the cursed and the righteous.  In Matthew 25, not a single person chose hell; moreover,  they all argued against going to hell.  However, God told them to go!  Thus, God wants us to choose where to spend our eternity with Him in His Glory or  to spend our eternity with satan in the torments of hell. 

6)-GOOD REASONING SHOWS LIFE IS WORTH LIVING AS A SAINT.

For the sake of good reasoning, why someone would choose to reject God who is so good to each one of us?  Life is the greatest gift one may receive.  Good parents are God’s blessing to the child! They are the first and God-given teachers of their children.  God showers on each one of us the abundance of His Love.  However, Jesus reveals to us the final fact of each one’s life; the majority of us are going to hell.  The very few will make it the Eternal Happiness with Jesus.

7)-JESUS REVEALS THE MAJORITY OF MEN AND WOMEN WILL BE DAMNED. (Mt 7:13) 

May we read Jesus’ own words:

The Narrow and Wide Gates

 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, AND MANY enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only A FEW find it.

There is an anomaly in our human reasoning.  Our life is so short on earth! For so few years, why do we choose to live in revelries with the devils, instead of living in holiness with the saints?  

8)-THERE ARE 2 CAUSES HELPING TO DETERMINE OUR FINAL JUDGMENT.

We may help ourselves studying the elements determining our final judgment. 

The first cause to be studied is our situation at birth.  Born with the original sin and its devastating concupiscence, it seems we are at a loss before we start in life.  The original sin is forgiven in baptism which renews us in God’s Life.  However, baptism does not restore us in our original justice.  We are still sharers in Adam’s downfall.

Jesus comes to redeem each one of us individually.  Jesus does not restore our fallen human nature to its original justice.  We already studied the dreadful consequences of Adam’s disobedience in Romans 7:15-24.  Please go back to the previous blog for an indebt study!

The second cause is to study 2 facts.  The first fact is our desire to know God in his Divine Revelation, and my personal salvation.  The other fact consists  to be indifferent to God and my personal salvation. 

9)-IT IS NOT REASONABLE TO EMBARK ON A JOURNEY WITHOUT STUDYING THE PERILS AND THE BONUSES.

It is not reasonable to embark on a journey without first studying it. Each one of us is responsible for his or her quest.  The pursuit for happiness is innate in each human being.   Each one needs happiness; however such need may inadequately be fulfilled in a false happiness or adequately fulfilled in the real happiness.

10)-THE SIGN FOR THOSE WHO FEEL NO NEEDS TO KNOW GOD.  WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT GOD IS SUFFICIENT FOR THEM.

In the Acts of the Apostles, we find a very interesting revelation concerning the indifference for Jesus’ teachings, or taking a stand against Divine Revelation.

May we read in Acts 13:46:

“It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first, but since you reject it and condemn yourselves as unworthy of eternal life…”

There is no doubt that indifference  for the Word of God is a sign of one’s self unworthy of eternal salvation.

11)-JESUS HIMSELF WARNS US TO LOOK AT THE SIGNS.

Saint John in his first letter clarifies for us an unmistakable sign pointing to rejecting God’s salvation.

May we read saint John in his own words in 1 John 1:6:

“Light and Darkness, Sin and Forgiveness

 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:  God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.   If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness,  we lie and do not live out the truth.”

In this Revelation of saint John, we find the ultimate gauge measuring our willingness to work our salvation.  The case in point is living in adultery while thinking ourselves in good standing with the Lord.  Stealing the neighbor, sequestering, giving false witness, assaulting,  to rob in cold blood and gay marriages, living with partners!  It seems we love our blindness to sin.   

12)-A FALSE HOPE FEEDS PEOPLE ENSNARED IN THE CLAWS OF SATAN

In spite of knowing the difference between good and evil, the majority accept t olive in the claws of satan without realizing it.  The motivation which feeds this anomaly comes from A FALSE HOPE.  Such false hope may come from believing God does not castigate, everybody is saved, God does not care about his ten commandments.

In the IMITATION OF CHRIST, we read: JESUS TRANSEUNTEM NO REDEUNTEM.  En English, MIND JESUS PASSING BY AND NEVER TO RETURN.

13)-REFUSING TO BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD IS TO CHOOSE DAMNATION WITHOUT REALIZING IT.

The apostles met with a very strong resistance against the teachings of Jesus.  Witnessing the Jews’ rebellion against Jesus, they asses such attitude as refusing heaven.

May we read the apostles in Acts 13:46: 

“Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you:  but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.”

To live a vice, may it be as an adulterer, a robber, a homosexual and so on, is to choose damnation without realizing it.

May Jesus our Redeemer help our bishops and priests to obey the Church  and teach our revealed origin in their diocesan catechisms.   Then the Redeemer will be better understood with his teachings.  The professor.

 

TO BELIEVE IN VAIN

WE SHALL BE JUDGED ON LOVING GOD IN THE NEIGHBOUR.  WHO IS SAVED?  WHO IS DAMNED?

1)-GOD THE FATHER SENT JESUS INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE THE WORLD.

All the Holy Scriptures are adamant in proclaiming the divine mission of Jesus.  Saint Paul feels himself obliged to proclaim the divine mission of Jesus since he himself is a living example of Jesus mercifulness.

May we read saint Paul in his own words in 1Tim 1:15-17:

“Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.  But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.”

Saint Paul is a living example of the mercy of Jesus in the sinner. He persecuted Jesus causing so much sufferings and death to his followers.  Thus, his conversion and sainthood is the entire work of Jesus in a sinner.

2)- IN SPITE OF HIS PASSION AND CRUCIFIXION, JESUS REVEALS  THE  “MANY”   ARE GOING TO HELL. ONLY THE   “FEW”   WILL MAKE IT  TO HEAVEN.

Pope Benedict xvi gives us  an undeniable reason as to why the majority of men and women will be damned.  It is because they have believed in vain (I Cor 15:1-2). (Benedict xvi in GOD IS NEAR US,)

We dedicate this entire week on Saint Paul revealing to us to be careful, we may believe in vain.

3)-HAPPINESS IS AN INTEGRAL ELEMENT TO WORKING OUR SALVATION.

Studying our revealed origin is the greatest source of happiness.  The reason is very simple.  It reveals to us the love of God in his work of salvation.  First of all, even though God created us gifted with the 4 preternatural gifts and sanctifying grace, we learn man remained a weak creature.  In spite of all the beauties of creation, we learn the weakness of our reasoning power.  God gave Adam and Eve, our first parents, only one commandment.  They were to believe his words; they were to believe God’s mandate and accept to worship only God their creator and no creature.

4)-OUR FIRST PARENTS ARE THE FIRST ON EARTH TO HAVE BELIEVED IN VAIN.

Believing satan’s lie, Adam and Eve put an end to God’s first plan for us.

Jesus came into a  world in disgrace, a fallen world. Adam and Eve were created with all the gifts God could bestow on a human being.  The original justice of creation was God’s plan for us.  Creation was good just out of God’s creating hand.  We were to live in perfect harmony with the entire creation and also with God.  What went wrong?

4)-IS THIS POSSIBLE?  THE MAJORITY OF US MEN AND WOMEN WILL BE DAMNED!

 It is not only possible, it is a fact revealed by Jesus himself.  Adam and Eve were the first humans on earth and the very first to be deceived by the “deceiver” satan.  They believed him and so they believed in vain since they accepted his lie!

5)-WITH OUR FIRST PARENTS’ REFUSAL TO WORSHIP GOD, SIN ENTERRED THE WORLD WITH DEATH.

Sin corrupts the original good in our first parents together with the whole of human nature.  The original good created in our first parents has been changed for the worst.  Adam and Eve are sentenced to die together with all their descendents.  God’s sentence goes on to include ignorance, sufferings and concupiscence which is lost of integrity. C.C.C. (catechism of the catholic church) #397-409.

6)-THE CHURCH OBLIGES BISHOPS TO TEACH THE ORIGINAL SIN.

Each person wants to know its roots.  The tragedy,  that our first parents lived in Paradise,  is beautiful to study especially for our young.  We want to know why evil is deeply rooted in each human heart.

In the  C.C.C. may we read why the Church demands of our bishops to teach the original sin in  #408-9:

“The consequences of original sin and of all men’s personal sins put the world as a whole in the sinful condition ….  This dramatic situation of the whole world which is in the power of the evil one makes man’s life a battle.”

Bishops ignore the C.C.C.

7)-GOD’S BEAUTIFUL CREATION TARNISHED BY THE ORIGINAL SIN AND OUTLAWED BY OUR BISHOPS.

The conspiracy of our bishops prohibiting teaching our origin to children is unbelievable. Bishops teaching the child is born good, God does not castigate, God is love has damaged the salvation of so many.  In Canada, especially in Quebec, less than 5% of this once staunch catholic province attend Sunday Mass.  Children are not baptized and people do not marry anymore.  The same is seen all over Europe, Australia and so on!  If the child is born good, what’s to worry about?  Redemption has become useless!

8)-JESUS WITH HIS DIVINE MISSION TO SAVE THE WORLD COMES INTO A WORLD AT ENMITY WITH GOD.

Jesus came unto his own and he was disowned by a world fallen into the power of evil, the world and satan.

May we read in John 1:11

“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”

9)-OUR BISHOPS HAVE BEEN DECEIVED BY THE DECEIVER.

There is absolutely no doubt our bishops have been deceived by satan.  Satan managed to come to our first parents under covered, unknown to them.  And now he succeeds to have our bishops and priests to cover up for him!  He got them to teach us that he does not exist.  Our bishops teach us  the spiritual and corporal damages he did to us in our first parents is not true anymore. All our bishops and priests accept this hypocrisy  the child is born good!  There is no need for baptism!  God does not castigate!  If there is a hell, nobody goes! And finally everybody goes to heaven!

10)-OUR BISHOPS AND PRIESTS DO NOT TEACH THE ORIGINAL SIN, SIN AND HELL FOR A SERIOUS REASON.

Our bishops and priests are engulfed in the worst heresy in the history of the Church.  They do not teach the original sin, sin and hell because they want to keep us “happy!”  Apparently, happiness is the key to salvation!  Your beliefs do not matter; if you are happy you are on your way to heaven!  This is such a false teaching!

11)-SAINT PAUL WARNS OUR BISHOPS AND PRIESTS AND ALL OF US NOT TO DECEIVE OURSELVES.

Saint Paul, in his letter to the Corinthians warns us the deceiver is real to deceive anyone caught unaware of his presence.  His snares are laid all over along our path.

May we read saint Paul in his own words in 1Cor 6:9-10:

“Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? DO NOT BE DECEIVED!  Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, ¹⁰ thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.”

Christian governments around the world legalize sodomites, adulterers, male prostitutes and so on! Our brothers and sisters worldwide agree with the laws!  We are living in the greatest moral confusion since Sodom and Gomorrah.  Bishops and priests are caught up in all that filth in a way that they will not attack such vices in their weekly catechism classes since they do not teach catechism, nor in their Sunday sermons!  Sunday sermons must only preach that God is love and he does not castigate! The great mercy of God saves everybody!

12)-SOCIETIES BECOME CORRUPT WHEN THEY IGNORE WHERE WE COME FROM AND TO WHERE WE ARE GOING.

In the C.C.C, the Church teaches to ignore the original sin damages the fabrics of societies with no return.  May we read number 407:

“The doctrine of original sin, closely connected with that of redemption by Christ, provides lucid discernment of man’s situation and activity in the world.  By our first parents’ sin, the devil has acquired a certain domination over man, even though man remains free.  Original sin entails “captivity under the power of him who thenceforth had the power of death, that is, the devil. (Cc of  Trent: DS 1511; cf  Hb 2, 14).  Ignorance of the fact that man has a wounded nature inclined to evil, gives rise to serious errors in the areas of education, politics social action, and morals.”

We live in societies totally ignorant of the Divine Revelation.

May Jesus our Redeemer help our bishops and priests to obey the Church  to teach the revealed of our origin in their diocesan catechisms.  The professor.