HALLOWEEN IS NOT THE FEAST OF DEATH BUT THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS

 

In year 998, the catholic church began dedicating the month of November, to the memory of our beloved dead.  the church wanted to separate the authentic Christian devotions to our deceased from the pagan traditions celebrating death.  such pagan traditions are still very much alive within our Christian world today.  to bring back the sweet memory of our departed brothers and sisters, our streets are filled with dead corps, skulls and carcasses.  thus, the church never truly succeeded with so many in her endeavors to proclaim the true meaning of death. 

Saint Paul reveals it in his first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 15.  May we read with great devotion the meaning of death as sees from God Himself:

“15:12 Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 15:13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised. 15:14 If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain. 15:15 Yes, we are found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised. 15:16 For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised. 15:17 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. 15:18 Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 15:19 If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. 15:21 For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming. 15:24 Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power. 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 15:26 The last enemy that will be abolished is death. 15:27 For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.”^* But when he says, “All things are put in subjection,” it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him. 15:28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all. 15:29 Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead? 15:30 Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? 15:31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 15:32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”^* 15:33 Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” 15:34 Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. 15:35

MAY WE OFFER PRAYERS AND ESPECIALLY THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS ON THE CROSS IN THE HOLY MASS FOR OUR DECEASED DURING NOVEMBER.  The Professor.

THE PRIESTLY POWERS OF CHRIST IN OUR SALVATION

THE PRIESTLY POWERS OF CHRIST IN OUR SALVATION

INCLINATIONS TO HOMOSEXUALITY IS NO SIN

 

GOD IS FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD

 

1)-GOD NEVER RENOUNCES HIS SOVEREIGNTY OVER HIS CREATURES.  WHAT GOD SAYS, GOD DOES IT. 

 

Because God is faithful to his word, cunnings from his creatures to manipulate God’s words remain unsuccessful. May we consider   gay marriages and  civil laws against God and the respect to the human person.

As professor of the Holy Scriptures, I must teach without prejudice divine revelation concerning the  road to eternal life.  Pope Francis reminds us not to use Divine Revelation in a cafeteria style!  We must believe and teach all the doctrine revealed. 

 

Benedict xvi in his book :  GOD IS NEAR US,  teaches us  how someone elects to go to heaven or condemns his or herself  to eternal damnation.   He gives us the example of Judas.   Judas  knew Jesus well,  he was an eye witness to his miracles, he listened to his teachings and probably asked him many questions about his doctrine. .  In all and all, he lived with Jesus.  He was one of the twelve chosen by Jesus to live an intimate life with the Lord.  However, he sold Jesus just for the sake of money and lust.  According to the exegetes, the aaronic priests of the temple paid Judas an enormous sum of money to obtain his betraying Jesus to them. 

 

2)-POPE  BENEDICT XVI TEACHES THAT IT IS NOT WHAT WE THINK, NOR WHAT WE DESIRE, NOR WHAT WE SAY THAT PUTS US IN HEAVEN OR CONDEMNS US TO EVERLASTING DAMNATION. 

 

Where we are going to spend our eternity is determined by our choices.  The Holy Father uses the example of Judas.  Judas, in his relationship with Jesus,  did not choose Jesus, but he chose  to fulfill his  disorderly  passions.   He continued to talk about Jesus like one of the twelve apostles whose friendship grows in  “sincere love”  for Jesus.   Apparently the other eleven never  doubted  Judas had chosen to live his disorderly passions to fulfillment  without even thinking about it.  This specific drama is fulfilled constantly in the church down through the centuries.  How many bishops, legitimate successors of the apostles, choose to satisfy their disorderly  passions instead of choosing Jesus and fulfilling their priestly consecrations in holiness.

 

3)-JUDAS CRYSTALLIZED HIS ETERNITY THROUGH HIS CHOICES. 

 

He chose his passion for money and his concupiscence for sexual pleasures.   In the last moments of his life,  he probably never thought his betraying Jesus would turn out to Jesus crucifixion.    Faced-up with the gravity of his sin, he lost all hope  and trust in the divine mercy of God.  His last choice made in despair took his life and separated him for all eternity from Jesus.      Judas is the first bishop of the catholic church condemned to everlasting sufferings in hell “without knowing it.”   Satan sees Judas as a ferocious enemy in his hell , because satan was condemned to hell for refusing to worship Jesus in the crib in the mystery of Incarnation.  Therefore,  the sufferings of Judas  in hell,  because of his three priestly  consecrations,  into the priestly powers of Christ,  are much more intense in his damned soul than the sufferings in hell  of a pagan.    Jesus himself consecrated  Judas into his priestly powers as “worshiper” in his baptism,  also he consecrated Judas as “prophet” in his confirmation,  and he consecrated Judas as “sacrificator”  in his priestly ordination on the night of the Last Supper.    We must always remember that Jesus himself administers all the seven  sacraments he instituted in each one of us.  The ordained priest is an instrument in the hand of Jesus, a very needed instrument, however just an instrument.  The sacraments do not belong to the ordained priest, they all belong to Jesus.  He is the one who died for us on the cross, and he is the only one to offer us the means of salvation in the sacraments.  

 

4)-THE GAY MARRIAGES OR HOMOSEXUAL UNIONS  VERSUS DIVINE REVELATION:

 

Whoever chooses to “marry” with another person of the same sex, man with a man, and a woman with a woman, chooses to live a life  prohibited by God himself.    We must respect people making such a choice.  Jesus respected Judas’ choice.   No more also may we say that such persons are going to hell, because no one knows the relation of friendship or hatred God maintains with such people. 

 

However, divine revelation condemns such choices, as saint Paul reveals in his letter to the Romans:  

 

“ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made.  As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks.  Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.  While claiming to be wise they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.  Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.  They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever.  Amen. 

Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions.  their female exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another  males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.  And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.  They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy murder, rivalry treachery, and spite.  They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God.  They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents.  They are senseless, faithless, heartless, and ruthless.  Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”  (Rom 1:20-32)

 

In his first letter to the Corinthians, saint Paul reveals that we should not deceive ourselves:  “do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of god.”      (ICor 6:9)

 

5)-BLESSED JOHN PAUL  II   IN  THE REDEMPTOR OF MAN        

 

In the words of Juan Pablo ii:

 

“the God of creation is revealed as the God of redemption, as the God who is "faithful to himself, and faithful to his love for man and the world, which he revealed on the day of creation.

 

His is a love that does not draw back before anything that justice requires in him.

THE REDEMPTOR OF MAN #9 

 

You have laid down your precepts to be

faithfully kept.  May my footsteps be firm

in keeping your commands

(Psalm 118:4-5).

                 

                  If you live according to my teachings, you will truly be

my disciples  and the truth will set you free

                                                                                  (Jn 8:31-32).

 

Therefore we respect the persons who choose  to enter into a union or marrying with someone of the same sex.  Jesus respects Judas’ choosing his greed and his concupiscence.  We do not judge them.  We know that God condemns their choice.   We preach and teach God’s word.    When God mandates us to obey his commandments,  we listen and we obey, because what God says is what God does.  The last hour comes to each one of us; human laws proclaimed against God’s laws cause many to lose their soul for eternity.                                    

“God will judge us according to the doctrine of Jesus

 as revealed in divine revelation”.

(Rom 2:16)              

May the good Lord bless you richly in your enthusiasm to learn Jesus teachings to work your salvation.  The professor.

 

 

 

GOD CELEBRATES THE MATRIMONY OF OUR FIRST PARENTS

 

GOD HIMSELF CELEBRATES THE MATRIMONY OF OUR FIRST PARENTS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.

1)-GOD CREATES OUR FIRST PARENTS MALE AND FEMALE.

First of all, in God’s plan, we do not have 2 men or 2 women; 2 males or 2 females.  God creates mummy  and daddy!  He creates them in his image. 

IN HIS IMAGE means “intelligent.”  Man is to govern his own life with his reason.  Whatever man does, he must be reasonable in doing it.

IN HIS LIKENESS  means sharing in God’s divine nature.  This sharing is called  SANTIFYING GRACE. 

Grace means  “gift” which is the life of God.  This gift makes us saints.

May we read God’s own words: Genesis 1:26-28:

“Then God said: Let us make man in our image after our likeness. …So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.”

2)-GOD CREATES OUR FIRST PARENTS FOR HIS GLORY.

Everything God does is for his own glory.  Thus God creates a man to glorify Him on earth and be happy with God in heaven.  Also God creates a woman to glorify Him on earth and be happy with Him in heaven.

May we read the Church on God’s creation of our first parents in CCC (Catechism of the Catholic Church) #369:

“Man and woman have been created, which is to say, willed by God: on the one hand, in perfect equality as human persons; on the other, in their respective beings as man and woman.  Being man or being woman is a reality which is good and willed by God; man and woman possess an inalienable dignity which comes to them immediately from God their Creator.  Man and woman are both with one and the same dignity “in the image of God.”  In their “being-man” and “being-woman,” they reflect the Creator’s wisdom and goodness.”

3)-GOD CREATES THEM A UNITY IN TWO, EACH ONE FOR THE OTHER.

The intimate relationship between a man and a woman results from their creation.  Thus, God himself reveals that it is not good that the man should be alone.

May we read the Will of God in our Mother Church’s teachings in CCC #371:

“God created man and woman together and willed each for the other.   … It is not good that the man should be alone.  I will make him a helper fit for him.  None of the animals can be man’s partner.  The woman God “fashions” from the man’s rib and brings to him elicits on the man’s part a cry of wonder, an exclamation of love and communion:  “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.  Man discovers woman as another  “I,” sharing the same humanity.”

4)-CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE IN THE STATE OF ORIGINAL JUSTICE ALSO KNOWN AS THE STATE OF INNOCENCE.

God showers on our first parents all the heavenly gifts they could accept without changing their human nature.

First of all, God elevated our first parents to share in His Divine Life; God created his divine life called SANTIFYING GRACE in them.

Then God blessed Adam and Eve with the 4 preternatural gifts: the gift of knowledge, the gift of immune from sufferings, the famous gift of integrity and the gift of immortality.  We were not to die.  After passing God’s test of our allegiance to His Supremacy, we were to enjoy, without passing through death,  our heavenly heritage received from our first parents in the glory of God.

May we read our Mother Church in CCC #374:

“The first man was not only created good, but was also established in friendship with his Creator and in harmony with himself and with the creation around him, in a state that would be surpassed only by the glory of the new creation in Christ.”

5)-GOD REVEALED HIMSELF TO  OUR FIRST PARENTS IN THE SPLENDOR OF HIS GLORY BUT OUTSIDE  THE BEATIFIC VISION.

In their creation, our first parents did not enjoy the BEATIFIC VISION, which is to see and enjoy the Blessed Trinity in heaven.  Saint Paul tries to give us a vision of the Beatific Vision.

May we read Saint Paul in 1Corinthians 2:8-10:

“None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.  However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”  the things God has prepared for those who love him—

 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.”

6)-THEN GOD GAVE OUR FIRST PARENTS A SPECIAL MISSION ON EARTH.

May we read God in his own words in Genesis 1:28-31:

“God blessed them and said to them, "Be fertile and multiply  in number;  fill the earth and subdue it.  Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

… God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--.”

7)-GOD MANDATES OUR FIRST PARENTS TO BE FERTILE AND MULTIPLY BECAUSE HE HAS A PLAN FOR US.

God created the world with a special plan.  Before creation, God wants a whole family of saints in the image of His Son, as Saint Paul reveals to us in his Ephesians 1:4-20:  

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.   For he CHOSE US  in him before the creation of the world  to be holy and blameless in his sight.”  

8)-GOD RAISED US TO BE HIS ADOPTED SONS AND DAUGHTERS  TO PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME.

God takes an extraordinary step here!  He decides to adopt us as his children and members of his celestial family.

May we read Saint Paul in his own words:

“In love  he predestined us to be ADOPTED AS HIS SONS through Jesus Christ,  in accordance with his pleasure and will--  to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the ONE  he loves.

9)-GOD MADE JESUS OUR BROTHER REDEEMING US.

It is extraordinary how much God loves us. He lavishes on us all from the abundance of his heart.  He has RAISED us to the level of his Son Jesus!

May we read saint Paul in this beautiful Revelation he gives us:  

“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace   that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.    

10)-GOD’S PLAN IS THE FAMILY OF ONE MAN COMMITTED TO ONE WOMAN and ONE WOMAN COMMITTED TO ONE MAN  TO BECOME PAPA Y MAMA.

God is fulfilling his plan to build up his family of saints in the eternal life.  To all those who choose to respect and live according to God’s plan, God will nurture them with his faithful promise. After all, God creates us to be eternally happy with Him in His eternal glory. 

May we read Saint Paul in his own words in Eph 1:13-14:

Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,  who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THOSE WHO ARE GOD'S POSSESSION-- to the praise of his glory.”

11)-TO THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE THEIR LIFE ON EARTH OUTSIDE GOD’S PLAN, WE RESPECT THEIR CHOICE.

Salvation is a matter of choice.  Those who choose to separate themselves from God’s plan, it is their choice and we respect them.  Divine Revelation makes it very clear if we follow our inclinations to evil, we accept the consequences of throwing ourselves outside God’s plan cutting us away from our salvation.

Make we read Saint Paul on those following their inclinations to evil in Ephesians 2:1-3:

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of satan, the spirit who is now at work in those who are DISOBEDIENT.   All of us also lived among them at one time, GRATIFYING THE CRAVINGS OF OUR SINFUL NATURE   and following its desires and thoughts.  Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.”

12)-TO THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE GOD’S FAMILY PLAN, TO BE A FATHER IS TO BE THE GARDIAN OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD.

Thus, God himself promotes the commandment of  matrimony between a man and a woman.  May we read God in his own words in Genesis 2:24:

“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two  become one person.”

God has given to fathers the unique power to transmit the human life from Adam and Eve to the last man to be born.  The role of the father in his household is unique in creation.  Not only has God given him to transmit the human life, but he has given him the power to rule over his children.

May we read God’s will in shaping up the family life in Genesis 18:17-

“Should I hide my plan from Abraham?” the Lord asked.

 “For Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.  I have singled him out so that he will teach  his sons and their families to obey my teachings.”

13)-THE DIVINE MANDATE TO EDUCATE CHILDREN IN THE TEACHINGS OF GOD.

The father is first and foremost the natural educator of his children.  The father’s role as educator and head of the family is engrained in the children.  Children are naturally inclined to obey and to respect their father as commander in chief of the family.   

14)-MOTHERS ARE TO RESPECT THE FATHER’S ROLE IN THE FAMILY.

Mothers must promote the father’s role as commander in chief of the household and the educator of his children. They must back-up his authority. 

May we read Saint Paul in Eph 5:21-24

“Spouses, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.   Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.”

15)-GOD DEMANDS MORE FROM THE HUSBANDS.

God demands husbands to love their wives as Christ loves the Church and be ready to die for them.

May we read saint Paul in his extraordinary revelation in Ephesians 5:25-32:

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, …  In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.  He who loves his wife loves himself.   After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body,  just as Christ does the church—   for we are members of his body.   “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one  person.”  This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.”

16)-FATHERS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO CARE FOR THEIR CHILDREN.

Fathers are the care-giver, the bread-winning of their children.

Morally, parents must exercise authority over their children. Particularly at younger ages, children cannot fend for themselves and need constant supervision to keep them from starving to death or becoming sick or injured.

17)-IN MANY TRADITIONS, FATHERS HAVE BECOME “SEMENTALES,” HIS ROLE IS TO SOWE THE SEED.

Many  pagans traditions  infiltrated  the Church.  The vocation of the father disappeared from society.  His fatherhood has been replaced with the animal level of his sexual organ.  A man is famous if he can show his maleness. He is known as the male who can sow his spermatozoas “to all winds!”  Absolutely no responsibility! Thus, such perverse cultures wiped out completely his divine vocation in the family.

Women with no faith search for a seminal to inseminate them.  Such women are led by  their feminine push for maternity.  We hear their obsession on television for a son!  Faithless women victims of pervert cultures, all they look for is to satisfy their natural instinct of fulfilling their maternal urge! 

They have absolutely no psychic or moral concern for their children who will search in vain all their lives for a father who will never come!

Such fatherless children, the only reason for their fatherless being is the egoistic urge of women to satisfy their maternal instinct.  A book has been written about such problem titled  DOGS WITHOUT COLLARS.

18)-UNWEDDED MOTHERS IS NOT IN GOD’S PLAN

God mandates a man and a woman shall unite together as we read in God’s plan in Genesis 2:24:     

“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”

Each person  is responsible to keep the way of the Lord, as we read in Genesis 18:19:

“keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Then I will do for Abraham all that I have promised.”

19)-FATHERS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO PROVIDE THEIR CHILDREN WITH A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

The paternity, like the maternity, holds the highest responsibility to bring their children to heaven.  Giving life requires giving the complements of life. Thus, giving life demands feeding it, provide education and bring it to heaven, the final goal which is God Himself.

To those who are called to be parents, may we ask Jesus to help them  prepare themselves fulfilling their vocation with a responsible parenthood. The professor.

 

 

I HAVE CHOSEN YOU TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS

 

I HAVE CHOSEN YOU TO TEACH YOUR CHILDREN TO OBEY MY COMMANDMENTS. Genesis 18:19.

“For I have chosen you, to teach your children and posterity to obey my teachings so that I may fulfill my promises to Abraham.”

1)-THE VOCATION OF FATHERHOOD IS UNIQUE IN CREATION.

Fatherhood is the most difficult vocation in God’s plan of salvation.  The reason is simple.  A man may choose to follow his animal instinct.  However, the same man may choose to follow his calling from God Himself.

2)-GOD HIMSELF CREATES ADAM AND EVE IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY.

After having achieved the creation of the universe, God settles down to create our very first parents.  They are a very special creation and so THREE  the whole  BLESSED TRINITY participates in such a creation.

May we read God in his own words in Genesis 1:26-27:

“Then God said, “Let  US  make mankind in our image, in our likeness,”

Now God is plural.  Let “US”  reveals to us that the BLESSED TRINITY is involved in this special creation of Adam and Eve.

Now God associates our first parents to himself in guiding the universe, improving it and make it a better place to live and to attain our destiny.  God gives us this universe for our dominion.

May we listen to God’s plan for men and women:

 “so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,  and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

3)-GOD HAS A PLAN FOR HIS CREATION TO BRING ALL THE ANGELS AND HUMANS UNDER JESUS.

The goal of creation is to build up THE BODY OF CHRIST to form the heavenly family of the elect.  And now Saint Paul reveals to us this mystery of His Will.

May we read Saint Paul in his own words: Ephesians 1:4-20:

“And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,   to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.” 

4)-GOD HAS CHOSEN US TO BE HIS CONSECRATED PEOPLE.

Jesus is our model leading us to our predestination to fulfill God’s plan.  Obeying the Gospels leads us to our salvation.

May we meditate the words of Saint Paul:

“In him we were also chosen,  having been predestined ACCORDING TO THE PLAN  of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,   

in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.   And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.”  

5)-GOD’S PLAN IS THE FAMILY OF ONE MAN COMMITTED TO ONE WOMAN and ONE WOMAN COMMITTED TO ONE MAN  TO BECOME PAPA Y MAMA.

God is fulfilling his plan to build up his family of saints in the eternal life.  To all those who choose to respect and live according to God’s plan, God will nurture them with his faithful promise. After all, God creates us to be eternally happy with Him in His eternal glory. 

May we read Saint Paul in his own words in Eph 1:13-14:

“Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,  who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THOSE WHO ARE GOD'S POSSESSION--to the praise of his glory.”

6)-TO THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE THEIR LIFE ON EARTH OUTSIDE GOD’S PLAN, WE RESPECT THEIR CHOICE.

Salvation is a matter of choice.  Those who choose to separate themselves from God’s plan, it is their choice and we respect them.  Divine Revelation makes it very clear if we follow our inclinations to evil, we accept the consequences of throwing ourselves outside God’s plan cutting us away from our salvation.

May we read the disaster Saint Paul reveals on those following their inclinations to evil in Ephesians 2:1-3:

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of satan, the spirit who is now at work in those who are DISOBEDIENT.   All of us also lived among them at one time, GRATIFYING THE CRAVINGS OF OUR SINFUL NATURE   and following its desires and thoughts.  Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.”

7)-TO THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE GOD’S FAMILY PLAN, TO BE A FATHER IS TO BE THE GARDIAN OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD.

Thus God himself promotes his matrimony commandment .  May we read God in his own words in Genesis 2:24:

“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one person.”

God has given to fathers the unique power to transmit the human life from Adam and Eve to the last man to be born.  The role of the father in his household is unique in creation.  Not only has God given him to transmit the human life, but he has given him the power to rule over his children.

May we read God’s will in shaping up the family life in Genesis 18:17-

“Should I hide my plan from Abraham?” the Lord asked.

 “For Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.  I have singled him out so that he will teach  his sons and their families to obey my teachings.”

8)-THE DIVINE MANDATE TO EDUCATE CHILDREN IN THE TEACHINGS OF GOD.

The father is first and foremost the natural educator of his children.  The father’s role as educator and head of the family is engrained in the children.  Children are naturally inclined to obey and to respect their father as commander in chief of the family.   

9)-MOTHERS ARE TO RESPECT THE FATHER’S ROLE IN THE FAMILY.

Mothers must promote the father’s role as the educator of his children. They must back-up his authority.  However, husbands must love their wives as Christ loved the Church and died crucified for her.  Who is the husband ready to die for his spouse like Jesus died for His Church? Who is the husband who treats his wife with the same care as treats his own body? 

May we read Saint Paul in Eph 5:25-26:

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her   to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,”

10)-FATHERS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO PROVIDE THEIR CHILDREN WITH THEIR FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.

Fathers are the care-giver, the bread-winning of their children.

Morally, parents must exercise authority over their children. Particularly at younger ages, children cannot fend for themselves and need constant supervision to keep them from starving to death or becoming sick or injured.

However, fathers are the first educators of their children. They must teach their children first of all the basic knowledge of evangelization.

 Saint Paul tells the fathers their obligation to train their children in the knowledge of the Lord.

May we read saint Paul in Ephesians 6:4:

“Fathers,  do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”

11)-CHILDREN HAVE A SACRED DUTY TO OBEY THEIR PARENTS.

Saint Paul reveals the attitude children should nurture for their parents.

May we read in Ephesians 6:1-3:

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—  “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

12)-GOD PROMISES A DOUBLE REWARD TO CHILDREN WHO HONOR THEIR PARENTS .

The fourth commandment is very special in the Decalogue.  Obeying the 10 commandments is rewarded in heaven.  However, God has a very special affinity for the 4^th commandment.  Not only he rewards in heaven children who honor their parents, but he rewards such children immediately on earth.  Thus, it is the only commandment with 2 rewards.  God rewards such children, who honor their parents, with a long life on earth.

As Saint Paul says, to honor your parents pays off with a long life of happiness on earth and then the second reward in heaven.

13)-THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN IS TOTALLY BASED ON EDUCATION.

John Paul II clarifies the unique responsibility of the fathers and mothers.  Christ is our unique teachers; we must take it from Him how to transmit his teachings to our children.

May we read the Holy Father in Catechesi Tradendae where he deplores the total absence of the parents in teaching Jesus to their children:

“On another level, parents have a unique responsibility in the evangelization of their children. …  But in catechetical practice, this model order must allow for the fact that the initial evangelization has often not taken place. A certain number of children baptized in infancy come for catechesis in the parish without receiving any other initiation into the faith and still without any explicit personal attachment to Jesus Christ;

14)-PARENTS ARE IRREPLACABLE IN FORMING THE CONCIENCE OF THEIR CHILDREN.

In DOMINUM ET VIVIFICANTEM #43, John Paul II clarifies the role of conscience in each human person.

May we read the Pope in his own words:

“on conscience when it spoke about man's vocation and in particular about the dignity of the human person. It is precisely the conscience in particular which determines this dignity of the human person.”

Conscience is the guiding factor in all human acts.  Thus, parents must intervene to help their children educate their conscience at their very basic age.

15)-JESUS USES HARSH WORDS TO THOSE WHO BETRAY A CHILD.

The initial evangelization is paramount in the formation of the conscience in the child. The conscience of a child is the most precious gift parents pass on to their children. 

May we read Jesus in his own words in Matthew 18:6-8:

“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

 Wherefore if your  hand or your  foot offend you, cut them off, and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.”

16)-FATHERS MUST NOT ABUSE THEIR AUTHORITY.

Saint Paul gives us the last key words in the education of children.  All teachings and education must be done with compassion and love. Especially when educators deal with children.

May we read Saint Paul in Eph 6:4: 

“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

Fathers love your children and raise them up to the Lord with compassion and love for they must be your crown of glory in heaven.

May Jesus bless fathers to fulfill their fatherhood in fear and love of the Lord under the guidance of the Holy Spirit so their children be their crown of glory in heaven.  The professor.