tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63558003957697760792024-03-06T13:03:51.349-06:00Bold RadishUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-90463232755268819642023-11-02T21:04:00.002-05:002023-11-02T21:04:46.604-05:00Spiritual Wound Healing Links <p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">In my last post, I posted about praying deliverance prayers with the friendly and kind Exorcist Monsignor Rosetti in the SMC videos at CatholicExorcism.org, that he is very sincere and you will have a deep experience with God's Love, a real experience with God like in the Gospels.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I also linked to a "healing from shame" video.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">So I'm just going to post some links from their website.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The "shame" video is linked here along with a bunch of other brief videos (deliverance from fear, demons of pornography, healing mind and heart, Holy Land blessing, etc lovely collection of little videos):</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.catholicexorcism.org/copy-of-deliverance-guidelines-for-pr&source=gmail&ust=1699063274938000&usg=AOvVaw3NpZj0bQGTYRqMaNZr6om4" href="https://www.catholicexorcism.org/copy-of-deliverance-guidelines-for-pr" id="m_-1636008865432691332LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.catholicexorcism.<wbr></wbr>org/copy-of-deliverance-<wbr></wbr>guidelines-for-pr</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Deliverance prayers we can pray: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.catholicexorcism.org/deliverance-prayers-for-the-laity&source=gmail&ust=1699063274938000&usg=AOvVaw0q3MV8fVhUmCD6Sw7fDH1V" href="https://www.catholicexorcism.org/deliverance-prayers-for-the-laity" id="m_-1636008865432691332LPNoLPOWALinkPreview_1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.catholicexorcism.<wbr></wbr>org/deliverance-prayers-for-<wbr></wbr>the-laity</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There's a link at the top of the site that says "blog." Once you click it, keep scrolling down the page to get to the actual blog (it's a ways down the page). It's a very interesting blog. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">There are also little videos on instagram linked from the front page where the exorcist explains things or tells stories of exorcisms -- if you are like me and don't have social media accounts, you can still see the instagram videos if you click on them from the front page of their website (just not their instagram page). The reason is because you can see instagram videos if you have a direct link to the video, which you get by by clicking on them from the home page of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicexorcism.org&source=gmail&ust=1699063274938000&usg=AOvVaw3KCISkGq02_WD9WPaUCgpX" href="http://catholicexorcism.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">catholicexorcism.org</a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Also after this last deliverance session video, October's video, I've been able to pray constant Hail Marys all day in the back of my mind -- a wonderful devotion i have mentioned in other posts. I recommend doing this, praying them in the back of your head from when you wake up to when you go to sleep (except when you are talking or writing of course), asking God to be your Light to understand and be close to Him and praise Him. I recommend it if you can (are physically able, sometimes we can't always use our minds so constantly, I've noticed within myself) - if you have spiritual resistance, keep pushing through. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You were born to love and praise God. You'll be praising and loving God for all eternity. That's what the Hail Mary is - the praise of God. Praying this way has made me happy like nothing on earth has ever done. So I thought I'd share it, hoping you would also be happy from it. Chases those bad thoughts away, sooner or later, because if the devil and Mary occupy the same place, Mary will always win and crush his proud head, forcing him out.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Well, no matter what you decide to do or can do, I certainly hope that God touches you and brings you much closer to Himself so you can be happy and experience the goodness of His holiness, His love.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Having a charming day in the love of Christ!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-67256761556625531722023-05-11T18:59:00.005-05:002023-07-06T14:44:31.780-05:00No matter what your problems are, you will be helped by praying these online deliverance prayer sessions with kind Priest<div>My life has changed and i have received a lot of healing from God through praying these. </div><div><br /></div><div>They will help you, too, no matter what problems you are suffering through.</div><div><br /></div>No matter what your problems are, you will be helped by praying these
deliverance prayers because they really close the doors to sin and open you up
to God's healing and graces in your life. You can pray together with a priest, asking God to heal spiritual wounds and receive deliverance from darkness.<div><br /></div><div>They are once-a-month live group prayers.
All are invited from the privacy of their own homes.</div><div><br /></div><div>They are in English: the
prayers are both written as well as spoken clearly so you can follow along. I
think even if you don't grasp English well, you will be be prayed over by the
priest, everyone else, angels and Saints, and your soul will understand and be
happy. </div><div><br /></div><div>You can RSVP here by following this link:
<a href="https://www.catholicexorcism.org/events">https://www.catholicexorcism.org/events</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>When you RSVP, you will receive an email. A little bit before the live session
begins, you will get an email with a link to the live session. (Do not share
this link publicly because anyone against God's work will use it with bad
intent.) </div><div><br /></div><div>The sessions are in Eastern time zone of the United States. You can use
this time zone converter to find out what time that is for your location. The
default conversion time is into EST — Eastern Standard Time, and the default top
time should be for your current location, so it should give you the correct time
just be clicking the link. If not, enter your city, state/province/etc, country
in the first box and "EST" in the bottom box.
<a href="https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter">https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>If you find you missed the live session, you can still click the link and watch
the video, it just won't be live anymore. You can continue to pray the session
when you need it, even daily if you want. I do recommend watching live but I
downloaded and watched the last session almost daily and it has changed my life
a lot.</div><div><br /></div><div>The priest is Monsignor Rossetti, an American priest who wrote the best
selling book, "Diary of an American Exorcist." He is a very joyful, kind,
sincere and humble man, and you feel a sincere relief and joy after attending
one. "A peace the world cannot give you." </div><div><br /></div><div>You will probably want to watch your
first in private. You may have a strong emotional reaction in the beginning or
any point during the session when God's all-powerful love envelopes your heart. </div><div><br /></div><div>There may be some spiritual obstacles, resistance (not from God but allowed by God) to
watching one, such as forgetting the time or being nervous, feeling indifferent, bored or impatient, but pray to God and
your guardian angel and they will make sure you overcome those obstacles and resistance, in order to receive the healing Jesus lived, died and resurrected to give us. </div><div><br /></div><div>It is a real
religious experience of real Christianity. That's why I want everyone to get to
experience it. You really understand God and His angels and Saints in a new way. </div><div><br /></div><div>It is not a formal exorcism although many exorcism prayers are prayed by the
priest. The goal of all exorcisms is deliverance. So, prayers, like the rosary
or divine mercy chaplet, and partaking in the sacraments (baptism, confession,
anything with the Eucharist like Eucharistic Adoration or Mass) can deliver you
from demonic bonds and spiritual wounds if you participate in the prayers and
sacraments. There are special deliverance prayers or the rite of exorcism that
can help deliver a person. This does not take the place of an exorcism if you
need one. I recommend reading the book "Interview with an Exorcist" by Fr. Jose Antonio Fortea for understanding.</div><div><br /></div><div>You will likely be helped by attending one of these deliverance
sessions online. There are also amazing resources on the website
catholicexorcism.org God bless you! God's peace be with you!</div><div><br /></div><div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Addition!: </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here is a link to some videos including other past deliverance videos - I suggest them, they are really good. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.catholicexorcism.org/smcvideos&source=gmail&ust=1685211638049000&usg=AOvVaw3BA0ab8E9tGSwK_1s7V7Wy" href="https://www.catholicexorcism.org/smcvideos" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.catholicexorcism.<wbr></wbr>org/smcvideos</a></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">[Update] a few days ago, this exorcist went to the holiest site in the world and he shares his pilgrimage grace with us in this video - very nice to remember us. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UGtgBwf5BtY">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UGtgBwf5BtY</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here is also an important video casting out the demons of shame. It's short and I like it so much, it's so impactful and life changing.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v%3DoJCMj9dmgss&source=gmail&ust=1685211638049000&usg=AOvVaw3eqWjMa6C2KGHGd-PE8Vu4" href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJCMj9dmgss" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=<wbr></wbr>oJCMj9dmgss</a></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(Because I just saw this recently, I'd like to mention it here:) It's important to remember to not ever try to shame someone into believing something, nor argue with them. These are sins and so aren't from God. You can't help someone too well if you sin against them.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You will find if you are really delivered from the spirit of shame that you won't have the desire to shame others. :) Your mentality will really be different and you will have more of God's peace.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also it is important to remember that we don't pray to control someone. That's not what prayer is. Prayer is about giving control over to God. Surrendering to God. Surrendering someone else to God. The God Who created free will, Who wants us to be trusting and peaceful little children in His arms.</div></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">6/10/23 Addition: This came up in conversation recently so I'd like to clarify the difference between the demons of lethargy, which the priest mentions and casts out, and healing sleep from God.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">St. Therese mentions that there is a healing sleep. Sometimes she would fall asleep while saying the Rosary, but it was a healing sleep from God - she likened it to how a doctor puts a patient to sleep in order to perform surgery. God was healing her soul and she was asleep, being healed. This is usually a very "delicious" sleep. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you are praying along to this video, maybe not the first time maybe even several times later, and you nod off and sleep, that doesn't necessarily mean it is these unclean spirits of lethargy. It could be a healing sleep. I've listened to these prayers once and was falling sleep but it was very relaxing; I've been praying with my dad and my dad fell asleep. It's not the same thing.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The demons of lethargy are not pleasant. The eyes feel <u>forced</u> closed. The person feels dragged or weighed down. It usually stops immediately if the prayer is paused or stopped, no matter how forceful the "sleepiness" was. Immediately if you being praying again, the "lethargy" starts again. It's very weighed down. It's very forced, it's very oppressive, it's not pleasant feeling and it is to get you to stop praying.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you keep praying when this happens, it will eventually stop. I remember when I first learned the rosary 2 decades ago, I had about a week where I would try to pray the rosary and this overwhelming, oppressive lethargy would force my eyes closed. The exorcist even says, "<u>forcing</u> your eyes closed." It is force. I would stand up and walk around while I was praying, and was completely unable to concentrate, and it would still feel like an external force, this unseen force, was trying to force my eyes closed. After about a week of this battle, it ended and never came back.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">That's what it is.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's very common to be healed and fall asleep in God's arms like a little child falling asleep in his/her father's arms, all cuddly and cozy. That's something else entirely and it is a fine thing to experience. I've seen people falling asleep during Eucharistic adoration and I've read about people who are converting and they fall asleep during Eucharistic adoration, in the chapel, and it is this holy sleep of a child of God in his/her Father's arms. This is a beautiful thing, a peaceful thing, and there is no force. It's very very good for your soul and from God.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You should be able to sit through these videos eventually while staying awake and following along the whole video.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thank you.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-3826815393409233032022-08-28T15:56:00.003-05:002023-11-11T18:31:58.146-06:00Do not tire of proclaiming My mercy<p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">Here is our Divine Mercy post. It was written a while back so has been buried under newer posts, but it is still a really helpful thing to read. Please check it out.</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boldradish.com/2015/07/divine-mercy.html?m%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1661806077392000&usg=AOvVaw0goRa3siYoUOCCm7lUIJZj" href="http://www.boldradish.com/2015/07/divine-mercy.html?m=1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.boldradish.com/<wbr></wbr>2015/07/divine-mercy.html?m=1</a></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Below are some quotes about God's Infinite Love and Mercy for sinners.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">God spoke to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, the Apostle of His Divine Mercy in 1940s Poland. These are some of the things He said about His Mercy.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Let the sinner not be afraid to approach Me. The flames of mercy are burning Me — clamoring to be spent; I want to pour them out upon these souls (Diary, 50).</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Say unceasingly the chaplet [of Divine Mercy — see link to Divine Mercy post] that I have taught you. Whoever will recite it will receive great mercy at the hour of death. Priests will recommend it to sinners as their last hope of salvation. Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet only once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy. I desire that the whole world know My infinite mercy. I desire to grant unimaginable graces to those souls who trust in My mercy (Diary, 687).</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #202020; font-size: 16px;">No soul will be justified until it turns with confidence to My mercy, and this is why the first Sunday after Easter is to be the Feast of Mercy. On that day, priests are to tell everyone about My great and unfathomable mercy. I am making you </span><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #202020; font-size: 16px;">[St Faustina]</span><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #202020; font-size: 16px;"> the </span><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 16px;">[dispenser] </span><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #202020; font-size: 16px;">of My mercy </span><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 16px;">(</span><em style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #202020; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Diary</em><span face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif" style="color: #202020; font-size: 16px;">, 570).</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Write, speak of My mercy. Tell souls where they are to look for solace; that is, in the Tribunal of Mercy [Sacramental Confession]. There the greatest miracles take place [and] are incessantly repeated. To avail oneself of this miracle, it is not necessary to go on a great pilgrimage or to carry out some external ceremony; it suffices to come with faith to the feet of My representative and to reveal to him one’s misery, and the miracle of Divine Mercy will be fully demonstrated (<em>Diary,</em> 1448).</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(Misery in this case being to list one's sins.)</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pray for souls that they be not afraid to approach the tribunal of My mercy. Do not grow weary of praying for sinners. You know what a burden their souls are to My Heart. Relieve My deathly sorrow; dispense My mercy (Diary, 975).</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My daughter, do not tire of proclaiming My mercy. In this way you will refresh this Heart of Mine, which burns with a flame of pity for sinners. Tell My priests that hardened sinners will repent on hearing their words when they speak about My unfathomable mercy, about the compassion I have for them in My Heart. To priests who</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">proclaim and extol My mercy, I will give wondrous power; I will anoint their words and touch the hearts of those to whom they will speak (Diary, 1521).</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Do not put off the Sacrament of Penance [confession] because this displeases Me. Pay little attention to the murmurs of those around you.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>"When you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon your soul and ennobles it. Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself entirely in My mercy, with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul. When you approach the confessional, know this, that I Myself am waiting there for you. I am only hidden by the priest, but I Myself act in your soul</strong><strong> </strong>(</span><em style="font-size: 16px;">Diary</em><span style="font-size: 16px;">, 1602).<b>"</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium;">Here is our Divine Mercy post. Please check it out.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boldradish.com/2015/07/divine-mercy.html?m%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1661806077392000&usg=AOvVaw0goRa3siYoUOCCm7lUIJZj" href="http://www.boldradish.com/2015/07/divine-mercy.html?m=1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.boldradish.com/<wbr></wbr>2015/07/divine-mercy.html?m=1</a></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">(Also please note that when you go to confession, whether before or after, you must do everything in your power to right the wrong of your sins. For example, if you illegally downloaded something without paying, so you repent of theft, you need to them pay back what you owe. If you yelled at someone, you need to apologize and work on your anger. If you looked at pornography, you need to get rid of whatever or whomever makes it easy for you to look at pornography. If you practiced divination/occult, you need to discard all of that. If you made a false idol out of something - I've found often going to confession for it helps it go away. Same with envy. But you can also incorporate the litany of humility if you have envy. If you repent of self-hatred, you need to avoid people or situations that might encourage that. Etc. Do you see what I mean? This is a very important part of the process. It is what makes confession ... well, a real repentance. Confession is a beautiful, beautiful step towards making your life whole, to really changing and righting wrongs, putting your life in order, and being truly spiritually liberated and happy.)</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-87447589012117844442022-08-04T18:42:00.003-05:002022-08-04T18:44:25.801-05:00Exorcist Monseigneur Stephen Rossetti talks about the 3 Rs of exorcism. (2 min read)<p> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">Exorcist Monseigneur Stephen Rossetti talks about the 3 Rs of exorcism.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.catholicexorcism.org/post/exorcist-diary-200-the-three-r-s-for-casting-out-demons">https://www.catholicexorcism.org/post/exorcist-diary-200-the-three-r-s-for-casting-out-demons</a></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-65730402571952437372022-04-28T13:17:00.001-05:002022-04-28T13:17:16.635-05:00A warning about new Far/Deep Right/Left who say they are Catholic or in favor of Catholicism but are not.<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hello. I'm Tiger, author of most of the articles on the blog and daughter of BoldRadish.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I had a long debate within myself as to whether I should post this article i had written on these dangers of these extreme politics, or not.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was worried that it would be too harsh for those who are still young in their religion and don't yet know how to suffer with Jesus. Or upsetting for those who have already decided to turn their backs on the contemporary world completely, and so who have no need to read it. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have no desire to lay any unnecessary burden upon anyone; Jesus said, "My yolk is easy and My burden is light." (Matthew 11:30)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was extremely cathartic for me to write. I have suffered a lot at the hands of such persons which are the subject of the article. So I could not be objective as to whether or not it would be helpful or hurtful for others to read. ... I tried to ask my father, BoldRadish, but he has also been so deeply wounded by such persons; he also could not be objective in deciding whether it should be posted or not.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I've decided to post it on a page separated by itself, which I will link to at the bottom of this post, that you can choose to read or not, rather than to put it directly in your lap.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Previously, I had firmly decided to not share it at all, except that for several days in a row, my father commented on how much it helped him. And I can see that there is a change in his life, what he focuses on, and that it is lighter for him and better. (When he is confronted with the news, he has learned a way to dismiss it well and without offending others, and he himself spends his time looking at neat and obscure informations, rather than contemporary events.) ... My life has also been greatly unburdened after writing it. This is a rare thing, I think, to write something with a deep therapeutic effect on me.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The writing is about such persons who think they are in favor of Catholicism or who claim to be Catholic based on their idea of what our Communist anti-Catholic society (education, entertainment) claims is Catholicism, but is, in truth, the opposite of Catholicism, and is actually what happens when a very worldly society, far from private prayer and repentance to God, develops. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">One might recall Apocalypse ch 2: I know how sorely tried you are, how stricken with poverty (yet, all the while, so rich [in grace]); how your name is traduced by men who claim to be [Catholic] (though they are no true [Catholics]; they are rather the chosen people of Satan).</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These politics are a great wound to suffer from for those who cling to Jesus because it is like the filth that was thrown onto Him during His Passion, to see His Love defamed in this way. Therefore, it is consolation to such persons, as well as a call to increase one's love of Him, who have suffered such great martyrdoms within themselves at the hands of such people.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But, also it could be that some persons who have not prayed enough or sought God enough, and are not yet converted, but are trying, might find it wounding, because they might see themselves in it and are not yet confident enough in God's Mercy to throw themselves to God, but rather feel beaten down by it. Or, they may find it helpful to know what to stay away from. I don't know which could happen. I don't want to hurt anyone. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I've seen people who were starting to convert and still very much in line with the oppressive and arrogant nature of the world, and a year later after having prayed very much, have changed very much, because God has given them so much grace because of their private and sincere repentance and prayer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And essentially it is nothing I haven't said before in all of the other posts, just arranged more specifically and acutely. This post is also things I have written before.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The message of the post is ultimately that God is love, to turn away from all current events and politics, and to instead turn towards God, forgetting the world. Because nothing within the world can save the world; only by forgetting the world and seeking God will you find peace and joy, and will the world be saved. By your increasing closeness to God, God will save the souls of those suffering in a world you have moved on from.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I say it is important to speak to God rather than about Him because God is real. Sometimes people in the early conversion think that if they show everyone how great their life is because they pray, and they show everyone that they pray, pray very publicly, that it will help other people convert. (This is not the same as a conversion story posted in an appropriate place, but more like a public display.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In fact, this is what the Devil was tempting Jesus with in the desert: the temptation to Jesus was that if He jumped off a tower and angels saved Him, publicly, it would help people convert; or if rocks were turned to bread and people saw, they would realize that God exists.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jesus resisted all of these temptations and did not do any of these things. He also encourages us to pray in private, in our inner chamber -- whether that be our inmost being or in a physically private room -- by telling us that those who pray publicly for others to see, their prayers don't even count -- God does not even hear such prayers.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason that we can evangelize by praying in private and speaking to God rather than about God is because <b>God is real</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">God is more real than the world, or I should say, the public world.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those who are enmeshed in the public world need to step out of it; if we try to put God into the world in this showy way, they will not be leaving the world behind to become enmeshed in God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If God weren't real, if God were as fake and empty as all the public shows and displays the world and everyone in it makes, we would have to make a public display of God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">God is more real than the world. Therefore, when we forget the world, when we pray in private, in sincerity, when we pray to be closer to God and know God more, even though we are not visually changing the world around us, the entire world, the entire spiritual world, <i>completely changes</i>. Even if you do not see it with your eyes. Even if the immediate world around you remains obstinate in sin. I have seen things, and been taught things, and I can tell you it is true -- that the prayers of one person -- yes, even your prayers -- make a difference in the entire world.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">That is why you can read stories of Saints who offer themselves in sacrifice and save a whole country from being destroyed for its sins. This is a repeated story in the archives of convents. It is because -- God is real.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If even one person sincerely seeks God, sincerely prays for true wisdom, prays for faith, sincerely prayers to know the Truth (and the Truth is God Himself) and prays to know his/her sins and have the grace to have sincere contrition over them, prays for the grace to love God (and not just one day but all days), -- that one person WILL sincerely be closer to God. Because God is real and He will really answer these prayers. And these are intentions to ask God for every day, for one's whole life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3 Kings ch3: And that night the Lord appeared to [young Solomon] in a dream, bidding him choose what gift he would. ... Solomon said, "Yes, Lord God, You have bidden this servant of Your's to reign where his father reigned; but, Lord, what am I? No better than a little child, that has no skill to find its way back and forth. ... Be this, then, Your gift to Your servant: wisdom, a heart quick to learn, so that I may be able to judge Your people’s disputes, and discern between good and ill." ... The Lord listened well pleased, and looked with favour on the choice he had made. "For this request of your's," God told Solomon, "you shall be rewarded. You did not ask for a long life, or riches, or vengeance upon your enemies, but for <b>wisdom </b>to administer justice. Your prayer is granted; hereby I grant you a heart full of wisdom and discernment, beyond all that went before you or shall come after you. And moreover, I grant you all thou did not ask for; in wealth, in glory, no king that ever was may compare with you. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">And if you will follow the paths I have chosen for you, as your father did, keeping My commandments, a long life you shall have too."</span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proverbs 8:11: For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to wisdom.</span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jesus in Matthew 6: I say to you, then, do not fret over your life, how to support it with food and drink; over your body, how to keep it clothed. Is not life itself a greater gift than food, the body than clothing? </span>See how the birds of the air never sow, or reap, or gather grain into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them; have you not an excellence beyond theirs? Can any one of you, for all his anxiety, add a cubit’s growth to his height? And why should you be anxious over clothing? See how the wild lilies grow; they do not toil or spin; and yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div><br /></div><div>If God, then, so clothes the grasses of the field, which today live and will feed the oven tomorrow, will He not be much more ready to clothe you, men of little faith?</div><div><br /></div><div>Do not fret, then, asking, What are we to eat? or What are we to drink? or How shall we find clothing? It is for the heathen to busy themselves over such things; you have a Father in heaven who knows that you need them all.</div><div><br /></div><div><u>Make it your first care to find the kingdom of God</u>, <u>and His approval</u>, and all these things shall be yours without the asking.</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Do not fret, then, over tomorrow; leave tomorrow to fret over its own needs; for today, today’s troubles are enough.</span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Book of Wisdom ch 9: Wisdom was with You, God, long ago, privy to all Your designs, she who stood by You at the world’s creation, and knows Your whole will, the whole tenor of Your commandments.</span> From that heavenly sanctuary, that high throne of Your's, send her out still on Your errand, to be at my side too, and share my labors! How else should Your Will be made clear to me? </div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">For her, no secret, no riddle is too dark; her prudent counsel will be my guide, the fame of her my protection. So shall my task be accomplished as You would have it be; so shall I give this people of Your's just awards, no unworthy heir of the throne my father left me.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What God’s purpose is, how should man discover, how should his mind master the secret of the divine Will? So hesitating our human thoughts, so hazardous our conjectures! Ever the soul is weighed down by a mortal body, earth-bound cell that clogs the manifold activity of its thought.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div><br /></div><div>Hard enough to read the riddle of our life here, with laborious search ascertaining what lies so close to hand; and would we trace out heaven’s mysteries too? Your purposes none may know, unless You grant Your gift of wisdom, sending out from high heaven Your own holy spirit. Thus ever were men guided by the right way, here on earth, and learned to know Your will; <span style="font-size: 12pt;">ever since the world began wisdom was the salve they used that have won Your favor. ( <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side?bible_part_no%3D1%26book_no%3D25%26chapter_no%3D9&source=gmail&ust=1651255855179000&usg=AOvVaw3flfbPLTdXlHnUVvo4RIYI" href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side?bible_part_no=1&book_no=25&chapter_no=9" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://catholicbible.online/<wbr></wbr>side_by_side?bible_part_no=1&<wbr></wbr>book_no=25&chapter_no=9</a> )</span></div></span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And when even ONE single soul -- like you, yes you -- sincerely gives itself over to God, completely, being hungry for God, and seeking Him in this personal prayer where He can be found, then every soul in the world is touched by this grace. (God tells St. Faustina in her diary.) </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you are familiar with the Akita prophecy about how, if people don't repent, God will destroy the world, then take comfort -- if instead of worrying about the world, or trying to convince people to convert or try to control others by your prayer (you cannot control other people), if instead <b>you </b>seek God -- God Who is calm, Who is Peace -- then <b>you </b>are that one person who will be repenting, and it really honestly will change the course of events. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is true because God is real, and because God is Love. This is not from anything within ourselves, but because God is Love and loves us so greatly, that it saves many when even one person prays and loves God -- because God truly loves us as individuals. An individual's efforts to God matter to Him so immensely because of His Love for us as individuals. This includes your efforts, too!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are all of these nuns and these monks cloistered in the monastic life who don't speak, or don't speak much, and who spend all day praying and contemplating God's beauty -- His Mercy, His Love, His Peace -- while they work on menial tasks and serving others. <u>Those</u> are the people who are saving souls from going to Heck and who are upholding the entire world. Those are the people who are active and fervent apostles for God. Those are the people who are the reason why we have not been deservedly destroyed so many times over for our sins. They are saving a world they have turned their backs on. Because they chose true wisdom -- to pray to God to know Him and love Him.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So much of what you see in the world is completely fake. Even the stuff that is real is often a lie because it is taught to us in lieu of something else that is real. It is ends up being a truth wrapped in a lie to manipulate us. And people get so worked up about it, enter rages or despairs, can't sleep at night; and all for this emptiness that is not worth it.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While you may be called to a ministry of service someday, that is not how you are going to save the world. Many people have peace talks and march armies and strive to have humanitarian efforts. It doesn't change anything, really -- does it? Or you find out something they are doing, usually for ego, is actually hurting others. I remember watching a video from an African entrepreneur who condemned Tom's (shoe store) donation of a free pair of shoes to a small village in Africa, because that means that the local shoe makers are out of work because people would rather take free shoes, so no one's life ever improves. When I was a teenager, Gap store had a Inspi(Red) campaign to help find a cure for AIDS; the company spent more money on their advertising than they actually donated. Etc. Etc, don't even get me started on the news in my country, or its education (I'm in the US). People do many publicly approved "good deeds." But they do not save the world. Because what they are doing is not real, so to speak.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And it is "not real" because it is without God. And God is Reality; God is Truth. That is why Simeon told Mary, "a sword will pierce your heart* so that the secret thoughts of many will be revealed;" because Mary perfectly possesses God, and God, Who is with her, in her heart*, is Truth. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(For those who don't know: *Heart did not used to mean emotions or even your core; heart means your consciousness. Your active thoughts. Your spirit, as opposed to your soul. Your "reigns" or core was the kidneys. Mary kept her active thoughts about God, which is what we in Catholicism call "contemplation" or "meditation" -- both of which only mean, to think actively about God -- and her thoughts were perfect, they were not in the dark or without understanding, because she is "full of grace." Hence she was broken hearted -- stupefied with sorrow and her spirit totally run through by a sword, taking on more sorrow -- not only for Jesus' sufferings but over the salvation of our own souls, we who are sinners -- than anyone else could ever withstand. By this suffering that she offered to God, which she could in a moment of crisis from her life of contemplating Him, she became the only one in the in human race, past, present or future, who can crush the skull of the serpent; the head of God's Army and the most powerful weapon in it, higher than the angels and The Terror to demons during an exorcism; understanding that Jesus is God, not a creature but the second member of the Holy Trinity, God the Son, whereas Mary is still a creature, like us, made by the Creator.)</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prayer is the greatest work. Saint James wrote truthfully:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here is a brother, here is a sister, going naked, left without the means to secure their daily food; if one of you says to them, "Go in peace, warm yourselves and take your fill," without providing for their bodily needs, of what use is it? [...] But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?<br /></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is, without question, true.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I grew up in a mostly upper middle class world (whereas I was not in that wealth bracket). It was a world in which ambition and competition against others were considered virtues. So often I have seen that those with food and those with clothes seek that which is only emptiness. They push God to the back or have Him in name only or very shallowly. Most of those I knew when I was young died from dismissing God and seeking the world instead. They worked and drank and sexed themselves to death. They died or were committed to a hospital or mental hospital before 30. Right up until the end, they had the approval of everyone around them; until they ceased and then the world forgot them and didn't care anymore because the love in the world is shallow and fleeting. Or they live now and are alcoholics, perhaps wealthy alcoholics because of familial ties and money. It's all so vain and empty. There's no reward to any of it. Nothing comes of it. No one in the world wants to forgive, either.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whereas God's Love is so huge that even time itself can't contain it: only eternity can. He not only forgives but has the power to remove both sin and its payment from a person!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have seen Catholics who also fell into this category, those who call themselves Catholic, dead inside, but winning approval from taking care of the material needs of those whom they considered far beneath them, "the little people," "the poor people." I've seen the accolades that they received from doing this. Their religion is not deep.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But what good is clothing and what good is food, and what good is approval, and what good is any of it, if you, or the person you are helping, has lost his or her soul and is headed towards Heck? Or has food but lives on emptily, with the great suffering of not knowing God? I know there was a time where I had food and a roof over my head, and I was dead inside, I did not know God, and my material existence gave me no purpose or satisfaction. For me then, had there been a trade between knowing God and starving to death, or eating and never knowing God, I would have chosen to have the true food -- which is, knowledge of God, aka true wisdom. That is why martyrs are martyrs because life without God is empty, the way faith without works is empty.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, while material generosity is the truth, it can only be real if it flows from spiritual wealth, that is, prayer; the first generosity must be to the <i>souls </i>of others, then to their bodies. Everything that takes place physically first took place spiritually. If those whom James addressed were not being generous to those in need, it was because they were not praying for the souls of others in private. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When I was a child before I knew God, I endured false charity from those who called themselves Catholics, who would give me material substance when I was poor, but were insufferable because of their arrogances and vanities and lack of respect for me, other than being "the poor one I can make myself feel big by being charitable to." Or all their other sins like gossip and a general rudeness that I had to overhear to experience from them.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">That only served to prove to me, in my youth, before knowing God, that surely God does not exist because why else would His people be so false? Now I know that it was because they did not pray. They had no prayer life which was private and always growing. They thought of themselves as Saints but they were not bringing souls to God; rather, they were proving to others who had no knowledge of God, by their own sins and attitudes, that God did not exist -- which is a lie. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Their material charity flowed from their pride and vanity, not from a soul that was alive with a private relationship with God. If they prayed or talked about religion, it was so people heard them; not so that God heard them. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this way, their charity was false: not a blessing but a curse. The word "religion" derives from a word meaning "to tie." It is meant to tie us to God. Their religion was also false: it untied souls around them from God, and brought condemnation upon themselves, their religion and unjustly on God. But they didn't notice because they thought highly of themselves.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Dunning-Kruger Effect: people overestimate their competence or cognitive abilities and are not able to recognize these errors. The less someone knows about a topic, the more they are likely to have strong opinions about that topic. People will endorse erroneous information if it fits their opinion. If they are surrounded by others who have the same view, they are more likely to stick to those views. A community's opinions can become social norms. Going against the predominant view of one's group risks ostracization. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">In one study, it was found that one-third of study subjects thought they knew as much or more than doctors and scientists about the [topic of study]. This rate was highest in people that had low levels of knowledge about and high levels of misinformation endorsement. Anyone is capable of this cognitive bias about themselves.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When this cognitive bias is applied to Catholicism, it can become dangerous to other people's souls. Because God is real; therefore to teach one's opinion about God, rather than pray to know Who God really is, hurts others. We will never fully know God on earth or even in eternity, simply by the fact that God is infinite and we are limited. But we still must be humble and pray. This is another reason why private prayer and to talk to God rather than about God 99.9% of the time is so important.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is also why it is important to examine oneself for sin, rather than first look and accuse other people. As well as to remember that if God were not holding you in His Hand, you would be committing worse sins than they do... or what if you are, and you do not realize it, like those I have described? Because of their little true wisdom but assumption of righteousness.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">With these Catholics I saw when I was young who assumed they were being charitable but convinced me of the demonic lie that God is not true, if they had rather behaved in the opposite way -- all charity done in private with sincerity, speaking to Him rather than about Him, and not even giving me anything but praying for me without my knowing it... or giving to me without any social rewards, or with respect... </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">well, it was those I didn't know, off in convents and in Churches and in their private rooms, somewhere in the world whom I don't know personally and who don't know me, but they were praying for the salvation of souls; as well as my Jewish teacher who prayed for me -- I didn't know at the time, she didn't announce it, but God showed me later (as Jesus said, "salvation is from the Jews") -- it was those people who were truly sincere in their faith, who prayed to God and not to themselves, who sought God in private and who recognized spiritual poverty in the soul of those around them and in the souls of the world, who showed their faith through works of prayer, who wanted the true wisdom of knowing God -- those are the people who obtained the mystical grace for me to know God. They are the reason I am alive. They had true charity.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div>Matthew 25: Then shall the just answer God, saying: Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed You; thirsty, and gave You drink? And when did we see You a stranger, and took You in? or naked, and covered You ? Or when did we see You sick or in prison, and came to You? And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these My least brethren, you did it to Me.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then He shall say to them also that shall be on His left hand: Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger, and you did not take took Me in: naked, and you would not cover Me: sick and in prison, and you did not visit Me.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then they also shall answer Him, saying: Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You?</div><div><br /></div><div>Then He shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to Me.</div><div><br /></div><div>And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.<br /></div></blockquote></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unless what I say must be true, how is it those could have gone off to everlasting life and not understand when they had been charitable? Because surely they would have remembered the physical act of tending the sick or visiting prisoners. And how could the danged have not known when they did not do the Will of God? How could these people have not known what their own actions were?</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These ones in the world, possibly far away, in convents, knowing God and praying to Him, saved me from this prison and illness of not knowing God. They fed me with graces and quenched the thirst of my dryness of soul. They led to my being clothed by God with His forgiveness, obtaining for me the grace of repentance.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And they do not know that they did so.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It must first begin and end with private prayer, with the sincere desire to know and be with God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As you can see, it requires graces from God to love Him more than oneself and more than approval from others. This is a hard obstacle to overcome; but:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hebrews 4: God’s Word to us is something alive, full of energy; it can penetrate deeper than any two-edged sword, reaching the very division between soul and spirit, between joints and marrow, quick to distinguish every thought and design in our hearts. From Him, no creature can be hidden; everything lies bare, everything is brought face to face with Him, this God to whom we must give our account. Let us hold fast, then, by the faith we profess. We can claim a great high priest, and one who has passed right up through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God. </div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And this High Priest of our's is not without compassion on our weaknesses; He was tempted in all things the way we are tempted, yet is without sin. Therefore, let us go with confidence to the Throne of Grace that we may obtain mercy, and win that grace which will help us in our needs.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[This throne of grace being prayer, the Sacraments such as Baptism, Confession, and the core of everything, the Holy Eucharist; as well as the intercession of Mary and the angels and Saints of Heaven, who have also becomes "seats of wisdom" through the holiness of their lives.]</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Luke 2:14: Glory to God in the Highest and peace on earth to those of good will, on whom God's favor rests!</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Surely His favor rests most securely on those who want wisdom of Him. To tell God that He is infinite and we are finite and therefore He must teach us about Himself is a great act in opposition to our tendency towards pride. It is an openness to God, an act of Trust in Him and His Infinite Mercy and Love which He appreciates more dearly than we can understand. We must come to where He can be found, the throne of grace and contemplation, with an interest in Him, a desire for fulfillment of a deep longing and emptiness in the soul.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Job 28: But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding? People do not know the price of wisdom, neither is it found in the land of those who live in worldly delights.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div><br /></div><div>The deep said: It is not in me; and the sea said: It is not with me. The finest gold shall not purchase wisdom, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it. It shall not be compared with the vibrant dyed colors of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire. Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it. The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing.</div><div><br /></div><div>High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places.</div><div><br /></div><div>From whence, then, comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air don't know it. Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard of it.</div><div><br /></div><div>God understands the way of wisdom, and he knows where it is.</div><div><br /></div><div>For He beholds the ends of the world: and looks on all things that are under heaven. Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by measure. When He gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms. Then He saw it, and declared, and prepared, and examined it.</div><div><br /></div><div>And He said to mankind: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.</div></blockquote></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And if I see those around me who are wealthy, but that they are lost, seeking worldly emptiness, or in sin, and I do not pray even a general prayer to God "for all those I know, know of, who know me, and who know of me," or "for the salvation of souls," then... what is my faith? What good does all their material wealth do, all their ambition, all the approval they receive from their families and friends and society? </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matthew 16: For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for My sake, shall find it. How is a man the better for it if he gains the whole world at the cost of losing his own soul? For a man’s soul, what price can be high enough?<br /></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">St. James, 2:26: For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Do you understand now, a little, why it will only be through this private prayer that God will save the world? This is in imitation of Jesus -- He spent the first 30 years of His Life saving souls through His private prayer, and even while out on His Ministry spent most of His time in prayer. He endured His Passion by prayer. How everyone's prayerful praise must have been when they saw Him on His Resurrection, Ascension, and during the coming of the Holy Spirit.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is all by prayer. Sincere prayer. Personal and private prayer. It must be through this sincere thirst for God, which you yourself in your own words must ask God to arouse within you. Thirst for Him is a great grace, that can only come from God Himself, and He will freely give it to you, if you should happen to beg Him for it, because all He wants is to be close to you, and you to Him.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And all your soul dearly wants is to be close to Him. Only in God can your soul find rest and satisfaction. You can distract your heart with all the cares and worries about the world, or [sadly in our time, often sinful] pleasures the world has to offer, or striving after things the world says are necessary for joy -- fame, popularity, approval from others, wealth, relationships, current events and schools of thought and behavior -- your soul will have emptiness, now during your life as well as upon your death, when you realize you wasted your life, which was given to you to learn about God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">That is why those in convents do more to save the world than all the people still in the world. They also save the immortal souls of those who are dying from eternal ruin, through their love of God and their contemplation of His aspects and splendors, such as His Love. And this is of more importance than anything else. This is the most dear work you can do, the one that consoles the infinitely tender and merciful Heart of Jesus.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It's so funny: all the suffering in the world, all the effort, all the money, all the display, all the scheming; yet actually doing anything beneficial costs nothing, and is both liberating and consoling rather than burdening.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">... You don't have to join a convent, unless God calls you and you have the strength and health for it, but in your own day-to-day life, you are called to be a little nun or a little monk, praying and contemplating to Him. Right where you are now. (I recall this is what Benedict XVI said. This is good to think about. Another priest once told me, that I ought to be a nun and that nuns are the happiest people he knows. -- I can't due to health, but I can strive for this in my personal life. Anyone can. At least, for the pursuit of true happiness. It is not a game or a metaphor, but real -- God sees our efforts and blesses them, however little and feeble they are. Afterall, He wants us to be His children, and a child's efforts are often very little, because children are little.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(I have written things like this before; I know. Another reason I thought maybe it is not worth it to post all this.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So yes, in the article I do touch on the potential dangers these radical political movements could cause, by associating themselves falsely with Catholicism or by feigning to be Catholic themselves, but if you turn away from all of it in the world, it is not necessary to read. But if you do read it, perhaps for consolation and guidance, perhaps because you have suffered at these senseless and lost thoughts, should it afford you consolation, then at least remember while reading it:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pardon me: it was written from pain and emotion and was beneficial to both of us, both me and my father, and I hope it is okay for others to read, but if not, please pardon me, neither of us could look at it objectively; you can always stop reading it if you want, you don't have to read to the end; and--</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While you must avoid bad people, you also must forgive them and not hold rancor in your heart, if you want to enter Heaven or have a relationship with God. He is meek and humble of heart; the world only offers lost and senseless thoughts. God wants to save all souls. Remember what Jesus also said in ch 2 of Apocalypse (which is a really great chapter, very encouraging, I recommend reading it): </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yet there is one charge I make against you; of losing the charity that was your's at first. Remember the height from which you have fallen, and repent, and go back to the old ways; or else I will come to visit you and, when I find you still unrepentant, will remove your candlestick from its place. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/NT/Apoc/ch_2&source=gmail&ust=1651255855179000&usg=AOvVaw2wMBzXmNlNLAeHdqolMfmj" href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/NT/Apoc/ch_2" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://catholicbible.<wbr></wbr>online/side_by_side/NT/Apoc/<wbr></wbr>ch_2</a><br /></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And again in Matthew ch 24: </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Now all these are the beginnings of sorrows... </span>In those days, people will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death; all the world will be hating you because you bear my name; whereupon many will lose heart, will betray and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise, and many will be deceived by them; and the charity [love] of most will <i>grow cold</i> as they see wickedness abound everywhere; but the one will be saved who endures [in charity] to the last. </div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Remember too that: God is calm. Bitter zeal is not a virtue; peace is. Virtue comes from God when we ask Him for it; He will give it to you because He loves you beyond what human or angelic mind can fathom. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hoped it helped be encouraging in some way. God bless you and your day.</span> </p><p>Special link for more: http://www.boldradish.com/p/radical-factions-taint-catholicism.html</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-91880380002026451372022-01-31T15:14:00.001-06:002023-11-11T18:32:56.995-06:00Mary of Egypt (c. 344 – c. 421)<div>update - please pray along with the deliverance videos at CatholicExorcism.org for spiritual help in overcoming impurities.</div><div><br /></div>Mary of Egypt (c. 344 – c. 421) highly venerated as a Desert Mother in the Eastern Orthodox and Coptic Churches. The Roman Catholic Church commemorates her as a patron saint of penitents.<div><br /></div><div>At the age of twelve, she ran away from her parents to the city of Alexandria. Here she lived an extremely dissolute life (The meaning of DISSOLUTE is lacking restraint; especially: marked by indulgence in things (such as drink or promiscuous sex). She often refused the money offered for her sexual favors, as she was driven "by an insatiable and an irrepressible passion," and that she mainly lived by begging, supplemented by spinning flax.<p></p></div><div>Later in life, she went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the purpose of finding more partners. She attempted to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (that is, the Church built around the tomb Jesus Resurrected from) and she could not enter the Church because of her many sins of impurity.</div><div><br /></div><div>Realizing her sins were real and were affecting her soul, she was struck with intense remorse and prayed in front of an Icon of the Blessed Virgin which was outside of the Church. She begged God for forgiveness and promised to give up the world, and then she could enter the Church.</div><div><br /></div><div>She venerated a piece of the True Cross on which Jesus had been Crucified centuries before. She returned to the Icon to give thanks, and God told her: "If you cross the Jordan, you will find glorious rest." Across the Jordan was the Monestary of Saint John the Baptist. She entered, gave her confession and received absolution (meaning, with a priest acting as a tool for God, God granted her total forgiveness of her sins, John 20:22-23) and received Holy Communion. Her soul found glorious rest in God.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next day she entered the desert the live the rest of her life as a hermit. </div><div><br /></div><div>http://easternchristianinsights.blogspot.com/2014/04/st-mary-of-egypt.html</div><div><br /></div><div>We can see that a very dissolute person can turn to God with His help and the prayers of His Mother. That if you have remorse and sincerely want Him, God permits you to find Him. Even if we cannot walk into a physical desert to be hermits, we can live a life in the joy of knowing and seeking God, instead of the passing things of the world, and find rest for our souls.</div><div><br /></div><div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Egypt</div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-59911997259294160292021-07-17T13:49:00.004-05:002021-07-17T17:29:15.282-05:00Pray In Your Interior Chapel<p> <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">Interior Chapel</span></p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When Saint Catherine of Sienna was deprived by her parents of any place or time for prayer and meditation, Our Lord inspired her with the thought of making a little interior chapel in her mind, into which she could retire in heart, and enjoy a holy solitude amid her outward duties.<br /><br />And henceforward, when the world assaulted her, she was able to be indifferent, because, she said, she could retire within her secret chapel, and find comfort with her Heavenly Bridegroom.<br /><br />She later counselled her spiritual daughters to make a retirement within their heart, in which to dwell.<br /><br />In the same manner let your heart withdraw to an inward retirement, where, apart from all men, you can lay it bare, face to face with God.<br /><br />-Written by Saint Francis de Sales (Wiki entry </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales</a>)</span></span><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngQe2I75cFQQLNb-eocFoE0-dUKGPAm15AcRR5cqaCQE8F-Ff1cgbKfLkQP1OXtwvFWlsU3jThgrxc_0vEIhm4zWshX-T2LGuAs_iD7ZTtdSa_GEG9yGRqKZp0Cj-q3aqJDZdd5LgsXk/s800/%2527%2527Nasir-al_molk_-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngQe2I75cFQQLNb-eocFoE0-dUKGPAm15AcRR5cqaCQE8F-Ff1cgbKfLkQP1OXtwvFWlsU3jThgrxc_0vEIhm4zWshX-T2LGuAs_iD7ZTtdSa_GEG9yGRqKZp0Cj-q3aqJDZdd5LgsXk/s320/%2527%2527Nasir-al_molk_-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-39264784935346123852021-06-21T15:49:00.000-05:002021-06-21T15:49:05.592-05:00Visions of Mercy and Joy given to the nuns from Mary of Good Success book and devotion<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the events of Mother Mariana's life described in the book of Our Lady of Good Success published by Dolorosa Press, the non-observant nuns (meaning the ones who don't pray) made up false accusations and imprisoned the founders, that is, the nuns that founded the religious community. The holy warriors of God (the observant nuns, meaning the ones who prayed and followed the Rule of the Religious Order they belonged to) were kept in a very sad prison for crimes which they did not commit.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">One night, God gave all of these women amazing visions.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have often thought about the two transcribed below. You can get swept away contemplating them... I think also about how joyful it must have been for Elizabeth and John when Mary and Jesus visited them and the Holy Spirit came upon them! (Luke 1:41+: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/NT/Lk/ch_1&source=gmail&ust=1624394805334000&usg=AFQjCNElTiGl4oVCnCXIr2lGneEXEfcbUw" href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/NT/Lk/ch_1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://catholicbible.<wbr></wbr>online/side_by_side/NT/Lk/ch_1</a> )</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I hope that you get benefit from contemplating these, also, and contemplate God's love; they are very beautiful and immensely profound, though short. ... I transcribe them exactly as is in the English version of the book unless you see a [statement] for clarification:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u>Vision of Mother Lucia of the Cross</u> (pg 13):</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">She saw Our Lord Jesus Christ with His Sacred Heart visible on His breast, surrounded by thorns and bleeding profusely. The Blood of His Heart inundated the patios and cloisters of the Convent, until it became a sea of Blood. He said to her, "<i>In this sea of My Heart's Blood I am ready to wash the guilt of those who, being repentant, have recourse to Me</i>."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><u>Vision of Mother Maria of the Incarnation</u> (pg 14-5):</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">She saw the deliberation of the Blessed Trinity about how to redeem mankind. God the Son offered Himself to save it, and at that moment He made an act of humility so profound that no creature could ever repeat it. Then the Blessed Trinity sent Archangel Saint Gabriel to the place where the small and humble Mary was praying. When she gave herself over to God's will, in such an absolute way that no one has, or ever will do the same, saying, "Be it done to me according to Thy will," the Father and the Holy Ghost worked the ineffable mystery. The Holy Ghost embraced Mary's heart so forcefully with the Love of God, that three drops of blood came out, with which He formed the perfect body to which [God the] Son was united.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mother Maria of the Incarnation saw how the Child grew in Mary's womb, His birth and hidden life in Nazareth. God sustained the life of this nun so that she would not die of love from these visions.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-76150369827636195062021-06-21T15:10:00.000-05:002021-06-21T15:10:10.916-05:00My (brief) experiences understanding some “Catholic” words from an English perspective<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">This might be trivial for some people, but it did help me so I wanted to share in case it helps someone. I don’t know if anyone whose first language is English has experienced the same thing I have experienced. (Although I am ok now, I've had a history of depression, PTSD, etc, and all of these diseases causes one's dopamine levels or serotonin levels to be deficient which can hinder, to one degree or another, one's ability to speak, understand language, and learn, so, maybe it is just me, and maybe you don't have this experience.)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">In another post a long time ago, I mentioned that I don’t say “thee” and “thou.” I translate to “you” because I have no experience with the words “thee” or “thou” and therefore they do not connect in my mind the way “you” does. (Not that I think there is anything wrong with thee and thou, and I don’t think one should be indignant about them or anything.) To me, they are like foreign words but used in the middle of an otherwise English sentence, which I feel I have to translate as I read, like climbing a wall, to be able to connect to the meaning of what I’m reading. This seems to distance me from what I am reading and from the persons who are speaking in the Gospels or who I am speaking to in prayer (ie, I don’t pray a Hail Mary or Our Father with “thee,” because I feel too separated, more like play-acting than speaking to God or Mary). So I replace it with the word “you” in my mind or writing. … I’m not saying you have to do that, but when I do it, it helps me better connect to, and be closer to, what is being said and to Whom I am speaking.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">When I first converted to Christianity and I read about Mary, I read terms such as “mediatrix” and “co-redemptrix.” I thought they were very intellectual sounding words and also very… sort of fancy. Very impressive words and titles; very honorable, too!</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">But… they present the same problem as “thee” and “thou,” except even more so because they are made up words that I have never heard before.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I only recently started to translate these words into what they would actually be in English, which are Mediator and Co-Redeemer.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">Because “mediator” and “redeemer” are actually real words in English, they have a much deeper impact on my mind, and they much more profoundly show me God’s Mercy in creating Mary and giving her to us as our Mother, Mediator and the Co-Redeemer.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">“Mediator” and “Co-Redeemer” are real words in English so they are much more powerful words to me in helping me to understand what is really being said.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I have come to the conclusion that the sort of intellectual jargon words “mediatrix” and “redemptrix”, while very intellectual and fancy, … just… don’t have a lot of impact on me on a more profound level. Even more than “thee” and “thou.”</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I feel the jargon has delayed and hindered my coming to a deeper understanding of God’s mercy in souls and Mary’s God-given role in the salvation of souls.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I also feel that translating these words from their more impressive Latin-based made up version to a real English version is more humble of me to do, more “little” (as in, the Little Way of Saint Therese). I’m not trying to be intellectual, I’m just trying to be close to God. I think that is more humble.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">Mary typifies all of the promises Jesus gave in the New Testament (and throughout the Old Testament) about those who would believe in Him: for example, rivers of living water will flow from them. This is certainly truly observed in Mary. They will work wonders in His Name. This is certainly true of Mary, which we experience when we pray to her and ask her to pray for us. Etc.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I also sort of feel that these “Catholic” words are not condescending to the native English speaker and are also over-intellectualized, and therefore, a bit vain. (The word Catholic means Universal – it is not really universal if you don’t translate it so I can understand what you are saying and so see the fulfillment of Christ’s promises in His believers.)</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">What I mean is, if I were to go to, say, India to be a missionary, I would learn one of the native languages of India (there are many!) and I would try to speak to the people who spoke that language in the words that they speak so they can understand what I am saying about God. I would not try to make up new words based on my native language of English and try to make them understand what I am saying in my English-ized words. I would condescend to their language because I would want them to be able to understand better Who God is. And I wish I could see that condescension a bit better towards my native language of English.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">The best example I can think of for this is Japanese. What we know as Japanese is really the common man’s Japanese. There is a second Japanese which is traditionally only spoken in the Imperial Court. It is like… Imperial Japanese. At the time of the end of World World 2, the Emperor came on the radio to speak to the Japanese people about the surrender. However, the people didn’t understand most of what he was saying. It was like a foreign language to them because he was speaking in the Imperial language. Which, frankly, is a mostly foreign language to common man's Japanese.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">It would be like if someone said, “we should preach in an Imperial language because Jesus is King!” Yes, He is King. He is more of a King than anyone has ever been: He is King of Kings. Mary is Queen of Heaven and earth and all of us. … Yet… Jesus is not a king born in the cradle of gold and diamonds… He is a King laid in an animal’s food trough. To show that God will triumph over all the power and wealth of the world and public opinion. … He was not a King who was visited by foreign dignitaries, men and women dressed in embroidered silks and expensive dyes whose decisions impact millions of lives and who have considerable wealth. … He was visited by shepherds. Very, very poor shepherds. Who may have had nothing but sheep. They might not have even owned the sheep, they might have just been shepherding them. They might have wore sheepskins. They might have only eaten what they could catch or hunt. They might have been patched together. They might have smelled and had dirty faces and unkept hair that perhaps they did their best to clean before visiting the King, and it might not have been that impressive a transformation. Very poor persons. But they had sincerity… they were chosen… And when He spoke, it was not exclusively to educated men and women. It was often times to… the poor… the sick… the forgotten… the excluded… the sneered upon… the woman at the well who had been passed around, discarded by so many men and considered so unimportant… sinners whose confessions He heard and then healed them… the absolute worthless of society, either made so by their own sins or by circumstances they had no control over, by their societies or people’s sins against them… the “have nots,” the “losers.” The failures. The forgotten. The rejected. The unloved. The poor. The powerless. The unclean. The lowest caste. … And we know of He spoke even with an accent. A southern accent, which the intellectuals of the day sneered at and said of Him, “he is an uneducated yokel who keeps company with stupid fishers.” He didn’t have a college education or sound like a Harvard grad. … So… if you preach in an Imperial language… no one would know what was being said. Even if it is very impressive. … And it isn’t really what Jesus did in His whole Life. He was meek and humble of heart. Life, death, resurrection… and today, too…</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">English is not a latin-based language (although we do have a lot of words from Latin based languages). Unlike Latin-based languages, we do not have different nouns for male and female. For example, in Spanish, a male doctor is called “doctor” and a female doctor is “doctora.” If I had grown up speaking Spanish, this would be very straight forward to me. (Well, the words are super close anyway, it isn’t difficult to grasp. Adding -trix and -ess to the end of things sort of makes them part of a whole different language, it’s so far away from any English I know, and it just doesn’t have the impact.)</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I sort of think whomever invented the term “redemptrix” was attempting to “Latin-ify” English by creating a feminine word for redeemer or mediator. But this does not connect to my thoughts as a native English speaker. For example, we do not call female doctors “doctrix” or “doctress.” We call them doctors. Just because that is the way that English is.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">There are many languages besides Latin-based ones which have masculine and feminized words (including Hebrew), and there are many languages besides English which do not. (English may be the current international language, but English is not a top tier language in Catholic history – that would be the latin based languages and … Polish.)</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I really like the Latin Mass because it is much more powerful for Exorcisms. The Mass is very beautiful and wonderful, and the High Latin Mass is actually quite “Jewish,” if you’ve seen Jewish things, which is very beautiful because… it fits very much with the whole Bible. It makes a lot of sense. It is wonderful. And even though at first it was very difficult for me to follow so I did not, I felt like the unconscious man on the side of the road in Jesus’ example of who the true neighbor is, and I felt that Jesus was coming to take care of my immortal soul despite me being ‘unconscious’ to what was being said at first. This was a very beautiful and wonderful experience and I received so many blessings and deliverances which impact my life to this day. I do not think there would be such a need for exorcisms if we had more Latin Masses. They really are wonderful for deliverance!</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">But Latin is a dead language and so it is everyone’s second language… Essentially it is the Resurrected Language. Latin in a Mass reminds all Christians in all countries that earth is not the Kingdom we must aim for, but rather a new citizenship in Heaven that is very real… even so far as to be in another language. Like a true country, not just the “idea” of a country. But a real place we must strive for and strive to bring on earth through our closeness to God, especially in prayer and in His Sacraments (baptism, Mass, confession).</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">But when a missionary preaches to a people in their native language, it seems a lot more humble for him or her to speak to those people in their native language… I think, anyway. (I’m not saying the Good News should be preached in slang or with the grievous sins of contemporary language such as foul language or anything like that – but at least in real English that I can grasp. Even if it is a more formal or correct English, it helps me to read real English words rather than made-up – and frankly, unnecessary – words. Unnecessary because I know Mary is a woman already.)</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">I started writing or translating over my Catholic books which use the word “mediatrix” or “co-redemptrix”, to “Mediator” and “Co-Redeemer” and this has personally helped me a great deal to understand. It has more impact on a deeper level.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">So, I suggest that if your native language is English, you try writing or mentally translating these words in your books because maybe you will come to a new understanding of the great impact that these titles have, which would deepen your contemplation of God’s infinite Mercy and His infinite love for us by giving us His holy Mother as our mediator and co-redeemer, and the proper abandonment we should give to Mary to obtain graces for our souls from God through her intercession so that we can spend eternity in Heaven with God.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">It might help you to do so; it helped me, anyway. That’s why I thought I would share.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">Maybe you understood it already on a profound level and it won’t make a difference to you. That’s very good!</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">But it me, it really helped me to understand Mary and God better and I feel like I’ve begun a fresh contemplation of God’s Mercy.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">(PS. This same sort of thing is in the Good Success book, where they refer to the founders of the community in Quito, Ecuador, as “foundresses.” It is a little redundant, given that they are nuns so we know they are women. I suggest trying out this translation from “foundress,” another attempt at latin-izing English with a made up word, to “founder” so you can again see the great impact of the work of the holy warrior of God, Mother Mariana, and all of the other holy founders. Again, unless it has no impact on you. Maybe it was just me.)</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 0.1in; margin-top: 0px;">Have a nice day~!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-51987262397166149602021-03-12T14:37:00.003-06:002021-03-12T14:37:49.856-06:00St Joseph, patron of purity and family<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">St Joseph is a patron of purity and family. He wants purity for the whole family. He is distraught by impurity in any member of the family, because impurity destroys the family, creates inequality and brings the devil and vices into the family, and ruins lives and souls. Hence why I think, in pagan false religions, the patron of the family is a female diety because of the physical reproduction, but i think in Catholicism, which is God's religion, it is St Joseph who is patron of the family because of the beautiful purity of his</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">soul</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and his sincere concern for all the souls of the family, wanting them all to go to Heaven and reach their full potential in life. God is much more concerned about the soul of people, it is the soul which He judges us or approves of us by.</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Joseph wants to help every member of the family with whatever his or her work is. Everyone has to do work, and he is the patron of work. He loves us all equally and he wants to see us reach our full potential and protect us and help us to protect one another. He does not think of us in worldly terms but he sees us all in the context of eternity and God. I have protected my family from many bad things, even though I am the youngest and female, which in the erroneous world's eyes, I would have to be the one protected; but by Saint Joseph's help, I have protected and saved my family, even despite sin, and even members of the family who are sinners. He has helped me in so many ways.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">He will help anyone who comes to him! Because he is perfectly humble. Sirach, 3:17, one who conducts his affairs with humility is loved more than a giver of gifts. This describes every Saint, but also Saint Joseph, and as he is patron of workers, and we all have work to do, he will help us to do our work with sincere (not false, for show, but real) humility and gentleness, as he himself worked during his mortal life.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">He is a <i>very good</i> daddy.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">He wants us ALL to go to Heaven, spend eternity in Heaven with him, his Stepson Who is God Himself, and his holy and spectacular Wife, the Crusher of Demons, Mary most holy. What a wonderful, awe-inspiring family!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Mary is the example of every Christian because she followed Jesus perfectly as we are all called to follow Jesus perfectly.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">But, so too, St Joseph is the patron of all Christians because he lived perfectly with Jesus and Mary, as we are also called to live perfectly with Jesus and Mary!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I am in awe when I talk to St Joseph. He has a real concern and love for me, as I know he has for everyone. He is a beautiful soul, he is so pure and full of true Christian love that brings so much comfort from God into our lives. Yes, there are prayers to Saint Joseph, which are good to pray, but also please, speak to Joseph in your own words about your problems, and know this holy father hears you and wants to obtain a true conversion and true faith for you.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">This is the statue of Saint Joseph I have had on my desk for some time. I like to speak to Saint Joseph, and I hope you do, too. Saint Teresa of Avila used to leave a statue of Saint Joseph in her place in a convent when she went away, asking him to keep watch over everything, and when she returned, asked him for a report. People saw that statue's mouth speaking to her, and she could evidently hear what he was saying, though no one else could!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I have also heard stories by people who were not Saints. A young boy was careening down a hill out of control on his bicycle when he cried out, Saint Joseph help me and I will pray 5 Hail Marys in your honor! ... The bicycle miraculously slowed to a stop, in a way which could not naturally happen, and the boy prayed the 5 Hail Marys in honor of Saint Joseph.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I also heard of (and saw a new report about with pictures!) a shop keeper whose street was being flooded, and he had to evacuate. He left a very large statue of Saint Joseph on the floor of his shop (it may have been a resturant, I can't remember) and he told Saint Joseph to look after the place. Everyone else had damage on the street but the water stopped at the foot of the Saint Joseph statue and would not go further! I have seen miracles like this, living in a hurricane and flood area, and so I believe the news report (which was in America, a non-Catholic country) and the photos. Everyone on the street, although not Catholic, was in awe and wanted to see the statue and the miracle.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">We have a prayer to Saint Joseph, which is a video, and one person left a comment that s/he (it was an anonymous comment online, I do not know the person who left it) could not pass a particular test, which s/he had taken many times and failed, but then s/he prayed the prayer in the video every day and Saint Joseph helped him/her pass the test!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">There is also a lot of problems with the grievous sin of reviling language and foul language. St Joseph is not recorded saying anything in the Bible, although he certainly spoke in his life. But for this reason, if you go to confession and pray to Saint Joseph every day to not even think reviling language or bad words, and to be protected against being around that bad language, and to speak gently to others, Joseph will help you and free you from these grievous sins and give you the virtue to be godly gentle.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Saint Joseph has a LOT of concern for you. He is very, very loving sincerely, he wants to see you go to Heaven. He is a VERY good guy.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Devotion to Saint Joseph fits in perfectly with devotion to God through the Holy Rosary. Joseph loved his wife and his Stepson and was in awe of their virtue! You can ask Saint Joseph to contemplate them and to help you pray and to pray with you. He will be glad to pray the Rosary with you from Heaven! Sometimes people do not have anyone to pray the Rosary with them, but if you ask Saint Joseph, you will have a friend who will pray the Rosary with you — the Saint himself! A priest told me that the title which honors Saint Joseph the most is, "Spouse of Mary," so YES, Saint Joseph is a wonderful prayer partner of the Rosary! I cannot think of any better!!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Here is a picture of my statue of Saint Joseph from my desk, please feel free to say Hello to him today, now!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkhogGTsy-2W_hyphenhyphenkxrH0PIofi6HFWxERyEgEED8kh9EODnMVAnHR5tcRm7YngMU7SFvZLV-7u0SvNns_wSATkLWpOM4Z1LbR-mshCdJRw6dONrcNxuzuKEF29KUfW9n4PWj7y02NjkME/s2048/joseph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRkhogGTsy-2W_hyphenhyphenkxrH0PIofi6HFWxERyEgEED8kh9EODnMVAnHR5tcRm7YngMU7SFvZLV-7u0SvNns_wSATkLWpOM4Z1LbR-mshCdJRw6dONrcNxuzuKEF29KUfW9n4PWj7y02NjkME/s320/joseph.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div dir="auto">(This statue always photographs so well, I've taken pictures of him before, ...even with my cell phone camera like you see here, that I've always thought that's got to be a miracle in itself...)</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">May Joseph hold you in his holy and pure hands, pressed to his wonderful heart, the way he holds the Infant Jesus! Cuddle close to this wonderful Saint!!!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">We are called to be imitators of Christ. Please contemplate how Christ sleeps so peacefully and securely in the arms of Joseph and Mary, and adopt this holy trust and confidence in them, that they may carry you from sin and the Devil, the way they both carried Jesus out of the grasp of Herod when Jesus was an infant. Herod was a physical threat of physical death, but Joseph wants to carry you now from the threat of sin. Just as he wept holy tears during the flight into Egypt, Joseph weeps for all souls entangled in sin, and is ready to help lead you away from sin and the Devil! </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">As well as befriend you and help you practically do your work and practice virtue in your day-to-day life!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">I love you, and so much more does St Joseph — have good confidence in him, and have a nice day!!!</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">(I know this is not the year of Saint Anne, but I also recommend devotion to Saint Anne. It seems that, when you are adopted into the holy family, Saint Anne will also come into your life. The same way a new baby is born and, in a holy family, the whole family wants to come and bless the child, so too, when you are born into a relationship with God, and strive to sincerely become a child of God through prayer and devotion, Saint Anne will also come into your life. She is most powerful of all the Saints, a near-omnipotent matriarch because of God's Law of holy obedience to parents, and Joseph, and Mary, and Jesus, all love her and obey her, and she loves them, and she loves you, too! Saint Michael and your guardian angel will also come into your life so much, also! In this way, you will have a very BIG holy family! Everyone wants to come into your life! And everyone will want to help you turn away from sin and away from the world and turn towards God, and you will have happiness in God that cannot be found in the emptiness of the world. God bless you!!!)</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-24807100574114952742021-03-07T15:52:00.016-06:002021-03-07T16:50:36.542-06:00Priest exorcist warns public on the danger of patronizing horror films<a href="https://mb.com.ph/2021/03/05/priest-exorcist-warns-public-on-the-danger-of-patronizing-horror-films/" target="_blank">https://mb.com.ph/2021/03/05/priest-exorcist-warns-public-on-the-danger-of-patronizing-horror-films/</a> <div><br /></div><div>Fr Fortea suggests that reciting the Rosary daily, making the sign of the cross
with Holy Water, and frequenting the sacraments of Confession and Communion are
powerful ways in which to keep the devil away. ❤ </div><div><br /></div><div> Fr. Amorth said that violent
thoughts, inspired from perversely violent movies, also causes demonic
possession which is difficult to get rid of. That and promiscuity and sexually
perverse thoughts. </div><div><br /></div><div> Galatians 1:3-5: "Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ who gave Himself for our sins that he might rescue us
from the present evil age in accord with the will of our God and Father, to whom
be glory forever and ever. AMEN."
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-41518282379488753192021-02-05T17:26:00.005-06:002023-11-11T18:25:54.908-06:00The Joy of God revealed through Our Lady of Good Success and Mother Mariana, link<p> <span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I've mentioned this book a lot since reading it, I think everyone, everyone, should read it so you can understand how much God loves you as an individual and enjoy the flowing, merciful fountain of God's grace. It is the best book you can read, much better than any online information. </span></p><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Mary appears multiple times to a nun named Mother Mariana, and expounds to her the secrets of the 21st century and the plots of corruption, in both civil and religious leaders down to the lowest ranks of society, as well as God's immense love for each of us as individuals (there is a lot of race-hatred at the time the book was written, both on the part of the Spaniards as well as the natives and those who are mixed it is very clear that God loves us as individuals throughout this book, and everyone extols Mother Mariana for her sanctity). </span></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There is also how Mother Mariana saves the soul of an evil nun from damnation, and how many of the nuns do not even pass through purgatory, and pass through their final trials with God's consolation, because of the intercession of Mother Mariana and all of God's graces through Mary under the title of Our Lady of Good Success. And other occurrences and information which are of value for entering Heaven.</span></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I think if everyone read this book, and prayed to Mother Mariana and Our Lady of Good Success to have the graces necessary to practice all of the advice for conduct that Mother Mariana gave to her convent as her last dying words, then the world would truly be a transformed place, a very wonderful place. ... Or even if every Catholic would take the time to... and be liberated from lukewarmness...</span></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The book is a fountain of grace as well as information from Heaven's perspective about the secret corruptions (which of course are not secret to God's omniscience) that effect everyone's daily lives, which were prophesied in the 1600s.</span></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book can be difficult to find in an amazon search so here is the Dolorosa Press website link and the link on amazon, as well.</div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">There IS a kindle edition, yes.</div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dolorosapress.com/Story-of-Our-Lady-of-Good-Success.htm&source=gmail&ust=1612653890006000&usg=AFQjCNHCNXlOb8QyaBgfSJaSVvE8Ku51KA" href="https://dolorosapress.com/Story-of-Our-Lady-of-Good-Success.htm" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://dolorosapress.com/<wbr></wbr>Story-of-Our-Lady-of-Good-<wbr></wbr>Success.htm</a><br /></div><div style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Story-Lady-Success-Novena-ebook/dp/B00F6V5IBE/ref%3Dsr_1_3?ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1379176236%26sr%3D8-3%26keywords%3Dour%2Blady%2Bof%2Bgood%2Bsuccess%2Band%2Bnovena&source=gmail&ust=1612653890006000&usg=AFQjCNEFSbqaFIbuLxtY2Fl8HM7C1tnlUA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Story-Lady-Success-Novena-ebook/dp/B00F6V5IBE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1379176236&sr=8-3&keywords=our+lady+of+good+success+and+novena" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Story-<wbr></wbr>Lady-Success-Novena-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B00F6V5IBE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&<wbr></wbr>qid=1379176236&sr=8-3&<wbr></wbr>keywords=our+lady+of+good+<wbr></wbr>success+and+novena</a><div class="yj6qo" style="background-color: white;"></div></div><div><br /></div><div>(Unfortunately when you try to find info about it online, most people focus on prophecies of contemporary times and how they've come true. It's true but it also kind of seems like doom-and-gloom clickbait. The most important thing in the book, the major theme of the book, is God's love for souls.)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-72904209446732777912020-12-27T18:59:00.001-06:002020-12-27T20:23:19.611-06:00The DNA of Jesus?<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Northern Californians want to break off from the rest of California to create their own state, Jefferson, named after Thomas Jefferson.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The Left says that Jefferson abused a young slave girl and had many children with her, and they claim to back this up by DNA. (Ironically it was the Left at the time who was in favor of slavery during the institution of slavery in the US, an institution opposed by the Catholic Church with great vehemence, which is why Catholicism was largely banned in early USA. The institution of slavery was from England, who themselves could only become slavers after a Protestant Reformation, because they too had to first cast off the morality of the Church in order to commit grievous sin.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">DNA is passed down through families. There is familial DNA.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">What happened is that Thomas' brother did, in fact, abuse a slave girl, a young girl of only 14 or 15, and had many children with her. That is why there is male Jefferson DNA in this family which was created through the brother's sin to this day.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So for the sake of the sin of the brother, the whole family stands condemned in a worldly perspective.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jesus, God, was born to create a new race on earth.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But this race is not an earthly race. It is not based on DNA. It is not based on race, country of origin, gender, age, skin color, cultural habits, language, nobility, lineage, ancestry, pedigrees, or material successes or wealth. It is based on sincerely seeking God, in prayer, and in repentance, and in the forgiveness of sins. There is one spirit which guides everyone and this Holy Spirit does not differentiate based on gender, age, health, wealth, lineage, nobility, or anything else that humans use to differentiate one another on. The Spirit stays with those who are sincerely humble. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">And who are those humble people? They are those people who pray to God and ask Him for the grace to be truly humble, every day of their lives, to to sincerely know God. And God Himself pours out His Spirit on such people who do not exalt themselves. There are very few. But anyone has the opportunity to, by simply praying for the grace to be humble. There are only few of them because people do not pray for this, and if they do, sometimes they stop praying for this, thinking themselves already saints because they practice one or two virtues, and so they exalt themselves.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But God does not weary of repentance and these souls who have hardened themselves can once again repent and begin to pray for the grace to be sincerely humble and to know who God truly is. If only we would! God will not reject us, it is we who condemn ourselves by trying to exalt ourselves based on age, race, gender, or past graces we received from God, rather than continuing on the open path towards Him.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jesus and all of His relatives were all virgins. His Mother was a virgin. His step father was a virgin, and He does not share the DNA of His stepfather anyway, He shares the DNA of His Mother. She was a Virgin. Her parents only had 1 child, they were very old. Jesus' cousin, John, was a virgin. All of Jesus' friends were virgins and were childless in the material sense.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Jesus has many many children in the world, but they are His spiritually adopted sons and daughters. This spiritual adoption is far more significant than a material birth. The bond is far stronger between God and His spiritual children. His spiritual children, however few, are those people who have given up worldly standards and they seek wealth in the next life, they seek successes in the next life (that is, they seek Heaven), they seek prayer (not to be seen by others but in private, to be seen by God), they seek God in prayer, they seek to bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth through prayer and hidden sacrifice. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">They do not live for the events of this life or for the kingdom of earth, for earthly politics, for current events, for themselves or for others, but for God and for the salvation of immortal souls, thus bringing Jesus more spiritual children. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Certainly current events have an effect on them because current events often result in their marytrdoms, but that is not especially relevant because they see God's Hand in their sufferings and they use these sufferings for the salvation of immortal souls, to bring many sinners into the Kingdom of God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So in this way, their lineage, their age, their health, their wealth, their success, their gender, their skin color, their nationality, is not of utmost importance, because it is not through any of those things that the Kingdom of God comes to save souls. It is only through sincerely seeking God, primarily in prayer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Like Jesus.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">However, some people, still blinded by the idea of a worldly kingdom, wrongly believe that there is DNA of Jesus' lineage somewhere on earth. There is not, though. There are records of Jesus' family, clearly made in the New Testament and backed up by several supplemental historical documents, which quite clearly point to the well-documented, if not infamous, martyrdoms of Him, His family, and all of His friends, who mostly either did not have children or were also simply virgins.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">This is because they knew that the Kingdom of God is not one like an earthly kingdom with earthly lineages, but is entirely mystical, in God, in the soul.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The kingdom of God comes in the soul, and must continue to come into the soul throughout one's whole life, as we are obliged by God to grow closer and closer to God every day. Only this will fulfill the longings of our souls.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">There have been mighty and powerful kings and queens, emporers and empresses, who were Saintly people and who believed this, and either were themselves virgins or did not object to their children being virgins, because even though they possessed an earthly kingdom themselves, they lived for God and they trusted in God and they believed in God's promise more than they believed in the material kingdom which they themselves possessed. Surely we, too, who have far less in this life, can imitated God's Saints and pray to God for the grace to trust in God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">So there is no "Jesus' DNA" on earth, except in those Saints who have the stigmata, in which case there have been DNA tests done on the blood which comes from their stigmatas, which is of different DNA and different type, than their own DNA, and therefore is presumably Jesus' DNA. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But no one in Jesus' family passed on their DNA through a normal human means, and certainly the DNA tests of the stigmatics, which is a very rare grace, is entirely a mystical phenomenon which science cannot explain.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">[ How can we accomplish this? Aside from saying many prayers, and devotions, which I reference on this site because I want you to share in the graces that I have received from them (including the litany of humility and St Therese's prayer of humility), let us wake up in the morning and the first thing that we read, is "Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament." You can open it at random, and there is usually a scriptural quote, or a psalm, and some meditation on Jesus' love in the Eucharist next to it. Let us read these 2 or 3 times, over and over, and study them, before we begin our morning prayers. You can open up <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://savior.org&source=gmail&ust=1609202918715000&usg=AFQjCNEjhP3pQ6JIx50MWxU1uVZsKHXSaw" href="http://savior.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">savior.org</a> and see Jesus in the Eucharist.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In this way, we will wake up and bath our tired souls in the love of Christ, which will feed and refresh our souls. And we can ask Him to tell us more about Himself. Because the wise are those who know they don't know everything and so they ask God to know Him.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Do you remember the</span> demoniac<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> who was possessed with Legion, and how after he was liberated, he wanted to spend the rest of his life at the feet of Christ? Let us imitate him, and desire to spend the rest of our lives at the feet of Jesus in the Eucharist.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Do you recall Anna of Phanuel, the prophetess, the first public evangelizer of Christ, how she spent her life, day and night, in the temple of God? Let us strive to imitate this virtue, again, at the foot of Christ in the Eucharist, both literally when we pray in front of them, and by turning our thoughts to those of love and appreciation towards Him during the day, for all the days of our lives.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">We can imitate Jesus' true friends and children. Let us ask our Mother in Heaven, Mary, for these graces, because she is the first to practice them and she practiced them with great perfection, and wants us all to share in the graces she has received from God, so will lavish these graces on us.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In this way, we will be happy and filled up in our souls. Thank you. ]</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-58954967928687949802020-10-04T16:00:00.001-05:002020-10-04T16:00:10.038-05:00Quotes by Saints<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Satan has a hold on both the slanderer and on the one who listens to the slanderer, because he has the tongue of one and the ear of the other." -- St. Bernard of Clairvaux</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Men do not fear a powerful, hostile army as much as the powers of Heck fear the name and protection of Mary." — St Bonaventure</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"God has fashioned and shaped only one enmity, and that an irreconcilable one, which will endure and even increase, until the end of time: it is that between the Virgin Mary and the Devil, between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and accomplices of Satan; so that the most terrible of the enemies of Satan created by God is Mary, His Blessed Mother." -- St Louis de Montfort</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"In anything that is for the service of Our Lord, the Devil tries his arts, working under the guide of holiness." -- St Teresa of Avila</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"The principal trap that the Devil sets [...] is idleness. This is a fatal source of all evil. Do not let there be any doubt in your mind that we were born to work, and when we don't, we're out of our element and in great danger of offending God. ... First tell the Devil to rest, and then I'll rest, too." -- St John Bosco</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This greatest and most essential work we were born to do is the work of prayer, through which God saves souls:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Prayer, without a doubt, is the most powerful weapon the Lord gives us to conquer evil... but we must really put ourselves into the prayer. It is not enough just to say the words; it must come from the heart. And also prayer needs to be continuous. We must pray no matter what kind of situation we find ourselves in. The warfare in which we are engaged is ongoing so our prayer must be ongoing as well." -- St Alphonsus Ligouri </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fr Gabriele Amorth recalled one of his colleagues hearing the Devil say during an exorcism: <b>"Every Hail Mary is like a blow on my head. If Christians knew how powerful the Rosary was, it would be my end."</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-size: 12pt;">"The way to overcome the Devil when he excited feelings of hatred for those who injure us is to pray immediately for their conversion." — St. Vianney</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">Save your soul, help save your family, the dying, the poor souls, your benefactors, your enemies, your country, the whole world; even if you pray quite terribly, and feel quite helpless and incapable of producing a good prayer, keep at it:</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;">PRAY</span><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 36pt;">THE</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 36pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 48pt;"><b>ROSARY</b></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-2963646741339114002020-09-30T18:30:00.004-05:002023-11-11T18:23:14.517-06:00God loves you as an individual! He wants YOU to be His prayer warrior!<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">update - 11/11/23 - hi friends. please visit CatholicExorcism.org to pray along with an exorcist priest who focuses on praying so you become a beacon of peace and joy in the world and truly feel God's love for you.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is an extension of some previous posts.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">There is something called group narcissism, in which a person takes pride in belonging to a specific group, and otherwise suffers the same problems of pride (narcissism) that one would suffer for oneself, only about the group.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This group can be based on an interest, an affiliation, something your family or parents belonged to, or a materialistic definition, such as your class in society, age, gender, or race.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This pride can be an obstacle to having a relationship with God and having a sound mind and a sound definition of yourself and of reality.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is most pronounced when there is a divisions of persons based on a group: for example, children vs adults, men vs women, poor vs rich, healthy vs sick, racial slurs, etc. These are usually done for the purpose of pride, in order to manipulate people.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">You'll notice Jesus never does this. Not once in his whole ministry.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Because Jesus was meek and humble of heart.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">For example, even in the Old Testament, which has a lot of battles over land led by kings, there are even occasionally cries to "act manfully" to kill the enemy. (men vs women) Whereas in the New Testament, when Jesus comes, He exhorts everyone to ask God for the grace of courage, and those who rely on their own strength, such as St Peter, leave Jesus alone during His Passion. Yet, many many women risked terrible punishment to be near Him during His Passion. We can assume that they had asked God for courage through devotion to the Sacred Heart, like St John the Evangelist (I've heard him once called John the Virgin), who leaned on Jesus' Sacred Heart and obtained the grace to be courageous and so followed Jesus through pretty much all of His Passion, except the moment where he fled Jesus being arrested.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jesus has many warriors and He does not care if they are old, sick, young, healthy, men, women, poor, middle class, or rich, or what their genealogies are, their families or their race. And you should not care, either.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I think a strong indicator is that if you see someone doing better than you, and your heart feels that prick of the pain of competitiveness, of pride, of envy, of either wanting to destroy another person for doing better than you or desperately wanting to compete with them, then you know you are having this issue of pride. Anxiety of pride.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This group narcissism, competitiveness, pride of wanting to be the best, wanting to manipulate others, etc is extremely important to overcome through prayer and repentance because it was group narcissism, as well as personal narcissism, that lead to Jesus' crucifixion. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It's just part of our fallen nature. Jesus wants to heal us, sanctify our nature so that we are closer to what God made the first people to be - His children.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The leaders instigated the crucifixion through envy, and through following the group, indentifying with the group, not thinking, not praying, but getting caught up in the group, the people crucified Jesus.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">God sees you as an individual. This is very difficult to understand because pretty much the entire world sees you as a statistic; you might even see yourself as a statistic. I do not think the vast majority of parents think of their children as individual immortal souls made in the image and likeness of God destined for eternal salvation, whom God Himself has placed in their care so that they can draw out their children's skills and foster their children's spiritual lives. I do not think that most parents have sought God thoroughly enough to think that way.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I saw this because the world would not be what it is now if parents were like that, and I would not get so many prayer requests from parents complaining their children aren't worldly successful, rich, married, etc., or whatever idea the parents have for the child's life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I'm not asking you to blame your mother and father for not raising you right. I'm asking you to see them as individuals, also: sinners, just like you, and that you need to reject teachings that are not from God, whether from your parents, your society, or from your own self, and pray the Rosary "for the purpose of knowing the Truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins" every day for your entire life. That way, you will be getting your strength from God, like St John and the numerous holy women who were Jesus' holy soldiers.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">You are being called to be a holy soldier. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not a holy soldier man, or a holy soldier woman, or a holy soldier American [or whatever your nationality], or a holy soldier rich or poor person, or a holy soldier healthy or sick person, or a holy soldier old or young person --</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">you are called by God to be a holy soldier you.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Among every person in the entire world alive right now, God made you and sees you as an individual.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Among every human being God ever created in ALL OF TIME, past, present, and future, God created you unique and individual from all of them.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">There are many external similarities, but that is inconsequential to God because He sees much, much deeper than the shallow surface or the shallow statistic.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He sees your soul.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The more sin we have on our soul, the more we are like other sinners. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Narcissism is an interesting concept, it is described as pride in the Bible. The vast majority of narcissists do not seek a cure, it is usually people who have to live with them who want them to be cured. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is a spiritual disorder in which one places oneself above God (possibly by either ignoring or not knowing God - the latter was the case with me before I knew God). One makes a false idol out of oneself.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is, therefore, described in Catholicism as a demonic personality, because the first person who ever make a false idol out of himself was Satan and because the narcissist attracts so much demonic activity into his or her life through a very insincere spiritual life. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We can identify all narcissists because they all share the same traits: they are controlling (it is a control disorder), they care <i>very </i>much what others think of them, they are excessively self-focused (self-hate and/or self-love), they are willing to sacrifice others for something that they want, they don't really see other people as completely real and certainly not as having as much value on God's eyes as they have in God's eyes, they generally want fame or to be remembered in all of history of humanity although they spend no time acknowledging those other people who have come before them as they are often chronocentric (meaning they don't believe people in the past or future will be human like they are human) and always self-absorbed, and they generally hate women (even if they are women; and by "hate women" I also mean, not seeing women as individuals, or thinking that if a woman has a good trait it is from "instinct" or some other belittling trait rather than her own virtue, which they never acknowledge).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The reason narcissists hate women even if they are women is because Satan hates women. I'm basing this on what theologians and exorcists have said. The reason Satan hates women -- although he hates men too, and other demons, and angels, and God, because he's full of hatred -- but the reason he wages a war against women specifically is because of the Fall. The Fall refers to when God created the angelic spirits at the beginning of time and He gave them a choice as to whether or not they wanted to be in Heaven with Him for all eternity or to be separated from Him in the torments of Heck. Choosing sin and therefore Heck is choosing to not be in God's company, and is referred to as "falling from [God's] grace," meaning being separated from the grace of God, the way a tree branch is cut off from a tree and withers up and dies (or goes insane, filled with rage, remorse, etc). Hence why demons are called "fallen angels." When the spirits at this beginning test chose to reject God and be confined to everlasting horror rather than the joy of sharing with God for eternity, Heck was created, in which the spirits could exist without feeling the least grace of God. This moment was called The Fall, in which they fell from grace. There was no physical fall, because the spirits are ... spirits! But it is how we, as corporeal and spiritual beings, can understand this. The demons chose to fall because they wanted to worship themselves instead of God, even though they knew that it was a really bad decision and they would be filled with eternal rage, eternal hate, eternal vengeance, and all unimaginable and unnameable horrors, as it is true that "eye has not seen nor ear heard what God has in store for those who love Him," that also no one can imagine the horrors of what is in store for those who hate Him. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why, then, would they choose to Fall? Part of the reason was that they foresaw that God was to create the human race, and that if there was a fall from grace, God would assume the form of a human to redeem humanity. This was repulsive to them, because humans are so far below the angelic spirits. But what was really really horrible to their delicate pride was that God would not only come as a human but also choose to have a human mother, and that she would be so imminently holy that she would be raised ABOVE the angelic spirits in Heaven. She would actually be holier, more mighty, more powerful, more intelligent, more loving, etc., than the angels themselves, and the angels in Heaven would call her their Queen, that God would send His angel to hail her as "full of grace." Meaning literally, filled with grace. Above any of His other creations. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And that it would be given to this woman to be the most powerful weapon in God's army, as well as the head of God's army. That it would be given to her to crush them.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They could, perhaps, stand the idea of God as a man defeating them, because they were so lofty in their self-aggrandizement that they could think that only God can defeat them.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But the idea of a purely human, let alone a purely human woman, defeating them... </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And so they cried out, "we will not serve!" And plunged themselves into the eternal abyss through their pride.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And so the Devil wages an endless war against women because of the Virgin. Even though most humans don't know Mary, many women reject God themselves, the Devil still hates them out of his blind sexism. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">That is why you will see people say, Mary was so caring because she was a mother or because of "maternal instinct," which is untrue, Herodias was a mother and could have cared less, and Mary was hailed as full of grace before she was a mother -- she is so caring because she reflects God so perfectly, which has nothing to do with her being a woman or a parent or anything, it has to do with her soul's response to God; or that Mary is sort of just this empty corporeal vessel which God "used" to "get" His human form, which is untrue because when a woman praised Jesus' mother for her body, Jesus corrected the woman and praised Mary for her spiritual gift of obedience to God (which means rejection and rebellion at the ways of the world).</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mary prayed, and God came into the world.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">That is why the Rosary is so important: Mary will pray and bring God into our souls...</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">If there are anti-christs, there are anti-Marys. When we examine Mary's life, we see God's works in her life. And we see Mary's response to God. That is the entirety of Mary's life. Therefore we can conclude that the chief anti-Marys are priests who do not sincerely respond to God. Because priests' role is to pray and to directly bring Jesus into the world through the Eucharist. The second primary set of anti-Marys are the other religious, monks and nuns, who do not take their work of prayer and seeking God sincerely, because through their prayers they are to be the Apostles of the world and save many souls through prayer.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The second tier of anti-Marys are the lukewarm laypeople, who do not pray, who are not interested in seeking God, participating in the Sacraments (or only do so to receive human praise), are narcissistic, feigned piety, etc. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">You'll notice that the anti-Marys are also the anti-Christs. This is because Mary reflects Christ. Mary's tears reflect Jesus' tears, and Jesus is God. These tears are always for the salvation of our souls because they love us and they want us -- all of us, you, me, our neighbors, those who persecute us, those who torment us, those who are kind to us, those who are lying and bad to us -- they want them all to be saved from Heck. Heck was made for the rebellious angels, not for us. That is why we must pray every day for the salvation of souls, especially the Rosary through which Mary crushes and slays, swords and spears, punches and steps on, all the demons, by the redeeming power of the Cross of Christ, and prays to bring God into our lives, our souls.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is why Mary is co-redemptrix. The co-redeemer. Only Jesus is our Savior, our redeemer. Ultimately, God alone must be our Mother, Father, brother, sister, our everything, our all. But He gave us Mary to be our mother, our example, our guide, our champion, our warrior, our confidant, our defender, our protector -- to lead us perfectly to God, to make us also as filled up with grace as we are capable of being filled with. Mary wants to share her grace. God made her great in order to help us miserable sinners, to help our souls know God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">So that is the Fall, and that is the current state of man, and that is why it all is as it is. Because of original sin, it is quite observable that we are more inclined to listen to the ways of the world, the lies of the world, and the Devil, than we are to listen to God and His holy friends.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But if we pray, if we become the children of Mary as Jesus wants us to (His last dying words on the Cross are "behold your mother"), then we can also become Jesus' warriors, and learn to be very humble and brave and pure, like Mary, like Jesus.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And that is why narcissists (should I say, we ourselves?), under the binds of original sin, hate women, even women narcissists: because of the eternal battle between the Devil and his followers and Mary, the Woman of Revelation and Co-Redemptrix who will perfectly lead us to her Son, God.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">When we follow the world, when we ignore our sins and say we don't have any rather than praying to know our sins and hand them over to God to ask for His grace to not sin any more, when we rely on our own strength instead of the strength of God, or when we rely on the strength of wealth or the strength of other people, which will always fail, or when we rely on the group narcissism and the love of and strength of whatever group we define ourselves as or associate with, then we share all the same characteristics of all of those bound by the same sins.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">That is why it seems difficult to believe sometimes that people are individuals. That we are individuals. Because when we sin, we lose our individuality, our personality, who we are, and we act like everyone else who sins.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ironically when we focus on ourselves, on finding who we are, we become so self-focused that we lose ourselves. Because God did not create us for ourselves. God created us for Him. So when we forget ourselves and think of serving Him, and loving Him and loving what He loves, and asking for the grace to be meek and humble of heart, then our individuality becomes fleshed out. We become who we are supposed to be. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">No one was born for sin: we were born to know God -- in the depths of our souls!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The more we wholeheartedly seek God, give up the world, pray, repent of our sins, pray to know our sins so we can repent of them, pray to know and understand God, the more we <i>internally, </i>in our souls,<i> </i>become an individual.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is what God wants for us. To reject all the attachment to this stuff and come to Him. And He knows we are weak, so if you want to but feel you can't, that's what He came to us for, that's what He sends His mother to us for. So we will pray and grow in grace and holiness.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">That's why it is important to pray "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for our sins." So many people pray to drown out God's voice or to try to make God serve their false idols to people or stuff or themselves, or to hide their sins under God's holy robe or Mary's mantle. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But Jesus said that He is the Truth. God is Love, God is the Truth. We, who are bound by original sin, whose ears are open to the world and its falsehoods, to the temptations of the Devil, but pray to know God. We don't just inherently know God, we must seek God. We must do this in sincere prayer, praying to know God, to know the Truth. God is the Truth.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sin keeps us from the Truth, from God. If we say "sorry" without meaning we feel sorrow over our sins, without striving to give up our sins, then our "sorry" becomes a lie, doesn't it? But we cannot have the ability to feel sincerely contrite over our sins unless we ask God for that grace. God is Good. We need God in order to be good. We need to pray to be able to feel contrition for our sins, to even know what our sins are so that we can be close to God Who loves us, pleasing to Him. Then we will be leaning on God's Heart, the way St John leaned on God's Heart during the Last Supper, and had the grace to endure the Crucifixion along with the holy women, when everyone else ran away... </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Let us imitation the virtues of these holy people, so that we will not be like the evil soldiers who fell down dead when Jesus resurrected, like the tree Jesus withered that produced no good fruit; but rather so that we will be like His friends Who had come to tend to His body in the tomb and found God's holy angel who told them He was alive.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">If we pray for the grace to receive true contrition, then we can receive pardon for our sins.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, pray every day for the rest of your life, "for the purpose of knowing the Truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins," especially the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">God loves YOU as an individual. He does not care about labels and statistics and any of these external things.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He wants YOU. He wants you to want Him so that He can cleanse you and make you into who you are supposed to be, live up to the full potential of grace and skill that God intended for you during your life, and so God can protect you.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This plan of salvation is open to everyone!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">On a similar note:</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the events following the Gospel, we see, for example, that St Paul says that women are not to speak in a Church but ask their husbands at home for what the teaching meant.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But then in other parts of St Paul's life, he proclaims to Good News to women, and these women proclaim God's salvation to their whole families and bring their whole families into God's friendship. St Paul also has many sisters in Christ who help him spread the Word of God, and it is true that in the Gospels the first evangelist of Christ (besides the Archangel Gabriel) is a woman, Anna of Phanuel. An old and very holy widow, was Anna -- she was like St John the Baptist.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And we also see that the Church has women Saints who are Doctors of the Church, in other words, whose teachings are so invaluable that they are considered to have "doctored" the Church. St Therese of Liseux being one of the most important works you can read in your life for learning to come to God and be a Saint.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have often thought about all of this and I have observed something in the lives of Saints as well as in the families of laypeople.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">God said that the world will fall to the meek. We can only be meek, sincerely meek, when we repent of our sins and seek God sincerely.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We can see many times when the world was dominated by bloodthirsty cowards, men and women rulers, kings or queens who waged wars for profit and were shrewd in whatever it was that their business was. History is full of these people. And the meek, seem often to have been beheaded by the mighty.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But when I look at people's families and lives and the lives of Saints, what I see is that whomever is the one who sincerely seeks God wholeheartedly, gives up the world, puts up with others, is trampled on and despised and overlooked by all but seeks God wholeheartedly, as a sword blade being fashioned in the heat of an oven -- that it is this person who invariably becomes the leader of the family or in some respect.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Because it is this person who leads the family (or if not the family than other souls) to God. The world, aka the family or whatever souls are brought to God, fall to the meek. Give way to the meek.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have seen little old men of whom the world makes no account, I have seen little girls, little boys, old women, I have seen hospitalized and sick, I have seen the dying, I have seen cripples, I have seen those who were diagnosably insane or disorder, I have seen the poor, I have seen the rich, I have seen -- everyone, everyone, who wholeheartedly sought God, lead others to God. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">There was a little girl in the beginning of the Maoist revolution of China and she was the only person in her class and her family who was brave enough to stand up to the Maoist soldiers. Everyone else ran away when they burst in with guns, by the grace of God she sat there with her head up and looked them in the eye and refused to back down to them, refused to renounce Jesus in the Eucharist. Even after they shot her, she still tried to lift her head in her God-given dignity and courage. Because Jesus was with her to suffer for Him. And undoubtedly she is among the saints of Heaven right now, today, as you read this, a hero for her God and her land.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(so, I don't know why St Paul said that about that particular community, but it has undoubtedly been taken out of context and used to hurt and control people by narcissists over the centuries. Because like I said, Paul notes many women who preached God and helped him. It must have been specific to that community, perhaps. ... Perhaps there are communities in which, the majority of men are so inundated with pride and impurity that they would also be warned against, and it is only our own sexism/heresy that makes us think Paul was talking about all women. Perhaps like our contemporary porn-induced, foul-mouthed society, in which so many young men defile themselves through sin. ... It doesn't matter, though, what the majority of people are doing: God sees YOU as an individual, and NOT a statistic, and YOU must work to build up the kingdom of God in your own soul that many other people will come to be saved through your prayers and your seeking of God, especially through prayer and devotion to the holy Eucharist and sacramental confession, also. Jesus loves you. Mary loves you. Love them back!)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have never seen the proud or those with group narcissism lead anyone to God. I have seen a lot of group narcissism inundate the Church. Women's groups, men's groups, business men's groups, ethnic women's groups. Etc. Little categories, when God Himself wants us all learning from one another and all together with each other. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have only seen group narcissists be manipulated and try to manipulate others. God is Sincerity. God is service. There is no manipulation with God. There is no lording over with God. His burden is light. Jesus never manipulates anyone.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, if you want to be a leader, be the last of all. Seek God wholeheartedly. Do not have too much attachment to money or to your family or to human opinion, even your own opinion, but seek God. Pray very much for the purpose of knowing the Truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins. Love Mary very much.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">You can save many souls, many even your family. Definitely if you pray the Rosary for that intention and do these things I have said, you will save your own soul in the end.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I know I have written all of these things before, but as people more and more given themselves over to the Devil in the world today, or the Devil forces himself on to people through abuses, the world becomes more and more divided, less and less individualistic, people within themselves become more and more divided, more and more categorized by labels, more and more strive to embrace stereotypes and copying others rather than individualism, more and more filled with hate and anger and impurity and blasphemy, and human thought is taught more and more as if it were religion! I repeat myself because this is important! The most vital!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We are a sin support group society, we are what I call a botulism society. Botulism is a bacteria that is a poison. How it is usually used is that the poisoner eats a little bit of this every day until his or her immune system is built up against it, and then mixes the poison with the food and those with no tolerance of it die instantly but the poisoner goes un-detected in his/her murder because s/he also ate the food but didn't die. So no one sees or detects the poison.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our pop culture, which is not controlled by "the people" but by people who want to control us, megalomaniacs, people who set themselves up as god and who worship mammon over God, who do not keep the fear of God before their eyes, control our news, our public education, our whole societal thinking today. It is botulism, it is poison. If a regular person from any other time, even 30 years ago, was put into this world, this society right now, with no building up of tolerance of this poison, they would instantly die from the horror of the degradation of the human spirit, made in the image and likeness of God. There is no Light of God anywhere, even if something makes the claim of being "good."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many many people die of "despair deaths": suicide by alcohol, STDs, etc. These are sins, but they are caused by the despair of the society. That is why, give up the current society and give up sin, that you may have life. God is Life. God is True Life.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">As Moses was born to lead his people out of slavery in Egypt, Jesus was born to lead us from slavery to sin and back to Heaven through the way of the Cross. There is only one means to Heaven, and that is the Cross. He gave us His holy mother to be our Moses and lead us through the way of the Cross, which she herself has already taken.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">We have a friend in God! We must pray. We must.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Also, love Mary under her title Our Lady of Good Success very very much (see below post). She, and that book there, are the foundation for the 20th and 21st centuries, their restoration in God and in the Truth and in God's Love. It is through that title, that book referenced below, that Jesus will heal us during the 21st century.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Amen!</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(PS there is a great deal of false information online about angels and demons, as it was forewarned that the Devil would take on a the appearance of a spirit of Light to lead people astray. You can read real information in "All About the Angels" by Fr Paul O'Sullivan, an inexpensive book found on amazon which is really a wonderful way to learn about God's true teaching about the angels. It was written a while ago, it is not a recent book and I think it has proved to be insightful through time, which is something I look for in books and information.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Mother Mariana, the main figure of the Our Lady of Good Success devotion, was shown visions of the 20th and current times and she died. In fact, she died of sorrow several times in her life and then God gave her her life back to suffer and pray more for our current times. The book I refer to which I honestly think everyone should read and pray the novena in, is called "The Story of Our Lady of Good Success and Novena: An Abridgement of the Book Written by Rev. Father Manuel Sousa Pereira". Also available inexpensively on amazon, very excellent book which is way better to read than reading stuff online. If you had to spend your time, I would spend it reading that book rather than online stuff. It is very good and an important read.)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-90585943861731584472020-05-17T15:53:00.003-05:002023-11-11T18:17:25.294-06:00Requested Prayer Response<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have a hard time deciding what words to choose to make it understood that our financial stress has been almost constant for the past 29 years, and how literally each year is worse than the one previously. I am not exaggerating the trial. Ultimately husband has failed his law practice due to the final blow of having been criminally targeted by a criminal employee, then finally charged for their crimes. A lawyer is responsible for the crimes of his employees, even if he is unaware they are doing them.<br />
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We are not fancy and have never been. We look poor because we are poor. Over the years clients have not paid their debts to him. He has been extorted and blackmailed by some people. To save our lives we paid. And so we lost our first home. Then ten years later we were able to get a second home and it got foreclosed also.<br />
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I am mentally ill. My two oldest daughters are mentally ill. We need psychiatric care and medication. We have lived with family for the last decade, and I cared for my mom before she died a painful death. My brother abused us all psychologically meanwhile. Now we are looking for work for passed year actively and nobody will hire my husband. Every interview fails. Before the covid 19 quarantine we were financially and mentally suffering---now it is only worse. We need money for food and clothes. We want to finally have some predictable money. I don't want fancy things---just enough to buy what we need.<br />
Pray that we can have a peaceful life. We go to mass regularly and I pray the rosary. We are devoted. All we ask is for what we need before we die.<br />
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Thank you for your prayer request, it is very moving. It is very touching.</div>
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Thank you for your devotion to Our Lady and to Jesus in the Eucharist.</div>
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I will try to recommend some prayers and devotions to you.</div>
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Two of the most powerful devotions I have come across, especially for overcoming attacks by evil people, are the devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus and Our Lady of Good Success.</div>
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Precious Blood Prayers: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayers.html&source=gmail&ust=1589834383873000&usg=AFQjCNEQeWaVur8yZ53GdTNgV-F2CIx2OQ" href="https://www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayers.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>preciousbloodinternational.<wbr></wbr>com/prayers.html</a></div>
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I've mostly prayed the Chaplet of the Precious Blood, and the Consolation/Adoration prayers. You yourself can decide what you want to pray. Here are the promises Jesus ascribes to these devotions: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayers_27.html&source=gmail&ust=1589834383873000&usg=AFQjCNHblNhPTjz6TkmX8BUE8Mq85Rgrlg" href="https://www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayers_27.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>preciousbloodinternational.<wbr></wbr>com/prayers_27.html</a></div>
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Jesus promised St Maria Faustina that He would protect and help all those who depend wholly on Him, so i think that you will be protected. Thank you for writing in.</div>
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Here is a website on Our Lady of Good Success. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/&source=gmail&ust=1589834383873000&usg=AFQjCNE_8Px0gRtZN1YaS5FE_ln7A0KOZQ" href="https://www.ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/</a></div>
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Here is the prayer section: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/collections/prayers&source=gmail&ust=1589834383873000&usg=AFQjCNG9O5jg-w7OLfGZSgWWbDbQqfKSQw" href="https://www.ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/collections/prayers" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>ourladyofgoodsuccess.com/<wbr></wbr>collections/prayers</a></div>
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I prayed the Chaplet because I like chaplets. I simply told Mary where my failures were and she helped me.</div>
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At the time, I had difficulty breathing and always felt like I was going to pass out. This prevented me from eating very much and therefore I could do very little, literally. I told her I had failed in breathing. I prayed the chaplet. Suddenly I could breathe. I told her I failed at eating. I prayed the chaplet. Suddenly I could eat. I listed all my failures in my whole life and I prayed the chaplet every day out of thanksgiving to her, but I never received any more healings until I went to confession monthly and prayed the Rosary of Liberation all during the entirety of the weekend Masses, begging God for liberation. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can pray for your job and finances and also all your health problems. Pray against being destroyed. There is a lot of very bad spiritual activity associated with people's attacks, but if the spirit who is bringing these people who are trying to destroy you is cast out, and God protects you from them, then they will all go away. Jesus and Mary will throw the attacks down. Pray that all bad people who attacked you forget about you, too, so they don't want to attack you in the future. This is like a healing for both of you. God showers His Mercy even on the greatest of sinners.</span></div>
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These were problems that were healed were problems that have been with me my whole life. I have prayed for years and years and YEARS to be freed of them, but when I prayed that novena to Our Lady of Good Success, I have been liberated of many many problems. I continue to pray it every day. I know my problems will not be returning, either.</div>
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Confession is important. I think that was important. I think that prepared me to be liberated from a great many things through Our Lady's devotion. I repented of things I had forgotten from childhood even. It was... one of the most beautiful and wonderful experiences of my life, I felt God reaching into my soul and pulling up all of this filth. I wasn't instantly healed from it but I have been pretty much instantly healed from everything I've prayed for with devotion to Our Lady of Good Success, so long as I pray for the same healing for the rest of my family that attends Mass. (For example, I had to pray a novena to be healed of insomnia for me, and then one for my sister, and one for my father. Novena to be healed of nightmares for me, for my father, and sister. Etc.) ... As far as I can tell, if you are in the same family and are all sincerely devoted to God, you all share the same ailments to one degree or another. Which is why everyone has to pray, either that or whomever is praying has to pray also a separate novena for everyone.</div>
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Pray also to be healed of blasphemies invoked over you. Pray to be healed of hatred, both in you and against you. Hatred and blasphemy are surprisingly closely related because God is Love. Envy, also, is closely related to that. Envy is very very very evil. It is probably one of the powerful curses against your family that is the cause of so much trouble, it's almost always envy. Envy and pride. They go hand-in-hand. Revenge, as well.</div>
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Pray to be healed of witchcraft and witchcraft invoked over you. Pray to be healed of gossip against you, blackmail against you, etc. Pray for the whole family. Those are all very very evil things to do to someone. Pray that all evil people stay out of your lives forever. Pray against curses on your financial situation. Pray for money, or financial liberation. But Our Lady is super powerful against the Devil, she totally dismantles his power with effortlessness through her Immaculate Conception. </div>
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Sexism, racism, those are also powerful curses. Sexual curses of all kinds. Sins of the flesh. (In the same vain, being cursed by the parents or family members because of the sex you were born, that is a powerful curse, as well. Like, if they wanted the opposite sex, or even if they thought you -- or another of your family members -- were of higher value because of the sex you/they were born, that is a curse, also. God made men and women equal, He didn't pick favorites, that's human thinking. This is a very common curse, which is why I mention it. It's very worldly. And if it is on one family member, then it is probably going to be on everyone because family members are deeply spiritually connected and these things sort of travel from one person to another.) Stress, pain. Anything in your whole life that you can think of that has ever afflicted you, or your family, including experiences (which you will often find are reoccurring), pray a novena for. (Obviously start with the worse things, what is the most immediate need, and make sure you pray for everyone even if it is not as pronounced in some family members as others.) ... Strangely, also pray against curses on your noses. It's difficult to explain why, it would take an essay. But in brief, the nose is like the heart, it is considered spiritual a vital organ because it has to do with breathing. Moreso than your mouth. Therefore it represents your -- basically, your life. And therefore it is the focus of spiritual attack. I know, it's very usual, God told me and I had recalled my sister having so much difficulty with her nose, nose bleeds and all kinds of problems, so I did, and it was surprisingly extremely powerful deliverance.</div>
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(Pray also for healing of your hearts, and also your reigns... which are your kidneys. Reigns = kidneys. This is a Biblical reference. It has to do with animal sacrifices, which our Lord took upon Himself during His Passion. Again, it's... it would take an essay, in the Bible, in the Old Testament when you read a good translation such as Douay Rheims or Knox, the core of a person, or animal, is not always described as the heart, but the kidneys. Those are referred to as the "Reigns." The liver also is important, spiritually, according to the Old Testament, but I haven't gotten around to praying for our livers yet so I can't tell you experiences with that yet because I haven't experienced it, but I do believe it is also important. ... I've been subject to witchcraft and one of my afflictions was on my kidneys, -- which is weird to think, but... that's what happened. The Bible was correct, they are your core. It is unfortunate that new translations often replace kidneys with "heart" to mean a person's core or innermost being. Certainly the heart is very important, in old mysticism described very well in the Philokalia, the heart is where our nous, or our consciousness, resides, which is why the New Testament says that "Mary kept all these things in her heart," meaning that she contemplated certain events all the time in the light of God. As a people, we should stay true to the original translation of what was originally written, because it will end up being correct in a mystical sense, and that is the sense we need to understand in order to overcome certain trials.)</div>
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Pray to be healed of the effects of narcissists (and narcissism, and to have all narcissists out of your life -- all one novena), sociopaths and spiritual vampires (a separate novena). Yeah, there are spiritual vampires... sort of. It's demonic, of course, as people can't, on their own, actually vampire off of other people. But it makes sense: we people get our life solely from God truly present in the Eucharist. God is Life. If there is someone who has rejected Jesus in the Eucharist, s/he will seek "energy" elsewhere (which is why SO MUCH of the occult and paganism is focused on "energy"). Therefore, yes, through demonic interference, a human can spiritually "leech" off of another person (although it is really the demonic attachment on the "vampire"). </div>
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By extension, all narcissists (even if they claim to be Christians) have replaced the worship of God with the worship of themselves. Therefore, they are all "energy hungry" and therefore spiritually dangerous. (If they pray to be healed of narcissism, God will heal them. Narcissism in Catholicism is considered a demonic personality disorder. Because it is chiefly spiritual, against the First Commandment, that is why there is no psychological cure for the "disease." Because it's not a disease, it's a sin, a spiritual affliction, that only God can heal and only when someone repents to Him and asks for healing.) All sociopaths are narcissists, although not all narcissists are sociopaths. Anyway, pray separate novenas to be healed of both of them, and perhaps another novena to be healed of any spiritual "leeching" that others may do.</div>
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If you have family who does not attend Mass, rejected God for atheism or sin, or is involved with the occult in any way, including New Age, Yoga, chakrahs, "believing in themselves," or anything else that is explicitly against God and all that is in the Bible (I don't know about protestantism, I have never been related to protestants, but a lot of it is <i>so </i>blasphemous against Jesus in the Eucharist and against Jesus' Mother, that I don't know... it seems really bad... it might depend on the sect... likewise, if you are related to lukewarm Catholics who casually blaspheme the Holy Name of Jesus or the Eucharist or Mary, I have been related to those people and I know for a fact that they are very very demonic for doing that and spiritually bad because of their sins), you will want to pray ... probably a number of novenas to be protected against that person spiritually... I don't want to get into details. Just, pray for protection. For each individual person (unless they pray for themselves). That the bad people can't influence your life spiritually. That they can't control your life. That they can't bring people or events into your life. That they can't vampire off of you. That they can't influence your mind spiritually. ... Just... pray. It varies from situation to situation, you might not have a situation that extreme. </div>
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Pray also against cancer. I know that you don't have physical cancer, but there is also spiritual cancer. It's difficult to explain, but I will try again! I was at Mass, and this kindly old man came up to me. He handed me some St Peregrine Holy Oil and a copy of the Miracle Prayer. He told me I looked like I needed help (he was right!) and that St Peregrine had healed him of cancer. He was outrageously kind to do this for me! But... I was too dense. I thought it was nice but I didn't see the point in it because I didn't have cancer? So I left it at home. I had read a story of a woman who converted to Catholicism and she had an interior knowledge that she had been healed of a cancer that she didn't know she had. I realized that this was a spiritual cancer. Nothing exists in the material world that doesn't first exist spiritually... Therefore, you can have wounds on your soul, and even cancer in your life, that is not a physical cancer. I now anoint my family with the St Peregrine Oil every night and pray the Miracle Prayer before bed with my family (it's very short and nice). It's been very wonderful. (I don't mean to load you up with more prayers: if you don't want them or have time for them, you don't have to say them. You can also pray a novena to Our Lady of Good Success to be healed of spiritual cancer, and then it will be gone forever.)</div>
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I was reading a deliverance book, "Deliverance prayers for use by the laity" by Sensus Traditionis Press. One of the prayers describes a three-bladed sword of Our Lady, with which she slays the Devil. The three blades of the sword are the words of obedience that she spoke in the Gospels. In the book that contains the novena (which admittedly i have only read parts of, I have mostly focused on daily praying the novena, partially because I was ADHD and that was the easiest way for me to read, but mostly because Jesus is healing me and my family so much through the novena that I don't take time to do much else besides pray), the pious nun Mother Mariana had a vision of Mary with the Eucharist over her heart, holding a long spear, and slaying the Devil with her spear. While praying the novena so much, I have seen Mary holding something like a very long-handled two-handed scythe, with a huge blade, and the blade is her Immaculate Conception, with which she joyously slew the Devil. When I was first converting, I saw the Devil as a hideous wolf, and Mary always gliding in front of all of his attacks to block them. Then I saw three devils running away from me, and now I understand that that is being fulfilled now as I pray to Our Lady of Good Success for healing for me, my father and my sister -- the three Devils. In this vision, I was a tiger. The stripes represent the scourging of Christ at the pillar to atone for sins of the flesh, as I have been on the receiving end of very many of such sins and spiritual attacks and they have brought me into a deeper relationship with Christ.</div>
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I know we should place no importance on dreams, but after beginning my novenas to Our Lady, I had a wonderful dream of carrying a huge sword with me, a sword that was basically as big as I was. I wonder if it is Our Lady's Sword, and I was like a child who gets to have access to her Mother's things.</div>
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You can have access to the same spiritual weaponry. Jesus wants to heal us. Jesus loves us.</div>
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In the book that contains the novena, one of the prophecies of Mary for our times (the 20th and 21st century are mentioned a great deal) is that it will appear that evil has triumphed. But then Mary, under the title of Our Lady of Good Success will appear, and those who are evil will fall. This goes back to what Mary said in the New Testament, that God has scattered the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly.</div>
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Well, that may be true for society in general, but it is true for your life specifically! Mary has appeared now under this glorious title, if you turn to her, God will heal you, Jesus will heal you! I am sure of it.</div>
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What i have read from the book about Our Lady of Good Success, was very encouraging about suffering and enduring trials united to Christ's Passion, while showing God's great love for souls and His desire to heal us. It reminds me very much of the Diary of St Maria Faustina, although perhaps not as intimate because it is not Mother Mariana's personal thoughts and struggles as kept in the same detailed notes as St Faustina (although there are a lot of personal struggles and detailed notes that will resonate with all readers).</div>
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Continue praying the Rosary daily even though you are praying the Chaplet of Success and other prayers. Anoint yourselves with Holy Water before going to bed and when you first wake up, slowly and reverently making the sing of the cross over yourselves while meditating on the suffering of Christ.</div>
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Although you must stay away from bad people, you must <i>forgive </i>everyone. I recommend carrying or wearing a pardon crucifix, which is a special crucifix (you can look that up online). Also, a miraculous medal, and a fivefold scapular (doesn't have to be right away, you don't have money right now, that is OK, but if you pray, Mary will get you what you need).</div>
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If you have the opportunity to attend any Latin Masses at your local Catholic Church, attend them. I have received wonderful, wonderful graces of deliverance and healing.</div>
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I have written about the Precious Blood devotion on a recent post. I was helped a lot from bad people. I do not pray it recently, I mostly focus on Our Lady of Good Success, but they are still very good prayers. When I have finished my list of all the novenas I want to pray for me and my family, then I want to go back to praying the </div>
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There is also devotion to the Infant of Prague, especially for financial and health problems, which I also pray daily because it is such an easy prayer. (I have received very quick financial help from devotion to the Infant of Prague.)</div>
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And devotion to St Philomena, I also pray her novena daily. She is also patroness of financial difficulties, impossible causes, deliverance, and mental illness.</div>
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They are very short and easy to say prayers.</div>
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I read about St Philomena in 2011. My favorite book about her is by Dr Mark Miravalle, called It's Time to Meet St Philomena. It's one of the shorter books about her, but it is to the point and packed with great information. If you do not have money, don't buy it now. But someday, come back to it, buy it. I read it, and I prayed it, and she helped me a great deal. </div>
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One act of devotion to her is to visit her shrine in Mugnano, Italy. (It's kind of dangerous to travel to Italy right now.) I told her, I want to go to her shrine, somehow. It seemed impossible. ... But a little while later, I was travelling to Italy, even though I had no money and had never traveled to Europe before (or since). It was impossible. There was a conference in Belgium I got to go to (back when Belgium was one of the most beautiful places in the world, now I see pictures of it and can't help but weep, but I hope that it will be good again some day). And I got to go to her shrine in Italy, also, although we were only in the country for a day and I only got to go to her shrine for 15 minutes. That was really sad, I remember it so well, it is exquisite. When I left the shrine, I felt a huge black cloud that was furious. It was departing from me. And suddenly, I was not bipolar anymore (I had been bipolar up until that point), and I got off all of these medications. (I would later develop PTSD and other things as a sacrifice to God, but it was so wonderful to be healed.)</div>
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It is not safe to travel to Europe but I do not doubt that Philomena will be glad to help you and your family, as well. She is so wonderful and so powerful... words can't describe... she's helped me so much...</div>
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Have you heard of an Irresistible Novena to Our Lady of the Rosary? God cannot help but answer this prayer in some way!</div>
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It is a novena of 3 sets of novenas in honor of the Most Holy Trinity, immediately followed by a another 3 sets of novenas in thanksgiving, even if your prayer has not been answered. That means 27 days in petition for an intention followed by 27 days in thanksgiving. 54 days in total. If you pray that for financial assistance or healing or anything, God will definitely help you a lot.</div>
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Also, ... if you have been reading online about depression for the last decade, you may have come across that the military was exploring the relation between gut bacteria and the development of PTSD. They found the probiotic bifidus to be a great treatment for a wide variety of illnesses (the military doesn't mess around with things that don't work). It's available over the counter and is FDA approved with no side effects.</div>
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A few things about it -- you have to drink a lot of water. I just mean, a whole glass when you take it and then make sure you are hydrated throughout the day. Also, you can't take gut-killing foods or supplements with it (such as honey, which is a bacteriacide, or supplements like magnolia root which are also for depression and anxiety but kill all bacteria, both bad and good). Bifidus is extremely powerful for anxiety and depression. I still take mine daily, it will help prevent ptsd, depression and/or anxiety in the future as well. It helps to manage stress. (You can read the reviews and look up information about it online.)</div>
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I found that it made me impossibly sleepy when I first took it, because i had other problems (disassociation). Disassociation is one of the most common responses to stress, and PTSD is a stress disorder, so they go hand-in-hand. Almost everyone experiences some lower forms of disassociation during their lives. (A common one is to look in the mirror and not recognize yourself. This is caused by stress.) Usually these experiences are short-lived. I read that glycine helps schizophrenics, who are at the highest end of the disassociative scale. So I bought some glycine (glycine is usually sold as a combination of glycine and HCl, hydrochloric acid, for stomach issues -- I could not take HCl because that would kill the bifidus, so I had to find a glycine, by NOW brand, that was 1,000 mg that was only glycine). I took one glycine for three days, and it really helped, but then I developed serotonin overdose. I stopped taking it but noticed I needed it, so now I only take 1 glycine every 30 days (once a month, I take a glycine). Taking the glycine helped me to be able to take the bifidus without becoming excessively sleepy from it.</div>
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(I know that is a little complicated. Most people have no difficulty taking bifidus, it does not make them sleepy. I just want you to know that if you or your family becomes sleepy, try some glycine. And it's another thing to buy unfortunately but it will probably last you for the rest of your lives because you will probably only have to take it once a month, or some very infrequent time. Also, maybe reduce the dose of bifidus, you can take either one or two a day. I take two, one when I wake up and one at night, but my sister takes only 1. I have only had problems when I inadvertently added a new supplement or food that killed gut bacteria and therefore killed the bifidus. ... Also the instructions say "do not refrigerate," so it doesn't need to be refrigerated.)</div>
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There is also something called the Utah Paradox. Have you heard of it? the statue of Utah in the US is one of the most beautiful states. It ranks as one of the happiest states to live in. Yet, it has the highest suicide rate, and the highest antidepressant prescription rate, and antidepressants have little to no effect. Recent neurologists believe this is because the high altitude of Utah lowers oxygen levels in the blood (again, back to the nose, back to breathing, this is one of those things we read about around the time of praying to Our Lady of Good Success for curses on our noses -- I know, I know, it sounds really weird, but... that's what God told me and He is always right and He was right again). This lack of oxygen dramatically affects brain chemistry.</div>
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Going to an oxygen bar will NOT help these symptoms. The blood itself is unable to properly bind oxygen. Support supplements such as a very special kind of chelated magnesium, B1 (thaimine) and/or a blood builder can help for a <i>wide </i>variety of psychological issues, as well as prescription medication. (If you are low on iron, you can look at your inner lower eyelid. It should be fairly red around the area closest to the waterline, the rest of the eyelid should be flesh color. If it is not a bright red/pink, then you will need to take a blood builder until it is, then you don't need to take a blood builder anymore, unless it drops back down.)</div>
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Info/research: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mic.com/articles/104096/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why&source=gmail&ust=1589834383874000&usg=AFQjCNH43LhldQawAmY54-pLb6v7fs16tg" href="https://www.mic.com/articles/104096/there-s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-he-knows-why" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>mic.com/articles/104096/there-<wbr></wbr>s-a-suicide-epidemic-in-utah-<wbr></wbr>and-one-neuroscientist-thinks-<wbr></wbr>he-knows-why</a></div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hormonesmatter.com/depression-anxiety-chronically-hypoxic-brain/&source=gmail&ust=1589834383874000&usg=AFQjCNGjWBlD_tJZ2c2p3kvJqpkhy-JTHg" href="https://www.hormonesmatter.com/depression-anxiety-chronically-hypoxic-brain/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.hormonesmatter.<wbr></wbr>com/depression-anxiety-<wbr></wbr>chronically-hypoxic-brain/</a> :</div>
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MegaFood Blood Builder 60 tablets (there is a 90 tablet one, if you don't have an iron deficiency then I don't think you need this but you can decide for yourself; too much iron causes constipation, so it might be one of those things you take monthly or weekly, if you need it at all; unless you really need it): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/MegaFood-Builder-Production-Constipation-Gluten-Free/dp/B076DJSPSQ/ref%3Dsr_1_2_sspa?dchild%3D1%26keywords%3Dmegafood%2Bblood%2Bbuilder%26qid%3D1589746707%26sr%3D8-2-spons%26psc%3D1%26spLa%3DZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExQzc1Wjg3S05VMlJLJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwODc1NTg1MzhZMVJMMUUwRE0zTiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwODI3NTY1Mk1IRkM5TUdMMThHSyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU%3D&source=gmail&ust=1589834383874000&usg=AFQjCNFO-mvLL_sR3AvMhQcMyN3dNY6WbQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/MegaFood-Builder-Production-Constipation-Gluten-Free/dp/B076DJSPSQ/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=megafood+blood+builder&qid=1589746707&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExQzc1Wjg3S05VMlJLJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwODc1NTg1MzhZMVJMMUUwRE0zTiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwODI3NTY1Mk1IRkM5TUdMMThHSyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>MegaFood-Builder-Production-<wbr></wbr>Constipation-Gluten-Free/dp/<wbr></wbr>B076DJSPSQ/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?<wbr></wbr>dchild=1&keywords=megafood+<wbr></wbr>blood+builder&qid=1589746707&<wbr></wbr>sr=8-2-spons&psc=1&spLa=<wbr></wbr>ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExQz<wbr></wbr>c1Wjg3S05VMlJLJmVuY3J5cHRlZElk<wbr></wbr>PUEwODc1NTg1MzhZMVJMMUUwRE0zTi<wbr></wbr>ZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwODI3NTY1<wbr></wbr>Mk1IRkM5TUdMMThHSyZ3aWRnZXROYW<wbr></wbr>1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tS<wbr></wbr>ZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPX<wbr></wbr>RydWU=</a></div>
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High Absorption Magnesium 100% Chelated (this is not the same as regular magnesium, it is high absorption and chelated. The instructions say take up to 4 a day, two in the morning and two at night, but you can decrease the dose if you want. See what happens. Some people use this for getting off prescription anti anxiety medications because it works as well for them.) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-Absorption-Magnesium-Glycinate/dp/B000BD0RT0/ref%3Dsr_1_5?dchild%3D1%26keywords%3Ddoctor%2527s%2Bbest%2Bhigh%2Babsorption%2Bmagnesium%2B100%2525%2Bchelated%26qid%3D1589746817%26sr%3D8-5&source=gmail&ust=1589834383874000&usg=AFQjCNF_soAzARtU7xEPgvNRGhuCYs6G-A" href="https://www.amazon.com/Doctors-Best-Absorption-Magnesium-Glycinate/dp/B000BD0RT0/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=doctor%27s+best+high+absorption+magnesium+100%25+chelated&qid=1589746817&sr=8-5" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Doctors-Best-Absorption-<wbr></wbr>Magnesium-Glycinate/dp/<wbr></wbr>B000BD0RT0/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=<wbr></wbr>1&keywords=doctor%27s+best+<wbr></wbr>high+absorption+magnesium+100%<wbr></wbr>25+chelated&qid=1589746817&sr=<wbr></wbr>8-5</a></div>
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Avmacol and Avmacol Extra Strength is a supplement that has clinical studies and is rather unfortunately expensive but it is good for those who are suffering from autism and also schizophrenia. God will help you get the money you need for medicine and help heal your finances and job problems. I don't know if this is something that you need but if anyone else reading this needs it, it can help them. </div>
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There is a ton of information on their website and also a lot of clinical studies done with avmacol. (It is the best sulphorane supplement.) You can search for all that information on their website and also online. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.avmacol.com/&source=gmail&ust=1589834383874000&usg=AFQjCNGCfdD0CLWBUQaJ8Qa2NHrGDO5row" href="https://www.avmacol.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.avmacol.<wbr></wbr>com/</a></div>
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NAC helps greatly with OCD behaviors (including the desire to smoke, treatment in this clinical study is between 2-3 of these a day)</div>
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Clinical study on NAC: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4423164/&source=gmail&ust=1589834383874000&usg=AFQjCNGWp9XmvJtz824ZPJ0goOTmJY5iaw" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4423164/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.<wbr></wbr>gov/pmc/articles/PMC4423164/</a></div>
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I mention other supplements in the depression healing post but these listed above are new. And I hope they are helpful. The most important I think is the bifidus, I just sort of think everyone should have that. But certainly many people are also helped by the B1 (thaimine) and high absorption magnesium.</div>
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(I was ordered during a confession to pray the Chaplet of the Sorrows of Mary daily. One of the promises associated with that devotion is to have Mary's help understanding religious mysteries. I believe that this devotion has helped me to know what to pray for when it comes to deliverance and the Our Lady of Good Success novena. It's a lot to pray, don't be overwhelmed. And God may help you even without having to say that extra Sorrows devotion, too. I have zero money and had no ability to do anything, so I just had a lot of time to pray. ... But I just thought you should know that I do pray that also and receive graces from that devotion as well. Because it was prophesied that a sword will pierce Mary's heart so that the secret thoughts of many hearts may be revealed, that is why I think God told me through the priest to say that prayer. So... I think that has helped me have the grace to sort all of this out. But ... you can also pray the Rosary "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins," as St Louis de Montfort instructed us to do. You can pray the Rosary for many intentions at once. You can even keep a notebook of intentions, even a file on your computer or on a free online notebook like evernote, with all of your intentions, and then before you pray just say you are praying "for all my intentions." That counts as the same thing. But when you are making novenas to Our Lady of Good Success or the Precious Blood or something, you will want to be specific and mention what deliverance or healing you are praying for.)</div>
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You gave your mother the biggest funeral that anyone can receive, and that is from the great love that you had for her. People who are dead, the physical ceremony and all of that, doesn't have a lot of meaning. You can't take anything with you when you die. The love and prayers that people have for the dead in their souls, that is what counts to a person at the end of his or her life. So think of it that you have given her the biggest funeral on earth, because you did. And a very long one, too. And maybe she has been praying for you.</div>
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You're welcome for the reply, I am very very happy to help a child of Mary. ... I remember St Kolbe, when he was in Japan, one of his converts was a woman whose mother had passed away and she found great solace in taking Mary on as her mother. You already say the Rosary and therefore I'm sure you already think of her as your mother, -- but in a new way, in a day-to-day way, a moment-to-moment way, I urge you to renew and strengthen your adoption of Mary as your mother. </div>
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This will not tarnish your love for your own mother at all; it will strengthen it. It will crown your mother's life on earth because it will fulfill what Christ prophesied for His disciples, that when the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it produces much fruit. So you will greatly honor your mother by drawing closer to Mary and thus earning so many, many graces for yourself, your family, and for all souls.</div>
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St Louis de Montfort in the book "Secret of the Rosary" explains that we can add phrases to the Hail Mary. So for example, if you are meditating on the Passion and don't have scripture in front of you, and want to focus better, you could pray, "... blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus, weeping in Gethsemane." Or whatever, you can make up little bits to help you focus on the events you are contemplating. And you can add those bits to the Hail Mary. (It's a very good book!)</div>
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So, maybe you could add, "Hail Mary, my mom, full of grace, our Lord is with you!" when you pray. And maybe that will help you focus on her role as your Mother, both when you pray and also when you are not praying the Rosary. God willed her to be your mother. That was His final act before dying. A person's final wishes are very important. So, this is very significant. In the same way Abraham is the Father of the Faithful, so Mary is the Mother of the faithful in the fulfillment of God's Promise of redemption, the head of God's army as well as the Mother of God's army, the one who crushes the skull of the serpent through meekness and obedience to God and spiritual warfare and the Sacraments...</div>
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You are also experiencing a death; not a physical one, nor the death of your soul through sin, either. St Paul says that he died many, many times. The trials of our lives, such as attacks, spiritual attacks, mental illness, and great suffering, are looked upon by Heaven as a legitimate death. You can die many times in your life. Christ will bring you back to life. Like Lazarus. He will make it so you do not die again until the end of your life at a physical death, which will not be the same at all because you will be passing into eternity. ... But He had to wait until your situation had become rotten and stinking, like Lazarus' corpse, before He came to pull your life out of the tomb, so that there would be no doubt in anyone's mind that this is the work of God, and therefore a work that praises Him. (This is what He is doing through Our Lady of Good Success in my own life, so I know it to be true; and when He does this in your life, firsthand you will see that this is true.)</div>
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So when praying that novena to Our Lady of Good Success in the back of that book (or attending a Latin Mass for healing)... there are a few other intentions that you may want to pray for, that I have found to greatly, greatly liberate me and my family.</div>
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Based on your response, pray to be healed of hopelessness, nervous breakdowns, trauma. Sadness and depression -- they're two different things. Sometimes people who are left behind after someone dies feel "survivor's guilt." If that's not how you would describe your experiences, then don't pray that. Pray a novena based on how you would describe your experiences after the death. It needs to be very personal for you, because that will likely be the name of the spirit or the affliction that is being driven out.</div>
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When we are weak and going through a lot of suffering, that is when the Devil wants to attack our souls. This is not something to be alarmed about or to become paranoid about or even to think very much about, because that would be a discredit to God because God is so much more powerful than any unclean spirit, and He needs to be our focus. We can only be spiritually attacked to the extent that God allows, and He allows this so that we can come to know Him and what He experienced in His Passion in a deeper and more personal way. He is drawing you closer to Himself.</div>
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One of the things (I can't remember if it was Jesus or Mary who said it) that was said to Mother Mariana in the Good Success book, was that, in Heaven, you will look back on all of your sufferings on earth and they will appear as nothing, and you will laugh at them. ... !!! And that we should suffer with joy with our eyes fixed on Jesus' suffering, and with great love for Him. It might not be a joy we feel in the upper levels of our soul, it might be a joy that only the innermost depth of your soul experiences that even you aren't aware you are experiencing. But its there because your soul is happy to be with God. So you can keep that in mind in the higher reaches of your soul when things get to be very painful.</div>
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So one of the things that you will need to pray against is worms. There are spiritual worms. In the book that Fr Fortea, the exorcist, wrote, he describes that deep wounds on the soul create attachment spirits that prevent healing and leech life from the spiritual wound. The spiritual wound can be caused by a tremendous sin that we committed or that was committed against us, but I also think by traumatic events in our lives that the devil took advantage of to affix himself onto us. Some of these spirits can be named "sadness," "guilt," etc. They often have names that correspond to their function. That is why it is good to not worry about what is a spirit and what is not a spirit, for the most part, and to just pray for the symptom. Whether it has a spiritual attachment to it or not, Jesus will heal both the spiritual attachments related to it as well as the physical, psychological and social symptoms related to it. </div>
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And I've seen with the novena to Our Lady of Good Success, they don't come back. You're going to be sealed against these things in the future from happening again to you. Whether its attacks, financial distress, etc. That's why its important to pray for the whole family that is devout (you only have to pray separate novenas for the immediate family that is devout, or have them pray their own novenas). This will drive the devil truly out of the family and place you in the hands of Our Lady of Good Success. Thus, Jesus will heal you, in a very thorough way.</div>
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<span face=""corbel" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: small; margin: 0px;">"Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by <span style="margin: 0px;">worms</span> and breathed his last."</span><span face=""corbel" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 21.59px;">"</span><span style="font-size: 15px;">Demons are </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;">spiritual</span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"> parasites that want to attach themselves to us and suck </span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;">spiritual</span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"> life from us. Left to their own vices, they will weaken us and make life needlessly unpleasant. They are the </span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;">spiritual</span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"> equivalent of physical parasites, such as tapeworm or hookworm. </span></span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; font-size: 12pt;">Like physical parasites that live in our bodies, there are </span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; font-size: 12pt;">spiritual</span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; font-size: 12pt;"> entities that can reside in us also. These things can influence our lives in many different ways. This is one reason Jesus came ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">"Worms</span></span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> love darkness and are repelled by the light. John 3:18-19 gives us an excellent comparison: And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.</span><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;">"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">So, yeah, worms are real. It won't solve all your problems to pray to be delivered from worms, but it will help you to think and function so that you can continue on praying.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">When you pray, you are carrying your Cross with Jesus in a very direct way and you are helping many many unseen and unknown-to-you souls. I decided to wear a crucifix around my neck after I prayed a lot for healing before I was introduced to Our Lady of Good Success. One day, I was praying the chaplet of Our Lady of Sorrows, and I felt a tremendous weight on my ribs, the center of my chest under the crucifix. I ignored the pain, but eventually it hurt so badly that I moved the crucifix. It felt as if a tremendous weight was on my chest, focused under the spot of the crucifix. It was immensely confusing. The crucifix is so small and so light weight. It didn't feel heavier.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span face=""ddg_proximanova" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_0" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_1" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_2" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_3" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_4" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_5" , "ddg_proximanova_ui_6" , "proxima nova" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "segoe ui" , "nimbus sans l" , "liberation sans" , "open sans" , "freesans" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #494949; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Confused, I moved the crucifix over to my shoulder, to keep it off the mysterious spot, and I continued praying. ... A few minutes later, I had almost unbearable weight on my shoulder that effected my whole back. My spine, my hips, everything, as if I had been carrying something very very heavy. The crucifix did not change in weight. I was really confused but it seemed to be wherever the crucifix was. It really seemed as if I was "carrying my cross." I moved it to my other shoulder and finished my chaplet, with the same effect.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">The weight of the crucifix returned to normal, it didn't press down on me again, but my back, my shoulders, my chest, and even all my leg muscles were more sore than they had ever been, like I had done an intense exercise for hours and hours. Even my stomach muscles were throbbing. I actually had to treat my muscles, with a hot shower and etc, but I think after a time the soreness just sort of wore off on its own.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">I had never experienced anything like that before or after, but it really, really taught me that when we pray, we are carrying our cross with God. It is REAL. I told my dad about it and he said that was a miracle experience. I am very grateful to have experienced it and to know that forever whenever anyone prays, the Cross is being carried with our Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">... One of the events in Mother Mariana's life was that she died (she died about 3 times, as well as endured a "living death" as you are now, but eventually she died a final time), and when she died, there was a little nun who was very devoted to Mother Mariana, who was not mourning with the rest of the nuns over the death. And everyone thought she had sort of lost it because of grief, but she was quite cheerful. She said the cause of her cheer was that Mother Mariana had told her that she (the little nun) would enter Heaven on the same day as Mother Mariana, so that they would not be separated. No one really believed it but out of the sorrow of the situation they indulged her and allowed her to stay at the feet of Mother Mariana's corpse during its wake. They went to retrieve her at night, but she had passed on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">You can also pray either that you enter into Heaven when a loved one also enters into Heaven, and another novena that you both do not have to pass through Purgatory (because you are devout, and God will aid you with graces to be more devout and to not sin and to unite your sufferings at death to His, for the expiation of your sins, if you stay devoted to God throughout your life, because Jesus came to save us). And maybe another novena that whomever is left behind, does not suffer from grief so much over your simultaneous deaths, but are rather comforted by God and by the knowledge of Christ's Mercy. Then, you will not have to endure what you did at your mother's death, and nor will the rest of your family, and it will be very wonderful and happy and consoling for you, and God, Who delights in being generous and so kind, will also be very happy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">Always, of course, praying in submission to God's Will, that if He has something better in mind for our souls that He give us that instead. Although still pray with great confidence in God's love for you and desire to help you and heal you and bring you to Himself in eternity. Because that is Jesus' goal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">Another devotion I wanted to say but forgot, is the Gethsemane Hours. This is to pray on Thursday during the time that Jesus suffered in Gethsemane. It usually involves reading from the New Testament about the time leading up to His suffering in Gethsemane as well as His actual suffering in Gethsemane. His suffering in Gethsemane was more painful to Him than His entire physical Passion combined. He suffered all the torments of Heck within His soul during Gethsemane; if anyone is ever saved from Heck, it is because of Jesus' sufferings in Gethsemane. He foresaw His abandonment in the tabernacles of the world, as well as the ways in which all the graces He came to give souls would be trodden underfoot. What takes place physically first takes place spiritually; therefore the physical Passion is a sort of physical representation of His suffering in Gethsemane. His soul was sorrowful unto death, He sweat blood from intense distress, and He wept profusely, all alone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">So we can keep our Lord company in Gethsemane as His disciples were meant to. It's deceptively easy, just reading scripture, praying a favored devotion... But it's surprisingly difficult to do during that hour. lol. You'll see.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">It's usually done 11pm-midnight on Thursday, but as I could not do it at that time for health reasons, I used a global clock to figure out when that hour was in my timezone. So where I live, when it's 11PM in Israel, it is 3PM here, so I prayed the Gethsemane hour at 3PM Thursday. And yes, I do think it "counted," because wow. What graces, what experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">I read that some nuns had lit 12 candles to represent the 12 apostles, and sat and sang in a dark room, as they slowly put out each of the lights, to represent how the Apostles abandoned Jesus and He was left alone in the dark. I try to imitate that in a closet with tea candles at the beginning of my Gethsemane hour, because it is a profoundly contemplative devotion, but you don't have to do that if you don't want to, it's not necessary. All that is necessary is keeping Jesus company in that hour.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;">And St Faustina had a vision that she was going to be a Saint during her life, and that when she was being canonized, she was truly present at her canonization, and she was in two places at once, both in Rome and in her sanctuary in Poland. She did not know how this would be accomplished. But on the day of her canonization, it was televised from both Rome and the sanctuary in Poland. So truly, mystically, Jesus is with us when we visit Him in the Eucharist online. (Like I said, it's not the same as in person visits, but it is 100% better than nothing at all and shouldn't be shunned if you want time with Him. That is why it is good to bow and stuff when turning it on or off or leaving the room or at least the floor that the Eucharist is in. There are youtube streams of Jesus in the Eucharist, but I've found that it takes up so much bandwidth and overheats my computer so that it stops working, and that<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://savior.org&source=gmail&ust=1589999834647000&usg=AFQjCNEYeieuKjpl_zWH88nV8ZLINAURig" href="http://savior.org/" target="_blank">savior.org</a>works best for all the time, the YouTube streams for short times like praying the Rosary together or nightly prayers together.)</span></div>
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For example, I had prayed for 3 members of my family who attend Mass and pray. I prayed 1 novena for each of them (a total of 3 novenas) that we would all be healed of anxiety. We received a great amount of relief from anxiety to where, as long as we took all our medication/supplements, we didn't really have anxiety too much. </div>
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There was a fourth member of my family who lives in the house with us who is blasphemous and without devotion and refuses to go to sacramental Confession or obey the 10 Commandments. She was going through a rough spot so I prayed for her to be healed of anxiety also (even if only so my dad would not be made anxious by her) -- 1 whole novena for her to be healed of anxiety. </div>
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When I finished the novena, I took my usual supplements, which I require to get me through the night without problems, and suddenly I was suffering from a little overdose!!! It was so strange because I always needed these supplements (3 valerian root), and the only thing that changed was that I had prayed for all four of us, one novena for all four of the people who live under this roof.</div>
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So... I don't need that medicine anymore and in fact, if I take it, it is suddenly an overdose. I couldn't even stand up, which is so weird because usually it is the opposite, I can't lay down to sleep without it! But now, I can't have it any more because I don't need it. It is a miracle! God has really fully healed me!</div>
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If there is a blasphemous person in your household, it is important that you pray a lot of novenas for everyone (including for the blasphemous person) to be spiritually kept away from that person. I think that through demonic assistance, a blasphemous person can influence the thoughts and interests of the people they are connected to. Don't think too much about that, as in, don't become obsessed with the idea "is this my thought or a foreign thought?", because that is only giving far too much power to the bad guys. But I am just saying this so that you will understand that you must pray novenas to spiritually "quarantine" that person, so they cannot spiritually interact with you or the other members of the family, as well as a spiritual "restraining order" against that person, again so they cannot influence you or members of your family. </div>
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So for example, in my situation there are 4 family members, 3 are devout. (Not perfect, but devout.) The 4th is blasphemous. So I pray 4 novenas for us 3 devout ones to spiritually "quarantine" the blasphemous one from us, and if God wants to heal the blasphemous one or protect her from whomever influences her, than He can, but if He cannot because she rejects God's healing, then for Him to just please quarantine her from us.</div>
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That is why sacramental Confession is so essential. You have to sincerely pray "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins," because if you do not seek to know what your own sins are, and repent of them, and go to Confession** then... your sins that you don't see will tie you to all of these bad people and bad spirits and God will not be able to help you. I went to confession for 5 months, once a month, before I got sick from allergies and then the covid thing, and then I have been praying for months since. So, I still haven't been able to go to confession but I do believe that I am being healed from the graces that I received from going to confession, as well as Mass and as many Latin Masses as I could, before the Churches closed down. I know God is still healing me from those past graces. (I also daily pray a lot of spiritual communions.)</div>
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By blasphemous, I also mean anyone involved in the occult. This includes any form of occult, New Age, "believing in yourself", yoga, ouiji boards, wicca, reiki energy, any energy things are occult, tarot, palm reading, witch doctors, horoscopes, santaria, "ghost hunting," seances, reincarnation, pornography (the basis of sex magic), unrestrained sex (thanks to widespread use of contraception and obscene "entertainment," this is one of the things that Fr Amorth said causes very difficult exorcisms because there are so many unclean spirits attached to the person), verbally taking God's Name in vain, meditating violence onto other people (really angry hateful violent music or other "entertainment," for example) etc etc etc, the list is so extensive. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-89346747503100595372020-05-15T15:16:00.001-05:002020-05-15T15:16:17.139-05:00Best news article you'll read all day, the joy of persevering in Faith, God will save us!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/saint-philomena-and-our-times">https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/saint-philomena-and-our-times</a><br />
<br />And here's a link to my favorite St Philomena book, short and easy to read and includes so much information, "It's Time to Meet St Philomena."<div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Meet-St-Philomena/dp/B003KQA1JQ">https://www.amazon.com/Time-Meet-St-Philomena/dp/B003KQA1JQ</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-39358068291085641932020-03-20T20:03:00.002-05:002023-11-11T18:14:09.335-06:00If you hold an image in your mind and try to manifest it, that is witchcraft.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Way better info available from an exorcist at CatholicExorcism.org ! <br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">It
doesn't matter how the witchcraft is re-branded: New Age, "modeling,"
Satanism (accurate), malicious animal magnetism, white voodoo, white
magic, black magic, magic, yoga, fortune telling, dream
interpretation, reiki energy transfer, energy vampirism,
transcendental meditation, "believe in yourself," sex magic
even pornography or pornographic thoughts, masturbation, rage-filled
music, focusing your rage and envy against a person to destroy him or
her, revenge (even the revenge of "living a good life",
showing off), blasphemous words, abusive words, lack of forgiveness,
keeping company with bad people — a whole variety of other names
and practices and sub-practices that are occult and/or sin and do not
fulfill the Will of God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Men
and women who practice witchcraft are, to one degree or another,
witches, whether they understand that or not. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Witches,
heretics sometimes even like to call the attempted manifestation of
their reality "Faith" and will even quote mistranslated
things from the Bible or phrases out of context from the Bible to
falsely support their deluded and sinful stance. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">That
is <i>not</i> what Faith is. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Witches
will have to pay for their witchcraft when they die. They have
invited the Devil into their lives and the lives of others (which is
what a "curse" is, the forceful invitation of the Devil
into the lives of other people through sin, especially sin of
occult/blasphemous practices). </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Satan
means "accuser." Demons are merciless, they will demand the
most extreme and horrible "payment" for every time they
"helped" a witch during his or her life. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Even
if the witch thinks he or she achieved the desired goal of the
practice of witchcraft through his or her "own power" or
"psychic power" or the "power of gemstones/crystals"
or "horoscopes" or "magic." </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">There
is no such thing. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">It
is demonic. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
unclean spirits — the demons — one makes relationships with when
one practices witchcraft, witchcraft under any title or guise, will
be the demons who get to torture the witch after death, whether in
Purgatory or in eternal separation from God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Witchcraft
is not prayer. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Magic
is not religion. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
most powerful weapons against witchcraft are the Sacraments of the
Church — Baptism in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit, Sacramental Confession which is as powerful as
10,000 exorcisms, and frequent Communion. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">If
you have practiced witchcraft (under any title or guise), you need to
repent and go to confession, as well as sever ties with all people
and things that led you to witchcraft or that you used in your
witchcraft. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Why
sacramental confession? </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Firstly,
it is the Devil that will tempt you to be either afraid of confession
or rage-filled towards confession so that you will not go and cannot
be freed from his grasp. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
may also be tempted out of pride to think your sins were "too
bad" for God's infinite and omnipotent Mercy and that there is
"no hope" for you. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Such
thoughts and fears are from the Devil, and as such are lies which you
should just ignore. They are powerless, just empty lies. God is
Truth, and all powerful. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
Devil does not want to lose a client so will try to prevent your soul
from coming back into communion with God with "smoke and
mirrors," illusions and empty fears. It is meaningless and
nothing, just ignore. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Pray
for strength and help from God. God will help you. God is
omnipotent. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">God's
Love for you is infinite and more than you can ever want to avoid the
consequences of your sins, God wants you to avoid the consequences of
your sins, by giving you the grace to not sin when you repent to Him,
particularly through confession, and through prayer to Him. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">God's
Love for you is not only infinite, it is omnipotent. If you pray to
Him, tell Him that you are a sinner and beg Him for His help to be
made into someone who is more pleasing to Him, He will help you with
His grace. If you are afraid, tell Him so. He will console you, give
you strength to come to Him. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Jesus
established sacramental Confession after His Passion, before His
Ascension into Heaven. John 20:22-3. This is because His Passion pays
the debt of our sins and the power of His Passion and Resurrection
flow from the sacrament of Confession to bring your soul back to
life, out of the hands of the Devil and into the true Life of God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">22
With that, he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy
Spirit;</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">23
when you forgive men’s sins, they are forgiven, when you hold them
bound, they are held bound.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Just
as Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, though hidden, so Jesus,
Who is God Himself, is truly present in Sacramental Confession. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The opposite of self-hate is not self-love. That is still self-focused. It will make you brittle and blind to God, idolatrous to the self, and to everything else, replacing God with yourself.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The opposite of self-hate/love is to seek God sincerely, where He can be found.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">We
cannot heal ourselves. We did not create ourselves. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Only
the God Who created us can recreate us. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">We
are the creation. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">God
is the Creator. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Therefore
we have to go to Him, where He can be found, where He declared
Himself to be found. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">He
can be found in the Sacraments that He established in His Church on
earth. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Through
them, He extends His ministry seen in the Gospels. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">All
throughout the Gospels, Christ forgives people their sins prior to
healing them. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Christ
Himself forgives us our sins.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">In
the Confessional, the priest is merely a veil; only God can forgive
sins, which is why when you enter the confessional, the formula is
(was) “bless me Father for I have sinned.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">(It
was only in anti-Catholic movies/TV where they changed the formula to
“forgive me Father”; it is God Himself Who alone can forgive our
sins.)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">God
Himself works through the priest if the priest is in a state of
grace. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Jesus, Who is God, is truly mystically present in the Confessional.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">In
His set-up of His Church, instead of being limited to
being in one place at one time in huge crowds, like in the Gospels,
through the Sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist, God is able
to work His ministry within the hearts and souls and lives of
<i>countless individuals</i> until the end of time, when they come to
Him in prayer and repentance for His healing. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Pray,
and ask God that your life and your soul could be recreated by Him to
be pleasing to Him. Truly, sincerely, with your whole being, silently
cry out to God for this intention. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">He
will hear you and help you. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
have to respond to Him by praying for the strength to do what He
tells you to do (go to confession, learn to pray the Rosary, go to
Mass, do holy reading, keep holy the Sabbath, have new thoughts and
be a new person in a deep way inside, not sin, give up all that is
sinful, etc). Ask Him for help to do all these things: as a most
loving Father, God will help you. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">That
is the kind of prayer God wants to hear and will so readily answer. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">He
wants you to want to know and do His Will. He wants to help you give
up sin and falsehood and pride for virtue and truth and meekness and
humility. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">He
wants to give you Himself in confession and the Eucharist. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">But
you have to respond to His grace. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
have to read works by Saints about Him. They know God. That’s why
they’re Saints. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">You
have to pray to Him in the manner He's set before you (such as the
Rosary or some other devotion and learning how to speak to God in
your own words in a way pleasing to Him). </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">If
you want to respond to Him and don't have the strength to, ask Him
for the strength to. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Pray
to Him and ask Him to make you so you can pray the Rosary. Pray to be
able to pray? Yes! Strength only comes from God, for the purpose of
returning to God through a holy act such as prayer. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">You'll
have to struggle, yes, but if you pray to ask Him for help, you'll
succeed. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">If
you don't ask Him for help, and try to "push your way through"
or "do it on your own," you'll not only fail, you're
missing the whole point. You're back on the track to witchcraft, to
wanting to "be" God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
root word that makes up the word "religion" means "to
tie." </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Religion
is about a personal relationship with God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Your
personal relationship with God; God's personal relationship with
you. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Religion
is having your eternal Father in Heaven, Thrice Holy and Infinitely
Merciful, Love Himself, tie your immortal soul and your life to
Himself. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">So
that during your life on earth and after death, you will be deeply
enmeshed in the God Who truly Loves you, with such a powerful love
that it could only last for all eternity. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">He
does this tying through humble and sincere prayer, through Baptism,
through Eucharistic adoration, through holy reading, through
sacramental Confession, through the Holy Mass. Through your
repentance and professions of love to Him Who made you out of His
infinite Love. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">That
is where God can be found. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Sin
keeps us from God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">God
wants us with Him, if we willingly approach Him. He gave us free
will. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">He
wants to help us remove the sin and all the witches from our lives,
if we hand ourselves over to Him. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Because
more than we could ever want to be in His Presence, He wants us with
Him. How much He loves us, and when we are obedient to Him, and come
to Him with all our problems and sins, to give them up to Him, ...
that is when we are loving Him in return! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Mind
cannot fathom what God has prepared for those who love Him. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">That
is why it is said, how much God loves everyone and how few love Him
back. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">People
sample a little bit of love and then, out of pride, pat themselves on
the back, say "I have no sin, I am half way already being a
Saint!" and no longer dearly seek God. And they want to show off
to others their little knowledge or favors, rather than continuing to
seek God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">True
love never says "enough." True love always wants more.
Those who truly love God always want more experiences with Him. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">If
you think you are God, if you think your thoughts manifest reality,
if you think you are without sin, you can never have a real
relationship with God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Even
if you call yourself a "good Christian," unless you
actually go to God Himself, where He has revealed Himself, you are
not a Christian. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">God
loves you.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Mary
loves you. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Your
Guardian Angel loves you. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Every
Saint and Angel in Heaven loves you. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">The
Devil and his legion hates you, wants to destroy you, give you the
cup of poison that they've promised is the answer to all your
suffering, but will only bring down onto you more suffering than can
be imagined, because our minds cannot fathom the horror that is
prepared for those who turn from God, neglect Him for the Devil. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Relationships
with one another and good works are important, but if anything in
your life, no matter how good, takes away from your prayer time, the
Sabbath (which is the best time for holy reading and extra prayer),
daily quiet prayer time with God, then it ceases to be good. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: transparent;">Go
to where you are loved most of all: God Himself. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">And
how greatly you are loved! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-63404589379975420252020-02-22T15:04:00.019-06:002023-08-17T17:45:48.296-05:00On relationships: The catechism on true equality between men and women and all people in God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You've heard it said "it's a man's world." Or maybe "women rule the world."<br />
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Christ taught us the world belongs to the Devil.<br />
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That's very important for a Christian to understand because we live in the world.<br />
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Satan fell because of pride.<br />
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He did not want to be equal to anyone.<br />
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He wanted to be <i>better than</i>.<br />
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Pride and envy.<br />
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"Men are so much better than women, they're smarter, they're more level-headed, they think better, they're less emotional, they're just so much better, and women only exist for sex, sex abuse, babies and sammich-making, and they have nothing to say."<br />
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Aside from the examples of reality (and Biblical examples, listed below) where that's not true, what's important to understand is that, that's the Devil speaking.<br />
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That's <i>pride</i>.<br />
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God is not there. God is not present in that message.<br />
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"I am meek and humble of heart."<br />
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That is the voice of God.<br />
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"Women are so inherently closer to God and are born with all these wonderful abilities like empathy and kindness and maternal instinct and they're so much more human and better than men, who only care about sex and only exist to die for women and wars, and to do stuff for women."<br />
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That's the voice of Satan.<br />
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You've just read it.<br />
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Pride.<br />
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"Better than."<br />
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The mouth of Hell speaks.<br />
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"You deserve." "Love yourself." "Better than." "God loves you most of all, He doesn't love anyone else, at least certainly not those sinners. It's ok to hate them. You're much better than them." "Other people are worthless. Only you have value and are special."<br />
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The daily messages of the world and of the Devil.<br />
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For a Christian, you need to understand that. Not to be afraid, but to trust in God instead of yourself and society, and to reject sin. Reject the voice of pride, the whisperings of the Devil.<br />
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That's how the Devil fell, and that's how he wants you to fall.<br />
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And if you cling to pride instead of to God, <i>you will fall.</i><br />
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As the world becomes more and more materialistic (belief in the material world over the spiritual world) and more and more occult and idolatrous, I see more and more of the ideas of materialism and occult/paganism "leaking" into concepts of Christianity.<br />
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Here is what the Catechism says on men and women:<br />
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<a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p6.htm">http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p6.htm</a><br />
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<b>369</b> <span class="text1">Man and woman have been <i>created</i>, which is to say, <i>willed </i>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.<sup>240</sup> 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.</span><b>370</b> In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes. But the respective "perfections" of man and woman reflect something of the infinite perfection of God: those of a mother and those of a father and husband.<sup>241</sup></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="370"></a><br />The same Holy Spirit guided Judith to chop off Holofernes' head as guided Peter to his martyrdom for God.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There is not "masculine spirituality" nor "feminine spirituality" -- it is the same Holy Spirit. There is only ONE God and He is not made in our image, we -- all of us -- are made in <i>His </i>image.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The God does not change depending on the era of humanity, that God does not change depending on how old you are, that God does not change depending on your gender, that God does not change depending on your race, that God does not change depending on the country you were born in, that God does not change depending on the family you were born into, that God does not change if you a peasant or nobility, that God does not change if you are monetarily rich or monetarily poor, if you have social power or no social power.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There is ONE God that guides us all. Only ONE.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Further ("man" refers to the general man, meaning "human," both men and women), about "The First Sin":<br />
<a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1C.HTM">http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1C.HTM</a><br />
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Man, tempted by the devil, let his trust in his Creator die in his heart and, abusing his freedom, disobeyed God's command. This is what man's first sin consisted of.278 All subsequent sin would be disobedience toward God and lack of trust in his goodness.</blockquote>
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398 In that sin man preferred himself to God and by that very act scorned him. He chose himself over and against God, against the requirements of his creaturely status and therefore against his own good. 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".279</blockquote>
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399 Scripture portrays the tragic consequences of this first disobedience. Adam and Eve immediately lose the grace of original holiness.280 They become afraid of the God of whom they have conceived a distorted image - that of a God jealous of his prerogatives.281</blockquote>
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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, <b>their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination</b>.282 Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.283 Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay".284 Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will "return to the ground",285 for out of it he was taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.286</blockquote>
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So much of relationships between any two peoples has been reduces to who can manipulate and control whom. Who "wins." Who "gets his/her way."<br />
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"You're not a real man if you let her tell you what to do." "You have to keep him on a short leash."<br />
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That's not a relationship, that's a <i>war</i>.<br />
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That's not a relationship, that's slavery (or an attempt at slavery).<br />
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How common it is in our world. You can't live like that, because it is a sin, and you will be subject to God's wrath at the end of your life for stepping on other people.<br />
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Jesus is the meek one. Jesus is the humble one.<br />
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He is not the enslaver, He is not the conqueror -- and as a Christian you are called to imitate Him, and to pray to Him for grace to be <b>meek and humble of heart. </b><br />
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Christ was obedient unto death, even death on the cross, to save not those who were worthy of being saved, but us miserable sinners.<br />
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We can't have relationships with one another unless we put ourselves aside a bit and are mutually obedient to one another. Christ took on the form of a slave to save us from slavery to sin, because as sinners we deserve the misery of slavery to sin, slavery to pride, which is misery.<br />
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But if you want a relationship with another person -- again, any other person -- then you have to give up sin and have to be mutually obedient to one another, mutually helpful to one another, mutually seeing one another as made in the image and likeness of God and that what sins you do to the other person you commit offense against God Himself,<br />
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or else there will be no equal relationship, it will be a relationship of slavery and dominance, which is no relationship at all.. That is not the Will of God. That is not from Heaven. That is not beautiful. That is not joyful.<br />
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If you are around someone like that, no matter who it is -- that example is between men and women in marital relationships, but it's just the same even between parents and children and friends and relatives -- then you need to get away from that person.<br />
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It's better to be alone than be a slave because God is always with you if you seek Him, so you are never alone. And He did not give us a spirit of slavery but a spirit of freedom in Him. And He will console you.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So many people are led to sin to fit in with others who are prideful... a lot of souls are lost that way. But if you throw yourself in to God, you don't have to do that. He will help and strengthen you.<br />
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And only God can fill up your deepest needs for love, people can't, not others and not you yourself. Nothing but God can, not animals or work or a sense of accomplishment or self-esteem or anything; only God. Although human relationships are important (which is evident by the fact that you can sin in them or commit virtue in them), they are not the <i>most </i>important. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In fact the book of Wisdom says that the start of idolatry is excessive interest in people... when others become more important than God, essentially they become less important because they become idols, which are objects. People become objectified, they lose their value. Which is why the world is such a horrible violent and pornographic mess today, because God is put last when He needs to be put first; because people love themselves and others more than God, and so everyone gets devalued.<br />
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The most important is your relationship with God.<br />
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We can do tremendous acts of love for one another <u>if</u> we love one another out of our sincere love of God.<br />
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"This is my command to you, that you love one another as I have loved you," our most holy and precious Lord taught His friends. "Greater love than this no one has than to lay down one's life for my friends, and you are my friends if you do what I command you," our Lord said.<br />
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But "love" outside of God is not true love. Love of the flesh, of the passion, of vanity, of envy, of control, of pride, will never understand the beautiful, meek, holy, pure love of God. They are incompatible.<br />
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I am reminded of one beautiful example of true love in the Old Testament, from the book of Ruth.<br />
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There was a beautiful Jewish woman named Mara living in a foreign pagan country. Mara had two adult sons who were married to pagan women, and the two sons died. One of those pagan women was named Ruth.<br />
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"Mara" means bitterness, which is what the woman called herself because of her great sorrow in losing her two sons.<br />
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Mara decided to return to Israel when her sons died. One of her daughter-in-law stayed on in the pagan nation and remained a pagan. The other pagan woman, Ruth, was so in love with the God of Israel, which she clearly saw through the virtuous and holy and meek way of life of Mara, that Ruth said to her mother-in-law, "I will follow you wherever you go." Ruth loved God and she wanted to be Jewish even though she was a pagan. And Ruth loved her mother-in-law because her mother-in-law loved God with sincerity, for Who He is.<br />
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So Ruth returned to Israel with Mara and worked very hard for her mother-in-law, even though she was a foreigner who was out of place, who did not fit in with others, who was very poor, not the most skilled person, however she was a hard worker God helped her.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The people of Israel had mercy on Ruth and let Ruth work in peace and even chided one another to not mock her for being poor and different, because Ruth wanted to love God and love the people of God, and Ruth was being virtuous in her love of her mother-in-law, which was born of her love of God.<br />
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Because of Ruth's tremendous love of God, for His own sake, through hardships, and not for the "stuff" she thought God would get her (from her detachment from worldly goods, shown in her abandoning her home country and her people for God and for the people of God), God eventually made life easier for Ruth and Mara.<br />
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Mara was so overwhelmed by the reciprocal love of her daughter-in-law Ruth, that she declared Ruth provided her with as much love as if Mara had had 7 sons. And Mara was no longer grieved.<br />
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It is a beautiful and powerful story of meekness, humility, seeking God sincerely, and God's care for those who love Him through adversity, as well as a beautiful love of a parent and her adopted daughter.<br />
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It also foreshadows the love of God of the pagans who would eventually become His own children in Christ Jesus. And it foreshadows how God the Father would be consoled by the conversion of the pagans and the Saints that would arise from the pagan nations once they converted, and their great love of God, just the way Mara was consoled by the holy love of her daughter Ruth.<br />
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All if the Saints in the history of the Church have imitated the love of Ruth for God and the people of God.<br />
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Only God will judge your soul at the end of your life -- society won't, your peers won't, your parents won't, your spouse won't, and you won't.<br />
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And you need to examine yourself thoroughly in the light of God to make sure that you aren't that way, that you aren't prideful and competitive and controlling, always getting your way.<br />
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Christ came to save sinners. If you look to yourself and find that you have sin, then you are probably being honest with yourself. And you need to repent to Christ, Who is all merciful and all generous. And He will grant you His grace so that you can be better.<br />
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But you have to repent to God. You have to hand over to Him all that is ugly and sinful within yourself, and give it up. The way Ruth gave up the pagan nation and followed God; the way any sinner in the New Testament repented of love of Mammon or pagan ways or pride, in order to love the meekness and humility of Christ.<br />
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So, websites that tell women how to manipulate men or men how to manipulate and control women, are really doing the Devil's work. That's from Hell; that's not from God. Give it up as a pagan way of life.<br />
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So too, any sources that encourages lust and talks about fornicating, which separates our souls from God and therefore we cannot have equality (because ultimately, the two involved in the fornicating are using one another for sex -- it is not mystically in God because only in the context of God can there be true equality, as we learn from the catechism and Bible).<br />
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The concepts of "feminine energy," "feminine spirituality," "masculine energy," and "masculine spirituality" are occult or pagan concepts that have no place in Christianity because they aren't real or true. They are more and more creeping into our society because of an increase in pride, lack of chastity, blasphemy, a lack of religion which always leads to superstition, and because of an increase in materialism.<br />
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If something is specifically occult, that is not from God. Only God is good, therefore anything that is not from God can only bring pain and destruction to our lives and souls. No idea or practice that is evil can "empower" you. You might feel a sense of inflated pride, better than other people, but that is not a feel inspired by God. God "casts the prideful from their thrones and exalts the lowly." The "thrones" are figurative: the represent how we "build ourselves up" to think of ourselves as superior to others, as the Devil did before the Fall from grace.<br />
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The thrones can be thoughts we have towards God and ourselves, actions we take or don't take, the rejection of God's Will for our own will or the will of society or other people, but in this particular blog post, we are focusing on the "throne" of pride, specifically that people build up around themselves for being better than other people based on the sex they were born into.<br />
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It's true, you are God's child -- but you are not God's <i>only </i>child. He did not call you to Himself because you are better than other people, and He does not give you (or anyone) permission to step on others out of a self-proclaimed sense of superiority. He called you to Himself because He wants you to help save <i>all </i>souls, even miserable sinners, even the opposite sex, as He Himself wants to help save all souls, even your own soul.<br />
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God saves souls particularly through your prayers and you through growing closer spiritually to Him through the Sacraments (baptism, confession, the Eucharist) and true knowledge of God. This growing closer is known as "sanctification." The <i>sanctification </i>of your soul allows God's grace to spiritually enter the world and save other souls.<br />
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Christ is "meek and humble of heart," not built up on a throne, although He is God and reigns eternally as King of Heaven and earth. We need to pray to Him that He transforms our hearts to be meek and humble. We cannot change our own hearts, God has to change us: but only when we pray to Him and repent to Him of our sins. When we do, He comes to us, He fills our hearts with Himself and with His love, and we can have loving relationships with one another, because we love one another in God and for God, rather than loving (or hating) ourselves in pride.<br />
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If anything truly comes from God, it will lead back to God in Heaven. And vice versa.<br />
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Our relationships with one another will be sanctified when we become sanctified by drawing closer to God, which requires us to give up selfish and worldly pride. Pride divides us from God, and being divided from God divides us within ourselves, and also divides us from other people.<br />
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That is why we must reject the occult and superstitions in favor of <i>true </i>religion and <i>true </i>worship of God. And reject bad pride, which is the pride of being better than others and/or God, worshiping the self.<br />
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Also, the occult (including New Age -- "manifesting" reality with your thoughts, horoscopes, reiki, yoga, tarot, wicca, witchdoctors, blasphemy, etc etc etc etc etc) is about dominating and controlling others. Pride. It is the fruit of the fall of humanity. (That's why don't try to use religion like the occult, do not try to make prayers to try control other people. That's not good, that's not what religion is: religion is about a relationship with God Who Loves you.)<br />
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If you see such a person or website that teaches how to manipulate or control others, whether through words, actions, the way you dress, or the use the occult, put the people to made the website and people who read the website into God's Hands so that they do not spend eternity separated from God. Pray silently: "I put these people in Your Hands, God." And then leave whatever source is giving this information -- don't be around such people or in such places. They're dangerous people and it is dangerous to your soul to be there.<br />
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Along the pagan concepts of females as being "non-active." Pagan concepts that "men are the instinctual protectors," and all of this. Women are "instinctively" kind and compassionate and empathetic and feel loss more, and all of this, or "women are naturally closer to God."<br />
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What does our Lord say? What does He do? What does the Bible say people do? How does the Bible show us how people act, and have acted towards God throughout history?<br />
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Let's look at Judith in the Old Testament. God sends Judith out to cut off Holofernes' head, to protect and save Israel. Would God give that command to Judith, whom He created, if it was against her nature as a woman, because He had created "men to be protectors" and "women to be passive"?<br />
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No; God cannot be against Himself. If He created women as non-active, to send Judith out on active duty would mean God was acting against Himself. God cannot act against Himself.<br />
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Again, historically there haven't been a lot of women in war because of the minimal additional cost of it, and it is an easy way for the rulers/elites to divide the labor and keep industry going back home. But humans can't foil the Will of God. Judith was very holy and very humble and very pure, very prayerful, the most holy and humble and pure and capable in Israel -- that's why she was chosen by God to save everyone. God doesn't think the way elite rulers think. God's thoughts are above human thought.<br />
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Only a virtuous person can truly save others.<br />
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Sometimes you see that someone tries to help or save others in order to be controlling. That can be a form of controlling. Judith was not trying to win fame (vanity) or trying to be controlling (narcissism, worship of self); she was merely doing the will of God that He told her. She wanted no human reward, she was serving the God whom she loved dearly.<br />
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That is an example to everyone; because anyone doing anything different, whether male or female, will fall from pride, as the Devil fell. (Yes, even if it's the whole world. God doesn't change His opinion just because all humanity fights against Him.)<br />
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Did Pontius Pilate protect Jesus from being crucified, if Pilate is a man and therefore a protector?<br />
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No.<br />
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Did the religious leaders (who were male) of the day protect Jesus from being crucified, or did they hand Him up to be crucified out of their own pride and vanity and envy?<br />
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Does the Bible say that when Pilate was in favor of releasing Jesus, that "all the men said his blood be upon us and our children, but the women -- full of empathy, compassion, and maternal instinct -- said, oh wow! We are so naturally full of empathy and love because we are women! Save that poor man!"<br />
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No.<br />
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Or that "men said, 'we naturally think better than women, who are too over-emotional, and we do not think you should crucify that poor man,' but the women yelled for his crucifixion'"?<br />
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No.<br />
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The Bible says, Matthew 27:25: "And <b>the whole people</b> answered, His blood be upon us and upon our children." <a href="http://catholicbible.online/3/6/239/7939/173265#vers173265">http://catholicbible.online/3/6/239/7939/173265#vers173265</a><br />
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Such concepts that men and this way or women are that way are put into place by the elites of society (which is why they change over time or from one society to another) who are forming us into whom they want to be for their own purposes -- they consider us cattle, for use for power and war, and they always have and they always will think of "the little people" this way.<br />
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But it doesn't have to do with reality. The way things really are or who you really are. That's why we have to follow Christ.<br />
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God is reality. You have to look at God, what He has shown us.<br />
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If you crawl up onto your high horse and say you're inherently better than other people just because of your <i>nature</i>, God will show you the truth, like He did when He converted Saul by rightly accusing him of persecuting Him because of Saul's sins against the people who were members of the Church. (I think we all know this to be true from our own experiences.)<br />
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<a href="http://catholicbible.online/3/6/243/8010/176329#vers176329">http://catholicbible.online/3/6/243/8010/176329#vers176329</a><br />
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Saul, with every breath he drew, still threatened the disciples of the Lord with massacre; and now he went to the high priest and asked him for letters of commendation to the synagogues at Damascus, so that he could arrest all those he found there, men and women, who belonged to the way, and bring them back to Jerusalem. Then, on his journey, when he was nearly at Damascus, a light from heaven shone suddenly about him. He fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me? </blockquote>
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Who art thou, Lord? he asked. And he said, I am Jesus, whom Saul persecutes. This is a thankless task of thine, kicking against the goad. And he, dazed and trembling, asked, Lord, what wilt thou have me do? Then the Lord said to him, Rise up, and go into the city, and there thou shalt be told what thy work is. His companions stood in bewilderment, hearing the voice speak, but not seeing anyone.</blockquote>
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"The mighty will be cast from their thrones and God will exalt the lowly." Saul would stop being haughty, and he would sincerely seek to do what work God wanted him to do. He would take on the name Paul. Thus, God exalted him, and continues to exalt him as Saint to this day.<br />
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In every era, this crucifixion of Christ by leaders occurs, and there have always been leaders within the Church and in society, both male and female, who have tried Christ and handed The Guiltless One over for condemnation.<br />
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Through our sins, we try and condemn Christ in a personal way in our day-to-day lives.<br />
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You have to get away from these garbage pagan atheistic ideas of instinct and these set roles.<br />
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Rather, you need to listen to God, to obey God, to seek God, and to encourage one another in Christ rather than lusting after one another and trying to dominate one another. We all need to seek God wholeheartedly.<br />
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The Conclusion:<br />
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The conclusion is that the <b>virtuous </b>who sincerely seek God in prayer and meekness and humility, God sends out to protect and save and help others.<br />
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Those lacking in virtue, those who do not seek God sincerely, those who rely on themselves instead of on God, do <b>not </b>protect or help others.<br />
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Those who seek God sincerely serve others out of a sincere love of God.<br />
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Those who don't sincerely serve God will be much more inclined to want others to serve them, be full of self-pity and self-love, and not do God's Will, which will have bad consequences in their lives and bring down guilt upon themselves.<br />
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After the Annunciation, God sent Mary to act as a nun, and a doctor, to help Saint Elizabeth through her spiritual sufferings and difficult childbirth of Saint John the Baptist. <a href="http://catholicbible.online/3/6/241/7957/174044#vers174044">http://catholicbible.online/3/6/241/7957/174044#vers174044</a><br />
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It was because Jesus -- God Himself -- was in Mary.<br />
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Just as God is in us when we go to confession and then receive Communion, because God is truly present in Communion.<br />
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There is no "instinct." There is <i>God</i>.<br />
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If someone truly helps someone else, that is because of <i>God</i>. That is grace, that is virtue. That is God.<br />
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Not "instinct," but the movement of <b>God</b>. If someone in inclined towards God, it is not "instinct," it is "the movement of God." The Holy Spirit! Jesus! God the Father!<br />
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Judith was one of the many proto-christs of the Old Testament, a figure that would point towards Christ as the Savior. She was so because she was humble.<br />
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The book of Proverbs (<a href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Prov/ch_31">http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Prov/ch_31</a>) tells women to strengthen their arms and to work very hard and make wise financial decisions, particularly in the context of marital life; in the New Testament, we learn much more clearly from St Paul that it is better to seek God than to seek a spouse because then we will be wrapped up with seeking to please God instead of our spouse (although he in no way condemns marriage). Therefore we can conclude that the spouse of every soul is God; applied to the book of Proverbs, strengthen your arms so you can help God (by helping other people).</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Jesus opened up that what is written about one sex generally applies to the opposite sex in the Bible when He made very clear that adultery is a sin whether you are a man or a woman who commits it, which is evident again in the fact that there is One God guiding all humanity. One set of virtues, one set of sins. Therefore, of course it is also good for men to work hard.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Proverbs: [The valiant woman]<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm. </span></div><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens. </span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day. </span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. </span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.</span></blockquote>
<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is the governing law of all valiant people, of every age, both sexes, in every era and in every culture. Let us give these people praise! There is no person God does not want to give this to. Beauty of soul... which is Jesus Himself. God has given us all Jesus, especially in the Eucharist and Confession and Baptism, in prayer, where Jesus is truly, and He will accompany us in our days and in our souls if we seek Him sincerely where He can be found, and our souls will be beautiful. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Yes, all of these things described materially are good; but there is a mystical significance to this as well.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The field we can buy is Jesus Himself, if we only seek Him. They money which we will buy this field is the price He paid on Calvary. The gifts we can give to the needy, is not only material goods such as good food, but also prayer for poor sinners, the greatest wealth we can give. The vineyard we plant is virtue, by weeding our sins in confession and praying to overcome them in front of Jesus in the Eucharist. God alone can hold our tongues from merciless speech. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div>
But if you strengthen your arm and do material works <i>instead of</i> praying, you are not accomplishing God's Will. If you have a limited amount of time, you have to choose prayer, to strengthen your "spiritual arms" (your devotion to the sacraments of Confession and the Eucharist, your devotion to prayer) so that you can pray to save souls, as this will have eternal consequences. Saving souls for all eternity. As the book of wisdom says that a wise person is more important than a strong one, and wisdom (true wisdom) only comes from God (it also says that those who go about with consuming envy will never know wisdom; I say because I've been attacked by envious men for having worked out or been stronger than them or more fit than them, not that they also didn't attack other men also but they did attack me specifically on grounds of my gender; but I am going to listen to God rather than to people's judgements and be who God wants me to be).</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The best way to help others is to pray for the salvation of all souls, as all souls are precious in God's eyes, and He came to save sinners not the self-righteous.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Even a person with a high IQ can be a fool if s/he is not asking God for wisdom.<br />
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As I have heard the pagan idea that woman are inactive while men are the active ones, the ying yang pagan idea, tried to applied to Christianity. That men are the avant garde, meaning the front guard in an army who push ahead, while women are meant to be passive and in the back.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> For women being "inactive" in proclaiming the Good News of salvation...<br />
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When the prophetess and virgin Anna of Phanuel, who met the Christ Child, encountered Him, she spent the rest of her life telling everyone about Him:<br />
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<br />She was a proto John the Baptist, in that she was proclaiming the Word (Who is Jesus, God Himself) to "all those awaiting the deliverance of Israel." She did not start a widow and widowers club, and only proclaim the good news to widows and widowers.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">She did not start an elderly people's club and only proclaim the Word to the elderly.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">She did not start a women's club and only proclaimed God to women.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">She proclaimed the Good News of Salvation to ALL that were awaiting it!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">She was the first public evangelist who was human. (Albeit the angel who told the shepherds in the field that a Savior had been born to them and was in a cave in a manger was arguably the first public evangelist. Angels are not human, so the first public evangelist, which I mean in a public setting, who was human, was an old and poor widow. who spent her life praying, Anna. ... It's not easy to spend your life praying and trusting in God that much. Try it, you will see it is quite difficult...)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Further, during the Passion, we see many women who followed Jesus and helped Him. These women were on the frontlines of battle. They were quite literally following Christ. This was a grace given to them by God; it was not "instinct" -- that would be a pagan, atheist thing to think that did disservice to God and to His Saints who followed Him.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At any moment during the Passion, any one of the women or Saint John could have been arrested, tortured, and publicly executed in the same manner of Christ, just for being near Him and helping Him! Their immense, unimaginable bravery was a grace from God. We <i>all </i>need to ask God for the grace of bravery and obedience to God.<br />
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Right before the Passion, during the First Communion, Peter depended upon himself. He said to God, "I would never betray You! I would lay down my life for you!" And therefore, ... he was scattered. If he had only said, "please Lord, give me the grace to follow you, please Lord, give me the grace to obey you." Ah, how many times have I made this mistake myself. I am glad for the mercy of our savior, who always accept repentance.<br />
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The reason the holy women and John were not martyred is because it was not the Will of God at that time that they did not die as martyrs; but certainly many many women and men would die in the future as martyrs for the Faith in the history of humanity and be raised up to Heaven as glorious Saints for all eternity, whose misery and suffering of earth is completely evaporated in the unending joy and splendor of the Presence of God!<br />
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I also point to Saint John who himself addresses "Lady Elect" or the chosen woman of God and her spiritual children (those are people who are under her spiritual guidance, as we often see the heads of religious orders called "mothers", and priests "fathers") in his second epistle. <a href="http://catholicbible.online/douay_rheims?bible_part_no=2&book_no=24&chapter_no=1">http://catholicbible.online/douay_rheims?bible_part_no=2&book_no=24&chapter_no=1</a><br />
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But there is no higher resource than God Himself, Christ Jesus, who sat Mary of Magdala at His Feet, which is the position of a disciple, a student, which really would not have been heard of at that time. "Mary has chosen the better part and it shall not be taken from her." Luke 10:42<br />
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Secondly, I see often that "women are closer to God." God does not say that. He says He accepts anyone who comes to Him and that He created men and women equal. If there are more women than men in the line for confession, it's because they chose to be there, not that they're somehow inherently "closer" to God.<br />
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I've also seen it said that "they are closer to God because they are mothers, they bring life into the world." ... Interesting, I didn't know women could asexually reproduce. Seems kind of insulting to God to discount half of the human population (males).</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Also it is insulting to say women only have value because they carry children. It is only insulting because that's not what God says. He hailed Mary before she was a mother. And we are suggested to remain single if single or married if married, but if married to have a detachment from it (meaning to place greater value on seeking God). <br />
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"Because they carry the child in the womb, they are closer to the child and have 'maternal instincts.' They feel a loss greater than men do; no one feels a loss more than a mother." Hm. Let's look at the Bible again: Herodias did not feel any loss and she was a mother. She trained her daughter to be a whore, valued her daughter for her sexual prowess, told her to be sexy for her own stepfather, and to have Saint John the Baptist's head cut off. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Herodias was greatly approved of by her society and her friends. She enjoyed immense political power, social power, wealth, approval, etc. Herod, her husband, also did. ... Can we assume that a parent who values his or her children as sexual objects or to advance his or her place in society, is in Heaven? What does God to do such parents..? Can you imagine being God and loving someone infinitely and putting them in the care of people who train them in the arts of death, even eternal separation from Him? ... It is sad because there are so many, many parents who do this to their sons and daughters, who teach them how to sin, and value them for how much money and social status they will bring to them. And these parents do enjoy the approval of all, wealth, status in this life. But... we can only imagine what will happen when they stand before God at their judgements when they die...<br />
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Where was the so-called maternal instinct in Herodias? Hm. It seems there is no maternal instinct. If you have a good mother, you should thank God that she is a good mother; not chalk it up to maternal instinct, which evidently does not exist.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Anyone who is a good parent is so because Jesus dwells in him or in her. That is why anyone is good at anything. If Jesus is not there because He was driven out from sin and from pride, then the parent will be no good, no matter how much he or she gets approval from society.<br />
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It would seem the Bible (and reality) points to either <b>grace </b>or <b>sin</b>. Grace from seeking God, sin from failing to seek God.<br />
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It would seem anything more or less than "grace or sin" is teaching human thinking as if it was God's thinking.<br />
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If you want to be a hero or heroine, seek God <u><i>sincerely</i></u>. God will make you a hero or heroine, if you forget yourself and seek to love God.<br />
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I get many mothers and fathers both asking me to pray that their children become rich and get married because "what will the neighbors think?" Or complaining about their children.<br />
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They are not praying for the children's immortal souls, even though this is a spiritually dangerous era because the society has become a sin support group. But do parents, fathers or mothers, ask me to pray that their children go to Heaven? Not often enough.<br />
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Being a mother doesn't make you inherently good. Praying and following/obeying God makes you good, whether you are a father or a mother. Because only God is Good, as Jesus tells us.<br />
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Saint Gabriel did not come to Mary and say, "Hail Mary, full of maternal instinct!" He said, "Hail Mary, full of grace!" She is not a robot. She is not robotically <i>good</i>. That is what you are saying when you say "maternal instinct": sub-human. An impulse. A reaction. A robotic programming. People are <i>not </i>robots. This concept of instinct is very atheistic and materialistic.<br />
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Mary is virtuous. She is the strongest and most virtuous wholly human person who ever lived. She is the One Who Crushes the Skull of the Serpent.<br />
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Jesus said of her that she is blessed not because she is a woman but because she is obedient to God. Luke 11:27-8. And that all who are obedient to God will be called blessed; all who are humble will be called blessed.<br />
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She, and Her children who humbly obey and seek wholeheartedly God, crush the skull of the serpent. You can see this in exorcisms and in people's lives.<br />
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For example, my mother avoided prayer and religion, she wanted to think that she formed reality in her own thoughts (that is blasphemy; only God can form reality with His thoughts). When I was a child, she was an abusive alcoholic. She went to work and my father stayed home and took care of us. My father had, on and off in his life, prayed the rosary, and he had been transformed by grace to be a humble, honest person who did not try to show off, belittle others, or "prove" himself like narcissists and the vain. Instead, he saw that his children needed someone to take care of them, and he did, and he encouraged us and took care of me and my sister to the best of his ability. He saw us as individual people. He encouraged us for things we liked. He taught me how to do many things that he himself knew how to do; he never said, "you're a girl, you can't do this." (I have heard of fathers doing that to their children if they do not seek God. Ironically, that discouragement I received over being a girl was from my mother, despite the fact that she was accomplished in many things and had a successful career, because she was very envious towards other people's accomplishments because she was not sincerely seeking God, and anyone who does not sincerely seek God and His grace will have problems with pride and envy). I appreciate my father teaching me and always encouraging me so very much. I wish everyone had at least one parent who was humble enough to be encouraging and sincerely loving. He loved us very much. He never lied to us, he is not a liar to this day, he has always made that a point in his life, and this has helped me to believe the promises that God the Father says to me. He was also always very "clean" (chaste in thought, word and deed) and he never ever drank any alcohol. He never manipulated us like with lies. He always treated me like a real person, a real human being. (He lets me write these posts! He encourages me about religion, he never says "you should just be going out and making money so I can be rich and getting married so I can brag about you," like so many parents. He cares that I have a soul and thinks it is good to seek God, more important than anything.) My father is very empathetic in a sincere way. He is good, and he does not like it when people are bad. But he is very patient with my mother.<br />
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If my mother had stayed home and raised us, I would probably be dead or in prison right now. That is because of her sins. It was <i>very difficult </i>to be around her. Because of sin.<br />
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As for human nature: "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a father." Likewise, "it is easier for a mother to have children than for children to have a mother."<br />
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So you see, it has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with piety, giving up sin, praying: asking God for the grace to be pure, to be meek and humble, to be obedient to God, to not sin. If you pray for those things every single day when you wake up, through a devotion like the Rosary, God will help you a great deal. You will be transformed and your life will be transformed.<br />
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All of human behavior, you can see, has to do with sincerely seeking God or not sincerely seeking God. (Sincerely meaning, not to be seen by other people or win approval from other people, or to think of yourself as better than other people, or not to "get stuff" from God, but seeking God for the sake of wanting to have a human soul that is pleasing to God. That is sincere.)<br />
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These behaviors are not about inherent nature. Human nature is garbage. Human nature fell from grace long ago. If we repent of our sins and seek God's grace and seek to love God, He will lend us His grace, whether we are old, young, male, female, whether we have a past that is horrible or a past that is so-so, whether we are a mess or we are "normal," if we repent of our sins and seek God sincerely, He WILL grant us grace. He loves ALL OF US equally for all of time. Nothing you can say or do will change His eternal love for you; that is why He does not want you to sin, so that He does not have to exact judgement against you. That is why He wants you to come to Him for grace and will forgive you, because He wants to give you grace and save you from committing sin. He loves you in the most pure and holy way because He is GOD, and God is thrice holy and pure. He is meek and humble of heart, and He wants to help us to be, also, because He loves us so much!<br />
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The ironic thing about my mother is, anyone who ever complained about her (from people outside my family, who often judged her very bad behavior, whether those persons were male or female) either ended up committing the same faults she did or worse, because they were not looking at her as a human and they were putting themselves above her. Pride.<br />
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We <i>all </i>have the ability to sink as low (and even much lower) as any sinner, or to be good -- it all depends on whether or not we depend upon our own strength or if we turn to God for grace to be good in prayer and the sacraments.<br />
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If we depend upon our own strength, if we have great confidence in ourselves, if we think we have no sin, we will fall into sin. We will fail.<br />
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If we pray and go to confession and depend on God, asking Him to make us holy and praying "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for our sins," God will help us. And if God is helping us, we will be OK. God will bring us closer to His own heart.<br />
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That is what the human soul yearns for more than anything: to be pleasing to God, to be closer to God. It will be satisfying and fulfilling to go to God.<br />
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As you can see, the traits -- the actions -- are based on either sin or virtue. It doesn't have to do with male or female. Sin and virtue are universal, as we learn in the Bible and Catechism that both men and women are made in the image and likeness of God.<br />
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I think it's very easy to see that traits are based on virtue or sin in the Bible, particularly in the Passion, and in the lives of the people around us, as well our own lives if we reflect upon it within ourselves.<br />
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All sociopaths are narcissists (although all narcissists aren't sociopaths). All sociopaths are anxious, irritable, impatient, self-serving, self-loving, wanting to be king/queen and have others serve them, manipulate (or hurt) others with flattery or presents or sex and lies, are shallow but miserable so they think of themselves are being profound, are gossipy, are back-stabbing, are vengeful, are self-aggrandizing, are lewd, are liars, are dangerous spiritually and physically. They are aggressive or passive-aggressive, jealous/competitive. They try to dominate and control other people. Care about the opinions of others too much and do things specifically to be seen by others (vanity). Care about luxury and worship wealth. Refuse to be corrected without attacking sooner or later. Etc. These are <i>sins</i>. They are neither masculine nor feminine sins, they are -- sins. Those separate from God will share these traits with one another. It might manifest differently based on culture and role and up-bringing, as well as individual personality, or the particular "mask" that the narcissist is projecting, -- but in the end, a sin is a sin. Everyone who sins conforms to those sins. One sin begets another sin, until a sinner contains all of the sins and the whole soul is corrupt.<br />
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A sinner will always grow worse, the sins will multiply, unless he or she turns to God.<br />
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It's not related to race, age, or gender. It's related to <i>God</i>, to one's relationship (or rather lack of relationship) with God. Which is related to sin.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(I explain in <a href="http://www.boldradish.com/2020/09/god-sees-you-as-individual-against.html" target="_blank">this post</a> about God loving you as an individual why society tends to associate sins with women, for example passive aggressive, gossip, busybody, vanity, sociopathy, rumor-spreading, etc, when I have had my life destroyed so many times by men who encompassed all these sins from simply not seeking God.)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There are two things that are quite sad in the world concerning this topic, and they are from the same origin. Division. Demon, meaning to divide. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One, I read an article about a British author who submitted her work to several different publishing companies, and they turned her down; when she changed her name to a male pseudonym, she got an immediate response to her work. Her writing was 8 times better from only changing her name. And these people turning her down, were also women; I explain in that post the spiritual reason behind this; it has to do with the Devil's hatred of Mary and how he rules the world.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is very wrong, this is a sin.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">God is not like this towards people. This accounts for why there are generally more women in churches than men if we do not live in a society which says everyone must go to Church; because women are more persecuted (have less place in society for whatever reason, even generational curses sometimes). This is also why there are more instances of women getting PTSD, etc. in societies.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The result is that men are also more persecuted, at least spiritually, because we are all connected.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If one is less worried about sin and God, ... where will you go when you die? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I've seen "manly men" groups for Catholics. But again, that's just division, and pride. It's just as bad as the groups that are supposed to be for women, or this or that race, or youths, and ... there is so much you will find spiritually wrong in all of these "groups." You simply cannot harvest the fruit of God from the tree of pride; the tree of pride grows in the Devil's orchard.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(Monasteries are divided by gender obviously because the Church is so persecuted that if they weren't the world would say, "look at those pervert Catholics," etc etc, you know by now what projection looks like... besides, there are people in their attempting to overcome all kinds of problems with past sins. One must think of the weak.)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I saw a beautiful little ranch in the woods, with all kinds of little animals. It operated primarily as a petting zoo for events and fundraisers. It was Heavenly and idyllic. There were cows, donkeys, ponies, horses, llamas, pigs, turkeys, bunnies, etc etc, all as little friends for people, not relatively untamed like you might find on a working farm.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">These creatures were hired out for all kinds of events, but also birthday parties for children.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One parent complained, why are there so few events on this farm for boys?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The owners of the farm explained that they would like to have events for boys also but 90% of their children clients are girls.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is very sad. This means that the parents of little boys do not really consider their boys human enough to be in need of animal friendship. That is an integral part of all human life. God made animals and the beauty of nature so we would thank Him and love Him.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It's interesting because a couple hundred years ago when horses were the main way to get around, they were considered "manly." Now the old model has been pawned off onto women, I guess, and they're considered "girly"? The thinking is bizarre, but it is based on division. Horses are from God, to show us how much He loves us, they are for all people. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">My dad has a YouTube account that is hooked up to the TV that is not boldradish and he watched mostly cute dog or cat videos (he's a huge cat person, but he also likes those french bulldogs) and sometimes old music, and the demographic YT assumes he is is a female, over the age of 65, and that he is either Japanese or Korean, although recently because of all the old music he plays for us they have started to wonder if he is actually Russian (I guess the Russians listen to quality American music from the last century). It's sad, I'm assuming because he isn't looking at porn or videos with foul language they assume he is a woman. It's ... a bizarre society that just assumes men should be looking at porn. It's a very BAD society for people's immortal souls. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Because you can go to Hell for these sins that they are saying should just be a standard lifestyle choice for young people. Particularly young men.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">ADHD is grossly under-diagnosed in girls and women. This means that parents and teachers, society, doesn't care women can't focus or do anything; but this is actually in women's favor, because it is over-diagnosed in little boys and the parents or teachers end up putting them on drugs so they will be focus zombies, which often leads to adult drug problems. (It's always better to be the "ignored" child in any situation that is worldly; the worldly parents or society always end up really messing up the child who gets all the attention...)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">One of the ways to combat anxiety and aggression is to do works with your hands. This is why in prisons, they have all kinds of hand-and-mind working classes, that cause you to sit down and work with your hands.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Yet, the sports industry finds boys who are the most aggressive and singles them out to play sports, which over and over again has shown it creates more aggression in humans to give them an outlet for their aggression, rather than curb it with tasks that require focus and work with their hands. This creates criminal behavior in usually in these men, as there is so much money wrapped up in men's sports that the parents and society are willing to sacrifice their son's souls for this purpose. (There was a football player in the 1970s who was famous, he was very intelligent and he used to knit to calm down. Because doing a hand-and-mind activity such as knitting is proven to calm people down. He was the exception, obviously, and our society is so very far from that today because of how close-minded we are today, while thinking that in the past they were close-minded and that today we are somehow open-minded, while being very very close-minded).</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">When I was a child, I liked first person shooter video games. My father forbade me from playing any games where I shot at people; he said it was a sinful thing to do to kill people in effigy. I didn't understand him, but I didn't play those games, I only hunted monsters.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Now, I look back on history and I see that whenever there was an iconoclast movement in Europe, they iconoclasts always ended up killing people and burning everything down. And now I see that there are all these men and women in the US doing riots, and they are killing people and burning them, and they are usually about my age, and they act as if they are playing a video game. My father was 100% right. The wisdom of God was guiding him. (NOT instinct! God was guiding him...)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There is a huge blasphemous, suicidal, porn, and anti-women thing in video game culture (even when women play these games, they go along with it also to fit in)... it exists for some reason that I can't fathom, I guess because our society is just a horrible godless unchaste society. And this violence is the fruit of that, a society that is burning itself down, bringing in oppression and hate. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I read an observation from a woman who wrote and drew comic books for children. She would go to book signings. She wrote adventure stories but I believe the main character was female, honestly I didn't know much about the details, I just read the article she wrote about her observations. She noted that all of the children standing in line were girls, except for the occasional boy and that he would always be home schooled. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">She thought it was very sad that little boys feel so much pressure in public school to hate girls to assert their masculinity (division, pride, and impurity) and that this did not take place in home school, that those boys liked adventure stories and didn't care if the character was male or female. There was not division.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(This makes sense, I was once at a matinee showing, so long ago, during a weekday of the movie... one of those studio Ghibli movies, and the only other people in the theater were these two little boys and their mom. And they were so excited recounting everything that had happened on the way out of the theater, they didn't care the main character was a girl. I can't imagine that happening from when I was in school. Now I see, they were probably home school kids, which is why they were there... They were really excited about it, I wish I had gotten to watch the movie with them...)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I read, and was going to link to but now I can't find the page (the link is broken), the transcript of a very famous exorcism, the exorcist was forcing the demon to speak and reveal things in Jesus' Name. And the spirit said that men in the 20th century gave up the Rosary because they considered it a "woman's devotion," which had eternal consequences for these men.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So, yes, the word "demon" does mean to divide, and yes it does have very bad consequences for people's souls.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This can also be against women's immortal souls; if men are considered "the perverts," then women who are perverted and are very worldly will say, "men are the perverts, not me; I can do whatever I want and I will still have maternal instinct, I can't be a pervert." Etc. We've all seen countless examples of that in society today...</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The more there is narcissism, occult, blasphemy, foul language, rage, murder, impurity, a porn-based society, the more we will have division, pride, lack of humanity, isolation between all peoples, feeling less human and more robotic, etc. Because we are handing our society over to the Devil.<br />
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"Stop judging by appearances and judge just judgement," our Savior encourages us. He also says: "you will know a tree by its fruit."</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">... This brings about the very good question. If men and women have always been equal in God's eyes, why is there such a long history of abuses between the sexes? Why is there so much human thought on this being taught as religion right now, instead of observing God and listening to what He is saying?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">And Jesus once more
spoke to them in parables;</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Here is an image, he
said, of the kingdom of heaven; there was once a king, who held a
marriage-feast for his son, and sent out his servants with a summons
to all those whom he had invited to the wedding; but they would not
come.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">Then he sent other
servants with a fresh summons, bidding them tell those who had been
invited, By this, I have prepared my feast, the oxen have been
killed, and the fatlings, all is ready now; come to the wedding. But
still they paid no heed, and went off on other errands, one to his
farm in the country, and another to his trading; and the rest laid
hands upon his servants, and insulted and killed them.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">The king fell into a
rage when he heard of it, and sent out his troops to put those
murderers to death, and burn their city.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">After this, he said
to his servants, Here is the marriage-feast all ready, and those who
had been invited have proved unworthy of it. You must go out to the
street-corners, and invite all whom you find there to the wedding.
And his servants went out into the streets, where they mustered all
they could find, rogues and honest men together; and so the wedding
had its full tale of guests.</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">But when the king
came in to look at the company, he saw a man there who had no
wedding-garment on; My friend, he said, how didst thou come to be
here without a wedding-garment? And he made no reply. Whereupon the
king said to his servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out
into the darkness, where there shall be weeping, and gnashing of
teeth.</p></div></blockquote></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://catholicbible.online/3/6/239/7934">http://catholicbible.online/3/6/239/7934</a> </p></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />People of every era have been called. People of every era have rather wanted to worry about money, worldly success, human relationships (their parents, spouses, society's standards, etc), themselves, than set aside time to go to Confession, pray, seek Jesus in the Eucharist. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(For example, this is not one of my more popular articles. People don't want equality; they want to be better than others, because our species is not a great species, it is a fallen species.)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Again, I repeat, the people cried out, His blood be upon us and <b>upon our children</b>.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Meaning, multi-generational. The sins of the father (and mother; the "general father," meaning "parent" -- both mother and father). These are the same sins from the fall, passed on from generation to generation, until someone comes along in every family and breaks the sin by giving him or herself wholly to God.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Are you going to do all of what it takes to seek God where He can be found, in His Sacraments? Are you going to go to confession, give up sin, impurity, pride, and pray the Rosary, pray to treat people as equals, spend time with Jesus in the Eucharist, go to Mass more often? Change your whole life? Immediately, permanently, give yourself to Christ?</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">That is wonderful if you have decided you are. It will change your life and save many souls and will even lift up history. Every soul that converts sincerely and wholly changes the course of humanity, no matter how old, young, male, female, what race or country you are in, what you past was. Every convert who is a sincere convert to God, changes human history and the lives and souls of other people. Period. (Even if you don't meet those people and they are only saved through prayer. I was saved through prayer, no one talked to me about God or showed me a good example of a real Christian life, I only saw a lot of prideful people teaching human tradition as God's law. It was holy people's prayers, and Mary, that saved my life and brought me to God.)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">It's not easy to follow God. It's very challenging. You need God's help every step of the way. As far as human support, you often have none, but rather opposition. If you cling to God and trust in God, He will succeed.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If you are, if you take that path, God will reward you. In every age, God has made those who come to Him into His children. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In every age, including this one.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">History books will never talk about the women who love God and do great things because of that; nor the men who do things for love of God. History classes will only talk about the murderers, leaders who led great armies and slaughtered many (and even now they don't talk about women rulers who led great armies and killed many many peoples for political conquest, because by being sexist themselves they want to portray history in a specific light for their own propaganda purposes, which is certainly not to enlighten people about the pains of sin or the rewards of virtue..). </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">But for example, St. Pio's spiritual daughters were the heads of hospitals and heads of many different aspects of society, were many leading figures. Because they gave up everything and trusted in God. There are many man who are the same. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Live for God. The world is so empty. It might be easy to get on in the world*, but you are dead and dull inside and perpetuating a horrible history of human deadness and dullness.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">*(right up until a suffering happens and you have no connection to God and so it becomes IMPOSSIBLY hard)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> (If you <i>aren't </i>going to give your life to God, if you are going to go back to worrying about money, fitting in with people, business, worldly success, etc., then you understand why the world is still a horrible mess, despite Jesus having come 2,000 years ago. So MANY people don't, and so the world stays relatively the same. There's no reason not to give yourself to God... You have nothing to lose but the suffering and emptiness of sin, and sinful people, and everything to gain for eternity, which is God Himself, the fulfillment of your soul, in this life and the next.)</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As well as a sin being a sin now matter who you are, or what era you are in, as we see with the sins of ignoring God in past eras and in the contemporary era; so too, a virtue is a virtue. Gentleness, modesty (including being demure*), kindness, empathy, endurance, meekness, humility, charity, chastity, wisdom, strength of character, morality, bravery, courage, sincerity -- those are <b>from God</b>. They're <u>only</u> from God. They're not from human nature. Human nature is corrupt and weak from original sin. They are not masculine nor are they feminine.<br />
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They are not based on age nor on race. We've all seen the elderly who are corrupt and youth who are pious (if you've been to a Catholic school, lol -- that's the only place I've seen it), and vice versa.<br />
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(*My father was talking and saying that young men need to be more demure. I recalled the vanity of the men I had known, with sympathy towards that vanity, and I said, "yes, it's true, but perhaps it should be called something other than 'demure,' even though it would mean the same thing, because I don't think men would like the word demure." He said, "they have to learn to be humble!" Hm. I cannot argue with a Christian talking to me about an increase of being humble because God must clearly be on his side. God is always present in true [not false] humility.)<br />
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No one has an advantage over anyone else for the traits of virtue, except those who were born into situations where someone was praying to God for him or her that he or she be more virtuous. Then the advantage is that he or she has received more graces because of others' prayers. (This is why Mary said at Fatima to pray the Rosary for those with no one to pray for them, so everyone has the same advantage. God wants everyone to have the same advantage.)<br />
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But God did not create anyone for Hell, so we all have access and invitation to pray to Him for <b>all </b>of those virtues, and repenting of all of our faults. <b>God wants to heal us</b>. God wants to help us. God came to save sinners, by taking our sins and giving us virtues instead. We only have to ask Him. We only have to hand over our sins in sacramental confession, as well as repentance. And pray, pray very very much. For your soul and for all souls.<br />
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We have to pray daily to not sin, and especially the Rosary specifically "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for our sins," as St Louis de Montfort, "The Rosary Saint," taught us.<br />
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What matters is not a person's gender for how good a parent he or she will be nor how emotionally close to the children he or she will be -- that would be materialism, nature worship. It matters about how virtuous a person is; virtue is obtained only through prayer (especially the Rosary), repentance, the sacraments of confession and the Eucharist, <b>meekness and humility and purity, chastity, modesty, honesty and charity (</b>particularly with time and with listening to other people, treating the children as people instead of being condescending to them, lying to them, or brushing them off).<br />
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My father felt he was born to take care of children once he held his baby in his arms for the first time; this was a great grace from God, a powerful vocation that has saved my eternal soul and subsequently other souls whom I in turn helped.<br />
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A priest once praised my father by saying, "he is a true father!" Indeed, he is a <i>true </i>father.<br />
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I love my father very, very much, and every day I offer my day to God that God will bless him, because I realize from looking at my peers' lives -- they did not have any parent who cared about their souls or them as people, only about how much money they would make and the opinions of the parents' friends, the parents were extremely selfish -- that without a person like my father in my life, a person with grace, that I would have died a long time ago, like so <i>many </i>of my peers who are now dead. And so many people in the world today. (Or, like I said, been in prison.)<br />
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I also conscientiously work very much to encourage him... (we all need encouragement, I think encouragement is the scarcest resource in the world), try to make him feel loved, listen to him and try to not interrupt, and help him (as he has arthritis and needs help sometimes, but not in a dominating way so he feels worthless, there is a special balance with <i>all </i>people for helping them in a respectful way, I know that from personal experience with needing help when I didn't want to need any help).<br />
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Jesus is God. That makes Him our Father. He is also our Mother, our Brother, our Sister, our Best Friend, Spouse... He is all in all. Until you embrace God as your Mother, Father, all-in-all, there will always be an emptiness in you.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Jesus made Mary is the mother of every soul; she is the perfect human parent of our soul because she will perfectly lead us, parent us, to understand God better and obtain for us the grace to embrace God as our everything. Mary is the Moses of our soul, leading us through the desert to God: God is our holy land, our home! In God we will find our rest!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">If you lack a father or a mother with virtue, come to God. Come to His Saints. Talk to them and love them as you would a most dear parent. Come to God Himself, talk to Him as a most dear Father, Mother, Friend, because He is. Cling to Him. Then God will heal your soul, change your life.<br />
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My point of all of this is that if you want to be close to your children, whether you are a man or a woman, you have to wholeheartedly seek God.<br />
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It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, you have to seek God. If you are a parent, then you are called to be a <i>good </i>parent, but you can't be a good parent without seeking God, because only God is Good.<br />
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If you want any relationship at all to work, friendships, co-workers, neighbors, siblings, spouse, parents, children: you have to seek God and meekness and humility and holiness. That is what Jesus teaches us by His example and His words.<i> Seek God.</i><br />
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Seek to give up all the false and empty fronts and constructs that we build, and seek to be a new person in Christ by repenting of your sins and narcissisms and pridefulness and worship of Mammon and impurity and all of the things that separate us from God. We all need to do this: not just that other person over there, that group of people over there -- we, individually and personally, all have to do this.<br />
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It was predicted that devotion to the Rosary would decrease among men in particular in the 20th century because it would be considered a "woman's" devotion because "a real man" would not say "Hail" to a woman (Mary). The Devil laughs at men who are so vain and shallow and impious. The Rosary is the most devastating weapon against the Devil, as Mary was given power to crush the skull of the Devil.<br />
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The Devil takes advantage of people who know to say the Rosary but don't (whether they are men or women). I also wonder if it will be possible that they will be held accountable for a great number of souls that they might have otherwise saved if they had prayed? Sincere prayer -- which is how we sincerely seek God -- is what saves souls more than anything: our souls and others' souls.<br />
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Mary is an example to all Christians, not just Christian <i>women</i>. All Christians.<br />
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Those who seek fame and the approval of the world instead of seeking God will pay for the consequences of their choices; and those who seek God and pray for their children to go to Heaven and ask God to transform the parents themselves into good religious examples, and to treat their children like humans made in the image and likeness of God whose souls belong to God and God's Will instead of their own wills -- it is those parents who will will enjoy the benefits of their piety for all of eternity.<br />
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I've been watching a CCTV show from England. They point out how depressingly common it is for women to use their children to shoplift because the children can't be subjected to prison because they're too young, and because they think it will look like an "innocent mother and child outing." Oftentimes if they're going to get caught, the mother hands the stolen goods off to the children and blames them, throws them under the bus. They are hurting their children's lives in this life, and also destroying their souls for the next life, through these sins. It is very tragic.<br />
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I think of all the people I know who are dead from working to death and drinking to death and immodesty and blasphemy to death and sexing to death, dead from their sins, so they could be rich and successful and famous in their little circles, as their parents encouraged them to be. It is too bad either their father or their mother did not pray for their soul every day and lead a good religious example for them. It is true that you are responsible for your own sins and they themselves certainly chose to reject God and to follow all the sins the world encourages; however, they might have stood a better chance if they had not had parents who only cared about them getting married or having sex and getting rich and being successful in their careers. Poor parents. They really need to repent.<br />
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What a difficult and tragic road they have taken in life! The road of sin! Let us always pray not for worldly success, but rather for Heaven, for God, to love one another sincerely in Christ, and pray especially every day to not have any sin. This will help God save souls.<br />
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There's a lot of talk of "I'm blessed because I have a family and big income and huge house," but when you pray the Rosary, you'll notice that we hail Jesus and Mary as most blessed even when they are suffering on Calvary, have no money, either no one knows them or they're only known infamously, when they are suffering and poor and in pain.<br />
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So why are they blessed?<br />
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Because they do not have sin in them. Therefore, God is pleased with them. Therefore, they are in a blessed state.<br />
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The fruit of those who worship the "prosperity Gospel", which is so obviously from the Devil as Jesus tells us over and over again in various ways that we cannot worship Mammon, will be very great number of evils in their souls. That is very much too bad. We all need to seek God sincerely for Himself, not for what we think He will give us. We need to pray to be able to hear Him and love Him sincerely, because the things of the world are passing away, and only our relationship with God will follow us into eternity.<br />
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God Himself hailed Mary as most blessed among all the people of humanity, in all of history, when He sent His angel to say to her: "Hail, Mary, full of grace." Luke 1:28. If you think you are above saying that, also, then you are putting yourself above God Himself. That's rather arrogant.<br />
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There is also a lot of bad language. When you use bad language against another person, you are cursing yourself. You are also scourging Christ, as He was scourged tied to the pillar. You are heaping upon yourself God's Judgement, as well, as Christ warns us not to so that we can avoid severe punishments by God. Matthew 5:22: <a href="http://catholicbible.online/2/4/212/10234/234099#vers234099">http://catholicbible.online/2/4/212/10234/234099#vers234099</a><br />
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You need to repent to God, you should not even think these words in your head and avoid the company of those who use them so that you do not develop bad habits.<br />
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When someone uses these words against you, they are cursing themselves so put them in God's Hands so that they will <b>not </b>lose their souls, as Christ taught us to pray for our enemies so that we can be like Him. But avoid such persons who use these words against you, it is not from God. Even against the Devil Himself, God and His Saints do not utter reviling words, but rather command the Devil in Jesus' Name to leave.<br />
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If you are going to Hail Mary and Jesus, you should not use your mouth also to curse. Go to confession and pray to God that He make you clean and give you a new mind that does not think such language. He will answer this prayer. He loves you and wants to save you by helping you not sin and by taking away the punishment due you for your sins in the Confessional.<br />
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... Saint Therese also had her father raise her. Unlike my situation, her mother was physically dead (my mother was spiritually dead in her sins). Both of Saint Therese's parents are Saints! They were extremely holy, wise, and smart from their sincere devotion to God.<br />
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A very wonderful priest who is very sincerely pious and humble said the religious wisdom figure in his life was his grandmother. She must have been a very awe-inspiring person; I am very impressed with her already because this priest is like a spiritual father to me. He is so wonderful and holy and leads souls out of the mouth of Hell and into the Arms of their Heavenly Father.<br />
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There is way too much talk about instinct in religious articles online. That is not part of our religion. Whereas in the past they would have said that "so-and-so was inspired by the spirit of God to do such-and-such," now they say "by instinct, he reached out his hand and blessed so-and-so," or "by instinct, she went up the holy mountain."<br />
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That is not our religion. That is atheism. That is taking the credit away from God and giving it to nature (a sort of non-existent nature).<br />
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It is one thing for pagans and secular people who have never known God to refer to instinct because God has not yet been revealed to them; it is another, and very bad, thing for people presenting themselves as Catholics to do it.<br />
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We have to lead people to God, especially through prayer for all souls, not let the godless lead us away from our faith -- but if we don't take the time to read about our faith, how will we be able to do this? If you do not read the catechism, or the Bible, how will you know what your faith is?<br />
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I suggested that you read three sentences of the catechism every day. It is very easy. It is a beautiful document because it is about Jesus, Who is very beautiful and profound because He is God. You will be enlightened if you do this. And if you read from the Bible every day as well. (but not the protestant Bible which cut out so many books, taking the number from 73 to 66, yes, the sign of the Devil, and also cut out the Book of Wisdom and the book of Judith... just because it would cost less to print!)<br />
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Catechism: <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm">http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm</a><br />
(I start at the prologue or #1 if you want.)<br />
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Therefore, go out and seek God, in prayer, especially the Rosary, and in Holy Reading, including the Bible and Catechism.<br />
Secret of the Rosary by St Louis de Montfort and also "Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament" by the Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament are two very good Rosary and meditation books for seeking God.<br />
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Relationships:<br />
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I think for any relationship to work, whether it is parent to child, child to parent, friends, siblings, or spouses, there has to be humility in God.<br />
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The catechism suggests people help one another. Take turns helping one another with projects, giving as much time as you'd expect to give, and encouraging the other person to be a leader during his or her project, and explain that you want the same respect in return. (Of course this can't be achieved without grace from prayer, but you should still explain it out in words, also.)<br />
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With prayer, God will change your soul so that your soul has the gift of humility.<br />
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Humility is not the same as humiliation.<br />
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Those words are 180 degrees apart.<br />
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There is no indication Mary was ever humiliated, yet she is the most humble and obedient to God, which makes her the bravest and strongest.<br />
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And many people can be humiliated and not feel humble; in fact, they can feel encased in pain, self-love, self-hate, misery, envy, and shallow and sociopathic thoughts of revenge. Often, humiliating someone is a sin, even if that person is a sinner and you think they "deserve" humiliation.<br />
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Humble means, basically, truthful. It is acknowledged that God is God, and you are not God; you are the creation of God, God is the Creator. Only the Creator can recreate you, and only with your cooperation because God gave us free will.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So if I say, "God is good!" then that is a humble statement. Because it is true. If I say, "Mary is magnificent!" that is a humble statement, it is true. If I say, "I am a sinner and imperfect," that is a humble statement, because it is true. If I say, "God loves me out of His infinite Mercy," that is also a humble statement, because it is true.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Being humble feels really good. It feels much happier than being prideful.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Humility is also acknowledging that we exist in the context of God rather than our own context or the context of other people.<br />
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If we exist in the context of ourselves, we are brittle and full of self-love, easily offended, tempted by spite. If we exist in the context of other people, we will serve them and do anything for them, even sin. We act as if we will not stand before God at the Judgement, but that we will stand before other people. -- That is not the case. Society doesn't judge us when we die, God does, which is why there were so many people willing to even be martyrs to avoid sinning.<br />
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So humility gives us a relationship with God, which allows all of God's Love and healing to pour into our souls, and gives us the strength to follow Him instead of ourselves or our society.<br />
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It also gives us the ability to love one another sincerely out of our love of God, rather than selfishly or dominating one another.<br />
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So here is the litany of humility; if you and your family and friends pray this, then you will have good relationships with one another. You will be able to help one another, take turns helping one another, as God tells us to, instead of fighting and envying and trying to control each other.<br />
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The Devil fell from pride; that is what causes us to fall, and our relationships and families to fall, also. (Requires both parties to pray for a relationship to be equal.)<br />
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Because the Devil hates humility, this is also a very good deliverance prayer. (I read the litany of humility in a book on deliverance prayers for the laity. It is very effective against the Devil.)<br />
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Remember also that God exalts the humble. He casts down the prideful from their thrones. Therefore, if you become humble so that you consider that your existence matters only in the eyes of God and not in the eyes of others, God Himself will exalt you. We see this in the lives of many Saints. Saint Therese, for example, died and people said of her, "she was nothing." That is how humble she was. But today, she is known as one of the greatest and most powerful Saints in the Church. The largest building in the world dedicated to any one person is dedicated to her. How shocked would be all who knew her during her earthly life! (You can read about her path to God by reading her autobiography "Story of a Soul." She created "the little way" of God, to do little daily things or suffer little daily inconveniences out of love of God. She has helped create many many saints and bring many many people to God!)<br />
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Whereas if you strive to exist in the eyes of others (and ultimately end up manipulating and trying to control them to make them adore you), then you will become weak, prideful, and will be cast down. Because you are ignoring God's love for you. God already loves you more than anyone on earth possibly could, and only God's immense Love for you can fill you up. But if you seek the love of creatures and love of yourself, you will never come to a profound understanding of God's love for you.<br />
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Ex of exalting yourself: social media and selfies, bragging, narcissism, controlling others, not helping others, envying, gossip, backstabbing, discouraging, or encouraging sin, mean comments, worship of Mammon and fame, revenge (even of "living the good life,"), hate, being offended instead of putting others in God's Hands and turning to God Himself for consolation, being impatient with sinners, anger, etc., not praying or seeking God in the sacraments and holy reading.<br />
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Be humble, seek God, repent, pray, love God, pray to become sincere, and God <i>Himself </i>will exalt you.<br />
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This is a journey for all of us together. God will help us!<br />
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God bless you!</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(It is important while praying this to understand, that, for example, "from the desire of being loved," means, "from the desire of being loved <b>by people</b>." We all have an insatiable appetite for being loved -- by GOD. If we try to feed that with love of people, we will always be hungry... But if we pray to give up that desire to be loved by people, then the love of GOD will shine into our hearts and fill us up! So, please understand that while praying, what you are asking for. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">You are not going to live in a dark suppressed corner of your soul by being humble; the exactly opposite, your soul will always be singing with joy for love of God! Your mouth may be refrained from speaking too much, which is unwise, but your soul will always sing a joyful song to the God Who Loves you with an infinite and thrice holy Love! However, you will remain be in a dark corner of dullness and emptiness if living with pride and the Devil...)<br />
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O Jesus, meek and humble of heart, Hear me.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being praised, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being preferred to others, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being consulted, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of suffering rebukes, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of being calumniated, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of being forgotten, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of being ridiculed, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of being wronged, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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From the fear of being suspected, Deliver me, O Jesus.</blockquote>
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That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</blockquote>
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That others may be esteemed more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</blockquote>
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That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</blockquote>
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That others may be chosen and I set aside, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</blockquote>
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That others may be praised and I go unnoticed, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</blockquote>
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That others may be preferred to me in everything, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</blockquote>
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That others may become holier than I, provided that I may become as holy as I should, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.</blockquote>
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Prayer for humility written by Saint Therese (another powerful deliverance prayer that will also help your relationships and families to be happy together and loving together if you all pray this, will obtain much grace from God for your souls) (original prayer written in French of course; translated into English, and then my dad cleaned up the wording a little bit because he's extremely good at editing, was an English major and read many books on how to write, and because he's very devoted to Saint Therese, so it's a little easier to read than the original translation, and this translation/cleaned up version is copyright BoldRadish):<br />
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<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">O loving and gracious Infant Jesus, Your divine heart is full of love for us poor mortals!</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">The fire of Your love is burning day and night, emitting sparks of grace in the shape of countless benefits, showered on all men, even the greatest sinners.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">In order to comprehend the greatness of Your heart, one would have to possess the love and wisdom of Your dear Mother, of St. Joseph, or of Your most devoted worshiper Father Cyril.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">How cold is my heart toward You; filled as it is with temporal and earthly concerns and the greatest self-love, there is no room left for a heroic love of God and my neighbor.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">What a miserable and wretched being I am!</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">You, infinite majesty itself, most holy and most perfect, are most humble of heart; I, wretchedness and sin, am proud and conceited, and therefore also without peace of heart.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">You should turn away Your beautiful countenance from me because I possess so little virtue and yet I consider myself better than others, and even venture to criticize and belittle them.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">I know my own misery and still I expect to be esteemed and praised, and even preferred to others.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">The least humiliation and neglect on the part of others pains me, and You are so humble, so forbearing, and so patient with the children of men!</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">Divine Heart of my most loving Jesus infuse into me true humility and a right knowledge of myself, so that I may deserve to find one day favor in Your sight.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">Give me grace to be humble and simple like a child, if I wish to go to the Father.</span><br />
<span face=""segoe ui" , "segoe ui web (west european)" , "segoe ui" , , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "roboto" , "helvetica neue" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-size: 14.6667px;">Amen.</span></blockquote>
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May God bless you and keep you in His peace and mercy! </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">PS, some thoughts I have remembered based on things I've observed about our culture:</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">I also see a lot of materialism and self-focus (pride, even narcissism), in that, people buy something, wear something, or do something, to "feel" masculine or feminine.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">... It is spiritually and psychologically unhealthy to play games with your identity. This comes from thinking you have to do or buy something to be someone, when we know that God, Who alone can make us, gives Himself freely to us. You don't have to pay to go into a Eucharistic Adoration chapel.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">As for what "feels feminine" or "feels masculine" means — I don't even know what that is supposed to mean. Don't play make believe games with your identity. No matter what you do, how you dress or act, you are either masculine or feminine, always. Because "God made them male and female." That's it, it's already done.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And no matter what you do, you are also, of your location, because the angel Gabriel was sent to Mary in a town in Galilee, and Jesus was a Galilean with an accent from Galilee. That means for example, no matter what I do, I am a Texan and an American, because that is where I live. I don't do something to be "more Texan" or "more American" or "more feminine" — whatever any of that means. It's already done. I was born and I'm breathing, that's pretty much the beginning and end of it. It means very little, and God means very, very much.</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">There is One God guiding us if we give ourselves to Him. That's all that matters. He will do everything else.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">What I mean is, you cannot buy your identity. When you try to, you end up becoming materialistic, tribalistic, divided, worshipping mammom (as you are "buying" your identity), adhearing to broad stereotypes. All of these things divide us and are curses, they are not from God because they drown out God. Because an individual personality can only come from God. God made everyone individual, but sin, self-focus, worship of false idols (including oneself, pleasing others, pleasing oneself) can get in the way.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">"Who am I?", or rather, "who, God, have You made me to be; who, God, do You want me to be?" cannot be answered by feeling a way or buying a thing. It is a much more complex, extremely profound question and answer. We are not robots who have different models and each model is the same.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Our true identity has to do with giving up sin, prayer, finding Jesus in the Eucharist and the Confessional, the two sacraments where He is on earth, and having experiences with Him; reading works by Saints.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">People want more satisfaction from themselves instead of from God so they focus on themselves and "being" more [ whatever ], buying whatever, identitfying as whatever, but this comes from pride. It can be arrogant and wanting to feel different or special or superior based on some kind of materialism. It could also the general spiritual blindness and simply not being able to imagine God is as good as He is, the false idea from our blindness that the only things that exist are materialism and that is the context we must define ourselves. But God is much more profound and spiritual.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Your individual identity can only come from forgetting yourself and focusing on God, save for examination of yourself for sin (including pride, self-focus and materialism) and contemplation of what God has worked in your soul.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">It cannot come from what you buy or where you live or what you wear or even how other people treat you or your skin color or your gender or your age. Those things have an effect on your life and quality of life, those are a small part of who you are, but they do not alter your individual person, which God not only has already made but is currently making in you, the more you forget yourself and seek Him where He can be found, in prayer and holy reading and the sacraments.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">As I've said, there is one Holy Spirit, there is not feminine spirituality nor masculine spirituality nor Texan* spirituality nor my spirituality nor your spirituality; but there is One God and one spirituality.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">That God is creating you anew and will do so as long as you cling to Him, distrust your own strength and cling to Him in prayer for every need within your soul, for grace to eradicate every sin and defect, and so seek to do His Will in all things. If you do that your whole life, God will be creating you anew your whole life.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">From that one Spirit comes individuality; not divided, into clans or groups based on material differences, but God makes us all unique because God makes all things new, if we give up sin and follow Him.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">God loves you, with a self-sacrificing love, a love that is not carnal and selfish and materialistic and divided, but a love that is spiritual and pure, holy. God loves you, and everyone, as an individual. He wants you to be His warrior. He wants you to love Him back.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Each and every Saint loves you in the same way.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Each and every angel loves you in the same way.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">They do not define their love of you based on what you wear (but it hurts them when you sin) nor your location.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">They love you, as an individual. They will always love you. They want you to be their friend.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Remember, humility means a true statement: these statements are true and humble and good, you can look upon the cross and see the suffering God endured to share your sufferings and give merit and value to your sufferings, and by His wounds, you can measure the immeasurable worth of your individual soul, and all souls, in God's estimation. You can see what is said is true, the evidence is in the Christ of God.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Forget all of the noise and nonsense in your life, forget yourself, and love them back. Pray to be humble, pray to know God, all your life, that this love be your satisfaction and comfort for eternity.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">...St Vianney (I believe it was) said, by the one God which guides us all to Himself, that prayer is a bath for the soul.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Bathe in their love!</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And remember, you are God's child, but not God's only child. He loves your neighbor as much as He loves you. If He has called you to Himself and not your neighbor, it is not because you are better than others but because He wants you to help Him save others through your prayer and love of Him and humility; humility, so that He can be with you, because God is only with the humble.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">... That said, as people are very concerned about what they are to wear and eat, let me quote here what our Savior taught us, so to put your mind at ease and to further verify all that I have said, that you may put yourself in God's Hands and depend on Him completely so He may always provide you with help:</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Matthew Ch6 quotes for your self-examination and peace of mind in God's care:</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us"</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">if you do not forgive them, your heavenly Father will not forgive your transgressions either."</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Do not lay up treasure for yourselves on earth, where there is moth and rust to consume it, where there are thieves to break in and steal it;</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">lay up treasure for yourselves in heaven, where there is no moth or rust to consume it, no thieves to break in and steal.</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Where your treasure-house is, there your heart is too." (Meaning, don't value stuff too much, it is passing away; seek graces for your soul, in prayer, repentance, etc)</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">"</span><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">A man cannot be the slave of two masters at once; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will devote himself to the one and despise the other. You must serve God or money; you cannot serve both.</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">I say to you, then, do not fret over your life, how to support it with food and drink; over your body, how to keep it clothed. Is not life itself a greater gift than food, the body than clothing?</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">See how the birds of the air never sow, or reap, or gather grain into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them; have you not an excellence beyond theirs?</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Can any one of you, for all his anxiety, add a cubit’s growth to his height?</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">And why should you be anxious over clothing? See how the wild lilies grow; they do not toil or spin;</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">and yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">If God, then, so clothes the grasses of the field, which to-day live and will feed the oven to-morrow, will he not be much more ready to clothe you, men of little faith?</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Do not fret, then, asking, What are we to eat? or What are we to drink? or How shall we find clothing?</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">It is for the heathen to busy themselves over such things; you have a Father in heaven who knows that you need them all.</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Make it your first care to find the kingdom of God, and his approval, and all these things shall be yours without the asking.</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">Do not fret, then, over to-morrow; leave to-morrow to fret over its own needs; for to-day, to-day’s troubles are enough."</span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/knox?bible_part_no%3D2%26book_no%3D1%26chapter_no%3D6&source=gmail&ust=1604521337574000&usg=AFQjCNFJhEJYaZLorCxvrZlw0sYh0mMtuw" href="http://catholicbible.online/knox?bible_part_no=2&book_no=1&chapter_no=6" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://catholicbible.online/<wbr></wbr>knox?bible_part_no=2&book_no=<wbr></wbr>1&chapter_no=6</a></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">(I think in nature there is a good example. A female of any species does not limit herself in what she does for being female, nor have to buy special things to be female. A female tiger is a female tiger. She does not stop hunting nor is an inferior hunter because she has it in her mind, or is cursed by her parents to think that is a less feminine role. She is a tiger. She is a female. Did God make her any less frightening from this? No. Does that make her not a female? No. So she hunts, because God made it so that is how she gets her food, and it is impressive to all, and frightening to her prey. Does one take a hunting dog out based on the dog's gender? No. Male and female dogs are wonderful hunters/retrivers and companions. Are there not great mares who are race horses? God made horses to run, so they run. They do not say, "running is a woman's job" or "that's a guy-thing." ... Does a pet male cat hate cuddles because he thinks it makes him not look tough and males must be macho? Actually, I've seen both male and female cats act as if they don't like pets because they want to look tough because cats have a tendency to be neurotic... very neurotic, and self-conscious... but a mentally stable cat, if you can find one, no, they like to be loved, they like petties. ... For our sins of materialism, there are many curses on us, which bind us and effect us; for the sins of our parents against us, there are many such sins binding us, generation to generation, even familial sins and ailments in our families, which we must forgive others and pray to be liberated from. Repent of our own sins. Especially prayer to Our Lady of Good Success (see other posts), the Rosary, our saint friends in Heaven, etc, etc etc.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"></span><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span dir="auto" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">God bless you, cling to the prayers of humility, cling to God, speak to Him in your own words, ask Him for the grace to love Him, and pray the Rosary "for the purpose of knowing the Truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins." You will find happiness, true happiness, in God if you sincerely seek Him.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6355800395769776079.post-28596293621406248072020-01-22T18:28:00.000-06:002020-03-30T14:53:01.802-05:00Very Easy Daily Prayers to Save Souls, Countries, the World.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are many devotions to save the world and souls. The most notable, besides the Rosary, is the Divine Mercy Chaplet. A compilation of some very goods prayers and devotions are found in “Prayers and Heavenly Promises” compiled by Joan Carol Cruz with a nihil obstat. You will like that book; it will teach you of God’s mercy and the power of praying.</div>
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The following prayers are not listed in that book. They are two very easy devotions, approved of by the Church (nihil obstat), originating from Heaven and revealed to specific souls in the United States of America and the Netherlands, in the 1990s and the 1940-50s respectively. They are from the “Jesus, King of All Nations” devotion and the “Lady of All Nations” devotion.</div>
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You can say these every day. They do not take much time yet the promises associated with them are tremendous and joyful.</div>
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These devotions do not replace the daily recitation of the Rosary which was requested by Heaven for the salvation of the world 6 times at the Fatima apparitions, apparitions which have been approved of by the Church. St Louis de Monfort’s “Secret of the Rosary” is among the best places to learn to say the Rosary daily. The Saint recommends daily praying “for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins.” … God bless you.</div>
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<b>First Devotion: Jesus, King of All Nations</b></div>
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This devotion has a nihil obstat. It is free from doctrinal error. I have received many graces from praying the Chaplet. The Chaplet from the Jesus, King of All Nations devotion is much longer than the following prayer. The following prayer is short and easy to say and has many wonderful promises associated with it. You can say it daily to win souls for Heaven.</div>
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In James 5:20, we can read: My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him: he must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.</div>
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We can do that through this prayer. If we give up sin, God will hear our prayers. We don’t chose the soul who converts; we might not even know him or her. (Or maybe it will be our own soul.) But this is a holy work of our’s to do in God, a work which is pleasing to God and impresses unto us the great value of prayer; and as Saint James writes: “faith without works is dead.” James 2:26 <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/2/4/231/10387/238446%23vers238446&source=gmail&ust=1579824923621000&usg=AFQjCNFZKgv2uWRQzJ7nQhuPdRumQnqYtw" href="http://catholicbible.online/2/4/231/10387/238446#vers238446" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://catholicbible.online/2/<wbr></wbr>4/231/10387/238446#vers238446</a> and prayer itself is a very great work, even the greatest of the works, as prayer can save souls from eternal death. That is the greatest act of love and charity, both of God and of neighbor!</div>
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God will remember our good works; our works of charity for souls will help our own souls very much. “One act of charity [(sometimes translated as love)] covers a multitude of sins.” 1Peter 4:8 ( <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/2/4/232/10394/238581%23vers238581&source=gmail&ust=1579824923621000&usg=AFQjCNECV4er7ZkHgstDBJAaWeVm_1uBpA" href="http://catholicbible.online/2/4/232/10394/238581#vers238581" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://catholicbible.online/2/<wbr></wbr>4/232/10394/238581#vers238581</a> ) And how easy is this little prayer! Even though it has such great promises associated with it!</div>
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How can we know that these promises are true, except by faith in the Divine Mercy of Christ? … I have prayed the chaplet associated with this devotion and received many great graces and even impossible miracles that were for healing and resulted in a closer devotion to the Sacraments and God. I was healed of many symptoms of ADHD, including sleep disturbances associated with it (waking up in the middle of the night). I am very thankful. Therefore, I can personally conclude that this devotion and the promises associated with all the prayers of this devotion are true, because I have experienced it firsthand. Because I experienced this firsthand from the Chaplet, I can personally reason that the prayer for the conversion of souls will be true, as well. I know that blessings and conversions of a country are a longterm goal, one I may not live to see, but that all prayers will help achieve that goal, and no prayer is unimportant in this regard.</div>
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When you pray this, you will experience it firsthand. You can also pray the chaplet to experience firsthand the mercy of God through this devotion. Chaplet found here on official apostolate website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://jkmi.wsiefusion.net/the-prayers&source=gmail&ust=1579824923621000&usg=AFQjCNEzQ_pxXewiCteTC2Dc8q5D_v56jw" href="http://jkmi.wsiefusion.net/the-prayers" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://jkmi.wsiefusion.net/<wbr></wbr>the-prayers</a></div>
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<b>Here are the promises associated with this the short prayer you can say daily</b> (perhaps even more than daily, there is no specification, really) for souls and for God’s blessing on your own country:</div>
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What Jesus will do when you say this prayer:</div>
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will convert <b>ten</b> sinners</div>
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bring <b>ten</b> souls into the One True Faith</div>
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release ten souls from Purgatory</div>
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be less severe in My Judgment of your nation</div>
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mitigate the severity of the chastisements upon your country</div>
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Wouldn’t it be so nice if every devoted Christian said these prayers? Think of how many sinners would be converted, and how many brought into the True Faith. I wish all Catholics in my country daily said the following little prayers so that Jesus’ most loving Sacred Heart would reign in all hearts and in all homes, and we could have great peace on earth! Please share this post with your friends and family who are practicing Christians and we can all help save souls and our country together!</div>
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The following is the prayer for the daily conversion of souls.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You alone are </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the Most Holy King and Ruler of all nations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We pray to You, Lord, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">in the great expectation of receiving from You,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">O Divine King, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mercy, peace, justice & all good things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Protect, O Lord our King, our families </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and the land of our birth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Most Faithful One! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Protect us from our enemies </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and from Your Just Judgment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Forgive us, O Sovereign King, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">our sins against You. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Jesus, You are a King of Mercy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We have deserved Your Just Judgment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Have mercy on us, Lord, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and forgive us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We trust in Your Great Mercy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">O most awe-inspiring King, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">we bow before You </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">may Your Reign, Your Kingdom, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">be recognized on earth! AMEN.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Our Father in Heaven,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">hallowed is Your Name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your Kingdom come</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your Will be done</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">on earth as it is in Heaven.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Give us today</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">our daily bread</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and forgive us the wrong we have done</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Subject us not to the trial</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">but deliver us from the evil one. AMEN.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">full of grace,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">our Lord is with you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Blessed are you among women</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">our Lord Jesus Christ, King of all nations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mother of God,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">pray for us sinners now and at all times</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and at the hour of our death. AMEN.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and to the Son</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and to the Holy Ghost</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">as it was in the beginning</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and ever shall be,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "gotham" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">world without end. AMEN.</span></span></div>
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… That is all you have to pray! Isn’t that so easy and nice? God is so merciful to us!! Jesus wants to save all souls! Pray, every day! Please share with your friends and family who are Catholics, and if you do not know anyone who is a Catholic, do not be discouraged: you can still pray and God will use your prayer to convert many who will be able to pray for the salvation of others souls. God will be very happy. He is ready to pour out His grace, He only needs us to ask Him!</div>
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The following is the image associated with the Jesus, King of All Nations devotion. In my daily prayers, I put this image above the prayer and look at it before praying. It is a very nice image, so I thought I would include it in case you want to look at it while praying the above little prayer, also:</div>
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This is the image of Jesus, King of All Nations. The staff with what looks like an atom represents the Holy Trinity. It makes sense that God would put references to the Holy Trinity in all aspects of His creation (even the most basic, the atom) so that we may be drawn close to Him to honor and thank Him, and because He loves His creation which He has made holy.</div>
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Religious scholars refer to a “christocentric universe.” This means that all cultures, all people, all thought has some reference or foreshadowing to Christ, Who is the center of the universe (being that He is God and our redeemer). I remember seeing a traditional native american dance (of which tribe, I am afraid I do not remember) of three rings, or hoops, in the Captiol for a historic archival video for the country’s national library (USA). When the rings are put together, they form what looks like an atom diagram – as well as a reference to the Holy Trinity. This dance is very old, before an atom diagram was constructed and also before the Holy Trinity was revealed to them through missionaries. It is an example of a Christocentric universe, and the preparation God makes for souls to receive Him and His true Church. This is a very beautiful thing, God is so merciful to His creation!</div>
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It is true that the Catholic Church invented a great deal of science (the scientific method, the big bang theory, contemporary heliography – the study of the sun, which NASA uses almost exactly as was first recorded by a Catholic bishop in the late 1800s, discovery of genetics, etc etc etc the list is really endless) and that a great part of the very beginning of the Catechism is devoted to science as the study of God’s creation, praising scientists and their knowledge as wisdom from God, comparing them to King Solomon. However, because of heretics and atheists (who make a false idol out of everything and use science to pervert God’s creation rather than praise God), contemporary popular culture wrongly pits science and religion against one another, even though they are so compatible that science springs from religion as an act of devotion to God. … Therefore, the atom diagram as a reference to the Holy Trinity could also be an example of the christocentric universe in our atheistic culture to prepare atheists for God and to understand the relation between God’s creation, science, and God Himself.</div>
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The blue orb with the cross on it on top of Jesus’ heart represents the world. The world is also represented by the globe diagram. This is saying that God’s Mercy is poured out onto the world and that the world also rests in God’s Heart and rightfully belongs to Him and His Merciful rule, not the false mercy of people and their oppressive rule. Therefore, this could also be considered an anti-Globalist/communist/<wbr></wbr>socialist/New World Order/whatever-new-title-they’<wbr></wbr>ll-try-to-hide-sin-under devotion.</div>
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<b>Some Notes on the Chaplet of Unity from the <i>Jesus, King of All Nations </i>Devotion</b></div>
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The above short prayer is <i>not</i> the Chaplet of Unity. The Chaplet of Unity is another prayer which is longer to pray. It is said on ordinary Rosary beads while meditating on God and all His Kingdom and work. It can be found on this page: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://jkmi.wsiefusion.net/the-prayers&source=gmail&ust=1579824923622000&usg=AFQjCNHcDS5BejzFT1dhoA8Zm0K8TUAwRw" href="http://jkmi.wsiefusion.net/the-prayers" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://jkmi.wsiefusion.net/<wbr></wbr>the-prayers</a></div>
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Jesus also promises to protect those who say the chaplet from plagues: “I, Jesus, Son of the Most High God… promise to hold out to the souls who pray My Chaplet of Unity the Scepter of My Kingship and grant them mercy, pardon, and protection in times of severe weather and plagues. I extend this promise not only for yourselves, but also for individuals for whom you pray. Any harm or danger, spiritual or physical, whether it be to soul, mind or body, will I protect these souls against, and clothe them over with My Own mantle of Kingly Mercy.”</div>
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I’m sure in 1990 when people read that, they thought, what plagues? (Well, I guess I’m not sure, but that is probably what I would have thought.) We were a very sanitized country back then. Now, of course, it seems rather obvious that we could have plagues because of the uncleanness of people. (There is even a large population that does not brush their teeth and their teeth rot out of their heads, that is how unclean we are. They will not even shower every day, that is how clean we have become.) This physical uncleanness is a spiritual plague brought about by the increase of sin (I think probably especially blasphemy and sins of the flesh). It is interesting to note that bacterial plagues can spread very easily and quickly by flies. Therefore the fact that humanity wasn’t wiped out long ago from plagues shows a constant act of mercy from God.</div>
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I think most news is scare tactics, “click bait” if you will, and I take it all with a grain of salt (a whole canister of salt, actually). But the BBC did an analysis on the movement of germs through our connected culture in comparison to the spread of the Spanish flu which spread to 500 million people in 1918 and killed up to 100 million people. The Spanish flu is rarely talked about but if the amount of deaths worldwide was 100 million, that is how many Russians the Soviets killed during the USSR. So that is a really significantly huge number. Even people in the Arctic and on remote Pacific Islands were affected (according to wiki).</div>
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I don’t mean this as a scare tactic to get you to pray. I think that the BBC documentary was a scare tactic, I’m not sure what they were aiming for (possibly more government control over the people, if I remember the article I read correctly; which won’t save). But it is interesting that there was this large plague and also it is interesting and a good and awe-inspiring, amazing act of Mercy from Christ that He promises to protect us.</div>
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I worry if there were a plague that it may easily come from California. They have typhus and typhoid fever and the bubonic plague because of their feces and flea problem from their drug addictions (which causes their homelessness problems). Even third world countries do not have the feces problem that CA has, because third world countries are just very poor and oppressed, they are not so viciously blasphemous and drug addled and porn-fed and… whatever else causes their feces problems. And also who knows what other diseases could come from such very unclean conditions, new ones that have never been heard of. It would be sad if the very dirty state caused a worldwide problem, and a great shame to me about my country.<br />
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<b>Edit</b>. Well, I wrote this post before the COVID19 Wuhan Corona Virus. <i>Right </i>before that. Even though this post had pretty amazing timing that one might wonder if it was God at work because it was such a coincidence, I am a lot more suspicious of the BBC knowing beforehand there would be a "pandemic." As well as their hyping it up to be as bad as the Spanish flu. <i>Hmm</i>... Sounds a lot like scare tactics for a power grab. Although the Coronavirus is really as bad as a bad flu. I don't think it was as bad as the swine flu, which killed elderly, children, and affected a lot of people in between (including me), but the way the media hyped it up you'd think it was worse. (Although it was good we closed our borders when we did. Some estimate we could have lost over a million lives if we had not. Too bad we didn't close our borders for the Swine flu...) But whether the plagues Jesus said He would help us against are naturally occurring, such as the filthy conditions of the state of California, or they a globalist conspiracy from a Level 4 Virology Lab in China, God will still help you against them! <i>If</i> you pray.</blockquote>
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I’m sure that Jesus will help you overcome sin if you are having a problem with sin through the Chaplet of Unity, as well as other prayers, because Jesus promises to heal us in soul, mind, body, and heal our lives, if we say the Chaplet of Unity. And as I said, with the shorter daily prayer, maybe the conversion that will take place will be your own conversion! Which would save you from the yolk of the tyranny of sin.</div>
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I had swine flu (originating from China) back in early 2010s (I think maybe it was 2010, I don’t remember; whenever it was a problem where I live). I did not die because only children and elderly died, or those who had weak immune systems. However, it was an extremely bad flu. I went to sleep and woke up. Only when I woke up, 2 weeks had passed and I did not remember anything. I am glad to still be here.</div>
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I think if there was an outbreak of some sort of very infectious disease, I would start praying the Chaplet of Unity daily for me and my family (as Jesus promises to extend His Protection over those for whom we pray). I am relieved to know that I have protection. I wish I had known about this prayer when Swine Flu was on the rampage. … I also wish that many people had known about it, it would have spared the few children and elderly who had died. It is good to be aware of Jesus’ promises and be ready to flock to Him and take advantage of those problems, should a disease break out. (So let family and friends know, if they are practicing Catholics.) May you be blessed in God’s Mercy!</div>
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I lived through Hurricane Harvey, the most water dropped on a single place in earth in an estimated 1 million years. After the end of 2016, the local witches stole many Eucharists and desecrated them, which was a sin so tremendous that God punished us with the greatest Hurricane (I believe). Because of an efficient response on a state level and federal level, as well as neighbors helping out neighbors (we don’t riot in these parts during a Hurricane! And we help our neighbors!), much disaster that could have happened, did not happen. It’s true, there was a lot of property damage, and if the local governments had responded better, it is possible that there would have been even few lives lost, but I think most people did a historically excellent job helping one another and being charitable to one another.</div>
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My house did not sustain any damage even when my neighbors’ houses did; sometimes thousands and thousands of dollars worth of damage. It does pay to pray, God can work many miracles.</div>
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(I did not know about this devotion of the Chaplet of Unity during Hurricane Harvey, I prayed various Precious Blood devotions in which Christ promised to protect us from storms. The Consolation and Adoration prayers, which He promises to protect us from weather. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayers.html&source=gmail&ust=1579824923622000&usg=AFQjCNEfaW0u1dZufzL1blS8aZbpaTGZ0g" href="https://www.preciousbloodinternational.com/prayers.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>preciousbloodinternational.<wbr></wbr>com/prayers.html</a></div>
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Even if we have the prayer in the house, He will protect us. If I had known about the Chaplet of Unity, I would have prayed for the protection of my neighbors’ houses. … I also prayed the Chaplet of the Precious Blood during Harvey, but not until the last day, for an end to the storm… and then the storm ended. From my experiences, I believe that Christ can and will protect us from weather if He has promised to do so in association with a legitimate, Church-approved devotion, which the Chaplet of Unity is.)</div>
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Jesus also promises to extend protection over the souls who say this prayer. General protection.</div>
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There is so much that we need to be protected from in our day to day lives in today’s very sinful world. Abuse, exposure to sin, exposure to temptation, … more abuse…</div>
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Jesus said He will heal us, our lives, through the Chaplet of Unity. He is extremely benevolent and merciful; let us use our time and all of our lives to seek out His grace.</div>
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<b>Second Devotion: Lady of All Nations</b></div>
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This is a very, very short and easy prayer. Easier than the Jesus, King of All Nations little prayer. There is a beautiful image associated with the devotion. But first, the prayer:<br />
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Our Lady said, “Child, this [prayer] is so simple and short that everyone can say it in one’s own language, before one’s own crucifix; and those who have no crucifix say it to themselves.”</div>
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Read more here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.de-vrouwe.info/en/the-prayer-is-prayed-for-the-first-time&source=gmail&ust=1579824923622000&usg=AFQjCNFKLmYEqqKNrRTNkv-1u_44ZQSzmQ" href="https://www.de-vrouwe.info/en/the-prayer-is-prayed-for-the-first-time" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.de-vrouwe.info/en/<wbr></wbr>the-prayer-is-prayed-for-the-<wbr></wbr>first-time</a></div>
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This prayer is to prepare the world for the gift of the Holy Spirit.</div>
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Mary promises that if we say this prayer, the world, our nation, <i>will be</i> converted. (Sooner or later.) It <i>will</i> happen.</div>
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Also at the apparitions at Fatima, Our Lady said “my Immaculate Heart <i>will</i> triumph.” (My emphasis on the word “will.”)</div>
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And in the Jesus, King of All Nations devotion, Jesus again repeats that Mary’s Heart will triumph and that the devils are working furiously against Jesus’ coming reign on earth through the devotion to Mary, as Mary will lead us perfectly to Jesus (as she alone has received the power and mission from God to crush the skull of the serpent and destroy all heresies).</div>
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So this Lady of All Nations devotional prayer is so easy to say and you can easily say it every day.</div>
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You can read very much about this devotion here (pick a language): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.de-vrouwe.info/&source=gmail&ust=1579824923622000&usg=AFQjCNGfAj2OEZ_Vvma8xYnGPEsii6h-qA" href="https://www.de-vrouwe.info/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.de-vrouwe.info/</a></div>
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I recommend going to the website. On the left side is the words highlighted in blue “The Prayer”. I recommend reading the links under that – they are short but very profound and beautiful.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Today, the devotion to the Lady of All Nations is spreading in different parts of my diocese. I wonder how I myself came into this movement? What attracted me most was the prayer taught by Our Lady. It is a meaningful, short and profound prayer. It is essentially an invocation of the Holy Spirit.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Now it has been ten years since I was ordained a bishop. During these past ten years, I initiated a number of activities and introduced a series of renewal programs in my diocese. As a result of all these, we now have a beautiful structure appreciated by all. But today what I realize is this: the greatest need of today is not structures and buildings, not methods and techniques, not machinery and blue prints. All these, without the Holy Spirit, are nothing but dead bodies without a soul. That is why in her prayer the Lady of All Nations teaches us to invoke the Holy Spirit so that the Spirit of God may come upon and live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">For this reason, I wrote a pastoral letter and asked all my priests to learn this beautiful prayer by heart and to teach it to all their parishioners. I myself recite this prayer several times a day, because what we need today is not mainly new legislation, new theologies and new liturgies, but above all a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit, so that the Spirit may take our hearts of stone and give us a heart of flesh. (Cf. Ezek 36:26-27)…</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">May the veneration of Mary as the Lady of All Nations inspire each and every one of us and all of humanity to imitate the example of Mary’s total surrender to God who “casts the mighty from the throne and exalts the lowly …” (Lk 1:52)</span></span></span></div>
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There is a beautiful, serene image associated with this devotion.</div>
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Laying down tranquilly sounds like, to me, having a great trust in the Divine Mercy and repenting of one’s sins and reforming the way of life, as well as giving one’s heart over to God in a sincere way. This can be achieved through meditating on the scripture of the Passion of Jesus (which is what the Rosary is), as well as devoting oneself to the Eucharist and His presence on the Sacrament of Confession.</div>
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How I came to know about this prayer is that I was making the Stations of the Cross in a chapel, and a woman came over to me to give me a small pamphlet, almost like a prayer card, about it. She was very excited. She said a very holy priest (I can’t remember if an exorcist or not) had blessed the prayer card. I took it home.</div>
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Even when very distressed, if I looked on the image, I found great spiritual relief. I laminated the little pamphlet.</div>
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I think one of the reasons I believe in this devotion is that, throughout the years I have suffered from a number of crippling mental or psychological disabilities which have, at various times, rendered me usually incapable of remember anything. It is not just, “oh I have a bad memory”; at times it was so bad, I sincerely did not know what I had done one second earlier. Prayer seemed almost impossible (although I prayed anyway, in my mental poverty) because I wasn’t meditating or contemplating, I didn’t know what I was doing at all. Not only for prayer, but ever. “Completely out of it” does not begin. It was immensely frustrating. A very difficult way to live, I depended very much on God for everything because I was so poor and weak. (Thanks be to God, He has healed me, particularly through confessions, which were also quite difficult because I had to remember sins, at least long enough to write them down, but He helped me in this regard as well and over my time going to confessions monthly I have been greatly, miraculously and impossibly greatly healed, and I believe it is God’s desire to one day fully heal me, although if it had been His Will that I remained forever a cripple, I would have submitted to it; but He wants to heal.)</div>
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And I remembered that I had said it when I had said it, and that I needed to say it when I hadn’t.</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As the grace of humility and a sincere seeking of God’s Will decreases in our society, the online garbage written about Catholicism by self-appointed Catholic experts has increased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">These writers often blame victims or give spiritual advice that might literally destroy readers’ lives and greatly damage their souls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Especially dangerous for Catholic souls are forums where non-experts write ill-informed opinion responses that they pass off as factual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Can you sometimes find good information at these sources? Yes. Sometimes great information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But it is more often you will find information that is misinformed, heretical, self-absorbed and destructive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It's as if they've forgotten the truth we are taught by Jesus: we will be judged for everything we say and write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There are two sides of this coin. Considering how much time, effort and struggle it can take to become a Saint, and how few find the "narrow path," as Jesus our Savior tells us, it is a <i>little silly</i> to expect a stranger on a forum to provide Saintly advice that will help you deal with your life's spiritual problems. We ought to forgive everyone who doesn't know everything!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Where can a sincere God-seeking person find helpful writings?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There are 2,000 years of lessons written by Saints on the topics of sin and what misery sin does to our lives... and how God offers all sinners total forgiveness, strength to give up sin, heals them, and prepares their souls to enter into His Eternal Kingdom of everlasting peace and joy in the Light of God their Loving and Thrice Holy Creator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">These writers are Saints. What they have written is without error; they will not mislead you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Many exorcist priests are sincerely pious and faithful, powerful in God, and engaged in battle with the forces of Hell. These good priests also write books to help you. - please see CatholicExorcism.org</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Seek God in the writings of Saints. God has the answers for your life... online strangers might be worldly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I consider this blog not an end in itself but motivation to get you to read the works written by great Saints. Their writing has infinitely brilliant and soul-feeding information. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Recall how during John the Baptist’s mission, he pointed away from himself and toward Christ? Despite this, many of his followers continued to follow John instead of Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">They frustrated John’s efforts to see where their True Salvation was. They spiritually resisted following Jesus. Many of them struggled to overcome that resistance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In these blog entries, I am pointing to the Saints and their written works. You will find salvation in their words. Their writings will be your instruction, your help, your guide. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">God will reveal Himself to you through them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Light of God shines through His Saints. That is what a Saint is: one through whom the Light of God shines perfectly. That is why you will find the Light of God in their writings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Bible is a compilation of the writings of Saints, is it not? There have been many Saints since the time of the Bible; God's grace has not stopped flowing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">God is pouring His grace into our souls through these Saints from generation to generation, for the purpose of helping you. God knew you would read these works here, now, in this time period, and be lead to Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Those Saints were not writing for their generation only, but for all future generations as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">God had Saints leave their writings behind for our generation -- for you -- because God loves His creation so much. We are His creation. You are His creation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">God is omniscient, He knows everything: <b>God foresaw that you would one day read the Saints' writings.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Out of His infinite Love for you, and all souls, He bade His Saints to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Light of God is what you are seeking. <i>God</i> is the answer to your problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I have my own testimonies, but only to encourage you to read the real stuff by Saints. Saints impart vital information. If you give up sin and read their works, and pray every day "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins," your soul will be in a better place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>God will lead you.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You will find hope, especially in the prayer of the Rosary through which Mary crushes the skull of the serpent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Pray specifically for the intention of "knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins.” God will set you free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In short, you are more likely to find good information online and avoid bad, dangerous information if you fully understand what religion is, when you've already read holy works by Saints, prayed and gone to confessions, and spent time before the Lord in Eucharistic Adoration. Your soul will be raised up toward God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Soon, when you see something heretical or arrogant you will be more likely to recognize its errors from your the personal experiences you have had with God gained through holy reading and prayer. You'll find yourself on the right track, you'll be well anchored in God. It will be very beneficial to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Here’s a link to a previous post containing writings by saints and pious people have benefited me greatly. I pray that they will help you, too: <a href="http://www.boldradish.com/2019/03/follow-your-heart-is-evil-advice-jesus.html">http://www.boldradish.com/2019/03/follow-your-heart-is-evil-advice-jesus.html</a></span><br />
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There's no real way to know if you have a curse or not (I am quoting Fr Fortea, the exorcist, when I say that).</div>
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It could be that you have committed some sins and now they have caught up with you, or that someone is sinning against you, or a combination of all of that.</div>
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I will give Fr Fortea's advice from the book "Interview with an Exorcist" about breaking curses (which also involves getting rid of sins). You can read the book yourself, it's available at amazon and is very straightfoward and easy to read. The exorcist explains a lot in short paragraphs done in a question and answer style that makes it extremely easy to read. I recommend that book to everyone, I had spiritual resistance to reading holy works, but they are very important. Very very important.</div>
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Here is Fr. Fortea's advice.</div>
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1) Attend sacramental confession regularly. You can't go to confession if you aren't Catholic, but I would pray for a holy priest and call a Church anyway and ask about it, they will still help. (You have to pray for a holy priest. There are priests who don't consider the mystical or religious side of religion, they think of it as just a job and they're kind of atheistic. You have to pray for a good priest.)</div>
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Attend regularly, monthly, I would say, for several months, and then perhaps you can go down to every few months when your sins are less. 1 Sacramental Confession with a priest is worth 10,000 exorcisms. Basically if you attend sacramental confession regularly, you can't be cursed. It is an incredibly powerful sacrament, and the primary way to avoid being cursed.</div>
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Here is a prayer to know your sins and help foster a desire and confidence in attending sacramental confession, called "Prayer that Leads to Happiness and Healing": <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boldradish.com/2019/08/prayer-leads-to-happiness-and-healing.html&source=gmail&ust=1574310506168000&usg=AFQjCNENL2FI_zFz4qF4BXEkq9M4hbk2Aw" href="http://www.boldradish.com/2019/08/prayer-leads-to-happiness-and-healing.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>boldradish.com/2019/08/prayer-<wbr></wbr>leads-to-happiness-and-<wbr></wbr>healing.html</a></div>
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2) Attend Mass regularly, even daily. You can't receive Communion if you aren't Catholic. Attending Mass will still help. It also helps to have an understanding and appreciation of Mass and Communion, if you read the Prayer that Leads to Happiness and Healing, you will see that there is a book linked there called "Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament" that explains a great deal about Jesus' true presence in the Eucharist. You can also read the book "201 Inspirational Stories of the Eucharist" by Sister Patricia Proctor to understand Jesus' true presence in the Eucharist through 201 stories written by various people from their various experiences with the Eucharist. </div>
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I firmly believe in Christ's presence in the Eucharist from my own experiences from about 15 years ago. At that time, I knew nothing of religion, basically, except that I had recently learned to pray the Rosary. I went to a chapel of adoration. I saw no purpose in doing anything worldly, I had given up on that, but I had no idea about religion: I only saw no point in it because I saw we were going to all die some day, and I saw that no matter how "great" you were, there was always someone better, and I saw the emptiness in striving after all of this stuff. I did not see a purpose in it. I had also been abused, and I was also disgusted with my own sins and myself, life in general.</div>
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I went to the chapel and I immediately felt intense anxiety in the presence of the Eucharist. It occurred to me that this anxiety was from the wrong side of the "spiritual tracks," so to speak, and so I stayed. I decided to sit down and wait. So I waited. </div>
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after a few moments, I felt as if someone stood up and ran from out of me. As if something... left me that had been attached to me. Then, an immense peace, that permeated me completely and that I had never experienced before, enveloped me, was completely in me, deeper than anything in the world. Deeper than the very atoms that made me up. Because it entered into my soul.</div>
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This was the Peace of God, the peace He promised to give that the world cannot give. I felt it, I experienced it, in my whole being.</div>
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I never had any difficulty believing that there are demons, that they can attach onto people, to whatever degree they work (I think a lot of it is just people ignoring God and doing evil moreso than demonic influence), and I never had any trouble believing that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist.</div>
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I was like the demoniac that had been healed and I wanted to stay with Jesus forever. I always wanted to be at the Foot of the Eucharist.</div>
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It is interesting, when I went out in the world, I no longer strove after success the same way. However, God blessed me with many gifts and talents of success because I was no longer seeking the world first, I was seeking God first. So I did not have these false idols to success, and so He could bless my work, because essentially the work didn't matter to me, the idolatry to success didn't matter, I was only working for love of Him. (It did lead to a lot of problems because people were jealous, and this was confusing to me because essentially I wasn't doing it, God was working through me. So I can understand that a person is capable of being cursed because of success. But again, that's not necessarily the case, and if you do these things that Fortea prescribed, you will be safe, protected by God.)</div>
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Pray for the gift of Faith. God will hear such a prayer, God will answer such a prayer. Then He will lead you to having experiences with Him. And then you will be happy.</div>
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Spend a lot of time with Jesus in the Eucharist. He's available online at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://savior.org&source=gmail&ust=1574310506169000&usg=AFQjCNHslY2YYXhvW73V0kZQ_O6ENW1JnA" href="http://savior.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">savior.org</a> and here <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DzXHPHl1-vmw&source=gmail&ust=1574310506169000&usg=AFQjCNEReEU_fx8L33O3cVFUTGxnrlxTmw" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXHPHl1-vmw" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=zXHPHl1-vmw</a> and here <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Dm4A6RIOwC2E&source=gmail&ust=1574310506169000&usg=AFQjCNFJ7-uuoxcmfL5qbB-tGg6Ur09J5g" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4A6RIOwC2E" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=m4A6RIOwC2E</a> and other places online, but you should also go in person.</div>
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What's also interesting is that a 20 year study was done on suicide among depressed women.</div>
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The women who attended Mass at least twice a week had 0 zero suicides. None.</div>
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The women who attended Mass once a week had a very low rate of suicides.</div>
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The women who attended protestant "services" had a higher rate.</div>
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Of course the women who were atheists and got no religion at all had the highest rate.</div>
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This should tell you that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist and that He not only keeps people from sinning, but He also delivers us from evil, exorcising our souls in His presence in the Eucharist through which He enters our souls.</div>
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This is not to say you are suicidal: I am trying to say that if He can work such a powerful miracle for so many depressed people, that He can work great miracles in anyone's life, anyone who clings to Him where He can truly be found: in sacramental Confession and in the Eucharist. He is a very good and loving Father. He will take care of us if we cling to Him. He helps us. He loves us more than we can imagine. He wants to heal us of sin and of sins against us. He loves us.</div>
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3) Pray the Rosary every day. Again, the link Prayer that Leads to Happiness and Healing, that book "Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament" has a Rosary section that is the most wonderful Rosary I have ever prayed. I do recommend saying all 15 mysteries daily, the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries daily.</div>
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The most thorough and complete book on how to pray the Rosary is "Secret of the Rosary" by St. Louis de Montfort. I highly recommend buying a copy of that book.</div>
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The Rosary is meditation on the mysteries of the life of Jesus, so also reading the Gospels is important as well. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/NT/Jn&source=gmail&ust=1574310506169000&usg=AFQjCNHeEo6Q_qvp0Pb0bdMOnHvf1Mub2g" href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/NT/Jn" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">http://catholicbible.<wbr></wbr>online/side_by_side/NT/Jn</a></div>
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If you attend Mass, when you enter the chapel you will be doing this.</div>
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Saint Pio urged people to make the sign of the cross slowly and reverently, offering up to God the Father Jesus present in the Eucharist on all the altars of the world. He said that most people make the sign of the Cross very poorly and irreverently and that this was wrong.</div>
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That is the advice Fr Fortea gives for breaking a curse, I have added additional information to try to help you. Again, you can read his book "Interview with an Exorcist" for more information.</div>
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My personal experience, if there is someone you know, even a family member, or a friend, who is involved in the occult (including yoga, New Age, etc) or who has rejected God, turned away from the Church, or blasphemes God, or otherwise is a sociopath or narcissist (all alcoholics and drug addicts and porn addicts -- including people who read written porn -- are narcissists, and also porn is basically witchcraft because the most basic witchcraft is sex magic which is basically what pornography is), spiritually you need to distance yourself from that person. How you do that is basically by throwing away everything material they've ever given you. Or donating it. What they've given you has created a sort of spiritual tie between you and that person, and that needs to be broken. The object itself isn't bad, it's just that they've given it to you.</div>
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This can be complicated if it is a family member who has given you, for example, all your furniture or clothes. I personally have donated or given away or gotten rid of most of my furniture or clothes that was from someone who deeply deeply hurt me, and it really does help break the spiritual tie between you and that person. But also anyone involved in the occult, I had a friend who wasn't really a friend but pretended to be to my face, but became invovled with the occult behind my back and cursed me behind my back without me knowing it (actual witchcraft stuff, she was reading curses online and doing them). Anyway, it created all sorts of problems in my life and that's how i know about all of this stuff.</div>
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Such a person isn't really your friend. An addict or a narcissist or a sociopath isn't really a friend, either. They're not capable of it. Humans who have those problems aren't capable of real friendship. We can really only love each other selflessly if we are seeking God wholeheartedly and are loving one another in God.</div>
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It doesn't matter either if the person thinks he or she is doing "good" magic on you. There's no such thing. Jesus declared "only God is good," therefore if someone goes to a fortune teller or witchdoctor or places a curse on you to try to "help" you, they've still grievously sinned against you and against God and you are going to have a lot of problems because of their sin.</div>
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It's not really that there's a "curse", it's more that people sin against each other. One of the worst sins is hatred of God, and that's essentially what "magic" or the occult is. Also, people try to use religion as the occult. Basically, people use "magic" to try to control people, events, etc. Religion is about a relationship with God. It's not about controlling things, although with God's grace, profound meaning enters into our lives because we begin to understand God's love.</div>
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That's why you also have to forgive people. You can't seek revenge against them (even the revenge of "living a good life,") nor have anger or hatred to such a person. Yes, you have to not be friends with them or avoid them and get rid of the stuff they have given you, but it can't be done out of smugness, arrogance, hatred, revenge, etc. Those are all sins and those sins will create a bond between you and very person you are trying to escape.</div>
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Oh, yeah, also throw away any fiction where the good guys/heroes in the stories are vampires, werewolves or witches. Those are all symbols of sociopaths, narcissists, practitioners of the occult, in general people who have rejected God in order to worship themselves. And also people who listen to heavy metal or pop music or rap (because of the subject mostly, which is highly sexualized and therefore dehumanizing and a grievous sin, or is angry/rageful and maybe about revenge) tend to consider themselves cursed. It's because of their own sins in being vengeful or hateful or sexualized or whatever that they think they're cursed, essentially because through their sins, they let the Devil into their lives.</div>
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It's also good to get people to pray for you, yeah. That's good, too.</div>
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Most importantly, I would say that you have to understand that material and worldly success do not mean you are "blessed." Oftentimes you see people say "I am so thankful for my job and my family and my wealth #blessed". In the Gospels, Jesus says nothing about "you're blessed if you are rich." If anything, the people who crucified Him did so because they insisted that the Messiah would be someone who would make everyone rich. They clung to worldly wealth, worldly success. He warns against this idolatry to success a lot.</div>
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When we pray the Rosary, when we get to the sorrowful mysteries, notice that we are still hailing Jesus and Mary as "most blessed" even when Jesus is being abused, murdered, publicly humiliated, dying as a "failure" in the eyes of the world, and Mary, a penniless widow, is burying her only Son. They are most blessed because they are without sin. They are innocent. They are not naive, innocent doesn't mean naive, it means they are without sin. That is why they are blessed.</div>
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Many many people lose their souls and go to Hell because they worship Mammon and think that their souls are alright with God because they are [worldly] successful. If you look at the life of Jesus and the life of His Saints, their lives are wrought with struggle and hardship that brought them closer to God. </div>
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But also, if you look at the lives of sinners, their lives are wrought with struggle and pain, too -- only it didn't bring them closer to God, they rejected God to cling to their strivings after worldly success, rather than seeking God.</div>
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Having failures doesn't mean you aren't cursed, but it also doesn't mean you are cursed, either. Usually you can tell if there is demonic activity in someone's life if, for example, you have difficulty praying all of a sudden, you feel a terrible weight on your chest whenever you try to pray, or like crying uncontrollably while trying to pray, and it goes away when you stop. That would be one example of demonic activity.</div>
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Rather, in your worldly "failures" God could be calling you into a deeper relationship with Him rather than a superficial life of seeking empty, worldly wealth and success that will all amount to absolutely nothing when you die.</div>
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He might be trying to call you to Himself to heal your soul and wash away your sins and prompt you to seek His Will and have a true conversion, which will give you eternal, and true, wealth and success.</div>
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If you pray the Rosary "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon from your sins," Mary will help you. She will help detach your soul from worldly attachments and false idols. She will help you grow in virtue. The Rosary will be a ladder that leads you to God.</div>
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It is important to pray the Rosary because Mary is the one who will crush the skull of the serpent, as God said to the Devil, "I will put emnity between you and the woman... and she will crush your skull, and you will lie in wait for her heel." Mary is "the woman" who crushes the skull of the serpent. Jesus also announced this in the Gospels when He said of Mary that she is blessed because she is obedient to God. In other words, she is the one who is perfectly obedient to God, she is the Immaculate Conception. All of Hell is terrified of the recitation of the Rosary.</div>
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I recommend you listen to Saint Therese's Story of a Soul while doing all of the other things I've given you to do, so you can try to understand God better and be drawn closer to His Eternal Love. You can also read it, it's very good. She's a wonderful Saint who will lead you closer to God and will really help you, not just to learn from her but also to pray to her. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mediafire.com/file/z3158y55033yqdd/Story_of_a_Soul_MP3.zip/file&source=gmail&ust=1574310506169000&usg=AFQjCNFXpjx9rHWZcbq48Q7dlPZZ17GX9A" href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/z3158y55033yqdd/Story_of_a_Soul_MP3.zip/file" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.mediafire.com/<wbr></wbr>file/z3158y55033yqdd/Story_of_<wbr></wbr>a_Soul_MP3.zip/file</a></div>
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She will lead all souls that entrust themselves to her to the God that she has loved so wholeheartedly.</div>
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Here is the audio to Secret of the Rosary, also, by St Louis de Montfort, if you would rather listen (both books are also really good to read if you wouldn't rather listen to them): <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mediafire.com/file/bt28mt8wmuoiffy/Secret-of-the-Rosary.zip/file&source=gmail&ust=1574310506169000&usg=AFQjCNGRQv9QyQMUyq9nN4L_U_1WqH4ZCw" href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/bt28mt8wmuoiffy/Secret-of-the-Rosary.zip/file" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.mediafire.<wbr></wbr>com/file/bt28mt8wmuoiffy/<wbr></wbr>Secret-of-the-Rosary.zip/file</a></div>
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Finally, read "All About the Angels" by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan. Inexpensive book that is very important. There is so much fake, diabolical information that is not based on real religion, but is new age or heretical, that is online and probably in books, too. But this was written by a priest and was written in the 1940s and also is based on scripture and the catechism teaching. The angels have a much greater knowledge of God and can help you to pray and to understand the importance of prayer and of the sacraments. They can assist you greatly also in all of your endeavors in life. You can get to know your own guardian angel who loves you very very much, even right now as you read this, he is praying for you with great love that you will have a greater relationship with God. Your guardian angel is very good and nice and intelligent, which you can find out all about when you read that simple book.</div>
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I have written a lot, and more importantly linked to a lot of good writings by Saints and holy men and women, in various posts on this blog. Mostly I think it is important to read the excellent things written by Saints. Those are the most important. Saints' writings are the best, because God imbues their writings so much with His grace to help lead us towards Him. Saints' writings effect our <i>souls</i>. Not just our minds with knowledge, God imparts knowledge to our actual souls.</div>
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May God bless you and keep you in His Mercy and bring you ever closer to Him.</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">please see CatholicExorcism.org for prayers and videos to pray along with an exorcist. He focuses on depression and anxiety healing and experiencing the joy and peace of knowing God.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">(We are not affiliated, we have merely been helped tremendously by the team of people who pray.)</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
Blind woman miraculously healed, story here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://m.ncregister.com/blog/pattyknap/arizona-womans-blindness-miraculously-cured-through-st.-charbel?fbclid%3DIwAR09EatCXoygdyzZRSBMHC9D5H0dKldlf0sjfcnlpfDnUJ6ekqhyzb-Hz3o&source=gmail&ust=1565721930243000&usg=AFQjCNGDLgm0lw9ZiQBUfX44d_BAoegj9A" href="http://m.ncregister.com/blog/pattyknap/arizona-womans-blindness-miraculously-cured-through-st.-charbel?fbclid=IwAR09EatCXoygdyzZRSBMHC9D5H0dKldlf0sjfcnlpfDnUJ6ekqhyzb-Hz3o" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://m.ncregister.com/<wbr></wbr>blog/pattyknap/arizona-womans-<wbr></wbr>blindness-miraculously-cured-<wbr></wbr>through-st.-charbel?fbclid=<wbr></wbr>IwAR09EatCXoygdyzZRSBMHC9D5H0d<wbr></wbr>Kldlf0sjfcnlpfDnUJ6ekqhyzb-<wbr></wbr>Hz3o</a></div>
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Prayer I wrote that helped me very much to be happy, to be led closer to God and therefore be happy. </div>
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It has a lot of influence from homilies, St. Faustina's writings, the Catechism, and problems and sins people suffer in contemporary society, and my own thoughts when I was first converting and repenting.</div>
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(It includes a Precious Blood prayer at the end which I did not write. It comes from Precious Blood International which has a nihil obstat. The prayer I wrote has no approval or disapproval, I just wrote it and found it spiritually beneficial, as did another who prayed it, also, in a sort of trial run before being posted here.)</div>
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I prayed it daily* and received much grace from God and have been very happy, not in a forced or fake way, but sincerely joyful at times, like I have never been in my memory. I hope that you can pray it daily and are led to a closer relationship to God, to increased devotion to God, so you will be happy, and joyful, as well.</div>
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*(Some slight additions were added to make the prayer more universal before being posted.)</div>
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It is a consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as well, which is typically prayed at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/null" style="color: #222222;">5PM</a>, towards an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, however you can certainly pray this prayer any time. I sincerely believe it will help you.</div>
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It's originally written as an elaboration on St. Louis de Montfort's request to daily pray the rosary "for the purpose of knowing the truth and receiving contrition and pardon for your sins."</div>
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This prayer is for that intention — to know the Truth and receive contrition and pardon for your sins.</div>
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I do recommend, therefore, praying the Rosary.</div>
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The best book for learning the Rosary is St. Louis de Montfort's "Secret of the Rosary."</div>
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Daily rosary after that to foster devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist which I recommend, and which Mother Teresa wanted everyone in the world to read so they could understand how much God loves them, is from the book "Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament" by the Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a rosary in the back of that book that will get you through the toughest of times.</div>
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May God grant you the wisdom to leave everything and follow Him. Amen.</div>
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My heart is hard like a rock, O Lord. Like a rock in the desert. Full of idolatry, self-will, blindness; a lack of understanding and knowledge of Who You truly are, clouded by my own false perception and obedience to worldliness rather than to You, Who Alone are God forever and ever, Who Alone are Good, Who Alone IS. You are the Creator; I am the creation. I cannot create a new heart in me. I cannot create virtue within myself. I cannot heal myself. No human can. We did not create ourselves in the first place; we cannot recreate ourselves.<br />
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But alone, separated from You, cut off by iniquities, I can do nothing at all. You, my God, are the branch, and I am the vine. The worst sin is to say, "I have no sin," because when my sins separate Us, I wither up, and if I lie and say "I have no sin," You cannot free me from my sins and so bring me back to life.</div>
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But, through Your servant Moses, You struck the rock with Your rod and out came water, symbolizing the grace that You would cause to come out of my own wretched and hard heart. Your Thrice Holy, Infinitely Pure Heart was pierced on the Cross so that You would grant grace and true wisdom to my own worthless, undeserving heart…</div>
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With Your dying breath, You gave me Mary to be my Moses in the desert. Mary is the one who crushes the skull of the serpent, who destroys all heresies in the history of the world. I invite her to crush the serpent and remove his poison from my own soul.</div>
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Through the Holy Name of Jesus, through the intercession of Mary, through Your Head crowned with thorns in atonement of all my evil thoughts and desires, please God: grant me sincerity, that all duplicity and all manipulation and all controlling others, false accusations, histrionics — desire to be seen or awarded by people — and all pridefulness may be taken from me; grant me purity that I may no longer be defiled with narcissism and hypocrisy, whose root is idolatry; grant me disobedience to the world, to greed, to worldly success, to worship of the image one presents in front of others, and to the forces of Hell and all fallen knowledge, all occultic and human thinking and teaching, all blasphemy and irreverance and taking of the Lord's Name in vain, and give me obedience solely to You, my God and my King, filling me with a very holy and right-minded fear of God; grant me a heart that contemplates Your Holiness, a heart free from inflicting the abuses of selfishness, discouragement, mercilessness, jealousy, murmuring (complaints), gossip, foul language (cussing, uncharitable words, even in my thoughts), being a busybody, being uncharitable by not praying or helping others or only helping so others will see my deeds and praise me (pride), and all bitterness; sins of the flesh, more than any other reason, are why sinners go to Hell, so please grant me freedom from sin in my words, deeds, manner and dress, how I present myself, recreation, especially in my thoughts and how I think and what I desire, and sobriety from drugs and alcohol always; grant me to see those around me, especially the weakest, as Your brothers and sisters, and grant me freedom from impatience, resentment, condescending attitude, hatred, cruel thoughts, evil desires, anger, all forms of revenge (even "living a good life"), and all that is defiled, because You have said that what we do to the least of the human race, even in our thoughts, we do to You, my God... and You desire to forgive me in Your Presence in Confession and in the Eucharist, so how can I be so hard-hearted as to retain sin towards others?; grant me true knowledge of You, stripping me of all my misconceptions, ingratitides, ignorances and spiritual blindnesses, which cause me to be unspeakably cruel to You Who are deserving of the farthest reaching efforts of love. Please grant me faith, hope, and charity; freedom from anxiety about current events, in my life and in the world, through unwavering belief that <span style="font-style: italic;">You</span> are the One Who saves the world, not a specific circumstance or person (not me, not anyone besides You).</div>
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Please grant me discernment about people's true motives, as so many people's lives and immortal souls are destroyed by narcissistic/sociopathic/<wbr></wbr>psychopathic friends and family, and clear up for me my misconceptions about people's motives, good or bad. Please take away all lack of forgiveness in my heart: I am a sinner who does not deserve to be saved by You, yet You demand me receive grace from You, it pleases You that I come to You for forgiveness and grace, so I must forgive others and separate myself from others who are bad so that I will not be led astray or ravaged by the prowling wolf. Please grant me freedom from idolatry to human relationships and freedom from idolatry to created goods, so that I can know and give up bad relationships, and objects associated with bad relationships, and all evil objects or pastimes, as You Yourself said, "let the dead bury the dead."</div>
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Is there still spiritual darkness in me? If so, when, O Lord, will you take the darkness from me, and replace it with Your grace? I see You lowered into the tomb for me, into my tomb, to take my place. I do not presume to know where I will go after I die -- Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory. I throw myself on Your Mercy. But I know that You are thrice Holy, and only the clean may stand in Your Presence. Sinners deserve not only physical death, but spiritual death, torment in Hell or Purgatory for their sins, and have I not also sinned? But in Your Infinite Mercy, rather than giving me physical death just yet, You have called me to prayer. I acknowledge that I have sinned and I hand my sins to You, that You can take them away. Your Life, Death, and Resurrection pays for all my debts. In Your Infinite Mercy, You have brought me to You, that I may be cleansed by You, and spend what unknown time I have left on earth to learn You, from You, and so be filled with You. I want to despise everything You want me to for love of You. I want to spend eternity with You in Heaven, and I know that You love me so much that You want me to spend eternity in Heaven with You, even more than I want to go to Heaven! Because You are Infinite and I am finite, my love is limited, but Your's is unlimited! No one has cared for me with the patience and selfless love that You have. Will only in my physical death I no longer be offensive to You because then I will no longer have opportunity to sin further? But I believe in Your omnipotence and infinite Mercy, to change me, if it is Your Will. Salvation is not in death; it is in You, in whatever it is that You Will. I love You, I love Your Will: <span style="font-style: italic;">change me</span>.</div>
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You are Infinite, and I am finite: so weak, yet so ambitious; so prone to sin, yet so self-righteous, full of self-love and self-pity, macho-ism/false stoicism, perfectionism. I desire to repent and be changed by You! I wish to forget myself and focus only on You! And to be filled with Your Charity, Patience, Obedience to God, and Humility -- even just a tiny crumb of Your Goodness! And what hidden idolatries within me are causing me to worry? Happiness may come and go in this life, but if I lack true joy in the depths of my soul, it is only because I have forgotten You, Your generosity to me and to all souls, Your Goodness, Your Justice, Your Mercy, Your Omnipotence. In Your Infinite Mercy, please change me wholeheartedly forever: a new creature, even in this life, even on this miserable, sinful earth. Wash away my sins in Your Blood, take them far from me, and transform me even in this life to no longer offend You, O Love. Your Mercy Wills that I ask You for this immense favor.</div>
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My heart was once burned thrice over by my sins and the sins of the world. Your Own Sacred Heart burns, not with the destructive fires of the world or of Hell, but with Your life-giving Fire, the Fire of Your Love and Mercy, which imparts healing and true life — life in You! I consecrate my heart to Your Sacred Heart, out of love of You, as a response to Your Love. Let me speedily rise to spiritual perfection and perfect trust in Your Ocean of Mercy — Your definition of spiritual perfection, not my erroneous definition. Place but a small flame of Your Fire over my heart, and my heart will be healed… forever transfixed by Your Love and Mercy, discerning Your Will, and leaving behind the chains of sin and all sinful relationships to devil-people and unclean objects and undue fear. <span style="font-style: italic;">Heal me, Lord. Heal my soul. </span>If not for my sake, then for Your own glory, and because You have said that my sanctity will effect the sanctity of other souls, whom You suffered, died and arose from death to save.</div>
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If I am productive in all the passing things of the world, but lazy and neglectful in seeking Your grace in contemplation and prayer, how can that help my soul? It will only make me empty, hollow, with a rotting, putrid soul. Please take away my laziness in seeking and obtaining Your grace when and where it can be found, from You, Who give yourself to us through prayer and in Your Sacraments. Please instill deep within me understanding and deep reverence for, and belief in, Your Power and Presence in Sacramental Confession, the Eucharist, Mass, Baptism, and prayer that I may be found worthy to enter into the unspeakable and unimaginable joy of contemplating Your Glory for eternity in Heaven.</div>
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It pleases You that I ask boldly, in Jesus' Name, and through the infinite Mercy of His pierced most Sacred Heart, for these graces which I need the most and which I deserve the least: please grant me full and true knowledge of all my sins, sincere contrition for my sins, and a sacramental confession that is worthy in Your Eyes, so that I may be able to avoid the miseries on earth due me by my sins and avoid the pains of Hell or Purgatory; and so You (and to the extent that I am able) can repair all the havoc and destruction my sins have caused in my and others' lives, and so You can bring me into the joys of Heaven; but most of all because You, my God, are worthy of <span style="font-style: italic;">all my love</span>. I thank You from the bottom of my heart, a gratitude words cannot describe, for all the previous confessions of mine that You have heard and all my sins You have forgotten through Sacramental Confession, and I thank You for all priests who have ever heard my confessions. Please enlighten my future Confessor, whomever he may be, that he may understand my confession, and grant him peace and joy, protecting him always in this life, because You accomplish Your Work of Mercy through the sacrifice of his life, his life that he sacrificed to Your Love. I love You, my God — You alone are my Peace.</div>
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Matthew 12: [Jesus said] It is from the heart’s overflow that the mouth speaks; a good man utters good words from his store of goodness, the wicked man, from his store of wickedness, can utter nothing but what is evil. And I say this, that in the day of judgement men will be brought to account for every thoughtless word they have spoken.</div>
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Precious Blood Prayer: Dear Holy Spirit, My God. Teach me to speak wisely. </div>
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Let me avoid useless thoughts and useless conversations. Help me to speak often for You. Grant that my words may never hurt men of goodwill. May My words always bring consolation to those in sorrow and guidance to those in need. Take my lips and make them Yours. Take possession of my mind and make it an instrument of Your goodness and a channel of truth. I hope to become a man of silence, who prefers to talk to God then to men. In my human conversation, may I always bring them closer to You and You closer to them. I ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen. [Optional, 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary, 1 Glory Be, or pray while gazing at the beautiful Miraculous Medal.]</div>
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Philippians 4: Joy to you in the Lord at all times; once again I wish you joy. Give proof to all of your courtesy, modesty. The Lord is near. Nothing must make you anxious; in every need make your requests known to God, praying and beseeching him, and giving him thanks as well. So may the peace of God, which surpasses all our thinking, watch over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. And now, brethren, all that rings true, all that is holy and commands reverence, and all that makes for right; all that is pure, all that is lovely, all that is gracious in the telling; virtue and merit, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things.</div>
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Abraham is the model of such obedience offered by Sacred Scripture.<br />
The Virgin Mary is the most perfect embodiment of this virtue. <br />
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Obedience is what earned Abraham the title "Father of Faith," and God's great promise to him.
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Obedience is what makes Mary so holy, kind, virtuous, courageous and brave, patient, amiable, good, truthful, sane and bringing sanity, with a beautiful soul; and also what makes her the strongest and also the most powerful human person to have ever lived,
and who will ever live. Obedience to God is what earned Mary the title "The One Who Crushes The Skull of the Serpent Under Her Immaculate Heel."<br />
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Obedience to God means rebellion to the world.<br />
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Obedience to the world means rebellion against God, which is sin, weakness, evil, cowardice, idolatry, the falsehood of materialism (which is a belief that personal salvation or improvement of life comes from the material world — from money, worldly success
and personal accomplishment, objects and ownership, control over others, popularity/fame, that you have inherent value before God — that you are good and inclined to virtue or not inclined to sin — because of your race or gender* or age or nationality or family
history or genetics), selfishness, jealousy, hate, murder, hideousness of soul, worthlessness, lying and masks/false fronts, insanity and causing insanity in others, giving into peer pressure, darkness and ignorance, confusion, true aloneness, all forms of
wickedness, making oneself into a spiritual cesspool, making one's soul truly repulsive; obedience to the world is the definition of true failure.<br />
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*there is no such thing as "maternal instinct," nor are women inherently "more nurturing" or somehow less selfish or "less warlike" or more "in tune" with others. (Let me reference innumerable examples…)<br />
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Also "instinct" is an atheist's way of not showing gratitude to God for His Gifts, or a pagan's way of attempting to understand a world that doesn't make sense because there is yet a revelation of God. "Instinct" implies we are incapable of virtue, and therefore
incapable of sin, because we are chemical, biological robots. It implies we have no soul, no spirit, no "inner self," that we more or less do not exist. It is nihilism. There is no place for this empty philosophy among Christians. If there were, the Angel
Gabriel would have greeted Mary: "Hail Mary, empty vessel, full of maternal instinct." God did not send this message to Mary.<br />
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If this empty nihilistic philosophy were true, Adam and Eve would not have been held accountable for their sins. "Well, it's just part of their biomechanical nature." But that is not what happened…<br />
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If it were true, God would not have said of humanity, "they are little less than the angels." He would have said of humanity, "they are little less than the rocks."<br />
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If you consider yourself a Christian, a seeker of the Truth, Truth Who is God, stop clinging to pagan or antichrist beliefs, stop "teaching the ways of man as if they were the ways of God."<br />
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A man will not be virtuous or have true bravery — which is facing one's sins and giving up sin and following Christ to spiritual Gethsemane and Jerusalem — simply because of being a man, as we see in the Apostles vs the women who followed Him to His Crucifixion:
the Apostles ran, all but John, who rested on Christ's Heart (through his devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he got his strength from God rather than attempted to get his strength from himself and fail like his Apostle brothers).<br />
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The women risked imprisonment, torture and death to follow Jesus to Calvary and bring Him comfort and defend Him. Not because they were women, but because they sought God, Who made them courageous in the face of death. Seeking God is not "inherently" more easy
for women to do somehow: all is a grace from God. All grace must be sought from God. All must seek grace from God through prayer. We even need to pray to be able to pray, that is how much we need God!<br />
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Those who try to justify themselves will fall and be scattered, as God says He will cast the mighty and arrogant from their thrones and raise up the lowly who rely on Him alone — who are "the poor in spirit".<br />
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God says this repeatedly in the Old Testament and demonstrates it accurately in the New.<br />
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True bravery and nurturing/encouragement are both graces from God Whom He gives to those who say "I am not God" and who obey Him and seek strength from Him alone, rather than from the world or from themselves, as He says over and over and over and OVER again
in the Old Testament. He doesn't judge humans the way we judge ourselves or others: God looks into the heart, which we humans cannot do. We can't even see into our own hearts, we can't even see our own mistakes or lack of virtue, as God says to us "you are
spiritually blind, ask for true sight from Me." This is the beginning of true wisdom.)<br />
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It is true Satanic attacks are more frequent against women than men, as the Devil hates all humanity but women especially because he hates Mary, and Satan is quite sexist and transfers his hatred to all women. Exorcists have noted this over and over. This does
not mean men are not afflicted by the demonic in large percentages or numbers, or somehow men are impervious to demonic attack. They are afflicted. Satan hates everyone and everything, because all reminds him of God.<br />
But God is not sexist. Ageist. Racist. Etc. He gives grace to anyone who seeks Him sincerely and seeks to give up sin.
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And we humans are not demons. We ought to believe in God and seek Him in all sincerity, no matter our background. We have no excuse to do otherwise.<br />
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We need to forget ourselves and seek God sincerely.<br />
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God has lifted up to sanctity every imaginable type of person as examples for us. We are not confined to being inspired only by those similar to us (ie, women do not only pray to women saints or some such absurd idea, that is very self-absorbed and materialistic,
and not consistent with the history of the Church). I saw, at a very Communist church, a Theresian society that was only for women, to the exclusion of men. This ought not be so! St. Thérèse has inspired and aided many men to great virtue, mysticism, and even
Sainthood! God gave her grace so that she could help Him save all peoples! Even though she is French, she has helped all who invoke her — even German soldiers during the First World War (as certainly the socialist Germans weren't invoking her in the second
world war, or else she would have helped them then). To apply materialistic standards to a Saint like this is a great sin. There are already men's and women's societies*, there should not be limits put on a soul's access to God's grace.<br />
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*why there are mens and womens organizations is beyond me, but they exist, and I am dubious about them, as a large aspect of witchcraft is based on the demonic lie of so-called "feminine energy" and "masculine energy," and our culture is more and more aligned
with all sorts of occult and materialistic ideas, so I really doubt these organizations… I have talked about "natural witchcraft," or an aligning with unclean ideals without knowingly participating in witchcraft, although still practicing the occult or being
attracted to the occult, in the Depression Healing post, and I have talked about idolatry in many posts...<br />
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"If we say 'we are free of the guilt of sin,' we deceive ourselves; the truth is not to be found in us.<br />
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"But if we acknowledge our sins, He Who is Just can be trusted to forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrong."<br />
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Abraham - "father of all who believe"<br />
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145 The Letter to the Hebrews, in its great eulogy of the faith of Israel's ancestors, lays special emphasis on Abraham's faith: "By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place which he was to receive as an inheritance; and he went out, not
knowing where he was to go." By faith, he lived as a stranger and pilgrim in the promised land. By faith, Sarah was given to conceive the son of the promise. and by faith Abraham offered his only son in sacrifice.<br />
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146 Abraham thus fulfills the definition of faith in Hebrews 11:1: "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen": Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." Because he was "strong in his faith", Abraham
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147 The Old Testament is rich in witnesses to this faith. the Letter to the Hebrews proclaims its eulogy of the exemplary faith of the ancestors who "received divine approval". Yet "God had foreseen something better for us": the grace of believing in his Son
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Mary - "Blessed is she who believed"<br />
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148 The Virgin Mary most perfectly embodies the obedience of faith. By faith Mary welcomes the tidings and promise brought by the angel Gabriel, believing that "with God nothing will be impossible" and so giving her assent: "Behold I am the handmaid of the
Lord; let it be [done] to me according to your word." Elizabeth greeted her: "Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord." It is for this faith that all generations have called Mary blessed.<br />
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149 Throughout her life and until her last ordeal when Jesus her son died on the cross, Mary's faith never wavered. She never ceased to believe in the fulfillment of God's word. and so the Church venerates in Mary the purest realization of faith.<br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;">Rather, follow God's advice and believe in God, because He has come to warn you about sin so that you do not destroy your life on earth and/or have a bad eternity. He has come to save you from sin, that you avoid it, and learn about God and do His Will, so your life on earth is put together and so that you spend eternity in Heaven with Him.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;">Knox translation: "</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: small; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Make your way in by the narrow gate. It is a broad gate and a wide road that leads on to perdition [Hell], and those who go in that way are many indeed; </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">but how small is the gate, how narrow the road that leads on to life, and how few there are that find it! </span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>Be on your guard against false prophets</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, men who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but are ravenous wolves within. </span><span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">You will know them by the fruit they yield. Can grapes be plucked from briers, or figs from thistles? </span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">That same night, the Lord appeared to him, bidding him choose what gift he would. [God would give him anything he asked for.] </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">And Solomon said to God: Thou hast shewn great kindness to my father David: and hast made me king in his stead. A</span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">nd now, Lord God, make good thy promise to him. Since thou hast made me king over thy people, a great people countless as the dust, </span><span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><b>grant me wisdom</b></span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">and discernment in all my dealings with them. How else should a man sit in judgement over such a people as this, great as thy people is great? </span><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">And the Lord answered, For this choice thou hast made, thou shalt be rewarded. Thou didst not ask for riches or possessions, for glory [honor, fame], or vengeance upon thy enemies, or a long life. Thy prayer was for wisdom and discernment, to make thee a better judge for the subjects I have given thee. </span><span style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f1efe7; font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Wisdom and discernment thou shalt have; and I will give thee riches and possession too, and such glory as never king shall have before or after thee.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>the Book of Wisdom</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">, and recognize that this is about devotion to Jesus and Mary, especially in the Rosary, as Wisdom is personified as female to prepare our souls for Marian devotion, devotion which Christ gave us with His dying Breath on His Cross because it will lead us to Jesus in Heaven: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Wis&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNEIfdatZiTUx6NIVMWTRARUYbXj6w" href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Wis" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">http://catholicbible.<wbr></wbr>online/side_by_side/OT/Wis</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>the Book of Proverbs</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Prov&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNHCOrXuTFOgLndDo-RZBXNx4-oreQ" href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Prov" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">http://<wbr></wbr>catholicbible.online/side_by_<wbr></wbr>side/OT/Prov</span></a></li>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Watch the Near Death Experience of Marino Restrepo: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boldradish.com/2018/12/the-near-death-experience-of-marino.html&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNHEtvqzhrdRzQoFQh1v_T1PneSwxQ" href="http://www.boldradish.com/2018/12/the-near-death-experience-of-marino.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>boldradish.com/2018/12/the-<wbr></wbr>near-death-experience-of-<wbr></wbr>marino.html</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read the Near Death Experience of Gloria Polo: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boldradish.com/2018/12/the-near-death-experience-of-gloria-polo.html&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNEtSa-XRvbE46qWMdvtW9J8F1B5Ig" href="http://www.boldradish.com/2018/12/the-near-death-experience-of-gloria-polo.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">http://www.boldradish.<wbr></wbr>com/2018/12/the-near-death-<wbr></wbr>experience-of-gloria-polo.html</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read the Conversion of atheist Jewish Harvard professor (re-written on this blog)</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">Read<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px;"><b>the Psalms</b></span><span style="margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Ps&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNFwfvZkX5hIoSU5CxUZ-5bQ-ivJKg" href="http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side/OT/Ps" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="margin: 0px;">http://catholicbible.<wbr></wbr>online/side_by_side/OT/Ps</span></a></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>the Catechism</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">. (A priest's instruction to me in confession was to read just a few - meaning 3 - lines of the Catechism a day, and after a year, I would have had the whole thing read. At first I dreaded this. When I actually read it, the Catechism was most extremely beautiful and pleasing to my soul to read, because it is about Jesus. So read a few lines of it a day, and in a year, you will have read the whole thing. Jesus is most profoundly beautiful and wonderful.) </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNHYWGiePUZ12tbf1oXkjHJXyMC9ug" href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">http://www.<wbr></wbr>vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_<wbr></wbr>INDEX.HTM</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read further readings from Saints or other holy works (</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><i>NO </i></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">affiliate links below, I don't get any money from this. I suggest reading these because God will use these holy works to bring you wisdom and bring you closer to Him):</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Miracle Detective</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Detective-Randall-Sullivan/dp/0802141951/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3Dmiracle%2Bdetective%26qid%3D1553387156%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-1&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNEE-bg97rOZwAc4Jh1rpjn7xcLk0Q" href="https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Detective-Randall-Sullivan/dp/0802141951/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=miracle+detective&qid=1553387156&s=books&sr=1-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/Miracle-Detective-Randall-<wbr></wbr>Sullivan/dp/0802141951/ref=sr_<wbr></wbr>1_1?keywords=miracle+<wbr></wbr>detective&qid=1553387156&s=<wbr></wbr>books&sr=1-1</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>How to Converse Continually and Familiarly with God</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> (booklet, short) by St Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/How-Converse-God-Alphonsus-Liguori-ebook/dp/B00ZB2IBT4/ref%3Dsr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords%3Dhow%2Bto%2Bconverse%2Bwith%2Bgod%2Bliguori%26qid%3D1553386618%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-1-fkmrnull&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNFV5QVipxhw8LtGpmVE1gaSF9n2CA" href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Converse-God-Alphonsus-Liguori-ebook/dp/B00ZB2IBT4/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=how+to+converse+with+god+liguori&qid=1553386618&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmrnull" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/How-Converse-God-<wbr></wbr>Alphonsus-Liguori-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B00ZB2IBT4/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_<wbr></wbr>1?keywords=how+to+converse+<wbr></wbr>with+god+liguori&qid=<wbr></wbr>1553386618&s=books&sr=1-1-<wbr></wbr>fkmrnull</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>The Secret of the Rosary </b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">by St Louis de Montfort</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>: </b></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rosary-Louis-Grignion-Montfort/dp/0899421083/ref%3Dsr_1_6?keywords%3Dthe%2Bsecret%2Bof%2Bthe%2Brosary%26qid%3D1553386261%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-6&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNE7qb_9tXmkYOq9yza8VLlSLmit_Q" href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rosary-Louis-Grignion-Montfort/dp/0899421083/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=the+secret+of+the+rosary&qid=1553386261&s=books&sr=1-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/Secret-Rosary-Louis-<wbr></wbr>Grignion-Montfort/dp/<wbr></wbr>0899421083/ref=sr_1_6?<wbr></wbr>keywords=the+secret+of+the+<wbr></wbr>rosary&qid=1553386261&s=books&<wbr></wbr>sr=1-6</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> or Download </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Free PDF</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.rosarybay.com/files/ebook/Secret_of_the_Rosary.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNEn_xT0fIoB5WnKHIK10VfsQ20wlw" href="https://www.rosarybay.com/files/ebook/Secret_of_the_Rosary.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.rosarybay.<wbr></wbr>com/files/ebook/Secret_of_the_<wbr></wbr>Rosary.pdf</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Come to Me in the Blessed Sacrament</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Come-Blessed-Sacrament-Eucharistic-Meditation/dp/0972351221/ref%3Dsr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid%3D3MBSESB50B1HT%26keywords%3Dcome%2Bto%2Bme%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bblessed%2Bsacrament%2Bbook%26qid%3D1553386148%26s%3Dbooks%26sprefix%3Dcome%2Bto%2Bme%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bbles%252Cstripbooks%252C167%26sr%3D1-1-fkmrnull&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNFe_FPxvox0rU1eNtSwM-wD09hfjg" href="https://www.amazon.com/Come-Blessed-Sacrament-Eucharistic-Meditation/dp/0972351221/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=3MBSESB50B1HT&keywords=come+to+me+in+the+blessed+sacrament+book&qid=1553386148&s=books&sprefix=come+to+me+in+the+bles%2Cstripbooks%2C167&sr=1-1-fkmrnull" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/Come-Blessed-Sacrament-<wbr></wbr>Eucharistic-Meditation/dp/<wbr></wbr>0972351221/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_<wbr></wbr>1?crid=3MBSESB50B1HT&keywords=<wbr></wbr>come+to+me+in+the+blessed+<wbr></wbr>sacrament+book&qid=1553386148&<wbr></wbr>s=books&sprefix=come+to+me+in+<wbr></wbr>the+bles%2Cstripbooks%2C167&<wbr></wbr>sr=1-1-fkmrnull</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Prayers and Heavenly Promises</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Prayers-Heavenly-Promises-Joan-Carroll/dp/089555397X/ref%3Dsr_1_1_sspa?keywords%3Dprayers%2Band%2Bheavenly%2Bpromises%26qid%3D1553386359%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-1-spons%26psc%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNF0x3SGN8QHyUDYk9Y8Yyg_APBaJg" href="https://www.amazon.com/Prayers-Heavenly-Promises-Joan-Carroll/dp/089555397X/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=prayers+and+heavenly+promises&qid=1553386359&s=books&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/Prayers-Heavenly-Promises-<wbr></wbr>Joan-Carroll/dp/089555397X/<wbr></wbr>ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=<wbr></wbr>prayers+and+heavenly+promises&<wbr></wbr>qid=1553386359&s=books&sr=1-1-<wbr></wbr>spons&psc=1</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read Diary of St. Maria Faustina, Apostle of Mercy (possibly future Doctor of the Church) </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Divine Mercy in My Soul</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Divine-Mercy-My-Soul/dp/1596141107/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3Ddiary%2Bof%2Bsaint%2Bmaria%2Bfaustina%26qid%3D1553387308%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-1&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNGhLYfIgSAGSxdX7sE9DjZX6LdQWQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Diary-Divine-Mercy-My-Soul/dp/1596141107/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=diary+of+saint+maria+faustina&qid=1553387308&s=books&sr=1-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Diary-Divine-Mercy-My-Soul/dp/<wbr></wbr>1596141107/ref=sr_1_1?<wbr></wbr>keywords=diary+of+saint+maria+<wbr></wbr>faustina&qid=1553387308&s=<wbr></wbr>books&sr=1-1</span></a></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Interview with an Exorcist </b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">(the introduction of this is extremely good and inspirational): </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Interview-Exorcist-Insiders-Possession-Deliverance/dp/1932645969/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3Dinterview%2Bwith%2Ban%2Bexorcist%26qid%3D1553386805%26s%3Dgateway%26sr%3D8-1&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNEyBc_ZgJ06YFJItt-XMlKrDGxbcA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Interview-Exorcist-Insiders-Possession-Deliverance/dp/1932645969/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=interview+with+an+exorcist&qid=1553386805&s=gateway&sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.<wbr></wbr>amazon.com/Interview-Exorcist-<wbr></wbr>Insiders-Possession-<wbr></wbr>Deliverance/dp/1932645969/ref=<wbr></wbr>sr_1_1?keywords=interview+<wbr></wbr>with+an+exorcist&qid=<wbr></wbr>1553386805&s=gateway&sr=8-1</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Visits to the Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> by St. Alphonsus Liguori: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Visits-Blessed-Sacrament-Supplemental-Reading-ebook/dp/B00ET69DE0/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3DVisits%2Bto%2Bthe%2BBlessed%2BSacrament%2Band%2Bthe%2BBlessed%2BVirgin%2BMary%26qid%3D1553388321%26s%3Ddigital-text%26sr%3D1-1-catcorr&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNFXzrn-tXKzYvdiDaoMvclvbvTJmA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Visits-Blessed-Sacrament-Supplemental-Reading-ebook/dp/B00ET69DE0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Visits+to+the+Blessed+Sacrament+and+the+Blessed+Virgin+Mary&qid=1553388321&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/Visits-Blessed-Sacrament-<wbr></wbr>Supplemental-Reading-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B00ET69DE0/ref=sr_1_1?<wbr></wbr>keywords=Visits+to+the+<wbr></wbr>Blessed+Sacrament+and+the+<wbr></wbr>Blessed+Virgin+Mary&qid=<wbr></wbr>1553388321&s=digital-text&sr=<wbr></wbr>1-1-catcorr</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>this website about the Holy Face of Jesus: </b></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://holyfacedevotion.com/&source=gmail&ust=1553536818899000&usg=AFQjCNEYdZdK2tOGseLpyvcaMCY_hH4xcg" href="http://holyfacedevotion.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">http://<wbr></wbr>holyfacedevotion.com/</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>The Imitation of Mary</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Imitation-Mary-Alexander-Rouville/dp/0899423302?SubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0899423302&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNFCPvXXsna-NiXOrisWGsb0UOd5jw" href="https://www.amazon.com/Imitation-Mary-Alexander-Rouville/dp/0899423302?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=0899423302" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Imitation-Mary-Alexander-<wbr></wbr>Rouville/dp/0899423302?<wbr></wbr>SubscriptionId=<wbr></wbr>AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=<wbr></wbr>duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&<wbr></wbr>camp=2025&creative=165953&<wbr></wbr>creativeASIN=0899423302</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>It's Time to Meet Saint Philomena</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: (I've read many books on this Saint, I have even written a book recounting the miracles she worked in my life, and although this one is short, it is the best of all of them, so much so that a decade ago when I went to her Shrine in Italy, which I do not recommend now for the great danger that would pose to you given the heightened violent activity and occult activity of Italy today, but there are still many devotions to her that you can practice and see many miracles take place in your life. If you want to pray for wisdom, ask her, I have every confidence she will obtain it for you. That dear holy and powerful Saint Philomena, the Wonder-worker.) </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Time-Meet-St-Philomena-ebook/dp/B00C8U3K6Q/ref%3Dsr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords%3Dits%2Btime%2Bto%2Bmeet%2Bsaint%2Bphilomena%26qid%3D1553389944%26s%3Dgateway%26sr%3D8-1-fkmrnull&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNG0LY6Ca3adqT5suzzAOjtBCGFkvQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Meet-St-Philomena-ebook/dp/B00C8U3K6Q/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=its+time+to+meet+saint+philomena&qid=1553389944&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.<wbr></wbr>amazon.com/Time-Meet-St-<wbr></wbr>Philomena-ebook/dp/B00C8U3K6Q/<wbr></wbr>ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=<wbr></wbr>its+time+to+meet+saint+<wbr></wbr>philomena&qid=1553389944&s=<wbr></wbr>gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read St. Therese of Liseux, Doctor of the Church, </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Story of a Soul</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Story-Soul-Autobiography-Little-Classics/dp/0895551551/ref%3Dsr_1_2_sspa?keywords%3Dstory%2Bof%2Ba%2Bsoul%26qid%3D1553387125%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-2-spons%26psc%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNHXj4tLTDA4R-kaVO29544TDZDPNA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Story-Soul-Autobiography-Little-Classics/dp/0895551551/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?keywords=story+of+a+soul&qid=1553387125&s=books&sr=1-2-spons&psc=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Story-Soul-Autobiography-<wbr></wbr>Little-Classics/dp/0895551551/<wbr></wbr>ref=sr_1_2_sspa?keywords=<wbr></wbr>story+of+a+soul&qid=<wbr></wbr>1553387125&s=books&sr=1-2-<wbr></wbr>spons&psc=1</a></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;">Read <b>Hell Plus How to Avoid Hell: </b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.ca/Hell-How-Avoid-F-Schouppe/dp/0895553465&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNEER0f9bu8fl-sR-qijYPD_hzUoIA" href="https://www.amazon.ca/Hell-How-Avoid-F-Schouppe/dp/0895553465" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.ca/<wbr></wbr>Hell-How-Avoid-F-Schouppe/dp/<wbr></wbr>0895553465</a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>An Easy Way to Become a Saint</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> (and take notes on this book; i keep all my notes in Evernote.com, a free note taking service that, as far as I can tell, does not read one's notes like many online companies, making them useless for religious purposes -- as they all hate religion and penalize you for being religious. Evernote doesn't examine yourself without telling you unless you call attention to yourself. Therefore, you can also keep your prayers organized with Evernote): </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Way-Become-Saint-ebook/dp/B00U0I699S?SubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00U0I699S&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNFC0ZIAafzKTaXTvGL7_I9Zuwr0nQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Way-Become-Saint-ebook/dp/B00U0I699S?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00U0I699S" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/Easy-Way-Become-Saint-<wbr></wbr>ebook/dp/B00U0I699S?<wbr></wbr>SubscriptionId=<wbr></wbr>AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=<wbr></wbr>duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&<wbr></wbr>camp=2025&creative=165953&<wbr></wbr>creativeASIN=B00U0I699S</a></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;">Read <b>The Number of Sins Beyond Which God Pardons No More</b> (short read, homily) by St. Alphonsus Liguori: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.boldradish.com/2018/11/the-number-of-sins-beyond-which-god.html&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNGv-VCEZ3zsFdkVEpHmB5Hlg-14Rw" href="http://www.boldradish.com/2018/11/the-number-of-sins-beyond-which-god.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>boldradish.com/2018/11/the-<wbr></wbr>number-of-sins-beyond-which-<wbr></wbr>god.html</a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Abandonment to Divine Providence</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> (Free PDF): </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/abandonment.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNGUBPfNff05WURMokrNUgMlzfKFNg" href="https://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/abandonment.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.<wbr></wbr>catholicspiritualdirection.<wbr></wbr>org/abandonment.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> or Book: </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Abandonment-Divine-Providence-Jean-Pierre-Caussade/dp/1495915352/ref%3Dsr_1_1_sspa?keywords%3DAbandonment%2BTo%2BDivine%2BProvidence%26qid%3D1553386937%26s%3Dbooks%26sr%3D1-1-spons%26psc%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNE8w6wcK4ey0pf4RkVgLHKlB97JRQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Abandonment-Divine-Providence-Jean-Pierre-Caussade/dp/1495915352/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=Abandonment+To+Divine+Providence&qid=1553386937&s=books&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Abandonment-Divine-Providence-<wbr></wbr>Jean-Pierre-Caussade/dp/<wbr></wbr>1495915352/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?<wbr></wbr>keywords=Abandonment+To+<wbr></wbr>Divine+Providence&qid=<wbr></wbr>1553386937&s=books&sr=1-1-<wbr></wbr>spons&psc=1</a></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>The Wonders of the Holy Name</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: (this saved my life once, I'm glad I read it): </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Wonders-Holy-Name-Rev-OSullivan-ebook/dp/B00T59F3UO?SubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00T59F3UO&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNHqgbbKMaSpYxP1mii9kdQFcBFaNA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Wonders-Holy-Name-Rev-OSullivan-ebook/dp/B00T59F3UO?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00T59F3UO" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Wonders-Holy-Name-Rev-<wbr></wbr>OSullivan-ebook/dp/B00T59F3UO?<wbr></wbr>SubscriptionId=<wbr></wbr>AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=<wbr></wbr>duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&<wbr></wbr>camp=2025&creative=165953&<wbr></wbr>creativeASIN=B00T59F3UO</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>The Philokalia, Vol 4</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> (I recommend starting at Vol 4 as that volume has information on noetics and how to have a religious experience with God, and you can get the $1 Kindle version even if you don't own a Kindle by reading it with amazon's free Kindle reader which they will give you for your computer, although you can read all the volumes if you want): </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Philokalia-Complete-Compiled-Nikodimos-Markarios/dp/057119382X?SubscriptionId%3DAKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q%26tag%3Dduckduckgo-d-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D057119382X&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNHYkhpLl6W38LVk31U5tMBgxG9FEA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Philokalia-Complete-Compiled-Nikodimos-Markarios/dp/057119382X?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=057119382X" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Philokalia-Complete-Compiled-<wbr></wbr>Nikodimos-Markarios/dp/<wbr></wbr>057119382X?SubscriptionId=<wbr></wbr>AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=<wbr></wbr>duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&<wbr></wbr>camp=2025&creative=165953&<wbr></wbr>creativeASIN=057119382X</a></span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>All About the Angels</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> and anything else by Fr Paul O'Sullivan: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/All-about-Angels-Paul-OSullivan-ebook/dp/B00R38E8PA/ref%3Dsr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords%3Dall%2Babout%2Bthe%2Bangels%2Bfor%2Bo%2527sullivan%26qid%3D1553387670%26s%3Ddigital-text%26sr%3D1-1-fkmrnull&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNEEizO6uvYq6_ff6Yp-ppFAQMoHJA" href="https://www.amazon.com/All-about-Angels-Paul-OSullivan-ebook/dp/B00R38E8PA/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=all+about+the+angels+for+o%27sullivan&qid=1553387670&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-fkmrnull" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.<wbr></wbr>amazon.com/All-about-Angels-<wbr></wbr>Paul-OSullivan-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B00R38E8PA/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_<wbr></wbr>1?keywords=all+about+the+<wbr></wbr>angels+for+o%27sullivan&qid=<wbr></wbr>1553387670&s=digital-text&sr=<wbr></wbr>1-1-fkmrnull</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>201 Inspirational Stories About the Eucharist</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Inspirational-Stories-Eucharist-Patricia-Proctor-ebook/dp/B00B6ACO34/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3D201%2Bstories%2Bof%2Bthe%2Beucharist%26qid%3D1553387716%26s%3Ddigital-text%26sr%3D1-1-catcorr&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNG18qMDCiCTOL5CJP24cayS_00G3A" href="https://www.amazon.com/Inspirational-Stories-Eucharist-Patricia-Proctor-ebook/dp/B00B6ACO34/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=201+stories+of+the+eucharist&qid=1553387716&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.<wbr></wbr>com/Inspirational-Stories-<wbr></wbr>Eucharist-Patricia-Proctor-<wbr></wbr>ebook/dp/B00B6ACO34/ref=sr_1_<wbr></wbr>1?keywords=201+stories+of+the+<wbr></wbr>eucharist&qid=1553387716&s=<wbr></wbr>digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>101 Inspirational Stories of Reconciliation: I came that they might have life and have it to the full</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/101-Inspirational-Stories-Power-Reconciliation-ebook/dp/B00B55ISF8/ref%3Dpd_sim_351_3/131-0200088-8522217?_encoding%3DUTF8%26pd_rd_i%3DB00B55ISF8%26pd_rd_r%3Db42177e5-4dcc-11e9-83a4-f7db3cd6a126%26pd_rd_w%3DsL5RB%26pd_rd_wg%3DAyBxV%26pf_rd_p%3D90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30%26pf_rd_r%3DVBMGXDNJVBY7Q5PD3AHF%26psc%3D1%26refRID%3DVBMGXDNJVBY7Q5PD3AHF&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNE_DVlZqxoBpw5XL0_Fyw0NnuEnhA" href="https://www.amazon.com/101-Inspirational-Stories-Power-Reconciliation-ebook/dp/B00B55ISF8/ref=pd_sim_351_3/131-0200088-8522217?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00B55ISF8&pd_rd_r=b42177e5-4dcc-11e9-83a4-f7db3cd6a126&pd_rd_w=sL5RB&pd_rd_wg=AyBxV&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=VBMGXDNJVBY7Q5PD3AHF&psc=1&refRID=VBMGXDNJVBY7Q5PD3AHF" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>101-Inspirational-Stories-<wbr></wbr>Power-Reconciliation-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B00B55ISF8/ref=pd_sim_351_3/<wbr></wbr>131-0200088-8522217?_encoding=<wbr></wbr>UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00B55ISF8&pd_rd_<wbr></wbr>r=b42177e5-4dcc-11e9-83a4-<wbr></wbr>f7db3cd6a126&pd_rd_w=sL5RB&pd_<wbr></wbr>rd_wg=AyBxV&pf_rd_p=90485860-<wbr></wbr>83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&<wbr></wbr>pf_rd_r=VBMGXDNJVBY7Q5PD3AHF&<wbr></wbr>psc=1&refRID=<wbr></wbr>VBMGXDNJVBY7Q5PD3AHF</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Nihilism: The Root of Revolution in the Modern Age</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> by Fr Seraphim Rose to learn about why our society is the way it is (including with such horrendous, awful false "advice" -- even why people drive like they're out to die, and why people do kill themselves with drugs and alcohol, and destroy their souls with ever means imaginable, it just explains why society is the way it is): </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Nihilism-Root-Revolution-Modern-Age/dp/0938635158/ref%3Dsr_1_2?keywords%3Dnihilism%2Bseraphim%2Brose%26qid%3D1553387891%26s%3Ddigital-text%26sr%3D1-2-catcorr&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNF5tScAlHCD7L38Y8j37k0DDfpZfQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Nihilism-Root-Revolution-Modern-Age/dp/0938635158/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=nihilism+seraphim+rose&qid=1553387891&s=digital-text&sr=1-2-catcorr" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Nihilism-Root-Revolution-<wbr></wbr>Modern-Age/dp/0938635158/ref=<wbr></wbr>sr_1_2?keywords=nihilism+<wbr></wbr>seraphim+rose&qid=1553387891&<wbr></wbr>s=digital-text&sr=1-2-catcorr</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read St.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>Padre Pio's Words of Hope</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Padre-Pios-Words-Eileen-Bertanzetti-ebook/dp/B006TZCIYQ/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3Dpadre%2Bpio%2527s%2Bwords%2Bof%2Bhope%26qid%3D1553388187%26s%3Ddigital-text%26sr%3D1-1-catcorr&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNG2k1bxp6M5FkOd6Z3EnB311EOwDA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Padre-Pios-Words-Eileen-Bertanzetti-ebook/dp/B006TZCIYQ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=padre+pio%27s+words+of+hope&qid=1553388187&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Padre-Pios-Words-Eileen-<wbr></wbr>Bertanzetti-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B006TZCIYQ/ref=sr_1_1?<wbr></wbr>keywords=padre+pio%27s+words+<wbr></wbr>of+hope&qid=1553388187&s=<wbr></wbr>digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>An Exorcist Tells His Story</b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> by Fr Amorth (ignore the introduction not written by him): </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Exorcist-Tells-His-Story-ebook/dp/B0167ND1LS/ref%3Dsr_1_1?keywords%3Dan%2Bexorcist%2Btells%2Bhis%2Bstory%26qid%3D1553388001%26s%3Ddigital-text%26sr%3D1-1-catcorr&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNGv7vs-k7sTi7KzFC_kRJPdPIZRNQ" href="https://www.amazon.com/Exorcist-Tells-His-Story-ebook/dp/B0167ND1LS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=an+exorcist+tells+his+story&qid=1553388001&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Exorcist-Tells-His-Story-<wbr></wbr>ebook/dp/B0167ND1LS/ref=sr_1_<wbr></wbr>1?keywords=an+exorcist+tells+<wbr></wbr>his+story&qid=1553388001&s=<wbr></wbr>digital-text&sr=1-1-catcorr</span></a><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"> <wbr></wbr>and </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;"><b>An Exorcist: More Stories </b></span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">(ignore the introduction not written by him): </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Excorcist-More-Stories-Gabriele-Amorth-ebook/dp/B01AYEYFSO/ref%3Dsxbs_sxwds-stvp?pd_rd_i%3DB01AYEYFSO%26pd_rd_r%3D347594ed-f78f-4ead-9623-e00181ece15f%26pd_rd_w%3DsgG2i%26pd_rd_wg%3DnZVJm%26pf_rd_p%3D5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11%26pf_rd_r%3DXGNZ42R4Q7CQSFRTNQRR%26qid%3D1553388067%26refinements%3Dp_27%253AGabrielle%2BAmorth%26s%3Ddigital-text%26text%3DGabrielle%2BAmorth&source=gmail&ust=1553536818900000&usg=AFQjCNGEomHEBowOl1_NPSc9Jc5Zqtw_tA" href="https://www.amazon.com/Excorcist-More-Stories-Gabriele-Amorth-ebook/dp/B01AYEYFSO/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?pd_rd_i=B01AYEYFSO&pd_rd_r=347594ed-f78f-4ead-9623-e00181ece15f&pd_rd_w=sgG2i&pd_rd_wg=nZVJm&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pf_rd_r=XGNZ42R4Q7CQSFRTNQRR&qid=1553388067&refinements=p_27%3AGabrielle+Amorth&s=digital-text&text=Gabrielle+Amorth" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #1155cc; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">https://www.amazon.com/<wbr></wbr>Excorcist-More-Stories-<wbr></wbr>Gabriele-Amorth-ebook/dp/<wbr></wbr>B01AYEYFSO/ref=sxbs_sxwds-<wbr></wbr>stvp?pd_rd_i=B01AYEYFSO&pd_rd_<wbr></wbr>r=347594ed-f78f-4ead-9623-<wbr></wbr>e00181ece15f&pd_rd_w=sgG2i&pd_<wbr></wbr>rd_wg=nZVJm&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-<wbr></wbr>2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&<wbr></wbr>pf_rd_r=XGNZ42R4Q7CQSFRTNQRR&<wbr></wbr>qid=1553388067&refinements=p_<wbr></wbr>27%3AGabrielle+Amorth&s=<wbr></wbr>digital-text&text=Gabrielle+<wbr></wbr>Amorth</span></a></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; margin: 0px;">Read anything about or by St Maximillian Kolbe, Concentration Camp Martyr during World War 2, who willingly traded his life to save the lives of others and who brought peace to many who were suffering in the camp with him.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Because our world is a whirlwind of worthless and destructive advice and garbage that destroys souls, and ... I know from evaluating myself, there is no reason that I should have the joy of knowing God while others are lost. They are not better than me. I know without God, I am a sinner, and worthless, and foolish. I know it is only God Who has put anything in my soul and freed me from any curse and sin. And so I know that I must pray for souls, and because of Jesus' kindness, He will save souls from Hell. Even if they have to go to Purgatory, even bad purgatory, it at least will only last a little while.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Many souls are lost because not enough people pray and realize the value of prayer. Salvation of souls depends on our prayer. When God gives you wisdom, you will understand this.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Encouraging words, my guardian angel helped me write, and you can read these whenever you need to be encouraged to pursuit prayer and holy reading and the work of your salvation, which helps save many souls: </span><span style="margin: 0px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">you can pretend to yourself</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">that your prayers don't matter,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">that what you do doesn't matter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">But you know that </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">your prayers are effecting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">and have effected</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">many many lives,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">people you don't know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">people in Purgatory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">people God seems to have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">gone out of His Way to hide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">from your eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">because He loves faith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">so He wanted you to have faith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">because He loves you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">and wants to make you pleasing to Him with your faith in Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">you can pretend anything you want</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">but you</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0px;">know </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">prayer is the most important thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">a human being can do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">it changes -- not just lives,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">it changes</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px;">eternities</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">it is the difference between</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Heaven and Hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">that is how much power</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">God gives to His Children</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">in prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">that's why those saints kept Jesus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">company in the Eucharist 2-3 hours a day:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">that time is how</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px;">they saved the world</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">if you want to pretend that's not true</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">it's because you don't want to look at—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">you choose to be blind to—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">all the power, all the force</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">God gave to you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">— yes, you, specifically —</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">to help Him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">save souls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">through your</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">prayer & adoration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">all you have to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">is humble yourself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">and</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0px;">ask Him</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">to save souls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">and then He does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">In the evening, I saw the Lord Jesus upon the cross. From His hands, feet, and side the Most Sacred Blood was flowing. After some time, Jesus said to me, </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px;">All this is for the salvation of souls. Consider well, My daughter, what you are doing for their salvation.</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">I answered, “Jesus, when I look at Your suffering, I see that I am doing next to nothing for the salvation of souls.” And the Lord said to me,</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px;">Know, My daughter, that your silent day-to-day martyrdom in complete submission to My will ushers many souls into heaven. And when it seems to you that your suffering exceeds your strength, contemplate My wounds, and you will rise above human scorn and judgment. Meditation on My Passion will help you rise above all things</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">(</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; margin: 0px;">Diary</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "georgia" , serif , serif , "emojifont"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">, 1184).</span></div>
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