Teachings

"MY LETTER TO GOD"

“Dear God, I know I must always keep before me the truth that my life has an Ultimate Purpose for it, and I will be judged by You for how I used my whole life. To be more explicit: How I spent all of my time. How I used my Faith. How I used my talents. How I handled responsibilities. The full use of my knowledge. The sound standards and sound values for my senses. The places and areas I involved my abilities. How I upheld the dignity of my vocation. The full use of my will — my ‘Line…

"AN ALARM IS RINGING"

The act of stripping things causes a dramatic effect. It accentuates change, and many times promotes indecencies, immodesties, indignities, misunderstanding, impurities, impracticalities, impatience, and bespeaks sterility. The action of making things bare, also can make them barren. Stripping makes things colorless, lacking beauty, and makes them void of action. The strippings that have taken place in Holy Mother Church are creating a colorless and cold atmosphere. Stripping the temple, the church, the edifice, of statues, kneelers, candles, dignity, stability, sound standards, sound values, with little or no reminders of Who God Is, our need for dependency upon Him, the beauty…

Is your crutch one of these words, or both of them? IF or BUT As you use these words, do you find justification in them and with them, for your lack of Faith, lack of understanding in how God would work, or your lack of faith in other people; or, by the use of them, do you feel you are covering all angles in case the statement you make is not altogether true? These words are small, often used, and most of the time justify negative approach, negative feelings, negative circumstances, or negative faith. Sometimes people say beautiful words, giving…

“What does this mean to you? Some people have an alibi for every moment of their lives, and for everything they don’t do or do. An alibi says you are covering your action — good or bad — with reason, place or things, most times unrelated to the question at hand. Alibi can also be just plain lies.” “Stop blaming your actions, or lack of action, on circumstances, people and environment. Start with your own will, and there is a good chance you will find you are ignoring logic and truth, or you are afraid of logic and truth, or…

“I don’t care. I don’t feel it is important. I’m too tired to bother. It costs too much. These phrases, decisions, cliché​s, draw conclusions, never solutions. Wouldn’t it be a terrible thing to hear God say, ‘I don’t care.’ This is an unthinkable statement when we connect it to God. Caring takes time, effort, self-discipline, self-control, involvement, charity, love, concern, understanding, sincerity and justice. Caring takes less time than not caring, because while all the talk, unkindness, disagreement, fussing, hurt and brutality is taking place, the situation could be solved, celebrated instead of ignored or dismissed, or the progress could…

Why do men close out this thought: Example is the greatest teacher? Why do men diminish the value of example? Why do men forfeit leadership to others through and with poor behavior, untidy habits, uncontrolled speech, immodesty, immoralities, impurities, a lack of manners, a lack of integrity, a lack of self-discipline? Why do some men use stubbornness instead of logic? Why do some men thrive on ego even when they know they are wrong, and that their ego has no substantial foundation to reality? Why do men think practical and omit logical? Why do men refuse to say, I dont…

For Lent, let us take as our Guide, the Ten Commandments. Let us use These as our means of examination of conscience daily. The greatest step to true reparation, penance, charity, love and obedience, begins with our love for purity, and there is no greater way to purity than to climb the ladder, day by day, rejecting, relinquishing, casting aside, dismissing, omitting, our wrong thoughts, our wrong actions, and our wrong deeds. Obedience to the Ten Commandments can become a way of life, rather than just at times when we feel conscience bound to correct our weaknesses, our errors, our…

"DON'T MISTAKE EVANGELISM AS THE GOSPEL TRUTH"

America has more than its share of evangelists. Evangelism, in the category it is now, shouts personal opinion, emotionalism, interpretation, translation, righteousness, ego, pride, self-love, and promotes power beyond human ability. Evangelism is, in many ways, a sham. Many men have taken up evangelism to support their own needs, to create an atmosphere of glory around themselves. In most cases they are playing a hypocritical game. They rest their hands on the Bible and use this as their leaning post, guide and excuse. Their audiences are duped into believing that the evangelist has supernatural power. God does not hand out…

"LET'S TALK ABOUT VATICAN II"

The broadness of Vatican II shows Protestant influence and much evidence of liberal thinking, opinions and cleverness. It is obviously the written word to justify actions that allow a generous field to express individualistic freedom with the facade of righteousness, and stressing liberalism controlled by Hierarchy decisions. Copies of Vatican II have been distributed and many people have read the words of Vatican II. Time has shown that men in the Church theorized, analyzed and acted with Vatican II in mind, but the results we are stuck with are the results of men who took the inch Vatican II implied,…

"FAITH"

Our Faith can be compared to a diamond in the rough, an uncut diamond. The value is there, but not the real evidence of it. It takes our living our Faith for it to show. The action of our Faith cuts the diamond and causes facets to appear. As each facet shows itself, our Faith gets more valuable, brighter, and shows to others its increase in worth. Our Faith must be cut, polished, shined and insured. The basis of our Faith is our love for God. The beauty of our Faith is in our actions, our example, and our whole…

"NO GUESSWORK IN TRUE FAITH"

Theory is not solution. Opinion is not fact or truth. Interest is not always based on sincerity or loyalty. Involvement can come from selfish motives, greed, personal need, or ego. BUT Faith in God can be our means to Sainthood. Theory, opinion, interest and involvement are merely human traits, but our Faith in God establishes and motivates obedience, love, prayer and hope.

"GOD'S LOVE HAS GREAT PURPOSE"

About three thousand years ago, God gave to a man, Moses, the Ten Commandments for all men to live by. These Commandments were full of many, many definitions, descriptions, and each Commandment was elaborated upon to its fullest degree to cover every facet of mans life. As this passed from Moses to other men, the fullness became less and less. Gods intention for These Commandments, through the fullness He handed to Moses, was all that man would need to live by to become a Saint. There was nothing left out in guidance, and there were no paths of life omitted.…

"RESPONSIBILITY"

Responsibility is a continuous, constant part of life. It has its joys, fears, concerns and immediacy of action, throughout our day. Responsibility does not end with disagreement regarding responsible actions. Responsibility is an important part of our lives. It is truly a Gift from God to each of us. Responsibility has with it the need for stability, the need to take part, the need to be involved, the need for charity, the need for hope. Responsibility is not an ugly word or an undesirable part of our life, but in many ways responsibility is a life saver. To shirk responsibility…

"LOYALTY"

Loyalty has a very important place in our whole existence, but sometimes we place the role of loyalty only to human involvement, human dependency, human relationship. Loyalty is rarely openly associated with God, but it is time that we look at this in respect to our Faith in Him. We do not see our dependence upon God, but we believe in His Loyalty to us. We depend upon His Loyalty through what we know about Him, in the Teachings He gave to us, and in the promise that through our efforts, our Faith, that He will never be disloyal to…

"CONSCIENCE"

What does your conscience say to you? Do you recognize your conscience as your point of memory for your actions, your words and your Faith? Do you believe that your will governs your conscience or that your conscience governs your will? Do you examine your conscience every day? Do you see the correcting that has to be done when you examine your conscience? Do you make only resolutions where you know change is necessary? Do you ever commit yourself to solution where you feel change is necessary? Do you just make excuses where you know you are wrong? Have you…

"I AM A ROMAN CATHOLIC"

Do you know what this statement from you says to all who hear it? It not only defines a given Faith, but it stands up to be counted for a Particular Faith. Roman Catholicism is distinct, one on its own. It has purpose, primacy, a particular strength behind it, in it, for it. It has a positive description of its foundation, its format, its reason, its credibility, its standards, its values, its purpose. The solidarity of Roman Catholicism breaks into, forces entry, makes known, gives foundation to a truthful concept, a standard for Faith given through Perfect Example. As we…

"A LESSON IN SPIRITUALITY"

What does it mean to be a Spiritual child to a True Mystic? This, of course, has much more meaning to it than is conceivable to man. In the true sense of the words, a Spiritual child says this child, this individual must cooperate with the Spiritual Direction of the True Mystic, and cooperate in working for purification for the Soul. A Spiritual child is not just the receiver or the recipient, but is involved in the actual commitment, as an individual, to strive for Sainthood. To be a Spiritual child says the acceptance of Guidance for the good of…

"GOD'S JUSTICE IS ALL WE NEED"

Just what does your Faith consist of? Is it belief in God? Is it belief in a hopefulness? Is it belief in the power of man? Is it in knowledge? Is it in your own capabilities? For the most part, when we speak of Faith, we connect it to our Faith in God, our belief in Him, our dependence upon Him. This is the Faith we will talk about now, our Faith in God. First off, our Faith in God is our Faith primarily in His Existence, and then our dependence upon His Justice. It is innate in man to…

"YOU - YOUR SOUL - YOUR WILL"

“Stop thinking that your Soul is a Thing totally unrelated to your feelings, your Faith, your physical life. It is totally related. When we express one thought in the direction of God, through our human mind, our Soul immediately reacts to the slightest impulse in any direction we take toward God. Our Soul is not a dormant Part of our being.  Our Soul is a Full, True Spirit, connected to God through a means and a manner totally of His Will, His Making and His Love. We speak of our Soul; our Faith tells us we have a Soul.  It is innate…

"THERE ARE ANSWERS, THERE IS REASON, LOGIC REVEALS THE TRUTH, GOD IS SOLUTION"

“All people who find themselves wanting to evangelize to other people do not always have the background, the ability or the sound doctrine that is necessary to pass on to others what is good for their Spiritual life. Evangelism has been put on a wholesale market, putting personal feelings, desires, before a true concept of evangelism. In listening to all self-made evangelists, note that it is mostly expounding on things that they want others to believe in, to follow. It is not always a well-established format backed by authoritative knowledge. There is much guesswork in self-made evangelists, and of course,…