“I AM THE LORD THY GOD, thou shalt not have strange gods before ME.”
“No man or thing should be treated as a god. This Statement holds fast and true to any vocation of life.”
“IT’S TIME TO FACE FACTS”
“A man or woman learns a profession so he or she will be able to earn a living or use this profession to fulfill what he or she feels they are capable of doing in their physical lifetime. Some people choose engineering, some law, some medicine, some merchandising, some clerical, some mechanics of some form or other, some science, some factory work, some social work, some just dealing with children, some teaching people of different ages particular subjects. Some, based on their background, choose counseling to help other people. The professions and vocations in life are numerous, and each one has its place in our system of economics and personal need and development.
The vocation and purpose for the religious life has its importance along with its first purpose, and that is to serve God through mankind. The Priesthood has, since Christ’s time and because of Christ, automatically been the recipient of respect, in spite of what an individual truly felt about the character of the priest. Also, some women chose the religious vocation for many reasons. This does not say that all things done by the people in the religious vocation were as the laity would have liked them to be, but time passes and people move on to other things and other relationships, making time a tremendous barrier to man’s questionable relationship with someone, to a more productive agreeable relationship with others involved in religious vocations.
It is innate in man to love goodness, to respect goodness, and to want to be where good is. It is also innate in man to refrain from face to face combat or debate when there is a disagreement on Spiritual conflicting thoughts, reasonings and credibility. It does happen, but not frequently, in our time anyhow, and that is where we have all been remiss in false respect, or have used a placating manner with the clergy to avoid confrontation, not because we felt the person in this vocation was totally correct, but it was almost like the respect outweighed what truly mattered. In this, we were all wrong.
Like any other profession or vocation, it has its high points and it has its low points. It has qualified people and unqualified people. It has its person or persons who can make an organization successful by their very presence, their conduct, their ability to perform, and then there are others who, with all the ability in the world, seem to confuse important issues, whether it is because of personal ego or too much self-love, or too high of personal opinion of their theological learning, causing them to treat others with little respect or none at all, even those who are equal in intelligence or even wiser in the given subject matter that is causing the controversy or tearing apart the Organization.
In each of the different vocations or professions, we look for the best when we need the service of any one of these or more than one of these people for specific results, because we instinctively know that an individual can be like one bad apple in a barrel; before you know it, the whole barrel is unusable, worthless.
For two thousand years, Holy Mother Church has had Its ups and downs, and has had Its good priests and Its on the fence priests. The Soundness upon which Holy Mother Church was established, and the basic structure, God Himself, has been the Force of energy, stability, and real sound Foundation that has caused It to live on in spite of so many corrupt men, and so much in-house necessary changes that had to be made for the sake of the Institution.
In our time of life, we must ask ourselves as Roman Catholics: ‘Have we been just to the clergy and to other Roman Catholics by being remiss in our responsibilities, by not standing up to the unwarranted sacrilegious behavior of the Hierarchy and clergy of Holy Mother Church, where there has been unorthodox forced participation on the body of the Church, emphasizing humanistic practices, replacing the concentration on the Sanctity of one’s Soul?’
Because of so much forced involvement of so many lay persons, for reasons never truly or clearly discussed with the body of the Church, there is and has been a tremendous amount of distraction and confusion during Holy Mass, almost a battle of wits between the celebrant and the body of the Church, because the celebrant forgot the real vocation he accepted, and that was to serve God through mankind, and not become a dictator to the body of the Church, but a man in service, example of charity, teaching, and directing the body of the Church in dignity, to fulfill the obligation to God according to God’s Third Commandment, plus helping the body of the Church to strengthen their Faith in God by concentrating on the benefits of the Order of Holy Mass, and by expressing silently and physically, plus verbally, the Importance of the Consecration of the bread and wine into The Body and Blood of Christ.
No one is alone in their upsets, mentally and physically, that they feel and felt within their beings, when this Important Part of Holy Mass began to be, and is treated with such indifference, and with such a lack of Sound Faith in what It is all about.
We must understand, it was not just a physical upset, hurt, or feeling of resentment in the body of the Church, but it was the Soul, our Soul that responded to the callous neglect to such a sensitive Important Portion of God that our Soul is connected to.
Somewhere, somehow, there is a way to re-establish the beauty, the purpose, and the strength, that was instituted by Christ Himself, which has been strong at times in Holy Mother Church, and has at times hung by a thread in Holy Mother Church. At the present time, it is the thread we must cut, and once again stand on the Foundation for which Holy Mother Church was established and instituted, and once again clean up any residue that humanism has put in Holy Mother Church, and see that only God, Our Heavenly Mother, and The Saints, are given the Places of Honor that Each One must have.
Holy Mother Church is the Light of Christianity, and we as the body of the Church, must see that God is First in the hearts and the minds of all men, women and children, and that humanism cannot be allowed to supersede God’s Place in His Church.
Each human being is the custodian of his or her Soul that is the Divine Portion of God, that He entrusted each person to care for, so that this Soul would be returned to Him one day, bearing the name of the individual to whom God gave It, so that one day when Judgment was to be made, the Soul being judged would be recognizable by the name It bore.
Men forget that the body will return to dust, and the Soul must return to God.”