“Without a doubt, we live in one of the most morally tragic, disastrous times in Modern History.

In so many ways and in so many areas, there is a scale used and referred to as someone or something rated on the scale of 1 to 10.

If we apply this scale to our personal moral behavior, what would we use as a base of standard and value?

How many people would use God’s Commandments as their moral value and moral standard?

How many people would use just their environment as their base of opinion and rating?

How many people would claim that they are subjected to so many temptations that they cannot be accountable or blamed for their inappropriate lack of access to the better things in life, so they do not fall into a category that is demeaning and/or immoral to their mental, physical and Spiritual living?

How many people understand the value of hope, how much strength there is in its very existence, its purpose, and how hope motivates encouragement, purpose, and how hope gives balance to existence?

How many people never relate to hope but exist in a total world of depression, ultimately making everyone else around them miserable, hopeless, frustrated, and finally in a state of confusion?

How many people truly understand that there is the opposite, total opposite to good and to purity? Denial of this does not make it nonexistent.

How many people play both sides of the fence, justifying a double standard for their decisions because they feel that the times we live in, with all that is going on, with all they are subjected to, and because there is so much corruption in so many areas of life, they are forced to be committed to sometimes understanding, sometimes participating, sometimes just acknowledging the necessity for the need of the justification of wrong over right?

How many Roman Catholics, who have been instructed in God’s Commandments, stand up for sound moral values and sound moral standards?

It would be wrong to limit one’s Examination of Conscience to just this time of the year, Holy Week. Each day of living, each day facing decisions, an individual must base all decisions on one’s own belief in the True Existence of God and the True Existence of His Commandments.”