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<b> If I don’t say what you want to hear,<br> you will not listen to <br> what I have to say ...</b>Homiliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01542272816941410323noreply@blogger.comBlogger697125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-41444505653879206862017-06-17T20:36:00.001+02:002017-06-17T20:36:50.923+02:00Peter Kreeft - God and Suffering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-15810618504229944302016-12-15T21:17:00.000+01:002016-12-15T21:17:10.860+01:00Michael Voris in Poland - p.III.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Homiliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01542272816941410323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-3456597388315659882016-12-15T21:04:00.006+01:002016-12-15T21:04:49.740+01:00prof. Ryszard Legutko kolejny raz broni Polski w PE (14.12.2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Homiliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01542272816941410323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-38689210338557697812016-12-09T20:41:00.002+01:002016-12-09T20:47:11.554+01:00Michael Voris in Poland - p.I.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Homiliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01542272816941410323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-26137018231663196122016-11-15T01:37:00.001+01:002016-11-15T01:37:30.722+01:00The time of sifting. "... <span style="background-color: #f2e2c1; font-family: "sorts mill goudy" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> I believe God is going to reveal what is behind the “facade” of governments, institutions, and individual hearts. And this is why there are so many divisions in the Church and the world today: God is sifting His people."</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.markmallett.com/blog/unless-the-lord-build-it/">Unless the Lord Build It</a>Homiliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01542272816941410323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-69019877078664796152016-09-24T00:13:00.002+02:002016-09-24T00:13:57.697+02:00Religion Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-44208239408161379202016-03-31T20:51:00.001+02:002016-03-31T20:51:28.132+02:00A Tale of Five Popes and a Great Ship<br /><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">"No civilization in their right minds would ever choose to self-destruct. And yet, here we are in 2012 watching the Western world contracept itself out of existence, abort its future, vigorously debate the legalization of “mercy killing”, and impose these policies of “reproductive health care” upon the rest of the world (in exchange for receiving aid money). And yet, brothers and sisters, many in our Western culture view this as “progress” and a “right,” even though our populations are aging and—save for immigration—rapidly shrinking. We are virtually committing “suicide”.</span></b>KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-18544227370961068562016-02-03T04:37:00.001+01:002016-02-03T04:37:24.950+01:00Madness of the world is why Pope proposes us "jubilee year of Mercy"<div><br></div><div>diagnosis of madness ....</div><div><br></div><div>Perverse quest for crude, biological pleasure is pushing the whole western civilization into madness. Nobody is reacting, nobody is protesting being afraid to be accused of judgmentalism or rudeness. Political correctness and "niceness" are the most important and the only correct attitudes toward the capricious and decadent society. This seems to be a mass suicide; moral, cultural and sociological in an atmosphere of universal permissiveness .... And everybody seems to be happy and satisfied ... For how long?</div><div><br></div><div>Evil and immorality are becoming more and more arrogant and the moral tsunami going through the entire western civilization is leaving after its successive waves a total disaster and absolute ruins. It's a kind of well known truism that the civilization is dying ... </div><div><br></div><div>And people are "eating and drinking, selling and buying, planting and building" ..... being absolutely unaware of what is really going on with this perverse civilization. Like on the Titanic</div><div><br></div><div>Lc 17:26-30</div><div>"Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed."</div><div><br></div><div>See also here http://www.markmallett.com/blog/madness/</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3ER9-1_MjrU/VrF18nyNjLI/AAAAAAAAVIA/OXuuqHOi0hg/s640/blogger-image--4166076.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3ER9-1_MjrU/VrF18nyNjLI/AAAAAAAAVIA/OXuuqHOi0hg/s640/blogger-image--4166076.jpg"></a></div>Homiliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01542272816941410323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-24602252799791595702016-01-02T23:48:00.001+01:002016-01-02T23:48:06.666+01:00II Sunday of Christmas<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The words of today's Gospel are a repetition of what
we heard on the Christmas Day. It's a great hymn of St. John, where the author,
the youngest apostle of Christ gives us in full the profundity of the
theological truth about Jesus the Son of God - the Word made flesh, Light, Life
and Truth. These words are so beautiful and extremely profound, but it seems that
they are difficult to understand and sometimes, "<i>we let them pass by near or over our heads</i>." However, I think one
needs to grow up in a certain intelligence, to understand their depth and
surrender to their inner strength and power, so that they become full of
meaning and splendor for the listener. You have to let you be absorbed by its wisdom
and taste them slowly and without haste, like poetry, which reveals its profundity
only to experts. Unfortunately, we often cannot afford that, we are much too
busy and too rational.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What John the Apostle wants to tell us, is primarily a
bottomless truth about the mystery of the Incarnation, which becomes more
understandable when you combine it with the mystery of the Redemption. God
became man, lived in the human world, from His fullness He gave us "grace
upon grace". This alone can clarify and justify the coming of God into the
world in human flesh. All that we are and what we will be, all we have and we can
have, absolutely everything, we have from Him and through Him ...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sad and frightening truth, the truth that this God, God-Man, Who came to His
creature, by this creature was rejected, unrecognized, neglected, and even ... negated. It is, as if a product,
furniture, table, car produced by a human ... told the creator: "<b><i>I do
not know you, you do not exist, <u>I created you</u>, you're just a fabrication
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or "emancipation" with some incredibly perverse mentality reproach
and with absurd bitterness turn to their parents, saying: "I am in the
world where I did not ask to be! Why did you give me a birth? I do not know you
and do not I want to know you! And then, what parents can say? How can they respond
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salvation is God's will to rescue the man, but also at the beginning of the
story is a woman, the Mother, Mary. The beginning of the New Year is an
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attention toward motherhood, because at the beginning of every life is always
the Mother. Therefore, certainly not without reason, the Church did establish
on January 1 the Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Saint John
Paul II – Pope not without reason entrusted the new third millennium of
Christianity to Mary, the Mother of the God-Man, and also the Queen of Peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On December 8th, 2000 he prayed at the
Piazza di Spagna in Rome: "Mary Immaculate, we raise our eyes to you, and
please, help us in our fight against evil and present our contemporary world to
God. Keep us in your motherly care You Beautiful and Holy Virgin! Assist in the
ascent of the new millennium, clad in the humility that made you chosen in the
eyes of the Almighty. Let the fruit of the Jubilee Year will not be
destroyed." These years of the new millennium cannot remain just a memory.
Beginning of the New Year, may not be only an opportunity to enjoy our
celebrations during the New Year's Eve festivities with champagne. But this is
also undoubtedly an opportunity to start anew, under the care of That One, Whom
God himself chose to be at the beginning, that is the Mother. Let's use Her
intercession, because with Her motherly care, Her support and help at the
beginning of each New Year we can really start anew not only a year but the
whole of our life. We do not need to fear the Mother. She is the Mother of God,
so what can we expect from Her?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first day of the New Year is dedicated to Her. I wish all of you to be accepted
with your life in Her maternal care. I pray for you and I ask you to pray for
her intercession on my behalf. Happy New Year - with Mary, THEOTOKOS - the
Mother of God.</span></div>
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Mother of God? To answer that question
we first have to answer the question "Who is Jesus Christ? Our purpose
today is not to prove that Jesus is God or that Jesus is man. Given the
numerous references in the Bible, as Christians, we take that for granted.
Jesus Christ is both God and man. Our purpose today is to look at Jesus Christ
in order to answer the question how can Mary be the Mother of God?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Bible says that Jesus Christ, He who is God by
reason of His divine nature, became man by taking unto Himself human nature. That
is to say, God – a divine person – took unto Himself a human body with the same
structure and functions of the human body which each of us knows so well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He took unto himself a human soul, a human mind,
human feelings and emotions, no different from those with which we are endowed
with at birth. And when He did this, He did not thereby cease to be God. God,
whose nature is entirely spiritual, into whose make-up nothing bodily enters,
whose will power is omnipotent (that is to say all powerful, Almighty), whose
mind is omniscient (that is to say all knowing) and whose life had no beginning
and no end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jesus Christ is both God and man – As God Jesus
Christ is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient and eternal. At the same time, Jesus
Christ – as man is also mortal (as a human being he must eventually die), Jesus
is limited in His physical powers, capable of fatigue and pain, subject to
growth in bodily stature and human knowledge. The same as every other man in
everything but sin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This does not mean that His Divine nature became
human or that the infallible mind of God became fallible, or that the immortal
nature of God became subject to death. At the incarnation the divine was in no
way changed into the human. It does mean though that a Divine person really
possessed human nature with all of its limitations because a human being, Mary,
was His mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But because these two natures, Divine and Human are
possessed by the same person, Jesus Christ, then Mary who is Mother of His
human nature, is rightfully called the Mother of Jesus Christ, and since Jesus
Christ is God, she is rightfully called -
Mary, the Mother of God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many, however, who speak freely of Mary as mother of
Jesus, are hesitant to call her the Mother of God. They shouldn’t be. Otherwise
they do not have a full understanding of the meaning of the incarnation. There
is no good reason why a divine person, Jesus Christ, who is truly man, could
not be conceived and born according to this human nature.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This does not mean that His mother Mary, like some
goddess, would bring His divine nature into existence. It also does not mean
that as the mother of a divine person, she existed before him. Christ told us
that He existed before Abraham was born. As God, He is eternal; as man, He
began to live a human life when Mary conceived Him. Mary did not exist before
God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Catholics get this information concerning Mary and
Jesus – not from the Church teaching us as though the Bible did not exist, but
rather from the Church teaching us the full significance of what the Bible says
about Jesus and His mother Mary. About their relationship and what significance
Mary has for us today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mary as the Mother of God has an important
relationship to you and me in the world today. She is our Mother and as our
Mother she continually intercedes for us and leads us to her Son Jesus Christ. Since
the early days of the Church Christians have expressed Mary’s relationship to
us by addressing her with the title “Our Mother”. This, of course, does not say
that she was our mother in the natural sense of the term, but rather it is a
real spiritual relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just as St. Paul in speaking to the Corinthians said
“In Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you.” Mary could just as
truthfully say to all of us “In Christ Jesus, through my consent to your
redemption, I have begotten you”. She was associated in our regeneration by
giving us Jesus Christ. And when Jesus Christ on Calvary said to Mary “Woman,
behold your son” and to St. John “Behold your Mother” Jesus was proclaiming
this truth. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mary is our Mother. Christians have always
considered St. John as representing in person all those who are redeemed and
who look upon Mary as their “Mother”.
And so this scene at the cross is really the origin of our devotion to
Mary. Holy Mary, Mother of God, conceived without sin. Yes, conceived without
sin and sinless throughout her life. Full of Grace. God’s Grace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you wonder why this freedom of sin at the outset
of her life is so important and why Christians have always acclaimed her to
have been immaculate and unstained, the reason is that she was sinless in order
to be fit to become the mother of the Redeemer. Sinless, she was then worthy to
be associated with the Son of God in a most intimate relationship. In Mary
there was no shame of sin to reflect on her child. The flesh which the Holy One
took from her as His mother was the flesh of one who had never been – in any
sense – a sinner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The absence of sin in Mary meant holiness – a
holiness in which she steadily grew. When the time came for the angel of God to
visit her, he would salute her as “full of Grace” and “blessed among women.” Never
had a messenger from God addressed a human being in such language. There had to
be a good reason. There are two important points which must be kept in mind in
finding that reason. The first is that – God does nothing by chance or on the
spur of the moment. The Eternal God simply does not act that way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What God does in the world He has planned from the
beginning of time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">God did not just happen to send an angel to a small
Judean town looking for a nice Jewish girl whom He then selected to be the
Mother of the Messiah - after taking a
quick omniscient look over all the others and then making a quick decision –
there she is – she’s the one. No, the Virgin Mary, was in His mind from the
very beginning. When she came into existence it was to be as the Mother of God.
God only needed her approval. It was the first and only time that a son got to
choose his own mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second point is that when God gives anyone a
task to do, He also gives them the ability and wherewithal to do it right. In
other words, God, by His grace, makes us fit to fulfill all that He calls us to
do. We need only give our “yes” to God. God, then, who chose Mary to be Mother
of Jesus the Messiah, gave Her the grace, the blessedness and the holiness that
made her worthy of that great dignity. She was fit to be the Mother of God and
to receive God Himself into her bosom. All that was needed was her assent. Mary
said “Be it done unto me according to thy word” and the incarnation was
achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mary is the mother of Jesus Christ. She is not the
Mother of the Trinity but she is the Mother of Jesus. She is the Mother of God.
As the Mother of God and as our Mother she continues to intercede for us in
Heaven. She continues to lead us to her Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ. Holy Mary,
Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">May God, through the intercession of His Blessed
Mother Mary, bless you abundantly in this new year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Deacon Bernie Ouellette</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-33862743720964912542015-12-19T20:53:00.000+01:002015-12-19T20:53:04.007+01:00Fourth Sunday of Advent - Year C<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Christmas is almost at the gate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In our homes virtually everything is ready. We have prepared what is needed for celebrating this feast in a lovely and beautiful way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In four days there is Christmas Eve. We will be celebrating the most beautiful and appealing feast of the new life. God will become a member of our human family. This historical fact which took place in Bethlehem two thousand years ago, is even now, two millennia later, a special and extraordinary sign. A sign of God's love and unalterable decision to invite everybody to join Him in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since our childhood days, we remember only the good and warm things which happened in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beautiful Christmas trees, colorful and bright decorations, snow, crèche, visiting members of our family, relatives, specially prepared food, presents and carols … all this is somehow connected with Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, we know that all these elements are secondary and nonessential, as long as we do believe that God coming to us in this Divine Baby is the most import_ant reason for the season. And let us be frank, it is difficult.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We aren't becoming sentimental and emotional in celebrating Christmas, but rather cold and dry in keeping Christ in Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is difficult because we, the citizens of the twenty first century, have to prepare a place in our daily life for somebody whom essentially we don’t know. We are not able to touch him, to talk with him, to see him. Moreover, God is choosing us to be the witnesses to His Son. He would like to touch others, and be heard by others through us, through the intermediary of our lives. It is because He chose us as His disciples, as His witnesses. Is it possible?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Obviously, if we pass this time of Christmas at the table or in front of the TV screen it will be impossible to be the witnesses to the newborn Christ. We will be celebrating a jolly feast, but we will not get anything deeper from Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us rather see the celebration of the nativity of Christ as a mystery of the new life, a birth of a new member of our family, as a birthday of our Best Friend. Let us find a little bit more time for our families, for God, for prayer, for adoration, just for being human. Let us learn how to see Him in our daily life, how to see His presence in those who are in need, in the normal, even the smallest events of our daily life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We can give to ourselves the best present, the best gift. We can receive Christ into our life, into our families, into our homes and schools, and into our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-11459206811728455342015-12-08T21:33:00.003+01:002015-12-08T21:36:54.808+01:00MARK MALLETT<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">These reflections I find very deep and well founded</span><br />
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KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-75147617778227358842015-12-04T20:42:00.001+01:002015-12-04T20:42:42.563+01:00Second Sunday of Advent – Year C<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; tab-stops: center 240.95pt;">
<span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let us just imagine a
following situation. You got a possibility of organizing a huge marketing
operation. You have unlimited financial means and possibilities, but you have
to organize the promotion or marketing of faith or religion. You can go
wherever you wish, to the schools, molls, public places, halls, shops and
theaters just wherever you wish to say only one fundamental truth: "who
was and constantly is Jesus Christ? The main object of the marketing is Jesus
Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But, an immediate question
arises: Is it not too risky? It seems to be not a very good idea, not at all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Firstly because, you will
have none of the very attractive promotions and new products to offer, rather
the old stuff, repeated for last 2 thousand years. Packaging is also rather not
very attractive, since it is mainly composed by 10 commandments and some old fashioned
moral teaching which seems to be not very popular.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Secondly it seems to be a
difficult task to get your attention. Many will rather say: "I have too
much to do and too much to care for, so I don’t have time for this kind of
operation". Others will be rather too shy or intimidated to publicly speak
about their faith. Even if we can find a group of volunteers who will be able
to go and to perform this kind of marketing company, the effects could be
somewhat mediocre, because who would like to listen to, who will be interested
at all in this, Gospel message? The presence of the disciple of Christ
preaching His Good News on the streets and in the public places will be
intimidating or even offending and finally this idea will be classified as a
fiasco and too idealistic to be performed in our laicised world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We get used to the situation
that God is tightly closed in the tabernacle and the most comfortable way of
expressing our faith is on Sunday in the church and not in our daily life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And in today's Gospel John
the Baptist in a very simple but straightforward (direct) way is calling<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Prepare the way of the
Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">make straight his paths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every valley shall be filled<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and every mountain and hill
shall be made low.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The winding roads shall be
made straight,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the rough ways made
smooth,"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prepare the way of the Lord,
but what for? Do these words have any sense and meaning 20 centuries later?
What does it mean "Make straight the paths of your life"?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is Jesus not present in my
life? Don’t I come for the Mass every Sunday (o, maybe almost every Sunday)? Do
I not convert twice a year during Advent and Lent penitential services,
confessing sincerely my sins? Do I need more? What for do I have to convert or
to change my life? If I seriously admit that I need a conversion is it not to
admit that I am living a messy and disordered life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What for do I have to
convert or to change my life if I think it is good, comfortable and fitting me
perfectly?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The answer for this question
is only one: I have to convert from my style of live and accept the way of
Christ because I cannot and will not save myself, because He is the Saviour and
the Redeemer and without Him I am unable to reach Heaven. I have to "make
the crocked way of my life make straight", because otherwise they will
lead me nowhere. I have to fill our every valley of my greediness and to level
every mountain of my pride, because otherwise my selfishness and my pride will
devour and destroy me. I have to convert because only Christ is able to
liberate me from the slavery of sins. </span></span><span lang="PL" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Without Him I can do nothing.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-31023386864611545532015-11-30T18:16:00.004+01:002015-11-30T18:16:43.791+01:00First Sunday of Advent - Year C<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can we say that today for many, Advent is
limited only to the colorful streets, lampions and preparation of Christmas
decorations, sumptuous displays in the shops and promotions in supermarkets and
molls? For many contemporary, Advent means rather hours spend in hunting the
Christmas gifts and presents. Will I be far away from the truth if I dare to
say that although the season of Christmas is the season of light (what we can
see on our streets and in our supermarkets) indeed internally for many among us
it's the time of darkness or spiritual darkness, religious emptiness?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is the deepest sense of all this?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Do you remember the Advent last year? Did
it not look like this year in more or less the same way? Despite of the fact
that since last Advent we became certainly wiser and more skilled, more
involved in a different aspects of our daily life, can we say that also in our
relationship with God we are better, deeper, more sincere and more honest? Or
should we rather say that we did not progress, that for many years now we are
living rather a kind of stagnation? And after Christmas with our faith will
share the lot of the Christmas decorations, it will go to the storage room till
next year?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the beginning of this Advent we have to
find a serious answer for a question: "what am I waiting for?"
Because if this Advent will be for me once again (or once more) the time only
for gifts and presents and external colorful lampions it is true that I will be
afraid and frustrated when Jesus is talking about the inevitability of His
final coming, I will be frustrated and scared, I will be afraid. And if I am
afraid I will run away from Him, I will despise Him, I will run into the
superficiality of colorful decorations. They are beautiful and cheering but if
this is only the meaning of Advent and Christmas … let us be frank it is empty
and superficial.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We have to know that the one of the most
dangerous words for our spiritual life is the word "tomorrow". This
word tries to convince me that I still have a time, plenty of time for
confession, for prayer, for liberating my busy life for God. But in reality
with "tomorrow" mentality I will never be able to say to God COME
LORD JESUS. This is why today at the beginning of Advent we are receiving from
God one more chance, one more opportunity to deepen our personal relationship
with Emmanuel, with GOD WHO IS WITH US. It is the time when I suppose to
prepare not only my house, to ornate and decorate not only the front doors of
my apartment, to cleanse not only my flat but first at all to prepare my heart
to accept God whenever He comes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It will certainly cost me more than only
external preparations but it will be certainly more successful and more
rewarding if I have the courage to do it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Advent is the time of preparation but
first and foremost the internal preparation to meet God in so many different
ways. He is coming in the manger; he is coming in His Word, Body and Blood
during the Mass, He is coming also in my neighbour, in a poor, the needy, and
starving. He is coming in so many ways. Am I ready to meet Him, do I wait for
Him, or simply I DON’T HAVE TIME? </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-69726448218405583032015-11-20T14:11:00.003+01:002015-11-20T14:11:26.106+01:00Christ the King<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today's Sunday we are celebrating
solemnity of Christ the King. In His constant teaching He tried to convince
people that His Father prepared the place for everybody in the Kingdom of God.
We did certainly have an opportunity to hear Jesus's words that His Kingdom is
not from this World. (J18,36) But apparently we do not understand the meaning
of the Kingdom of God. We know that in Gods Kingdom the eternity consist in
worship of our Creator.. But do we really think that throughout the whole
eternity will be doing nothing else then singing Hosanna and Alleluia. Our
imagination (representation) of the kingdom of God is strongly influenced by
the images of our contemporary, earthly empires, where the abundance, wealth
and luxury are reigning together with autocracy and arrogance of the rulers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Very often we try to understand the
reality of heaven using our human limited capacities. Very often also, in
trying this we finish with contradiction or false images. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let us see for example the cross of Christ
- The throne of God's love. It is immediately visible that our logic is not the
logic of God, our understanding of love is not Gods understanding, our
understanding of Gods Kingdom is too short, inadequate to describe to reality
of God's Kingdom. This reality is certainly not the reality of luxury,
splendor, arrogance but the reality of infinite of love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Opened arms of Christ on the cross -during
His crucifixion- are nothing else that the gesture of invitation. By this
gesture God is inviting us to participate in His Kingdom of love. He is
proposing that we accept this kingdom of love in our daily life. Let us not
waste the time for useless imaginations but let us try to implement His Kingdom
on earth. This is what we pray for in OUR Father - your Kingdom come your will
be done.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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KKQhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786146758550860682noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-75643392541789793482015-10-22T13:50:00.001+02:002015-10-22T13:50:14.297+02:00The Vortex—Failed Papacy?<a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/the-vortexfailed-papacy#.VijNXJzLrR8.blogger">The Vortex—Failed Papacy?</a>Homiliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01542272816941410323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971060.post-46157854464909158562015-10-16T13:47:00.001+02:002015-10-16T13:50:08.597+02:00No, Christianity Should Not ‘Welcome’ or ‘Include’ Your Sinful Lifestyle<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Frankly, the church has not failed if it makes open homosexuals or anyone else feel uncomfortable in their sin. That is a success. That is the church doing what it’s supposed to do. But it has failed if it makes the faithful and the sincere feel unwelcome. This is the real problem, the real crisis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />It’s difficult to have grown-up conversations these days, because people like yourself see every mention of moral truth as either a personal attack or a statement of superiority. This is the real damage you cause in the Faith. It’s not that you’re sinful — we all are, to be sure — it’s that you want to be coddled. You want to shut down professions of Truth that are inconvenient or uncomfortable. You want to modify Christian teachings not because you tried them and found them wrong, but because, to paraphrase Chesterton, you found them difficult and don’t want to try them."</span><br />
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