AUTHORITY

 

We know that in order to live correctly we must be obedient.

A child must obey it's parents, at school; the teacher,

at work; the boss.

We must also obey the laws of the country that we live in.

 

The Holy Family were perfectly obedient and submitted 

to the laws of the land they were living in. 

For example, Joseph, who was born in Bethlehem, had to 

go back there to comply with the census regulations. 

Another example: they also complied with their Jewish 

customs as Jesus was brought to the Temple for the Jewish 

rite of  purification.

 

For Catholics it has become extremely complicated  

to be able to distinguish between what is God's law 

and what is the law that we must obey.

 

Since the 2.nd Vatican Council the doctrine of the 

Church has been more than vague, it is almost wiped 

out, apart from those adhering to Tradition, most Catholics 

think that being kind and helpful to others suffices, and 

since kindness and gentleness is something that hits home 

with the average human being everywhere, and all religions,

the Catholic Church is now in the transition of melting with 

the other religions in order to just have one world religion as

Pope Francis's Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti", which focuses

on worldly fraternity, underlines.

 

Yes, world peace, no more wars, is what we want.

Yes, we must love and respect all people, no matter 

religion and culture. Most of us grown up in 

the West know this, it is at the base of our cultures.

There are a multitude of international structures,

organizations and programs that works with this as

goal, but the problem of man's sinful and corrupted

nature always comes back to put obstacles in the way.

 

But the Catholic Faith is not just yet another program for 

good living and decent human behaviour.

It is much much more;  it is a program for sanctification; 

divinisation, the complete Catholic Doctrinal Faith is 

supernatural in nature.

 

This is why we need dogma and clear and unambiguous 

teaching, not a modified, watered down, vague and blurred 

version which fits in with the worldly trend, deprived of all 

supernatural. 

 

Jesus said: "My kingdom is not of this world." 

John 18:36

 

We live in a state and under a government which deems it

legal and acceptable to kill living babies, because they have 

not yet passed through the birth canal. 

But in the 6th Commandment of the Decalogue, it says the 

premeditated killing of another human being is forbidden.

 

This is just one example of the contradiction between God's

Law and civil law, but there are very many more which are 

irreconcilable, incompatible.

 

We live in the world, but as Catholics we should not live 

according to the world.

 

Catholics are in the fog, everything is blurred, they do no longer 

know how to distinguish and discern between right and wrong, 

they do not know which authority is "right", because often they 

unconsciously believe that elected members and ministers 

of government are automatically right, when they might actually

be on the side of the devil, but since they are conditioned to 

obedience to civil authority, being "good girls and boys", 

since childhood, they feel that they have no choice.

And because their conscience have not been informed and hence 

formed, by the divine teaching of the Catholic Church; the guardian 

of the full deposit of faith, as it is no longer generally taught.

 

God can not be updated, we can not inform God about what things 

are like nowadays, we can not say to Him: "hey God, you must 

understand that today in 2025, things have changed, its not like it 

was before, in your time", because God is outside time;

He Was, Is, and Will Always Be. 

 

"I Am Who I Am"

Exodus 3:14

 

God is Constant, Eternal, unchangeable, He exists in Himself.

He does not operate according to our way of thinking and acting;

 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts"

Isaiah 55:8-9

 

We should not compromise with the world, because it 

leads to the destruction of the Church and the loss of souls. 

It is painful to see how priests are obliged to do so, due to 

their vow of obedience, they have sometimes to comply 

with changes that contradicts the fundamentals, 

the absoluteness of catholic doctrine; for example the 

indissolubility  of marriage, by introducing the possibility 

for annulments.

We only need to read the old testament, long before 

The Incarnation, to see that nothing has really changed, 

the world is as corrupt today as it was 

before, human nature is as bad today as before, the ways 

and manners have changed, but they are external and 

superficial, the human heart has not changed.  

Politics is at work inside the church, the destructive work of 

ecumenism which wastes precious time and deviates the focus.

As Catholics we are not obliged to follow this, and what is more, 

we ought not to do so, since the focus and goal is our own sanctification

and evangelisation of the world, bringing the Word of God to others. 

The very concept that the Catholic Church should approach

the churches that willingly broke away from her, and faiths

that are totally different, like Islam, by pretending that we have

the basics in common, (we believe in one God), is trickery and 

deception, making people believe that the differences between us are 

negligible, it weakens the church and drives people who are not there 

for community activity reasons, away.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holy Mass

 

God is Holy, 

The Sacrifice of the Mass is Holy, and

our participation in it is in order to make us holy. 

 

There is a clear and concise objective in being a 

practicing catholic; it is to draw near to God;

it is to become holy. 

The Catholic Church has been a veritable Saint 

factory, and we only know a few of them. 

 

There has been plenty of testimonies of 

cloistered nuns and religious elevating

in the air during prayer, and our beloved 

Padre Pio was known to be bi-locating 

(being in two different places at the same time), 

also countless miraculous healings of all sorts 

of illnesses; these are all outward signs of God's 

presence and actions in Saints.

 

But the biggest sign of God's supernatural

presence is more subtle and internal; it is 

when we are truly willing to carry our crosses,

and truly able to forgive those who hurt us.

"Not once, not seven times, but seventy-seven times".

(unlimited times)

Matthew 18:21-35

 

We need crosses, we need to accept them, 

because they are what is needed to become holy. 

But as it is against human nature to accept

pain of any sort; we instinctively want to flee from 

it, avoid it, block it out, we rage against it, the

process is supernatural; 

it happens through and in our human nature but it 

goes further, it goes beyond it.

We have to be willing to suffer, but we get the strength

to do so, and we get peace and joy in our hearts, the 

peace that only God can give.

 

I have a feeling that the majority of 

saintly persons were, and still are, unknown. 

And that doesn't matter, because we are not 

seeking recognition in this world, we only seek 

to please God.

The priest celebrates the Sacrifice of the Mass, he 

is himself part of the Sacrifice, he can for example 

never leave in the middle of it, no matter what,

 even if his life is at risk. 

We are also asked to participate in the

sacrifice, with every part of our lives.

The setting for the opening of our hearts; saying 

yes, is a holy, solemn and reverent Mass, where 

we are fully attentive and present, and where

everything is carried out in the precise and minute

exactitude of the Holy Mass.

  

The Catholic Faith is supernatural; we live in the 

natural world and we have a natural human nature, 

but with true faith, trust, surrender, prayers and 

the Sacraments that which surpasses the natural 

(worldly) can enter. 

The supernatural (divine) is not a separate entity 

from the natural,

it rather grows out from it, it is superimposed. 

It can only be obtained through Our Lord Jesus Christ,

who is the only mediator with God The Father. 

 

 

 

All we really want and need

 

The fundamental element upon which a person can grow; 

emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, spiritually, to 

develop into an autonomous and balanced person is love.

This love transmits knowledge and understanding of safety,

unity, loyalty. 

This is crucial in the formation of a child in order to become 

a stable adult, and so that as an adult later on the relationships 

formed with the opposite sex can have a solid base. 

In adult serious relationship it is the exclusivity of other

close relationships with the opposite sex which underpins their

intimate union, but also substance or alcohol abuse is a serious 

obstacle to the presence of unity in a couple and for growth, 

it takes the role of the 3rd person in a supposed- to- be 2 persons 

union. 

The fall-out in families is horrendous; the seed of betrayal is 

planted in the children's spirits, the drama and violence; whether 

in words or actions, which they are witness to and caught up 

in, is what forms them, instead of secure love and sound boundaries.

These burdens are literally passed on from generation to generation,  

pain and mental health issues, and painful situations that are not 

unavoidable but created and recreated, always with the same 

disastrous results.

We go after money, possessions, experiences, power, but none of it 

fulfills us for long. 

What we crave is true and unconditional love. 

The Powerful Infinite Love that made the world, everything in it 

and every single one of us, is Alive. This love is free, and we 

receive it into our hearts when we, first and foremost, live it out in 

our close relationships, and secondly from there we extend it out to 

our community and the larger world. 

This is the natural order and also Church teaching. 

Also worth remembering; if we can not be faithful in small things, 

we will neither be able to be faithful (and therefore trustworthy) in 

larger things. 

Why Saint Therese of Lisieux always insisted on the importance

of  doing the small everyday things really well; it is a spiritual exercise

that reforms the mind and heart, it purifies and elevates our spirits, we

will become unable to do anything without first considering the effect on 

those we purport to love. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why are so many Catholics confused?

In 1986 Pope John Paul II held an Inter faith meeting in Assisi, 

with the idea of dialogue and ecumenism with the other main 

religions of the world; and peace between religions and people.

Peace in the world is something all normal people wish for, 

and dialogue is often crucial to achieve it.

But how did this event look to the average person, how did he 

interpret it? 

I know for myself, that when I saw this on the television, I

was disturbed, I felt betrayed.  I had met Pope John Paul II

myself, in 1983, as he officiated at my wedding (and the 

wedding of 20 other couples) in Saint Peter's Basilica.

 

He was a tremendously charismatic Pope, hugely popular, and 

was declared a Saint not too long after his death.

But this occasion in Assisi truly shocked very many Catholics,

all over the world, they looked on with unbelieving eyes as the

Holy Father seemed to put our faith on the same level as all

the man-made false religions of the world, and paganism.

 

I still do not understand this, but I do know that it served as a decisive 

event for Archbishop Lefebvre to go ahead and consecrate four 

bishops in his SSPX seminar in Écône without having obtained 

permission from The Pope.  

Archbishop Lefebvre was fully aware of what he was doing, 

it was not a rebellious act, it was done in the spirit of a martyr,

he would rather die than to betray The Church.  

He had spent his entire life serving the Church, he was an

old man who knew he had limited time left on earth, he had

an illness that he knew he was not going to recover from, this

was an outstandingly brave act to preserve the liturgy of the old 

Mass and the priesthood as it had been up until the Second 

Vatican Council. 

Pope John Paul II excommunicated Archbishop Lefebvre and

the bishops he had consecrated, but the Archbishop did not

acknowledge it, in order to avoid schism in the Church.

 

Pope John Paul II's  successor  Pope Benedict XVI did a lot

to restore the SSPX fully back into the fold of the Vatican, but

it was left unfinished and vague. In any case, they have continued

ever since, and nobody has been able to stop them. 

Then, under Pope Francis, we saw on October 4th 2019 the 

outrageous scandal of veneration of the pagan symbol 

Pachamama in the Vatican during the synod on the Amazon.

 

 

The sculpture was taken by Catholics and thrown into the river 

 

Tiber as a protest against the open idol worshipping at the heart 

 

of the Catholic Church, but it was later (unfortunately) retrieved. 

Then in 2020 we saw Pope Francis's Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti"

(meaning "all brothers"),

on fraternity and social friendship, basically a political paper 

which advocates no borders and migration, peace and social justice.

Nothing about the Catholic doctrine and it's spiritual teachings and 

uniqueness. 

We need to be aware that since the beginning  of the Church, politics

has always inserted itself, even though the kingdom of God is in total

opposition to earthly kingdoms. Human nature being as it is; fallen, this

is still the case today. 

Due to this there has been several heresies in the history of the Church,

the most well known; Arianism; denying the divinity of Christ and 

Docetism; denying the humanness of Christ, amongst others.

 

There are still many Catholics who thinks that everything the Pope 

says and does is infallible and that he has always right. 

The reality is that Papal infallibility is only when the Pope makes a 

proclamation concerning doctrine, the faith or morals, and in those 

instances he must speak as the Vicar of Christ, (not in the capacity 

as an individual), and he must address the whole Church. 

But of course many Catholics are influenced by the private 

opinions of the Pope, but we need to be aware. Pope Francis 

said we should get the Covid "vaccine", an experimental injection, 

and of which it was subsequently admitted did not protect against 

the disease, and which was also produced from stem cells of aborted 

babies still alive. Just those facts alone ought to be enough for any 

Catholic to not take it, yet the Pope promoted it.

 

As Catholics we ought to only focus on practicing our Faith.

Mass, Confession, Prayer, loving our neighbour, keeping the 

Commandments, practicing the virtues, working on our own 

sanctification.

 

When some Catholics laments today why so many have lost the

faith I would say because of Vatican II, opening the Church up to t

he world to let it in, taking onboard feminism; altargirls (which of 

course was going to lead to the demand for "women priests"), 

Communion in the hand ( The Real Body of Christ handed out like

any other distribution of goods), the use of Eucharistic ministers. 

Only the priest has consecrated hands, only his hands are fit to touch

the Body of Christ and when he gives it out it should go directly into

our mouths, because our hands are not fit to touch Him neither, no 

more than the ministers. That does not mean that the ministers are not

good people!, or that the priest is not a sinner like the rest of us,

but The Body Of Christ is not a symbol, and we are not protestants.

 

Regarding my marriage by Pope John Paul II, people used to be in awe,

and say things like: "Oh my God, you are REALLY married!" 

As a matter of fact, I obtained a Church annulment, declaring it to 

have never been a catholic marriage in the first place.

 

Cognitive Short Circuiting

 

Christianity is based on the belief in the Trinity: 

God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit. 

This is the fundamental element, and even those who convert 

to the Catholic Church, (the Church that Jesus Christ

Himself founded) from protestant denominations, their

baptism stands valid in the Catholic Church, because it

was done correctly; with water, and in the 

"Name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit."

 

But when some Catholics expresses admiration for 

muslims and pronounces loud and clear that 

"they are good people and love God, and that there 

is only God and we all have the same God, because 

there can only be one God, and we should all pray 

together," it reveals a total lack of 

logical thinking, thought processing and reflection. 

 

If a "catholic" admires the god of Islam, he admires a 

false god and he breaks the 1st and the 2nd Commandment.

 

We do not have the same God as muslims, they do not 

recognize the Trinity and Jesus Christ being the Only 

Son of God; True God and True Man. 

Anyone who points out this obvious difference, is often 

labelled  "judgmental" and "unkind", which is a slur in 

order to avoid thinking and to stop further discussion. 

They would be Catholics who neither knows their own 

religion nor islam, but who are easily led by superficial 

and worldly slogans and ideas.

 

Believing Catholics who engages in a daily spiritual battle,

strengthened by The Mass, regular Confession and daily 

prayer, knows that the world is full of pitfalls, we are constantly

surrounded by lies and other tricks of the devil, who wants us 

to fall into their traps, and that happens when we are asleep

and do not use our brain.

 

Another example is the "covid vaccine" that they admitted

openly had not been tested on humans, thus it was experimental,

but still a majority agreed to take it. 

Because politicians said they should, and also it was constantly 

repeated in the media.

 

Another short circuit of the intelligence, because all the same 

people who took the "vaccine" would also say that they did not

trust the politicians running their countries, and also recognizing 

that the media is nothing more than heavily editing propaganda 

machines. 

 

That time there were politicians who slurred those who 

decided that this shot was too risky to their health, by calling them

"anti-vaxxer", to stop any further discussion. 

People are sheep, they just follow the flow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supernatural Love

 

Catholic Faith demands that we love others because 

of God's love for us, and His love which is in us, 

from which  our actions should flow. 

So we are called to love those that might not be lovable 

in the strictly human sense, and to love those who 

treat us badly. To forgive, and not to seek revenge. 

To love people that we do not feel a natural instinct to 

love, who do not attract us, that we do not "get anything 

out of " for ourselves, but because we are agents of 

God's love which goes beyond our human nature. 

Our humanity does not disappear, rather this supernatural 

love is on top of our human nature, it is on a higher level, 

but it develops from it, and it could not exist seperately.

 

 "You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth 

for tooth.’But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. 

If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the 

other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take 

your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you 

to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who 

asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to 

borrow from you.

 "You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and 

hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray 

for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your 

Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and 

the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.  

If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? 

Are not even the tax collectors doing that?  And if you greet 

only your own people, what are you doing more than others? 

Do not even pagans do that?  Be perfect, therefore, as your 

heavenly Father is perfect."

(Matthew 5; 38-48)

This is what is expected of us. The bar is high. 

To be serious about our faith demands a high 

level of awareness and willingsness, to really 

want to follow Jesus all the way, to obey his 

commandements, in the details of our daily mundane 

lives, is work. 

But it also transforms the mundane, it makes us enter 

into the spiritual battle that we are supposed to 

engage with.

Declared practising Catholics are soldiers for Christ,

participating in a war between good and evil is never 

ordinary or boring!

The spiritual training implied for this level of difficulty 

in really loving someone who is not loving, brings us

to understand the necessity of truly loving, because

a dry dutiful act of kindness, due to obligation,

does not suffice. Most people can distinguish between

that (salt that has lost it's saltiness) and true love.

Acts that are carrying out duties, ticking boxes, are

nothing special.

Human nature alone can not understand the wisdom 

and the necessity for this.  

But the goal and the aim of our Catholic Church is our

own sanctification and that of others.

 

The Beatitudes pronounced in the Sermon on the Mount,

 

Jesus said:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 

Blessed are those who mourn,
    for they will be comforted. 

 Blessed are the meek,
    for they will inherit the earth.

 Blessed are those who hunger 

and thirst for righteousness,
    for they will be filled. 

Blessed are the merciful,
    for they will be shown mercy. 

Blessed are the pure in heart,
    for they will see God. 

 Blessed are the peacemakers,
    for they will be called children of God. 

Blessed are those who are persecuted 

because of righteousness,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute 

you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you 

because of me.  Rejoice and be glad, because great 

is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they 

persecuted the prophets who were before you.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its 

saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no 

longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and 

trampled underfoot.

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill 

cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and 

put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, 

and it gives light to everyone in the house.  

In the same way, let your light shine before others, that 

they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in 

heaven."

Matthew 5: 3-16

 

 

 

 

 

Trust and Surrender

 By surrendering to God we dive into unknown territory.

To let God control every aspect of our lives, body, mind,

family, finances, etc, takes a firm desicion, courage and 

daily and continuous awakening, so that God can act in 

us and through us. 

 

It has to be what God wills, and not what we want, we 

lay our lives open in front of Him; "do with me as you 

please my Lord."   Like that we become malleable; we 

can be reformed in line with the Kingdom of God; 

born again. 

"Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless 

one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

 (John 3,3)

 

God is unlimited in power, He has always existed, He 

exists now, and He will always exist, world without end.

 

You and me are limited beings, limited in intelligence and 

in power, but the fact that we have intelligence in the first

place, which, if it is being put to good use, brings us further 

in understanding, is very encouraging.

 

Also the fact that we believe that if we practise the faith 

with ferveur we can become children of God, Jesus being 

our brother, we live with the Holy Spirit operating within 

us; God is Our Father, is certainly deeply reassuring; I know

I want to align my will to His.

 

The first thing we often encounter in entering into

this interiour life with Christ, is our own resistance.

That can take the form of fear, outrage, anger, confusion, 

judgment, blame; we judge that this is somebody's else's fault.

We must stay present with all this; we must embrase it;

own it. This is ours. 

Even if people insult us to our face, our reaction

is still 100 % our own responsibility.

Our reactions and feelings are inside us, they are personal,

subjective, constantly changing; not objective facts.

However they constitute the field where we sow and plant,

using our willpower and self control. Work closly and 

attentively with feelings and reactions, especially the 

strong ones, they are gifts!

 

The truth about God is embedded in our hearts, and for 

people of former strong Catholic countries like France; 

the eldest daughter of the Church, they carry it in their

ADN. 

We need to stoke the embers of the fire to rekindle

it.

 

Ecumenism has done terrible damage, spread confusion 

and introduced a fog of dimness into the 

general understanding and precise doctrine of the 

Catholic Church, all in the name of tolerance and 

love.

Tolerance is not a Catholic virtue, and true love is 

carried out in telling the truth, not compromising on it. 

 

As a result of all this wasted time of ecumenism, today

only a minority of catholics believe in the Real Presence

of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist; because with 

ecumenism protestantism entered into the modern Catholic 

Church, and there is no supernatural life in protestantism;

their communion is only symbolic.

The modern CC has in many ways sold herself, 

layed down with the devil (the world), but thanks to 

Tradition who has held strong and protected the authentic 

and entire doctrine, the Church is in some ways stronger

now than before. It constitutes the Remnant Church. 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

Small things like these

 

After all the hype of this film, I got the chance to see it today.

It is set in 1985, which was around the time that I myself came

to Ireland, so I was interested from that angle also.

I did think the film portrayed well the way things were at the 

time, it had exactly the atmosphere that I remember.

 

Other than that, for me the film was in reality about personal 

trauma, rather than yet again more about the harshness of the 

Catholic Church, even though that was obviously the angle of

the Hollywood producers. 

 

Nobody is denying that there was sometimes a lack of charity

in these homes, and the existence of hush money, transaction 

of babies etc; the corruption in Ireland was shocking at the time, 

it was the norm. 

The government, politicians, businesses, Courts,

it was everywhere. 

 

Having said that, of course the Church being Christ's Mystical 

Body should not have acted the same way, I am only saying it 

as it gives the context of the Ireland at the time. 

 

Times were hard for many, and the reason why the girls ended 

up in these places is because their parents forced them there. 

This was clearly depicted in a scene in the film. 

The cruelty was first and foremost from their families who 

disowned them, and if anything, the nuns rescued them, where

would they otherwise be after having been thrown out by their 

family?

 

Furthermore, cruelty and violence towards women who find

themselves with an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy today,

has not diminished, but massively increased. 

They are pushed and encouraged to abort their baby, 

from family, friends and society in general, and from 

"health professionals", without knowing the emotional and 

psychological consequences which of course only comes 

afterwards, sometimes many years after. 

It is impossible to erase from a woman's mind and soul the 

memory of a real human being that she carried inside her, 

and whom she decided to kill. It is engraved in her heart.

Indeed I would argue that the violence towards vulnerable 

persons today is at least as great as before, despite new laws

which seeks to protect, because in practice they are ignored.

 

Anyone in Ireland today who works with children 

(under18 years of age) or vulnerable adults, has to undergo 

training and obtain certificate of completion which

mandates and obliges them under the law

to report to Tusla, (a government body for protection of children) 

suspected cases of mistreatment. 

But this is just another case of ticking boxes. 

 

In real life, in schools and in other institutions, the staff

close their eyes, ears, and especially their mouths.

Just like they said in the film "Small things like these":

"in order to get on in life you have to ignore many things".

 The opposition to anyone who reports a case is instant and severe.

 "Small things like these" ?

 

Cillian Murphy is portrayed as a deep and brooding personality,

but after his comment in relation to the release of this film, where 

he said that the time in Ireland when a woman could not get an 

abortion was like the dark ages, implying that abortion availability

is a sign of great progress and enlightenment, he strikes me as a 

superficial Hollywood pretty boy type. 

 

 

 

What is Baptism?

 

Valid Baptism has a permanent effect on the soul, it embeds 

on it a seal, a hallmark, that never goes away, no matter 

what happens.

The one who has been baptized with water, with the words:

"I baptize you in the Name of The Father, and of The Son 

and of The Holy Spirit" becomes a Child of God.

 

Some might argue that we are all children of God, and it is 

true that we are all His creatures; God created all of us in 

the order of nature, through our parents, 

but Baptism gives us God's supernatural stamp, 

we become sons and daughters of God, brothers and sisters 

of Jesus. The love and fidelity to God Our Father, shown to 

us by Jesus, is implanted in us.

Baptism is necessary to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

 

The Sacrament of Baptism imparts on the baptized God's 

sanctifying grace; Divine Life. 

The 3 Persons of The Holy Trinity is grafted 

into the soul; this imprint grants supernatural strength and 

power which makes us children of God.

 

It washes away sins; for infants we are talking about 

original sin, but in the case of adult baptism it also washes 

away all actual sins committed.

 

The baptized becomes member of the Church, it is

the entrance into the community of the universal Church, and 

all the other Sacraments of the Church depends on this first one. 

 

Baptism is a new birth, a regeneration; the person has been born 

into the world by natural birth parents, now the baptized is being 

born again, in the supernatural order, so it needs another set of 

parents; God parents.

 

The washing with running water which flows, in the same way 

as we wash ourselves, is because the ritual corresponds to 

the natural reality of washing our bodies, as we know it. 

 

Baptism is the visible sign that signifies what it produces and 

produces what it signifies.

 

Baptism is also a public proclamation of faith in Jesus Christ.  

What makes the devil happy

 

The devil's goal is always to break, divide, 

to destroy Love; The Source of Life, 

and instead to plant resentment,

un-forgiveness, jealousy, anger, etc.

The ways and methods to obtain it are many, 

but, as is well documented in The Bible;

the "love" of money and earthly possessions seems

to be the biggest stumbling block, which hinders 

and prevents us from inheriting the Kingdom of

God. This "love" is not love, of course, but 

prioritizing, putting in front of the rest, and it is 

a veritable stumbling block, a hindrance, and it 

always hurts pure unconditional Love, from 

where we all have our origin.

Because we can not follow two opposite masters

at the same time, we have to choose one.

 

Those who have a lively and authentic faith in God,

trusts God, who commands us to put Him first, 

quite literally and concretely; to trust in His providence

and to put Him before all other things.

We still have to take care of the rest, we have duties, 

obligations, work, studies, etc. which we have to

carry out with care, if we did not, we would not 

render to God nor Caesar what belongs to each of them.

 

The immorality around anything to do with money

is so ingrained and accepted, we accept this corruption

because it seems to be the norm, in Ireland anyway.

We even laugh at it, as if it doesn't really matter, 

but the truth is that we sell our souls to it, we loose 

the possibility to inherit the Kingdom of God, 

if we take this route.

 

"When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because 

he had great wealth."

 Matthew 19:22

 

But it is not only about having accumulated wealth throughout

a lifetime, which makes it so hard to let go of it, also those who 

have not acquired any wealth can be equally trapped in the 

adhesion to a belief that the only value there is can be measured 

in monetary terms and possessions. Even a poor person might be 

obsessed by money; thinking about it, his lack of it, jealous of 

what the others have, of greed, of meanness, this is equally

poisonous to his soul as the person who sits and guards his pot 

of gold.

To have good morals means doing the right thing in any given 

situation, because all our actions have consequences, even the 

smallest ones. What about faithfulness and loyalty? Do we treat and respect 

others the way they deserve? The ones that were always putting 

us first? Or do we only take into consideration our own selfish

wishes, what suits us best, regardless of what is right?

 

The truth is that God provides; through human beings, who

He made in His Image, He dwells at the center of our being, 

and with our cooperation through the use of our willpower,

He acts through us.

 

Without a shred of false humility I say that I am a poor sinner,

the only thing that I had, and still have, is an unfailing belief 

and trust in God.  

Regarding money; I always detested having anything to do with it.

I did not put it first, but to this day I have always had more than I 

ever needed, and in proportion to my growing faith and trust in God, 

the financial and material aspects of my life have fallen beautifully 

into place by itself, with very little contribution from me.

 

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away 

in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much 

more valuable than they?"

Matthew 6:26

 

God did it all.