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.