INTELLIGENT DESIGN

 

 

 

It is bizarre that some people think that if you believe in God a Creator that means that you don't believe or recognize natural science. This is not the case. As we know science is always evolving, 

for example "the world was once flat", and anyone that said otherwise were regarded as crazy.

 

Professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University of Pennsylvania Michael Behe claims that some biochemical structures are too complex to be explained by evolutionary mechanisms and that they disprove Darwin's theory, a theory for which Darwin had no evidence, but which nevertheless is 

being taught in universities as facts.

   

As we know, going against an established narrative always meets opposition, but it is the only way advances are made.

 

Modern science has discovered that the cell is run by machines, machines made of molecules and

this points scientifically to an intelligent designer; it supports the Christian faith of a creative force, 

a Creator, behind creation.

 

The Catholic faith is specifically codified for us human beings to be reconciled to our Creator, it is offered in addition to the science and knowledge about ourselves as natural beings, 

as it is supernatural in nature.  

 

 

 

Return to full blown paganism?

 

Why are children encouraged to like snakes, rodents and all beasts that crawl 

on the ground?

Yes, God created everything and everything that lives is part of His perfect 

ecosystems but we also know that the human being is elevated above all animals.

 

"Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
² Through the praise of children and infants
    you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
    to silence the foe and the avenger.
³ When I consider your heavens,
    the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which you have set in place,
⁴ what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    human beings that you care for them?^[c]

⁵ You have made them^[d] a little lower than the angels^[e]
    and crowned them^[f] with glory and honor.
⁶ You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
    you put everything under their^[g] feet:
⁷ all flocks and herds,
    and the animals of the wild,
⁸ the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,
    all that swim the paths of the seas.

⁹ Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!"

(Psalm 8)

 

It is understandable that people are so preoccupied with their daily living; 

working, daily chores, raising children, running from one thing to the next etc, 

that there doesn't seem much time or energy to think more deeply about life; 

why we are born, the purpose of life etc. 

Sometimes it is only a hard blow or a setback that makes us stop in our tracks. 

 

Most people live on the surface of themselves, and not in a derogatory sense, 

but in reality; we live superficial lives.

The whole aim of the Church is to reconcile us to God, to make us holy. 

(The word "holy" comes from the word "whole", because we are only a small 

part of our potential, and thus only "partial"; ( a small part).)

 

If the reality of our divine potential is not known there is a risk that the human 

might identify with animals, and go down to their level. 

There is an emphasis in spiritualism "to learn from animals", to observe cats for 

example and imitate them. 

I love animals and they give me great pleasure, but I do differentiate between 

them and me. 

And to make rodents and snakes "nice" for children, goes against common sense 

and science, because they pose a danger to our health and well being, and should 

be viewed as such. 

It is twisting things to say that we must "not be prejudiced", because it has to do 

with realities. 

 

We do not protest.

 

An argument that some protestants use to "prove" that Catholicism is "wrong" is 

"because Mary is not mentioned in the Bible and therefore she was nobody special". 

A protestant man said that to me recently and when I asked him if he really thought that God 

would choose just anybody, "nobody special", through whom He would become Man, 

he could not give me a proper answer.

At the wedding in  Cana where the first miracle was carried out by Jesus, ; it would 

seem as if Jesus was hesitant at first to show his power, when His Mother said to Him 

that they had no more wine.

"And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? 

My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you." 

(John 2, 4-5)

How can anyone fail to notice that Jesus was obedient to His Mother, because He went 

ahead and performed the miracle of turning the water into wine, it launched His ministry. 

Mary is any Christian's perfect model of humility and perfection, she gave birth to Our Lord

by her perfect cooperation and submission to the will of God. 

How can they, even just on a purely logical level, claim that Our Lady; The Mother of God, 

is not important? 

She is The Immaculate Conception, through whom God came back to earth to remind us that 

He exists, to redeem us, and reconcile us to Himself, by The Holy Catholic Church, 

through Her Sacraments, Mary also assisted Him; helped Him to carry out the redemptive work 

of His Passion and Crucifixion.

 

Then, getting angry, this protestant said that Jesus said that nobody should call anybody Father. As Catholics we call the priests Father. I asked him if he didn't think that all the children in the world didn't have the right to call their fathers "Father"?

The real meaning of this is that nobody on earth has the authority to put themselves above our heavenly Father.

 

Why is it that some protestants become very angry when they see us Catholics on the street? 

They come up for an argument. But it was them that broke away from the Church founded by Jesus and His apostles.

And why do so many protestants believe that the Catholic Faith has nothing to do with 

the Bible?

They try to convince us that they are right and we are wrong by hitting us over the head with 

Bible quotes (from the protestant bible), and seem to believe that we don't have, nor read, the Bible, 

while not seeming to know that the protestant bible is missing 7 books that has been taken out 

from the original Catholic Bible.

 

One thing that I always found telling, before I was ever a Catholic, is the fact that in all the 

thousands of protestant denominations, they have the Cross, but it is bare, 

 the Person of Christ is not there, He is absent.

While as on a Catholic Cross, Jesus is there, He hangs on it; He is present.  

 

The Catholic Faith is personal. It is about The Divine Person Jesus Christ: 

true God and true Man.

The practice of the Faith is  carried out on a personal level, every day, all the time, 

with all the aspects of our lives. 

Some protestants come over for a fight or to shower us with curses, quoting this or that bible verse as proof that we are going to go to hell.

 

But I think that their faith is often intellectualized; it is stored in the head, and it stays there.

In Psychology, to intellectualize is a form of defense mechanism, of living in one's head 

in order to not be affected and disturbed personally.  

But if we are not disturbed or affected in a personal way, we can never receive God's graces.

Being disturbed, and having one's life turned upside down is almost a requisite as a starting 

point for anyone who was unfortunate enough to not receive the correct religious education 

as a child.

The Catholic Church is not a club or an association set up so that we can have a social life, 

talk a bit about God, and make friends; no;

outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation.

Jesus Christ founded One Holy and Apostolic Church, the Universal Church, 

through His Apostles, when He sent the Holy Spirit.

 

Martin Luther protested, citing the (real) corruption in the Church as the reason, but his own difficulty with celibacy had also a lot to do with it. 

Henry the 8th certainly only had his own personal motives to protest and make his 

own church, but having said that; there has always been nastiness and evil in the 

Church, as it is made up of sinful people, it could not be otherwise.

 

At the present time the Church is going through a dark era, with many weak 

bishops and priests who wants to "modernize" the Church to the point of

even promoting the LGBT agenda, the climate change environmental politics, 

supporting abortion and collaborating with corrupt worldly governments.

 

We know this, we fight this, we resist this, by speaking the truth, 

the Truth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, spreading His message. 

If we leave because of them, we would not be faithful. 

We don't leave because things are bleak and our shepherds weak. 

We follow Jesus. 

However bad things are for us now, they are nothing compared to the way things 

were for Him during His Passion.

The pope is the pope, and the bishops are our bishops. 

The priests are our priests. 

If we did not profess this, there simply would not be a Church.

 

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To those who insists that God does not exist, 

that people do not believe in God,

that the Catholic Church is finished; 

I am happy to announce to you that this is not the case. 

Body Of Christ

  

 

 

 

The Eucharist

 

 

Most faithful Catholics are concerned by what is going on in the Catholic Church.

That is a good sign. It is important to verbalize it, to explain what is wrong, and 

why it is wrong.

 

The next move is then to find a way to improve the situation; what to do, 

and how to do it?

 

Our human tendencies will be to protest loudly and to get stuck in a prolonged 

revolt, which will lead to, inevitably, sooner or later, one way or another,   

a separation from the Church. 

We should never forget about Luther, he is our best reminder as to what happens 

when we go down the route of loudly revolting and protesting, when it 

becomes political.  We must avoid that.

The best way is to focus on sanctifying ourselves, all the time keeping the focus 

on Him, The Holy One, who has redeemed us from our own sins. 

This will take up all our time and concentration.

And that is the purpose of the Church; to sanctify us.

It is also worth keeping in mind that the outrages and the betrayal of Christ 

taking place within the ranks of the clergy today, is not a new phenomenon. 

But our response must never be to go to war, it must be to imitate Christ, 

who did not fight nor justify Himself when He was tortured and put to death 

on a Cross.

Remember that it wasn't even the civil authorities who wanted Him dead 

those 2000 years ago,   

it was the authorities in the top ranks of the church of the time  

(the Jewish temple); 

the High priests, who insisted on it.

 

We don't need to delve into Church history, apart from realizing that from the 

Beginning the world has always tried to kill God, by it's revolt and 

disobedience, it will no doubt continue to do so.

 

God who created everything, and who created human beings in His image, 

can not be killed off, it is simply illogical; as He is the Source of Life.

We must become more aware of the sacredness of Life, and  our words and 

actions must always strive to reflect His Life in us.

 

I do not know exactly when it became common practice to have 

Ministers of The Eucharist in the Catholic Church, neither do I know why, 

I only imagine than that it had to do with practical reasons, 

to reduce the time of Holy Communion during Mass.

 

It was a grave mistake; The Holy Mass is an offering and sacrifice, 

at the moment of the priest's Consecration, by the act of  Transubstantiation,

The Eucharist is the Real Body and Blood of Our Lord.

Jesus taught his apostles how to offer Mass and to give his Real Body and Blood 

to those who believe in Him during the Holy Sacrifice of The Mass.

   

When the Church delegates that to non priests, to lay people who often do not 

even  believe in the Real Presence, it is easy to understand that it undermines 

the Church herself, it takes the sacred and makes it profane. 

After that had been normalized it is easy to understand why so few of the ones 

who comes to the table of Our Lord in Holy Communion goes to Confession.

Because Holy Communion has been made "easily available",  the other 

Sacraments have lost their full meaning, depht and significance too.

A true and genuine Confession is not easy nor comfortable, but it is the only 

way for serious sins to be removed, there are no short cuts. 

Just like there ought not to be any short cuts at Mass, ("to save time"), 

because during Mass we enter into the Timeless.

 

To present oneself for Holy Communion without ever reflecting on personal 

behavior and examination of one's conscience, without confessing our sins 

and without making reparation for them, is a sacrilege. It can not possibly 

increase His presence in us, as He can not operate in a person that is ignorant 

and closed. Doing so works against us, it increases our pride and arrogance.

  

The Sacraments of the Church has been brought down to a level of the world, 

the supernatural has been greatly diminished.

 

The Eucharist must be received with the greatest reverence, and ought to only 

pass from the hands of a consecrated priest.

 

It is not modernization, as in a good thing, to use ministers of the Eucharist; 

it is rather following the culture of the world of instant food, and instant 

satisfaction in everything.

But the teaching of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church is not of this world!

It is the opposite, it is contrary to human nature, that is why we must not lean 

on our human nature.

Jesus was God and human, but His human nature was entirely filled with 

God's substance.

All people that are baptized in the name of The Father, The Son and 

The Holy Spirit are Children of God. 

Practicing Catholics makes up the Church. 

In order to participate actively in her continual need of restoration for the sins 

committed against her, very often from the inside, we must understand the 

value of the Sacraments, and live them.

 

It is the same principle as in life in general people will recognize that 

"without pain there is no gain",

and that good results are only obtained by putting in time, effort and sacrifices.

Only this will improve things in the Church.

 

Continued protests will not have a good result, again think of Martin Luther.

Then, visualize Jesus, infinite powerful, God Himself, soft and humble at heart, 

carrying his cross without protest, trusting in the will of God the Father, 

who was the same as Himself. 

Doing the will of God will always improve things. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transmission of The Catholic Faith

 

In order to be able to understand anything, it is necessary to first

receive information.  This is what all education is about.

 

In regard to the Catholic doctrine the catechism received forms the entire 

basis of our understanding.

The catechism is very varied today, depending on where we live and the 

extent to which our family of origin deems it important, 

(if received as children.)

 

And then the all important element of our own willingness and openness 

to understanding and to putting into practice what has been transmitted to 

us.

 

But the transmission itself as absolutely crucial; if it is done well

the recipients will want nothing else than to follow it and implement it in 

their own lives. Due to the way and the skill of the delivery their own 

intelligence has been illuminated, and they can see for themselves that 

nothing else in their life compares in importance.

 

Everybody recognizes the futility of forcing anybody to do anything against 

their will; in the case of children, yes, parents can make their children attend 

catechism classes even if the children don't want to, but it will not bear fruit.

 

Equally important; the person who transmits the information has to be a 

person of  integrity,

there has to be correlation between the words spoken and their personality, 

their behavior, how they treat you.

It is the latter that actually makes the understanding sink in; the words that has 

been received by the brain will be able to go down into the heart and soul.

 

Because there in our hearts The Word of God is already engraved, and the 

information received is then recognized by ourselves as the Truth.

 

We don't need a doctorate in psychology to understand that the dissonance

between the teaching and the teacher will effect the result in a negative way.

How often do we hear people say that: 

"they don't even understand themselves what they are teaching"? 

 

For anyone who has been lucky enough to have had good, solid priests who 

have themselves been formed correctly, to teach and guide us, sufficient

understanding has been able to enter, and thus our own continued willingness

to go deeper and to grow stronger in Faith is established, 

it will never be a case of "enough is enough". 

 

And then there is the enemy to the Truth, he is never far away, this pathetic

character is constantly trying to pull down, tear apart, divide, debase, manipulate.

Just like God is omnipresent, this guy is also everywhere. 

In fact, the two of them are usually together. 

God can only be found in His entirety in the true teachings of The Holy Catholic Church.

Thank you God for all your holy priests.