Friday, January 16, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
The Mysterie of Faith
I just had a major cognition about the nature of Transubstantiation...If we can accept that the bread and the wine become the "body and blood of Christ," then we can accept that in our acceptance of Him, that we too can become as Christ! As we consume, take in, integrate, absorb, become one with... the bread (His teachings)... and His blood (His life)... we become one WITH HIM! This is why communion is such an important part of the ritual. It is also why confession is so important; that we may come to Him clean of our sins.
Perhaps this is not so earth-shaking to many, but the realization of this has cleared up a lot of misunderstanding for me about communion and the Eucharist.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
The Daughters of Lust: 5 Questions on How They Pervert the Soul
We live in a hyper-sexualized world. Sex is used to sell products everywhere we look. On TV, on billboards, in stores. From 30' tall Victoria's Secret models to lacy thongs and undies that read "Juicy" in the little girl's department at Wal-Mart; it's everywhere. It's in the public eye. It's the social norm. And we expose ourselves and our children to it every day. Is it any wonder that the pornography industry is one of the largest industries in the world, rivaling big-energy and tobacco? Are we shocked to hear that eight and nine year olds are performing oral sex on each other? Are we appalled that adolescent girls are having anal sex so that they can say that they are still virgins? Of course we are! But then we turn a blind eye to all of the public marketing of sex. Hell, even the most sociopathically right-wing conservative Christian I know is defending Hasbro's phallic faux pas, saying that it is "us, not them." We allow this to happen. Actively, passively, consciously or subconsciously, we are all the perpetrators and we are all the victims.
With that, I give you this article...
by on 2014-09-04 •
Listers, if a person invites lust into his heart, the daughters of
lust will soon follow and nest deep within it. A vice is not a
single act. Both vice and virtue are habits. Habits are described by both
Aristotle and Aquinas as a species of the category of “quality,” and qualities
are difficult to change. When a person habituates themselves to the evil that
is lust, that repetitive action changes the quality of their soul. Lust is a
vice that can easily consume a person. The consequences are dire. Our Lady of
Fatima proclaimed, “more souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for
any other reason.” Understand
the vice of lust and her daughters so that the Catholic soul may stand guard
against them...The Story of My First Confession
January 2, 2015 by
My first confession was when I was in my late twenties. I was a member of the Church of England and was taking a year between seminary and ordination.
I’d done something of which I was deeply ashamed and knew that I wanted to go to confession. As an Evangelical Christian I had been taught that I could just say “Sorry!” to God and that was enough...
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