I'll have a tooth pulled on Tuesday. It has been up and down with the pain, but for my financial, as well as my physical health, I will have it pulled. I can't think root canals, caps, implants. I have to think extractions and, perhaps, eventually false teeth. It is a race for Heaven. I need a million dollar heart, not necessarily a million dollar smile. I need to eat spiritual food. I have to dig deeper and deeper spiritually and mentally. I don't want to live with the flaws and imperfections that I have accepted in myself. I want to open myself up, more and more, to God's Love, so that I can show more charity and be an instrument of God's Grace. This is the effort which I must make now.
Lord Help me. It is hard for me to die to myself. I want to keep these things which keep me away from God because they are 'part of me', but I can open up and get rid of these shadows. I will be happier and more useful to God. I want to push to become a more useful instrument in God's Hands. I need to get my teeth into God's Food for His Love.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
prayer
Prayer is such a lovely activity. I think that it can also be draining, but it is so active and so giving. It is an activity that touches people so deeply. We need prayer in and for all of our activities. I am just beginning to make room for prayer, for Rosaries in my life again (and the Mass has come into my life again, the greatest of prayers.)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Climbing the ladder
I have watched some people at work climb the workplace ladder. It is a scary thing to me.: They get blinders on. They lose sight of all of the people around them. They grab what they can from more skilled people: then when they realize those 'mentors'' limitations they downgrade them and seem to forget that they sat at their feet learning for awhile. It is a world about ME and ME is a sad world.
A friend just told me today about moving through the ranks of the Boy Scouts. There, one is expected to share and help while he is moving up.
Then, of course, there is the spiritual ladder. Here the ultimate goal is charity. So the higher up the ladder one gets, the more loving one gets, the more Godlike, the more Christlike. This life is the happiest life on earth for neighbor and self and, yes, the only True life after death. May we all climb Jacob's Ladder to the Emporium where the Trinity is present to all and the Blessed Mother worships the Trinity with the rest of the Saints.
A friend just told me today about moving through the ranks of the Boy Scouts. There, one is expected to share and help while he is moving up.
Then, of course, there is the spiritual ladder. Here the ultimate goal is charity. So the higher up the ladder one gets, the more loving one gets, the more Godlike, the more Christlike. This life is the happiest life on earth for neighbor and self and, yes, the only True life after death. May we all climb Jacob's Ladder to the Emporium where the Trinity is present to all and the Blessed Mother worships the Trinity with the rest of the Saints.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
The Assumption
So it is written in the church bulletin:
The 5:30PM Mass will be celebrated according to the
Latin Tridentine Rite for
which Pope Benedict XVIth has given world wide
approval for all priests to
celebrate the Liturgy of St. Gregory the Great codified
by the Council of Trent.
This is heart warming and hopeful, but there is no doubt the battle waged against this Mass will begin again; The battle that was waged in the Council of Vatican II; The battle that Paul VI pushed from Rome and Catholic followed through on on the parish level. The battle that successfully banished the Tridentine Mass from most Latin Rite Catholic Churches until this year when Pope Benedict reopened the doors for the Mass, again. Christ is the Center of the Church. He can never be removed from the Heart of His Church, but that doesn't mean that people will not try to dispose him, consciously or unconsciously. Of course, Satan is continuously, desperately spurring all to turn on Christ.
Still on this feast of the Blessed Mother Mother's Assumption there is much to be thankful for and to take hope in. It is nice for me to have a parish to fulfill my obligation to attend Mass on this Holy Day. I look to St Pius V to St. Gregory the Great to St John to St. Joseph and to the Blessed Mother to nourish me an prepare me for what lies ahead. Laus tibi Christe!
The 5:30PM Mass will be celebrated according to the
Latin Tridentine Rite for
which Pope Benedict XVIth has given world wide
approval for all priests to
celebrate the Liturgy of St. Gregory the Great codified
by the Council of Trent.
This is heart warming and hopeful, but there is no doubt the battle waged against this Mass will begin again; The battle that was waged in the Council of Vatican II; The battle that Paul VI pushed from Rome and Catholic followed through on on the parish level. The battle that successfully banished the Tridentine Mass from most Latin Rite Catholic Churches until this year when Pope Benedict reopened the doors for the Mass, again. Christ is the Center of the Church. He can never be removed from the Heart of His Church, but that doesn't mean that people will not try to dispose him, consciously or unconsciously. Of course, Satan is continuously, desperately spurring all to turn on Christ.
Still on this feast of the Blessed Mother Mother's Assumption there is much to be thankful for and to take hope in. It is nice for me to have a parish to fulfill my obligation to attend Mass on this Holy Day. I look to St Pius V to St. Gregory the Great to St John to St. Joseph and to the Blessed Mother to nourish me an prepare me for what lies ahead. Laus tibi Christe!
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Objectivifying
How many things let human beings objectivify? Of course, sex outside of marriage, but, too, sex within marriage. (Marriage is not just a 'ticket' to sex. If love is not foremost and God is not part of a tripartnership in marriage, then it is easy to objective one's spouse; put sex first and lose love being the driving force in marriage. Making love can be part of every activity in marriage. Unfortunately, in American society 'making love' has become solely attached to sex.). Then there is the workplace where often other workers become competition and mere objects to 'beat' up or down as people strive for the 'top' ( The stories that I've heard about the cutthroat competitions on news programs is scary. These friendly faces that bring many trivial things into people's homes appear to be tramping over each others to be one of the friendly face); Also, people's lives become filled with real objects which take the place of human relationships--'He who has the most objects when he dies wins.' Wins what a place in the depths of Hell?
Relationships with God and people are most important in our short lives. We all have gifts from God, but how easy it is to focus on what our neighbors have or don't have and lose sight of the beating heart and desperate soul, first, of ourselves and, then, of our neighbor. Love God and your neighbor and all things will be added onto you. It is our recipe for peace in our lives. Thank you, God.
Relationships with God and people are most important in our short lives. We all have gifts from God, but how easy it is to focus on what our neighbors have or don't have and lose sight of the beating heart and desperate soul, first, of ourselves and, then, of our neighbor. Love God and your neighbor and all things will be added onto you. It is our recipe for peace in our lives. Thank you, God.
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