May 2023

“A person will reap only what he sows. 

The one who sows to please his flesh,

from the flesh will reap destruction;

but the one who sows to please the Spirit,

from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”

(Galatians 6:7-8)

Dear Friends –

Experiencing consequences for one’s actions has fallen by the wayside in a secular materialistic world, but never so in God’s world.  The very ones who need to know this will learn its truth too late.  With the growing escalation of sin prevailing, society’s judgment of sinners, out of necessity, has become one of acceptance instead of disapproval. What was frowned on with righteous indignation at one time, now occurs with such volume that it practically legitimizes the bad action as allowable!  Abortion, addiction, adultery, and homosexuality, to name a few, have all been made acceptable behavior in a dominant secular culture, but if a Christian, who can’t condone such behavior, wants to admonish that as being repulsive to God, they are considered intolerant!  An immoral society is daily sowing weed after weed which only pleases the flesh but reaps destruction; the sinner’s pleasure earns eternal damnation for themselves, but society in general reaps material destruction to safe and happy living with goodness prevailing.  

Crime rates are growing, liberal DAs are not prosecuting but releasing repetitive offenders, and maligned police departments are suffering such severe cutbacks rendering them incapable of handling the demand.  The youth of Chicago knew all this when they went on a wild destructive rampage recently, and one official had the audacity to ask “that we not demonized these young people because we are failing to meet their needs!”  And even more liberal excuses are rendered to avoid consequences for rotten, evil behavior that will only get worse left unpunished.  Their actions were therefore surreptitiously sanctioned which will embolden them! and finding strength in numbers, will let the frenzy of crowd mayhem give them the adrenalin rush to continue looting and destroying for their selfish profit and perverse pleasure! We are enabling this demonic immoral youth to be the hardened criminals of tomorrow.

Society is plagued with more problems than a secular government can handle, and the only solution is imposing God’s morality on an individual basis by religious people.  The negligence of gun control has placed arms in too many hands, especially with the mentally unfit when no follow-up is ever conducted.  Children are killed in school massacres; innocent victims simply knock on the wrong door or inadvertently trespass and are shot; and drive-by maniacs kill for pleasure.  Family discord and financial upheaval place too many on the streets and the stress of it all gets to the best of them, consequently, random acts of violence evolve when we fail to help the growing homeless population.  The massive influx of illegal immigrants adds to the street people that enter this country with criminal records, and nefarious backgrounds and intentions. Ineffectual politicians lie through their teeth, not once in a while, but so often that the public has lost complete respect for them, including our inept president, whose inadequacies have belittled our country’s place, power, and prestige on the world stage.  We are a sick country with an evil soul, and we are producing nothing but deadly pestilence day after day; the Christian minority must wake up and combat this hellish existence… act, pray, and let God know you care for His creation and beg for His Divine Intervention.

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ADDITIONAL QUOTES ON THE MONTHLY THEME

 

“Those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.”     1 Timothy 5:20

"Iwe wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.”   Ven. Fulton J. Sheen                                                    

“It is dangerous for men in power, if no one dares to tell them when they go wrong.”        Saint Thomas A. Becket                                                                                                                         

“Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”            Ephesians 5:11

“Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominate, then it seeks to silence good.”                              Archbishop Charles Chaput

“It is time now for us to rise from sleep!”    Saint Benedict                                                                                                           

“Reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine.”    2 Timothy 4:2                                                                                                                                                    

“All the evils of the world, are due to lukewarm Catholics.”     Saint Pope Pius V                                                                           

“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.”   G. K. Chesterton                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 “Open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God.”       Acts 26:18