In Colorado, a pair of twins was together for the first time
outside the womb. Not in itself strange,
but the brothers have birthdays two months apart. Brother #1 was delivered premature. Brother #2 stayed in the womb for as long as
doctors could manage. In our legal
system, if someone ended the life of Brother #1 in the interim it would have
been murder; if someone ended the life of Brother #2, it could have been a
legal abortion. Insanity? No, this is justice in our country. The Catholic Church has always condemned
abortion. In the Didache it is
prohibited along with infanticide. The
Church teaches that life begins at conception when physical life is formed and
the being is infused with a soul. Some
say that Thomas Aquinas said abortion was permitted in the early months. Aquinas was always opposed to abortion; he
was just not certain of when life began (considering the stage of medicine in
the 13th century). All human
life has value. God would not allow
conception to occur if He did not have a plan for that person, if He did not
want that person to be. No one is an
accident. Only our laws are ludicrous,
the arbitrary time of birth is a poor factor for determining the start of legal
rights. Brother#1 for two months had all
the protection of our legal system, while Brother#2 had none at all. The same doctor who delivered Brother#1 could
have also aborted Brother#2, all while trying to do everything possible to keep
Brother #1 alive. Any wonder why some
people think the world has gone mad?
http://www.9news.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=135046
"What matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And without the love of Jesus, everything else is useless." St. John Paul II
+++++++++++++++++++++God's timing is not our timing, but He is never late.+++++++++++++++
"If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives." Donna Van Liere, The Christmas Shoes
"If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives." Donna Van Liere, The Christmas Shoes
Layers - in the knowledge of God and the path to holiness
Learning about God is like unwrapping a head of lettuce, pealing back one leaf at a time. Always there is another leaf below. We will eventually reach the center of the head of lettuce; but we will never unwrap everthing there is to know about God.
The path to holiness is like pealing an onion. God shows us what is sinful and convicts us that we have sinned. No matter how sweet the onion, there are always tears in the peeling. No matter how sweet the grace of repentence, there are always the pain of letting go of the sin. As the peeling of the onion reveals another layer, so God shows us what we lack in holiness, drawing us ever closer to "be(ing) perfect even just as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:48
The path to holiness is like pealing an onion. God shows us what is sinful and convicts us that we have sinned. No matter how sweet the onion, there are always tears in the peeling. No matter how sweet the grace of repentence, there are always the pain of letting go of the sin. As the peeling of the onion reveals another layer, so God shows us what we lack in holiness, drawing us ever closer to "be(ing) perfect even just as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:48
What I Believe
Why I am and always will be a Catholic. "So Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. Tthe living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever." John 6:53-58 The words and actions of man cannot sanctify. Only the priest, empowered by his ordination, can invoke the Holy Spirit to transform the bread and wine into Jesus so we can receive Him - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity into our bodies and souls. This is the core of the Catholic Church; without this there is no purpose or meaning to the Catholic Church. There are other ways to holiness, to grow in grace; there is no better way than union with Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
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