***Tragic Living

        You live as if this is the only life you have to live, and you end up wasting your whole lifetime living for yourself.

A Great Feeling Is . . .

knowing that you are ready to meet your Lord and God at anytime.

*Learn How to Exist

         Attain union with Christ and you'll know how to live, how to love, and how to die.

God Alone Trustworthy

        The people elect our political leaders and officials based much upon the misinformation, propaganda, and dishonest media reporting they have received, so none of those elected can be totally trustworthy. But you can surely trust in God fully, who alone is the eternal truth.

**Perfect Compatibility*

        Do you know that you cannot achieve perfect compatibility with another human being, but you can with God! For God can transform you.

To Complete Trust in God

       At my age, my injured left shoulder just does not seem to heal on its own anymore, but I know that the Lord can heal me instantly if he so wishes. This has made me place my complete trust in him. That night I saw St. Thérèse in a dream. This seemed to confirm my decision, for she always abandoned herself totally in Jesus.

Christ Our Best Guide

        Since we were born into this world and do not know the spiritual world on the other side, all the more we need to follow Christ as our guide and believe in the Gospels.

***Most Wonderful Blessing!

       It's truly wonderful that the Lord God can enter our innermost to cleanse our heart and heal our soul. This is the same Lord who can let us experience joy, peace, and freedom in him. I consider it an unbelievable blessing that we can even become soulmates to this our loving Lord and creator!

Perfectionists, Good and Bad

        A perfectionist with a big ego is a bad perfectionist. He wants to be perfect in and by himself; he tends to judge both others and himself harshly and is never happy. A good perfectionist, on the other hand, is one who remains humble in God. He asks God to make him perfect and does not judge himself nor the outcome. Before God, he acknowledges and accepts his own imperfections.

**Ending Self-Importance

        It is normal for us to want to fit in, to be noticed, or to be somebody. Knowing Christ wipes out all these desires, for the peace and contentment of knowing him you experience makes you realize that God is infinitely more important to you than yourself are. You are already valuable and important to him, so feeling self-important is no longer necessary nor appropriate. 

The Thrust We Need

        I was on a flight and saw how the plane, by casting off its burnt fuel, produced the needed thrust to propel it toward its destination. The Lord made me see that we, by casting off our repented sins, would produce the needed thrust to propel us toward heaven, our destination.

**To Soar with God*

        If you have to struggle to be holy, you have not given yourself entirely to the Lord God yet. Let him truly be your Lord and he shall make everything easy for you. Be one with him to let him carry you always.

To Be Truly Better Off

         I am back to blogging again. I shall post each message by the date of its reception.

        Last month, I received my flu shot and also accidentally slipped and fell. Physically, we are all vulnerable to getting sick or injured. To stay healthy and sound is only somewhat better off temporarily. Now, having the Lord God is truly much better off for all eternity!

**Unstoppable God*

        Just one more post. It came to me that the power of God is unstoppable. As I was praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, I saw that the Lord wanted to sacrifice his own Son to save us, and that act was unstoppable, so awesome! Let's remember that his final judgment of us will also be unstoppable. Whatever has to be carried out will be carried out. We should also never stop loving a Lord who never stops loving us!

***The Holy Eucharist Is Christ!

        Most likely, I  won't able to blog during the next four weeks or so. I expect to resume blogging fully beginning November 16. While Catholics are losing their belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, I am happy to post Fr. Mark Goring's new video to show that the Most Blessed Sacrament is indeed the bread from heaven. 

**Confusion Is from the Evil One

        Jesus taught his disciples in Matthew 5.37, "Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and your 'No' mean 'No.' Anything more is from the evil one." The evil one and those who are influenced by him love to sow confusion. Instead of coming straight to the point, they expend a lot of words to deflect the truth—a trick employed by many deceptive politicians. I had watched a the Amazon Synod a few times on YouTube and found that whenever a reporter asked the panel a question, the responding member usually gave some vague, drawn-out response difficult to follow. Alas, when the Holy Father was accused of not believing in the divinity of Christ on earth, we only got a weak explanation via some Vatican spokesperson. Why couldn't the Holy Father settle the issue by openly declaring to all that he either believes or doesn't believe that Christ is divine on earth! By the same token, when we pray to God, we should be clear and specific about what we ask for.

**Catholic Failure in Brazil

       Here is a comment from Teddy on Michael Matt's video I last posted that's worth reading.

         I live in Brazil. The Brazilian Catholic Church is losing their indigenous people to the Evangelicals for the simple reason that the Indians are not stupid, they are fed up of so-called priests who teach them Marxist revolution, hatred against the oppressors, the white oligarchy who is there to submit them and exploit them. That is all they teach them. The Catholic missionaries and priests are totally Marxist and revolutionary in character, ideology and praxis. So here the Evangelicals come, and teach them of a loving Saviour who died to save them from eternal death and hell, and who is there for them, who loves them personally and who has shed His holy blood for them to give them eternal life. Does this sound familiar to any one of you? They also bring practical help, not marxist ideology and preaching upheaval against the oppressors. They teach them skills, jobs, they house them, care for them, bring them doctors, show them love and bind them in closely knit communities based on prayer and communal living where they are taught Christian virtues and holiness. And you know what? Our Indians love that. Because they want God, they want to pray to an Almighty, All-loving Saviour who loves them personally and communally. Shame on Brazilian Catholics for having transformed the Catholic pure teaching into a Third World Revolutionary Manifesto to fight Capitalism. The Indians don't simply care for this. And they do well. So, yes, 80% of Amazon Indians have become Evangelical Christians. And many of them have a daily routine of prayer, holy living and love for neighbour. What about the other 20% remaining in the Catholic Church? They are filled with revolutionary zeal, anger and hatred for those "capitalist pigs" who are there to "destroy" their "perfect Eden-like egalitarian utopia" which has never existed to begin with.

***Sad State of the Church***

        Michael Matt's latest video tells us the reality of the Catholic Church today and I think you should hear him. During the last half a century or so, the Church has been influenced and weakened by the world that the younger Catholics no longer know what the traditional Church was like (very much like the Chinese people under 40 or so who have no idea about the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution that took place in their country.) I cannot recall ever hearing the word "hell" in any homily as if it does not exist. The word "sin" maybe, but not to make us feel how horrible it is to offend God. It's more important for priests not to offend his audience than to defend God. We have lost the glory, the dedication, the spirit, and the courage to tell the truth of our Catholic faith. Evil has so deeply infiltrated the Church and deceived her members that it would take a thorough cleansing to restore it.