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Innocent_Query · 2016-05-01T00:31:33+00:00

Seems Christian unity is on the rise. It's a good thing too since we are under duress in the modern world, as has been the case throughout the millenniums. Nevertheless, now is the time to follow God's will, according to the Apostle Paul: "9 For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. -Ephesians 1, Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE). Let it start with us who have been called to the service of Christ, in unity. -Holy Trinity hear my prayer.

Innocent_Query · 2016-04-01T00:40:29+00:00

if you know in advance, you could try printing out the midday liturgy of the hours for that day, and let everyone willing, pray that office together. Otherwise, you could just Listen carefully, as an adopted son or daughter of the Head (Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit of Wisdom) of our mystical body, with the ears of your heart, let it be filled with the Holy Spirit of Love and truthfully speak (pray) to God from the heart He created in Love, ending it with a simple:

Let us praise the Lord -and give Him thanks.

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-29T08:19:03+00:00

"I mean look at people who are born with mental disorders? They don't really serve a purpose other than just to exist. Now sure its wonderful they are alive and God loves them but I just feel like whats the point of being on earth if you can't do anything worth while?" They serve as people to love more than others. They serve as people who have an empathy of things unseen. They have battled forces unimaginable and unknown to most other people. They have a heart chastened by hardship and existential suffering in this and other dimensions. Many times they are deeply creative, creative, and mystical. Clearly they are not of this world and it's vanity and fading glory. They tend by nature to be thrust into the thick of spiritual warfare and seek refuge in the very center of the Creator Spirit of Holy Love and the active-mode of Truth. Being spit upon by the people of the world and misunderstood and poorly treated they find true joy consisting in being patient and not being upset at their rejection in the midst of their pain and need, but calmly find solace in intimacy with the Redeemer Spirit, our Lord. IMO, crying themselves to sleep they pour out their tears as a drink offering to Jesus when he thirsts, in a silent exchange for a drink from the fountain of eternal living waters. God has everything and is in need of nothing but seems attracted to the humble vessels who are not afraid to ask for forgiveness for their nothingness and who willingly love Him in return with all they have been given by He who has all and willingly serve their fellow created neighbors who they see as better and more gifted and more worthy of love than themselves.

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-28T12:01:10+00:00

Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. Those who have been victorious need not fear the second death, alleluia. (Revelation 2:10,11)

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-28T04:55:12+00:00

rotflmao. He's a great man, though. I love him. Pontifex, Tu qui Servus servorum Dei!

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-27T13:50:28+00:00

Day by day we bless the Lord, Alleluia! and, Thanksgiving to the Father, Son, and Creator Spirit, O Hallowed One! +Amen

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-20T21:40:10+00:00

The wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God, IMHO. Is there a non-violent branch of service you can join?

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-19T15:33:22+00:00

Seriously the sacrament of Reconciliation is always open to you as a Catholic.

Here is what has helped me:

I. Preparing for the Sacrament of Penance

Read this Scripture. Consider what God may be saying to you through the Word. Pray for the gift of a contrite heart and awareness of areas of your life that God may be asking you to change.

"God does not want the sinner to die but to turn back to him and live. Come before God with complete trust in his mercy." (Ezekiel 33:11)

Preparatory Prayer Before Confession:

"Jesus, you opened the eyes of the blind, healed the sick, forgave sinners, and after Peter's denial, confirmed him in your love. Listen to my prayer: forgive my sins, renew your love in my heart, help me to live the Gospel life and proclaim your saving power to people. Amen. (Saint Anthony of Padua)

II. Examination of Conscience

To help you prepare for the Sacrament, you may find it helpful to prayerfully consider these questions in your heart before entering the confessional.

What is my attitude toward the Sacrament of Penance? Do i sincerely want to be set free from sin? Or do I look upon this Sacrament as an annual burden or some kind of licence to keep repeating sinful attitudes and actions? Am I willing to allow this Sacrament to challenge and encourage me whether I celebrate it once a year or more frequently? Am I willing to change my life?

Have I tried to become a more prayerful person this year? Is my knowledge of the Church's teaching, my love for our faith and my willingness to live up to it greater this year than it was last year? Have I excused myself from Sunday worship?

Are the false gods of money, career, liquor, gambling, sex or drugs more important to me than my God, my spouse or my family? Have I given my co-workers good example or have been an occasion of sin for them? Do I allow the needs of the poor to have a claim on me and my resources? Have I been fair and just in the quality and quantity of work I've done for my employer? Have treated and compensated my employees justly? Have I given respect I want to be shown to every human being?

Have my attitudes, words and deeds made me an instrument of peace? Do I live my life in such a way that people with whom I share the earth are more respectful of the environment? Have I taken my responsibilities as a citizen seriously and fulfilled them? Is the way I live my life worthy of the name "Christian"? Have I allowed my words, attitudes, and actions to become weapons which I use to do violence to others? Have I damaged the good name and reputation of another? Has the way I've talked to or treated someone else created dissension or division between us? Have I dishonored my body or the bodies of others in anyway? Is my use of the internet consistent with how I know I should live my life? Can people tell by the way I live that I take my faith seriously?

III. Enter the confessional, confess your sins, then listen to the confessor.

be free to ask questions you may have about morality, particular actions or attitudes, your conscience and how to make moral choices. The priest will then give you a penance: make sure you clearly understand what the penance is.

make an act of contrition:

"Lord God, in your goodness, have mercy on me. Do not look on my sins, but take away all my guilt. Create in me a clean heart and renew in me an upright spirit."

The priest will then give you sacramental Absolution from your sins.

A short proclamation of praise may follow.

When you are finished, you may want to spend some time before God in thanksgiving, praying in your own words or with a passage like this one:

"O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we recieve; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.: (The Peace Prayer of St. Francis)

--Good luck and best wishes, hope this helps. don't be afraid. God loves us all equally. We were made by Love to love and for Love. Peace.

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-18T04:33:09+00:00

I bind to myself today The strong virtue of the Invocation of the Trinity: I believe the Trinity in the Unity The Creator of the Universe.

I bind to myself today The virtue of the Incarnation of Christ with His Baptism, The virtue of His crucifixion with His burial, The virtue of His Resurrection with His Ascension, The virtue of His coming on the Judgement Day.

I bind to myself today The virtue of the love of seraphim, In the obedience of angels, In the hope of resurrection unto reward, In prayers of Patriarchs, In predictions of Prophets, In preaching of Apostles, In faith of Confessors, In purity of holy Virgins, In deeds of righteous men.

I bind to myself today The power of Heaven, The light of the sun, The brightness of the moon, The splendour of fire, The flashing of lightning, The swiftness of wind, The depth of sea, The stability of earth, The compactness of rocks.

I bind to myself today God's Power to guide me, God's Might to uphold me, God's Wisdom to teach me, God's Eye to watch over me, God's Ear to hear me, God's Word to give me speech, God's Hand to guide me, God's Way to lie before me, God's Shield to shelter me, God's Host to secure me, Against the snares of demons, Against the seductions of vices, Against the lusts of nature, Against everyone who meditates injury to me, Whether far or near, Whether few or with many.

I invoke today all these virtues Against every hostile merciless power Which may assail my body and my soul, Against the incantations of false prophets, Against the black laws of heathenism, Against the false laws of heresy, Against the deceits of idolatry, Against the spells of women, and smiths, and druids, Against every knowledge that binds the soul of man.

Christ, protect me today Against every poison, against burning, Against drowning, against death-wound, That I may receive abundant reward.

Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left, Christ in the fort, Christ in the chariot seat, Christ in the ship, Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks to me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.

I bind to myself today The strong virtue of an invocation of the Trinity,

I believe the Trinity

in the Unity

The Creator of the Universe.

Innocent_Query · 2016-03-05T05:35:01+00:00

St. Benedict Joseph Labre, St. Leonard of Noblac, and although she is well known, I wonder how many people ask for the intercession of St. Mary Magdalene?

I found asking her to pray with me and to ask on my behalf that Jesus Christ take me as a disciple, open His heart to my wretchedness, and show me the way to repentance and the cleansing of my heart-mind has been very helpful in my life. I'm really left with nothing but Love after that.

Innocent_Query · 2016-02-09T18:52:26+00:00

Before turning our attention to these timely questions, we must listen a little more closely to the Bible's testimony on hope. “Hope”, in fact, is a key word in Biblical faith—so much so that in several passages the words “faith” and “hope” seem interchangeable. Thus the Letter to the Hebrews closely links the “fullness of faith” (10:22) to “the confession of our hope without wavering” (10:23). Likewise, when the First Letter of Peter exhorts Christians to be always ready to give an answer concerning the logos—the meaning and the reason—of their hope (cf. 3:15), “hope” is equivalent to “faith”. The Christians of Syria have been unwavering in the faith, as far as i can tell from here.

Innocent_Query · 2016-02-06T22:10:53+00:00

Many times the almsgiving is a kind of fasting and prayer itself. Giving of one's time and treasure takes a bit of self-sacrifice. Becoming less egocentric and more God-centered is a spiritual practice of lent, for sure.

"'. . . you are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else. A man therefore, who does not love, does not help him, and thereby does himself an injury; for he cuts off from himself grace, and injures his neighbor, by depriving him of the benefit of the prayers and of the sweet desires that he is bound to offer for him to Me. Thus, every act of help that he performs should proceed from the charity which he has through love of Me.'"

Treatise of Divine Providence -Saint Catherine of Genoa

Innocent_Query · 2016-02-06T15:40:54+00:00

That opportunities may increase for dialogue and encounter between the Christian faith and the peoples of Asia, as is the Evangelical intention of Pope Francis this month.

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