☀️”Abortion is a clear-cut evil… People argued for both sides about slavery, racism and genocide too, but that did not make them complex and difficult issues. Moral issues are always terribly complex, said Chesterton — for someone without principles.” By Dr. Peter Kreeft
🍩 Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, Faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day’s problems. When the Church and the world are one, then those days are at hand because our Divine Master placed a barrier between His things and the things of the world. By St. Anthony of the Desert (251 – 356 A.D.)
St. Francis of Paola: "I earnestly admonish U, there 4, my brothers,2 look after ur spiritual well-being wit judicious concern. Death is certain; life is short & vanishes like smoke. Fix ur minds, then, on da passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Inflamed wit luv 4 us, He came down from heaven 2 redeem us. 4 our sake He endured every torment of body & soul & shrank from no bodily pain. He himself gave us an example of perfect patience & luv. We, then, R 2B patient in adversity”
My comments to the ones in that arm of the apostolate were: The day before Linda's text mess, while in church spending time in prayer, the inspiration for the following poem surfaced after staring at the stained glass window by my seat. The words that were written down in a meditation, morphed into a poem, and then they found a confirmation later in the evening from a quote by Blessed Chiara. The quote from St. Francis of Paola, another confirmation, served to provide the inspiration for another title, bumping the original title. The first title was: ~Thoughts, Words, & Actions Permanently Rearranged~ ~A Life Truly & Totally Changed~, and the new and improved title is : ~With judicious concern~ ~Seriously look after your spiritual life, it’s a lesson well worth it to learn~
✌🏼Compared to eternity, time here is very, very, short
✌🏼Useless and senseless activity, you should right now decide to abort
✌🏼Death is imminent, be it later or soon
✌🏼So time for a serious change of tune
✌🏼Set priorities, what’s important and what is not, you must rightly sort
✌🏼Then step back, fortitude intact, and say adios to the spiritual inessential and depart
✌🏼In Spirit and truth one can no longer live life in a familiar cocoon
✌🏼 Heading the Spirit’s call is to pull out into the deep, which will inevitably prove to be a boon
✌🏼There are those who can hear and spiritually want more and more
✌🏼Thanks be to God, He hears and answers the cry of the poor
✌🏼You alone O God, are the sole target
✌🏼The coveted and most valuable prize on the market
✌🏼Come, come, come blasting through my heart’s open door
✌🏼Time for you to rock my spiritual world, sending shock waves down to my being’s core
✌🏼Sparks will fly, that you can without a doubt bet
✌🏼 A must for that is allowing a constant plug in to the right outlet
✌🏼 A movement in the soul like never before
✌🏼From thence everything not of you my O my God, won’t even compare but seem a bore
✌🏼 “Self bankruptcy” is proof of that step in the right direction, what results: “me”, “myself”, and “I” being in serious debt
✌🏼Blind now, no looking for some type of safety net
✌🏼Our sincere efforts, God almighty will not in the least ignore
✌🏼That said, let our spirits take off the ground to higher and higher soar
✌🏼Going the route of seeking the Divine with our whole heart is something we’ll never, ever regret
✌🏼Cause what one truly seeks with heart, mind and soul, that is exactly what one will eventually get
✌🏼 So without being slack, mediocrity shackled, it’s to wildly run the race, for soon and very soon in one’s sight is seen the heavenly shore
✌🏼It’s beyond imagining what glorious treasures the true seeker who have embarked upon a golden, not silver or bronze, journey will have awaiting in store
✌🏼 My goodness, eyes have not seen nor have ears heard about the surprising experience to come at the eternal banquet
✌🏼So with great trust, not giving up or in, we press on confidently not like in former days with fright or fret
tmm/TruGIG
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"Now that you have thus become aware of your own wretchedness, your insufficiency, and your wickedness, you call upon the Lord as did the Publican
📖Luke 18:13 “But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner”
God, be merciful to me a sinner. And you add: Behold, I am far worse than the Publican, for I cannot resist eyeing the Pharisee askance, and my heart is proud and says: I thank Thee that I am not like him! But, say the saints, now that you recognize the darkness in your own heart and the weakness of your flesh, you lose all desire to pass judgment on your neighbour. Out of your own darkness you see the heavenly light that shines in all created things reflected the clearer: you cannot detect the sins of others while your own are so great. For it is in your eager striving for perfection that you first perceive your own imperfection. And only when you have seen your imperfection, can you be perfected. Thus perfection proceeds out of weakness. At this point you are granted the result that Isaac the Syrian promises to those who persecute themselves: And your enemy is driven off as fast as you approach. Of what enemy is the holy Father speaking here? Naturally, of the same one who once took the shape of a serpent and who, ever since, arouses discontent in us, dissatisfaction, impatience and impetuosity and anger, envy, fear, anguish, anxiety, hate, dispiritedness, laziness, dejection, doubt and especially all that embitters our existence and that has its roots in our self-love and self-pity.
For who can wish to be obeyed who realizes, with the pangs of love, that he himself never obeys his Master? What reason, then, has he to be disturbed, to become impatient and impassioned, if everything does not go according to his wishes? Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive
📖 Mark 11:24 “Therefore I tell you, all that you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it and it shall be yours”
Can one very well be envious of a person who does not exalt himself, but who, on the contrary, sees his own condition and finds that everyone else is far more worthy of fame and honor than he? Are fear, anguish and anxiety possible for the person who knows that, come what may, he, like the robber on the cross, is receiving the due reward of his deeds?
📖 Luke 23:41 “And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.”
Laziness leaves him because he is constantly unmasking it within himself. Dejection finds no place, for how can what is already prostrate be cast down? And his hate is directed exclusively towards all the evil in his own life that dims his view of the Lord: he hates his own life.
📖 Luke 14:26 “If any one comes to me without hating his father* and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple”
But then there is no longer any ground for doubt, for he has tasted and seen how gracious the Lord is
📖 Psalms 34:8 “The angel of the LORD encampsaround those who fear him, and he saves them”
it is the Lord alone who bears him up. His love grows constantly in breadth, and with it his faith. He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the fruit of humility. But this takes place only on the narrow way, and few there be that find it.
📖 Matthew 7:14 “How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few”
Info from this site: https://catholicprophecy.org/st-nilus/
“After the year 1900, toward the middle of the 20th century, the people of that time will become unrecognizable. When the time for the Advent of the Antichrist approaches, people’s minds will grow cloudy from carnal passions, and dishonor and lawlessness will grow stronger. Then the world will become unrecognizable. People’s appearances will change, and it will be impossible to distinguish men from women due to their shamelessness in dress and style of hair.
These people will be cruel and will be like wild animals because of the temptations of the Antichrist. There will be no respect for parents and elders, love will disappear, and Christian pastors, bishops, and priests will become vain men, completely failing to distinguish the right-hand way from the left. At that time the morals and traditions of Christians and of the Church will change. People will abandon modesty, and dissipation will reign. Falsehood and greed will attain great proportions, and woe to those who pile up treasures. Lust, adultery, homosexuality, secret deeds and murder will rule in society.
At that future time, due to the power of such great crimes and licentiousness, people will be deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received in Holy Baptism and equally of remorse. The Churches of God will be deprived of God-fearing and pious pastors, and woe to the Christians remaining in the world at that time; they will completely lose their faith because they will lack the opportunity of seeing the light of knowledge from anyone at all. Then they will separate themselves out of the world in holy refuges in search of lightening their spiritual sufferings, but everywhere they will meet obstacles and constraints. And all this will result from the fact that the Antichrist wants to be Lord over everything and become the ruler of the whole universe, and he will produce miracles and fantastic signs.
“He will also give depraved wisdom to an unhappy man so that he will discover a way by which one man can carry on a conversation with another from one end of the earth to the other. At that time men will also fly through the air like birds and descend to the bottom of the sea like fish. And when they have achieved all this, these unhappy people will spend their lives in comfort without knowing, poor souls, that it is deceit of the Antichrist. And, the impious one!? He will so complete science with vanity that it will go off the right path and lead people to lose faith in the existence of God in three hypostases. Then the All-good God will see the downfall of the human race and will shorten the days for the sake of those few who are being saved, because the enemy wants to lead even the chosen into temptation, if that is possible… then the sword of chastisement will suddenly appear and kill the perverter and his servants.
NOTE: As in other prophecies, St. Nilus assures us that the victory belongs to God and those who honor him."
Video link: https://youtu.be/WrfRb1zwr5k