Episode 37 – Your Past is a Preparation for Your Future

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   Philip

   October 6, 2018 at 2:41 am — Reply

   I got tired of the protestant description of past scum-bagged-ness. I’m more concerned about the abundance of graces blazened upon me as one of the last Catholics and what I’ve done with that in the last few days. There’s no time to look back or bury my father. My glory isn’t my shame. What glory do I even have but moments of grace filled gift somehow accepted by my own wisdom as a “good” deed ? What good is that to my omnipotent All Holy God? There’s only on thing left to do and it’s service to others in the name of Christ. As a Roman Catholic in 2018 how many souls all around me am I responsible for every day? Not just the physical that I can see and touch or touch in heart through word (God grant me the graces) but how many through the offering up of the sacrifice and pain.

   As far as the terminology of the conversion process, the physiological aspects and theological reasoning for the dramatic changes in our lives in Christ, I feel Venerable Fulton Sheen’s book “Peace of Soul” covers all that in the first two chapters.

   What an awesome responsibility to have to feed everyone around you. What a gift. What a unbelievable blessing to be Roman Catholic. We haven’t been converted we are being converted. We are saved we are being saved and we pray to be saved. What joy to hear “Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb”.

   We need to inspire others to daily mortification, daily prayer and Christian discipline. Something must say “there is something different about this Catholic”. With God’s grace and the sacraments Catholics can again be in public witness simply because we have been with the Lord. Right there in every Tabernacle. What power!

   I used to be a scumbag now, thanks to the graces I’ve received, I am a million times unworthy of them. I trust in divine mercy. We’ve been given everything by God. When will we act like it? When will I act like it?

   Be a thrashing post for insults, a conduit for grace, a punching bag for violence, a refuge for the disparate, a pillar for the downtrodden, a sanctuary for the depressed, a rock for consultation, a lover of the pure, a witness to the truth, a fortress of the spirit, a fragrance to the dying, a melting pot for the hungry. Constant communion and peace.

   Etc.. Oh our poor church.. This poor temporal passing world and its opinionated fashions..

   Crux santi sit mihi lux