What is a shadow? A shadow is an unilluminated area: an area where the light of day is blocked. The light is not completely blocked, but casts a muted darkness. Which part of the church do you live in? I know for sure that I lived in the shadow part for many years. My description of the shadow church is that it is composed of pick-and-choose catholics. They take and believe only the parts that they feel good about or accept. In reality, they are fallen away but do not know it, as they think what they pick and choose is ok. You can see in it our “catholic” politicians. Abortion is really not nice they say, but its legal you know. While we can point to these people, we as catholics are just as bad. How many catholics practice contraceptive birth control? How many have just ignored the consequences? In reality, this makes us (them) a shadow catholic. Note that I do not use the capital “C”. How many think it is ok to miss mass, and that confession is not really needed. Surely Jesus will forgive us if we ask Him? There is no Hell, for what kind of loving God would do that. I have even been told by a priest that there really isn’t a thing as sin, but just bad choices! I have heard the press say that there are about a billion Catholics. I often wonder just how many of them are in the shadow. Personally, as a child of the 60’s, I can now see the great shadow that fell upon the church during that time. It fell on me and many many others. That shadow was the introduction of contraceptive birth control, free love, free thinking and the liberal part of the church that seemed to pounce upon all of this. You have heard it, “it’s between you and your conscience”. Of course the real answer is that it is between you and God. Contraceptive birth control has led us to even more evils. Abortion is a direct consequence of this. If life is not all that important, then killing the unborn is just not important either. We seem to have fled from life and responsibility into the evil pit of self and convenience. Soon and very soon, I think that the members of the church will have to make a choice. Will it be life and light, or will we dwell in the shadows? I hope all of you seek the light.

Jesus is the Light of the World

Your Brother in Christ
Dennis

 

July 13, 2008

What is a death wish?

A death wish is an unconscious urge to die. Truly the world and especially the United States have a Death Wish. We are unconsciously destroying our country, government and families all in the name of selfish desires. From porn to artificial contraception, to abortion and then to partial-birth abortion and then on to infanticide, we have slipped down the slippery slope into the depths of hell where the evil one is laughing at how stupid and easily misled Gods children are. Not only does this Death Wish destroy our society and bodies, but also kills the soul. If we can see that all the above is useful, needed and good, surely euthanasia of the elderly, mentally ill and sick will be a good and useful thing as well. Not only is the body being killed, but the minds and purity of our children. One might ask why this is being allowed as we sit in front of the mindless monster (TV) eating a sugar and fat filled snack. It all really gets down to who is in control. If our ego (our wants and needs) are the only focus of our lives, then we will be dead. We will be dead to God, our children, our country and ourselves. We will be dead to what is happening to our world. We will just be dying a mindless and unconscious death. Even worse will be the fact that we will keep dying for eternity.

The Author of this Blog feels that we are all approaching an abyss of evil that will destroy all that is good unless we turn off our TVs, unplug our iPods and actually listen to what is happening in this world and in our families and then do something. We are now living in a society that is almost completely ignorant of God. Our society had abandoned our children to a godless educational system that wants every one to fit into a very low level mold where creativity is an unknown quality and where family, sex and moral selection are distorted and blurred. What this gives us are children that have no idea how to even make change, tell time or even tie their shoes. What this gives us are children that have a warped and distorted view of morals, hard work and a lost sense of belonging. How could a world or society actually survive if made up of members like this? As a society, we have failed our children. We have gladly handed them over to some one else. We demand little and give even less. Our children have no heroes except worthless and evil ones, and will become the devils fodder unless we change our ways.

What is the solution?
The solution is really simple. God must be our complete focus. Not just “I believe in God”, for the answer to that is “so does the Devil”. Very few people even go to church and practice their faith. If they did, there would be traffic jams every Sunday morning as we make our way to church. On most Sunday mornings, it is hard to know if the city has been abandoned by its people. In reality, they have abandoned it; they have abandoned their God for late sleep, and the easy way. The solution is Jesus who is love. The solution is not in believing which is required, but is a lie until backed up by good works. It is possible to end up in hell by being a good person who did nothing. I have a strange feeling that this is our last chance at getting up and saying no. It is our last chance at saving our children, and it is our last chance at saving our most wonderful country. For like in the gospel, God will take away His golden tokens of care and blessings and give them to some one who uses them wisely. Like the gospel of today (June 13th, 2008), we seem to have planted our seeds in the weeds and thorns where there is only temporary stunted growth and then death. I think that this is our last chance, and I pray that I am wrong.

May your seeds of love and action be planted in Gods good soil and may they bear fruit 100 fold.

You’re Brother in Christ
Dennis

Back to Love
June 18th. 2008

I have written about love many times this year, and I seem to always return to thoughts on it. I think that the reason for that is that I do not do a very good job when it comes to love. Although I am not sure, I can almost hear our Lord asking me about love as I face Him. I am sure He will not ask about what my favorite meal was, but for the loving thanks I gave when I received it. As I said above, I am not sure, but I would probably be right when I say “It is all about love”. In fact everything that God sees as good is about love. Lovingly made and lovingly given. If we have created wonderful things in our lives, well great, but that is just using what God has given us. What is really important are those small little bits of love that we give out. It could be a smile, or a touch or a thank you to some one who was in need at just that time. Patiently listening to friends who are troubled or helping someone you don’t even know. Usually love has no cost for the giver, and has a great value to the one receiving it. The real payback of love is the ripple effect it has on everyone. It is possible to love so much, that we can change people and circumstances forever. A simple smile and kind word can flow out through the person we gave it to and change their day, their family and all the people they came in contact with. Being loving and kind can change all those who are around us. We can all be a source of love and people will want to be around us. Jesus looked upon his children and had great compassion and love for them. If we are in need of love, the best way to receive it is through Jesus. By loving others as He did, we will be paid back if not in this world, then in the next. Yes, when it is all over with, I am sure “It will have all been about love”

Become Love – that is become Christ like
Love from your brother in Christ - Dennis

1 Corinthians 13:4-13
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear. Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.

There are three things that will endure - Faith, Hope, and Love - and that greatest of these is Love.

 

The missing 74 thousand (aborted children in Texas in 2003)
May 19th. 2008

Where can they be? Where have they gone? I have looked and searched and cried out their names, but to no avail. Are they sleeping in their mothers arms? Are they drawing pictures of the sun? Are they smiling and laughing and dancing and turning around in celebration of just being alive? Where are their songs and their pure “I love you”? Where are their Fathers and mothers? Have they lost them and are in panic as they search them out? Where Oh God are they for you know all things? I have looked for their smiles and giggling. I have looked for their painted pictures all proudly display on walls. Where are their toys? I see none of that Oh Lord. I have traveled to the country and to the town. Looked under bushes and looked all around. But just when I thought I would fail at this search, I found them all slaughtered and disposed of like trash! When what I had seen finally had registered in my brain, I cried out for vengeance and let out a scream. God forbid this to continue for it is all like a bad dream.

Nearly 45 million babies have been killed, slaughtered and ripped from their mothers bodies in the US since Row vs Wade for convenience sake or to “relieve the burden of a baby”. Sources put the number of annual world abortions at 46 million! Praying that God will just forgive and forget this is like thinking the sun will not rise in the morning.

Pray that in the process of God punishing the world for this hideous crime, you will not be an innocent victim like all the aborted babies. The devil is dancing, and you can go and watch him at your local abortion clinic. Oh, is this something you never think about? Sorry I brought it up

Your Brother in Christ
Dennis

May 18th. 2009

From Matthew - Chapter 22

Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?
Jesus said to him, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment”.

”The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too”.

Looking out on the world do we see this law being practiced? The answer is that
”yes some do”, but as a whole humanity only loves them selves’. Man living in the world of 2008 is on the very edge of failure and collapse. The world is being used up out of greed and very soon if not at this very moment fail or is failing to support its greedy keepers. If the world is to survive this great attack on its systems, man must very soon return to “The Greatest Commandment”. That command is to love our God and the world he gave us and the people place here to care for it. These commands are rarely heeded and are far diminished. Greed instead of service dominates most activities. In the coming years, if man does not come back to this commandment and love and serve his God and his brothers, the times will be terrible times. We as Christians can start this “Great coming back” and heed this great command. We can start by sacrificing self and look to our neighbors and families as our responsibility by understanding and caring for their needs. We can start now to be loving care takers of this world instead of greedy consumers. Eating an evening meal that came from 15 different countries is an insane use of Gods world. As love of family and neighbor starts as a local activity, so should our activities of caring for this world start locally. God created all of us and this world for his glory. By coming back to “The Greatest Commandment”, we can keep it that way.

Your Brother in Christ
Dennis

 

May 03, 2008

Before the world, before man or any creature was. Before there was anything that man could touch, hear or taste there was God. That God was in no need of anything and was perfect in all regards. One of the great parts of God, but no less or more than any other part was Love. This love was love that the Father had for the Son and the Son for the Father. This love and action came forth through the action of the Spirit. In good time, but not as we know it, God willed to create through the Son and in action of the Spirit the world as we see it. While the world was wonderful and beautiful and perfect, God also
created man not as he created the universe but in His glorious image and likeness. It was love that God created from, and he created His children as He knew each of them before there was time or creation. Each created was in the image of the Son and had a soul or spirit that would live forever because of His most perfect will. God creates through love and each of us who are created was created through it. God has a great plan for His creation, and longs for each of us to return to Him through the action of our love placed there in each of us through the Spirit. Man can not love properly unless the love is placed their by God, as any other love is corrupt and has no value before our Creator. Gods plan for all creation is to create through each one of us. In this great loving action, God has placed His great plan of creation in the hands of the created. While mans time in the physical realm is short, for those who follow His word will share all that is God for eternity. No one knows what God has planed for His children in eternity, but a perfect and infinite God can do infinitive and perfect things for His most loved and faithful children

There is only one way to love, and that is to love as and through the Son, as the Father has given all to Him. Love as Christ loved, give and forgive as Christ has given and forgiven and we will give and forgive with Gods love. When we see our brothers and sisters, seek Christ in their face, and in seeing Him there love them as you would love Christ. Love your self as God loves you with a burning love and wants us to see Him in that tiny fire called your soul. Love is kind and serving as our Lord was kind and serving. Love is patient as Christ is patient in forgiving you and I over and over, only looking for the good in you. True love is a happy love as the father had for his returning lost child. Love is it own reward, but we will be rewarded for eternity if we love through our loving Creator. God is true love and God wants us to love as His Son loves. Each of us can do that by becoming like Jesus and then we will in deed be love and loved.

May God’s love be in all of you.
Your Brother in Christ
Dennis