[11/02, 00:11] Connie👥Gerry: Esau traded his birthright (the life of Christ) with a bowl of soup (materials duniawi).
[11/02, 00:14] Connie👥Gerry: Do what makes you (happy)or(holy). Your choice.
14th Feb 2019
1 Peter 1:2 TLB And *the Holy Spirit* has been at work in your hearts, *cleansing you with the blood of Jesus Christ* and *making you to please him.* May God bless you richly and grant you increasing freedom from all anxiety and fear.
Remember that you and your wife are partners in receiving God’s blessings, and if you don’t treat her as you should, your prayers will not get ready answers.
Wives, fit in with your husbands’ plans; for then if they refuse to listen when you talk to them about the Lord, they will be won by your respectful, pure behavior. Your godly lives will speak to them better than any words.👫💞
God gives special blessings to those who are humble, but sets himself against those who are proud. 6 If you will humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, in his good time he will lift you up. 1 Peter 5:5-6
All people commit sins and make mistakes. God forgives them, and people are acting in a godlike (divine) way when they forgive.
[05/04, 11:33] Connie👥Gerry: If God lay His hand upon you, and If you see a priest or any other person, who you see is lacking or wrong in somewhere, intercede for him. Get down on your knees and pray to God for that face that you think is weak in your opinion. You do not believe he does any praying, you do not believe you have the right to criticize him or say anything about him if you do not have enough the grace of God to put him in our heart and carrying him to the Lord. Because of the spirit of thing like that can destroy you. You are amazed that the power of Satan has to wipe treachery into your very life. It may start out appear to be good can wind up to be poison. So, therefore, you pray for him and others.
[05/04, 11:45] Connie👥Gerry: If I am in the same situation being wrong and weak, I will want somebody praying for me. If I have slipped and fallen, fallen back fallen deep into sin, I want somebody that God can move upon their hearts to begin praying for me. It is so necessary to go to pray because it's a channel of grace. Prayers open to God, open to the door of grace. Grace rain all the blessings that God has for any of us. The grace of God. God does anything he does for you through grace. From the goodness of God and God merciful heart, God does this thing for us. So you pray for him.
When Visit The Cemetery:
O Divine Jesus, who suffering and dying for our love has purchased with the price of Your Blood our eternal life: I know You live and hear my pleas and that the grace of Your Redemption is most abundant thus, forgive O Most Merciful God the souls of these my deceased beloved; free them from all pains and all tribulations and embrace them in the bosom of Your Goodness and in the joyful company of Your angels and saints so that, free of all pain and anguish, they praise, enjoy and reign with You in the Paradise of Your Glory forever and ever. Amen
O God, Who has commanded us to honour our father and mother, have compassion in Thy mercy, on the souls of my father and mother; forgive them their sins, and grant that I may see them in the joy of eternal brightness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Say the *Our Father*
*Eternal rest* grant unto them O Lord, and let Your Perpetual Light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. May their souls, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-to-raise-evangelization-above-Catholic-doctrine Pope Francis to raise ‘evangelization’ above Catholic doctrine in curial reform: report 👍👍👍
“The main point of the new apostolic constitution is that the church’s mission is evangelization. It puts it at the center of the church and of everything the Curia does,”
Vida Nueva and CNS also report that according to the new plan, the Vatican’s dicasteries will no longer be seen as having an authority superior to diocesan bishops, and *may be led by mere laymen in the future,* further advancing Pope Francis’ themes of “synodality” and opposition to what he calls “clericalism.”. 👍👍👍👍👍 Curia does,”
[01/05, 23:18] Connie&Gerry: Root Of The Crisis
April 30, 2019 by sd
“Many signs and wonders were done among the people
at the hands of the apostles.
They were all together in Solomon’s portico.
None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them.
Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord,
great numbers of men and women, were added to them.
Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets
and laid them on cots and mats
so that when Peter came by,
at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them.
A large number of people from the towns
in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered,
bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits,
and they were all cured” (Acts 5:12-16)
[01/05, 23:18] Connie&Gerry: Peter was an apostle. How many current apostles do what he did?
The root of the current Church crisis is disbelief. Many who call themselves Catholic are not Catholic. Others, who do have faith, struggle and often fail to bring it alive. This is because we have diverged greatly from the mystical side of Jesus.
That transcendental aspect included the famous miracles and of course His Resurrection. Both validated Who He said He was. How can we ignore it?
And yet there has been an apostasy, which is not only when doctrine is violated but when the Catholic Faith is practiced as a psycho-emotive discipline instead of a vibrant numinous connection with Jesus. When approached via the intellect only, the crux of Catholicism splinters.
[01/05, 23:18] Connie&Gerry: Pope Benedict: “Indeed, in many parts of the Church, conciliar attitudes were understood to mean having a critical or negative attitude towards the hitherto existing tradition, which was now to be replaced by a new, radically open relationship with the world. One bishop, who had previously been seminary rector, had arranged for the seminarians to be shown pornographic films, allegedly with the intention of thus making them resistant to behavior contrary to the faith.
“Why did pedophilia reach such proportions? Ultimately, the reason is the absence of God. We Christians and priests also prefer not to talk about God, because this speech does not seem to be [worldly].” And so it is all wrapped up right there: the root of the crisis is compromise with the world. We even politicize the papacy. We rarely take Communion for mystical union.
[01/05, 23:18] Connie&Gerry: When we don’t feel the Spirit during the Eucharist, there is something missing in us or in the way the Mass has been celebrated. Jesus said His disciples would be known by their laying on of hands, healing, and exorcising demons. Often it comes down to a lack of prayer, and that lack leads to an incorporation of worldliness with religion.
[01/05, 23:18] Connie&Gerry: Absence of God
[01/05, 23:18] Connie&Gerry: https://youtu.be/4mv3J6fDi7I Presence of God.
May the grace of our Lord JC trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Grace:
I thank you, Lord, for the avalanche of blessings bestowed upon my family. May the Lord bless our friends in our presence. May the Lord bless the food being
served that it will strengthen bodies. In Jesus, we pray. Amen.
Proverbs 15:29 ►
The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. Proverbs 15:29 ►
Without Holy Spirit, preaching becomes proselytizing.
“If there is no Holy Spirit, there is no evangelization". “This can be proselytizing, advertising. But evangelization means letting the Holy Spirit guide you, that he is the one that pushes you to announce, to proclaim with your witness, with martyrdom as well as with the word.” Pope Francis
“Do I worship God or do I worship dogmatic formulations? Does the faith in God I profess make me friendly or hostile toward those who are different from me?” Pope Francis asked.
