the advantage of Hatred

It seems that to be accepted in most cultures, and to be truly supported and successful within that culture, it is necessary for you to prove your hatred for that cultures enemy. and what is the result? You live your whole life in sheltered happiness, until the day when you must come face to face with your hatred. Just pray that you come face to face with it before you die, because after that, you are committed to it for eternity. There may be room for anger in Purgatory, but there isn't so much as a dust speck of hatred allowed in Heaven.

To the hypocrisy police,

So you want the Catholic Church to be more accepting of sinners, but you criticize and call God a hypocrite when you read about him working with sinners and their imperfections in the bible, particularly in the Old Testament. Do you think God only chose the most perfect people? No, not until Mary, who was ultimately part of his plan. God has chosen all of us, with our imperfections to carry out his plan of Salvation for mankind, and even to make Saints out of us, if we are willing to admit our brokenness, and our individual mission to love, not our own sake, but for love's sake. For the love of Love, love your Neighbor!

My Christmas Prayer

Dear Father in Heaven
Jesus came from His home in Heaven, to show us the road that we must follow, to take us home with Him when our time on this earth ends. Jesus, the Son of God, became man by the power of the Holy Spirit, and by the same power Rose from the Dead, and defeated sin. I imagine a beautiful baby laying in straw, and a humble manger, the creator of our universe, who came to earth to live and die to bring all men to His kingdom. I pray that I may in turn with deep, trusting Faith in Him, share His Eternal love for me with everyone I meet. This is the gift I ask for this Christmas.
Amen

Honest woman, rest in peace

Honest woman, rest in peace
you told the truth and though it hurt
it hurt you more to love like no one else would dare to.
you cried, in silence and tears transformed the sidewalk
into a bouquete of truth and the kingdom to come
God smiles and presents you now to those who guided you
and the cup, now full overflows to the world still searching

truth has made an honest man of all the men
the one man Jesus Christ who carried truth
was honestly the only one who could carry it all
without the cross, there'd be no pain,
Without the pain, there'd be no anticipation
with that there'd be no knowledge
without knowledge there'd be no existence
without existence there'd be no fact
without facts there'd be no truth,
Without Truth there'd be no Honesty
WIthout Honesty, Love would have nowhere to rest it's head.
Christ rests His life love truth on your heart,
and you felt the pain with honest love

There is no guilty consience, there is no injustice, there is no corruption
Honest woman, you have preserved the world.

Food: There's Lots Of It

Saint Michael

I've recently been more diligent about saying the Saint Michael Prayer, which goes:


St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Got this version from EWTN http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/prayers/michael.htm

I started saying this prayer more regularly due to stress, and noticing myself becoming more frequently worked and agitated to the point that I'd find myself harboring angry thoughts, and on sometimes even blowing up or venting to loved ones about them. Even though I knew I didn't want this to happen, regardless of my will it was incredibly difficult to fight it off at times. I figured that there must some other forces at work here, though not necessarily to blame for my actions, but in sense, cheering me on towards those "Low" moments. So I started trying to make a daily practice of saying the Saint Michael prayer every morning, and every night, and I must say I have been astounded by the effect this prayer has had on my self control. I truly feel that I am no longer cheered on to sin, but more importantly encouraged to control temptation. When the temptations arise, I don't even have to remind myself that I've said the prayer earlier, but I am sometimes surprised when I realize that I've resisted temptation, and then I'll remember that I did say the prayer earlier in the day, and I am very grateful. Sometimes I am also inspired to pray it when I'm on the brink of falling into temptation, and the strength I receive is very real. Of course, I do not always resist, but that is because of my own failings, and lack of cooperation with God's Will.

I also realize that the intercession of Saint Michael helps the symptoms, but does not act as a cure for the cause, and I must now work to conform my free will to God's Grace, through the sacraments, prayer and sacrifice. Saint Michael, I believe helps with the symptoms so that we can more clearly diagnose the cause. Prayer to the Saints and Angels helps us, leading us closer to Christ, and closer to the Truth, Love, Joy and Eternal happiness.

Seperation of Church and Status Quo

I know very ver little about the "Seperation of Church and State," but I plan to start looking in to it more. I found this quote from Thomas Jefferson, off of a Wikipedia page dedicated to this topic.

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state

I think the founders were naive, as they truly believed in One God, and Christ. I believe they never thought these words would inspire men to remove God from all aspects of our country. Why would they have printed "In God We Trust" on the coins? Who among them protested those words?

Through seperation of Church and state, was their main intention to actually protect both?