Articles For Heart Mind Soul

  For the sake of your soul;  instead of sitting and staring at the blasted screen,  sit and stare in front of the Blessed Sacrament. O Sacrament Most Holy,  O Sacrament Divine,  All Praise and All Thanksgiving,  Be Every Moment Thine.

  Modern media molds mindsets.   We are bombarded and brainwashed to buy this and buy that, whether we need it or not, we are made to think we must have it.

  We have chosen to escape and eradicate the spacious and simple country life;  and have instead chosen to evolve and expand the sprawling, sewerage-ridden city life.

 

  Perfect peace comes  when we trust in God  and have our thoughts fixed on God

  You don’t compete with social media;  you offer a radical alternative. You don’t imitate the societal secularism;  you offer the spiritually supernatural.

  Before it was “In God We Trust”. Now it is “In Google We Trust”. Where there once was absolute confidence rightfully placed in Divine Providence, now there is unbounded misplaced confidence bestowed upon technology. God is to be Trusted, google is not to be trusted. Return to Trusting in God, reject trusting in google.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uvfFjbtABk Personal reflection:  It’s interesting to note that Archbishop Fulton Sheen who will soon be canonized, was definitely a media influencer of his time. It is also interesting to note that he made a daily Eucharistic Adoration Holy Hour. Did these clergy and consecrated religious who left their vocation maintain a prayerful and sacramental life along with their media presence? Did their life in front of the camera overtake their life in front of Christ? Did they really influence others, or were others really influencing them more? Was it truly their God-given mission to be media missionaries, or was it done more for their own self-aggrandizement and popularity? Media is cool, and being a famous media personality is even cooler; because who doesn’t want to be cool and do cool things, but at what price to be paid, at the end what will it cost them? The evil one is convincing and conniving, don’t be fooled and fall for his deadly e...