Articles For Heart Mind Soul

  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...

 

  Personal reflection: We are seductively seduced by the terminology of “new and improved”. Every year there is a “new and improved” Apple iPhone that we are tempted into buying because we are convincingly exhorted that we must have it, even though our old phone works perfectly well. Just like the apple was tempting to Adam and Eve in the Garden, the Apple logo in the garden of evil is still tempting us today. The same snake that tempted Adam and Eve to consume the Apple in the Garden, that they were commanded by God not to eat; is the same snake that tempts us today to consume the poisonous Apple in the garden of the evil on our screens that manifoldly manifests the seven deadly sins that are against God’s commandments. The seven deadly sins, or capital vices, in Catholic teaching: pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth; all of which can be found and consumed while scrolling on our screens.

  Treasure all that is  aesthetically BEAUTIFUL,  morally GOOD, and  objectively TRUE!

  Radicals are about re-definition. Traditionalists are about Truth. There's the Christian rainbow and then  there's the corrupted coalition rainbow. The corrupted coalition re-defined  God's rainbow  as pride. The vice of pride has been re-defined  as a virtue. The virtue of humility has been re-defined  as a vice. Stand with the Truth, Stand with Traditionalists.

  Don’t let the flesh, the world, and the evil one sap your God-given JOY   Don’t anticipate potential problems   Gratitude restores joy