Articles For Heart Mind Soul

  Why settle for the superficial and shallow, when we can have the supernatural and sublime?

  The smartphone screen is a portal we enter at our own risk. And once we enter, we are held captive until we are able to break free, through Christ who liberates us from its captivating clutches. We are indeed in a pretty prison, but no matter how pretty it is, we are not free.

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  We think we are leaders because we have followers on social media.   We think we have friends because people like us on social media.   We think we are noticed because people view us on social media.   We think we are having a conversation because people comment on social media. Social media mimics social interactions, but it is only dehumanizing and depersonalizing the human person, stripping us of our humanity and our personality.

 

  Technology desacralizes, dehumanizes, and depersonalizes the sanctity of the unique human person who was created by God with a sacred spiritual soul, a physical human body, and a distinct individual personality.

  Freedom means surrender to God;  not in demeaning defeat,  but in victorious valor.

  The promise and potential of technology is now the pathology and poison of technology with its undesirable and untamed negative consequences of: Addiction Artificial intelligence ChatGPT Googling Online dating Pornography Scrolling Sexting Social media Virtual reality With a whirlwind of Worldliness (the world) Warpedness (the flesh) and Wickedness (the devil)

  The three “omni” attributes of technology: omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, characterize it as all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present. Omnipotence mean that technology is in total control of all humanity. Omniscience means that technology is the ultimate criterion of truth and falsity, so that it is always true and everything else is always false. Omnipresence means that since technology’s power and knowledge extend to all parts of the universe, with satellites and space stations, technology is present practically everywhere.

Personal reflection:     So if a woman is transitioning to be a “man”, which is impossible, but still she is taking male hormones and having surgeries, to try to make her body look like a man’s body. If she wants to be a man, why would she want to get pregnant, because men don't get pregnant? And if she doesn’t want to get pregnant; why would there be any reason for an abortion? So if a man is transitioning to be a “woman”, which is impossible, but still he is taking female hormones and having surgeries, to try to make his body look like a woman’s body. However much he tries to get his body to be like a woman's body, a male can never get pregnant. And if he can’t get pregnant; why would there be any reason for an abortion? Therefore, the so-called transgender community does not need so-called abortion care.

  We worship the idol of technology; its ordinances are divine, it is sacrilegious to challenge its edicts, and sinful to disobey its commands. We literally bow our heads in subservience and submission. Our eyes are fixated and focused, totally in awe and adoration.

 

  In our interconnected world, we find ourselves disconnected from each other. With so many means of communication, we find ourselves not being able to communicate with each other. With so much power, we find ourselves impotent. With so much freedom, we find ourselves in slavery. With so much entertainment, we find ourselves bored. With so many things we can do, we find ourselves stressed-out. With so much noise, we cannot stand silence. With so many screens flashing, we cannot close our eyes and contemplate. With so much diversity and dynamism, we find ourselves marching lock-step to the same rhyme and rhythm. With so many styles of fashion, we find ourselves all dressing in blue jeans and t-shirts. With so much wealth and riches, we find ourselves poor and pathetic. With so much information at our fingertips, we find ourselves so uninformed and so gullible to believe everything on the internet. With life moving so fast and furious, we find it so hard to slow down and enjoy it. ...

  Custom-made for the customer, not mass produced for the masses.

 

 

  Producers produce without restraint and consumers consume without restraint.   The unrestrained producer and consumer participate in frenetic intemperance by gratifying their disordered passions of producing and consuming impulsively.   Producers seek to throw off the legitimate restraints of keeping demand within limits, and consumers seek to throw off the legitimate restraints of living within one’s own means. Supersize-production brings about supersize-consumption which causes supersize-debt. Prudently produce and cautiously consume.

  In the Communion we have consumed we are conformed to Christ and confirmed in our commitment to Christ. We must take Christ and His Church to all cultures and communities; not bring all cultures and communities into Christ’s Church which causes chaos and confusion.

 

  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...