Articles For Heart Mind Soul

 

  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...

 

  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  

Short video link: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/Au8Bg9gs-gY Personal reflection: The Holy Catholic Church in her wisdom and tradition rightfully recognizes and honors that it takes a mother and father to raise a priest. Her son, as a newly ordained priest, bestows to his mother the maniturgium, the cloth which soaked up all the sacred chrism the bishop poured on her son’s hands when he was ordained. His son, as a newly ordained priest, bestows to his father the stole in which he heard his first confession. When his mother dies and is buried, the maniturgium is placed in his mother’s coffin, so that when she stands before God, she can show God that she offered God her son as a priest. When his father dies and is buried, the stole is placed in his father’s coffin, so that when he stands before God, he can show God that he offered God his son as a priest. The correct title of the short video should rightly read according to the holy tradition of the Catholic Church: “A man does not walk th...