This blog is based on references in the Bible to fear. God wills that we “BE NOT AFRAID”. Vincit qui se vincit" is a Latin phrase meaning "He conquers who conquers himself." Many theologians state that the eighth deadly sin is fear. It is fear and its natural animal reaction to fight or flight that is the root cause of our failings to create a Kingdom of God on earth. This blog is dedicated to Mary the Mother of God. "
Monday, May 20, 2019
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Monday
2 Samuel, Chapter 14, Verse 14-15
14We must indeed die; we are then
like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet,
though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banishanyone from him. 15 And
now, if I have presumed to speak to the king of this matter, it is because the
people have given me cause to fear.
And so your servant thought: ‘Let me speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant
the petition of his servant.
Here
David is in a quandary; his beloved son has murdered his brother and should be
punished. Yet…how can David save his living son and still be just. Joab brings in
a wise woman who points out God does not bring the dead to life but devises ways
of returning the banished.
A specific feature of the ethics of St. Thomas is that
it puts compassion and justice into the closest connection possible to each
other. “Justice without mercy is cruel”, says Thomas. But, “Mercy without justice
is the mother of dissolution"—and, one might add, therefore cruel as well.
This close connection between justice and mercy is not sufficiently obvious in
human life. The reason for this is not merely the fact that people are often
merciless. Rather, it is much more due to the finite character of human
existence, which makes all the virtues in the life of the soul appear to be
separated from each other and their exercise separate as well. This of course
also applies to the virtues of justice and charity, the juxtaposition of which
may highlight this fact of separation with particular clarity, so that justice
and mercy may sometimes appear to us as as downright opposing intentions. The
situation is different with God. “The work of divine justice always presupposes
the work of mercy and it founded in it,” says Thomas. So, if God is merciful,
then He is not in opposition to justice.
SAINT MOTHER THEODORE GUERIN Hebrews, Chapter 12, Verse 21 Indeed, so FEARFUL was the spectacle that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” Moses was the heir apparent to the throne of Egypt in his youth. As a member of the Egyptian court, he would have seen many fearful spectacles yet imagine what it must have been like to have been a witness of God descending on Mount Sinai to give the law. He was terrified and trembling. Again, now imagine if Moses was somehow resurrected and was able to walk into an ordinary catholic church that has a very modest Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Do you think his reaction would be any different than the first time he encountered the living God? Be Still and Know that I am God [1] On the evening of October 1995, John Paul II was scheduled to greet the seminarians at Saint Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. It had been a very full day that began with a Mass at Oriole Park in Camden Yards, a parade through downtown streets, a visit...
Switch of Manliness Legacy OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA Acts, Chapter 10, verse 1-4 1 Now in Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of the Cohort called the Italica, 2 devout and God-fearing along with his whole household, who used to give alms generously to the Jewish people and pray to God constantly. 3 One afternoon about three o’clock, he saw plainly in a vision an angel of God come into him and say to him, “Cornelius.” 4 He looked intently at him and seized with FEAR , said, “What is it, sir?” He said to him, “Your prayers and almsgiving have ascended as a memorial offering before God. Cornelius’ Cohort was an auxiliary unit of archers, men who are expert at hitting a mark or target. Sin is the act of violating God's will. Sin can also be viewed as anything that violates the ideal relationship between an individual and God, or as any diversion from the ideal order for human living. To sin has been defined as "to miss the mark" to have a h...
Auxilium Christianorum - Praying for Persecuted Priests Monday, May 24 is the Feast of Mary Mother of the Church. It is also the Feast of Mary Help of Christians (Auxilium Christianorum). Please consider joining this Auxilium Christianorum family to pray daily for our holy and courageous persecuted priests. The Church teaches us that it is divided into the Church Triumphant (which includes the members of the Church in heaven), the Church Suffering (this includes the members of the Church in purgatory), and the Church Militant (this refers to those members of the Church who are alive in this world). Because we are part of the Church Militant, we are in a spiritual warfare and this spiritual warfare requires that we recognize, as Saint Paul teaches us "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high ...
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