Monday, January 29, 2024
Monday Night at the Movies
John Ford, The Informer, 1935
Psalm 3, Verse 7
I do not FEAR, then, thousands of people arrayed
against me on every side.
This is a psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom
who for all intents and purposes wanted him dead. David is surrounded. God is
(hopefully) ready to answer his prayers. David’s faith is tested because so
many say there is no God or that there is no salvation in God. Yet, David
cannot and will not doubt in God who helped him conquer the giant Goliath.
David is confident in the Lord yet his heart breaks because his own has turned
against him. Today remember our Lord who suffered death via His own. It is when
we are at our weakest and our most vulnerable that the Lord will give
protection. David boasts that the Lord will give protection to him even when he
is lying down to sleep. David prays that the Lord, like a warrior, will defeat
the evil that surrounds him. He knows salvation will come without fail as when
he faced Goliath. He builds his confidence in the Lord,
“I do not fear,
then, thousands of people arrayed against me on every side.”[1]
Say this every morning for ten days
and see what happens!
"Moreover,
Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more
assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'
(Jn 16:33)." -Pope
Leo XIII
Like David we should
approach God in humility and reverence with childlike confidence and love.
Thus, prepared for prayer we will be pleasing to God. To give our mind this
disposition is the purpose of the preface: "Our Father, who art in heaven."
Hence this preface should be said with devotion and piety. The seven petitions
of the "Our Father" contain everything a Christian ought and may ask
for. But what may and should a Christian ask for? For all things necessary and
serviceable for the proper fulfilment of his life work. This prayer contains
petitions for everything necessary for the attainment of the last end for which
we were created, and that is, in the first place, the glorification of God,
and, in the second place, our eternal salvation. In the first four petitions
Christ teaches us and commands us to beseech for the things that pertain to
this last end, and in the last three petitions for protection against the
things which hinder the attainment of this end.[2]
Toto We are not in
Kansas anymore[3]
Kansas Day Facts
- Kansas
was the first state to ratify the 15th amendment, thus allowing African
American men the right to vote. The 15th amendment reads, the right
of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
- Kansas
is one of the highest producing agricultural states in the U.S. It is
believed that they produce enough wheat in one year to provide everyone in
the world with several loaves of bread.
- The
state of Kansas gets its name from the Kansa people, a Native tribe of
Siouan who lived along the Kansas and Saline rivers. The name comes from
the Siouan-language phrase meaning, people of the south wind.
Kansas Day Top Events and
Things to Do
- Visit
the Old Cowtown Museum
in Wichita, Kansas. It is one of the U. S’s oldest history museums and is
home to more than 50 historic and re-created buildings.
- Visit
the Strataca Underground Salt Museum Museum
in Hutchinson, Kansas. It is a popular museum built within one of the
world's largest deposits of rock salt. It lets visitors explore tunnels
and travel 650 feet underground.
- Watch
a movie representative of Kansas and its notable figures. Here are our
suggestions:
Amelia (2009)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Texans (1938)
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST
SECTION ONE-MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE
SPIRIT
CHAPTER THREE-GOD'S SALVATION: LAW AND
GRACE
Article 2-GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
I. Justification
1987 The grace of the Holy
Spirit has the power to justify us, that is, to cleanse us from our sins and to
communicate to us "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus
Christ" and through Baptism:
But if we
have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For we know
that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer
has dominion over him. the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the
life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves as dead to
sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
1988 Through the power of the
Holy Spirit we take part in Christ's Passion by dying to sin, and in his
Resurrection by being born to a new life; we are members of his Body which is
the Church, branches grafted onto the vine which is himself:
(God) gave
himself to us through his Spirit. By the participation of the Spirit, we become
communicants in the divine nature.... For this reason, those in whom the Spirit
dwells are divinized.
1989 The first work of the
grace of the Holy Spirit is conversion, effecting justification in accordance
with Jesus' proclamation at the beginning of the Gospel: "Repent, for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand." Moved by grace, man turns toward God
and away from sin, thus accepting forgiveness and righteousness from on high.
"Justification is not only the remission of sins, but also the
sanctification and renewal of the interior man.
1990 Justification detaches man
from sin which contradicts the love of God, and purifies his heart of sin.
Justification follows upon God's merciful initiative of offering forgiveness.
It reconciles man with God. It frees from the enslavement to sin, and it heals.
1991 Justification is at the
same time the acceptance of God's righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ.
Righteousness (or "justice") here means the rectitude of divine love.
With justification, faith, hope, and charity are poured into our hearts, and
obedience to the divine will is granted us.
1992 Justification has been
merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a
living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the
instrument of atonement for the sins of all men. Justification is conferred in
Baptism, the sacrament of faith. It conforms us to the righteousness of God,
who makes us inwardly just by the power of his mercy. Its purpose is the glory
of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life:
But now the
righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and
the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in
Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: since all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a
gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as
an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's
righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former
sins; it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that
he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.
1993 Justification establishes
cooperation between God's grace and man's freedom. On man's part it is
expressed by the assent of faith to the Word of God, which invites him to
conversion, and in the cooperation of charity with the prompting of the Holy Spirit
who precedes and preserves his assent:
When God
touches man's heart through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, man himself is
not inactive while receiving that inspiration, since he could reject it; and
yet, without God's grace, he cannot by his own free will move himself toward
justice in God's sight.
1994 Justification is the most
excellent work of God's love made manifest in Christ Jesus and granted by the
Holy Spirit. It is the opinion of St. Augustine that "the justification of
the wicked is a greater work than the creation of heaven and earth,"
because "heaven and earth will pass away but the salvation and
justification of the elect . . . will not pass away." He holds also
that the justification of sinners surpasses the creation of the angels in
justice, in that it bears witness to a greater mercy.
1995 The Holy Spirit is the
master of the interior life. By giving birth to the "inner
man," justification entails the sanctification of his whole being:
Just as you
once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so
now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.... But now that you
have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get
is sanctification and its end, eternal life.
Daily Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: The
lonely and destitute
·
Eat waffles and Pray for the assistance of the Angels
·
Carnival: Part Two, the Final
Countdown
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Make
reparations to the Holy Face
·
Monday: Litany of
Humility
·
Don’t be a Curmudgeon
·
Rosary
[1] The Collegeville Bible Commentary,
1986.
[2]Frings, Math Josef. The Excellence of
the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin (Kindle
Locations 520-521).
[3] https://www.wincalendar.com/Kansas-Day
We’re at that 1938 moment
By John Mills Jan. 26, 2024 6:20 pm577 Comments
Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and Stalin’s archrival said words to the effect, “You may not be interested in war. But war is interested in you.” In 1940, Trotsky found war personally when he was assassinated in his well-guarded compound in Mexico City by one of Stalin’s people. Mexico for years was a playground for KGB and now FSB personnel, with the American Government essentially ceding Mexico to the foreign adventurism of Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea; a veritable Mos Eisley of international rogues. Currently, the ungoverned spaces of Mexico are the domain for Chinese overseers of the Drug Cartels as they wage war into America via Fentanyl, killing 10,000 Americans a month. We may not want war, but it is finding Americans.https://www.
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