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We welcome you to this page, we want to share in this webpage our faith and moral
principles that should characterize all Baptized Catholic Christians worldwide.
1 Thessalonians 4
3 For this is the will of
God, your sanctification: He wants you to stay away from sexual sins (that you should avoid sexual immorality); 4 that
each one of you know how to take a wife for himself[a] in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like heathen who
do not know God; 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.,[b] The Lord will
punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to
live a holy life 8 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject
a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.
a. 1
Thessalonians 4:4 know how to control his own body
b. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos)
refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.
On Impenitence by Saint Alphonsus, in this Sermon he said: "But God is Full of Mercy. He is Full-of Mercy, but He is
not so Stupid as-to Act-without Reason; to Show Mercy to those who Continue-to Insult Him, would be Stupidity, and not Goodness.
"Is thy Eye Evil, because I am Good?" - Matthew 20:15. Will you Persevere-in Wickedness, because I am Bountiful? God is Good,
but He is also Just, and He Exhorts us all, to-Observe His Law, if we Wish-to Save our Souls. "But if thou wilt Enter into
Life, keep the Commandments" - Matthew 19:17. Were God to show Mercy to the Wicked, as-well-as to the Just, and to Give-to
all, the Grace-of-Conversion, before Death, He would Hold-out a Strong Temptation, even
to the Saints, to commit Sin; but no, when His Mercies have Reached their Term, He Punishes,
and Pardons no more. "And My Eye shall not Spare thee, and I will Shew thee no Pity" -
Ezekiel 7:4. Hence He says: "But Pray that your Flight be not in the Winter, or on the Sabbath" - Matthew
24:20. We are Prevented-from Working-in the Winter, by the Cold, and on the Sabbath, by the Law. In this
Passage, the Redeemer gives us to Understand-that, for Impenitent Sinners, a Time shall
come, when they would Wish-to give themselves to God, but shall find themselves Prevented-by
their Bad Habits, from Returning-to Him." Pope John Paul II Said: 24. It is at the heart of the
moral conscience that the eclipse of the sense of God and of man, with all its various
and deadly consequences for life, is taking place. It is a question, above all, of the individual conscience,
as it stands before God in its singleness and uniqueness. But it is also a question, in a certain sense,
of the "moral conscience" of society: in a way it too is responsible, not only because
it tolerates or fosters behaviour contrary to life, but also because it encourages the
"culture of death", creating and consolidating actual "structures of sin" which go against life.
The moral conscience, both individual and social, is today subjected, also as a result of the penetrating influence
of the media, to an extremely serious and mortal danger: that of confusion between good
and evil, precisely in relation to the fundamental right to life. A large
part of contemporary society looks sadly like that humanity which Paul describes in his Letter to the Romans. It is composed
"of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth" (1:18): having denied God and believing
that they can build the earthly city without him, "they became futile in their thinking"
so that "their senseless minds were darkened" (1:21); "claiming to be wise, they became
fools" (1:22), carrying out works deserving of death, and "they not only do them but approve those who
practise them" (1:32). When conscience, this bright lamp of the soul (cf. Mt 6:22-23), calls "evil good and
good evil" (Is 5:20), it is already on the path to the most alarming corruption and the
darkest moral blindness.
"The Church teaches that respect for
homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behaviour or to legal
recognition of homosexual unions. The common good requires that laws recognize, promote
and protect marriage as the basis of the family, the primary unit of society. Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing
them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour,
with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure
basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity. The Church cannot fail
to defend these values, for the good of men and women and for the good of society itself."
The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience of March 28, 2003
When minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate in the 1970's, everyone was expecting the
usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
THE PRAYER*
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your
Word says, "Woe on those who call evil good," but that's exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium
and reversed our values.
We confess that:
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism.
We have worshiped other gods and called it
multiculturalism.
We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.
We have exploited the poor and
called it the lottery.
We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation.
We have rewarded laziness and called
it welfare.
We have killed our unborn children and called it a choice.
We have neglected to discipline our children
and called it building self-esteem.
We have abused power and called it political savvy.
We have coveted our neighbor's
possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We
have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, O God, and know our hearts
today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to direct us
to the center of Your will.
I ask it in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
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