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Easier Said Than Done

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  We Catholics should be very grateful especially because it is only in the Catholic Church that God has preserved the Full Deposit of Faith.  But at the same time we ought to be careful that we do not receive the Eternal Rebuke, "they worship Me only with their words but their hearts are far from Me." Every Devotion we perform on a daily basis,  say the Rosary, Confession, daily Mass, Adoration, Scriptureand Spiritual Reading,  Reciting The Offices- everything is aimed towards only one Goal and that is to drive us to become Saints. St. Dominic Savio learnt this so very young and therefore said the Saint, "I would rather die than offend God again".  Unlike the monks, we who live in the world,  we often excuse ourselves by our busy daily lives office work and so on. To us St. Bruno says, “While the world changes, the cross stands firm.” And so must we stand firm.  One could say he has The Faith. But is he/she faithful as a Catholic can only be seen in h...

Angels and Demons-Genesis- Creation and The Fall of The Angels Part 1

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  Since the Fall of The Angels and The Fall of Man,  the enemity between the Darkness and the Light has become even more evident and has reached its peak today.  We may deny the existence of Personified Evil or even the existence of anything supernatural, but in the times we live in,  it becomes even more evident.   But, to understand what led to this or rather, why the most perfect beings could be overwhelmed with pride and jealousy,  we need to go back.  Back at when God created the Earth,  Heaven and the Heavenly Bodies.   God being All Good,  created all things out of love. God, who is Love Personified never intended to create an evil Personified.  But yet somehow,  His Omnipotence knew what would happen and how He would play His part in the Drama of Salvation.  God Created the lights to distinguish between day and night.  Theologians often suggest that it was on that day and time God created the Angels....