FAITH AND DIVINE REVELATION

As you all ready know, what I want to post in this blog are subjects of meditation, so according to the level of knowledge, it will improve your wisdom while meditating its different points or it will be useful simply as meditation motif. Any way it comes from what God has decided to reveal to us humans.

It has been a generalization what we call “adult cathequesis” it covers two themes, one is what is contained in the Devine Revelation, which we start learning as children, when our parents send us to catechism and continue to grasp as we grow up, and the other is FAITH, here we refer to the theological virtue that allows us the intuition of God. But we may have rejected it, or not allowed it to take seat in our conscience. In any of these two cases what we should do, in order to be really responsible with ourselves, is to put our willpower in its recuperation, to have it again, even if it will be little by little, but really we should compromise to have it back, to get involved in the process of coming back to the flock.

Once admitted, that we can become a better catholic, FAITH is indispensable, we should pray to God so as to grow it inside us, even if it is very little at the beginning it will grow in due time, it takes constancy and we should be methodical, some minutes every day in the presence of God and we will be introducing us in what HE wants us to know, and believe.

Following this line of scheme I propose to start posting entries related to this marvelous divine Faith and Revelation. Allow me to help you.

Jorge Casas y Sánchez

LETTER OF A SIMPLE CATHOLIC PRIEST

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 I want in this occasion to publish this letter of a priest, who gives us some brush-strokes of catholic priests, so hated, so attacked, by that so many journalists who never have taken into account these words from the Gospel. “LET THE ONE THAT IS CLEAN OF SIN THROW THE FIRST STONE”. They never give this any consideration

 Letter of a simple priest who the New York Times is not going to publish April, 2010.

 Loved brother  journalist: I am a simple catholic priest. I feel happy and proud of my vocation. It is now twenty years that I live in Angola as missionary. It gives me a great pain that persons who would have to be signals of the love of God, are a dagger in the life of innocents. No word  justifies such acts. There is no doubt that the Church it cannot be, but of in the side of the weak ones, the defenseless. Therefore all the measures that are taken for the protection, prevention of the dignity of the children will be always an absolute priority I see in many means of information, mainly in your newspaper the extension of the subject in morbid form, investigating in detail life of some pederast priest That appears in some a city of The USA, of the decade of the 70,more than 40 years ago another one in Australia in the 80´s,  other recent cases… Certainly all condemnable. They are seen as average and sensible journalistic presentations, others amplified, full of preconceptions and hatred.

Being peculiar the little news and disinterestedness by thousands and thousands of priests who are consumed in the dedicated work in favor of millions of children, adolescents and most underprivileged in the four angles of the world! fodder, and your  means of information do not show any interest. We  have had to transport ourselfs, by ways mined in 2002, to attend many children undernourished from Cangumbe aLwena (Angola), because nor the government or the ONG's arranged solutions. We were not authorized, but did bury tens of small deceased between the displaced ones of war and those that have returned; that we have saved the life to thousands of people in Moxico by means of the unique aid station in 90.000 km2s, as well as with the distribution of foods and seeds; that we have given the opportunity of education in these 10 years and schools to more of 110,000 children… it is not of your interest, to publish that with other priests we have had to aid the humanitarian crisis of near 15,000 people in quarterings of the guerrilla, after its surrender, because never were received the foods from the Government and the ones from UN never arrived. It is not in the news that a.priest of 75 years, the P. Robert, by night crosses the city of Luanda curing to the boys of the street, taking them to a house of welcome, so that they decontaminate of gasoline use, that alphabetizes hundreds of prisoners; that other priests, like P. Stefano, have houses of passage for the boys who are struck, mistreated and even violence and they look for a refuge.

Either that Fray Maiato with its 80 years, passes house through house comforting sick ones and desperate. It is not news that more of 60.000 of the 400,000 priests, and monks have left their earth and its family to serve their brothers in a leprosy hospital, in hospitals, fields of refugees, orphanages for children accused of wizards or orphans of parents who passed away with AIDS, in schools for the poorest, in centers of professional formation, centers of attention to zero positives… or coverall, in parishes and missions giving motivations to people to live and to love.

It is not news that my friend, the P. Aurelio Marks, to be saveing  youngsters during the war in Angola and has transported, them of Kalulo a Dondo and when-returning to its mission has been machine-gunned in the way; that the brother Francisco, with five ladies catechists, have gone to help a the more recondite rural areas and have died in an accident in the street; that tens of missionaries in Angola have died for wanting to give sanitary aid, by a simple malaria; that others have jumped by the airs, because of a mine, visiting its people.

In the cemetery of Kalulo there are the tombs of the first priests who arrived a the region to spend 40 years. It is not in the news the time of the life of “a normal” Priest a day, its difficulties and joys consuming without noise his life to please a community in wich he serves. The truth is that we did not try to be in the news, but simply the good news that without noise began at night of Passover.

A TREE MAKES MORE NOISE WHEN IT FALLS THAT A FOREST THAT GROWS. I am not trying to make a vindication of the Church and the priests. A priest is neither a hero nor a neurotic. He is a simple man, that with his humanity wants to follow Jesus and to serve his brothers. He has miseries, poverties and fragilities like in each human being; and also beauty and kindness like in each creature… To insist on form obsessed and persecutory in a subject losing joint vision creates offensive cartoons of catholic priesthood in which I feel like victim. Only one thing I request friend journalist, look for the Truth, the Good and the Beauty  that will make of you a nobleman in your profession.

 In Christ, P. Martin Lasarte sdb

HUMAN SOUL

In this world everything that exists has a purpose, serves to something, it exists for a reason or several, this is the theme of our meditation today.

The human being is, exists, in prominently manner, this is one of the questions we all ask ourselves in our most intimate thoughts, but we are the unique being in the world that can do so, because it is the soul and its spiritual operations exclusively that are not material all other entities are matter, and matter follows its fatal laws, and do not have the possibility to change them. The soul and its operations, such as:  love, the exercise of freedom, the ability to think, free will, feelings, have by contrast  a freedom that can be described as unlimited, as far as we know there are no boundaries, for example in the Love of God, we can not see where it ends, where its maximum is.

 The soul and its capabilities in general constantly produce its fruits, unique novelties, always goes into new accomplishments, creativity continues without repetition in works of art, music, film, automobile industry, aviation, marvels in engineering and construction, chemically synthesized products, literary works or the countless productions of the arts, in the progress of science, new invented products and processes of production, trades, professions and in general of all human activities.

And the soul with its main instrument  the human brain, and its freedom, tends to yield its fruits when the proper conditions are rigth. And painfully  this is one of the great problems of humanity, its shortcomings, the lack of conditions that lead to opportunities for adequate progress in the spiritual life, which only exists for some, but not for all those who have superior ability to think, act, create, conceive beyond what has been taught, to be better than their teachers, to break the barriers and escape, to resolve what was apparently insoluble, to see beyond others, to help those who have not been able, or have not achieved an adequate improvement.

We can not fail to mention the gifts of genius or superior talent in one or an other area, that are not distributed equally, whether it is physical appearance or the conditions of time and place, this, we will leave between the mysteries that God gives to everyone. But many have had the possibility but not the opportunity to have flourished  being the expediency latent throughout the life of the person, who has owned the power, without the, chance to be developed, not even manifest itself, because human life and its shortcomings have been  unable or failed to provide the necessary conditions.

Of course this is a widespread concern and the human race struggles to educate its members, but the efforts and resources are not always sufficient.

With this consideration in mind, it stands, I dare say, the paramount importance of the spiritual activities in the human person, over the material nature, which concern more than anything to keep alive the body. Most of the needs of man are spiritual,  whether a minimum of conditions are necessary to cover the primary physiological needs: shelter, clothing and sustenance, but once these are covered, it is the education of their Catholic faith, the teaching of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, the example of love of God, which stands above all other needs and which are necessary for eternal salvation. This was considered important in the conquest of New Spain, (America) who provided such rich fruit at the time and continues giving it to Latin America. We now have the figure close to half of the faithful of the Catholic Church in the world.

 God wants all of us to save our soul, and certainly this is so, it could not be otherwise since God is Love and God would not have created us for eternity without ensuring the possibility of happiness forever, but God leaves us free to choose since we are the only created free beings in the world and not just for  this short life, but the eternal one. The primary mission concerning the Catholic Church is the salvation of souls, and is concerned  for the destiny that each will have, destiny that will be known to every individual, in the trial to have before Christ immediately after death.

Considering, our salvation is therefore of utmost importance, it is the final purpose of human beings and we should focus on it, nothing, nothing can be more important in our lives. It can be said that we exist for salvation, but based on the freedom that the Creator has given us we can choose not to consider it the absolute finality, and change it for the ersatz ie. "the earthly happiness" by the ambiguity of  "you only live once” , or other similar. That is the worst human error. The truth is we have to live this life to save ourselves for eternity.

Human beings have an infinite number of purposes in their existence, but all should be oriented to achieve salvation. Purpose of purposes.

Jorge Casas y Sanchez.