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July 16, 2012

Hello Eleonora…quite remarkable that I open my email notifications and this latest article you just posted was in the cue immediately or consecutively following another notification about a new Catholic blog posting and both of these came to my mail box while I was on the telephone with the local mayor regarding some ordinance and regulation that someone I believe was using politically and to explain my position I had much to say but had to hurry, because the mayor needed to attend a meeting.  Though it all ended well and we had a “meeting of minds”I was pushing to make myself clear on how the matter should proceed!  It took a lot of nervous brain energy, emotional psyche from me to project a clear and concise description of a faulty action for something a negative person initiated; so needless to say I became very much stressed!  Now; you happened along immediately following that difficulty with this article and as I see it; you are talking about ME!  This is true; even if you didn’t know you were pinpointing my situation you had hit the proverbial nail right on the head, even my head!

Now I want to point out and “hit this one note” in your writing that stands out to me so much because it is the “moral of the story” regarding my energetic conversation with the mayor and the resulting stress and fatigue brought on by another person who likes to cause trouble or conflict perhaps full of hate and jealousy or maybe confusion; but evil is always behind those motivations that can escalate if we are not weary or careful!

So here is what you said that stands out like a flashing neon sign!

“Learn to love your neighbor before you do yourself, learn to see the good in your neighbor in such a way that this is good to you, this is the positive selfishness we all need. With this I am not telling you to be treated like doormats, always say honestly and freely what you think but always with respect for others.”

Now isn’t that a wonderful thought and if 90% of human beings would actually be that way honestly and genuinely with no strings attached no hidden agenda or ulterior motivation. Even if 75% of people would do this, life would be just about idyllic!  I’ll even venture to say if 50% were like that we would have a much better world.  But unfortunately the numbers of people who love to cause trouble, that don’t care about others or anything for that matter; far exceeds those that are the good ones; the “selfless givers and kinder hearts” of the world! Very few human beings could be like Saint Mother Teresa and most will never try, but if they could appreciate where she was coming from and how her life of sacrifice, kindness and giving of herself to others is something to venerate and try our best to imitate where and when we can; then this world would have far fewer conflicts and hatred!

And so therefore being kind and good to oneself is of great importance more than ever; and I don’t mean selfishly I mean being wise about taking care or measures to protect your own health and mental well-being; is a top priority, because without one’s health a person is doomed and going to suffer much more than they should be otherwise.

Here are some Scriptures that came to mind immediately!

Leviticus 19:18 “You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”

1 John 4:20 “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.”

John 14:21 “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? …”

Matthew 22:37-4037 Jesus said to him, ‘you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

In closing I must say as I have many times before how “God does work in mysterious ways” and He is there all the time even when we think He is not!

We should all be awake to this Truth; that He is God Almighty and nothing escapes His view; He who knows and sees all things!  We must not forget“that,” and we must love and worship Him alone for He is our Creator who loves us more than we can ever imagine.  We owe all to Him and He awaits our decisions in all things, because He is the final judge of everything!  But, because He shows us that we should want to love Him, and has also made it perfectly clear, that we can and should love one another. Amen.

God bless you!

Brother in Christ Jesus,

Lawrence

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Ciao Eleonora…abbastanza notevole che ho aperto la mia email e le notifiche di questo ultimo articolo che hai appena postato è stato nel cue immediatamente o consecutivamente, a seguito di un’altra notifica di un nuovo Cattolici post di blog e di entrambi è venuto nella mia casella di posta, mentre ero al telefono con il sindaco in merito ad alcune ordinanza e regolamento che qualcuno credo che stava usando politicamente e per spiegare la mia posizione ho avuto molto da dire, ma ha dovuto in fretta, perché il sindaco necessari atend una riunione. Anche se tutto è finito bene e abbiamo avuto un “incontro di menti” Stavo spingendo per farmi chiaro su come la questione dovrebbe procedere! Ci sono voluti un sacco di energia cerebrale nervosa, psiche emotiva da me per proiettare una descrizione chiara e concisa di un’azione difettosa per qualcosa di una persona negativa iniziata; quindi inutile dire che sono diventato molto stressato! Ora; ti è successo subito dopo quella difficoltà con questo articolo e come la vedo io; stai parlando di ME! Questo è vero; anche se non sapevi che stavi individuando la mia situazione, avevi colpito il proverbiale chiodo in testa, persino la mia testa!

Ora voglio sottolineare e “colpire questa nota” nella tua scrittura che spicca per me molto perché è la “morale della storia” per quanto riguarda la mia energetica colloquio con il sindaco e il conseguente stress e la fatica causata da un’altra persona che ama a causa di problemi di conflitto o forse pieno di odio e di gelosia o forse confusione; ma il male è sempre dietro quelle motivazioni che possono degenerare se non siamo stanchi o attenzione!

Quindi ecco quello che hai detto che si distingue come un’insegna al neon lampeggiante!

“Impara ad amare il tuo prossimo prima di fare te stesso, impara a vedere il bene nel tuo prossimo in modo tale che questo sia buono per te, questo è l’egoismo positivo di cui tutti abbiamo bisogno. Con questo non ti sto dicendo di essere trattato come zerbini, dì sempre onestamente e liberamente ciò che pensi ma sempre con rispetto per gli altri.”

Ora non è che un pensiero meraviglioso e se il 90% degli esseri umani sarebbe in realtà in questo modo onestamente e sinceramente senza alcun vincolo nessun ordine del giorno nascosto o ulteriore motivazione. Anche se il 75% delle persone lo facesse, la vita sarebbe quasi idilliaca! Mi azzarderò persino a dire che se il 50% fosse così avremmo un mondo molto migliore. Ma sfortunatamente il numero di persone che amano causare problemi, che non si preoccupano degli altri o di qualsiasi altra cosa; supera di gran lunga quelli che sono quelli buoni; i “donatori disinteressati e cuori più gentili” del mondo! Pochissimi esseri umani potrebbero essere come Santa Madre Teresa e la maggior parte non ci proverà mai, ma se potessero apprezzare da dove veniva e come la sua vita di sacrificio, gentilezza e donazione di se stessa agli altri sia qualcosa da venerare e fare del nostro meglio per imitare dove e quando possiamo; allora questo mondo avrebbe molti meno conflitti e odio!

E quindi essere gentili e buoni con se stessi è di grande importanza più che mai; e non intendo egoisticamente, intendo essere saggi nel prendersi cura o misure per proteggere la propria salute e il benessere mentale; è una priorità assoluta, perché senza la propria salute una persona è condannata e soffrirà molto più di quanto dovrebbe essere altrimenti.

Ecco alcune Scritture che mi sono venute subito in mente!

Levitico 19: 18 ” Non ti vendicherai né porterai rancore contro i figli del tuo popolo, ma amerai il tuo prossimo come te stesso: io sono il Signore.”

1 Giovanni 4: 20 “Se qualcuno dice:” Io amo Dio, ” e odia il suo fratello, egli è un bugiardo; per chi non ama il suo fratello che ha visto non può amare Dio che non ha visto.”

Giovanni 14: 21 ” Chiunque ha i miei comandamenti e li osserva, egli è chi mi ama. E chi mi ama sarà amato dal Padre mio, e io lo amerò e mi manifesterò a lui.”

Matteo 5: 43-48 “Avete udito che è stato detto:’ Amerai il tuo prossimo e odierai il tuo nemico. Ma io vi dico: Amate i vostri nemici e pregate per quelli che vi perseguitano, affinché siate figli del Padre vostro che è nei cieli. Perché fa sorgere il suo sole sui malvagi e sui buoni e fa piovere sui giusti e sugli ingiusti. Perché se ami quelli che ti amano, quale ricompensa hai? Nemmeno gli esattori delle tasse fanno lo stesso? E se salutate solo i vostri fratelli, cosa state facendo di più degli altri? Nemmeno i Gentili fanno lo stesso? …”

Matteo 22: 37-40 “37 Gesù gli disse:’ amerai il Signore tuo Dio con tutto il tuo cuore, con tutta la tua anima e con tutta la tua mente.’38 Questo è il primo e grande comandamento. 39 E il secondo è simile: ‘Amerai il tuo prossimo come te stesso.’40 Su questi due comandamenti pendono tutta la Legge e i Profeti.”

In chiusura devo dire come ho fatto molte volte prima come “Dio opera in modi misteriosi” e Lui è lì tutto il tempo anche quando pensiamo che non lo sia!

Dovremmo tutti essere svegli a questa Verità; che Egli è Dio Onnipotente e nulla sfugge alla Sua vista; Colui che conosce e vede tutte le cose! Non dobbiamo dimenticare“questo”, e dobbiamo amarlo e adorarlo solo perché Egli è il nostro Creatore che ci ama più di quanto possiamo mai immaginare. Dobbiamo tutto a Lui ed Egli attende le nostre decisioni in ogni cosa, perché è il giudice finale di tutto! Ma, perché ci mostra che dovremmo voler amarlo, e ha anche reso perfettamente chiaro, che possiamo e dobbiamo amarci l’un l’altro. Amen.

Che Dio la benedica!

Fratello in Cristo Gesù,
Lawrence

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DIARIO DI LIBERO PENSIERO: TEMPI PER RIFLETTERE LONTANO DAL PC. (16 luglio 2021)

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Un Saluto tutti, Cari Lettori! Con il pc distante da me, impossibilitate nel utilizzarlo perché come sapete è rotto, o meglio non si accende proprio più, ho più tempo di riflettere nel corso di tutta la mia giornata E personalmente è un’esperienza gratificante è positiva. Ho più tempo, per esempio, per meditare, per riflettere su me stessa, per migliorare degli aspetti ti ritenevo problematici da tempo. Credo che la cosa che più “ci frega” in ogni aspetto della nostra vita è lo stress. Purtroppo è la piaga del nuovo millennio. Se vogliamo risolvere una quantità incredibile di problemi, e lo dico in primis a tutti gli scettici che mi stanno leggendo, bisogna distruggere questo terribile mostro chiamato stress. Io, nonostante il mio blog la mia scrittura è una vita tutto sommato apparentemente tranquilla ho le mie cariche di stress e quando Noto che il livello di quest’ultimo si alza capisco che è arrivato il momento di pensare un po’ a me stessa. Quante volte vi è capitato? La domanda sembra quasi ridicola. Migliaia e migliaia di volte. Ma come si fa a togliere lo stress da noi? Sembra qualcosa di davvero molto molto complicato ma che in realtà è molto semplice. Per molti invece risulta difficile per un semplice unico motivo: non prestano ascolto arricchiamo inconscio del loro cervello punto si virgola perché lo stress arriva da cause esterne ma dal momento che noi ne stiamo soffrendo il corpo ci dà il suo segnale e bisogna prestargli ascolto. Ad esempio tutti quella serie di strani malesseri che si irradiano in varie parti del nostro corpo, di cui non si sa bene La natura e l’origine, a partire dal mal di testa fino hai dolori articolari il comune mal di schiena nascono da un’infiammazione. L’infiammazione è la risposta che il nostro corpo a livello cellulare ci offre per portare a termine uno stato di malessere creato dallo stress e da ciò che ci circonda. È proprio al Dora, con questi Chiari segnali che arriviamo al momento fatidico punto devo ricominciare ad ascoltarmi. Perciò in questi giorni personalmente cominciato a darmi più tempo per meditare, ad essere più cosciente di ciò che mangio, ad assumere più acqua, a praticare esercizio fisico, ma soprattutto a volermi bene il modo migliore per farlo e volendo bene al prossimo punto ma allora vi chiederete che cosa c’entra questo con l’ascolto di se stessi? A volte avere uno spazio intorno a sei calmo è piacevole fa stare bene anche noi. L’egoismo non era un valido rimedio per la guarigione. Per questo amo coccolare i miei lettori ad esempio, chiedendo loro ogni mattina come stanno e augurando loro il buongiorno sapendo di essere talvolta anche ricambiata, oppure aiutando nelle faccende domestiche in casa in maniera spontanea, senza che nessuno mi ponga delle particolari richieste ma solo per vedere la gioia di qualcosa di migliorato nella propria vita. Quindi con la mia stessa esperienza vi porto il mio consiglio di oggi. Per migliorare la vostra salute psicofisica iniziate da quello che vi circonda. Imparate a voler bene al prossimo prima che voi stessi, imparate a vedere il buono nel prossimo in modo tale che questo sia buono con voi, questo è l’egoismo positivo di cui tutti abbiamo bisogno. Con ciò non vi dico di farvi trattare come degli zerbini, dite sempre onestamente liberamente ciò che pensate ma sempre nel rispetto altrui. Dunque mi farebbe piacere sapere la vostra opinione in merito. Siete tutt’ora vittime di stress? Come mi farebbe sentire questo genere di pratica su voi stessi? L’avete già provata avete intenzione di provare anche voi? Scrivete pure liberamente nei commenti. Con queste parole concludo, vi ricordo di lasciare una stella e di votare per Storyteller’s Eye Word su Net-Parade! Basta cliccare nella barra blu sotto l’articolo o nei banner blu in home page e confermare. È possibile votare un numero illimitato di volte, basta attendere 60 minuti tra una votazione e l’altra. Un abbraccio a tutti!

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Greetings all, Dear Readers! With the PC away from me, you are unable to use it because as you know it is broken, or rather it doesn’t turn on anymore, I have more time to reflect throughout my day. I have more time, for example, to meditate, to reflect on myself, to improve aspects I have considered you problematic for some time. I think the thing that most “cares” in every aspect of our life is stress. Unfortunately it is the scourge of the new millennium. If we want to solve an incredible amount of problems, and I say this primarily to all the skeptics who are reading me, we have to destroy this terrible monster called stress. I, despite my blog, my writing is an apparently quiet life after all, I have my loads of stress and when I notice that the level of the latter rises I understand that the time has come to think a little about myself. How many times has this happened to you? The question seems almost ridiculous. Thousands and thousands of times. But how do you take the stress out of us? It sounds like something really very very complicated but it is actually very simple. For many, however, it is difficult for one simple reason: they do not listen we enrich the unconscious of their brain point semicolon because the stress comes from external causes but since we are suffering from it, the body gives us its signal and we must listen to it. For example, all that series of strange ailments that radiate in various parts of our body, of which we do not know well.The nature and origin, starting from the headache up to you have joint pains the common back pain arise from a inflammation. Inflammation is the response that our body offers us at the cellular level to carry out a state of malaise created by stress and what surrounds us. It is precisely at the Dora, with these clear signals that we arrive at the fateful moment I have to start listening to myself again. So in these days I personally started giving me more time to meditate, to be more aware of what I eat, to take more water, to practice physical exercise, but above all to love myself the best way to do it and loving the next point but then you wonder what does this have to do with listening to yourself? Sometimes having a calm space around you is pleasant makes us feel good too. Selfishness was not a valid remedy for healing. This is why I love to pamper my readers, for example, asking them every morning how they are and wishing them good morning knowing that sometimes they will also be reciprocated, or helping with the household chores at home spontaneously, without anyone asking me any particular requests but only to see the joy of something improved in one’s life. So with my own experience I bring you my advice today. To improve your mental and physical health, start with what surrounds you. Learn to love your neighbor before you do yourself, learn to see the good in your neighbor in such a way that this is good to you, this is the positive selfishness we all need. With this I am not telling you to be treated like doormats, always say honestly and freely what you think but always with respect for others. So I’d love to hear your opinion on this. Are you still a victim of stress? How would this kind of practice make me feel about yourself? You have already tried it, are you going to try it too? Feel free to write in the comments. With these words I conclude, I remind you to leave a star and vote for Storyteller’s Eye Word on Net-Parade! Just click in the blue bar below the article or in the blue banners on the home page and confirm. You can vote an unlimited number of times, just wait 60 minutes between one vote and the next. Hugs to all!

Sempre Vostra, Storyteller.

Always Yours, Storyteller.

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This woman was genuine and the real deal! We won’t find any more like her I do believe! God rest her soul!
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Flos Carmeli, ora pro nobis!

I repeat this prayer now in my quiet prayerful humble supplication to my Lord Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and I post it again now in hope it reaches others who surely need it! I can add nothing to this it is perfect genuine and crystalline, and I thank Saint John for the writing of this most humble prayer while in his state of prayerful inspiration it was sent to him through the Holy Ghost from heaven in order to leave this most beautiful prayer for generations until the end. Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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Prayer of Saint John of the Cross to Our Lady of Mount Carmel:

OMary, most holy Mother of Carmel, Virgin of virgins, sanctuary of the Blessed Trinity, mirror of angels, assured refuge of sinners! Have compassion on me in my sufferings, listen to my sighs with clemency, and appease the anger of thy Son. Amen.

Today we implore the Virgin of virgins to “appease the anger of thy Son.” St. John of the Cross, who composed the above prayer, lived in the late 15th century. Now, think of how much more Jesus is offended with our world today! Abortion allowed up until birth, rampant contraception and sexual immorality, unnatural same sex unions, gender confusion, domestic violence, atheism, demonic activity, worshiping false gods, and the breakdown of the domestic family, not to mention Catholics receiving Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin. Let us pray this litany, begging Our Lady…

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NBC: People Don’t Date ‘Trump-Lovers’ Due To ‘Bigotry’ And ‘Sexual Intolerance’

Originally posted on PA Pundits International:
By Abigail Streetman ~ With Trump out of office and banned from most social media sites the left-wing fear mongers at NBC have nothing better to do than come after “Trump-lovers.” According to a recent FIRE survey about the willingness of Ivy League students to date members of the…

Hey Andi Zeisler; I say to you look at the actual bigot leftist radical with zero morality accusing decent law abiding and more importantly, citizens with wholesome standards of behavior and love, that come from the “Holy Scriptures” from “God Almighty” which you obviously have no use for preferring to accept “Drag Queen Story Hour” concoctions being read to the little children in public schools by these warped, twisted and quite perverted grown men wearing dresses and high heels; over people like me and millions of others!

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We who do love our country that was founded by wholesome minded and hearted human beings with “Christian faith and principles” and I know these Drag Queen Stars of yours, if they were alive back in the 1700’s would have never accomplished all the good those founders did; not a chance but yet these toads today get to live in the lap of luxury as countries go, because of all the greatness of past generations producing this incredibly amazing opportunity by “faith in God the Creator” that even our Constitution is mindful of that; in this one “Nation under God!”

And you call yourself a “feminist;” is that an oxymoron or are you a blatant moron, for trying to sell the idea that Men in Dresses that do perverted sex acts with other men are Feminine and are not behaving badly demeaning anything to do with Females; yet you think that is all so cute and Feminist!

“Get a clue and remember not to screw” it’s a sin! Unless you are in a loving committed “Heterosexual God sanctioned marriage!” You don’t like my outlook or perspective then all I have to say to you is you should get out of America and try Communist China see if that will float your weird boat or better yet even Iran, and see if they will even let you try saying a modicum of the trash you sell here in Great Patriotic America!

Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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By Abigail Streetman ~

With Trump out of office and banned from most social media sites the left-wing fear mongers at NBC have nothing better to do than come after “Trump-lovers.” According to a recent FIRE survey about the willingness of Ivy League students to date members of the opposite political party, both men and women were less likely to date someone who supported Trump. This is due to conservative’s “bigotry” and “sexual intolerance,” says Andi Zeisler, a feminist author and cofounder of (yes) Bitch Media.

In late June Eric Kaufmann published a piece in the National Review titled “Political Discrimination as Civil-Rights Struggle.” His article Discussed the FIRE study and analyzed how the results of this poll could impact the future of hiring and social toleration.

The results of the FIRE survey showed that just 23% of Ivy League men were willing to date a Trump supporter and only…

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LIBRO PENSIERO: LA DIVERSITÀ RELIGIOSA. (14 luglio 2021)

“we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

I have had some profound personal, what might be called miraculous and awe inspiring experiences that God wanted me to have so that I would see the truth about this world more readily, and as my life went on I would and was able to serve His will and purposes better! These experiences and insights are far more important than all the books or study I did in my college days studying many religions even those you mentioned and world history as well as literature; most of those things man-made or contrivances.

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We are here by God and for God only because He has love and mercy beyond our frail abilities to comprehend the unknown and total Truth which there is, and we have only scratched the surface of all that exists in the seen and unseen worlds. We are absolutely mere babes in the woods! Human beings today are some of the most arrogant and contemptuous fools that have ever called themselves people, thinking themselves ultra-powerful; or perhaps now able to be their own gods, when they are mere rags and shit in the wind with that kind of thinking, so high and mighty and a chip on the shoulder; without having the all-knowing and actual God/Creator/Father of all front and center in their lives.

Many have no actual ability, being hardened; to be totally humble before God and His creation! I suggest you recheck all of your past reasoning as to why you arrived where you are now because I can assure you now with love and hope in my heart that you will see the truth and error of your ways in order to step onto the “sure path” to your hope and “salvation;” so you won’t be lost and end up in a very sad and bad way at the end of your time here on earth!

I mean it, I’m saying this with love and I would be very sad to see you lose this one opportunity that God blessed you with when it’s not that difficult to understand; the right attitude and true humility will bring Him into your heart and soul! I can explain many more facets of my own journey another time, but this I hope serves as a boost to your own insight and faith in the One True Living God Almighty who loves you more than you know and it could turn out to be more than you will ever get to know; if you lose your way!

This statement from God via Jesus Christ is the crux of anything we are or should be striving for while alive in this flesh body and life! The subsequent Scriptures are quite supportive of this reality.

Jesus Christ said: “I am the way the truth and the life; no one comes unto the Father but through Me!” John 14:6

5“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”…

John 1:14
“The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

John 1:17
“For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”

John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.”

So we have a choice by His statements, we can look at Him as just some prophet or even madman that will be inconsequential in the sum total of “our personal” life journey! Or maybe we better take Him dead serious so we won’t miss the boat and end up stranded in a place much worse than this messed up world we’re in right now! Is that a bridge too far to cross? To have faith in something you don’t know for sure is on the other side of that bridge, and can’t prove in worldly terms with some piece of physical evidence which even in those cases might be an optical delusion on our part; so do we take this insurance policy and go with it in terms of all the substantive historical context and supporting data to protect our personal journey, or toss caution to the wind and say to hell with that; I’ll go it alone without the silly insurance policy! But, hell you go and buy auto insurance and toss all that bread into the bin for the rich and greedy even if you haven’t had a fender bender in 30 or more years and maybe never! Add that cost up and now compare your life and soul to what loss you could sustain at the end of your road without that policy in hand; saying I did trust and had hope in You!

I see where science is beneficial to try understanding what is going on here or what can God be and mean by all these messages over thousands of years of human history. Then I must put science aside as it limits and will not really provide enough of the absolute truth that can only come directly from God Himself who is all knowing and seeing so that is why He came as Jesus Christ to fulfill the New and Everlasting Covenant with us His children of God, while communicating with us on our level and in a way so we can see plainly what is going on here.

He didn’t give us basic fundamental truths to confuse us but rather to say look at these basic principles I impart to you and then in your deepest heart hold them dear, while growing your belief and faith in Me as your True Everlasting God Almighty as I will speak to you via the Holy Ghost and I God will deliver you from all failure and loss to everlasting Life in my Eternal Kingdom!

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The star-forming region NGC 3603 – seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image – contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the gas seen to the right of the star cluster in NGC 3603’s centre.

Here is what a great man of science that I respect had to say in touching on the matter of God and faith over science or man’s own thinking!

A man we all know was a remarkably brilliant person who I think even though his head was immersed in the world of science and theories he had a keen insight into God’s presence and reality like few people can achieve with our limiting cognitive faculties.; and his respect and love of God was present and genuine; therefore we can say God will judge accordingly, I know for myself Einstein was a good and respectful soul in this world, so I do wish him well. What follows I was writing about back at this mentioned date.
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Einstein on Self and the Mystical
“The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling is at the centre of true religiousness.”
-Albert Einstein – “The Merging of Spirit and Science”

This man the father of physics had said a few great one liners but two that stand out are these. He referred to God as the “Old One.” He speaking to other physicists was known to have said during a discussion about the Big Bang Theory in which one scientist said that with enough random events occurring in this pre-millisecond before it happened eureka the right combination occurred; Einstein just plainly said; “God doesn’t roll dice.”

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I leave now with this perfect prayer for any who seek God and understand what I’ve said here.

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6

We all must remember that to the imperfect human being, it is a great temptation to play God or try to establish some manmade system of belief or ideology to shape the world and life into that particular view or perspective. But there is only one perspective that matters which is God’s and He did address this difficulty very clearly when He came as the Sacred all loving heart into this fallen world to lead the way for any who will believe in Him, Jesus Christ the Son of God and God Himself, to redeem our souls from Sin and all evil which this world is plagued with and will never cease until God ends it.

Through all of the true attested and witnessed written prophecies from God we have the roadmap to heaven, but, we must accept Jesus Christ and follow Him nothing else will do!

God bless.

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Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

The Credo of the Catholic Democrats

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“They are utterly unrepentant in their rejection of Church teaching. Medicine can only work on the living, not the dead.”

I’ll accept this statement from those liberals that follow the Heretic Bergoglio because in it they have not only shown their true colors but they have condemned themselves with their own words and tongues!

“They are dead;” they are the dead in Christ, with hearts that are hard and have grown cold to the truth; which is not in them!

These bishops should be bearing in mind and hear what God instructed his faithful and especially the Good Shepherds to do in defense of the Church and faithful; but they are more concerned with “Politics and Optics” working for an Agenda; “The Ways of the World!”

“23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. 25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?” Matthew 6:24

“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.” (Isaiah 54:17)

God taught us that we have the right to condemn the tongue that rises against his servants!

2 Timothy 3:2-4 “For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God”

Deuteronomy 32:5 “They have acted corruptly toward Him, They are not His children, because of their defect; But are a perverse and crooked generation.”

Romans 1:29 “being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,”

2 Timothy 3:8 “Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.”

Psalm 62:4 “They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position; They delight in falsehood; They bless with their mouth, But inwardly they curse. Selah.”

Romans 1:29 “being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,”

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“The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good.”

Acts 7:51 “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit; you are doing just as your fathers did.”

Romans 3:11 “There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God;”

Micah 6:11 “Can I justify wicked scales And a bag of deceptive weights?”

Nehemiah 9:26 “But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, And cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets who had admonished them So that they might return to You, And they committed great blasphemies.”

Psalm 10:2-4 “In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised. For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire, And the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord. The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him. All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Isaiah 59:7 “Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.”

Romans 3:13 “Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving, The poison of asps is under their lips”

Isaiah 29:13 Then the Lord said, “Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,”

Psalm 10:4 “The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.”

All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
Ephesians 4:19 “and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness”

Revelation 21:8 “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Ephesians 4:18 “being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Here I tells us as to now hoe Satan and the ways of the world have possessed these current heretics.”

2 Corinthians 4:4 “in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

Proverbs 2:14 “Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;”

Romans 1:32 “and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.”

Job 8:13 “So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish,”

Philippians 3:19 “whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.”

Job 24:13 “Others have been with those who rebel against the light; They do not want to know its ways Nor abide in its paths.”

Romans 8:7 “because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,”

2 Timothy 3:5 “holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.”

“Many theologians say this is the key passage on homosexuality in the New Testament.

Paul writes: “God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
Jeff Weima, an expert on the New Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, is among those who say this passage is a clear, unambiguous condemnation of homosexual activity.
“The text of Romans 1:26-27 is quite clear about the prohibition of same-sex activity for both men and women,”
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;” 2 Thessalonians 2:3

Atheist’s abound and have confronted me online saying there is no God all that promise was a lie nothing changes or happens these scoffers are mentioned here.
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” 2 Peter 3:3-4

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:1,7

So much opportunity to learn now and the sciences along with cares of the world are abundant but yet the truth is escaping multitudes or those with “hardened hearts!” They are “Blind to the Light”

This behavior abounds now.

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.” Luke 21:34

“For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.” Mark 13:22

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

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God bless you.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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They issue a declaration of independence from Church teaching.

By George Neumayr from TheAmerican Spectator:

Almost 60 Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives recentlyreleaseda statement declaring their “principles.” The statement is a classic illustration of modern liberalism’s one-sided conception of church-state relations: the church should never lecture the state, but the state is free to lecture the church. The statement is also a snapshot of the pitiful imbalance of power and confusion in the Catholic Church: heretics, far from fearing clerics, feel emboldened to instruct bishops on what they can and cannot do.

Enjoying the protection of the media and exploiting the divisions in the Church, heretical Catholic politicians can grandstand with impunity. Congressman Ted Lieu’s (D-Calif.) hotdogging tweet to the bishopscapturesthe mood of the moment:

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Judgement and The ‘Little’ Sins

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By Richard Maffeo at Catholic 365: Here is a warning by the Lord Jesus that no one should gloss over:? “And He was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching, and proceeding on His way to Jerusalem. And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there…

Very good and wise to bring this out from our Lord who still working to inspire those that listen and want to change before it is too late!

I’ve said before far too many are going to HELL! You all got that now or are you still too busy playing games with other people on the net or with yourselves to be praying diligently from your deepest heart in total supplication, or to be concerned about what wrath you are bringing upon this fallen world that Jesus Christ came down from heaven to give us one big opportunity to save our sorry asses through Him taking our punishment paid forward, but I see far too many who don’t give a flying leap and so carry on like the disgusting maggot rot that they are, lying to themselves and living in SIN!

They will get what’s coming to them and gnashing of teeth doesn’t even describe the half of it; it will be so horrible and beyond human imagination to be in Hell for Eternity but some obviously want to take their chances and take it so they can do what they please now! Look at our leaders and others how disgustingly evil and corrupted they live, without batting an eyelash and actually feel puffed up and proud of what they are! Time to get your act together or pack up your sorry butts for the hell ride coming!

Here is something I wrote moments ago so take it for what is worth to you and think about it anyway!

Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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By Richard Maffeo at Catholic 365:

Here is a warning by the Lord Jesus that no one should gloss over:

“And He was passing through from one city and village to another, teaching, and proceeding on His way to Jerusalem. And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ then He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’; and He will say…

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Viganò: Cardinals Cupich, Gregory and Tobin are unworthy to celebrate Mass

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Marco Tosatti at Stilum Curiae: Viriliter agite, et confortetur cor vestrum. Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened. Ps 30:25 What do you think of Pope Francis’s support for Father James Martin? The LGBTQ+ ideology and the gender theory that it presupposes as its postulate represent a…

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Let’s All Just Cut the Malarkey!

This article is fantastic and what a beautiful voice to my ears to hear coming from some quarters, the Voice of Reason and Morality attempting to now say enough and let us Hold Something Sacred before it’s too late to perform our duty not only as Good Catholics and Christians but as Children of God; Human Beings made in His image.

Look I don’t want to come across as a Mr. know it all because I’m not and neither is anyone else but this to me is as plain as day and my own nose on my face of being totally contrary to God and His purposes which is exactly how it should be not ours by any means.  Just think how we didn’t create Mankind or the Universe as a matter of actual fact, not wanton fantasy; we didn’t create ANYTHING!  But here we are as a race of very conflicted and contradictory beings attempting to say we know better and perhaps we can play God for a change and just do whatever we damn well please!  Isn’t that what people are doing, let’s be honest with each other in this regard!  Don’t we see it day in and day out this My Way or the Highway approach taking place constantly now? Look at the Federal Government of America with the Radicalized Democrat party that is basically a bunch of criminals getting away with criminal acts all over the place with no accountability at all!  Things that Clinton or Obama did without a doubt should have put them away behind bars for LIFE; but yet they go their merry way with hundreds of millions of undeserved dollars for doing just that; being criminals!

This fuels the countless crimes that continue on from the peons in government like US Rep. Omar who has been caught red-handed stealing large sums of money through illegal funding acquisition through her husband’s corporation but only the same thing Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Maxine the Crazy Machine Waters and right on down the line have been doing for years! Then we get to the Big Kahuna of them all Biden, Mr. Scranton Joe himself a 48 year Professional Crooked Politically Organized Crime Syndicate Racketeer whose done basically nothing for America besides his finding schemes and scams to enrich himself and family members to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars then get the grand award for that which is why not cheat this despot of society into the top executive power position in America, President; because after all he’s done such a fantastic job of being a criminal he should rule the roost for all the other criminals!

All this crime and shady behavior begets the same in the whole of society with the antonym now being the rule of thumb, Crime Really Pays and does it pay big the more crooked you are the better!  So we see it in the streets BLM being put on a pedestal last summer for tearing apart and torching major cities across the nation while even murdering some citizens and raping others; but not any accountability for those most egregious crimes and mayhem. They all get awards for doing a good thing as our VP Harris said plainly how the riots must continue this is necessary and good!  Then criminal minded mayors or governors like Cuomo get praise for a job well done when he himself ordered highly infectious cases of Covid stricken individuals out of the hospital and into the nursing homes for the frail elderly to do what?  Kill them; who in their right mind wouldn’t know that you send a highly contagious case of any respiratory illness into a nursing home it will spread like wildfire and those old folks who are just living out their well-deserved twilight years will become deathly ill before you can say lickety-split!  Essentially Cuomo is a mass murderer who wanted to inflate the death count for Lock-Down authorization or more Covid Money, just like other wanton evil criminals such as Bill Gates and Fauci and a host of others running loose from China to Timbuktu.

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So back to the main point, we live in a world of horrible sin and evil is having a field day with all of us who cave into the easy way out or the Road to Perdition which so many are doing just saying so what, I don’t care what happens to other people or this world, I want what I want and that is all that matters to me! Even something that looks so benign and harmless to so many of us on the internet of wanting likes and a huge following to gain what?  Oh I get it, a following and pat on the back to boost one’s ego that must be so weak and on life support, if they need far away strangers who could be anyone or anything, saying wow, you do so great on these postings of yours; so in other words we’ve become a race of stupid people playing games on the internet now too!  Don’t get me wrong some good does devolve and rise out of some of this activity but for the most part its truly people not spending their time wisely when they could be devoting their time to concrete real hands on activity at home or out in the world doing something that really gets the work done; not this phony baloney Child’s play, games and gibberish!

God made men and women to have a sexual capacity to Procreate and perpetuate the human race His family, but not to play with it and try anything they can think of to pervert and devalue His purpose in their own minds, to nothing more than a cheap thrill or sexual act of selfish greedy pleasure, with zero LOVE, but only getting a high from it or in some cases sadistic thrills of abusing another person and humiliating that person in an insane depraved sadistic behavior which happens daily around the world!  So tell me I’m wrong that the human race hasn’t sunken to the lowest common denominator of moronic depraved and sacrilegious thinking and actual behavior all saying to God Himself; get lost who needs you you’re just an annoyance, to where now even many priests buy into this insanity and accept it as modern times and some kind of evolution or whatever other fraudulent excuse they can come up with to justify this evil.

These priest are wolves in a sheep’s clothing or in the least a total failure as Shepherd’s to me, and should not even be considered for any position, not even as a parishioner in my opinion within the Catholic Church; being unfit and demonic human beings doing extreme harm to the Church, Faithful and Society as a whole condoning SIN and EVIL; but most egregious to me in all of this is how they attack our sweet Lord and Savior Jesus Christ this way making a mockery out of what He alone did for any of us who will try our best to live in accordance to all His teachings!

The time has come for all of us to make up our own minds and hearts to make some big changes and stop with all this moronic game playing and being participants with evil, even if on the sidelines like this internet madness of make-believe, and trying to get one’s ego stroked or stroke others so they stroke you back; its all insane and part of the problem not part of the solution, and the solution is in your own heart and soul which you need to work out with God Almighty not all these strangers on the internet playing stupid idiotic games and do it in a hurry like your life depended on it!  Because it really does this life to a degree but definitely your prospect of an eternal life that God Himself has created and provides to each and every mother’s son and daughter if they are obedient to His commands, rules and teachings which you have to spend a lot more time doing apparently if you are on this forsaken internet so much that you now believe in Likes from Strangers who could be fake and are in many cases or worse, while some just to make a buck which they do so phony or deceivingly, to pretend you are some kind of friends or something, so important, which won’t matter when all is said and done, it really won’t be diddly-squat; but was just a lot of HOT AIR!

“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” Philippians 2:12

“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” John 15:19

Spend little time on this foolish distraction and engage in proper prayer and worship along with being one who is actually out in the world living doing something for family, community and the society as a whole!  This is just a lazy person’s way out or playing chicken too, because you want it handed to you not to be someone who gets to WORK MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE; time is running out and there isn’t any for this foolishness!

Stop the exercise in futility and get to work!

“There is an unseen battle taking place around us every moment between God’s holy angels and the forces of darkness” (Daniel 10:12-14; Ephesians 6:10-17; Jude 1:9).

Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

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Marco Tosatti at Stilum Curiae:

Viriliter agite, et confortetur cor vestrum.

Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened.

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What do you think of Pope Francis’s support for Father James Martin?

The LGBTQ+ ideology and the gender theory that it presupposes as its postulate represent a mortal threat for our entire society, the family, the human person, and also obviously for the Church, because they dissolve the social body, relations between its members, and the very concept of the biological reality of the sexes, which is arbitrarily changed to each person’s questionable and variable subjective self-perception based on gender. Many do not realize the chaos this will cause not only in civil and family habits but in religious ones as well, as soon as recognition of the LGBTQ+ movement inevitably leads to people with what may be defined asgender dysphoriademanding to be welcomed in parishes and…

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There is Only One Race and This Tennessee Teacher Proves It

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Great to put this up Mary Anne; and I say to myself what the hell is wrong with these corrupted minds and hearts of these destructive, out of control wicked minded BLM Rabble-rouse complainers, including all of the Pro Athletes that join in and take a knee, or the Corporations that have signed on to this nonsense to virtue signal, and are obviously playing the people for percentages or the prevailing winds of change for profit!

Brings to my mind what those children and teacher did back in 1970 as the old adage goes “if you want to do some good before you go ridiculing or condemning someone then try walking in that person’s shoes for a while to understand him or her. Because you really don’t know what it’s like for that person unless you actually have!” I remember how my grandparents and parents would say that to me growing up. It really made me think a lot about how others are living or what they are going through!

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Or put in a very American as in Native American way, rather very nicely, I think this adage says it all; while all these complainers or radical leftist nasty attitude people would actually learn for a change and do far better to make progress for society as a whole if that really is their honest ultimate goal, in helping things get better or really improve for all. Truly, if they would only follow this old wisdom; from a people that saw so much change in a land they occupied over millennia! But found the strength and courage to see things as they truly are, accepting and making the best of the circumstances; when giant changes ensued!

Cherokee proverb, “Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.”
God bless.

Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III

Daily Mass: The compassion and ministry of Christ. Catholic Inspiration 💜

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Beautiful and inspiring photos; bring tears!
Very helpful uplifting podcasting!
Thank you very much!
God bless you and yours.

Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III