March 30, 2016
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March 30, 2016 - Easter Wednesday
R. Fortitude gives us courage, prudence helps
us in having right reasoning – we are not
frozen in fear, nor do we go ahead like a bull
in a dish shop, we are not timid in fear
or reckless in actions.
A saint who is martyred has courage
to
be put even to death in the face of danger
rather than give up their faith in God –
Courage or fortitude is at work and prudence
to be able to even die for their faith.
We see a person who gives into fear when
God is calling them to a job to do for them.
What drives the person is their fear – they give
into fear and oppose the will of God – giving
into fear is being a coward, when God is
calling them to action - A coward runs away,
holds out, endures their own will that gives them
some immediate pleasure to not endure what God
has asked of them.
The man who quickly does a job, without
concern for its effects just to get it off their
plate and say "I handled it" – "It was
handled" and then the mess begins because
they did what was fool-hearty to just get
something done – They acted aggressively without
right reason, without concern for serving God
with the courage to endure its difficulty in the
time and manner necessary for the right actions
to be performed. This aggressiveness to move
the job out of his way, without right reason
leads to actions that make a big mess and
opposes the proper attention where God
had a plan and the man acting this way
opposed the plan and made a mess.
He lacks fortitude to have the courage
to do it right and prudence to use
right reasoning according to God's will.
Cowardice can lead a man to not do what
right reasoning tells him to do –
The other man moves ahead and performs
his actions without right reasoning to
get the problem off his plate and he says
"I did something" – yes he made a big
problem for everybody, doing things,
opposing God's will with his hastiness
to act without right reasoning.
Whether a coward or a man doing things –
to be moving ahead without doing God's
will – Both lack fortitude
and prudence –
Either can be sinful when God calls a man to
have responsibility to do something and they
hurt everybody else by holding out and
being a coward or doing actions they thought
up quickly, just to be in control and
using 'willy-nilly' power – A man who
rushes in without consequences – not doing
God's will, not even measuring his actions
that hurt the program and work against
God's plan – These actions like this can
be because a man is prideful or
acts without care or love or regard for
others. The man can do the actions for his
vain - glory –
God has a plan – We can operate in
courage and prudence. A man can be tempted
by satan to stir up things to provoke others –
he acts without courage and prudence –
Satan tempts a man to do this because of
anger and they may not be acting where
God is calling them and then acting in
anger to hurt others because they were
tempted in pride, jealousy, envy to do
actions for attention, drama, vain glory,
to block God's plan – when they could have
acted in courage and fortitude and love
doing what God asked of them, but they
are prideful or angry or envious and
they allowed this to control their actions.
A person who cares about their greatness
first and they are not even thinking of
others or God's plan – only looking at –
"how good am I", "what should I
do to perform actions to make me
look good", "What actions should I do
to manipulate things to move in my direction
for those I want to force in"
These can be sins against fortitude to hold
out and not do what God asks for, but
to try to control events to force their
plan – holding out – punishing – trying
to force an outcome against God's plan –
against the proper order, structure –
under God –
The actions are not governed by prudence
according to God's plan, but governed
instead by his anger, by his greediness,
by his desire to usurp power for his plan
and no regard for others that he has
been called to serve – "it's all about him"
Being a coward – not doing God's plan –
Holding out to force his plan – against
what is God's will –
Trying to show all – he has the power
operating against the structure God
has put in place – operating for his
control, his vain glory – he can
hold out to watch others struggle
when he has a responsibility and a title
to do a deed and support the program God
wants – These are sinful,
acting contrary to God's plan and opposing
the responsibility they have.
Man must have courage to do what
God asks of him when it is difficult –
a man must pray for strength to have
patience and to endure.
A man can act in courage in his
position as God calls him to handle
difficult tasks to help God's plan
to unfold – or a man can hold out
in fear, be a coward and further act in
pride and anger to manipulate events
to failure – against God's plan –
this is sinful when a person has a title,
a responsibility to do something with
prudence and fortitude and then
acts against God's plan and refuses
correction or accountability for their
evil actions, cowardly actions or
punishing, manipulative actions
and takes no correction – holding out
becoming unavailable and demanding
such behavior be accepted –
Are their actions under God –
Helping God's plan –
Living by their title –
or are their actions for their plan
for vain glory
being a coward not doing what they
are responsible for –
A man can try to show others he is
great and can try to do things
for his vain glory – when it needed
the work and cooperation of many men –
working as one to bring about what
was needed –
Priestly Newsletter Book II - September/October 1997
In all this Mary offers an example. Selfishness was totally foreign to her. She did not belong to herself. She belonged to God. She was not closed in upon herself. She was completely open to God. When God spoke, she listened. When God pointed the way, she followed. She realized that life is not a process a person masters by carefully mapping out one's own self-conceived plans of conquest, but a mystery to be gradually experienced by being open to God's personal and loving guidance.
Selfishness, then, did not close Mary off from God's call. Neither did fear. God asked her to assume a tremendous responsibility. He asked her to be the Mother of Jesus. Mary did not engage in a process of false humility and say that such a great role was above her. She did not say that she did not have the proper qualifications for this awesome mission. Briefly, she did not waste time looking at herself, making pleas that she was not worthy, telling the angel he had better go look for someone else. No, Mary did not look at herself. Her gaze was absorbed in God. She fully realized that whatever God asked of her, His grace would accomplish. She fully realized that although she herself had to cooperate, this work was much more God's than hers.
Mary's words, then, truly sum up what is the authentic Christian response at any point of life, in any kind of situation: "I am the handmaid of the Lord," said Mary, "let what you have said be done to me".
R. Presumption a man acts against God's plan,
without responsibility and without
right reasoning –
A man can act for his own ambition –
his own honor, his own plan
and manipulate things in cowardly
ways by holding out, not acting as
he makes up reasons why he doesn't
do what he is supposed to do, but
acts aggressively creating problems he
shows he needed to handle.
It is acting against God's will and it
is wrong when a man has a responsibility
to be a team and do simple requirements
to just keep moving to be moving and
acting in a manner he created to
block the work he should have
done to serve God. It is twisted
thinking and is evil when
one has a responsibility to be a servant
under authority and under God.
Disobedience to just authority is wrong –
Hypocrisy is wrong –
Ignoring what a leader is to do and
acting pious while he cowardly
displays before others how he
disobeys.
Because of baptism – the baptized
man can perform supernatural
acts of loving and knowing.
The baptized man has been given these
capabilities to develop to know
God's plan – through the eyes of
God and to serve God as He
wants him to serve –
Why would a man settle for pride
and anger, vain glory, twisted
thinking – giving into satan –
when God has called Him to
such an honor to work for Him
in the building of the Kingdom of God –
of helping souls to have eternal life –
Why would a man hold onto jealousy,
envy – seeking power for power sake,
selfishness and say "no" to his
calling – his office – his gift
of authority to serve others –
given by God –
We can see a person who helps in God's
plan – contributing to great things
in the building of God's Kingdom –
We see the vice opposed to this where
a person is 'mean' opposing God's
work and using his position
to tear down the house –
It is evil – it is from satan –
it is rooted in manipulation,
twisted thinking, pride, anger
and giving into temptation from
satan –
We can be patient and wait on the
Lord – We see Jesus who endured
such suffering for us –
A man who knows God – endures the
difficult – knows suffering is
redemptive –
A weak-willed man does not want
suffering – he gives into evil
and vices of pride and anger
and envy and slothfulness,
jealousy – greediness etc. –
A man can become so attuned and
enslaved to vices his will is
not disciplined against evil, but
his will becomes diseased.
We pray for the strength of a strong
will to live virtuously and to
be able to not give into
evil and vices.
Perseverance in suffering is because
of the strong will and the grace
God gives a man – how he
cooperates with it –
being more and more in the image of Jesus –
following Jesus.
What we need to see is all our actions in right
reasoning to be for our eternal happiness.
We need God's grace –
We need the virtue of fortitude –
the gifts of the Holy Spirit –
We need the virtue of prudence and
justice and temperance.
We seek the vision of God –
not a selfish vision –
We pray to the Holy Spirit for this grace and
for His gifts –
We need strength and virtue –
We need to pray for the vision of God
and want it –
We need to love and pray for grace –
We need to love good and pray
to not give into satan
in evil –
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R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
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3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
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7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
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16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
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