I love this observation from Dr. Lawrence Feingold, a Jewish convert to the Catholic Faith, seminary professor, and theologian:
“In the first years after our conversion, people often asked me why I ‘chose’ Christianity or the Catholic Church, and not Judaism or Buddhism or protestantism.
The question is framed in the language of religious liberalism, as if religion were a matter of our personal sentiments, personal preferences, personal loyalties or choices.
The experience of converts is not that we have chosen anything, but that it is God who has chosen to redeem us through the Incarnation and Passion of the Messiah, which is continued and made present in the Catholic Church, and it is God who called us to enter the ark of salvation.
We who have been given the grace to hear, through no merit of our own, have the duty to pray for those who have not yet been given this gift.”
When you feel lonely on this journey, with the state of the world & of the Church in such turmoil, turn to Jesus. He expresses His loneliness in the Garden of Gethsemane as He asks His sleep disciples to stay awake. Let us join Him in the garden and rejoice to be with Him.
Let us seek deep & humble compassion for all the souls steeped in foolishness in these times. Many are in apparent high positions of power but when they rebel against Jesus Christ & His Commandments their so-called power is no power at all. Pray for the conversion of their hearts
A company owned by Bill Gates (the best friend of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein!) just released 5 million genetically modified mosquitos last year in Florida.
And now malaria has returned to Florida.
Do you see how this works?
“From the desire of being loved, deliver me Jesus”, this line from the Litany of Humility is hard to ponder. Everyone wants to be loved and that is good, but compromising the truth in order to be loved is sinful and harmful. Humility calls us to bow to the truth, always.