It was actually Fr. Frank who I made the confession to multiple times: God rest his soul. I was so young back then and I was merely in CCD and they were saying things like if you had any sexual fantasies especially homosexual ones, make the confession to the priest in Communion and Confirmation. But, I just kept it short.
I usually went to Confession to just say, “Forgive me Father. I know lust.” Because it was the truth and I was ashamed to describe them in detail. In addition, it is not like he would have a lengthy time to hear my Confession. Neither was the priest a psychologist or a psychiatrist.
In my growth, I did not know there was anything better than sex. Then, Jesus fed me bread and wine many years ago. It was then that I knew that the wine was so good, it was like I was swimming in absolute happiness or joy. After more than a decade with that encounter with Jesus, I remember the taste of the wine that he gives in his Last Supper as something comparable to sex, but even better.
I speak this out loudly because sex was something I could not pass as a test, and it was one reason along side the Scriptures in Abraham (when he would offer Isaac, and in which I thought that I was more righteous than God) which led me away from Jesus.
I feel free to stand in this field, and am grateful for Jesus to had spend some time with me and to give me a taste of his wine and bread. For this, I honor the Lord Jesus with fidelity and l love Jesus that he has all my heart and soul in his hands, with me for an offering. Jesus loves me, and so he must also love the Filipino people.
I feel like I can improve a lot in art. I wish I could also learn Theology with art especially the Old Testament which is quite challenging. Because, I think that the New Testament is pretty clear already (most of it), usually the parables are extremely beautiful when you are able to piece together the words and the right picture for it.
One parable, I do feel the need to explain is a potential message, that the Lord Jesus said in Matthew 13: 44-46: The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field where a man would find it, then hide it, and finally sells everything he has to buy that field.
This is personal but as an inspiration no less in which the Holy Spirit counseled me into piecing together in what I know “freedom” to be. This parable is a metaphor for “freedom.”
An open field when you should stand in one is liberating and freeing. So, this man in the parable sells everything for his freedom because he would find it in the open field. But, notice that this is only a similitude capturing the senses and yet to compare the likeness of heaven when Jesus would say: “The kingdom of heaven is like…”
Therefore, to conclude this understanding of what the Lord is proposing is that once we are to be with him, it will be eternal joy and happiness of the sorts because we would have made it in heaven to see him. I believe in this strongly that once I am united with Jesus, that I will be able to breathe at last and my happiness is him, as he is the Lord God Almighty.
I watched this movie “Comet” many years ago and while I am not a fan of all the smoking 🚬 & marijuana, I thought the script was brilliant. The break-up scene was moving and understandable in a lot of ways because their relationship is based on reason and affection from the start, not on shallow premises. That, they are both extremely intelligent. They are not shallow people as far as the script would make them but instead are two extremely intelligent people in their use of discourse. The ending leaves the audience a degree of freedom to assume a conclusion about the two based on the scenes that are provided in the movie. My thoughts are that they do end up together, and there is a reasonable explanation as far as “precedence” in one of the scenes that Kimberly is lying about being pregnant. But, I am getting ahead of myself—It is how the person who is watching the movie desires and interprets the ending.
😭. She is lying at the end. She is not pregnant with the wrong person. | “Comet” (2014) - Full Movie, EN Audio, BG Subs, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sc... https://t.co/dqVSIkz8lE via @YouTube
😭. She is lying at the end. She is not pregnant with the wrong person. | “Comet” (2014) - Full Movie, EN Audio, BG Subs, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sc... https://t.co/dqVSIkz8lE via @YouTube
Practicing and reading Holy Scriptures is a view that can only be practiced as a Christian. That is why I am not Buddhist and I rebuke that religion and every anti-Christ. The word “karma” was built under the understanding of the “measure you give” is the “measure you get.” Then it turns around and explains death in light of Buddhism which is fiction. Some atheist have done much to claim that their text is older than the Old Testament and even the Gospels. I do not believe it. You can just take an old blank papyrus and write on it, to have someone falsely date them and you get what is “older.” The same with various other religions stealing particular events in the Holy Bible like the Muslims who trace their lineage to Abraham, and then also those Hindus who are serving weak demons as their gods which they exaggerate as powerful to mirror against the Jewish God that eventually births Jesus. I do not agree with the Catholic Church dogma in terms as there being “more than one path to God,” if that is the Church’s dogma. There is only one path with me and it is clearly the Lord Jesus Christ. Contrarily, I am aware also that the Roman Catholic Church is trying to keep its peace with various other religions. There is a compromise here because I am a Roman Catholic. Be aware and be cautious over that even as you are a Catholic.
This is just “ordinary” reading comprehension, but the real inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Scripture is how beautiful you make your life to be as a Christian.
I sometimes want to ask religious people for their intentions and I should have done that when I had initially wanted to join the Dominicans. I feel that I did not explain anything about my relationship with Jesus Christ. I struggle with just saying things without the explanations sometimes as things come to pass, and I seriously do not want to forget any events and experience about Jesus in my life. However, here is the question:
Why do priests and/or the religious make the vow of chastity? What are you asking of the Lord Jesus in return?
I will be transparent, for me I want Jesus: The wine and bread in the Last Supper and the wine in the wedding event in the Holy Scripture. I am honestly the most sexual and lustful person, and I will admit to you that when I saw Jesus and he gave me wine to taste with bread, the wine tasted better than sex. I did not ask for a vow of chastity, but I honor the Lord with fidelity. I do not know if this is the same as the religious vow as chastity.
St Valentine's Special: “Why I Chose Celibacy” | LITTLE BY LITTLE w/Fr Col... <https://t.co/lMMUlqMT8I> via @YouTube
The disciple John probably slept like a baby. Where he would write and pick up the story at Jesus’ betrayal, when Judas ultimately kissed him to mark him and get him arrested and crucified. By that time John was awake.
A disciple would have witnessed him praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, how else was the event written in the Holy Scriptures otherwise? So it is either Peter, James, or John.
To speak truthfully about loving Jesus, it really tears me apart. I am happy that Jesus loves me, but sad that I will never have a taste of pleasure in this world. The trade is huge because it does get lonely sometimes. I just pray that I hang on to Jesus and to keep my very word and sentence.
I never knew the baritone voice would sound so good. I generally prefer tenor voices because they usually lead: “Easy Ukulele Video Lesson - Baby I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton)” <https://t.co/OXbjXvs2h8> via @YouTube
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•G – D/F# – Em – D – C – F9
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•Bm7 – E7 – Am – D7