Not all who visit a psychiatrist have need of his services, and while those who come to the bishops, priests, clergy have need of a psychiatrist. Christians, Catholics who are not emotionally disturbed will sometimes seek or consult a psychiatrist because God's appointed, anointed, and ordained bishops, priests, clergy have given up counseling. Today, the doctor is often more interested in diseases than in sick peoples while too many bishops, priests, clergy rely more of their index cards, secular profession than the gift of the Holy Spirit, that is, God's grace. Psychiatrist occasionally fill the void created by the want of genuine concern for the ills and woes of people, especially their soul on the part of the bishops and clergy. Thus, the state has largely taken over spiritual education and successfully converted it into secular education. And now psychology would take the soul away from the bishops, priests, clergy.

If we lose the Spirit of Christ, we lose a sense of sin. We are living in the first age in the history of Christianity which denies guilt. A time is coming when peoples will say: there is no crime, there is no guilt, there is no sin. Souls today are not sinners; they are patients. They have the psychic effect of sin, but are without forgiveness. Sin is not the worst thing in the world; the worst thing is the denial of sin. If I am blind and deny light, I shall never see; if I am deaf and deny sound, I shall never hear; if I am a sinner and deny sin, there is no forgiveness. The denial of sin is no forgiveness. There is only hunger. And when it is due, peoples come crying and fawning to God, the Lord Jesus Christ saying: "Give us bread" [Holy Eucharist]

We teach what scripture calls: the things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.

These are the very things that God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. Now instead of the spirit of the world, we have received the Spirit that comes from God, to teach us to understand the gifts that he has given us.

Therefore we teach, not in the way which philosophy is taught but in the way that the Spirit teaches us: we teach spiritual things spiritually. An unspiritual person is one who does not accept anything of the Spirit of God: he sees it all as nonsense; it is beyond his understanding because it can only be understood by means of the Spirit. A spiritual person, on the other hand, is able to judge the value of everything, and his own value is not judged by other men. As scripture says: Who can know the mind of the Lord, so who can teach him? But we are those who have the mind of Christ. - 1Cor. 2:9-16 -

The unspiritual are interested only in what is unspiritual, but the spiritual are interested in spiritual things. It is death to limit oneself to what is unspiritual; life and peace can only come with concern for the spiritual. That is because to limit oneself to what is unspiritual is to be enmity with God: such a limitation never could and never does submit to God's law. People who are interested only in unspiritual things can never be pleasing to God. Your interests, however, are not unspiritual but in the spiritual, since the Spirit of God has made his home in you. In fact, unless you possessed the Spirit of Christ you would not belong to him. Though your body may be dead it is because of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.

So then, my brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live. - Rom. 8:5-13 -

Of course, it is the law that stresses the sin, and it is the Holy Spirit that emphasizes sin over and against the holiness of God. It is through such humiliation and through such conviction of sin that the Holy Spirit gives access to a personal relationship to God which it the true solution of guilt. The Holy Spirit instead of putting us in a legal relationship with God, puts us onto a personal relationship; it is a personal encounter with God; it is a personal experience with God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It brings a much greater severity with oneself and at the same time, a joyous adventure which is endlessly renewed.

Every bishop, priest, clergy, when he goes before God, the Lord Jesus Christ for judgment, will be asked, "Where are your children?" The vocation of the bishop, priest, clergy is primarily to beget souls in Christ. Shall they mount the pulpit and denounce unnatural birth control in the flesh while they practice it in the spirit? Shall mothers be blamed for not having more children when the baptismal records show no souls begotten in Christ?

Every soul is the bishop, priest, clergy responsibility, and many would enter the Church did they but ask them. Do the Church have catechetical centers and use them to train the laity to be apostles, teachers and live out the full responsibilities of the Sacraments? Every Church should be a nursery of souls who are not of the fold; every bishop, priest, clergy, a shepherd in search of lost sheep; every Holy Mass, a proclamation that redemption must be spread to the world.

The error of many bishops, priests is that they are concerned more with the administrative than the evangelical. In other words, they put priority on the world first, then, the Church, and then the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not supposed to be, but a prerequisite that the priority of the Lord Jesus Christ is always first, then, the Church, and lastly the world. Do they organize for soul-saving with the same zeal as they organize for fund drives? When money is needed, a bishop, priest thinks nothing of organizing a door to door fund raising and promptly canvass for donations; but how often does they make a door to door canvass for converts? Are they having the Church continually replenished by souls who come to tell what God has done for them? Where the Holy Spirit is, there are conversions of soul or heart:

Day by day the Lord added to their community those destined to be saved. - Acts 2:47 -

And there are other sheep I have
that are not of this fold,
and these I have to lead as well.
They too will listen to my voice,
and there will be only one flock,
and one shepherd. - John 10:16 -

In the Church, God has given the first place to apostles, the second to prophets, the third to teachers; after them, miracles, and after them the gift of healing; helpers, good leaders, those with many languages. - 1Cor. 12:28 -

Only a few of you, my brothers, should be teachers, bearing in mind that those of us who teach can expect a stricter judgment. - James 3:1 -

But who among us does not know many [Bishops, Priests, Clergy, Laity, Believers] who have left the one fold and the one shepherd because of broken vows, lust for a second or third marriage, sophomoric pride or anyone of the seven pallbearers of soul, commonly called the seven capitals sins?

Is the Holy Spirit less bountiful, less able to save souls now than at Pentecost? Is the tenor of priestly life holding in check those fires and mighty winds of conversions? Why do the Pentecostal fires burn so brightly in the mission lands and so feebly in the Church? Has the tide of the Spirit run out of the harbors? The fault is not in the Spirit. The rushing of mighty winds has not calmed and stilled itself into stagnancy or sterility. The Holy Spirit is still ready to overshadow every priesthood, so that we may bring forth those who are holy.

God never takes back his gifts or revokes his choice. - Rom. 11:29 -

The bishop, priest, clergy acts from without, the Holy Spirit from within. We wish one another blessings; The Lord gives blessings. God alone can plant in a heart, by His divine husbandry, the seed that will blossom into a new creature in Christ. - 2Cor. 5:17 - The selfishness and sloth that make us shrink from searching for souls can be consumed by His Spirit. And if we have the fire of the Spirit, would burnish them into jewels of the Kingdom of God!

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -