A Teaching from the Word of God:

“Stop listening to teaching that contradicts what you know is right! A worthless witness cares nothing for the truth – they enjoy sinning too much! Mockers and rebels will be severely punished!” --Proverbs 19:27-29 LB

“Oh so Happy and oh so blessed is the one who does not live by the advice of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But their delight is in the Bible -- God’s Law, and in and by His Word do they think and decide things all of the time!

They are like a tree planted by streams of [life-giving] water, which produces its fruit in season and whose leaf will not dry up or wither! And whatever they do will prosper!

But not so the wicked – those who continue in and choose to live in sin! They are like the debris of chaff that the wind blows away! Therefore the wicked will not stand in judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous!

For the LORD watches over the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish!”
--Psalm One (and St. Matthew 7:15-23; Acts 5:1-11; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13)

“Do not be misled! Bad associations corrupt good character! Come back to your senses as you ought and stop sinning! For there are some of you who are ignorant of God! And I say this to your shame!” –St. Paul (1 Corinthians 15:33-34)

“Therefore brothers and sisters, since we have bold confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is His body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope that we claim (to have), for He who promised is faithful. And let us think about how we can urge and excite one another to perform good deeds! And let us not stop having our meetings together, as some people have stopped attending already! But let us encourage and strengthen one another and even more now that we know and can see the day approaching!”

And if we purposely go on sinning even though we more than already know better, no sacrifice will cover those sins; But only the fully realized fear of the coming wrath of judgment and that raging fire that will burn up all of God’s enemies!

Anyone who did not fully follow the teachings of Moses died without mercy on ‘the testimony of two or three witness’. How much more do you think God’s wrath will fall upon those who have trampled under foot the very Son of God and treated sacrilegiously the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For we know Him who said. ‘It is Mine to avenge; I will repay,’ and again, ‘The LORD will judge His people!’ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!”

But we are not like those who backslide and are destroyed, but we are those who continue to live like we believe and are saved.” --Hebrews 10:19-31, 39

“No one who lives in Him keeps sinning. No one who continues sinning has either seen Him or known Him.

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray! He who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is belongs to the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one that is born of God will keep sinning, because God’s seed remains in them; and they cannot go on sinning then, because they are born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: anyone who does not do what is right is not of God; nor is anyone who does not love their brother or sister.

This is The Message that you heard from the beginning: We are to love one another. Do not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.”
--1 St. John 3:6-12

Three points that can be properly surmised from this message:

One: Stop listening to advice and teaching that contradicts what is right!
We need sound, moral teaching and counsel.

Two: Bad associations corrupt good character!
We must therefore stay away from immoral persons and situations.

Three: Do not let anyone lead you astray!
We must walk righteously and in love.

(The Scripture passages were borrowed from various Bibles, including the Living Bible, The New Revised Standard Version, and the New International Version, and the intent was not to break any copyright laws; but only to convey the Word of God to others.)

The Word of God for the World!

How can I compare one Christmas to another and still be fair?

I dunno? But here goes!

I think the best and my favourite Christmasses have been the ones where I had so many people over and gave out many gifts from under my tree, and had the means to do so!

Those were such great Christmasses! And I would like to do all those things all over again, when I have and am blessed with the means do so again!

I am looking forward to doing things for others again someday soon, and then I will have other "favourite Christmasses" to speak of then!

Those are some of my thoughts for this Christmas day.

Happy New Year!

I have returned from Christ Mass just in time to put out some reindeer chow, and read my kitty "Twas the Night Before Christmas!"

I told my kitty that if she is good, says her prayers, goes to bed early... she will get Catnip and lot's and lot's of new kitty toys!

Do I talk like a grown man and a retired missionary already here aye? Having a joy or two, especially this time of year, is all fine and good, if one were to ask me!

So now ask me? Nah, you don't really have to!

I hear that plenty of snow for Santa and his eight tiny reindeer to land on with a sleigh filled with toys of all the kiddies and kitties... if they have all been good, said their prayers and gone to bed on time, is on its way!

I was so blessed by the extra entertainment this evening at Mass, though the folks in the pew directly behind were not so much! The children were full of energy and fun to observe in all their energy-filledness, and I tried not to laugh and to muffle a chuckle or two!

Well, "It's a Wonderful Life" is on TV again! I watch that movie every year and nearly every time they show it on whatever channels through the Season, and I even still cry in all the right places! Every time! Every year!

Does that make me a big ol' sentimental guy?

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

(Posted on Christmas Eve!)

So I came home from Mass all high in the Lord and in the Holy Spirit, feeling His goodness, presence and grace! And on my front door is what looks like red and sticky crimson blood! And that is so weird and not at all a good Christmas attitude to have... dumping something that looks like sticky and shiney crimson red blood all over someone's front door!

So I phoned the police and they came out and looked at it and agreed with me that it is in fact -- most likely what is looks like and they told me to phone them right away if there is anymore trouble... with anyone, and they will be right back to take care of it!

And the squad car sat outside for a long while just waiting to see what might happen next so that they could come right in and take care of things for me!

My blessed 'Heroes in Blue'! God bless them all this Christmas Eve and coming Christmas Day!

I was told they were here for me! Can you just imagine that? What a blessing aye? God bless them!

Let us pray for the local authorities and all those whom God our Lord has sent to "Serve and Protect" us!

I know that there are things that are not good in the world, and we've all heard this and that, about him and her, and them and others as well; but let us stop and pray anyway, and as God has commanded us through His Holy Written Word, as well as through the Apostles of the Church, then and now!

Anyone going to Midnight Mass? Need a ride? I dislike going alone to Christ Mass! Don't you?

Happy Birthday Jesus our Lord!

He is the one Who so clearly said, "Believe on Me and be Saved!"

Not really my goodness but not being a swearing man, I use phrases like that...

But whoops-a-daisy!

I remember my Greatgrand and her faith and life and trials, as well as her "Bible Faith" as some call it now, and her praying and praying; and that she thought that people should go to church, and most any church would do as long as they were going to church faithfully, were good and kind people, read their Bibles and prayed!

That was how white-haired Grandmums were back then, with their hair all wrapped and pinned in a little bun on the back of their heads and all! And they put up with little nonsense, while remaining loving and kind... at least that is how I remember them and those days when I was not yet all alone in the world as I am now. No relatives to speak of... or any at all now.

I was thinking today, on Christmas Eve day, as I am getting prepared for Mass, about any of the people I know now, and at my age now and after living a fully personally and hugely sacrificial life for the cause of the many needs of others, and after having become so very ill and then alone in that illness, I only just got healed at the Church Healing Service where the priests laid hands on us in faith and anointing us with special oil for healing and I got healed, and I am no longer sad and alone in my illness and with my basic needs being unmet by anyone... including church people, because now I am no longer crippled, weak and in all that pain that seemed that it would never cease...

But even now, nearly everyone I meet and know keeps telling me what I should do or not do and keep bossing me around like I am an idiot, but none of them are family (not that I anylonger have any to speak of), and not a one of them every lifted a finger to help me when I was alone, ill and in so much need... nor do they lift a finger now to do a thing for me as a man who is alone in the world; but they are constant 'advisors' to every thought and move that I should have and make.

Talk about 'a critical spirit', I know several 'critical spirits! As the constant Criticizing of everything about me never ceases!

But I am not just whining! This is all so freeing to me to realize all this, because I have both realized this bondage that others have tried to place on me out of whatever is actually wrong with them and not with me! So now I have had the personal revelation about all this that has also led to the realization that I no longer need to listen to those 'vain babblers'!

I have lived a good and sacrificial life looking out for the needs of others, then I became very ill and completely alone in my neediness, and now I am healed, well, and looking forward to a whole new life!

And I don't need criticized at all, by anyone, for anything!

Isn't that so cool to finally figure out!!!

Merry Christmas!