posted on Sep, 30 2014 @ 01:51 PM
Thanks, sad_eyed_lady, I just subscribed to their newsletter because of you.
A question has poked it's head up and I don't know if I have the answer to it. I'm not even sure the answer is more important than the
question.
The Chaplet of Mercy is a door into the inner heart of the Catholic Church. It contains prayer, mysticism, our hope, Jesus' death, and our
responsibility. There are so many people here who find what they think is Catholicism from blogs and newspaper clippings. Wouldn't someone who is
an honest searcher come and see for himself?
Getting an opinion on Man's relationship to God as experienced by the largest denomination in the world, seems like getting a review of a steak
dinner from a biology textbook on the digestive system.
I can understand, just a little, about the prophets sent to Israel. And I can get the faintest hint of what Jesus thought when he looked at
Jerusalem.
I really want to grab every ATSer and shout at them. "You want to deny ignorance? You want to experience the Truth? Here it is, look at it. Start
thinking differently. You claim to be open-minded? Open your mind, then, to the Reality that lays outside of this Universe, yet came to live in it,
to teach us and love us.
"Get serious! This isn't about who will win the next election or if the latest Apple phone has flaws or if you've got the latest shoes. This is
about the real you who will live forever, seeing God with joy and peace, or will live forever, knowing you sent God away on your own and He'll never
be there to bring any hope or joy to you, for ever.
"You keep telling people to wake up and look at reality? What are you doing, laying down and snoring? Get up, get up! You have a chance for the
greatest prize conceivable, and you're giving it up for just a little while longer in bed?"
Holy Spirit, send us consolation and support as we find our road through life. Thank you for sending brothers and sisters to walk with us on a road
that gets pretty rough now and then. Keep us open to you, and willing to give to others what you have given us.
With respect (to you and worship to God),
Charles1952