“Black Friday”
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| "Black Friday" has replaced Good Friday here in America... |
“Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal. For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.” Matthew 6:19-21 Verily, it is often that we give things to others because we did not first give ourselves. Rather than giving a soul the greatest gift a soul could receive in offering the Catholic Faith we would rather give something only harmful and distracting to that soul. For although it is a great act of the heart to give gifts at Christmas what better gift can ye giveth than to give another the Faith? All ye laity, ye art meant and called to witness as well! Yea, the more a man thinks "he is" in by what he posseses; in spiritual reality the least he has truly within(lack of grace). Materialism tends to vanities associated with pride; it pushes "looks" based upon “self” not “acts” or “works” based upon His Sacred Heart and the ever unchanging Divine Law. It has destroyed souls, families, communities and even nations including our own. It has destroyed families who were not rooted in solid ground, that is, the Catholic Faith. How many souls in the West and all over "opportunistically" come together on the basis of social status or for a perception of what “marriage” ought be? If a marriage is based solely upon things then unto things it shalst return ultimately; for these two in marriage were never really One at heart to begin with but rather lived and loved those things on the surface that the other hadst at that potential time. Wisdom sayeth, “Without thee eyes the heart can not see and without the heart the eyes can not sense.” Yea, we must render our own hearts poor like Christ and detach from things. For a man in humility who always sees his cup empty art always filled by thee Divine Waters.
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“Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. Be not therefore solicitous for tomorrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:31-34 Yea, strong words from Our Lord and how many heathens will run out like Vikings this weekend to partake in thy devil's consumerism? Ordereth first thy heart unto His thence all these things shalst be added unto thee in accordance to His Will and not thy bank account. Was it not Our Lady and Joseph who hadst very little in possession yet who were entrusted by the Father to "house" God Himself? They journeyed with Christ in poverty yet were in the Presence of Richness Himself. The Heart of Christ compels man onward more upward and inward through this interior Fortress of the Soul acquiring virtue and grace. Let us not live horizontally, that is, living on the surface alone for such it is with modern man and his shallowness. Ultimately, such a man will find he is a fish out of God's Waters. For that which the carnal seeks is corrupt, ever failing and tends to the culture of death wherest His Heart gives forth the fruit of Life, true Selfless Love, true peace of mind, soul and body. Yea, materialism art a cruel penalty to the soul for having left His Heart; a cruel imprisonment of any person or society as a result of a disordered and perverted heart and mind. For nature lives for the moment wilst grace rises above each moment to liveth safely in the refuge of His Heart.
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“There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.” Luke 16:19 The same greed of heart which seekest to have “self” noticed is the same “self” that seekest more and more "of a fill on things" and why? Because the man who seeks to fill his heart and soul with these things hast created a hole in the bottom thereof.... and so the heart always searches for the next empty “fill". Yea, much like a man who pumps gas into the car with a hole in the gas tank; this car or soul goes nowhere! Thence, materialism, immodesty, impurity often go hand in hand. To the sexual sinner: he looks to fill his senses with pleasure. The same lust of heart of can be found in those souls who simply must have and canst not be “complete” nor feel secure without being surrounded by “things”. If a soul will literally lust after another in body; it is quite often he or she wilst lust after the things that covereth thy body. The potential space that would be Christ's alone is rather cluttered with transient materials that holdeth no eternal value to the heart and soul. We haveth security in Christ who art All Things who created those things ye seekest this is our only focus.
“He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?” 1 John 3:17 What more can ye give to all those ye would encounter but that alone of the poverty of Christ? For in Him I have lost all things but in Him I haveth all things. I am fully secure “without” for I haveth him wholly within. Avarice souls can not be mortified without grace for they art in a restless pursuit of true nothingness which is found in “things”. As we approach Christmas wherein Our King was born in obscurity and into poverty let us remember how strong Joseph and Our Lady truly were having Christ centered in their own lives. This Christmas come forth to the Nativity scene within your own heart after a long journey with three simple gifts; self, sacrifice, and silence. These art three great gifts ye can give Our Lord who can take these “poor” gifts and then turn anyone into a Saint. Indeed, on Good Friday men knelt and still kneel before our Lord in His Passion to show forth their ordered hearts unto Him; wilst modern man hast a new Black Friday which only further shows how far their hearts art away from His in their kneeling and bowing to thy idol of “things”. Amen
"Poverty is the way to salvation, the nurse of humility, and the root of perfection. Its fruits are hidden, but they multiply themselves infinite ways." (St. Francis of Assisi)
"Whoever curses a poor man does an injury to Christ, whose noble image he wears - the image of Him who made Himself poor for us in this world." (St. Francis of Assisi)
"I, brother Francis, the little one, wish to follow the life and poverty of our most high Lord Jesus Christ and of His most holy mother and to preserve in this until the end" (St. Francis of Assisi)
"My brother, when thou seest a poor man, behold in him a mirror of the Lord, and of His poor Mother. In the sick, in like manner, consider that He bore our sicknesses." (St. Francis of Assisi)
"We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the devil." (St. Francis of Assisi)
"If we had any possessions, we would be forced to have arms to protect them, since possessions are a cause of disputes and strife, and in many ways we would be hindered from loving God and our neighbor. Therefore in this life we wish to have no temporal possessions." (St. Francis of Assisi)
Eagles are detached at heart from all "things"...
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