"The Strength of Faith"
Pope Benedict XVI deplores "the fashion of individualism". The God-fearing should seek to become a part of an holistic, organized representation of those who worship the Almighty. One does not worship in isolation.
One does so, formally, in the presence of other like-minded Christians. And the Holy Roman Catholic Order is the venue to which the faithful should turn. Toward its local chapters, as it were, wherever they exist, world-wide. Those venerable institutions of old whose presence allows strength and endurance and hope to reign in the hearts of men.
Catholic cathedrals are the preeminent place in which to worship God and His only-begotten son. "We cannot follow Jesus on our own. So do not keep Christ to yourselves! Share with others the joy of your faith." This sharing is known as proselytizing. But among like-minded worshippers gathering in traditional, heritage monuments to faith, it represents spiritual communion with the Shepherd, becoming one of the flock.
One is not to take a message from the pontiff's address to the Catholic youth of the world - coming together just outside Madrid to celebrate World Youth Day with Pope Benedict's sermons and benedictions to the faithful - when, before Holy Communion could be accomplished the sacramental wafers had dissolved in the wake of a monumental storm.
A torrential downpour had washed out the Pope's speech in which he explained why traditional marriage and the right to life are the only solutions to humankind's dilemmas of existence. Spain - the venue of this 2011 annual re-visitation of World Youth Day - once the most Catholic of countries, now recognizes same-sex marriage, and supports abortion on demand.
Nature, as though to reprimand the manners of the Pope, chose to open the heavens to a thunderous, electrical downpour, with colossal winds and hail, drenching the pilgrims in their hundreds of thousands. The message conveyed from Almighty Nature to a defiant representative of God on Earth that she alone owns the power and the might to humble humankind.
The Vatican would have none of it, as is their right, however, insisting that "The storm was a parable of Christian life in which moments of difficulty are overcome by the strength of faith".
One does so, formally, in the presence of other like-minded Christians. And the Holy Roman Catholic Order is the venue to which the faithful should turn. Toward its local chapters, as it were, wherever they exist, world-wide. Those venerable institutions of old whose presence allows strength and endurance and hope to reign in the hearts of men.
Catholic cathedrals are the preeminent place in which to worship God and His only-begotten son. "We cannot follow Jesus on our own. So do not keep Christ to yourselves! Share with others the joy of your faith." This sharing is known as proselytizing. But among like-minded worshippers gathering in traditional, heritage monuments to faith, it represents spiritual communion with the Shepherd, becoming one of the flock.
One is not to take a message from the pontiff's address to the Catholic youth of the world - coming together just outside Madrid to celebrate World Youth Day with Pope Benedict's sermons and benedictions to the faithful - when, before Holy Communion could be accomplished the sacramental wafers had dissolved in the wake of a monumental storm.
A torrential downpour had washed out the Pope's speech in which he explained why traditional marriage and the right to life are the only solutions to humankind's dilemmas of existence. Spain - the venue of this 2011 annual re-visitation of World Youth Day - once the most Catholic of countries, now recognizes same-sex marriage, and supports abortion on demand.
Nature, as though to reprimand the manners of the Pope, chose to open the heavens to a thunderous, electrical downpour, with colossal winds and hail, drenching the pilgrims in their hundreds of thousands. The message conveyed from Almighty Nature to a defiant representative of God on Earth that she alone owns the power and the might to humble humankind.
The Vatican would have none of it, as is their right, however, insisting that "The storm was a parable of Christian life in which moments of difficulty are overcome by the strength of faith".
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