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Recent Posts by Jesse
Nobody is permitted to add, remove or change anything in the Mass!
A few months back I was listening to Dr. David Anders on EWTN radio. A woman called in and said that there had been a reading from the Koran at Mass. She expressed her dismay and asked...Read more
MARRIAGE RESOURCES
My sister is literally trapped in an awful marriage and I fear for her life and the lives of my nieces. Her husband is abusive both physically and emotionally. He gets drunk nearly every night, smokes pot...Read more
Jesse's Thoughts on "The Los Angeles Fire Disasters"
In Catholic theology, God's will is often understood in two distinct aspects: God's Direct Will and God's Permissive Will.
God's Direct Will: This refers to God's active and sovereign will where He...Read more
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Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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Our Lord and Pain
One of life's great scandals is pain, not only in ourselves, but in others. Pain will always be a trouble for the human mind as well as for the human body. How did our Lord look upon pain? When he went into the garden of Gethsemane on Holy Thursday night, there was an alternative presented to him: the alternative of the sword and the cup. Our Blessed Lord had before him, as it were, the cup of all the world's sin, which he would drink to its dregs in order that no other redeemer would be needed. As he abandoned himself to his Father's will, coming down on that moonlit night was a band of about two hundred, led by Judas. Peter took out a sword to defend Jesus. And our Lord said to Peter, 'Put the sword back again into its scabbard. They who take the sword will perish by the sword. Shall I not drink the cup my Father gave?' My Father? Not Pilate, not Herod, not you and me, not the people? Is this the cup the loving Father gives? That's precisely the point. All pains, all trials of life, pass through God's hands first before they ever come to us. Before Satan could strike Job, God reviewed the punishments that Satan would visit upon Job and said, 'You may touch everything except his soul.' And so now our Blessed Lord is saying, 'The pains that we have are seen and known by the Father.' That was the way he looked on pain.