PRIESTS MUST WEAR THEIR PRIESTHOOD

PRIESTS MUST WEAR THEIR PRIESTHOOD

"Wear the talk."

Have you heard the term, “wear the talk?” If not, I’ll tell you.

If we have the term “walk the talk” which may mean “act on what is said”, then I have my version too which is “wear the talk” or “wear what is said.”

Students of any schools or universities have their Identification cards on their neck and in addition to this; some of them are required to wear official uniforms said by the school to wear by them. Even the soldiers or constabularies have their own respective and robust uniforms. These people I mention do wear and unwear their Identification cards or uniforms when the students are not in their school premises and even soldiers and police officers unwear their uniforms when they are out of duty.

The term “I wear the talk” is acted on by these people I mentioned. If Mary Hao is a police officer and it is said that I am so, then I will wear what a police officer must wear. If I am a police officer who is a man of the law, then I will wear my suit which is according to the law for I am a police officer who is a man of the law.

Now, let’s talk about our priests. They are religious men. Whether they are secular or diocesan, or a member of a religious Order, they must have their own uniforms or Identification suits. These men I mentioned are men of no other than Jesus Christ our Lord and God. And in the sacred scriptures, it is written that, “You are a priest forever.” If these unidentified priests are priests forever, why is it that they cannot be recognized as a person of eternity? Why these priests do not wear the talk that was made clear in the sacred scriptures? If they are priest forever, is not it better to wear the priests must wear even in eternity? For it is a disgrace not to be identified as a man of God. It is a shame that a man or an agent of God cannot do better about his eternal priesthood. The priest’s suit, whether of a diocesan or a religious man of an Order, must be worn forever, for they are priests forever. These agents of God must wear the talk at all times. If ever they will say that they do not wear it or they take their suits off because they must be humble in wearing their priesthood in the eyes of the world, then I will say that that is one of the stupidest reasons I will hear in my whole life! For everyone must be humble what he/she wears.

I exhort our priests to wear the talk. For these priests are a shame in the eyes of our nuns and religious sisters who wear the talk. These women of God do better. How about our priests? These women of God wear their suits, as I witnessed it, at all times and every time I see them. But I want to take my eyes off when I see a man of God who is not wearing the talk. It’s a shame. It’s a disgrace. Soldiers and constabularies wear the talk, how about you, men of God? All of you are priests forever, right? Why not put on with humility your respective suits that you will wear forever?

My dear priests, do better!

And, you my dear priests are the ones who offer sacrifices as what a priest is defined. Now, to wear your suits forever is your sacrifice forever.

Your loving, tall frater,

Mary H. Distributist

LIVING UNMARRIED CHASTITY: THE HARD PURE WAY

LIVING UNMARRIED CHASTITY: THE HARD PURE WAY

Chastity from Latin castus meaning clean, pure, mild

I did not know before that chastity also pertains to the purity of thinking against impure thoughts aside from sexual ones or thoughts that will effect sexual excitement. What I knew before was chastity is purity of mind and body against sexual excitements which are sinful. Now, thank God, I know that chastity also is purity of thinking against negative or bad thoughts and purity of speech.

But because I am in my way of living a life of unmarried chastity, I think unmarried chastity must be understood first.

Unmarried chastity is a calling from God not to dream nor desire married life in order for a person to become in full service for God alone, living in love of God and of neighbor, especially serving and loving all people for the service and love a person gives for God. Unmarried chastity is a challenge of God to anyone who will devote themselves fully for the sake of the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:11-12) and a “special” grace directly came from God in order for a person to see all people with love and mercy which is the love and mercy God has towards all people, making this person a shepherd for all the sheep, whom God loves (Matthew 9:35-38). Practically speaking, unmarried chastity is as if a person is an angel, and because he is like an angel, he must forever live as if he has no sexual organs and has no material body. Unmarried chastity is living an angel-like life. We who lives this life do not burden ourselves with the problems of the world but we are the solution – givers, flying like an angel to attend to all people especially in their needs that must be attended by us – and that is our burden – to become like angels in love and in life serving people whom God loves.

That is really hard. See this. A husband loves his wife and vice versa. While we who lives an unmarried chastity life will become “husband” to all people which we will treat as our “wife!” And we are not sure if our “wife” will love us back! But we do not worry for God’s love will be our “wife” and, God’s love will turn these people to love us “husband” as God wills, and as we pray. It is also hard for our sexual organs are just for urinating and poop-ing. And an exception for women, no baby can gain even a drop of milk out of women’s breasts (because they are virgins). See? To live a life of unmarried chastity is really hard. But this pureness of life that we live is worth it.

As for me, unmarried chastity is really hard but liveable. I do not have “crushes”. The battle is in the imagination. I cannot imagine myself having sweet contacts with women in my mind for it will damage my unmarried purity. I cannot imagine being in company of women either. If these imaginations enter my mind, I eliminate them out and I fight by imagining heavenly matters. Now I believe unmarried chastity will always be attainable.

The love of God is what gives us the balance to live as we will not have husband or wife to love. The love of God is our husband or wife.

And for those who have a husband or a wife now, live a married chaste life.

For those who live an impure life, there is always a life of purity for you to live.

Live a chaste life my friends!

Mary H. Distributist

MY INSIGHT ABOUT LITURGY

I understand that our Lord said, "Do this in remembrance of me." And He never said, "Do this in remembrance of us." So what's with so many rubbish in the liturgy?

ARE YOU SERVING GOD OR JUST DOING A JOB? FIND OUT HERE!

[I saw this posted in a wall of the choir loft of a Church. I consider this as a gift. Priceless.]

MINISTRY OR JOB

SOME PEOPLE HAVE A JOB IN THE CHURCH

OTHERS INVITE THEMSELVES IN A MINISTRY

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

IF YOU ARE DOING IT BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL, IT’S A JOB;

IF YOU ARE DOING IT TO SERVE THE LORD, IT’S A MINISTRY

IF YOU QUIT BECAUSE SOMEBODY CRITICIZE YOU, IT’S A JOB;

IF YOU KEEP ON SERVING, IT’S A MINISTRY

IF YOU’LL DO IT ONLY AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH YOUR OTHER ACTIVITIES, IT’S A JOB;

IF YOU ARE COMMITTED STAYING WITH IT EVEN IF IT MEANS LETTING GO OF OTHER THINGS, IT’S A MINISTRY

IF YOU QUIT BECAUSE NO ONE PRAISED YOU OR THANKED YOU, IT’S A JOB;

IF YOU STAYED WITH IT EVEN THOUGH NOBODY RECOGNIZED YOUR EFFORTS, IT’S A MINISTRY

IT’S HARD TO GET EXCITED ABOUT A JOB

IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO BE EXCITED ABOUT A MINISTRY

IF YOUR CONCERN IS SUCCESS, IT’S A JOB;

IF YOUR CONCERN IS FAITHFULNESS, IT’S A MINISTRY

AN AVERAGE CHURCH IS FILLED WITH PEOPLE DOING JOBS.

A GREAT AND GROWING CHURCH IS FILLED WITH PEOPLE INVOLVED IN MINISTRY

WHERE DO YOU FIT IN? WHAT ABOUT US?

IF GOD CALLS YOU TO A MINISTRY, DON’T TREAT IT LIKE A JOB.

GOD DOESN'T MAKE US FEEL STUCK WITH A JOB,

BUT EXCITED AND FAITHFUL TO THE LORD IN A MINISTRY.

INSIGHTS ON THE NEVER-DYING, EVER LIVING IMMACULATE CONCEPTION!

Immaculate Conception from the very beginning

Chaire, kecharitomene, ho kyrios meta sou...

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum...

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you...

I just thought of this: If the holy name of God "Jesus" means, "Yahweh saves" or "God saves", and this Son of the Most High is the Eternal Wisdom of God, would not it be nice to save your to-be human mother Mary from any stain of original sin? If God in His Eternal Wisdom thought that this to-be mother of Him is a human being, for sure in the Old Testament, I am very sure that In God's words, God really saved the Blessed Virgin Mary from original sin from the very beginning of her conception in St. Anne's womb. For if the idea of God of course occur in His Eternal Wisdom that will be the Incarnate Wisdom, this to-be mother of the Incarnate Wisdom must, right from the start of her conception, be saved from the touch of original sin. Why God must do that? Because "God could do it, it was appropriate, therefore He did it." Not only she saved His to-be mother from the touch of original sin, God's salvation came to her from His Eternal Wisdom that eternally thought Her, from the very beginning, from the very beginning of all existing created things. If she, Mary, is the full of grace, is not it the one who made her full of grace is God alone and from the very beginning of all existing created things Mary was made full of grace in the Eternal Wisdom of God right from the very beginning of all things? Therefore, Mary is the most brilliant created thing that ever existed. Not the angels. Nor us humans. Nor even galaxies. Nor even this earth. It is Mary alone. It is Mary, from the very beginning. Although Mary is not God, she already existed, even in God's Eternal Wisdom. How special Mary is!

"Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.

"Jesus, I trust in You" "O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee"

"St. Dominic encountered heretics on his way to France. In his opinion was that the people were not to blame - the preachers were. If there are good, orthodox preachers, then the people will be good and orthodox also. So, he founded the Ordo Praedicatorum - Order of the Preachers...."


Mary H. Distributist

THE ADVENT OF APOLOGETICS MINISTRY

I realized that doing Apologetics is really a hard job. Not because you must learn your faith as much as you can, but because you are catering souls that do not understand what the faith really is. I am very grateful to hear from Sir Edgardo "Chief" de Vera, the founding director of Defensores Fidei Foundation, that when you do Apologetics, you must have empathy towards the other person you dialogue with about faith, and you must know the beginning of him/her why and how he/she arrived at such a decision or conclusion like say, for example, that he/she has an argument that the Catholicism is a false religion. In Sir Chief's brilliant words, an insight came to me while meditating on what he said. I thought about the first chapter of the Holy Gospel of St. John where he started by the words, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God..." It became crystal clear to me that what Sir Chief said makes sense for even God wants Himself to be clear in us so that we might understand who and what God really is from the beginning in order to go through His mysterious person as God; same as we must do when we do Apologetics with our "straying" brethren.    

It is very fitting that the concluding ceremony we had for today happened on the time of Advent. Why I say so? For it is very fitting on this season that we meditate upon the reality that we exist because we must arrive and share and proclaim our faith to others. We must not too focus on the Advent or the arrival of the Lord but on the Lord who will arrive to us and for us and on this Advent season, we are called to have our Advents on the people around us, we must arrive at them for we have the Lord in us by the burning hope and love we have for God.

Apologetics is also part of the beginning of Christianity not just what I first thought that only exorcisms of the ancient times gave excitement to those pagans to be baptized when they saw how powerful the God of Christians is when the name of God was invoked to cast out those demons that the pagans thought and worshiped as gods. Apologetics rooted on the person who knew God and about God and defends God when He and about Him are questioned in the open. Apologetics is not just an emphasis on defending what you believe for you defense is already an offense. It is not a gesture of cowardice but a bold gesture of bravery for you do mighty deed for the greater glory of God.

Last but not the least; Apologetics must be done in charity or love and out of love. Not that false love that you compromise what you want to say on defending what you hope for where you let your neighbor live in error for both of you cannot arrive on the Truth which is the conclusion of all, but the love that sees what your straying neighbor wants, an understanding and compassion that he/she needs to enjoy the gift of the Kingdom of heaven here on this earth. Apologetics must be done out of love in order to purify also yourself from doing Apologetics where you believe that your straying neighbor just needs a solid knocking on his/her head, and on doing so you are in a false fire of devotion to the faith. We must be always on guard against impure intentions of ours when doing this great ministry of Apologetics. Again, it must be done in love and out of love for our neighbor whom we must love just as we love ourselves.

To my colleagues in this ministry of Apologetics, may God let Himself be our garment for action in working for Him for His glory and for His Kingdom.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!

Mary H. Distributist

MY BROTHER ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE DIVINE MERCY

I became delighted to see this photo. It dawned on me that St. Thomas Aquinas and the rest of the saints who were preachers of the Divine Mercy of God before St. Maria Faustina Kowalska was born and who is the Apostle of the Divine Mercy herself were all one in harmony when it comes to the Divine Mercy. It is very fitting of course to share these words of Holy Father St. Benedict, "Never doubt God's mercy!" You know ladies and gentlemen, I have an uncured sickness in myself where I condemn those people who committed suicide or died in a mortal sin like Philippine National Police Ex-Chief Angelo Reyes. I am imagining of how is their soul now? Where? Was it now in purgatory? Or hell? But the Lord Jesus Christ's words shut me up for He said, "pray for the living and the dead." That's why in my stupidity, foolishness, roughness, and hardness, I always become dumb meditating on this words of God. Of course, Jesus Christ knows that we cannot know whether a soul is in purgatory or hell that's why He is motioning us in His words that we must not presume, nor condemn, nor judge any person who passed away. That's why Jesus Christ also wants us to pray for them and God's Mercy is incomprehensible and indescribable. St. Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney's words when he was asked about a person who committed suicide, he replied, "Between the bridge and the river, he repented and was forgiven." I pray that I will totally cured from this sneeze-like sickness of mine.

Go and set the world on fire!

Mary H. Distributist

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MY CONSOLATION AND INSPIRATION WHY I AM A CATHOLIC

St. Nicholas Day is fast approaching. The reason I love this saint is not merely because he punched Arius in the face, but because he was consumed with so much love and so much zeal that he could not abide the blasphemy uttered against the object of his love: Our Lord. The other bishops, barely affected by Arius's blasphemy, grew indignant at St. Nicholas's momentary anger and threw him in jail, stripping him of the signs of his bishopric. When Our Lord and Our Lady appeared to St. Nicholas later and asked him why he was there, do you know how he answered? He said: "Because I love you, Lord--because I love you." They handed him back his pallium and Gospel, restoring him to the rank of bishop.

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MY BIG BANG - LIKE THEORY ON AD ORIENTEM AND VERSUS POPULUM

My Theory on Ad Orientem and Versus Populum

It dawned on me that Ad Populum or where the priest is celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass facing the people is really a compromised, degrading, and shameful act of adoration and worship towards God. As I see it, it seems to me, that the style of Ad Populum or Versus Populum is like a darkened consciousness of people who thinks that the priest who celebrates the Holy Mass and themselves must have a tangible fellowship where the priest is facing and the people must have an active physical participation in the Mass, where it is always thought that Jesus Christ is inside the tabernacle (that’s why it must be Ad Orientem), Jesus Christ is acting invisibly in the person of the one who celebrates the Mass (again, that’s why it must be Ad Orientem), Jesus Christ will be present in the Liturgy of the Eucharist (again and again, that’s why it must be Ad Orientem. Where is the Real Presence of God before the Liturgy of the Eucharist? In the tabernacle), and too many to mention right but lax arguments that support their positions regarding the Ad Populum which they like to be done in the Mass. It is very saddening and a horror for me for I meditated on this that the Ad Populum is a product of fear and the decline of the people who were attending Mass. So, in that case, the adoration and worship must be done where the adoration and worship guide which is the priest must face the people like what Protestants and other religions do when they do their adoration and worship to God (Is not it funny? We adore and worship God like Protestants does who was no difference from the Gentiles?). The Ad Populum is therefore an adaptation of style of adoration and worship of the Protestants where there is a sharing and conversational relationship where there is an intimate bond between the worship leader or speaker and the people or the listeners.

What’s the great difference between Ad Orientem and Ad Populum?

1 Ad Orientem is facing the sole or only person of adoration and worship which is God while Ad Populum is confusion as if the priest is Jesus Christ or God even if he is just acting in the person of Christ or in persona Christi.

2. Ad Orientem is a desired style of God when He is adored and worshipped in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass while Ad Populum is a style hated by Jesus Christ for He is the leader and the priest is just a guide of the people toward Jesus Christ but it was gone the other way around where the priest becomes the leader of the people and Jesus Christ is nothing.

3. Ad Orientem is all-eyes and all being towards God while Ad Populum is where the priest is treated like a star and showbiz personality.

4. Ad Orientem is sole and only God-worship while Ad Populum is a Protestant-like worship who worships God with their mouths but their hearts are far from the Lord.

5. Ad Orientem is a solid adoration and worship towards Jesus Christ in His Real Presence in the Sacred Hosts inside the tabernacle while Ad Populum doubts the God who is inside the tabernacle.

6. Ad Orientem is God-centered while Ad Populum is self-centered; consciousness arises on both the priest and the people about each other between them thus compromising the only person of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass which is God.

7. Ad Orientem is really a sacrifice of all who face God, and the priest is the one who guides the people towards Jesus Christ who leads the Sacrifice, sacrificing Himself to the Father, acting in the person of the priest. Ad Populum is also a sacrifice, but the sacrifice and the person who will be sacrificed is not the only object why we have the Liturgy of the Eucharist as it must be, but also the priest who is facing the people which is kinda “epal” or there is a constant without-facing-the tabernacle frontal bodily appearance of the priest which is totally unnecessary for it degrades and compromises the function of a priest which is to offer sacrifice. For whom? For God. Where is God? In the tabernacle. So what must we do? OF COURSE AD ORIENTEM!

Just my two cents worth ladies and gentlemen,

Mary H. Distributist

Go and set the world on fire!

To the greater glory of God!

My Little View on Evangelii Gaudium

Here is the link to the Apostolic Exhortation of Pontifex Maximus Holy Papa Franciscus I  -

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html

It must be emphasized that sense of the sacred brings much joy to all for God is happy to share His happiness to us, which we call joy, for sense of the sacred is pleasing to God. In everything that we do, we must let the Holy Spirit to live and act in us for if we have Him, we can be assured that we are in joy - we are in happiness with God. In all that we do, we must check whether the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit can be examined and be seen by us, for if not, then something is wrong with us. So, it is by letting God to live and act in us and not us in ourselves that we will live in joy and love, our love will become like the Love of God. - Mary H. Distributist

The True Church of Christ is Revealed!

ANSWER ME : Tell me when is your Church existed - trace it from Jerusalem up to your place where your Church is standing right now. If you cannot answer how the Church of yours reached you from Jerusalem where it was first established, then, you are not the true Church that Christ established. It is better if you damn your false Church once you found the point:D Come home. Come home to the Church of the Lord our God! - Mary H. Distributist