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Saint Thomas became, at that instant in time, part of the only holy temple, the temple which is in the Lord and of which the Lord is the cornerstone. He became part of the foundation of that temple of which the Messiah is the cornerstone - that very same temple which is the Church of which you and I are a part.

And we are a part of that Church, the very Body of Christ, because we accept our role as servants, as creatures, of those who neither control nor are controlled, as persons who voluntarily follow Christ’s teachings, who seek not temporary reward in this temporary world but permanent reward in the permanent world to come.

Those who seek their own goals: who pursue homosexual acts and beastiality and who make excuses for such sins and actually promote such sins as being natural and good; who seek money and worldly pleasure things and their own temporal gain, and especially those who so do in the name of God; those who pursue power and especially those who abuse that power which has been loaned to them by God; who call themselves members of the True Church and then promote killing unborn children; and those who abuse the trust placed in them and harm little children; those who steal from those who would follow Christ by promising miracles if the follower just offers enough money for the use of the false servant; and those who believe they can manipulate God, who believe they can control Him, who seek the things of this world and believe they can get them by manipulating God; these are the ones who worship the false idols they have made in place of the real God and they are not part of the True Church.

The true Christian, the true follower of Christ, is just that, a follower of Christ. He is not a leader of his own religion, but a follower of that one religion established by God - not of one established by some man or woman of group of people. He does not care what the world says is permissible, but only Text Box: cares about what God says is permissible. He does not care about what the world says is forbidden or sinful, but only cares about what God has said is forbidden or sinful. And he knows that what God has said is good and what God has said is bad, never changes: that what God has said is bad, was, is, and always will be bad, and that nothing else is bad; that what God has said is good, was, is, and always will be good, and that nothing else is good.

Remember these things as you contemplate these words of Our Lord: “Unless you eat My flesh and drink My blood you shall not have life in you.” Then ask your self where you can obtain His Flesh and Blood, and you will realize the answer is, only in this the True Church.

Join Saint Thomas in acknowledging the Messiah, and join Saint Thomas in accepting Him as He Is and in following Him as He has stated He is to be followed. Then your concerns about your failures and about the opinion the world has of you will all be of no significance, for the only failures which will be of concern to you will be those which disappoint God, and He will assist you in putting those failures behind you. And the only opinion which will concern you will be God’s opinion of you, and He will assist you so that you will make God proud of you.

Ref: Eph. 2:19-22; John 20:24-29

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Text Box: THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH IN US ALL

Before the creation of anything there was God, whole and complete in and of Himself; the Trinity of three Persons yet One; the One God. There was no time, no darkness, no light, no matter, no energy, no material things, nothing visible, and nothing invisible - only God, The Trinity of Three Persons yet only one God. God willed His Son to be manifested - we can not say “Then God willed His Son to be manifested,” for there was not yet time, it had not yet been created; the concept of time had not yet been implanted in the minds of creatures for there were no creatures, only God. And God created the spiritual and the physical world through His Son.

God created the Angels to be timeless, to exist in a manner almost like being in the eternal now which is of God. To some extent, but we do not know to what extent, God revealed to the Angels that mankind would sin and become separated from God, and that the Son of God would become man yet remain completely God. Perhaps, but only perhaps, we do not know for certain, perhaps it was because of this that Lucifer, the most magnificent of the Angels, fell from grace. Again, perhaps, but only perhaps, Lucifer refused to worship the Son of God made Man. Perhaps Lucifer was the one who was to speak those most desired words to the Ever Virgin Mary, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” (Luke 1:28), and he refused, for these words would acknowledge the Ever Virgin Mary is greater than he, Lucifer. In his pride, in his refusal to accept the ordering of things by God, Lucifer fell from grace and became Satan, the father of all evil.

But those words were spoken; spoken by the angel Gabriel in accordance with God’s will.  When Gabriel asked Mary in the words given to him by God, to be the Mother of the Son of the Most High, to be the source of Christ’s human nature, the whole of creation, even the devils, and especially the Text Box: