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Text Box: temporary satisfaction of a material desire. In each of these situations the lack of spiritual life made the temporal life not a happy one for there was nothing for which to look forward. The desire was satiated. But when the desire is God, that desire can only be satisfied in the life we will experience after this life - unless we attain a level of holiness only known to have been attained by one person; by the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary. The Blessed Ever Virgin Mary is also the perfect example of perfect happiness in holiness even though sadness is experienced because of sin - the sin of others. She is perfection of holiness, and therefore is perfectly happy, but she experienced sadness even to sorrow at the sufferings and death of her Son, and continues to experience it at our sins. We do have the ability to attain that level of holiness. The greater our determination to be happy and the more intensely we pursue true happiness the greater and more intense will be our realization that happiness is found in loving God and each other as God loves us. Logically we will then seek to attain, possess, live, and make this love our essence. As our success in this endeavor increases so too will our holiness and thereby our happiness, and for such persons sadness is so insignificant as to be at most a transitory factor. Ecclus. 24:5,7; 9-11, 30-31; Luke 1:26-33 +

Text Box: taking that which is necessary for the continuation of life and attempting to extend it into ever increasing excesses. The soul restrains the body and in that restraint the body continues in life. Without that restraint the body would quickly die because of its excesses. So too does the world kill itself as it represses true Christianity, as does the world gain strength and vitality of life when it is guided by true Christianity. Unfortunately, as shown by history, just because someone is called a Christian does not mean he is a Christian, and the world has often been governed by people who were considered Christians but who did not really practice Christianity. During these periods there has been weakening of the vitality of the world, and chaos and darkness have inundated mankind. But when the world has been guided by true practicing Christians, the world has been like a well seeded and tended properly irrigated field. Just as the soul encourages the body to meet its needs without engaging in excesses, and restrains the body from its desires to engage in excesses, so too must the true Christian encourage the world to meet its needs without engaging in excesses. The soul must protect itself from the body’s desire for excesses otherwise the body will overwhelm the soul. The bodily excesses will deprive the soul of its heavenly nourishment thus killing the soul and the entire person will die in darkness. So too must the Christian preserve himself otherwise the excesses of the world will overwhelm the Christian turning him into what the world seeks to be, and thus the Christian will become as corrupt as the world seeks to become and all will die in spiritual darkness.

Text Box: When the Christian maintains his Christianity he not only saves his own soul from spiritual death, and saves his body from death through corruption. He saves his complete person from eternal death and accepts eternal life from God. In his practice of Christianity he gives testimony to the world simply by his example, and that testimony is so strong it can not be denied by the world. But the world will deny that testimony just as the body will fight against the guidance of the soul, for the world desires to engage in the excesses which will cause its death just as the body desires to engage in the excesses which will cause its death. It is in the nature of the body to desire these excesses for the excesses are born in that which are necessities. So too is it in the nature of the world to desire its excesses for its excesses are born in that which are necessities. The body and the world share a lack of comprehension as to the extent of the deadly nature and impact of engaging in the necessities to the point of excess, and only perceive the enjoyment they receive in engaging in excess. They may perceive the damage brought by the excesses, but act as though the imbalances brought about by excesses will self correct or that they are of no significance. They will not and they are. If God had desired mankind to be mortal and not have eternal life we can confidently state He would not have made mankind immortal - meaning every human beings once created will exist for all eternity. He would have made mankind mortal, meaning that though each individual was created, when it dies nothing continues and all of that person is dead never to see or be seen again.

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