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Text Box: CONTENTS TOPIC/TITLE Page ~ WHY I CONTINUE ~ A little about me and why I do what I do From Metropolitan Archbishop Paul, S.S.B. To the flock entrusted into my care: Occasionally a Priest should explain a little of himself to others, a little of why he does what he does and perhaps something of what he does. I am convinced Jesus Christ is God; that God is the Blessed Trinity; that the Seven Sacraments are real; that only that Priesthood which traces itself in an unbroken line to the Apostles is valid; that Jesus very clearly set forth what He desires of us and why; that the Orthodox Church maintains the true Dogma which is the only valid expression of truth and reality page 1 THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ABSOLUTES IS INTEGRAL TO HAPPINESS Those who acknowledge the existence of absolutes, attempt to live within the parameters of absolutes, and to utilize absolutes and that which is guaranteed by absolutes, increase their opportunities for happiness and

Text Box: their likelihood of being happy. page 1 NOT EVEN A SENSE OF SIN OR SHAME Why is there so much crime? The increase of obstacles those who would be good experience. Saint Peter clearly and straightforwardly admonished the early Christians to refrain from carnal desires which war against the soul. page 1 ABORTION STANCE INDICATES A POLITICIAN’S WORTHINESS - Does your vote say Give us Christ or does it say Give us Barabbas? When a politician who was pro-choice, who favored allowing a woman to kill her unborn child, becomes pro-life, becomes anti-abortion, it indicates the politician at first gave little thought page 1 SALVATION IS NOT A MIRACLE It is not wrought by miracles. It is wrought by the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist Ever since Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God, worked the miracle of the loaves and the fishes the Devil and his followers have been attempting to explain it away as a natural social phenomena and not as a

Text Box: miracle. page 1 VOCATIONS When the subject of vocations is discussed it generally is split into secular and religious areas. Usually a religious vocation indicates one has a calling to the Priesthood or the religious life, and the secular counterpart usually is connected with how on earns a living, or with some special interest. page 1 THE NECESSITY OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY We know the soul is that which keeps the body together, that which gives it life, and that the soul receives its life from God. So too is the true Christian, not Protestants or Charismatics or Evangelicals and especially not Pagans such as Mormons, but true Christians who are practicing members of the one true Church, so too is it that Christians are that which give cohesion and life to the world. page 1 PUBLICATION NOTICE page 2 LETTERS (none) page 2

Text Box: There is no difficulty or problem which can not be resolved or solved without violence by reasonable human beings. Since very few human beings are reasonable, especially and particularly you, very few difficulties or problems are ever resolved, at all.

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