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Text Box: confession and absolution as established by Christ, God; mankind of today can not be excused in its lack of comprehension, or belief in the true God as He has revealed Himself to us. After all, He has revealed Himself to us. At least the the very basics about God are available. The common sense of Aristotle and Plato, of a single entity which is supreme and unchanging, is a requisite of logic. A homogenization of independent supreme beings which once were human but which now control some elemental common force is stupid, but plays to the Gnostic pride of those individuals who claim an intellectual superiority with which they manipulate this elemental force; which is another way of saying they believe they can manipulate God. The lack of comprehension which Saint Thomas and the others exhibited is forgivable, for the full extent of reality had not yet been revealed to them in a comprehensible manner. But it was revealed to them to the extent necessary for their comprehension. They transmitted that revelation to us unchanged. We have it available, and it is proven, while the Gnostic day dreams of those who want to be gods have constantly been debunked and proven false. Do not jump off the mountain and think your are flying. Know your destination, stay on the path, rely on God’s helping hand in the difficult places, and use the tools, the Sacraments, which He has given to us to make the journey possible. If you do these things, then, when your journey is done, your soul will fly to God’s Divine Love so quickly you will be there and not even know you have flown. Ref: 1 John 5:4-10; John 20:19-31 +

Text Box: THE MOUNTAIN OF MORALITY During the forty days after His resurrection, we know that Jesus was with His Apostles and Disciples some of the time. We know He clarified some matters for them, and explained salvation and the assistance Christians would receive from God the Holy Spirit. His Apostles and Disciples, and His family and friends, prayed, discussed salvation and the teachings of Christ, began organizing themselves, and prepared to begin public proclamation of The Way taught by Christ God, of the Gospel. But they also continued with their lives. If one was a fisherman, he fished; a farmer, he farmed; a carpenter, he built; a tax collector, he assessed and collected taxes and transmitted the proper revenues; a merchant, he bought, sold, and transported; a government official, he governed. But they engaged in their occupations in a manner different from the manner in which they were accustomed. If they were already honest and diligent, they were more honest and more diligent, if that were possible. But more than that, they were cognizant (aware) of the greater purpose of life, and they lived their lives with that greater purpose in mind. No longer was life something just to be endured, or just to be enjoyed as much as possible. Life became the process to eternal joy and happiness, or eternal tortured misery and unhappiness. Before He ascended Jesus told his followers that when He left He would prepare a place for them. Of exactly what He would prepare in Heaven we have no concept; but we know what He would prepare on Earth. On Earth He would prepare His followers to enter into His Heavenly kingdom. They were not then ready to enter, but as their lives progressed they would be ready to enter. So too is it with us.

Text Box: There is an expression: Life is what you make it. It is true. Life actually is what you make it. Whether it be eternal union with God, or eternal damnation, your life will be what you make it. The fact that Jesus has prepared a place for you in Heaven does not necessarily mean you will occupy that place in Heaven. Whether or not you occupy that place in Heaven is up to you - for there is also a place for you in Hell if you prepare that place for yourself. The world in in a terrible condition. Why? Because Christ reigned in our world when people prayed to Him. He reigned throughout the world from around the three hundreds or four hundreds, generally from the time of the First Council of Nicea when the Church became unified in celebrating Pascha, thence for a thousand years, until around the fifteenth century, the mid fourteen hundreds, when efforts for reunification of the Church - which was split by Rome’s schism - were lost by the betrayal of Constantinople by Rome. Without Christianity united, Christianity fragmented even more, so that the leader of fragmentation, Rome, fragmented continually, giving rise to thousands of false religions which call themselves Christian but which are not. Without a unified Church there was no unified establishment supporting the morality established by God. Each individual under Rome and those who schismed from Rome had to, and still has to, struggle against the erosion of morals caused by the constant attacks of Satan. It is as though the Dragon of the Apocalypse were spewing forth water from his mouth and directing it against the mountain of morality, slowly eroding it, because there are fewer and fewer troops of the Roman Church on the Western side to defend it. In the East the troops of the Orthodox Church remain stronger than those of the West. But since great damage is being done on the Western slope of morality, eventually the erosion may undermine the Eastern side, unless we can spread

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