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Text Box: The Blessed Ever Virgin Mary was not simply chosen by God the Father to be the mother of His only Begotten Son Incarnate - Jesus Christ God. She was and eternally is the only one, the only creature ever, to be perfect in holiness from the instant of her conception and forever thereafter. While it is not likely any of us will ever attain that state in this life, we should exercise at the very least a modicum of common sense, especially in rearing our children. It is impossible to imagine the Virgin Mary saying, “I will not bring Jesus up in any religion but will allow His to chose what ever religion He wishes when He decides He wants to practice some religion.” No, she and Saint Joseph taught Him the Jewish faith under Abraham and Moses and saw to it that He practiced that religion, even though they knew He is the object and promise of that religion. Anyone with any operative level of logic or common sense will recognize the practice of rearing a child without a good religious foundation will insure the child is without religion and will associate with some religion only through happenstance and struggle. Parents who exhibit and practice care and concern for their children and the well-being of their children might have children who reject religious standards in the children’s own lives. But parents who do not exhibit or practice care and concern for their own children, who live lives without religion and therefore without honor, teach their children to live lives without honor, lives without concern for others. That lesson is all too easily learned. That old man did the best he knew how to do in rearing his children. That his daughter became such a dishonorable parent was not due to a lack on his part, but on decisions the daughter made exercising her own free will. But to be Roman Catholic and rear at least two children who in the mid twenty years of life do not know how to pray the Lord’s Prayer - the Our Father -, the “Hail

Text Box: Mary”, or the “Glory Be to the Father”, is beyond dishonorable, beyond unimaginable, beyond unconscionable. Yet it is very common. The next time a parent states they will allow their child to choose his or her own religion realize you are listening to someone who is at best stupid, at worst without honor, and who has no concern for you, society, their children, family, and ultimately not even for themselves. And that they are dangerous, their children probably will be dangerous, and that you can trust neither them nor their children. For religion is that which establishes standards. And the Queen of Heaven is a very good standard which we will be well served to attempt to meet. Ref: Ecclus. 24:5,7; Luke 1:26-33 +

Text Box: Perhaps there is an aspect of God’s justice which, in a sense, triggers His being merciful to each individual to whom He grants the grace necessary to follow Him. Perhaps in His omnipotent and infallible knowledge of each person, He is merciful to those who He, in His omnipotent knowledge, knows will accept and use the grace to follow Him, and in that same omnipotent knowledge, He, in perfect justice, withholds that same grace from those whom He knows will reject that grace. This is such an imperfect speculation as to barely be worthy of being expressed, but it does lead to something of great importance. That thing of great importance is, that while it is impossible for someone to attain eternal life unless God in His mercy gives a person the grace necessary to follow Him, it also is true that not everyone to whom God mercifully gives the grace to follow Him does so, or does so with the fidelity needed to attain eternal life. We must pursue God with the fidelity required to receive eternal life. Our inclination so to do will increase as our knowledge and understanding of God increase. In-so-far-as a creature can be said to have knowledge and understanding of God, as our knowledge and understanding of God increases so to does the probability or likelihood that we will begin to love God for His own sake, and that our love for God will likewise increase. It is in our love for God that we begin to mature the desire to live in accordance with God’s desires, that we desire to think and live in accordance with the Divine Virtue of Faith which is a gift from God. We thus begin to spiritually mature so that we desire and attempt to think and act in accordance with Faith - to operate divinely - not just out of fear of eternal damnation, but because we increasingly love God. As our love for God increases, fear of eternal damnation becomes less and less of the reason we seek to operate divinely and more and more that love for God becomes the

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