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Text Box: MOSLEMS? (Edited reprint of an article which was first published in the December, 2001, issue of REUNION, Vol. 11, No. 10) To learn about a people, learn about their religion. To know a religion one must examine its writings, its dogma. So, briefly, of course: What does Islam teach, what does the Koran teach? . . . Koran XLVII (47) [47.4] “When ye encounter the infidels, strike off their heads till ye have made a great slaughter among them, and of the rest make fast the fetters.” page 9 CHILDREN’S PAGE The Orthodox - Basilian Catechism Q. 1341. What should one do who doubts whether or not he is obliged to fast? - Q. 1370. Why does the Church dislike mixed marriages? page 10 THE SACRIFICE WAS ACCEPTED BECAUSE OF THE CHARITY (Divine Love) WHICH INSPIRED IT Of equal importance that we comprehend the reality that we must accept, work with, and think and act in accordance with the redemption and salvation made available to us by the teachings, passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ is that Jesus makes redemption and salvation available to us because His sacrifice is pleasing to God, but that God accepts the sacrifice only by virtue of the Charity which inspires it. . . . It is virtually impossible for those who have even a slight measure of a sense of moral values to comprehend a totality of commitment to evil, and it is therefore difficult for most people to accept there are innumerable individuals who have made a total commitment to evil, to total evil. page 14 THE CHURCH IS ONE FLOCK, AND SHOULD ACT LIKE IT It seems as though there are a multitude of flocks which claim Jesus as their shepherd. Jesus made it very clear there is but one fold, one flock. There therefore is but one flock, one fold, of which Jesus is the shepherd. Jesus also made it very clear there are other sheep which He desires to bring into the fold,

Text Box: page 15 FAITH IS LOGICAL Failure to believe in God, in one, supreme, not created, eternal, never changing, self-existing, good, entity, which created everything else, and which has other characteristics and attributes too numerous to readily enumerate, is illogical, as is failure to have Faith in God - Faith in its simplest being acting and living in accordance with the standards established by God. These are very sweeping statements, but they are accurate and they are true. page 16 ONLY IF WE FOLLOW CHRIST WILL WE ASCEND Those who do not do, don’t. When Our Lord ascended into heaven He not only physically and spiritually ascended, but also gave a real, realistic, tangible example of what instantaneously occurs to the faithful at the end of their time in this world. . . . There was a man named Dominick who lived bed-bound for many years with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS). Before the illness made its presence known to him, he was a successful driving force in the business world. After the diagnosis he rapidly became incapacitated. And after his incapacitation he did more to live and thereby to teach the Peace of Christ through his restricted life than he had during all of his healthy life. He did more than most healthy people do. And he did it by simply being nice. page 17 LORD JESUS, MAY WE, YOU AND I, MAKE ME WHOLLY THINE Towards the end of the liturgy of the Stations or Way of The Cross, a prayer states: “Let not Thy bitter agony and death be fruitless in my soul, but may they make me wholly Thine.” page 18 THE SALVATION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL IS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE UNION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL IN THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST whereby each individual fully participates in the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Christ attaining the deification available to a creature. It is sufficient

Text Box: for us to know that Christ made salvation available to us and that we may accept it or reject it through either acting Divinely or failure so-to-do. But the reality is much deeper. The greater our comprehension and understanding of that reality the greater our ability to persevere in doing that which is necessary for us to operate Divinely. page 19 STRIVING TO BE LIKE THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN Jesus Christ, God, retained His divinity and took on full human nature. He offered the perfect Sacrifice, Himself, to God. Since He is perfect, and His Sacrifice is perfect, neither He nor any of us have any need to offer additional sacrifice for our salvation ever again. But that is not the end of the relationship between God and mankind. The Ever Virgin Mother of Jesus Christ God, Queen of Heaven, Bearer of God (Theotokos), Mary Most Holy, shows us that there is much more to the relationship between God and each human being. Not only can we rely on salvation having been wrought by the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ; we must rely on it. But for it to be effectuate for an individual that individual must follow the example of our Mother Mary the Mother of Christ God. page 20 THE MIRACLE OF DAMASCUS page 21 THE CHURCH HISTORY OF EUSEBIUS BOOK II. (Continued) CHAPTER X. page 27 CONTENTS page 32 +

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