Walking in the Footsteps

Walking in the Footsteps
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, November 13, 2010

You can’t go wrong walking in the footsteps of either Popes John Paul II or Benedict XVI. Particularly in matters pertaining to life, family and marriage there is wisdom. Let’s check out other wisdom just during this past week in Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s book, “Co-Workers of the Truth” Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Ignatius Press, 1992.

“The very existence of heaven depends on the fact that Jesus Christ, as God, is man and has given human existence a place in the existence of God himself (cf. Rahner, Shriften II, p. 221). One is in heaven and to the degree one is in Christ, where one finds the true location of one’s existence as a human being in the existence of God himself. Heaven is, then, primarily a personal reality. It remains forever stamped by the historical origin in the Easter mystery of death and Resurrection.” Nov. 5th

“Humanity needs eternity; every other hope is too short for it. And it is not true that eternity robs humanity of time, impoverishes it, and makes it unimportant. On the contrary, only eternity can give man time. If a person’s death is worthless, then his life is worthless too… A psychologist pointed out … that the embezzled heaven is the crucial sickness of earth: because people forget heaven, the earth becomes empty and men become ill. If we promise paradise to later generations but only nothingness, only death, to each individual, then we have promised nothing to anyone… A present that is only present and has no future has no hope. The nothingness that follows it also pollutes the present and makes it unbearable. Only eternity can unite present and future… Those who have talked us out of our belief in heaven, or would like to talk us out of it, have not given us the earth in exchange but have made it desolate … have covered it with darkness. We must find once more the courage to believe in eternal life with all our heart. Then we shall have the courage to love the earth and to work at building its future. Let us dare to believe once more in eternal life, to live for eternal life. We shall see how life automatically becomes richer, greater, more free & less cramped.” Nov. 10

“Catechesis must return to being not one opinion among others, but a certainty that draws on the faith of the Church, the contents … exceed the common view… the concept of “eternal life” is scarcely mentioned in a relatively large part of modern catechesis … only in reference of how to postpone its arrival or how to lessen its accompanying circumstances. Since many Christians, moreover, have lost their eschatological sense, death is surrounded by silence, by anxiety, or by an attempt to relegate it to the ranks of the trivial. For centuries, the Church has taught us to pray that death will not take us by surprise, that we will be given time to prepare for it; now a sudden death is looked upon as a blessing. But not to accept and respect death is not to accept and respect life itself.” Nov.12th

GEORGE H. KUBECK,

AS ONE TRIES TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ABOVE TWO POPES PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING:

WHY DID LORETTA SANCHEZ WIN IN THE 47TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT? SPECIFICALLY, WHY DID THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN-JUDEO VALUES OF LIFE, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LOSE? PLEASE RESPOND EITHER ANONYMOUSLY IF YOU WISH, OR WITH YOUR NAME AND I WILL POST IT ON THIS BLOG. “THINK ABOUT THIS SERIOUS MATTER!”