2- Three Tools for Holiness (Mt. 6)

by Fr. Dave Kueter, OMV

This talk is available on tap/CD through St. Joseph Radio

More info - http://www.spccom.com

 

[cont'd] The world is turned upside down. Example 1) A U.N. report - a) World poverty,  those who have and those who have not:  U.S.A. - Cosmetics - 8 Billion a year, 6 Billion would pay for basic education of all in the world. 2) Ice Cream  - Europe - 11 Billion, - 9 Billion would provide clean water and safe sewage for all. 3) Pet Food - America and Europe - 17 Billion, - 13 Billion would provide basic nutrition health for everyone in the world.

 

The statistics are striking and disturbing. The world seems to value these secondary things. What does that say about the state of our humanity.... the question of original sin. The tool of almsgiving - our relationship to the world and to each other. To reestablish that relationship...

 

Almsgiving giving  is a fundamental tool of holiness - our relationship with life and the people around us. Think of how we view this basic tool of holiness.

 

The third basic relationship  is to ourselves... perfect control of all our relationship... integrity - wholeness - The feeling of integrity - to think that this was heaven... The role played by original sin to cause the damage.

 

St. Paul, there is a part of me that wants to do good and knows what's wrong and we do it.

 

# 3 Fasting: It must be an essential tool of holiness. Fasting is using the highest faculty of human will to control the body's desires. Make the decision for example not to eat, the stomach begins to  growl.  The intellect and will say No. The lower must be subject to the higher faculties... a once a week from food that becomes habitual, scip breakfast.

 

It brings about a clarity of mind. Something that accomplishes his or her mind to God. There is also three others, body, soul, physical; each has its own needs. We need to control all three mentioned. You have to fast on all three levels. Fast emotionally, to satisfy every desire we have..

 

Say NO to emotional desires: a) The need to get attention and people's affections. St.Teresa. the Little Flower, Carmelite Nun... There is also spiritual fasting in the sense of the human spirit... The intellect and will do have their appetites. Take for example curiosity; it is of the intellect. How many useless things that we know or seek. We need to do it right on three levels. He gave the example of the person on a salad diet but coupled with the need to consume brownies also. We are only fasting on one level. Fast consistently on all three  levels. 

 

Summary: 3 fundamental tools of holiness: Rebuild the all three basic relationships of life... This will be what we will find in heaven. Looking in the face of each one of us. God loves each one of us. Revealing himself to us... Take some time to think and meditate. Ask the Lord to plan his  plan of holiness for us. The crux of every profession requires tools. Utilize the particular tools of the Church...

 

Let this lent be a model of what our life  will be. This time on earth is our time of Lent... Dying with Him and rising with Him. Use the tools to become the saint He wants us to be. Ending with Glory be to the Father.... Immaculate Heart  of Mary.

 [cinops be gone] - George H. Kubeck - Monday, Feb. 25th, 2013

2- Ben Carson for President

Editorial in the Orange County Register, Thurs. Feb. 21, 2012

Prayer Breakfast Hypocrisy

Doctor chided for doing what Obama did.

Since he had the audacity to invoke God at the National Prayer Breakfast in criticizing policies held by the President of  the United States, seated beside him at the head table, Dr. Benjamin Carson has been lambasted by critics largely on the left, but also on the right.

How dare he use an apolitical platform to advance political and social views, critics complain. How dare he be so impertinent to invoke God as the motive to advance views that conflict with the president's, they protest.

But Dr. Carson, a renowned John Hopkins University neurosurgeon, expected the criticism. "It's not my intention to offend anyone," Dr. Carson said at the top of his speech. "I have discovered however, in recent years, that it is very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone." The doctors critics make his case.

Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky rumbled on CNN's "State of Union" that, "I think it's ... not really an appropriate place to make this kind of political speech and to invoke God as [Carson's] support for that kind of view."

 

Memories are short and selective. two years ago at the same venue, the National Prayer  Breakfast, none other than President Obama said, "[I]t is my faith, then, that biblical injunction to serve the least of these, that  keeps me going and that  keeps me from being overwhelmed.  

 

The context for the president invoking the Bible is found in his immediately preceding words: "What I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or help deal with the healthcare system."

 

Where was the protest about the President using the apolitical platform to invoke God to advance his political and social views, some of which surely were not shared by everyone in the audience?

 

The hypocrisy goes to the heart of Dr. Carson's message, so eloquently delivered at the prayer breakfast Feb.  7, videos of which have gone viral on the Internet.

 

If Dr. Carson is guilty of mixing religion and politics, so, too, was the president. Critics' double standard underscores the problem the neurosurgeon described.

 

When Dr. Carson made the case that it would be more beneficial to allow individuals to establish health savings accounts with pretax dollars than for the government to take tax money and dictate medical choices, he not only was making a moral case, he was speaking of a realm, health care, in which his expertise arguably exceeds the president's.

 

"The [politically correct] police are out in force at all times,"Dr. Carson said from the platform. " People focus ... on that and completely miss the point of what you are saying. And we've reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what the want to say because somebody might be offended."

 

In that same speech, he summed up the situation best when he told listeners: "What we need to do in this PC world is to forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought, and we need to concentrate on being respectful to those people with whom we disagree." Good advice.

 

George H. Kubeck, Cinops Be Gone - Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013





1- Three Tools to Holiness (Mt. 6)

by Fr. Dave Kueter, OMV

This talk is available on tap/CD through St. Joseph Radio. More info http://www.spccom.com

 

"We are not living in a normal way and not according to God's plan... refer to the creation of God. How he created us. We have the extraordinary gift of sanctifying grace. Adam and Eve sinned. They lost those gifts of God.

 

They passed on the abnormal to us. The Church wants to remind you of this fact. How far we are away from God. The first day of LENT we have always the same Gospel. St. Matthew chapter 6: 1-6, 16-18....

 

The Lord in challenging us to love... He challenges us to be holy. What is holy? 1) It is not like putting things in their proper place. Trying to create things that are normal...Holiness is our relationship with God, the world, with people and with ourselves. Sin destroys the truly normal.

 

Before sin Adam and Eve had a perfect relationship with God and with each other.  After sin this relationship with God was destroyed... This is the normal that we inherited. How can we reinstall these three relationships.

 

This is what holiness is all about. It is Jesus' plan for holiness. He gave us three fundamental tools to bring us holiness... Prayer - Almsgiving -Fasting... 1) The most basic is prayer, to rebuild us with God destroyed by sin.  We are helped with Baptism and the other sacraments. You must dialogue with others and to communicate is what prayer is with God.

 

"Without prayer there is no hope for salvation much prayer our relationship is best." ... We must dedicate ourselves with prayer... express from our hearts... listen to this heavenly communication with us... contemplation prayer. Prayer is the first tool of holiness....

 

2) The second is our relationship to the world and the people around us... The things of this world are for people. All are created by God for him... to serve God by serving others... Gifts are not for ourselves and for the good of others. Now people are used for things, for materialism. The world is turned upside down. (cinops be gone, Sat. Feb. 23, 2013)

 

 





1- Ben Carson for President

In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013

Google - Prayer Breakfast Talk in Washington, D.C. 2013

 

Ben Carson is an authentic American Jonah. His role model is Jesus. Whenever the Israelites disobeyed God they were punished. You will hear a lot about Carson in the next four years. He is only 61. Find his equal in the public arena and America's Seniors will be very happy.

 

We need many Ben Carsons to stand up for what they believe in and speak out, "Political correctness is Evil." Let it be a badge of honor for each of them, for we have a crisis of common sense leadership in America. I look upon Carson as Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

 

All Americans were proud when we elected the first Black/White American as President of the United States in 2008. Obama's Mom was white and his Dad was a citizen of Kenya in Africa.

 

The reelection of Obama in 2012 was a shock to most Seniors [55 and over]. They disagreed strongly with Obama's policies and values. It was incomprehensible that Obama would stick to his role model community organizer Sol Alinsky who dedicated one of his books to Lucifer.

 

George H. Kubeck,

    You can elect Ben Carson as our next President of the United States. Last Saturday, I had two banners made for public display and also at abortion sites.

1) NO: OBAMA/SOL ALINSKY POLICIES & VALUES

    GOOGLE: CINOPS BE GONE

2) RESTORE LIBERTY - HONOR THE CONSTITUTION

    www.teapartyexpress.org

Other Signs: Vote Against Candidates & Issues That Hollywood & The News Media Support!

 

Defend Religious Freedom: Conscience - 1st Amendment to the Constitution - Evil: HHS Mand

 

Stop Black Racism - 1,000 Black Babies Are Killed Each Day - Through Abortion - 365,000 Each Year - Stop the Genocide.



 



The Good Life amidst the Great Darkness

by Pope Benedict XVI *

 

This is how one leads a good life: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself"(Lk 10:27)

 

The first requirement, then, is that God be present in our life. The sum of human life does not strike a balance if we omit God; in that case only contradictions remain. It is enough then, to believe somehow theoretically that there is a God; we must regard him as the most important element in our life.

 

He must be everywhere. And our fundamental relationship must be love. That can  often be very difficult.

 

It can happen, for instance, that one individual has many illnesses and encumbrances to bear. Poverty makes life difficult for another. Yet a third loses the persons on whose love his whole life depends. Thus unhappiness can take more forms.

 

And there is great danger that the individual will become embittered and will say: God can certainly not be good; if he were he would not treat me in this way.

 

Such a revolt against God is very understandable; often it seems almost impossible to accept God's will. But one who yields to this rebellion poisons his whole life.

 

The poison of saying No, of being angry with God and with the world, corrodes the individual from within. But what God asks of us I, as it were, an advance of confidence.

 

He says to us: I know, you don't understand me yet. But trust me anyhow, believe that I am good, and dare to live by this trust.

 

There are many instances of saints and great individuals who dared to trust and, in consequence, found for themselves and for others true happiness amid the greatest darkness.

 

George H. Kubeck *Meditation Feb. 18th, (2013) Joseph Cardinal, Co-Workers of the Truth, Medications for Every Day of the Year, Ignatius Press, 1992

 

 

 

 





1-Hollywood's Filthy Dirty Old Men

In pursuit of the truth - http://wwwcinopsbegone.blogspot.com - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013

 

"God himself will set me free from the hunter's snare." "Create a clean heart in me, O God; renew in me a steadfast spirit." Office of Readings, 2-15-13

 

Who are they? About 60 years ago, I read a book by Whittaker Chambers, "The Witness." He identified American born Alger Hiss as a Russian communist spy. He was convicted.  How many other Alger Hisses were they in America at that time?

 

Thankfully, Ben Shapiro's "Prime Time Propaganda" (2011)  identifies the many filthy old men writers in Hollywood. They write the sitcoms that millions view each evening on TV. Hollywood would rather make less money and keep gratuitous profanity, sex, and violence than have family-friendly shows that everyone watches.

 

But wait, there is at least one woman among the filthy dirty old men. Her name is Nahnatchka Khan. "I am trying to do something boundary pushing ... I'd rather go too far and be pulled back than not go far enough and be boring." Kahn is the producer of ABC's Don't Trust the B ---- in Apt 23, a show that features plenty of drug and one-night stands. Moving on ... "Hopefully I have made it possible for somebody to do a rear-entry [anal sex] scene in three years. Maybe that will be my legacy." [What sewer did she crawl out off?]

 

George H. Kubeck -  [ cinops be gone ]

 

These filthy old men and women hate traditional America. That is why they demonize not only practicing Christians, conservatives and independent minded citizens but also the Tea Party members who promote the Constitution and our founding documents. They love the CINOP. (Catholic-in-name-only politicians.)

 

These filthy old men and women have succeeded in brainwashing low- information citizens with the cancer of filthiness including pornography.

 

They are part of the religion of  today's secular leftist progressivism. ANYTHING GOES

 

Read more about it in Dennis Prager's book, "Still the Best Hope" or listen to him on talk radio, KLAC 870 Monday to Friday - 9 am to 12 noon in Southern California. You can also Google: Prager University.

 

  

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3- Hollywood: Diabolical Enemy of the Family

In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013

I don't understand why the filth from Hollywood is not publicly exposed and isn't a topic on talk radio. It would help greatly the work of Parents Television Council. Be forewarned in the most recent letter of Tim Winter, President. [707 Wilshire Boulevard, #2075, Los Angeles, Ca. 90017 - www.parentstv.org

 

1) "The PTC released studies documenting the 407% rise in primetime nudity on network TV, and another explaining how the V-Chip rating system the same network champion does not protect children from a huge amount of that sex - or violence or profanity either! ..."

 

2) "Nicknom: Nicknom is on Nick Jr., a station that bills itself as a "safe, educational place" for children age  2 - 6. Yet Nicknom is filled with foul language, explicit sex jokes, moms flashing their - even racial slurs and drinking! ..."

 

3) "American Dad: This cartoon - advertised all day during football (when children and families are watching) repeated airs graphic references to oral sex, ejaculation, marital unfaithfulness, bodily fluids, etc."..."

 

4) "Launching 4 Every Girl, major public service campaign to protect young girls from Hollywood's shallow, irresponsible, hyper-sexualized, looks-obsessed (and surgically enhanced) "role models." You can learn more and watch our ad at www.4everygirl.com and like us on Facebook... Our daughters deserve to be thought of us more than just sex objects for Hollywood's dirty old men...   [Difficult time working with Window 8 computer, G. Kubeck]





Presentation of the Lord

Presentation of the Lord
In pursuit of the truth- cinops be gone, Feast - Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013

The parents of Jesus brought him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord.
From a Bavarian radio broadcast by now Pope Benedict XVI - Feb. 2nd, 1980:

“There is little indication in our ordinary everyday life today that on Feb. 2nd we celebrate an ancient feast of both East and West that once played an important role among our rural population: our Lady’s Feast of Candlemas.

“It is a feast in which many historical currents converge so that it glows in many different colors. Its immediate occasion is the remembrance that, on the 40th day after his birth, Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple in Jerusalem in order to offer there the prescribed sacrifice of purification.

“From the scene as depicted by Luke, the liturgy has selected one episode in particular: the meeting between the Child Jesus and the aged Simeon the feast is consequentially known in the Greek church by the name Hypapantic: meeting. In this meeting between the Child and the old man, the Church depicts the encounter between the disintegrating heathen world and the era beginning in Christ, between the waning of the Old Testament and the new time of the Church of the Gentiles.

“What the Church is underscoring here is more than the ceaseless alternation of dying and becoming, more than the consoling fact that a new generation with new ideas and new hopes always succeeds the old one. Were that all that was commemorated here, then the Child would have offered no hope for Simon, but only for himself.

“But it is more than that; it is hope for everyone, but it is a hope that extends beyond death. With this thought, we come to the second point the liturgy emphasize that on this day. It began with the word of Simeon, who calls the Child “a light of revelation to the Gentiles”. As a result of this word, the day has been made a feast of lights. The warm light of the candles appeals to the senses as a symbol of the greater light that emanates for all times from the person of Jesus.” p. 46 - Feb. 2nd meditation, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Co-Workers of the Truth”, Meditations for Every Day of the Year, Ignatius Press, 1992.

Excerpts from the meditation of Jan. 23rd, “Today, too, the future of the Church can and will depend only on the strength of those who have deep roots and who live the pure fullness of their faith…. It will be a spiritualized Church that does not rely on a political mandate and that curries favor with right as little as with the left….

“The way will be long and wearisome, just as was the way that led from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution - which made it fashionable even for bishops to deride dogmas and perhaps, even, to let it be known that the very existence of God was not a certainty for them - to the renewal of the 19th century. But after the purification of these uprootings a great strength will emanate from a spiritualized and simplified Church….

“Then they will discover the small community of believers as something entirely new - as a hope that is meant for them, as an answer they have always sought in secret. Thus it seems certain to me that very hard times await the Church. Her own crisis has as yet hardly begun.”

George H. Kubeck, It was a wise and courageous decision on the part of our Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, “Effective immediately I have informed Cardinal Mahony that he will no longer have any administrative or public duties.” It will satisfy most of the informed people in the diocese.