Theme 2022 (Part 11) – Doing God’s Will
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL OUR THEME FOR 2022(Part 8) DOING GOD’S WILL January 14, 2022 Today’s reading: 1 Samuel 8:4-22Psalm 89:16-19Mark 2:1-12 We can look to being blessed beyond bounds, but only if we do God’s will. It is His will that we be blessed. But it is up to us, because we ourselves can […]
Modernism (Part 37) – Loving Neighbor
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM(Part 37) LOVING NEIGHBOR January 6, 2022 Today’s readings:1 John 4:19-5:4Psalm 72:1-2,14-15,17Luke 4:14-22 The basic reason why the Church is insisting and mandating that the unvaxxed be vaxxed is love for neighbor. It is that one should not want to infect another if one loves the other. The failure of that […]
Modernism (Part 36) – Sheep and Shepherds
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM(Part 36) SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS January 4, 2022 Today’s readings:Today’s gospel: Mark 6:34-44 “When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd” (v.34a). Today many lay Catholics are lost and lapsed, and one basic reason is […]
Modernism (Part 35) – The Gospel of Jesus
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM(Part 35) THE GOSPEL OF JESUS January 3, 2022 Today’s readings:1 John 3:22-4:6Psalm 2:7-11Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 Today “many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 Jn 4:1b), and “the spirit of the antichrist …. is already in the world.” (1 Jn 4:3b). Tragically, modernism, by which the focus is […]
Modernism (Part 34) – Papal Teachings
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM(Part 34) PAPAL TEACHINGS December 18, 2021 Popes, as seen in the history of our Church, can be in error. Today there are more errors in the teachings of hierarchs, as modernism has swept into our Church. What are the teachings of St John Paul II and St Paul VI, which […]
Modernism (Part 33) – The Role of the Messiah
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM(Part 33) THE ROLE OF THE MESSIAH December 15, 2021Today’s reading: Isaiah 45:6c-8,18,21c-25Psalm 85:9-14Luke 7:18b-23 Jesus came to heal the sick but brought the greatest healing, which is salvation. Jesus looked to the material and emotional needs of humankind, but satisfied the greatest need of man, that is God. The error […]
Modernism (Part 32) – The Role of Mary
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM(Part 32) THE ROLE OF MARY Feast of the Immaculate ConceptionDecember 8, 2021Today’s reading: Genesis 3:9-15,20 We understand modernism to mean the embrace of the culture of the age, which, in a world dominated by the evil one, is contrary to God’s ways. In a certain sense, modernism was there at […]
AFFL (Part 155) – The Final Battle – 3
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL ASSAULTS ON FAITH, FAMILY AND LIFE(Part 156) THE FINAL BATTLE – 3 November 24, 2021Today’s gospel: Luke 21:12-19 In today’s gospel, Jesus talks about the coming persecution which will be part of the end times. Such persecution, happening from time to time throughout salvation history, is much more intense in these […]
Modernism (Part 23) – The Day of the Son of Man
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL MODERNISM(Part 23) THE DAY OF THE SON OF MAN November 12, 2021 Today’s readings:Wisdom 13:1-9Psalm 19:2-5Luke 17:26-37 We know Jesus will return, at the end of time. And those days will be like the days of Noah and Sodom, when everything will be destroyed (Lk 17:26,28a). The destruction will not be […]