Purity of Heart is Needed to See God

1 posted on 03/19/2015 4:45:37 AM PDT by Salvation

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Monsignor Pope Ping!

2 posted on 03/19/2015 4:46:22 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

BTT I hope many read this today.

3 posted on 03/19/2015 4:50:11 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)

Maybe to see God, but not necessary to hear God. Just ask him what you are doing wrong and you may get an answer.

4 posted on 03/19/2015 4:52:52 AM PDT by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)

They will read it and then proceed to telling us all how wrong the whole thing is because each and everyone one of them is smarter then any dumb old Catholic.

5 posted on 03/19/2015 5:05:50 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)

Oh and I forgot, being a dumb old Catholic and all, they are all smarter then God as well.

6 posted on 03/19/2015 5:06:44 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)

You don't seem quite like yourself this morning, so here's a Tiny Kitten:

7 posted on 03/19/2015 5:17:32 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)

Prayers for all, and please pray for me. Our local Serra Club will be hosting 200 or so 5th graders at a Vocations Rally in our area.

We prepare a light breakfast and lunch for the presenters (around 20)

And remember to pray — isn’t this what Monsignor Pope wrote about? Oh, to have the simple prayers of a child again.

8 posted on 03/19/2015 5:32:50 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

Thanks. How did you know? I have been cranky lately. Stupid Daylight Savings time! Why do we still need to do this?

9 posted on 03/19/2015 5:56:34 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)

Yes, more prayer needed. See above. :(

10 posted on 03/19/2015 5:57:31 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)

Done, my FRiend.

A Vocations Rally — such a blessing. Your diocese is truly on the right track.

11 posted on 03/19/2015 6:07:47 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)

I don’t know. My teenagers are even more Zomboid than previously, hard as that is to imagine.

12 posted on 03/19/2015 6:11:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)

Oh dear.... I know I have literally been cranky since the day of the time change! I just can't seem to shake it. Well then there is Barak and all the other total nonsense going on in the world as well.

13 posted on 03/19/2015 6:23:37 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)

200 10/11 year olds! Prayers.....

14 posted on 03/19/2015 6:24:45 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)

I’m having a nasty allergy attack, too. I was up most of the night sneezing and blowing. But I got up at 5:00 to be functional for the day, unlike a batch of teens with no excuse.

15 posted on 03/19/2015 6:26:49 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)

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Purity of Heart is Needed to See God...We cannot see until we are washed.... “I went, I washed, and now I see.”..."But afterwards, when the stain of my past life had been washed away by means of the waters of rebirth, a light from above poured itself upon my chastened and now pure heart;"

Daily Holy Hour, daily Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours, weekly confession … only then do some things become clear, only then does that which had been in darkness come to light.

The man fails to make the distinction between the purity of heart which occurs via the washing of regeneration by which one is able to see God if he died or returned - but which he imagines the very act of baptism effects (thus most Caths have no conscious "day of salvation," and testimony of manifest regeneration) - and that of the practical progressive holiness of heart which enables better spiritual vision and judgment, that of enlightenment, even towards that which enabled Job to say he now "saw God" and repented in dust and ashes. (Job. 42:5,6)

Without making the distinction, the latter practical progressive holiness of heart is what the author is referring to in saying "I, too, have come to understand some things only after many years of prayer and growth. Daily Holy Hour, daily Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours, weekly confession...," but while quiet time and reflection and focus on spiritual things are conducive to better spiritual vision, yet such things as the Mass and worship of a piece of bread is not of Scripture, any more than a multitude other things are .

Like learned devout Nicodemus, such religionists need to be born of the Spirit by coming to God as souls damned for their works - not saved because of them - and destitute of any means or merit whereby they may escape their just and eternal punishment in Hell Fire and gain eternal life with God. And with contrite heart cast their whole-hearted repentant faith upon the mercy of God in Christ, trusting the risen Divine Lord Jesus to save them by His sinless shed blood. (Rm. 3:9 - 5:1) And whose faith is thus counted as righteousness, but it is a faith that will follow Him. Which means departing from Rome.

16 posted on 03/19/2015 6:28:58 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)

17 posted on 03/19/2015 6:33:12 AM PDT by RnMomof7

I am married to an old man that sleeps like a teen. He's retired now and it is so annoying to me that I don't call him while I am at work. I am not sure why it annoys me, but I find I am happier if I don't know what he's doing or not doing at home.

18 posted on 03/19/2015 6:35:07 AM PDT by defconw (Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)

I sympathize! It’s like when we had babies, and I would change four diapers and spend three hours nursing, and then my husband would get up and say, “Oh, did the baby sleep all night?”

19 posted on 03/19/2015 6:38:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Google "tiny kitten pictures," and put down the gun.)

Prayers for all, and please pray for me. Our local Serra Club will be hosting 200 or so 5th graders at a Vocations Rally in our area.

Recruiting pre-teens to become priests???

20 posted on 03/19/2015 6:56:37 AM PDT by Iscool

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