Propfesy for the Catholic Church

I copied the following text from http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/papa-el-papa-pope-benedetto-xvi-benedict-xvi-benedicto-xvi-22434/

I mean there is nothing to add, the young priest had a vision of future, faith and wisdom for the Church of Jesus Christ.

A restructured Church with far fewer members that is forced to let go of many places of worship it worked so hard to build over the centuries. A minority Catholic Church with little influence over political decisions, that is socially irrelevant, left humiliated and forced to “start over.”

But a Church that will find itself again and be reborn a “simpler and more spiritual” entity thanks to this “enormous confusion.” This was the prophesy made 40 years ago on the future of Christianity by a young Bavarian theologian, Joseph Ratzinger. Digging it out again today perhaps provides us with another key to understanding Benedict XVI's decision to resign, because it traces his gesture back through the course of his interpretation of history.

His prophesy concluded a series of radio preachings which the then professor of theology gave in 1969 at what was a decisive moment in his life and the life of the Church. These were the turbulent years of the student revolts and the landing on the moon but also of the disputes over the Second Vatican Council which had only recently come to a close. Ratzinger, who was one of the Council's protagonists, had left the riotous university of Tübingen seeking refuge in the calmer city of Regensburg.

He found himself isolated as a theologian, having split with liberals Küng, Schillebeeckx and Rahner over their interpretations of the Council. It was in this period that he concolidated new friendships with theologians Hans Urs von Balthasar and Henri de Lubac, with whom he founded Catholic theological journal, Communio. Communio soon became a training ground for young “Ratzingerian” priests who are now cardinals and all seen as potential successors to Benedict XVI: Angelo Scola, Christoph Schönborn and Marc Ouellet.

In five little known radio speeches made in 1969 and published again a while ago by Ignatius Press in the volume “Faith and the Future”, the future Pope gave his vision of the future of man and the Church. His last teaching, which he read out on “Hessian Rundfunk” radio on Christmas day, had a distinctly prophetic tone.

Ratzinger said he was convinced the Church was going through an era similar to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. “We are at a huge turning point – he explained – in the evolution of mankind. This moment makes the move from Medieval to modern times seem insignificant.” Professor Ratzinger compared the current era to that of Pope Pius VI who was abducted by troops of the French Republic and died in prison in 1799. The Church was fighting against a force which intended to annihilate it definitively, confiscating its property and dissolving religious orders.

Today's Church could be faced with a similar situation, undermined, according to Ratzinger, by the temptation to reduce priests to “social workers” and it and all its work reduced to a mere political presence. “From today's crisis, will emerge a Church that has lost a great deal,” he affirmed.

“It will become small and will have to start pretty much all over again. It will no longer have use of the structures it built in its years of prosperity. The reduction in the number of faithful will lead to it losing an important part of its social privileges.” It will start off with small groups and movements and a minority that will make faith central to experience again. “It will be a more spiritual Church, and will not claim a political mandate flirting with the Right one minute and the Left the next. It will be poor and will become the Church of the destitute.”

The process outlined by Ratzinger was a “long” one “but when all the suffering is past, a great power will emerge from a more spiritual and simple Church,” at which point humans will realise that they live in a world of “indescribable solitude” and having lost sight of God “they will perceive the horror of their poverty.”

Then and only then, Ratzinger concluded, will they see “that small flock of faithful as something completely new: they will see it as a source of hope for themselves, the answer they had always secretly been searching for.

Oh! My God...

Many people say "Oh! My God..." or "Jesus Christ!!" in stressed situations.

But, who's your God? Who's Jesus Christ?

We know God created everything (Genesis 1, 1-25), and He created the man too (Genesis 1, 26-31).

Now, if God created everything and God is good, why aren't we happy?

God made us free, but many times we don't use well our freedom.

In this point is Jesus Christ, He's God that recreates the world and the humanity.

God created everything in the beginning, and the same God recreates everything and everyone right now.

But God made us free, then each one of us should choose to be or not to be recreated in Jesus Christ.

If you call for Jesus in your problems, you should live as He teaches.

For example, if you watch movies or programs that deny Jesus, like about astrology, spiritualism, reincarnation, satanism, Oriental sects or religions (Yoga, Hinduism, Seisho-No-Ie, and others), pornography, eroticism, adultery, violence, and so many others.

However, look: if you're not Christan, you can do what your faith allows. And for the Christians, think is it according with my faith? Remember, everyone will be judged.

Take it (I Corinthians 1, 9):
"You can rely on God, who has called you to be partners with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord."

This is my way

I Corinthians 1, 22-24:

"While the Jews demand miracles
and the Greeks look for wisdom,
we are preaching a crucified Christ:
to the Jews an obstacle
they cannot get over,
to the gentiles foolishness,
but to those who have been called,
whether they are Jews or Greeks,
a Christ who is both
the power of God and the wisdom of God."

What was I looking for? The miracles happen when God wants to do them, if my happiness and my faith are in miracles, they aren't permanent.

But, if I believe in the God's love and in a crucified Christ, dead in my place, my faith and my happiness are forever. Matthew 28, 18-20:

"Jesus came up and spoke to them.
He said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go, therefore, make disciples of all nations;
baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you.
And look, I am with you always;
yes, to the end of time.'"

I have my own God

Do you believe in God? If yes, who's your God? If not, why don't you do it?

Let's think: who made our bodies? Our thoughts? Our feelings?

If we came from the animals, like monkeys, I ask: why do we feel love for our parents? The animals don't stay with their young forever.

My God entered the feelings in my soul, but he gave me freedom for choose what I want to do.

My God loves me so much, and he gave me so much freedom that I can choose not to love Him, if I want.

But I know how my life is if I'm not with my God.

I know my God loves a lot and He wants to give me many things for my happiness.

I know I can't have real happiness far from Him.

Sometimes, I forgot what my God did for me and I go away from Him. But He loves me so much, and He waits my return.


My God is three people in one person. My God is my Father, because He created me. My God is Son of the Father, He's my brother Jesus Christ, and He was crucified for pay my sins. My God is the Holy Spirit, the love from the Father to the Son, and from the Son to the Father, this love lives in me, and it's amazing: to feel the love of God.

This is my God: my Father, my Brother, my Friend, my Love, He created me, He lives in me, He waits my return, He knows everything about me, He cries with me, He smiles with me, He teaches what I should learn and do, He gives me all freedom of the World, He died for me, and He resuscitated for me.

What's human life?

Genesis 2, 4-7:

"Such was the story of heaven and earth
as they were created.
At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven
there was as yet no wild bush on the earth
nor had any wild plant yet sprung up,
for Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth,
nor was there any man to till the soil.
Instead, water flowed out of the ground
and watered all the surface of the soil.
Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground
and blew the breath of life into his nostrils,
and man became a living being."

But, why do we live? What's our life?

We have a body and a soul, if a finger, or hand, or arm is cut off, then it still as our body but our life isn't there anymore.

When we cut the nails, we don't want to see them. The nails are death now, but cutting the nails is necessary for our health.

So, what does our body alive?

I say: our body is alive while our soul is inside. The life holds our soul in our body.

When anybody dies the soul goes out and can't return.

Only God, He created the life, can make the soul come back to the death body.

Let's read John 11, 38-44:

"Sighing again, Jesus reached the tomb:
it was a cave with a stone to close the opening.
Jesus said, 'Take the stone away.'
Martha, the dead man's sister, said to him,
'Lord, by now he will smell;
this is the fourth day since he died.'
Jesus replied,
'Have I not told you that if you believe
you will see the glory of God?'
So they took the stone away.
Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said:
Father, I thank you for hearing my prayer.
I myself knew that you hear me always,
but I speak for the sake of all
these who are standing around me,
so that they may believe
it was you who sent me.
When he had said this,
he cried in a loud voice,
'Lazarus, come out!'
The dead man came out,
his feet and hands bound with strips of material,
and a cloth over his face.
Jesus said to them,
'Unbind him, let him go free.' "

Look, Jesus is God. God has power over the human life. He can make the soul return to the death body.

So, why do we die?

Our life is a travel, we should learn how to be what God wants that we be.

When the time is over, like a game, God will judge us.

Remember, God is the richest in mercy. He always is trying to teach us what we should be and do. He went to the cross because He wants to be with us.

He created us because He loves us.

We live because God wants it.

Where the babies come from?

I read some news about the world's population, and I saw many countries are getting old.

Countries like Japan, Spain, Germany and China are giving better conditions for the couples have babies, or more babies.

But why are the babies missing in the market? Where are the babies?

I say: a lot of couples around the world don't believe that God loves them, and He will provide everything the babies will need.

If God allowed the baby was born, He loves the baby and His love will care the baby.

If you don't want to have babies, anything is wrong with you because the procreation is a natural human desire.

Maybe you had a bad dating, and now you thing: I won't have babies because they will suffer on this world.

I say: God loves you, but you need love Him too. If your father tries to talk to you, but you don't do anything, it's complicated.

For finish this post, let's read a Bible's text (Psalms 84, 11-12):

"For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield,
he gives grace and glory;
Yahweh refuses nothing good
to those whose life is blameless.
Yahweh Sabaoth, blessed is he who trusts in you."

Our faith is our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Believe it, God will help you with your babies created in dignity.
Have a happy family, blessed by Jesus and Mary.

Why was Jesus crucified?

I'm happy today, here is the first comment on Catholic-Engineer. I received the comment yesterday, but I read it today.

Thank you so much Chishino, God used your comment for inspire me about this post, I ask to God that He bless you. I'm praying for you since today.

This is a great question: why was Jesus crucified?

God loves His Son, why did God do nothing?

I say God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, for any day.

Now, about the happened.

Jesus was crucified because the humanity had, and have yet, many sins.

Every sin is bad and must to be paid.

When Jesus died crucified, He paid for the sins, it's true! But we need this, if Jesus died for our sins, He had no sins, then we should be thankful.

God gave me the text, that I read (II Corinthians 1, 12):

"There is one thing that we are proud of,
namely our conscientious conviction
that we have always behaved towards everyone,
and especially towards you,
with that unalloyed holiness that comes from God,
relying not on human reasoning
but on the grace of God."

If you know why Jesus was crucified and you do wrong things yet, thus you are wasting your salvation.

Jesus went to the cross because you should have gone, but He loves you and He decided: "I'll died in your place".

The sins are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, because the Daemon is the same.

Let's pray now (this is to you, Chishino. Don't forget God loves you and He wants you love Him):

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.

Amen.

Who wrote the Holy Bible?

The Holy Bible has two parts: Old Testament and New Testament.

The Old Testament was written before 1 DC.

Each Testament has some books, like Genesis, I Samuel, II Samuel, Luke, Acts of Apostles, etc... And each book has it own history.

The books of prophets were written by the prophets, like Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Baruch, Daniel, Maccabees, etc... Other books of the Old Testament, like Genesis, was written by priests under divine inspiration.

The New Testament was written after the crucifixion and resuscitation of Jesus by the apostles, when they were full of the Holy Spirit.

Everybody who wrote the Holy Bible was under divine inspiration, and God said what He wants that was written on the text.

Why wars happen?

The world wars, for example, were tragedies of the humanity.

Why wars happen?

Why cannot we be friends?

Why did God let wars happen?

You can think: "If God loves us then He have to care us".

God really loves us, but He doesn't change our lives.

If we want to have happiness, then we have to be friends of our enemies (Matthew 5, 43-45).

"'You have heard how it was said,
You will love your neighbour and hate your enemy.
But I say this to you,
love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;
so that you may be children of your Father in heaven,
for he causes his sun to rise on the bad as well as the good,
and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike."

We can decide for ourself, but we can listen God before do anything.

If you ask to God: "Help me, my Father! How can I do it?", He will say what you have to do.

Do the test, say to God your problems and pray a Hail Mary. After, open a Bible in any page and read the first thing that you see.

Who is the Daemon?

I was praying yesterday and I felt that God wants a post about the Daemon, so I said: "The Daemon? Do you want to scare someone?" and He said: "I want to prevent everyone.", so I answer: "Of course my Lord, excuse me and let's write.".

Read the history.

God created the Heaven and after He came out for created the Earth (Genesis 1,1).

Lucifer was the most important angel of God and God let him for manage the Heaven while He was creating the Earth.

God has a throne that is connected to everywhere and Lucifer sat on the God's throne for manage the Heaven.

God was creating the Earth and Lucifer was managing the Heaven, when God returned to Heaven Lucifer said: "I liked the throne. Now, I want to be God and you'll be Lucifer" (the name of the angels are given by the function of each angel). Lucifer wanted to be the creator. And God expelled Lucifer from the throne.

Lucifer was angry and started to disseminate that everyone could be like God: full of light, grace, glory, receive praise of everything, etc. He talked to many angels.

Lucifer and his angels rebel against God. So, God chose Mickael* for the general of His army. Mickael was a simple angel of low patent.

Mickael and Lucifer were fighting with them armies. The grace of God was with Mickael and he won the Lucifer.

Lucifer and his angels went to Earth and they found us, the children of God.

Lucifer and his angels cannot return to Heaven, and, now, they attack us to lead us to sin.

When we want to do anything wrong, maybe it's a attack of Daemon.

We don't need to be scared because God is with us and the Daemon doesn't attack us very frequently.

Mickael is the angel that protects the Catholic Church and he's a winner.



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* Mickael (or Michael) means "Who as God?".

Who are we?

You can think: we are humans.

You can think: we are rational animals.

You can think: we are creatures of God.

You can think: we are children of God.

But, if I say: we can be just one with God.

God is three people: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

The Father sent the Son to earth (Galatians 4, 3 - 5):

"So too with us,
as long as we were still under age,
we were enslaved to the elemental principles of this world;
but when the completion of the time came,
God sent his Son, born of a woman,
born a subject of the Law,
to redeem the subjects of the Law,
so that we could receive adoption as sons."

The Son was generated by the Holy Spirit (Mattew 1, 18):

"This is how Jesus Christ came to be born.
His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph;
but before they came to live together
she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit."

And He sent the Holy Spirit to us (John 20, 19 - 22):

"In the evening of that same day,
the first day of the week,
the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews.
Jesus came and stood among them.
He said to them, 'Peace be with you,'
and, after saying this,
he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples were filled with joy at seeing the Lord,
and he said to them again, 'Peace be with you.
As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.'
After saying this he breathed on them and
said: Receive the Holy Spirit."

Now, we have the Holy Spirit because we were baptized in name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

So, let's do the Invocation of the Holy Spirit (with my free translation):

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the your faithful and lights in them the fire of your love.
Send, Lord, your Spirit and everything will be created.
And renew the World's face.
Let's us pray: Oh God, You instruct the hearts of the your faithful with the light of the Holy Spirit, do that we appreciate all the things correctly in the same Spirit and enjoy your consolation forever.
For Christ, our Lord.
Amen.

Believe, you can do it!

Our faith is impressive

Yesterday, I was studying the text of Luke 5, 17-26:

"Now it happened that
he was teaching one day,
and Pharisees and teachers of the Law,
who had come from every village in Galilee,
from Judaea and from Jerusalem,
were sitting there.
And the power of the Lord was there
so that he should heal.
And now some men appeared,
bringing on a bed a paralysed man
whom they were trying to bring in
and lay down in front of him.
But as they could find no way of getting the man through the crowd,
they went up onto the top of the house
and lowered him and his stretcher down through the tiles
into the middle of the gathering, in front of Jesus.
Seeing their faith he said,
'My friend, your sins are forgiven you.'
The scribes and the Pharisees began to think this over.
'Who is this man, talking blasphemy
Who but God alone can forgive sins?'
But Jesus, aware of their thoughts, made them this reply,
'What are these thoughts you have in your hearts?
Which of these is easier: to say,
"Your sins are forgiven you," or to say,
"Get up and walk"?
But to prove to you that
the Son of man has authority on earth
to forgive sins,' -- he said to the paralysed man
'I order you: get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home.'
And immediately before their very eyes
he got up, picked up what he had been lying on
and went home praising God.
They were all astounded and praised God
and were filled with awe, saying,
'We have seen strange things today.' "

If we believe, then our faith can move mountains.

The men believe that Jesus can help the paralysed man and their faith saved him in body and soul.

If you have a complicated relative, then we can pray for him/her.

Holy Mary, the Mother of Jesus, has a great faith. Ask her for help you.

For finish this post, let's pray a Hail Mary together:

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.

Amen.

Why is homosexuality wrong?

Let's thing about this question: "why is homosexuality wrong?"

Why is wrong have sex with kids?

Why is wrong have sex with deaths?

Why is wrong have sex with animals?

Why the Catholic Church (and the Christians) says "don't use condoms", "don't have sex before marriage", "live your marriage (conjugal life) with just your husband/wife" and so others things?

The priests don't know anything about sex and sexual pleasure. But they know God and they talk to God, like me.

I have my girlfriend and we are very happy without have sex before our marriage. We know God together and He wants our chastity.

If the Church and the Christians say "don't have love relationship with anyone of the same sex" then it's the desire of God.

Why doesn't God want the homosexuality?

God wants our happiness and our happiness is not pleasure.

We can have the true happiness just in the God's desires.

God created the man and the woman and He said (Genesis 1, 28):

"Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.
Be masters of the fish of the sea,
the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that move on earth."

If we don't do what God said then we will have problems, because He created everything and He knows everything and everybody. If God said for us be fruitful and multiply, then we have to do it.

But you say "the priests don't have families".

The priests don't have marriage because God wants them for Him, us and the Church. They can't have a own family because they will have many people for care and save.

He wants to save you

The sin separates us and God, but He wants to save us.

We need just to decide for God and go to Him.

He created everything

In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
Now the earth was a formless void,
there was darkness over the deep,
with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.
God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.
God saw that light was good,
and God divided light from darkness.

God called light 'day', and darkness he called 'night'.
Evening came and morning came: the first day.
God said, 'Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters
to divide the waters in two.' And so it was.

God made the vault, and it divided the waters
under the vault from the waters above the vault.
God called the vault 'heaven'.
Evening came and morning came: the second day.

God said, 'Let the waters under heaven come together
into a single mass, and let dry land appear.' And so it was.
God called the dry land 'earth' and the mass of waters 'seas',
and God saw that it was good.

God said, 'Let the earth produce vegetation:
seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on earth,
bearing fruit with their seed inside,
each corresponding to its own species.' And so it was.

The earth produced vegetation:
the various kinds of seed-bearing plants and the fruit trees with seed inside,
each corresponding to its own species.
God saw that it was good.

Evening came and morning came: the third day.
God said, 'Let there be lights in the vault of heaven
to divide day from night, and let them indicate festivals, days and years.
Let them be lights in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth.' And so it was.

God made the two great lights: the greater light to govern the day,
the smaller light to govern the night, and the stars.
God set them in the vault of heaven to shine on the earth,
to govern the day and the night and to divide light from darkness.
God saw that it was good.
Evening came and morning came: the fourth day.

God said, 'Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures,
and let birds wing their way above the earth
across the vault of heaven.' And so it was.

God created great sea-monsters and all the creatures
that glide and teem in the waters in their own species,
and winged birds in their own species.
God saw that it was good.

God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas;
and let the birds multiply on land.'
Evening came and morning came: the fifth day.

God said, 'Let the earth produce every kind of living creature in its own species:
cattle, creeping things and wild animals of all kinds.' And so it was.
God made wild animals in their own species,
and cattle in theirs,
and every creature that crawls along the earth in its own species.
God saw that it was good.

God said, 'Let us make man in our own image,
in the likeness of ourselves,
and let them be masters of the fish of the sea,
the birds of heaven,
the cattle,
all the wild animals and
all the creatures that creep along the ground.'

God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.

God blessed them, saying to them,
'Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.
Be masters of the fish of the sea,
the birds of heaven and all the living creatures that move on earth.'

This text is Genesis Chapter 1, versicle 1 to 28.

Look, God created the man for be fruitful, He doesn't said: "kill your similar". God wants to be our friend and to teach what we need to know.

He created the sea, the heaven, the earth, the animals, the vegetables and us.

Why did He create everything?

I say: He wants to have His own children. We are His legitimate children.

If God doesn't want take care of us then we aren't here, we aren't life.

This, I ask you, in God's name, don't kill yourself. Don't sin.

If you want to know what your sin, comment this post. Remember, everyone has sins.