Faith Matters

• GOD so loved His creations that when His human beings went from GOOD to bad, He sent His SON, Jesus Christ to become human, to Lead us back to GOOD by showing us the way.
• JESUS CHRIST redeemed and saved ALL humankind through His Life, death on the Cross, and His Resurrection.
  
• Upon the consummation of His Saving Mission, He ascended back to GOD. Henceforth, JESUS CHRIST enabled ALL of us to pass over to Eternal Life to be in Communion with GOD and the Saints.
  
• Thereafter, the HOLY SPIRIT descended on us ALL to inspire, guide, and motivate us to live according to JESUS CHRIST'S example, and, protect us from temptations towards evil thoughts and actions.
• The manifestations of the Holy Spirit's guiding and protecting ways are the distressful and anxious feelings we experience whenever we entertain temptations / occasions to sin.
  
• We feel frustrated and disconcerted after every bout of sinning - the manifestation of guilt. The protecting and guiding ways of the Holy Spirit motivate us to go back to GOOD, through GOD'S Grace. (GOD'S consistent & UNCONDITIONAL Love)
  
• Always, when we are living according to GOD'S Ways, we experience peace, contentment, and fulfillment. Whenever we succeed in getting out of sinful / bad situations, we feel the peace, contentment, and fulfillment. But, whenever we succumb to evil temptations, we grapple with anxiety, stress, and discontent.
• True Redemption, through GOD'S Graces, from sinful ways bring back the peace, contentment, & fulfillment in us >>> true happiness!

Youth & Arrogance

STUD ROOSTER
A farmer went out one day and bought a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says,

'OK old fart, time for you to retire.'
The old rooster replies, 'Come on, surely you cannot handle
ALL of these chickens.
Look what it has done to me
Can't you just let me have the two old hens over in the corner?'
The young rooster says,
'Beat it: You are washed up
And I am taking over.'
The old rooster says,
'I tell you what, young stud.
I will race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets the exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop.' The young rooster laughs.
'You know you don't stand a chance, old man.
So, just to be fair,
I will give you a head start.'

The old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off running after him. They round the front porch of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap.

He is only about 5 feet behind the old rooster and gaining fast. The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting in his usual spot on the front porch
When he sees the roosters running by.
The Old Roster is squawking
And running as hard as he can.
The Farmer grabs his shotgun and
- BOOM -
He blows the young rooster to bits. The farmer sadly shakes his head and says,
'Dammit.....
Third gay rooster I bought this month.'

Moral of this
Story?..

Don't mess with the THE OLDER GENERATION
Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery

Always overcome youth and arrogance!

Awesome Beauty: The "Glass Wing" Butterfly

The Glass Wing Butterfly, Lives in South America.

A butterfly with transparent wings is rare and beautiful.
As delicate as finely blown glass, the presence of this rare tropical gem is used by rain forest ecologists as an indication of high habitat quality and its demise alerts them of ecological change.

Rivaling the refined beauty of a stained glass window, the translucent wings of the Glass Wing butterfly shimmer in the sunlight like polished panes of turquoise, orange, green, and red.

All things beautiful do not have to be full of color to be noticed; in life that which is unnoticed has the most power.

One of GOD'S many awesome creatures!

Catholic GASOLINE

Turning Catholic? CATHOLIC GASOLINE

Catholic Nun Sister Mary Ann worked for a home health agency. She was driving around visiting homebound patients when she ran out of gas. Providentially, a gasoline station was just a block away. She walked to the station to borrow a gas can and buy some gas.

The attendant told her that the only gas can he owned had been loaned out, but she could wait until it was returned. Since Sister Mary Ann was on the way to see a patient, she decided not to wait and walked back to her car. She looked for something in her car that she could fill with gas and spotted the bedpan she was taking to the patient.

Always resourceful, Sister Mary Ann carried the bedpan to the station, filled it with gasoline, and carried the full bedpan back to her car.

As she was pouring the gas into her tank, two Baptists watched from across the street. One of them turned to the other and said; "If it starts, I'm turning Catholic!"