Five Sentences from St. Paul guide Catholic souls to the only “keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” Jesus died to leave on earth.
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Question 1: “What Five Sentences from St. Paul in Eph. 2:1-10 guide Catholic souls to Heaven?”
Answer: “Sentence One begins by defining what we used to be! ‘Brothers and sisters: You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you once lived following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient.’”
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Question 2: “How do Catholics know we are no longer among those ruled by the ‘spirit that is now at work in the disobedient’?”
Answer: “In Sentence Two, St. Paul tells us how Jesus has blessed Catholics! ‘All of us once lived among them (the ‘disobedient’) in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.’”
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Question 3: “How do Catholics keep from being among ‘the disobedient’ specifically defined by St. Paul as ‘children of wrath’?”
Answer: “Like St. Faustina, two thousand years later, St. Paul tells us God’s Mercy is the only thing that can save us in Sentence Three: ‘But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love He had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved), raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.’”
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Question 4: “Does St. Paul tell us what saves us?”
Answer: “He is clear in Sentence Four! ‘For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast.’”
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Question 5: “What does God’s ‘grace’ allow us to do?”
Answer: “God’s ‘Grace’ took form on earth in His Church-Creating Word to The First Catholic Pope: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 6: “Does St. Paul define those who believe in Jesus enough to ‘Be Catholic’?”
Answer: “Sentence Five: ‘For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.’”
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May all be blessed to be Catholic enough to be forever among those described in Today’s Psalm 100:1-5: “The Lord made us, we belong to Him.” May all be forever among those in Mt. 5:3: “Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is The Kingdom of Heaven.”
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