The Roman Catholic Church exists within the world’s corruption. It’s a lot like a clean, clear bubble floating in a stagnant pond. Around the bubble is rot, corruption, and stench. Within its miraculous, endless refractions and reflections, the glories of God are more than visible, they actually take form and can be felt.
Each Roman Catholic is like a smaller bubble. Like our Church, each of us spends an earthly life surrounded by sin and temptation. By staying in contact with the purifying Sacraments that come to us through the Big Bubble, we keep our little bubble, our tiny soul, free from stain. If we give into sin, we can imagine the wall of our bubble weakening, then breaking, obliterating our little bit of purity with the slime and destruction that seethes around it.
The Big Bubble is self-contained. It began with a small, early bubble that began to grow with the prophets and what appeared to be their insane utterances. As their “insane ravings” slowly began to come true, that first bubble, the Jewish faith, slowly spread around the world. People believed and lived within that bubble. The world hated it, and many Jewish people did not respond to that hate with love. So, when the most bizarre prophecies of all came true, they suddenly turned upon the fulfillment of what they thought were their own prophets’ ravings. They made every possible attempt to kill Him and have the blame thrown on the nearest, biggest government, in the very same way those who’d hated them had frequently tried to have them eliminated.
The final Bubble came into being. Obedient Roman Catholics live in it. We are kept safe as long as we are obedient, and we are obedient as long as we believe. We cannot help but believe. We have been given the grace to read the prophets and realize that it took nothing less than a series of what absolutely had to be miracles from God so that their predictions came true. Every human endeavor takes second place to that manifestation of divine power upon the earth.
Scientists do not dismay us, we know their theories are there to strengthen those who pay their salaries. Sinners do not frighten us, we know the fate in store for them. Riches do not overly tempt us, we know that they are programmed entities, temptations that are invariably transferred and eventually erased. We know that we must steadfastly move toward HeWho lovingly programmed us. We try harder and harder to obey His commands.
We have but to keep our small bubbles joined with the Biggest Bubble, knowing that it will last long after all else has passed. That is our job and our joy. It is the best thing on earth to be doing.
