Today, St. Paul gives us a “Hidden Prophecy” of how Catholics may help people we meet when we are blessed to “Love God and our neighbors” enough to encourage them to‘Be Catholic!'”
Paul was beaten and jailed in Philippi for being The First Catholic Evangelist in Europe. God rescued The Best Catholic Salesman on earth and sent him to Athens, where Aristotle had lived more than 300 years earlier. St. Paul was The First Catholic Teacher there, and anywhere else in Europe.
Acts 17:15, 22 & 22:8 began with his “instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.” May all Catholics be as blessed as Silas and Timothy by encouraging our beloved neighbors to “Be Catholic” and do so “as soon as possible”!
Then, St. Paul gives us a “Hidden Prophecy” of how to help our beloved neighbors to “Be Catholic!”:
Step 1: Compliment. Paul began his mission by praising the Athenians: “You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.” It is a Universal Law: “People like to “Be Complimented”.
Step 2: Connection. Then, God’s best salesman since Moses told us to Connect with those we Compliment. “For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed ‘To an Unknown God'”. The Connection was then made clearer to those he had Complimented: “What you therefore unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. The God Who made the world and all that is in it, The Lord of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is He served by human hands because He needs anything.”
The audience was still listening, so St. Paul began to describe Who he was Connecting them to: “Rather, it is He Who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.”
Catholics are Blessed to do Today what St. Paul did in Athens!
Step 1: Use a Catholic Compliment: “What a blessing it is! You and I are blessed to have cell phones and computers that connect us with all the people and computer programs in the world. We are blessed to be the most well-connected people in History!”
Step 2: Show the Catholic Connection: “The most blessed of the world’s best-connected people are able to see that God the Father may now be seen as The Loving Programmer”. He wrote The Creation Program! Astronomers now have the most powerful telescopes in History. They let the best-connected people know that The Creation Program appeared as The Expanding Universe over 13 trillion light-years ago! In our time, God lets the most blessedly insightful of the best-connected people in History see that “The Holy Spirit” may now be understood as The Downloading Verb of God!
Step 3: The Catholic Connection with Jesus! We explain: “The essence of The Creation Program took human form to fulfill over 300 Messianic Prophecies that God gave to His Prophets. Jesus was accurately described in John: 1:1-2, as “The Word of God”. He was born of a “Virgin of The House of David in Bethlehem”, 2,000 years ago. Jesus is “The Word of God Who has taken Human Form in God’s New Testament”!
Step 4: The Catholic Connections and Compliments take form with us, His most Blessed People on Earth! Catholics are blessed to humbly obey The Church-Creating Decree Spoken by The Son/Word of God to His 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.”
Step 5: A Compliment from God that everyone who is blessed will give themselves by choosing to Be Catholic! “I am among those blessed to get ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’! They include the Seven Catholic Sacraments, Baptism, Confession/Absolution, Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Healing, and His Holy Orders, which we are blessed to receive from God’s Catholic priests and religious.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May we compliment ourselves on earth / As God did, by His Holy Birth.”
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