Catholics know: “History is a record of Happy Families and those who hate them.”
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Question 1: “How can I be part of what God promised Isaiah He would create in Is 65:17-21: ‘Thus says The Lord: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.’?”
Answer: “Only Catholics understand this simple fact: God created many ‘new earths’ for His people. God’s ‘new earths’ in Israel, Greece, Rome, Europe, India, Asia, Africa, and The America’s were ‘new earths’ for the people God guided to settle in them. In every ‘new earth’, His people began with happy families ‘living in houses they build and eating the fruit of the vineyards they plant’.”
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Question 2: “What always goes wrong with the ‘new earths’ God gives His Chosen People?”
Answer: “The minds of people who were not loved by their mothers and fathers are confused by the usual demons; pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth.”
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Question 3: “How can we tell which people are posssessed by those demons?”
Answer: “They hate happy families so much that they try to destroy every institution that protects them.”
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Question 4: “We are surrounded by people who hate God and us! How do we deal with them?”
Answser: “Jesus told us how to deal with hateful people in Mt. 18:21-22: ‘Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.’”
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Question 5: “Does that help us obey Today’s Reading from Amos 5:14: ‘Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and The Lord will be with you.’?”
Answer: “The ‘good’ always includes forgiveness! Psalm 30:2-13 includes ‘I will extol you, O Lord, for You drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.’”
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Question 6: “Do our enemies ‘rejoice’ when we hate them?”
Answer: “The only hard work they do is to make happy families hate them. That gives them an excuse to hate us more!”
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Question 7: “What is the result of loving those who hate us?”
Answer: “God performs this miracle in our life! ‘You changed my mourning into dancing;
O Lord my God, forever will I give you thanks.’ Catholics who understand will respond: ‘I will praise you, Lord, for You have rescued me.’
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Quuestion 8: “What can happen to those who are loved enough to stop hating happy families?”
Answer: “A miracle can happen! Some of them end up having happy families of their own.”
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