Today’s Reading from Luke 13: 1-16 has a lesson that tells the perceptive to be good Catholics and respect God’s Chain of Command:
“For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.” He does not say “friend.”
What “friends” do we make with our “dishonest money” and how we make those friends with it?
One sure way: We look for institutions preceded by the abbreviation “St.” Some investigation will show whether or not they are Catholic organizations obedient to The Church rather than to modernist heresies. When we are satisfied with their integrity, we give them money.
That’s how we make the most useful “friends” that it is possible to make while we’re living here. The great saints whom we honor by sharing our earthly possessions with the organizations honoring them all go to the same Accounting Department.
“Look.”, says some high-ranking executive Angel in the Department. “Justin Smith made a donation to St. Margaret’s School. Have his guardian angel move him so that he will receive some beneficial instructions for himself and his family.”
Those who are not Catholics pray for help, of course. But, prayers that don’t go through channels have a harder time being processed. Some are lost in the shuffle. Why? They aren’t Catholic, so they don’t see the “s” in “make friend for yourself”. They think they can deal direct with God, and they can, it’s just that He prefers people who follow His rules. “If you obey My commands, you are My friends.”
So, go through channels. Even if you’re some poor soul in schism, staggering from one semi-heresy to another, give some money to a solid, Catholic organization and get yourself some friend” in high places, as Jesus instructs us in one of His “least commandments” by helping out sound Catholic help-providers.
Going through The Chain of Command is really just as simple as that. Even the more arrogant Protestants can make friends in Heaven.
