St. Paul had spent many years “Being Catholic!” His efforts began Catholic Churches and Parishes in Turkey and Greece. Then, Acts 20:17-27 explains: “From Miletus (on the Western end of Turkey), he had the presbyters from Ephesus summoned.”
“Presbyters” is an early name for Catholic priests. Only Peter, The First Catholic Pope, could have given Paul the Authority to ordain Catholic priests from both Gentiles and Jews. Catholics are blessed to Think Clearly enough to understand three simple facts: St. Paul was:
(1.) A Catholic priest,
(2.) A Catholic Bishop, and
(3.) A Catholic Saint! St. Paul is a living “Hidden Prophecy”! Humble seekers for truth are blessed to see his miracles, including writing nearly half of The New Testament that has guided us for 2,000 years, clearly enough to consider “Being Catholic!”
“When they (those First Catholic priests) came to him, he addressed them, ‘You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia. I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews, and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes.'”
That “Hidden Prophecy” shows The Power of God to “Upgrade The Program” of even the most sinful souls! A few years before, Paul had been leading “the plots of the Jews”!
In Acts 22: 19-20, Paul reminds us of how blind he was before The Light let him see: “They all know how obsessed I was with hunting out those who believed in Jesus, beating them up in the meeting places, and throwing them in jail. And when your witness Stephen was murdered, I was right there, holding the coats of the murderers and cheering them on. And now they see me totally converted. What better qualification could I have?’
He was also in the various “plots” of all those against the Catholic Church when they sent him to destroy the Catholics in Damascus! Acts 22:6-21 tells us that Jesus let Paul see and hear Words from “The Light on the road to Damascus” that led Paul to “Be Catholic!” (We may capitalize “The Light” because it is the same “Light” that describes Jesus in John 1:4, “That Light was The Light of men.”). Paul spent the rest of his life being persecuted by every “plotter”, for spending his remaining time on earth by “Trying To Be As Catholic As I Can!“
Paul then gave us a “Hidden Prophecy” of how billions of Catholics would face the problems caused to us by such “plots”, many from Gentiles, for the next 2,000 years. Instead of hating the “plotters”, we follow Paul’s example: “I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.”
Why do “plotters” always want to destroy The Only Church Spoken Into Being by The Church-Creating Word of Jesus 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.”
Today, computers help Catholics be blessed to see that every person on earth is one of The Loving Programmer’s greatly beloved “Replicating Free-Will Programs”. God’s Angel Programs also had Free-Will. Some of them chose to reject God. Led by Archangel Michael, God’s Obedient Angels threw them out of Heaven.
Fallen to earth, these “living programs of negativity” lead many to believe the same vanity they believe: “I am as good, or better, than The Loving Programmer!” That vanity condemned them, and still condemns all who let the demons of pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth keep them from loving God and their neighbors as much as themselves. (The new, Catholic acronym, “peggalas”, was invented to help us remember the seven tribes of corrupting viruses, previously known as “demons”, to avoid!)
Sadly for their souls, earthly “plotters” still reject grateful obedience to The Loving Programmer Who wrote The Creation Program and made it so huge to give His Replicating Human Programs Free Will! It is 40 trillion light-years across and expanding so that we cannot see an end to The Loving Programmer’s Power to Program!
“Plotters” also reject The Holy Spirit! Familiarity with computers and cell phones lets us see Him now as “The Downloading Verb of God”. He “Downloaded The Creation Program” and downloaded each person to take form in our special, unique “image of God”!
“Plotters” want everyone to be too confused to think clearly enough to understand that! They also hate and reject The Prophesied Messiah, The Word of God. Jesus is the living essence of The Loving Programmer’s Creation Program in Human Form! All “plotters” hate for anyone to Think Clearly about The New Catholic Way to see how real The Holy Trinity is!
For 2,000 years, and all the time remaining, Catholics have been, and will be, the only people on earth to get the actual “keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” that Jesus died to leave to His First Catholic Pope! They include The Seven Catholic Sacraments that Jesus gave His Life to leave on earth: Baptism, Confession/Absolution, Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Healing, and Holy Orders. Now, Catholics can see that The Messiah’s “Holy Orders” of God take human form in our Catholic priests, religious, and people. God’s living “Holy Orders” bless and guide billions of souls to Heaven.
If someone who hated Catholics as much as St. Paul, the former “plotter”, could give his life to love God and his neighbors enough to live and die to help us to “Be Catholic!”, there is hope for everyone on earth, including all the “plotters”. The Blessed St. Faustina (there is a link to her Free Diary at the end) tells us that souls may be saved by sincerely pleading with God to forgive them for not following the example of St. Paul as quickly as he did.
May every person on earth be blessed to ask God: “Help Me Be As Catholic As I Can!”
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Today’s Hidden Rhyme: “May every life be blessed to end / Among God’s beloved ‘obedient friends'” (John 20:23)
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