1 Peter 5:5-14 tells Catholics what we must do to get our souls into Heaven!
“Clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for: ‘God opposes the proud but bestows favor on the humble.'”
Our Catholic priests and religious are blessed with more than the “humility” to “Be Catholic”! They take God’s Vows of Humility: Poverty, Obedience, and Chastity.
To be sure, every person who respects Jesus enough to be “humble” enough to obey His Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope and be blessed by following: “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.”
Can people who are not Catholic get into Heaven? God had St. Faustina let us consider: “Those who plead to be Forgiven by God may be blessed by Him, despite a lifetime of confusion that kept them from Him.”
Catholic priests and religious bless us by being Living Examples of Humility. They are rewarded with High Places in Heaven for the blessings they helped The Loving Programmer download so that every person may “Upgrade Our DNA” enough to be “Children of God” and have our immortal soul be welcomed into Heaven at Our Judgment! That “Upgrade to Our DNA” may be as tiny as having a few of our negative electrons be switched to “positive” by our final prayer requests to God!
Catholics follow the advice from Our First Pope! “So, humble yourselves under the Mighty Hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time. Cast all your worries upon Him because He cares for you.” Is there a better reason to “Be Catholic”?
The First Pope then reminds every person on earth: “Be sober and vigilant. Your opponent, the devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.”
Catholics are blessed to understand! Seven tribes of demons want to move into our minds and “devour” our souls. We are blessed to know them by their Catholic names: “pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth”.
How do Catholics keep our souls from being “devoured” by those seven tribes of demons?
First, we identify them with The Catholic Acronym: “peggalas”. When we are tempted by one or more of them, we ask God and our Guardian Angel to protect us with The Seven Catholic Sacraments: Baptism, Absolution/Confession, Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Healing, and Holy Orders.
What are “Holy Orders”? They are the Directions from God that take Living Form in our Catholic priests and religious so that every Catholic may receive “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” they have provided on earth for the past 2,000 years!
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May be blessed to understand / and Be As Catholic As We Can!
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