A blessed Catholic couple in their forties is having another child. They are an inspiration who let us begin to see how blessed they are!
In Today’s Catholic Reading, 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-27, St. Paul shows us where we are in our soul’s “race to Heaven”:
“Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run to win! Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we win an imperishable one.”
When most of us were in our late thirties and early forties, we were not blessed to consider having another child. This blessed couple has another shining diamond in the “imperishable crown” they will wear forever in Heaven, the immortal soul of their new baby!
May every Catholic Couple be blessed to “not run aimlessly” and be kept from having more eternally shining diamonds in the “immortal crown” that is “imperishable”.
Psalm 84: 3-6, 12 confirms the blessing of having a Catholic baby! “How lovely is Your dwelling place, Lord, Mighty God!… My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God… Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest in which she puts her young: YOUR altars, O LORD of Hosts, My King and My God!… Blessed are they who dwell in Your House…”
May all Catholics be blessed to honor John 17:17, an easy number to remember, and realize that having and encouraging babies lets us fulfill: “Your Word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in the truth.”
Those who discourage us from bringing Catholic souls into being are described in Luke 39:42! “How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye.’ while you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye.'”
May all Christians cure the “hypocrisy” of believing, “I do not want to understand the Divinity of Jesus well enough to heed The Church-Creating, Pro-Life Word that He Spoke to His First Catholic Pope and no one else!”
“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.'”
May we listen to Paul, “run the race”, and “win the imperishable crown” by bringing a new Catholic soul to Heaven!
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Don’t rest! / Conquer death! / Have a Catholic Baby!”
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