Each Daily Catholic Reading is “Today’s Cure for Confusion Headaches”. Today’s Reading begins by giving good financial advice in Romans 13:8-10: avoid debt! “Brothers and sisters: Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
St. Paul tells us to cure other “Confusion Headaches” caused by sins of “adultery, murder, stealing, coveting, and whatever other commandments there may be.” He then explains how to avoid all “Confusion Headaches” in one sentence! “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” and explains: “Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.”
Psalm 112:1-9 confirms St. Paul: “Blessed is the man who fears The LORD, who greatly delights in His commands. His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth; the upright generation shall be blessed. . .” King David promises that life goes “Well for the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice, giving lavishly to the poor and being exalted in glory.”
Then, we see 1 Peter 4:14’s cure for “Confusion Headaches”: “If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for The Spirit of God rests upon you.” The first Pope gave his life to predict 2,000 years of truth! No one is more “insulted for the name of Christ” than Catholics!
The world praises those who only obey “some” words of Christ. They are complimented for rejecting “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven”. Sadly, they suffer the “Confusion Headaches” that afflict all who claim “I believe in Jesus!” even as they reject His Church-Creating Word to His First 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.”
All who say, “I believe in God and His Prophets, but I ignore their Prophecies about The Living Truth of He Who Fulfilled them!” suffer from “Confusion Headaches” that are cured by obeying The Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated fourteen times: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.”!
Catholics even cure the “Confusion Headache” in Luke 14:25-33! “Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and He turned and addressed them: ‘If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be My Disciple.'”
That “Confusion Headache” gets worse! “Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow Me cannot be My Disciple.”
Catholics cure those “Confusion Headaches” by realizing that we must “hate” every earthly attraction that keeps us from loving and obeying God and our neighbors enough to have our immortal souls be forever among those described in John 20:23; “You are My friends if you obey My commands.”
Jesus repeats the same cure for “Confusion Headaches” from our First Reading: “Avoid debt!” by asking: “Which of you wishing to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?”
Jesus gives us another way to compare us to Him: “What king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can oppose another with twenty thousand troops?”
We cure all “Confusion Headaches” by seeing the Power of God and His proven“troops” of Saints and Angels. That leads us to “renounce allegiance to all our possessions” and strive to be His “disciple”.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May we be blessed by Christ’s new birth / And free our souls from the sins of earth.”
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