Catholics see that Obedience lets us replace “unholy vanity” with “The Holy Vanity” that makes us more pleasing to Jesus at our Judgment.
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Question 1: “How do we escape the ‘unholy vanity’ of praising ourselves?”
Answer: “Catholics escape by Thinking Clearly about The First Commandment that God Spoke directly to each person on earth! ‘You shall have no other gods before Me.’ That Word of God changes our ‘unholy vanity’ and leads us to ‘put God before me.’”
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Question 2: “Is that why Catholics are Catholic?”
Answer: “Yes! Those called to be Catholics put This Word of God’s Son ‘before’ the self-serving ‘unholy vanities’ that rule all who willfully disobey His only Church-Creating Word!
‘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.’”
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Question 3: “What happens to the souls of those who willfully reject That Word of God’s Son?”
Answer: “Jesus tells us in Today’s Reading from Mt 15:1-2, 10-14!
‘Some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ‘Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they eat a meal.’”
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Question 4: “How did Jesus answer the question those Pharisees spent four days traveling a hundred miles from Jerusalem to Gennesaret to ask Him?”
Answer: “He did not speak only to the ‘Pharisees’. He called ‘the crowd’ to Him, and He spoke directly to the people!
‘He summoned the crowd and said to them, ‘Hear and understand. It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles the man; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one.‘”
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Question 5: “Did that ‘offend’ those who heard Him say they would be ‘defiled’ if they loved themselves more than God?”
Answer: “Yes! ‘Then His disciples approached and said to Him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what You said?’”
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Question 6: “How did Jesus respond?
Answer: “‘He said in reply, ‘Every plant that My Heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.’.”
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Question 7: “How can we keep our soul from falling into that ‘pit’?”
Answer: “Catholics are blessed with ‘The Holy Vanity’ that leads us to be in The Only Church led by Successors of the one person on earth to whom Jesus Christ gave ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’.”
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