Monday, December 14, 2015

Why Early Baptism Is Necessary For A Child?


Holy spirit, formed the church. To become a member of church, you need to baptise. Why catholics are baptising newly born child, without waiting him to be matured,and for hm to understand what he is doing?

In answering this question, one can see, whether a person, understand the concept of Catholicism or not

Basic answer!


(1) Christianity not started from matured Jesus, but from baby Jesus. Though HE is God and Holy mary+ Joseph knew, they followed all rituals, a normal,Jew baby, should follow. This indicate primary reason, why we should baptize, newly born baby, to receive Holy spirit, to get rid of the original sin. Further adding to this point, one can notice, that a baby, cannot decide his name, parents has to do that. He cannot decide his food,parent has to select and carefully handle that. Similarly, parent's responsibility, is to wash away his negative spirit, deriving from the teachings from Christianity.



(2) Jesus was baptized at the age of 30!, why should we baptize, our newly born children ?

Jesus public life,clearly shows, How to manage our freedom, actually started from HIS Baptism.(HE need not to have baptism, because HE is God,but he set an example and John the Baptist, foretold, starting of the church with Holy Spirit) For a human, his life started from birth. Jesus clearly indicated the early Baptism, to be with God for any human, under the new concept.



(3) What is the responsibility of parent with regard to his child?. What God expects?
Basic aim of christian is to how to follow God's Will for him and enjoy happiness, present and future. There are 2 steps for this.

(1) during childhood, parents have to guide,maintain the child, on behalf of God. At the end of the childhood, when he become youth, parents/teachers should ensure that child is now stand alone to have a proper dialogue with God.
(2) After above(1) parents main duty seized and they should allow children to be a good human in the eyes of God. Not to interfere too much! Into their life is important, trusting that God will look after him.





4. Is it possible to give baptism and confirmation together to a child?
 When a child have not received Baptism, and he has sufficient knowledge, about commandments{ Father-10 commandment, Son-pardoning +love, Holy Spirit- church rules),as an adult he can receive baptism, irrespective of the pedigree of their parents. Once the Baptism received, then only he can receive Holy Eucharist. So you need sufficient time period, to practice as a catholic, you need to have sacrament of reconciliation-confession practise and ensure it's effects to your life!, hence it is not advisable to provide all these 2 together. These 3 sacraments are distinctly cyclic and cannot override. After baptism, you will receive Holy Eucharist, then you will receive Confirmation. After Confirmation, church ensure that the matured person is now fully dependent with God not with parent or teachers.



(5) Did Holy mary received Baptism?
She received Baptism twice.
(1) As mother of Jesus, when she conceived HIM, thru' the power of Holy spirit
(2)When the church formed, at pentecost day, she received, the fire of Holy Spirit. She witness our(mine and yours) baptism, at pentacost day, as our spiritual mother. Similar to Christ bearer, She intercede with Christ, spiritually, with God, during our life.





(6)What is the effect of Baptism?

When Holy Mary conceived Jesus, into her womb, she was overjoyed. That is why she visited her cousin, Elizabeth, to share her joy with her. With baptism you get spiritual Joy ness from Holy Spirit. To receive Holy spirit to your life, not only baptism, you have to actively participate, in adhering commandments given by father+son+holy Spirit, and practice sacraments of Holy Eucharist+confessions.



(7) What the lessons Holy mary taught us in Baptism?
Holy mary received, Jesus, before HE was born into this world. When She received, the following important characteristics she has shown.

(1)Love that refuses to share kills its own power to love. Mary before to Jesus, showed you(when she was bearing Jesus in her womb)

(A)How to share love with others(Elisabeth)

(2)when you have christ within,you cannot be happy until you have imparted your Joy to others!
This shows why catholics doing charity, indication for the love of God.

GOD IS LOVE & HE WHO LIVES WITH LOVE,LIVES IN GOD& GOD IN HIM.

(3) Mary's and Elizabeth Joys are clear evidence, that human life, starts from a womb of a mother, and is a product of God.(You cannot decide from which parents that you can come to this world!). Why Abortion is prohibited to catholic is very clear from outcomes of Visitation!

(8) Finally, early baptism of child talks many principles of Catholicism. Out of which main factors are listed below:
(1) Spiritual responsibility of parent with regard to his child
(2) Jesus said"those who misguiding a child has to be thrown to sea, with a stone, tyed round his neck" shows how impotant this factor is
(3)It is parents duty, to provide, baptism, as early as possible, so that the child will be joy ed with spirituality, which we observed in visitation by Mary and Elizabeth.(No Joseph, neither Zacarius)
 (4)Baptism shows us the characteristic of love- you aways share with beloved and extend to others in the society, irrespective of the pedigree of recipient.
  (5) Jesus said" you have to follow God's will, like a child". Here HE indicates very clearly, the practical implementation of child with parents, and spiritual implementation of you and me with HIM, since we don't know all outcomes of any action in our life, except when we follow God,our life will be happy!.

GBU

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Monday, December 7, 2015

Immaculate Conception Of Mary(8/12/2015) Brief Version


A righteous man mindful and striving to develop merits, pure in thoughts and restrained in evils advances to fame and prosperity. This is an example of Holy Mary.


During advent, church is inviting you to revisit, how God has sent His beloved son, to this world?, and for what purpose?

Previous 2 sundays, you were reminded to daily analyse on the above subject with a peaceful mind(other wise you cannot focus). Last sunday U got to know the basic of Catholism, is to follow God's will, in your life. Basically, you have to become a slave of God, be cheerful in life, and enjoy happiness. How Mary+Joseph follows God's will.


Today tuesday, we celebrate Immaculate Conception of Mary.

Summary of today's reading:

 Todays reading:
Book of Genesis says( Gen 3:9-15.20) says"after adam..eaten..God called..where are you?"..he.."I..afraid..naked..hid"."Have you..eating..I forbade..? Man replied"..women..put with me,she gave..I ate..God..woman.."The serpent tempted.."God..serpent"..you crawl..eat dust..make you enemies.."
Paul says(Eph 1:3-6. 11-12)"before..world..made..chose us..become..adopted sons..praise..glory..in Him..claimed..God's own.."

Lk(1;26-38) says"..Gabriel..called..virgin betrothed..Joseph..'Rejoice..favored"..she..disturbed..angle"Mary..not be afraid..you..bear a son..Jesus..mary.."Since..virgin.."..Holy spirit..come..you..your kinswomen..old age..conceived..called barren..sixth month..Nothing is Impossible to God..Mary'let..done to me'.."

Reminds

(1)We don't believe that Jesus is God because HE was born of a virgin mother, as the apostles and evangelists did not believe it for that reason alone. We believe the divernity of Christ, because the evident of resurrection.
(2) Mary and Joseph marriege is attachment of hearts, one in which the right to another was surrendered for a higher purpose.
Both of them had taken vow of virginity. Then why they married?

(1)it kept blessed mother covered with honour until the time came to her reveal the VIRGIN BIRTH/it appears shortly after resurrection only she reveal. There is no point of talking about this until the final proof of divinity,
so far as public appearance went,JESUS was the Son of Joseph.
Thus the reputation of Mary was conserved: if Mary has become mother without a spouse, it would have exposed the mystery of Christ birth to ridicule, and would have become scandal to the weak.
(2) Joseph could bear witness to the purity of Mary. She did not tell Joseph,she has conceived by Holy Spirit of Love,because angel did not bid her to do so. Mary once revealed to a saint;
" outside Golgotha,I never suffered a such intense of agony as in those days when,despite myself, I brought worry to Joseph, who was so just"



(3)Similarly, the sorrow of Joseph came from inexplicable
On one hand he knew Mary had taken an vow of virginity,as he has done. It seem impossible to believe her guilty, because her goodness. But on the other hand, because her condition, how could he believe otherwise? Joseph suffered"Dark night of Soul"
(3)Also, Mother of God was sinless, in order that we might more easily believe that she had flung before the face of world, women's greatest challenge to sin-the vow of virginity-and kept it and made it bear divine fruit.
(4) Both Jesus and John the baptists births, cannot,justify scientifically
NO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE CAN EXPLAIN SUCH A THING

For God it is possible, but for human it is impossible. Mary and Joseph though they are humans, ideally supported God's Will. That is why we as catholics respect them,and always follow them!.



Summarised details about Immaculate conception!
 (1)it took 18 centuries, to declare this concept, due to?
On 8/12/1854,dogma of Immaculate Conception was defined by pope Pius 9. Why did it took so long?
In the course of history of church, this had been the object of some disagreement. Sources of these are 2 fold.

1st was universality of original sin taught with such vigor by St Paul in his letters& universality of Redemption in which it seemed impossible to exempt one sole creature,even if she was mother of God. Council of trent shed light on this 1st point when it declared that it did not intend"to include Blessed & immaculate Virgin Mary in decree relative to original sin" with regard to 2 point,church introduced distinction between Redemption of victims of original sin&antecdent "Preservation" accorded to Virgin Mary in view of future Redemption. Despite these reservations this,feast spread gradually thru out church! .


Immaculate Conception and Miraculous
Medal

On27/11/1830,as a novice to become a sister, Catherine Laboure,witness Our Lady, with her feet crushing the head of a serpent. Mary introduced the oval shaped Miraculous Medal,On it were these words:

'O Mary,conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee!

On other side of  medal,a letter "M"(Mary's initials)was surrounded by the cross.

 Below there were2 hearts, one heart pierced with the sword (for Mary)& the other heart crowned with thorns for Jesus,
12 stars-apostles(to symbolise our Faith & church).

Mary said' HAVE A MEDAL WORN AROUND THE NECK, great graces will be given to all who wear it WITH CONFIDENCE'.

This is the only medal,even now available where whole of catholic doctrine is depicted.

By1842 more than100mil medals distributed.Due to profusion of healing &conversions,MEDAL Re named 'MIRACULIOUS' resulted Pope Pius IX. In 2/2/1849 commence study& establishing dogma"IMMACULATE CONCEPTION"on 8/12/1854



St Catherine died on 31/12/1876 & beatified on28/5/1933,after 57yrs of her burial, it was found to be completely incorrupt(now Rue de Bac PARIS).She was canonized-27/7/1947.Her feast 28/11.








 How the heaven confirmed the Immaculate Conception?

Apparition of Lourdes!

11/2/1858-illiterate Bernedeth(14 yrs) went with Marie(sister)&Jean,in search of fire wood.She saw shining lady,around 16 yrs,VERY BEAUTIFUL,DRESSED IN WHITE, BLUE SASH AT WAIST,WITH A WHITE VEIL(FLOWING DOWN FROM HER HEAD)STANDING WITH BARE FOOT ON 2ROSES at Grotto of Massabielle,along river 'Gave'  SHE was having a ROSARY in her right hand with white beads in golden chain. Mary appeared17 times until16/7/1858).

 On25/3 She told'I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION'confirming Dogma established by church1854&on apparition in1830with MIRACULIOUS MEDAL.

Proof for Jesus virginal birth &Bodily Assumption of Mary follows immaculate conception. Bernedeth became a nun &lived only 35yrs(16/4/1878).At beatification(5/8/1925)her body exhumed &found to be incorrupt,even now,U can see in nevers!.



IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF MARY, CHURCH HAS BEEN CELEBRATING FROM THE BEGINING. WITH MIRACULIOUS MEDAL, THE PROOF AND DOGMA's HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. WITH APPARATION OF LOURDES, IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. BOTH, UNCORRUPT BODIES, ST CATHERINE(paris/france) AND ST BERNEDETH(neverre/france), SHOW PRESENT DAY WITNESS OF IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF MARY.




- Special Character of Mary:
Mary did not blame any body. We always try to point, some body else, for our failure. This character in human is coming from original sin.
Adam&Eve disobedience changed everything. They wore fig leaves to cover their nakedness,(explain why we should wear clothes).They heard sound of God walking in garden. They hid themselves(reminds first game of HIDE&SEEK)Peculiar question God asked"WHERE ARE you"(does God not know).God doesn't ask question to gain knowledge,but to give opportunity"COME CLEAN".

Adam came clean. When God asked why?,he said" WOMEN WHOM YOU GAVE ME TO BE WITH ME,SHE GAVE ME FRUIT &I ATE!"-his words means-He not only blames women, but in case that's not going to get him out of Hot water,he says"Whom you gave me"

God ask Eve-She realizing how this game is played,passes buck once more. "SERPENT TRICK ME &I ATE"-this Blame Game can only go so far &begining with serpent,God declares HIS judgment against each of guilty parties.

For serpent-scrolling on ground&eat dirt. Eve-Pain in child birth,Adam-pain of laboring field.



from Eve Sin started, from Mary sin cleared. Mary was so happy with God, she has been fortunate to bear christ, in her flesh. This is clearly shown, any human can lead a life to please God and God will see,him happy. Immaculate Conception lead us to understand, that we have to be mindful,about leading our life according to the God's Will. Though not ideal like Mary, by following her, we can reach the Happiness promised by God, even in this life. Immaculate Conception lead us to analyse how to bear Christ, in our life. Study of Holy Mary's life become critical, during this advent period.


GBU

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Summary Of Cycle 2 Ordinary Times 34 Sundays


Purpose of sunday readings:
Catholic church has organised sunday readings  to educate christians. There are 3 main readings for each sunday. 1st reading, 2 nd reading and 3rd reading. 3 rd reading is only from Gospels while 2 nd reading is generally from new testament writings from early church. While 1st reading is generally from old testament. All 3 readings are selected in such a way, to contemplate, one aspect of God, towards humans.

In order for you to understand,gradually about God and increase your faith, these sunday readings are organised in 3 yearly cycles. In order for you to get good knowledge of God and for you to develop faith, one has to carefully reflect sunday readings in all these 3 years at least once. The gospels of mark,matthew and luke are generally used for cycle 1,cycle 2,cycle 3;





You can study who is God(Father+Son+Holy Spirit) and how they created this world, why fear,sorrow and disagreements presence in our life and what is the treatment for that,etc..,in a cycle of 3 years.



God's hand
It is surprising to note, how these 3 reading sets have been selected to pass a God's message.(Some readings are connected with different paragraphs!
Thanks to St pius V and bl Paul VI in orgernising from 1530 and revising at 2 nd vatican council 1968.



Summary of cycle 2 ordinary times

One can get some idea as how sunday readings are organised, which might help to understand the purpose of sunday readings, from the immediate completing cycle 2, which ends 22/11/2015. This will be useful for any person, who wants to get an overview in the beginning of year 2018, when it starts the ordinary time.. Same idea will repeat in 2021,2024..etc.
2 parts can be deduced for the cycle 2 ordinary times sundays.



In my reflection,(you might have a different view), there are 2 parts of reflections for cycle 2:

Part 1
 summary Sunday 1-22

GENERAL CONCEPT OF CATHOLISM

Catholics,believe God created U different to others to live happily. For that U have to follow HIS Will. Church was formed by Holy Spirit to achieve your' happiness!.God extend this human generation thru' married &single vocations. Craving for earth bounds needs making U to sin which lead to fear &sorrow. Follow rules given by God,daily change to realize anticipated happiness. Disseminate your' happiness with neighbour. With Baptism you have become member of church. World is changing every day leading different paradigms for humans. God(Holy Spirit)thru' church direct humans, how to manage this change. Ex: No artificial birth control,no abortion, no euthanasia etc). Catholic believe presence of God,in Holy Eucharastic & sunday mass is obligatory for them. At mass,after verifying yourrself whether U followed God's will,U receive Eucharist.

Part 2:
HOW TO PRACTICE CATHOLISM.

(1)Start seed of God, by appreciating His grace in your' life(2)Make daily habit of encounter Him,start with analysing graces U receive+Rosary(3)Church run by Holy Spirit. Know all commandments that U should follow given by Father-10 comms/Son-pardoning+love/Holy Spirit-church rules upto to date(4)Reflect How your' following God's Will,in family-acting like child/in personal-ready to remove any possessions for God.(5)you have to convert your' talent to skills,by practising,then develop wide knowledge.  By hard work,U contribute that to society, by forming good attitude,for love of God.  when U encounter with God,under above 2,follow cycle of Plan,Do,Control,Amend (means changing U'rattitude-repentance) (to adhere to God's commandments)(6)Avoid 7vices,in your' life.(Sloth,anger,pride, envy,lust,avarice, gluttony)(7)daily enjoy Happy life(new twig).now your' seed of faith is becoming tree(repeat 5 above)

These 2 parts, reflected are repeated in years 2018,2021...etc in ordinary times. This summary will help you to reflect on the sunday readings given in cycle 2.
GBU

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Saturday, November 14, 2015

How To See A Twig In Your Life Tree(essential action of a catholic


Mk (13:24-32) says" Jesus..'..after..distress..sun..darkened..powers in heaven's..shaken..son of man..clouds..power..send..angels..chosen..'Take..fig tree..its twigs..you know..summer is near..before this generation passed away..Heaven..earth..pass..my words..not pass away.."


1.Growing towards Happiness!

We like to see twigs in any given tree. It is an indication that tree is growing!. How do we know that we are moving towards Happiness of our life as guaranteed by God?
How to see a twig in our life? This is a dynamic process. Atleast once a year if you can see a twig, you are progressing. The timing can be reduced when your progress is faster!



2. Under what circumstances a twig will come?
Two basic conditions has to be satisfied.
(1) Enough water and manure has to be there for the tree
(2) Enough sun light has to be there for the tree.



3. Equivalent of water+manure for the tree.

The nourishing factor needed for your life tree is to develop good attitudes!

How to get correct attitude?
Every human in this world is born with at least one talent(special natural ability)
Talent has to be converted to skills(an ability/abilities to do something well, specially because you have learned and practice it.


One talent has to be converted to many more skills.
For example, if you have talent to play. Cricket. First you remove your laziness, and start playing cricket. When you practice more and more, you start developing skills of cricket,in many more areas!. How to field and bat. How to play in different ground scenario's, how to play in different weather conditions etc..etc. Then you gather knowledge about cricket. So one talent resulted many skills, many skills resulted Knowledge to be developed on your talent.
Once you gather knowledge, with hard work you start developing a good attitude(opinions and feelings that you usually have about a subject)
 towards cricket.
The above is similar, as how to develop attitude from any talent.


YOU CAN ALTER YOUR LIFE BY ALTERING YOUR ATTITUDES IN MIND. Words have meanings. It is interesting to note, the weightage factor for each words gives you some important idea, about value of these words to your life.

Assuming each letter in alphabet has a value equals to its sequence:a/1,b/2..z/26etc.

TALENT=20+1+12+5+14+20=72,
SKILLS= 19+11+9+12+12+9=82,
KNOWLEDGE=11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7=
96,
HARD WORK= 8+1+12+4+23+15+18+11= 98,
ATTITUDE= 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100.

You will see the importance of each word.

IN GENERAL beyond your attitude?

Your attitude,will become your thoughts; your thoughts will become your words, your word will become your actions, your actions,will become your HABBIT. It will become your personality. Right attitude produce right actions. When U know your talent is given by God,U develop all steps above for LOVE OF GOD

LOVE OF GOD= 12+15+22+5+15+6+7+15+4=101;

Hence ATTITUDE with LOVE OF GOD will put you top,while hard work& knowledge will get you closer.

Now you will get an idea of manure & water to your life tree.

Next step is how to get good sunlight?


. Equivalent of sunlight!

Sunlight is equivalent to God's grace towards you!. For that we have to follow commandments given by Holy Trinity.(Father/Son/Holy Spirit). When we don't follow the commandment, it is Sin. We should plan personal to ourself, how to avoid sin.



4.1 Let's analyze the importance of planning!

Good idea is worth of one rupee. Plan for implementing that idea is worth million rupees. Everybody has a plan. When you need to achieve goal, you need to plan, how to achieve that Goal.

Always management of achieving a goal consists of 4 steps
(1)Plan
(2)Do
(3)Control
(4)Adjust

This cycle keeps on repeating,until U reach goal. This is Deming management cycle


4.2 God's management cycle:

Let us analyze how God achieved, his idea of creating humans to enjoy Happiness.

(1) He created man and woman,along with world to enjoy happiness with full freedom and told Adam+Eve not to eat from the forbidden tree, but they ate and betrayed

In broad sense,then God implemented the 1st revised management cycle,God-father gave 10 commandments.

In 2nd cycle God-Son gave pardoning+love

to introduce back freedom for humans, 3rd cycle, Holy Spirit form church &gave you other rules(every time revising with paradigm shift/Living God).



4.3 Importance of managing Paradigm change: Living God concept

How my grand father lead the life compared to my life today is quiet different. For example he didn't have mobile telephones, while I am having now. But there is not much different, the life of my grand fathers pet dog to my pet dog now.  When human paradigm has to be changed to have a dynamic human generation, to have a wonderful world created by God. Otherwise my sons life will be same as my life lead to monotonous generation. Living God in HIS own wisdom, change the paradigm of humans, to make humans more efficient than before. There should be a mechanism of God to express HIS will, with regard to morality of humans. The mechanism is by invisible Holy Spirit to visible pope. There is a very clear guidance given, beautifully adopted by catholic church,where other Christian denominations,does not have!.


4.4 Need to manage paradigm shift and continuation of THE NEW TESTAMENT:

The new testament consist of histories of life of Jesus/a history of early church-ACT OF APOSTELS/ letters written by leaders of early church apostle Paul & various other 1st century christians/ final book of new testament,REVELATION-called apocalptic literature, referring to end time prophecies.

(Number of new testament books as at now is 27)

HISTORY- gospels(life of Jesus) MATTHEW/MARK/LUKE/JOHN; LIFE OF EARLY CHURCH- acts of apostels; letters PAUL'S LETTERS; Romans,1&2 corinthians,galatians,ephesians,philippians,colossians,1& 2 thessalonians,1&2 Timothy,Titus,philemon,
General letters: Hebrews,James,1&2 peter,1,2&3 John,Jude
APOCALYPSE(future events)- Revelations.

"there are about 23 doc, in the new testament(after church established by Holy Spirit). This is continuing in the LIVING CHURCH.

Why it is necessary?

 For ex:

One can argue,If I am suffering with cancer with unbearable pain, Euthanasia is good. Another case some can argue abortion is good, since you are not killing a living person. Some can argue test tube child is bad. As a church, there should be a process to guide people what is morally good. Similarly church, under infallibility of Pope declare certain things.



4.5 Important rules declared by Holy Spirit

Church has been formed by Holy Spirit: following important changes are made by Holy Spirit.
(1)Open to whole world(cast-less)
(2)No circumscion and no restriction to eat Pork (Jesus+all apostles were circumscised and did not eat pork)
(From above 1 and 2, became universal, church is open to the whole world)
Ref: 1 Cor 7:17-19-universal church
About no restriction on eating pork - 1 Cor 10:25.

(3)Saints+purgetory concepts introduced. Conceptually,saints+purgatory comes from introduction of free will(ability to choose,independent of God)after Jesus to human!

(4)Holy Mary's concepts(immaculate conception+assumption to heaven) introduced.

(5) Artificial birth controled+abortion+Euthanasia prohibited(manage the morality of human's)

Holy spirit thru' papal infallibility, gives church,all guidance necessary for us to manage all paradigm changes of humans. Just let me know easy thing:



4.6. Finally to be avail with God's grace, what we should do?

Practically you have to follow all rules to follow God's Will. Every day you are required to follow above 4 steps(Deming cycle) and revise your plan to be closer to God(to become sin-less).




5. How twigs come in to your life tree?
Once you have developed good attitude with action for the love of God and every day you reflect how to avoid sins in your life, you will get twigs every day n your life.

GBU

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