Lux Mundi: August 2013

Sunday, August 18, 2013

We must save souls

It is very unfortunate. These days we are desensitized to death. Since this is true, how much more are we desensitized by the death of the soul. In continually watching movies on communism and war it is truly tragic to see so much and destruction. Though, why do we not shed a tear these days over the death of souls. It is truly a shame. We have the ability and we are encouraged to save souls by petition to the merciful Sacred Heart of Christ but why do we stall? It is a shame to the Catholic faith. We must always fight for souls. Each day someone goes to hell. Each day a person loses there soul and suffers in the eternal hell fires because of their rejection of Christ. What are we doing? Should we not with every part of our being pray for the conversion of sinners? If our family is sinful should we not pray for their conversion? If we have no pity for those who eat the same bread as us and are literally of the same blood how can we expect to love others? We must learn to save souls. The pivotal point of every Catholic should be to be like Christ and thirst for souls. Everyday should be a day that we fight for souls. If we don't then why are we praying? Yes, we should pray to overcome vice and sin but what about the souls who do not pray. What about the souls who, not only know nothing about God, but flat out spit on his commandments and reject his mercy. Souls... that should be what we fight for everyday.

It is horrific to see the systematic killing of souls on a global scale. The devil in all of his cunning and evil has found a way to destroy the soul as well as the communists destroyed the bodies of tens of millions of human beings. Maybe it is even more efficient. Why? Not only do the government allow atrocities to the soul like pornography, infidelity, sodomy, and so called same sex marriage but also parents allow it as well. Not only do mothers and father allow the murdering of children in, what should be the safest place in the world, the womb, but even those who survive the mass infanticide are brought into a world where they are likely to not receive baptism and receive sanctifying grace. May I remind you that we need sanctifying grace to get into heaven. On top of that they are bombarded with blasphemy, impurity, and pure evil with no one to protect them, not even their parents. Truly, this age is diabolical in all aspects. We must save souls. We must save all those beautiful and priceless souls which the Lord in his infinite love chose specifically so that it may live with him in heaven. Tears should pour in knowing that souls destined for love of God live as if there is no God. Souls...Never forget that Jesus came to save souls. Our religion revolves not around self-fulfillment or enlightenment or even on personal gratification or our personal relationship with God. Our religion revolves around saving souls. Every dogma and prayer is for the purpose of saving souls. Every peace of scripture, tradition, and revelation is for the purpose of saving souls. What should we do? If we have a family member who is outside of the church we should devote our prayers to there conversion and refer them to the blessed Mother. Always start converting the person closest to you. In the new evangelization, I rarely hear of praying for the conversion of souls. I believe that the new evangelization should take a new approach. The motto of the new evangelization should be “Save Souls from Hell. pray the rosary for the conversion of all lukewarm Catholics and fallen away Catholics”. Lets stop kidding ourselves in thinking that nothing but prayer, the holy sacrifice of the mass and growing in holiness will save souls from hell. That is how it has always worked and it still works. Let us learn from the saints how they converted souls. Saints like saint Monica, saint Dominic, saint Francis of Assisi, saint Francis of Paola, and many other saints who by their example of holiness and prayer converted and still convert countless souls. Start today, Save a Soul.

"Jesus, knowing that all things were accomplished,
that the scripture might be fulfilled, said:
'I Thirst'."
John 19:28

About Us

First of all we are all young people and proudly Catholic. We are a group of close friends in college and we are lively and practicing young men and women who have devoted our lives to the service of Christ and His Church in whatever way the Lord sees fit! That is partially the most exciting part of this group. We all went to high school together, and we met in our senior year. A string of circumstances brought us together to pray and discuss our faith. It was a truly incredible time! For now there are only a few of us working on this blog but we hope some others will join us as time goes on.

This Blog was my idea. I have been looking for a way to get involved in spreading the Gospel in a real and effective way for two years. I cannot stand being on the side lines. One day some inspiration came to me: A blog by Catholic youth for everyone. Since I can remember there has been a lack of an intense youthful presence in the Church. That is most certainly changing, and I want to be part of it! In my many experiences with catholic blogs, I have had to go to several places to read all the information and discussion I wanted, so my thought was to create a one stop blog, simple and easy, which has several “voices” with one directed sound. I don’t know if that makes sense. I want to have one direction with several different authors and perspectives but all young. I also don’t want the writing to be overly elevated nor obsessively analytical, which can sometimes scare people away. But we also can’t dumb down the faith; to do that would be an insult to the one true faith. That, for the most part was the idea! There are things similar, but none like what I was really hoping to do. One night I was blessed with this inspiration. But I have been frightened to take it on, that is one of my faults, misguided fear. The idea wouldn’t go away and I figured I needed to try but I couldn’t do it alone. There was only one group of people who could help me do this and so I enlisted the help of my friends; and here we are.

A little bit on our beliefs: We are most definitely and unapologetically Catholic. So, although this may be a cliche, if you need more information, google the phrase Nicene-Constantinople Creed. That should sufficiently point out our doctrinal backgrounds. One thing we do wish to express explicitly is our total reliance on the authentic authority of God, both in Heaven and on Earth. We commonly encounter that which is on Earth, although it is eternally united to that of the Lord! What we are saying is we submit ourselves to the judgment and guidance of the Holy Father and the Magisterium. That is of the utmost importance. Many Catholics today neglect authentic Revelation (i.e. Tradition) and authentic authority! But that is for another time!

We love Christ and His Church. We are not perfect, in fact we are sinners, and I particularly am quite the sinner! However we are striving for holiness and to live a saintly life so that we might in the next life be rewarded with entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

We hope you find your way to an informed faith through this blog. We don’t expect to reach millions but maybe a few will find us and be inspired, maybe someone will find us and through the grace of God find his way to authentic Catholicism. If but one finds this to have made a positive impact in his life, it shall all be worth it! But we will be careful; we don’t wish to have a negative effect on anyone!!!