In Defense of the Cross

In Times of Despair - Hope will Prevail

2008-11-15T03:00:00.001-05:00

St. Francis, In his prayer "Make me an Instrument of Your Peace", says

"Make me a channel of your peace
Where there's despair in life,
let me bring hope "

How wise was Saint Francis to have know that it is by Despair that Satan tries to destroy you - and it is with Hope that God resurrects you.

Satan relies upon Despair to destroy the children of God. Through Despair, Satan convinces a person of their apparent worthlessness, their helplessness in the face of events occurring around them and in the apparent "absence of God" in their life. It is Despair - the voice of Satan himself, that convinces rational people to do irrational things.

The Ultimate Goal of Despair - is to take Life. To Drain the breath of God from the ones he loves and created from the foundation of the world to inherit his kingdom.

You see, Satan had the kingdom but lost it. His Anger and Rage is such that he will try and deny the Kingdom of God to all others... including you. And the simplest way for him to do this is to influence you through despair... don't let him win.

Understand this - There is Hope - There is Life. And Life is Glorious and Good!

Hope is indeed a strategy in the battle against Satan.

No matter what you do in life, you are never in total control.

I often say that Life is like a vast ocean, tossing, turning, calm and powerfully overhwhelming to us at times and all we are is a little boat in the middle of it. We have no oars and no motors - just a Ragged Old Cloth Sail. The Only thing we have control over - is whether or not you want to put up the sail.

And this is where Hope comes into play.

If I was hopeless - Why would I raise my sail?

Yet it is Hope that causes me to raise my Sail... Knowing that a breeze will come and bring me to a place where it wanted me to be.

We are Sons and Daughters of the Great God Almighty who created you out of nothing. He put the breathe of life into you. Has placed you here.. in this ocean of Life... for you to raise up your sail. Overcome the Despair, Remember what is Good - Keep Your Hope Alive.

Become what you are destined to be!

Have Hope and Faith in God.
He will deliver you to where he wants you to be.

God Bless You.

P.S. If your feeling of despair is too great and you think you need some help... please contact a local priest, minister or rabbi and talk to them. Do it now! They can help you fix your sail. ;)

What do You Really believe In?

2008-10-19T01:39:00.002-04:00

There comes a time in everyone’s life when their individual and religious beliefs are tested. This Election Day, your beliefs will be tested.

In these current times of upheaval, beliefs that are rooted in the sand will blow away like paper in the wind. (For what is passing – passes and what is deeply rooted in truth – endures.)

For a belief, without conviction, is merely a convenience - easily disposed of and having absolutely no value or worth.

So the question is “what do you really believe in?”

While you consider this question, I will tell you what I believe in – I believe in God, The Power of God and the Goodness of God. I believe in the Sacredness of Life and the sacred bond between a Man and a Women that brings forth Life & Joy thru the Institution of Marriage. I believe in the Dignity of all Mankind. I believe there are forces of good and evil that battle every day and that we, as beloved children of God, are caught right smack in the middle of this battle. This Battle that we endure everyday can cause us to feel powerless, to question our beliefs and give in to the world and its many distorted truths. But in the end… there is only one Truth and it is this Truth that will endure thru the ages.

It is also this truth that gives us Hope. Hope that the individual human spirit will rise up, put selfishness aside and answer a divine calling that is greater than itself. I believe that one grain of sand, combined with 200 hundred million other grains of sand can shake the earth to its very foundations and change the world for generations to come.

You are that Grain of Sand. I am that Grain of Sand. We are all grains of sand. Our strength will come from our unity. 200 million strong.

This Election Day, Vote to Defend God. Defend Life. Defend the Family. Stand Up in Defense of the Church.

Put personal friendships aside and VOTE AGAINST all elected officials who have voted to destroy the institution of marriage and the sacredness of Life. Hold each and every one of your elected officials accountable for the harm they have caused to our Families, Our State and our Country. This is the hour of accountability!

Vote Wisely and you will Shine like the brightness of the heavens…

My personal thanks and best wishes to you and your families.

Bring Forth the Light - Uncover the Works Being Done in Darkness

2008-04-20T20:47:00.011-04:00

Our entire country is blanketed in a veil of darkness. For it is in the darkness that scoundrels and scavengers prey upon the living. Their hideous actions can not be observed or understood because being creatures of the darkness... they blend in with the darkness, They are one with the darkness. They are the same. And when one lives in darkness for so long, they accept the darkness.. because they have not experienced the light. The way to stop them, to conquer them is to bring forth the light!

When our nation was born 232 years ago, our ancestors stated " We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Simple words, but words that shook the foundations of the earth at the time. Yet like so many things which erode over time, just as the pyramids of Egypt have eroded, these words are destined to become nothing but dust because they have been neglected by the stewards who were appointed by the people to preserve and protect them.

Life -- was first... everything else comes after. Without the acknowledgement of Life, the Respect for Life and the recognition that Life is a direct gift of the Great God Almighty himself... there can be no future.

According to various dictionaries, the word unalienable means "incapable of being repudiated" "incapable of being transferred or revoked by any person or government" yet every day in our our country - the USA - we have elected officials making attempts to stifle Life... to deny Human Life ... to restrict it, to deny it's dignity, its importance and even its mere mention.

There is a Culture of Death in America and it is destroying our families, our children and our country.

This week, Senator Barbara Boxer of California stopped a Senate Resolution welcoming Pope Benedict XVI, because it contained this phrase

"Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable, witnessing to the value of each and every human life;" http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM42_poperesolution.pdf

She angrily fought and was successful in changing the above resolution to the following:

Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable; http://www.politico.com/static/PPM43_080417_ott08341_xml.html

That's right, Senator Barbara Boxer and her supporters struck down the words "witnessing the value of each and every human life" from this resolution.

Why would she do this? What does she really beleive and is trying to force on you!

BRING FORTH THE LIGHT - Illuminate the Darkness

Senator Boxer co-sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act - An Act written by Planned Parenthood. She has always scored 100% by Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood operates in the darkness as a "Family Planning Service" Officially they state ,"We are a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital health care services, sex education, and sexual health information to millions of women, men, and young people. For more than 90 years, Planned Parenthood has promoted a commonsense approach to women’s health and well-being, based on respect for each individual’s right to make informed, independent decisions about sex, health, and family planning.

I will do nothing here but provide you with factual quotes from the founder of Planned Parenthood and others. This is the Light, shining upon the darkness of their own words. Read the below, what is your heart telling you... you might think these quotes are not real, made up or taken out of context -- they are all verbatim... they are the truth.

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…" Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood - Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts.

"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' [is] the greatest present menace to civilization… the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying… a dead weight of human waste… an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children..." Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the American Baby Code that states, "No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood".

Barbara Boxer:
Voted NO on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
Voted NO on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions (Mar 2003)
Voted NO on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted NO on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
Recommended by EMILY's List of pro-choice women. (Apr 2001)
Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)
Expand embryonic stem cell research. (Jun 2004)

Boxer authored the Freedom of Choice Act of 2004 and participated in the floor fight for passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

Boxer does not support restrictions on the availability of abortion, such as late term ("partial-birth") abortion procedures, and parental notification requirements.

The Hour of Mercy is suddenly upon you!

2008-03-22T00:31:00.006-04:00

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"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Many await the physical coming of the Lord in his Glory, hopeful that the Day of the Lord will save them from this world and the evil that is consuming it. I am here to tell you, the Day of the Lord is at hand. The Message is one of Hope - not condemnation. Mercy is available even to the most wretched.

Within your own individual lifetime, you shall meet God. Whether at the hour of your death... or at the appointed time, you will absolutely stand before the Great God Almighty and be held accountable for the goodness of your life। Nothing shall be hidden.

God wants you to know that he loves you !

He loves you so much, that he sent his only begotten son, a son he loves more intensely than any other father has ever loved a son, who sacrificed his very own life.. so that his brothers and sisters could be spared. You are one of those brothers, you are one of those sisters. Your eldest brother Christ suffered and was tortured so that you might find forgiveness and eternal life.

His rising from the dead... from the desolation and the abyss should give you hope in your own resurrection. Its never to late... No Sin is greater than its forgiveness. The next move is your own.

2/25/2008 12:00am

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Larceny of the Heart is the point in which you do what's best for yourself and not for others. Larceny of the Spirit is the point in which you do what's best for yourself and not for God. In both cases, you rob God of what is rightly his... at so near the hour, stop the larceny.. stop the greed... Be good... Be virtuous... Be selfless... Be Wise.

The forces of Darkness are about to make an incredible yet subtle attack against the faithful.
Motivated by Power, Ruled by Pride, Lies, Deceit, False promises and Blasphemies... many will be fooled. I have seen the enemy... and the enemy lies within our own home. Pray to the holy spirit - for the power of Godly discernment and strength.

2/10/2008 1:49AM EST
Alone, screaming in the darkness
Hopeless, cursed and wretched.
He could not seek forgiveness, for he could not forgive himself.
Despair consumed him, Darkness engulfed him... for eternity destined.

But the Mercy of the Lord is Great
No Sin is greater than it's forgiveness
And having heard the cries of your living children
My Great God Almighty made the blackness white.

In an instant
That soul in despair, was no longer alone.
Your Light overcame the darkness
Michael and his army entered hell itself
and carried that wretched soul out - into the light of your presence.

Out of the depths of hell you seized him Lord.
You saved him. You always loved him.

Your mercy has no limits, your compassion never ending.
How Loving a father and brother, thou are.
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, continue to have mercy on us and
on the whole world. Thank You.

November 1, 2007 11:38PM EST
"You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the
great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father" Message from Mary given July 13, 1917 at Fatima.

On the night of January 25, 1938, Sister Lucia stood at her convent window and saw an ominous red glow that lit the entire sky. This light was seen throughout Europe and Africa and in part of America
and Asia. Scientists tried to explain it as a most unusual display of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights. But Sister Lucia knew that it was the great sign foretold by Our Lady on July 13, 1917, and that the punishment of the world was at hand. Several Weeks later, Hitler invaded Austria, World War II had begun.

There is an uneasy stillness in the air this evening as I feel compelled to write this. I learned along time ago to do "what the spirit moves me to do". The dreams of upheaval are intensifying. A series of events have been set in motion, which if left unaided, will cause tremendous hardship and tragedy. The message from 90 years ago, becomes NEW today.

"When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that he is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father." This is the warning, the warning of November. Know that the hour draws near. The period of peace is ending.

Pray - Pray - Pray. With faith, mountains can be moved and wars can be prevented. Prayer can save the living, bring life to the dead and move the father.

Pray - Pray - Pray

Walk in the path of righteousness and virtue. Act kindly, make your daily life a living prayer. Be like Christ.

Pray - Pray - Pray

The Warning of November is upon us.

9/23/2007 12:13AM EST
His Trumpet has sounded - Prepare the Way of the Lord

John 17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
"Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

"I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. "I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. "Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

September 23, 2007 12:13AM EST

The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.

The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Father, the hour has come. Protect your children.