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Points to Ponder About
PURPOSE
The purpose of Points to Ponder
About is to stimulate thinking that would draw the disoriented
Faithful back to God (1)
and away from the hypocritical duplicity of some religious
institutions which are destroying the little faith left on earth (2)(3).
The instructions are simple: Just invoke the illumination of the
Holy Spirit of God while you ponder upon any of these Points to Ponder and let God guide
you to Light. We know that some make-believe religious leaders will
say: "What about satan interfering
and leading the soul astray?" To those... we invoke Our Lord's
Words again:
"...Get
the behind me, Satan: the art an offense unto me: for the severest
not the things that be of God, but those that be of men." [Matthew 16:23]
and further
"And I
say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and yea shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that sketch
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it
shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a
father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a
fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer
him a scorpion? If ye
then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how
much more shall
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? [Luke 11:9-13]
and finally
"But
woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither
suffer ye them that are entering to go in." [Matthew 23:13]
Points To Ponder - May
- August 2005
Published on August 31, 2005
With all
the "Katrina talk" - Do you
wonder why the 1900 Storm
which razed Galveston,
Texas, has not been mentioned by anyone on a global scale?
It is not that we are crying "conspiracies!" but when something this
incoherent hits us right on the face it makes one wonder.
As the newscasters in Europe and the US were making the approach of
Katrina just another Reality Show, we realized that no one was
mentioning the 1900 Storm in Galveston. To give you a "flavor" for that
storm we quote from
the official
site:
On September 8, 1900, a hurricane struck
Galveston.
Winds estimated at 140 mph swept over the island, leaving
devastation
in their wake. After the storm surge of 15.7 feet subsided,
Galvestonians left their shelters to find 6,000 of the city's
37,000 residents dead and more than 3,600 buildings totally
destroyed.
The 1900 Storm is still considered to be the
deadliest
natural disaster in U.S. history. After the storm, Galveston
constructed a seawall and raised the grade of the island to
protect it
from future hurricanes.
We thought that the News Services young reporters were just not aware
of it or
forgotten it, thus we took the time and communicated with CNN, Euronews
and two key Stations in Spain - one of International reach and another
one that
we consider the best news station in Spain. We informed them of
their
oversight and gave them the appropriate Site address so that they would
not
have to take our word for it.
Results: Not a word on TV nor the global press as of midnight
GMT.
Published on August
27, 2005 [Mary, Health of the Sick]
Do you
ever wonder... What Jesus really meant when He said:
"And
thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven,
shalt be brought down to hell; for if the mighty works, which have been
done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained
until
this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the
land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee." [S. Matthew
11:23-24]
The time
of the destruction of Sodom was the time of Abraham, who as you may
recall, managed to convince God to delay its destruction appealing to
His Justice for the few non sinners remaining in it. [Genesis 18: 17-33]
However, Capernaum (1) was a city that was
Graced with the physical manifestation of the Second Person of the Most
Holy Trinity - Jesus Christ. In that city he worked mighty deeds, yet,
they turned their back to Him; they did not believe in Him.
Thus, one of the many messages in this
particular Biblical passage is that:
Even
amidst the wickedness (due maily to ignorance/darkness) found in Sodom,
had they met Jesus Christ and learned His teachings, enough of those
ignorant citizens would have responded in a positive way so that the
city would not have been destroyed for the same reason God did
not destroy it originally at Abarham's insistance. Yet, "holy"
Capernaum which rejected Jesus Christ, was brought down to hell.
But what is "accept" or "reject" Jesus
Christ? That will be the next entry in "Do you ever
wonder....?"
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(1) Capernaum: A city on the N.W.
shore of Sea of Galilee. Chief residence of Christ ans His
Apostles. [Matthew 4: 12-16; 8: 5; 9: 1; 17: 24; Mark 2:1; Luke
7: 1-5; John 6:17]
Published on August
22, 2005 [The Queenship of Mary]
Do you
ever wonder... Why sin seems to be making successful inroads everywhere
in the world and it appears that God is not capable of stopping it?
It is because God placed that task in our hands - It is our responsibility to
understand it and subdue it with the help
of Mary -
the Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Published on August
17, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... Why can the Church Administrators cannot see themselves
in the following words clearly spoken by our Lord and Master Jesus
Christ? When they do, it
will be too late for them. They have had many
opportunities to make a correction of course. We
gave them the final
opportunity and, as it is written, it was also ignored. May verses
36-39 be again
fulfilled as written.
Definition
of Pharisees: "The separate people", a Jewish religious group
who strictly followed religious laws and customs. [The M+G+R
Foundation Comments: Brings to mind the Dominus Iesus
mentality.]
Definition
of Scribes: Writers, or secretaries that recorded the
Scriptures. [The M+G+R
Foundation Comments: Wrote and recorded as needed to fulfill the
personal agendas of those who claimed to be serving God - just like
today.]
Matthew
23:1-39
1 Then spake Jesus to the
multitudes and to his disciples, 2 saying, The scribes and the
Pharisees sit on Moses seat: 3 all things therefore whatsoever
they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works;
for they say, and do not.
4 Yea, they bind heavy burdens
and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they
themselves will not move them with their finger.
5 But all their works they do
to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge
the borders of their garments, 6 and love the chief place at
feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 and the
salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye
are brethren. 9 And call no man your father on the earth: for one
is your Father, even he who is in heaven.
13 But woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven
against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them
that are entering in to enter.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one
proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of
hell than yourselves.
23 Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have
left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and
faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other
undone.
24 Ye blind guides, that strain
out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
25 Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the
platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and
of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which
outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones,
and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
garnish the tombs of the righteous, 30 and say, If we had been in
the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in
the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore ye witness to yourselves,
that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. 32 Fill ye up
then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye offspring of
vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? 34 Therefore,
behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of
them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in
your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the
blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of
Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All
these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that
killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how
often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen
gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall
not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord.
Published on August
12, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... Why the Vatican continues to try to impose God and
His Laws, by force and coercion, upon people instead of loving people
into wanting to be with God and love His Laws when this unGodly method
of "Evangelization" has failed so miserably given the state of the
world today - and its history?
The answer lies in what in the business
world is referred to as the "Peter Principle": An individual is promoted up to his level
of incompetence.
Logically, if said individual's abilities
were still being "under utilized", he would still be promoted one more
level and so on. In the spiritual realm it is the same, except that,
through drawing closer to God our "abilities" keep on growing and we
may safely be "promoted" within His service indefinitely.
If Jesus, the Second Person of the Triune God, "...advanced in wisdom,
and age, and grace with God and men." [Luke 2:52] - that is, He
progressed in His spiritual and intellectual development as a human
would do - what makes the Church Administrators think that "they have
arrived" and no further effort is needed for spiritual and intellectual
progress?
Tragically, they stopped centuries ago as legendarily Francis of Assisi
pointed out to Pope Innocent III while, at the same time, John Bosco
showed, by his trajectory that the only limit that we may have to
our
growth is our self-satisfaction and contentment with our status-quo and
not the supply of resources for growth - resources which are
uniquely supplied by God.
Published on August
2, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... Why, after a concerted and confirmed effort by European
governments,
U.S. and Roman
Catholic leaders to remove/neutralize/disarm
communist regimes, Fidel Castro continues to "thumb his nose" to
the U.S.
from barely 90 miles away?
Published on July
25th, 2005
Do you ever wonder... why such a prayer
"big to do" is made when someone passes on? Masses, rosaries, etc.
If we would have paid close attention to our Lord Jesus Christ and His
Most Holy Mother, we would have made a point of offering all those
prayers before the
individual passes on. When we pray for each other we are helping each
other to minimize the falls into sin as well as giving each other a
hand in returning to the
House of the Father.
But, as with most everything else, after nearly 2000 years, the
"Shepherds" do not quite have it clear yet - thus the repeated visits
of our Heavenly Mother Mary. After all - if She does not help us
obey
Her Son - who will? Do not count on "Cardinal"
Law, even though
he was rewarded by being
made the titular head of the most important
Basilica dedicated to Mary - St. Mary Major in Rome.
Published on July
23rd, 2005
We ponder... why amongst the least downloaded
documents is the one which clearly
explains the
covenant that we have entered with the Father and
how we keep violating it without a second thought. Many do not seem to
realize that counting on the Mercy of God
as "an
insurance policy" for
"sure fire" forgiveness and a "free pass" to Heaven is almost
equivalent to sinning against the Holy Spirit of God.
Published on July
18th, 2005
We ponder... why the most downloaded
documents in Portuguese are the following (in their English version):
Published on July
12th, 2005
Do you ever wonder... why the US
Government takes such precautions for the safety of the Space Shuttle
crew and then sends its young men and women to Iraq, for example, and
not even provide basic protection for them like, for example, adequate
armor? Not to mention a real reason for the
war!
Because the "Name of the Game" is brainwash
and as long as
humans
continue to be easy prey to such manipulations, they will continue.
Published on July
10th, 2005
Do you ever wonder... why a recovering
alcoholic can have Holy Communion with both species [Body and Blood]
and not "fall off the wagon"?
The answer lies in the fact that, after a long fast, partaking of the
Blood of Christ during communion does not have the same effect in the
organism as if one took a drink of wine.
Published on July
1st, 2005
We often wonder... why so many keep
"chasing new Marian Apparitions" and when quizzed about their prayer
life they do not even fulfill Mary's most basic
requests
repeated since
the 19th Century? Because marching
and demonstrating
is "more
fun" and is not what Jesus
taught by word and example.
Do you want to quickly shut up one of those "finger pointing" and "damn
all of you sinners" holy ones?
Start inquiring about their prayer life with specific questions
demanding specific answers and you will see squirming like you have
never seen before!
Published on June
21st, 2005
We often wonder... why so many of those
who label themselves as Christians are so ill disposed toward the
members of The Church of the Latter-day Saints - commonly called the
Mormons?
Amazingly enough - the "bottom line" of their efforts is to prepare
themselves for what the Virgin Mary has been announcing since La
Salette and Rome keeps denying - the reality that The End of These
Times is at hand.
The description of the original Heavenly apparitions to their prophet -
Joseph Smith - is very coherent with descriptions of the apparitions
of the Virgin Mary, the Angel of Portugal, and other Heavenly
visitors/manifestations. If there was any "plagiarizing of the story"
it was Joseph Smith's story the one that was plagiarized since his
experience predates the key
apparitions of Mary which started in the
19th Century.
We think it wise that the Children of God, those who have Eyes to See
and Ears to Hear, to familiarize themselves with
their
church, work and
recent increase in preparation activity. We are not promoting their
church
over any other church. Our position regarding our Faith has been
clearly and unequivocally stated. Our purpose is to assist those who
have a hard time in believing that The End of These Times is at hand
[that is - those who live in steadfast
denial]
to view reality from
a
totally different perspective before is too late.
Published on June
17th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... why in most every apparition of the Virgin Mary She
appears to be dressed like most Middle Eastern women do (except
Israelites) today. Her facial characteristics and the "flavor" of Her
garments reflect
the race and customs of the locale where She appears - be it Portugal
or Japan; however, the level of dressing modesty - head
veil/scarf included - matches the Middle Eastern women of today (except
Israelites).
This seems to be "part of the Messages"
and it is usually overlooked.
Published on June
13th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... why if God "...raised up judges, to deliver them
(His chosen ones) from the hands of those that oppressed them:" [Judges 2: 16], Israel insisted on
having "..a king, to judge us, as all nations have."?
Because man, in essence, likes to submit himself to another man while
hoping to raise himself toward the rank of king and lord over others
below him while he ascends pretending to serve God and them. This
request for a king made by Israelites to Samuel was very displeasing to
him
because Samuel knew well what was coming. However, God told Samuel:
"Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For
they have not rejected thee, but Me, that I should not reign over
them." [1 Kings 8:5-7]
Many trials and tribulations later as the result of having a King and
not Judges, Our Lord Jesus Christ enters into Time.
The true and only
rightful King of the Chosen People came to claim His Throne and His
people.
He is crucified after establishing His Church, placing Peter as its
"Cephas" - its Head. Peter was to be the First Amongst Equals and
establish a Church Administration equivalent to the period of Judges -
with Jesus Christ as the
King. It was all running quite well at the
beginning.
Then the Christian Church merges with Imperial Rome, borrowed a few
ideas from Pharaonic Egypt and, Presto!,
the Imperial
Roman Catholic
Church, in the format that reached the 20th Century, was
created.
Instead of having a leading spiritual shepherd in communion with other
equals and, as such, all serve as benevolent "Judges" helping the flock
in the application of the Faith - they end up with an Absolute Monarch
who claims to be always Infallible - something not even Peter was - who
encourages the de facto adoration of the Faithful, since he allows to
be considered Christ on Earth ... and God allowed it, just as He did at
the time of Samuel.
But wait - this sounds familiar... Didn't Aaron, the first priest, under the
pressure of the Israelites said to them: "Take the golden earrings from the ears
of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me....
And when he received them, he fashioned them a founder's work, and made
of them a molten calf.... and rising in the morning, they offered
holocausts, and peace victims...." [Exodus 32: 2-6]
This time around the consequences will not be the same.... they will be
worse - He has given mankind every possible opportunity to "get it
right". God is slow to anger [Joel 2: 13], but "slow" does not mean that He "never" does.
Published on June
11th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... why an individual who claims that "...even
in my high school years I never
believed in anything supernatural, good or bad cannot
help but ask himself
"What if our prayerful president, his
oil-soaked
pre-emptive wars, and his amen chorus of religious reactionaries have
come
together to do the devil's work? What
if Satan - and not just the demonic Dick Cheney - now drives the global
train wreck?"
Because those who have
Eyes
to See are determined by God even
though some in the
Vatican
claim that salvation is only possible
through the Catholic Church, not
man.
Meet this agnostic skeptic who seems to have Eyes to See :
Mr.
Steve Weissman.
Please
Note: We are neither endorsing the Site where Mr. Weissman
article appeared nor are we necessarily endorsing other articles by Mr.
Weissman. We are only commenting upon the article to which we refer our
readers to.
Published on June
7th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... why a lay man, who has done in a
limited scale the same thing that priests that have done
in a grand scale (with their superiors covering up for them)
gets a
life sentence and most guilty priests, Bishops and Cardinals get
away
with it? In fact, some of them, as the abominable
Law did, get
rewarded
with the honor to "MC" (because any other title would be a complete
travesty) the most important Basilica in the world honoring the
Immaculate One - Who silently, from He Throne, thunders: Enough!
Because "Who really cares?" Talk is cheap
and humanity has made it a
way of
life because the rest of us accepted it and The Vatican has been
setting the pace for "holy duplicity" for centuries.
Some readers may ask: "Why do you keep harping on this?" To which we
answer: "When you see how God will dispense Divine Justice in this
perverted generation, you will understand why we tried so hard to wake
up all we could." Yes, of course, we are counting on His Mercy but we
must also understand that the dispensation of Divine Mercy is not
always "a piece of cake".
Published on June
4th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... why would Syria (do what) /(act in a way which) will
without doubt lead to a US intervention in that country?
Recent History
may
show
that they would certainly not do so. Then who?....
Published on June
1st, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... why, with the tremendous technology advancement reached
by mankind by the end of the 20th Century, we have not
commercialized the harnessing of the enormous renewable energy source
provided by God through the biggest nuclear reactor in our solar system
- the Sun?
Simply because the World
Masters, who make their enormous fortunes in
the oil business and war industry would not make much money with it. No
oil prices with which to gouge the average citizen and no weapons sold
to fight wars which have
at their root cause the control of the oil
supply.
It is that simple!
Published on May
28th, 2005
What we
wonder about is....
Why we
have not been flooded by reports on Mrs. Bush's unfortunate
sense of
humor,
considering that every
time Mrs. Clinton even had acid indigestion, it was pointed out to us ? We like to remind
one and all of the covenant we renew (and will be judged by) every time
we pray the Our Father.
Published on May
19th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... why people choose to deny the undeniable?
Published on May
9th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... Why people choose to believe "facts" as these:
"Referring to the
secret -- which was
granted to two seers in that Portuguese hamlet in 1917 and which
involved an image of an angel set to torch the world (as well as a
"bishop in white," who, it was prophesied, would be gunned down)
-- Pope Benedict indicated that both the sparing of John Paul
II's life on May 13, 1981 and the events involving Russia (preventing a
nuclear holocaust) demonstrated the power of intercession."
As it has been published by others when the
reality painfully
shows
otherwise? No even the number of seers is right! There were three
and not two!
This, brethren, is what the Sin of Denial
does to
people. They believe
anything, as long as they feel comfortable and secure with it. So did
the five virgins that did not have any oil for their lamps....
At another time we shall explain the difference between "the sparing
of John Paul II's life on May 13, 1981" and "getting John Paul II's attention on May
13, 1981". There is a world of difference!
Published on May
4th, 2005
Do you
ever wonder... Why, with the apparent rebirth of Christianity the world
continues to slip faster and faster into a bottomless pit?
We read in a newsletter published by the Population Research Institute,
in an article about "Time to Win in the Judiciary" and authored
by Joseph A. D'Agostino that:
This seemingly
arcane debate about Senate
procedure has become white-hot. Why should pro-life, pro-family
citizens in Middle America care? The simple reality: The
only practical way of restoring democratic rule on the issue of
abortion, and thus the possibility of legal protection for unborn children, is by
getting good judges on the federal bench, particularly the U.S. Supreme
Court. It’s also the only practical way to prevent “rights” to euthanasia and
to same-sex “marriage” from being magically discovered in the
Constitution and imposed on America.
As the
reader may see, these "Christians" continue to give priority to
activism and political power play and not to the only "activity" that
will restore true Faith and true Morals - Prayer
and Acts of
Reparation. Did Jesus teach His people, back when He walked amongst
men, to change the system through
political
activism
and power play? He
did not nor will He ever do so. This is why the Evangelization has been
a complete failure... yet man
continues to
blindly follow other fallen
men and not Jesus.
As German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer said: The good Lord seems to have set definite
limits on man's wisdom but sets no limits on his stupidity. To
which we add, "...and his inability
to learn from past mistakes."
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