I wanted to share this website with you because one of the great illuminations of my life is the realization that, no matter what our station in life, what life throws at me, I am in control of my destiny if I join my will and free choice with that of Christ and the Catholic Church. If any of this stirs in you a desire to share it with the ones you love or care about, this is how you can make a difference one person at a time. Look up the “Starfish Story” on Google under Joel Barker and listen to this inspirational YouTube video.
The individual is so important in the Catholic Church that Jesus instituted a flawed group of believers who had not seen Jesus, with protecting the umbilical pipeline from the Father all the way to me; insignificant as I am, and you, significant as you are to the total river of complexity and consciousness of all that is. I am charged as a Catholic to protect that umbilical, even to the point of giving up my life.
Through this website, which I have given to you who subscribe to this way of thinking, I ask you to do what no one else in the world can do: to share this way of the cross with others around you. It is not the easy road, nor one glamorous by human standards, but you join those who practice the daily martyrdom of ordinary living where you are and as you are. Pray as you can.
I have written this for you so that you may have the resources to discover how to dig for heavenly gold that is right under your feet, or more appropriately, within your heart. Listen to Christ in that upper room of your inner self, a place where only you can go, or for those you invite in. All you need to do is Do What He Tells You.
These ideas do not replace your local parish, where you are also a vital member. Just as Jesus wanted each believer to tell others the “Good News,” so I ask you to tell the Anawim (those who think the Catholic Church has abandoned them) to at least look at this resource so that they may have life and have it abundantly.
When you say the Rosary of the Penitential Catholic (Sorrowful Mysteries only), dedicate one bead to different groups of people. When you recite the life of Christ, you automatically pray for those at that bead, even if you don’t consciously think about them. God has a big file cabinet, and in it each of us has a folder of what we did or didn’t do with the gifts the Father gave us to share with others. At our particular judgment (when we die), Jesus gets out our folder and asks us to give an accounting (Matthew 25). The point is that, after baptism, life on earth is all about preparing for the trip to live in God’s playground for all eternity (a mansion). Don’t waste your time lollygagging around with life; all you must do is pack for the journey to be with the one you love. To do that, be prepared to get your hands dirty.