{"id":286,"date":"2016-04-24T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caryana.com.ph\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/psalm-7-the-direction-of-the-just-conclusion\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T02:58:03","slug":"psalm-7-the-direction-of-the-just-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caryana.com.ph\/index.php\/psalm-7-the-direction-of-the-just-conclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"PSALM 7 – The direction of the Just – conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

 1. The direction of the Just.<\/span>
     There is a spiritual principle mentioned by St. Thomas of Aquinas; that one must advance every second and every minute continuously in the spiritual life.  You cannot stop advancing in the spiritual life. If you stop you will regress.<\/span>
     The great saints never regressed  nor even stopped advancing in their spiritual life.  That is what made them saints. To reach Charity you must continuously progress otherwise you will never reach Charity.  Every minute counts, we cannot waste time by stopping or worse by regressing.<\/span>
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2. The direction of the sinner.<\/span>
     There is also another principle in the spiritual life.  That when you are in the state of grace and you sinned, you lose the state of grace.  And if you do not immediately repent, you will easily fall into the next sin and into the next and into the next  sin. And the more you sin the faster you will descend from one sin to another sin. <\/span>

<\/span>3. Consider the above two principles.<\/span>
    If the two principles are considered together, we will see that by the end of time,  the righteous will become more and more righteous;  while the filthy sinner will wallow deeper in his filth. This is according to the Book of Revelation. <\/span>

<\/span>      The sinner had seen the sin committed on Good Friday, the deicide committed by the Jews. That was a most horrible sin. But greater is the sin of the men today who do not wish to learn from the lessons of the past and who do not wish to obey the commandments of Christ for which He died in order to teach man how to save his soul. <\/span>
     The Psalmist seeing the hard headedness of man cries out; ‘let the wicked reach the height of wickedness.’  But how does the Psalmist describe the righteous, those who do what is good and right. The Psalmist described the ‘new’ evangelisation preached by John Paul II and Benedict XVI but which, it seems,  nobody understood since absolutely nobody is talking about it today; neither Pope Francis nor any of the bishops. <\/span>

<\/span>4. The direction of the just.<\/span>
    The Apostolic Commission gives four steps;  first, to go to all nations. Secondly, to baptise. Thirdly to teach them all My commands. And fourth, to teach them HOW to obey My commands. <\/span>
     Man is supposed to do only the first two steps; first, the going around the world. And secondly, the baptising. Jesus Christ is supposed to do the third. And the Holy Spirit is supposed to do the fourth. <\/span>
     In most cases, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are unable to do their part because most man cannot finish the second step. From the second step man regresses back in being unrepentant and go lower by multiplying their sins. <\/span>
     The just are those who accomplish steps one and two. Having accomplished their part, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are able to do their promised parts.<\/span>
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     Thus the Psalmist cry out; ‘let the righteous be raised by God in secret to the heights.’ These souls who advanced in their spiritual life without pausing along the way are ‘secretly’ raised by God to the heights of contemplation and the mystical life.  So as Pope Benedict described the ‘new’ evangelisation, the Catholic Church will be a very small community of people who have the reached the heights of the contemplative and mystical life by an Act of God.  Without any help from men, teachers, professors, experts or whatever. They will be raised by a pure Act of God.  A Church formed by God, Himself.  What a beautiful Church this must  be. It is,  because of the impending wedding banquet that will soon follow with the Son of God in heaven. <\/span>

<\/span>5. What does God see in these souls.<\/span>
     God sees that they are taking their medicine faithfully. The healthy are taking their medicine to keep healthy. And the sickly are taking their medicines to cure their illness.<\/span>
     The medicine for both is prayer. The sickly pray ‘Have mercy on me.’ While the healthy pray; ‘If there is iniquity in my hands, I have repaid.’ <\/span>
     The weak is asking to be free from his iniquity; ‘save me because of your mercy,’ The one who is healthy prays not to fall again ‘judge me according to my righteousness,’<\/span>
     One is restored to health and prays not to fall again; the other prays that he might be upheld in his health.  One ask for mercy because he has no merit.  The other ask for justice because it is given to one who is already righteous.<\/span>

<\/span>6. What happens.<\/span>
     The righteous have reached the boundary where human efforts stop and the Divine activities begin. So, as St. Benedict writes in his rule, the soul fly effortlessly forward in the sweetness of the Lord.   Grace takes over all activities that lead to the perfection of Charity.<\/span>
     On the other hand, the sinner unable to stop sinning and repent reach that stage where God takes away the grace of repentance from him. So like Judas, who surely have learned how to repent from Christ, suddenly did not know how to repent.   His knowledge was gone. He could not repent. <\/span>

<\/span>7. Two things are happening today which nobody is noticing. <\/span>
     Souls who have seriously studied the first step in the spiritual life, i.e. the life of repentance, have developed the virtue of Penance. Suddenly, they find themselves  in  the second step, Faith. And rushing pass the virtue of Hope they reach  Divine Charity. And the journey is effortless.<\/span>
     The have not studied Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church,  they do not have spiritual directors, have not even gone to any school (secular or religious.) have no contact with nuns, brothers, priests or bishops……..and yet they know their Catholic theology. <\/span>
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     While on the other hand we have religious  teachers  and theologians, graduates with five degrees, bishops with five thousand volume libraries and even a Pope that knows nothing about Christ and His teachings who thinks  the Fathers and Doctors  of the Church are from Mars and does not recognise St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Thomas of Aquinas. <\/span>

<\/span>8.  What shall we have today according to Psalm 7?<\/span>
    We shall have a world physically and spiritually possessed by Satan. And we shall have a very small Church of contemplatives that had been personally raised by God. Both will be poised for one great battle that will be God’s last test for men.  Of course we would hope to be on the side of the righteous. Then we should take our medication; the virtues that will keep our souls healthy and the life of repentance that will remove all the illnesses of our souls. <\/span>
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 1. The direction of the Just.     There is a spiritual principle mentioned by St. Thomas of Aquinas; that one must advance every second and every minute continuously in the spiritual life.  You cannot stop advancing in the spiritual life. If you stop you will regress.     The great saints never regressed  nor even stopped advancing … <\/p>\n

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