In the Catholic Church there are some orders. They are full time prayers. They get up at the crack of the dawn and they are down on their hunkers praying away like mad, saying the Rosaries, reciting the breviary, following the liturgy of the Church, contemplating, meditating, reciting, etc. So their minds are completely engrossed in heavenly things.

How could God transform some simple country bumpkins into the heroes of history? By fire and blood. What is the fire? The fire is the Holy Spirit. What is the blood? The blood is the blood that Jesus shed on the cross to wash away our sins. Jesus chose the 12 apostles, and they were a motley bunch. He managed to blend them and made them into one of the greatest forces of history of mankind, using blood and fire.

Listen to the word of God. Our whole lives should be devoted to this task. If we put our hands to the plow we should not look back.

Jesus\' Church would be everlasting. Earthquakes, revolutions, tornados will not affect it. The Church can be called the Bark of Peter. Just as Peter sailed his boat across the Sea of Galilee, Church’s boat will sail across the sea of time.

Are you a Martha or are you a Mary? In this world we have many different types of people. What kind of type is Martha? Martha is somebody who really gets down to it. If there is a job to be done she will be there. And she happened to look through the door.Ant there was Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus with adoring eyes looking into his face. She was drinking it all up. She memorized every word that he said.

God loves you very much. He loves each of us more than our mothers love us. He will not send us to hell because we belong to a religion that he didn’t found. In this religion he has given us everything that we need. In the seven sacraments he is with us from birth to death.

Wonder of wonders! Who could have imagined? Five pieces of bread fed more than ten thousand people. And the Gospel says there were five thousand men. It’s very difficult to believe five loaves and two fish could feed more than ten thousand people.

The Catholic Church was founded by Christ and that is by God
himself. So this is the bone of
contention. Which religion was
founded by God himself? Only
the Catholics claim this. All the
other religions are man made
religions.

Jesus had the whole thing weighed up. He looked at things through the eyes of eternity. We are so shortsighted. Only God can see the whole picture.

All religions have to learn to get along with each other. Actually there is no other alternative. Let’s look at things close at home. Let’s examine simply religious development in China. The whole thing probably started off with animism. This animistic religion kind of joined up with philosophical Daoism. Then Buddhism appeared in China about two thousand years ago. Daoism and Buddhism influenced each other. And then we had the teaching of Confucius.