I ranted about the lack of study and the lack of catechesis for very young children in the family.
I have been thinking today as to the depth of the problem of the weakness of our families and, therefore, the Church.
I have come up with the basic truth that the vast majority of Catholics no longer believe in what they do on Sunday.
Sunday Catholics are Catholic for an hour a week and pagan for the other 167 hours. Amazing. One cannot get to heaven with this ratio of thinking about God 1:168.
The problem is that other gods have replaced God, so the name-only, pagan-Catholics are idolators.
What are they idolizing? Money, status, pleasure, self, family, other people....stuff.
Like all people who worship something, idolators turn into what they worship. If one worships money, one becomes the vice of greed. If one worships another person, one becomes the vice of lust, and so on.
Now, if one worships God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, with one's whole heart, and mind and soul, there is a good chance that that person will become like God as much as it is possible for that person to do so.
Are you in sanctifying grace or are you in idolatry?
Of course, the truth keeps us humble. We are nothing without the Triune God.
What God are you becoming?
A test:
1) What or who do you think of most of the day?
2) How do you spend your free time?
3) What and about whom do you read daily?
4) On what do you spend your money the most?
5) If you pray, what is the focus of your prayers?
6) Who are your friends? Are they fellow idolators?
7) Where do you go the most, besides work?
8) If you give away anything, to whom do these things or money go?
9) If you work a 40 hour week, what are you doing outside of the normal eight hours times seven days a week, and hours for eating, washing, doing home chores? In other words, what do you do with your "down time"?
10) Saints have little or no "down time".
By the way, we do not know the name of the ancient people of Malta, or any one person's name. But, we know the names of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and so on. Why? Because the God of the Patriarchs is the Living God. The gods of the ancients were dead stone.
