The unitive state occurs, fully, in heaven.
But, as I have been thinking of the 500th anniversary of St. Teresa of Avila, which is being celebrated this year. I am reminded of the fact that the main purpose for my perfection series has been to encourage Catholics to follow the road to perfection while on earth, for one reason.
To create a strong Church, capable of withstanding the evils of the day.
That the Church is weak, as I have noted over and over again in the long perfection series, is owing to the fact that Catholics do not pursue holiness, but stay in the state of sin, imperfections, and egotism.
We are now entering the last great tribulation of the Church. I have been convinced for years that the Millennials are going to be the great generation of martyrs.
But, only parents who avail themselves to grace, to the purgation of even venial sin, can lead their own children to holiness.
Daily, I see parents concentrating on the same old problems of finding an education which will lead to a great career, material comfort and the City of Man.
Rarely do I find parents training their children to be saints. Go back to my series in the summer of 2013 on the virtue training of children.
Even children, past the age of reason, can leave the Faith, become apostates, and even go over completely to the City of Man, the dark side, leaving the life of the Spirit behind.
Why it is important to allow God to lead us through the Dark Night into the Illuminative State is to begin to live in the life of the virtues and prepare for union with God, in the mind soul, imagination, heart, body.
Our children will never see the lifestyle we had or live in the "normal" world in which we have lived since the end of WWII.
The time of peace is over. And, this is only one reason to pursue grace, to beg God for purification, illumination and unity, not only for yourselves, but for your children and the entire Church.
To pretend that things in five years will be the same as in 1950, or 1960, or 1970, or 1980, or 1990, or 2000, or 2010, is pure pretense. While we still have the sacraments, allow God to make you and your children holy.
Time for trivia is over. Look at the dates of these posts. I am merely highlighting things I have said before today.
19 Jul 2013
All of those who came out of Egypt, barring a few, like Joshua and Caleb, were not allowed entrance into Canaan, not merely because of punishment for idolatry, but because they simply were not strong enough to conquer ...
27 Jul 2013
Caleb and Joshua are two of my favourite Old Testament heroes. But, I tend to like the John Wayne men, such as David and the Maccabees. It is interesting that some of the most numinous and direct revelations of God and ...
26 Jul 2013
But, the GPS kicks in at one time and there is a narrow escape which needs angelic intervention-angels on horses may not work....studying Joshua and Maccabees for backup and see some very handsome, well-armoured ...
20 Nov 2013
Two, she could not understand why the army of St. Joshua had to kill Canaanites. (Also connected to this, would be the slaughter of the Philistines by St. David.) Good questions. Yes, God did punish many of those who built .
26 Mar 2012
The small Hebrew community was organized first under Moses, and then more so under Joshua and the High Priests. Leviticus is a good read for those who want the details. The Covenant came with many rules, but the ...
02 Aug 2012
That was there vocation, as was Joshua's, to be warriors. Are there any men out there responding to that call? Parents, challenge your children. Priests, religious and all in the consecrated life, re-read this beautiful letter.
08 Apr 2014
which was given through Moses is properly called the. Law. 6. The second class is of Prophets (Propheta), in which are contained eight books, of which the first is Josua Benun, called Iesu Navein Latin (i.e. the book of Joshua
16 Dec 2013
In fact, the grandson of Moses, Jonathan, the son of Gershom, became the head priest of idolatry in the land of Canaan. And, notice that it was to Joshua and Caleb that the line of leaders was given, not to the sons of Moses.
20 Aug 2013
St. Bernard of Clairvaux writes that great men ask God for great things. Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel, and many others asked God for great things, including the revelation of the Glory of God. We do not ask because we are .
08 Feb 2014
Like this young girl, who knew what was happening, and used her common sense to survive, we need to be training children to live in the Church Militant, not the Church Mushy. There is a wrong way that parents look at ...
22 Aug 2013
Are you combating the general softness of society by training yourself and your children not to fall into the dullness of sensuality and spiritual torpor? Are you practicing penances and training your children to do likewise?
28 Dec 2014
More and more, I am witnessing a huge problem of parents not training their children to respect adults. This, sadly, is very obvious in Malta. But, one thing is clear-that the Catholic ideal of parenting is rarely employed, people ...
27 Aug 2013
Daily examination of conscience is one way of training a child to be objective; that it, looking at one's daily sins and failings. This can be started in training for the sacrament of Confession as early as age six. Fourth, subjectivity ...
22 Oct 2014
Your children do not need things, the latest clothes, mobiles, TVs, stuff. They need God and formation in the virtues. Lay persons who do not take the religious training of their children in hand directly have added to the ...
26 Jul 2014
If you are not doing this, you are not passing the real Faith to your children, which is the ability to pray, study, reflect. God will punish parents for not training their children to have "a quiet mind" based on purity and serenity.
23 Dec 2014
Montessori training changed my life in my early twenties. I had a strong Catholic upbringing and clarity regarding roles, virtues, responsibilities and talents. I did not have a sense of what a normalized child was like by ...
27 Aug 2013
I am merely in this post going to list the qualities necessary for the parents of a child. I wish I had been more aware of my lack of holiness when training my own child. Now, these comments are a combination of me and Maria ...
15 Feb 2014
If you are not training your children in the virtues, they will not be able to withstand the coming difficulties. Parents, it is part of your duty to train your children to be saints, now. The fourth leap is to create community now, and ...
14 Dec 2014
In other words, virtue training for children, and character formation would be limited to one's choice of mate and for honorable, church-going families. It is clear that Austen was aware that not all marriages not made in heaven, ...
12 Jun 2012
I have Montessori training and had a Montessori school and know the importance of the stages of childhood uninterrupted by adult concerns. Movies, music, books, toys, and television push children into sexualized thoughts ...
20 Nov 2014
Children grow up never having suffered inconveniences or having to wait for satisfaction in anything. They have not had training in the virtues, but only aggressiveness training, or, the opposite, training to be completely ...
13 Jun 2012
Their mothers were responsible for passing on such virtues. What happened? A lack of Christian training is at root. Yes, children, even girls, must be brought up wanting to be feminine and wanting to see their femaleness in ...
05 Oct 2014
The messengers in this dream said that children who did penance by embracing the cross would not lose their innocence. ... Labels: saints and martyrs, thinking like Catholics, training of the virtues, virtue training ...
21 Jun 2012
I have Montessori training. As a Montessori directress, I barely praised anyone. The children learned confidence by doing. I showed them what and how to do something, they did it well and learned peace, confidence, trust, ...
11 Aug 2014
I hope you have read my sharing on virtue training for children. As the Jesuits say, "Give us a child before five and they are formed for life" or something similar. Meaning, the role of the parent is the spiritual as well as physical, ...
06 Sep 2014
Remembering that the soul is the form of the body, one is responsible for feeding the soul with good ideas which have good consequences. This happens in the best of Catholic homes with the training of the virtues in children, ...
01 Sep 2013
happyhockeymom, I am not an expert in those areas, but children of various degrees of Aspergers do very well in real Montessori environments, and all children, including those with Down's can have virtue training. Of course ...
23 Sep 2014
1) The person has had professional training and much education. These ministries are not for the anti-intellectual. 2) The person must be disciplined in fasting and mortification, able to do such for days. 3) No one with children ...
03 Sep 2013
Because I had Montessori training, and because I had worked and taught for years before getting married and having a child, I perhaps was use to discipline more than some. Also, I had been in a strict lay community for seven ...
10 Jan 2012
For example, a friend of mine was in a grocery store in the Autumn and a mother was abusive to both of her children by literally screaming at them in the store and these children were very small. She merely said to the woman with her, "The woman ... This has spawned a whole victim industry: victim-witness coordinators, counselors, pet therapy (so help me, even in the courtroom), training courses for victims, etc., etc., etc. Prosecutors cede their discretion to victims and ...
28 Aug 2013
Can one imagine this being part of First Holy Communion training? We need to cultivate this type of daily awareness of the sacred. These children were younger than seven, as the next year was their First Holy Communion at ...
10 Sep 2014
How many times have I heard parents say that, for example, they will let their children decide on what religion these children want when they are old enough to decide. This approach and another approach, which is not to give any rational training to the intellect, allow the will to be weakened because the very power which could inform the will is missing. Many discussions I have had in the past with young people revolve around a denial of free will. The decadence of ...
27 Aug 2013
Interestingly, I had Montessori training but did not come across CGS until much later. I actually ... I highly recommend Maria Montessori's Mass Explained to Children which one can order from amazon.com. Timelines on both ...
28 Aug 2013
This is because of the Liturgy, primarily, and the Sacraments, as well as sacramentals. She makes the point that the child learns by making the sign of the Cross, putting his finger in holy water, kneeling down at Mass, following all the actions in the Mass. ... Here is another example of the Twelve Apostles and Jesus for the Last Supper part of pre-Communion training like the one above. Here are some quotations from an Orthodox CGS site which partially summarizes ...
12 Sep 2013
I am astounded by this mom's article, but now I understand all the kids out there without moral frameworks. With moms like these, who needs predator training? That a grown woman would be so naive and slanted towards ...
27 Mar 2014
The most important thing, however, is to train your children in the virtues early in order to become saints, now. If the tyranny in ... away from you. Look at my long series on virtue training and home schooling from last summer.
