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Am on what is called an unsupported search engine and cannot work on my blog today, until later.

One comment: news about ssm across the Western world indicates a concerted effort.

Read my Gramsci posts until I can back on later.

Age

One of the comforts of being older is not having to prove one's self to others. One has come to an acceptance of limitations and lives in the knowledge that one is, simply, a sinner.

Age pushes one into the interior life, away from the activities of the exterior life as some things fade away.

However, age brings a huge responsibility. One no longer has the excuses of the younger person of putting off the pursuit of holiness to another day.

There may be no other days but the one today.

Age forces one to face the eternal. All those buffers which separated one from eternal life, or even thinking about eternal life, fade away, pass.

One must live in the present, as living in the past becomes self-indulgent, and living in the future senseless.

I challenge those in older middle-age to consider the last four things and have death constantly before one.

Such is the way of the saints.

Please do not waste old age in trivia or bitterness. The world is bigger than you know.

Be Not Afraid.

The key to love is being open, allowing someone else to love you as you really are.

Too many people live in fear of love, believing they have to earn love, or be someone other than they are in order to be loved.

God, who is all loving, loves us as we are, but also sees us as He created us to be. In other words, He has a plan for us which includes love.

God never wills an unhappy, abusive life, but only a life of love and growth.

To choose misery is to turn one's back on God and, sadly, too many people choose the evil they know and find comfort in, to taking that first step out in love.

Love is the recognition of our true selves, through the eyes of another person.

We should find a relief in love, a relief that opens up our hearts to accept more love and give love back in return.

This is the mystery of loving in the unknown. To love someone is to be patiently waiting for the real person to respond to the love which is given. Most of the time, people react in gratitude for such love.

But, some are frightened.

Be open to God's love for you this day. God's love brings life.

1 John 4

Douay-Rheims 

4 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:

3 And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.

6 We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.

9 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

10 In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

11 My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.

12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.

13 In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.

14 And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

16 And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.

17 In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

18 Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.

19 Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.

20 If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?

21 And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.