Category Archives: Homlies & Spiritual Talks
Can we See? Long Missing – Good News Arrives:
Thought Provoking: Blessing Irregular Couples
Courage – Found looking into the Mirror of Truth:
A Sliver of Wood:
God and Truth a Fire:
Unspoken Words:
Deny Yourself – Pick up Your Cross:
God’s Design for Physical Touch:
Inside Prison Walls:
How to Open the Closed Door:
Am I walking Alone?
The Splinters Hidden in the Wooden Cross:
3 in 1:
Please Clear this Gender thing Up:
We are living in the midst of a very mean spiritual War in the nation and indeed the world! The good Lord gave me a vision back in 2011.
https://theideacon.com/the-ideacon-and-idove-story/the-story-of-the-vision-1/
https://theideacon.com/the-ideacon-and-idove-story/the-story-fo-the-vision-2/
https://theideacon.com/the-ideacon-and-idove-story/the-story-of-the-vision-3/
https://theideacon.com/the-ideacon-and-idove-story/a-death-dive-are-you-gonna-leave-me-a-vision/
https://theideacon.com/?p=1063&preview=true
In short, this War is another example of the Great Deceiver leading modern man’s original against God’s design as it continues from antiquity.
God Revels who He is 3-1:
If one reads scripture God Himself revels who God says He is! Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three persons yet just one God. 3 in 1 in mystery:
Can we humans discern, digest and understand this 3 in 1 mystery? In the beginning God created man! Two creation stories: An infusing (my word if you will allow) His image and likeness into each person in the form of what we call our spirit / soul.
Definition of Marriage – the Difference makes all the Difference:
Scripture is clear God created man – male and female He created them. No mistakes or confusion! Oh my! Like the tree in the Garden man was not satisfied! Ah – the original sin rebounds and strikes again! Two genders and each was created uniquely different on purpose! And we have ever so much evidence even little kids can tell the difference.! Biology is clearly accurate and distinct! However we know well the Behavior is different! It is the difference that makes the difference to assure the very possibility procreation can occur. And it is clearly a choice humans can make.
Choice / Free Will:
Procreation is an interesting word! Every human being has a mother and a father. No errors with only one claimed exception the Son of God.
The spirit / soul / His image and likeness is hidden within each humans body! Yep!
His creation of man was not completed simply with the creation of two distinctly different bodies. God’s creation plan included a breath of new life design referred to as the “One Flesh”! Holy Smokes another 3 in 1 creation concept after Himself! Simultaneously God created both humankind and a new sacrament. Thus assuring the survival of this new Spiritual being and a covenant relationship we call marriage! Make no mistake – The “One Flesh” design under a new fierce attack by modern selfie centered man who seeks to replace God with good old selfie!
Now this mystery has taken me awhile to digest into the language and words I use this day. The very definition of Family is immersed into an 3 in 1 entity we would call the singular essence of family!
The Devil’s Agenda – Destroy God’s Design – “One Flesh”:
Destroy, mom, dad, boy, girl, husband, wife, male, female, the design for family and what will occur? Chaos! Yes Chaos! People seeking to satisfy selfie appetites rather than grasping the necessary, mandatory elements and basic God created design!
One who focus’s on self can not begin to comprehend God’s design where Happiness lies in wait!
For true love, self denying, sacrificial discipline necessary to breath new life into the most fundamental and life sustaining building block family – a relationship based upon the design principle of God Himself! Family = Mother, father in a covenant relationship with God – 3 in 1 = the “one Flesh”!
Spiritual Oxygen Exists in Prison:
Why Oh Why do I Go?
Yesterday, I was wondering why I make the trip to a State prison every week?
Six Locked Gates:
Most would say, it is a ministry, a calling and I was sent! Been doing this since before 2011.
When I walk into prison I pass through six locked gates. I am more alert as I walk in paying closer attention to those who I walk by noticing things others might not see. Seems I detect the spirit operating in the space.
Standing Alone – Yet Watched – Hope in my Pocket:
Often since the pandemic ended, I find myself standing alone not knowing where I might spend my time there or who might come. Tough I speak little, I have noticed many in mates watch me closely. In fact I have found a few who look out for me and take action to assist and get me a place to meet. Often I find myself talking with an inmate I do not know and have not meet. I talk to them anyway and always find a way to turn the conversation to the spirit greater than me – my calling. I can do very little myself, yet the one who causes my feet to walk can do much. I know I carry hope in my pocket! And the I know that spirit can do wonders I can not with the spirit of hope.
Every Human has a Father a Male and Mother (female):
Yesterday, was Father’s day. Yep, we all have a Father, male no and’s if’s or but’s. Ans yes, both a physical and a spiritual Father. In the human family (male and female) the only family that has the potential and privilege of procreating children. Yea, Truth under attack by those opposed to the Truth.
Silly me, for thinking those on the attack are most in need of hope in finding their created humanity where the spirit of Hope was implanted at the moment of conception.
Free Will – One must Chose Good versus Evil:
One does not make such trips without beginning to question the most fundamental questions regarding the creation of all living things, especially the human being with the capability to do good and evil. Yes free will! Freedom of choice to give new life or to terminate life.
Good versus Evil:
Every human is endowed with the potential for both! The question is rather, why are we here? To bring the breath of new life where ever we go or – remove spirit sustaining oxygen from the air?
Come to me all you who are thirsty, hungry, weary and heavy laden.
Truth Plants Hope: Hope Opens Locked Gates:
Truth plants Hope, Hope opens the doorway to the birth of spiritual wings to search for new life, the spirit wraps it’s arms and embraces souls searching to find themselves hidden in the mystery of life created in the Beginning! One finds oneself when one gives the spirit hidden within self to others that they too might just find the open door where life sustaining Spiritual oxygen exists! The breath of life itself!
Elephants and Men and Family
Beyond these Stone Walls: Fr. Gordan MacRae: Link: https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/
A Post in regard to the Modern World thought provoking reality of human kind’s best effort to solve Natures (God’s design) for the Elephant population: Hmmm any relationship to Fathers and humanities mass incarceration reality – and just exactly what is the cause?
Any correlation? Common Thread?
My Comments followed by link to Fr. Gordan Macre’s recent Post.
I have posted similar comments before. As a fact I visit a State prison weekly and have been doing so since before 2011. I am a deacon and say I was called and sent! From the very first day visiting prison I encountered a large number of juvenile inmates. The prison I visited has a boot camp program for juvenile young men. The purpose and objective is to make a positive intervention / goal to prevent these young men from committing more serious crimes in an effort to help them stay away from a life of crime resulting in long term prison incarceration.
No Sparkle?
As I walked through a room of about 70-80 young men I noticed these young men seemed to be missing something my grand kids had and other kids. What was missing I usually I encountered with kids their age! I call it a “sparkle” – kinda like a light that shines through coming from the spirit of the soul! Could it be a lack of purpose, happiness and joy was missing!
Oh the Questions that poured out of my Soul!
My short trip through these young men in 2011 prompted me to begin asking many older inmates about these kids to me.
Some of the answer did not surprise me! Missing dads was but a part of the cause! What took my spiritual breath was the combo as in the beginning! Not just dad – yes mom plus dad the relationship defined in scripture as the “One Flesh”! Wow was my reaction – off to the spiritual inquiry races!
Questioning Who? The Qualified? Who are they?
Over the next several months my spirit took me on a journey of questioning?? Just exactly is this one flesh spiritual concept? vMom and dad two separate people with distinctively different outlooks based upon many complex human gender God created factors! Kind like – we all know the difference! Then what the heck is the “One Flesh” design for husband and wife?
First it is a United spiritual oneness woven together ever so tightly as a single threaded garment that Unites in a special relation of two distinctly different yet merged entities/words that complete the definition of the other – each joining the other thus creating a oneness from two.
What are the Two words that when Married become One?
So what are these two words? Love married to discipline = a spiritual relationship that unites and completes the ideal family!!!
These young juveniles I encountered were commonly described as mad as hell with their mom and dad! Wow – not just one or the other – but both! What was missing in this formula? I believe the good Lord sent me to encounter the symptoms of the breakdown of family in the prison I visited weekly! This did not happen over night!
Why why why? Was my persistent prayer!
A Vision of a Life and Death Battling – A Spiritual War:
In 2011 God gave me a vision as well which took a long time for me to interpret! This was a vision of the current spiritual war raging in the world against the “One Flesh” design for family!
The male elephant story and scenario demonstrates human kind’s willingness to work around God’s design – what has and is taking place on a world scale with God’s design for both the human family and elephants! Do we not have the LBGTQ +++ agenda serving as a direct affront and indirect attack against God’s design for the human family?
I suggest we are watching the construction of a New Tower of Babble story! Is not the LBGTQ +++ agenda being erected to serve as a new form of government controlled religion! It operates under the radar of many clergyman and politicians! Few – a relative minuscule number of leaders of various backgrounds speak out! Are we humans now unable to discern truth! Modern man’s new trick to redefine Truth which never changes nor will it! Seems to me we are watching a real time enactment of the story of man and the tree in the garden!
Fr Gordon MacRae’s post in regard to the modern day elephant reality demonstrates humanities lack of ability to put the pieces of God’s design together with any accuracy of anticipating or avoiding the consequences of humanities sinful nature as was communicated originally in the Beginning!
https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/posts/in-the-absence-of-fathers-a-story-of-elephants-and-men
Prison on Friday:
“The one who Presides”
The Word of God and the Eucharist – United:
The Word of God:
Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a To be tested by affliction! To find out what our intentions are? hmm?
GIRM is the Word:
General Instruction of the Roman Mass (GIRM)
There is this fellow who went to prison to celebrate the “Body and Blood of Christ”! “Corpus Christi”. Kinda like “what do you have in mind for me today Lord?
On this day a new lifer inmate arrived. I have found him to be very knowledgeable of the Catholic Faith. His spiritual leaning comes through ever so strongly. Suffice it to say he favors the inclusion of all the options celebrated at what is referred to as a “High Mass”. Singing – everything option allowed by Mr. GRIM!
Now in the room another lifer inmate who clearly indicates a preference for a simpler celebration – i.e. the “Low Mass”! Not too much into singing etc.
See any Conflict?
After a long laborious discussion of options a “Communion Service is celebrated since no priest is available. The readings used for this day can be found in “Feast of Corpus Christi”!
Could be there existed some conflict within the community in the readings. The inmates proclaimed the First and Second Readings. My friend proclaimed the Gospel according to John!
Jesus sought to teach the people about the crushed and broken grains of wheat and the crushed and broken grapes. Hmmm! It was the crushing that transformed the wheat and grapes into a mix where the individual parts could not be discerned. In fact they had been transformed into unity of oneness! The symbol of dying in one form necessary to make way and enable a rising in a new united spiritual form we call the sacred people of God! Emphasis is on being united which can only happen when one is willing to forgive as in the “Our Father”.
My friend stood in disbelief when the inmates were sent – these two fellows brought up various reputations that had been heard and spread apparently not just this prison but within the greater state prison system (multiple prisons – the underground word spreads!) My friend didn’t have a clue in regard to the specific’s of these.
Oh my!! Imagine we just celebrated the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ and the spirit of division struck with surprising speed! Yes “What do you have in mind for me today Lord it a nerve”!
What’s the Objective of the Liturgy?:
Now what??? A lesson in GRIM is forthcoming! It is not up for debate and not a vote! The one who presides is the the decider-in-chief! Why? Objective of the Liturgy is to follow the Grace and Spirit of Ordination. It’s not that people can not or are not allowed to express the options they prefer! Certainly one who presides will listen with an open ear.
Hidden in the Conflict is the potential Spirit that divides:
The question hidden in the conflict of preferences is “not the individual” but rather the spirit and grace needed to form the unity of the Body of Christ! This applies to every group of people who seek to become “the Body and Blood of Christ in the world full of the complexities of human preference. Perhaps better said can each individual person empty themselves – die to self – in order that the grace and unity of spirit of the Body and Blood of Christ can be set sent into the world as each individual travels the road ahead on the journey Home!