Can a blind person lead a blind person?
It can happen that adults who have long
thought of themselves, or been approvingly considered by others, to be practising
Catholics -- when they get ‘bogged down’ in certain troubles, trials, and
difficulties of life -- begin to say to themselves, ‘many Catholics that I know
are doing this or that … surely it can’t be wrong if so many are doing it’.
They think in that way because they are not
wanting -- as believing adults should
want -- to find out what Our Lord would have them do, what His Church teaches,
what their own conscience urges; they
want, above all, a sympathetic hearing for their troubles and for ‘sooner
rather than later’ suggestions for a way out of their very worldly
difficulties.
As disciples of Jesus, however, in all our
difficulties we need to learn from Him, that we might learn from, and become
more like, more closely united with, Him:
Everyone who is fully trained will be like
his teacher.
Now it is indeed a ‘slap in the face’ for Our
Lord when His supposed disciples – in their need -- turn to worldly and sinful
human beings rather than to Himself Who died for them, or to His Church – the
Body of which He is the Head -- or to whoever they think best knows and loves His
Gospel and His Person.
Too often advisors are chosen whose advice comes
either from their own worldly experience and learning, or from that ‘wisdom’
which is acceptable to men and has been
described the Lord as an ‘abomination’; that is from advisors who are usurpers,
Our Blessed Lord authoritatively declares, because He alone
has been, and is sent to save human beings otherwise destined
to death, as He said to His disciples:
I am the true Vine you are the branches. Unless you eat My (fruit), (that is) eat My
flesh and drink My blood, you do not have life in you.
PEOPLE OF GOD, NEVER FORGET THAT THE WAY
YOU TRY TO MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY IN THIS WORLD WILL DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT
YOU FIND REAL HAPPINESS IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
If, as a disciple of Christ, you want to know
how best to walk along Jesus’ ways through your troubles, we are told by
St. Luke (8:18-19) that one day when Jesus was walking the paths of Palestine,
A
certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal
life?"
The immediate response of Jesus, showing just
how much it meant to Him, was:
Why do you call Me good? No one is
good-except God alone.
In other words, seek God’s advice in
issues concerning serious sin or eternal life.
Jesus is now risen and is to be found at the
right hand of the Father in heaven.
Jesus is the only good Person, good Teacher, indeed, Jesus alone is
good, and we -- as true disciples of His – look to Mother Church as we seek
only His guidance and teaching.
In Mother Church we seek not facts – whether doctrinal
or historical – we seek grace from Jesus’ Personal “Gift” to His Church, His
own most HOLY SPIRIT abiding in Mother Church, and bestowed on us through
her sacraments; the Holy Spirit Himself Who, when welcomed into a heart
seeking Jesus alone, breathes in us, like the good man described by Our
Lord
(Who) brings good things out of the good
stored up in his heart.
There is only one Sacred Heart, and from that
heart of Jesus poured water to cleanse us and blood to revitalize us all. Dear People of God, turn to Jesus in your
need, draw close to His most Sacred
Heart and you will find real, not emotional, sympathy, light to give you
understanding, and grace to help you do whatever is necessary to rise above
your troubles. You will experience what
the prophet Isaiah (40:31) had foretold:
Those who hope in the LORD will renew their
strength. They will soar on wings like
eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
