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 How Technology can be a Help and not a Hindrance in Your Church Life.   I remember when my parish first got a folk band. The thought was "They are almost playing rock and roll in church!" Being a deeply religious youth, I didn't mind it, and guess what, the band is still there! Growing up most of my life without the internet, made it easy for me to develop skills, appreciate my environment, and helped me live most if not all my life focused in the present moment. I never imagined a day where computers would be used to contact God. Naturally God is a spirit and we don't need any enhancements to experience Him. While we are in our bodies on the earth, God is watching so that one day, when we see Him we will be judged. I naturally learned to practise the presence of God in my 20's and I had wonderful experiences of Him in nature, in my soul, and in other human beings. I didn't need a device to read my bible, or contact God, it was all real and natural. Human bei...

 One of the things that we can lose sight of in our society is marriage as a foundation of a healthy culture. Marriage is only as healthy as the two people in it, which should be obvious. In the Roman Catholic tradition it is considered a sacrament, which makes it holy. Being a sacrament it is one of the sacraments that can only happen once. There is no re-marriage in the catholic church, only in the case of an annulment, which should be very difficult to prove for most catholic's. Of course marriage is also an institution and a covenant between God and man and wife. God makes other covenants with mankind, and God never breaks His Covenants with us, so we should not break our covenant with Him. In the New Testament marriage represents Jesus' relationship with his church.  The church is referred to as the Bride of Christ, and as we are called to holiness, a marriage with Christ as the head is called to holiness as well. When two people make a vow to each other, God is the witne...

 Time is congruent not in form but in fashion. Events change the substance of time, but they don't change the nature of time. Time will come to an end at the Second Coming of Jesus in time, but time will continue in it's same nature, nothing can change the nature of time. Why is this important you ask, because everything in time is constantly changing, but the one thing that doesn't change is time itself. If time doesn't change, then it remains linear, and although events change our place in time, the nature of our true Selves remains unchanged. We can change our appearance, or our physical features, but the essence of our souls remains the same, even when time ends.  There are things in our essence as souls that can change like our preferences and desires, and because our circumstances can change, naturally we adapt to them. However this cannot change our essence, God created our souls, and when we find God our souls begin a journey in uniting ourselves to God. This is...

 It was a shock to hear that my church was closing at the start of COVID. I thought for sure that the second coming of Jesus was going to happen. I remember thinking that the Great Apostasy was happening because churches all over the world were closing their doors, and people of faith were left to fend for themselves. People went online, and are still online, even though some of these people can attend their church. I remember warning people that before COVID-19 that the church would loose something if they would go totally digital. I warned people that they would forget to know how to connect to the real presence of God, if they continued in this way.  I have seen it happen, people losing their faith, and the real sense of God's presence because they prefer technology. In the 1990's I learned how to practise the presence of God, I didn't have internet, it was the olden days, and I was a happy youth. I knew God, and I lived in his presence continually. I didn't have to ...