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  The Church teaches that through original sin that all of humanity are born sinners. Through baptism we are freed from Original sin, but when we sin gravely after baptism we need to go to confession to restore us to the grace of Justification. We are justified through faith by God by the merit of Jesus Christ dying on the cross, freely by God’s grace. To believe in Jesus and to trust him for salvation means that he is your Lord and Saviour. Consequently, to not trust Jesus for your salvation means that you are living without faith and are not justified. To be reconciled to God, you must be willing to trust Jesus, and what he did for you on the cross, and you must be willing to receive the grace of Justification back into your life. When we repent, we are asking God to restore us to Himself and ultimately to the church as well. We receive this forgiveness through faith, and our trust in the Church that Jesus established. It is through what Jesus has done for us on the cross that we...

  In C.C. 1033 of the Roman Catholic catechism the Church teaches that we cannot be united with God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbour, or against ourselves. If we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren. To die in mortal sin, without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him forever, by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from God and the blessed is called hell.   While some cannot be convinced against their will that hell exists, conscience dictates to us that there is something beyond the grave. What waits for us is our reward or punishment for our lives lived out here on the earth. To deny this teaching of the Church is to deny the reality of sin, and what God had to do to remedy this problem. To deny hell, is to deny the need for forgiveness by the death and resurrection of Christ, which is to deny the foundation of our faith, and the foundation of t...

  Psalm 46:10  He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;     I will be exalted among the nations,     I will be exalted in the earth.” God lives just behind the noise. Isn’t this true? Our minds are so filled with static sometimes, the static of worry, the static of always feeling we have to do something to feel valued, the static of peer pressure, the static of feeling valueless. The static of business, the static of busyness, the static of wanting to be heard, the static of not being heard. There are many things that occupy the mind, and try to prevent us from being at rest and even feeling the peace and presence of God! Yes God exists, and one place he exists is in the quiet. Psalm 46:10 says “Be still and know that I am God.” We need to learn how to quiet our minds from worry and even panic, and to do this sometimes we need to learn to still our bodies.  When we sleep, our bodies are still, the only activity our minds engage i...

What holds most people in bondage while they are suffering is the lack of faith that their suffering will someday end. It is fear, and this is justifiable because when we lack clarity, we lack peace of mind. It is the fear of suffering and the fear some experience in suffering that fails to help us see the temporary nature of all suffering for those who have faith. Trying to understand why we suffer sometimes doesn't help, there is that saying that there is always light at the end of the tunnel, and that is why we can hope. In 1 Peter 5:10 it reads,  " And  after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace,  who has called you to his  eternal glory in Christ, will himself  restore,  confirm, strengthen, and establish you." Peter reminds the church that we are not in heaven yet, he tells the church to humble themselves and to cast their anxieties on Jesus. He knows that while we are still here we will suffer but promises them that God himself will...