I want you.....but

When it comes to the trinity and religion in general you can't just have peices. often we think we can have parts. I want a Little grace, a little forgiveness, put in some prayers from the saints. I don't want to give anything though, I don't want to give my self to Christ I don't want to give my time to be on Core or teen Core but I want to be there and up there, I want to come to 1/4 of the retreat because my school made it to the State Championship. Some times I catch my self praying Jesus I love you but...I also love this. Then I stop and say but Jesus I really love you. In today's post modern culture, we see this a lot, a lot of buts. We believe in religion, some of the doctrine, not all of it though.

Think about the Story of the rich young man in the Bible, he walks up to Jesus and asks I have all this money, all this power, all this fame. What do I have to do to follow you and Jesus says: you know the commandments, sell everything you own. But when he herd this he became very sad and walk away because he was very rich.

That is how a lot of us are but it isn't money it is sin. Jesus I want you but I just don't have the time to learn who you are, or I want to go on that retreat, but there is a big game coming up that I can't miss, everyone is going to be there it is my last year and I am entitled to do what I want when I want to, I am a senior. I want to help you guys out I am just not willing to give up my Wednesday nights to help. I love you wife, but I also love looking at porn.

St. Paul put it this way:

Now those who belong to Christ (Jesus) have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires (Galatians 5:24)

To really be passionate and Christen you have to give up the desires you have and live for Christ. Tom Booth, a very successful Catholic worship leader, when he was fresh out of high school said in prayer, I don't care where you send me Lord, as long as it is not in Youth Ministry, well he is also was in youth ministry before his music broke.  

You cannot be like a divided plate where your corn and beef don't touch, or Religion and personal life. You have to let them go to together and truly follow Jesus

~Bobby

Purgatory

First off I want to apolgize that I haven't been blogging recently, my computer is on the fritz, and I hate typing on netbooks, there fore I have been in a sticky situation, my dad's girl friends laptop also wasn't working properly. Now it is so I am using a diffrent computer. Also school has started so I have that to deal with...just an fyi the new blogs will prob. be posted Monday and Wensdays and possiable Friday...those are my super short days.


Anyway, like I stated in the Blog about Heaven. I started this because of a question posed by a Teen which was simply "What is Purgatory?"
The Catechism simply says:
All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.


'The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Councils of Florence and Trent. The tradition of the Church, by reference to certain texts of Scripture, speaks of a cleansing fire:
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come. (1030-1031)


That is really a lot to take in. Let me break it down easier. Purgatory is a place for people who died in the good grace of God (no mortal sin) but still have some veinal sin, and need to be cleansed in a holy bath with the holy sprirte.
What is mortal and veinal sin?
Mortal sin is sin that kills your chairity and your chances of going to Heaven if you do not repent
(CCC 1861)
Veinal Sin weakens charity and stops the progress of exercieing the virtues and practices of good, it is a temporal punishment. It doesn't break the covenant with God. (CCC 1863)

You can't go to hell from purgatory only heaven. It is a infront not and inbetween.
So because it is an infront, you can't go to hell from it.


Another way of thinking is it is a "Holy Bath of the Holy Spirite" You are getting the last bit of sin off of you so you can go up to see Jesus.
That is a quick look at purgatory
~Bobby