Dear Beloved Readers, this is a very important Proverb which I hope and pray you will read!
According to a talk by Father George Rutler S.T.D., Pastor of Our Savior Church in New York, the immediate responses from Firemen and Catholic priests to 9/11 -- AS it was happening -- and who gave their lives to help and minister to victims in the disaster totally dismissed three prevalent lies:
1) The fireman dismissed the lies that there were no real reasons for any civilians to risk or give their lives for any civil cause. But in fact, fire fighters went back into an intense inferno when they did not have to in order to save lives. Their commitment was that intense. Some of these fireman were so incinerated that their bodies were never found - not even the identifying rings on their fingers. One priest who went in to minister to victims and to obsolve them from their sins during the diaster was killed, and his body was laid on the altar of a nearby Catholic church with a sheet over it in front of a painting of Jesus on the cross bleeding. Both Jesus had blood coming down..and the priest's blood was coming still from his body and spilling on the altar -- both a sacrifice of their "precious blood" to save others. This priest and many other priests dismissed the lies that priests lack devotion to the faithful. Dying for the faithful...even dying for all who were victims: believers or non-believers or atheists or protestants, Jews or Hindus, Muslems or Buddists. The priests had an attitude of Christian Universalism: that God befriends every one.
2) All the events of 9/11 proved that absolute truth exists...and dismissed that only that relative truth exists. 9/11 PROVED that INTRINSIC OBJECTIVE AND ABSOLUTE LIVING TRUTH: that men and women could and would GIVE THEIR LIVES for God, country and the souls of people: THAT TRUTH could be so part of fireman and priests WHOLE BEING as to make them give the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE on the battle field of ground zero before the eyes of millions.
3) That the Country as a WHOLE could be TOTALLY UNITED -- as we participated in the horror and in the terrorismm of 9/11 dismissing the lies that USA DEEP DOWN WERE NOT DIVIDED BUT THAT EVERY ONE OF US WERE UNITED IN THE "PRO-LIFE" FOR THE VICTIMS AND WERE HOPING THAT LIVES COULD BE SAVED AND THAT ALL OF US WERE HOPING THAT ALL LIVES WOULD INDEED BE SAVED WHO COULD BE SAVED... AND THAT PRAYER OF MANY WERE UNITING US IN AND BEFORE THE EYES OF GOD.
STILL, All of the above NOTWITHSTANDING, 9/11 CREATED THE FOLLOWING LIES:
1) That President Bush did not know ahead of time what was going to happen or at least knew very much more than he pretended to know. While he was talking to children in at school, he did not excuse himself when he heard something was happening in New York He should have known because High Level German communications were received by US intelligence just prior to the actual event that an imminant attack was about to happen in the US...and that this attack was even caused by the High Leel US government officials: thus making 9/11 in reality a "NEW PEARL HARBOR" to get us into war.
2) That terrorist hi-jacked domestic planes were the cause of the leveling of the towers. The real truth was that it was NOT PLANES but mysterious round LETHAL BALLS about 30 feet in diameter moving at 250 mph carrying not only explosives but lethal chemicals that would created enormous heat WAS THE CAUSE FIRES to melt steel to such an extent as to cause the entire structures to collapse!!!
3) That US media was reporting the truth as it was happening WHEN IT WAS NOT!!. Rather in fact, US news was creating the illusion of planes by super imposing planes on the same projetory as the LETHAL BALLS. In fact, close examination of these pseudo planes can still show these balls not fully covered by the main body of the planes..because both the planes and the balls were visible superimposed on one another. Also un-doctored amateur film-video taken by a civilian shows one of these mysterious lethal balls isolated and on a perfect projectory to the towers causing the explosion into one of the towers. These balls were man-made and pre-planned by the US government to get us into a pseudo war against terrorism that did not even exist. The US government created the terror to get us into war and unite the Country with free emergency powers and to assure Congressonal support for immediate waging of war against a pseudo terrorist threat against "Weapons of Mass Detructions" that were never found and were proved later to not exist. Going into Iraq and seeking to kill Ben Ladden -- all were lies mobilizing us to war.
Let us mourned 9/11 and pray for all its victims as we did at Pearl Harbor. But let us know the truth that both 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were pre-known ahead of time by our presidents. And just as Hitler was behind the burning of the Reichtstag building to pin it on the Communists and seize power and go to war, so our own government caused 9/11 to do the same and has sacrificed thousands of civilians and thousands of US troops deploying them for its own agenda. Charges against alleged terrorists rounded up in New York in connection with 9/11 -- four of which were the same person -- were all dismissed.
Let us have and re-devote our selves to Peace.......Peace.....and to Love. Please, God help us...and heal us...and forgive us!
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On 9/11, 2012, there were many interviews and media coverage of gaining a better perspective as the years go on. One newcaster interviewed: a priest, an Episcopal ministers, a Rabbi and an atheist. Of course the atheist had not words of hope whatsover. He mentioned how those who jumped to their deaths to avoid dying by fire jumped holding hands...so that would not die alone. But of course, all who died that day, experienced death alone. No one else died for them. But the priest, the minister and the rabbi all kept their faith...and believed in God and His goodness and love. But the rabbi said that his image of God changed a little. But why would our image of God change at all? Why has this tragedy have any affect on our image of God or on Who God is? God did not plan this act of violence. God did not in any way have any responsibility for this loss of life. Could God have prevented it? God gave warning and did try to prevent it. But no one was listening. God gives us free will. We can choose what ever we want to do. But we cannot choose the consequences of our actions and how those consequences effect others.
Let get this pefectly clear: This act of violence was planned by people in the USA to gain something: oil, power, wealth, place in the world. No matter what the motive, it comes down to the primordial evil: some one to be god. They want to play god..and want to do as a god would do...play with life and death for their own ends. Pride is the bottom line: Pride tells God to step off his throne so WE can sit on it. All these people - innocent - died because evil men plotted evil in their back rooms. It took a lot of people to make these bombs and deploy them..and manage the news.
Let is wake up: EVIL EXISTS! Satan exists; and he want to destroy humans because humans are "made in the image and likeness of God."
Three thousand people died on 9/11..a horrible detruction and taking of human life because some people want to play god.
But our present President Barack Obama also plays god. He give $250 million a year to Planned Parenthood to kill babies whose only crime is that they are inconvenient. Planned Parenthood was created by Margaret Sanger to kill black children: "to rid the world of the weeds of society." And here we have our first black President who contributes to the killing of black babies in the womb. That is evil! Since Roe v Wade, 56 million babies have been aborted. But if the Life at Conception Act is passed which would declare all babies to be human persons at the moment of conception -- which science has proven -- then all babies in the womb would be protected by the 14th Amendment: "nor shall any person be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law."
Yes, let us decry the loss of 3,000 lives on 9/11, but let us not miss that 3,000 babies are killed each day in the womb in the US. Where is the memorials to these babies?
Let us all have great love and compassion for all the families who lost loved ones in Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and are still being lost daily in our present war against life in the womb..and pray for all our troops who should not be in Iraq and Afganistan. Let us bring them all home.
I am Pio Peter Zammit, proud to be an American but not too proud of my
present govenment.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Pio's Proverb 187: TAKING THE HIT: that saved lives!
No SCREAMING of brakes! Just a BIB BANG!!!!! as my 6000 lbs Lincoln Continental Towncar was "totaled" in one big BLOW to the stronest rear bumper on the road that still put a deep "V" shape in it and bent down my car's steel frame to the street! The other driver was doing 50 mph plus as he SLAMMED into me who was traveling in the same direction 23 Mile road East in Chesterfield/New Baltimore area. Yes, I was struck with such a blow as to "total" my 1979 Lincoln and send it to salvage yard and me to the Emergency Room at McClaren Hospital. The Truama surgeon went over every inch of my legs and chest and abdomen and head. I had bruises inside to my chest wall and my heart, chest and back were in great pain! I took the HIT that saved a few lives. Why? Because if my car had not stopped this man and his 1996 Buick Regal, he and his car would have gone across the street to wipe out a few West Bound cars in a head-on collision or his wiping out a few pedestrians; but God's Providence caused me to be "at the right place at the right time!"
The only warning I had from God that this was about to take place was a sudden and profound Peace about a minute before the accident as if God were saying to me: "My son, do not worry. You are in my hands...not matter what!" Yes, I was comforted for sure; but almost landed into God's arms for good!
Also see my Pio's Proverbs 130: Angels in Blue to see how wonderful Officer VanAker of the Chesterfield Police Dept was to me and how Officer Unger was so ministering to the needs of the other driver: both officers truly were helpful and kind and good to all in this accident. I appreciate tht good reports both men wrote as well. They are still helping me now with my insurance claim. Please just google: http://piowordstotheheart.blogspspot.com and go to #130: Angels in Blue. Please know that Medstar Ambulance personnel were extremely kind, courteous, professional and life-saving! Thank God for Medstar as well!!
So, it seems that God really wanted me to be the one to save this man's life and the lives of others. God's Providence works in strange ways. This man had become unconscious while doing 50 mph..and had to be stopped for his sake and the sake of other people. God had asked me to take the HIT so that others might live. Seems that God -- Jesus -- is in the habit of doing this Himself! He took the HIT on the cross so that we could live in heaven with Him for all eternity. So, wanna be saved!? Let Him take the HIT for your sins so that you can live! But to that effectively, you need to go to Him with sorrow for your sins and entrust yourself to His infinite tender Mercy! The Prodigal son shows us that humility and trust when he came home to his Father's embrace, [Who had been going to the road every day to see if His son was coming home] and to a new ring, robe and celebration of his home-coming. There was a joyful feast! Repentance is a joyful home-coming! Jesus awaits you with open arms...How do we know? Jesus, Himself, created and lovingly told the parable of the Prodigal son. Jesus was describing His Father and Himself. Jesus told Phillip: "How can you ask me to show you the Father. When you see me, you are seeing the Father!"
peace and love, Pio
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Pio's Proverb 186: VIRGIN at 30: Living the Pure Life!
I saw a beautiful photo of a woman in white that was titled:"Virgin Beauty".
This is an artistic photo that combined the shere beauty of her physical being with the beauty of her spiritual being. Both, in the themselves are beautiful, but when combined created something that was elusive and mystical. Her name is Maragritka who is 30 years old and is from the Ukraine. I know her well. In seeing the photo, I with great hesitation but still with polite respect asked her: "Are you a virgin?" She replied without hesitation: "You are right. I am still [a] virgin. I hope that does not scare you away." My response was to congratulate her and told her that her virginity made her all the more beautiful, I told her that she now has a most precious and personal gift to give her husband on their wedding night that is the most precious gift she could give him except for her heart and love. But actually, her virginity is the golden crown of her love she will present to him. And in this crown are many diamonds....all the temptations and persuasions from the world from highschool to the present to not maintain her virginity. Was she called a prude or old fashioned? She was neigher. What she really was showing is her Christian belief in virtue and keeping herself alone for her husband to be. But she had the stamina and internal fortitude and courage to follow her heart not the world. Her love for her future husband sustained her. Truly Margaritka is the most beautiful woman I have even seen. She is most beautiful through and through: inside and out. And no one take away from her this diamond-golden crown. How precious it is in the eyes of God and in the eyes of Mary, Ever Virgin.
I know how she felt because I went through the same thing when at age 27, I was still a virgin. Persecution can be subtle: Every Monday morning at Ford Motor Company where I worked, I was teased by 50-year-old Al who greeted me with the same Monday-morning chant: "Did you get bred yet over the weekend?!" I relished saying back: "NO..I am saving myself for my future wife in marriage!" He would go silent..as ususal...with the hope that next Monday I would say, "Yes!" so he would feel better about himself!
As far as I knew only myself -- by the grace of God - and Peter Furbacher (age 32) were virgins of all the 200 hundred guys in our department of Body Illustration in Dearborn Michigan just across the Museum of Greenfield Village. Interesting enough when I got married to a very bosomy Prussian woman named Sharon at age 27 and when Peter got married to a beautiful Austrian woman named Herta [who was on location during the filming of the Sound of Music], we both presented ourselves to our wives as "virgins". Peter and I (I was Peter as well, since my parents called my by my second name: Peter ) encouraged each other often to remain virgins so that God would give us the pure wives we longed for and that He would give us the good kids we prayed for. ALL that was granted to us and more. Peter was so happy and in love Herta -- smitten and she was a virgin too. Sharon was also a virgin at 23 years old..She on our wedding night had planned a ritual of her own. She designed a garment for me.--- a garment of virginity --- that resembled a priest's vestment. She placed it over me reverently...[just remained silent] and she then said to me in her loving but typical no-nonsense intense willing manner: "I NOW remove your virginity!" And she did! But before she did, I quickly took her wedding veil and placed it over her body and said: "I now removed your virginity!" Then we both made love for the first time..and it seems we were intent on making sure it was removed: we made love 7 times on our wedding night! I did not know from any past experience that such a performance would get a standing ovation! We now have three girls and three boys -- all college educated (master's degrees included) -- all very Catholic and all that attend Mass regularly and even do not smoke! All are wonderful kids..and we have 15 grandkids and one in the oven. They are all wonderful kids...God rewards Virginity! God blesses and rewards Living the Pure life!
There was a girl in highschool that every one teased because she was a virgin. All the other girls and guys teased her a lot. They told her it was bad that she was not having sex as they were and that she was a medieval prude! ...that she was just not cool..and just not with it! But secretely many of the girls envied her...and wished they could give their husbands to be this pure gift..and that their husbands to be could know that when she made love to them, there would be no other memory in their wives' mind or even to other man to compare this new experience with. Would you -- if you were shopping -- buy a box of donnuts if the cellophane seal was broken or punctured? ..or would you look for another good box?
But many kids in high-school or college would say as Al did at Ford: "Would you buy a car that you have not test driven?...Would you ever buy a pair of shoes that you did not try on first?" My answer to this is: "Would you order a nice steak at a good restaurant and it it if you knew that steak had been tasted or in the mouth of someone else first but then rejected?" Interesting: The things that we want to become intimately a part of ourselves we want to be fresh and new..and not pre-owned!
I once told my daughter, Cynthia when she was 17: "Be careful for your purity. Virginity is fragile lke a balloon. One prick at it is gone! Save yourself for your husband!" [This is a dad's primary role with his daughters: keeping them good by encouragement and love: being there for them.] I told her this because I heard her say intensely: "My body is screaming for a baby!" She got the message and she now God seems to have answered those screams by giving her a very holy and handsome engineer husband and 7 kids! Seems that living the pure life does get rewarded! Living the pure life is a powerfull witness. I heard a young married man who also saved himself for marriage. He said to his wife on their wedding night quoting from the Book of Tobit as the young Tobiah prayed before making love: "Lord, please know that I take this my bride not out of lust but for noble purpose..let us grow old together...love each other to a ripe old age.." And God granted that prayer...and Sarah's too to be granted a good and noble husband! Both of them were rewarded by each other's love.
We just this past week celebrated the feast day of St. Maria Goretti (pure virgin age 12) who died a martyr's death rather than give in to Alexandro (age 19 who lived on a diet of porn) advances. When she was cannonized a Saint in St. Peter's in Rome, he own mother was present and Alexandro (then age 70 who after his prison years became a Franciscan -- was converted by an apparition of Maria who came to forgive him again because she did already had forgiven him on her death bed). Seems God rewards Virginity with eternal life as well! Her Mass honors her as "Virgin and Martyr"! St. Ceclia -- whose body is incorrupt for these 19 centuries -- also died to maintain her virginity. Thus Holy Mother the Church will proudly celebrate these two and many other Virgin Saints and the Purity of their lives until Christ's coming! -- when we all will see Him our Pure Lord and His mother Mary: "Virgin of virgins"!
Today, July 14 th is also the Feast day of St. Katherin of Taikawatha (Mohawk maiden) : first native born saint cannonized saint. In her Mass: the Gospel acclamation says, "This is the virgin who follows her Lord into His Kingdom.." By remaining a Virgin all her life, since she was the first Mohawk woman to chose to not follow the customs of ther Mohawk tribe but rather to devote herself as a virgin to the Lord and to His service as a lay person. She died at age 30 and is a model for women today to devote themselves to God: actually the Hebrew understanding of Virginity is "Totally Devoted to God."
Regaining Virginity: But what can a teen or a young man or woman do if they have already lost their virginity? Now what!? Here is what a young woman did who had lost her virginity and "regained it" spiritually. A young happy house wife now tells what she did when she found a loving man to date who happened to be a virgin! That presented her with a great challenge. She loved him and wanted him but did not have the sacred gift to offer him on their wedding night as he had preserved for her. Yet, both of them were falling in love and she knew she had to tell him of the other MEN..not just one man in her past courting life. Turns out that he -- a devout Catholic -- helped her to regain her viginity spiritually. He counseled her to offer now her virginal resolve and offering to God to remain chaste until their own wedding night would begin their marital chastity of fidelity to one another. She was to light a white large candle and pray every day for the preservation of her chastity and new spiritual virginity that she was not presenting to God. On their wedding night, she was to present the white candle to him as her husband, and he would gratefully accept her sacred offering! This she did and both of them not only have begun a happy marriage, but now have written a book about their chaste journey of love that has culminated in the Sacred Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. They have a great marriage and great kids! Her regained spiritual virginity is REAL: becasuse the true meaning of Virginity is "Totally devoted to God" which she is...and shows that devotion to God in and through her love for her husband: in a marriage that is 1) Faithful; 2) Exclusive; and 3) Permanent. Let all who have lost their virginity and take heart and get their book they have written called: "Living the Pure Life!"
Devil's Pre-Planned Divorces and how he does it: The devil knows that mariage was one of the gifts that after the fall of Adam and Eve, God did NOT take away. So, the devil tries to take away the gift of marriage which he envies and is jealous of because of his book called: "living the loveless life"
He tries to break up good marriages for sure with porn, infidelity, and getting people to marry who are not ready or do not know each other. Here is his Pre-Planned Divorce stratagy:
1) Get boys or girl interested in Pornography early because this sexual stimulation is already a divorce between the person and their true sexuality. Porn shows graphic sexual activity without the spiritual unseen side of love and how sexual love in marriage mirrors the Trinitarian Life of God.
Porn is sexuality without relationship: the devil's century-old-tried-and-true formula for divorce!
Ponn people do not have to relate: they just watch isolated without any relationship what soever to the opposite sex. If masturbation accompanies porn, the the isolation and self focuse becomes more intense..and the person become fixated on self gratification of sex as a "gimmy" and not a "giving" of love. When he does date, the woman is his sex object not a person who has 90% other dimensions in her life. Porn destroys ones sexuality becomes an additions because of endorphins emitted. Porn causes such an addiction that is leads to sexual addictions of multiple kinds: sex with multiple partners..even in one day as well as multiple masturbations in one day. Porn is the perfect way to guarantee a future failed marriage..because the man or woman sees her partner for what he or she can GIVE to them not to what they can GIVE to him or her. As soon as the gratification wears off, so does the marriage!
2) Get couples to live together before marriage! Now this the devil knows will help to create a future divorce because this couple will be too busy making love or having sex to get to know each other. Thus the devil tries to bring together incompatible people who have one thing in common: sex. Sexual relations blind a woman to a man's addiction to porn or to haveng multiple women..even as he lives with his girlfriend and has this habit that will not be easily broken after marriage. In fact she does not realize that his addiction to porn and to promiscuity and masturbation will perdure into their marriage. But she is too busy making love to him to see his true character. Thus divorce is guaranteed!
3) Women have estrogen; which causes them to bond with their mate sexually and spiritually 8 times more than men bond with testasterone. There is another homrone that women have too..ostamarone (not sure of spelling). This hormone causes women to say, "It will be ok..no worry." This hormone was experimented in business transactions. It was sprayed clandenstenly just a little in the face of prospective investors. These investors took much greater risks and were greatly desiring to make investments than those who naturally were cautious to invest before. But this hormone causes women to rush headlong into a bad marriage and not see the boyfriends true faults and the risks in marrying him!
Thus eventhough God has said: "I hate divorce"; the devil has said: "I love divorce!" Of course he does: he has caused the great divorce/schism of East and West into the Catholic and Orthodox churches while both do have the true sacraments. He has caused the great Protestant Reformation that threw out the Holy Priesthood and Eucharist, Infallible Papal authority and Magisterium of the Church..and demoted Sacred Tradition that St. Paul has talking about [Hold fast to the traditions that I have handed down/given to you in word and in letters..] to mere human origin when they were God-given. How many books are in the Bible are not written down in the Bible..that came from Sacred Tradition and all Prostestant accept these books but have thrown out 7 apocrapha as they call them..but Jesus Himself quoted from te Book of Macabese. And furthre, Martin Luther dropped those books because there were no Hebrew texts..but now these Hebrew Texts were found in Essines Community that gave us the "Dead Sea Scrolls" in the 1920's; but still the Lutheran church as not reinstated these books thus ignoring the theology of Martin Luther himself. The Lutheran church and many many Prostestant churches have given up the seven sacraments and have now embraced Sola Scripture ("Scripture Alone" which concept never appears in the Scriptures) and "saved by Faith and Grace Alone." When Martin Luther was presented with the letters of the Apostle James who said: "NOT by Faith alone", Martin said: "O that gospel of straw!" Thus the devil has made the book of Concord in the argument against the Council of Trent that explains the infallible and inspired documents of The Council of trent and its teaching of "transubstantiation" ["whole substance of bread is changed into the whole substance of Christ's body] that contradicts Marin Luther's heresy of "consubstantiation" [Both Jesus and bread are present after consecration. -- a philosophical, biblical, and theological impossiblity.]
"DIVISIVENESS" therefore, is the devils big ace! DIVORCE: separation of our souls from grace and from God; separation of husband and wife; separation of church and state to mean taking God out of the public square are ALL the Devi's Handiwork!
So, the devil NOT only breaks up good marriages by infidelity and pron, he does more: he Pre-Plans marriage that will surely fail..because divorce leads to messing up kids..and messing up morals..and messing up relationships with God. The devils biggest divorce is how the devil get one spouse to actually kill the together who vowed to love each other to "death do us" part as to mean "till death is what I will give you." And this has a happened down the ages.
Satan is "disunity" and "divisiveness" and wherever there is "disunity" and "divisiveness" there he is!
Satan knows the cannot destory Christ's Church but he can make 50,000 denominations to no one can recognize the true and one Catholic Church. "Catholic" means "Universal" and "United in Christ." Christ has said it all:
"Father that they may be one: [husband/wife, the Church, government/people, family] just as You and I are one that they may be one in us!"
Please see my homily given at the invitation of Pastor Jones to his Baptist congregation. My homily is called: "UNITY: another name for God." Please just see Pio's Proverb 105 on this my website: http://piowordstotheheart.blogspot.com. Please scroll down to #105. Thank you.
Peace and love, Pio
This is an artistic photo that combined the shere beauty of her physical being with the beauty of her spiritual being. Both, in the themselves are beautiful, but when combined created something that was elusive and mystical. Her name is Maragritka who is 30 years old and is from the Ukraine. I know her well. In seeing the photo, I with great hesitation but still with polite respect asked her: "Are you a virgin?" She replied without hesitation: "You are right. I am still [a] virgin. I hope that does not scare you away." My response was to congratulate her and told her that her virginity made her all the more beautiful, I told her that she now has a most precious and personal gift to give her husband on their wedding night that is the most precious gift she could give him except for her heart and love. But actually, her virginity is the golden crown of her love she will present to him. And in this crown are many diamonds....all the temptations and persuasions from the world from highschool to the present to not maintain her virginity. Was she called a prude or old fashioned? She was neigher. What she really was showing is her Christian belief in virtue and keeping herself alone for her husband to be. But she had the stamina and internal fortitude and courage to follow her heart not the world. Her love for her future husband sustained her. Truly Margaritka is the most beautiful woman I have even seen. She is most beautiful through and through: inside and out. And no one take away from her this diamond-golden crown. How precious it is in the eyes of God and in the eyes of Mary, Ever Virgin.
I know how she felt because I went through the same thing when at age 27, I was still a virgin. Persecution can be subtle: Every Monday morning at Ford Motor Company where I worked, I was teased by 50-year-old Al who greeted me with the same Monday-morning chant: "Did you get bred yet over the weekend?!" I relished saying back: "NO..I am saving myself for my future wife in marriage!" He would go silent..as ususal...with the hope that next Monday I would say, "Yes!" so he would feel better about himself!
As far as I knew only myself -- by the grace of God - and Peter Furbacher (age 32) were virgins of all the 200 hundred guys in our department of Body Illustration in Dearborn Michigan just across the Museum of Greenfield Village. Interesting enough when I got married to a very bosomy Prussian woman named Sharon at age 27 and when Peter got married to a beautiful Austrian woman named Herta [who was on location during the filming of the Sound of Music], we both presented ourselves to our wives as "virgins". Peter and I (I was Peter as well, since my parents called my by my second name: Peter ) encouraged each other often to remain virgins so that God would give us the pure wives we longed for and that He would give us the good kids we prayed for. ALL that was granted to us and more. Peter was so happy and in love Herta -- smitten and she was a virgin too. Sharon was also a virgin at 23 years old..She on our wedding night had planned a ritual of her own. She designed a garment for me.--- a garment of virginity --- that resembled a priest's vestment. She placed it over me reverently...[just remained silent] and she then said to me in her loving but typical no-nonsense intense willing manner: "I NOW remove your virginity!" And she did! But before she did, I quickly took her wedding veil and placed it over her body and said: "I now removed your virginity!" Then we both made love for the first time..and it seems we were intent on making sure it was removed: we made love 7 times on our wedding night! I did not know from any past experience that such a performance would get a standing ovation! We now have three girls and three boys -- all college educated (master's degrees included) -- all very Catholic and all that attend Mass regularly and even do not smoke! All are wonderful kids..and we have 15 grandkids and one in the oven. They are all wonderful kids...God rewards Virginity! God blesses and rewards Living the Pure life!
There was a girl in highschool that every one teased because she was a virgin. All the other girls and guys teased her a lot. They told her it was bad that she was not having sex as they were and that she was a medieval prude! ...that she was just not cool..and just not with it! But secretely many of the girls envied her...and wished they could give their husbands to be this pure gift..and that their husbands to be could know that when she made love to them, there would be no other memory in their wives' mind or even to other man to compare this new experience with. Would you -- if you were shopping -- buy a box of donnuts if the cellophane seal was broken or punctured? ..or would you look for another good box?
But many kids in high-school or college would say as Al did at Ford: "Would you buy a car that you have not test driven?...Would you ever buy a pair of shoes that you did not try on first?" My answer to this is: "Would you order a nice steak at a good restaurant and it it if you knew that steak had been tasted or in the mouth of someone else first but then rejected?" Interesting: The things that we want to become intimately a part of ourselves we want to be fresh and new..and not pre-owned!
I once told my daughter, Cynthia when she was 17: "Be careful for your purity. Virginity is fragile lke a balloon. One prick at it is gone! Save yourself for your husband!" [This is a dad's primary role with his daughters: keeping them good by encouragement and love: being there for them.] I told her this because I heard her say intensely: "My body is screaming for a baby!" She got the message and she now God seems to have answered those screams by giving her a very holy and handsome engineer husband and 7 kids! Seems that living the pure life does get rewarded! Living the pure life is a powerfull witness. I heard a young married man who also saved himself for marriage. He said to his wife on their wedding night quoting from the Book of Tobit as the young Tobiah prayed before making love: "Lord, please know that I take this my bride not out of lust but for noble purpose..let us grow old together...love each other to a ripe old age.." And God granted that prayer...and Sarah's too to be granted a good and noble husband! Both of them were rewarded by each other's love.
We just this past week celebrated the feast day of St. Maria Goretti (pure virgin age 12) who died a martyr's death rather than give in to Alexandro (age 19 who lived on a diet of porn) advances. When she was cannonized a Saint in St. Peter's in Rome, he own mother was present and Alexandro (then age 70 who after his prison years became a Franciscan -- was converted by an apparition of Maria who came to forgive him again because she did already had forgiven him on her death bed). Seems God rewards Virginity with eternal life as well! Her Mass honors her as "Virgin and Martyr"! St. Ceclia -- whose body is incorrupt for these 19 centuries -- also died to maintain her virginity. Thus Holy Mother the Church will proudly celebrate these two and many other Virgin Saints and the Purity of their lives until Christ's coming! -- when we all will see Him our Pure Lord and His mother Mary: "Virgin of virgins"!
Today, July 14 th is also the Feast day of St. Katherin of Taikawatha (Mohawk maiden) : first native born saint cannonized saint. In her Mass: the Gospel acclamation says, "This is the virgin who follows her Lord into His Kingdom.." By remaining a Virgin all her life, since she was the first Mohawk woman to chose to not follow the customs of ther Mohawk tribe but rather to devote herself as a virgin to the Lord and to His service as a lay person. She died at age 30 and is a model for women today to devote themselves to God: actually the Hebrew understanding of Virginity is "Totally Devoted to God."
Regaining Virginity: But what can a teen or a young man or woman do if they have already lost their virginity? Now what!? Here is what a young woman did who had lost her virginity and "regained it" spiritually. A young happy house wife now tells what she did when she found a loving man to date who happened to be a virgin! That presented her with a great challenge. She loved him and wanted him but did not have the sacred gift to offer him on their wedding night as he had preserved for her. Yet, both of them were falling in love and she knew she had to tell him of the other MEN..not just one man in her past courting life. Turns out that he -- a devout Catholic -- helped her to regain her viginity spiritually. He counseled her to offer now her virginal resolve and offering to God to remain chaste until their own wedding night would begin their marital chastity of fidelity to one another. She was to light a white large candle and pray every day for the preservation of her chastity and new spiritual virginity that she was not presenting to God. On their wedding night, she was to present the white candle to him as her husband, and he would gratefully accept her sacred offering! This she did and both of them not only have begun a happy marriage, but now have written a book about their chaste journey of love that has culminated in the Sacred Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. They have a great marriage and great kids! Her regained spiritual virginity is REAL: becasuse the true meaning of Virginity is "Totally devoted to God" which she is...and shows that devotion to God in and through her love for her husband: in a marriage that is 1) Faithful; 2) Exclusive; and 3) Permanent. Let all who have lost their virginity and take heart and get their book they have written called: "Living the Pure Life!"
Devil's Pre-Planned Divorces and how he does it: The devil knows that mariage was one of the gifts that after the fall of Adam and Eve, God did NOT take away. So, the devil tries to take away the gift of marriage which he envies and is jealous of because of his book called: "living the loveless life"
He tries to break up good marriages for sure with porn, infidelity, and getting people to marry who are not ready or do not know each other. Here is his Pre-Planned Divorce stratagy:
1) Get boys or girl interested in Pornography early because this sexual stimulation is already a divorce between the person and their true sexuality. Porn shows graphic sexual activity without the spiritual unseen side of love and how sexual love in marriage mirrors the Trinitarian Life of God.
Porn is sexuality without relationship: the devil's century-old-tried-and-true formula for divorce!
Ponn people do not have to relate: they just watch isolated without any relationship what soever to the opposite sex. If masturbation accompanies porn, the the isolation and self focuse becomes more intense..and the person become fixated on self gratification of sex as a "gimmy" and not a "giving" of love. When he does date, the woman is his sex object not a person who has 90% other dimensions in her life. Porn destroys ones sexuality becomes an additions because of endorphins emitted. Porn causes such an addiction that is leads to sexual addictions of multiple kinds: sex with multiple partners..even in one day as well as multiple masturbations in one day. Porn is the perfect way to guarantee a future failed marriage..because the man or woman sees her partner for what he or she can GIVE to them not to what they can GIVE to him or her. As soon as the gratification wears off, so does the marriage!
2) Get couples to live together before marriage! Now this the devil knows will help to create a future divorce because this couple will be too busy making love or having sex to get to know each other. Thus the devil tries to bring together incompatible people who have one thing in common: sex. Sexual relations blind a woman to a man's addiction to porn or to haveng multiple women..even as he lives with his girlfriend and has this habit that will not be easily broken after marriage. In fact she does not realize that his addiction to porn and to promiscuity and masturbation will perdure into their marriage. But she is too busy making love to him to see his true character. Thus divorce is guaranteed!
3) Women have estrogen; which causes them to bond with their mate sexually and spiritually 8 times more than men bond with testasterone. There is another homrone that women have too..ostamarone (not sure of spelling). This hormone causes women to say, "It will be ok..no worry." This hormone was experimented in business transactions. It was sprayed clandenstenly just a little in the face of prospective investors. These investors took much greater risks and were greatly desiring to make investments than those who naturally were cautious to invest before. But this hormone causes women to rush headlong into a bad marriage and not see the boyfriends true faults and the risks in marrying him!
Thus eventhough God has said: "I hate divorce"; the devil has said: "I love divorce!" Of course he does: he has caused the great divorce/schism of East and West into the Catholic and Orthodox churches while both do have the true sacraments. He has caused the great Protestant Reformation that threw out the Holy Priesthood and Eucharist, Infallible Papal authority and Magisterium of the Church..and demoted Sacred Tradition that St. Paul has talking about [Hold fast to the traditions that I have handed down/given to you in word and in letters..] to mere human origin when they were God-given. How many books are in the Bible are not written down in the Bible..that came from Sacred Tradition and all Prostestant accept these books but have thrown out 7 apocrapha as they call them..but Jesus Himself quoted from te Book of Macabese. And furthre, Martin Luther dropped those books because there were no Hebrew texts..but now these Hebrew Texts were found in Essines Community that gave us the "Dead Sea Scrolls" in the 1920's; but still the Lutheran church as not reinstated these books thus ignoring the theology of Martin Luther himself. The Lutheran church and many many Prostestant churches have given up the seven sacraments and have now embraced Sola Scripture ("Scripture Alone" which concept never appears in the Scriptures) and "saved by Faith and Grace Alone." When Martin Luther was presented with the letters of the Apostle James who said: "NOT by Faith alone", Martin said: "O that gospel of straw!" Thus the devil has made the book of Concord in the argument against the Council of Trent that explains the infallible and inspired documents of The Council of trent and its teaching of "transubstantiation" ["whole substance of bread is changed into the whole substance of Christ's body] that contradicts Marin Luther's heresy of "consubstantiation" [Both Jesus and bread are present after consecration. -- a philosophical, biblical, and theological impossiblity.]
"DIVISIVENESS" therefore, is the devils big ace! DIVORCE: separation of our souls from grace and from God; separation of husband and wife; separation of church and state to mean taking God out of the public square are ALL the Devi's Handiwork!
So, the devil NOT only breaks up good marriages by infidelity and pron, he does more: he Pre-Plans marriage that will surely fail..because divorce leads to messing up kids..and messing up morals..and messing up relationships with God. The devils biggest divorce is how the devil get one spouse to actually kill the together who vowed to love each other to "death do us" part as to mean "till death is what I will give you." And this has a happened down the ages.
Satan is "disunity" and "divisiveness" and wherever there is "disunity" and "divisiveness" there he is!
Satan knows the cannot destory Christ's Church but he can make 50,000 denominations to no one can recognize the true and one Catholic Church. "Catholic" means "Universal" and "United in Christ." Christ has said it all:
"Father that they may be one: [husband/wife, the Church, government/people, family] just as You and I are one that they may be one in us!"
Please see my homily given at the invitation of Pastor Jones to his Baptist congregation. My homily is called: "UNITY: another name for God." Please just see Pio's Proverb 105 on this my website: http://piowordstotheheart.blogspot.com. Please scroll down to #105. Thank you.
Peace and love, Pio
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