Dark clouds had gathered over the Catholic Church.

Pope Benedict XVI our current head says and warned about the lost of identity, of orientation, of truth that would result if a new paganism were to take control of people's thoughts and actions. He criticized the narrow-mindedness of a "society of greed" that dares less and less to hope and no longer to believe.

It it important, he said, to develop a new sensitivity toward a threatened creation, to oppose the forces of destruction decisively.

When we look into the future: How will the next generation cope with the problems that we are leaving to it? Have we sufficiently prepared and trained them? Does it have a foundation that provides the security and strength to weather even stormy times?

The Pope says that in this crisis of the Church there is a tremendous opportunity, namely, to rediscover what is authentically Catholic.

The task is to show God to the people and to tell them the truth

- The truth about the mysteries of creation, the truth about human existence, and the truth about our hope, which goes beyond merely worldly matters.

Do you still love God? Do you love His only Church? Jesus always preached unity and love. At this period in the history of the Church, this unity has to be promoted seriously.

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Principles of The Roman Catholic Church Social Doctrine- For Love of God

The permanent principles of the Church's social doctrine constitute the very heart of Catholic social teaching.
These are the principles of:

1. The dignity of the human person
2. The common good
3. Subsidiarity
4. Solidarity

- These principles, the expression of the whole truth about man known by reason and faith, are born of “the encounter of the Gospel message and of its demands summarized in the supreme commandment of love of God and neighbor in justice with the problems emanating from the life of society”.
- In the course of history and with the light of the Spirit, the Church has wisely reflected within her own tradition of faith and has been able to provide an ever more accurate foundation and shape to these principles, progressively explaining them in the attempt to respond coherently to the demands of the times and to the continuous developments of social life.

The principle of the dignity of the human person

- Is the foundation of all the other principles and content of the Church's social doctrine
To understand them completely it is necessary to act in accordance with them, following the path of development that they indicate for a life worthy of man.

The ethical requirement inherent in these pre-eminent social principles concerns both the personal behavior of individuals — in that they are the first and indispensable responsible subjects of social life at every level — and at the same time institutions represented by laws, customary norms and civil constructs, because of their capacity to influence and condition the choices of many people over a long period of time.
In fact, these principles remind us that the origins of a society existing in history are found in the interconnectedness of the freedoms of all the persons who interact within it, contributing by means of their choices either to build it up or to impoverish it.

The principle of the common good

The principle of the common good, to which every aspect of social life must be related if it is to attain its fullest meaning, stems from the dignity, unity and equality of all people.

• According to its primary and broadly accepted sense, the common good indicates “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily”.
• The common good does not consist in the simple sum of the particular goods of each subject of a social entity. Belonging to everyone and to each person, it is and remains “common”, because it is indivisible and because only together is it possible to attain it, increase it and safeguard its effectiveness, with regard also to the future.
• Just as the moral actions of an individual are accomplished in doing what is good, so too the actions of a society attain their full stature when they bring about the common good.
• The common good, in fact, can be understood as the social and community dimension of the moral good.

A society that wishes and intends to remain at the service of the human being at every level is a society that has the common good — the good of all people and of the whole person — as its primary goal. The human person cannot find fulfillment in himself, that is, apart from the fact that he exists “with” others and “for” others.

Responsibility of everyone for the common good

• The demands of the common good are dependent on the social conditions of each historical period and are strictly connected to respect for and the integral promotion of the person and his fundamental rights.
• These demands concern above all the commitment to peace, the organization of the State's powers, a sound juridical system, the protection of the environment, and the provision of essential services to all, some of which are at the same time human rights: food, housing, work, education and access to culture, transportation, basic health care, the freedom of communication and expression, and the protection of religious freedom.
• The common good therefore involves all members of society, no one is exempt from cooperating, according to each one's possibilities, in attaining it and developing it.
• The common good must be served in its fullness, not according to reductionist visions that are subordinated by certain people to their advantages; own rather it is to be based on a logic that leads to the assumption of greater responsibility.
• The common good corresponds to the highest of human instincts, but it is a good that is very difficult to attain because it requires the constant ability and effort to seek the good of others as though it were one's own good.

Everyone also has the right to enjoy the conditions of social life that are brought about by the quest for the common good.

The teaching of Pope Pius XI is still relevant: “the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered property-less, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice”.

The common good of society is not an end in itself; it has value only in reference to attaining the ultimate ends of the person and the universal common good of the whole of creation.

God is the ultimate end of his creatures and for no reason may the common good be deprived of its transcendent dimension, which moves beyond the historical dimension while at the same time fulfilling it.
This perspective reaches its fullness by virtue of faith in Jesus' Passover, which sheds clear light on the attainment of humanity's true common good. Our history — the personal and collective effort to elevate the human condition — begins and ends in Jesus: thanks to him, by means of him and in light of him every reality, including human society, can be brought to its Supreme Good, to its fulfillment


OUR CATHOLIC CHURCH IS UNDER CONSTANT ATTACK. DO YOU STILL CARE?


LET US BE GUIDED BY THESE QUESTIONS AS CATHOLIC DEVOTEES:

1. Who is the founder of your church, a man or Christ himself? Did he suffer and die for your group and its members?
Did he/she get richer or poorer over the years?
- Our founder, Jesus Christ suffered, became poor, and died for men and for us Catholic Faithful.

2. Did Christ marry? Your church or group founders, do they marry or not so as to imitate Christ and to serve wholeheartedly or are they too busy with their own “businesses”?
- Christ and His anointed priests did not marry to dedicate their lives to His Church.

3. When your founder died or dies did he/she or will he/she resurrect? Mabubuhay ba o Nabuhay ba siya muli?
- The founder and Lord of the Catholics resurrected from death and promised to resurrect us too. There is sure guarantee of SALVATION for us Catholic Devotees

4. Where did the Bible come from? Before it was made where do the original Christians get the revealed Word of God?
- Christians of all types around the world owe an enormous debt to the Catholic Church, who, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is responsible for the formulation, preservation, and integrity of the Sacred Scriptures. Men and women of the first 1500 years of Christianity read the scriptures from a manuscript that the Catholic monks and friars laboriously prepared.

5. St. John the Evangelist said in the gospel of John 21: 25: “There are many other things that Jesus did; if all were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not hold all the books that would have to be written. Where, then, are the other teachings of Christ to be found?
- The living voice of the Catholic Church stands as the beacon for all men and women of goodwill, and announces the life and teachings of Jesus Christ with TRADITION in one hand and the SCRIPTURES in the other. If you separate the Scriptures from the living, breathing institution they were entrusted to called-Tradition, they lose their life.

6. Do you know the central teachings of Christ on the Sacraments, especially on the two Sacraments: Holy Eucharist and Confession?
- Jesus instituted them to make true what He promised that He will stay with us disciples to the end of time and to surely guide His church followers to the path of SALVATION and ETERNAL HAPPINESS.
He says in Mt 28:20: “Teach them to carry out everything I have commanded you”. The Sacrament of Eucharist which we Catholics avail of regularly, trains and prepares us very surely for SALVATION, by His Words and His Body so as to be able to nourish our ‘SPIRITUAL LIFE’ more than merely feeding our ‘flesh’. Thus he said in John 6:63. “It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh has nothing to offer. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life”.

7. Did Jesus explain Salvation explicitly to his followers:” Eternal life is this: to know you (Father), the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John17:3)
- We Catholic Devotees will be happy to seek and to know the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Our DEVOTIONS are big gifts to us to gain eternal life.

8. Is your church or group part of the original PLAN and HISTORY of SALVATION that started from creation, the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles up to the only church that Jesus Christ himself founded with a hierarchy that is in communion with Peter?
- Only the Catholic Church is rooted in the plan and history of salvation that reached up to the Apostles and to Peter whom Jesus Christ himself annointed.
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Deboto ka na ba at gusto mong matiyak ang kaligtasan?
- Mag-aral at magsaya, umunlad, yumaman, at maglingkod sa pamilya at sa kapuwa.

Hindi ka pa Deboto?
- Gusto mong makilala ang Diyos, maging tuloy tuloy na masaya at maligtas pa? Sama na !

If we study our faith, we Catholic Devotees can unite and help each other to go to heaven after a happy life on earth !

 

For what purpose are we on earth?

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We are here on earth in order to know and to love God, to do good according to his will, and to go someday to heaven. To be a human being means to come from God and to go to God. Our origin goes back farther than our parents. We come from God, in whom all the happiness of heaven and earth is at home, and we are expected in his everlasting, infinite blessedness. Meanwhile we live on this earth. Sometimes we feel that our Creator is near; often we feel nothing at all. So that we might find the way home, God sent us his Son, who freed us from sin, delivers us from evil, and leads us unerringly into true life. He is “the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6).

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