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describe the set of prayers with which i begin my day upon waking i thank god for allowing me another day to spend with him in his creation after taking care of some early necessities and stretching i light a candle and kneel using a wooden library stepladder with a pillow on the lowest step with a dash of holy water i prepare myself as i do for each of my daily prayer sessions as follows i choose to be fully present in this moment to observe it with all my senses and to feel your presence in it oh sustaining god i put myself fully in your embrace to feel you support me engulf me enter me as me and moving forward from this moment i choose to grow in my relationship with and understanding of you and to fulfill my role in your plan depending on my mood or needs of the moment i ll exchange the adjective sustaining for something more relevant such as magnificent comforting or forgiving i inhale while whispering the phrase enter me for the sensation of air across my tongue as that which god created communicating with me physically as a means of maintaining my existence i considered the phrase as me carefully and recognize it as a point of risk if it takes too much of a new agey tilt and certainly my full theological framework might strike some traditionalists as too far in that direction however today s second reading at mass offers the appropriate ballast do you not know that your bodies are members of christ but whoever is joined to the lord becomes one spirit with him 1 corinthians 6 15 17 in the morning my purpose is to prepare myself for the day and i find it appropriate to frame that activity in terms of spiritual warfare over time i cycled through the prayers published in a small booklet i picked up long ago in the shop at the national shrine of our lady of la salette titled spiritual warfare prayers at some point i simply memorized this one which i found particularly powerful i armor myself today with the power of the most holy trinity in the oneness of god creator of the universe i armor myself today with the baptism of christ his crucifixion and resurrection his ascension and glorious second coming i armor myself today with god s guidance to direct me god s might to sustain me god s wisdom to instruct me god s word to give me speech gods shield to protect me gods army to defend me against the snares of the demons against the lure of vices against all who plot me harm i invoke all these virtues today against every hostile and merciless power that may assail me against the incantations of false prophets against the black laws of heathenism against the false laws of heresy against the deceits of idolatry against every art and spell that binds the soul to evil christ guard me today against every poison burning drowning and fatal wounding christ be with me christ be behind me christ be within me christ be beside me christ to win me christ to comfort and restore me christ to be where danger threatens christ be in the hearts of those around me forevermore next i turn my thoughts to daily reminders blending together those of a spiritual nature with others that are more practical or targeted toward self improvement these change over time and i d encourage anybody who likes the idea of the list to make it his or her own at the moment i have 29 find something to appreciate in every moment set aside dedicated time for god everybody deserves attention and patience break a sweat play an instrument never more than two alcoholic drinks keep kids on schedule spend special time with your children challenge the status quo firmly and confidently people are suffering out there be moderate in your appetite please your wife charisma equals presence warmth and power look for opportunity to get where you want to go no matter where it is you have to be make menial tasks not menial cultivate a desire to help in your children continue with the self analysis ensure that every task is the highest and best use of your time given circumstances when distracted with the need for engagement from others don t forget to consider those closest to you god first among them approach each day as an opportunity to spend time with the most important person in your life stay present in the moment even as you think forward to the message you wish to send to god with your life find the framing that makes the obscure or complicated obvious and simple healing embraces reach out to god in others with your arms as his you matter so much that what happens to you matters very little in your community and in your work you are here to learn you do not need to win in the light of eternity fidelity to god not material achievement will shine the serenity of your heart cannot be disturbed if you live in god the path does not matter as much as the way in which you travel it remember what world you live in lord jesus look at me through their eyes and i will respond having drawn myself into god s presence in the moment prepared myself as if for spiritual battle and reminded myself of collected advice and wisdom i call on saint michael saint michael please pray for me that i will have the strength to resist the devil s temptation toward doubt despair anger anxiety indifference lethargy pride and decadence and send an angel to guide and guard me throughout the day as i seek to do god s will pray that our lord jesus christ will send his spirit upon me so i may better understand my role in the father s plan and please saint michael with my guardian angel give me a sense of your presence so that i may feel myself a member of the community of souls and not be vulnerable to the isolation of the modern material world i tack on to this any specific needs i feel at that moment whether for health or other aspect of life and then ask saint michael to pray for my loved ones and send angels to guide and guard them all i name each of them more or less from youngest to oldest specifically naming any specific intentions for each with strong emphasis on their health and growth in faith for those who are deceased i ask saint michael to have your angels find her wherever she may be and draw her toward our lord changing the pronouns as relevant having named my family members i ask saint michael pray for my household next i move outward breathing in deeply as i zoom out from the globe in my mind and asking for prayers for escalating geographic units and the corresponding divisions of the catholic church first is tiverton and i name the parishes in the town followed by the state of rhode island and the diocese of providence the united states of america and the u s conference of catholic bishops and all of us on the planet earth and in the roman catholic church at each level i bring to mind any specific people who have acute needs at that time a thin strong thread of communion by justin katz december 31 2023 how long o lord i cry for help but you do not listen i cry out to you violence but you do not intervene why do you let me see ruin why must i look at misery destruction and violence are before me there is strife and clamorous discord this is why the law is benumbed and judgment is never rendered because the wicked circumvent the just this is why judgment comes forth perverted habukkuk 1 2 4 times are dark indeed when one looks to the prophetic books not for warnings about what could be but comfort in what has been before but here we are last week i wrote in despair for the roman catholic church peculiar as it may be doctrinal documents from the holy see have been crucial to my faith two circumstances apply the first and most straightforward is their articulation of ideas that ring true and moreover that arrive theologically where the scientific and philosophical disciplines will only later tread understanding of the trinity and the logos the balance of solidary and subsidiarity and the distinction between substance and accident in the eucharist are examples of concepts that ring true and that when applied to say science move one further faster than a materialist approach allows the second circumstance in which doctrinal documents have confirmed my faith in the church is less intuitive when the reader can tell that the writer really wants to accommodate something that precedent will not allow but cannot in academic legal or popular texts attempts to wish away obstacles of logic and reality are visible to those who wish not to be taken in the writer brings an idea to a point of crisis and then through some sort of pivot ambiguity or rhetorical gimmick leaps across the intellectual chasm a recent and profound example comes from andrew sullivan from his book virtually normal a polemic on behalf of same sex marriage before it had been imposed some might argue that marriage is by definition between a man and a woman and it is difficult to argue with a definition but if marriage is articulated beyond this circular fiat then the argument for its exclusivity to one man and one woman disappears the fact of the definition held within it the core of the point articulating marriage beyond it neatly discards both the etymological reason and the effect of every instance of the word s current usage one puts aside all traditional explanations and changes the law by changing the meaning of the text unsurprisingly a classic example comes from karl marx one of history s most prolific practitioners of such tricks in his economic philosophic manuscripts he must inevitably face the problem that his philosophy hits a wall with the origin of man and his response is to mumble around on the word existent concluding with this diabolical punchline i say to you give up your abstraction and you will also give up your question do not think do not question me for as soon as you think and question your abstraction from the existence of nature and man makes no sense your argument cannot disprove his thesis because he has declared impermissible any ideas outside his careful boundaries true to marxist form however his proscriptions do not apply to himself his writing proceeds through a tangle of abstractions asserted to be concrete observations and words that don t quite mean what he uses them to mean from these fibers of inconsequential ideas with no consistent coherent thread of truth he spins a noose with the strength to strangle nations accept the premise that he might not be a rambling lunatic and you are already dangling above any firm foundation from which to disagree with him in contrast church doctrine maintains that thread of truth a consistent end to end line that prevents the surrounding tangle from bending in whichever direction or blending with whatever material the rhetorical weaver might wish the faith is affirmed in the tacit admission that they can only go so far and no farther tragically fiducia supplicans bears the tell tale marks of the trick the declaration pretends to say what it does not say so it can be understood to mean what it cannot actually mean and still be catholic like so within the horizon outlined here appears the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex the form of which should not be fixed ritually by ecclesial authorities to avoid producing confusion with the blessing proper to the sacrament of marriage one brazen lie on which its advocates have relied to fend of objections is that couples of the same sex can be translated as two individuals who happen to approach the priest at the same time which is not what anybody reading the document will understand it to mean the tell tale mark however is the phrase within the horizon outlined here in writing that styles itself as intellectual reference to the horizon is often a lazy linguistic tic like moreover or furthermore allowing the author to avoid the work of drawing genuine connections between ideas it means that although we cannot see the thing clearly enough to explain it we can pretend we don t see a contradiction within our range of sight the writer fancies he or she has sketched a circle so wide that two contradictory things can both fall within it somewhere between where we stand and our conceptual horizon a justification might exist even if we haven t found it yet so we can behave as if it does exist despite millennia of precedent to the contrary victor manuel fernandez cannot succinctly articulate how his innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings is consistent with the teachings of the roman catholic church because the thread of truth will not permit him to so instead he has handed us a mess of thoughts so jumbled that anybody who does not reject it outright must admit his or her own inability to see a problem so familiar is this evil gimmick that my very being cries out that this document belongs nowhere near the legitimate doctrine of the catholic church and anybody who does not actively reject it is out of conformance with the truth hence my lamentation that its acceptance by pope francis and the holy see effectively excommunicated the entire church and all its members including me conversations and consultations along with much reading and prayer have pulled me back from this ledge whatever the condition of pope francis s intellect and soul may be that the holy spirit has not permitted falsehood to be declared as an infallible teaching means the church herself continues to hold that thin strong thread by this thread we are still connected to the lord as we are connected with each other even those who are in error as i believe pope francis and cardinal fernandez are indeed the thread what it means to be in communion is strengthened to the extent we seek never to lose these connections i must hope through my prayer to draw these men away from error and i must understand that in some instances they may do the same for me the ancient prophets warnings present terrifyingly familiar images after their reign when sinners have reached their measure there shall arise a king impudent and skilled in intrigue he shall be strong and powerful bring about fearful ruin and succeed in his undertaking he shall destroy powerful peoples his cunning shall be against the holy ones his treacherous conduct shall succeed he shall be proud of heart and destroy many by stealth but when he rises against the prince of princes he shall be broken without a hand being raised daniel 8 23 25 as we find comfort in the familiarity of times when darkness loomed but the promise of redemption was not dimmed we must take the draught in its fullest measure through ezekiel god proclaimed the end has come upon the four corners of the land now the end is upon you i will unleash my anger against you and judge you according to your conduct and lay upon you the consequences of all your abominations ezekiel 7 2 3 and even in his wrath he called to the man dressed in linen with the writer s case at his waist saying to him pass through the city and mark an x on the foreheads of those who 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