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The God of Reciprocity

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Have you ever heard of the idiom "coming in full circle"? It means that after everything one had been through, they return to where they began. The story of, well, everything, began when the Almighty Triune God created light, the Heavens and the Earth, water and land, animals and mankind. There is a culmination though, which is the creation of human beings, so the story of God comes in full circle, but is not a never ending series of cycles that end with the destruction of the soul like the Buddhists believe.     God breathing the Spirit to St. Adam Our Lord Jesus Christ giving up His Spirit, saying "It is finished" because He already came full circle in the war against Death Speaking of mankind, God breathed life into the first man, Adam, by the power of the Holy Spirit and man has his own spirit. In Matthew 27:50¹, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Second Person of our Triune God, the Word Who became Flesh, "gave up His spirit" which is the same one the Holy Sp...
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How to be merciful without compromising the Truth

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We live in a time of many flaunted and shamelessly displayed sins—from alcohol and drug abuse to promiscuity and homosexuality. And we, as sound-minded Catholics, when we see these sins proudly practiced by our priests and fellow lay faithful, are oftentimes tempted to be enraged at their unorthodox and immoral lifestyles—lifestyles they oftentimes do not repent of but instead desperately try to justify. They, however, differ from those who commit these sins and yet, deep in their hearts, desire to overcome them. Now, how should we respond to either of them? For starters, we must turn to Sacred Scripture, the Catechism, the Traditions, and the Magisterium of our Catholic Faith to reform not just others, but ourselves as well. These determine how we must reform our lives to conform to God's will. If we then know all about these—or at least have some knowledge of them from reading, studying, and attending Holy Mass—then we can separate the wheat from the chaff, which, in the Catholic...
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Gone but not forgotten, a different perspective on the phrase

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 With the death of Pope Francis, there are all sorts of reactions from the Catholic community (I am only limiting this article to the Latin rite circles) and as much as I respect the death of a person, I will not accept the romanticization, idealization and sugarcoating that many Catholics among the liberals are spreading in social media. We have a responsibility for the truth, as Mother Angelica put it, "It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it." so I cannot but speak against these unrealistic and saccharine posts wherein the late pope is usually dramatically portrayed as a holy and heroic figure. That goes against what the late pontiff had taught the world on how to perceive him as, because he always expressed that he must be portrayed as a sinner among sinners. We should remember not only the shortcomings he admitted, but the grave sins he committed. For the entirety of his pontificate, he participated in pagan rituals, befri...
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