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Saint John the Baptist should be our model, all of us, Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Trinitarian Muslims.

Christ's parable of the Pharisee and the Samaritan - take ye heed!

The Justice of God: The Gospel of Jesus Christ - Luke 18

LUKE 18

CHAPTER XVIII.

We must pray always.  The Pharisee and the publican.  The danger of riches.  The blind man is restored to sight.

1 And *he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray, and not to faint,

2 Saying: There was a judge in a certain city, who feared not God, nor regarded man.

3 And there was a certain widow in that city, and she came to him, saying: Avenge me of my adversary.

4 And he would not for a long time.  But afterwards he said within himself: Although I fear not God, nor regard man,

5 Yet because this widow is troublesome to me, I will avenge her, lest continually coming, she weary me out.

6 And the Lord said: Hear what the unjust judge saith:

7 And will not God avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night: and will he have patience in their regard?

8 I say to you, he will quickly avenge them.  But yet, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

9 He spoke also this parable to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others.

10 Two men went up into the temple, to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican:

11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, nor such as this publican:

12 I fast twice in the week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven: but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner.

14 I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather that the other; *because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

15 *And they brought to him also infants, that he might touch them.  Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them.

16 But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.

17 Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child, shall not enter into it.

18 *And a certain ruler asked him, saying: Good master, what shall I do to possess everlasting life?

19 And Jesus said to him: Why dost thou call me good?  None is good but God alone.

20 Thou knowest the commandments: *Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not steal: Thou shalt not bear false witness: Honour thy father and mother.

21 But he said: All these things have I kept from my youth.

22 Now when Jesus had heard, he said to him: Yet one thing is wanting to thee: sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

23 He having heard these things, was sorrowful: for he was very rich.

24 And Jesus seeing him become sorrowful, said: How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God.

25 For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

26 And they that heard it, said: Who then can be saved?

27 He said to them: The things that are impossible with men, are possible with God.

28 Then Peter said: Behold we have left all things, and have followed thee?

29 He said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

30 Who shall not receive much more in this present time, and in the world to come, life everlasting.

31 *Then Jesus took unto him the twelve, and said to them: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets, concerning the Son of man.

32 For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and scourged, and spit upon:

33 And after they have scourged him, they will put him to death, and the third day he shall rise again.

34 And they understood none of these things, and this word was hid from them, and they understood not the things that were said.

35 *Now it came to pass, that when he drew nigh to Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the way-side, begging.

36 And when he heard the multitude passing by, he asked what this meant.

37 And they told him, that Jesus, of Nazareth, was passing by.

38 And he cried out, saying: Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

39 And they that went before, rebuked him, that he should hold his peace.  But he cried out much more: Son of David, have mercy on me.

40 And Jesus standing, commanded him to be brought to him.  And when he was come near, he asked him,

41 Saying: What wilt thou that I do to thee?  But he said: Lord, that I may see.

42 And Jesus said to him: Receive thy sight: thy faith hath made thee whole.

43 And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God.  And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.
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1: Eccli xviii. 22.; 1 Thess. v.. 17.

14: Matt. xxiii. 12.; Supra xiv. 11.

15: Matt. xix. 13.; Mark x. 13.

18: Matt. xix. 16.

20: Exod. xx. 13.

31: Matt. xx. 17.; Mark x. 32.

35: Matt. xx. 29.; Mark x. 46.

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Traditional Catholic Prayers: Prayer to the True God « BellesHeures's Weblog

This is the feast of the Epiphany which is the twelfth day of Christmas wherein we celebrate the Magi coming to worship the new born King of Israel, Jesus Christ Our Lord. Also, we celebrate today the baptism of Christ in the Jordan by St. John the Baptist. For Christ's Baptism see below at: Concerning the Truth - Who is God and the witness to His Son, Jesus Christ, baptized in the Jordan by St. John the Baptist.

Link: Prayer to the True God « BellesHeures's Weblog

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Prayer to the True God

Prayer to the True God

GRANT US TO BE FAITHFUL TO YOU
O LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD
AND SAVIOUR LIVING AND REIGNING
AND RULING WITH GOD OUR FATHER IN
THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE,
WITH AND BY THE PRAYER AND
COMPANY OF ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS
AND SAINTS FOR AND WITH US
UNCEASINGLY, ESPECIALLY SAINT
MICHAEL AND SAINT GABRIEL, SAINT
ENOCH IN THE FLESH AND SAINT ELIJAH
IN THE FLESH, YOUR HOLY PROPHETS
YET TO COME, WITH ALL THANKSGIVING,
WE LOVE YOU FOR YOU FIRST LOVED US, WITH ALL THANKSGIVING FOR ALL YOUR
GIFTS AND MERCIES TO US
UNCEASINGLY: ESPECIALLY YOUR ALL
HOLY ALMIGHTY GIFTS OF OUR
CREATION,
REDEMPTION,
YOUR GIFTS OF YOUR CREATION TO US
CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND
SAVIOUR,
YOUR LIFE AND TEACHING,
YOUR INCARNATION BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE ONLY IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, AND BIRTH TRULY BORN IN THE FLESH FROM MARY,
YOUR EPIPHANY,
YOUR TRANSFIGURATION,
YOUR MOST HOLY CROSS, HOLY BLOOD,
HOLY SPIRIT OF YOU OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF THE FATHER,
YOUR RESURRECTION, THE ONLY FIRST
BORN FROM THE DEAD IN THE FLESH,
YOUR ASCENSION ASSUMPTION IN THE
SAME FLESH BACK TO THE FATHER’S
BOSOM IN THE THIRD HEAVEN AT HIS
RIGHT HAND IN THE UNITY AND POWER
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE,
THE GIFT OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT OUR
PARACLETE AT PENTECOST AND
THROUGHOUT ALL TIME AND CREATION INDWELLING US FROM THE FIRST ADAM TO THE LAST SAINT, BRINGING WITH HIM YOU GOD OUR FATHER AND THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME, YOUR MOST HOLY EUCHARIST WHICH YOU ALONE GOD OUR FATHER AND THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR AND THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE GIVE TO US, JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR INFINITELY PURE AND UNDEFILED TRULY MADE MANIFEST AGAIN IN THE BREAD THE WINE AND THE WATER WHOM WE RECEIVE IN FAITH WITH ALL THANKSGIVING, YOUR PAROUSIA, CHRIST JESUS, IN THE FLESH IN THE FUTURE AT THE END OF THIS AGE AT THE TIME KNOWN TO YOU ALONE O HOLY HOLY HOLY
LORD GOD ALMIGHTY BLESSED TRINITY HOLY UNITY, WITH ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS, OUR RESURRECTION IN THE FLESH AT THE FIRST RESURRECTION OF THE JUST, OUR SAME SPIRITS SOULS AND BODIES REUNITED, WE WITH ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS WORSHIPPING YOU JCOLS IN THE GLORY OF GOD OUR FATHER IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE FACE TO FACE UNCEASINGLY UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME,
FOR YOUR SIMPLE GIFTS OF FOOD AND DRINK,
FOR ALL YOUR GIFTS AND MERCIES AND THIS NEW DAY, WITH ALL THANKSGIVING WE LOVE YOU FOR YOU FIRST LOVED US WITH ALL THANKSGIVING UNCEASINGLY AND NOW
AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME,
BIND AND CAST FROM US FOREVERMORE ALL SPIRITS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE OF: THE DRAGON, THE DEVIL, THE SERPENT OF OLD, THE SON OF PERDITION, THE FALSE PROPHET, CALLING YOUR
CREATION EVIL, CLAIMING THAT MEN ARE CREATED EVIL,
EVOLUTION, THEURGY, CLAIMING TO HAVE CONTROL OVER YOU, BABYLON, THE GREAT APOSTASY, THE UNHOLY ROMAN APOSTASY, THE PROTESTANT/EVANGELICAL APOSTASY, ALL APOSTASY, ALL THOSE WHO CLAIM
YOUR COMMANDMENTS ARE OF NO
REGARD,
UNCEASINGLY AND NOW AND ALWAYS AND UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES
OF AGES TO COME.

At the end of Vespers every day is sung the famous Phos Hilaron, as the evening light disappears, and the lamps are lit: –
Hail, gladdening Light, of his pure glory poured
Who is the immortal Father, heavenly, blest,
Holiest of Holies, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
Now we are come to the sun’s hour of rest,
The lights of evening round us shine,
We hymn the Father, Son and Holy Spirit divine,
Worthiest art Thou at all times to be sung
With undefiled tongue,
Son of our God, giver of life alone.
Therefore in all the world, thy glories, Lord, they own.

Concerning the Truth - Who is God and the witness to His Son, Jesus Christ, baptized in the Jordan by St. John the Baptist.

Jesus Christ is the Truth « BellesHeures's Weblog

Jesus Christ is the Truth

GOD is the Truth. The Most Holy Trinity is God and none other is God. The Most Holy Trinity is Three Persons Who are One God. These Three Persons are The Father and the Son, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Father is the fountainhead of the Trinity, the Son proceeds from His engendering in the Father’s bosom, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father in the unity of the engendering of the Son from the Father. This procession of the Son and the Holy Spirit from the Father is immortal from before all time and creation and unto eternity never-ending. This Triune God alone has Aseity, that He is immortal without beginning and without end, self sustained in His existence which preceded all time and creation and, His existence, continues forever; God’s existence is infinite. This God is above all that He has created and transcendent in all that He has created. There is nothing apart from nor outside of God that He has not created. He created all that has been created ex nihilo, that is from nothing by His infinite power. Nothing that is created has aseity. Time is only an aspect of that which has been created by God. Time is therefore part of God’s creation. God is not limited by His creation, this includes that God is not limited by time. God is Omnipotent and Omniscient and Ubiquitos and with eternal complete foresight: Almighty and All seeing and knowing and equally present everywhere and knowing all things before their creation and all events before they come to pass unto eternity. There is no way to God but through the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom alone there is salvation by His Most Holy Cross and Resurrection. Creation had a beginning but will continue unto the eternal ages to come. At the return of Jesus Christ from God the Father’s right hand in the third heaven and the just judgement of Christ of His creatures, creation will be cleansed by fire (the damned, both angels and men consigned to hell forever) and renewed with paradise restored, with the presence around God of all His elect angels and saints, and continue in this way forever.

Jesus Christ said to count the cost,

Lk:14:
27 And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28 For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost that is necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:
33 So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.
34 Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
35 It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but shall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is saying that if we do not put Him ahead of everything that we possess – even our lives, then He is not our Saviour. Only if we put Him ahead of everything, including our lives, and only then He is our Saviour.

In none of the below where I have cited condemnation of false priests or conversely cited the priesthood of the faithful should it be thought that I am condemning good presbyters from among the priesthood of the faithful (St. Irenaeus was one such and a bishop without pretense) who are called priests today. That is those who hold to and teach the truth of Christ.
God bless them.

This site is humbly offered to Jesus Christ and dedicated to all the faithful of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches and all traditional Trinitarian believing faithful Christians and especially all of Christ’s sheep that He, the Good Shepherd seeks to bring unto Him in His salvation; He Who is the Only Saviour. Who warned us not to have anything to do with the wolves in sheep’s clothing. To confirm the utter importance of not having anything to do with the wolves in sheep’s clothing the Lord especially had St. John the Apostle and Evangelist remain until the Lord had especially appeared to him and had him record that appearance and the visions Our Lord showed St. John at that time, in the last book of the bible, the Apocalypse. The message throughout it is absolutely clear, we are to have nothing to do with paganism or man made conventions that try to change what Our Lord taught us. Such as men forgiving the sins of other men. Only God forgives sin. Note that in the book of the Apocalypse that the keys (the Davidic key) that Christ promised Peter are still with Christ, that He, Jesus Christ alone locks and unlocks. This is extremely important. It means that every believing individual receives the keys that Christ gave to the Apostles, including Peter.
Only two times in history have the synchretist hypocrites reached the current level of complete misrepresentation of the truth, once 2000 years ago and now today.
Any Christian who knows the witness and preaching of St. John The Forerunner and Baptist of The Christ and any Christian who knows Christ’s denunciation of the hypocrites (see below from the Gospel of St. Matthew) knows that it is the hypocrites who are going to hell.
Most professing Christians do not understand the importance of St. John The Baptist and Forerunner of Christ. He was the last of the Old Testament prophets and the first of the New Testament prophets. He was the last of the Old Testament martyrs and the first of the New Testament martyrs. He is the only Old Testament and New Testament Apostle (one who saw Christ in the flesh and was commissioned by God to preach Christ!). In short, as St. Irenaeus reminds us constantly and rightly so (against Marcion and the rest of the apostate Gnostics), there is NO difference between Old Testament and New Testament faith. It is in the same God, period. It was Our Lord Jesus Christ Who taught us that there is no communion of light with dark; that either our eye is full of light or it is full of darkness, that a tree bears good fruit or bad fruit but not both.
There is a new version of Catholic, nowadays, one who believes that God is too maudlin to not save all men; there is a new version of Orthodox Church believer who believes that light and dark can indeed be combined, in fact, he believes God commands it; there is a new version of Protestant who doesn’t protest any heresy but only a lack of tolerance, especially if it gets in the way of his making money; there is a new version of what Our Lord meant by “born again”, now supposedly according to those calling themselves evangelical, you can’t lose your salvation no matter what you do (obviously they never had what their free will can’t forfeit so their comments, as utterly self serving as they are, mean absolutely nothing). It was the unswerving uncompromising Baptist that God the Holy Trinity, yes all three Persons, chose to baptize Jesus Christ in the Jordan. Christ commanded (not suggested) our baptism to show forth our unswerving uncompromising faith we are commanded to have. St. John The Forerunner is our model of following Christ, we decrease and He increases; NOT blessed are the puffed up. The whining self congratulating pseudochristians mentioned above, the false Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Evangelical of unbelief, who have the diabolic audacity to accuse those who take Our Lord’s commandments and Our Lord’s denunciation of sin as well as St. John’s, and the Apostles commandments, to separate from the unbeliever and the disorderly seriously, of hypocrisy and an unrighteous judgmentalism are the Pharisee from hell that both Our Lord and St. John condemned as a brood of vipers (nasty little backbiting serpents) who cannot escape being sent to hell for eternity. As Jesus said, they compass heaven and earth to make one convert and only make him twice as much a son of hell as themselves! This is Our Lord speaking! take ye heed lest you make a dog in the manger the tyrant of the universe, take ye heed, Jesus said He came not to bring peace but a sword to divide, take ye heed lest you betray the Lord as did Judas Iscariot — even if the price has changed from thirty pieces of silver, take ye heed if you think like the Gnostics of old that morals are for sissies, Christ gave us morals and He is NO sissy. Nowadays things have gone so far downhill that the murder of babies is accepted by people as a right. Something that hasn’t plagued society since Moloch was a demon goddess worshipped in the middle east.

For instance.

Alan Guttmacher Institute Mission: “The Institute’s mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world. It is to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation.”

From Mary Meehan’s “The Road to Abortion” Copyright © 1998, 1999 & 2002 by Mary Meehan. In 1966 Dr. Alan Guttmacher, apparently trying to be witty, wrote from Africa to a U.S. colleague: “My trip has been great. I believe I converted the Jews in Israel and now I am working on the pigmented savages.” This private comment from Guttmacher (who was Jewish, but not observant) came soon after his Planned Parenthood group gave an award to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.(32)
32. William H. Draper, Jr., to P. A. Gorman, [8 or 11] Sept. 1967, Guttmacher Papers; Alan F. Guttmacher to Frank Notestein, 13 June 1966, PPFA (II), box 125; and Congressional Record (10 May 1966), vol. 112, part 8, 10164-10165. In his statement accepting the Margaret Sanger Award, Dr. King praised Sanger and family planning and spoke of “the modern plague of overpopulation.” Unfortunately, he seemed unaware of the eugenics connections of Sanger and of population control in general. Ibid.

NO WONDER SWASTIKAS ARE SO POPULAR IN JERUSALEM (CITY OF PEACE?)

We could ask: ‘Do you think the demon goddess Lilith will have any appreciable following in Israel amongst Israeli women?’ Answer: ‘Most assuredly. Obviously the demon goddess Moloch has returned to the center of Israeli worship and that for export to Africa and the U.S.’

From the Gospel of St. Matthew chapter 23:
24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.
27 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all filthiness.
28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,
30 And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets
31 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 You serpents, generation of vipers how will you flee from the judgment of hell?
34 Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth
from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
36 Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?
38 Behold; your house shall be left to you, desolate.
39 For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Also see:

AGAINST ECUMENISM WHICH IS THE OECUMENICAL RULE OF CAESAR AND THE APOSTATES

• Jesus Christ is the Truth
• The Apocalypse, the Book of the Revelation
• Prayer to the True God
• The Study Bible - Book of the Revelation - verse by verse
• True to the Faith
• The Creed of the Whole and Undivided Church as Given by the Apostles stands unalterably OPPOSED to ecumenism
• The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: FOURTH BOWL - Rv:16 -- energian planes - four elements
• THE LAW OF NOAH: ONE WORLD RELIGION?
• Photius
• THE VARIATIONS OF POPERY. BY REV, SAIUEL EDGAR, D, D,
• ECUMENIZM