Big-Headedness

I just went to a blog called Vocation: Thoughts of a Teenage Christian. It is a very nice blog, written on by a 15 year old boy in England. It has icons, pictures and a lot, and I mean a lot of facts about the Church and her saints. Before I had gone to this blog I had thought I was pretty good in my Faith, at school many people think I am being called to the priesthood (and I only a freshmen). Obviously my head was blown up quite a bit. This blog completely deflated it. He knows so much more about Catholicism then I do and I have been one my whole life, he just joined the Church.

This reminds me of a time when my mom mentioned to me during a conversation, that many religious people act like they are better than others. I wonder how many people have been turned away from the Faith because they met a Catholic who thought they were better than them. It makes me think of the time some Jews caught a woman (Mary Magdalene) committing adultery. (how did they catch her, was it planned, just to bring her down?) They brought her to Jesus, in an attempt to trap him, asked what they should do with her. They knew Jesus was very merciful and hoped that he would show her mercy when the Jewish way is to stone her. Then Jesus began to write on the ground, and when prompted answered, "he who has no sin shall cast the first stone." Since obviously none of them had not sinned they dropped all their stones and walked away.

That story reminds me of a homily given by my Pastor. After this story was read he injected the idea, what did Jesus write? He said that many have speculated over things in the Bible but this one has been overlooked. It must be important because it was mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures. He thought of maybe he wrote a chart, wrote the name of one of the Jews and his favorite sin. Then the next person and his favorite sin until he had gone through all of them. Now completely humiliated and probably a little anxious to get out of there, they wanted to get on with it. He then said what he said and they, now known as sinners in the eyes of the people, could not throw their stones. Of course my pastor said it a lot better and explained it more thoroughly.

This also reinstates the Jesus is God. He mentioned things only the Lord would know (the favorite sins of many Jews), that is why I love this homily so much. It also ties together with my point because they must of had bigheads because they thought they were so perfect that since this woman had sinned she should die and they should kill her. Anyways thank you Jesus for deflating my head again, now I can think of other things besides myself.

On April 25 2007 I past a test that confirmed me as a professional Lifegaurd and rescuer:)

Why?

It has come to my attention that some Catholics I know (mostly teens) are slacking in their Faith. They fully know their Faith being born and raised Catholic, but the defilement of our modern society is getting to them.

That brings me to an interesting point; why is it only us? Whenever there is a Buddhist or Muslim person everyone is fascinated with this person's religion. Why is it that whenever Catholicism comes up everyone puts on their "doubting caps." Is it because they think our Faith is boring? Or is it because it is the Truth.

I think it is all the devil. He (and I don't like having to capitalize his name but it is grammatically correct) plants doubts in our minds in the most subtle ways. For example: You want to watch this TV show and you know there is some objectionable material in it. You think, "It's not like I think these things are right: I'm just going to watch it for entertainment. Then a few months of watching the show, the devil then plants these ideas in the back of your head and you think, "Oh yeah like in that TV show." Then you find yourself doing things you never ever thought you would do.

Lol I just had a thought, what if you met yourself back when you were little. Back when you thought Jesus was cool. Back when you were innocent. What would your former self do? Would he/she slap you, hate you for who you are and what you have done? Or would they look up to you, admire you for your accomplishments. I know mine would be pretty disappointed for some of the things I have done. How about you?

Invisible Children

In Northern Uganda, around the region of Gulu, there was a woman named Alice. Alice became possessed by a demon and taught that the government was not needed. After her death some of her followers began an organization called the "Lord's Resistance Army."

The LRA needed troops (otherwise there would be no army) and began to abduct children. Today, 17 years later, there have been 200,000 children abducted and brain-washed to fight and kill. Those who had refused were beaten, and if they continued to refuse then they were brutally slaughtered. 6,000 have been killed.

Many of the children have fled their homes to escape abduction. They live in displacement camps or under hospitals or any other semi-safe area in a nearby city. Their only possessions are the shirts on their backs and some have a blanket or sheet. They get one meal a day. When night draws near there is a mad scramble to the semi-safe areas to get some space; there is usually not room for all and they need to avoid the rebels(LRA) and find some where else to hide.

Those who were brain-washed and then escape are not healthy, many are mentally retarded, some crave to see blood etc. It is a very sad thing. Why do I tell you this? Because at the end of the documentary, Invisible Children, one child said, "I pray to God, that the Government of America help us." The link will lead you to any information you may need to help.

Now, some people I know will use this against the war on Iraq, why should we spend so much money on Iraq when these horrors are occurring? The situation in Iraq was equally if not more horrifying. I know this because of a book called "The Threatening Storm." The book talks about all the chemical weapons and their ready-to-make factories and all the completely horrifying and barbaric acts that Saddam Hussein committed against his own people. This is an evil subject but the ignorance of it around the world is shocking and this news needs to be spread, so here's one of my contributions.

Invisible Children Preview

It has been a long day; I went to school early today for some went weight lifting for football (I hadn't to one in a while so I thought why not). Then I went through school and left early at 2:00 so I could run in a Track Meet. I ran the 800 meter relay and my team was awarded first place. I then rushed to my dad's car at 5:00 so I could go to my last day of Lifeguard Instruction (next is testing). The Lifeguard Training went from 6-10 so I really just got home and still need to do my homework. Because of this I will not begin writing about my first subject today but I will tomorrow. It is about the "Invisible Children." They are the abducted children of Northern Uganda. They are abducted to fight or they die. To be continued tomorrow...

Me

Hello my name is James, I am 15 years old, I am in High School and swim on a swim team in the summer, play Football in the Spring (undefeated!), Hockey in the winter and I am currently running Track. I have Blue eyes and blonde hair, and 5'9". I am currently being trained as a Red Cross Lifeguard so I can work at the neighborhood pool. I am number 4 in a family of 6 (the youngest boy aka the toughest:)). My mom has had a blog for a while now and I decided to get one myself. In this blog I will be talking about all the stupid politicians, heresies against Catholicism, and anything else I hear about and want to speak my opinion.