Letter of St. James in the New Testament: Chapter 5….”My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him: 20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.”
Gospel of St. Luke, Chapter 15: 1 Now the publicans and sinners drew near unto him to hear him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. 3 And he spoke to them this parable, saying: 4 What man of you that hath an hundred sheep: and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing:And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost? 7 I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance. 8 Or what woman having ten groats; if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it? 9 And when she hath found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat which I had lost. 10 So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.
Spend time reading The New Testament of Jesus Christ. Pray & communicate with him in your secret place. Visit various Christian churches & pray about where you most belong. Do not be stressed or perplexed by what church members, pastors or priests tell you: accept & absorb what brings you peace, until you read a lot of scripture and hear various interpretations of God’s Word……Many of Christ’s teachings are simple, but some of his words can be confusing & even some may seem contradictory. Accept what brings you peace & allow seeds to grow. I became a Catholic Christian 16 years ago & that is where I most belong. BEING PART OF THE CHRISTIAN BODY, IN WHICHEVER CHRISTIAN CHURCH YOU ATTEND, IS WHERE YOUR SALVATION BEGINS: EVERY SOUL IS UNIQUE & CREATED BY GOD ALMIGHTY. GO WHERE YOU MOST BELONG….. However, I wish to point out a few significant differences between The Catholic Church and other “Christian” churches. The Catholiic Church was founded by Jesus Christ, himself. It was the only Christian church for 1500 years until The Reformation. The Catholic Church has Mass, daily in most towns of the U.S.A. and around the world. It is the ONLY Christian Church that believes what Jesus is quoted as saying in The Gospel of St. John, chapter 6. The “Eucharist,” recieved at Mass by the failthful, is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, which is tranformed by the Priest, saying the “sacred prayers,” (the liturgy). The body and blood, in the earthly form of bread and wine, are thereby mystically transformed into a divine substance, that is effectually the substance, which brings about the communion with our Lord, Jesus Christ. There are centuries of Saints, miracles, wrtings, and and apparitions of spiritual bodies to many faithful, as well. As Pope Pius XII is quoted below. Some people, who have a “certain relationship with the Mystical Body of the Redeemer, they still remain deprived of those many heavenly gifts and helps which can only be enjoyed in the Catholic Church.”
In the Book of Acts, after Peter has received the Holy Ghost, he says to the crowd: (Acts 2:38) “Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” You will be a new person. Christian churches have similar beliefs of Christ’s Mission, but have some different theological interpretations, rituals &, customs. This fact is unfortunate & discourages many people from faith in Christ & their eternal salvation. Try the churches, read the scriptures, pray and choose a church. My website is for drawing people to know Jesus, personally, not to promote a particular church, eventhough much of what I have here comes from Catholic artists & writers. Remember, until the early 1500s, the ONLY Christian Church, was The Catholic Church.
Please check in to my site now and then, as I will be editing and adding to it periodically, and I will be adding video and reading various Christians texts, such as Holy Scripture. I will also be reading the words of Church Saints, Church Doctors & other texts, which can inspire and help one recollect the power and peace of The Holy Trinity, as a great help in continuing on the path of Christian Perfection.
In the encyclical, Mystici Corporis, Pope Pius XII wrote the following: “those who do not belong to the visible Body of the Catholic Church, even though by an unconscious desire and longing they have a certain relationship with the Mystical Body of the Redeemer, they still remain deprived of those many heavenly gifts and helps which can only be enjoyed in the Catholic Church.”
I am an alumnus of Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Colorado College, and Southern Methodist University, as well as having attended various other universities. In 2021 after having the pandemic injection, I contracted Post Polio Syndrome. As a result, in my weakened condition, I only add to my website here intermittenly.
Below is a card of mine, front and back: a card I give to people, so they may learn and know of a blessed & peaceful life here in their mortal bodies, as well as a life everlasting for their souls.
“Freely have I received & freely do I give” on this, my website:
Jesus said: “What man of you that hath an hundred sheep: and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was lost, until he finds it? And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing:
And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost. I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance. (St.Luke, Chapter 15)
The mission of my website, www.TheTruthWillMakeYouFree.us is twofold: one, to encourage and inspire all Christians everywhere to pray for yourselves, your families, your friends, your communities and your countries. It is for me to write, to speak, and to quote others. Christ’s famous “You shall know the Truth and the Truth will make you free” applies not only to His spiritual Truths, but to Truth in our great Country of American Liberty. In fine, my website is about Truth from above and Truth from below, as on America’s land and its people.The second mission of my website is to expose non-Christians to the Christian doctrine and faith, so that the Holy Spirit may find those souls and guide them into the Christian Path. As the Old and New Testaments of the Jewish and Christian faiths explore and reveal, there are essentially two battle grounds, where the good and the evil of the Universe are engaged. As we see on a daily basis, because of the new technologies, the Temporal, Earthly battle has many, many generals, as well as many more foot soldiers. We can all engage in that battle in the United States of America by voting, by participating in the battle with social media and by communicating to our elected representatives: by speaking and writing Truth. That is all most of us average citizens can realistically do as soldiers in this Temporal Battle. In other countries, the nature of the Temporal Battle between good and evil varies from country to country. My website wants to engage people with an increased prayer life for the purpose of strengthening the force for good in the Spiritual Battle, taking place on a daily basis in Heavenly and Earthly Places.
For those who are not presently included in the Body of Christ, this site is a place for you souls to begin to change from the inner torment of sin to inner peace. Then, as God wills, and the Holy Spirit speaks to the willing, and predestined, you will knock, and the Lord Jesus will open his heart and mind to you, as you connect with Him. Amen, amen.
The main weapon that anyone can wield in this Spiritual Battle is prayer. The Members of the Holy Trinity, the Father, The Son & The Holy Ghost, only listen to the prayers of the righteous. They do not listen to those who, are still willfully practicing a sinful life: those sorrowful souls imprisoned by Satan.
Prayers for American Liberty:
“No one can rejoice more than I do at every step of this great country takes to preserve the Union, establish good order and government, and to render the nation happy at home and respectable abroad. No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wonderously strange then, and much more to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means, and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us, so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.
The Great Governor of the Universe has led us too long and too far on the road to happiness and glory, to forsake us in the midst of it. By folly and improper conduct, proceeding from a variety of causes, we may now and then get bewildered; but I hope and trust that there is good sense and virtue enough left to recover the right path before we shall be entirely lost.” George Washington, as President of the United States of America, on June 29, 1788
“Soldiers: Let us humble ourselves before the Lord, our God, asking through Christ, the forgiveness of our sins, beseeching the aid of God of our forefathers in the defense of our homes and our liberties, thanking Him for His blessings, and imploring their continuance upon our cause and our people.
Knowing that intercessory prayer is our mightiest weapon*** and the supreme call for all Christians today, I pleadingly urge our people everywhere to pray. Believing that prayer is the greatest contribution that our people can make in this critical hour, I humbly urge that we take time to pray-to really pray
Let there be prayer at sunup, at noonday, at sundown, at midnight-all through the day. Let us pray for our children, our youth, our aged, our pastors, our homes. Let us pray for the churches.
Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word ‘concern’ out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and His redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.” General Robert E. Lee in 1863 before The County and Municipal Offices offices of the United States of America.
(***Catholics avail themselves of intercessory prayer when they pray for the “prayers and intercessions” of the Mother of our Lord Jesus, the Virgin Mary, as well as praying to other Saints for their “prayers and intercessions.” The Rosary (look up the Fatima apparition) and The Mass are the most frequently said prayers, prayed by millions of Catholics and their Priests, worldwide, hourly, in all time zones each and every day. These prayers are considered spiritual dialogue with Almighty God, The Christ, His Mother, and the Saints, who answer our prayers in ways acceptable for ours and others’ sanctification, healing and well being, as well as for the whole Catholic Church of the Body of Christ. The Holy Mass is the Supreme prayer of the Catholic Church, attended by millions of Catholics worldwide.
I am 77 years of age and I was one of millions, who were taken in by the “false delights and false gods of ‘free love’ and ‘do your own thing!'” For over 20 years after high school I was what I describe as a “delusional Christian.” I read the Bible and attended various Protestant Churches and I had convinced myself that I was a practicing Christian. The reality was that I was living a life of immorality and sin. At a very young age I was also influenced by the philosophy of Rene Descartes. who essentially wrote that the world around us was to be understood by questioning the “creature” world, and it’s man made surroundings, without any influence, importance or affect of Almighty God. With the earth and sky, and all around us, our perceptions increased one’s knowledge of that world exclusively by human reason. He was educated in a Jesuit school but evolved into this philosophy of using reason alone, without the element of Divine reality in the comprehension of all human and natural experiences. Descartes also believed that everyone could tell true from false by the “natural light alone.”
“In the shifting sands of modern rationalism, there is no sure footing for the seeker after the key to the meaing of the past. The broken, rugged road to rarionalism, which Bossuet’s contemporary, Descartes, opened up to inquiring minds, and where, during the past two centuries and more hardy thinkers have tried unsuccessfully to find a way to immutable truth, has now become crowded with theorists of all varying shades of thought and belief. The variety of opinion upon the purpose of life and the obscurity of the theories for an explanation of man’s past by the latest accessions from the school of the social sciences have so confused the honest seeker after truth, that, today, misled by current doctrines of progress, evolution, and social integration, the philosophy of history has been brought practically to a standstill.” (Peter Guilday, The Catholic University of America, 1930) These thoughts, and those of mine, above, describe how Satan has corrupted and spiritually blinded millions of us since before 1930 to the present.
I am not proud of the life that I led: living with this philosophy all those years, as well as an abundance of immorality and sin, but I died to St. Paul’s Old Man, became a New Man, with Jesus as my adopted mentor, teacher, brother. For more than a decade now, I have become a practicing Catholic. I am dedicated now to a moral lifestyle: a true Christian lifestyle, which is the way to live as a mortal, and also which promises an Eternal Life in Heaven. If I can/could do it, with the Grace of the Holy Spirit, you can too, no matter how depraved or sin filled your life is now. The lost life you are leading now can be completely transformed from Spiritual Death to Life with “peace that passeth all understanding.” When you leave this present World, after your mortal, bodily death, you will have Life Everlasting. Here are St. Paul’s words in Ephesians 2:10: “I was dead in my transgressions and sins, in which I once lived, following the age of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature childrten of wrath, like the rest. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace we have been saved), raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the Heavens in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For by grace we have been saved through faith, and this is not from me; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so I may not boast. For we are His handiwork. created in Christ Jesus for good works that God has prepared for us in advance, that we should live in them.”
My website is not endorsed by the Catholic Church, nor any organization nor any individual. I will be reading excerpts of Holy Scripture from The Bible: the works of Saints and Doctors of the Catholic Church, as well as written passages from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible on this website.
I will be putting Christocentric paintings on my website, as well: primarily the Masters from past centuries. I will indicate for these writings and readings with attribution and simple footnotes to clarify the sources. I will rarely express my own, personal opinion but when I do that I will make it very clear that it is my opinion alone, not endorsed by anyone or any institution or organization.
If you want to explore & learn about The Catholic Church, there is a 9 month program for that. There is no cost of money: Each year on Holy Saturday during the Easter Vigil, thousands are baptized into the Catholic Church in the United States. Parishes welcome these new Catholics through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). Listed below are some questions and answers about the process of Christian Initiation.
The RCIA is not merely a “program” or “convert class.” It is a process through which adults seek God and enter the way of faith and conversion, as the Holy Spirit opens their hearts. Vatican II, the conference in Rome, emphasized that the processs of adult initiation is the responsibility of all the baptized. We, as a community must always be willing to help those, who are searching for Jesus Christ. In other words, RCIA is not just the responsibility of a few catechists (teachers of the principles of Christian religion) but is the responsibility of the entire Body of Christ, Catholics and Protestants, which was a final command of the Lord Jesus beforer he ascended to Heaven: “Teach all Nations…..,” said the Lord Jesus to his disciples and his wonderful and sinless Mother, Mary.
The RCIA classes typically are held during the school year for 2 hours once a week: some may feel ready at the end of the year to participate in the Holy Saturday during the Easter Vigil, while others may require more time to learn and to grow in their faith. Go visit your local Catholic Church for details specific to your community.
Remember, that in all churches, schools, and other places there are a small number of teachers, pastors, priests and others, who sin horrifically against young people. Also, all churches are comprised of men and women and we, as mortals, are not infallible, which is not a reason for not belonging to ANY Christian church, when we see someone of any church not behaving, speaking or thinking in a Christian way: we are all sinners in the sight of God Almighty, notwithstanding the release from Adam’s bondage, accomplished by the Lord Jesus by his death and resurrection and reconciliation with God the Father. When witnessing another man or woman sinning, that is no reason to quit believing in Christ or quit attending a church. It is your relationship with God Almighty, which is of profound, earthly, as well as eternal significance. The degree of our sanctity and our degree of a holy life depend essentially on the degree and time one is recollecting/retaining thoughts of the Holy Trinity in our minds, lips and hearts. A soul’s degree of sanctity also depends on the degree one follows the commands and teachings of the Savior, with adherence to the Sacraments, and degree of time spent in prayer and practice in thoughts and deeds. These practices are all part of the Christian Life; the Saints of the Catholic Church were determined to dedicate their lives in the service of the Savior, His Father, and the Comforter, the Holy Ghost. Because of this, their highest holiness in this mortal life, The Holy Catholic Church awarded/awards them Sainthood for their supernatural dedication to Holiness & Humanity. Of course Mary, being the first member of her Son’s Salvation, has a special place within the Body of Christ. (my words)
Having written the above, I add the words of Thomas A Kempis, to amplify what I have written about judging others and holiness. The words below are from his book, The Imitation of Christ. “Watch over yourself and take care not to judge the actions of other people. We gain nothing by criticizing others, but often are mistaken and thereby offend God. But to judge yourself and your own actions is always profitable.
We often judge a thing according to our preference and therefore our judgment is emotional rather than objective. This stubborness in our own opinions would not dominate our judgements if our hearts were set on God.
But there is often in us some inward tendency or some outward attraction which carries us along with it. Many are secretly self-seeking and therefore do their own will and not the will of God, though sometimes they are not aware of it.
As long as things go their way, they appear to be at peace, but if they meet opposition, they become impatient and depressed. Often through diversities of opinions dissension springs up between friends and neighbors and even among religious and devout persons.
An old habit is not easily overcome, and people are reluctant to be led beyond their own views. If you cling more to your own reason or will rather than to humble obedience of Jesus Christ, you will only with difficulty become an enlightened person. For it is the will of God that we be perfectly subject to Him, rising above our own reason and will by an ardent love.”
“Freely have I received & freely do I give” on this, my website:
Jesus said: “What man of you that hath an hundred sheep: and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders, rejoicing:
And coming home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost. I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance. (St.Luke, Chapter 15)
I may be reached at “www.TheTruthWillMakeYouFree.us@gmail.com”-
Leo McCormick