Be Catholic! (capital C) Passionately, fiercely, recklessly Catholic: in your love for Christ, in his body, his bride the Church, in all her richness, splendor and humility!
Be catholic...small c catholic...embracing of "the whole", universal...cherishing and protecting all that is good, true and beautiful...wherever it is found!
Fear nothing...NOTHING! Not death, sin, failure, suffering, shame, sickness! NOTHING! In Christ, all is conquered and life triumphs!
Respect your adversaries: the world in all its glamour; Satan in his malicious brilliance; and your own flesh in its weakness. Be sober, vigilant, militant, fierce in resistance!
Be confident, aggressive, explosive in the attack on the Kingdom of Darkness as the gates of hell do not prevail: Christ has stormed the dark citadel, has descended into hell, and released the most miserable of sinners!
Do not even fear sin: for it is an occasion for the triumphant Mercy of Christ!
Do not fear your own weakness: lean into it, toward God, toward those who can assist you. As you fall, see that the ground below you has already been sanctified by Christ in his three falls on the hill of Calvary. Let yourself be received by the consecrated soil!
Do not fear your desires, passions, longings...even those that are disordered, immoral, perverse! Looking deeper into them, and see your desperate hunger for Him who is Love!
Do not suppress, deny or despise your longings; rather, inflame them and direct them to Jesus in the Eucharist...Jesus small, humble, surrendered to us, merciful, kind, infinite, eternal!
Let all the graces, gifts, blessings of the Eucharist flow into you and through you to those around you.
Let your poverty, your desperation, your inner sickness draw you to Christ...and draw Him to you!
Welcome...in the least, the loveless, the miserable...the Gift that comes from above.
If you interest yourself in politics (which is entirely optional!), keep a lightness about policy, party and partisanship: be aware of the complexity, uncertainty, and unavoidable subjectivity involved; avoid an ideology that would sanctify your own views as "social justice" and demonize your opponent. Be open to what is true and good in your adversary.
Protect the vulnerable, the unborn, the poor, suffering and marginalized. (solidarity)
Prefer the politics of the concrete, the local, the community, Engage the State and the Market with a prudential balance of respect and critical discernment: neither loathing or adoring them. (subsidiarity)
Be on guard against the (60s) Cultural Revolution that has deformed our world: the forgetting of God, the renouncing of authority and tradition, the brutal rupture of sexuality from fidelity and fruitfulness, the deconstruction of masculinity and femininity, the hegemony of technology/bureacracy, the break up of family/community and the isolation of the lonely individual.
Study, pray, speak, breath and share St. John's Paul II's catechesis of the masculine/feminine body as iconic of the Trinity!
Cultivate silence, receptivity, rest, and prayer.
Be ever Thankful and Trusting!
Learn to Praise our Lord and delight in His Mercies!
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