1. Communion, through family/parish (in my case urban, ethnic, working class, post WWII American), with the traditional, historic, sacramental, populist, hierarchical Church as well as the souls in purgatory and saints/angels in heaven.
2. A fresh restoration of our faith in the ever-new Encounter with Jesus Christ, returning to the sources along with creative engagement with contemporary culture, in the light of Vatican II, the papacies of John Pau/Benedict, and the "Communio" school of theology (DeLubac, Balthasar, Danielou, Congar.) Philosophically, this entails the marriage of St. Thomas (Maritain, Gilson, Pieper), the fathers and doctors (resourcement theology), and contemporary personalism (Stein, Marcel, Buber, Hildebrandt).
3. Surrender to the Holy Spirit in all its miraculous serendipity in the Charismatic Renewal and lay movements (Cursillo, Marriage Encounter, Communion and Liberation, the Neocatechumenal Way.) Participation in small communities around the Lordship of Jesus, worship, the Word of God, charity, service and evangelization.
4. Closeness to the poor, deprived and suffering along with detachment from disenchanted bourgeois modernity in it monotonous cult of security, status, affluence, credentialed meritocracy, achievement, and control.
5. Subsidiarity as attention to the local and immediate, (family/parish/community) in an agency that is humble, confident and joyous along with a critique of overgrown institutions, technology, bureaucracy.
6. Pragmatic politics, detached from ideology and party, working flexibly with different partners for the common good, care of the poor and vulnerable, international peace, and the moral order.
7. Primacy of family, fidelity (to spouse or state of life), and chastity along with fierce combat against cultural liberalism.
8. Intimate communion, in Christ/Word/Holy Spirit, with Evangelicals and Pentecostals. Esteem for Judaism in its history and contemporary realities (from secular to observant.) Appreciation of world religions where God's grace is at work along with realistic evaluation of the evil present.
9. Regular confession of sin to the priest along with 12-step programs in areas of compulsion.
10. Fervent surrender to the riches of Catholic worship as time allows: daily mass, rosary, prayer of the Church, visits to the Eucharist, retreats, conferences, pilgrimages, indulgences, Divine Mercy devotion, countless aspirations, support groups, Scripture sharing, immersion in lives and writing of the saints and so much more.
This program, under God's grace, will ensure triumph over the axis evil... the world, the flesh and the devil.
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