Being a Catholic

How lucky you are for being a Catholic these days!

I was always so impressed by the Holy Week and the Fridays of Lent, that I was going through a crisis from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday.  Every Friday night, we had the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and they were very impressive to me.  Then, they turned off the lights of the church.  We had a big alter with a big picture of Purgatory.  By the way, there was a priest paying for not being a good priest.  I was so impressed that seeing under the alter, there were the skulls of many people.  Then, we were singing the Psalm 50.  The priest was on the alter, and about 20 men far, far away in the sacresty, with the lights off, were singing Psalm 50.  If you could hear me, I would sing it for you.  That was something, when people were asking God to have mercy on us all and let us go into his kingdom.

Then Palm Sunday, the procession of palms.  The statues in the church were covered up, and somehow, God was coming to the little town.  Everybody, farmers, animals and everybody, was taking part in the Holy Week.  Thursday night, everybody was in the church until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, and everybody has one candle burning for the Blessed Sacrament.  On Good Friday, a big procession from one church to another.  Everyone thinking, poor Jesus is going through Hell.  I still remember since the services were different hours from now, that I said the Stations of the Cross at 3 pm in 1947 because the priest had an emergency and had to go to the next parish to give the last rights to somebody.  Then you had the real services of the night, where you joined the dying Jesus.  In many parishes, not in mine, they had the burial of Jesus.

Now being 100 years old, I am so lucky thinking of that and how lucky I am that God made you and I that church that was born on Good Friday.  You and I are in a big program, designed by God for us to be created by God.  Then, ay ay ay, sins and insults to God.

And here it is now, God comes to the cross after he hands Jesus to die on it.  God wanted Jesus to love while paying for our insults so that God could adopt you and I for children to be happier than 11234235236347437 in Heaven.  Guess what!  God in tha hatred, in that hurting, is telling you and I "I am a powerful God that is all for you."  God is more powerful now than when he created the trillions and trillions of worlds.  God is on the cross to make us innocent to become children of God.

Now we have the Pope, and this is the last sign that God is working in the world.  God finished the church when Jesus was on the cross, and for us to see it, he elected a pope.

Happy you!  Happy me that God loves us so much!  Happy Holy Week!