FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN DIGNITY
If we allow man the right to kill 'unworthy' or 'unproductive' life, and if it is initially the poor, vulnerable mentally ill, who are being killed, then the gate to murder is open also in principal to all 'unproductive' people, all sick, the disabled, the veterans of war, then murder will be also our fate, when we are old, sick and thus unproductive. Then nobody will be safe anymore with his life.
For a true follower of Christ it is unimaginable, which devastation and filth and degree of immorality and suspicion, which is being carried right into the heart of friendship and families, if they follow and accept such hellish and godless doctrines!
Woe to man, woe to all people, if the holy commandment 'You must not kill', that God has under thunder and lightning announced on Sinai, and that He has inscribed into the conscience of man at the beginning of creation, is not only violated but also accomodated by a godless and lawless anarchy of the Anti-Christ even officially unpunishedly and unblushingly.
RESISTANCE AGAINST THE UNJUST POWERS
Only as God's servant, in harmony and surrendering to God's will, man-made authority has true integrity. From the moment, in which man-made authority is fighting and counteracting God's will that is reflected in clearly recognisable and righteous commands that allow the conscience to act accordingly to God's will, man's authority has ceased to have integrity, as it destroys its own dignity, and it looses its right to command, as it abuses its power...
The true followers of Christ are not revolutionaries... we only have one weapon: Strong, firm perseverance...To become hard against the stone hearts! Stay firm! We are not the hammer, we are the receivers and takers of the blows and reflect them towards our attackers, we are the anvil.
Others, mostly former friends, who have become strangers and heretics, hammer on us and want to bend and drive out God's will and love in us with violence and spiritual warfare, and they especially want to break the children and innocent. Ask the mastersmith and let him tell you: What is being moulded on the anvil, does not only get its shape from the hammer but also from the anvil. The anvil cannot and does not need to hit back, he only needs to persevere and be hard and firm. If the anvil is sufficiently hard, robust, and firm, then it survives usually the life-span even of a hammer. However hard the hammer hits, the anvil stands in calmness and God's reassurance that all is being witnessed and recorded in heaven, even the tiniest beating, and it is the anvil that will ultimately serve even under a new hammer to mould into God's reflection, what is being newly hammered into it.
READY FOR MARTYRDOM
Do not be surprised, if the loving God sends us hardest times of trial and tribulation. Our true spiritual church of Jesus Christ is the church of the living martyrs...
There are not only in German lands fresh graves, in which the ashes and bodies or mutilated body parts of those rest, that Jesus Christ regards as martyrs, because their lives speak their testimonial of utmost loyal fulfillment of holy duty for God on the path free of wrath of Jesus Christ... I know that in this house sixty years ago a bishop of Muenster was arrested and led into imprisonment, only because he was dutiful and lovingly standing up for the commandments and with his conscience became a defender of the faith for the freedom of the spiritual church of Jesus Christ.
I do not know, whether I will have to endure a similar fate, whether I will be honoured to suffer for the Name of Jesus Christ, to be slandered, to be ridiculed and to be tortured in many ways, not only to be misjudged and accused, but also deprived of my freedom through abuse and suffering. Should God choose me for this destiny in following the example of Jesus Christ, then I hope, that God's mercy will nourish the will in me rather to endure, what I have to suffer, than to compromise the holy truth and spiritual church of Jesus Christ and that God's support will sustain me in the darkest hours with His Infinite light and strength, to follow also the previous bishops of Muenster in their footsteps in their sacrifice and firmness and perseverance.
SERVING MANKIND
Compassion means to carry God's love in our hearts and to pour it over the world.
That is, why you must see man as part of the community of Jesus Christ. Especially the forlorn and lost sheep must feel in holy children and adults the family of God. Fulfill your holy roles in the living word of Our Lord and King and Saviour and friend Jesus Christ: Let your light shine for man, so that they can see your good deeds and praise God the Father in heaven. But also
stand up to evil in firmness and hold the mirror to the devil, if it has to be.
But we must be kind to the innocent and lowly, and not be timid to show a cold shoulder to their oppressors, slanderers and murderers. Our hearts must act in the wisdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and where there is a kind thought and peaceful will there follow also unifying words and deeds.
It is of utmost importance that we nurture and nourish only thoughts free of sin in our hearts in the spirit of compassion and love, and that we express these loving thoughts in words and then we must also act on them, as otherwise we revert them to death as they become empty and lifeless.
True love and compassion is never satisfied with nice words: true love and compassion desires, like any holy power, to shine through deeds; true love and compassion is fuelled by the yearning to selflessly help, heal, serve God, give, share and to bring joy.
These are the true desires of a follower of Christ, and we must not allow those, who are the enemies of God to destroy this desire. In times of war and trials we must hold on evermore to those, who have gone before us and have suffered and still smiled in death as they were on their way home and are with us in our hearts in our community of true eternal living saints.
LEADING OUR CHILDREN TO JESUS CHRIST
If we do not do everything we can to lead by our own example our youth to Jesus Christ, if we fail to let them inherit the good news of Jesus Christ, His living word in His holy truth, as the most precious heavenly treasure and inheritance for this world and to treat Christ's law as the joyfully lived norm, then we will walk towards a time of darkness, where the sun of God will cease to shine as you have killed the truth by not living it yourself, and then the true deeds of greatness that once enflamed the brightest light of God's love and mercy and compassion will be wiped out by your own indifference.
Only the highest regard for holy matrimony and the family in holiness and a shared religious life in the family is of utmost importance for the later life and thus for the worldly and eternal happiness of our children.
Clemens August von Galen:
TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF GOD
Remember the faith of those before you, who lived the truth of Jesus Christ,
God's beloved Holy Rose, bud and blossom.
Anonymous
NEC LAUDIBUS, NEC TIMORE
This shall be my motto that is alone Christ's way: Not the praise of man, nor fear of man shall enslave us. But to live to the praise of God that may be our only purpose, and to walk in holy fear and love of God may be our perpetual yearning.
SHELTERED IN THE FAITH
A soul longing for holiness in worldly life lives sheltered and nourished in his faith. There is no aspect of life, no area that is not in relation to his faith. There is no separation in daily deeds and thoughts and words from religious and worldly living - it is one.
And how could it be different?! One cannot sever a living human being in two parts - a religious and indifferent one. A human being is by God created as a living wholesome being in harmony with God and in unity with all other in holiness thriving souls. We are either wholesome and faithful to God or we are not.
For the faithful follower of Jesus Christ all worldly doing is defined and refined through his faith and all acts of every day life are consecrated to God. All of his life is a holy reality and his daily order and law and ultimate goal is to live every aspect of life in holiness and to abhor even the slightest sin. That is the way of Jesus Christ. A true follower of Christ cannot deny Christ, as He is with him, in whatever he is doing.
Our involvement in family, job, and in our community are defined by our faith and the love of every soul and its potential, and in the desire to share with others all of God's gifts freely for the highest good of all. A true follower of Jesus Christ thinks, breathes, and eats in the Infinite light of his faith.
That does not mean that he neglects the due worth of all living things that are given by God. But this worth, f.ex. of happiness is not an ultimate value or goal in itself, but only a step to a further ascension home to God, who works through everything and through all.
UNITED IN CHRIST
Recognize in the living word and deeds of Jesus Christ His Most Sacred Heart, that does nothing else seek but the praise and glory of God and the unity in the soul of all of mankind with God.
We cannot find a better example for moulding our hearts than that of Jesus Christ, and we only need to imitate in purity and true loving-kindness but also sometimes in firmness this most Holy Heart and His virtues.
Truly, it is meet and right so to do, and also for free and healing with the perfect cure that we give thanks and praise for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, and that we ourselves devote our lives to live in thanksgiving and selfless love in all ways of holiness and purity and consecrate ourselves to His living word.
The memorial of His passion with all its mystery, the peaceful rest from all profane works, the treasure of spending one's days with one's loving family and in the house of God are all expressions of the deep gratitude for Jesus Christ, who ransomed us with His Most precious blood. The evil of this world is best counteracted in the tabernacles of our own hearts.
504. The Old Rugged Cross
Text: George Bennard, 1873-1958
Music: George Bennard, 1873-1958
Tune: ---, Meter: Irr. with Refrain1. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame; and I love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain. Refrain: So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and I never expect any crown. 2. O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, has a wondrous attraction for me; for the dear Lamb of God left his glory above to bear it to dark Calvary. (Refrain) 3. In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, a wondrous beauty I see, for 'twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died, to pardon and sanctify me. (Refrain) 4. To that old rugged cross I will ever be true, its shame and reproach gladly bear; then he'll call me some day to my home far away, where his glory forever I'll share. (Refrain)
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