Living The Worthy Life: Don't Start Your Day with 'Good God, Morning'!
You do not need to go to Church.
You can watch TV and get the same thing- why go to Church?
For the past year and half, many Masses have been not allowing 100% attendance. Combined with the factor of decreasing attendance at Church before this pandemic, what will happen when things get back to normal?
This is the problem facing many of us today in our society. We are told that Churches were super spreaders of COVID 19. Yet Lowes, Home Depot or Walmart all had more people on a daily basis in your town, yet no one closed them down did they?
This is how the Devil works. A little here and there. It is sort of like the movement of a glacier. It is so slow that people do not really see the movement. Well, in the mass lie- the same goes.
You do not need to go to Church.
You can watch TV and get the same thing- why go to Church?
If you got used to not going to Church for more than a year, would it be hard to start going back? There is traffic, there is getting ready, there is sitting in Church, there is a chance of getting sick, there are all of the things you could be doing, and the fact that you have gotten used to not going to Church. This becomes a major piece of spiritual warfare for many people. They did not plan for this to happen. They did not choose for it to happen, but it did and now they are not doing anything about it. This has the markings of the Devil all over it and his lies.
Look at what has happened in American Automobile Industry to also see what could happen in the Church if we do not start taking a stand against the Devil. We are almost at the same point in the Church as it was during the Maccabees. The future of the Church is truly in our hands and the Devil knows it and he is trying very hard to create doubt in our minds.
Look what has happened in the past to successful cars when doubts come into the mind of Americans.
La Salle
It isn’t a name that even most gearheads could recall today, but from 1927 to to 1940, LaSalle was one of the most prestigious automakers in America. Slotting above Buick and just below Cadillac, LaSalles were in an exciting and enviable position in the GM lineup. They were built to the same standards as Cadillacs, but they were generally a little smaller and used as a test bed for future GM styling trends. Despite outselling Cadillac from 1933 to 1940, GM decided to discontinue the brand.
Nash
Nash is little known outside collector circles today, but from 1916 to 1957, it was one of the most innovative automakers in the world. In 1939, it introduced the “Weather Eye,” a heating and ventilation system that became the template for every modern HVAC system since (Weather Eye remained in production into the 1980s). In 1941, it introduced the 600, the first unibody model built in America. Today, virtually every car uses the same construction methods. In 1950, it introduced the Rambler, the first American-built car sold as a compact. It was also offered seat belts in its cars that year, another first. And it launched the Nash-Healey in 1951, a Pininfarina-designed sports car that predated the Corvette by two years. But in 1954, the Kenosha, Wisconsin-based automaker merged with Hudson to form American Motors Corporation, becoming America’s fourth-largest automaker. By 1957, all Nash models were renamed Ramblers. In 1988, AMC disappeared after it was bought by Chrysler.
De Soto
At a time when upper mid-market cars were big business, De Soto served as Chrysler’s Mercury/Oldsmobile competitor. When it was launched in 1929, it set a record as the best-selling first-year model ever, a record that ironically stood until 1960, the brand’s penultimate year. In between, De Soto offered bold, luxurious cars that slotted above Plymouth and Dodge, but below Chrysler and Imperial. Unfortunately, brand mismanagement and a changing segment doomed the brand, and it was discontinued in a messy company reorganization in late 1960.
These are three cars that were at one time at the forefront and now no longer exist. Compare this to the Church. In 1948 according to the Gallup Poll, 22% of Americans were Catholic. Today it is still 22%. So what is wrong? In 1948 the US population was 146 million people. Today we have almost 200 million more population yet instead of a weekly Church attendance hovering in the high 70% percent, we now find that less than one fifth of that number attending Church. With these projections- could the Church go the way of the: La Salle, De Soto and Nash down the highway of life and never come back?
Brothers and sisters, this is a problem, you have the solution, and you know what it is. We need to attend Church, defeat Satan, and take back our life- now and forever. Amen