Gospel Matthew7:21-27

A Reading from the gospel according to Matthew

Jesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’ “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined.” The Gospel of the Lord

Once upon a time there were three little pigs. We should all remember the nursery rhyme. They do not build their home out of the proper material and the big bad wolf comes and huff and puffs and blows their house down and eats them.
Brother and Sisters the Big Bad Wolf is alive and well and ready to blow your house down and keep you from your inheritance of Heaven.
We hear in this Gospel that it is not works that we are saved, but unconditional service that is not our will but that of God himself. In the new English translation of the Mass we invite Jesus to Come under our roof. Every home has one. We invite Jesus in unity with God the Father and the Holy Spirit into our home. If we give ourselves unconditionally over to Jesus our house will be built on solid rock.
Jesus built his Church on Solid rock and we must build our house through the Church, and live Sacramental lives surrendering to God’s will.
It may not be easy, but as the storms rage in our lives, as the flood waters rise and the winds blow we must be strong and turn from the ruin of sin. It is only after the storm that the Sun rises and lights the way to eternal paradise.

Representative Politics Today

The system of Representative Government in the United States does not honor God. The compromise of a person’s ideology creates an egocentric instead of a representative of the people. An individual must demoralize in order to win an election. Societies reliance on idolism has build a wall between people and God.
The Republic of the United States is no longer about sustaining freedom of the pursuit of happiness. Everyday we are bombarded with materialistic messages attempting to convert our desires to the pursuit of wealth and fame. The United States is no longer a country of the people, for the people, and by the people, we have become a country of me, myself, and I. Secularism makes it impossible to love. Yahweh calls us to humble, and care about our neighbors as ourselves. Today if we cannot make money from our works then it is not profitable to get to know our neighbors, let alone go out of our way to make sure their basic needs are met. The society of greed has kept us from honoring our Lord with the pursuit of holiness and replaced it with an evil selfishness for our own benefit.
Today the mainstream American knows of the most popular man and woman of the minute, but not of God. Fame is a sought after prize by our culture of naive, un-catechized, ignorant slaves of Lucifer. American politics is the Hollywood for people that cannot make it in entertainment. Instead of people discerning a vocation of service that brings glory to their creator, people choose to go into politics for power and fame. The past as proclaimed by our Apostolic brothers tells us of the danger to our salvation when we venture from the love of the father. The demigods of today need to examine their heart and pray for the will of God. The campaigns of today are for an individual’s glory that benefits no one.
An individual that believes in a society that is Universal, Holy, Apostolic, and One does not have a chance of winning an elected office. Today it is not popular to support life. Women believe that it is their choice whether or not to accept God’s choosing them to be the mother of his creation. A modern secular woman does not think twice about damnation or salvation but whether to kill the life they have been entrusted. In order to be chosen to represent the public a person has to decide that they will not choose God first. They turn to sin by compromising logic over truth. Selfish pursuits of man have long roots, what is planted for individual gain grows out to influence future ideas. The environment of the present can become the culture of a generation. One must end desires of pride in order to build a future prosperous with love.
As our current existence continues to decline it is the few with fear of losing the promises of Christ that will make the difference. When we were born until the time we become dependant of those responsible to raise us to a mature understanding, we do not realize from where we come. Society tells us that we are individuals born from man. We have to realize that we are life given by God. Our life is to honor the Father, through the son. Our reality is to love all that the Father created. Until as a civilization we can end our worship of glorified people in their fifteen minutes of fame, we will never be fishers of men. We have to follow our Shepherd and Lord in order to represent a salvific future for our brothers and sisters.