Alan Kmiecik

Dear Lord, I turn my will and my life over to you. Please grant me the discipline of self-sacrifice so that I may be relieved of the bondage to self.

Sin corrodes love and breeds selfishness Defining freedom as license to do whatever we want enables us to become slaves to our passions Be free to say no to sin Be a slave to Gos’s will Be supremely happy

  if what we are asking for is for our good or that of another, God will certainly grant it. “whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you….and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.”      ~ John 16:23-24

Christ is more real than my fears

Everyone is passionately fond of having freedom yet, there is one thing they will all sacrifice freedom for: happiness. People will become slaves (addicted) to almost anything in search of happiness. Simply put, there are two ways to respond to this paradox (becoming a slave to be happy): 1)  Indulging in the pleasures of the world

Notice that the more our material wealth and technical capacity grow, the more hollow our culture becomes, the emptier we become on the inside. There is an immaterial. “We believe in all things visible and invisible” Focus on what you cannot see, God.

Notice that the more our material wealth and technical capacity grow, the more hollow our culture becomes, the emptier we become on the inside. There is an immaterial. “We believe in all things visible and invisible” Focus on what you cannot see, God.

Most Catholics don’t know their faith.  Resulting in many misunderstandings of Catholicism.  The remainder of the misunderstandings come from the expectation that the Catholic Church is full of saints, when in reality, it is full of sinners. God has blessed The Church abundantly with the clear teaching of the Church in her Bible, in the