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Philosophical schools are mostly eudaimonic; they consider happiness to be the goal of life. However, they differ from each other in what they seek happiness in and in the way they want it to reach. Nevertheless, even Christians are united in that perfection leads to happiness, peace, contentment not only for eternity but partly already here on earth. The gospel promises the joy that the eye did not see, nor the ear heard (1 Cor 2: 9).
The first Christian authors liked to point out that only God can completely free us from everything so much the ancient man feared: from death, loneliness, unhappy destiny, evil beings, and all evil. He is the only one good (Mt 19:17) and loves people. “You created us for yourself,” writes St. Augustine, “and our hearts are unhappy until it will not rest in you. »
However, the usual Scriptural expression is not “happiness,” they say
here more about “salvation.” Already in the Old Testament, promises are often made that God will come and “save” the people (cf. Is 43: 3; Z 26: 1).
The grace of our Savior appeared in the New Testament (Titus
2, 11). There is no salvation in anyone else (Acts 4: 11-12). How is he
the difference between happiness and salvation? Happiness is expressed rather as a psychological condition, the fact that someone is feeling well. Greek the term for salvation Soteria originally means health, bodily integrity, mental balance. We express the team
rather an ontological state, a real one although not yet fully felt. If we are in God’s grace, we are already saved. Therefore, also it calls the gospel to save the soul; everything else is secondary. After all, what benefits a person, even if the whole world won, and would he harm his soul ?! (Mk 8.36).
Eternal life
“Ascetic life has no other goal,” writes St. Basil, «than save the soul. » However, the word soul is complete in Scripture and primary meaning, without further psychological determinations: life principle. The life of God in which we share is eternal life in Christ and with Christ, who said: I I am living… (Jn 14: 6).
However, the term «eternal life * can be understood in two senses: ‘!, life in eternity, after death, until this early life ends (this is the so-called eschatological sense); 2. This life after death, however, begins now; we wear it in itself, like a seed that is already germinating but will grow fully only in the time of eternal spring at the end of the ages.
Both meanings are true and belong to the completeness of Christian preaching. However, folk preachers indeed prefer to talk about the first sense. People are too in tow the hustle and bustle of this early life. So, it shows them the beauty of eternity. On the contrary, in the contemplative e contemplative orders whose members have left worldly life, that emphasizes that they should do what they do now for all eternity, praising God in prayer and seeking happiness in direct contact with him. 24 God’s life The words new life are used in Scripture to denote all that Christ has brought us, the benefit of redemption. The Holy Spirit is the “animator,” the “giver of life.” This
name thus expresses the completeness of Christian perfection.
Other images}, although correct, tend to be incomplete. It’s being talked about, e.g. about the reward in heaven. People work and receive a reward for brave work. This reward is either here on earth, but especially in eternity. To some, he seemed to be here a kind of spiritual mercantilism, a sacred trade with values. However, Christ knows human nature better. He uses the parable of the entrusted drachmas, in which the faithful servants are rewarded, brave work (compare Mt 25, 15).

So, he who expects a reward from God does good. However, if someone says they do not think of a reward in heaven, that he tends to live here in a truly Christian way, and that his way of life is right. After all, love for God is expressed by keeping the commandments (Jn 14:15). However, some admit that they are weak. They are aware that they are badly keeping the commandments that they will march badly, if God would reward them “in merit” in eternity. Yet,, they trust that God is merciful and believes in the power of prayer. «If I save, I will only save prayer, »he said at the end of the life of St. Alfons of Liguria. However, we have nothing to blame for this attitude either one-sidedness of the statement.
Life is rich in its various manifestations and partial attitudes. Therefore, also «to a new life,» «to a life in Christ,» «to a life in the Holy Spirit.» includes a characteristic and moral attitude, the hope of reward, trust in God’s goodness, and other manifestations of God’s multifaceted wisdom (Ephesians 3:10)
St. Cyril of Alexandria likens the reviving power Of the Holy Spirit to the water. It turns white in the lily, red in the rose, and purple in the violet. So is God’s life in people manifested on the outside in different shades. , However, they complement and together lead to the harmony and beauty of the spirit of the world.

Know what kind of tree we are
The man had a large vineyard. He was very proud of him. You suffered a lot to make his the vineyard bore the best fruit. He took care of him as best he could. After years with him, the vineyard became famous in a wide area. The grapes from his vineyard sold the best on the market.
It is similar to today’s gospel. The Lord Jesus says to His disciples:
“So every good tree bears good fruit, while a bad tree bears bad fruit.
A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. ” (Mt 7: 17-18).
St. Hieronymus notes that Jesus urges us not to stay in apparent clothing but to choose the fruit that human action brings. We find it in the letters of St. Paul and divides him into three characters that.
The scriptures state that they are characteristic of man – heart, mouth, and hand. The heart is the deep center of our being, our mouths are used for our communication, and our hands prolong our conscience to action. The image of a tree – mainly a vine, indicates
He was intimately known to God’s people and Jesus’ listeners. The tree is recognizable after fruits because each tree bears fruit according to its kind. Either that trees good or unhealthy and spoiled.1
The fruit of man is all that is within us. Based on our inner self, we manifest ourselves externally. Our gestures, actions, opinions are the result of what is in us. Currently, many people offer us their help in health, work, help us to “get on our feet” with various financial subsidies and the like. A man who thinks they will help us receives their help and entrusts himself to their hands. It often takes a very long time if it finds that their health, work, and finances were not the goal of their help. These people had to enter our inside, affect the inside of man to the point that he is completely devastated and empty. This person finds out that he is completely alone and living at the same time around many people. He finds out that he has been deceived and deceived. In addition, how many efforts were made to work with these people? He went to different parties, training, courses, and exercises until he got into the whirlwind of the captivity of these people. They gradually spotless his interior with their influence.

That’s how it is in various yoga exercises where it is operated on, making it a common exercise for our health, which cannot harm us in any way. At the same time, they found out over time, influenced by the cult of yoga, it is not just an exercise but a certain secular ritual.
It is similar in various spiritual and occult meetings, where people literally flock to the sensation and want to see unusual things. People who perform these practices influence a person inside so much that in his inside, anger takes root. If such events inspire a person, his life is over time; it becomes meaningless and empty. He influences them that people at these events express their opinions, deeds, and actions. Ide that if we live in a bad environment, our deeds will be evil. It is also a matter of reading tabloid magazines and watching movies that are not in the service of man. They are soap operas or movies showing unrealistic life. They show us in the personalities who have nothing to do with moral life, and watching them weakens our moral consciousness, and we gradually lose judgment so that we now distinguish. We are completely engrossed in them, and we have trouble reconciling our lives to what worked properly. In our subconscious, the characters from these magazines are acting and movies, and we don’t even know why we act like them. Their lives are with us becomes role models. A model is sufficient to infect our entire surroundings.

If we try to live in a good environment, our actions will speak for themselves. Ours the environment influences our behavior to a large extent. That’s why we should decide where we will stay, which people we will talk to, whose we will listen to and share opinions. According to the fruit we yield from ourselves, we know what we are like. The Lord Jesus wants us to be the good vine. He brings good fruit so that our interior may be filled with his peace and love for us; they did not have to be ashamed before Him when He comes after the harvest of our lives.
The poor farmer had a tiny field. This was enough for him not to die from hunger. Every year he tried to grow a few pieces of vegetables and fruits. Well, in one year, great floods came, and his crop was destroyed. He was in a hopeless situation. Even though the crop was destroyed, he asked God to help him. She wandered around his house once a group of tourists. These people were a pleasure for him. He told them how difficult it was situation is found. These people promised to help him. And indeed. A week to him, they brought food so that he could survive the whole year. Then the farmer began to grow again on its small field. He knew that the Lord God would not allow him to perish.
Like this poor farmer, we are in charge of the field of life. Sometimes for sins, We will fall victim to the floods of our interior, after which our interior will remain empty and dissatisfied. But there is no need to give up, and the harvest is sure to come. This harvest of ours is a very long process. It’s big, a vineyard in which we have to develop our tree of spiritual life all our lives. This tree has been entrusted to our fragile hands, but we must work daily to grow and bear rich spiritual fruit. The fruit that is the result of our interior.

We know it was for our sins, but:
– Why did our sins require the sacrifice of God himself?
– And they demanded it? Or would it go without it?
– Then why the sacrifice of God – why the cross?
It would be our salvation (deification) maybe without it?
First:
For what Jesus did for sure
DON’T BECOME! * Redeem – pay for something to be redeemed. Used in the sense of redemption from captivity, when someone paid a ransom for the prisoner and the prisoner was released. In this sense, Jesus is called the Redeemer, and we are called the redeemed.
Ransom from Satan: This opinion looks at the atonement of Christ, as for ransom that was paid to Satan to man was bought freedom and to be liberated from Satan enslavement. Substitute punishment theory:
This theory looks at Christ’s reconciliation as for substitute victim who satisfied God’s demands on sin. His victim Christ paid the punishment of human sin; he brought forgiveness, he established
justice and reconciliation, a man with God.

There are many theories and speculations as to why God as a man, Jesus Christ, had to make a sacrifice on the cross – and to whom as the Redeemer * paid.
The two most common – present since ancient times – are the following: • REDEMPTION DEVIL: We have sinned rightfully
owned, owned by the Devil, and we belonged to Hell. To us so, Jesus saved the Devil from power and redeemed himself from Hell, paid for us Satan’s proper price to himself, his Blood… Finally, he escaped the Devil, so the Devil (as if deceived by God) came out empty: without sinners and Christ as a ransom.
• REDEMPTION TO GODFATHER: God as infinite justice had to insist on a just – and therefore infinitely large – punishing a man for an infinitely great insult to the infinite God, which is the sin of man (even the smallest because of the greatness of insult is measured by the size of the offended, in this case, infinite God) caused. So to save a man, he left it. Instead, the man has punished His Son, Jesus Christ… To whom, and why was it for is paid over blood? If the devil – what shameful! The thief accepts ransom, not only from God, but the ransom to whom is God Himself!
Does God pay the ransom to the Devil?
But this raises several questions:
• Does this mean that Satan is more powerful than God?
• It means that God must “pay the tax” to the Devil to deliver
man?
• So the devil wasn’t really defeated at all, and in the end, you did
he enforced his against God – and did God have to pay?
• It is right and moral to pay a ransom to a thief – like the Devil
called St. Gregor Naziánus
• And if Jesus paid Satan himself – then he is God
since the possession of Satan?
• And if Jesus did not remain in Satan’s power but “overcame him,” is
such ransom valid? And honest ☺ né Worthy of a Holy God?
• And if God does have enough power to be on the Devil enforced his – and then the theater with the “ransom” that he The “infinite satisfaction” that God seems to insist on these gets into double the annoying light. From the texts of many devotions, it is printed to the consciousness of the idea that the Christian faith in the cross imagines God, whose reckless justice requires human sacrifice, even one’s own sacrifice Son. From justice, whose dark anger makes a message of love unbelievable, a man turns away in horror. This image is just as widespread as incorrect. ” (Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI)

However, if this price was offered to the Father, I ask how would that be possible? After all, it wasn’t the Father who kept us captive! An as if Blood of your own beloved Son could be pleasing to the Father who he didn’t even accept it the sacrifice of Isaac when He gave Him Abraham offered as a full victim but replaced human sacrifice lamb.
-Does God pay a ransom to God?
This also raises several questions:
• It means, however, that forgiving and not persevering is, therefore,
injustice – and therefore sin? Shouldn’t we do it?
• But then why does Jesus ask us to?
• And punish the innocent instead of the culprit – is that fair?
• And since Christ Jesus, Himself is God (and when He became man,
did not cease to be God) – it means that God sacrifices himself, he suffers to meet his demand to be somehow (by himself!) “compensated” for insults by people? But if he did not pay to God,

“Today I would like to talk about the disappointment of God. (First) something very important to you. Ranking of your values. What is the highest value in your life? The highest value in life. For me, it’s that God has redeemed me. The highest value in my life. Because I could have everything and would then take it all to hell. And if you are not grateful to God until death for redeeming you, and you demand from Him as a claim to your life that you be healthy, happy, have a lot of money blessed to prosper, and if you do not give it, yet you will be upset and disappointed, so you are a great ungrateful. If it is not enough for you to have the precious blood of the Son of God shed, if it is not enough for you to have life forever, if it is not enough for you to be rewarded 100 times more in this life, albeit in another way, if it is not enough for you, that you have eternal life, but you want you to be healthy, content, to prosper, to be respected, to be recognized, to God finally and in time to give you a partner, let him kindly wake up to wake up , then you are very ungrateful. We once talked to a brother about this topic, and he said to me: “You know, I am grateful to God for saving me; I am grateful to Him for such a dog. And if he didn’t give me anything for the rest of his life and just kicked me, I would still be grateful. I’ll be happy anyway because he’s already given me everything. ” That is why I tell you, if you are disappointed in God, if you are disappointed that your ideas, dreams, and ideals have not come true for you, the great and noble majesty, and if you say that as God could only afford, it does not come true for me how I have to wait as long as possible for him not to answer me as he even allows himself to be silent, and then you get a little angry, then you get a little more angry, then you are disappointed, then you walk like those whom God, so he hurt him a lot, then you are very ungrateful. ”(Mário Tomášik, Fellowship at St. Martin’s Cathedral)
In other words:
God is calling me to deification – and will do in my life all that will be necessary for me to be deified, no matter what it will be: poverty, wealth, pain, bliss, good living, homelessness, home, exile, respect whether the persecution…
This life is not a hotel but a training camp for saints – deified people. His goal is not a “comfortable life” but “hard training.” If you expect anything else from God — for example, to be your personal servant, bodyguard, and financial advisor in one person — you will naturally be disappointed in God.
This is, after all, HELL: A place where people go, to whom God and His offer do not sit and want to do their own “projects” there, not disturbed by God in any way…
“Whenever there is oppression or tribulation, it is a rebuke to us and a rebuke. For not even our Scripture promises us peace, security, and peace, nor does the gospel conceal affliction, oppression, and offense. But “he who endures to the end will be saved.” (St. Augustine)
<Would you find any indications of this attitude in Richard’s story? >
P.S .: CATHOLICS have always been aware of the reality of spiritual growth and what St. Augustine. But PROTESTANTISM (and Richard was a Protestant) with its thesis of “sola fide” and “once saved – forever saved” largely rejected this idea (although it is slowly returning to it, and that’s good). From a Protestant point of view, a sign of God’s grace and forgiveness should be that God will bless me because He no longer has a reason not to do so. So, it will remove my problems; I will succeed, be successful, rich, … – finally, out of the desire for such “confirmation” of God’s grace and forgiveness, that “Protestant work ethic” was born. But if success does not come and is replaced by crisis and “night,” the Protestant is confused and disappointed – unlike a Catholic who (for example, thanks to St. John of the Cross) knows that it is a necessary part of the “training” of God’s sons and daughters, as the Bible finally says, “5 And ye have forgotten the encouragement which is spoken unto you as your son, saying, My son, despise not the Lord’s upbringing, neither let him wax low when he rebukes thee. he will beat anyone he adopts as a son. ” 7 What you bear for your correction. God treats you as sons. And whose son wouldn’t a father scold? 8 If you are outside the upbringing in which everyone has participated, then you are illegitimate children, not sons! 9 And then our fathers of the flesh raised us and respected them. Won’t we submit more to the Father of spirits and live ?! 10 And they rebuked us for a short time, and as they saw, but because of what is useful, that we might partake of his holiness. 11 True, every education in the present does not seem joyful, but cruel; later, however, it bears the reassuring fruit of justice for those it has trained. 12 Therefore raise weak hands and broken knees! (Heb 12: 5-12
P.P.S .: HELL in the Catholic (and mostly also in the Christian) understanding is actually a place created by people disappointed with God. As the philosopher James Potter Moreland puts it: “Hell will be an eternal monument of human dignity and the greatness of one’s independent decision-making. It is a sheltered place where God says two important things: ‘I respect the freedom to decide so much that I will not force anyone to go where I want, and I value the bearers of my form so much that I will never destroy them.’ ” Christians this place, where each person can live forever and definitively on his own, without God, outside of God and not according to God, they call hell because they believe (and modern psychology agrees with them) that no such path can and cannot lead to complete and final happiness, this is possible only with God, in God and according to God. Without God, man is condemned to seek eternity and fulfillment forever, never find and gradually despair (S. Kierkegaard) of the boredom that the world without God will eventually bring him (B. Pascal).

To find out in our lives how we influence the good name of our neighbor through our behavior.
Each of us must have felt that he had been wronged. That what he did, no one can understand, that everything he does is misunderstood and evil. What’s up? The more one tries, the worse it is, and the world is full of misunderstanding and evil. We are condemned for what we did not do, or people cannot understand us. Not it is quite as people claim.
In today’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus also says to His disciples, “Do not judge, lest you be judged. For as you judge, so will they judge you, and what and ye shall measure it; it shall be measured to you ”(Mk 7: 1-2). To say something bad about someone, to evaluate, means to try to say something about them in court. We condemn someone for blaming someone. It is clear from the Gospel that He who is competent to judge is God alone. He is the One to which the court as such has jurisdiction. We have no right to take charge of anyone’s judgment simply because we do not see a person inside. Hence, this right is reserved only by God, who also knows the human heart and knows what is in it is located.
One has an ingrained sinful desire to comment on the behavior of others constantly. We can look at everything around us, at every human action; we have no appetite for any behavior of one’s neighbor but to look at one’s actions. We think we’re fine, we’re good, we try to do good, and if so, we commit some sin, we say to ourselves: “I cannot be such a saint, but I am wrong is human, and there are worse things than these! ” And here is the stumbling block. Let’s get started to compare the behavior of others with yours, and we do not look at the circumstances. Every man has his specific situation. In this situation, it responds to various impulses from the outside world. We do not know what these circumstances are, but we know this man immediately evaluates and denigrates society. We say we to that man we don’t want to go wrong, but at the same time, we comment on his every move and every word. It is like the poison we sow in the hearts of others. When this poison gets inside, a man poisons his whole. Such a person is then full of anger and can handle everyone say many words that are not always even true. Gossip is coming and finger-pointing. It is a terrible rage when we talk about our neighbor’s mistakes or them; we will even develop a way to diversify our debate on the latter. This most often happens during visits. People meet over coffee and go through their own whole area. They take over all acquaintances and exchange distorted information about others. The two friends met once and said to each other: You heard this … and the other one says you heard this again…
We can rightly ask. Aren’t these words part of our vocabulary? Aren’t we looking for unverified information and damaging the honor of our neighbors? Each of us has a duty to go deep in our spiritual lives and look within ourselves as we judge our neighbors. What talks about them, we know. Let us remember that only God has the right to judge. Jesus speaks vigorously as well to us, “Do not judge, lest you be judged” (Mt 7: 1).

Let us always put God’s interests first.
You have noticed that he is not under any stress when a person is cool, much he did better at work. He was in a good mood and poured around him the peace he had inside.
The Lord Jesus says to each of us, “Seek God first the kingdom and its righteousness, and all these more you will receive ”(Mt 6:33).
By God’s kingdom, we usually understand heaven and eternal life in it. That is, we will get there after our death, and together with the angels and the saints there, we will worship the Almighty as the greatest King. In one, a youth song sings that the kingdom of God is here between us, and the Saints Scripture confirms this when he says, “The kingdom of God is love, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit ”(cf. Rom 14:17). So the fact that we are already striving here on earth for brotherly love, we spread peace around us, whether at home or at work, and everything to do this with a pure heart and with a pure intention is the beginning of God the kingdom here on earth, which will then pass into eternity.
So first, we should strive for God’s kingdom to exist here between us and then everything else, that is, earthly things God will give us as a gift. Because only in love, peace and joy can other things be made much more easily. For what will profit me to build a house when I fight with my brother all my life for the property? But our primary task is to build the kingdom of God, and for others, God will take care of us because He knows very well what we need.
Let us now look at the great figure of King Solomon. When he began to rule over all Israel, he was still young and inexperienced. Therefore, he asked in prayer from God to give him an attentive heart, administer the people of Israel justly, and distinguish well between good and evil. Simply put, he begged for wisdom in his reign. And God said to him, “Because you did not desire wealth, long age and death of my enemies, I will give you what you ask. Your heart will be the wisest in the world. But I’ll also give you what you didn’t ask for. I will give you wealth and glory that no king has, and I will give you a long age (cf. 1 Kings 3: 5-14). This example shows very well what Jesus himself said we have to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and everything else to us adds.
Let us pray: Dear our heavenly Mother, the Virgin Mary. You are the first of us. She found the kingdom of God when you accepted Jesus into your life; while you are, she didn’t know what else awaited you. Please teach us to seek God first and his kingdom, and all other things, put into his hands: for he is Almighty and lives and reigns forever and ever.

Jesus wants to strengthen our faith in God’s help and protection, our Christian optimism in the midst of a world of unbelief, a sinful and evil world. The church can really be likened to a stormy plague. It is the reality of our lives. The boat of our life wants to get to the port of eternal life. When we believe that God, eternal peace, awaits us at the end, Jesus wants to tell us that we will not avoid many and varied storms at the sea of ​​our lives. Every person’s life is marked by lightning, storms, waves, suffering, disease, failure. Who will find a person who has not experienced any of this? One thing and another something else, someone longer and another in greater intensity, but we all have to go through life on earth as a stormy sea. Who to envy? And often, a person becomes convinced that God is not interested in him, as if Jesus were asleep. In fact, we often witness such words: If he were God, he would not have sick of me, my father would not have died, there would have been no war, there would have been no other judgments that God is not interested in ordinary people. How much panic, pettiness knocks on the door of hearts then! Water pours into the boats of our lives. And do we not behave like disciples and cry out, “Teacher, do you not care that we perish?” (Mark 4:38)

The story is well known when everyone lost their hope of rescue; only a little boy is playing peacefully. And when asked if he is afraid, he replies, “No! Why should I be afraid because my father is the captain of the ship? “

The Lord of our lives is neither another man nor we, but God. Who knows what our God’s plans are for us? Why lose your head? When God allowed him, would he forsake us? After all, our God is good. He knows what’s in store for us. Didn’t Jesus teach us to pray “be thy will”? Wasn’t Jesus a model for us in Gethsemane, on Golgotha? After all, for these things and events, He has become like us in everything but sin. Therefore, he accepted the nature of man to have hope in him. No one can say that Jesus excluded him from his love. Just as there must be storms at sea, so there must be trials in our lives. How and by what would we deserve eternal life? After all, God is a just Judge who rewards the good and punishes the bad. He wants; he wants us to believe and believe him. He rightly demands that we accept him as our Lord and God; he wants us to believe in joyful and solemn moments and during crosses and difficulties.

The French writer Lamennais writes about a farmer worried about his family, what would happen if he died. He once noticed birds flying into the bush. As he approached, he saw two nests next to him and several young in them. Old birds flew in and fed their young. At one point, he saw a predator lunging at a bird that was carrying food in its beak. The young were left without a breadwinner. He had been worried about that all day. He could not sleep at night. In the morning, when he returned to the field, he went to see the young. He thought they must have perished. And what did he see? The cubs were lively and alert. Astonishment filled his heart. He saw the female from the second nest bringing food to the chicks in both nests for a moment. The orphans were not abandoned.

We already read in the Psalms, “The godless needed not knowing, for there is no lack of good in those who seek the Lord” (Ps. 34:10, 11). When we believe, we experience less fear and more joy. If we can receive good from God, why don’t we accept difficult events? We need to remain with God and with God as the Old Testament Job. We realize that “God will not reject the blameless, nor will he with his hands support the evil ones” (Job 8:20). The words of Benjamin Franklin to the men of the nation are known: “Let us pray, gentlemen! The older I live, the longer I live, the more I realize that God controls me. ” And don’t we have a similar experience? We know that there are events in our surroundings and perhaps in our lives that speak of an incorrect approach to Christ. And that is why today we ask that we too fulfill what God asks of us in the stormy sea of ​​life.

Religion pays off
Many times, people put their money in a banking company with high-interest rates so that they can get to the money as quickly as possible. But this banking company did not last long, went bankrupt, and all the people had money stored there; they lost it. Jesus warns us in the gospel, “Gather treasures in heaven; there I am it destroys neither moth nor rust, and thieves do not conquer and steal ”(Mt 6:20).
A treasure for man is what is rare, dear to him. That’s why he wants to hide it so that it is not destroyed so soon. Once upon a time, people put rare things in chests, but they got moles or mice and destroyed everything. Or, when thieves enter the house, they look for the rarest things that tend to be hidden. Today, money is a great treasure for every person. Jesus, when he spoke about treasure, he did not mean that we should not own property at all. He didn’t even say so that we do not save our money or take out life insurance. Not even he did not say that we should despise the material things we have from the Creator. But Jesus tells us to beware of selfish gathering, eccentric and the luxurious life and matter that binds our hearts to the earth.
St. Paul instructs his disciple Timothy on the true spiritual treasure
and he says that religion and contentment with what I have is the greatest gain. We have brought nothing and will not take anything into this world. Further, it says that those who want to get rich fall into temptation and covetousness because the love of money leads to destruction. St. Paul admonishes the rich in this they did not put hope in uncertain wealth in the world, but they do put their hope in God. The rich should do well and thus become even richer for good deeds.
They have to be generous and know how to share, and this will be a good basis for them for eternal life (cf. 1 Tim 6: 6-10: 17-19).

We have another great example in the Old Testament, where it is said that it pays to do good deeds that will be credited to us in heaven. It’s a book of Tobias, where Tobias, the father, shall give his father, Tobias, his son warnings and advice in the form of a will. Tobias says, “Never turn away the face of the poor, lest the face of God turns from thee. He who does deeds of mercy, he brings to the Highest a gift which he pleases. ” And Tobi continues further: “You will have great wealth, if you fear only God, protect yourself of all sin and to do good before the Lord your God ”(cf. Tob 4,5-21). Although now we may not clearly see that it pays to gather wealth in heaven, let us be patient and see everything at the right time. Let us pray: Almighty God, give us the grace to be with you to gather real treasures that no one will take from us, nor will they ever be destroyed, and so they themselves came to heaven once.

… Has in a democratic society RELIGION?
And what exactly would we be under the term “Religion” was to be understood in that in the broadest sense of the word?
What it actually means to have in practice “Freedom of religion” – that is freedom for what? QUESTION TO YOU.
WHAT PLACE…?
… That is, in practice, freedom of conscience, freedom to live in harmony with his inner convictions and values, which I confess.
Do you agree with this definition of “religious freedom” – including, for example, atheistic or Buddhist “Religions-without-god”?
“The source and synthesis of these [human] rights are, in a sense, religious freedom, understood as the right to live in the truth of one’s faith and accordance with the transcendent dignity of one’s own person. ” (Compend. Of the Social Doctrine of the Church)
WHAT PLACE…?
… Has the state and state power in this area? Should he positively define and “enforce” these values? Or, conversely, should it serve to create conditions for their citizens to live according to their conscience and achieve their transcendent goal? “The source and synthesis of these [human] rights are, in a sense, religious freedom, understood as the right to live in the truth of one’s faith and accordance with the transcendent dignity of one’s own person. ” (Compend. Of the Social Doctrine of the Church)
WHAT RISKS…?
Does this concept bring with it? How can these risks be prevented?
How to distinguish between true and “flying” values, positive devotion from destructive fanaticism? “The source and synthesis of these [human] rights are, in a sense, religious freedom understood as the right to live in the truth of one’s faith and accordance with the transcendent dignity of one’s own person. ” (Compend. Of the Social Doctrine of the Church)
AND NOW AGAIN!
How to see your own place in the society of the Catholic Church?
How does he see his relationship with the state can? HOW  DOES THE  CATHOLIC CHURCH IT?  Church and state Unprecedented are typical of Western society Department of Religion and State, Church and State Power – namely two ways!

What does this mean for a Catholic citizen?
What is his place in society as a citizen and as a member of the Church simultaneously? Catholic in the world of politics “Engaging in politics is a duty for a Christian. We Christians cannot play Pilate, wash your hands,”- said the pope. “We need to get involved in politics,
for politics is one of the highest forms of love because it seeks the common good. A lay Christians must work in politics. You tell me, ‘But it’s not easy.’ But don’t even happen with a priest is not easy. There are no easy things in life. “Politics is dirty, ‘but I wonder why? Why do Christians not enter it with the Gospel host? It’s easy to blame others … but for me, what do I do? The duty of a Christian is to work for the common good, and many times this can be achieved through politics. ” “None of us can say, ‘I don’t care, because the others rule.'” No, I am responsible for their government, and I must do my best to govern them well. I must also take part in political life as much as possible. According to the social doctrine of the Church, politics is one of the highest forms of merciful love because it is a service to the common good. So I can’t wash my hands in front of her. Each of us
has to give her something. ” (Pope Francis)
According to St. John Paul II, social and political Engagement is one of five characteristic features of the Catholicism of the Church members DOES NOT RECOMMEND…?
… This social and political commitment to the principle of separation
The Church from the state power? A QUESTION FOR YOU.
MAY CHRISTIANITY…!
… Help overcome these threats and problems? How? “It simply came to our notice than morale; it is always deforming, and ultimately. As a result, we pay extra for it everyone. And when there is politics subordinate to economic forces and interest groups, it sings to a dead end. ” “Politics has been around for a long time, changed to professional, organized public relations and marketing. The technology of power is uncompromising and has nothing in common with the search for the truth about the company (or itself). “