Chapter Four

Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

 Opening Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of the faithful and

enkindle in them the fire of Your love.
V. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created.
R. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray. O God, by the light of the Holy Spirit, You

have taught the hearts of Your faithful. In the same Spirit
help us to know what is truly right and always to rejoice in
Your consolation. We ask this through Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
 First Joyful Mystery The Annunciation

The Fifth Luminous Mystery—The Institution of the

Eucharist

Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke, and gave to them,

and said: Take ye. This is my body. And having taken the
chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all
drank of it. And he said to them: This is my blood of the
new testament, which shall be shed for many.
Mark 14:22-24
Reality of Satan

Contraception and NFP

Make John and Saul do this:

God has never been more absent from the Western mind than he is today.
Additionally, we live in an age when almost every scientific advance
seems to be matched by some increase of cruelty in our entertainment,
cynicism in our politics, ignorance of the past, consumer greed, little
genocides posing as “rights” like the cult of abortion, and a basic
confusion about what – if anything at all – it means to be “human.”

It is very odd that in the wake of the bloodiest century in history – a

century when tens of millions of human beings were shot, starved, gassed
and incinerated with superhuman ingenuity – even many religious leaders
are embarrassed to talk about the devil.
Satan was very real for Jesus. He was very real for Paul and the
other great saints throughout history. And he is profoundly
formidable.
Lucifer has cast the strong though invisible net of illusion upon us.
He makes one love the passing moment above eternity, uncertainty
above truth. He persuades us that we can only love creatures by
making gods of them.
While many people in the developed world still claim to be
religious, their faith – in the words of the Pontifical Council for
Culture – is “often more a question of religious feeling than a
demanding commitment to God.”
 NFP Effectiveness
World Health Organization
1977-78 725
2.8% Philippines,
0.06% India
U.S.A.
1978 329
1.1%
Hosp. Program Aug, Family Center, Bernard,C.
1978-79 3,275
0% India
US Divorce rate 3%
Artificial Contraception Side Effects
Oral Contraceptive
Abortifacient
Stroke
Heart Disease
Breast Cancer NIH, WHO
IUD
Abortifacient
High Failure Rate
Uterine Punctures
Condom 15-35%
High Failure Rate
45 Million Have Incurable Venereal Disease 12 Million/year
Vasectomy
Granuloma, Chronic Pain, 10%/year Increase in Prostate Cancer
(one study), Anti-Sperm Antibodies, Kidney Stones
 The Really Bad Side Effect

He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to

his brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children
should be born in his brother's name. And therefore the Lord slew
him, because he did a detestable thing. Gen 38:9-10
 Protestants Saved the Bible?*
Throughout much of Church history, if you could read, you could
read Latin.
The Church distributed the Bible in every country it was in, in the
common language
There were “626 editions of the Bible, of which 198 were in the
language of the laity…before the first Protestant version
There were 27 versions of the Bible in the German language before
Martin Luther’s version
It was almost solely in those countries which have remained most
Catholic that vernacular versions of the Bible had been published prior
to the Reformation.
*
Stump Saul and John