Jesucristo: Pastor de Pastores

Jesucristo: Pastor de Pastores

Por

Angel R. Cepeda Dovala

En el acontecer del siglo XXI, dentro del Ciclo C en el 2010, es de mucha actualidad no perder la brújula espiritual del Pastor de Pastores: Jesucristo, quien es la segunda persona en la Santísima Trinidad.

En este Domingo IV de Pascua de Resurrección, se hace remembranza al libro de San Lucas: Hecho de los Apóstoles (Cf. Hech 13, 14. 43-52), al libro de San Juan: Apocalipsis (Cf. Apoc 7, 9. 14-17) y al Evangelio de San Juan, en donde menciona lo que dijo Jesús: “Mis ovejas escuchan mi voz; yo las conozco y ellas me siguen. Yo les doy la vida eterna y no perecerán jamás; nadie las arrebatara de mi mano. Me las ha dado mi Padre, y Él es superior a todos, y nadie puede arrebatarlas de la mano del Padre. El Padre y yo somos uno”. (Cf. 10, 27-30)

Ante los hechos recientes que han salido a la luz pública, que han llenado de vergüenza y provocado un gran escándalo y sufrimiento, en este Año Sacerdotal, es necesario la renovación espiritual mediante la purificación que nos da el Evangelio, por lo que tenemos que orar por quién lleva el Callado de San Pedro: el Santo Padre Benedicto XVI, Obispos, sacerdotes, seminaristas, religiosos y religiosas, y todas las demás ovejas del rebaño de Jesús: Él Pastor de Pastores.

También es importante estar bien informados en las distintas agencias católicas de medios de información, visitando desde luego el sitio oficial de la Santa Sede, para mejorar nuestro testimonio de vida en los distintos ambientes en que nos desempeñamos.

¡Feliz IV Domingo de Pascua!

PAZ Y BIEN

ARCD EDITOR

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Those Misguides Tragedies, By Roger Behra

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Those Misguides Tragedies

By

Roger Behra

It is very hard to understand the mental makeup of someone who volunteers to be suicide bomber. The end result of a suicide bombing is a lose-lose situation. The young life of the bomber is lost long before the time ordained by God, and the many innocent people that unexpectantly die is also saddening. Instead of the young life thanking God and doing loving and helpful things for others, the young misguided life ends in hatred, suicide, and murder. No religion or religious belief justifies that behavior. It is a cowardly and murderous deed.

The reason given for the recent bombings in Russia is the fact that Russian police have killed several Islamic militant leaders. The bombings are in retaliation for that. What is clearly brought into focus is the false radical belief by Islamic that such actions are okay. No Russian police were victims. Only innocent people were victims. The result of the bombing was also misguided.

God would never condone such a belief as suicide bombing. It is contrary to what he tells us to believe. And that is to:

1. Love God with all our minds, hearts, and actions.
2. Love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
3. Keep his 10 commandments.

All these are what God tells everyone. Christians and non-christians alike.

The Islam practice is not Christian. Radical Muslims live by their own rules, which are not according to religious living. Muslims are not Christians, so that is to be expected. The goal of radical Muslims is to murder all Christians. There is considerable trouble down the road because of radical Muslims.
Satan has to love all radical Muslims and their beliefs and actions. Satan has to love all non radical Muslims who stand silently and do not loudly speak out against radical Muslim who gives Islam a very, very bad name. That gives the world the strong impression that all Muslims are in the same boat together.

All hearts and prayers should go out loved ones and innocent victims of the Moscow bombings that took place on Monday, March 29, 2010, specially, and to all innocent victims of suicide bombings elsewhere that take place everyday. And we pray that the cowardly and murderous bombings stop soon.

R. B.
4-5-10

What They Says, By Roger Behra

SHORT COMMUNICATION 164

What They Says

By

Roger Behra

A surprisingly large number of people have read books on near-death experiences. Therefore, many people know about them. Another surprisingly large number of people do not know about near-death experiences or the message everyone is given through them. And science has failed everyone when it refers to near-death experiences as drug induced or just plain hallucinations. Science has failed to investigate why near-death experiences transform so many lives in such a positive way. Science has also failed to understand why almost all near-death experiences are happy ones and strikingly similar regardless of race, creed, or geographical location over thousands of years. Both the happy and fearful near death experiences transform lives. Science needs to open their narrow minds.

Several questions are answered through the NDE. It begins as the person is pronounced clinically dead. The NDE can last for only a few minutes or for an extended period of time. It indicates that there is a Supreme Being (God) that emits a powerful feeling of love, and that an afterlife exists. There is a life review that is very quick, vivid, and instructive. The knowledge gained from it causes one to transform life here on earth, and the most important ingredients during earthly life are love of God and neighbor and to gain knowledge, plenty of knowledge, not money, fame, and material goods. Fear of dying is lost. Many near death experiences go into occupations or activities that help or comfort others. Many living loved ones do receive visits from deceased relatives. (After death visits from deceased relatives are also verified trough after-death communications. Red Hello From Heaven, by Bill and Judy Guggenheim).

The light that is experienced during a NDE brings to mind the words of Jesus who said, “I am the way, the truth, and the light”. Near-death experiences comment on the light especially that it is all loving, all knowing, and all helpful. The feeling gotten from the light is that the light is God, and the feeling is overwhelming!

The happy near-death experience is comforting and reassuring. It more so correlates in many ways with what the Bible reveals to us that there is an afterlife, happy in most cases, and not so in some cases. The unhappy ones are of a dark place full of fear, pain, and suffering in flaming embers. It fills the near death experience with the great desire not to end up there and to change one’s life for the much better after returning to complete their destiny on earth.

The science people consider the near-death experience as drug induced and/or hallucinations. They are the ones who are not comforted or reassured. That is what the science people deserve because they do not take things seriously enough to really investigate the NDE. They should start to do so by reading the Bible and what has gone on down through history over so many centuries. What happens to everyone when they die is the most important question science can answer. Verification by science would give the science people the comfort and assurance that millions of people already have.

R. B.
4-4-10

Wordshiping Gods, By Roger Behra

SHORT COMMUNICATION 163

Wordshiping Gods

By

Roger Behra

Sports in America on the professional level-baseball, football, basketball-is not only big business, it is so big emotionally that it can be classified as clear fanaticism. It is out of control, and American sports fans need to have their heads examined. The facts that American sports fans are such fanatic cause’s monumental problems in sports and the American culture. The fanaticism causes a dual problem: for the player and one for the team.

The player is the biggest problem and suffers the most, because his misdeeds are the root of the problems. The misdeeds are brought about when a player is so idolized he feels his brazen behavior is very acceptable. The idolized players convince themselves that normal rules do not apply to them as fans are falling at their feet with so much attention and idolization.

Some very big sports figures recently have become victims of their own serious and multiple misdeeds, which have increased and multiplied so much over the past five years. Misdeeds by players have become quite commonplace. It is a very, very worrisome problem for the fans.

Everyone in sports already knows how Tiger Woods has ruined his marriage, his personal life, his image, and his career may never be the same. He lost millions. Then, there is Antonio Cromartie who has paternity obligations to solve that involves his seven children by six different women. Wow! How is that for misdeeds! An NFL quarterback with million dollar talent and a 25₵ brain who is being accused for a second time of sexual assault. He has lost considerable standing in his community and with his team. Alan Iverson’s plain awful behavior on and of the basketball court has left his career and personal life in shambles. The same kind of disruptive behavior greatly marred the football career of Terrell Owens. And the beat continues to go and on.

The second big problem in the worshiping false gods saga are the fans. All the players mentioned here (and many others too numerous to mention) have been treated as sports gods, swelling them to larger than life figures, and suggesting that they are godlike royalty. When the fans stop holding the door open for them and realize they are accomplices, and that fan accomplice behavior greatly fuels the fire, some improvement may take place. As it stands now, things are very much out of control.

The idolization of player by fans is greatly not-productive for several good reasons. It hurts the players. It hurts the teams. It hurts the sports world. It has also hurt the team owners. Idolization and the worshiping of false gods in sports has created a fine mess, and many people have stepped in that mess. The whole mess badly stinks, and the stink is on many people.

R. B.

Don´t Open Doors, By Roger Behra

SHORT COMMUNICATION 162

Don´t Open Doors

By

Roger Behra

On the first floor large buildings there are many large rooms. Each room has a door that is closed. On each door is a word plate that contains a word or two. The words tell why the doors should never be opened, but some people disregarded the words and are in the rooms behind closed doors.

It is very hard for earth’s people not to see the closed doors and the words or the word plates. There are people who do not wish to open any of the doors, and they do not. There are many people who gladly open some of the doors. As a result their lives are full of problems, and in many cases their lives are ruined in many ways along with careers and personal relationships. Spiritual lives are also in bad shape, some for very long periods of time.

The words on the name plates on the many doors are self-explanatory. That is why many people do not open them. The word plates say ABORTION, ADULTERY, INFIDELITRY, COHABITATION, SEXTING, PORNOGRAPHY, MURDER, TEACHER-STUDENT SEX, GREED, FRAUD, CAREER CRIMINALS, and all kinds of other IRRELIGIOUS LIVING. So many people have opened door(s) and let evil, and in many cases evil entities, into their lives. It is so evident throughout the American culture, specifically.

Once the door(s) to evil is opened, it is very hard to close it or escape the results. Characters are ruined. Careers come to an end. Severe addictions take over. Prison terms are handed down. Lives are altered forever. Many people die saturated in evil behavior, and that is how they meet God. The very sad thing is evil activity is so easily accepted in modern times. That makes it hard to close doors to evil.

The solution is to bring God into one’s life early on. Practice religious living early in life. Parents have the strict responsibility to instill that into the lives of their children and to practice what they teach. Thankfully, many parents do just that. But nearly 60% percent of people do not practice religious living, so many parents and their children are sitting ducks for evil activity and even evil entities to enter and take over their lives.

Bringing God into one’s life means everything. God is there for everyone. He loves us all without measure. He died on the cross to prove that and to insure our salvation if we love Him in return and live as loving Christians. Pray to God often. Everyday is best. His graces will then give us abundant help, and the many doors to evil will never be opened. God’s graces will also help close the doors to evil that are already open. Nothing good happens without God’s help and graces, but we must ask in order to receive. That is the secret. Otherwise, evil continues to flourish and take over. That is not a secret. It is a reality. And lives are much happier when God and His graces are part of them. That is an added result, indeed.

R. B.
3-28-10

Rodney Alcala Revisited, By Roger Behra

SHORT COMMUNICATION 161

Rodney Alcala Revisited

By

Roger Behra

During March, 2010, serial killer, Rodney Alcala, was on trial for the gruesome torture murders of five female persons. One was a 12-year girl. Near the end of March he was convicted and sentenced to death row. DNA linked him to all five murders. He left his victims naked and in brutally posed and in various obscenely sexual positions. It took the jury only 45 minutes to find him guilty.

In preparation for the trial considerable evidence was revealed and allowed to be seen by the jury. That was mind numbing and heart wrenching for the jury. It left no doubt Rodney is a monster. The photos showed tortured and bleeding victims after they had been raped. During the trail he showed no remorse whatsoever.

During his days of murder, Alcala used his camera as to gain friendliness whit girls and women. He took hundreds of photos. When detectives located and opened Alcala’s storage locker in Seattle, Washington, they found hundreds of them and all kinds. Most of the photos were of teens, young girls, and young adult women. Some photos were nude young girls and women engaging in sex acts. Some showed women were unconscious. The discovery of the photos has caused a great deal of interest and investigation into Alcala’s past from 1965 to 1980. What they are going to dig up is going to be astounding. He may be the worst serial killer.

A few days after his recent trial, over 100 portrait type photos in color were printed in several newspapers in America and abroad. Phone calls have come in from all over the United States and even Europe. Presently, the investigation is starting in Seattle and New York City. Paris, France has also been mentioned. There is a strong link and suspician of his activities in those places in the 1070’s. Alcala is strongly linked to 4 other murders in these places because of the photos, the time period, and the type of murders committed there.

There definitely seems to be much more to his past than just the murder of 4 women and a 12-year old girl. The photos indicate that he was a preying monster, because of the types of photos and the large number of them during that particular time period, 1965-1980. At least 10 detectives are carefully and continuously checking his past, and DNA is going to be a very important factor. DNA matches did not exist until after 1980.

Using Malachai Martin’s book, Hostage to the Devil, as an accurate source of information and evidence, there are plenty of signs that demonic activity and possibly demonic possession is strongly involved in Alcala’s past activities. His activities of sex and murder and the conditions of the bodies over a long period of time give evidence of that. His motives and method were pure evil over a long period of time before getting caught are definite indicators. Satan’s way of gaining entrance and taking over a person’s life last a long time for a willing subject like Alcala was, and evil sex in the form of rape plus painful and tortuous murder are definitely Satanic types of activities. There have been and still are evil entities among us masquerading as human beings.

R. B.
3-27-10