To save our souls and live in Heaven for all eternity with Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary, all the good angels of the Lord, all the saints, we need to work really hard. We can not rest!
My dear, to save our souls we need:
1-Love God above all things and even above all people. We need to love Him with joy, confidence, trust, respect. He is not our buddy, He is our God!
2- Obey the 10 Commands of God! They are not 10 suggestions. We can not be saved if we say we love Jesus but we live in low moral values.
3-Go to confession once a month or more. The more you confess your sins to a priest, the more close you are to God. Pray to the Holy Spirit to guide you, to show you what kind of sins you have. Don`t hide anything.
4-Pray the Holy Rosary every day!
5- Read the Holy Bible-specially on the New Testaments. Don`t buy or read the protestant versions, they are not complete! Catholic and Protestant Bibles both include 27 books in the New Testament. Protestant Bibles have only 39 books in the Old Testament, however, while Catholic Bibles have 46. The seven books included in Catholic Bibles are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch. Catholic Bibles also include sections in the Books of Esther and Daniel which are not found in Protestant Bibles. These books are called the deuterocanonical books. The Catholic Church considers these books to be inspired by the Holy Spirit.
6- Read good Catholic books, specially the old Catholic books before 1962.(I`ll post about good books soon)
7-Read books or articles about the lives of the Catholic saints and follow their examples.
8-Have devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
9-Go to Holy Mass every Sunday and respect the day of the Lord, Sunday.
10- Be very humble towards God, also with everybody else! Be always humble! Don`t consider yourself saved yet, don`t consider yourself holier than others.
11- Live a very devoted and holy life, with good morals and good virtues. If you`re single, live in chastity and abstinence, no sex before marriage.Absolutely no sexual sins, they can take anyone to hell. Absolutely no homosexual sex and desire.
12- Do no give support to gay rights, to gay agenda. And this including watching gay-friendly TV shows. Stay away from that!
13- Treat people OK, all of them are created by God. Socialize with good Catholic people of good morals values, to share your faith and support, but be distant with Protestants and specially, be very away from liberal Catholics(the ones who support gay rights, gay marriage, abortion,living together without marriage, birth control pills and ecumenism), be away from atheists, non-Christians, New-Era people. It`s very ok to treat them ok, but don`t make friends with them. Because you can be lead by their wrong and sinful ideas and thoughts. Sin sometimes can be like a contagious disease, you can get contaminated by your own mind but sometimes by others. You have to keep your Catholic faith intact, so the only way is to make friends with good Catholics only.
14-Help others in their needs. Help the poor. Give money to charity, but, but be very careful when donating money, some institutions and groups are not good, some of them can support abortion and/or gay marriage. One of the best and safe institutions to donate is St Vicent of Paul. I never donate any money to cancer resource,center, society and so on, because we never know how they do their resources, they could work with human embryos at their labs, we never know, they`ll not let us know, that is for sure. I also never help the breast cancer groups, some were connected to abortion groups. You can donate money to your Catholic parish, to Catholic missions, to Latin Mass groups and societies. And you always can donate used clothes to the poor. Here in America i give clothing donation usually to St Vicent of Paul, but also i have send some clothing to help the Veterans and disables groups.And of course, I love to give used clothing to the poor in Brazil.
15-Don`t be attached to this modern world! And don`t be attached to material things! Be free of any attachment!
16- Don`t watch so much TV ! The best is not have television at home! It is worthy ! So you don`t bring any evil into your house! Many people are so attached to TV, they spend hours in front television set and don`t have enough time to do their daily prayers! There so much many good things to do at home and outside instead of TV. Find a craft that you might like, like sewing, painting, trying new recipes, gardening! And even learning how to play piano, guitar, harp, flute! Reading good Catholic books, reading the Bible. There are plenty of things that can make you busy all day!
May God have mercy on you and save your souls!
God bless you!
