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Accompanying Jesus in the Eucharist even in busy life adoration meditations: http ://www.catholicworld.info/eucharist / files: http :// www.catholicworld.info/eucharist/files/. h.a.chan@ieee.org I do not possess anything. All I have is only borrowed from God so that I may serve others. +1.

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  1. Accompanying Jesus in the Eucharisteven in busy lifeadoration meditations: http://www.catholicworld.info/eucharist/files: http://www.catholicworld.info/eucharist/files/ h.a.chan@ieee.org I do not possess anything. All I have is only borrowed from God so that I may serve others. +1

  2. Anima Christi (Soul of Christ) Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from Christ's side, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Your wounds hide me. Suffer me not to be separated from You. From the malicious enemy defend me. In the Hour of my death, call me and bid me come to You. That, with Your Saints, I may praise You forever and ever. Amen +1

  3. Accompanying Jesus • 1. Why so important today? • 2. Fatima messages • 3. Commitment even in my weaknesses. • 4. Commitment and the largest pearl. • 5. Sweetness vs dryness • 6. Heart of the church with St. Therese • 7. Eucharist Experience at mass • 8. Could you not watch an hour with me • 9. May I borrow your Immaculate Heart! • 10. Questions, comments, and commitment • 11. Spiritual Communion +1

  4. Accompanying Jesus 1. Why so important today? • 2. Fatima messages • 3. Commitment even in my weaknesses. • 4. Commitment and the largest pearl. • 5. Sweetness vs dryness • 6. Heart of the church with St. Therese • 7. Eucharist Experience at mass • 8. Could you not watch an hour with me • 9. May I borrow your Immaculate Heart! • 10. Questions, comments, and commitment • 11. Spiritual Communion +1

  5. Vision of Pope Leo XIII on Oct 13 1884 • Pope Leo XIII in a vision heard the following: • Satan: “I can destroy your Church.” “75 to 100 years, and a greater power over those who will give themselves over to my service.” • St. John Paull II on 1994: Surely, this scene was very present to Pope Leon XIII, when, at the end of the previous century, he introduced to the entire Church a special prayer to St. Michael

  6. Prayer to Saint Michael • Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray. O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

  7. The world today • Having spent the majority of my career in science and technology, I am most thankful to God, • who has entrusted us with talents to participate in God’s work to continue to buildup the world and the society. • The work of God in creating the world is continuing today through our participation.

  8. The world today + • The work of God in creating the world is continuing today through our participation. • Only 2% of USA population in farming has produced enough food for the entire country and for export, • Only 3% in construction is able to produce enough housing. • No one should starve or be homeless! • Many new professions to produce productsand services to enable more abundant life • “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

  9. The world today + • Today, God has gifted human beings with information technology, with hi-tech, with …, • This generation has far more material wealth than all our ancestors throughout the history • In return God receives from the greater number nothing but ingratitude • They have rejected God to follow the idols of wealth, fame, power, sex for pleasure

  10. In this generation that has rejected God + • At work: economy, fear, cannot trust • Many people are working long hours • Economy problem, jobless rate, contaminate environment and food • How to live out faith in profession? • At home: disintegration of family (nearly 50% marriages separate in advanced countries)

  11. Spreading the errors to the world 60 • At work: economy, fear, cannot trust • The gift to build the society is misused in seeking the falseness of the world. • At home: disintegration of family • The gift to build up family has been largely misused. The gift of medicine is misused as a tool of death and is used to downgrade sex to a mere lust of the flesh without commitment and without children. • The culture of death is spreading throughout the world. +5

  12. Morality over several thousand years in human history • Children are ordinarily entitled to a relationship with father and mother Marriage Family Sex Children

  13. Morality over several thousand years in human history 60 • Children are ordinarily entitled to a relationship with father and mother • Mothers and fathers are not interchangeable as a general principle; each makes unique contributions • Biology (not government) is the primary way to define parenthood M F Marriage Family Sex Children

  14. wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls Reject absolute truth • separates sex and children bearing from each other and from marriage M/F F/M Marriage X X Sex Children X

  15. wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls 60 Reject absolute truth • separates sex and children bearing from each other and from marriage • men and women are interchangeable M/F F/M Marriage X X Sex Children X

  16. Rejection of Absolute Truth + Sexual revolution results in: • harm to children of divorce, 3/4 divorces involve a reluctant spouse, donor conceived issues, heart-broken career women • Secular society’s interpretation of birth control, co-habitation, and abortion as new norms generated an incredible mistrust among the sexes, including alarming statistical data on unplanned pregnancy rate, abortion rate, births outside marriage M/F F/M Marriage X X Sex Children X

  17. Do not offend the Lord our God any more,because He is already so much offended. • Our Lady of Fatima (1917 and later): • ‘The sins that bring most souls to Hell are the sins of the flesh.’ • ‘Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God.’ • ‘Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much.’

  18. The Church teaching of Truth • 1930: Pope Pius XI Catholic teaching on contraception • 1968: Pope Paul VI Humane Vitae (on the regulation of Birth) • 1980: Protestants also found contraceptive pills abortive • 1981-84: St. John Paul II Theology of the Body • 2016: Pope Francis: children have right to be brought up in family of father and mother

  19. Pornography Statistics: 2015 Reportwww.covenanteyes.com • 64% college men and 18% college women use porn at least once a week • Increasing rapidly with mobile phone, especially for women • 56% of divorce case involve one party having an obsessive interest in pornographic websites • Prolonged exposure to pornography leads to: • a diminished trust between intimate couples • the belief that promiscuity is the natural state • cynicism about love or the need for affection between sexual partners • the belief that marriage is sexually confining • a lack of attraction to family and child-raising

  20. The Church teaching of Truth • During year 33–2000, number of Christians martyred • 70,000,000 • Among which martyred during year 1901–2000 were • 45,000,000 • e.g., 1,000,000 Catholics were martyred for opposing Nazis and defending Jews

  21. Sexual revolution • 1960: Contraceptive pills introduced • Immodest dress spread throughout the world • Pornography from magazine/newspaper to movie/TV to Internet • Divorce rate rapidly increased to over 50% • 1974: legalize abortion in US, 1 in 4 babies surgically aborted. “Planned Parenthood” push abortion law throughout the world • 1980: discovered AIDs transmitted among gay in USA, spread to heterogeneous transmission in Africa, condoms in school, then China and India • Chemical abortion pills available to anybody • Homosexual rights law, same sex marriage, teach in school • Sex as a choice

  22. So stubborn in the errors of rejecting morality • In all the countries in southern Africa, an estimated 1/3 of the population have HIV. • It is already spreading fast in Asia • HIV was originally transmitted through sex among gays, but have later transmitted to women, and to their children through pregnancy – many are innocent. In particular, many innocent children have lost their parents through HIV and these orphans are also infected. • Yet the primary response from United Nation is to distribute condoms to all school children! +2

  23. Students’s sexual behavior

  24. Students’s sexual behavior

  25. Some figures • Pornography addiction • 50% men, 20% women • 20.9 million globally • Estimated (2016) 1 in 6 reported endangered runaways were likely child sex trafficking victims • 4.5 million of trafficked persons are sexually exploited • Up to 300,000 Americans under 18 are lured into the commercial sex trade every year

  26. Sin and immorality standing up in coalition/kingdomto trample morality and truth • To sin has become a right: • abortion • contraceptives • homosexual behavior • redefine marriage • sex workers • artificial fertilization • sex education

  27. Immorality standing up in kingdom of sin to trample morality and truth(abortion, contraceptives, homosexual marriage, sex workers, artificial fertilization) • e.g., homosexuality in US military: • Unlawful • Don’t ask, don’t tell (Clinton) • Legal (Obama) • Against homosexuality (sexual act): penalty by law • Guidance/Therapy (psychology) for homosexual orientation: penalty by law

  28. Sex education • e.g., homosexuality in US military: • Unlawful • Don’t ask, don’t tell (Clinton) • Legal (Obama) • Against homosexuality (sexual act): penalty by law • Guidance/Therapy (psychology) for homosexual orientation: penalty by law • Change education on homosexuality from childhood

  29. Sexual revolution • 1960: Contraceptive pills introduced • Immodest dress spread throughout the world • Pornography from magazine/newspaper to movie/TV to Internet • Divorce rate rapidly increase to over 50% • 1974: legalize abortion in US, 1 in 4 babies surgically aborted. “Planned Parenthood” push abortion law throughout the world throughout the world • 1980: discovered AIDs transmitted among gay in USA, spread to heterogeneous transmission in Africa, condoms in school, then China and India • Chemical abortion pills available to anybody • Homosexual rights law, same sex marriage, teach in school • Sex as a choice

  30. The world today • Sexual revolution: • separates sex and children bearing from each other and from marriage • men and women are interchangeable • harmful to children of divorce, 3/4 divorces involve a reluctant spouse, donor conceived issues, heart-broken career women • Secular society’s interpretation of birth control, co-habitation, and abortion as new norms generated an incredible mistrust among the sexes, including alarming statistical data on unplanned pregnancy rate, abortion rate, births outside marriage • Children are ordinarily entitled to a relationship with father and mother • Mothers and fathers are not interchangeable as a general principle, each makes unique contributions • Biology (not government) is the primary way to define parenthood

  31. In this generation that has rejected God • Even in our Church: • 80-90% Catholics in advanced countries do not practice • Out of the 10-20% practicing Catholics, only 10% are performing 90% of the services

  32. Misuse of God’s gift • Misuse of God’s gift of sex • About 50% of marriages results in separation • Families disintegrated, marriage redefined • Misuse of God’s gift of technology, medicine • 1945: 100,000 innocent people killed in A-bomb

  33. Hiroshima before A-bomb

  34. Hiroshima after A-bomb

  35. Atomic bomb on Aug 6 1945 in Hiroshima • Blast, heat, radiation: • Within 2 km from hypocenter: leveled • Within 25 km: black, radioactive rain • 100,000 deaths by end of 1945 • Many more injured and with lifelong suffering

  36. Atomic bomb on Aug 6 1945 in Hiroshima • Blast, heat, radiation: • Within 2 km from hypocenter: leveled • Within 25 km: black, radioactive rain • 100,000 deaths by end of 1945 • Many more injured and with lifelong suffering • Damage of the Atomic bomb, which kills people so discriminately and without warning, has shown people how much evil can be caused when misusing the gift of science and technology from God. +1

  37. Memorial Cathedral for World Peace • The priest of the former parish building which is 1.6 km from the hypocenter at this site was critically injured. In 1950 he started the project to build this memorial cathedral to pray for peace and to heal the wound of the people. It had taken 4 years to complete. Today, people come to this Cathedral to pray, and it is joined by other churches too.

  38. Other ignorance and misuse of technology • Worldwide, 50 million innocent lives yearly (140,000 daily) are being killed in abortion. • We are killing more each day than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima! • Life as usual? • one A-bomb is dropped on Earth each day! • Would the entire world: government, army, navy, air-force, police not sleep until it is stopped • Yet with our blind eyes not visually seeing these babies and in our ignorance, the world let the errors continue. +2

  39. State of Emergency • Misuse of God’s gift of sex • About 50% of marriages results in separation • Families disintegrated, marriage redefined • Misuse of God’s gift of technology, medicine • 1945: 100,000 innocent people killed in A-bomb • Today: 140,000 innocent babies killed every day – as serious as if an A-bomb is dropped on Earth on each year • 24% population in USA Catholics • Yet 78% of them are not practicing

  40. Annual Pro-life march in Dallas

  41. Ignorant people drinking black (radioactive) raindrops

  42. So stubborn in the errors of rejecting morality 60 • In all the countries in southern Africa, an estimated 1/3 of the population have HIV. • It is already spreading fast in Asia • HIV was originally transmitted through sex among gays, but have later transmitted to women, and to their children through pregnancy – many are innocent. In particular, many innocent children have lost their parents through HIV and these orphans are also infected. • Yet the primary response from United Nation is to distribute condoms to all school children! +2

  43. wander through the world for the ruin of souls 60 • Besides the physical deaths caused by ignorance and obstinacy, • Many more souls perish every day. • … many are unaware of the danger when evil is disguised

  44. wander through the world for the ruin of souls 60 • Besides the physical deaths caused by ignorance and abstinence, • Many more souls perish every day. • … many are unaware of the danger when evil is disguised • Our children are growing up in a world that has no room for Jesus. They promote the idolatry of life for worldly pleasure and have lost the sense of sin – difficult to raise children today. +1

  45. 60 Hopeless (from human point of view)

  46. Be not afraid!Pope St. John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope • “Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who holds in His Hands the destiny of this passing world... • And this Someone is Love— • Love that became Man, • Love crucified and risen, • Love unceasingly present among men. • It is Eucharistic Love.” +1

  47. Sickness 60 in Body • Lepers • Blind • Paralytic +2

  48. Sickness 60 in Body • Lepers • Lose sense • Blind • Paralytic +2

  49. Sickness 60 in Body in Soul (very sinful) Shameless to sin “The sin of this century is loss of sense of sin” (Pope Pius XII) • Lepers • Lose sense • Blind • Paralytic +2

  50. Sickness 60 in Body in Soul (very sinful) Shameless to sin “The sin of this century is loss of sense of sin” (Pope Pius XII) Reject absolute truth • Lepers • Lose sense • Blind • Paralytic +2

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