Love Letters to Lukewarm Souls

ONE OF THE THINGS that I found interesting reading Sherry Weddell's book "𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨" is the term "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚." The "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚" is a well-known communication theory by political scientist Noelle-Neumann. She found that 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺.   Isn't this the truth (or at least makes perfect sense) particularly in politics and especially in religion? In politics, many seems to go along with what the secular worldviews and media's talking points are, which tend to be more left and liberal. In religion, many feel awkward sharing or talking about Jesus in gatherings or social media for fear or shame they ma...

𝙀𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧 Through the years at work, I've learned that wearing a Jesus (or Mary or a saint) medallion or crucifix seemed to capture my clients' attention, and without me even trying, it elicits them to open up, ask and talk about faith, prayer or church conversations. I find many people are living in quiet desperation, longing for something transcendent. As an introvert, this is one simple way of evangelizing and sanctifying my workplace especially working on a setting or system that is imperfect. Excited to hear your #holymoments story, too. Who knows, "you may be the only Jesus some people see."   CHECK OUT SAINTLY CATHOLIC CHRISTIANS GIFTS & MERCH:  Amazon.com/author/domchu Artjuniverse.redbubble.com Teepublic.com/user/artjuniverse

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Whether you are red or blue or in between, I like to share what Dr. David Anders from EWTN said that, for me, succinctly articulated my political philosophy in the hope it may help enlighten those of what as a Catholic should decide, even for a little bit.   "The CHURCH has maintained always that no ideology, whether conservative, liberal, capitalist, socialist-- no political ideology is adequate to really capture the essence of the human person or of human flourishing, because people are transcendent beings, body and soul, made in God’s likeness and image and we have a transcendent destiny, and so there’s no material construction of civil society that is adequate to man’s transcendent end. There are however some basic natural law principles, things that we can know naturally about human flourishing that have to be respected in any civil society. And one of them, Pope Leo XIII made this point very plainly in 'Rerum Novarum'--the first of the social encyclicals--is the ri...

I like to share "stuff" about my Christian faith in social media particularly on Facebook once in a while by posting articles, memes, quotes and the like, mainly to educate or spread awareness especially to anti-Catholic, atheist, agnostic and polemical individuals (special thanks to them, they were one of the primary reasons behind why I started learning more and appreciated more my Catholic faith and tradition). I even created a page on the topic and tried my venture on selling Christian apparel online recently as well. (If it weren't for these reasons, I would have long readily departed with and deactivated my Facebook account.) However, I'm pretty sure some friends on Facebook do not share the same sentiment, passion or interest I do and probably find my religious musings quite annoying or overbearing by now. I might be wrong but it's just a sense. So I wish to share one point why I am sharing "religious stuff" fairly "religiously", why...