Welcome one and all ...

It's a brand-new blog!

I am a Catholic Christian (Roman Rite) and I love discussing religion and everything that pertains to it. After all, nothing else is nearly as important as how you relate to God. You can go through life and pile up all kinds of wealth and worldly fame and acomplishments, but in the end your're going to die and leave it all behind.

How you will spend eternity all depends on how you lived your life on earth. When you die, you'll go to either heaven (usually via purgatory) or hell, and when you get there, nobody will care what kind of car you drove, what your favorite football team was (or how it finished its 1993 season) or even what you did for a living, how popular you were or what your "net worth" was (in fact, "he who dies with the most toys" usually loses!).

And eternity isn't just "a long, long time." It's "time" without time. Time in the material world is like a huge mural, and we're stuck in it. But eternity is like standing on the outside and seeing the whole mural all at once. This is too hard for us to really understand fully, since we have no experience outside time. But eventually all of us will.

Eternity is the real life. This life on earth is just the "entrance exam" to see where we'll get placed. It all depends on what we do here and now. Do we search after Truth, Goodness and Beauty, or do we chase after self-love and pleasure? If the former, we will find God and fall in love with Him, desiring to do His will, which includes especially loving and working for the welfare of our fellow man. If the latter, we will always want more but never find it, always feel a hole on the inside that we can never fill (because it is a hole God created for Himself, and only He is big enough to fill it). If our choice is self-love, then our life on earth will be a hell, and that's where we'll end up in eternity.

But as long as we're alive, we can choose which way we want to go: the path of life, or the path of death.