It would be more logical and correct to focus on the hundreds of thousands of priests who are good and devoted men serving humanity. To focus on the few hundreds of priests and to hold them up as representing the Church is both non-sensical and unscientific. The numbers of priests who have criminally molested children are very tiny when compared with the hundreds of thousands of priests who bring civilisation, comfort, spirituality and salvation to the millions and millions. It has survived because there is far more good than bad in the Church. The Roman Catholic Church has also been persecuted, discriminated against and despised in some eras and in some parts of the world, but it has survived. Young Hindus are again beginning to re-discover the magnificent ethical and spiritual teachings of their tradition and are pleasantly surprised to find that millions in the Western world are discovering the enlightenment, comfort and salvation which the Hindu/ Buddhist tradition offers. The main methodology of this process is to deprive the Hindus of any knowledge of the universal philosophy and ethics of their faith by a clever and expertly crafted system of misinformation and above all, to beat it into them that they are inferior. And so do the recent American Fundamental Churches. Such foreign religious groups like the Presbyterians of Canada and the Lutherans of the USA have insensitively and shamelessly made it their life’s work to lead the Hindus away from their ancestral Faith to their own. In Guyana here, from the time Hindus arrived as indentured immigrants to the time they tried to find a place in the sun as teachers and students, they have had to suffer all kinds of humiliations and discrimination and oppression. For centuries, its temples have been destroyed and its adherents murdered by followers of the Semitic religions. ![]() It is a faith that has been attacked, reviled, despised and persecuted more than any other faith. I am from the most ancient Faith in the world – Hinduism. I want to say a word of comfort and realism to Suseran and all Roman Catholics, but before doing so, I preface my remarks with instances of religious persecution which may put in better context the stories of the paedophile priests. After viewing the TV programmes on this subject, it has upset Suseran’s equanimity and stomach. Suseran, a convert from Lutheranism, is horribly upset by the widespread stories of Catholic priests all over the Western World who have sexually abused thousands of children. You guessed it: Mary, Mercy, and Community.LEON James Suseran’s letter “Not an easy time to be a Catholic” (GC30/9/10) has come to my attention. In summary (and this is what the forthcoming book 33 Days to Mary, Mercy, and Community is all about), you might say that the Marian Missionary spirituality really comes down to three things. More specifically, relying on the Gospel of John, that book highlights the greater glory of the Mass that brings us through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, into the communion of love that ends with God our Father and embraces us even now. Jesus brings us home to God, our Father, whom we get to know in 33 Days to Greater Glory. They bring us to a personal encounter with Jesus in his mercy, which is what 33 Days to Merciful Love is all about. But it doesn’t end with Mary and the Holy Spirit. That book is about Mary and, at least implicitly, her Spouse, the Holy Spirit. ![]() First, start with 33 Days to Morning Glory. ![]() So where do we begin? Well, while one can read them in any order, here’s the ideal sequence. Admittedly, there are a lot of books in that image above. Because those books are so important for understanding and embracing the spirituality, let’s briefly look at what they’re all about. Now, this summary of the Missionary spirituality gets fleshed out and becomes something concrete and real through the books that you see above.
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