Started November 2011
For you returning readers the original write up has been moved to the archives section.
Hello, my name is Joel Chanitz, I started this website because I believe I have been given a mission to
spread the word of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I have no special credentials except a
very strong voice in my mind directing me to perform His work. I
have always had the feeling that He wanted me to do something above and beyond
whatever I was doing for my religion. So I'm here to give a brief discussion
about what I believe He expects me to do. And I hope you'll find some measure of
inspiration from this site. I believe he wants us all to be his disciples. We must defend His holy name; we must lead by example; we should help the children understand His word;
we should keep His name in the forefront of religious conversations. I will begin trying to do these things
immediately. The word is Evangelization.
It appears as if my mission is to reinvigorate catechism. I
know many of you remember the Baltimore catechism. Remember the little dots on
your soul for venial sins and the whole thing being blackened by a mortal sin? I
don't know if many of you realize how difficult a book that was to write? Each
sentence in the book takes a piece of our faith and summarizes it into one or
two sentences. So concise is this information, that almost every word in the
sentence is important. For example a simple question. Why did God make me? And
the answer, God made me to know Him, to love Him and to serve Him, in this life
and enjoy eternal happiness with Him in the next. That is a beautiful statement
and our whole faith is driven in that one sentence; everything else we've put
around that is man-made. All God expected was for us to follow those three
simple steps.
But alas man was given a free will because God did not
want a pre-destined following of his commands but a free will following. Even
before Adam and Eve the angels in heaven could not follow these simple requests
and we had Michael the archangel having to drive Lucifer and his followers out
of heaven since Lucifer thought he was superior to God. So all thru history
angels and men have mostly ignored or violated this simple heavenly request.
Man’s personal pursuits get in the way of the three simple steps. The
desire for power, riches and pleasure all interfere and become more important
than following the three steps. It seems that only when we are faced with life
threatening situations that God becomes important again. If you think about the
gospels Jesus told us in Matthew 26 to 34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat [or drink], or about your body, what you
will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at
the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can
any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way
the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even
Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the
grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will
he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and
say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’
All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them
all. But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow;
tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”
So if we concentrate on the three steps we can find our way to the
Lord.
For you returning readers the original write up has been moved to the archives section.
Hello, my name is Joel Chanitz, I started this website because I believe I have been given a mission to
spread the word of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I have no special credentials except a
very strong voice in my mind directing me to perform His work. I
have always had the feeling that He wanted me to do something above and beyond
whatever I was doing for my religion. So I'm here to give a brief discussion
about what I believe He expects me to do. And I hope you'll find some measure of
inspiration from this site. I believe he wants us all to be his disciples. We must defend His holy name; we must lead by example; we should help the children understand His word;
we should keep His name in the forefront of religious conversations. I will begin trying to do these things
immediately. The word is Evangelization.
It appears as if my mission is to reinvigorate catechism. I
know many of you remember the Baltimore catechism. Remember the little dots on
your soul for venial sins and the whole thing being blackened by a mortal sin? I
don't know if many of you realize how difficult a book that was to write? Each
sentence in the book takes a piece of our faith and summarizes it into one or
two sentences. So concise is this information, that almost every word in the
sentence is important. For example a simple question. Why did God make me? And
the answer, God made me to know Him, to love Him and to serve Him, in this life
and enjoy eternal happiness with Him in the next. That is a beautiful statement
and our whole faith is driven in that one sentence; everything else we've put
around that is man-made. All God expected was for us to follow those three
simple steps.
But alas man was given a free will because God did not
want a pre-destined following of his commands but a free will following. Even
before Adam and Eve the angels in heaven could not follow these simple requests
and we had Michael the archangel having to drive Lucifer and his followers out
of heaven since Lucifer thought he was superior to God. So all thru history
angels and men have mostly ignored or violated this simple heavenly request.
Man’s personal pursuits get in the way of the three simple steps. The
desire for power, riches and pleasure all interfere and become more important
than following the three steps. It seems that only when we are faced with life
threatening situations that God becomes important again. If you think about the
gospels Jesus told us in Matthew 26 to 34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat [or drink], or about your body, what you
will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at
the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can
any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way
the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even
Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the
grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will
he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and
say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’
All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them
all. But seek first the kingdom (of God) and his righteousness,
and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow;
tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”
So if we concentrate on the three steps we can find our way to the
Lord.