I took three rides on an Uber account today and was amazed at how easy it makes transportation.  All this happened because a companion had an i-phone.  It’s amazing what Western Civilization offers its inhabitants on the good side, ignoring for a moment the bad side.

Let’s for a moment make it positive, avoiding the adulterous and lascivious aspects that mean we can’t keep the faith.  We can stay positive, and we will.

My physical therapist picked me up today, in the absence of my wife’s lift, to go to physical therapy.  When it was over, he gave me a ride home.  I thanked him, and in reply he said, “I want to get to heaven just like you do.” 

 As a Christian, he believes in the words of Jesus Christ that Jesus has a better world waiting for us, and contrary circumstances will not prevail in any after-life if we do the right things.  Heck, I prefer to do the right thing, anyway.

When John Paul II visited Poland, the Communist government wanted the Church to speak for the Polish people, but the pope said it should be Solidarity, the union, that represented the people.  But Solidarity was illegal under Communism.  The pope had his way and Solidarity won the subsequent elections, leading to the fall of Polish and Russian Communism in 1989.

A wise man can undo years of evil or wrong, and that’s what went on in Poland.  I sat safe in the U.S., and nobody told me.  Intricate are the workings of God.

George Weigel, in his book, The Fragility of Order, tells how Communism with its evil patron saints, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the rest, has martyred Christians for the past years, (more than the total of 2,000 years) and penetrated the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.

They besmirched Pius XII but didn’t win out with the Polish Pope, John Paul II.  One of their agents died in the arms of John Paul I.  That’s irony.

It’s a fierce battle, and the foot-soldiers of the Catholic Faith do the dying.  God grant them a bigger reward than to the Catholic Hierarchy, though remember Cardinal Wyszinsky and Monsignor Bardecki.

I asked for a publisher for my book.  Someone gave me a list of religious publishers, and the first one queried responded.

I now  have prospects for my last book with Ave Maria Press.  And this three days after the 205^th anniversary of Our Lady’s first appearance at Fatima.  What a way to go!

But the way did not come easy.  There was plenty of sacrifice as she requested.  But stick with the Lord.  The sacrifice is worth it.