I'm back!

It has been over a year that I have been unavailable and absent. Where have I been? I will tell you part of it. I've been on God and me time. I was learning more about Him, about my Holy Mother Mary, and about my faith. I also have been posting on facebook, as I have been gathering information. Faith and reason work together in our Catholic faith. Not just faith. There are some things we need to understand. Not just reason. God does not fully reveal all aspects of His Mysteries to us. We would never be able to handle it. The followers of Jesus were first called to be His disciples, his students. Then they were prepared to be His apostles. This is why I have been missing in action for so long, as I have been busy being a student of Jesus and Mary.

From St. John chapter 1: And the two disciples heard him [John the Baptist] speak, and they followed Jesus. [38] And Jesus turning, and seeing them following him, saith to them: What seek you? Who said to him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? [39] He saith to them: Come and see. They came, and saw where he abode, and they stayed with him that day: now it was about the tenth hour. [40] And Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who had heard of John, and followed him.

[41] He findeth first his brother Simon, and saith to him: We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. [42] And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter. [43] On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee, and he findeth Philip. And Jesus saith to him: Follow me. [44] Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. [45] Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.

[46] And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see. [47] Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. [48] Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. [49] Nathanael answered him, and said: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel.

I've been in Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. I've been on my knees praying the Tessera and the Holy Rosary. I've been in Mass and in Divine Liturgy. I've been reading what time allows with regard to our faith; the Bible, Saint Faustina's Diary, the many works of St. Louis Marie de Montfort, bits and pieces of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and portions of works by assorted Catholic apologists and theologians and other saints.

One more important thing to mention is that I have the best teacher in the whole world-the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you want to find her school and be a blessed classmate of mine, pray the Rosary. You will find your mother Mary there :)