Given from the Catholic Broadcasting Station 2SM Sydney Australia
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Not suddenly, and as nations. Nations can repent and return to God only through their individual members. But the sight of national and international needs should make thinking men realize their own need. Thev should reflect that if nations cannot get on without God neitner can individuals. The obligation to return to God and to the true religion must fall primarily upon each individual; for only as their individual members return to God can the nations do so.
You cannot; and I cannot. For religion means a revolutionary change in a man's personal life. No man can make that change for another man. We can only explain the reasons for belief in God, what faith is, and what religion requires. We can also, of course, pray for others. But if any man, seeing the necessity, wants to make religion a reality in his own life, he alone, with God's help, can do so.
Christianity in all its fullness. Men should take up the Christian religion in earnest, believing all that it teaches and fulfilling all the duties it prescribes. Its basic teaching is man's need of redemption, and it offers the redemption he needs. In the beginning God created man and offered him a destiny of perfect eternal union with Himself in Heaven. But God created man free, and this eternal destiny had to be freely chosen. Because man was free, it was possible not to choose it; and as a matter of fact man refused to choose it. Hb preferred to be independent of God and to behave as if he were self-sufficient. That meant sin, a serious rebellion against God's will. The result has been a series of disasters for man right through history, to teach man that he cannot find happiness apart from God. But from the moment of the very first sin God promised a Redeemer who would restore the possibility of man's eternal destiny; and in due time He sent His own Son into this world under the name of Jesus Christ for that purpose. Jesus died on Calvary, expiating our sins. Then He rose from the dead, offering to all who unite themselves with Him in faith, love and obedience the power to rise to a new life in this world,' and to attain to eternal happiness in the next. Those united to Him, He unites amongst themselves in the Church He established; and that Church is the Catholic Church, with which this book is mainly concerned. Those who.desire the Christian religion in its fulness, therefore, should study the teachings of the Catholic Church, embrace the Catholic Faith, and do their utmost to live up to all its obligations, loyally, fervently and perseveringly until the time of their probation in this world is completed.
"THAT CATHOLIC CHURCH
A Radio Analysis"
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