The Holy Spirit draws the people of God into one Body of Christ made up of many members. Each member is with the love of God the Father. Each member is with the love of Christ. Each member is with the love of the Holy Spirit.

We all have the call of God. No one person is more important than any other. With Christ our head and with each other we are Christians. In Christ we are many members of one Body. We are concerned for one another through the one Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 12:12:12-26) The Holy Spirit is our help, our guide and our protection.

We are all sinners. Jesus calls sinners and not the self-righteous who He would have go and learn the meaning of mercy. (Matthew 9:13) God loves us all and calls us all as an indication of His love for us. Though we sometimes sin we are called by Him to be a holy people. (1 Cor. 1:2 and Jude 1:1-3)

We are called by God to a holy life in Jesus Christ. We are all called as well to specific purposes. We all have the gift of God bestowed upon us.

Whatever our calling in that gift of God we do what we do for the glory of God. (1 Cor. 10:31) Keep in mind that we are called to our task not because of any merit of ours but according to God’s own design. You may not feel worthy. But everyone in Christ is made worthy by Christ.

No matter our place in society we are important in God’s plan.

The women who wept for Jesus on His way to the cross, the one who wiped His face, in God’s plan they had a very important role or call. As did Mary, the mother of Jesus that day, as well as St. John, as they stood at the base of the cross with Jesus.

Whoever cries with those women who did so for Jesus on His way to the Cross, whoever comforts our Lord with wiping His face with their tears, and whoever stands beside Jesus as He is abandoned and persecuted in this day, may you know how important your role is. Yes, your call!

There is great persecution of Christ here in the USA. There is great abandonment. Let us stand with the Blessed Mother and St. John as they did at the feet of Jesus on the Cross with the same love and devotion as them.

In Christendom today there are divisions. There are false teachings, false practices, disputes and infighting. There is arrogance and selfishness. There is idolatry and greed and pride. God wants it addressed. It must be addressed. The way of the Lord’s return is to be prepared. None of us are to reject what is of God. All of us are in some need of God’s refining and purifying.

There are those among us who are called as ministers and teachers and prophets to God’s people. You must be on your guard, for one can be called of God as such and yet become like Judas. Both speaker and listener examine what you are saying and hearing. Do so properly based on worthy prayer and sound doctrine.

Discern what you hear and see. Be true to God. Speak according to the Holy Spirit. Heed only what is spoken with the Holy Spirit who calls everyone to the Spirit of Christ.

The very same Spirit which came upon the Apostles on Pentecost is with us. This same Holy Spirit has always been with us. He has never left us. He never will. The Holy Spirit moves among us all with gentle power to form us into the likeness of Jesus Christ.

This is not to say that God with His gentle power does not speak to us with a loud voice through His instruments of His choosing when He in His Wisdom and Goodness sees fit. God has no false love. He chastises those He loves when they need it.

In Isaiah 40:1-11 the prophet raises his voice as spokesman for Yahweh, and likewise did John the Baptist raise his voice invoking the sovereign authority of God.

Make no mistake about it, God has His witnesses in this final hour of the last days. There is one whom I long to meet who I am to walk with Christ with side -by -side-by side. All of you who read this, may you search your hearts and your souls for the will of God and accept His plan for you.

If you are called to speak as a witness of Christ in His rebuke and in His restoration in this day you must do so conforming to God’s will. no matter the words spoken the people of God should be able to recognize Christ in those who claim to be united with Him and are in fact united with Him.

The attitude of anyone with such a call must be that of Christ. ( Phil.2:5) Such a call of God is not to be impeded. And one with such a call of God must be confident in it. But one called of God this way must know the seriousness and great responsibility of their call and take care not to go ahead of God.

No one is above another. All must continually grow in the Lord Jesus Christ. And none must oppose God who is at work for the salvation of all souls.

While it is the Lord God alone who is exalted, co-operation with the action of God is to be given. God gives us His grace to do this. It is up to us whether we use it or not. We have God’s grace to discern (based on sound doctrine).

Many are discerning, but they are doing so based on an unsound relationship with God and on unsound doctrine. This is a great problem of our times. May all come to embrace the presence and action of God.

There are those of you with the call of God on you to preach and teach today who are lovers of pleasure rather than God as you make a pretense of religion but negate its power. ( 2 Timothy 3:4-9)The moral depravity and teachings of you men of God are prevailing in this last hour of the last days. What a folly it is for you to go on to the end thinking you have some kind of victory in Christ.

You men of God embracing what is evil as you are called of God, if you have but a flicker of the light of God still left somewhere in you, know that the true Spirit of religion -which leads us to the belief in a divine power who is to be obeyed and worshiped as the Creator- is reaching out His hand to you this very moment.

Do not be found by God among the false teachers and disciples of Christ who choose to go on to the end with discrediting the truth in this time. They will receive the same reward as Jannes and Jambres who opposed Moses and God.

One night, as I knelt praying at the foot of my bed, clearly the Lord spoke to me and said: “ Eddie, take a short walk with Me, just a short one.” I did not hesitate, for I knew that voice, the voice of Jesus. I put on my shoes and went outside wondering why the Lord specified a short walk. As I walked the street I prayed many things that popped into my head very fast. One I remember was a prayer for a neighbor who I knew had Hodgkin’s disease, whom as a family we laid hands on. I was looking for the meaning of this walk. I had not walked far, as I walked only to her house at the very end of the cull-de-sac we lived on, before the Lord worked a wonder.

God taught me again the lesson of humility. He taught me something I am never to forget.

Let me explain. We had a cat who lived at our doorstep. For some reason stray cats always seemed to find their way to our house where ever we were. And they were always received, even though my wife and several children are highly allergic to cats. I liked the cats but preferred not to see any of my family suffering, especially to the point of being in the hospital, so they had to remain outside. I and the cat were not enemies but we weren’t the best of friends either.

This night, as I walked in the middle of the street, the cat for no reason came and greeted me. This in itself was unreal to say the least. She greeted me in an extraordinary fashion. She would not leave my feet. Even when I tried to shake her off so that I could walk, I could not walk because every way I turned she would turn also in my path. She was purring incredibly loud and without end. It was all very strange. And then she began to lick my shoes. And I could feel it on my feet? She would go from one to the other and back and forth, again and again. How odd that I could feel her tongue through my shoes as she licked my feet. Then after licking my feet with her tongue she would wipe them with her head. Back and forth she would go from one shoe to the other wiping them with her head. She would repeat the process licking them and then wiping them. This went on for some time.

During that time I cried out to the Lord: “ Lord, you humble me with a cat. The cat washes my feet.” The Lord quickly replied: “ Yes Eddie, the cat washes your feet as you must wash the feet of all mankind and be a servant. Be a servant, Eddie.” The Lord’s words were plain. And the lesson learned. But our Lord was not done teaching.

The cat still purring loudly and washing my feet, I tried to leave but could not go far trying to reach our driveway. The cat would not stop. Then I went down and petted the cat. And to my surprise, she bit my hand. Also to my surprise, without acting badly to the cat for having bit me, and without fear of again being bitten, I gently, with kindness, petted her again. She did not bite again.

Then the Lord spoke once more: “ Indeed you have learned well Eddie. For, you must serve and reach out your hand even if it might be bitten. And if it is bitten, you must again reach out with love and kindness, as you did with the cat. Serve in love and humility.”

This is what I spoke of earlier, that I must never forget. You see, it wasn’t long before this, that I was petting this same cat and it bit my hand and unlike this night I picked her up by the scruff of her neck and spanked her bottom and sent her off. It was no big deal then. I didn’t think much of it. Not until this night when the Lord humbled me with the same cat choosing to recall that day.

The Lord teaches us. He teaches us in many ways. Often times we don’t see it. And often times when we do see it, but we forget about it. May I never forget that night. And may all God’s people heed the words of Jesus in .Matt: 23:11-12,. May especially men of God see it. For many of you have lost sight of these words of His.

When the Lord elects a certain person to a certain duty He also gives to that person the necessary gifts and graces. For each new duty, new vocation, there is a new participation of divine goods.

Be all that God calls you to be. Do all that God calls you to do.

Remember the words of our Blessed Mother, the only counsel Holy Scripture records as having issued from her lips, but which is sufficient for life and for the mission of an apostle of Christ. She gave that counsel to the servants at the wedding feast at Cana: “ Do whatever He tells you.” (John2:5)

Called of God, not because of my holiness, your brother in Christ, Eddie Soblotne