Church financial worries must be addressed

Pule' Carmel

Oct 15th 2011, 14:05

The philosophy of life has changed over the years. The mind is not what it was, and most of the services provided by the central church is being replaced and accomodated by most residential family homes.
Things have become more expensive and both husband and wife now work full time and keeping a family has become very demanding. I would go as far as saying that the financial and time load for a modern family has become such that they just manage to make ends meet with running their home with some savings and resting times. To contribute to other charities other than their own requirements have become very difficult and if they give their savings and time to the poorer people they themselves become poor and they might as well not have joined the modern rat race and remained poor so that others will contribute to them, which is a practice many young unmarried mothers are practicing .
The church must reflect on its own management as any other political party, The churches must run on the same lines as a family with its own members marrying and raising a family of their own , and supplying the church with children rather than enticing other people's children to join the celebate church. I equate this to a farmer who wants to be called a farmer and yet does not rear his own crops, but keeps asking other farmers to provide him with supplies to donate to others. I believe the whole world has gone through experimental phases and the long lasting 2000 years of church managment has indicated that there must be a change. Going to help and advocating charity seems to become too expensive in volunteers and staff and capital values. I believe that the Management should not longer be as the church provides it, with their higher archy formulating management and then looking for others to man certain missionary positions.
I believe that the future is education, and each family would be an independent church without the need for centralisation of anything, except the casual meetings through the communications media we now have at home. So if everyone is educated to follow his instincts and not to value Virginity and Celebacy so much , then the Fathers and mothers within each family would become the future priests of any church and the kitchen table willl become the altar and the bread and wine during dinner will be consecrated within any home. The natural instinct and sexual togetherness used by any mother and father would be put on a higher pedistal than any virginity and celebacy and father and mother would take full responsibility of their children and their actions. All this is done through respecting a man's and a woman's natural reproductive instincts and even empower them with celectial powers and infalability if need be, restrained as it is to fathers and mothers.
The other day I heard a woman British politician defending the fact that women should not be allowed into priesthood by saying, " Women are not allowed to become priests for the same reasons that men will never become a virgin Mary!" Personally I am sick and tired of hearing debates between Atheists and religious members of many churches, they are all wrong for they stilll advocate a top down management systems where the few manage, while the others work and pay the taxes, a convenient managment system for those who are above the voluntary and missionary working and the taxed levels.
I put all my money on the reproduction instinct of man and woman and the relation with education in teaching them to shoulder their responsibilities. Then this empowerment and responsibility will ease the demand for charity and voluntary work for virgin nuns and celebate priests alike and each home equiped with the comforts of what is necessary and not the showmanship many care to formulate , including the church itself which all the trinkets decorating a church, to alienate the family and the poor!.
Politics and Religion needs a whole change and a revolution. Politics and Religion must base thier faith on reason and trusting the natural reproductive instinct of man and woman with responsibility. We have come to a stage when The church uses too much time rejecting Gay entry into its folds while gay people are accusing church menbers that the requirements of virginity and celebacy to chose the higher archy of a church is neither natural not necessary and neither healthy as history have indicated in the recent past. I think all this teolerance is becoming ridiculous as these groups should stop valuing thier own values and should start putting more weight on the reproduction of children with the right responsibilities levels to ensure that charity and other care is provided by the parents and not a case of the parents having to work harder to help other people's children and to keep churches and its staff in addition to their own home.
The natural world is so simple and ridiculous complications are being advocated on values that are no longer valuable and to some minds both the old fashioned values and the too modern values must be replaced by reproductive responsibility. I hope that came out clear enough and "charity does begin at our own home which man and woman bbuild together" and this is the best value to live by and not to become Heros and Saints through popularity and preaching and forgetting to care for our own responsibilities including using our own reproductive instincts to bring and care our own families and not those of others, as caring for our own is becoming a handful and a financial burden too big to take up and provide other charities . Speaking for myself, this was life as I faced it, Caring for my family was a full time job and I just could not spare the time to help others as much as I wanted to. Preparing for my education to ensure that I could face the responsibilities of my family to be took 24 hours a day and building a home and its upkeep together with keeeping up to date to compete and keep my jobs to earn a living did not leave mush time to assist others and I do not believe is manaaging others to persuade them to go and help the poor. All my life I could never solve the dilemma of those who give charity wheter they do it to help others or for other selfish reasons too many to define. I beleive if ever anyone is to give charity he do so dierectly and not manage others to do the job while htey manage and persuade volunteers to keep at it. The educated and empowered family is the success for the future and man and woman in some form of marriage will form the church.

Pule' Carmel

Oct 15th 2011, 13:51

The philosophy of life has changed over the years. The mind is not what it was, and most of the services provided by the central church is being replaced and accomodated by most residential family homes.
Things have become more expensive and both husband and wife now work full time and keeping a family has become very demanding. I would go as far as saying that the financial and time load for a modern family has become such that they just manage to make ends meet with running their home with some savings and resting times. To contribute to other charities other than their own requirements have become very difficult and if they give their savings and time to the poorer people they themselves become poor and they might as well not have joined the modern rat race and remained poor so that others will contribute to them, which is a practice many young unmarried mothers are practicing .
The church must reflect on its own management as any other political party, The churches must run on the same lines as a family with its own members marrying and raising a family of their own , and supplying the church with children rather than enticing other people's children to join the celebate church. I equate this to a farmer who wants to be called a farmer and yet does not rear his own crops, but keeps asking other farmers to provide him with supplies to donate to others. I believe the whole world has gone through experimental phases and the long lasting 2000 years of church managment has indicated that there must be a change. Going to help and advocating charity seems to become too expensive in volunteers and staff and capital values. I believe that the Management should not longer be as the church provides it, with their higher archy formulating management and then looking for others to man certain missionary positions.
I believe that the future is education, and each family would be an independent church without the need for centralisation of anything, except the casual meetings through the communications media we now have at home. So if everyone is educated to follow his instincts and not to value Virginity and Celebacy so much , then the Fathers and mothers within each family would become the future priests of any church and the kitchen table willl become the altar and the bread and wine during dinner will be consecrated within any home. The natural instinct and sexual togetherness used by any mother and father would be put on a higher pedistal than any virginity and celebacy and father and mother would take full responsibility of their children and their actions. All this is done through respecting a man's and a woman's natural reproductive instincts and even empower them with celectial powers and infalability if need be, restrained as it is to fathers and mothers.
The other day I heard a woman British politician defending the fact that women should not be allowed into priesthood by saying, " Women are not allowed to become priests for the same reasons that men will never become a virgin Mary!" Personally I am sick and tired of hearing debates between Atheists and religious members of many churches, they are all wrong for they stilll advocate a top down management systems where the few manage, while the others work and pay the taxes, a convenient managment system for those who are above the voluntary and missionary working and the taxed levels.
I put all my money on the reproduction instinct of man and woman and the relation with education in teaching them to shoulder their responsibilities. Then this empowerment and responsibility will ease the demand for charity and voluntary work for virgin nuns and celebate priests alike and each home equiped with the comforts of what is necessary and not the showmanship many care to formulate , including the church itself which all the trinkets decorating a church, to alienate the family and the poor!.
Politics and Religion needs a whole change and a revolution. Politics and Religion must base thier faith on reason and trusting the natural reproductive instinct of man and woman with responsibility. We have come to a stage when The church uses too much time rejecting Gay entry into its folds while gay people are accusing church menbers that the requirements of virginity and celebacy to chose the higher archy of a church is neither natural not necessary and neither healthy as history have indicated in the recent past. I think all this teolerance is becoming ridiculous as these groups should stop valuing thier own values and should start putting more weight on the reproduction of children with the right responsibilities levels to ensure that charity and other care is provided by the parents and not a case of the parents having to work harder to help other people's children and to keep churches and its staff in addition to their own home.
The natural world is so simple and ridiculous complications are being advocated on values that are no longer valuable and to some minds both the old fashioned values and the too modern values must be replaced by reproductive responsibility. I hope that came out clear enough and "charity does begin at our own home which man and woman bbuild together" and this is the best value to live by and not to become Heros and Saints through popularity and preaching and forgetting to care for our own responsibilities including using our own reproductive instincts to bring and care our own families and not those of others, as caring for our own is becoming a handful and a financial burden too big to take up and provide other charities . Speaking for myself, this was life as I faced it, Caring for my family was a full time job and I just could not spare the time to help others as much as I wanted to. Preparing for my education to ensure that I could face the responsibilities of my family to be took 24 hours a day and building a home and its upkeep together with keeeping up to date to compete and keep my jobs to earn a living did not leave mush time to assist others and I do not believe is manaaging others to persuade them to go and help the poor. All my life I could never solve the dilemma of those who give charity wheter they do it to help others or for other selfish reasons too many to define. I beleive if ever anyone is to give charity he do so dierectly and not manage others to do the job while htey manage and persuade volunteers to keep at it. The educated and empowered family is the success for the future and man and woman in some form of marriage will form the church.

Gerry Cowie

Oct 15th 2011, 10:10

The Church suffers like any other organisation in a recession as people have less money to donate. Of course many ardent secularists and humanists, both at home and abroad, will look at this with glee and try to link it to the divorce campaign, denying the Church a right to a voice and spending money accordingly. But this is simply linked to the recession. The church will survive, much to the chagrin and distasteful feelings of those who dislike her.
Long live Catholic Malta!