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This
page will not be as elaborate as Project
BookRead's home page, but I hope you find it just as enjoyable.
Click on the image to the right for Project BookRead.
Now
for a little about me. I am an Eastern Traditional Catholic (ETC)
Priest and Abbot of The
Ministries of St. Peter the Apostle (MSPA) under The
Federation of St. Thomas Christians (FTSC) under the Order of Antioch.
That's me to the left. This is similar to other traditional Catholic
beliefs, but also very different. Our rites are similar; however;
many of our beliefs are fundamentally different. As an ETC, I follow the
rites and beliefs as set down by Jesus Christ, our LORD and Savior.
One of those beliefs is we may be married. This is substantiated
by the Holy Bible as many of the Apostles were married. Jesus built
the church on Peter, His rock. Peter was, of course, married.
I'm sure by now you are asking, "What is an Abbot"? An Abbot is a priest in charge on a monastic order or religious community. Religious communities are not necessarily a bunch of monks that never see the light of day as depicted in many movies. We are very active in the community striving to bring GOD's teaching to the world.
An Abbot's duties are many. I am the overseer of the MSPA. I'm also the one who gets yelled at when the Bishop isn't happy <grin>. Currently, we are a very small, but growing community. Anyone who has the calling as a monastic brother, sister, deacon, or priest can email me at abdarin@radiks.net for more information or visit the above listed MSPA web site. I am also the one who handles newcomers to the MSPA. Women wishing to become sisters will be referred to The Sisters of the Rose of Sharon (SRS), our convent. The Mother Abbess will direct you from there. She can be reached at rvmother@radiks.net.
Some of my other responsibilities include processing books for Project BookRead and maintaining the online library. The online library has over 1,700 books available for download or for reading online. Our goal is 7,000 books total. We hope to be offering CD's for sale soon to help support this ministry. See Project BookRead for more details.
As Abbot, one of my most important duties is training future deacons and priests. Part of that training is teaching the Seven Sacraments. Every Catholic knows something about these Sacraments, especially if they went through Catechism as a child. As a priest, our training in these is far more extensive. Understanding the Sacraments is vital to being a servant of Christ.
Another subject we spend a great amount of time doing is studying other faiths, like Jewish, Protestant, Baptists, Methodists, Buddhists, and Hinduism. We study these faiths not to condemn nor judge others, for Jesus teaches us He will judge with Glory, but to understand how our world works and to use this knowledge to strive to better it. The first and most important step in bettering our world is to better ourselves by learning more about those around us. It is my belief that if we spent more time learning of other peoples rites, customs, and traditions, we learn about the people themselves and make the other side of the world far less distant, for Jesus teaches us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Before we can extend GOD's unconditional love, we first must know them as a friend.
Though we may have opposing or different views, it is not our place to condemn anyone for the way they believe. Such actions lead to war and destruction. The foundation of Heaven can not be built with stones of hatred.
As mentioned above, we are active in the community. We have many ministries we are in working to establish and one that has been established. Also as mentioned above, Project BookRead is currently our principle ministry, but not the only ministry that we are working on.
Another of our ministries we are working to establish firmly is a medical trust. The medical trust is designed to provide medical assistance to those that otherwise can not get or would not normally receive help. This ministry is in its infancy and still undergoing the building of the foundations.
Another ministry in the works is the "Good Samaritan" program. This ministry is designed to help those who have fallen on hard times by providing food, clothing, blankets, and such to those in need.
As each of these ministries unfold, the information on the page will
be updated.
Click on any of the below:
Information on the Apostle - Information on each of the Apostles. As my research grows, so will the information on this page.
Theology of the Sacraments and their Duality - Over view of the Sacraments written by me.
Homily on Giving Thanks to GOD
Pastor Howard Storm's Near Death Experience
Dr. George Ritchie's Near Death Experience
The Creator: Source of both loves
What
is a Christian?
Christ is nothing more then the pure unconditional love of the Divine Father. As Christians, that is our model, to share the our Heavenly Father's Divine Love and love all peoples as he loves us, unconditionally.
As true Christians, we must strive to live as Christ, to follow His footsteps and love others as GOD loves us.
As true Christians, there is no one, single, true, church, only the Divine Love Jesus taught when he walked the Earth.
As true Christians, we must teach the words of GOD, not the empty, false, and self-righteous ways of the man-made church.
As true Christians, we must love GOD with our hearts with an unquenchable thirst.
As true Christians, we must love for the love
of our Heavenly Father and follow the true teachings of Jesus to be at-one
with the Father.
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The many different forms of abuse
Unfortunately, there are many different forms of abuse. Each, in its own way, is very harmful to a child. We must work diligently to put an end to the abuse of children. We must work even harder to draw the fine line between the appropriate forms of punishment as spoken of by GOD through His divine love and what constitutes abuse. Below is list the five basic forms of abuse:
Emotional Abuse:
Emotional abuse is probably the most common kind of abuse a child suffers. Verbal abuse, social abuse, neglect, and abandonment are all emotionally abusive. Emotional abuse occurs when the parent refuses to allow the child to express his/her feelings or shames the child for expressing those feelings. It also happens when the parents inappropriately express their feelings in the presence of the child.
Verbal abuse occurs when the parent verbally attacks the child, screams, calls the child names, or uses sarcasm and ridicule. Because children do not have well developed boundaries, even witnessing verbal abuse directed at someone else can be traumatic for them as is watching someone be physically or sexually abused.
Social abuse occurs when a parent directly or indirectly interferes with the child's access to peers, when children aren't allowed to have friends visit or are afraid to have them visit because of family secrets, or when their parents' addictions are so out of control that the children must stay home to do the housework.
Neglect or abandonment of dependency needs occurs when parents fail to meet the children's physical needs for food, clothing, shelter, or medical and dental care. Denying a child physical and emotional nurturing such as time, attention, and direction are forms of neglect and abandonment. Failure to provide sexual guidance and information and financial guidance and information may also be forms of neglect. Addictions such as chemical dependency (drug and alcohol), sex addiction, compulsive gambling, religious addiction, eating disorders, compulsive spending, work addiction, and love addiction all can cause parents to neglect or abandon their children.
Spiritual Abuse:
Spiritual Abuse consists of experiences that distort or retard a child's spiritual development. When a parent demands to be the child's higher power by being over controlling and disrespectful of the child's reality or by demanding perfection, that child suffers spiritual abuse. When parents do not follow established family rules and values or when the rules and values are hidden or always shifting, children are spiritually abused. This form of abuse also occurs when a religious representative (minister, priest, rabbi, deacon, Sunday School teacher, choir director) abuses a child in any way, or when a parent is addicted to religion or neglects or abandons a child.
Intellectual Abuse:
Intellectual Abuse occurs whenever a child's thinking is attacked or ridiculed and when parents present themselves as perfect, in complete control, and without doubts and uncertainties. When parents rigidly set forth their beliefs and ideas as absolute truth and are unwilling to share their doubts or to tolerate children's ideas and perceptions, those children are intellectually abused. When they are not taught that having problems is a normal part of life and are not given problem solving skills, children suffer in their intellectual development. Intellectual abuse also occurs when children are not supported in developing ideas and beliefs that differ from those of their parents.
Sexual Abuse:
Sexual Abuse takes place when an adult behaves sexually with a child and can be either physical, involving body contact between the abuser and the child, or non-physical, with no body contact. Sexual abuse can also be emotional. Physical sexual abuse involves intercourse, oral or anal sex, masturbation of the child, masturbation of the adult by the child, sexual touching (fondling), sexual kissing, and sexual hugging.
Non-physical sexual abuse encompasses a wide range of sexual behaviors including voyeurism (e.g., having a child masturbate in view of the adult), exhibitionism (e.g., the adult exposing themselves in view of a child), and verbal sexual abuse (e.g., sexual joking, sexual innuendoes, sexual name calling, grilling a child for sexual information after a date). Non-physical sexual abuse also occurs when parents display inappropriate sexual boundaries by having "noisy" sex or leaving the bedroom door open so that children can see. Another form of abuse that fits into this category is emotional sexual abuse which occurs when a parent's relationship with a child becomes more important than the parent's relationship with the spouse.
Physical Abuse:
Physical Abuse takes place whenever a caregiver attacks a child's body by beating the child with an object, slapping, pinching, pulling the child's hair, banging her/his head, or tickling to the point of hysteria. Physical abuse also occurs when a child's physical dependency needs for nourishing food, adequate clothing, safe and clean shelter, and medical and dental treatment are not met. Lack of physical nurturing as well as too much physical nurturing can be physically abusive.
The above definitions of child
abuse (emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical and sexual abuse) were
taken from a lecture by Pia Mellody, R.N., C.A.C., as well as from her
book, "Facing Codependency."
This has a special
significance for me because I am a survivor of spiritual, intellectual
and emotional abuse as described above. It was very hard to move
on after I was freed from this and it took many years for me to cope with
the abuse I suffered. My abuse started when I entered into my teenage
years and I started to grow and develop as a young adult. I was always
being told that I was stupid or that I couldn't think for myself.
Life as a teen was a horrible experience for me. The stress and anxiety
was so great that my hair started to turn white at age 18 and by 21 was
almost completely white. I was denied to have friends and had to
ask permission just to go into the backyard. I remember long nights
of being yelled at and was to the point that I just didn't care about anything
or anyone. I considered suicide. If it wasn't for the few friends
I did have, I most likely would not be here today as I was hell-bent on
ending my life. Thanks to the friends I have met and, most importantly,
GOD's love, I can share my experiences today. I have
learnt through the years that abuse can be stopped and that it effects
everyone, not just the victim or the abuser. Join me and lets stop
this cycle once and for all.
If you would like to join the Abuse
Survivors Banner Exchange, contact Father
Peter Darin. This is free and all abuse survivors are welcome.
The only requirements are as follows: a willingness to share your experience
and help others, no illegal, porno, or warez sites will be accepted.
Anyony may place the banner code on their page in support of ending abuse.
Banners are from people willing to share their experience and help others
only.
The establishment of the United Nations after World War II raised hopes of a new era of peace. This was over-optimistic. Between 1945 and 1992, there were 149 major wars, killing more than 23 million people. On an average yearly basis, the number of war deaths in this period was more than double the deaths in the 19th century, and seven times greater than in the 18th century. (Sivard, Ruth Leger, World Military and Social Expenditures 1993, World Priorities Inc., Washington, D.C., 1993, p. 20)
The Picture to the right is just one example
of the horrors this centry enfolds. It is said a picture is worth
a thousand words, although there are times when I question that phrase.
For some pictures, there just isn't enough words to describe or express
the horrifying terror or pain that is despicted. We must ask ourselves
if this is the best our race has to offer. Is all we have to speak
for us war, hatred, bigotry, and violence? Has the human race advanced
no further then being a technological barbarians? Its been nearly
2,000 years since Jesus Christ walked the earth and many thousands of years
since the creation of man, and yet we still can not see the distruction
and damage of war and hatred? When will the human race put aside
its petty squabbles and focus on what we are - ONE race. Will it
take the near distruction of everything we cherish before we wake up and
end this discusting maddess of violence and power seeking primitive thinking?
We are a race of human being need to move
beyond the pathetic of absurd rationale that we need a weapon in
order to get peace or that "our way" is the only way. The next millenium
hold sparkles of hope and a new dawning for humanity; However; that new
dawn will only come after the sunset of hatred and war. Joing together,
brother with brother, sister with sister, and brother with sister as one
race with one voice for peace. Don't let our children echo the voices
of past nightmares and terrors - put down the weapons of war and oppression,
put aside selfishness and open the door of tomorrow with the divine love
of GOD. Take a stand, make our race a race to be proud of, not a
disgrace that it has become.
This is a passionate rant for me. I am a computer scientist of 19 years so my training and education prior to my priesthood was purely scientific or laboratory style. To further add to the setting, let me profess that also prior to my priesthood, I was a cast-iron willed atheist.
I was brought up with all the evolutionist ideology that we evolved from apes and that the universe evolved from the "Big Bang" theory and life came from the protoplasmic residue from the universe.
Well, I am still a devote computer scientist. I am a priest. And... all this evolutionistic hogwash has more drips then a leaky faucet.
Protoplasmic residue, a nice fancy name, now what does it really mean.... Well, lets apply pure logic here. Residue is defined as a remaining group, part, or trace. So, at this point, the human race evolved from left-over, unused elements. More blatantly put, intergalactic sludge, or commonly called primordial soup.
Now we have a true understanding of evolution in terms of development of the human race. According to the evolutionists, life evolved by accident from the primordial soup of the creation of the planet and has sense evolved to higher forms of life.
Quite frankly, I would not relish telling people I believe I come from the great galactic sewage pile, which is, by the way, exactly what the evolutionists say when they state they do not believe they were created by a higher being I prefer to call GOD.
There are two sides to this issue and no middle. According to both sides, any one in the middle needs psychiatric help and furthermore, needs to ne institutionalized for their own safety.
Below is a generalization of both sides. Not all members of each side are as this details nor does this mean we should stereotype people. Every person is different and should be respected as such. What the below does is describe the overall group with a common belief, not of an individual who may share some of these common beliefs.
Here are the sides. First, Creationists, believers in GOD, Christians, what ever word you want to use here, believe we were created by a higher all knowing perfect being of which we call GOD. We are created in his image and we have a purpose on this planet to help others grow and learn to love each other as brothers.
Next, we have the Evolutionists, Darwinists, Atheists, whatever else you want to call them, who believe we evolved from the universe's left-over sewage and we have no great plan or method to live our lives. They believe there is nothing after this life except a permanent death and as such have little regard for life or the lives of others. After all, why should they take a few minutes out of there lives to help someone else. Why not let them die and make room for somebody else. This is a rather self-centered and egotistic belief.
We must ask ourselves, "what are we really saying about ourselves?" Are we a race of selfish, self-centered being who can grow no higher then the sewage we evolved from, or are we being who can grow to perfected love simply by showing a little compassion?
There is no middle, we each must choose, are
we intergalactic sewage, or a being created by GOD? Which
are YOU?
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME,
I'M AS HEALTHY AS I CAN BE,
I HAVE ARTHRITIS IN BOTH MY KNEES,
AND WHEN I TALK-I TALK WITH A WEEZE.
MY PULSE IS WEAK, AND MY BLOOD IS THIN,
BUT - I'M AWFULLY WELL FOR THE SHAPE I'M IN.
ARCH SUPPORTS I HAVE FOR MY FEET,
OR I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BE OUT ON THE STREET.
SLEEP IS DENIED ME NIGHT AFTER NIGHT,
BUT EVERY MORNING I FIND I'M ALRIGHT.
MY MEMORY IS FAILING, MY HEADS IN A SPIN,
BUT I'M AWFULLY WELL FOR THE SHAPE I'M IN.
THE MORAL IS THIS AS MY TAKE I UNFOLD,
THAT FOR YOU AND ME WHO ARE GETTING OLD,
IT'S BETTER TO SAY "I'M FINE" WITH A GRIN,
THEN TO LET FOLKS KNOW THE SHAPE WE ARE IN.
HOW DO I KNOW THAT MY YOUTH IS ALL SPENT?
WELL, MY "GET UP AND GO" HAS GOT UP AND WENT.
BUT I REALLY DON'T MIND WHEN I THINK WITH
A GRIN,
OF ALL THE GRAND PLACES MY "GOT UP" HAS BIN.
OLD AGE IS GOLDEN I'VE HEARD IT SAID,
BUT SOMETIMES I WONDER AS I GET INTO BED,
WITH MY EARS IN A DRAWER, MY TEETH IN A CUP,
MY SPECS ON A TABLE UNTIL I GET UP.
"ERE SLEEP OVER TAKES ME AS I SAY TO MYSELF,
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I COULD LAY ON THE
SHELF?"
WHEN I WAS YOUNG MY SLIPPERS WHERE RED,
I COULD KICK MY HEALS RIGHT OVER MY HEAD.
WHEN I WAS OLDER MY SLIPPERS WHERE BLUE,
BUT STILL I COULD DANCE THE WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH.
NOW I AM OLD MY SLIPPERS ARE BLACK,
I WALK TO THE SHOP AND PUFF MY WAY BACK.
I GET UP EACH MORNING AND DUST OFF MY WITS,
AND PICK UP THE PAPER TO READ THE "OBITS",
IF MY NAME IS MISSING I KNOW I'M NOT DEAD,
AND SO I HAVE BREAKFAST AND GO BACK TO BED.
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