Is there no one found to return and give glory to God?
In today's Gospel we see the ten lepers who are cured and only the one, a Samaritan returned to give thanks to God. Not much has changed in all these years. Still we see that God gives His graces and the majority of mankind remain thankless.

In the case of the lepers in today's Gospel we see that only ten percent of the lepers were found to be grateful enough to return and give glory to God and this one was not even one of the chosen but was a stranger _ a Samaritan.


Today we see that perhaps more than ninety percent are ungrateful, but what is most shocking is that the chosen people, the true Catholics, who should know better are the greatest offenders in this matter. Their sin is inexcusable.
God allows or sends difficulties in our lives because we have wandered too far away. In our self-centeredness we become cold and indifferent to God. The only thing that will bring us back to the thought of God is necessity. And this necessity is in its self another and even greater grace from God. When we have lost all hope or confidence in ourselves or our fellow men to obtain relief from our sufferings we are forced to turn to God.
What a sad indictment this is of mankind _ that we must be forced to turn to God. This same God who created us and has given us all that we have and all that we are must force us even to think of Him. Justice and right reason tells us that we should be constantly and forever giving thanks and glory to God. Thus, we must conclude that we are not very just nor are we as reasonable as we imagine ourselves to be.
God gives us His graces daily and in a special manner in all of His Sacraments especially that of the Holy Eucharist. That free and liberal familiarity seems to have bred contempt for all that is sacred and holy. And it appears that the most guilty of this crime are those who call themselves "Traditionalists". These "Catholics" seem to be more concerned with arguing about the Faith and Religion than with practicing it. Where is the love of God in all of this?


God will not allow Himself to be mocked without retribution. The nine lepers were cured in their bodies but now their souls were even sicker than before, because of this worse sin of ungratefulness.
The Protestants that broke away from the Faith to follow their own passions were left to their own devices. They were unappreciative of all the graces that God offered them through His Church and thus they lost them. They may have the outward appearance of some of the Faith. They still use the Scriptures and call upon God, but they lack His grace. "Not all those who say Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of Heaven."


The Novus Ordo appears next in this line. They too were unappreciative of all that they had received. And while they may appear healthy on the outside they too are as Our Lord says: "whited sepulchers, full of dead men's bones." They have some of the appearances of the Church but have nothing of the graces. They have changed the rites of the sacraments and in doing so have invalidated and thus made them null and void of all God's graces. The false "Council of Vatican II" was made possible by the indifference of Catholics. Again the Church's worst enemies were the lukewarm or indifferent Catholics.


This brings us back to the "Traditionalists" who are the latest to refuse to cooperate with the grace of God. These appear to be the most proud and arrogant of all _ modern Scribes and Pharisees. They appear to seek only to fulfill the letter of the law. They want all the external elements to be exact and proper and in this they think that they are pleasing to God. And in keeping the exterior of their sepulcher clean and white they have failed to notice that it too is filled with the rot and corruption. These too have failed to notice that they have only the outward appearance of Sacraments. The true Sacraments that give grace have been lost to them.
This leaves only the one tenth or less left. And these must be extremely careful to always be grateful to God. We must constantly recall that we owe everything to God. We must never arrogantly steal any glory from God. We must preserve the true Sacraments not only in the external manifestation of them but most importantly in the internal grace that must flow from them. And having found ourselves to have been made clean we must immediately return thanks to God, so that we can then hear the words of God: "thy faith hath made thee whole". And thus not only will we have the wholeness of the body but, most importantly the wholeness of our souls and eternal life.

I'm sorry it offended you, Lighthouse.  I didn't write it, I just borrowed it.  Personally I don't have a problem with generalized heads ups like this.  I figure a person can take it or leave it---try it on in the privacy of their own home and see if it fits.  If so, you have just gained a valuable insight, if not, you can move on and forget about it.

It has been my experience that God heaps so many benefits on us that we aren't likely to recognize them all and be appropriately grateful.  I've tried, upon occasion, to thank Him for everything and found that I couldn't enumerate them all.  The list was toooooo long.  Just keep trying, I guess.