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Deut. vi. and xi. have some real gems ...


4 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.

5 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole
soul, and with thy whole strength...

~Words the Lawyer quoted to Jesus answering the question, "What is the
greatest commandment?" And Our Lord replied that this is correct. And the
Church further clarifies:  "...and thy neighbor as thyself for the love of God."



6 And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:

7 And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them
sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising.

~Something that modern day "facilitators" have forgotten, and so-called
Catholic politicians who assert they can confess one thing on Sunday and
then go out and practice another thing during the week, "on the job."



8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall
move between thy eyes.

~This is the reason the rabbis wore tassels of tiny scrolls of Scripture dangling
from their hat in front of their forehead, so that "the commandments of G_d
shall move between thine eyes."



9 And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.

~Which is actually the basis of the tradition of the Mezuzah (Deuteronomy
6:4-9 and 11:13-21), which literally means "door posts."  This practice is
carried on even to this day, for Jews nail or glue onto their entry door
jamb a small scroll of parchment in an ornate case, and they ritually touch
it whenever they enter or leave through the doorway.  Catholics actually
have a practice that comes from this:  the sign of the cross using holy
water kept at the doorway, especially in churches. (Except at "Mahony
Square Garden," where you have to walk out of sight of visiting Jews to
get the holy water to bless yourself.  Someone should be honest and
quietly glue a Mezuzah on the doorway using very strong epoxy.  Actually,
I wouldn't be surprised if one is hidden in the bronze sculpture somewhere
on the door itself.)



Deut. xiii. 11-21:

 13 If then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul:

 14 He will give to your land the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your corn, and your wine, and your oil,

 15 And your hay out of the fields to feed your cattle, and that you may eat and be filled.

16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

17 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.

18 Lay up these my words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.

19 Teach your children that they meditate on them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest on the way, and when thou liest down and risest up.

20 Thou shalt write them upon the posts and the doors of thy house:

21 That thy days may be multiplied, and the days of thy children in the land which the Lord swore to thy fathers, that he would give them as long as the heaven hangeth over the earth.






Is it merely coincidence that ---------
verse 16 seems to apply to Benedict the sixteenth?

16 Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

17 And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.





And to think:  he is the first pope in history to enter officially
into the ѕуηαgσgυє, and he does it EVERY YEAR.  Does he
touch the Mezuzah on the doorpost that contains these very
words that would warn him in person, from antiquity?  

Does he keep this commandment of God before his eyes at all
times, when he rises up and lies down, when he sits on his
papal throne, when he walks in the way of false ecuмenism,
religious liberty and collegiality?  


OR,,,,,,,,,, does he merely go through the motion of touching
the Mezuzah on the door post when he enters the ѕуηαgσgυє?