Father Ralph’s Personal 1957 - 2009 --- (?)
SPIRITUAL EXAMINATION OF CONSICIENCE

1. Am I sure I know Christ personally?
2. Am I sure of my call from God?
3. Do I have a systematic devotional life?
4. Do I regularly spend time in prayer? Is Christ always before me?
5. Do I know that I am filled with the Holy Spirit?
6. Do I show compassion and concern for the needs of people around me?
7. Do I demonstrate love for my brothers and sisters within the community?
8. Am I the same person in private as I am in public?

IN SPECIFICS:
Daily do I speak to You, dear Lord. Do speak to me in my conscience, in Your Holy Word, in and through circumstances, and in the validity of Your commissioned Authority to Your Church.

In so enlightening, dear Lord, grant that I may not just listen, but that I, by Your Holy Spirit, will hear, accept and follow with integrity, character, and unreserved quality.

In Detail – personal and general:

1- Am I sure that I know Christ personally?

2- Am I sure that my call, personal and mission-wise, is the Voice of God?

3- Do I have, and do I sincerely keep, a systematic (not legalistic) daily devotional life? It is my survival with a Person, my Christ?

4- Do I, if I consider my validity of a relationship with my Christ, spend time – daily in prayer, remembering the Presence of the Lord, the Father, and the Holy Spirit (my Mother Mary, and the heavenly watch of my own mother in heaven, Bishop Flanagan, Bishop Sheen, John Paul ll … they see me !)

5- Do I really know that I am filled with the Holy Spirit?...

6- …not the spirit of the outside philosophies – the Old Moods with new labels – the world --- the self centered noise of the outside which needs always “ to keep on the move?”

7- Do I really know the essential and dynamic power to be alone with my God, with my person, my conscience -- with my soul and my spirit, with my heart, with my Vocation? To Others, to whom God introduces me, do I sincerely show compassion for their authentic respect, their needs – Big or Small – i.e. to all persons regardless – either individually or as a group – all who come around me?

8- Do I allow others to invade and to steal my soul in union with God? Am I jealous of my soul?

9- Where do I place my priorities?

10- Do I wholeheartedly demonstrate love – i.e. the unselfish, the sacrificial love to brothers and sisters in my daily encounters -- i.e. people who offer their cries to me, to my mission, my staff, my confreres, all my neighbors known or unknown – Whoever or whatever they are?

11- Above all, can it be said that I am genuinely the same person in private that I am on the altar, or in public?

12- Finally, have I realized that I as a priest must never sacrifice the fact that in being entrusted both by Divine Providence and the Church, the people need for me to be a simple shepherd? (cf. David).

THE GREAT NEED:
N.B.

Nothing is really lost, maybe just forgotten due to many invading factors in daily living……….

The Great Need in Revival and Renewal is that Evangelism (personal and community witnessing) today -- as in the past -- is for the Church (clerical and Lay Apostolates) to recover a Passion for souls, i.e. a Passion, a Fire, a Love of the heart which issues itself in unreserved saving action -- a Pure human act (reason and will).

St. Augustine:

Qui non amat, non zelat -- He who has no love has no zeal