THE FLYING SCROLL
ZECHARIAH 5:1-4
by
Book Cover & Preview Text
The Roman Catholic Church will not acknowledge that they give the following messages in any way, shape, or form. Most likely they will reiterate their proposed rationalizations for ‘why’ it is the ‘way it is’ and apologize for any misunderstandings. Oh, there is no doubt that many of the leaders genuinely believe there are legitimate reasons for the laws that scream these non-verbal messages. Some of the churches leaders will try to counterbalance these non-verbal messages with lengthy articles emphasizing the importance of marriage and what a blessing from God it is; some Bishops[1] have already gone this route. But, when God Speaks, the words and the non-verbal message(s) are ONE; they support each other versus contradict each other. If we are to be pleasing to God, this aspect of the equation cannot be denied, but I’m sure some will try.
Examples of what the ‘non verbal language’ of the Catholic Church teaches:
FORCED CELIBACY for it’s priests TEACHES THAT ‘no sex is MORE PLEASING TO GOD
than a life in a committed heterosexual relationship that has erotic sex.
NO WOMAN PRIESTS TEACHES THAT God does not respect woman as much as men and
does not want women representing God/ Jesus in this world. (Later I will expand on this issue of ‘respect’, but for now I need to point out that accepted reality is that a person can NOT ‘Fall in Love’ with someone they do NOT respect. Alone, this awareness forces to the surface a ‘hornet’s nest’ of questions? For example, could the hopes of preventing ‘Falling-in-Love’ be an unspoken purpose behind preventing equal respect for woman by refusing women access to the priesthood?)
NO DISPENSATIONS FROM
God is not present IN our growing and maturing thoughts and feelings and TEACHES THAT making mistakes is unforgivable.
HETEROSEXUAL INTIMANCY SECONDARY TO ‘FALLING IN LOVE’ IS AS GREAT A SIN AS THE SEXUAL INTIMACY IN PEDIPHELIA, HOMOSEXUALITY AND INCEST. Wow, I said it! This message has been irritating me to the core for a long time.
Why hasn’t anyone openly questioned the non-verbal message the Catholic Church is giving when they lump pedophilia, homosexuality, incest, and the sex that results from a man and woman ‘falling-in-love, under the same LAW(s)? The LATER, outside marriage, is as great a sin as the first three? I don’t think so. Yet, the perspective the Catholic Church perpetrates with their laws that mandate unmarried vocations says just that. In an official questionnaire given to the Minneapolis/St. Paul diocesan priests in the late 1980’s to assess the sexual status of their priests, the questions that would indicate homosexual, pedophile or other pathological tendencies were lumped together with questions that could indicate a heterosexual love affair. Talk about an Atomic Bomb of non-verbal communication, that questionnaire, alone, told all taking it that to be in love with a woman was as sinful as the pathological sexualities. Believing that non-verbal message in ones ‘core being’ makes it less difficult for the mind to transfer to pathological sex. A great sadness is that the person who’s ‘core being’ has accepted as truth that un-Godly lie may not even be aware that he has, but still, he is closer to the edge of the cliff where falling off would land him in a homosexual or worse state-of-being. To add to this sad awareness, the extreme LONLINESS a priest lives out every day of his life at the intimate level (especially on special holidays like Christmas and Easter when the rest of the world is home with their families and intimate other), pushes him even closer to the edge of that cliff.
If a priest marries he is excommunicated, pedophile priests were sent to other parishes and still, today, are not excommunicated. This action teaches the ‘core’ of someone that believes
the church is ‘omnipotent’ that marriage is a greater sin than having sex with a child, regardless of the massive amount of words the church hierarchy uses to deny the later is true.
If we are to be wise, intelligent, Godly people, we need to develop tools to identify and then negate Anti-God non-verbal messages. One huge test to be given any situation in life is: “If the ‘words’ are not ONE with the non-verbal message(s), the WHOLE situation is NOT God’s, our Lord and Savior through Jesus Christ’s,
Formats Book Details I have not seen a book with the
perspective on issues that are active today and have traversed the centuries, that The Flying Scroll presents. The message makes us ‘one’ with God; every
human being is equal in our eyes, too, equal in a tangible, livable, pleasing
to God perspective.. You will find solace here,
whether you are angry with the Roman Catholic Church for their inept reaction
to their priests abusing children, their refusal to acknowledge that mandatory
celibate vocations does have a relationship to their sexual sins, or their
excommunication of priests who marry but, not pedophile priests. If you are feeling guilty because you are a
priest who married, or you married outside your family’s preference, these
pages will ease your guilt. You will discover the fate of a
rejected ‘love’ of a Roman Catholic priest. She didn’t disappear, as usual. This account connects the dots
between all of the above and more.
‘Truth’ is refreshing; the words on the pages of The Flying Scroll, to
the sentinent observer, are refreshing and build HOPE
that tomorrow’s children may have more freedom to be ‘who’ and how God made
them than the children of yesterday or today. What is most important for you to know is what the author believes, and I quote: “The thesis of this book, ‘trust yourself, God-in-you,’ is the message that is necessary to actualize God’s will for you and who God puts in your path. The truth in any situation I describe that can be transferred to experiences in your life must connect the dots of what your ears have heard and your eyes have seen, also. If the proposed ‘truth(s)’ do not – that alone invalidates this information; ten doctorates would not alter that end result.” Ms. Hockel has had half a century of life experience, is employed as a Registered Nurse, has two adult daughters and two grandchildren. She learned the cause and effect of life’s forces early in life, secondary to the birth of a congenitally deformed sister and a verbally abusive mother, all while observing and maturing within the practicalities of living on a farm. In her adult life she has constantly had communication with the human race during sickness and crisis when all but God, love, and caring have lost value. A smile crosses her face as she recalls the wisdom her father shared with her in her youth during those long hours walking the bean fields (to excise the sprouted corn from the previous year’s crop) beside him. “Think about that, Pat,” he’d say; “Think about that,” was his frequent response to any of her apparent immature inquiries about life or shared erroneous perspectives. She has survived life (which includes the death of her sister and both parents and divorce) because she believes God is actively leading the way, and as you will discover, she has “thought about that,” a lot.
About the Book
About the Author
