I am no longer a traditional Catholic. I am still a Catholic. After many, many years of robotic compliance with the teachings of my church I have become a highly critical of nuns and priests. Fortunately, for my many books like those of Neale Walsch and Rabbi Darfour have changed my image of God from an angry, punishing one of the Bible to a God of love.

The Hawaiian Ho’oponopono (definitely not a religion) which I learned from Joe Vitale’s “Zero Limits has been helping me tremendously.
Instead of the burdens from the doctrinal teachings of my church, the Ho’oponopono has made me live up to the teachings of my church: made to the image and likeness of God.

I still believe in the power of the Mass and the sacraments. I owe my steadfast faith in the Eucharist to a book by Bro. James Ebner FSC which I read when I was pregnant with our only daughter and now she is on her early 30s.

I resonate with what a msgr from Iloilo wrote in the Philippine Inquirer “Sacraments Trump Novenas, Processions, Says Prelate.”
It may sound heretical. But my life has been suffused with joy ever since I awakened to the truth that truly God is in me.

The Ho’oponopono videos available in YouTube, sometimes on Facebook as well as on my website remind me daily that life is beautiful. Divinity does what I can’t do by myself.

The Ho’oponopono cleanses our memories or programs as Joe Vitale calls them. I can easily equate the memories/programs with original sin.

Original Sin just like memories are always with me preventing me from hearing God. That is why I do Ho’oponopono cleansing when I wake up and also before I go to sleep. Actually, I do Ho’oponopono even while waiting for my laptop to access the Internet.

The guidance spoken about in Ho’oponopono can easily be translated into the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I pray that soon my church will look kinder upon Ho’oponopono instead of dismissing it as “New Age”.

I think this essay will be an impediment to my canonization1 But I don’t need to be canonized. I’m sure there are more human beings in heaven than those canonized. BDW I have personally observed that canonization can be very expensive.

I was taught in a Catholic school that we celebrate  “All Saints Day” every year to honor those who did not get canonized but are in heaven