Thursday, February 28, 2019

Wednesday 7th Weekday in Ordinary Time. Christ corrects St. John.

 1. The Gospel.
     The Gospel these days show the apostles having imperfect Faith and because of this were committing a lot of mistakes. At this point, the apostles were ignorant of one or two truths and they were committing very serious mistakes. How much more we who are ignorant of many truths. 
     St. Peter was only ignorant of two truths and his mistake was so serious that Christ, Himself, called him Satan. And John, the beloved, ignorant only of one truth, committed a mistake that could cause the lost of one's soul. Christ, also, corrected him. Are you still wondering how come our priests, bishops and cardinals are committing so many serious mistakes. Because of their imperfect Faith. Or as Christ prophesied because they have no Faith. 

2.    There are many ways by which pagans are saved. Essentially, this way can be reduced to the same way Catholics are saved but described in different ways. Todays Gospel shows one way unbelievers are saved; not to go against Christ.  
     St. John reported to Christ; 'Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name and he followeth not us and we forbade him because he followeth not us.'  Jesus said, 'Forbid him not, for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
     There are two statements of Christ that are similar but expresses opposite truths. The statement above, from Luke, shows how unbelievers are saved. 'For he that is not against  us is on our part.'  The second from Matthew and Luke shows how nominal Catholics are lost. 'He who is not with Me is against Me. 

3. 'For he that is not against us in on our part.' 
     This statement was used to refer to a group who did not belong to the disciples of Christ; sort of groups that are not Catholics. St. John tried to stop them for casting out devils, Christ corrected John and said, 'no man which shall do anything in my name will go against Me. As long as they do not go against Me, they are part of My Church.
     The group did not belong to the apostolic community but they were casting out devils. They are able to do so because they believed that they can cast out devil through the power of Christ. That is Faith in people outside the apostolic community. 
     That is an act of Faith made by people outside the Church. Though John considered them outside the Church, Christ considered them as inside the Church through their act of Faith; 'they are in our part,' i.e. they are part of the Church. Of course, that is like putting one leg inside the Church. The possibility of taking that foot out again is great.
     So Christ corrects John and tells him; the fact that they are not against us makes them part of us. And you, John, should not correct them for that (which John was doing.) You should not correct them for having Faith but because they are staying outside the Church. Outside the Church, that small Faith will not grow. It will disappear. So invite them inside the Church to perfect that small Faith.

4. It is possible to make an act of Faith outside the Church.
     The group that John confronted were outside the apostolic Church, yet they had made an act of Faith that enable them to cast out demons. 
      All men outside the Catholic Church can make that act of Faith. In fact, it is that act of Faith that enables them to enter the Church. The object of Faith are supernatural  truths. But natural truths are objects of the beginnings of Faith. That there is a God is a natural truth that is an object of the beginnings of Faith. Thus all men outside the Church can be saved by making this act of Faith. 
      But this Faith must be perfect to assure man of salvation. Faith is perfected within the Catholic Church. 

5. How are Catholics lost?
     By not being with Christ thus going against Christ.  He who is not with me is against Me. Who are those who go  against Christ. 
St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote; 'he who cast out devils in the name of Christ but who does not join the fellowship with Christ, He  is going against Christ. Even if a person believes all the teachings of Christ but but refuses to enter the Catholic Church, he is going against Christ. 
      But this is impossible. St. Thomas wrote; ' he who believes the teachings of Christ will surely enter His Church. And he who enters His Church will believe all His teachings. 
      He, therefore, who believes the teachings of Christ, like the Protestants, but do not enter the Catholic Church, do not really believe His teachings. 

6. The weird phenomenon.
     This is the ongoing weird phenomenon. Most of the members of the institutional Church led by the Vatican do not show any of the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ. Why? Because they do not really believe shown in the fact that they go against the dogmas and morals of the ancient apostolic Church. They encourage adultery, sacrilegious communion, they do not believe in hell, they are ignorant of the theology of repentance, they believe all religions are equal, etc. They do not believe in the teachings of Christ as proposed in the New Testament and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. They are, indeed, going against Christ. 

Wednesday 7th Weekday in Ordinary Time. Christ corrects St. John.

 1. The Gospel.
     The Gospel these days show the apostles having imperfect Faith and because of this were committing a lot of mistakes. At this point, the apostles were ignorant of one or two truths and they were committing very serious mistakes. How much more we who are ignorant of many truths. 
     St. Peter was only ignorant of two truths and his mistake was so serious that Christ, Himself, called him Satan. And John, the beloved, ignorant only of one truth, committed a mistake that could cause the lost of one's soul. Christ, also, corrected him. Are you still wondering how come our priests, bishops and cardinals are committing so many serious mistakes. Because of their imperfect Faith. Or as Christ prophesied because they have no Faith. 

2.    There are many ways by which pagans are saved. Essentially, this way can be reduced to the same way Catholics are saved but described in different ways. Todays Gospel shows one way unbelievers are saved; not to go against Christ.  
     St. John reported to Christ; 'Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name and he followeth not us and we forbade him because he followeth not us.'  Jesus said, 'Forbid him not, for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
     There are two statements of Christ that are similar but expresses opposite truths. The statement above, from Luke, shows how unbelievers are saved. 'For he that is not against  us is on our part.'  The second from Matthew and Luke shows how nominal Catholics are lost. 'He who is not with Me is against Me. 

3. 'For he that is not against us in on our part.' 
     This statement was used to refer to a group who did not belong to the disciples of Christ; sort of groups that are not Catholics. St. John tried to stop them for casting out devils, Christ corrected John and said, 'no man which shall do anything in my name will go against Me. As long as they do not go against Me, they are part of My Church.
     The group did not belong to the apostolic community but they were casting out devils. They are able to do so because they believed that they can cast out devil through the power of Christ. That is Faith in people outside the apostolic community. 
     That is an act of Faith made by people outside the Church. Though John considered them outside the Church, Christ considered them as inside the Church through their act of Faith; 'they are in our part,' i.e. they are part of the Church. Of course, that is like putting one leg inside the Church. The possibility of taking that foot out again is great.
     So Christ corrects John and tells him; the fact that they are not against us makes them part of us. And you, John, should not correct them for that (which John was doing.) You should not correct them for having Faith but because they are staying outside the Church. Outside the Church, that small Faith will not grow. It will disappear. So invite them inside the Church to perfect that small Faith.

4. It is possible to make an act of Faith outside the Church.
     The group that John confronted were outside the apostolic Church, yet they had made an act of Faith that enable them to cast out demons. 
      All men outside the Catholic Church can make that act of Faith. In fact, it is that act of Faith that enables them to enter the Church. The object of Faith are supernatural  truths. But natural truths are objects of the beginnings of Faith. That there is a God is a natural truth that is an object of the beginnings of Faith. Thus all men outside the Church can be saved by making this act of Faith. 
      But this Faith must be perfect to assure man of salvation. Faith is perfected within the Catholic Church. 

5. How are Catholics lost?
     By not being with Christ thus going against Christ.  He who is not with me is against Me. Who are those who go  against Christ. 
St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote; 'he who cast out devils in the name of Christ but who does not join the fellowship with Christ, He  is going against Christ. Even if a person believes all the teachings of Christ but but refuses to enter the Catholic Church, he is going against Christ. 
      But this is impossible. St. Thomas wrote; ' he who believes the teachings of Christ will surely enter His Church. And he who enters His Church will believe all His teachings. 
      He, therefore, who believes the teachings of Christ, like the Protestants, but do not enter the Catholic Church, do not really believe His teachings. 

6. The weird phenomenon.
     This is the ongoing weird phenomenon. Most of the members of the institutional Church led by the Vatican do not show any of the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ. Why? Because they do not really believe shown in the fact that they go against the dogmas and morals of the ancient apostolic Church. They encourage adultery, sacrilegious communion, they do not believe in hell, they are ignorant of the theology of repentance, they believe all religions are equal, etc. They do not believe in the teachings of Christ as proposed in the New Testament and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. They are, indeed, going against Christ. 

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

I KNOW MY SHEEP, AND MY SHEEP KNOW ME.

 1. I know My sheep. And My sheep know Me.
     Christ had said that He knows His sheep. St. Thomas wrote that Christ knows His sheep because He had chosen them from the beginning, by granting them the theological virtue of Faith. And by the Faith that His sheep have,  Christ can recognise which is His sheep. 
      On the other hand, His sheep knows His voice. Basing it on the Faith that was given them, Christ's sheep knows its master because His voice speaks in accordance to His commands as found in the New Testament. A sheep cannot know the shepherd's voice without Faith. The shepherd knows His sheep because of their Faith. The sheep knows the voice of the shepherd through its Faith. 
   Some Catholics are confused because the voice they hear from the on going Bishop's Synod on  the abuse is a different voice; it is not the voice of the shepherd. Others are not bothered by the same voice. 

2. The Good shepherd knows its sheep and the sheep knows the voice of the good shepherd. The good shepherd knows its sheep because he, himself, has chosen his sheep from the beginning and given them Faith by which the sheep can recognise the voice of the shepherd. 
     This Faith is a supernatural grace. It is given to very few, to those who have fully repented. 
     How will the sheep know the voice of the good shepherd? The voice of the shepherd will always conform to Divine Revelation as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. 
     Voice recognition shows that what is coming out of the on going Bishop's Synod on the Abuse does not conform to the voice of the good shepherd. 

3. This has happened before.
     The present scandal besetting the institutional Church is nothing new. It has happened before and resolved by the Church before. We have seen how this identical problem happened in the Church during the 1100. And is presently happening in the institutional Church - the unnatural tendency towards sodomy. Suddenly, the institutional Church ceased to be the sheep of the good shepherd. The church continued to have its good shepherd; but the sheep were not the ones that knew the voice of its shepherd. They were sodomists.

4. The Gospel did not say whether the bad shepherd knows its goats; or whether the goat knows the voice of its master. The Gospel speaks only of the good shepherd knowing its sheep and the sheeps knowing the voice of its master. 
     But the populace is confused as to who is speaking. The true sheeps are convinced the voice from the Vatican is not the voice of the good shepherd. They have applied the voiced recognition application to the Vatican and the voice coming from there does not correspond to the voice coming from Divine Revelation and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. In fact, it is the opposite. 

5. Why Pope Benedict resigned.
     It is greatly suspected that Pope Benedict resigned because he saw that he was shepherding the wrong flock. He does not recognise the flock he was leading, while the flock was getting confused with what they are hearing from the Vatican. 
     So he resigned his job as shepherd of the flock that he had not recognised as his. But remained there in case the true flock look for him in the place they believe he would be. He resigned to be the shepherd of those who know his voice. 

6. The true Church make up those who recognise the voice of the true shepherd whose voice is identical to the voice of Divine Revelation as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. Those who listen to other voices are of the devil, destined to be led by thieves, robbers and devils.  
     

 

Friday, February 22, 2019

THURSDAY 6th Week in Ordinary Time. SODOM, GOMORRAH, and the VATICAN. St.Peter Damian.

 1. The Gospel.
     The Mass for Thursday, 6th Weekday in Ordinary time reminds us of a time when the apostles were still defective in their Faith that Christ called Peter 'Satan.' Actually, the apostles have almost reached the perfection of Faith; except that they lacked the knowledge of just three dogmatic doctrines. The passion, the Resurrection and the Ascension; because it has not yet occurred. 
       This lack of dogmatic knowledge caused Peter to commit a serious mistake that Christ called him 'Satan,' because his mistake was one that only Satan commits,  that is knowing disobedience to the Will of God. Christ had informed Peter of God's Will; that He was to suffer, be crucified, die, rise from the dead and ascend to heaven. And Peter said; 'don't do it!' What?  Don't do God's Will? Now, that is really from Satan. 
       Peter could think of acting like Satan just because his Faith was.......a little defective. Imagine if his Faith is very defective. Imagine, further, if he has no Faith. What sin could he have committed?  The sin of Sodom and Gomorrah.
       This lack of Faith is the reason for what is happening to the Bishops in the US and around the world.  

2. Defective Faith.
     To be truly a Catholic we must have perfect repentance, perfect Faith and the beginnings of Charity. Peter had perfect repentance and an imperfect Faith and Christ showed that he was capable of acting like Satan, and commit the diabolical sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. 
      Today, Thursday of the 6th weekday in Ordinary Time, the Mass speaks about man being capable of the most atrocious sins , like abusing seminarians, sodomy and sexual perversion when lacking in Faith, like what is happening primarily in the US and noticeably around the world. 
       Today, too, we celebrate the commemoration of the Feast of St.  Peter Damian, a learned and holy Benedictine Monk, whom the Pope summoned to solve the seeming insolvable problem plaguing the Church that time. And the same Gospel, as interpreted by St. Thomas of Aquinas in his Catena Aurea, mentioned the solution to the problem. No need to attend the bishop's synod in Rome. 
        Today, also, is the beginning of the special Bishop's Synod on Abuse summoned by the Pope to try to resolve this problem. And the whole Catholic Church is focused on this meeting with 100 men standing in St. Peter's praying the rosary. All of these happening today, and described in the Liturgy of the Mass. Divine Providence? Yes, God's mercy on His lost children. 

3. Spiritual Possession
    Sodom and Gomorrah is a case of spiritual possession by the devil. Because of original sin, Satan is able to spiritually possess a person and make him commit sin. Every time man sins, seven extra devils enter into his soul until there are legions. Devils are miserable outside human souls. They make it  a point to possess souls. 
      Due to their countless sins coming from their inordinate desire for eating, drinking and marrying, they hit rock bottom and gave in to sodomy and other perverted sexual pleasures. 
      The whole Catholic world was like that, too, around the year 1100. It was the New Testament Sodom and Gomorrah. The Pope, cardinals and bishops did not know what to do; just exactly like now. 
       But the Pope that time had an inkling that St. Peter Damian knew the solution and asked him to help. St. Peter wrote a book laying down the solution; it was based on today's Gospel.....to perfect one's theological virtue of Faith but perfecting one's knowledge of all the dogmas taught by Christ.  All!  Those Catholic cardinals, bishops and priests involved in the scandal do not know all the dogmas taught by Christ. In other words, they are not truly Catholic. So the institutional church today, instead of being Catholic have become the modern Sodom and Gomorrah; and the whole world with it, since she is the light of the world. 

4. The solution.
     As in the case of St. Peter, just because he did not believe in 3 dogmas regarding Christ, he fell under the influence of Satan that Christ called him 'Satan.' Sins, especially unnatural perversions, are diabolical. It cannot be solved without driving the devil that has spiritually possessed the soul; a devil that can only be driven away by an act of perfect Faith. The bishop's synod meeting in Rome will  not be able to solve this because most are faithless. Nothing will come out of that synod because they have not considered this element of spiritual diabolical possession involved in the problem where legions are involved.  
      
 5. Perfect Faith. 
      Peter's Faith was to be perfected after the passion, Resurrection and Ascension, after he had believed in these dogmas. What is the Catholic way of attaining perfect Faith?
      From the very beginning of Christianity, perfect Faith was attained through a very austere and primitive observance of the monastic life. The only reason the first Christians went to the desert was to attain, without any distraction the perfection of Faith; and for no other reason. And the first monks tried to surpass each one in austerity. The more the faster one reaches the perfection of Faith. The apostles were, themselves, set aside by Christ away from the world to live in community for this purpose. 
     St. Peter Damian was doing it so he could help the Pope solve the problem of sodomy during his time. The purpose of monastic life was, precisely, to prevent the legions of devil to enter the soul and drag their victim to base and perverse sexual behaviour. Fornication, itself, St. Paul wrote, is from the devil. How much more sodomy and sexual abuse which in today' s Church has reached its summit in Rome. 
       Perfect Faith which is the result of perfect repentance and attainable easily through an austere and primitive monasticism  is the solution. And that was the Penance impose of the US bishop by Pope Benedict. Because that was the solution. Nobody in today's bishop's synod will use this solution. Because the devil that still possess most of them will force them to continue in that deplorable spiritual state. 
       This is a great spiritual battle. Just as the devil seems to win in Sodom and Gomorrah.......and again in the Rome during St. Peter Damian's time.....it seems he will win again in the synod in the Vatican. If it does, it is a chastisement from God for the infidelity of the Church that Blessed John Newman predicted even as an Anglican. 
         Austere and primitive monasticism in the tradition of Pachomius, John Cassian, the desert Fathers is the solution. Sadly, no present monastic order fall under this category so that they themselves are filled with sexual perverts. Some monastic abbot generals are no different from McCarrick. 

6. Learn from the Liturgy, not from the Synod.
    As in the days of St. Peter Damian, the Pope and the bishop's synod do not know the solution. If they knew they would have used it earlier. But they really do not know the solution because the real problem is that they do not have perfect Faith. They do not believe that the solution is to perfectly know the teachings of Christ and to perfectly obey the commands of Christ. Proof?  They do not know all the teachings of Christ and they have not observed the commands of Christ. In short, as Christ, Himself, prophesied; we live in an age where there is no Faith and a total decay of Charity.
      What is coming is not global warming. It is the unstoppable fire and brimstone. 







Wednesday, February 20, 2019

NO ONE LOVES BISHOP MCCARRICK. 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

1. Charity.
     Christ was teaching the way to perfection that is required for salvation. The path leads beyond observance of the law. This leads to Faith, Hope and Charity. The greatest is Charity. 
     Faith, to be true Faith, must be enlivened with the beginnings of Charity. Charity cannot be perfected here on earth. Only in heaven. But saints have attained different degrees of Charity. One higher than the other. To be saved all must have perfect Faith enlivened with the beginnings of Charity.
     Today's Gospel deals with the highest beginnings of Charity possible here on earth, ' to love your enemies.' It is impossible for any soul to reach this degree of Charity if they have not loved their loved ones, their neighbour, their friends, their countrymen, etc. Your enemies will be the hardest to love. And you will need God's grace to do that because it is an act that makes man similar to God. 
     You cannot reach Charity without perfect repentance, perfect Faith, Hope and the beginnings of Charity. This is going beyond observance of the commands and beyond observance of the evangelical counsels.

2. The Gospel of the 6th Sunday in ordinary time.
     The Gospel describes that degree of Charity (Love of God) that is directed towards one's enemies. What must you do towards your enemies? 
     a.) Do good to them which hate you.
     b.) Bless them that curse you.
     c.) Pray for them that use you.
     d.)Unto him that smitten you on one cheek offer also the other.
     e.) And him that taketh away thy cloke, let him get you coat, too.
     f.) Give to him that takes away thy goods and ask them not again. 
     g.)What you want other to do to you, do ye also to them likewise. 
     Today, understandably, the whole world, unenlightened by the Gospel have violated this precept of Christ. But, sadly, the institutional Catholic Church have acted in violation of the same Gospel. Heightening the rising suspicion that the institutional Catholic Church office in the Vatican is no longer Catholic nor Christian, because it does not have the hallmark of true Catholicism 'See how they love one another.'

3. The bishop have seriously sinned without doubt. 
     Not as serious as Judas, and not even as serious as Peter. If Peter repented and was immediately restored to his original state of spirituality as if nothing happened, why not the US bishop. All Peter did was what we all have to do when we sin and that is 'to repent and then believe.' Why has everything become so complicated that synods have to be held to resolve it. The simple solution on how to handle it, is simply stated in today's Gospel. When things get complicated, the plan is to cover up. Then they really need a synod. 

     All men have sinned, St. John wrote. Including many priests, bishops, cardinals and even Pope. Does it mean they should be laicised? No, because there are different degrees of sins and each degree have their corresponding punishments. Venial sins are punished in one way; mortal sins another way. Canon Law have specific penalties for certain sins. And the US bishop's sin does not fall under laicisation. Penalty for heresy and abandonment of religious life is laicisation but most of those committing other mortal sins are just required to live of life of repentance. 

4. Due penalty.
     For the US bishop, to encourage him to live of repentance is enough before man and God. Thus Pope Benedict, as his spiritual father,  asked him to live in a monastery and live a life of repentance. To leave his diocese and cease practicing his faculties is part of living the life of repentance in a monastery; they are not part of his penalty. 
     To live a life of perfect repentance for the forgiveness of sin in a way that those sins would not  return is more than enough to make up for one's sin before man and before God.

5. The life of repentance for the forgiveness of sin takes years. 
    God had made repentance light and sweet and easy, just like all of His teachings, otherwise no one can enter heaven. But it will still take years. Considering his age he might just not reach perfect repentance when he dies. So to postpone his starting the life of repentance in an ideal monastic setting, would be most cruel. And it has just been postponed.
     For McCarrick, this is all that is demanded of him by God. And that  should be enought for all men, unless man wants to be more demanding than god. 
     
6. What should Catholics tell McCarrick? Like what Christ taught; 'Repent and believe.' 
     But we live in an age where no one knows how to repent and believe. This ignorance of the life of repentance is what made the whole world NOT believe in today's Gospel message.

     a.) The victims. 
           The US bishop was the enemy of the poor victims because he had sinned against God and against the victims. He must make reparation both to God through a life of repentance and to the victims in the form of good works towards neighbour. 
           The Gospel obligation of the victim is clearly to love them, to pray for them and forgive them. If the victims do not forgive the bishop, God will pity them for being a victim but God will not forgive their personal sins for refusing to forgive the bishop.
            For exposing the bishop to media, for investigation, for ridicule, etc..they had gone against the Gospel law of Charity and, therefore, as God threatened them, He, Himself, will not forgive them their personal past sins.  
           The victims should forgive otherwise God will not forgive their other personal past sins.
      b.) The other bishops and the Pope should tell him to repent and help him in every way to do so;  and pray for him. Which they seem not to have done. So, they have, also, violated this law of Charity. Since violation of the law of Charity is a serious sin, their sin is more serious. 
            Not only did the Vatican fail in helping him repent. The Vatican tolerated his sins, promoted him to higher office, abandoned him spiritually and then cruelly laicized him in his old age.  
      c). For the rest of the institutional church, like the Internet websites, they are looking at the mole in the eye of others which is a lesser sin because it is a sin of flesh, while not seeking the beam in their own eyes in lacking Charity towards a prince of the Church;  a more serious sin. 
      d.) And the rest of mankind who judged the US Bishop; well, don't do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you. This is the Golden Rule imprinted by God in the hearts of all men and all men should know it. To be wilfully ignorant of it is worse than the sin of the bishop. 
      e.) Everybody with the right mind should have simply said; 'go repent and sin no more.' Christ would have said this. But nobody is like Christ. 

7. Removal from the diocese or parish and suspension from saying Mass is the necessary consequence if he is told to go to a monastery and repent. The removal from being a bishop or a priest should not be a punishment unless it is for heresy or abandonment from the religious way of life or being awol from the priesthood. 
       He should have remained a cardinal, a bishop and a priest with faculties to say Mass, away from all human contact .......except that he should be in a monastery repenting which is to live the monastic life in its totality. 

8. All the above behaviour, except the act of repenting is considered unCatholic and against the commands of Christ. The action of the Vatican in doing nothing for his repentance is tantamount to sending him to hell, which is total lack of Charity and most unCatholic. 
         The US bishop must have behaved like a sinner. But who is not? Who is worse? Those who have sinned and  have cast the first stone. 
      This case shows more not the sad story of US Bishop. It shows more the deplorable state of the Catholic Church, from the top to the bottom. He was not an enemy to most. He was in fact a father to most and a confrere to many bishops. 'See how they love one another,' was the way the Catholic community was described once upon as time. Where is Charity in this case. 

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Thursday of the 5th Week in Ordinary time. MY MOTHER THE EXORCIST.

 1. The Gospel.
      The Gospel describes a woman, whose daughter was possessed by the devil.  Christ arrives in a house and the woman follows Him, approached Him and fell at His feet; and besought Him that He would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
      Christ expressed the Will of God;  that He must attend, first, to the Jews before the Gentiles. The Gentiles would be helped after the Resurrection of Christ. 
      The woman speaks with wisdom, St. Thomas noted. 'Yes Lord; yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. Then Christ said; 'For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. 

2. How come the young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit?
    Because of original sin, all men are possessed by the devil. Satan is the prince of the world, all men to the world are possessed by him. 
      This is why children are baptised; and baptism begins with an act of exorcism,  to drive the devil away. 

3. After the exorcism during baptism, the parents, god-parents and parish priest are supposed to help the child reached the perfection of Faith wherein the devils are not able to return to the soul of the child; this state of the soul is further perfected with the beginnings of the theological virtue of Charity. Here it is impossible for the devil to possess the soul.
     
4. The defect in Baptisms. 
     During the exorcism at Baptism, the devil, indeed, is driven away from the soul. But the soul of the baptised child never develop the perfection of Faith. So as Scriptures says; the devil finding that the house have remained empty, returns to the soul with seven other devils. So the state of the soul is worse than before. 
     This is what happens to every Catholic. The devil repossess the soul with seven other devils and never leave that soul unless the soul reaches Faith. Every time that soul sin, more devils enter his soul until there are legions of them. The soul gets worse than before. And most souls are in that state these days. 
      In this state of soul, the person cannot exorcise himself. (Remember souls can exorcise themselves by living the monastic life that works like a second Baptism with its exorcism effects. 

5. The exorcist mother.
     The Gospel today shows the Faith of the mother being able to exorcize her own daughter. Christ said so; 'It is your Faith that has saved her.' Now, keep in mind that this mother was a Gentile. She is not supposed to know anything about exorcism. Yet Christ attributed the daughter's freedom from possession through her Faith. Where did she get the Faith that alone can drive spiritual possession from the devil (this spiritual possession is worse than physical possession.) Because the woman believed in Christ.
     How come the Jews did not believe Christ; while the Gentile woman believed which enable her to to exorcise her daughter?  Her humility. 
     Humility forgives all past sins and makes a soul deserving of the theological virtue of Faith that drives out all devils, as the prayer of Compline states. 

6. Humility.
    The first lesson learned from Christ is humility; 'learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.' All fathers of the Church wrote on 'humility.' All founders of religious order imposed humility. Even St. Ignatius of Loyola did. 
       Because humility, as the Book of Wisdom states, grants the soul wisdom which is necessary in making the mature Act of Faith. This Faith, in turn is what drives away the devil.
     It is this Faith that will enable souls to drive the devil that posses them and the devil that posses other souls. One does not have to be an exorcist, St. Therese of Lisieux, with her child-Faith, use to drive away the devil by her mere looks. How did she do it? By her humility, the first sign of Faith ('Poor in spirit.')

7. The humility of the Syro Phoenician woman.
     She showed her humility this way;
     First, like a beggar, she besought Christ to perform a deed that only God can do, i.e. to drive away the devil. Thus she believed Christ was God. 
     Secondly, she agreed with the Divine Will as expressed by Christ. Christ said, she must first be treated as a dog, and she agreed. She begged to be treated as a dog. What humility. 
     Christ said; 'For saying this go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter.' For saying this, the mother exorcised her daughter. 

8. Conclusions.
    All men without perfect Faith are possessed by the devil; they are possessed spiritually like Judas, not so much physically like those exorcist movies. Primarily because after Baptism and the exorcism  in Baptism, their souls were not properly evangelised to enable them to make the mature Act of Faith. Seeing their souls empty of Christ, the devil have returned to their soul with seven more deadly devils. And with continuous actual sins, legions have, by now, entered their souls. Thus, truly, as Pope Paul VI observed, the devil is all over the world. It has even entered the Church.
     All souls without Faith are possessed by the devil. That is practically the whole world together with Catholics who have never reached the perfection of Faith.  
     The signs of diabolical possession are all over the world; lies, murder, sexual perversion, treason, covetousness, irrationality, etc.
As Christ always did; at the beginnings of His preachings, He would drive the devils from those possessed. 
     We must start by driving the devil from our own souls,. By an Act of mature Faith. Then, like the Syro-Phoenician mother, we can can drive the devil out of other people's soul by mere prayer. 
       Today, we cannot expect other people with Faith to help us, as the daughter was helped by the mother. There are no longer any mothers like her. The present institutional Church in the Vatican cannot drive devils away, either,  because it is not showing any sign of Faith. As Christ prophesied; 'the pride of life has filled the Church. It seems it is even filled with devils, as Pope Paul VI had noted. What did he mean when he said; 'the devil have entered the Church.' Which Church?
    

Thursday, February 14, 2019

GOD'S WILL vs MY WILL. Tuesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time.

 1.  God's Will   vs  my will. 
      The Gospel shows Christ correcting the Jews  because they preferred to follow man's tradition than obey God's command. This is a repetition of the long defect of the human race in preferring their own will over and above God's Will. The sin of Eve was that she preferred her own will (to eat of the fruit)  rather than the expressed Will of God (not to eat of the forbidden fruit).
       Christ gave the general rule; obey God rather than men. The Pharisee loved obeying man's rule (washing one's hands before eating) rather than the command of God (to wash your soul before Holy Communion).

2. The grand test.
      The grand test God gives  is whether man will choose God's Will over his own will. God made man in His sown image and likeness so that he can easily know and choose God's Will. 
      God made man with an intellect that he might know God's Will; God made man with a free will that he might love and choose God's Will. This way man can do God's Will by which he can attain everlasting life. 

3. What happened in Paradise?
     God gave Adam and Eve the grand test, which all men will undergo; a choice between God's Will  and man's will. 
     Eve knew God's Will and intentionally disobeyed it. She did her own will under the instigation of the devil. Eve did the suggestion of the devil not because it is the will of the devil but because it was Eve's own will, too. When a person does the will of his father, mother, brother, sisters, boss, etc.....it is in effect doing his own will that conformed with the will of other humans. 

4. God's Will is often not man's will. 
     God's Will comes from His Divinity; man's will come from his concupiscence which is the sources of vices and sin. So man's will is never God's will. 

5. To be saved, man must conform his will to God's Will. 
      God wills that all man go to heaven, while man wills to satisfy his passion and concupiscence thus leading him to hell. Thus Christ became man to teach man to conform his will with the Will of God so that he may attain everlasting life in heaven. 

6. How does man conform his will with God's Will.
    First, he must know God's expressed Will as found in His commandments. These are, easily, found in Divine Revelation; for example 'To pray unceasingly.'
    Secondly, he must know God's evangelical counsels as found in the Gospels. These are poverty, chastity and obedience.
    Thirdly, he must know how to recognise God's inspiration. It is impossible to know these because it's knowledge is reserved only for those who are spiritually mature; like when St. Simon was commanded by God to live on top of a pilar. 
     The Will of God can only be found in these three sources and nowhere else. No one can know the Will of God in the second category unless he perfectly knows the Will of God in the first category. And no one can know the Will of God in the third category unless he has a perfect knowledge of God's Will in the first and second category. 
     
7. Present day situation.
    Most  men are ignorant of God's will, either through His commands, his counsels or his inspirations. Today,  all who claim that such and such is the Will of God, as in the Dubai declaration,  are wrong; first, because they do not fall under any of the above categories. And secondly, because they are, obviously, ignorant of the Will of God as expressed in the first and second categories.  

8. My will.
    All men know their own wills because it is their own will. In which case they can be certain that it is not God's Will.

9. Conforming one's will with God's Will. 
     A person is a good Catholic when he conforms his will with God's Will. This is possible, only, by the grace of God. To know the Will of God, man needs the help of grace; to conform one's will with God's Will needs, even, greater graces. But it is possible, and this is what makes a person a saint. 
     The way this is done had been well described by St. Francis de Sales in his 'Treatise in the Love of God.' Yes, to do so is a supreme act of Charity, the love of God, that makes a person a saint and deserving of everlasting life. Very few can do it because it is an act of Divinity aided by divine grace that needs the aid of the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. This is the goal of all Catholics, but very few make it. 
     

GOD'S WILL vs MY WILL. Tuesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time.

 1.  God's Will   vs  my will. 
      The Gospel shows Christ correcting the Jews  because they preferred to follow man's tradition than obey God's command. This is a repetition of the long defect of the human race in preferring their own will over and above God's Will. The sin of Eve was that she preferred her own will (to eat of the fruit)  rather than the expressed Will of God (not to eat of the forbidden fruit).
       Christ gave the general rule; obey God rather than men. The Pharisee loved obeying man's rule (washing one's hands before eating) rather than the command of God (to wash your soul before Holy Communion).

2. The grand test.
      The grand test God gives  is whether man will choose God's Will over his own will. God made man in His sown image and likeness so that he can easily know and choose God's Will. 
      God made man with an intellect that he might know God's Will; God made man with a free will that he might love and choose God's Will. This way man can do God's Will by which he can attain everlasting life. 

3. What happened in Paradise?
     God gave Adam and Eve the grand test, which all men will undergo; a choice between God's Will  and man's will. 
     Eve knew God's Will and intentionally disobeyed it. She did her own will under the instigation of the devil. Eve did the suggestion of the devil not because it is the will of the devil but because it was Eve's own will, too. When a person does the will of his father, mother, brother, sisters, boss, etc.....it is in effect doing his own will that conformed with the will of other humans. 

4. God's Will is often not man's will. 
     God's Will comes from His Divinity; man's will come from his concupiscence which is the sources of vices and sin. So man's will is never God's will. 

5. To be saved, man must conform his will to God's Will. 
      God wills that all man go to heaven, while man wills to satisfy his passion and concupiscence thus leading him to hell. Thus Christ became man to teach man to conform his will with the Will of God so that he may attain everlasting life in heaven. 

6. How does man conform his will with God's Will.
    First, he must know God's expressed Will as found in His commandments. These are, easily, found in Divine Revelation; for example 'To pray unceasingly.'
    Secondly, he must know God's evangelical counsels as found in the Gospels. These are poverty, chastity and obedience.
    Thirdly, he must know how to recognise God's inspiration. It is impossible to know these because it's knowledge is reserved only for those who are spiritually mature; like when St. Simon was commanded by God to live on top of a pilar. 
     The Will of God can only be found in these three sources and nowhere else. No one can know the Will of God in the second category unless he perfectly knows the Will of God in the first category. And no one can know the Will of God in the third category unless he has a perfect knowledge of God's Will in the first and second category. 
     
7. Present day situation.
    Most  men are ignorant of God's will, either through His commands, his counsels or his inspirations. Today,  all who claim that such and such is the Will of God, as in the Dubai declaration,  are wrong; first, because they do not fall under any of the above categories. And secondly, because they are, obviously, ignorant of the Will of God as expressed in the first and second categories.  

8. My will.
    All men know their own wills because it is their own will. In which case they can be certain that it is not God's Will.

9. Conforming one's will with God's Will. 
     A person is a good Catholic when he conforms his will with God's Will. This is possible, only, by the grace of God. To know the Will of God, man needs the help of grace; to conform one's will with God's Will needs, even, greater graces. But it is possible, and this is what makes a person a saint. 
     The way this is done had been well described by St. Francis de Sales in his 'Treatise in the Love of God.' Yes, to do so is a supreme act of Charity, the love of God, that makes a person a saint and deserving of everlasting life. Very few can do it because it is an act of Divinity aided by divine grace that needs the aid of the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. This is the goal of all Catholics, but very few make it. 
     

Sunday, February 10, 2019

5th Sunday in Ordinary time. PARABLES ON THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

 1. The parables on the kingdom of God.
      Christ spoke to the crowds in parables because they could not understand; and for them not to understand. This was due to their lack of Faith. But to His disciples He explained all things. 
      One of the most contentious topic in the Catholic Church is 'how does the Church look like.' This is of the utmost importance because we have to work out the salvation of our souls within the Catholic Church. First;  we must know how the Church look like, secondly, how to enter the Catholic Church and, thirdly,  we must know when we are already inside for the peace of our mind. 
       But most Catholic do not know any of the three items above. So Catholics cannot prove they are Catholics, they cannot prove that their parish is Catholic, they do not know if their diocese is Catholic. They cannot prove that their own bishop and priest are Catholics. 
       They do not know how to check if the Catholic religious groups in their locality are Catholics. And worse, we cannot know and prove that our Pope is Catholic. 

2. Proving.
    No religion or sect have the ability to prove that theirs is the true religion and theirs is the true God. Philosophy is the means by which any religion or sect can prove that theirs is the true religion and God. The Catholic Religion is the only religion that prove it is the true religion through philosophy. Even the religion who brought philosophy to Europe could not use it to prove its authencity as a religion bur St. Thomas was able to use philosophy to prove the Catholic religion and the Catholic For are the only true religion and God. 

3. The four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Creed is the universal visible sign by which all men can know which is the true religion. The theological virtues is the deepest proof that the Catholic religion and the Catholic God is the only true God and religion.   There is a third way by which we can know the true religion and God; i.e. an enumeration of the Parables of the Kingdom of God without doubt is the best way to prove the true Church. One of them is the Gospel of the 5th Sunday in ordinary time. The Catholic Church is like Christ being in the boat of Peter and Andrew wherewith Christ told Peter to lower the nets Upon doing it they caught  such a number of fish that their nets were at the breaking point. 

4. The Church as Peter's boat at sea. 
     There are several incidents describing Peter's boat at sea. These describes there different stages of the Catholic Church in her history. The first state of the Church begins with gaining souls. This is shown when Peter lowered the nets on all side of the boat and caught different kinds of fishes. 
     The second stage of the Church is when it became filled with members so the fish nets were at breaking point. The third stage of the Church is when there were only seven apostles in the boat. When they were commanded by Christ to lower the net only on the right side. And they caught only 153 large fishes which they landed on the shore and laid down at the foot of Christ who was standing on the shore.
     The first stage represents the stage of the Church when she was just beginning to win souls. They were great persecutions, so the storm that endangered the boat. This was the first days of the persecution where the blood of martyrs became the seed of the Church.
     The second stage is when the Church gathered so many members. In which time she begun to be filled with heresies, thus the danger of the net breaking. This had happened in the past.   
     Then the third state is the Church today. There are only seven apostles in the boat. The net was lowered only on the right side and many of the crowd in Genesareth were cured just by touching the clothing of Christ. The net is no longer lowered on all sides but 
meticulously  lowered on the right side, i.e. to souls that shine with good works as enumerated in the New Testament. The chosen twelve apostles symbolise the head of the Church possessed the seven gifts  of the Holy Spirit. These signs of the Church at the end times is not present in the Vatican institutional Church nor in any so-called Catholic groups. Being cured by merely touching His clothing is a symbol of the members of the Church who have obeyed the least of Christ commandments as written in the New Testament. 
      It is the inability of the institutional Catholic Church to show that her leaders have the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and for her members to show knowledge and obedience to the least of the commands of Christ as found in the New Testament that makes one suspect that the true Church is not in the Vatican Church but is somewhere else. The ignorance of the description of the seven gifts and an enumeration of the least of the commands of Christ in most people makes everyone unable to point out where the true Church is. 
     Therefore, individuals have no way of knowing if they are truly Catholics or not. On the other hand, those who have Faith, i.e. only those who are already inside the Catholic Church, would know that they make up the truly Christian Church whose salvation is assured.  They, also, see the seven gifts present in their spiritual leaders. And, themselves, knowing and obedient to the least and most of the commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament. 

Sunday, February 03, 2019

VIRTUES and VICES. 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

 1. Christ came from Capernaum and was preaching in Nazareth.
     Christ was preaching on what we must do to attain everlasting life. That man must have Faith in Christ, believing that He was perfect man and perfect God. 
     It was easy to preach that Christ was man. But it was becoming impossible for Christ to preach that He was God. Because to know that Christ was God, grace was necessary. And not everybody was getting grace. 
     Grace can only come along with virtues; like the virtue of Faith. And Faith is a supernatural virtue.
     On the other hand, vices are the opposite of virtues. Vices are the sources of sin. They are not sins in themselves but the sources of sins. They prevent souls from knowing supernatural truths like  the truth that Christ was God. 
     In today's Gospel, the town mates of Christ in Nazareth could not believe He was God because of the vice of envy. They envied Caparnaum because Christ performed miracles there and not in Nazareth.  

2. Preaching that Christ was perfect man and perfect God.
     He was obviously a man. But He had to teach that He was, also a perfect God. He did this through miracles and His Divine Teachings. Miracles can only be done by God. And Divine Teachings can only come from God. Christ used both to prove He was God. He used miracles in Caparnaum and Divine Teachings in Nazareth. 
     Divine teachings are more reliable proofs of His Divinity because it cannot be imitated. Miracles can be imitated by magicians. So the people of Nazareth were getting better proofs of Christ's Divinity. And yet they were envious of Caparnaum which was getting an inferior proof. From the vice of envy they sinned by not believing in Christ.
 
3. The lesson is; Virtues enables souls to know Divine Truths and help bring souls to heaven; vices keep men ignorant of Divine Truths and prevents them from going to heaven. 
     Faith, Hope and Charity are theological virtues that are necessary for the salvation of souls. There are many other virtues like humility. 
    There are many vices. The better known are the seven capital sins so called because they are the sources of sins. One of them is envy. The others are vainglory, anger, avarice, sloth, gluttony and lust. Put together the vices produce hatred of God and/or despair.

4. The Nazareans heard Divine Truths from Christ and should have believed that He was God. But they could not believe because of their vice, envy. So even if Christ performed miracles in Nazareth as they requested they would still not believe in Him due to their vice. 
     Vices, like the seven capital sins,  open souls to being possessed by the devil. It is said that Satan entered into Judas because of the vice of avarice. Gay and sodomites are possessed by the devil because of the vice of lust. 

5. Bishops and priests exhibit gross ignorance of supernatural truths precisely because of their vices. Their sins, that are now exposed in the US, came from vices. Even the candidates for canonization are doubtful saints because of the vices in their lives. 
     Christ, Himself, prophesied that there will be no theological virtues in the Church these days; Scriptures describes these days as showing the decay of Faith and the waxing cold of Charity, the two main theological virtues necessary for salvation. 
     If these virtues are no longer in the institutional Church, this Church cannot save our souls. Why stay in her? If the virtues are what will save us, why not just master the virtues and put them into practice? Like the virtue of Faith?

6. Vices are natural.
     But sins come from vices. And the whole world is living under the influence of vices thus it is flooded with sins. This way of life is preventing the Catholic world, just like the Nazaraens, to know supernatural truths that makes one a Catholic. Are you still wondering how come we cannot find a real true Catholic bishops, priest or Pope?