1. Christ gives these two advices.
First advice; 'If one of you decides to build a tower, will he not first sit down and calculate the outlay to see if he has enough money to complete the project?' Meaning to say; 'if one wants to build a house, he should do two things. First, he should know how much it will cost to build his house and secondly, he should find out if he has that amount.
If he does not know the amount needed to build a house and fall short, even if he had the money he might just not finish the construction. And, even, if he knows the amount needed but if he does not have the amount, neither will he be able to finish it. He should know the amount needed and he must have that amount.
The Liturgy of the Mass was completing our knowledge on what we must do to have everlasting life. Now, He is teaching us that if we want to have everlasting life, first, we must know how much knowledge we must have to attain our goal. And secondly, we must find out if we have that complete knowledge.
Again, He is telling us that if our knowledge on the way to salvation is lacking, we won't make it. And again, if we have all the knowledge but we do not put them into practice, we won't make it, either. The above teaching is based on His two sayings; first, that we must know everything regarding the salvation of soul up to the last iota. And secondly, on the wise man who builds his house on rock is the one who knows and obeys His commands.
The man who sits down and calculates the outlay to see if he has enough money to complete the tower is the Gospel's wise man who knows the commands and puts them into practice. He knows how much the house will cost and he has the amount to finish it.
How much knowledge is needed to build our spiritual edifice that can make us worthy to have everlasting life? We need, at least, a good knowledge of the meaning of the articles of the Nicene Creed. The Apostle's Creed is insufficient. Why? The Apostles Creed does not have a very important element of Catholic belief, i.e. the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ. So most Catholics cannot prove that they are in the true Church of Christ. While the Nicene Creed have the four visible signs. But, of course, we must know the explanations of those four signs.
The state of the Church. Most Catholics, including nuns, priests, bishops and cardinals, do not know how much knowledge is needed to attain everlasting life. Their knowledge is way, way down the necessary requirement. Even Pope Francis have a below- the necessary- level knowledge for salvation. Most Catholics have a knowledge equivalent only to the level of Protestantism. They, indeed, have a little knowledge of Catholic doctrines but it is not sufficient to finish building the house.
The reason for this is that; Catholic knowledge is an infuse supernatural gift from God. It cannot be attained by enrolling in a seminary. Again, it is a gift from God, attained through unceasing prayer, which nobody is doing today. Yes, people pray but not unceasingly. If man prayed as long as he watches television, he could get this infuse knowledge.
Second advice. 'If a king is about to march on another king to do battle with him, will he not sit down first and consider whether, with ten thousand men, he can withstand an enemy coming against him with twenty thousand?'
If you know the way that leads to everlasting life and follow Christ in that way you should know how the road that leads to life look like. There will be smooth roads and there will be very rough and narrow roads. And there will be impassable roads. Can you survive passing those roads?
In the last posts we saw how rough the roads could be. Christ, Himself said; your husband or wife, your brothers or sisters will actually stop you. Your parish priest and diocesan bishop could try to stop you. Yea, even the Pope can stop you, as Pope Francis is trying to do in his 'Vultum Deum quaerere,' where he is preventing religious from reaching contemplation. Can you handle such impassable roads? If not, don't even go to battle; don't even make the journey.
Negotiate first so you can get the upper hand. How can you get the upper hand? Christ said; 'take your cross and follow Me.' If you don't do this, you will not survive the impassable roads. 'You cannot be My disciple.'
2. What will it cost you to attain everlasting life?
First, Christ said; 'none of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his possession.' Note in the last post. You have to renounce all your possession to avoid covetousness, the vice that will allow Satan to possess you spiritually. The desire for money had given Satan the opportunity to possess the souls of most men.
Second, Christ said; 'if anyone comes to me you must turn your back on your father and mother, your wife and children, your brothers and sisters, indeed your very self.' If you turn your back to your wife and children, it is not to look for another wife and have other children.....as someone in the Vatican is encouraging remarried people to do. St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote; to turn your back means.....if any of them tells you not to seek the kingdom of God, turn your back on them, do not obey them and unless they change, have nothing to do with them.
And then Christ, speedily add, 'turn your back on your own self.' Meaning; don't do anything that will not bring you to heaven.
This part 'turning your back' is further explained in the words; 'to take your cross and follow Me.' What does it mean to take up the cross of Christ. St. Thomas mentions two things; to carry the cross of Christ is to deny all the desires of our concupiscence, and secondly to practice the works of mercy towards our neighbour.
The reason why we must renounce all our possessions is to have the means to perform good works towards our neighbours. These works are well explained by St. Augustine and St. Thomas and should not be interpreted the way we want. Saving the earth is not in the lists of good work; neither is welcoming immigrants into our countries. These are just off-the- cuff comments made on a boring plane ride.
3. Pope Francis.
Pope Francis and many of our bishops have not told us the whole amount needed to build our spiritual edifice. Even up to now. So we have become laughing stocks because the church is filled with unfinished structures.
The Church of Rome had not subsidised our journey to eternal life which she is supposed to do by the merits of the death of Christ. And instead of warning us of bad roads ahead, they had thrown obstacles on the road ahead as if we do not have enough problems, like saying that Jesus Christ is not truly present in the Holy Eucharist. Did you notice Pope Francis' insinuated this in his speech in Poland?
For those of us who are serious in saving our souls, what must we do? The same thing. Since the way to everlasting life is infused knowledge given by God, let us get it from God through unceasing prayer with the aid of Divine Revelation, the the writings of the Fathers of the Church (which can be downloaded from the Internet free of charge), and, not to burden ourselves to much, add the writing of Pope Benedict.......and you will be very well on your way to everlasting life.
Tuesday, September 06, 2016
THE STATE OF THE WORLD.
1. St. Bonaventure - state of the world.
We shall describe the state of the world, not by gathering facts from the present but by repeating the descriptions given by the Church hundreds of years before. In effect this is a prophetic description already fulfilled in the past and which is expected to repeat today.
So the Church is waiting for these events. Which Church? The Church that has the four visible signs or the 15 Marks of the true Church mentioned by St. Bellarmine.
St. Bonaventure described these days in a enigmatic way which makes it a little difficult to understand. It was for this reason that the young Joseph Ratzinger found it challenging to base his sacerdotal thesis on the topic. And though the topic was rejected by the faculty, Ratzinger succeeded in having it accepted.
He successfully defended his thesis, but he was dissatisfied in not having fully understood the treatise. He was planning to continue and finish his research on Bonaventure when he was elected to the Papacy. As Pope, he was dreaming of the day he could be free to continue studying this enigmatic treatise of the Seraphic Doctor. In the monastery Mater Ecclesia he has his opportunity. And many are awaiting his latest enlightenments.
Are the latest comments of Archbishop Ganswain the result of Pope Benedict's continueing study on Bonaventure? It seems, because the statements are evidently the continuation of that thesis.
2. How are these days described by St. Bonaventure? Identical to the 6th Day, i.e. Good Friday.
First; people will be lovers of self and lover of money, (this is followed by a long list of vices). This was first described by St. Paul in his second letter to Timothy and St. Bonaventure got his description of these days from St. Paul.
Loving oneself is doing one's own will. Covetousness is a product of love of self; it develops into love of money which is the root of all evil. This makes both people and their surroundings filled with evil. When one is open to love of self and covetousness, Satan is able to enter the soul freely.
Today, everybody is guilty of this, but more so are the very rich and the powerful. Thus the world is posed for the free entrance of Satan into their minds and hearts.
Secondly, Judas, definitely, love himself and loved money. For it is said that he used to get from the pouch meant for the support of the apostles. He had no love for Christ nor for the apostles. His love of self and money opened him to Satan.
Such people are extremely gentlemanly. No one will ever suspect that they are spiritually possessed. Humanly speaking they will be the star of the parties. Even bishops and cardinals will not be able to suspect that they, themselves, are possessed. They will look like sheep; but underneath they are wolves.
Since people of this age had been described as lovers of self and of money, Satan will not hesitate even for a second to possess them. For this reason the world today is possessed spiritually by Satan just like Judas.
Thirdly, being possessed by Satan they know they will end up with Satan in hell. So all their activities will consist in obeying Satan whose only desire is to bring souls to hell. So people today i.e. from Hollywood to the Bishop's conferences, are aiming at drawings souls with them to hell.
Fourthly, the devil's and the possessed person's most potent weapon to force souls to deny Christ is death. Everybody fears death, even the good and the saints. Except saints are able to overcome the fear of death, But most people, since they are not saints, fear death. So they will do anything to avoid death. Threaten them with death if they do not deny Christ and they will deny Christ without a second thought.
Persons spiritually possessed by the devil are cold blooded killers. The will kill anybody for no reason. All the more they will kill if they can get some advantage in doing so, like earn a fortune. They kill, not because they have the freedom to kill. They do not have. They can only kill if God allows them; these possessed persons do not know that. Nevertheless they will threaten people in the hope they will apostatised. Whether the victim will be killed or not is in God's hand, not in the killer's hands.
Thus the Jews, led by the Pharisees, Scribes and the High priest went about coldly murdering Christ. The killers were made up of the laymen, the pagan civil authorities, the state officials, the Roman soldiers, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals and the high priest, the Pope.
Fifthly, another signature trait of one spiritually possessed by the devil is that they are liars. The devil is the 'father of liars.' This is more manifest in Politicians; they will lie, they will promise, they will threaten, they will bribe to get what they want.
Sixthly, their goal had always been to get what they want. By this time, what the devil wants and what they want are identical. This is the essence of 'original sin,' the first sin used by Lucifer that caused the fall of man. Now, they will not, only, do what they want. They will force others to do what they want. So the Christian who wants to do God's Will becomes out of place in this world that wants to do, only, what it wants.
So, as the Book of Revelation states, the true Christian community will leave the Satan-filled world and go to a place specially prepared by God for them to safely stay. Of course, the beast will still try to drown the Church in the desert but God will protect her by opening the earth to swallow the waters of destruction. Thus, the 'new' evangelisation of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI consist in guiding the people of God into the 'mystical' desert; this is essentially different from all the other evangelisations described today by both Pope Francis and most Bishop's conferences. John Paul II and Benedict's evangelisation is akin to St. John the Baptist; it consist in bringing souls to the desert to point where Jesus is. Thus Pope John XXIII precisely said that his Papacy and Vatican II were meant to do the job identical to St. John the Baptist. And that is to be a voice in the wilderness inviting people to go there to know Christ. That is the reason Rocalli took the name Pope John. That goal was completed with the Papacy of Benedict XVI.
3. Where do we place Pope Francis.
First, Pope Francis said he will do what he wants regardless of what others say. He calls these 'non-negotiable items.' This is love of self. And he accompanies this with his love in entertaining very wealthy personalities who donates large amount of money like George Soros. To receive donations to obey God's command is praise worthy; but to receive donations from Soros to further the agenda of his 'open society foundation' for the advancement of abortion world wide and the suppression of religious freedom is devilish. Thus, the big joke is that Hilary Clinton and Pope Francis are just pawns of George Soros with pictures to prove it.
Secondly, because of his love for self by doing his own will in disobedience to God's will, and selling his loyalties for a prize, he had shown the vice of covetousness.
Thirdly, having the same disposition as Judas, he opens himself to being spiritually possessed by Satan; signs he had even while in Argentina with his heresy of indifferentism. Spiritually possessed like Judas, who like him was a bishop who turned traitor, his agenda had been to encourage people to disobey God's command.
Fourthly, he had threatened the good bishops and priest they would be fired or demoted if they do not tow the line.
Fifthly, he lies in that he says souls no longer go to hell, that unbelievers can go to heaven, that the sins that cry up to heaven are no longer causing anyone to cry up to heaven, that marriage is no longer indissoluble, that the rosary is a waste of time, that capital punishment is unCatholic, that saving the environment is a work of mercy (never!!) and that babies are causing global warming.
Sixthly, and he forcing everybody to believe what he believes and to do what he wants; completely disregarding what God believes and what God wants.
He is not different from Obama, Hilary Clinton and George Soros. This reminds me of Robert Benson's 'Lord of the World' where his character Father Francis, a apostate Catholic priest was a lackey of the President of the U.S. and anti-Christ, Felsenburgh. And he is using his papacy to force the Catholic Church to do what he wants, rather than what God wants. And what he wants were contrary to what God wants. His 'Vultum Deum quaerere' is completely contrary to the asceticism of religious life. That exhortation will not bring any religious near his goal of Charity. It will make all religious worldly, lover of self and of money, thus disposed, also, to be spiritually possessed by Satan.
4. Pope Francis is Father Francis in 'Lord of the World.'
Let us go back to Good Friday and look at these two little details regarding Caiaphas and Judas. The former was an Old Testament figure while Judas was a New Testament figure. Both were figures of a present Pope that will be high priest like Caiaphas and a bishop like Judas.
John 11 verse 51 states; 'He, (Caiaphas) did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation.
Look at Caiaphas and what he said. He did not say it of himself. He prophesied. He was describing his future deed.
Let us look at Pope Francis, in a plane ride from the Philippines,
he quotes Benson's prophetic novel and encourages other to read it.
He did not say the contents of the book of himself. Yet the book was talking about himself.
Pope Francis was Father Francis, the apostate Catholic priests in cahoot with Felsemburgh, president of the U.S. and perceived ruler of the world and the anti-Christ. Both were out to destroy the Catholic Church as Caiaphas was out to kill Christ in collusion with the Roman civil authority. Pope Francis was not prophesying on his own. The author Benzon was prophesying while Pope Francis was pointing at the contents of the prophesy; which is, that there will be an anti-pope that will work with the powerful anti-christ to destroy the Mystical Body of Christ. There we have the whole of Good Friday re-enacted today, year 2016. The state of the world today is like Good Friday.
The ancient Catholic Church had been waiting for Good Friday to be relived today. Today, the 6th day, we have the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ undergoing a crucifixion. We have the secular head of all nations, like the U.S., pre-figured by Rome involved in the crucifixion. We have Pope Francis, cardinals and bishops as the main mover for the crucifixion. And we have a high priest pre-figured by Caiaphas, making the prophecy using the words of Benzon, that there will be an anti-pope that is influenced by the U.S. president. Satan had spiritually possessed the crowd that day, both the Jews, the Pharisees, Scribes and the Romans.
If the world is filled with evil spirits what do we do? As the Apocalypse says; follow the Woman with twelve stars into the desert where God had prepared a special place for them. Where they shall be protected against the attacks of the devil.
We shall describe the state of the world, not by gathering facts from the present but by repeating the descriptions given by the Church hundreds of years before. In effect this is a prophetic description already fulfilled in the past and which is expected to repeat today.
So the Church is waiting for these events. Which Church? The Church that has the four visible signs or the 15 Marks of the true Church mentioned by St. Bellarmine.
St. Bonaventure described these days in a enigmatic way which makes it a little difficult to understand. It was for this reason that the young Joseph Ratzinger found it challenging to base his sacerdotal thesis on the topic. And though the topic was rejected by the faculty, Ratzinger succeeded in having it accepted.
He successfully defended his thesis, but he was dissatisfied in not having fully understood the treatise. He was planning to continue and finish his research on Bonaventure when he was elected to the Papacy. As Pope, he was dreaming of the day he could be free to continue studying this enigmatic treatise of the Seraphic Doctor. In the monastery Mater Ecclesia he has his opportunity. And many are awaiting his latest enlightenments.
Are the latest comments of Archbishop Ganswain the result of Pope Benedict's continueing study on Bonaventure? It seems, because the statements are evidently the continuation of that thesis.
2. How are these days described by St. Bonaventure? Identical to the 6th Day, i.e. Good Friday.
First; people will be lovers of self and lover of money, (this is followed by a long list of vices). This was first described by St. Paul in his second letter to Timothy and St. Bonaventure got his description of these days from St. Paul.
Loving oneself is doing one's own will. Covetousness is a product of love of self; it develops into love of money which is the root of all evil. This makes both people and their surroundings filled with evil. When one is open to love of self and covetousness, Satan is able to enter the soul freely.
Today, everybody is guilty of this, but more so are the very rich and the powerful. Thus the world is posed for the free entrance of Satan into their minds and hearts.
Secondly, Judas, definitely, love himself and loved money. For it is said that he used to get from the pouch meant for the support of the apostles. He had no love for Christ nor for the apostles. His love of self and money opened him to Satan.
Such people are extremely gentlemanly. No one will ever suspect that they are spiritually possessed. Humanly speaking they will be the star of the parties. Even bishops and cardinals will not be able to suspect that they, themselves, are possessed. They will look like sheep; but underneath they are wolves.
Since people of this age had been described as lovers of self and of money, Satan will not hesitate even for a second to possess them. For this reason the world today is possessed spiritually by Satan just like Judas.
Thirdly, being possessed by Satan they know they will end up with Satan in hell. So all their activities will consist in obeying Satan whose only desire is to bring souls to hell. So people today i.e. from Hollywood to the Bishop's conferences, are aiming at drawings souls with them to hell.
Fourthly, the devil's and the possessed person's most potent weapon to force souls to deny Christ is death. Everybody fears death, even the good and the saints. Except saints are able to overcome the fear of death, But most people, since they are not saints, fear death. So they will do anything to avoid death. Threaten them with death if they do not deny Christ and they will deny Christ without a second thought.
Persons spiritually possessed by the devil are cold blooded killers. The will kill anybody for no reason. All the more they will kill if they can get some advantage in doing so, like earn a fortune. They kill, not because they have the freedom to kill. They do not have. They can only kill if God allows them; these possessed persons do not know that. Nevertheless they will threaten people in the hope they will apostatised. Whether the victim will be killed or not is in God's hand, not in the killer's hands.
Thus the Jews, led by the Pharisees, Scribes and the High priest went about coldly murdering Christ. The killers were made up of the laymen, the pagan civil authorities, the state officials, the Roman soldiers, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals and the high priest, the Pope.
Fifthly, another signature trait of one spiritually possessed by the devil is that they are liars. The devil is the 'father of liars.' This is more manifest in Politicians; they will lie, they will promise, they will threaten, they will bribe to get what they want.
Sixthly, their goal had always been to get what they want. By this time, what the devil wants and what they want are identical. This is the essence of 'original sin,' the first sin used by Lucifer that caused the fall of man. Now, they will not, only, do what they want. They will force others to do what they want. So the Christian who wants to do God's Will becomes out of place in this world that wants to do, only, what it wants.
So, as the Book of Revelation states, the true Christian community will leave the Satan-filled world and go to a place specially prepared by God for them to safely stay. Of course, the beast will still try to drown the Church in the desert but God will protect her by opening the earth to swallow the waters of destruction. Thus, the 'new' evangelisation of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI consist in guiding the people of God into the 'mystical' desert; this is essentially different from all the other evangelisations described today by both Pope Francis and most Bishop's conferences. John Paul II and Benedict's evangelisation is akin to St. John the Baptist; it consist in bringing souls to the desert to point where Jesus is. Thus Pope John XXIII precisely said that his Papacy and Vatican II were meant to do the job identical to St. John the Baptist. And that is to be a voice in the wilderness inviting people to go there to know Christ. That is the reason Rocalli took the name Pope John. That goal was completed with the Papacy of Benedict XVI.
3. Where do we place Pope Francis.
First, Pope Francis said he will do what he wants regardless of what others say. He calls these 'non-negotiable items.' This is love of self. And he accompanies this with his love in entertaining very wealthy personalities who donates large amount of money like George Soros. To receive donations to obey God's command is praise worthy; but to receive donations from Soros to further the agenda of his 'open society foundation' for the advancement of abortion world wide and the suppression of religious freedom is devilish. Thus, the big joke is that Hilary Clinton and Pope Francis are just pawns of George Soros with pictures to prove it.
Secondly, because of his love for self by doing his own will in disobedience to God's will, and selling his loyalties for a prize, he had shown the vice of covetousness.
Thirdly, having the same disposition as Judas, he opens himself to being spiritually possessed by Satan; signs he had even while in Argentina with his heresy of indifferentism. Spiritually possessed like Judas, who like him was a bishop who turned traitor, his agenda had been to encourage people to disobey God's command.
Fourthly, he had threatened the good bishops and priest they would be fired or demoted if they do not tow the line.
Fifthly, he lies in that he says souls no longer go to hell, that unbelievers can go to heaven, that the sins that cry up to heaven are no longer causing anyone to cry up to heaven, that marriage is no longer indissoluble, that the rosary is a waste of time, that capital punishment is unCatholic, that saving the environment is a work of mercy (never!!) and that babies are causing global warming.
Sixthly, and he forcing everybody to believe what he believes and to do what he wants; completely disregarding what God believes and what God wants.
He is not different from Obama, Hilary Clinton and George Soros. This reminds me of Robert Benson's 'Lord of the World' where his character Father Francis, a apostate Catholic priest was a lackey of the President of the U.S. and anti-Christ, Felsenburgh. And he is using his papacy to force the Catholic Church to do what he wants, rather than what God wants. And what he wants were contrary to what God wants. His 'Vultum Deum quaerere' is completely contrary to the asceticism of religious life. That exhortation will not bring any religious near his goal of Charity. It will make all religious worldly, lover of self and of money, thus disposed, also, to be spiritually possessed by Satan.
4. Pope Francis is Father Francis in 'Lord of the World.'
Let us go back to Good Friday and look at these two little details regarding Caiaphas and Judas. The former was an Old Testament figure while Judas was a New Testament figure. Both were figures of a present Pope that will be high priest like Caiaphas and a bishop like Judas.
John 11 verse 51 states; 'He, (Caiaphas) did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation.
Look at Caiaphas and what he said. He did not say it of himself. He prophesied. He was describing his future deed.
Let us look at Pope Francis, in a plane ride from the Philippines,
he quotes Benson's prophetic novel and encourages other to read it.
He did not say the contents of the book of himself. Yet the book was talking about himself.
Pope Francis was Father Francis, the apostate Catholic priests in cahoot with Felsemburgh, president of the U.S. and perceived ruler of the world and the anti-Christ. Both were out to destroy the Catholic Church as Caiaphas was out to kill Christ in collusion with the Roman civil authority. Pope Francis was not prophesying on his own. The author Benzon was prophesying while Pope Francis was pointing at the contents of the prophesy; which is, that there will be an anti-pope that will work with the powerful anti-christ to destroy the Mystical Body of Christ. There we have the whole of Good Friday re-enacted today, year 2016. The state of the world today is like Good Friday.
The ancient Catholic Church had been waiting for Good Friday to be relived today. Today, the 6th day, we have the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ undergoing a crucifixion. We have the secular head of all nations, like the U.S., pre-figured by Rome involved in the crucifixion. We have Pope Francis, cardinals and bishops as the main mover for the crucifixion. And we have a high priest pre-figured by Caiaphas, making the prophecy using the words of Benzon, that there will be an anti-pope that is influenced by the U.S. president. Satan had spiritually possessed the crowd that day, both the Jews, the Pharisees, Scribes and the Romans.
If the world is filled with evil spirits what do we do? As the Apocalypse says; follow the Woman with twelve stars into the desert where God had prepared a special place for them. Where they shall be protected against the attacks of the devil.
Thursday, September 01, 2016
THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST.
1. Eschatology.
Scriptural events are not mere historical events. They are eschatological events pointing to both the present and future happenings. That is why it is called 'the Living Word.'
St. John the Baptist was a precursor of Christ's first coming. In figure, someone like him will be precursor of Christ's Second coming. The events in St. John's life are figures to what will happen to the Church as it prepares for Christ's second coming. After all St. Elizabeth and St. John were one of the first figures of the Catholic Church.
Now, I know that most people are allergic to these words 'first and second comings. But what can we do? We have to explain the feast of St. John's beheading. Why do we have to celebrate a gruesome event of a head on a platter presented as a birthday gift in a birthday party? Because it will happen again today.
2. St. John was preaching and pointing to Christ in the desert.
St. John was preaching in the desert. And people were going to him in the desert. And there in the desert, John points Christ to the people; 'Behold, the lamb of God.'
The Liturgy gives us the ambiance for preaching and learning; sort of how seminaries should be. That evangelisers should be living in the desert and preach in the desert, i.e. living a life having left all things, like John. 'Living in the desert' is a description of primitive monastic life.
There is nothing in the desert; so both preacher and disciple should possess nothing. This will be emphasised in the next Sunday Mass, the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary time. This is to show you how organised and lessons of the Liturgy are.
St. John preached. Crowds went to listen to him. They were baptised by him with the water of repentance that could not forgive sins. And he pointed to Him, who was the Lamb of God. And suddenly, He was ready to preach a more sublime doctrine and to baptise with water and the Holy Spirit. A greater voice has arrive. The voice of John had to be silenced. It has done its job.
No. John was not beheaded because of a lousy dance that pleased an adulterous ruler. No. He had done his job; his voice must be silenced.
There was a need for the voice of the precursor to be silent when the more important message was about to be proclaimed for the first time. So it should happen that when it is time for the Words of Divine Judgment is about to be declared to the world, all voices, including the voice of the Church must be silent. And so it is happening today.
3. The Gospel had been preached throughout the world.
Everyone have had ample opportunity to know the Word of God. Mass communication and all sources of knowledge are in our finger tips. With a computer, anyone can surpass in knowledge anyone with 10 doctorate degrees. The Word of God can be easily learned together with the tons of garbage.
Aside from the sources of mass communication, there is man's faculties, human nature and creation to aid man in knowing the Word of God. And there are nuns, priests, bishops and the Pope who should be teaching us the Word of God. There is absolute no reason why any man cannot know the Word of God. Except one reason; he does not want to know it. That is a sin that can condemn him.
3. Silencing of good preachers
As on Good Friday, the Pharisees and the Scribes went against the teachings of Christ and influenced the civil authority to arrest Christ. Everything is led by the high priest. While the Apostles were silenced and in hiding.
Today, eschatologically, the same thing is happening. Most of the priest, bishops and cardinals are going against the teachings of Christ. And they are being led by the high priest, Pope Francis. And the voice of truth is slowly being silenced.
This scenario was, also, prefigured by the lost of the Ark of the Covenant. Because the Jews were disobedient to the commands of God, the tablet of the commandments disappeared at the time of the Maccabees. As if God was saying; 'if you are disobedient to My Commands, I will remove My commands and hide them from you. It is still nowhere to be found.
But one day the Ark of the Covenant with the 10 commandments, will appear, just as St. John appeared for one last time in Herod's court, to show the world the commands which the world had disobeyed and those commands will be the reason why they shall be condemned. Today, for one last time, a few good preachers are teaching the Word of God. When they are silenced, like John, then God will speak out and declare; 'it is these teachings and your disobedience of them that will condemn you to eternal fire.
So Scriptures has it that on Judgment day, the Ark of the Covenant will be seen and the commandment of God in it. Disobedience to these commands is why the world shall be condemned, while obedience to these commands shall be your salvation.
4. Happening today.
Notice, how Pope Francis and most of the bishops and priest are acting like the Pharisees and Scribes on Good Friday. Note, how the true preachers are silent and nowhere to be found. Notice how practically no one is preaching the complete truth. The time for teaching the truth is over; the Gospel had been preached throughout the world. The Church must now become silent and await the day of reckoning.
Scriptural events are not mere historical events. They are eschatological events pointing to both the present and future happenings. That is why it is called 'the Living Word.'
St. John the Baptist was a precursor of Christ's first coming. In figure, someone like him will be precursor of Christ's Second coming. The events in St. John's life are figures to what will happen to the Church as it prepares for Christ's second coming. After all St. Elizabeth and St. John were one of the first figures of the Catholic Church.
Now, I know that most people are allergic to these words 'first and second comings. But what can we do? We have to explain the feast of St. John's beheading. Why do we have to celebrate a gruesome event of a head on a platter presented as a birthday gift in a birthday party? Because it will happen again today.
2. St. John was preaching and pointing to Christ in the desert.
St. John was preaching in the desert. And people were going to him in the desert. And there in the desert, John points Christ to the people; 'Behold, the lamb of God.'
The Liturgy gives us the ambiance for preaching and learning; sort of how seminaries should be. That evangelisers should be living in the desert and preach in the desert, i.e. living a life having left all things, like John. 'Living in the desert' is a description of primitive monastic life.
There is nothing in the desert; so both preacher and disciple should possess nothing. This will be emphasised in the next Sunday Mass, the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary time. This is to show you how organised and lessons of the Liturgy are.
St. John preached. Crowds went to listen to him. They were baptised by him with the water of repentance that could not forgive sins. And he pointed to Him, who was the Lamb of God. And suddenly, He was ready to preach a more sublime doctrine and to baptise with water and the Holy Spirit. A greater voice has arrive. The voice of John had to be silenced. It has done its job.
No. John was not beheaded because of a lousy dance that pleased an adulterous ruler. No. He had done his job; his voice must be silenced.
There was a need for the voice of the precursor to be silent when the more important message was about to be proclaimed for the first time. So it should happen that when it is time for the Words of Divine Judgment is about to be declared to the world, all voices, including the voice of the Church must be silent. And so it is happening today.
3. The Gospel had been preached throughout the world.
Everyone have had ample opportunity to know the Word of God. Mass communication and all sources of knowledge are in our finger tips. With a computer, anyone can surpass in knowledge anyone with 10 doctorate degrees. The Word of God can be easily learned together with the tons of garbage.
Aside from the sources of mass communication, there is man's faculties, human nature and creation to aid man in knowing the Word of God. And there are nuns, priests, bishops and the Pope who should be teaching us the Word of God. There is absolute no reason why any man cannot know the Word of God. Except one reason; he does not want to know it. That is a sin that can condemn him.
3. Silencing of good preachers
As on Good Friday, the Pharisees and the Scribes went against the teachings of Christ and influenced the civil authority to arrest Christ. Everything is led by the high priest. While the Apostles were silenced and in hiding.
Today, eschatologically, the same thing is happening. Most of the priest, bishops and cardinals are going against the teachings of Christ. And they are being led by the high priest, Pope Francis. And the voice of truth is slowly being silenced.
This scenario was, also, prefigured by the lost of the Ark of the Covenant. Because the Jews were disobedient to the commands of God, the tablet of the commandments disappeared at the time of the Maccabees. As if God was saying; 'if you are disobedient to My Commands, I will remove My commands and hide them from you. It is still nowhere to be found.
But one day the Ark of the Covenant with the 10 commandments, will appear, just as St. John appeared for one last time in Herod's court, to show the world the commands which the world had disobeyed and those commands will be the reason why they shall be condemned. Today, for one last time, a few good preachers are teaching the Word of God. When they are silenced, like John, then God will speak out and declare; 'it is these teachings and your disobedience of them that will condemn you to eternal fire.
So Scriptures has it that on Judgment day, the Ark of the Covenant will be seen and the commandment of God in it. Disobedience to these commands is why the world shall be condemned, while obedience to these commands shall be your salvation.
4. Happening today.
Notice, how Pope Francis and most of the bishops and priest are acting like the Pharisees and Scribes on Good Friday. Note, how the true preachers are silent and nowhere to be found. Notice how practically no one is preaching the complete truth. The time for teaching the truth is over; the Gospel had been preached throughout the world. The Church must now become silent and await the day of reckoning.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
TO BE HUMBLE OF HEART. 22nd Sunday in ORDINARY TIME.
1. HUMILITY.
Humility is the beginning of the spiritual life. It is the beginning of our journey towards salvation. It is the beginning of all virtues, all knowledge and all wisdom. In the spiritual life, without humility we will get no where but remain in our sins.
Humility is the first Beatitude; it is the first degree of holiness with which the kingdom of heaven become ours. It is the beginning of the supernatural life.
Humility, as the first Beatitude, is the first step wherewith we enter the Catholic Church. It is the beginning of supernatural Faith.
Asked what we should learn from Him, Christ answered; 'learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.' He didn't say learn how to preach, how to perform miracle or how to walk on water. He said, learn 'humility' from Me. Learn 'My humility.' Not
anybody's humility.
2. One of the most defined word in theology.
All the fathers of the Church and all the saints had something to say about humility. But the saintly authors who described it exhaustively were St. Pope Gregory the Great, St. Augustine, St. Benedict, St. Thomas of Aquinas, St. Bernard of Clairvaux......and not to prolong our list, St. Ignatius of Loyola.
St. Benedict is known for his 12 degrees of humility; while St. Bernard took the same 12 degrees of humility and wrote side by side with them the 12 degrees of pride. We such clear definition and presentation we can look at ourselves and others and see in what degree of humility we all are or in what degree of pride we are.
These degrees are often used in spiritual direction to guide souls through an ascending degree and, therefore, a gradual and constant ascent in the spiritual life.
3. Philosophical humility, supernatural humility and public relation humility.
Christ clearly said to learn His humility and not anyone's humility. That is supernatural humility that cannot be attained through natural ways. Supernatural humility is a gift of God given to those who have lived a life of repentance.
There is another level of humility common to philosophers. It is the highest kind of humility in the natural level reached through pure human reasoning.
And there is the popular humility highly praised by mass media common among politicians and actors wanting to raise their ratings.
Christ and the Gospel for the 22th Sunday talks only of supernatural humility; a humility all Catholics should have but specially, as Christ said, by cardinals, bishops and priests. Now, let us define this virtue and see if we have it.
4. The humility of Christ.
The humility of Christ is humility of mind and humility of heart. It is a supernatural humility built on philosophical humility, thus mind and heart. It is an act of the will based on reality.
With all the confusion in the Church today, knowledge of the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed is settle all questions. But most do not know these signs; and, therefore, are unable to use these visible signs to analyse present problems.
The Beatitudes are another way of knowing which is the true Church and who are those who are inside the Catholic Church. Except that they are not visible signs. They are more spiritual descriptions of the soul and, therefore, cannot be used by most people. But we can try to use, at least, the first Beatitude which is humility. Christ gave some visible signs of this spiritual virtue. He said; 'if you have this spiritual virtue you will not chose the first place in a wedding party.' That is the visible sign. But what is the spiritual description of this virtue?
Let us try to describe it using St. Benedicts', St. Bernard's and St. Thomas' descriptions.
5. Poor in Spirit - humility
St. Benedict describes 12 degrees of humility. Let us just describe the first, keeping in mind that the next degrees are so dependent on the previous degree. The second degree can only be attained after the first is attained.
Today, the first degree is nowhere to be found even among most of the member of the hierarchy, as Christ, Himself could not find it among His Apostles in today's Gospel since they were squabbling on who will be first.
In the Beatitudes, poor in spirit is humility. Let us now talk about humility and discuss the first degree as found in St. Benedict's Rule. And then let us go to St. Bernard and look at the opposite of humility, i.e. pride and talk about the highest degree of pride. So we have the lowest degree of humility and the highest degree of pride as our topics for this post.
Why is our topic this way? Well, when we begin with small humility it is possible that we still have very great pride. As our humility increases, our pride decreases. That is why the first degree of humility is placed side by side with the greatest degree of pride.
Let us first define humility in general, then define the first degree specifically. We will not proceed to the second degree up to the twelfth because to find the first degree today is almost next to impossible, not eve among the bishops or even in Pope Francis. So there is no use to go up to the twelfth. But we shall look at the highest degree of of pride because that is the first in St. Bernard"s list.
6. Humility in general.
St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote that humility has two general characteristic; first, it is a virtue that makes a person very realistic. And secondly, that he believes no matter how educated he is, that he can, still, commit a mistake.
Being realistic needs a lot of intellectual knowledge and wisdom. He is not influence by imaginings, fantasies, virtual realities, day dreams and unproven theories; all of these are considered unrealistic. It was for this reason that Galileo was rebuked; because he was proposing a theory that at time time was not realistic. Only for that reason and nothing else. That the world was round was unproven at that time and, therefore, could not be considered realistic. As long as there is no proof that something is real, the humble person will not accept it.
Firstly, the humble soul has the most scientific mind in the world. He won't believe unless there is solid proof. That is why he needs the supernatural grace to believe Catholic truths; without this grace he won't believe. This supernatural grace, that can come from God alone, is his proof and infallible reason for believing.
Pope Francis believes in the big bang theory; he believes in evolution, he believes in climate change. He believes that all religion have the same god which no religion claims. He believes communism is better than capitalism. He believes that the youth should make a mess of the world. He, even, believes that adultery and same sex marriage are alright. What proofs does he have? Nothing! These are theories and personal opinions that have not been proven; they are, therefore, in the present still unreal. So Pope Francis does not have true humility. He, only, has put on humility for mass media and for nobel awards.
Secondly, a humble person, no matter how well educated the is believes that he can, still, make a mistake and will gladly listen to any correction. He believes, in fact, that he knows nothing though he has a doctorate degree. And if he is praised for knowing something he attributes it as a gift from God; while considering it a great favour if he is corrected since he deeply believes in humility that he can still make a mistake.
Pope Francis thinks he cannot make a mistake. Corrected by a group led by Cardinal Burke during the 2015 Bishop's Synod for disobeying the 6th and 9th commandments, He fired Cardinal Burke and demoted him; and continues to insist on what he likes in the next two bishop's Synod. That is humility for you; rejecting the possibility of committing mistakes and firing and demoting the one who corrects you. Why, there is not a shadow of humility in his behaviour.
In fact, during the meeting on climate change in the Vatican upon which he based his 'Laudato si' the news stated that he invited all of those who proposed that there is climate change but barred from the meeting those who'd argued against its existence.
7. First degree of humility; the fear of the Lord.
Now, let us go into humility in more detail by studying the first degree of humility. Most member of the priesthood and hierarchy do not have the humility, defined in general, that puts them inside the Church. If their Pope does not have it, certainly, most of the followers wouldn't have it. Because from whom will the common man learn it if the teachers do not have it.
Maybe, if we be more specific by dividing the said virtue into 12, which makes it easier to describe and apply them, then hopefully we might find some priests, bishops and even Pope Francis having at least one degree of humility.
Being a Jesuit he should have at least one of the three degrees of humility mentioned by St. Ignatius. Though St. Ignatius described it more in general than St. Benedict and St. Bernard.
What is the first degree of humility according to St. Benedict? The fear of the Lord. While the 12th degree is the humility that cast out all fears. The first degree is the humility that is filled with fear of the Lord; not servile but filial fear. The 12th is the love that cast out all fear, i.e. Charity. The 12th degree of humility is Charity.
St. Benedict described the first degree of humility this way; that a person keep the fear of God before his eyes and beware of ever forgetting it. Let him be ever mindful of all that God has commanded. Let his thoughts constantly recur to the hell fire which will burn for their sins those who despise God, and to the life everlasting which is prepared for those who fear him. Let a man consider that God is always look at him from heaven. that his actions are every where visible to the divine eyes and are constantly being reported to God by the Angels.
What should we fear? God's justice. Fear of God is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It cannot be developed by human efforts. It is a gift of God given to those who have completely repented. We should fear the fact that God rewards the just but punishes the sinner.
And the FIRST THING we should fear is the possibility that some of our past mortal sins had not been forgiven. Of course, we have gone to confusion. And the priest said 'your sins are forgiven thee.' And, maybe, those sins are really forgiven.
But let us face it, when the priest said 'your sins are forgiven thee,' he was, also, unsure if those sins are forgiven. Priests just say that because it is in the prayer formula after absolution. Even when bishops and popes absolve they are not sure if those sins are forgiven. Only one person knows if those sins are forgiven or not. And that is God who had been offended and, only Him, who can forgive. I repeat, your mortal sins might have been forgiven but no one is sure. Not even you.
But spiritual writers had shown that those saints who reached the 12th degree of humility, and that is all of them, were informed by God, Himself, that their past sins had been forgiven, like St. Catherine of Sienna. It is part of the Beatitudes that you will be consoled with the fact that your sins are forgiven when you rise up to the higher Beatitudes.
In the meanwhile, while God had not informed you, since you are just in the first degree of humility, you should live in fear that some mortal sins had not been forgiven and that if you die you go to hell. Very good reason for fearing the Lord, isn't it?
Pope Francis had been disobeying God's command as Bishop in Argentina, like tolerating remarried couples to receive Holy Communion. He is still doing it as Pope and continuing to tolerate it up to this moment.......aside from his tolerating same sex relationship, encouraging pagans to remain pagans, not believing in the Catholic God, etc. This lack of the gift of the Holy Spirit speaks very badly of him. And this is due to his preaching that no one goes to hell. Of course, with such teaching no one will have the fear of the Lord (the first degree of humility.) As a consequence no one can go to heaven, not even Pope Francis.......because as stated above, humility is the first Beatitude, the minimum requirement to enter the Church and be saved.
If you do not have the fear of the Lord which is a gift of the Holy Spirit, you do not have the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, who is the uncreated soul of the Catholic Church, you are not a Pope, not a bishop, not a priest....because you are not, even, a Catholic. Humility is the basic minimum, wrote St. Ignatius of Loyola ('Humility for the sake of salvation,' St. Ignatius)
We should fear the Lord for many reasons. But let us just take one more; and we hope everyone can continue on their own. The SECOND THING we should fear is that we might not have done completely what is necessary for the salvation of our souls. We can, only, know if we have done everything well if we have reached Charity.
Have we obeyed all the more than 80 commands of Christ in the New Testament? Have we practiced the 12 degrees of humility? Have we practiced the 8 Beatitudes? Have we performed the more than 70 acts of good works? Do we have the three theological virtues, etc.
To answer these questions we must know what we are talking about, like what are the more than 80 commands of Christ in the New Testament. How can we know if we have obeyed them if we do not know what they are.
And yet we know that Christ said; 'no one will enter unless we have paid the last iota.' That should fill our hearts with fear. Have we paid the last iota? And unless we can answer that question in the affirmative we cannot go to sleep in peace less we die in our sleep and go to hell.
Pope Francis' 'Evangelii Gaudium' does not show the way to everlasting life unlike Pope John Paul's 'Veritatis Splendor.' None of his writing, specially 'Amoris laetitia' show the way to eternal life. In fact, there is absolute nothing in 'Laudato si.' How come he is so sure he is going to heaven when he has no proof that he knows the way. In fact, anyone who has 3 credits in theology can see that his theology is pure Pelagianism. He does not know the way to everlasting life since he had never mentioned the way up to now. 'Who am I to judge?' See. He does not even know good from evil.
Proof he does not have the humility described by the saints.
8. What does he have. Let's go to St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
Pope Francis encourages the habit of sinning. He tells adulterers to continue in their adultery and commands bishops to annul previous marriage so adulterers can continue their adultery thus making it a habit. He, also, encourages pagans to continue in their paganism thus developing their paganism into a habit. He encourages perverts to continue in their perversity so that it becomes a habit.
St. Augustine wrote; 'for of a forward will, was a lust made; and a lust served, became custom; and custom not resisted become necessity (Confessions).When a sin becomes a habit due to prolong immersion in it, it bears ugly flower in that the sinner becomes a slave. He, who encourage sin so that it becomes a habit is guilty of the HIGHEST DEGREE OF PRIDE, the 12 degree of pride. St. Gregory the Great in his 'Moralia' calls it 'spiritual pride in imitation of the devil.'
But mass media describes him as humble. Mass media would not know the difference between heaven and hell.
Humility is the beginning of the spiritual life. It is the beginning of our journey towards salvation. It is the beginning of all virtues, all knowledge and all wisdom. In the spiritual life, without humility we will get no where but remain in our sins.
Humility is the first Beatitude; it is the first degree of holiness with which the kingdom of heaven become ours. It is the beginning of the supernatural life.
Humility, as the first Beatitude, is the first step wherewith we enter the Catholic Church. It is the beginning of supernatural Faith.
Asked what we should learn from Him, Christ answered; 'learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart.' He didn't say learn how to preach, how to perform miracle or how to walk on water. He said, learn 'humility' from Me. Learn 'My humility.' Not
anybody's humility.
2. One of the most defined word in theology.
All the fathers of the Church and all the saints had something to say about humility. But the saintly authors who described it exhaustively were St. Pope Gregory the Great, St. Augustine, St. Benedict, St. Thomas of Aquinas, St. Bernard of Clairvaux......and not to prolong our list, St. Ignatius of Loyola.
St. Benedict is known for his 12 degrees of humility; while St. Bernard took the same 12 degrees of humility and wrote side by side with them the 12 degrees of pride. We such clear definition and presentation we can look at ourselves and others and see in what degree of humility we all are or in what degree of pride we are.
These degrees are often used in spiritual direction to guide souls through an ascending degree and, therefore, a gradual and constant ascent in the spiritual life.
3. Philosophical humility, supernatural humility and public relation humility.
Christ clearly said to learn His humility and not anyone's humility. That is supernatural humility that cannot be attained through natural ways. Supernatural humility is a gift of God given to those who have lived a life of repentance.
There is another level of humility common to philosophers. It is the highest kind of humility in the natural level reached through pure human reasoning.
And there is the popular humility highly praised by mass media common among politicians and actors wanting to raise their ratings.
Christ and the Gospel for the 22th Sunday talks only of supernatural humility; a humility all Catholics should have but specially, as Christ said, by cardinals, bishops and priests. Now, let us define this virtue and see if we have it.
4. The humility of Christ.
The humility of Christ is humility of mind and humility of heart. It is a supernatural humility built on philosophical humility, thus mind and heart. It is an act of the will based on reality.
With all the confusion in the Church today, knowledge of the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed is settle all questions. But most do not know these signs; and, therefore, are unable to use these visible signs to analyse present problems.
The Beatitudes are another way of knowing which is the true Church and who are those who are inside the Catholic Church. Except that they are not visible signs. They are more spiritual descriptions of the soul and, therefore, cannot be used by most people. But we can try to use, at least, the first Beatitude which is humility. Christ gave some visible signs of this spiritual virtue. He said; 'if you have this spiritual virtue you will not chose the first place in a wedding party.' That is the visible sign. But what is the spiritual description of this virtue?
Let us try to describe it using St. Benedicts', St. Bernard's and St. Thomas' descriptions.
5. Poor in Spirit - humility
St. Benedict describes 12 degrees of humility. Let us just describe the first, keeping in mind that the next degrees are so dependent on the previous degree. The second degree can only be attained after the first is attained.
Today, the first degree is nowhere to be found even among most of the member of the hierarchy, as Christ, Himself could not find it among His Apostles in today's Gospel since they were squabbling on who will be first.
In the Beatitudes, poor in spirit is humility. Let us now talk about humility and discuss the first degree as found in St. Benedict's Rule. And then let us go to St. Bernard and look at the opposite of humility, i.e. pride and talk about the highest degree of pride. So we have the lowest degree of humility and the highest degree of pride as our topics for this post.
Why is our topic this way? Well, when we begin with small humility it is possible that we still have very great pride. As our humility increases, our pride decreases. That is why the first degree of humility is placed side by side with the greatest degree of pride.
Let us first define humility in general, then define the first degree specifically. We will not proceed to the second degree up to the twelfth because to find the first degree today is almost next to impossible, not eve among the bishops or even in Pope Francis. So there is no use to go up to the twelfth. But we shall look at the highest degree of of pride because that is the first in St. Bernard"s list.
6. Humility in general.
St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote that humility has two general characteristic; first, it is a virtue that makes a person very realistic. And secondly, that he believes no matter how educated he is, that he can, still, commit a mistake.
Being realistic needs a lot of intellectual knowledge and wisdom. He is not influence by imaginings, fantasies, virtual realities, day dreams and unproven theories; all of these are considered unrealistic. It was for this reason that Galileo was rebuked; because he was proposing a theory that at time time was not realistic. Only for that reason and nothing else. That the world was round was unproven at that time and, therefore, could not be considered realistic. As long as there is no proof that something is real, the humble person will not accept it.
Firstly, the humble soul has the most scientific mind in the world. He won't believe unless there is solid proof. That is why he needs the supernatural grace to believe Catholic truths; without this grace he won't believe. This supernatural grace, that can come from God alone, is his proof and infallible reason for believing.
Pope Francis believes in the big bang theory; he believes in evolution, he believes in climate change. He believes that all religion have the same god which no religion claims. He believes communism is better than capitalism. He believes that the youth should make a mess of the world. He, even, believes that adultery and same sex marriage are alright. What proofs does he have? Nothing! These are theories and personal opinions that have not been proven; they are, therefore, in the present still unreal. So Pope Francis does not have true humility. He, only, has put on humility for mass media and for nobel awards.
Secondly, a humble person, no matter how well educated the is believes that he can, still, make a mistake and will gladly listen to any correction. He believes, in fact, that he knows nothing though he has a doctorate degree. And if he is praised for knowing something he attributes it as a gift from God; while considering it a great favour if he is corrected since he deeply believes in humility that he can still make a mistake.
Pope Francis thinks he cannot make a mistake. Corrected by a group led by Cardinal Burke during the 2015 Bishop's Synod for disobeying the 6th and 9th commandments, He fired Cardinal Burke and demoted him; and continues to insist on what he likes in the next two bishop's Synod. That is humility for you; rejecting the possibility of committing mistakes and firing and demoting the one who corrects you. Why, there is not a shadow of humility in his behaviour.
In fact, during the meeting on climate change in the Vatican upon which he based his 'Laudato si' the news stated that he invited all of those who proposed that there is climate change but barred from the meeting those who'd argued against its existence.
7. First degree of humility; the fear of the Lord.
Now, let us go into humility in more detail by studying the first degree of humility. Most member of the priesthood and hierarchy do not have the humility, defined in general, that puts them inside the Church. If their Pope does not have it, certainly, most of the followers wouldn't have it. Because from whom will the common man learn it if the teachers do not have it.
Maybe, if we be more specific by dividing the said virtue into 12, which makes it easier to describe and apply them, then hopefully we might find some priests, bishops and even Pope Francis having at least one degree of humility.
Being a Jesuit he should have at least one of the three degrees of humility mentioned by St. Ignatius. Though St. Ignatius described it more in general than St. Benedict and St. Bernard.
What is the first degree of humility according to St. Benedict? The fear of the Lord. While the 12th degree is the humility that cast out all fears. The first degree is the humility that is filled with fear of the Lord; not servile but filial fear. The 12th is the love that cast out all fear, i.e. Charity. The 12th degree of humility is Charity.
St. Benedict described the first degree of humility this way; that a person keep the fear of God before his eyes and beware of ever forgetting it. Let him be ever mindful of all that God has commanded. Let his thoughts constantly recur to the hell fire which will burn for their sins those who despise God, and to the life everlasting which is prepared for those who fear him. Let a man consider that God is always look at him from heaven. that his actions are every where visible to the divine eyes and are constantly being reported to God by the Angels.
What should we fear? God's justice. Fear of God is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It cannot be developed by human efforts. It is a gift of God given to those who have completely repented. We should fear the fact that God rewards the just but punishes the sinner.
And the FIRST THING we should fear is the possibility that some of our past mortal sins had not been forgiven. Of course, we have gone to confusion. And the priest said 'your sins are forgiven thee.' And, maybe, those sins are really forgiven.
But let us face it, when the priest said 'your sins are forgiven thee,' he was, also, unsure if those sins are forgiven. Priests just say that because it is in the prayer formula after absolution. Even when bishops and popes absolve they are not sure if those sins are forgiven. Only one person knows if those sins are forgiven or not. And that is God who had been offended and, only Him, who can forgive. I repeat, your mortal sins might have been forgiven but no one is sure. Not even you.
But spiritual writers had shown that those saints who reached the 12th degree of humility, and that is all of them, were informed by God, Himself, that their past sins had been forgiven, like St. Catherine of Sienna. It is part of the Beatitudes that you will be consoled with the fact that your sins are forgiven when you rise up to the higher Beatitudes.
In the meanwhile, while God had not informed you, since you are just in the first degree of humility, you should live in fear that some mortal sins had not been forgiven and that if you die you go to hell. Very good reason for fearing the Lord, isn't it?
Pope Francis had been disobeying God's command as Bishop in Argentina, like tolerating remarried couples to receive Holy Communion. He is still doing it as Pope and continuing to tolerate it up to this moment.......aside from his tolerating same sex relationship, encouraging pagans to remain pagans, not believing in the Catholic God, etc. This lack of the gift of the Holy Spirit speaks very badly of him. And this is due to his preaching that no one goes to hell. Of course, with such teaching no one will have the fear of the Lord (the first degree of humility.) As a consequence no one can go to heaven, not even Pope Francis.......because as stated above, humility is the first Beatitude, the minimum requirement to enter the Church and be saved.
If you do not have the fear of the Lord which is a gift of the Holy Spirit, you do not have the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, who is the uncreated soul of the Catholic Church, you are not a Pope, not a bishop, not a priest....because you are not, even, a Catholic. Humility is the basic minimum, wrote St. Ignatius of Loyola ('Humility for the sake of salvation,' St. Ignatius)
We should fear the Lord for many reasons. But let us just take one more; and we hope everyone can continue on their own. The SECOND THING we should fear is that we might not have done completely what is necessary for the salvation of our souls. We can, only, know if we have done everything well if we have reached Charity.
Have we obeyed all the more than 80 commands of Christ in the New Testament? Have we practiced the 12 degrees of humility? Have we practiced the 8 Beatitudes? Have we performed the more than 70 acts of good works? Do we have the three theological virtues, etc.
To answer these questions we must know what we are talking about, like what are the more than 80 commands of Christ in the New Testament. How can we know if we have obeyed them if we do not know what they are.
And yet we know that Christ said; 'no one will enter unless we have paid the last iota.' That should fill our hearts with fear. Have we paid the last iota? And unless we can answer that question in the affirmative we cannot go to sleep in peace less we die in our sleep and go to hell.
Pope Francis' 'Evangelii Gaudium' does not show the way to everlasting life unlike Pope John Paul's 'Veritatis Splendor.' None of his writing, specially 'Amoris laetitia' show the way to eternal life. In fact, there is absolute nothing in 'Laudato si.' How come he is so sure he is going to heaven when he has no proof that he knows the way. In fact, anyone who has 3 credits in theology can see that his theology is pure Pelagianism. He does not know the way to everlasting life since he had never mentioned the way up to now. 'Who am I to judge?' See. He does not even know good from evil.
Proof he does not have the humility described by the saints.
8. What does he have. Let's go to St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
Pope Francis encourages the habit of sinning. He tells adulterers to continue in their adultery and commands bishops to annul previous marriage so adulterers can continue their adultery thus making it a habit. He, also, encourages pagans to continue in their paganism thus developing their paganism into a habit. He encourages perverts to continue in their perversity so that it becomes a habit.
St. Augustine wrote; 'for of a forward will, was a lust made; and a lust served, became custom; and custom not resisted become necessity (Confessions).When a sin becomes a habit due to prolong immersion in it, it bears ugly flower in that the sinner becomes a slave. He, who encourage sin so that it becomes a habit is guilty of the HIGHEST DEGREE OF PRIDE, the 12 degree of pride. St. Gregory the Great in his 'Moralia' calls it 'spiritual pride in imitation of the devil.'
But mass media describes him as humble. Mass media would not know the difference between heaven and hell.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
THE GATHERING TOGETHER.
1. The Visible signs of the true Church of Christ.
They are found in the Nicene Creed recited every Sunday Mass.
And the signs are expanded by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church due to their great importance; in that they are the only way the true Church, the true God and the true disciples of Christ can be recognised beyond any doubt.
These signs can easily be learned by all, precisely made such by God so they can be used by everybody to recognise the true Church and be able to enter her.
2. With these signs any one can go around applying them to everything Catholic. Do this and you will find the following; most Dioceses and Parishes do not have the signs. Most Priest, bishops, cardinals do not have the signs . Most religious congregations do not have the signs. All popular religious groups do not have the signs. And almost all families do not have the signs.
There is great ignorance of what those signs are because today, during Mass, Catholics had been reciting the Apostles' Creed that does not enumerate the four visible signs of the Church, which the Nicene Creed, the older Mass, emphatically proclaims; 'I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.'
3. Apply these signs to Pope Francis using his talks, writings and autobiography and anyone can see that he does not have a single sign of the true Catholic Church; neither he nor almost his entire Vatican Curia with the exception of done or two. They do not have the four visible signs nor the 15 expanded Marks of the Church described by the Jesuit Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine. If Pope Francis does not have them, can we expect to find them among the cardinals, bishops and priests? More so we won't find them in ourselves. We cannot find those signs among the brilliant writers in the internet.
It all depends on each person to have those visible signs or not. So there is no one to blame except the persons concerned. On the other hand Pope Benedict, basing it on his talks and works and behaviour have all the visible signs.
4. Some have partially a few signs. If only partially then all the signs would not exist yet. All the signs will only appear when all are present since one sign depend on the other; for example, a parish should first be 'apostolic' before it can be 'catholic.' And they should first be 'apostolic' and 'catholic' before they can be 'holy.'
When the head, like a bishop or parish priest, have only partially a few signs, the rest of the parish or diocese, would not have any of the signs. And so even if the priest or a bishop have the beginnings of one or two signs, the entire parish or diocese will not have any of the visible signs.
This was evident during the 2015 Family Bishop's Synod. Bishops who defended the indissolubility of marriage defended the true teaching of the Catholic Church. But their own diocese did not have the four visible signs of the true Church. Why? Because the said bishop believed in only one truth of the Church, the indissolubility of marriage. He did not show belief in the other truths of the Church. This lack of knowledge disabled him and his Diocese to have the four visible signs of the true Church.
5. When a bishop or a priest only have the beginnings of one or two signs because they know only a few truths of the Church, they can either grow more in knowledge or lose the little they have as what is happening to the two bishops in the news. It is not a good sign. It reflects very badly on their dioceses. Since they are slowly losing the visible signs, it is definite that his entire diocese does not have the signs and is, therefore, not Catholic.
What went wrong with the two bishops featured in the news? Before, one went against the error of Pope Francis in allowing divorce and tolerating sodomy. And he was right in going against the Pope. He should have remained in his right stand because a schism occurred during the Synod where Pope Francis left the Catholic Church while he did not join the schism. The bishop was obliged under pain of sin to separate himself from the schism of Pope Francis who rejected Catholic moral teaching.
But what happened recently? He hinted that the Pope was right after all and he does not want to join a schism with the Pope. No! You cannot join someone in error. You must separate yourself from a schism.
The same news, however, stated that the US bishops were really pressured by Soros to submit to his program in causing world wide chaos to which Pope Francis consented to by preaching, himself, 'to mess up the world.' Take the issue regarding total open door to migrants. What is wrong with total open door which is Pope Francis' favourite past time? It goes against the teachings of St. Paul which was explained by St. Thomas of Aquinas regarding the obligation to the common good. This great influx of migrants encouraged by the US, Europe and by other countries is against Catholic teachings. There is a superior Catholic way of doing this thing right. But the way it is being done by all, including the Pope, is unCatholic, as we shall show in another post.
Another bishop who was known for orthodoxy but did not have the four visible signs yet showed a regression in Faith. His comment was that the two US candidates for presidency were no different from each other. Now, that was really a bad comment. If he had the four visible signs of the Church, he would know Catholic teachings. And he would know that, though both were not Catholics, one would be closer than the other to the truth, just like himself.
Analysis shows that one candidate was even more Catholic than Pope Francis, as shown above, that one candidate followed St. Paul and St. Thomas of Aquinas in prioritising the common good while the Pope is not concerned with the command good, spiritually or politically. The bishop's defect? Ignorance of Catholic teachings which is a sign he does not have Faith and the subsequent four visible signs of the true Church.
Since both bishops had partial signs of Catholicity before, it seems as we feared, they lost the little they had. While the bishops of, for instance, Poland, Mexico, Africa, Eastern Europe, etc begun to increase in the number of signs of true Catholicity. It is for this reason that Pope Francis is concentrating in destroying them by going there and continuously sending commissars to dislodge them from the truth. China's true Church, the underground, had been betrayed by Pope Francis to the atheistic communist government. And the emeritus Bishop had declared; 'don't obey the Pope.' And they should really not. Obey a Judas? 'Obey God and not man,' St. Peter said in Acts 5:29. The Pope is not God; he is just a man specially when he says all gods are the same.
6. The gathering together.
We have seen in the past posts that Satan is now on the loose with God's permission. And like on Good Friday, he has begun to possess spiritually the human race and he did Judas. Let us further describe the present state of the world.
The Gospel described it as gathering the wheat together and gathering the chaff together; the former to be carried to the barn and the latter to be burned.
It has become a world wide phenomenon that the good are getting better while the bad are getting worse. While the staunch defender of marriage who were on the side of orthodoxy are now succumbing to Pope Francis' pressure to implement 'Amoris Laetitia,' an exhortation unacceptable even to lay theologians, the Polish, Mexican, African and underground Chinese bishops are standing up against Pope Francis and his 'new' church........and maintaining fidelity to the Church of Christ and the apostles.
7. The forces accelerating the gathering process. Here is where we stand.
The entire pagan world is possessed by Satan. They are now on a rampage of sex and killings with the innocent as their victims; the sign of spiritual possession.
The head of nations will be lying tyrants slowly abolishing all religious rights followed by abolition of all rights, as headlines show; a sign their father is the father of lies.
Those whose office is to evangelise do not know how to do it as shown in 'evangelii gaudium.' That is from Pope Francis down to the parish priest and assistant nun. None of the Mass media would be broadcasting the truth; only trash, sin and errors.
As a result all men are ignorant of the truth making them totally ignorant on what is going on around thus acting like zombies. The only language they understand, like dogs, is how to please their senses. Thus the devil continuously entertains them and entice them with entertainment gradually leading them to their fall. At the same time the devil threatens them with death if they show some hesitation in following.
All the members of the Catholic church who abandon the service of Christ turn traitors following the adage the corruption of the good is the worse.
The few good men are silenced.
The Church is praying and living its 'hidden life' like Christ's hidden life.
8. It is just like Good Friday. But multiplied a thousand times in its ferocity against the Church. The devils know it is the last round; for them it is now or never. They are greatly aroused by their hatred so expect the worse.
The Catholic world is made to chose; the right or the left, the sheep or the goats. But due to the above description of the prevalent state of the Church and the state of the world, most Catholics do not know which is the right side. Being made worldly, he has no desire to go to the right side. Enticed by the attraction of worldly pleasure on one hand, and surrounded by threats not to go to the right side on the other hand, the Catholic has no choice. Isn't that awful?
The great chastisement is that man will have no choice but one. Perdition because they delayed too long their repentance.Their punishment is the withdrawal of the grace of repentance as St. Paul warned us.
What choice can they have when they only know the left side but not the right side? Could this be the great chastisement nobody is waiting for? I cannot imagine any greater punishment for mankind for having neglected the salvation of their souls for such a long time. But, by the justice of God, they deserve it.
They are found in the Nicene Creed recited every Sunday Mass.
And the signs are expanded by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church due to their great importance; in that they are the only way the true Church, the true God and the true disciples of Christ can be recognised beyond any doubt.
These signs can easily be learned by all, precisely made such by God so they can be used by everybody to recognise the true Church and be able to enter her.
2. With these signs any one can go around applying them to everything Catholic. Do this and you will find the following; most Dioceses and Parishes do not have the signs. Most Priest, bishops, cardinals do not have the signs . Most religious congregations do not have the signs. All popular religious groups do not have the signs. And almost all families do not have the signs.
There is great ignorance of what those signs are because today, during Mass, Catholics had been reciting the Apostles' Creed that does not enumerate the four visible signs of the Church, which the Nicene Creed, the older Mass, emphatically proclaims; 'I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.'
3. Apply these signs to Pope Francis using his talks, writings and autobiography and anyone can see that he does not have a single sign of the true Catholic Church; neither he nor almost his entire Vatican Curia with the exception of done or two. They do not have the four visible signs nor the 15 expanded Marks of the Church described by the Jesuit Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine. If Pope Francis does not have them, can we expect to find them among the cardinals, bishops and priests? More so we won't find them in ourselves. We cannot find those signs among the brilliant writers in the internet.
It all depends on each person to have those visible signs or not. So there is no one to blame except the persons concerned. On the other hand Pope Benedict, basing it on his talks and works and behaviour have all the visible signs.
4. Some have partially a few signs. If only partially then all the signs would not exist yet. All the signs will only appear when all are present since one sign depend on the other; for example, a parish should first be 'apostolic' before it can be 'catholic.' And they should first be 'apostolic' and 'catholic' before they can be 'holy.'
When the head, like a bishop or parish priest, have only partially a few signs, the rest of the parish or diocese, would not have any of the signs. And so even if the priest or a bishop have the beginnings of one or two signs, the entire parish or diocese will not have any of the visible signs.
This was evident during the 2015 Family Bishop's Synod. Bishops who defended the indissolubility of marriage defended the true teaching of the Catholic Church. But their own diocese did not have the four visible signs of the true Church. Why? Because the said bishop believed in only one truth of the Church, the indissolubility of marriage. He did not show belief in the other truths of the Church. This lack of knowledge disabled him and his Diocese to have the four visible signs of the true Church.
5. When a bishop or a priest only have the beginnings of one or two signs because they know only a few truths of the Church, they can either grow more in knowledge or lose the little they have as what is happening to the two bishops in the news. It is not a good sign. It reflects very badly on their dioceses. Since they are slowly losing the visible signs, it is definite that his entire diocese does not have the signs and is, therefore, not Catholic.
What went wrong with the two bishops featured in the news? Before, one went against the error of Pope Francis in allowing divorce and tolerating sodomy. And he was right in going against the Pope. He should have remained in his right stand because a schism occurred during the Synod where Pope Francis left the Catholic Church while he did not join the schism. The bishop was obliged under pain of sin to separate himself from the schism of Pope Francis who rejected Catholic moral teaching.
But what happened recently? He hinted that the Pope was right after all and he does not want to join a schism with the Pope. No! You cannot join someone in error. You must separate yourself from a schism.
The same news, however, stated that the US bishops were really pressured by Soros to submit to his program in causing world wide chaos to which Pope Francis consented to by preaching, himself, 'to mess up the world.' Take the issue regarding total open door to migrants. What is wrong with total open door which is Pope Francis' favourite past time? It goes against the teachings of St. Paul which was explained by St. Thomas of Aquinas regarding the obligation to the common good. This great influx of migrants encouraged by the US, Europe and by other countries is against Catholic teachings. There is a superior Catholic way of doing this thing right. But the way it is being done by all, including the Pope, is unCatholic, as we shall show in another post.
Another bishop who was known for orthodoxy but did not have the four visible signs yet showed a regression in Faith. His comment was that the two US candidates for presidency were no different from each other. Now, that was really a bad comment. If he had the four visible signs of the Church, he would know Catholic teachings. And he would know that, though both were not Catholics, one would be closer than the other to the truth, just like himself.
Analysis shows that one candidate was even more Catholic than Pope Francis, as shown above, that one candidate followed St. Paul and St. Thomas of Aquinas in prioritising the common good while the Pope is not concerned with the command good, spiritually or politically. The bishop's defect? Ignorance of Catholic teachings which is a sign he does not have Faith and the subsequent four visible signs of the true Church.
Since both bishops had partial signs of Catholicity before, it seems as we feared, they lost the little they had. While the bishops of, for instance, Poland, Mexico, Africa, Eastern Europe, etc begun to increase in the number of signs of true Catholicity. It is for this reason that Pope Francis is concentrating in destroying them by going there and continuously sending commissars to dislodge them from the truth. China's true Church, the underground, had been betrayed by Pope Francis to the atheistic communist government. And the emeritus Bishop had declared; 'don't obey the Pope.' And they should really not. Obey a Judas? 'Obey God and not man,' St. Peter said in Acts 5:29. The Pope is not God; he is just a man specially when he says all gods are the same.
6. The gathering together.
We have seen in the past posts that Satan is now on the loose with God's permission. And like on Good Friday, he has begun to possess spiritually the human race and he did Judas. Let us further describe the present state of the world.
The Gospel described it as gathering the wheat together and gathering the chaff together; the former to be carried to the barn and the latter to be burned.
It has become a world wide phenomenon that the good are getting better while the bad are getting worse. While the staunch defender of marriage who were on the side of orthodoxy are now succumbing to Pope Francis' pressure to implement 'Amoris Laetitia,' an exhortation unacceptable even to lay theologians, the Polish, Mexican, African and underground Chinese bishops are standing up against Pope Francis and his 'new' church........and maintaining fidelity to the Church of Christ and the apostles.
7. The forces accelerating the gathering process. Here is where we stand.
The entire pagan world is possessed by Satan. They are now on a rampage of sex and killings with the innocent as their victims; the sign of spiritual possession.
The head of nations will be lying tyrants slowly abolishing all religious rights followed by abolition of all rights, as headlines show; a sign their father is the father of lies.
Those whose office is to evangelise do not know how to do it as shown in 'evangelii gaudium.' That is from Pope Francis down to the parish priest and assistant nun. None of the Mass media would be broadcasting the truth; only trash, sin and errors.
As a result all men are ignorant of the truth making them totally ignorant on what is going on around thus acting like zombies. The only language they understand, like dogs, is how to please their senses. Thus the devil continuously entertains them and entice them with entertainment gradually leading them to their fall. At the same time the devil threatens them with death if they show some hesitation in following.
All the members of the Catholic church who abandon the service of Christ turn traitors following the adage the corruption of the good is the worse.
The few good men are silenced.
The Church is praying and living its 'hidden life' like Christ's hidden life.
8. It is just like Good Friday. But multiplied a thousand times in its ferocity against the Church. The devils know it is the last round; for them it is now or never. They are greatly aroused by their hatred so expect the worse.
The Catholic world is made to chose; the right or the left, the sheep or the goats. But due to the above description of the prevalent state of the Church and the state of the world, most Catholics do not know which is the right side. Being made worldly, he has no desire to go to the right side. Enticed by the attraction of worldly pleasure on one hand, and surrounded by threats not to go to the right side on the other hand, the Catholic has no choice. Isn't that awful?
The great chastisement is that man will have no choice but one. Perdition because they delayed too long their repentance.Their punishment is the withdrawal of the grace of repentance as St. Paul warned us.
What choice can they have when they only know the left side but not the right side? Could this be the great chastisement nobody is waiting for? I cannot imagine any greater punishment for mankind for having neglected the salvation of their souls for such a long time. But, by the justice of God, they deserve it.
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
THE NARROW ROAD TOWARDS THE NARROW GATE. 21th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
1. A good question.
Someone asked Jesus; 'are they few in number who are to be saved?' That was a good question. I, myself, would want to know if my parents, my brother and sister, my relatives and my friends would be saved. But Christ responds; 'that was a bad question.' Why? Because you must first be concerned with your own salvation before looking at the salvation of others. What can you do for others if your own salvation is not assured? But definitely, if your own salvation is assured, there is something you can do for the salvation of others.
Christ corrects the curious question of those around him but gives them the answer to the question that they should have asked; 'am I saved.' And He answers; 'if you are to be saved enter the narrow door.' In the other Gospels He says; 'walk by the narrow path.' It looks like a narrow pathway that leads to a narrow door.
2. How narrow?
This is not physical narrowness. This is an allegorical narrowness that will allow one to pass through with almost no space to spare. The Gospels during these last Sundays are about preparation for death. And the lessons had been this; when you die, do not try to bring with you what you cannot take along with you when you die. Take along with you only those things which you can really take along with you. And what is this? Only Love of God and Love of neighbour. Since these two virtues are in the mind and in the free will, and since these two faculties are parts of the soul only these two virtues in these two faculties can be taken along with you before the judgment seat of God. Leave everything else behind; of better still, use everything you leave behind to gather merits for your soul. Like doing what? As Christ said and repeatedly taught as the main theme of 'Veritatis Splendor' by John Paul II, 'go home, sell all your things, give them to the poor and come follow Me.' Ok. Most cannot do this.
So Christ said; 'well, this is indeed the narrow way. Many will try to enter and will not be unable. Thus they will be left outside and I will say to them; 'I do not know you.'
Go home and sell all the things I worked so hard for. And give it to the poor? Are you crazy? No. I am as serious as He who said those words.
But many will say; 'we have eaten with drunk in your company during Mass. And You preached to us in Church. We have great times together at Mass with all those Liturgical dancing. And Christ would say; 'I didn't say dance with Me. I said go home, sell all your things, give it to the poor and come follow Me. Don't you understand English?'
3. Extra baggage.
The past Sundays mentioned those extra baggage that has to be left behind. Everything in the world after having used these things as the Master of the vineyard had commanded us. Not by using them the way we want as the unfaithful workers did. But as the Master had commanded us.
Then last Sunday, we were told to give us all human relationships if they are detriment to our salvation; the human relationship between father and son, between mother and daughter and between mother in law and daughter in Law. Give these up if they are detrimental to salvation because you cannot take these relationships with you before the judgement seat of God.
Of course, be sure no sin is part of your baggage because the pathway if narrow and any sin can easily swerve to the left of to the right and throw you off the road completely.
You cannot even take along your own will. This, in fact, is the biggest harmful baggage; together with doing the will of your father, mother and mother in law.
You must carry, only, two baggages; the Love of God and Love of neighbour. Other baggages will not fit that narrow door. The process of removing extra bagges is called the 'discipline of the Lord,' mentioned in the second reading. This is a life of self-denial and suffering which the whole Church is undergoing. It is discipline in that the soul is trained to do only God's Will. It is a pruning process that hurts a lot so most people run away from it. It is what makes a lot of souls 'unable to enter the narrow door.' They would not give up their sins and all other lawful things that are not necessary for the salvation of their souls. Spoilt brats; I won't give up the things I like; my second and third wives, my same sex partner, my female clothing, my atheistic beliefs, my pagan religion, my Protestant religions, my.... etc, etc.
4. But wait !!
The Gospel narrates that some walked the narrow path and reached the narrow door. In fact, they were able to knock. How come they were not able to enter; they were shut out and rebuked?
What was their fault considering they reached the narrow door? Their only fault was they arrived too late. Like the unwise virgins, they did not know the time of His arrival; they had lamps, but they were not awake and watching. They were caught unaware. They failed to interpret correctly the signs of the times. Christ was at the door and they didn't know it.
It is not enough to go home, sell all your possession, give the proceeds to the poor and follow Christ. You must be able to enter the narrow door which St. Thomas of Aquinas described as difficult to enter because of the self-discipline required. But the moment you are inside everything is wide and nice. Entrance through that door is the perfection of Faith, Hope and Charity.
5. Everybody wants to enter but are unable.
Everybody, from Pope Francis down to the bishops and priests are not even in the narrow path leading to the narrow door. They are mostly in the wide road leading to the wide door.
They are not doing what it takes to love God and neighbour. Love of God is obedience to His commandment; 'If you love Me keep My commandments.' They are mostly doing their own things that are mostly against God's commandments. Allowing remarriage, atheism, to remain Protestant, remaining gay and pagan......are clearly signs of hatred for God.
Pope Francis said; 'if one is gay but is seeking God.......' If he is gay it is because he is not seeking God. One who seeks God will be completely normal...if not even supernaturally holy.
Pope Francis' toleration and even encouragement to sin, like encouraging his Evangelical friend Pastor who wanted to become a Catholic, to remain a Protestant is a very serious sin of scandal. He cannot be in the narrow path nor near the narrow door. He is in the wide road, which St. John Bosco described as a wide road that slants downward that leads to hell.
Add to his toleration of sin, his sins in deforming Catholic doctrines as he did in 'Amoris Laetitia.' and preventing contemplatives religious from reaching the perfection of Faith, Hope and Charity in his 'Vultum Dei,' and add to this his abolition of very good religious orders like the Franciscans and the Institute of the Good Shepherd.......one gets the idea that Pope Francis' efforts to destroy the Catholic Church is not, merely, due to poor Jesuitical education but due to the resolutions of a committee meeting held in the depths of hell.
In which case, it is a situation of a Satanic possession that neither I nor a Pope who is a truly successor of the Apostle nor even the Blessed Virgin can do anything about. And our Lady had warned us; they are dragging numerous souls to hell. A Pope solemnly dragging souls of the the entire world to hell; from Catholics with weak Faith, to adulterers, to gays, to atheist, to pagans, to priest and contemplative nuns and children of families that he had broken by allowing remarriages.
We are seeing an attempt to kill the Mystical Body of Christ, just like on Good Friday by a Judas Bishop acting like a Pope and the whole world of those being drag down to hell is raising his popularity to high levels. His public relation office geared to get him in the headline once every two or three weeks, as published, with an act destructive of the Catholic Church deserves a medal from the same committee.
Someone asked Jesus; 'are they few in number who are to be saved?' That was a good question. I, myself, would want to know if my parents, my brother and sister, my relatives and my friends would be saved. But Christ responds; 'that was a bad question.' Why? Because you must first be concerned with your own salvation before looking at the salvation of others. What can you do for others if your own salvation is not assured? But definitely, if your own salvation is assured, there is something you can do for the salvation of others.
Christ corrects the curious question of those around him but gives them the answer to the question that they should have asked; 'am I saved.' And He answers; 'if you are to be saved enter the narrow door.' In the other Gospels He says; 'walk by the narrow path.' It looks like a narrow pathway that leads to a narrow door.
2. How narrow?
This is not physical narrowness. This is an allegorical narrowness that will allow one to pass through with almost no space to spare. The Gospels during these last Sundays are about preparation for death. And the lessons had been this; when you die, do not try to bring with you what you cannot take along with you when you die. Take along with you only those things which you can really take along with you. And what is this? Only Love of God and Love of neighbour. Since these two virtues are in the mind and in the free will, and since these two faculties are parts of the soul only these two virtues in these two faculties can be taken along with you before the judgment seat of God. Leave everything else behind; of better still, use everything you leave behind to gather merits for your soul. Like doing what? As Christ said and repeatedly taught as the main theme of 'Veritatis Splendor' by John Paul II, 'go home, sell all your things, give them to the poor and come follow Me.' Ok. Most cannot do this.
So Christ said; 'well, this is indeed the narrow way. Many will try to enter and will not be unable. Thus they will be left outside and I will say to them; 'I do not know you.'
Go home and sell all the things I worked so hard for. And give it to the poor? Are you crazy? No. I am as serious as He who said those words.
But many will say; 'we have eaten with drunk in your company during Mass. And You preached to us in Church. We have great times together at Mass with all those Liturgical dancing. And Christ would say; 'I didn't say dance with Me. I said go home, sell all your things, give it to the poor and come follow Me. Don't you understand English?'
3. Extra baggage.
The past Sundays mentioned those extra baggage that has to be left behind. Everything in the world after having used these things as the Master of the vineyard had commanded us. Not by using them the way we want as the unfaithful workers did. But as the Master had commanded us.
Then last Sunday, we were told to give us all human relationships if they are detriment to our salvation; the human relationship between father and son, between mother and daughter and between mother in law and daughter in Law. Give these up if they are detrimental to salvation because you cannot take these relationships with you before the judgement seat of God.
Of course, be sure no sin is part of your baggage because the pathway if narrow and any sin can easily swerve to the left of to the right and throw you off the road completely.
You cannot even take along your own will. This, in fact, is the biggest harmful baggage; together with doing the will of your father, mother and mother in law.
You must carry, only, two baggages; the Love of God and Love of neighbour. Other baggages will not fit that narrow door. The process of removing extra bagges is called the 'discipline of the Lord,' mentioned in the second reading. This is a life of self-denial and suffering which the whole Church is undergoing. It is discipline in that the soul is trained to do only God's Will. It is a pruning process that hurts a lot so most people run away from it. It is what makes a lot of souls 'unable to enter the narrow door.' They would not give up their sins and all other lawful things that are not necessary for the salvation of their souls. Spoilt brats; I won't give up the things I like; my second and third wives, my same sex partner, my female clothing, my atheistic beliefs, my pagan religion, my Protestant religions, my.... etc, etc.
4. But wait !!
The Gospel narrates that some walked the narrow path and reached the narrow door. In fact, they were able to knock. How come they were not able to enter; they were shut out and rebuked?
What was their fault considering they reached the narrow door? Their only fault was they arrived too late. Like the unwise virgins, they did not know the time of His arrival; they had lamps, but they were not awake and watching. They were caught unaware. They failed to interpret correctly the signs of the times. Christ was at the door and they didn't know it.
It is not enough to go home, sell all your possession, give the proceeds to the poor and follow Christ. You must be able to enter the narrow door which St. Thomas of Aquinas described as difficult to enter because of the self-discipline required. But the moment you are inside everything is wide and nice. Entrance through that door is the perfection of Faith, Hope and Charity.
5. Everybody wants to enter but are unable.
Everybody, from Pope Francis down to the bishops and priests are not even in the narrow path leading to the narrow door. They are mostly in the wide road leading to the wide door.
They are not doing what it takes to love God and neighbour. Love of God is obedience to His commandment; 'If you love Me keep My commandments.' They are mostly doing their own things that are mostly against God's commandments. Allowing remarriage, atheism, to remain Protestant, remaining gay and pagan......are clearly signs of hatred for God.
Pope Francis said; 'if one is gay but is seeking God.......' If he is gay it is because he is not seeking God. One who seeks God will be completely normal...if not even supernaturally holy.
Pope Francis' toleration and even encouragement to sin, like encouraging his Evangelical friend Pastor who wanted to become a Catholic, to remain a Protestant is a very serious sin of scandal. He cannot be in the narrow path nor near the narrow door. He is in the wide road, which St. John Bosco described as a wide road that slants downward that leads to hell.
Add to his toleration of sin, his sins in deforming Catholic doctrines as he did in 'Amoris Laetitia.' and preventing contemplatives religious from reaching the perfection of Faith, Hope and Charity in his 'Vultum Dei,' and add to this his abolition of very good religious orders like the Franciscans and the Institute of the Good Shepherd.......one gets the idea that Pope Francis' efforts to destroy the Catholic Church is not, merely, due to poor Jesuitical education but due to the resolutions of a committee meeting held in the depths of hell.
In which case, it is a situation of a Satanic possession that neither I nor a Pope who is a truly successor of the Apostle nor even the Blessed Virgin can do anything about. And our Lady had warned us; they are dragging numerous souls to hell. A Pope solemnly dragging souls of the the entire world to hell; from Catholics with weak Faith, to adulterers, to gays, to atheist, to pagans, to priest and contemplative nuns and children of families that he had broken by allowing remarriages.
We are seeing an attempt to kill the Mystical Body of Christ, just like on Good Friday by a Judas Bishop acting like a Pope and the whole world of those being drag down to hell is raising his popularity to high levels. His public relation office geared to get him in the headline once every two or three weeks, as published, with an act destructive of the Catholic Church deserves a medal from the same committee.
VADE RETRO SATANA - Get thee behind me Satan !!
1. V.R.S.N.S.M.V.S.M.Q.L.L.I.V.B.
These are the first letters of a prayer which goes; 'Begone, Satan! Suggest not to me thy vain things. The cup thou profferest me is evil; drink thou thy poison.'
This is an exorcism prayer found on one side of the medal of St. Benedict. The entire medal has an exorcism formula on both sides. And exorcists had been using this medal, usually incorporated in the middle of a crucifix commonly referred to as the crucifix of St. Benedict. It is a sacramental more than sufficient to drive the devil from people who are possessed. 'Vade retro Satana' (V R S)......are the first three initials.
Driving away the devil from oneself and from one's surroundings had been a Christian preoccupation since the time of Christ. Christ drove away devils. And St. Benedict was one who was preoccupied with driving away the devil as his medal shows.
2. At the beginning of the Catholic Church, Satan the head, was chained and thrown in the bottomless pit. This was to prevent him from attacking and tempting the newly born Church and give the Church time to grow in grace and strength for the more serious battles. The 'smaller' devils were, however, allowed to test the Church.
The Church must grow in grace and wisdom and this is accomplished by passing the tests God sends her. The test gradually becomes more difficult. So the Church really expects that one day this leader, Satan, will be released by God for the final test that the Church must undergo.
Since Satan is what he is, the epitome of evil, and possessed with an angelic nature, the awaited final battle is not going to be bloodless. The Apocalypse gives us a hint when the grand release will occur but did not declare a very specific time table. It says 'on the fifth trumpet' or after 'one thousand years.'
Numerous signs show the whole hell had been released from the bottomless pit.
Like in the 13th century when William of Ockam introduced nominalism, conceptualism and terminism within the Church, heresies from which the Church never recovered. The 15th century when Pierre Cauchon, bishop of Beauvais betrayed the 19 year old St. Joan of Arc in a most despicable way. The treason of the bishop surpassed the treason of Judas. This would be a type on how Satan would attack the Church this day. And there is the human sacrifices of the Aztecs stopped by Our Lady of Guadalupe. These events show that the whole hell had already been released.
To give us a type for our instruction, God gave an example on what Satan can do when he is released in the treason of Judas, an apostle.
Like all things in the Catholic Church, Faith is needed to discern when Satan is released because it coincides with the approach of the end of the world. Unbelievers wouldn't have any idea when this is because they do not even believe in Satan nor in Angels, for that matter. Satan's release is part of God's punishment for the world for its unbelief. The strong hint is that when Satan is released the time for repentance will soon be over.
The Catholic Church had not announced whether Satan had been released but then, we cannot even find where the Catholic Church is today, because all so-called Catholic Churches do not have the four visible signs of the true Church as described in the Nicene Creed. Almost all priest and bishops do not know the visible signs of the true Catholic Church because they recite the shortened Apostles Creed during Mass which does not enumerate the four visible signs as the Nicene Creed does.
So for most of us without Faith, we have to guess when Satan might have been released for the destruction of our souls. Though most of us don't really care.
When were the devils in the bottomless pit released is now immaterial. The fact is that, now, they are all out and are roaming the earth.
3. Physical and Spiritual possession.
There are two popular kinds of possessions. The first is physical possession, like the one living in the tombs exorcised by Christ; the other is spiritual possession as what occurred to Judas who was not exorcised by Christ. The former can be exorcised; the latter cannot be exorcised.
Priest and even laymen can exorcise those physically possessed. As long as anyone has Faith, Hope and Charity, they can drive away the devil. Sometimes, the mere presence of someone with Faith can drive the devil away. The living of a true monastic life can exorcise.
There are two kinds of spiritual possessions. The first is exemplified by the Aztecs of Mexico. The second is the mystery of iniquity.
4. Spiritual possession......
Lets look at the first kind exemplified by the Aztecs of Mexico at the time of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The sign of this first and lesser spiritual possession by the devil is the murdering of the innocent.
The Aztecs were spiritually possessed by the devil due to ignorance and their pagan background. The sign of Satanic possession of the mind and free will is the murder of another human being.
Everybody believes that their good god is the creator of life. If so, he would not want anyone to kill the life that He had created. So the killing of that life can only come from the enemy of the good god and that is the evil spirits or the devils; in short Satan.
All acts that contradict God's act of having created life by snuffing that life is committing a very grievous sin whose consequent punishment is eternal hell. Its devilish origin can be seen in the human sacrifices of the Aztecs where they had to capture thousands of prisoners just for the purpose of sacrificing them to their snake god, the symbol of Satan. All the trouble of going to war just to capture prisoners and wrench their hearts still throbbing while offering it to their idols, is impossible to explain until we look at their temple of sacrifice and see that giant snake from the foot to the top of their altar of sacrifice.
It was indeed an act of worship and sacrifice. But to Satan. Fortunately, our Lady of Guadalupe freed them from that bondage. But now Mexico is again in bondage by the evil of communism.
Abortion, euthanasia, genocide, terrorism and all kinds of killings show most men are spiritually possessed by Satan. There is no other explanation for this. Insanity? Of well, that is, also, the work of Satan, that is why exorcism is the more effective cure for insanity than psychotherapy.
Drug addicts fall under the same category. They are spiritually possessed, They, also, have the tendency to take human lives for no reason. Drug addicts are never rehabilitated. They only change their symptoms but the illness remains the same, spiritual possession.
5. The more grievous spiritual possession is that of Judas whom neither Christ nor the apostles tried to exorcise.
The former possession tends to kill their neighbour. This latter spiritual possession tries to kill the soul of one's neighbour,
They can succeed if their neighbour has a weak Faith; but not if they have Faith enlightened with Charity.
Thus on Good Friday those spiritually possessed were able to kill the weak Faith of the Jewish people but could not kill the Faith of the apostles.
When Satan entered into Judas Christ and the eleven apostles were around him and the devil did not leave Judas. Because in Judas's case the devil had taken control of his mind and free will by his own invitation, i.e. with full knowledge and full consent.
In physical possession, God allows the devil to control the physical body of a person but not his mind and free will. In Spiritual possession, the person himself allows the devil to possess his mind and his free will.
6. Today, the second spiritual possession is more common. It can be found in most priests, bishops and cardinals.....and even in Pope Francis. This second spiritual possession by Satan which we first found in Judas is referred to as the mystery of iniquity.
The most grievous sin can be mixed with what is apparently good. The worse heresy is proposed using Scriptural text or Apostolic exhortation. Doubtful doctrines are preached by people in red and purple. True doctrines are omitted in interviews. And laws and directives are promulgated to dismantle the theological structures of the Catholic Church.
This is done with suavity that even those with some theological training cannot detect it. It is the distortion, the modifying of doctrines. An example is when Pope Francis during a Eucharistic Congress in Poland highly praised the Holy Eucharist with all the compliments that can be found in the dictionary but never said that It is the Body of Christ. He used so many words to praise It but did not describe the very essence of the Sacrament. So it was a totally empty statement of flattery.
Heresies coming from the very seat of St. Peter is disastrous to all, even to those with weak Faith. And we see those with weak Faith falling like leaves. Those with Faith enlivened with Charity are untouchable.
Betrayals of orders in the right direction of orthodoxy like the institute of the Good Shepherd, betrayals of good bishops and priests like Sarah and Finn, betrayals of underground churches like that of China for the sake of what?.......is getting to be too common.
Since the Catholic Church is experiencing a crisis of Faith as Ratzinger wrote, and those with Faith have weak Faith........the external decline of the Church is getting more pronounced.
7. Good Friday once again.
The pre-figure is Good Friday. It is happening again today. Those who welcomed Christ with their Hosannas are the ones shouting 'crucify Him.' The Civil authorities are being used to persecute the Mystical Body of Christ. Most of the priests, bishops, cardinals and, even the High Priests, Caiaphas, are the one's planning the demise of the Church. With a newly installed bishop, Judas, conniving with them. All of these orchestrated by Satan who have spiritually possessed them. What are the chances of the Catholic Church?
Very good! It is the prelude for the Resurrection and the glory of the Church as small as it was on Good Friday. With Peter in hiding.
These are the first letters of a prayer which goes; 'Begone, Satan! Suggest not to me thy vain things. The cup thou profferest me is evil; drink thou thy poison.'
This is an exorcism prayer found on one side of the medal of St. Benedict. The entire medal has an exorcism formula on both sides. And exorcists had been using this medal, usually incorporated in the middle of a crucifix commonly referred to as the crucifix of St. Benedict. It is a sacramental more than sufficient to drive the devil from people who are possessed. 'Vade retro Satana' (V R S)......are the first three initials.
Driving away the devil from oneself and from one's surroundings had been a Christian preoccupation since the time of Christ. Christ drove away devils. And St. Benedict was one who was preoccupied with driving away the devil as his medal shows.
2. At the beginning of the Catholic Church, Satan the head, was chained and thrown in the bottomless pit. This was to prevent him from attacking and tempting the newly born Church and give the Church time to grow in grace and strength for the more serious battles. The 'smaller' devils were, however, allowed to test the Church.
The Church must grow in grace and wisdom and this is accomplished by passing the tests God sends her. The test gradually becomes more difficult. So the Church really expects that one day this leader, Satan, will be released by God for the final test that the Church must undergo.
Since Satan is what he is, the epitome of evil, and possessed with an angelic nature, the awaited final battle is not going to be bloodless. The Apocalypse gives us a hint when the grand release will occur but did not declare a very specific time table. It says 'on the fifth trumpet' or after 'one thousand years.'
Numerous signs show the whole hell had been released from the bottomless pit.
Like in the 13th century when William of Ockam introduced nominalism, conceptualism and terminism within the Church, heresies from which the Church never recovered. The 15th century when Pierre Cauchon, bishop of Beauvais betrayed the 19 year old St. Joan of Arc in a most despicable way. The treason of the bishop surpassed the treason of Judas. This would be a type on how Satan would attack the Church this day. And there is the human sacrifices of the Aztecs stopped by Our Lady of Guadalupe. These events show that the whole hell had already been released.
To give us a type for our instruction, God gave an example on what Satan can do when he is released in the treason of Judas, an apostle.
Like all things in the Catholic Church, Faith is needed to discern when Satan is released because it coincides with the approach of the end of the world. Unbelievers wouldn't have any idea when this is because they do not even believe in Satan nor in Angels, for that matter. Satan's release is part of God's punishment for the world for its unbelief. The strong hint is that when Satan is released the time for repentance will soon be over.
The Catholic Church had not announced whether Satan had been released but then, we cannot even find where the Catholic Church is today, because all so-called Catholic Churches do not have the four visible signs of the true Church as described in the Nicene Creed. Almost all priest and bishops do not know the visible signs of the true Catholic Church because they recite the shortened Apostles Creed during Mass which does not enumerate the four visible signs as the Nicene Creed does.
So for most of us without Faith, we have to guess when Satan might have been released for the destruction of our souls. Though most of us don't really care.
When were the devils in the bottomless pit released is now immaterial. The fact is that, now, they are all out and are roaming the earth.
3. Physical and Spiritual possession.
There are two popular kinds of possessions. The first is physical possession, like the one living in the tombs exorcised by Christ; the other is spiritual possession as what occurred to Judas who was not exorcised by Christ. The former can be exorcised; the latter cannot be exorcised.
Priest and even laymen can exorcise those physically possessed. As long as anyone has Faith, Hope and Charity, they can drive away the devil. Sometimes, the mere presence of someone with Faith can drive the devil away. The living of a true monastic life can exorcise.
There are two kinds of spiritual possessions. The first is exemplified by the Aztecs of Mexico. The second is the mystery of iniquity.
4. Spiritual possession......
Lets look at the first kind exemplified by the Aztecs of Mexico at the time of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The sign of this first and lesser spiritual possession by the devil is the murdering of the innocent.
The Aztecs were spiritually possessed by the devil due to ignorance and their pagan background. The sign of Satanic possession of the mind and free will is the murder of another human being.
Everybody believes that their good god is the creator of life. If so, he would not want anyone to kill the life that He had created. So the killing of that life can only come from the enemy of the good god and that is the evil spirits or the devils; in short Satan.
All acts that contradict God's act of having created life by snuffing that life is committing a very grievous sin whose consequent punishment is eternal hell. Its devilish origin can be seen in the human sacrifices of the Aztecs where they had to capture thousands of prisoners just for the purpose of sacrificing them to their snake god, the symbol of Satan. All the trouble of going to war just to capture prisoners and wrench their hearts still throbbing while offering it to their idols, is impossible to explain until we look at their temple of sacrifice and see that giant snake from the foot to the top of their altar of sacrifice.
It was indeed an act of worship and sacrifice. But to Satan. Fortunately, our Lady of Guadalupe freed them from that bondage. But now Mexico is again in bondage by the evil of communism.
Abortion, euthanasia, genocide, terrorism and all kinds of killings show most men are spiritually possessed by Satan. There is no other explanation for this. Insanity? Of well, that is, also, the work of Satan, that is why exorcism is the more effective cure for insanity than psychotherapy.
Drug addicts fall under the same category. They are spiritually possessed, They, also, have the tendency to take human lives for no reason. Drug addicts are never rehabilitated. They only change their symptoms but the illness remains the same, spiritual possession.
5. The more grievous spiritual possession is that of Judas whom neither Christ nor the apostles tried to exorcise.
The former possession tends to kill their neighbour. This latter spiritual possession tries to kill the soul of one's neighbour,
They can succeed if their neighbour has a weak Faith; but not if they have Faith enlightened with Charity.
Thus on Good Friday those spiritually possessed were able to kill the weak Faith of the Jewish people but could not kill the Faith of the apostles.
When Satan entered into Judas Christ and the eleven apostles were around him and the devil did not leave Judas. Because in Judas's case the devil had taken control of his mind and free will by his own invitation, i.e. with full knowledge and full consent.
In physical possession, God allows the devil to control the physical body of a person but not his mind and free will. In Spiritual possession, the person himself allows the devil to possess his mind and his free will.
6. Today, the second spiritual possession is more common. It can be found in most priests, bishops and cardinals.....and even in Pope Francis. This second spiritual possession by Satan which we first found in Judas is referred to as the mystery of iniquity.
The most grievous sin can be mixed with what is apparently good. The worse heresy is proposed using Scriptural text or Apostolic exhortation. Doubtful doctrines are preached by people in red and purple. True doctrines are omitted in interviews. And laws and directives are promulgated to dismantle the theological structures of the Catholic Church.
This is done with suavity that even those with some theological training cannot detect it. It is the distortion, the modifying of doctrines. An example is when Pope Francis during a Eucharistic Congress in Poland highly praised the Holy Eucharist with all the compliments that can be found in the dictionary but never said that It is the Body of Christ. He used so many words to praise It but did not describe the very essence of the Sacrament. So it was a totally empty statement of flattery.
Heresies coming from the very seat of St. Peter is disastrous to all, even to those with weak Faith. And we see those with weak Faith falling like leaves. Those with Faith enlivened with Charity are untouchable.
Betrayals of orders in the right direction of orthodoxy like the institute of the Good Shepherd, betrayals of good bishops and priests like Sarah and Finn, betrayals of underground churches like that of China for the sake of what?.......is getting to be too common.
Since the Catholic Church is experiencing a crisis of Faith as Ratzinger wrote, and those with Faith have weak Faith........the external decline of the Church is getting more pronounced.
7. Good Friday once again.
The pre-figure is Good Friday. It is happening again today. Those who welcomed Christ with their Hosannas are the ones shouting 'crucify Him.' The Civil authorities are being used to persecute the Mystical Body of Christ. Most of the priests, bishops, cardinals and, even the High Priests, Caiaphas, are the one's planning the demise of the Church. With a newly installed bishop, Judas, conniving with them. All of these orchestrated by Satan who have spiritually possessed them. What are the chances of the Catholic Church?
Very good! It is the prelude for the Resurrection and the glory of the Church as small as it was on Good Friday. With Peter in hiding.
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