I DO NOT WISH THE DEATH OF A SINNER

Once upon a time there were three Gods who ruled the world. They were so happy among themselves when one of them made the suggestion:
'We are so happy here in paradise. Let us create some creatures that they may share our happiness.'
'Yes', answered the second God. 'Let us make them into our own image and likeness so they can have the power to enjoy our happiness.'
'How can we make them like us?' asked the third God?
'Let us give them reason and a heart that will make them capable of loving and never desire the death of a sinner but that they should be converted and live,' said the first God. 'They will need a long life on earth because they will need much work to prepare themselves on the earth to be worthy of happiness here in our abode.'
'They should be pro-life then?'
'No, not really. Because if they have prepared themselves well they can die on the earth so they may come to our abode immediately. There is no use for them tarrying down on earth lest they die unprepared and become unworthy to come to our abode.'
'Now, that is a good rule. If we see that children are going to be so evil that they would not come here to our abode we might as well get them sooner to assure their happiness.'
'Indeed that is a good rule, let us write that down.'
'But what rule shall we give everybody to make them deserving to be with us? You mentioned LOVE. How will they show that?'
'We shall obliged them to love their souls and the souls of all their neighbors specially the souls of their enemies.'
' Hmmmm. So that means they should never desire the death of a sinner but that he should be converted and live.
' You are right. That way they will look like gods, like ourselves and, therefore, capable of living here with us. You really think like a god. Are we all set to create these creatures?'
'Ok. But you (pointing to the second god) must schedule yourself to go down to earth to teach them how to love to the point that they should never desire the death of a sinner but that he should be converted and live.'
' Pointing at the second god he continued, ' You should allow these man-creatures to be your enemies, let them persecute and crucify you. Then show that you do not desire their death but that they should be converted and live.'
'I don't really like that persecution, crucifixion and dying part? But ok. I'll do it,' the second god said resignedly.

6000 years after.

'Hey, have you seen what is going on down there among the men we created,' the first god asked the two other gods.
'Yes, the men we created are killing each other. Even at the beginning a brother desired the death of his own brother who was not even a sinner. They even killed me who was trying to bring them to paradise. This 'I do not wish the death of a sinner but that he should be converted and live,' seems not to be working. Have you seen how many men have entered our abode?'
'A trickle.The rest are all killing good guys and wishing the death of sinners.'
'And look! they are all celebrating, greeting one another and praising the death of sinners,' added the third god. 'Look at all those banners and news headlines.'
'Maybe those sinners deserve it.'
' That is immaterial. The obligation we imposed on them is to love and show their love by 'not desiring the death of a sinner but that they should be converted and live, just as we are doing.'
'Ahhh. Man has ceased to be like us, like our image and likeness. He has become like the beast we have created for them to kill and eat. They do not deserve to abide with us. Are there a few who are at least obeying our requirement?'
' Well, there is a man in white who is trying hard to do it and teach others to do the same. But he is not succeeding very much.'
' Since man whom we wished to be like our image and likeness, like gods, now looks like beasts maybe we should call off this project of inviting mere creatures here to our abode.'
'It has not shown good results since we started it 6,000 years ago. But ok, let's give this last generation one last chance.'
'Do you think they will change and improve?'
' No, I don't think so. But at least they cannot say we did give them a last chance.'
' This sight is sickening,' said the second god.' I died for all of them so that they would not desire the death of sinners but that they should be converted and live......and they would not do it to one another. All heads of states, all news media, all men.....we created them to be like gods, and look at them!'

The first god sent his messengers to collect all the materials of the experiment using earthquakes, floods, famine, wars, pestilence to face him in judgment. Those who loved and prayed not for the death of the sinner but that they should be converted and live were brought to the abode of the gods. And those who did not were hurled into everlasting fire.
And the three gods congratulated themselves : 'this is a good day for us that we have shown we are always one in mind and heart in all things.....as if we are one God.'

NEW TESTAMENT SPIRITUALITY

1. As a young seminarian I used to study moral theology. And I remember a small outline I had that gave a summary of moral theology. And I found nothing wrong with it because it was based on the 10 commandments of the Old Testament. Then as a young priest I remember attending sessions called "casus conscientiae" where we discussed certain acts to find out if they are moral or immoral. The basis of the discussion is again the 10 commandments of the Old Testament.

When I gave retreats and help prepare the retreatants for confession I tell them to read the examination of conscience in the Missal. They were descriptions of sins against the 10 commandments of the Old Testament.
And when they came for confession they confess: I told lies, I committed adultery, etc. which are violations of the 10 commandments of the Old Testament. And so the impression given me is that to go to heaven we must simply obey the 10 commandments of the Old Testament.

2. But these days things had gone worst. The 10 commandments were simply thrown away. Young couples lived together without marriage and man marry man, babies are aborted and woman practice family planning. Morality became confusing. If two pagans consent to live together as man and wife, moral theology states that they are married and the Church recognizes such marriages. Why is it immoral when two Catholics agree together with out the benefit of the Sacrament. Is there a natural law that governs the pagans and another that governs Catholics? And man marrying another man, there is no such prohibition in the 10 commandments. Aborting babies might be obviously sinful because it is against the command "Thou shalt not kill." But family planning if we do not use abortifacient methods, is it immoral?

3. Then one thing became obvious. The commands in the Old Testament are commands in the natural level so even pagans can obey them. And these commands are guides to fulfilling the natural law. But the New Testament is the era of grace and belongs to the supernatural level so those outside the Church cannot even know them and much less obey them.

And while the commands in the Old Testament are commanded, the commands of the New Testament are counselled because those with Faith do not need to be commanded. They are made to be attracted to what is good like the Beatitudes. The spirituality of the New Testament is based on the Beatitudes. We cannot begin even with the first Beatitudes unless we have finished our repentance, obeyed the 10 Commandments and have the supernatural virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. And the way God encourages us to grow in the virtues is not by commands but by counsels like the counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience.

4. In the New Testament confession must sound like this: I was not poor in spirit. Or I am rich in spirit. Now wait a minute. In the New Testament Catholics should not confess that way because they do not commit such sins. Their sins would largely be venial sins because they have entered into the life of grace and have received the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. So their confession should be something like this: I was drowsy during rosary. Or I lost my attention briefly during Mass.

When Catholics are against abortion because they are pro-life that is good and right. But that is Old Testament spirituality in obedience to the command Thou shalt not kill. And this is the same when Catholics are against family planning because it is often abortifacient. If Catholics would be acting according to New Testament spirituality they would say: they are against abortion because the guilty mother does not love herself properly, does not love her husband and children, does not love her neighbor and other children and does not love God .....and this will make her unhappy in this world and eternally unhappy in the next world. The same reasoning goes why we are against family planning.

5 In the New Testament morality is seen not in the physical acts of men but from his inner spiritual activities.

6. New Testament morality comes from the interior of man's soul, from the virtues dwelling in his mind and free will and not merely from his actions. Today's morality is focused on externals and not in internals.

7. Internal morality is the way St. Paul analyzes the morality of those he was correcting. Let us take an illustration. In 1Cor. St. Paul writes: If I speak in human an angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or clashing cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Then St. Paul describes the virtue of Charity.

8. A New Testament confession should sound like this: I have been proud and pride had made all the things I did sinful. Or, I have no Charity and because of this everything I did was useless.
The basis of morality in the New Testament are the virtues and not the commandments. The virtues more specifically Faith, Hope and Charity.

9. If I am a great preacher, even if I can teach all the commandments of Christ in the New Testament and expound all the teachings of the Catholic Church, even if I have great Faith and walk over waters, even if I go home sell all I own like the young rich man and give everything away, even if I offer my body to martyrdom........St. Paul did not say I would be canonized. He said I am nothing. . . if I do not have the virtue of Charity. So what made all those activities moral and deserving of heaven is if it is done with Charity. The deeds themselves are of no consequence. What counts is how it was done.

10. It is not the preaching that is the moral act that will save me but the virtue of Charity that moves me to preach. Charity is what makes our preaching a moral act.

11. The principle of Catholic morality is this: acts that are products of supernatural virtues are moral acts. Acts that are products of vices are immoral acts. So St. Paul, that great moralist writes in Colosians: Put to death then, the parts of you that are earthly, immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and the greed that is idolatry....put them all away, anger, fury, malice, slander. Then St. Paul shows the internal source of the vices then shows the external manifestations of the vices: stop lying.

12. Then St. Paul tells us to put on the virtues that dictates the morality of our actions: put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Then he gives external manifestations of these internal forces; wives, be subject to your husbands, slaves, obey your human masters, masters treat your slaves justly and fairly.

13. St. Paul in Ephesians enumerates two sources of immorality: impurity and greed, two vices that makes most of our actions immoral.

14. So what makes abortion, family planning and most economic practice immoral? The lack or complete absence of the virtue of Charity.

15. Grace, Faith, Hope and Charity are what makes a person good and what makes his acts good, St. Augustine states. With grace a person and his acts are moral. With the absence of these that makes the person and his acts good, the person and his acts are immoral or evil. Thus evil had been described as the absence of what makes it good.

The New Evangelization - AGAIN??

1. Did you know? Of course not, otherwise you would have despaired. But anyway did you know that around the 14th century something horrible happened and nobody even knew it until now? That was around 600 years ago!

2. Well here it is. The Catholic Church had always known what was moral to attain happiness and beatitude that consists in union with God. It is written in the Old Testament, revealed in perfection in the New Testament, clearly explained by the Fathers of the Church and proposed to us by the Holy Father. And that was how things were from the early times in the Catholic Church up to the 14th century. And from his interior, a soul accomplished this, first; by an act of the intellect seeking the truth, secondly; by an act of the will desiring what is good, thirdly by an act of the free will in cooperation with the mind and the will that results into an act of choice. That is how a soul makes a morally good act that leads to Faith and Charity wherewith the soul believes and loves God.

From the beginning the evil one had tried many times to derail man's quest for God but he was no match against the God and the saints that God had raised to guide the Church.

The human act necessary in the process of salvation may be described as a perfect human act showing the quality of true and complete freedom. That is how God wants us to go to heaven in complete freedom. Briefly this consist in an assent of the intellect to the truths, the consent of the free will to the same truths, a choice made through the cooperation between the mind and the free will ......the result is a perfect human act done with perfect freedom. This leads to the attainment of Beatitude, which is the first degree of happiness and holiness desired by all men. When a soul does this, he will attain grace with the three theological virtues of Faith, hope and charity. These three virtues will further grow to perfection with the aid of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And as these three virtues in with the aid of the seven gifts grow, the soul grows in the life of Beatitudes.

That was how things were from the time of Christ and up to the 14th century in spite of attempts from the devil to destroy the process. Again, the Church was guided by the writings of the Old Testament, the New Testament, the writings of the Fathers of the Church and the guidance of the Holy Father. The ark was unsinkable.

Then around the 14th century a philosophy altered the teachings of the Church that completely changed the concept of true Christian freedom. With this new heretical philosophy the intellect was left out and the free will was given free rein to control the body. This was total chaos. It is from this new concept of freedom that the reign of terror in France came from. This is where Democracy, communism, and all the evils in the world came from. This heresy has many faces but at that time it was called nominalism. Today it rules the whole world.

This heresy did not affect the Magisterium of the Church and neither did it affect the Holy Father, the Pope. It mainly affected the teaching of Moral theology in the seminaries. Suddenly what was moral and immoral became blurred. And the entire spirituality of the Catholic Church because it was based on Moral theology retreated back to the Old Testament, a spirituality of physical obligations. Remember that at this point the Church and the Pope were all right. The crisis was in the teaching of Moral theology in the seminaries.

Moral theology is based on Dogmatic theology and put into practice through Ascetical theology. Imagine how an error in Moral theology can do great damage in Ascetical Theology. The damage is unimaginable. Note how the number or saints dwindled from the 1400 to almost nothing by the 20th century. And religious houses who lived the ascetical life became spiritually stunted.

Of course, God was not remiss during all these times. He raised Popes, Holy bishops, holy priests and saints to correct this great defect. Every Pope with the help of saints corrected this error in every age. I see clearly Pope Pius IX, Pius X, Leo XIII and in my own time Pius XII up to Benedict XVI. And there are the saints, like the Cure of Ars, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Francis de Sales, etc. But this was a very thin 'Catena Aurea' of Bishops and priests.....and 'catholics' seldom read their writings. This went on from the 14oo up to the present. Imagine the consequence of such a situation. Ignorant of the true concept of true freedom, most bishops and priests would not know the reasons why certain things were moral and immoral. If this state begun at the 1400, imagine the state of the Church by the year 2000 A.D. I will put it another way: if they did not know the spirituality of the New Testament how can they lead anyone inside the Catholic Church.

However, this is how the Holy Spirit began to act in these our days. Pope Pius XII (the Pope of my youth) saw in the world war the descend of man back to barbarism. He tried hard to raise the world to the level of the New Testament through the Liturgy (Mediator Dei) but by the end of his life he was praying to God to call him back home in dismay at the state of the world.

Pope John 23 saw the problem from a treatise written by Blessed Rosmini entitled " The 5 wounds of the Church." The Church was bleeding to death with total ignorance of the New Testament. The highest form of morality was based on the 10 commandments of the Old Testament and not on the Beatitudes of the New Testament. He called a Council. It was emergency. Pope Paul VI worked under insurmountable obstacle as he tried to propel the Church during Vatican II into the era of the New Testament. When he tried to raise the morality of family planning up to the level of the New Testament the Catholic world rebelled against it. Then an international council of theologians was put together to advise the ecumenical council. And in their deliberation they discovered that many textbooks for seminaries were bleeding with heresies. I got the impression that they examined all the books on Morals used in seminaries. Fortunately one of the theologian in the group was a priest named Joseph Ratzinger who was to head the Congregation for the Faith. He had the power to act on matters of Faith. And he saw the crisis of Faith that has gnawed on the Church. He saw that with such a crisis no one would be entering the Church and no one would be entering heaven. What a alarming thought for a churchman.

So he outlined in a book entitled the "Ratzinger Report" the disease that had gnawed in the Church for the last 600 years. Around 1980 he wrote the document "new Evangelization" where he gave instruction on evangelization and stated that the teaching of the Catholic Faith had been wrong in the way it was taught both in contents and method. It was a very general statement and the defect to be corrected was not stated in it.

Then somewhere around 1993 Pope John Paul II issued "Veritatis splendore." It was obviously a work in collaboration with Ratzinger because it was an elaboration of his "New Evangelization." Here it was very clear that majority in the Church for the last 600 years were teaching Old Testament spirituality or even something worst. And that hardly anyone today is teaching the New Testament spirituality. In other words, the men of the Church were teaching only the morality of the 10 commandments and not the morality of the Beatitudes. Or worst they were teaching neither the Old nor the the New Testament. And "Veritatis splendor" outlined what was the spirituality and morality of the New Testament. It was a lengthy encyclical. Like all encyclicals I expected it to be addressed to the entire Catholic world. To my surprise it was addressed only to the Episcopate. Understandably so because it contained a complete summary of the New Testament and how to teach it correctly in a language only Bishops can understand and so they will have to teach it to their priests and subjects. But because of its length few seems to have read it or it was read carelessly. The effects of "Veritatis Splendor" was nowhere to be felt.

This neglect was obvious to the next Pope, Benedict XVI who called on a year of St. Paul where the spirituality of the New Testament according to St. Paul was laid down... again to no effect. Then he called the year of the priest where he enjoined all bishops and priest to return to the seminary and study "Varitatis splendor." I really don't think any one did it. I did not. Though I personally studied it. Knowing full well that no one returned to the seminary the Holy Father issued the "Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church" which is a detailed explanation of "Veritatis Splendor." At least, now, we can study privately.

While the Old Testament motivated us to reach the Promised Land, the New Testament motivated us to reach the kingdom of God through Faith, Hope and Charity. Seeing that the state of affairs has not changed since the 1400, the Pope had finally directed the evangelization of the Catholic cities of the world and called a year of Faith in the year 2012. This is a call to live the New Testament spirituality. It is a call for those who are still in the dim light of the Old Testament or even the darker era of pre- Old Testament. It is a call for those who are still outside the Church. It is a call to live the New Testament. But since very few know how the New Testament spirituality looks like he called it the "New Evangelization." Pope Benedict himself clarified that this is not a new evengelization. It is the old, classical way of evangelization.

How to DESTROY the Church

You cannot destroy the Church. But you can destroy those trying to enter the Church. And that is what the devil does. When a person is well inside the Church he is indestructible. But if he has just entered the Church, i.e. if he has little faith, he can still leave the Church and be destroyed. Those who are outside the Church..... you do not have to destroy because they are already destroyed. The fact that a person has entered the Church and left due to weak faith makes it easier for him, however, to re-enter the Church.

If I were the devil how would I destroy the Church? There is a principle in psychology that when the mind is engaged in one thought it cannot think of another thought. This is specially if the thoughts involved are of different levels of knowing. Man is usually engaged with thoughts of the natural. That is his competency. But to be saved we must think of things supernatural. This is beyond the capability of man. He needs grace to be able to do it. But God will not give this grace unless man gives up natural thoughts or rise up above the natural.

The second point is this: the more we engage in natural thoughts the more incapable we become in engaging in supernatural thoughts. In fact the more we think of natural thoughts the dumber we become about supernatural and even natural thoughts. On the other hand, the more we engage in supernatural thoughts with the help of grace the wiser we become about things supernatural and even natural thoughts.

A third point is that Faith is an act of the intellect. A soul engages in natural thoughts in the act of repentance thinking of all his sins. Those sins are in the natural level so man can easily recall them and repent for them. When a soul has repented God gives him grace to be able to rise up to the supernatural level and think of supernatural thoughts which is the beginning of the act of Faith that enables us to enter the Catholic Church.

Keeping the three points mentioned above, to prevent a soul from making the act of faith and entering the Church all we have to do is fill up his mind with natural thoughts. And that soul is a goner. It is that simple that many parents are precisely doing that to their children, literally send them to hell without knowing it.

How do we do that? Fill the minds with TV shows, with education, with magazines, comics, sports, discoveries, news, computers, video games, and all other things which the "following of Christ" called 'forbidden knowledge'. Increase the amount of these natural information in bombarding the mind. Increase the TV Channels, add computers programs, video games, cell phones, ipods and entertainment parks. All these would paralyze the mind in the natural level preventing it from thinking of anything beyond the natural. And the more he stays in the natural level the more he minds becomes dull even about natural things. Do this long enough and he becomes incapable even of higher natural knowledge. This is called sin against Faith. And the absence of Faith can bring us to hell.

Isn't that what the devil just did to the entire world? See how effective that is? We hardly see any faith around. The world is flooded with what pleases the senses. And this sense-pleasure stimuli is increasing daily filling up the mind and numbing the soul to things supernatural. It is daily becoming impossible to make the act of Faith. He filled the world with sense-stimuli that cluttered the mind with natural thoughts preventing it from thinking of supernatural thoughts thus making the act of faith. This is the reason the first Christians went to the desert. To deny their senses of these sense-stimuli and make it easy for the mind to rise up to things supernatural with the help of grace. And this is why at the end times, the Church, personified by the Woman of the Apocalypse will be given by God two giant wings to transport the Church into the desert. Because that is the only place where she can make her act of Faith free from all sense-stimuli.

If I were the devil, this is the easiest way for me to destroy the Catholic Church. And do it long enough until the world runs out of Catholics. That will only take one to two generations. But I and the devil don't have to do this. The parents are doing quite a good job destroying the Church by destroying their children, by cluttering their minds with tv shows, sports game, theme parks, radio, ipods, parties, secular jobs, secular education, tours, leaving absolutely no chance for the mind to know God. And wait a minute....have you tried the new HD 3 d tv monitor, the new menu in that restaurant, the new resort in this island, the new beauty contest in this city........see what I mean?

Where have all the Catholics gone?

1. It was easy to find them before. In the early times of the Church just ask where the Catholics were and you get a hand and a straight finger pointing directly at a whole community of Catholics. They lived apart from the worldly people, they lived in community shared all things in common and they loved one another. They were usually found outside of towns and cities. Later on they were found in huge communities living in the desert, in cities carved out of volcanic mountains, on islands, on top of mountains....it was easy to find them and they can be pointed out apart from the rest.

2. At the beginning of the 19oo I had the impression that Catholics could specially be found in two organizations, the Catholic Action and the Legion of Mary. Of course, they were around but it was almost impossible to point them out. But the members of these two organizations looked different from the rest. Even Hitler feared them. And they were Catholics both in their behaviour and in their speech. Talking to them it is clear their doctrines are correct. These were laymen whose basic Catholic doctrines were right.

3. Today we have hundreds of so- called Catholic organizations of laymen founded by both laymen and the clergy. There are many quasi religious groups founded by nuns and priest. There are even clerical or priestly groups founded by Bishop's conference. But the foundational doctrine of their way of life does not exhibit the purity of Catholic doctrine. It is even evident in their way of life and in their speech. . . which should cause us to raise our eyebrows.

4. Many laymen groups that are even approved by the Congregation of religious and secular life are founded by laymen who have no knowledge of Divine Revelation. They have held the bible briefly for the first time in their lives and before you know it they are founding huge secular followings. This is a danger the Council of Orange warned the Church: the danger of laymen getting hold of the bible and immediately starting a new sect. As St. Paul described it "unenlightened zeal".

There are many nuns, probably discontented with their orders had left and founded new groups with themselves as superiors. Some nuns had left their orders to become hermits. St. Benedict warned us of religious who cannot live the community life and rushes into the heremitical life to avoid the burden of community living. And there are some clerical/ priestly groups organized by Bishop's conference whose way of life is Pelagian heresy resurrected in that they think they can improve the world on their own as in the case of liberation theology. What is evident among them is the lack of a solid doctrinal foundation. In short, they do not know how to go to heaven. They just presume because they belong to this established catholic organization or community approved by the Bishop and even by Rome they will surely go to heaven. Even the vast numbers of converts entering the Church today do not realize they do not immediately become Catholics. There is still a long process before they can attained orthodox Catholic Faith.

5, So where have all the Catholics gone? Where is the Catholic Church? Can anyone raise his hand and point them out with their finger showing the Catholic apart from the rest? When I hold retreat for priests, seminarians or nuns I would tell them jokingly "show me the four signs that you are Catholics." They would smile but none can show the four signs of the Church. And when the question and answer come all their complains show they have problems with the 4 visible signs of the Church. That's why they cannot show them. Isn't this sad?

6. The Church of Christ have four visible signs. If we cannot show them we must at least know what they are and explain them. This would at least show we have some inkling of the signs. But the true Church must not only have the four visible signs of One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. She must be able to explain the dynamics on how those signs are produced. This will be the explanation of the spirituality of the life of the Church that produces these signs.

7. In short, if we put together what Pope Benedict as Cardinal mentioned that the Church is undergoing a crisis of Faith, since the four visible signs of the Church are signs of Faith, Hope and Charity, the reason why we cannot point with certainty where that Church is is because we cannot find those marks anywhere. The Church must exist up to the end times. So where is the Church? Where have all the Catholics gone. The answer is in the Apocalypse. It says that the Church used to be in the world calling all souls to embark into the ark. But at the end times, God would give the Woman, the Church, two giant wings to fly into the desert in a place specially prepared by God to protect her. Where is that? St. John Chrysostom says that this is not a physical desert. It is the symbol of a way of life lived in the privacy of one's soul. It is the way of life lived by Christ for 30 years at home and lived by John the Baptist for 30 years in the desert.
St. Grignon de Montfort tried to establish the Catholic Church with her four visible signs and with a Marian personality and Pope Benedict described it in his thesis on St. Bonaventure. Thank God we have a Pope who knows where all the Catholics have gone.

The RULE of LAWLESSNESS.

1. Lawlessness is a relative term to many people. But if we base all laws on the Divine law or even just on the natural law, most laws today would be against God's laws. And this is what is happening today.

2. The world is stunned by the lawlessness of those who have appointed themselves as police of the world imposing laws against God's laws. And this with the approval of courts and by world organizations who are also making their own laws. They call it mandate. Just because the mandate was made by a few tough guys does not it make it legal?

3. Sex education is now mandated in most schools, compulsory education in place of home schooling is also mandated. Family planning and abortion are laws in many countries just like same sex marriages. Nations are interfering in the sovereignty of other nations. Head of states are summarily ordered to resign or deposed. Foreign governments are changed at the pleasure of a few. And cities of other nations are being bombed as if they were objects in a video games. These may be the law of some cowboys but they are against the law of God. From the view point of Catholic morality, the world is in anarchy, the once upon a time French Revolution had become world wide. But how come no one is raising any cry?

4. We have entered the era of the rule of lawlessness. You don't talk to lawless bandits. You just plead for mercy, pay a ransom for your life, plea for help and get killed just the same.....all without knowing why this is happening. A few, like the Pope, had chosen just to be silent. It is like when the Jews were undergoing their holocaust and hardly any one of them knowing why they were being herded into camps; it is like when the Armenians were being erased from the face of the earth and not knowing why the Turks were doing it; it is like when the Catholics of Vendees were being massacred by their fellow Catholics in France and they didn't know why.

5. It, also, happened once upon a time on Good Friday. A God was crucified in accordance to the lawless law of men. Not one of the killer knew why they were doing it. But HE knew why.

6. The same is happening everywhere. A Christian was elected president and suddenly the Christians were being massacred everywhere. A head of state is quietly leading his country and suddenly some European nations are bombing him out of existence as ordered by a mandate. And another head was deposed and hanged for a non-existent crime by some other foreign power and no one had apologize. 200 hundred christian churches were burned. Why? What crime was committed? And when cries of un-constitutionality are raised, no one minds it. An RH Bill is being passed that goes contrary to the Catholic Faith of the nation and its own Constitution. Why is it gaining ground when the head of the nation is a Catholic trained by the Jesuits?

Original sin as introduced by the devil in the garden of paradise and introduced in many nations, thereafter, specially during the reign of terror in France is being imposed world wide by its originator and avid followers. Though the originators had been dead for centuries how come they still have avid followers today? Can he be a spirit who cannot die?

7. This is exactly what happened on Good Friday. The Law was killed by lawlessness. And the world was stunned into silence. Not a peep as the devil seems to hold sway. Has the devil won? He knew the answer. A similar complain was once heard from heaven: when, O when O Lord shall our death be avenged? And God's answer was: Just a little while more. Then what? God's answer was very clear......because He knew why.

DO NOT REJOICE !!!

1. The past Holy Week just reminded us of the words of Christ on the cross: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." Certainly the person who just past away did not know the morality of what he did. He was not blessed with the knowledge that is within Divine Revelation. We cannot say the same thing for many Catholics. They do not know what they are doing? After a course in Theology in the seminary. OK. Let's say they studied theology, it does not follow that they know what they are doing. The ones who crucified Christ knew the prophecies of the Old Testament regarding the Messiah even how he would die. They heard Christ preaching. Some of them were the priests of the Covenant. But what did Christ say? They did not know what they were doing. If Christ forgave them, how much more should we. Isn't the sign of a true Christian is what we read in the "Our Father?" The ability to forgive. Should'nt we pray instead that God forgive him as Christ did for those crucifying Him. Isn't our spontaneous celebration because this man is dead a sign of our inability to forgive and, therefore, a more severe punishment awaits us.

2. Many have reasons to celebrate just as when the pharisees caught a woman in adultery. It was an achievement. They caught a woman in the act of adultery. OK. This man was caught guilty of murder in his own words. Should we act like a police who is gloating at the fact that he has caught a criminal? We are Christians first. Christ said: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. " I have never seen so much stones hurled at one .......who is dead. The ones who are hurling, are they without sin? Aren't the head of states who are rejoicing guilty of more killings through abortion and their global interference. Such sins would make the dead man blush. Should'nt we just quietly leave as the accusers of the woman in the Gospel. OK we lost loved ones. Quietly leaving the dead man alone and praying quietly for the mercy of God would have been a nobler gesture than the gloating celebrations.

3. Terrorists are not our greatest enemies. The sins within us are our greatest enemies. Terrorist can only kill our bodies. Our sins can kill both body and soul. And so Christ in confronting the crowd that brought the woman caught in adultery to Him reminded them of their own sins. That is the real enemy. But as Pope Benedict mentioned, the world's defect is that its attention is focused on what is unimportant the pleasure of the world and not on our sins. And with this view the greatest enemy is what will deny us of the pleasure of the world. And this man spoilt many of their good times.

4. A man is dead. He does not need our hatred nor our misguided celebration. He needs the mercy of God. And we who know him even just by name should try to obtain this mercy. For God promised He could only show mercy on us if we ourselves show mercy to others. After all he was created to the image and likeness of God. May he rest in peace. Amen.