RESTORING THE GOOD LOST IN HUMAN NATURE.

 1. The good in human nature.
     God created man in His image and likeness. Man, today, acts not according to his image and likeness. He acts below the level of his human nature. He does not even act as an animal. Just look at his sins; from abortion to terrorism to same sex to transgenders. Animals don't do that. Let us explain this behaviour by first looking  at the three levels of being man is capable of. 

2. There are three levels in man.
     The supernatural, the natural and the unnatural. 
     The highest level is the supernatural. It is a gift from God and completely unattainable by human efforts. It is called the gift of original justice. This is the highest good God gave men.
     It was given to Adam and Eve when they were in Paradise before the fall. This was the gift that should have made them deserving of eternal life in heaven. After the fall,  Adam and Eve, lost the highest God-given good; while the second the first remained intact but gravely wounded. 
     The second level is the natural level. In this level, man, naturally tends towards the life of virtue. Thus, all men must naturally be good and this characteristic is commonly seen in the most primitive tribes but it is not universal. 
     A tribe here, the Tasadays, did not even have words that express anger and they lived in community with perfect charity. Though very primitive they lived like religious monks and nuns.  First discovered, they are untouched by civilisation. This is the next good of human nature and also a gift from God.
     The first level is purely the natural level universally common to all men. And this is man possessed with an intellect and free will.
This is, also, a gift of God and a good in the nature of man. 

3. These three goods in the nature of man was portrayed in the parable of the Good Samaritan. A man was traveling. He was fully healthy. On the way some thieves came upon him. Beat him up and stole his possession. That is man with three good things in his human nature. But way laid on his way, the devil came upon him and stole the goods of his human nature.
     

4. Here is an ascetical principle stated by St. Thomas of Aquinas;  in order not to regress in the spiritual life;  a soul must progress continuously. If a soul stops progressing, he will regress automatically. 
     Let's see how the above principle can be seen in Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were created with the three goods of human nature. They had the gift of original justice; they had kept the good of a life tending towards virtue; and they were using their good gifts of intellect and free will in the service of God tending the garden of Paradise. 
     With those three gifts of human nature they should have passed their God -given test and deserved to go from Paradise to heaven. 

     But by the devil's wiles, Adam and Eve misused their original justice thus regressing down to the natural level of the life of virtue. Then due to further carelessness they regressed further to the pure natural level of just having the good of their intellect and will. And with their original sin, they further misused this good of human nature
     So at the end, Adam and Eve lost the good of original justice. They lost the good use of their natural tendency towards a virtuous life. And they lost the ordered use of their mind and will. They found themselves in the unnatural level. And this can be seen in the unnatural sin of Cain killing his own brother Abel. It is not natural for a brother to kill his own brother for no reason than envy. Animals do not envy. So man has suddenly gone lower than the animals. But let us just call it unnatural.

     The principle is that if man does not exert effort to progress upwards towards God, he will automatically regress downwards towards the unnatural level. That is automatic. He does not have to exert effort to regress downwards. He will just regress down automatically. This must be very clear to understand the evil state  of the world today.
     The great evil state of the world today is not caused by the activity of the devil, though, that is, also, the case. It could easily have happened even if the devil did not do anything to cause it. The devil could have just allowed man to naturally descend to the level of the unnatural through pure inactivity. How much more if this happen with the help of Lucifer. 

5. The unnatural sins.
     From history here are some of the unnatural sins committed by men. Murder, the first sin of Cain. This deteriorated to the mass murder and human sacrifice of the Aztecs. The mass sacrifice of children to Moloch. The abortion clinics today. Terrorism and unprovoked wars. Genocide. Same gender and transgender practices. Drug addiction. Ambition to be very wealthy and famous. Many of the psychological illnesses are consequences of this level of life. Suicide. Practically everything we are doing today is the result of men having regressed down to the unnatural level. 
     The gay priest phenomenon is the result of a seminary training where they do not progress; therefore, they automatically regress. Since the seminaries were in this state since 1000 AD, for every 10 graduates, 5 are gays, 4 get married and one becomes an ordained heretic.  A Holy priest is a miracle these days.
     This abnormality is caused by the absence of all the three goods of human nature, aggravated by the defeat of the plan to impose the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas in seminaries. 

     Summarizing, one does not have to do anything to sink down to the level of the unnatural. All he has to do is stay natural; and he will regress down.
     To go to heaven is an every second  difficult up hill daily effort, or else. 

6. The concern of the Church in the salvation of souls by reversing this natural tendency of man to regress to the level of the unnatural.
     God, indeed, had given us the good of human nature to avoid regressing to the unnatural level. To regress there is an experience of hell here on earth; and will eventually cause the eternal damnation of souls. 

     So, how do we get out of this rut?  Use the same route to go up to God. Our goal  must be the supernatural eternal goal of going to God. This must be the ultimate goal of a return, otherwise it will not work. Psychology and psychotherapy will not work. This will only cover up the symptoms but will not cure the illness. A genuine desire to seek God is the only way to enable a person to reuse these three goods to regain sanity and even become a saint. 
     The solution is the Catholic solution exclusively, only, for those whose ultimate goal is to be united with God. It will not work for pagans nor for Protestants. It will not work for Catholics with other ulterior goals, like to regain sanity. It will not work for priests who do not want to abandon their same sex partners. It will only work for souls who want to be saints. For these people it works perfectly. 

7. The  3 goods of human nature and the way to sanity.
     God gave man a built-in capacity for sanity just in case he goes crazy. He can use it all by himself, without the aid of anyone. St. Paul had described it and Psychotherapist just learned it from him.    
     Let us go now and take the first step. Remember, you can do this all by yourself; in fact, it is more effective if done by oneself. It can be called self-therapy; and it is the first step towards holiness.
     First step. Since the reason for having regressed to the unnatural level is because the mind and will were filled with unnatural thoughts and desires, then we must begin with putting the mind and will in order.  We must have a criteria to judge what is true and what is good. The proven basis for judgment for the truths of the mind is the dogmatic truths of the Catholic Church. And the proven basis to judge what is good is to use the moral teachings of the Catholic  Church. We have to accept these for the meantime because we do not have the space to debate this fact.
     In this first step, whatever truths the mind has that is contrary to the truths of the Catholic Church must be removed; and it must be replaced with the proper dogmas. And whatever is immoral that is desired by the free will must be removed; and it must be replaced with what is moral. And the God of the Catholic Church had made this very easy for us by revealing to man what is true and what is good. 
     The moment the human mind has removed all errors  contrary to the revealed truths of God and the moment the mind had removed all evil from the desires of the will......than the person rises from the unnatural and becomes natural.

8. Note that this first step will be impossible for all pagans and Protestants because of great defects in their truths and concepts of morality. But sadly, it is equally impossible for most Catholics for the same reason. This is the main reason why it has become impossible to cure the gay problem of the priesthood. Their minds and wills remain polluted with what is false and what is immoral. To rise from the unnatural to the natural there must be perfect knowledge of the truth and perfect love of the good. In the Catholic 
Church both the truth and the good is God. 

9. It is sufficient to make the first step. The second and third will follow suit. This first step in the early Christian times was called 'therapeute.'  And these were the men and women monks who entered monasteries precisely to correct their minds and wills, to undergo self-therapy.  

   Satan had made the world in such a way that everyone is busy making heaven out of the earth. With this constant focus on the things of the world it has become impossible for everyone to enter  into one's own mind and will for house fixing.
     As St. Thomas of Aquinas continues; if a man is bogged down in this state he will continue to deteriorate going down and down, becoming more and more a slave of sin and of the devil and committing more and more atrocious crimes towards their neighbour. 
     The world is in this state today. It had been like this since the 10th century and has gotten worse these days. It has contaminated everything up to the Vatican. Isn't Pope Francis with his dogmatic errors on grace and the theological virtues; and his moral errors on allowing adultery, divorce and the sacrilegious reception of communion an example of one in the unnatural level?
An example of a man with absolutely no good in his human nature as St. Thomas would put it?




   

WHERE HAVE ALL THE BISHOPS GONE?.

 1. The devil had hurled many attacks upon the Catholic Church. 
     Often the devil had used persecution and the classical example were the days of the Roman emperors. Used by the devil, the Roman emperors used fear to make Christians apostatize. Since life is the most precious commodity on earth, its lost was always of great concern. And people would give up anything to save life. For this reason doctors are more worshipped than God. 
     But persecution and martyrdom had shamed the devil in that even small children, like St. Agnes and Jose Sanchez del Rio of Cristeros fame showed contempt for death.
     Heresies were even more effective than martyrdom that is why the devil switched tactic after a few years of persecution. Heresies had destroyed more souls than persecution. Though the devil had never abandoned any of these tactics, it is almost certain that he knows that his most potent weapon was the raising of an anti-pope. 
     The Catholic Church stood well against the threat of martyrdom since in this way the blood of martyrs became the seed that made the Church grow. Heresies raised great bishops and priests who battled them with great success; we recall the Jesuits' battle against the reformation of Martin Luther. 
     But there was one battle where no names of cardinals, bishops or priests were ever mentioned; though this was the greatest battle of them all. This is the exposition of anti-popes when there were several popes in the seat of St. Peter. The damage of such a situation is incalculable for there were more than 40 anti-popes in the history of the Papacy ....and yet no member of the hierarchy engaged them. 
     It seems that the devil had always chosen the perfect time; he raised anti-popes when no bishop existing could distinguish one from the other. And in truth history showed no bishop ever pointed out the true Pope from the anti-pope during those times. It was mere laymen and laywomen, living holy lives who did this enormous job. St. Catherine of Sienna is the more popular one, a lay secular Dominican  tertiary. And there was St. Bernard of Clairvaux, that time a lay monk. 

2. We have a similar situation today.
     We have  a situation that most graduate from seminaries who are bishops and cardinals today do not know their Catholic Religion inspite of the fact that the Catholic Church have a treasure of available writings explaining Catholic truths. 
     We have noticed this when Pope John Paul II came here and ordered all the Bishops to make a new seminary curriculum because the existing curriculum was producing faithless priests. A new curriculum was made but was never implemented. So today, our seminaries are still producing faithless priests and they are now bishops and cardinals. 
     How can faithless bishops detect an anti-pope when they cannot  even see the visible signs of the true Church described at the Nicene Creed. And they cannot see that their parishes and diocese do not have those visible signs that are proofs that they are truly Catholics. These visible signs are the only way to distinguish one from the other. 

3. The biggest issue today that settles all questions.
     There are many issues being debated today. Who is right? The traditionalist or the the Novus Ordo, the Pope or the Franciscans of the Immaculate, Cardinal Burke or Cardinal Kasper, Fr. Radcliffe or Cardinal Zen, sisters of Mother Angelica or the Nuns in the Bus. To try to settle the differences in the above issues is enough to drive one insane. Let us simplify the issues. Just ask the question; who is truly Catholic and who is not. To answer let us use the time tested four visible signs indelibly written in the Nicene Creed. Or just the easier 15 Marks of the Church by St. Robert Bellarmine which are an expanded version of the four visible signs. And simply said; he who has the four visible signs is right and he who does not have the four visible signs is wrong. 
     The issues involved are Catholic truths. All we must do is find out who is Catholic and surely he has the truth. And who is not Catholic and he does not have the truth. What can be more simple than that. But no one wants to use these signs. Maybe they do not know these signs or cannot understand these signs. 

4. It is important to settle this issue  because the salvation of souls is dependent on the answer to this question.   It is for this reason that this blog had been insistent in resolving this question. Each diocese, parish and seminary should show proof that they have the four visible signs of Catholicity. It seems most of them do not have, in which case it will follow that all Catholic organisations, secular institutes and religious order would probably not have the same visible signs. 
     Now, this is not a desire in our part to discredit any one. It is our deepest desire to force everyone to check and find out for sure if truly they are Catholic or not. Because the very salvation of their souls depends on this.  And the one who must first check on this are the bishops; they must check if their diocese have the four signs of Catholicity.  The few diocese where I have lived have absolute none of the signs. And neither the few parishes where I have celebrated Mass. 

5. Hints of a repetition of the devil's third attack. 
    Since the devil have seen that raising an anti-pope destroys the greatest number of souls more than persecution and heresies, well....why doesn't he try the three together. A brilliant idea that can only come from an angelic intellect. 
     Suddenly we see the devil in high gear. He fills the world with persecution of the Catholic Church. Physical and spiritual persecution abound in every corner of the world. The world is filled with priests and bishops whose mouths spew heresies all found the in the syllabus of error of Pius IX and Pius X. 
     And suddenly we have a Pope that is unlike all other Popes. He is not behaving according to the oath he took when accepting the papal office. He is going against all the teachings of Christ which he is supposed to uphold with his life. He is super kind to all the enemies of the Church and unkind to the faithful members of the Church. 
     In fact, after the Bishop's Synod of 2014, when the bishops who rejected  Pope Francis' 'proposal' went to Pope Benedict to complain on the leadership of Pope Francis and asked him to show them what is going wrong with the Synod he mentioned, practically, all the encyclicals of Pope John Paul. But emphasising that the Synod had gone against Pope John Paul's greatest Encyclical exclusively addressed to the Bishops 'Veritatis Splendour.' As if saying that the Synod had gone against all the teachings of the Catholic Church. He repeated this message in a recent published interview with a Jesuit, Fr. Servais. 

6. Signs are evident that the devil seems to know that it is time to use his third weapon that had destroyed the greatest number of souls. He can see that most do not know the visible signs of the Church; either the four nor the 15 expanded version. He can see that everybody thinks they are Catholic; bad priests, lax nuns, adulterous couples, drugged teen agers, petty thieves and countless catholic Protestants, married male couples. The devil would not miss a chance like this for the world. 
    And most cardinals, bishops and priest cannot prove that they are Catholics by showing the four visible signs. Of course, they cannot show them because they do not have them. There,  the scenario is prepared. We can have ten Popes and nobody, absolutely nobody would know which is the true Pope. Everybody would be choosing the pope that would cater to the desires of their concupiscence. The more popular one would be the one who would tolerate abandonment of one's former family  and commit adultery,  the one who would welcome same sex marriage, and all those who are in the peripheries of society because they do not want to enter the true Church. 
     But God in His mercy would probable not make the choice difficult. Instead of 10 popes maybe he will just allow two Popes. That would be easier for us to decide. And again, this decision is of the utmost importance; because the very salvation of our soul will depend on whether we make the right choice or not. The one we choose is the one we will certainly follow. One will definitely lead us to heaven. The other, somewhere else. 

7. Where have all the bishop's gone?
     They have joined the ghostly resurrected spirit of Martin Luther. 
Wasn't it the heresy of Martin Luther that destroyed more than half of the soul of Europe, a type of what is going to happen today?
     Look at their reaction to 'Amoris laetitia.' No reaction to a document where Chapter 8 is a act of schism from the Catholic Church. A few voices like the Polish bishops had cried out 'foul!' But the rest showed silent compliance like the Philippine bishops. The news is that some laymen are organising a Symposium in Rome to demand that Pope Francis withdraw the Apostolic Exhortation. 

     The Catholic Church is a prophetic Church. All that has happened to her are types of what will happen in the near future. The reformation happened before, it will happen again today. How could we have forgotten the reformation.  No we haven't. In fact Pope Francis will join the Lutherans in celebrating the centenary of Martin Luther's nailing of his thesis with the comment that Luther have helped open our eyes. What eye?
     The corruption of the bishops, the mishandling of Martin Luther's objections, the enjoyment that was being newly introduced to the world. All make up the perfect ambiance for the devil's one last hurrah upon the Catholic Church that he hates so much. And he had just seen the best time for it. Man, himself,  with his love of self and the world had made the preparations for it. 

8. A few weak voices.
     During the Passion of Christ, there was hardly a voice who objected to the Passion. That is exactly what will happen today. Probably a few weak voices will sound but it won't prevent the Passion. 
     During the papacies of John XXIII to Benedict XVI, many have written describing them as fake Popes. Refuting them was easy. We just proved that those Popes had all the four visible signs of the true Church, namely, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. We took the proofs from their encyclicals, audience addresses and from their very behaviour. While on the other hand we showed that their accusers did not have a single visible sign of the true Church. That is how easy  it was to use this instrument. 
     Suddenly we have Pope Francis and most of the Bishops and priest devoid of any of these visible signs. We were stunned. But any Catholic can easily study these four signs. It is found in any catechism book. It is equally easy to apply it on anyone, like your parish priest and Diocesan Bishop....and even on yourself; to find out who is Catholic. Why doesn't everybody try it since our very salvation depend on it......on whether we are truly Catholics or not. 

SOLEMNITY OF PENTECOST - The Image of the Church.

 1. The birth of the Catholic Church.
     Pentecost is when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Catholic Church to be her uncreated soul. The Catholic Church is now a living entity. 
     Many will celebrate this day with calling down of the Holy Spirit upon their groups. This practice of calling down the Holy Spirit is a common practice among the so-called Charismatics. It is the very thing that proves that there is something wrong with that movement. Why?
     The Holy Spirit had already descended upon the Church and has remained  therein. Why do they continue to call down the Spirit upon individuals, upon groups, upon every Tom, Dick and Harry. That is based on the erroneous beliefs of Protestant Pentecostals; but it is also the erroneous belief of Catholic Charismatics; that the Holy Spirit can be called on demand. 
     I was in the forefront of the powerful and highly dogmatic Cursillo Movement here. And when it waned and was gradually overshadowed by the budding Catholic Charismatic movement, as a priest, I had to keep up with what is new in the Church. A Catholic priest from Ann Arbor with experience with House of Prayer Experience (HOPE) offered to teach me all about the Charismatic movement. 
     I was impressed with the doctrine that all Catholics should have an experience of the Holy Spirit. That was, indeed, a solid Catholic Doctrine. But when I saw their laying of the hands without following the proper process described by St. Paul, and saw the following abrupt praying with tongues and being slained by the Spirit the procedure does not seem to coincide with what we have learned from ascetical theology as described in today's Gospel.  
     As a monk, I learned that the hermits were the true Charismatics. The so-called charisma are given only to those who have reached the heights of the spiritual life. It is not given to ordinary people engaged the whole day in office work. And definitely it is not given to Protestants. 
     The life of these new members of the Charismatic movement did not conform to the lives of the hermits. Could this be the same spirit? Or is it a different spirit?

2. Satan and his fakes.
     Demonology teaches us that the devil imitates God to confuse the faithful. He, also imitates the Holy Spirit. After all he is  a spirit, a bad spirit.
    Just as God chose 12 apostles to build His Church, Satan, also, chose 12 apostles to imitate the Catholic Church and confuse the people into joining him instead. So we have the Jehovah's Witnesses with the same apostolic structure. 
     Besides, all the manifestations noted in the Catholic Charismatic movement are identical to the manifestations in the heretical group the Montanist. Montanus was a pagan priest who converted to Catholicism but who brought his pagan practices into the Church. It  was his group who had all these charismatic manifestations of tongues, falling down, prophetic utterances, etc. ..common among the Catholic Charismatic groups. No wonder Pope Francis likes the Catholic Charismatics who he entertained in Rome giving them Protestant speakers and similarly likes the Pentecostal Protestant Charismatics in Rome; even apologizing to them for the treatment they got from the Catholics before. 
     Obviously, Montanus must have brought his former pagan spirit with him into the Catholic Church. He eventually left the Church and led the Montanist sect which is the origin of most Pentecostal churches.  

3. Holy Spirit is already in the Catholic Church.
    When Pope John XXIII proclaimed he was opening the windows to let the Spirit into the Church, well, he was using literary forms to express a point.  The Holy Spirit is already inside; the problem was that we could not find the Church for reasons we have shown in past posts. 
    
    If we want to receive the Holy Spirit, we should not go to anyone, have hands laid on us to receive the Spirit.  We should look for the Catholic Church by looking for her four visible signs, enter her and receive the Holy Spirit within her.
     Pope Benedict had already summarized how to receive the Holy Spirit. First, repent. Second, have an encounter with the created soul of the Church, Jesus Christ. Third, have an encounter with the uncreated soul of the Church, the Holy Spirit. This is the true Catholic Charismatic and the Mass for today describes this process again.
     
     To merit eternal life the Blessed Trinity must abide in our souls permanently. The Gospel of Pentecost Day tells us how that is done. Instead of experimenting, the group from Ann Arbor should have just followed today's Gospel.  

4. Preparing to receive God the Father. 
     First, we prepare our souls for the abiding of God the Father. This is done by knowing and obeying the commands of God the Father as described in the Old Testament. 
     As early as at this point, Pope Francis and his Curia shows that they are not disposed for the abiding of God the Father because of their disobedience to the 6th and 9th commandments of God the Father. 

     When the soul has learned and obeyed the Old Testament commands of God the Father, he may occasionally encounter God the Father, like Moses, but the Father will not permanently abide in him because the process is not yet complete. 

5.Preparing to receive God the Son.
     Secondly, after having prepared oneself for the abiding of God the Father through what is called life of repentance through obedience to the Old Testament commands, then the soul should proceed to prepare himself for the abiding of God the Son by obedience to the commands of Christ as described in the New Testament; specially the physical and spiritual works of mercy (which is love of neighbour).
     The apostles received the power to love neighbour when Christ breathed on them after Easter but before Pentecost, saying, 'receive the Holy Spirit.' They received the power to love neighbour but did not receive the Holy Spirit in a permanent way. 
     Here the soul can occasionally have an encounter with Jesus, like in Holy Communion, but there is no permanent abiding yet. Christ would still leave the soul, specially when the soul thinks of worldly things, the main concern of most charismatics.  
     When the soul has done the two  preparations,  the Gospel for Pentecost takes over. What does it say?  Having obeyed  all the commands, the soul loves God and God loves the person. And God, sorts of, prepare to take along God the Son and God the Holy Spirit to dwell in the human soul. 

6. The soul is prepared to receive the Blessed Trinity. The soul cannot receive the three person of the Trinity separately. 
Preparing for the Father, can be done alone in a private life of repentance.  Preparing for the Son can be done alone by living a life of Faith. But to receive the Holy Spirit, it must be received by a community or a Church. That is what happened at Pentecost. They, the first community called the Church, were praying together with Mary.

     How does the Church look like to be disposed to receive the Holy Spirit.
     

7. This was the image of the Catholic Church the first time. This must  be the image of the Catholic Church at this time. How should the Church look like? 
     First, like the first apostles they will be made up of men and women who have been personally chosen by Christ; and who have encountered the Father and the Son by their knowledge and obedience to the commands of God both in the Old and New Testament.
     Secondly, they will be living together with one mind and one heart within closed doors or closed walls to prevent the entrance of evil and worldly distractions from their unceasing prayer with Mary in their midst. That is like living  a monastic life. And, in fact, Pope Benedict called it 'new monasticism.'
     Thirdly, they have attained love of neighbour and the beginnings of love of God thus they will be exhibiting the four visible signs of the true Church and/or 15 Marks of the true Church according to St. Bellarmine. The Catholic Church can be visibly seen in them.
    Fourthly, God the Father and God the Son shall abide in their souls. And the Holy Spirit who is always united with the Father and the Son will, also, abide with them but will come in the form of tongues of fire or whatever form his immense imagination may decide. 
     If this Gospel was followed by the Catholic Charismatic movement they would not be looking like Protestants. 

8. How would we know the Church have the Holy Spirit.
     Christ's words were clear. The Holy Spirit will teach them all things. And he will remind them of all the teachings of Christ.
     When someone does not know the right solution to the immigration problem, if someone does not know the reason for global warming, when someone does not realise the need for capital punishment, when someone does not know how to solve marital problems except through adultery and sacrilegious communions, if someone does not know that atheist go to hell, if someone does not know that those other guys are not my brothers, ......and if someone in Casa Martha says in his homily that new wine is better than old wine......I am sure he does not have the Holy Spirit. 
     

WOE TO THAT MAN through whom SCANDAL COMES.

 1. SETTLING WHO IS RIGHT. 
     Pope Francis ended his talk to the Bishop's Synod with threats on those who try to block the changes he is introducing in the Church. And labels them with names which are insults. 
     This is more the behaviour of a spoilt brat than a Pope. It is, in effect saying; do what I want or else..... Pope Francis had flattering words for the enemies of the Church while bad names for the holders of orthodox doctrines of the Catholic Church. In fact, in England, they have been compiling a book of insults hurled by Pope Francis on good Catholics. They have not compiled the heavenly praises he has given the enemies of the Catholic Church. Which makes us wonder whose side is he. 
     
2. Basis for judging. 
     There are many conflicts in the world today, and it is difficult to see who is right and who is wrong. In the conflicts within the Church, it is easy to find out who is right and who is wrong because we have very solid bases for judging who is right and who is wrong. These bases are the dogmatic and moral teachings of the Catholic church that has been there for centuries. 
     Let us view a few of these religious conflicts and use only two bases to judge who is right and wrong; because we have to judge! We cannot afford to be wrong. We must be right because the very salvation of our souls depend on these decisions. 
    The two bases for judgment we have been using are; first, the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ. And secondly, the three theological virtues. The first is available to all because they are signs that are in the natural level. The second is in the supernatural level, so it is limited to those who are in the life of grace. Let us try to use both. 
     The four visible signs are the four signs mentioned in the Nicene Creed. This is accepted by both the Orthodox and Protestant Church because all of them were still with the Catholic Church when that creed was formulated in Nicaea.
     The three theological virtues are not acceptable to the Orthodox and Protestants because these virtues are in the supernatural level.  These sects are not in this level because of their being separated through schism. 
     The theological virtues were used before in judging candidates for canonisation but it is not used anymore today because nobody in the Curia seems to have any of these virtues.  But it was used by the Catholic Church before because it is the most reliable norm for judging candidates for canonization. Which means that today, we do not have any objective proof that our canonised saints are really in heaven because the most reliable means are not being used. 

3. Using the four visible signs to resolve conflict.
     Pope Francis threatened those who block his personal plans for the Church. The latest is ordaining women deacons. 
     We joined the Catholic Church to follow Christ to  everlasting life. We did not join the Church to follow Bergoglio  in his doubtful church of mercy that leads to where, we do not know. 
     Anyone who thinks he is going against the teachings of Christ, the apostles and the Fathers of the Church should stand up and be counted. Cardinal Arinze, very early in the Papacy of Pope Francis, called him a heretic for being guilty of liberalism, a heresy condemned by Pope Gregory xvi in 'Mirari Vos.' And Cardinal Arinze proved that Pope Francis was, indeed, a heretic and, therefore, should not be Pope. Arinze proved it and he was right.

4. Making a Catholic stand.
      Confronted with similar incidents that has occurred in the last Bishop's Synod, the bishops are obliged to stand up and block the obvious heresies of Pope Francis that are now pilling up. Otherwise those bishops who do not make a stand are guilty of serious sin. What? And the news stated that they even clapped after the reading of the apostolic exhortation. Clapping makes their passive sin of scandal into a positive sin of scandal. 
     It is sad to note that Bishops who, at first, bravely went against Pope Francis' heretical proposals  during the earlier Synods are slowly kowtowing during the latest Synods, specially in the latest exhortation 'amores laetitia.'  Like in all sin of scandal, the Pope is literally dragging down to hell all the Bishops by means of threats. 
     I was surprised to hear that when the Philippine Bishop's conference agreed to family planning in case of Zicka virus, the news stated that all the rest of the bishops agreed. I know that a few disagreed. But it seems they remained silent. That is unacceptable in the eyes of God. 'He who denies My teachings before men I will deny before My Father.' Imagine, the entire Bishop's conference in the Philippines had silently agreed to a sin of scandal. They become accomplices. 

5. The grave sin of scandal.
     The threat of Christ for those guilty of scandal should give us sleepless nights. ' Scandal will come to the world. But woe to him through whom it comes. It is better for him to tie a mill stone around his neck and jump into a lake.....than to cause scandal.'  

     Who is right? The Pope or those who were brave enough to block his scandals? Answer; those who have the four visible signs of the true Church are the ones who is right. Those who do not have the four visible signs are wrong. 
      It is possible for a Pope to impose a truth and scandalise many people like when Pope Paul VI impose prohibition of family planning. Myriads of bishops, priests and laymen were scandalized to the point of rebelling against the Church. Paul VI was not guilty of scandal; but most of the bishops and priests were guilty of passive scandal. They were scandalised when they should not have been. They were like Judas who was scandalised when Mary washed the feet of Christ with perfume. Mary's act was very good; it was not scandalous. But Judas was scandalized through a defect in him defined as passive scandal.
     But when a person does something wrong and this causes others to commit sin this is called positive scandal; this is very wrong. And this is what Pope Francis committed; it is one of the worse sins. He did not only show a scandalous behaviour, he preached to people through an official papal document called 'Apostolic exhortation' to commit sin; by telling bishops and priests to tolerate adultery and sacrilegious communion. That is telling three levels of people, bishops, priests and couples, to commit sin. That is active scandal on two counts.
     And Pope Francis encourage passive scandal. This happens when other people who heard what he said does not do anything; like the Filipino bishops who just kept quiet. That is what I would be guilty of if I do not say or write anything. I have read the scandalous things Pope Francis had been saying since the Bishop's Synod of 2014 up to now, 2016. I know he is telling the world to commit sin, which is positive scandal. If I don't say or react and make a stand I would be guilty of passive scandal, a very serious sin that can send me straight to hell. 

6. I must find out who is right and make a stand. If I make a wrong stand I would be guilty of positive scandal. 
     Because Pope Francis had made an apostolic exhortation, if I stay quiet, I would be guilty of passive scandal. Still a very serious sin which would be the sin of the majority who do not make a stand. 
     To read the more than 200 pages of 'Amores Laetitia' is too tedious. I'll just find out who is right; Pope Francis or the bishops he is threatening.....by finding out who has the visible signs of Catholicity.
       If anyone applies the four visible signs of the Nicene Creed or the 15 Marks of the Church on Pope Francis, it will be obvious to everyone that he does not have any single sign of the true Church.
     The bishops Pope Francis are threatening do not have the four complete visible signs either. But they have some partial visible signs. That is having more than what Pope Francis has. The choice is clear. Pope Francis is committing the very serious sin of positive scandal; worse, he is forcing men to sin through a Papal document. And he is threatening those who would block him. This is the height of scandal that even Christ could not imagine could happen. 
      The same visible signs can be used in judging the quarrel between the traditionalist and the novus ordo. Who is right? Neither  the traditionalist nor the novus ordo, but the one who have the four visible signs of the true Church.  Which neither of them have. 

 7. Difficulty in analysing the four visible signs from the Nicene Creed.
     To detect the four signs, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, these signs must be there in their completeness. And the signs must be present in the community, parish or diocese. For example, 'One' means all the members of the Catholic Church must believe in exactly the same doctrines taught by Christ. To go around to find out if everyone have the same belief within the parish would be a tedious job. But in psychology we can use a process called 'random sampling.' If everyone you meet in the parish believe in the same truths we can safely say, the parish is 'one.'
     As had happened during the last Synod, some good Bishops went against Pope Francis in his personal belief that married people living in adultery may receive Holy Communion. These bishop were certainly right in blocking Pope Francis with their vote. But when other proposals were introduced that were in violation of Christ's command, the same bishops succumbed, as in the case of some bishops succumbing to the errors of 'Amoris laetitia,'  which is merely a rehash of the Bishop's Synod 2014 and contained what the Bishops had already repudiated. Those things repudiated became the contents of the apostolic exhortations.  

8. The good bishops.
     There are many good bishops. They have partial visible signs of the true Church. Which make them partially Catholics. But they do not have the full four visible signs of the Church. This means that they are just in the process of knowing what these signs are and are just starting to acquire them. In which case their parish or diocese cannot have the four visible sign because they are not yet capable of teaching them on how to enter the Church. And this is the sad scenario in that we see many bishops 'one' with one another, as what happened during the Synod, but there was no unity in their diocese. We see priests who show signs of 'Catholicity' but there is none in his parish.
     This is the case of the Orthodox and the Pius X group. They do not have the complete four visible signs. But they have the beginnings of the 'third visible sign' of the true Church, Catholicity. That is having more signs than what the Vatican have; and yet they want to leave their better condition to join a more schismatic Catholic church. When Kiril and Pope Francis met, the Orthodox head mentioned the right doctrines they believed in and the wrong doctrines Pope Francis was preaching.  It was embarrassing for the Catholic Church. It appeared that the Church of Russia has more correct doctrines than the Church of Rome.
     So we stand pat on the discovery that we cannot find parishes, diocese, religious congregations and lay institutes who have the four visible signs of the true Church. Though their priest and bishops have partial signs.This means the parishes and dioceses are not yet Catholic. This is of utmost importance for all of us because if we die and we do not have the four visible signs, we cannot enter heaven. And this is the precarious condition of Pope Francis since he does not have any single visible sign of the true Church. He, also, have visible mortal sins, like scandal (i.e, causing others to sin), documented in a Papal Apostolic Exhortation.  He is going straight to hell with his errors and sins of scandal ....and he is forbidding everyone to stop him from doing so? 
    He is in a situation where God might chastise him by removing from him the grace of repentance because of the enormity of his sin. And no Jesuit is helping him. Well, the Jesuits are, also, guilty as an accomplice for having allowed his sin to have a domino effect upon the whole Church. They are guilty of the woeful passive scandal.

9. This was expected.
    As we have mentioned, the events of the future had been prophesied in Divine Revelation. And what is happening today is no brilliant analysis of mine. It has been prophesied in Scriptures. And all good Catholic worthy of his name have been expecting these events. 
    The 'Francis' event had been watched by St. Bonaventure and many other saints like Blessed John Newman. It had been mentioned by popular writers liked Hugh Benson who described  an anti Pope, named Francis,  who will rise in the 18OO subservient to the ambitious head of the U.S. And described by Roger Coleridge, S.J, popular retreat master in his 'Return of the King' where he described an anti-pope who will start a new Protestant religion (just like  Bergoglio , SJ. who  authored  the 'Church of Mercy and Compassion, ' a new Protestant Church based on the heresy of Martin Luther.) It was to be expected. 
     

DISOBEDIENCE TO ONE COMMAND OF CHRIST IS DISOBEDIENCE TO ALL THE COMMANDS OF CHRIST.

 1. The principles governing dogma and morality. 
     The dogmatic and moral teachings of the Catholic Church are like jigsaw puzzles.  Puzzles are designed in such a way that each piece interlock with one another.  If we hang it holding one end of the corner, the pieces cling together and does not separate into parts. It remains a whole. The better puzzles are all like this. But if we leave out one part and hold the whole puzzle up holding one corner, the whole thing separates and crumbles to pieces. And so, as long as one single piece of the puzzle had not been put in place, we cannot lift the whole puzzle because it will disintegrate into many parts. 
     
     The same can be said about the dogmas and morals of the Catholic Church. In theology, the so called 'unity of dogmas' consist in that the dogmas of the Church must be presented complete, otherwise it's complete picture which consist in 'Knowing God' cannot be known. Thus the person cannot make a mature 'Act of Faith,' this Act consisting in believing ALL the dogmas of the Catholic Church. 
     The same can be said about the Morals of the Catholic Church. We must know all the commands of Christ as presented in the New Testament.  This is to know  the 'Act of Loving God.' Take away one command and we will not know how to 'Love God,' which is the virtue of Charity. 
     Both Faith and Charity are needed to attain eternal life. Faith consists in knowing the complete dogmas of the Catholic Church; and Charity consists in knowing and doing all the commandments of Christ in the New Testament. 
     Thus the formula for evangelisation expressed in the Apostolic Commission as found in the last chapter of the Gospel of Matthew is ; 'Go to all nations, baptising them....teaching them 'ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.' Note that salvation is in fulfilling the Morals of the Catholic Church; it is not enough to know the Dogmas. The greatest command is; 'To love God.'.....i.e. morals. Not to know God...i.e., dogma.  Though both are needed; but the emphasis on morals is clear. "If you love Me, keep My commandments." He did not say keep My dogmas. Again, both are needed because a strong moral life is based on a strong dogmatic foundation.
     When Pope Benedict XVI instituted the 'Year of the Priests' he commanded all priests to return to the seminary and review THEIR MORAL THEOLOGY.   Not their dogmatic theology.  Sadly nobody returned to the seminary to review their Moral theology.  Proof? Ask your priest friends if they did. And from their answer you will see why we are in trouble. 

2. Now, lets go to the moral principle of St. James 2:9.
    Disbelief to one dogma is disbelief to all the dogmas. And disobedience to one moral command is disobedience to all moral commands.
     This is the reminder we hear at the beginning of every class in dogma and morals.     
     This verse is always quoted before  lessons on the 10 commandments of God, like in the Compendium of the Catechism according to Pope Benedict XVI. This is a rule of morality almost no one knows. From Pope Francis down to the cardinals, bishops, priest and practically all lay Catholics. And their confessions clearly show this ignorance. Nobody ever confesses; 'I disobeyed all the 10 commandments of God.'  And yet, that is what one does when he disobeys just one command of God as St. James wrote. 
     The complete verse is;  'But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.'
     'And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.' 
     'For he that said; thou shalt not commit adultery said also; thou shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery but shall kill,
 thou art become a transgressor of the law.'
     The emphasis is not on the law but on the affront on the giver of the law. You have insulted the giver of the law; and that is equivalent to contempt for all His laws. 
     
3.  Everybody seems to be ignorant of this moral axiom. It is very clear. Anyone who commits a mortal sin is considered as having committed all mortal sins. Because all sins are interconnected as all virtues are interconnected. All sins come from Pride; while all virtues come from Charity. So disobedience to one command is an act of pride and, therefore, is tantamount to disobedience to all the commands. While perfect obedience to one command is tantamount to obedience to all the commands of Christ. 
     For this reason, those living the spiritual life are encouraged to concentrate in doing each act as perfectly as possible because perfect obedience to one command is considered obedience to all the commands of Christ. 
     
 4. When we say perfect obedience to one command, we mean perfectly obedient to the way Christ gave the command.  We cannot modify any command according to our whims. 
     An example is this; to obey the command 'pray unceasingly' means pray unceasingly with perfect humility. The perfection is, first, in the humility and, afterwards, in obeying exactly Christ's instructions on how to pray.

5.  The beginning of the verse from James is significant; 'if you do or say things due to human respect,' i.e. to please others, this is a sin.  Human respect is the reason for all P.R. which seems to be the main motivation of all of Pope Francis' behaviour,  having hired an expensive PR group to advise the Vatican. Christ had said  'pleasers of men cannot be pleasers of God.'

6. The ramifications. The arms of the octopus. Lets look at an actual situation of an error in dogma and an error in morals. 
     What will happen if a Pope commits an error in dogma? St. James wrote; all his dogmatic pronouncements will be erroneous. Let's take an example. If a Pope says at the beginning of his papacy that 'to love' one does not need dogmas, he had commited an error in that he demolished the whole structure of the theological virtues that is the backbone of the Catholic teaching. From here it will be impossible for him to say anything right. All his pronouncements from here on up to the present will be dogmatic errors. 
     He will begin to teach that you can 'love' without Faith and Hope; which is impossible. He will say that you can 'love' even while in the state of mortal sin. He will say that you can be an atheist and still go to heaven. He will say that heretics and schismatics are children of God and will apologise for having corrected them; that would be two errors put together. And he will say that he cannot imagine a God having the heart to put anyone in hell. Then why did God create hell?
     Not only will he show irrationality in his thinking. He, also, shows lack of imagination. That is what happens when one does not have Faith because he had sinned against Faith by committing sin against the dogmas of the Church. 
     St. Paul's 'whatever is not of Faith is sin,' means when a person makes a pronouncement not based on the dogmas of the Catholic Faith, his pronouncement will surely be erroneous. Why?
    Because the teachings of the Catholic Church are in the supernatural level. And Faith is needed to understand the supernatural truths. If one remains in the natural level, pronouncements will be 'of the flesh,'  and not of the spirit. And whatever is not for Christ is against Christ.  If he makes a statement against one dogma, all his statements that will follow will be wrong.

     Now, let us see the consequence when one sins against morals. If while he was still a bishop he has committed the sin of scandal, which is one of the more serious sin, like allowing those living in mortal sin to receive Holy Communion, he will surely commit the next sins, like allowing all adulterers not only to receive Communion but for adulterers to remarry each other. And after committing the sins of abandoning their former partners, after abandoning their former children, after committing fornication with a new partner, and after invalidly marrying their new partner.....they can commit another sin of sacrilege adding it to their former several mortal sins. 
     Not only will that bishop multiply his own mortal sins. He will  drag other souls by multiplying their own mortal sins. And what if he makes his disobedience to the commands of Christ into an 'Apostolic Exhortation.' 
     If ever the Malthusian theory works, it is not in the field of population. It is in the field of sins against dogma and morals. What a Pope says rushes down to the cardinals, bishops, priest, laymen and their children with the speed of lightning. There is no stopping to it. The punishment for unrepentant sins is for the soul to fall and fall and fall into the next sin.
     The devil knows this. Everybody know this. Everybody knows we have to get to the top to destroy the whole. Crush the head of the snake and you destroy the whole. The devil knows this.  The Virgin Mary also know this. And so the battle is who will reach  the head first. 
     For many years the head, the Papacy,  had been protected; and even now. But the devil had introduced a new weapon. He does not try to control the head, the Pope, because he knows he cannot. But he knows he can deceive the world by putting up a anti-pope. In the history of the Church, the bishops and cardinals never knew which was the true Pope in such situation. Never. It took saints to know the difference. And the devil tried this more than forty times, with Felix in the 1400 as his last known attempt. He knows it worked in destroying many souls. Why should he not try it again. 

7.  Preparation for the final battle.
     Lucifer knows that if he is able to remove the dogmatic and moral guides of the Catholic Church, the world would have absolutely no way of finding out which is the true Church. Not knowing the true Church, the whole would not know what are the true dogma and moral teachings of Christ. Without dogmas and morals the whole world would be wallowing in sin, which is the situation right now.   

8. The result
     Imagine men in the world, from the Pope down to the smallest kid, spreading sin geometrically like the Malthusian theory. Why, we should have reached the guilt of the world as of during the time of Noah. Should it not be time for God to shut the door of the Ark. Christ had warned us in the Gospel that He would take away the vineyard, which is the Church, from unfaithful workers. Don't you think He had already done so. 
     A world filled with sin, there will be no grace to overcome the devils, no knowledge that can teach repentance, Faith, Hope and Charity, no visible sign by which we can find the true Church.

9. The first deluge. 
     During the first deluge, God shut the door. Those outside could not enter. During these Easter Sundays, it is said that the disciples were together and the door was shut. That figure is the image of the Catholic Church during these times. The Catholic Church was a community living together behind shut doors, St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote. And Christ as on that day appeared in the middle of the night, the exact time He will return to finally judge the world.
     And what is our problem? As we have repeated in many past posts; using the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed and using the 15 visible Marks of St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ and Doctor of the Church, WE CANNOT FIND ANY OF THESE MARKS.....in the parishes, in the Diocese....they are not in religious orders or lay institutes....not in families.....and not in the Bishop's Synod nor in the Vatican. We have challenged everyone to show us just one group who has these signs.  It seems that the door had been shut and we have been left outside. 
     These visible signs cannot be found because the world is filled with sin. But where is the Church? The Gospel of Pentecost gave the answer. "They are in community praying behind shut doors awaiting the coming of Christ through the closed doors. Pope Francis' open doors and open walls will only invite the bad spirits. 
    
   

IT'S TOO LATE !!!

 1. Parousia.
     In its ordinary meaning, Parousia means the coming of an important person. In Christianity it often refers to the Second coming of Christ, either when we die or at the 2nd coming of Christ at the end of the world. 
     It is used in both senses; our own personal death and the 2nd coming of Christ at the end of the world, because on both occasion Christ is going to judge us.
     Parousia, then, is when we come to face Christ in order to be judged.  And the way we prepare ourselves for both is identical; to be in the state of grace. To prepare for the second coming of Christ is to prepare ourselves for death.  So it really does not matter whether we are preparing for one or the other; there is only one preparation for both. 
     St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Robert Bellarmine have very helpful treatises on how to prepare for death.  The way to prepare for both death and the second coming of Christ is to repent and then have the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. 

2. How far and how near. 
    GPS  (Global Positioning System) is very helpful when we are driving a car and looking for a specific destination. It is like God, Himself, guiding us directly to our destination. Well, we have something similar in the spiritual life. The Liturgy !! The liturgy tells us the path that leads to heaven, from the very beginning up to the end; the beginning is the season of Advent, and the final goal is the Feast of Christ the King. Every Sunday, Holy Mother the Church describes the sign posts that we must watch in our spiritual travel. These sign posts are visible sign of spiritual realities. As we go through the Sundays, the Liturgy tells exactly where we stand before God. Are we nearly approaching Him or are we very far away from Him?
     It even tells us if we have taken the wrong road and how to go back to the right road; just like the GPS.  But the Liturgy can, also, tell us if we have taken the wrong road and that we are hopelessly lost, which the GPS does not do. So, we really have a better instrument in the spiritual life made by God, Himself. 

3. Two signs.  A  pre-warning sign  showing we can still change our course and another sign showing it is too late.
    The whole of Scriptures is filled with pre-warning signs and hopeless signs. These are all meant to prepare us for the final pre-sign and final it's-too-late sign.
     Let us look at the story of the deluge during the time off Noah.  The times of Noah were very bad and sinful times. So bad that God regretted He created man and decided to end the human race. But, of course, this was a temporary set back for the human race. The race will continue to exist and continue to be tested by God. But this one story will be a lesson on how the next subsequent Parousias will look like and how man should prepare for them. 
    It will not happen every year; but will happen often enough to teach men enough lesson to prepare for the last Parousia, the end of the world. 

     What is the pre-warning sign in the case of Noah? The building of the Ark. The sinful world of Noah saw the Ark being built. And Noah was telling them why he was  building the Ark; because of a coming chastisement due to  their sinfulness. At that time everybody had more than enough time to change and repent. But they did not.  The Ark was finish and the rain came; that was still a pre-warning sign. But when God, Himself, closed the door of the Ark...that was it. It was now too late. They knock and the door was not opened. The water rose, they called for help and for mercy, but it was too late. The door of the Ark was closed and God would not allow them to enter.
     Note that most of the people wanted to enter the Ark which was a figure of the Catholic Church but they could not because God closed the door. There is a possibility that one day God will close the main door of the Church which is the entrance shown by evangelisation. I repeat; God will close down the main entrance to the Catholic  Church. The story of Noah clearly shows this. 
     This is the urgency why we should set all things aside and work, first and foremost, to enter the Catholic Church before doing anything else........because the main door might be closed by God. Remember it was not Noah who closed the door. It was God. 

4. Noah is a figure for today.
     We should expect the same thing to happen today. That one day when God sees the sins of today that surpass the sins during Noah's time, rise like flood waters He will invite souls to enter the Catholic Church. But if He sees their continuous refusal, He will shut the main door of the Church. We will cry and knock but no one will open the door because what God has shut no man can open. Then we will all drown in our sins.

5. The Hope in the New Testament.
     God in His mercy will still shut the main door as in the time of Noah. But as a little joke that spread during my seminary days with the Jesuits, St. Peter noticed a steady flow of souls inside heaven though the main door is closed. It seems that a woman had opened a very small door somewhere to let some of her choiced souls inside. And that woman is the Blessed Virgin Mary.  
    At first , I though this was just some bad Jesuit joke like Karl Rahner's  transignification heresy. But no. This was something true and genuine. In a picturesque way, the Blessed Virgin Mary seems to have open a very small door in the Ark of the Catholic Church. So that in the coming expected prophecy that the door of the Ark of the Catholic Church is closed by God Himself, Mary can allow entrance to some of her choiced souls. It is a hopeful element of the New Testament. 

6. The small door. 
     And this small door is found in Divine Revelation. The entire story of the Blessed Virgin Mary is just about her being the small door. As of recently, this was noticed in Pope Paul VI document on Mariology, 'Marialis Cultus' where he described the Catholic Church as a Marian Church. Earlier St. Grignon de Montfort had explicitly described her as the door that leads to Christ as the head of the Mystical Body. John Paul II was most expressive of Mary's role as such that he took the title 'Totus Tuus' from St. Grignon. 
     When Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI  presented their 'new' evangelisation to the whole world they were, in effect, saying that the main door of the Ark of the Catholic Church, which is the main entrance through which all should enter, has now been shut by God. And that the 'new' evangelisation' is the new path that leads to that small door opened by the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is not for all.  It is only for a few choiced soul devoted to her.
     This small door was first described by St. Bonaventure from where Joseph Ratzinger noticed it and made it into his thesis as a young priest. This was incorporated into some Franciscan spirituality since St. Francis of Assisi mentioned it in his farewell address to his friars.

7. The Woman clothed with the Sun.
     This 'new' evangelisation is described in the Apocalypse on the 'Great Sign' mentioned by Pope Paul VI, thus the first words of his encyclical 'Marialis Cultus.' It was earlier described in the last Gospel of St. John as he narrated the boat trip in lake Tiberius. So this teaching is all over Scriptures and in the teachings of the saints. 
     It is clear that the rain described in Noah's deluge started from the very beginning of the Church. It seems that the waters of sin begun to rise around the 19th century, at the time of Pius IX when the Blessed Virgin Mary begun to appear regularly on earth. The rise of modernism during the French Revolution is suspected as the time the doors of the Ark were closed. And the apparitions of Mary were her efforts to point to the little opening into the Church described clearly in the Apocalypse. But it is coded so that almost nobody among the bishops and priests today seems to know where that door is. 

8. Significance of this truth.
    Since the main door of the Church is closed as prophetically portrayed by Noah's Ark, it would be impossible for most to enter the Catholic Church today. As before, they can shout and beg and knock but the door will not be opened. There is only one small door open, personally controlled by Mary. And like before, Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI, true to their office as Popes had pointed to that door through the 'new' evangelisation.
     The great danger is everybody, today, is using the word 'new' evangelisation but the direction they are pointing to is the opposite direction, away from that small door and away from the closed main door. Pope Francis and most of all the bishops and priests are pointing to the wrong direction and calling it 'new' evangelisation.' So beware. 

IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH GONE?

1. Of course, not.
     Christ had promised the gates of hell will not prevail against her.....well, the gates of hell will not prevail against her.  She will continue to exist up to the end of times because this Church will be the only welcoming committee that will meet Christ when He comes.
     But where is she? She is there where Divine Revelation said she would be. We have the four visible signs mentioned in the Nicene Creed. We have often referred to the 15 Marks of the true Church according to St. Robert Bellarmine. Why don't we use these visible signs and look for her.
     God, precisely, gave us these signs so we can find her when we wish to look for her to enter her. Well, that is it. We will only find her if we look for her because we want to enter her. If we are just going to look for her out of curiosity or for other inferior reasons, like for research work, we will not find her. 

2. Looking for her.
    Looking for the Church today will be very difficult. All the prophecies from Scripture says so. With the 'decay of Faith' and  the 'waxing cold of Charity' prophesied by Christ  that will be the air that we shall breath,  to the total darkness prophesied by the Blessed Virgin in Quito, Ecuador  that will cover our eyes.......it will be a miracle if we find the Church today. 
     Though all the signs mentioned by the Creed and by Bellarmine are all still there, the blindness of the men of today will prevent them from seeing the signs. They won't see the signs even if those signs are just under their noses. It is the same chastisement for their infidelity. 

3. The Messiah is born.
     The Messiah was born, He walked the earth, preached in Synagogues, perform wonders in the streets and they still asked; 'Are you the Messiah?' The Messiah was under their very nose but they completely missed Him. In the same way, today, most will not find the Church. It is a punishment from God for their not really being interested in the Church.
     How many have ever studied the different signs of the true Church and gone around to look for the Church. None of the bishops and none of the priests. Because if they were truly interested they would have looked for the Church long ago and they would have discovered that their own parish or diocese does not have the visible signs of the Church. And they should have lost all sleep from then on up to now. Because to know that you are outside the Church means damnation. So how can he sleep. He can sleep because he never checked on the signs and gone around to seek the Church.

4. The Church today was led  recently  by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. During their Papacy, these two Popes exhibited all the visible signs of the true Church. These signs can be found both in their writings and in their actions. If some signs are not obvious, the defect is in the beholder in that they have not really understood the signs.  Or they did not know how to apply it on the Church for the purpose of analysis.  Unable to apply the visible signs on the two previous Popes, many  are unable to apply it on the present Pope. This inability is beginning to show that we are facing, not just by a little problem of memory; but a very serious sin of ignorance of the Faith. 

5. Like father, like son.
    Because, just like the Jews, our present Cardinals, Bishops and priests are undergoing 'the decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity' it would follow that the rest of the Catholic Laity would be in the same rut. Because the world is in spiritual darkness, nobody is noticing what is going on. 
     For so many years, this blog had been sounding the alarm that the house is on fire. And that we should either put out the fire or jump out of the house. We have suggested how to do both. But there is no reaction. Or worse they want to shut up our voice, instead.  But we cannot because our own salvation depends on 'giving freely what we have received freely.'

6. Where is the Church?
     The first Church is the Holy Family. Then its continuation is the Apostolic community. Both are the images of the Catholic Church. Is your parish and diocese like the Holy Family and Apostolic community? Of course, not. So let's see how they look like and that is how the Catholic Church should look today.
     The Catholic Church today was described by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in their 'new' evangelisation.' There is nothing in their description that did not come from  the past Father, Doctors and saints of the Catholic Church.
     The description given by Pope John Paul was taken from Scriptures and his favourite devotion, St. Grignon de Montfort.  Benedict XVI took his from St. Benedict,  St. Bonaventure (his thesis) and the monastic tradition.  Some were taken from St. Thomas of Aquinas commentary on the last Chapter of John. Also from the Apocalypse on the description of the Woman clothed with the Sun. And, of course, the works of St. Basil.
     All these authors describe the Catholic Church in her period of perfect development  about this our time. 
     Each member of the Church will be invited personally and individually by Christ; just as Christ did during apostolic times. Due to the absence of the physical Christ, this invitation will be a pure act of grace. The Psalm states that this invitation will be done secretly. 
    The individuals who are invited makes up the 153 large fishes when the net was lowered only on the right side and caught only good fishes. 
     As they were invited they were required to leave all things as was required from the young rich man. Pope Benedict emphasized that the invitation was for individuals and not for large groups. This was the main theme of John Paul's 'Veritatis Splendour' that was meant to revitalise the Church specifically addressed only to the Bishops but hardly anyone implemented the Encyclical. So we do not have a church. 
     They live  a very ascetical life in community having their possessions in common and observing poverty. Pope Benedict took this from the 'new' monasticism concept of the Church by St. Bonaventure. 
     St. Grignon de Montfort described them thus, they have the cross as an emblem.
     St. Basil established, as a bishop, a Catholic Church in Turkey. It was a complete Catholic Church. The members left all things, lived in community, recited the complete Divine Office, and there was manual work. What was unique in his Church called Basiliades is its composition. Those who lived together in community but separated according to grouping were all kinds of people; young and old, healthy and sickly, priest, bishops and laymen, orphans and entire families, lame and blind, alive and dying. It was a complete microcosm of an entire Catholic Church.
     When the European Union was organised, the Catholic members of the committee designed a return of Europe to Christianity according to the Basiliades. It was an honest attempt of Europe to return to her Catholic roots. That was the original goal of the committee......until the atheist and heretics took over. The only Catholic thing that remained is the emblem......the emblem of the Woman of the Apocalypse, the blue color of the Blessed Virgin and her 12 stars. At least they knew that that was how the Catholic Church look like, ...like the Basiliades. Is your Parish and Diocese like that?  
     Just one more. They live in strict enclosures and only get together for the Sacrifice of the Mass. And though their locality is unknown they are in constant battle with the forces of evil in the spiritual fields. That's why outsiders see nothing and hear nothing. 

    Pope Benedict had been asking Bishops during their 'Ad Limina' visits if any of them had seen them.  And up to the present all have said 'No.' Yes, during these times, you will not find the four visible signs of the Church nor the 15 Marks of St. Bellarmine. You will not find the Church.........not even in the Vatican.