1. The five weeks after Easter.
During the five weeks after Easter, Holy Mother the Church is fine-tuning the Life of Faith. She is perfecting our Faith. And Christ alone can do that as the Gospels show. He perfected the Faith of Thomas, of the apostles, the two disciples from Emmaus and at the end of Phillip and Andrew.
To attain everlasting life we must have the theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity. The theological virtues are the main structures of the Catholic Church. Everything else is built around and in between them.
But before God bestows the theological virtues, keeping in mind that these virtues are gifts of God which no man can attain on his own, the person concerned must completely finish his Life of Repentance.
2. The Life of repentance.
The life of repentance is for life. Even if a soul has finished his life of repentance by which he works for the forgiveness of all his past sins, though he has received from God the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, he must continue his life of repentance overlapping with these virtues. Why? Because this is the only way he can sustain his spiritual journey through Faith, Hope and Charity. The life of repentance is his safeguard to maintain his momentum through the three theological virtues.
3. Perfect Faith prerequisite for Charity.
Perfect life of repentance must be attained before God bestows the theological virtue of Faith. Faith must be perfect before God bestows the theological virtue of Charity to the soul.
How do we know that the Life of repentance has reached some degree of perfection? We do not commit our past sins again. Though we may still commit many imperfections, for a just man still falls seven times a day.
4. Charity is needed for salvation.
Faith is not enough for salvation. St. Thomas wrote that the devil has Faith but he trembles. Faith must be accompanied with good works. Martin Luther's heresy is that he believes one can be saved by Faith without good works. Good works is Charity. Faith and Charity must co-exist for a soul to be saved.
If Faith is not perfect, like if it is weak, it can still be easily lost due to a slight storm as what happened to the apostles in the boat. The danger of losing Faith is remote if it is accompanied by Charity. St Thomas wrote that though Faith must be perfected, Charity cannot be perfected here on earth; but only in heaven.
5. The fine-tuning of Faith or the perfection of Faith.
Though man can work in perfecting his life of repentance and this can be done in a very good monastic environment, Faith can only be perfect by Christ, Himself. This is clearly shown in all the Gospels of the five weeks after Easter preceding Ascension and Pentecost. No one can ascend to heaven and no one can receive the Holy Spirit and no one can be completely inside the Catholic Church without the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will not descend on anyone whose Faith is not perfect. That is why Christ, Himself, is very intense in personally perfecting the Faith of the apostles. Nobody else can do this.
When Phillip asked Christ where He was going to go and what is the way, Christ showed that Phillip knew everything he has been taught but for a slight defect in his memory his Faith remained imperfect. Thus Christ corrects him, and teaches him to enable him to perfect his Faith.
Christ said; 'I am going to God and I am the Way.' I, Christ is God to whom I am going and I, Christ, am, also, the way. And since you are seeing Me, therefore, you really know where I am going and you, also, know the say. So Phillip, you have no problem. You know the goal and the way but your Faith was imperfect so you forgot what you already know. Forgetfulness was what made Phillip's Faith imperfect. Forgetfulness was also the defect of the Faith of the two disciples from Emmaus and the defect of Thomas. And all they needed was a reminder to perfect their Faith.
6. The promise of the Holy Spirit.
Christ did the reminding to the apostles who often forgot the teaching of Christ. Whenever the teachings of Christ are forgotten, this makes the Faith imperfect. In the 5 weeks after Easter, Christ did all the recalling and reminding to cure the forgetfulness. After the Ascension, Christ would send the Holy Spirit to keep the Faith of the Catholic Church perfect, as the Gospels wrote, ' the Holy Spirit will remind you of all that I have taught you.' Remind you.....!
The perfecting or fine-tuning of one's Faith is the work of Christ and today is still the work of Christ but with the help of the Holy Spirit. Our cooperation is needed. Christ, during the 6th weekday of Easter reminds us that 'we must remain in the Love of God.' For Christ and the Holy Spirit to be able to continue to perfect our Faith we must, in our turn, continue to obey the commands of Christ as found in the New Testament. That is how we remain 'in the Love of God.' Otherwise, God will not perfect our Faith. Without perfect Faith we cannot have Charity. Without Charity that Faith can easily be lost. And as a consequence we are still in danger of going to hell.
7. State of the world - there is no Faith to perfect.
The person without Faith is open to the devil. Judas had no Faith. Up to the end he did not believe that Christ was the Messiah. Because of this Satan entered into him
The world, especially most Catholics, do not have perfect Faith. They may have a little Faith; but that makes the devil having more Faith than most Catholics. Their Faith is so little that they can lose it just by the mere fact that the stock market goes down. Beside Christ prophesied that the world today will have no Faith because of the 'waxing of charity.' No Charity and one's Faith can easily be lost very easily with the slightest temptation. And the world today is filled with temptations.
The sign of this weak Faith or even the absence of Faith is the prevailing ignorance of the teachings and commandments of Christ. Even Pope Francis does not know that adultery is a sin. He does not even know that receiving Holy Communion in mortal sin is not allowed because it is sacrilege. He does not even know that atheist go to hell precisely because they have no Faith. He does not even know that there is a hell. There is nothing to perfect or fine tune in the Faith of Pope Francis because there is nothing to perfect. And most of his close bishop and cardinal associates are in the same spiritual state. Like father like son.
And many bishops and priests are subscribing to this infidelity prophesied by Blessed John Cardinal Newman in his article 'infidelity of the future.'
8. The theological virtues are the work of God.
As the Liturgy showed, this perfecting and fine-tuning of Faith is the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit not by men in seminaries or theological schools. From the previous post where we described the signs and Marks of the true Catholic Church, we showed that most catholics, specially bishops and priests do not have perfect Faith by which we enter the Catholic Church. How do we know? They do not have the four visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Catholic Church. These signs and Marks should appear if we have perfect Faith.
So what do we do. As we have suggested; as Christ said, go to your room and shut the door. Then study the teachings and commands of Christ as found in the New Testament and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church.
Or to put it simply; go to your room within your soul. Lock the door of your mind to prevent distraction. Have a good table with a lamp and a comfortable chair (no mystical meaning here). Have a highlighting pen made in Korea (it is easier to erase). Then get St. Thomas Aquinas' 'Catana Aurea's' commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew (one Gospel is enough). Highlight especially the commandments of Christ.........and by the end of the Gospel of Matthew you will be very well on the way to having Christ and the Holy Spirit perfecting your Faith. Now, you are ready to receive the Holy Spirit. You do not have to attend those charismatic sessions where they do not even attain Faith. In you room, Christ will show you the why to all these because He promised; 'He will teach you all things and remind you of all I have taught you.' You will need nothing else.
This command of Christ is perfect for the Orthodox who still treasure the eremitical life and for the Chinese underground Catholics who must chose to disobey Pope Francis to be able to obey God. Go to your room, lock the door and perfect your Faith there. After all Christ said so.
Monday, May 07, 2018
FIVE WEEKS AFTER EASTER
1. The five weeks after Easter.
During the five weeks after Easter, Holy Mother the Church is fine-tuning the Life of Faith. She is perfecting our Faith. And Christ alone can do that as the Gospels show. He perfected the Faith of Thomas, of the apostles, the two disciples from Emmaus and at the end of Phillip and Andrew.
To attain everlasting life we must have the theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity. The theological virtues are the main structures of the Catholic Church. Everything else is built around and in between them.
But before God bestows the theological virtues, keeping in mind that these virtues are gifts of God which no man can attain on his own, the person concerned must completely finish his Life of Repentance.
2. The Life of repentance.
The life of repentance is for life. Even if a soul has finished his life of repentance by which he works for the forgiveness of all his past sins, though he has received from God the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, he must continue his life of repentance overlapping with these virtues. Why? Because this is the only way he can sustain his spiritual journey through Faith, Hope and Charity. The life of repentance is his safeguard to maintain his momentum through the three theological virtues.
3. Perfect Faith prerequisite for Charity.
Perfect life of repentance must be attained before God bestows the theological virtue of Faith. Faith must be perfect before God bestows the theological virtue of Charity to the soul.
How do we know that the Life of repentance has reached some degree of perfection? We do not commit our past sins again. Though we may still commit many imperfections, for a just man still falls seven times a day.
4. Charity is needed for salvation.
Faith is not enough for salvation. St. Thomas wrote that the devil has Faith but he trembles. Faith must be accompanied with good works. Martin Luther's heresy is that he believes one can be saved by Faith without good works. Good works is Charity. Faith and Charity must co-exist for a soul to be saved.
If Faith is not perfect, like if it is weak, it can still be easily lost due to a slight storm as what happened to the apostles in the boat. The danger of losing Faith is remote if it is accompanied by Charity. St Thomas wrote that though Faith must be perfected, Charity cannot be perfected here on earth; but only in heaven.
5. The fine-tuning of Faith or the perfection of Faith.
Though man can work in perfecting his life of repentance and this can be done in a very good monastic environment, Faith can only be perfect by Christ, Himself. This is clearly shown in all the Gospels of the five weeks after Easter preceding Ascension and Pentecost. No one can ascend to heaven and no one can receive the Holy Spirit and no one can be completely inside the Catholic Church without the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will not descend on anyone whose Faith is not perfect. That is why Christ, Himself, is very intense in personally perfecting the Faith of the apostles. Nobody else can do this.
When Phillip asked Christ where He was going to go and what is the way, Christ showed that Phillip knew everything he has been taught but for a slight defect in his memory his Faith remained imperfect. Thus Christ corrects him, and teaches him to enable him to perfect his Faith.
Christ said; 'I am going to God and I am the Way.' I, Christ is God to whom I am going and I, Christ, am, also, the way. And since you are seeing Me, therefore, you really know where I am going and you, also, know the say. So Phillip, you have no problem. You know the goal and the way but your Faith was imperfect so you forgot what you already know. Forgetfulness was what made Phillip's Faith imperfect. Forgetfulness was also the defect of the Faith of the two disciples from Emmaus and the defect of Thomas. And all they needed was a reminder to perfect their Faith.
6. The promise of the Holy Spirit.
Christ did the reminding to the apostles who often forgot the teaching of Christ. Whenever the teachings of Christ are forgotten, this makes the Faith imperfect. In the 5 weeks after Easter, Christ did all the recalling and reminding to cure the forgetfulness. After the Ascension, Christ would send the Holy Spirit to keep the Faith of the Catholic Church perfect, as the Gospels wrote, ' the Holy Spirit will remind you of all that I have taught you.' Remind you.....!
The perfecting or fine-tuning of one's Faith is the work of Christ and today is still the work of Christ but with the help of the Holy Spirit. Our cooperation is needed. Christ, during the 6th weekday of Easter reminds us that 'we must remain in the Love of God.' For Christ and the Holy Spirit to be able to continue to perfect our Faith we must, in our turn, continue to obey the commands of Christ as found in the New Testament. That is how we remain 'in the Love of God.' Otherwise, God will not perfect our Faith. Without perfect Faith we cannot have Charity. Without Charity that Faith can easily be lost. And as a consequence we are still in danger of going to hell.
7. State of the world - there is no Faith to perfect.
The person without Faith is open to the devil. Judas had no Faith. Up to the end he did not believe that Christ was the Messiah. Because of this Satan entered into him
The world, especially most Catholics, do not have perfect Faith. They may have a little Faith; but that makes the devil having more Faith than most Catholics. Their Faith is so little that they can lose it just by the mere fact that the stock market goes down. Beside Christ prophesied that the world today will have no Faith because of the 'waxing of charity.' No Charity and one's Faith can easily be lost very easily with the slightest temptation. And the world today is filled with temptations.
The sign of this weak Faith or even the absence of Faith is the prevailing ignorance of the teachings and commandments of Christ. Even Pope Francis does not know that adultery is a sin. He does not even know that receiving Holy Communion in mortal sin is not allowed because it is sacrilege. He does not even know that atheist go to hell precisely because they have no Faith. He does not even know that there is a hell. There is nothing to perfect or fine tune in the Faith of Pope Francis because there is nothing to perfect. And most of his close bishop and cardinal associates are in the same spiritual state. Like father like son.
And many bishops and priests are subscribing to this infidelity prophesied by Blessed John Cardinal Newman in his article 'infidelity of the future.'
8. The theological virtues are the work of God.
As the Liturgy showed, this perfecting and fine-tuning of Faith is the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit not by men in seminaries or theological schools. From the previous post where we described the signs and Marks of the true Catholic Church, we showed that most catholics, specially bishops and priests do not have perfect Faith by which we enter the Catholic Church. How do we know? They do not have the four visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Catholic Church. These signs and Marks should appear if we have perfect Faith.
So what do we do. As we have suggested; as Christ said, go to your room and shut the door. Then study the teachings and commands of Christ as found in the New Testament and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church.
Or to put it simply; go to your room within your soul. Lock the door of your mind to prevent distraction. Have a good table with a lamp and a comfortable chair (no mystical meaning here). Have a highlighting pen made in Korea (it is easier to erase). Then get St. Thomas Aquinas' 'Catana Aurea's' commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew (one Gospel is enough). Highlight especially the commandments of Christ.........and by the end of the Gospel of Matthew you will be very well on the way to having Christ and the Holy Spirit perfecting your Faith. Now, you are ready to receive the Holy Spirit. You do not have to attend those charismatic sessions where they do not even attain Faith. In you room, Christ will show you the why to all these because He promised; 'He will teach you all things and remind you of all I have taught you.' You will need nothing else.
This command of Christ is perfect for the Orthodox who still treasure the eremitical life and for the Chinese underground Catholics who must chose to disobey Pope Francis to be able to obey God. Go to your room, lock the door and perfect your Faith there. After all Christ said so.
During the five weeks after Easter, Holy Mother the Church is fine-tuning the Life of Faith. She is perfecting our Faith. And Christ alone can do that as the Gospels show. He perfected the Faith of Thomas, of the apostles, the two disciples from Emmaus and at the end of Phillip and Andrew.
To attain everlasting life we must have the theological virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity. The theological virtues are the main structures of the Catholic Church. Everything else is built around and in between them.
But before God bestows the theological virtues, keeping in mind that these virtues are gifts of God which no man can attain on his own, the person concerned must completely finish his Life of Repentance.
2. The Life of repentance.
The life of repentance is for life. Even if a soul has finished his life of repentance by which he works for the forgiveness of all his past sins, though he has received from God the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, he must continue his life of repentance overlapping with these virtues. Why? Because this is the only way he can sustain his spiritual journey through Faith, Hope and Charity. The life of repentance is his safeguard to maintain his momentum through the three theological virtues.
3. Perfect Faith prerequisite for Charity.
Perfect life of repentance must be attained before God bestows the theological virtue of Faith. Faith must be perfect before God bestows the theological virtue of Charity to the soul.
How do we know that the Life of repentance has reached some degree of perfection? We do not commit our past sins again. Though we may still commit many imperfections, for a just man still falls seven times a day.
4. Charity is needed for salvation.
Faith is not enough for salvation. St. Thomas wrote that the devil has Faith but he trembles. Faith must be accompanied with good works. Martin Luther's heresy is that he believes one can be saved by Faith without good works. Good works is Charity. Faith and Charity must co-exist for a soul to be saved.
If Faith is not perfect, like if it is weak, it can still be easily lost due to a slight storm as what happened to the apostles in the boat. The danger of losing Faith is remote if it is accompanied by Charity. St Thomas wrote that though Faith must be perfected, Charity cannot be perfected here on earth; but only in heaven.
5. The fine-tuning of Faith or the perfection of Faith.
Though man can work in perfecting his life of repentance and this can be done in a very good monastic environment, Faith can only be perfect by Christ, Himself. This is clearly shown in all the Gospels of the five weeks after Easter preceding Ascension and Pentecost. No one can ascend to heaven and no one can receive the Holy Spirit and no one can be completely inside the Catholic Church without the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will not descend on anyone whose Faith is not perfect. That is why Christ, Himself, is very intense in personally perfecting the Faith of the apostles. Nobody else can do this.
When Phillip asked Christ where He was going to go and what is the way, Christ showed that Phillip knew everything he has been taught but for a slight defect in his memory his Faith remained imperfect. Thus Christ corrects him, and teaches him to enable him to perfect his Faith.
Christ said; 'I am going to God and I am the Way.' I, Christ is God to whom I am going and I, Christ, am, also, the way. And since you are seeing Me, therefore, you really know where I am going and you, also, know the say. So Phillip, you have no problem. You know the goal and the way but your Faith was imperfect so you forgot what you already know. Forgetfulness was what made Phillip's Faith imperfect. Forgetfulness was also the defect of the Faith of the two disciples from Emmaus and the defect of Thomas. And all they needed was a reminder to perfect their Faith.
6. The promise of the Holy Spirit.
Christ did the reminding to the apostles who often forgot the teaching of Christ. Whenever the teachings of Christ are forgotten, this makes the Faith imperfect. In the 5 weeks after Easter, Christ did all the recalling and reminding to cure the forgetfulness. After the Ascension, Christ would send the Holy Spirit to keep the Faith of the Catholic Church perfect, as the Gospels wrote, ' the Holy Spirit will remind you of all that I have taught you.' Remind you.....!
The perfecting or fine-tuning of one's Faith is the work of Christ and today is still the work of Christ but with the help of the Holy Spirit. Our cooperation is needed. Christ, during the 6th weekday of Easter reminds us that 'we must remain in the Love of God.' For Christ and the Holy Spirit to be able to continue to perfect our Faith we must, in our turn, continue to obey the commands of Christ as found in the New Testament. That is how we remain 'in the Love of God.' Otherwise, God will not perfect our Faith. Without perfect Faith we cannot have Charity. Without Charity that Faith can easily be lost. And as a consequence we are still in danger of going to hell.
7. State of the world - there is no Faith to perfect.
The person without Faith is open to the devil. Judas had no Faith. Up to the end he did not believe that Christ was the Messiah. Because of this Satan entered into him
The world, especially most Catholics, do not have perfect Faith. They may have a little Faith; but that makes the devil having more Faith than most Catholics. Their Faith is so little that they can lose it just by the mere fact that the stock market goes down. Beside Christ prophesied that the world today will have no Faith because of the 'waxing of charity.' No Charity and one's Faith can easily be lost very easily with the slightest temptation. And the world today is filled with temptations.
The sign of this weak Faith or even the absence of Faith is the prevailing ignorance of the teachings and commandments of Christ. Even Pope Francis does not know that adultery is a sin. He does not even know that receiving Holy Communion in mortal sin is not allowed because it is sacrilege. He does not even know that atheist go to hell precisely because they have no Faith. He does not even know that there is a hell. There is nothing to perfect or fine tune in the Faith of Pope Francis because there is nothing to perfect. And most of his close bishop and cardinal associates are in the same spiritual state. Like father like son.
And many bishops and priests are subscribing to this infidelity prophesied by Blessed John Cardinal Newman in his article 'infidelity of the future.'
8. The theological virtues are the work of God.
As the Liturgy showed, this perfecting and fine-tuning of Faith is the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit not by men in seminaries or theological schools. From the previous post where we described the signs and Marks of the true Catholic Church, we showed that most catholics, specially bishops and priests do not have perfect Faith by which we enter the Catholic Church. How do we know? They do not have the four visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Catholic Church. These signs and Marks should appear if we have perfect Faith.
So what do we do. As we have suggested; as Christ said, go to your room and shut the door. Then study the teachings and commands of Christ as found in the New Testament and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church.
Or to put it simply; go to your room within your soul. Lock the door of your mind to prevent distraction. Have a good table with a lamp and a comfortable chair (no mystical meaning here). Have a highlighting pen made in Korea (it is easier to erase). Then get St. Thomas Aquinas' 'Catana Aurea's' commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew (one Gospel is enough). Highlight especially the commandments of Christ.........and by the end of the Gospel of Matthew you will be very well on the way to having Christ and the Holy Spirit perfecting your Faith. Now, you are ready to receive the Holy Spirit. You do not have to attend those charismatic sessions where they do not even attain Faith. In you room, Christ will show you the why to all these because He promised; 'He will teach you all things and remind you of all I have taught you.' You will need nothing else.
This command of Christ is perfect for the Orthodox who still treasure the eremitical life and for the Chinese underground Catholics who must chose to disobey Pope Francis to be able to obey God. Go to your room, lock the door and perfect your Faith there. After all Christ said so.
Saturday, May 05, 2018
THE GOOD SHEPHERD Sunday.
1. Entering the Catholic Church.
There is no salvation outside the Church. So it becomes very important for us to know which is the true Church; and we must know the door through which we can enter the Church.
Here we see the importance of our past posts on the visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church. We have to be sure which is the true Church before we enter it. Have you wondered why there are so many souls in the wrong churches. 20,000 when we last counted the Protestant denomination. How could so many souls enter the wrong church. Because they did not ascertain that they were entering the true Church when they entered. 99% of the human race had committed that mistake. Even Catholics never checked if they entered the true Church when they entered, because they did not know how to check. Until now most bishops and priest do no know how to check which is the true Church shown by the fact that most bishops cannot prove that their diocese is Catholic and most priest cannot prove that their parish is Catholic. So most laymen cannot prove that they, themselves, are Catholics.
Everyone is just entering whatever open door they see. Even in the matter of immigration. Pope Francis is encouraging all nations to keep their doors open for all. No. The Catholic Church is very strict. The door of the Catholic Church is lock for everyone. Nobody entered unless they are led by the Good Shepherd who is Christ. And unless they enter through the only one gate and that is Christ, too. Anybody who tries to enter without following the Good Shepherd and without entering the only one approved door is condemned.
While the US, Poland, Hungary, Austria, etc are following this evangelical procedure knowing it is the best arrangement, Germany, Canada, France, Australia, the Philippines, etc are not following this wise evangelical procedure in governing the rules of entry. This is the strict rule of entry into the Catholic Church. That is why the Catholic Church has members who are only the best; the most Charitable, those who truly love God and neighbor.
2. The Good Shepherd.
Christ said; 'I am the Good Shepherd.' Christ alone is the Good Shepherd. The Pope, the bishops and the priests are shepherds only if they are united to the Good Shepherd, Christ, and are commissioned by Christ to be shepherds. In spirituality, therefore, priests, bishops and the Pope must teach exactly the teachings of Christ with no changes.
St. Thomas commends; other persons must be one heart and one mind with Christ for them to qualify as other Good Shepherd. Otherwise, they are bad shepherds or thieves.
The Church described this Gospel as Good Shepherd to differentiate it from bad shepherds. And Christ, precisely showed that there are Good Shepherds and there are bad shepherds; so of which thieves.
The Good Shepherd is distinguished by the fact that he will lay down his life for the sheep. While the hired hand will run away when the wolf comes; while the thief is there to steal the sheep.
The Good Shepherd will continue to watch over the sheep, keeping the doctrines and moral of the sheepfold intact amidst persecutions,
The hired hand watches over the sheep fold but when heresies attack the sheepfold, the hired hand does not defend the fold but abandons it to heretical teachings.
The thief steals. Like Pope Francis who is getting the sheeps to join a left leaning philosophy of communism he has learned from being involved in liberation theology which is a communist leaning South American tendency. The catholics are being scattered due to the confusing errors of Pope Francis thus exposing them to be killed by the wolves. The bishops are even more pronouncedly scattered.
3.My sheep knows me.
The sheep knows the voice of the shepherd. Many Catholics know the doctrines the shepherd was teaching before Vatican II. Now, they cannot recognise the voice of Pope Francis. His voice does not sound like the voice of past Popes; definitely it is not like the voice of Christ as heard from Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. St.Thomas wrote that the voice of the shepherd must be identical to the sound of the voice of Christ as it sounds in Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. It must be the same doctrines and morals. But it is not. It sounds more like the voice of a bad shepherd, the voice of a thief who wants to steal and kill souls.
There is no salvation outside the Church. So it becomes very important for us to know which is the true Church; and we must know the door through which we can enter the Church.
Here we see the importance of our past posts on the visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church. We have to be sure which is the true Church before we enter it. Have you wondered why there are so many souls in the wrong churches. 20,000 when we last counted the Protestant denomination. How could so many souls enter the wrong church. Because they did not ascertain that they were entering the true Church when they entered. 99% of the human race had committed that mistake. Even Catholics never checked if they entered the true Church when they entered, because they did not know how to check. Until now most bishops and priest do no know how to check which is the true Church shown by the fact that most bishops cannot prove that their diocese is Catholic and most priest cannot prove that their parish is Catholic. So most laymen cannot prove that they, themselves, are Catholics.
Everyone is just entering whatever open door they see. Even in the matter of immigration. Pope Francis is encouraging all nations to keep their doors open for all. No. The Catholic Church is very strict. The door of the Catholic Church is lock for everyone. Nobody entered unless they are led by the Good Shepherd who is Christ. And unless they enter through the only one gate and that is Christ, too. Anybody who tries to enter without following the Good Shepherd and without entering the only one approved door is condemned.
While the US, Poland, Hungary, Austria, etc are following this evangelical procedure knowing it is the best arrangement, Germany, Canada, France, Australia, the Philippines, etc are not following this wise evangelical procedure in governing the rules of entry. This is the strict rule of entry into the Catholic Church. That is why the Catholic Church has members who are only the best; the most Charitable, those who truly love God and neighbor.
2. The Good Shepherd.
Christ said; 'I am the Good Shepherd.' Christ alone is the Good Shepherd. The Pope, the bishops and the priests are shepherds only if they are united to the Good Shepherd, Christ, and are commissioned by Christ to be shepherds. In spirituality, therefore, priests, bishops and the Pope must teach exactly the teachings of Christ with no changes.
St. Thomas commends; other persons must be one heart and one mind with Christ for them to qualify as other Good Shepherd. Otherwise, they are bad shepherds or thieves.
The Church described this Gospel as Good Shepherd to differentiate it from bad shepherds. And Christ, precisely showed that there are Good Shepherds and there are bad shepherds; so of which thieves.
The Good Shepherd is distinguished by the fact that he will lay down his life for the sheep. While the hired hand will run away when the wolf comes; while the thief is there to steal the sheep.
The Good Shepherd will continue to watch over the sheep, keeping the doctrines and moral of the sheepfold intact amidst persecutions,
The hired hand watches over the sheep fold but when heresies attack the sheepfold, the hired hand does not defend the fold but abandons it to heretical teachings.
The thief steals. Like Pope Francis who is getting the sheeps to join a left leaning philosophy of communism he has learned from being involved in liberation theology which is a communist leaning South American tendency. The catholics are being scattered due to the confusing errors of Pope Francis thus exposing them to be killed by the wolves. The bishops are even more pronouncedly scattered.
3.My sheep knows me.
The sheep knows the voice of the shepherd. Many Catholics know the doctrines the shepherd was teaching before Vatican II. Now, they cannot recognise the voice of Pope Francis. His voice does not sound like the voice of past Popes; definitely it is not like the voice of Christ as heard from Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. St.Thomas wrote that the voice of the shepherd must be identical to the sound of the voice of Christ as it sounds in Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. It must be the same doctrines and morals. But it is not. It sounds more like the voice of a bad shepherd, the voice of a thief who wants to steal and kill souls.
THE GOOD SHEPHERD Sunday.
1. Entering the Catholic Church.
There is no salvation outside the Church. So it becomes very important for us to know which is the true Church; and we must know the door through which we can enter the Church.
Here we see the importance of our past posts on the visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church. We have to be sure which is the true Church before we enter it. Have you wondered why there are so many souls in the wrong churches. 20,000 when we last counted the Protestant denomination. How could so many souls enter the wrong church. Because they did not ascertain that they were entering the true Church when they entered. 99% of the human race had committed that mistake. Even Catholics never checked if they entered the true Church when they entered, because they did not know how to check. Until now most bishops and priest do no know how to check which is the true Church shown by the fact that most bishops cannot prove that their diocese is Catholic and most priest cannot prove that their parish is Catholic. So most laymen cannot prove that they, themselves, are Catholics.
Everyone is just entering whatever open door they see. Even in the matter of immigration. Pope Francis is encouraging all nations to keep their doors open for all. No. The Catholic Church is very strict. The door of the Catholic Church is lock for everyone. Nobody entered unless they are led by the Good Shepherd who is Christ. And unless they enter through the only one gate and that is Christ, too. Anybody who tries to enter without following the Good Shepherd and without entering the only one approved door is condemned.
While the US, Poland, Hungary, Austria, etc are following this evangelical procedure knowing it is the best arrangement, Germany, Canada, France, Australia, the Philippines, etc are not following this wise evangelical procedure in governing the rules of entry. This is the strict rule of entry into the Catholic Church. That is why the Catholic Church has members who are only the best; the most Charitable, those who truly love God and neighbor.
2. The Good Shepherd.
Christ said; 'I am the Good Shepherd.' Christ alone is the Good Shepherd. The Pope, the bishops and the priests are shepherds only if they are united to the Good Shepherd, Christ, and are commissioned by Christ to be shepherds. In spirituality, therefore, priests, bishops and the Pope must teach exactly the teachings of Christ with no changes.
St. Thomas commends; other persons must be one heart and one mind with Christ for them to qualify as other Good Shepherd. Otherwise, they are bad shepherds or thieves.
The Church described this Gospel as Good Shepherd to differentiate it from bad shepherds. And Christ, precisely showed that there are Good Shepherds and there are bad shepherds; so of which thieves.
The Good Shepherd is distinguished by the fact that he will lay down his life for the sheep. While the hired hand will run away when the wolf comes; while the thief is there to steal the sheep.
The Good Shepherd will continue to watch over the sheep, keeping the doctrines and moral of the sheepfold intact amidst persecutions,
The hired hand watches over the sheep fold but when heresies attack the sheepfold, the hired hand does not defend the fold but abandons it to heretical teachings.
The thief steals. Like Pope Francis who is getting the sheeps to join a left leaning philosophy of communism he has learned from being involved in liberation theology which is a communist leaning South American tendency. The catholics are being scattered due to the confusing errors of Pope Francis thus exposing them to be killed by the wolves. The bishops are even more pronouncedly scattered.
3.My sheep knows me.
The sheep knows the voice of the shepherd. Many Catholics know the doctrines the shepherd was teaching before Vatican II. Now, they cannot recognise the voice of Pope Francis. His voice does not sound like the voice of past Popes; definitely it is not like the voice of Christ as heard from Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. St.Thomas wrote that the voice of the shepherd must be identical to the sound of the voice of Christ as it sounds in Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. It must be the same doctrines and morals. But it is not. It sounds more like the voice of a bad shepherd, the voice of a thief who wants to steal and kill souls.
There is no salvation outside the Church. So it becomes very important for us to know which is the true Church; and we must know the door through which we can enter the Church.
Here we see the importance of our past posts on the visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church. We have to be sure which is the true Church before we enter it. Have you wondered why there are so many souls in the wrong churches. 20,000 when we last counted the Protestant denomination. How could so many souls enter the wrong church. Because they did not ascertain that they were entering the true Church when they entered. 99% of the human race had committed that mistake. Even Catholics never checked if they entered the true Church when they entered, because they did not know how to check. Until now most bishops and priest do no know how to check which is the true Church shown by the fact that most bishops cannot prove that their diocese is Catholic and most priest cannot prove that their parish is Catholic. So most laymen cannot prove that they, themselves, are Catholics.
Everyone is just entering whatever open door they see. Even in the matter of immigration. Pope Francis is encouraging all nations to keep their doors open for all. No. The Catholic Church is very strict. The door of the Catholic Church is lock for everyone. Nobody entered unless they are led by the Good Shepherd who is Christ. And unless they enter through the only one gate and that is Christ, too. Anybody who tries to enter without following the Good Shepherd and without entering the only one approved door is condemned.
While the US, Poland, Hungary, Austria, etc are following this evangelical procedure knowing it is the best arrangement, Germany, Canada, France, Australia, the Philippines, etc are not following this wise evangelical procedure in governing the rules of entry. This is the strict rule of entry into the Catholic Church. That is why the Catholic Church has members who are only the best; the most Charitable, those who truly love God and neighbor.
2. The Good Shepherd.
Christ said; 'I am the Good Shepherd.' Christ alone is the Good Shepherd. The Pope, the bishops and the priests are shepherds only if they are united to the Good Shepherd, Christ, and are commissioned by Christ to be shepherds. In spirituality, therefore, priests, bishops and the Pope must teach exactly the teachings of Christ with no changes.
St. Thomas commends; other persons must be one heart and one mind with Christ for them to qualify as other Good Shepherd. Otherwise, they are bad shepherds or thieves.
The Church described this Gospel as Good Shepherd to differentiate it from bad shepherds. And Christ, precisely showed that there are Good Shepherds and there are bad shepherds; so of which thieves.
The Good Shepherd is distinguished by the fact that he will lay down his life for the sheep. While the hired hand will run away when the wolf comes; while the thief is there to steal the sheep.
The Good Shepherd will continue to watch over the sheep, keeping the doctrines and moral of the sheepfold intact amidst persecutions,
The hired hand watches over the sheep fold but when heresies attack the sheepfold, the hired hand does not defend the fold but abandons it to heretical teachings.
The thief steals. Like Pope Francis who is getting the sheeps to join a left leaning philosophy of communism he has learned from being involved in liberation theology which is a communist leaning South American tendency. The catholics are being scattered due to the confusing errors of Pope Francis thus exposing them to be killed by the wolves. The bishops are even more pronouncedly scattered.
3.My sheep knows me.
The sheep knows the voice of the shepherd. Many Catholics know the doctrines the shepherd was teaching before Vatican II. Now, they cannot recognise the voice of Pope Francis. His voice does not sound like the voice of past Popes; definitely it is not like the voice of Christ as heard from Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. St.Thomas wrote that the voice of the shepherd must be identical to the sound of the voice of Christ as it sounds in Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. It must be the same doctrines and morals. But it is not. It sounds more like the voice of a bad shepherd, the voice of a thief who wants to steal and kill souls.
REFINING ONE'S FAITH - The Sundays after Easter.
1. The weekdays after Easter Sunday.
The best teacher on how to be with God in Heaven is the Catholic Church. And she teaches this lesson during the Liturgy of the Mass; starting from Advent and ending on Pentecost. After Pentecost the lessons of the Sundays and Weekdays in ordinary time are detailed explanations of the general plan of salvation taken from Advent to Pentecost.
Evangelizers are not the best teachers. The best teacher is the Liturgy of the Mass with a good priest that can explain the readings using the interpretation of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church during a well liturgically celebrated Mass. This is God's medium in explaining the Plan of Salvation.
2. Advent up to the Lenten season describes the 'Life of Repentance' which is the necessary disposition for a soul to received the theological virtue of Faith, a gift from God. Faith can be weak or strong; as weak Faith, it can easily be lost even by a mild storm at sea. So man must aim at a strong Faith, or better still at a perfect Faith. The Sundays and weekdays after Easter teach us how to perfect our Faith. Charity, which is the love of God and neighbour will not be given to us unless we have perfect Faith. And so we see Christ perfecting the Faith of the apostles after Easter. Almost every weekday and Sunday after Easter are lessons on how to perfect our Faith.
3. Perfect Faith.
Perfect Faith means the following; first, that we know all the dogmatic truths taught by Christ in the New Testament. Second, that we know all the commandments (morals) of Christ in the New Testament. And thirdly, that we know the deeds of Christ while He was on earth.
The above are the elements of Faith. Then we must obey or put into practice what we have believed in Faith and this is called Charity. To go to heaven we must have Charity.
4. The goal and the way to the goal.
Hilaire Belloc wrote that to go to a place we must know two things; the address of the house and the road that leads to the house. Like the house is No. 10 and the road is Dalware street. The same way, in going to heaven we must know our goal which is God. And we must know the way, which is Christ. Now Christ said that He is God like the Father and He is the Way to the Father.
So we have Christ as our goal and Christ as the way to the goal. And Phillip showed his imperfect Faith by asking Christ; where are you going and which is the way.
And Christ perfects the Faith of Phillip by teaching him saying; you have seen Me. I am the goal because I am God and I am the road that leads to God because I am the way. Then Christ corrects Phillip and says; see you know the goal and the way, except you did not know that you already know the goal and the way. Phillip knew the goal and the way except that this knowledge was not in front of his attention. It was at the back of his mind, in his memory. For some people it could be out of the back of their mind, i.e. they have forgotten it.
In the act of Faith, all the truths of Faith must be in front of the mind's attention. If it is in the memory or forgotten and out of one's mind, then that is a defect in the Faith. That was what was happening with Phillip. He knew the truths that God was the goal and Christ was the way but it was not in his attention. It was in his memory so that Christ had to recall it to him.
The same thing happened to the two disciples in Emmaus. When Christ joined them they could not recognize Him because of their defective Faith. But the information to perfect their Faith was in their minds but it was in the memory and not in their attention. So Christ had to recall to them what Moses and the prophets wrote regarding him which the two disciples already knew but the knowledge of which was in the memory and not in their attention. The moment, with Christ's help, the knowledge they had was taken from their memory and transferred to their attention, then their Faith was perfected. They recognised the Resurrected Christ; this is the reward for those destined to be saved. Those to be condemned never saw the Resurrected Christ.
To be saved, we must see the Resurrected Christ with our minds through an act of Faith. He promised; ' I will manifest Myself to you' to those whose Faith is perfected by Christ ......with our cooperation by learning His Dogmas and obeying His Morals.
5. Crisis in the Church.
We must have Charity. Though here on earth we can only attain imperfect Charity. Only in heaven can Charity be perfected. Faith must be perfect. But most of us are imperfect in our knowledge of dogma and imperfect in our obedience to the morals taught by Christ. And the reason why the elements of our Faith is imperfect is because our repentance for past sins is not perfect. Before we can perfect our Faith, our life of repentance must be perfect.
From the above we can see the state of the Catholic Church. We have no Faith and we have no Charity. Proofs abound. The reason is because we do not have the virtue of Penance that comes with repentance. This is the state of many bishops, priest and following their example, the laymen.
Pope Francis's knowledge of dogma is sad. In three different occasion he had declared that there is no hell, that atheist can go to heaven, that all believe the same god. And his obedience to the 6 and 9 commandments is deplorable as seen in his 'Amores laetitia '. And his Charity towards the Franciscans of the Immaculate, the Knights of Malta, to Cardinal Burke, Zen, Bishop Livieres, the Priestly Fraternity of the Holy Apostles, among the few in the news, is totally non-existent. He does not have the strong Faith described in the Liturgy of the Weekdays after Easter. Nor the weak Faith described on Holy Week. He seems not to have the virtue of Penance taught on Advent shown in his outburst of anger that had shocked even the Swiss guards at Casa Martha.
6. Fine tuning the Faith.
That is five weeks after Easter in which the lessons taught by the Liturgy is on how to fine tune the Faith into perfection. And notice that in the Gospels, it is Christ, Himself, who is fine tuning the Faith of the Apostles. It was Christ who fine tuned the Faith of Thomas, of the two disciples from Emmaus and now on the Faith of Phillip. At the same time, Christ was completing the knowledge of the apostles on how to save one's soul.
In the present situation where there is so much confusion on how to save one's soul, aggravated by Pope Francis' 'Gaudate et exultant,' it is a great help that the Liturgy had been repetitiously reminding us on how to save one's soul.
7. How to save one's soul.
You must go to the Father through Me, the way. You pass through Me by obeying My commands as found in the New Testament. When you obey My commands, I will manifest Myself to you so you will see Me in your minds as man and God. This will not occur until you have both learned My commands and obey My commands. When I have manifested Myself to you as man and God then you will see My Father in Me; and both of Us will abide in you. Now, as Christ said, there will be no condemnation. You are surely saved.
And what do we do with what is happening in the world? Pope Francis and his heretical teachings in 'Amores Laetitia' and his 'there is no hell.' How about the possibility of two Popes. How about global warming and the plight of the immigrants. And the million of Chinese Catholics who will become communist when the Vatican forces the underground Catholic Church to submit themselves to the communist regime.
Leave the rest to God. At least you have done your part and your soul is safe. What was your part? You have cooperated with Christ when He fine tuned and perfected your Faith in preparing to receive the virtue of Charity.
The best teacher on how to be with God in Heaven is the Catholic Church. And she teaches this lesson during the Liturgy of the Mass; starting from Advent and ending on Pentecost. After Pentecost the lessons of the Sundays and Weekdays in ordinary time are detailed explanations of the general plan of salvation taken from Advent to Pentecost.
Evangelizers are not the best teachers. The best teacher is the Liturgy of the Mass with a good priest that can explain the readings using the interpretation of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church during a well liturgically celebrated Mass. This is God's medium in explaining the Plan of Salvation.
2. Advent up to the Lenten season describes the 'Life of Repentance' which is the necessary disposition for a soul to received the theological virtue of Faith, a gift from God. Faith can be weak or strong; as weak Faith, it can easily be lost even by a mild storm at sea. So man must aim at a strong Faith, or better still at a perfect Faith. The Sundays and weekdays after Easter teach us how to perfect our Faith. Charity, which is the love of God and neighbour will not be given to us unless we have perfect Faith. And so we see Christ perfecting the Faith of the apostles after Easter. Almost every weekday and Sunday after Easter are lessons on how to perfect our Faith.
3. Perfect Faith.
Perfect Faith means the following; first, that we know all the dogmatic truths taught by Christ in the New Testament. Second, that we know all the commandments (morals) of Christ in the New Testament. And thirdly, that we know the deeds of Christ while He was on earth.
The above are the elements of Faith. Then we must obey or put into practice what we have believed in Faith and this is called Charity. To go to heaven we must have Charity.
4. The goal and the way to the goal.
Hilaire Belloc wrote that to go to a place we must know two things; the address of the house and the road that leads to the house. Like the house is No. 10 and the road is Dalware street. The same way, in going to heaven we must know our goal which is God. And we must know the way, which is Christ. Now Christ said that He is God like the Father and He is the Way to the Father.
So we have Christ as our goal and Christ as the way to the goal. And Phillip showed his imperfect Faith by asking Christ; where are you going and which is the way.
And Christ perfects the Faith of Phillip by teaching him saying; you have seen Me. I am the goal because I am God and I am the road that leads to God because I am the way. Then Christ corrects Phillip and says; see you know the goal and the way, except you did not know that you already know the goal and the way. Phillip knew the goal and the way except that this knowledge was not in front of his attention. It was at the back of his mind, in his memory. For some people it could be out of the back of their mind, i.e. they have forgotten it.
In the act of Faith, all the truths of Faith must be in front of the mind's attention. If it is in the memory or forgotten and out of one's mind, then that is a defect in the Faith. That was what was happening with Phillip. He knew the truths that God was the goal and Christ was the way but it was not in his attention. It was in his memory so that Christ had to recall it to him.
The same thing happened to the two disciples in Emmaus. When Christ joined them they could not recognize Him because of their defective Faith. But the information to perfect their Faith was in their minds but it was in the memory and not in their attention. So Christ had to recall to them what Moses and the prophets wrote regarding him which the two disciples already knew but the knowledge of which was in the memory and not in their attention. The moment, with Christ's help, the knowledge they had was taken from their memory and transferred to their attention, then their Faith was perfected. They recognised the Resurrected Christ; this is the reward for those destined to be saved. Those to be condemned never saw the Resurrected Christ.
To be saved, we must see the Resurrected Christ with our minds through an act of Faith. He promised; ' I will manifest Myself to you' to those whose Faith is perfected by Christ ......with our cooperation by learning His Dogmas and obeying His Morals.
5. Crisis in the Church.
We must have Charity. Though here on earth we can only attain imperfect Charity. Only in heaven can Charity be perfected. Faith must be perfect. But most of us are imperfect in our knowledge of dogma and imperfect in our obedience to the morals taught by Christ. And the reason why the elements of our Faith is imperfect is because our repentance for past sins is not perfect. Before we can perfect our Faith, our life of repentance must be perfect.
From the above we can see the state of the Catholic Church. We have no Faith and we have no Charity. Proofs abound. The reason is because we do not have the virtue of Penance that comes with repentance. This is the state of many bishops, priest and following their example, the laymen.
Pope Francis's knowledge of dogma is sad. In three different occasion he had declared that there is no hell, that atheist can go to heaven, that all believe the same god. And his obedience to the 6 and 9 commandments is deplorable as seen in his 'Amores laetitia '. And his Charity towards the Franciscans of the Immaculate, the Knights of Malta, to Cardinal Burke, Zen, Bishop Livieres, the Priestly Fraternity of the Holy Apostles, among the few in the news, is totally non-existent. He does not have the strong Faith described in the Liturgy of the Weekdays after Easter. Nor the weak Faith described on Holy Week. He seems not to have the virtue of Penance taught on Advent shown in his outburst of anger that had shocked even the Swiss guards at Casa Martha.
6. Fine tuning the Faith.
That is five weeks after Easter in which the lessons taught by the Liturgy is on how to fine tune the Faith into perfection. And notice that in the Gospels, it is Christ, Himself, who is fine tuning the Faith of the Apostles. It was Christ who fine tuned the Faith of Thomas, of the two disciples from Emmaus and now on the Faith of Phillip. At the same time, Christ was completing the knowledge of the apostles on how to save one's soul.
In the present situation where there is so much confusion on how to save one's soul, aggravated by Pope Francis' 'Gaudate et exultant,' it is a great help that the Liturgy had been repetitiously reminding us on how to save one's soul.
7. How to save one's soul.
You must go to the Father through Me, the way. You pass through Me by obeying My commands as found in the New Testament. When you obey My commands, I will manifest Myself to you so you will see Me in your minds as man and God. This will not occur until you have both learned My commands and obey My commands. When I have manifested Myself to you as man and God then you will see My Father in Me; and both of Us will abide in you. Now, as Christ said, there will be no condemnation. You are surely saved.
And what do we do with what is happening in the world? Pope Francis and his heretical teachings in 'Amores Laetitia' and his 'there is no hell.' How about the possibility of two Popes. How about global warming and the plight of the immigrants. And the million of Chinese Catholics who will become communist when the Vatican forces the underground Catholic Church to submit themselves to the communist regime.
Leave the rest to God. At least you have done your part and your soul is safe. What was your part? You have cooperated with Christ when He fine tuned and perfected your Faith in preparing to receive the virtue of Charity.
REFINING ONE'S FAITH - The Sundays after Easter.
1. The weekdays after Easter Sunday.
The best teacher on how to be with God in Heaven is the Catholic Church. And she teaches this lesson during the Liturgy of the Mass; starting from Advent and ending on Pentecost. After Pentecost the lessons of the Sundays and Weekdays in ordinary time are detailed explanations of the general plan of salvation taken from Advent to Pentecost.
Evangelizers are not the best teachers. The best teacher is the Liturgy of the Mass with a good priest that can explain the readings using the interpretation of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church during a well liturgically celebrated Mass. This is God's medium in explaining the Plan of Salvation.
2. Advent up to the Lenten season describes the 'Life of Repentance' which is the necessary disposition for a soul to received the theological virtue of Faith, a gift from God. Faith can be weak or strong; as weak Faith, it can easily be lost even by a mild storm at sea. So man must aim at a strong Faith, or better still at a perfect Faith. The Sundays and weekdays after Easter teach us how to perfect our Faith. Charity, which is the love of God and neighbour will not be given to us unless we have perfect Faith. And so we see Christ perfecting the Faith of the apostles after Easter. Almost every weekday and Sunday after Easter are lessons on how to perfect our Faith.
3. Perfect Faith.
Perfect Faith means the following; first, that we know all the dogmatic truths taught by Christ in the New Testament. Second, that we know all the commandments (morals) of Christ in the New Testament. And thirdly, that we know the deeds of Christ while He was on earth.
The above are the elements of Faith. Then we must obey or put into practice what we have believed in Faith and this is called Charity. To go to heaven we must have Charity.
4. The goal and the way to the goal.
Hilaire Belloc wrote that to go to a place we must know two things; the address of the house and the road that leads to the house. Like the house is No. 10 and the road is Dalware street. The same way, in going to heaven we must know our goal which is God. And we must know the way, which is Christ. Now Christ said that He is God like the Father and He is the Way to the Father.
So we have Christ as our goal and Christ as the way to the goal. And Phillip showed his imperfect Faith by asking Christ; where are you going and which is the way.
And Christ perfects the Faith of Phillip by teaching him saying; you have seen Me. I am the goal because I am God and I am the road that leads to God because I am the way. Then Christ corrects Phillip and says; see you know the goal and the way, except you did not know that you already know the goal and the way. Phillip knew the goal and the way except that this knowledge was not in front of his attention. It was at the back of his mind, in his memory. For some people it could be out of the back of their mind, i.e. they have forgotten it.
In the act of Faith, all the truths of Faith must be in front of the mind's attention. If it is in the memory or forgotten and out of one's mind, then that is a defect in the Faith. That was what was happening with Phillip. He knew the truths that God was the goal and Christ was the way but it was not in his attention. It was in his memory so that Christ had to recall it to him.
The same thing happened to the two disciples in Emmaus. When Christ joined them they could not recognize Him because of their defective Faith. But the information to perfect their Faith was in their minds but it was in the memory and not in their attention. So Christ had to recall to them what Moses and the prophets wrote regarding him which the two disciples already knew but the knowledge of which was in the memory and not in their attention. The moment, with Christ's help, the knowledge they had was taken from their memory and transferred to their attention, then their Faith was perfected. They recognised the Resurrected Christ; this is the reward for those destined to be saved. Those to be condemned never saw the Resurrected Christ.
To be saved, we must see the Resurrected Christ with our minds through an act of Faith. He promised; ' I will manifest Myself to you' to those whose Faith is perfected by Christ ......with our cooperation by learning His Dogmas and obeying His Morals.
5. Crisis in the Church.
We must have Charity. Though here on earth we can only attain imperfect Charity. Only in heaven can Charity be perfected. Faith must be perfect. But most of us are imperfect in our knowledge of dogma and imperfect in our obedience to the morals taught by Christ. And the reason why the elements of our Faith is imperfect is because our repentance for past sins is not perfect. Before we can perfect our Faith, our life of repentance must be perfect.
From the above we can see the state of the Catholic Church. We have no Faith and we have no Charity. Proofs abound. The reason is because we do not have the virtue of Penance that comes with repentance. This is the state of many bishops, priest and following their example, the laymen.
Pope Francis's knowledge of dogma is sad. In three different occasion he had declared that there is no hell, that atheist can go to heaven, that all believe the same god. And his obedience to the 6 and 9 commandments is deplorable as seen in his 'Amores laetitia '. And his Charity towards the Franciscans of the Immaculate, the Knights of Malta, to Cardinal Burke, Zen, Bishop Livieres, the Priestly Fraternity of the Holy Apostles, among the few in the news, is totally non-existent. He does not have the strong Faith described in the Liturgy of the Weekdays after Easter. Nor the weak Faith described on Holy Week. He seems not to have the virtue of Penance taught on Advent shown in his outburst of anger that had shocked even the Swiss guards at Casa Martha.
6. Fine tuning the Faith.
That is five weeks after Easter in which the lessons taught by the Liturgy is on how to fine tune the Faith into perfection. And notice that in the Gospels, it is Christ, Himself, who is fine tuning the Faith of the Apostles. It was Christ who fine tuned the Faith of Thomas, of the two disciples from Emmaus and now on the Faith of Phillip. At the same time, Christ was completing the knowledge of the apostles on how to save one's soul.
In the present situation where there is so much confusion on how to save one's soul, aggravated by Pope Francis' 'Gaudate et exultant,' it is a great help that the Liturgy had been repetitiously reminding us on how to save one's soul.
7. How to save one's soul.
You must go to the Father through Me, the way. You pass through Me by obeying My commands as found in the New Testament. When you obey My commands, I will manifest Myself to you so you will see Me in your minds as man and God. This will not occur until you have both learned My commands and obey My commands. When I have manifested Myself to you as man and God then you will see My Father in Me; and both of Us will abide in you. Now, as Christ said, there will be no condemnation. You are surely saved.
And what do we do with what is happening in the world? Pope Francis and his heretical teachings in 'Amores Laetitia' and his 'there is no hell.' How about the possibility of two Popes. How about global warming and the plight of the immigrants. And the million of Chinese Catholics who will become communist when the Vatican forces the underground Catholic Church to submit themselves to the communist regime.
Leave the rest to God. At least you have done your part and your soul is safe. What was your part? You have cooperated with Christ when He fine tuned and perfected your Faith in preparing to receive the virtue of Charity.
The best teacher on how to be with God in Heaven is the Catholic Church. And she teaches this lesson during the Liturgy of the Mass; starting from Advent and ending on Pentecost. After Pentecost the lessons of the Sundays and Weekdays in ordinary time are detailed explanations of the general plan of salvation taken from Advent to Pentecost.
Evangelizers are not the best teachers. The best teacher is the Liturgy of the Mass with a good priest that can explain the readings using the interpretation of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church during a well liturgically celebrated Mass. This is God's medium in explaining the Plan of Salvation.
2. Advent up to the Lenten season describes the 'Life of Repentance' which is the necessary disposition for a soul to received the theological virtue of Faith, a gift from God. Faith can be weak or strong; as weak Faith, it can easily be lost even by a mild storm at sea. So man must aim at a strong Faith, or better still at a perfect Faith. The Sundays and weekdays after Easter teach us how to perfect our Faith. Charity, which is the love of God and neighbour will not be given to us unless we have perfect Faith. And so we see Christ perfecting the Faith of the apostles after Easter. Almost every weekday and Sunday after Easter are lessons on how to perfect our Faith.
3. Perfect Faith.
Perfect Faith means the following; first, that we know all the dogmatic truths taught by Christ in the New Testament. Second, that we know all the commandments (morals) of Christ in the New Testament. And thirdly, that we know the deeds of Christ while He was on earth.
The above are the elements of Faith. Then we must obey or put into practice what we have believed in Faith and this is called Charity. To go to heaven we must have Charity.
4. The goal and the way to the goal.
Hilaire Belloc wrote that to go to a place we must know two things; the address of the house and the road that leads to the house. Like the house is No. 10 and the road is Dalware street. The same way, in going to heaven we must know our goal which is God. And we must know the way, which is Christ. Now Christ said that He is God like the Father and He is the Way to the Father.
So we have Christ as our goal and Christ as the way to the goal. And Phillip showed his imperfect Faith by asking Christ; where are you going and which is the way.
And Christ perfects the Faith of Phillip by teaching him saying; you have seen Me. I am the goal because I am God and I am the road that leads to God because I am the way. Then Christ corrects Phillip and says; see you know the goal and the way, except you did not know that you already know the goal and the way. Phillip knew the goal and the way except that this knowledge was not in front of his attention. It was at the back of his mind, in his memory. For some people it could be out of the back of their mind, i.e. they have forgotten it.
In the act of Faith, all the truths of Faith must be in front of the mind's attention. If it is in the memory or forgotten and out of one's mind, then that is a defect in the Faith. That was what was happening with Phillip. He knew the truths that God was the goal and Christ was the way but it was not in his attention. It was in his memory so that Christ had to recall it to him.
The same thing happened to the two disciples in Emmaus. When Christ joined them they could not recognize Him because of their defective Faith. But the information to perfect their Faith was in their minds but it was in the memory and not in their attention. So Christ had to recall to them what Moses and the prophets wrote regarding him which the two disciples already knew but the knowledge of which was in the memory and not in their attention. The moment, with Christ's help, the knowledge they had was taken from their memory and transferred to their attention, then their Faith was perfected. They recognised the Resurrected Christ; this is the reward for those destined to be saved. Those to be condemned never saw the Resurrected Christ.
To be saved, we must see the Resurrected Christ with our minds through an act of Faith. He promised; ' I will manifest Myself to you' to those whose Faith is perfected by Christ ......with our cooperation by learning His Dogmas and obeying His Morals.
5. Crisis in the Church.
We must have Charity. Though here on earth we can only attain imperfect Charity. Only in heaven can Charity be perfected. Faith must be perfect. But most of us are imperfect in our knowledge of dogma and imperfect in our obedience to the morals taught by Christ. And the reason why the elements of our Faith is imperfect is because our repentance for past sins is not perfect. Before we can perfect our Faith, our life of repentance must be perfect.
From the above we can see the state of the Catholic Church. We have no Faith and we have no Charity. Proofs abound. The reason is because we do not have the virtue of Penance that comes with repentance. This is the state of many bishops, priest and following their example, the laymen.
Pope Francis's knowledge of dogma is sad. In three different occasion he had declared that there is no hell, that atheist can go to heaven, that all believe the same god. And his obedience to the 6 and 9 commandments is deplorable as seen in his 'Amores laetitia '. And his Charity towards the Franciscans of the Immaculate, the Knights of Malta, to Cardinal Burke, Zen, Bishop Livieres, the Priestly Fraternity of the Holy Apostles, among the few in the news, is totally non-existent. He does not have the strong Faith described in the Liturgy of the Weekdays after Easter. Nor the weak Faith described on Holy Week. He seems not to have the virtue of Penance taught on Advent shown in his outburst of anger that had shocked even the Swiss guards at Casa Martha.
6. Fine tuning the Faith.
That is five weeks after Easter in which the lessons taught by the Liturgy is on how to fine tune the Faith into perfection. And notice that in the Gospels, it is Christ, Himself, who is fine tuning the Faith of the Apostles. It was Christ who fine tuned the Faith of Thomas, of the two disciples from Emmaus and now on the Faith of Phillip. At the same time, Christ was completing the knowledge of the apostles on how to save one's soul.
In the present situation where there is so much confusion on how to save one's soul, aggravated by Pope Francis' 'Gaudate et exultant,' it is a great help that the Liturgy had been repetitiously reminding us on how to save one's soul.
7. How to save one's soul.
You must go to the Father through Me, the way. You pass through Me by obeying My commands as found in the New Testament. When you obey My commands, I will manifest Myself to you so you will see Me in your minds as man and God. This will not occur until you have both learned My commands and obey My commands. When I have manifested Myself to you as man and God then you will see My Father in Me; and both of Us will abide in you. Now, as Christ said, there will be no condemnation. You are surely saved.
And what do we do with what is happening in the world? Pope Francis and his heretical teachings in 'Amores Laetitia' and his 'there is no hell.' How about the possibility of two Popes. How about global warming and the plight of the immigrants. And the million of Chinese Catholics who will become communist when the Vatican forces the underground Catholic Church to submit themselves to the communist regime.
Leave the rest to God. At least you have done your part and your soul is safe. What was your part? You have cooperated with Christ when He fine tuned and perfected your Faith in preparing to receive the virtue of Charity.
Thursday, May 03, 2018
THE FOUR VISIBLE SIGNS AND THE FIFTEEN MARKS OF THE TRUE CHURCH.
1. No religion or sect have a battery of proofs that can show that theirs is the true religion.....except the Catholic Church. It has common sense proofs, natural proofs, scientific proofs and theological proofs. Some proofs are available only to its members, like the theological virtues. Other proofs are available to the whole world, like the just posted posts on the four visible signs of the true Church as enumerated in the Nicene Creed or in its expanded version in the 15 Marks of the Church by St. Robert Bellarmine.
With these visible signs and Marks, all men can know two things; first, if theirs is the true Church and true religion. And secondly, if their church or religion is the wrong one. It works both ways. Remember, that the natural, rational norms are based on man's abilities to know the true God and the true Religion.
2. All men are given the power of Natural reasoning
As such man can make these first natural acts of reasoning that makes up the act of religion.
First; that there is a universe made up of stars, sun and moon. And there is nature made up of high mountains, vast seas and great jungles. An intelligent someone must have created all these. No ordinary man could have put up those stars, or planted those jungles nor filled up the oceans.
Secondly; this someone would want to communicate with one of his creation, man. Omnipotent and intelligent as he is he can think of ways to communicate with man. And he did so.
Thirdly; but how will he communicate with man when man is man while he is over and above man? Since communication with man is only possible through his sense of sight and hearing, he will either have to write to man or verbally teach man.
Fourthly; but there is still one problem. Man is man while he is over and above man. Man will not understand him. So what should he do if he is omnipotent and intelligent? He will become man for man to understand him. Thus the mystery of the incarnation.
Communication is now possible; we have man face to face with man.
Now, let us stop here.
3. All man can reach this level of human reasoning if they use their reasons in the right way.
But man is known through history as having the bad habit of misusing his reason. So most man never reach this level of reasoning. They start going astray even in the first, second and third steps thus few reach the fourth step.
Unable to reach the fourth step they completely go awry out of control into paganism. They do not even get a good view of the true Church.
4. From here we go, not forward, but upward.
All those who reach the fourth steps are now ready to go upward to the supernatural level, the New Testament. Knowledge of the New Testament doctrines is called Faith and obedience to these doctrines is called Charity.
Most Protestants are not able to reach the fourth step and, therefore, are unable to go upward to the supernatural level. Their religion remains in the natural level.
But the same thing have happened to the VaticanChurch. From its original supernatural level during apostolic times, it descended down to the natural level and even lower to the unnatural level, thus the problem of the gay lobby that now rules the Vatican.
It is within the supernatural level that the four visible signs and 15 Marks of the true Church develop. If you are in the supernatural level you will have these signs. If you are inside the Catholic Church you are in the supernatural level and you will have these signs.
5. Let us use these signs as basis for analysis and for a course of action.
First; let us use these signs to find out if a group is Catholic. These signs can, also, be used to find out how close or how far a group is from the Catholic Church. Then let us take a course of action.
For example, the Orthodox church and the Pius X community are still outside the Catholic Church since they lack all the signs of Catholicity but they are nearer the Catholic Church than the VaticanChurch. Their course of action should be..... they should not join or enter the VaticanChurch because that will push them further away from the true Church.
Another example; the underground Church in China is not yet inside the Catholic Church as they do not have all the Marks of the true Catholic Church yet. But they have more signs of the true Church than the Patriotic Church of China, which does not have any sign at all. And they have more signs that they are closer to the true Church than the VaticanChurch of Rome. So their course of action should be; they should not obey the VaticanChurch by putting themselves under the Patriotic church, both of which do not have any of the signs or Marks of the true Catholic Church.
6. Next group.
The religious orders, like the Benedictines, the Augustinians, the Jesuits, etc..... were primarily founded for the salvation of the souls of their members. And they were approved by Rome because they have proven that their spiritualities are basically Evangelical. Rome cannot approve any order for other reasons. If these orders must save the souls of their members, they must be living the Gospel of Christ; they must be Catholics and, therefore, must possess the four visible signs or the 15 Marks of the true Church.
But they were founded many years ago. And, today, especially after Vatican II, none of these orders are living the spirituality of their founder. They have ceased to live according to the Gospel of Christ due to numerous changes in their lives and none of them have the four or 15 Marks of the true Church......except probably the Cathusians.
To convince these religious to save their souls according to the teachings of Christ is near impossible. Their reasoning; we are not followers of Christ. We are Jesuits.
In the worse state are the ecclesial communities like the Focolare, Opus Dei, Sant'Egidio, etc...who have in fact established themselves as separate entities within the church thus really becoming Protestant within the Catholic church, just like the bishop's conference as propagated by Vatican II which has become national groups with their own heresies. They really believe they are Catholics though most of them, if not all, do not have a single sign or Mark of Catholicity. The burden of proof being on their side. The reason why they do not have any visible sign or Mark of the true Catholic Church is because all of them have serious heresies they are not conscious of. 'Gaudium et Spes' followed by many of the above is based on a heresy that goes against the teaching of Christ who said; 'friendship with the world is enmity with God.' This includes practically the entire religious and ecclesial communities.
7. Our present situation.
If we seriously study the four visible signs of the true Church as enumerated in the Nicene Creed and the 15 Marks of the true Church according to St. Bellarmine, it will be noticed that most parishes and dioceses do not have those signs raising up the possibility that these parishes and dioceses are not Catholic.....and probably the bishop and parish priest are not Catholics.
Of course many parishes and dioceses could be truly Catholic....though I have found none so far. And what course of action should we take? We shall propose it at the end of this post.
Before we end, let us apply these four visible signs and 15 Marks of the true Church on Pope Francis. It will be noted that he and his VaticanChurch do not have either the four visible signs nor the 15 Marks of the true Church. In fact, he and his VaticanChurch have the opposite signs and Marks of the true Church. And they are all out to suppress all those groups who have the four visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church. Pope Francis, not only does not have any of the four visible signs nor the 15 Marks described by his fellow Jesuit, St. Bellarmine. I repeat, he has the opposite signs and is exerting great efforts to suppress those with the signs and Marks of the Church. That makes him a non-catholic, a pagan and an anti-Catholic person.
But most importantly, you will note that you, yourself, do not have, neither, the four visible signs nor the 15 Marks of the true Catholic church. Now, that is the biggest problem. So what do we do? Go safely back and study the commands of Christ as enumerated in one Gospel, like St. Matthew. Study the interpretation of those commands from the 'Catena Aurea' of St. Thomas of Aquinas where he collated all the interpretations of the Fathers of the Church. Then go to your room and lock the door, as Christ said. And obey or put them into practice. Inside the room? Yes. Because the act of Faith that will make you a Catholic is just an act of the mind and the free will. And you have both with you inside the room. With that you will soon be on your way to heaven undisturbed by all the confusions that is drowning the world today.
With these visible signs and Marks, all men can know two things; first, if theirs is the true Church and true religion. And secondly, if their church or religion is the wrong one. It works both ways. Remember, that the natural, rational norms are based on man's abilities to know the true God and the true Religion.
2. All men are given the power of Natural reasoning
As such man can make these first natural acts of reasoning that makes up the act of religion.
First; that there is a universe made up of stars, sun and moon. And there is nature made up of high mountains, vast seas and great jungles. An intelligent someone must have created all these. No ordinary man could have put up those stars, or planted those jungles nor filled up the oceans.
Secondly; this someone would want to communicate with one of his creation, man. Omnipotent and intelligent as he is he can think of ways to communicate with man. And he did so.
Thirdly; but how will he communicate with man when man is man while he is over and above man? Since communication with man is only possible through his sense of sight and hearing, he will either have to write to man or verbally teach man.
Fourthly; but there is still one problem. Man is man while he is over and above man. Man will not understand him. So what should he do if he is omnipotent and intelligent? He will become man for man to understand him. Thus the mystery of the incarnation.
Communication is now possible; we have man face to face with man.
Now, let us stop here.
3. All man can reach this level of human reasoning if they use their reasons in the right way.
But man is known through history as having the bad habit of misusing his reason. So most man never reach this level of reasoning. They start going astray even in the first, second and third steps thus few reach the fourth step.
Unable to reach the fourth step they completely go awry out of control into paganism. They do not even get a good view of the true Church.
4. From here we go, not forward, but upward.
All those who reach the fourth steps are now ready to go upward to the supernatural level, the New Testament. Knowledge of the New Testament doctrines is called Faith and obedience to these doctrines is called Charity.
Most Protestants are not able to reach the fourth step and, therefore, are unable to go upward to the supernatural level. Their religion remains in the natural level.
But the same thing have happened to the VaticanChurch. From its original supernatural level during apostolic times, it descended down to the natural level and even lower to the unnatural level, thus the problem of the gay lobby that now rules the Vatican.
It is within the supernatural level that the four visible signs and 15 Marks of the true Church develop. If you are in the supernatural level you will have these signs. If you are inside the Catholic Church you are in the supernatural level and you will have these signs.
5. Let us use these signs as basis for analysis and for a course of action.
First; let us use these signs to find out if a group is Catholic. These signs can, also, be used to find out how close or how far a group is from the Catholic Church. Then let us take a course of action.
For example, the Orthodox church and the Pius X community are still outside the Catholic Church since they lack all the signs of Catholicity but they are nearer the Catholic Church than the VaticanChurch. Their course of action should be..... they should not join or enter the VaticanChurch because that will push them further away from the true Church.
Another example; the underground Church in China is not yet inside the Catholic Church as they do not have all the Marks of the true Catholic Church yet. But they have more signs of the true Church than the Patriotic Church of China, which does not have any sign at all. And they have more signs that they are closer to the true Church than the VaticanChurch of Rome. So their course of action should be; they should not obey the VaticanChurch by putting themselves under the Patriotic church, both of which do not have any of the signs or Marks of the true Catholic Church.
6. Next group.
The religious orders, like the Benedictines, the Augustinians, the Jesuits, etc..... were primarily founded for the salvation of the souls of their members. And they were approved by Rome because they have proven that their spiritualities are basically Evangelical. Rome cannot approve any order for other reasons. If these orders must save the souls of their members, they must be living the Gospel of Christ; they must be Catholics and, therefore, must possess the four visible signs or the 15 Marks of the true Church.
But they were founded many years ago. And, today, especially after Vatican II, none of these orders are living the spirituality of their founder. They have ceased to live according to the Gospel of Christ due to numerous changes in their lives and none of them have the four or 15 Marks of the true Church......except probably the Cathusians.
To convince these religious to save their souls according to the teachings of Christ is near impossible. Their reasoning; we are not followers of Christ. We are Jesuits.
In the worse state are the ecclesial communities like the Focolare, Opus Dei, Sant'Egidio, etc...who have in fact established themselves as separate entities within the church thus really becoming Protestant within the Catholic church, just like the bishop's conference as propagated by Vatican II which has become national groups with their own heresies. They really believe they are Catholics though most of them, if not all, do not have a single sign or Mark of Catholicity. The burden of proof being on their side. The reason why they do not have any visible sign or Mark of the true Catholic Church is because all of them have serious heresies they are not conscious of. 'Gaudium et Spes' followed by many of the above is based on a heresy that goes against the teaching of Christ who said; 'friendship with the world is enmity with God.' This includes practically the entire religious and ecclesial communities.
7. Our present situation.
If we seriously study the four visible signs of the true Church as enumerated in the Nicene Creed and the 15 Marks of the true Church according to St. Bellarmine, it will be noticed that most parishes and dioceses do not have those signs raising up the possibility that these parishes and dioceses are not Catholic.....and probably the bishop and parish priest are not Catholics.
Of course many parishes and dioceses could be truly Catholic....though I have found none so far. And what course of action should we take? We shall propose it at the end of this post.
Before we end, let us apply these four visible signs and 15 Marks of the true Church on Pope Francis. It will be noted that he and his VaticanChurch do not have either the four visible signs nor the 15 Marks of the true Church. In fact, he and his VaticanChurch have the opposite signs and Marks of the true Church. And they are all out to suppress all those groups who have the four visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church. Pope Francis, not only does not have any of the four visible signs nor the 15 Marks described by his fellow Jesuit, St. Bellarmine. I repeat, he has the opposite signs and is exerting great efforts to suppress those with the signs and Marks of the Church. That makes him a non-catholic, a pagan and an anti-Catholic person.
But most importantly, you will note that you, yourself, do not have, neither, the four visible signs nor the 15 Marks of the true Catholic church. Now, that is the biggest problem. So what do we do? Go safely back and study the commands of Christ as enumerated in one Gospel, like St. Matthew. Study the interpretation of those commands from the 'Catena Aurea' of St. Thomas of Aquinas where he collated all the interpretations of the Fathers of the Church. Then go to your room and lock the door, as Christ said. And obey or put them into practice. Inside the room? Yes. Because the act of Faith that will make you a Catholic is just an act of the mind and the free will. And you have both with you inside the room. With that you will soon be on your way to heaven undisturbed by all the confusions that is drowning the world today.
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