C O R P U S C H R I S T I.

 1. The Liturgy.

     After teaching the life of repentance, Faith and Charity, from Ash Wednesday up to Ascension, the Ordinary Sundays begun to teach the three steps of evangelization, i.e. on how apostles are supposed to save souls referred to as the Apostolic Commission by Christ. The steps are, first, to go and teach all nations. Secondly, to baptise them. Thirdly, to teach them all the commands of Christ and how to observe them. 

      These three steps may be described in a more specific way as to teach all nations how to reason well in the natural way referred to as philosophy in the form of a syllogism. To teach all nations how to receive the necessary graces from God to proceed to the third step; which is to be able to obey the commands of Christ on Faith and Charity.

2. Putting it in a very personal way.

    To be evangelised properly, I must reason properly that there is only one God and He is the Lord. I must pray for graces from God either through baptism and if I lose the baptismal grace through keeping the baptismal character,  I must live a life of repentance unto the acquisition of the virtue of Penance for the forgiveness of my past sins.

      With this grace, I must proceed to fill my mind with heavenly things and my heart with Divine Charity which consist in loving God and neighbour. 

3. St. Thomas of Aquinas.

    These four things mentioned above, good reasoning, graces, wisdom in the mind and love of God and neighbour in the free will can be attained through the Holy Eucharist as celebrated in the feast of Corpus Christi. The four above things can be attained through the sacrifice of the Mass, from the 'confiteor,' through the readings, the consecration and the receiving of Holy Communion. 

     The Liturgy of the Mass, in other words, is the official instrument of evangelization of the Catholic Church. 

     St. Thomas of Aquinas is one saint who attained the four above things through the Sacrifice of the Mass. He is a saint known to reason philosophically very well, to have received countless from God, had acquired great knowledge and wisdom through the celebration of the Mass. Anyone can do the same. He composed countless hymns, poems, prayers and a Mass for Corpus Christi showing through his treatises how the Apostolic Commission of Christ to His apostles can be achieved through the Liturgy of the Mass. 

      The Mass can evangelise souls and it for this reason that the devil had deprived the human race of the Mass during this pandemic. The end of evangelization can be attained through the Liturgy of the Mass even if there is no available priest, bishops or even Pope to celebrate the Mass. The monastic movement did not have frequent Masses and yet monks were very well catechised and the best missionaries like St.Boniface of Germany, and St. Austin of England, St. Bede. Because they lived the Liturgy in their daily lives.

     It is for this reason that the devil had been trying to destroy the Liturgy with abuses but have not succeeded as of now. 

I M A G E of the CHURCH. Tuesday of the 8th Weekday. St. Pope Gregory VII, St. Bede, St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi.

 1.  The Church. 

      During the Ascension, Jesus had completed the image of the Catholic Church that He had just established. That was the job He was sent by the Father to do.  The Liturgy described how that Church looks like, its teachings, its teachers, its classrooms, its pupils. 

      Tuesday and Wednesday shows with the commemoration of St. Gregory VII, St. Bede and St Mary Magdalene de Pazzi how the Church look like years after its establishment.

      St. Gregory VII, the Pope, shows how a Pope should look like. St. Bede shows how a priest should look like. St. Mary Magdalene shows how a layman should look like. All of them have one thing in common which united them into one Church. They all knew the commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament; they knew how those commands should be put into practice; and they put into practice all those commands. In short, they recipients of the Apostolic Commission Christ gave the first Apostles and they put them into practice. They conformed to the image of the Church,  Christ established before He ascended to heaven. 

      How does our Catholic parish or diocese look like? How does the Vatican look like?  Nowhere near the Church before the Ascension and nowhere near the Church of Gregory VII, Venerable Bede and Mary Magdalene de Pazzi. In fact, just the opposite. 

2. The Catholic Faith. 

     The Catholic Faith is established by obeying the Apostolic Commission given by Christ to the apostles. The last two phrases are the significant points whose goal is for listeners to make an Act of Catholic Faith; 'teach them all that I have commanded, and how to observe them.'

      The Catholic Faith is to know all the commandments of Christ as found in the New Testament, and how to observe them as taught by Christ to the first Christian communities  but written down later by the Fathers of the Church. 

        For the above Faith to be alive, it must be enlivened by Charity which consist in obeying the commandments of Christ. Theologians describe this as Faith and Charity, or Faith and Good works. There are approximately 82 commandments of Christ as found in the Gospel of Matthew. True Faith with Charity consist in obeying all of them.

         The image of the true Catholic Church described before the Ascension of Christ to heaven is that the Pope must have mastered all the 82 commandments of Christ and have obeyed them. He must, in turn,  teach these to the cardinals, bishops and priests, who in turn must master them and obey them. And lastly they must teach these commandments to the laity in the dioceses and parishes, who, in turn must obey all of them. 

          When Pope, cardinals, bishops, priests and lay people have obeyed them all, then God will send them the Holy Spirit to unite them into One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. This is how the true Catholic Church looked liked before the Ascension; this is how it should look like today. But it does not look like this today; not before the pandemic,  more so during this pandemic. 

           During the ongoing pandemic, neither the Pope, nor the cardinals and bishops, nor the priest or nuns, nor the laity have heard the commandments of Christ as laid down in the Liturgy of the Mass since the last two Holy Weeks up to today, Tuesday of the 8th week of Easter. No one is showing he has the Catholic Faith, except a very few who have it through a very special intervention of Almighty God. 

3. Proof of what Cardinal Ratzinger wrote in the 1980s on the 'crisis of Faith,' in his best selling 'Ratzinger Report.'

    In the above treatise, Ratzinger noted that the crisis in the Church is due to lack of Faith.  Unbelief or the sin against Faith is the greatest sin. Through unbelief, man remains in sin and becomes totally incapable of progressing forward. Chastisement is a punishment for unbelief.

 4. The sin of unbelief during the Corona pandemic.

      The present pandemic is a chastisement from God for man to see what is his sin. His sin is unbelief and the punishment is condemnation according to Christ. What does the world not believe in? It does not believe in the Divine Providence of God, i.e. in that God controls all of creation. That God decides when a man lives and when he dies. And nobody can change God's Providence. 

      Man may wear anything; he may wear a mask, a face shield, a gas mask, a hood. He can wear anything and that is alright. He can observe social distancing and live in the opposite side of the earth if he wants.

5. The Church.

      But Faith consist in that man must believe that God dictates who the virus will infect and who will not be infected; who will die and who will live. And most importantly, who will go to heaven when he dies and who will go to hell.

       Faith, also, consist in believing that there is a direct Will of God wherein He willed to create the Chinese and the Americans. And that there is a permissive Will of God that made Him allow the Chinese to make the Corona virus and for the Americans to have a new President.  

      Faith consist in believing that God allowed the Corona pandemic to test the Faith of all men with the end of rewarding the faithful while punishing the unfaithful. True Catholics are those who believe in this Divine Providence of God and have passed this on going test of Faith. 

6. He who does not believe in God's truth will believe in every lie.

    He who does not believe in Divine Providence but believes in every lie does not belong to the true church completely established by Christ before His Ascension. 

7. The reaction of the whole world shows it has no Faith.

     This reaction of unbelief is more pronounced in the institutional Catholic Church; The behaviour of the Vatican and almost all Diocese and parishes is total unbelief in the doctrine of Divine Providence. 

      There is nothing wrong with the face masks, face shields and social distancing. It is the reason for wearing and doing these that shows no Faith. One can use five masks and shields and still believe in the doctrine of Divine Providence. Unbelief is an act of the mind and will; it is not a physical act. 

       There is nothing wrong with not attending Mass if one is ill. But it is a sign of unbelief if one misses Mass due to fear of the virus; 'fear not what can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Fear God who can kill both body and soul.' God kills those guilty of unbelief. Unbelief was the Chosen People's greatest sin when Christ preached to them. 

        Christ, Himself, prophesied that an age will come when people will experience 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity.' Perfect Faith goes hand in hand with Charity; both are theological virtues that go together. Both are needed for salvation, because God  gives the virtue of Charity, only, to those with perfect Faith. That is why God did not send the Holy Spirit, the author of Charity,  on Pentecost until the apostles had perfect Faith which they had before Christ ascended to heaven.

        Most of mankind, today, do not have Charity, i.e. love of God and neighbour. St. Augustine wrote; if you do not love God, you will hate everybody. So what we have is hate crimes. And the only love man know is 'love of concupiscence,' the love one has for another for what pleasure he can get from the other. 

      There is no Charity because there is no perfect Faith upon which Charity is based. And there is no perfect Faith because man has not repented of their sins; it is for this reason that God sent the on going Corona virus pandemic, because man has not repented for his sins. And why has man not repented? Because he does not know his sins. How come he does not know his sins? Because he does not know the commandments of Christ, the violation of which is called sin. If Pope Francis and most of the US bishops do not know that abortionist cannot receive Holy Communion, demonstrators will not know that looting is wrong. 

8. How does the true Catholic Church look like. 

    It should look like the day before Ascension Day as described above. We must have a Pope like Gregory VII,  priests like Venerable Bede and a laymen like Mary Magdalene of Pazzi. Is the present institutional Church like that? Reading how the Church look like before Ascension, and reading the lives of the above saints commemorated  in today's Mass...........it is not. 

     

P E A C E . Signs of the true Church. ASCENSION WEEKDAYS.

  1. Ascension. Christ's work is done.

      Before He ascended to His Father, Jesus saw to it that his work on earth is done. His work was to establish His Church on earth for the salvation of mankind. Thus the Liturgy is now showing how that Church looks like. 

       The true Church of Christ can be recognised in many ways; through the 4 visible signs found in the Nicene Creed. Through the 15 Marks of the true Church by St. Robert Bellarmine, Doctor of the Church, which is an expanded version of the four visible marks from the Creed. 

        Souls with grace can recognise the true Church through the Moral and theological virtues. But for most Catholic, the true Church can be recognised through the parables on the kingdom of God as narrated in the Liturgy; especially as summarised in the Gospel of the feast of the Ascension of Christ and during the following Gospels of the following weekdays. 

2. Signs of the true Church established on Ascension.

    Its head, either the Pope, Bishop or priest is teaching them all the commands of Christ as found in the New Testament, is teaching them how to put those commands into practice as taught by Christ to the first Christian communities and written down by the Fathers of the Church and further explained by the Doctors of the Church. 

    And the followers are obeying those commands as instructed. This was the Apostolic Commission of Christ to the apostles and all their successors must obey them. If these are not taught they are not Catholic. 

     The next signs the Liturgy gave is the power God had given His true Church. The power to drive devils from their souls, the power to expose heresies and to remain in the truth in the midst of heretical teachings.  

      After being given wisdom and powers, Christ saw to it that they are not of the world  as He was not of the world. The Church is like the City of God and not the City of man, as St. Augustine differentiated them. 

3. They have the gift of PEACE. 

     This 'peace' is a gift of the Holy Spirit. No man can give this nor any institution demand or agree on it. Peace is given, only, to those who have undergone the four steps the Liturgy have shown from Ash Wednesday up to Ascension; i.e. know your sin, repent for your past sins, have perfect Faith enlivened by Charity. Then and only then can a soul have peace. It is a sign that a soul has become truly a Catholic. 

      St. Thomas wrote that 'peace' is, exclusively, a gift from God. Nobody can just have it. That is why no organisation can promise it nor can produce peace anywhere. Neither the UN nor the institutional Church who is uselessly trying to make peace among different religions.  Who do they think they are.  Gods?

       Peace is possible only in souls that are in the state of grace, i.e. souls who have no sins. That is why there is no peace in the world, among nations, among husband and wives, not even among brothers and sisters, because all have sinned. It is impossible for Israel and Hamas to have peace. All human efforts are futile in making peace because a sinner does not even have peace within himself. St. James wrote that all battles begin within each person before it goes public. Man, due to sin, is at war with himself, and this war will go external. 

4. The word 'peace' is usually plastered all over monastery walls. Because that is the goal of monastic spirituality, the attainment of the gift of 'peace.' After which they are supposed to go out into the world and become peace makers. To be a peace maker is a Beatitude and a soul must be very holy before he can become a peace maker; he must, first, have peace. 

     Today's peace makers, like the UN. is full of sins. They don't have the gift of peace. Even in the Vatican whose offices are filled with gay and heretics, they cannot have peace due to their sins.  Thus it is impossible for them to create their beloved one-world religion wherein all are in the state of sin and, therefore, do not have peace. What they have is guilty conscience that gives them no peace, and which is driving them crazy unless they repent. 

     The lack of peace is the cause for all the hate crimes in the world. It is not so much that the other person is hateful. It is each person, due to their own sins who hates all the others. 

5. Considering the Church, the finished job done by Christ before His Ascension, today, no institutional church is identical to it based on the signs already enumerated in the Liturgy. 

6. So where is the Church?

     It is, still, there on earth. But it seems no one knows the description of the true Church just before Ascension Day. The church in the Vatican is not even a shadow of the Church before the Ascension. And neither any diocese or parish. 

     Today, as Christ said to the Samaritan woman, true worshippers worship in spirit and in truth. But they, still, possess their human bodies so they can be seen. The man of peace, still, has his human body so he can be seen, he can be found and he can, still, aid in teaching the way of peace to the Israelites and Palestinians. And to the whole world. The man or woman who have followed Christ from Ash Wednesday up to Ascension Day is the man of peace. Only he or she can lead others to a life of peace because God the Holy Spirit, who alone is the giver of the gift of peace, is in them.

          

Being a BRANCH ATTACHED TO THE VINE in China, Africa, Middle East, USA....and in the whole world.

  1. The third level interpretation.

       The third level of interpretation of the parable of the Vine and the branches, according to St. Thomas of Aquinas, refers to the free will, the faculty of Charity or love, and is impossible without the grace of God. 

      It is the way souls become truly Christian through the direct intervention of God. Pagans and even Catholics enter the true Church this way. The incident is common among saints that do not show human interventions, like the example of St. Therese of Lisieux.

       As in the previous post, it is the way a soul is saved though he is alone in an island in the middle of the Pacific with absolutely nothing. No telephone, no books, no radio, no computer, no nothing. 

          Firstly, if this soul looks up to heaven and sees the sky, the sun, the moon and stars ..... and say, I think a Divine Being created all these and how I greatly wish to know who he is. Secondly, if he further say, this Divine Being had commanded the sun to move from East to West, the moon and the stars. How I wish I know His commands for me. And thirdly, if this soul says, If I knew his commands I will obey them. This soul had just become a branch attached to the Vine.

2. Act of the Free Will.

    Note that the three above acts are acts of the free will and, therefore, acts of love. Since these acts are directed towards a Supreme Being, grace had been given to him to enable him to make an act of Faith, Hope and Charity. This soul is truly a member of the Catholic Church, and will surely be saved. The above three acts were done by both the intellect and free will. But since the intellect is completely ignorant of Catholic teaching, the above act was reduced to mainly an act of the free will, i.e. an act of Love, Charity.

      Christ mentioned to the Samaritan Woman that one day she did not have to go to Samaria or Jerusalem in order to worship God because the day will come when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. 

      This is that day. Souls do not have to go to the Vatican, to cathedrals or parishes because people do not worship God properly in those places. We have come to those days when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. With the spiritual faculties of intellect and free will and based on natural truths, like there is a God of nature. 

3. Chinese, Africans, Middle East Catholic Christians persecuted in these places should worship God in this way to minimise their exposure to the wrath of pagans. They must worship God by going to their rooms and locking the door, as Christ exhorted. They should not show external signs of Catholicity unless forcefully demanded by circumstances to confess their Faith. 

     These persecuted Catholics know the basic Catholic truths upon which they can base their acts of free will, i.e. their act of desire. Though their knowledge is incomplete due to their persecuted situation, this very situation will not prevent them from making the act of free will, i.e. by wishing. 

4. This is the deepest interpretation on how a branch is attached to the Vine, i.e. through the free will. It is an act of love, an act of Charity that is moved by the grace of God. God intervenes directly in such special situations when He sees the proper disposition of a soul that is predestined. True Catholics in such situations similar to a soul alone in an island in the midst of the Pacific should not depend on instructions from the Vatican, from the diocesan office or anywhere else. The age has come, Christ prophesied to the Samaritan Woman, that going to the Vatican, the diocese and parish for instruction, is over. True worshippers will worship in spirit, i.e. with their spiritual faculties of intellect and free Will, and in Truth, i.e. there is One God. 

5. Period of Pandemic.

    This is the same situation in areas where there is pandemic. They are like in an island in that there are no Sacraments, no Masses and no one preaching the Catholic truths because Christ had prophesied that we are in an age where there is a decay of Faith and the waxing cold of Charity. That is as bad as being in an island in the middle of nowhere. 

     Droplets of truth can still be found in Scriptures, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church but these truths cannot be understood without the grace of God. And this grace is given only to the humble, not to the  proud of which most people are. So today, we must worship, also, in spirit and in truth. Nobody seems to know how to do that, except God and He is not talking too much. 

6. The Ark of the Covenant is gone. 

     The ark of the covenant was the place where God, in the form of cloud and fire, use to speak to the priests who will eventually transmits God's Will to the people. Because of the infidelity of both priest and people God took away the Ark of the Covenant. It was still missing at the time of Christ. God stopped speaking to the priests. And the priest could not convey God's Will to the people. The priest and the people ended up just doing their own will, just like Adam and Eve. Mankind had returned with vengeance to original sin.

       Today, God no longer speak to priests and bishops. So they only tell people their own opinion that is why their homilies are all written down. Their homilies are written by men and copied from men. They know nothing about the Will of God. And so, rightly, have God cancelled everything because mankind is just talking nonsense to one another. God is not talking to mankind and man is not talking to God. No branch is attached to the Vine. The branches are all dead and dried. It is ready for the fire. Except for a few that have gone to be alone in a spiritual island......or in the middle of the spiritual desert in the middle of China, Africa or the Middle East. Or lock down in spiritual cell in Manhattan, St. Louise, or South Carolina,......like St. Catherine of Sienna who was always within her monastic cell everywhere she went. With her mind and free will in constant communion with God. 

Philippines' 500 years of Christianity Anniversary.

 1. The church that never resurrected.

     The Churches in Europe were churches that were established firmly during its golden age but which eventually died out. All of them, like France and Ireland, who were once upon a time Catholic, do not have a single drop of Catholicism in them today. 

     The middle east once upon a time seat beds of Catholicism have only tiny groups of Catholicism today. Asia and the Philippines were never fully Catholic. 

2. The Philippines, which celebrates its 500 years anniversary of Catholicism was never a Catholic nation. The official text book of History of the Catholic Church used in Philippine seminaries noted that the archipelago was never fully christianised because most of the missionaries who went there to evangelised the nation where tainted already by the heresy of modernism coming from the Reign of terror in France. 

     The poor catechising of the Filipino people were continued by the fact that problem priests in Europe were sent to the Philippines as place of exile. If there are missionary saints in the Philippines it was more because, by the providence of God, they were among those martyred in Asian pagan countries like Japan and Korea. 

3. The influence of the 'illustrados.'

    A group of Filipino known as 'gente de razor,' were like the 'enlightened' equivalent in Europe and in the States. They were mainly members of secret societies with anti-Catholic sentiments. The more popular of them, Jose Rizal, was pro-Catholic and pro-Spain. 

     The decay of Catholicism in Europe had its heavy toll in preventing the Philippines into developing into a true Catholic nation. The anti-Catholic movement brought by these 'gente de razor,' the equivalent of the 'enlightened' of the French reign of terror was joined by the conquest of the USA of the Philippines. 

4. The Thomasites.

    The USA, born from the the same philosophy of the Reign of Terror from France,  joined the 'illustrados' to further pushed the Philippines to become more liberal and less Catholic. From this time on, the progress of the Philippines into becoming a true Catholic nation completely stopped. It would never become a truly Catholic nation. It would remain as non-Catholic as Europe and other non- Catholic nations. It would remain as a conglomeration of a thousand different religions.

5. A return.

    The middle East and Europe  were once upon a time truly Catholic. Now, they are no longer. But they can easily return since they know from whence they came from. The Philippines was never Catholic. It would not know where she came from and, therefore, cannot return. There had been good catholic bishops and priest in the Philippines; but they were known for a few virtues in which they excelled. But there was not one single known Catholic who can be described as knowledgeable of the entire Catholic Faith,  like a St. Augustine or St.Thomas of Aquinas. Not a single bishops or priest. Today, many are known for heresies, like certain officers of the Bishop's conference who do not believe in hell or in the continuity of the existence of the Catholic Church.

6. The Filipino people.

    By God's extraordinary intervention, the Filipinos had been described as the people who believed most in God. This is basic natural Faith. It cannot save but can easily be transformed into theological Faith and save souls. This natural Faith is ingrained in the nation and God, Himself, can easily build the theological virtue of Faith in their soul. And God has done it in many cases without the help of priests,  bishops and nuns. The grace of God is maintaining this state of 'blissful ignorance' to build upon it the virtue of Faith. This is a  Divine Intervention. It is not the work of men or of a church. In fact, it cannot be explained how this state of affair have remained in the nation and slowly guiding a very few towards the perfection of the Catholic Faith. 

      An attempt to explain this is because the people live in an island separated from the rest of the world. They had been in a lock down for centuries. This is an ideal environment for a life of repentance that leads to Faith in God. It is for this reason God had caused the world into a lock down; to foster a natural Faith in souls upon which true theological Faith can grow. What kept the Filipinos God-conscious is what God is doing to the whole world to make it God conscious. Hopefully, by the grace of God, may God find souls with the disposition of natural Faith, upon whom He may bestow the theological virtue of Faith unto the salvation of their souls. 

 

    

  

The GOD given genius of ST. BENEDICT and the LENTEN LITURGY

  1. The Liturgy.

      We are still within the Liturgical Season of Lent. The Lenten message, made more pronounced by the Corona virus is the necessity of Repentance. Like Nineveh, the world is living in sin and the Corona virus, like Jonah, was sent to threaten the world with chastisement unless it repents. Nineveh repented because of Jonah and the chastisement was withheld. On the other hand, the present world did not repent so the Corona virus devastated the world. 

2. A background.

     It all begun with Shrove Tuesday last year. Like Jonah, the Liturgy warned the Catholic world and the human race that God had been very displeased with them and a grievous chastisement is coming unless the Catholics repent and teach the rest of mankind to repent. Neither the Catholics nor mankind repented for, only, one reason. Neither knew how to repent. 

     Both could not practice the message of Shrove Tuesday, to know one's sins. People did not know what is right or wrong, what is moral and immoral, what is sinful and what is not. They did not know the commandments of God in the O.T. and they did not know the commands of Christ in the N. T. 

      Unable to repent, God chastised the world with the Corona virus; in effect God was saying, 'you have all sinned, you have not repented and I am sending you this pandemic to remind you of your unrepentant sins. This pandemic can kill and send you to hell. So repent. 

      The world could not repent because the world did not know what sin to repent for. Because the Catholic Church head quartered in the Vatican, who is supposed to teach what are sinful, did not know what were the unrepentant sins of the world. 

      How come they did not know? Sins are disobediences to the commands of God the Father in the O.T. and the commands of God the Son in the New Testament. The commands of God are explained in the Gospels of the Liturgy from Shrove Tuesday up to the 5th Sunday of Lent.  84 commands of God were explained in every Gospel in every daily Mass from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Sunday of Lent.

3. Why the total ignorance of the commands of God.

     Because there were no Masses during that year from the start of the pandemic. No priest were teaching the commands of God and how to obey them. And no soul were interested in know those commands and how to obey them. 

     The few priests who dared celebrate Mass and give homilies did not explain the command of Christ from the Gospel and how to put the command into practice as explained by the Fathers of the Church. With priests totally ignorant of God's commands and how to obey them and people who were not interested in knowing the above, God found is useless to have the Masses celebrated. God always did this whenever He saw, both, the priest and people were unfaithful. And this is what we have today. 

4. God provides.

     The goal of the Lenten observance is to attain the theological virtue of Faith. And the purpose of the Corona virus is to force man to repent and progress towards Faith. Because it is Faith that  saves soul. 'There is condemnation for those who have Faith,' Christ said. 

5. What is Faith.

     Faith is believing and knowing what are the commands of Christ and how to obey them. Charity. that goes with living Faith, is putting into practice the commands of Christ in the way it should be observed. And the Liturgy, from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Sunday Lent enumerates 84 commands to be obeyed in following Christ. Those are 84 Gospels read both on Sundays and Weekday Masses. To show a good Catholic should really hear Mass every day.

     Those commands are arranged in proper order. The order cannot be changed otherwise it won't work. That is why in obeying the commands of God, we must follow the order presented in the Liturgy and not the order found in the Bible. St. Augustine noted that the disorder in the Bible is meant to confuse those who just want to use the bible for other means, like to get rich like the Protestant,  rather than for the salvation of soul. It is for this same reason that the Council of Orange prohibited Catholics from reading the bible. They will just get confused. The Bible should be explained by an expert based on the Liturgy and interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. 

      To save souls the 84 commands as interpreted by the Fathers must be preached. And souls must be encouraged to put them into practice. These are taught every year from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Sunday of Lent. 

     The 5th Weekday of Lent describes the goal. Faith and the salvation of one's soul. The whole week describes how Faith looks like so everyone can see if they have Faith or not. After two years of pandemic, its mere continuation to devastate the world,  shows that the world, especially most Catholics,  does not have Faith. Nobody seems to be going to heaven. Except probably a few. 'And few shall enter it.'

6. The God given genius of St. Benedict.

    It is impossible to know the 84 commands and even more impossible to know how to put them into practice. Because in both cases, the help of Divine Grace is needed. And God does not give it easily to anybody. God gives grace to the humble. And nobody seems to know how to be humble because it should be the 'humility of Christ.' Not anybody's humility. 

     It is, also, near impossible to observe the commands in its proper order as can be seen in the fact that no priest, no bishops and not even the present Pope had explained the proper order. One can clearly see the proof in You Tube. 

     St. Benedict placed the 84 commands in perfect order and in just the right amount to form them into a daily way of life. So that anyone who puts into practice the Rule of St. Benedict would be obeying all the 84 commands daily. In effect, a soul can attain Faith in one day and attain eternal salvation at the end of the day.

      Thus the entire Liturgy, from Ash Wednesday up to the Easter can be lived in one day by living a life in accordance to the Rule of St. Benedict. Thus Charlemagne, in desiring to save the souls of the subjects of his entire empire imposed the Rule of St Benedict in his realm. What a splendid king. No secular ruler could ever think of this. And he did it at the year 800 A.D. They were much brighter  that time because they were good Catholics. Today our rulers are Catholic abortionists. What can you expect from slaves of sin? More evil. Nothing good. 

7. Pope Benedict XVI

    Well versed in Catholic History and Theology, Pope Benedict gave the same wise suggestions by the end of his papacy. Seeing the utter confusion in Europe and in the world with no solution in sight, Benedict suggested that the world, especially Europe return to observe the Rule of St. Benedict, its patron saint, as the only solution to its problems. Just like Charlemagne.  But nobody listened to Benedict.

     Just like God, who saw it was useless to continue the celebration of the Masses because priest neither said Mass with Faith nor preach the Faith and church goers who just went to be entertained with Liturgical abuses, Pope Benedict saw it was useless to be the Pope of an unbelieving institutional Church. What for?

8. The hidden treasure in the pandemic.

    St. John Chrysostom wrote that the way of life of St. Benedict's Rule, wherein he put together a simple way of daily life observing the 84 commands of Christ, taught in the Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to the 5th Week of Lent, can easily be put into practice while locked down in one's home with the entire family. Done well with knowledge and a good will, an entire family can become holy in one day and if they die the next day, they can all go straight to heaven. 

     And when you see God face to face, please pray for me. 

     

There is no condemnation for those with Faith. But for those without Faith ........4th Sunday of LENT

  1. First reading.

      The first Reading shows God destroying a nation, first, by sending no prophets who would preach repentance, happiness and the salvation of one's soul. If this does not work, it is followed by Divine chastisements, the total destruction of that nation. What was their sin? Infidelity. The people did not believe in the true God.

      A person does not have to die nor be judged by God to be saved or be condemned. A person is saved or condemned while they are alive here on earth. When? When he believes or have Faith, he is already saved. There is no condemnation for those who believe. But for those who do not believe, he is already condemned unless he repents before he dies. 

       Thus it is wrong reasoning to prepare oneself for death just before one dies. He would have been judged long before he dies depending on whether he has Faith or not. 

        St. Basil the great wrote that, ordinarily, a well catechised child can attain Faith at the age of 14. After which he has nothing to worry about preparing oneself for death and judgment. He just have to grow in virtue with the grace of God that he receives with the virtue of Faith.

        What is happening today is identical to that nation whom God was preparing for Divine punishment. The first step is on going; there are no preachers on how to repent due to the lock downs. And the few who are preaching are not preaching repentance that leads to Faith. So based on the first reading, we must expect the next step, the destruction body and soul,  of those without Faith in God. 

2. So.....

     At this very moment, if any one has no Faith, there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to save his soul unless he repents in the proper way. On the other hand, if anyone has Faith, there is nothing anyone can do to destroy his soul. Thus the Catholic rule is to have Faith as early as possible in one's life. 

     If one has Faith, God will grant that soul graces so that  everything he does will be virtuous that will raise him to the heights of knowledge, wisdom and holiness. By the grace of God everything he does will benefit all body and soul. 

     On the other hand, if one does not have Faith he will continue to fall deeper into more serious sins. In fact,  the faithless cannot do anything good either for the body and soul of anyone. Even for himself. . This is a punishment from God. Christ said; 'If you continue to sin, worse things will happen to you.' Everything a politician will do if he is pro abortion will be evil. And he will be punished by God to continue doing, only, what is evil. He will be completely incompetent to do any good for himself or for his country. He will continuously do what is worse for everybody. This is Christ's condemnation for such.  A warning to pro-abortion politicians  and to those who vote for them. 

3. What is Faith?

     One cause of confusion in the world today is the inability to define words in the proper way. The Catholic church has its proper definition for all Catholic words based on its philosophic definition. Its Catholic definition is the perfected definition of the philosophic definition. Sort of, the philosophy of the Old Testament is perfected by the New Testament Catholic definitions. So it is expected that very few understands the Catholic definition unless well versed with the philosophic definition of terms. A man of Faith can never be understood by a man without Faith. 

        Faith is to know all the commands of Christ and how to observe them. This is the Apostolic Commission given by Christ to the apostles when they were commanded to go to the whole world to save souls. They must teach all the commands of Christ; and they must teach how to put those commands into practice. 

        Christ taught the apostles both, the 'what' and the 'how'. What are the commands and how to observe them. While the 'what' is found in the Gospel, the 'how' are not written in the Gospels. So preachers should explain both the 'what' and the 'how'. But from where can they learn the 'how'?  From the Fathers and Doctors of the Church who wrote down Christ teachings on the 'how' but, only later on, written down by them and referred to as 'tradition'. Nobody is interpreting the 'how' these days. And more often than not, they do not explain the Gospel 'spiritually'. Most , only, give the dictionary meaning. So the people are left without the 'bread of life'. No bread, norepentance, no Faith......and, therefore, in danger of being condemned unless they learn how to repent and attain Faith; which is impossible seeing the faithless state of the priesthood.

       This is the reason God sent the pandemic seeing priests do not know the right doctrines and the people are not interested in saving their souls. Why have Masses, and have priest preach sweet nothings while the listeners just want to be entertained. Both can just go to the theatre. 

     The very few who are really interested in saving their souls are instructed directly by God as He did to St. Paul, St. John Newman and Gilbert Chesterton. They were true Catholics even before becoming Catholics. 

     The people do not know the commands of Christ and how to observe them. There is no Faith so most are in a state of condemnation. For those who know the commands of Christ and how to observe them, it is very easy to classify each man, especially those in public life like the politicians and bishops. And label them 'saved' or 'condemned' unless they soon repent.'

4. Perfect atmosphere to have our past sins forgiven.

    It is important for the salvation of our souls that our past sins be forgiven and, by the grace of God, we avoid sins in the future. This is attained by a life of repentance until death. Repentance serve both purpose; the forgiveness of one's past sins and the avoidance of new sins in the future. This life of repentance is taught by the Liturgy from Ash Wednesday up to Easter. 

     With this pandemic, God gave mankind the perfect atmosphere to start one's life of repentance. Everyone lives in community, their families. They have the leisure to find out their sins with the help of their computers. They can pray, are in effect fasting and they can help each member of their family by teaching them how to save their souls. 

     Mystically, that is like living in community in the desert, just like the first Christians. Who is their instructor? Like the first hermits, God, Himself. 

     Just as Scriptures is very good for those who wish to be good, it can be used by the devil to destroy souls. Thus the present pandemic is a grace of God to make souls good. But the devil's co-horts are using it to push forward their communist evil goals. These events are like a two edged sword. 

5. The first reading. 

     The pandemic, together with its accessories, like the snow storm, the black out, the earthquakes, an atheistic government, a faithless church... these are all signs that God is about to punish a nation for its sins. Maybe not as soon as Sodom and Gomorrah. But more like the days of Noah. Where those without Faith could not have Faith while they were slowly drowning for they have run out of time. And the good are so few, as Christ prophesied; 'the way is narrow and many will try to enter heaven, but very few, very few, will be able to do so. We, alone, can decide if we are among the few.