The
False Pope, In Great Need For the Church, Will Fall Silent!
“In This Supreme Moment Of Need For The
Church, The One Who Should Speak Will Fall Silent”!
(Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador, on
January 20, 1610).
Dear friends,
As we know, it is
very important to struggle everyday to seek the Truth in a world
filled with confusion, sown by “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44),
more than ever before. As I wrote at the beginning of my main blog
site (Microsoft’s Explorer has blocked my main sites
(http://josephdwight.blogspot.com,
http://giuseppedwight.blogspot.it/,),
so you can Google to find my principal websites, with keywords such
as: josephdwight, giuseppedwight)
“I do not think
it was by chance that when Pope John Paul II was asked toward the end
of his life to offer one verse from the entire Bible for the people
of God, he responded without hesitation: “THE
TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE” (Jn 8:32;
Jer 6:16)! Father, “Sanctify them in the
truth” (Jn 17:17)! The Truth, tied to the cross of Jesus here on
earth, is uncomfortable!”
I too have
often had to backtrack when I discovered new information and
documents in my search for the truth.
The search for the truth is an ongoing process and will not end until
our death. Very often, even
good Catholics who have received more
of the fullness of the Truth than non Catholics, CUT
OFF DIALOGUE in the search for the truth
when there is indicated something that they do not want to hear or
documents they do not want to read; many follow the uncomfortable
Truth, Christ crucified, only up to the point that they decide
according to the way they want the truth and the way they want
reality. Those who have received more grace and greater
responsibility from God but slide away from God become better experts
in deceiving themselves and others as they justify and disguise their
hidden egoism. The more we follow the Truth, Who is crucified on the
cross, the more we will be asked to loose many things (all things
before entering heaven before the all perfect God!) that we are
attached to so as to make room in our hearts for the Truth Who is
Jesus Christ (Jn 14:6). What an advantageous exchange of our ideas
and attachments and comforts for the eternal riches of our divine
Savior!
In this search for
the Truth, it is
very important to understand well the
most basic tenets of our faith, such as,
the Church is the handmaid of the Truth
and not the Author of the Truth. Thus a
group of bishops cannot change the Ten Commandments or the words of
Christ Himself, even in a sly covert way, with beautiful rhetoric
filled with false love, false mercy and misguided compassion, which
ends up in the long run in hurting the ones committing the sin, those
around them and our whole society in which we live. Very
few Catholics today, immersed into relativism, realize that to
change, even an “iota” of
the saving laws of God (Mt 5:18; Lk
16:17; Mk 13:31), will bring very great
destruction to eternal souls. Wars were
fought in the first centuries of the Church due to disputes over the
doctrine of the Church; now very few Catholics even care. If
we are not alert with much prayer and study, the same old tricks of
our adversary, with different dressings, will be used to lead us
astray and away from God Who is the Truth and the way to eternal
life. This is why we cannot rest until death, because our very
intelligent enemy does not rest even at night; our enemy works in the
dark!
Having all the
revelations of Our Lady to Don Stefano
Gobbi in Italian on my Hard Disk (which you can find on my Italian
web site (http://giuseppedwight.blogspot.it/),
I did a search through the messages for the word “truth”
(“verità”), and I came up with some very interesting and
illuminating messages for our times at least up to 1984 for now, in
particular for priests. Since these messages of Our Lady to Don
Stefano Gobbi cannot be found on the Internet in English, I took the
time to put some of these messages here regarding the attack against
the “truth”. Visit:
As we quickly
approach the Synod on the Family in October, I would like to continue
to try to connect the dots and to briefly go
over some of the pieces of the puzzle that have manifested themselves
in the last several years or more, as
well as some new insights and newly discovered old revelations, in
the quest to continue to be good detectives so as not to fall prey to
the very intelligent wolf “disguised as an angel of light” (2Cor
11:14), as we read from Saint Peter that we say in our Night Prayers:
“Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary
the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to
devour. Resist him, firm in your faith”
(1Pet 5:8-9). It would be nice if we could see this “roaring lion”
so as to identify him as “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44), instead
of believing that the devil does not exist as so many Catholic lay
people, priests and bishops believe today
(http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879;
http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/61-An-interview-with-the-Vaticans-chief-excorcist,-Father-Gabriele.html).
This resistance to the devil is not only
the resistance to personal temptations, but perhaps even more so
today, it is the resistance to not go along with the stampeding herd
in a world filled with confusion and beautiful lies by the mass
media, by the schools, and by almost all the religious institutions,
to be politically correct, NOT Godly
correct!
You might find
very interesting an article, “Sister
Lucia: “Final Confrontation between
the Lord and Satan will be over Family and Marriage”.”
by Steve Skojec. I include this article here in its entirety since I
had to translate it for my Italian version of “Spiritual Food 1509”
(“Cibo Spirituale 1509”):
“Rorate Caeli
has published a translation of a remarkable interview, originally
published in 2008, with Cardinal Carlo
Caffara of Bologna. In it, he
references correspondence he had with Sister Lucia, the principle
visionary of Our Lady at Fatima:
Q. There is a prophecy by Sister Lucia dos Santos,
of Fatima, which concerns “the final battle between the Lord and
the kingdom of Satan”. The battlefield is the family. Life and the
family. We know that you were given charge by John Paul II to plan
and establish the Pontifical Institute for the Studies on Marriage
and the Family.
Yes, I was. At the
start of this work entrusted to me by the Servant of God John Paul
II, I wrote to Sister Lucia of Fatima through her Bishop as I
couldn’t do so directly. Unexplainably however, since I didn’t
expect an answer, seeing that I had only asked for prayers, I
received a very long letter with her signature – now in the
Institute’s archives. In it we find written: the
final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about
marriage and the family. Don’t be
afraid, she added, because anyone who operates for the sanctity of
marriage and the family will always be contended and opposed in every
way, because this is the decisive issue. And then she concluded:
however, Our Lady has already crushed its head.
Talking also to
John Paul II, you felt too that this was the crux, as it touches the
very pillar of creation, the truth of the relationship between man
and woman among the generations. If the
founding pillar is touched the entire building collapses and we see
this now, because we are at this point
and we know it. And I’m moved when I read the best biographies of
Padre Pio, on how this man was so attentive to the sanctity of
marriage and the sanctity of the spouses, even with justifiable rigor
on occasion.
Does this come as
any surprise to those watching the events currently unfolding in the
Church? We have referenced various apparitions in the past that are
related to this, beginning with
OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS, IN THE 17TH CENTURY:
“Thus I make it
known to you that from the end of the 19th century and shortly after
the middle of the 20th century…the passions will erupt and there
will be a total corruption of morals… As for the Sacrament of
Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it
will be attacked and deeply profaned. FREEMASONRY,
which will then be in power, will enact
iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament,
making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging
procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the
Church… IN THIS SUPREME MOMENT OF NEED
FOR THE CHURCH, THE ONE WHO SHOULD SPEAK WILL FALL SILENT.”
When we reflect on
the division among prelates at the Synod, Our
Lady of Akita comes to mind:
“The work of the
devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one
will see cardinals opposing cardinals,
bishops against bishops. The priests
who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their
confreres…churches and altars sacked; the
Church will be full of those who accept compromises
and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave
the service of the Lord.”
Catholics are not
required to believe in even the most approved and venerated private
revelations, but many of us choose to do so. Does this battle relate
to the famous discourse Pope Leo XIII
was alleged to have heard in a vision between Christ and Satan, which
led him to compose the prayer to St. Michael? How long the final
battle will last, and what will come after?
It is impossible to know. But the notion that
there is at this very moment a battle taking place for the heart of
the Church and the souls of the faithful is no longer in dispute.
(http://www.onepeterfive.com/sister-lucia-final-confrontation-between-the-lord-and-satan-will-be-over-family-and-marriage/)
(http://www.traditioninaction.org/OLGS/A001olgs%20fat.htm).
Regarding what Our
Lady of Good Success said, “In this
supreme moment of need for the church, the one who should speak will
fall silent”, it is very interesting
that Our Lady said “the ONE who should
speak”; she
did not say, “the ONES
who should speak”, or “those
who should speak”, that is, not a group of bishops, but ONE
PERSON. Today
people are well prepared for this underhanded and very devastating
deception of silence after many years
of silence about sin and about the consequences of sin on the part of
almost all the fathers of the families, of the priests and of the
bishops.
It is also very
interesting what Cardinal Burke said after the Synod in October 2014:
“Many have expressed their concerns to
me. At this very critical moment, there is a strong sense that the
Church is like a ship without a rudder.” This was reported by
Religion News Service
(http://www.religionnews.com/2014/10/31/cardinal-catholic-church-pope-francis-ship-without-rudder/).
But what Cardinal Burke actually said was: “like
a ship without a helm.” That’s very
different from a rudder. (Report abuse in
reporting!). How many men in their various God-given vocations “fall
silent” when the souls entrusted to them are in great spiritual
danger?!?
On “World Over -
2015-06-04 - Full Episode with Raymond Arroyo”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA76iHWw8BA),
after Raymond Arroyo had an interview with Cardinal Kasper, both Fr.
Gerald E. Murray, JCD and Robert Royal, Editor-in-chief of “The
Catholic Thing”, expressed the lack of logic and coherence with
Catholic teaching in Cardinal Kasper’s proposal to offer Holy
Communion to the divorced and remarried. In the end Fr. Murray, a
canon lawyer, said that Cardinal Kasper has not answered the
objection of Cardinal Caffarra regarding the validity of the first
marriage. Fr. Murray said: “If the first marriage is still in
existence, Cardinal Kasper’s proposal
is shot down!”
Fr. Gerald E.
Murray was referring to what Cardinal
Caffarra said in an interview (March 2014); one of the questions in
this interview was the following question:
“The possibility
of allowing the divorced and remarried to receive communion is spoken
about. One of Cardinal Kasper’s suggestions was that they should
undergo a period of penance that would bring them into a full
readmission to Communion. Is this now an inevitable necessity, or is
it the accommodation of Christian teaching to contemporary
circumstances?”
Cardinal Caffarra’s answer:
“Those who make
these suggestions have NOT, at least up
until now, answered one simple question:
what happens to the first valid and
consummated marriage? If the Church
admits them to the Eucharist, she must render a judgment on the
legitimacy of the second marriage. It’s logical. But, as I said,
what about the first marriage? The second marriage, if we can call it
that, cannot be a true second marriage because bigamy is against the
teaching of Christ. So the first marriage, is it dissolved? But
all the popes have always taught that the Pope has no authority over
this. The
Pope does not have the power to dissolve a valid and consummated
marriage. The proposed solution seems
to imply that although the first marriage continues, the Church can
somehow legitimate a second relationship. But
in doing this, the proposal demolishes the foundations of the
Church’s teaching on sexuality. At
this point we have to ask: why, then, can we not approve of unmarried
couples living together? Or why not homosexual unions? The
question is simple: what
about the first marriage? No one has yet answered that question.
In 2000, John Paul II speaking to the Roman Rota said: “It is clear
that the Roman Pontiff’s power does not extend to valid and
consummated marriages and this is taught by the Magisterium of the
Church as a doctrine to be definitively held even if it has not been
solemnly declared through a definitive act.” It is a technical
formula, “a doctrine to be
definitively held”, and it means that
on this point there is no further discussion to be had among
theologians nor doubts among the faithful.”
Cardinal Walter Kasper, a retired German
theologian and confidant of Pope Francis, says:
“Nobody denies the indissolubility of marriage.
I do not, nor do I know any bishop who denies it,” Kasper told the
Jesuit weekly, America. “But discipline can be changed.”
“Discipline wants to apply a doctrine to
concrete situations, which are contingent and can change,” he
added.
But a sizable
contingent of the nearly 200 churchmen at the current synod have
forcefully rejected the separation of doctrine and practice outlined
by Wuerl, Kasper and others. They say
it’s simply a distinction without a
difference, and a Trojan horse that could introduce de facto changes
in settled doctrine.
“There can’t
be in the church a discipline which is not at the service of
doctrine,” Cardinal Raymond Burke, a
former archbishop of St. Louis who now heads the Vatican’s court
system, told reporters on the eve of the synod.
Cardinal Burke, a
canon lawyer, said the reformers were saying: “Oh, we’re not
questioning the indissolubility of marriage at all. We’re just
going to make it easy for people to receive a declaration of nullity
of marriage so that they can receive the sacraments.” But to this,
Burke said, “is a very deceptive line
of argument which I’ve been hearing
more now in this whole debate.”
(http://www.religionnews.com/2014/10/09/catholic-bishops-debate-doctrine-end-pastoral-practice-begin/).
On “World Over -
2014-09-25 – War with ISIS, annulment reform, George Weigel with
Raymond Arroyo” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA76iHWw8BA;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEkxD3lxXgI),
after a question about the upcoming Synod on the Family by Raymond
Arroyo, George Weigel answered as follows:
“We all know
that marriage culture throughout the western world is in deep deep
crisis. We also know, or should know as Catholics, that we have a
very good proposal to make in the face of that. I hope that this is a
positive synod. I hope the synod begins by lifting up the beauty and
dignity of Christian marriage as the answer to this crisis of
marriage culture throughout the world. And I think some of the
American bishops
tend to do that. I know African bishops,
for whose people, the discovery of Christian marriage, which has come
as an enormous liberation from both ancient customs and the
degradation of women within that, are going to be quite vocal on
this. And I think that it may well be said, at least behind the
scenes, if not in public where everyone tries to be polite, that it
is really not up to dying local churches in Europe
- some of whom have 7% mass attendance on Sundays, some of whom have
10% mass attendance on Sundays - to
pretend that they have a pastoral answer to the crisis of marriage
culture when they manifestly do not have a pastoral answer to much
else right now.”
The book,
“Remaining in the Truth of Christ”,
in defense of marriage, by five cardinals, was not allowed into last
October’s Synod of Bishops! “SYNODGATE – Five Cardinals Book
stolen from participants’ mailboxes at last year’s Synod on
Family”
(http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/02/five-cardinals-book-stolen-from-participants-mailboxes-at-last-years-synod-on-family/;
Also:
(http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/10/action-item-book-from-5-cardinals-in-defense-of-marriage-and-tradition/;
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-burke-media-hijacking-synod-on-the-family-79760/;
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/synods-chief-organizer-blocked-book-by-top-cardinals-defending-churchs-marr).
Nothing is heard from the Mass Media about the
important book written by five cardinals last September 2014:
“Remaining in the Truth of Christ”!
Reporting on the Synod of October 2014:
“In an
indication of the chasm that is apparently underway within the church
leadership itself, Francis decided late
Friday to add six progressives from four continents to the synod
leadership to help prepare the final document after several
conservatives were elected to leadership positions. None
of Francis’ appointees were Africans,
who are traditionally among the most conservative on family issues”
(https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/more-synod-revelations-plus-heartbreaking-letter-on-an-african-bishops-resp).
“The Great
Division - Polish Bishops' Conference President: communion for
"remarried" divorcees attacks indissolubility of marriage.
Curiously enough, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki , of Poznań,
President of the Polish Episcopal Conference, whose presence and
firmness were so important in the October Synod, repeats the same
line mentioned by Cardinal Francis George (Chicago) in his interview
to John Allen: the differences are becoming so wide within the
Church, the division so stark, we are
not talking anymore about "liberals" and "conservatives",
or left and right, but about what is true and what is false, about
THOSE WHO ARE FAITHFUL OR UNFAITHFUL TO THE MAGISTERIUM”
(http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-great-division-polish-bishops.html).
After having
discovered these words of Our Lady of Good Success at Quito, Ecuador
(January 20, 1610),
I would modify a paragraph that I wrote in my article
“Letter to fellow Priests”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html):
“I asked a
couple of priests in my diocese recently what
would they do if Pope Francis approves everything that Cardinal
Kasper says in October at the Synod on the Family?
In the last two years, under the reign of Pope Francis, many bishops,
cardinals and priests, who want to change the 10 Commandments to
please the people, to offer a Christianity without the cross, have
been promoted by Pope Francis, and those bishops who say that you
cannot change the 10 Commandments and must take up your cross with
Christ, were marginalized by Pope
Francis! IF
it will be approved by silence on the part of “THE
ONE WHO SHOULD SPEAK” (and thus officially approved), that
is by the pope, in October of this year (2015) at the Synod on the
Family, what Cardinal Kasper promotes, that is, to be able to have
sex outside of marriage without any obligation to do or live what we
as Catholics say in the “Act of Contrition”: “I firmly resolve,
with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the near
occasion of sin” (sin according to God explained by His Church, the
Magisterium of the Church, not according to the disguised egoism of
relativism of each person or of the world!), THEN
WE HAVE ARRIVED TO THE GREAT PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE AS WELL AS THE
PROPHECIES OF OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS, OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI,
OF SAINT HILDEGARD (Doctor of the Church) AND OF MANY OTHERS!
After Satan deals a mighty blow to the soul of the world, the
Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, the world will deteriorate more
quickly and go rapidly toward the infernal abyss. I find it
interesting that Our Lady of Good Success said these words in South
America, and also that one of the most revealing prophecies about the
false pope was given to Saint FRANCIS
of Assisi, a saint very popular throughout the world.
ASSISI IS SEEN AS
A WORLD ECUMENICAL CENTER, RECOGNIZED BY MANY RELIGIONS. Pope
Benedict XVI marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the John Paul
II’s historic meeting for peace in Assisi (October
27, 1986) with a special pilgrimage to the
site along with representatives of other religions and non-believers
(October 27, 2011).
Pope John Paul II
and Pope Benedict XVI went to Assisi to
promote true ecumenism of not putting aside the truth;
these two popes did not go to Assisi to promote false ecumenism by
putting aside our most important and fundamental doctrines of our
faith in order to be together in a false and non-lasting way!
The founder of Christendom College (USA), Dr.
Warren Carroll, wrote that ecumenism is important but properly
understood is “not an ecumenism in which you would abandon
convictions in truth which would be superficial and meaningless
agreements, but developing an ecumenism built solidly on real
conviction and truth.”
God revealed to Saint Francis of Assisi these
prophecies:
2. “The power of
the demons will be greater than usual, the immaculate purity of our
religious community and of others, will wither to the point that very
few Christians will want to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the
Roman Church with a sincere heart and perfect charity. At the
decisive moment of this crisis, a
personage not canonically elected,
raised to the Pontificate, will
endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the
MORTAL POISON of his error.”
7. “Some
preachers will keep silent about the truth and, denying the truth,
they will trample upon the truth. The sanctity of life will be held
in derision by those who only profess it outwardly, and for this
reason Our Lord Jesus Christ will send
them not a worthy Pastor, but a destroyer.”
What was Our Lady
of Good Success (Quito, Ecuador; January 20, 1610) telling us over
400 years ago for our times? “In
this supreme moment of need for the church, the one who should speak
will fall silent.” Because if “the
one who should speak” approves openly what has been promoted by the
Freemasonry, “the Sacrament of Matrimony … will be attacked and
deeply profaned”, many people will wake up if sex outside of
marriage is officially approved. Satan is not stupid! To lead as many
souls to hell without waking them up until they are in hell, sex
outside of marriage will be approved in the Church around the world
by way of the silence of the pastors of the Church,
especially the most important pastors of the Church. Behold the
“astute deviation of our attention”!
“Negligent
religious leaders are often afraid to speak freely and say what needs
to be said – for fear of losing favor with people. As Truth himself
says, they are certainly not guarding their flock with the care
expected of a shepherd but are acting like hirelings, because hiding
behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the
wolf. These are the people whom the Lord is reproaching through the
prophet, when he says: ‘THEY ARE ALL
DUMB DOGS, THEY CANNOT BARK’ (Is
56:10) … If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what
else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Whereas, if
he stand firm in defence of his flock, he is building up a wall for
the house of Israel against its enemies. And so again the sinful
people are told: ‘Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions
for you; they have not exposed your iniquity in order to provoke you
to repentance.’ …” (Pope St. Gregory the Great; Office of
Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT).
“What kind of
men are they who, fearing to hurt those they speak to,
not only do not prepare them for imminent temptations, but even
promise the happiness of this world, which God did not promise to the
world itself?...” (Sermon of St.
Augustine on the Shepherds; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 24 of
OT, Friday).
We remember the
dramatic words pronounced by Pope Paul VI on June 29 1972,
after the Second Vatican Council, denouncing that “By
some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God…
One no longer trusts the Church; so many trust in the first profane
prophet, who speaks to us in a magazine or in some social slogans, in
order to run after him and ask him if he has the formula of true
life. And we do not realize instead that we have already become lords
and teachers. Doubt has entered our consciences, and it has entered
through the windows which were meant to have been opened to the
light. This state of uncertainty reigns even in the Church. It was
hoped that after the Council there would be a day of sunlight in the
history of the Church. Instead, there came a day of clouds, of
darkness, of groping, of uncertainty…”
A few months before Pope Paul VI died, on
September 8, 1977, he confirmed this grave judgment in a conversation
with Jean Guitton. Here are the words of Paul VI recounted by the
French philosopher:
"There is a
great disturbance at this moment in the world and in the Church, and
what is in question is the faith. It happens now that I find myself
repeating the obscure saying of Jesus in the Gospel of Saint Luke:
'When the Son of man returns, will he find faith on the earth?' It
happens that books are published in which important points of the
faith are undermined, that the bishops are silent, that these books
are not found to be strange. This, according to me, is strange. I
read again every once in a while the Gospel of the end times and I
realize that in this moment there is emerging some signs of the end
times. Are we near the end? This we will never know. It is necessary
to always be ready, but everything can still last quite a while. What
strikes me, when I consider the Catholic world, is that a
non-Catholic type of thought seems to predominate
sometimes within Catholicism, and this non-Catholic thought might
become the stronger one within Catholicism in the future. But
it will never represent the thought of the Church.
A small flock must remain, however small it may be."
Christ came into
the world when there was much darkness. “The true light that
enlightens every man was coming into the world. He was in the world,
and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. He
came to his own home, and his own people received him not…” (Jn
1:9-11). Even when the disciples “were amazed at His words”, and
even “exceedingly astonished”, Christ
did not offer false and empty and destructive compromises as so many
leaders in the Church today are offering
to the gullible “Christians”, but rather said: “With men it is
impossible, but not with God; FOR ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD”
(Mk 10:23-27). When the Jews said “How can this man give us his
flesh to eat?” (Jn 6:52) and then “many of his disciples drew
back and no longer went about with him” (Jn 6:66; the only verse in
the Bible with the number 666!), Jesus did not offer compromises or
easier or more humanly rational explanations, but even said to the
twelve, “Will you also go away?” (Jn 6:67)!!! “For Jesus knew
from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was
that should betray him” (Jn 6:64). Judas did not believe in the
words of Christ about the Eucharist and ended up betraying Christ!
One of the greatest forces working to DESTROY
THE FAMILY and society is radical feminism. The goals of
feminism are: the destruction of patriarchy; control of reproduction
including contraception, abortion, and reproductive technologies;
destruction of the fatherheaded family with divorce and illegitimacy
made normal; all women in the workforce, no man able to support his
family and free 24 hour day care; destruction of all-male
institutions; total sexual liberation including sex for children,
homosexuality, and bisexuality; destruction of worship of God as
father.
Radical feminism has put man against woman; it has
given rise to the war of the sexes which results in destroying the
fundamental relationship between husband and wife, thus greatly
undermining the primary institution of humanity created by God, the
family!
Thus one of the most fundamental goals of
secular feminism is to get rid of the father from the family, a
father of the family as God intended the father, not a father that is
portrayed on the highly controlled TV and mass media. Because it is
above all the father of the family that must help the children, by
his example, to confront reality as reality is and not as each child
wants to fabricate reality as he or she wants according to his or her
own relativistic egoism spurred on by the very secularized world. The
father, by example, helps kids to cope with reality, re-beginning
many times, offering his children an example of self-discipline to be
able to say no to the body in self-mortification for true love so as
to be able to say no to the very strong and alluring temptations of
today. If the father does offers this good Christian example, even
our falls can become a springboard to God instead of being blocked
and discouraged or worse, to embrace the nice and easy lies of Satan.
Do we want
reality and the truth as we want it, or
do we confront reality as the reality is, and as the truth is, as do
mature adults?!? The devil, having
ferociously attacked, in a very underhanded and sly way, the fathers
of the families, the priests and the bishops, has led a great number
of fathers, priests and bishops to not live their vocation from God,
as men, to not be ready to offer the uncomfortable but saving truth
on the cross, to not be ready to sacrifice themselves for their
wives, for their families, for their parishes, for their dioceses,
for the society and for the whole world, and above all for the Truth,
Who is Jesus, who makes us truly free! And thus many youth and adults
today did not have a father or a pastor as an evangelical model, like
Jesus, in order to assimilate and to imitate this male model of God
in the period of formation especially as a child up to 12 years of
age, when the child is fundamentally formed. How many priests and
bishops today, for the true good of their flock, have the courage to
imitate the saints and the prophets and say as Saint
John the Baptist, the “greatest born
of women” (Mt 11:11), said to king Herod: “It is not lawful for
you to have your brother’s wife” (Mk 6:18)? So
many religious leaders and parents seek to please the people without
distinguishing determining if it is a sin or not, if it truly does
good to the person or not. This is false and destructive love; this
is misguided compassion! Few religious leaders today have the courage
of the first Pope, Peter, the day of
the birth of the Church, Pentecost, to say: “You have crucified
Jesus” (Acts 4:10), “the author of life” (Acts 3:15), with your
grave, mortal sins!
The television
today presents males as misfits, wimps, and cowards,
and it strongly pushes us to be “politically correct”, but not
correct according to Divine Revelation, not according to a true man
of God! Today there is greatly lacking personal discipline to be able
to seek and to do and to proclaim the saving Truth which is crucified
on the cross, and to be ready to remain alone on the cross with Jesus
abandoned, or at the foot of the cross with Mary desolate, for the
true good of others, for the redemption of the world! A mother’s
heart goes out to the child who is suffering, and rightly so. But
the father says we must perform the painful surgery to save the
child’s life, the child’s eternal life!
The father of the family must lead with his example of submitting
himself to the painful divine surgery of the cross of Christ to
eliminate his hidden and disguised egoism which destroys him if left
unchecked by no sincere prayer and true contrition. The father must
show the way with self discipline to constantly maintain God and
eternal happiness as the first priority by persevering everyday in
prayer to seek and do God’s saving will. This is the example that
the children of good will, will follow! But also without the father’s
love as a man and as the head of the family, his daughters are very
vulnerable to males who only want to use girls for their egotistical
pleasure; the sons without a mature father will have a very difficult
time standing up on their own two feet, in a very secularistic world,
to remain faithful to honesty, to justice and to a wife and family.
If the wife
corresponds with the graces of her vocation with much prayer to seek
and do the will of God, notwithstanding
the very strong negative influence of radical secular feminism, she
will be able to inspire her husband in his God-given vocation toward
true virtue instead of seducing him or dominating him or manipulating
him. Radical feminism has offered the appealing apple of pride and a
great number of women have eaten the poisonous apple and offer this
apple to many around them. Psychological studies, even independent of
religion, tell us that if the father of the family goes to church
each Sunday even without his wife, 40% of the children continue this
habit after they leave home; if the mother does the same without her
husband, only 5% of the children continue afterwards. This is the way
God has made man and woman with different vocations and gifts from
God: the wife inspires the husband and the husband inspires the kids.
Many spiritual writers have pointed out that the level of the
morality or depravity of a nation is determined by the women of the
nation. Few people today understand and appreciate the tremendous
beauty and value of a virtuous woman as described in Proverbs 31, or
in the lives of many saintly wives such as Saint Monica who prayed,
sacrificed herself with persevering patience and shed many tears,
resulting in the conversion of her husband and her son who became the
great Saint Augustine! The great majority of the men and women today,
brainwashed and indoctrinated by radical feminism and secular
humanism, will rebel (often in a disguised way to imply to others
that they are holy and humble, but they do not want to dialogue with
reference to documents especially of the Church) against any kind of
fraternal correction or even against good examples of true feminine
or masculine virtue.
To have the
proper attitude in offering fraternal correction,
it helps me to meditate on the image and model of the Good Thief on
the cross who at first blasphemed but then, when he finally looked at
Jesus on the cross, he repented and converted, and then admonished
the other condemned man on the cross while acknowledging his own
guilt and unworthiness (Lk 23:39-43). How
important it is to meditate everyday on the passion of Christ
as Saint Padre Pio and all the saints tell us! The meditation on the
passion of Christ helps us to recognize our sins, the consequences of
our sins and how much Jesus loves us! Few priests and bishops today,
who are sinners like all of us, have the courage to defend the Truth,
crucified more than ever on the cross, even in a humble way as did
the Good Thief. It is easier and more humanly satisfying to be
politically correct than to look at Christ crucified so as to have
compassion for Jesus and become Godly correct, instead of worldly
correct!
We are quickly
arriving to the fulfilment of the prophecy of Saint Francis of Assisi
about the very negative reaction to good
holy example (No. 6;
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/prophecy-st-francis.html).
More than ever before in the history of the world and even of the
Church, we can apply the words of the prophet Isaiah: “Woe
to those who call evil good and good evil” (Is 5:20)!
Very few adults today after the sexual
revolution had a father according to God’s designs and thus
these adults remained very handicapped in facing a very difficult
world filled with beautiful and alluring temptations and traps which
offer the easy but deadly way. Without the guidance and formation of
good parents, the children will be formed by the world with Satan as
the prince, the father of lies. But there is always hope. One can
recuperate true and Godly manhood if one regularly spends time on his
knees before the Most Blessed Sacrament, with his Rosary.
The films 60 years
ago often gave us this evangelical model of a man, for example, the
sheriff in the film: “High Noon” (1952)! Many fake being true
males but only up to the point that they do not have to loose
something to which they have let their hearts become attached to,
especially, the glory before people,
slowly sliding into blindness with each compromise in order to defend
these attachments; these are the false heroes presented to us on TV
today. The sons who did not receive the experience to be close to a
true man according to God, do not even know the difference between
the false the true man! The most true
Man was totally humiliated on the cross 2000 years ago;
this is the model of the authentic man which today the world, which
surrounds us and influences us, does not at all understand, as so
many Catholics today! Also how many wives have not put God, the
Truth, before her husband or her mother or any other person or thing
(Mt 10:37; Lk 14:26)?
Spoiled and
undisciplined children concentrate on the sins of their parents and
then tell them to shut up. This is the
normal strategy toward all authority, not only in the family but in
the Church, which in effect, is telling God, who gave us lawful
authority here on earth for our true good to protect the flock, to
shut up. Thus few fathers of the families or priests or bishop today
have the formation, the strength or the courage to offer true love,
true mercy and true compassion, not misguided compassion, but guided
compassion! With God all things are possible! Those who pray ardently
everyday hold Christ before them as their model and thus realize how
far they have to go to imitate Christ, and also obtain the strength
from Christ to do what is right and good for themselves and for
others from an eternal prospective; they also begin
to see things from the point of view of God and thus become more
grateful for all that their parents
have done for them and for all that God has given them, which is
everything they have! Those who do not pray with sincerity and
humility end up setting themselves up as the model and go around
criticizing others according to themselves and their relativistic
masked egoism to which they are generally blind to; they see things
only from their small, closed egotistical point of view and thus do
not see all that their parents and God have given to them, including
all the sacrifices their parents and Jesus on the cross have done for
them. When things do not go the way they want, they throw a tantrum,
even as adults but in a more sophisticated and disguised way.
GOOD parents,
priests and bishops are accused of lack of charity
because they preach the whole Gospel. But if Christ was the perfect
model of the Gospel, why was Christ crucified, why were most of the
prophets of the Old Testament put to death, and why did Our Lady of
Fatima show the three children hell? In the Gospels Jesus spoke more
about hell than about heaven! Perhaps those of our modern and
enlightened age, who accuse good parents, priests and bishops of lack
of charity, because they live and preach the whole Gospel, would like
to give some advice to Christ, the prophets and to Our Lady! Christ
founded the Church on 12 sinners, not 12 perfect angels from heaven
as the immature critics believe to be, while portraying themselves as
humble and virtuous!
“My son, do not
regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose courage when you
are punished by him. For the Lord disciplines him whom he loves, and
chastises every son whom he receives” (Heb 12:5-6; Prov 3:12; Rev
3:19).
It is much
easier to receive discipline out of love at the age of 9 or 10
from ones father than to receive discipline for the same fault at the
age of 50 or 60. After continuing to nurture and defend and justify a
particular fault for 40 or 50 years, it is very difficult to receive
fraternal correction even from someone who desires the best for us. A
man in prison for over 20 years said that his father did not love him
because his father always let him do whatever he wanted and never
offered any discipline. Children often rebel at the discipline of
their parents but children do not respect parents who do not offer
their children discipline out of love!
There are many
Catholics today who even frequent the parish but are there with the
attitude that religion
exists to serve us instead of helping us to serve God,
to help us to discover God’s holy will and to offer us the graces
needed to do God’s holy will. The first question in our catechisms
as children was: Who created you? We responded: God created me. The
second question: Why did God create you? We responded: To know, to
love and to serve God so as to be with God in heaven for all
eternity. Today for the great majority of Catholics, it is all
reversed! Religion, the parish, the pastor all exist to serve me, not
to help me serve God! At times I have said to some people in my
parish who want to put me straight according to what they are used to
in many parishes today, a Christianity without the cross, with no
mention of sin or the temporal and eternal consequences of sin: “If
I do not offer the homily based on the Catechism of the Catholic
Church for adults, I will go to hell; and I will not go to hell for
anyone!” Was this not the admonishment of God to the prophet
Ezekiel (Ezek 33:7-9)?
Each of us must make the fundamental choice to
make a leap of faith to God when we do not understand everything
before God and His divine revelation. Very often, especially
today, following Christ and His divine revelation explained
infallibly by His Church, it can seem impossible from our point of
view. It is impossible to live the beautiful vocation of matrimony or
the great vocation of Holy Orders without God’s grace. Each of us,
with our respective God-given vocations, must repeat often in our
journey of life the words of Saint Peter when he did not understand
fully Christ’s words about the Eucharist: “Lord, to whom shall we
go? You have the words of eternal life” (Jn 6:68). Will we follow
the example of Saint Peter or of Judas Iscariot and the many
disciples who abandoned Jesus (Jn 6:64-66)? This human drama and
fundamental choice for each of us is illustrated well at the
beginning of the Office of Readings in the Invitatory (Ps 95).
It is more
difficult today than ever, but Sister
Lucy of Fatima said to Father Agostino Fuentes, the postulator of the
cause of beatification of Giacinta e Francesco (December 26, 1957):
“Father, it is urgent that we realize this terrible reality. WE DO
NOT WANT TO FILL THE SOULS WITH FEAR, BUT ONLY IT IS URGENT A RECALL
TO REALITY. From when the Holy Virgin gave such a great
efficaciousness to the Rosary, there
does not exist any material, spiritual, national or international
problem that cannot be resolved with THE HOLY ROSARY AND WITH OUR
SACRIFICES.” To recite it with
devotion will be to consol Mary and to wipe away so many tears from
her Immaculate Heart. … Our Lady expressly said: “We are
approaching the end times”.”
We say that God
is love! But do we really believe that
the God who created human beings and gave these human beings a guide
for their conduct, the Ten Commandments,
are for
our good or for our evil? Do we trust
ourselves or do we trust God? Do we give God only
lip service in the Our Father: “Thy
will be done”?
Many Church
leaders do not live the Gospel, which
is only possible by trusting in God (with much prayer) not in
themselves, and thus lead the souls entrusted to them down the same
path of compromise and destruction, along “the road
to perdition”. What Cardinal Kasper is
proposing and promoting, and now more and more bishops and cardinals
recently promoted to higher positions of authority (and thus
encouraged), is to
open the flood gates, in the name of
“compassion”, “mercy” and “love”!
“But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on
the ground of un-chastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever
marries a divorced woman commits adultery” (Mt 5:32; 19:9; Lk
16:18; Mk 10:11-12; 1Cor 7:10-13; Deut 24:1-4). Kasper and gang are
helping us to look at ourselves instead of looking at God; to trust
in ourselves, rather than to totally trust in God.
“What therefore
God has joined together, let no man put asunder” (Mt 19:6; Mk
10:9). Even Jesus’ disciples at the
beginning of their walk with Jesus talked like many leaders of the
“dying local churches in Europe” today.
“If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is not expedient to
marry” (Mt 19:10). A true pope would say to Kasper, perhaps in a
more polite way (as did Pope John Paul II: “Familiaris Consortio”;
as did Cardinal Ratzinger: see “Who Decides the Truth”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/06/who-decides-truth.html):
“Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not
on the side of God, but of men” (Mt 16:23)!
Christ is saying
to all Christians, especially those who have greater responsibility,
such as priests and bishops, that if people pray to discover and do
the holy will of God, it is possible to live the Ten Commandments as
God gave to Moses. If people do not
pray, it is impossible to live the Ten Commandments as God intended
for our true good explained in detail by His Church, the Catholic
Church. It is amazing today how many priests, bishops and cardinals
are trying to change the 10 Commandments according to what the people
want, instead of encouraging the people to set aside at least 15
minutes each day to meditate on the life of Christ in the Holy Rosary
and to spend time before the Most Blessed Sacrament; if they did
this, it would be possible to live the 10 Commandments as God
intended for our true good. Thus one sees what Our Lady predicted for
our times on the anniversary of the great miracle of the sun at
Fatima on October 13, 1917: “The work of
the devil will infiltrate even the Church in such a way that one will
see CARDINALS OPPOSING CARDINALS,
bishops against other bishops… The
church will be full of those who accept compromise …”
(Our Lady of
Akita, Japan; October 13, 1973;
http://blogcristianocattolico.blogspot.com/2008/01/la-madonna-di-akita-giappone.html).
So many Church
leaders today are offering as solutions to the crisis of family
life and sexuality compromise after
compromise instead of offering the true solution,
first of all by their own example of adoration of our Eucharistic
Lord and praying the Holy Rosary. Which of the two solutions will
lead to the true and eternal solution and which solution will lead to
destruction here on earth and for all eternity? Which solution leads
us to trust more in God and which solution leads us to trust more in
ourselves?
Should we follow
the words of Cardinal Kasper and many others like him, or
should we follow the words of the Angel Gabriel and of Mary
who became the Mother of God because she totally trusted in the Word
of God? “For with God nothing will be impossible. And Mary said,
“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according
to your word”.” (Lk 1:37-38)!
It is very
interesting that in the proposals of these bishops to allow divorced
and remarried Catholics to receive Communion without doing all they
can “to avoid the near occasion of sin”, THERE
IS NO MENTION OF WHAT IS BEST AND NEEDED FOR THE CHILDREN
of separated and divorced Catholics. In these proposals, which are
totally contrary to the teachings of the Church, there is only
mentioned what the adults want and desire! Do these proposals of
these bishops help people progress toward greater love of God and
neighbor in self-sacrifice, or greater love of self and less love of
God and neighbor?
Visit: “An Astute Deviation of Our Attention!”
Most Reverend
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron explains:
Saint Matthew records
that Jesus said this: “For your hardness of heart Moses allowed you
to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. I say to
you…” (Mt 19:8-9). I say to you, Jesus says, not telling you what
Moses said. Moses had to compromise. Moses
had to create situations where he managed problems and dysfunctions,
because Moses was not able to bring the power of the Holy Spirit in
its fullness. …
Saint Paul teaches
that in the fifth chapter of the letter to the Ephesians: “Husbands
love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church and handed himself
over for her.” This is to say that the Church’s teaching about
human sexuality, about the essential connection between the
experience of sexual, genital love and marriage as essential. Sexual
acts of genital intimacy outside of marriage is disordered. This,
while it is a challenge to children of the sexual revolution -
and in some degree, we are all children of that revolution - we are
witnesses to this good news. That
we are not captive to the ideology of our
age. But Christ has revealed to us how the
Father expects us to live this very important part of our human
nature and how Christ has given us a share in his strength so that we
might respond fully to God’s call.
One way to put this is that we do not
have to compromise about chastity, that we know what it is to be
chaste because Jesus has taught us and we know that through Christ we
have a share in his strength to live this.
Now this is not easy,
and like all of the Good News, it requires
continual ongoing repentance. We all fall
to one degree or another. Pray God that we do not fall into mortal
sin. But that happens in the lives of serious Christians, certainly.
But Christ in the kingdom, Christ in his life, permits us to live
this Good News and to be committed to advancing in this life of
virtue.
And this is
mercy! HOW COULD IT NOT BE MERCY TO TELL PEOPLE THE TRUTH?
Now it does not mean that we tell people this truth in a
confrontational way or in a way that puts them down or in a way that
provokes unnecessary hostility. But there
is no mercy in giving people what’s counterfeit.
That’s a false mercy. The great gift of mercy is to offer the
truth. This is what we all know. To offer
it lovingly, certainly. To offer it as an
invitation the way our Lord Jesus does clearly in the Gospel. To show
compassion for sinners, to be patient with sinners. Jesus when he
goes out after the lost sheep does not, as one of the Church Fathers
said, use his staff to poke them in the ribs and kick him down the
hill to get him back to where he needs to go. That’s not how mercy
works. Mercy is compassion. BUT JESUS
DOESN’T LEAVE THE SHEEP IN THE PLACE WHERE THE SHEEP WAS SUBJECT TO
DANGER. He does
what he needs to do to carry the lost lamb into the light where the
lamb is safe. This is a gift of love to us sinners. The revelation of
Jesus’ truth about family life and sexuality.”
How many pastors
today “leave the sheep in the place where the sheep was subject to
danger”?! How many pastors today do not do one of their most
fundamental assignments from God to
be the doctor of the souls, to help the
souls to identify and to cure the sicknesses of the soul, especially
those most grave which are called “mortal sins”, that is, the
sins which render the soul dead, but the body walks with a dead soul
until death if there is no priest who helps the person to recognize
the gravity of their situation and to make a good confession! What is
more important the health of our bodies which last less than 100
years or the health of our souls which last for all eternity, whether
we believe it or not, whether we desire it or not? If the priests do
not help the people to identify the sickness of the soul, the
greatest disease of each of us, the people do not have anything to
confess, and thus they have no need of Jesus the Redeemer, who came
for sinners, not for the just who believe to have no sins. In this
way the Redemption is nullified for these people because they do not
believe to have need of a Savior. We say at every Holy Mass: “Lamb
of God who takes away the sins of the world (Jn 1:29), have mercy on
us”!
THE LAST SEVERAL
POPES HAVE TOLD US THAT THE GREATEST SIN
TODAY IS THAT THERE IS NO MORE SIN; we
have lost the sense of sin. By now we have slowly and collectively
slid outside of the Laws of God, which saves, and we have become
habituated to being outside of the “state of grace” and we say
that God forgives. But God forgives if a person is sincere when he or
she sincerely says and lives the Act of Contrition, because true love
signifies the respect of our free will to seek to discover and to do
the will of God with the help of God, or, to change the criteria of
sin and of salvation according to our deceptive relativism. God
respects this choice for all eternity, to be with the Truth (“T”),
Who is God, or to be with the truth (“v”) which comes from the
“father of lies” (Jn 8:44), the “prince of the world” (Jn
12:31; 14:30). IT IS A TRUE ACT OF LOVE to help people to return to
the “state of grace”, with God, because eternity is more
important and this short life! The Laws of God, which are for OUR
TRUE GOOD, do not change: “Not an iota, not a dot, will pass from
the law until all is accomplished” (Mt 5:18; Lk 16:17; Mk 13:31)!
When Pope Paul VI
issued his prophetic encyclical, “HUMANAE VITAE” (1968), there
was an incredible negative reaction not only on the part of the laity
who wanted to enjoy the pleasures of sexual relationships without any
responsibility or openness to life by using artificial birth control,
but even on the part of a great number of priests and bishops, even
entire Episcopal conferences (e.g., the ‘Winnipeg
Statement’ of the Canadian
Bishops)! BEFORE
1930 ALL MAINLINE PROTESTANT DENOMINATIONS WERE IN ACCORD WITH THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH that the use of
artificial birth control was a grave evil and a serious sin. When
the Anglican Church changed its stance in 1930 (Lambeth Conference)
the other protestants churches quickly followed suit while Pope Pius
XI reaffirmed the Church’s constant teaching on this grave evil in
his encyclical Casti Cannubii (1930). Do we believe that we can make
it to heaven without imitating Christ crucified to overcome our
egoism and to learn to truly love, without being generous to life
(“be fruitful and multiply”; Gen 1:28; 9:1,7; 26:24; 38:8-10; Ps
8:6-9; 127:3-5; Sir 17:2-4; Ex 1:7; Wis 9:2; 10:2; etc.) as God was
and is for each of us?
Father Ivan
Pojavnik wrote: “The cult of god-man has led to the gradual
disappearance of sacramental confession
and innumerable sacrilegious communions which
have wounded the heart of the Church, so that She is in agony in
every part of the world; and will lead to the horror of the
desolation”
(http://wordbelife.blogspot.it/2015/08/spiritual-food-1508.html).
“Those who are
well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I
came not to call the righteous, but sinners”
(Mk 2:17-22; Lk 5:32; Mt 9:14-17). “For the Son of man came to seek
and to save the lost” (Lk 19:10). Satan has convinced a great
number of Christians today that they are not lost in sin, and thus do
not seek a Savior!
In my article,
“The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/05/road-perdition.html),
I wrote:
“I think my
experience will offer an example of what Our Lady revealed to Father
Stefano Gobbi:
“Even among my
priests how many there are who no longer believe; and yet, they still
remain in my Church, true wolves in
sheep’s clothing, and they are
bringing to ruin a countless number of souls.” (December 1, 1973).
“What is it that
is obscuring the beauty and the brightness of the Church? It is the
smoke of the errors which Satan has caused to enter into it. These
are becoming constantly more and more disseminated and are bringing
very many souls to the loss of the faith. The cause of such a vast
diffusion of errors and of this great apostasy rests with unfaithful
pastors. They remain silent when they should speak with courage to
condemn error and to defend the truth. They
do not intervene when they should be unmasking the rapacious wolves
who, hidden beneath the clothing of lambs,
have insinuated themselves into the flock of Christ. They are mute
dogs who allow their flocks to be torn to pieces. You, on the other
hand, must speak out with force and with courage to condemn error and
to spread only the Truth. (September 8, 1985).
“NEGLIGENT
RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE OFTEN AFRAID TO SPEAK freely and say what needs
to be said – for fear of losing favor with people. As Truth himself
says, they are certainly not guarding their flock with the care
expected of a shepherd but are acting like hirelings, because hiding
behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the
wolf. These are the people whom the Lord is reproaching through the
prophet, when he says: ‘THEY ARE ALL
DUMB DOGS, THEY CANNOT BARK’ (Is
56:10) … If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what
else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Whereas, if
he stand firm in defense of his flock, he is building up a wall for
the house of Israel against its enemies. And so again the sinful
people are told: ‘Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions
for you; they have not exposed your iniquity in order to provoke you
to repentance.’ …” (Pope St. Gregory the Great; Office of
Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT).
In the Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum,
on Capital And Labor, we read:
“Moreover, since
the safeguarding of religion and of all things within the
jurisdiction of the Church is primarily Our stewardship, SILENCE
on Our part might be regarded as failure in Our duty”
(no. 24, 16; http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_le13rn.htm).
In my article,
“The FALSE POPE
– Saint Hildegard”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/02/resignation-of-pope-benedict.html),
I wrote:
“THE PRIESTS
(CAPTAINS) AND THE BISHOPS (GENERALS) WHO HAVE SECONDED THIS SLIDE
INTO RELATIVISM and the slackening with their culpable silence and
their disobedience to the Vicar of Christ, the Pope, such as “Humanae
Vitae” (1968), or the great obligation to maintain a great
reverence before the infinite God in the Eucharist (Memoriale
Domini, 1969), in this “dour combat” (CCC 409), have a much
greater culpability having received a great vocation and
responsibility with the corresponding graces. LET US PRAY FOR OUR
PASTORS! One must struggle everyday with great effort to discover the
Truth (big “V”), in order to live the Truth with the help of God,
to be able to lead oneself and others to the Truth not only in this
short life but for all eternity. God, Who is love, and thus
respectful of our free will, does not coerce anyone to be with the
Truth Who is God! “The chief punishment of hell is eternal
separation from God” (CCC 1035). God, Who is love, respects our
great dignity at the level of the angels, created in His image (Gen
1:26-27), and thus even if we live as animals without responsibility,
we will be judged as human beings at the end of our life. If more
people would have prayed 100 years ago, Hitler would not have been
able to do what he did. Today there are much fewer people who pray
with the intention of discovering and doing the will of God! We
deserve what is happening and what is coming with the “NEW WORLD
ORDER”, now rather hidden, but soon, totally in the open!”
In my article,
“The FALSE POPE
– Saint Hildegard”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/02/resignation-of-pope-benedict.html),
I wrote:
“It was
interesting that Pope Benedict XVI INVITED CARDINAL BIFFI TO OFFER
THE ANNUAL LENTEN RETREAT for the Pope and the top members of the
Vatican (Feb. 27, 2007). The cardinal speaks often on the theme of
the Antichrist. The Times of London reported in 2004 that the
Cardinal described the Antichrist as “walking among us”. “Days
will come in Christianity in which they will try to reduce the
salvific event to a mere series of values.” It is a key passage in
the last work of Vladimir Soloviev, “Tale of the Antichrist”, at
the center of Cardinal James Biffi’s reflections. The Russian
philosopher, who died in the year 1900 with great acumen, had
prophesied the tragedies of the 20th century. In the “Tale of the
Antichrist”, recalled the cardinal, “THE ANTICHRIST PRESENTS
HIMSELF AS PACIFIST, ECOLOGIST AND ECUMENIST. He will convoke an
ecumenical council and will seek the consensus of all the Christian
confessions, granting something to each one. The masses will follow
him, with the exception of small groups of Catholics, Orthodox and
Protestants who will resist and will say to the Antichrist: ‘You
give us everything, except what interests us, Jesus Christ’.” For
Cardinal Biffi, this narrative is a warning: ‘Today, in fact, we
run the risk of having a Christianity which puts aside Jesus with his
cross and resurrection’.”
“The Servant of
God, ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN, said: “The
False Prophet will have a religion without a cross, a religion
without a world to come, a religion to destroy religions. There will
be a counterfeit church. Christ’s Church will be one. And the
False Prophet will create the other. The false church will be
worldly, ecumenical (false, not according to the teachings of the
Second Vatican Council), and global. It will be a loose federation of
churches, religions forming some type of global association, a world
parliament of churches. It will be emptied of all divine content and
will be the mystical body of the antichrist. The Mystical Body of
Christ on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot and he will be the
false prophet. Satan will recruit him from
among our bishops.”
It is false
love to say OK to sin, because it hurts
the person who commits the sin and it hurts those around the person
who commits the sin as well as the whole society.
Those who will
remain faithful to God’s saving laws will be considered evil and
cruel and will be less and less
tolerated as we have seen throughout human history.
God revealed to Saint Francis of Assisi these
prophecies:
6. “Those who in
spiritual fervor will embrace piety with charity and zeal for the
truth, will suffer persecutions and
insults as if they were schismatics and disobedient.
Because their persecutors, urged on by the evil spirits, will say
that in this way they render a great honor to God in killing and
removing from the face of the earth such pestilent men. But the Lord
will be the refuge of the afflicted and He will save them, because
they hoped in Him. And then in order to respect their Head, they will
act according to the Faith and they will chose to obey God rather
than men, gaining for themselves eternal life; they will fear
nothing, and they will prefer to die rather than consent to error and
perfidy.”
Jesus was not politically correct and thus
offended many people and thus in the end Jesus was crucified! The
prophets of the Old Testament were not politically correct and thus
offended many people and thus in the end most of the prophets of the
Old Testament were killed.
Mother
Angelica, the founder of EWTN TV,
commenting on, “I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to
arouse you by way of reminder…” (2Pet 1:13), said: “I like
Peter; that’s what I want to do. As long as I am alive I want to
remind you to repent, to be sorry, to return to the Lord, to be holy!
… I enjoy making so many people
uncomfortable… we got to be reminded
that there’s something more to come, “the eternal kingdom of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2Pet 1:11). … We have lost the
sacred: there is nothing beautiful, nothing holy, nothing joyful. And
we need to get back to that…”
(“Mother
Angelica Live Classics - 2014-07-15 - Catholic Epistles - Mother
Angelica”;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-7-9z0dQyk).
Many times on her world wide
broadcasts, Mother Angelica has repeated this theme of trying to wake
up people from their spiritual slumber as vividly indicated in the
Diary of Saint Faustina:
“ONE DAY, I
SAW TWO ROADS. One was broad, covered
with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures.
People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached
the end without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a
horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell
blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And their number was
so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other
road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and
rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes,
and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the
rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road
there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness,
and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they
forgot all their sufferings.” (Diary, 153).
“Today, I was
led by an Angel to the chasms of hell… I would have died at the
very sight of these tortures if the omnipotence of God had not
supported me. Let the sinner know that he will be tortured throughout
all eternity, in those senses which he made use of to sin. I am
writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an
excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been
there, and so no one can say what it is like. … But I noticed one
thing: that most of THE SOULS THERE ARE THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED THAT
THERE IS A HELL” (Diary, 741).
TO FIGHT IN A
BATTLE, IS IT NOT PRUDENT AND NECESSARY TO KNOW NOT ONLY YOUR OWN
WEAPONS, TACTICS AND STRATEGY BUT ALSO THE WEAPONS, TACTICS AND
STRATEGY OF THE ENEMY? It was recounted to
Pope John Paul II that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele
Amorth, “knows too many bishops who do
not believe in the Devil”. The Pope replied bluntly: “ANYONE WHO
DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE DEVIL DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL”.
When asked “What do you see as
SATAN’S GREATEST SUCCESS?”,
Amorth replied (2001): “The fact that he has managed to convince
people that he does not exist. He has almost managed it, even within
the Church. We have a clergy and an Episcopate who no longer believe
in the Devil , in exorcism, in the exceptional evil the Devil can
instill, or even in the power that Jesus bestowed to cast out demons.
For three centuries the Latin Church – in
contrast to the Orthodox Church and the various Protestant
professions – has almost totally abandoned the ministry of
exorcism. So because they no longer perform exorcisms, or study them,
and never having seen them, the clergy no longer believe in them. And
they no longer believe in the Devil. We have entire Episcopates
trying to counter exorcism. We have countries completely devoid of
exorcists, such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal.
This is a shameful shortfall.”;
(http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879;
http://www.vaticans.org/index.php?/archives/61-An-interview-with-the-Vaticans-chief-excorcist,-Father-Gabriele.html).
There is tremendous pressure today on your priests
and bishops to offer false love, false mercy and misguided compassion
and to remain silent about mortal sin and anything else that men and
women of these modern times do not want to hear! PRAY FOR YOUR
PRIESTS AND BISHOPS! Eternal happiness is a little bit more important
than just seeking happiness in this very short life!?! No pain, no
gain; no cross, no crown! No Good Friday, no Easter; no crucifixion,
no resurrection for each of us!
THE PRIESTS TODAY
WHO PREACH THE WHOLE GOSPEL and all of the teachings of the
Magisterium of the Church are labeled
ridged and old-fashioned, insensitive, lacking in compassion,
divisive, judgmental, moralists. While at the same time the ones who
maintain a culpable silence, the ones who tell their people what they
think they want to hear are seen as understanding, sympathetic,
pastorally sensitive and merciful. But this way of doing things is
not true mercy! “Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so
their fathers did to the false prophets” (Lk 6:26)! “How can you
believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory
that comes from the only God?” (Jn 5:44; Gal 1:10). But this way of
doing is not true mercy! THIS IS FALSE
LOVE, MISGUIDED COMPASSION, false
mercy, false ecumenism, that does not lead to paradise for all
eternity!?!
My dear
brothers in Christ, a great number of Christians will take the easy
way in this period to be politically correct
even though God offers the grace of salvation for everyone. No one
goes to hell by chance. But God’s graces are never wasted (Diary of
Saint Faustina, no. 1294, etc.). The graces offered to those who
refuse to repent and change their lives will go to others who are
willing to follow Christ even more in their lives and have a greater
share in Christ’s passion and crucifixion so as to receive a
greater crown of glory for all eternity!
Saint Louis de Montfort referring to
our period of time of great crisis, in his book “True Devotion to
Mary” (no. 47), wrote:
“I said that
this will happen especially towards the end of the world, and indeed
soon, because Almighty God and his holy
Mother are to raise up great saints who will surpass in holiness most
other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little
shrubs. This has been revealed to a
holy soul whose life has been written by M. de Renty.”
CORRY TENBOON, AND
HER FATHER CASPER, SUFFERED UNDER THE NAZIS. During this time of the
Second World War in Germany, Corry said to her father: “I
am not sure if i have the strength to endure martyrdom.”
Casper replied: “When I take you to the train to go to Amsterdam,
do I give you the money three weeks beforehand? No. Well when do I
give you the money for that train? When I am getting on the train.
That’s right. And that’s what God does. We do not have the graces
that we need right now for whatever may come in the future. But He
will give us what is necessary in that moment, in that need that we
have.”
The one who has acquired a childlike relationship
with Jesus and Mary, with much sincere and humble prayer, will have
total trust in God, and will habitually keep his or her eyes fixed on
Jesus and Mary, even when all seems impossible, and not sink into the
water as Peter did (Mt 14:30).
DISCOURAGEMENT HAS ITS ROOTS IN PRIDE AND IN
EXCESSIVE SELF CONFIDENCE. We need to, with deeper humility when we
fail, begin again, renewing our trust in God.
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM wrote: “IF A SOLDIER IS
WOUNDED or has to give a little ground during the battle, we do not
call that a crime. ONLY THOSE WHO DO NOT FIGHT ARE NEVER WOUNDED. But
those who charge the enemy with the greatest spirit are the ones who
receive the most blows. So do not be surprised if you are engaged in
doing good that you are going to encounter trials and obstacles. You
are going to suffer some blows and setbacks and disappointments even
in yourself.
Saint Paul encourages us:
“I press on
toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ
Jesus. Let those of us who are mature be thus minded; and if in
anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you.
Only let us hold true to what we have
attained” (Phil 3:14-16).
“But, as it is
written, "What no eye has seen,
nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared
for those who love him," God has revealed to us through the
Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God”
(1Cor 2:9-10).
Take courage brothers and sisters. We must prepare
as good athletes to win the prize!
It will be so
difficult in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt
24:21) that Our Lady revealed to Father
Stefano Gobbi (April 16, 1995):
“In these last
times, the struggle between good and evil, between grace and sin,
between God and Satan, is reaching the summit of its power. It seems
that, in your days, Satan has attained his victory, as
during the Sabbath when
Jesus lay lifeless in the sepulcher.”
“My motherly
plan is to give comfort to you in your sorrow, to pour balm on each
of your wounds, and to give confidence and great hope to you in your
discouragement. How difficult are the days in which you are living!
This is the conclusive period of the
purification and the great tribulation.
In fact, all humanity is possessed by the spirits of evil, and my
Church is shaken by the impetuous wind of errors, of divisions, of
unbelief and of apostasy … The time is close when justice will
espouse itself to divine mercy, for the purification of the earth.
Prepare yourselves, all of you, to bear
the pain of the great purifying trial” (Our
Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi – June 27, 1996).
“I want to
act through you, O priests consecrated to my Immaculate Heart.
This too is part of my plan. The Evil One, my Adversary from the
beginning, is now in the process of seducing a gret number of
priests, and he is working among them and gathering them together
against my Son, against me and against the Church. I am personally
intervening and calling together into my cohort the priests who are
determined to remain faithful. I call them all to consecrate
themselves to my Immaculate Heart and to take refuge in me. The
struggle will be especially between me and the ancient Serpent
whose head I will, in the end, crush.
And so I now ask of you only those things which, according to you
human way of looking at things, seem small and insignificant. As day
by day propaganda increases, as well as the clamor of the enemies of
God who are succeeding in winning everything over to themselves, all
I ask of you is to respond with your trust and total abandonment,
with prayer, with suffering and with your silence.
However, whatever you offer to my Heart will become in my hands a
terrible weapon with which to fight and to win this battle. To the
haughty cohort of the arrogant who rebel against God, I will reply
with the cohort of my little, humble, despised and persecuted sons.
AND THROUGH YOU THE VICTORY WILL BELONG,
IN THE END, TO THE HUMBLE ‘HANDMAID OF THE LORD.’
(Lk 1:38). (Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi – October 30, 1975).
“Do you not know
that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the
prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to
receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Well, I do not
run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; but I pommel my
body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be
disqualified” (1Cor 9:24-27).
“I consider that
the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the
glory that is to be revealed to us” (Rom 8:18).
Father Joseph Dwight
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