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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134563212014-11-25T01:25:10.569+10:00Gloria OlivaeTo promote the messages of Pope Benedict XVI and harness small monastic Benedictine communities in his and the service of the Church.Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-84926907575672410572014-11-25T01:24:00.001+10:002014-11-25T01:25:10.584+10:00GENERAL JUDGMENT - And the two groups.1. The Feast of Christ the King.
 This is the last Sunday in Ordinary Time. Holy Mother the Church ends teaching her children the Catholic Faith today. By now everyone following the Liturgy that is well and properly celebrated should know all the teachings of Jesus Christ as proposed by the Church. At least that....that they should know all the teachings of Jesus Christ. Whether they have put it into practice or not is another thing.
 By now any Catholic should know if they have Faith or not; thus they should know if they can hope to go to heaven or not. Though some can know more about their chances through obedience to the commands of Christ which they should have learned through the year; some can know less through neglect, distraction or whatever reason. The former could have grown from Faith to Hope and Charity. While the latter could have even lose the little Faith they had.
 Because by now our instruction on the Faith is complete, at least we should know how each one of us will be judged when Christ comes basing it on the norms He gave in today's Gospel.

2. In the Gospel there are two groups that were judged.
 The first are those who were evangelized. They are divided into two. Call them the good and the bad. Both have heard the Word of God. The good heard the Word of God and gave their assent to it. Thus they have supernatural Faith. This Faith is shown by their knowledge and obedience to the commands of Christ as taught in the New Testament. The bad, likewise, heard the Word of God. The word entered their ears and went into their minds but they did not give their assent to it. Thus they do not have supernatural Faith shown by their ignorance and disobedience to one or more commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament.

 Both the good and the bad mentioned above will not join the line on earth that will be separated into the sheep and the goat.The good will not join the line on earth that will be judged because they will rise and meet Christ in the heavens as He descends on the earth. The Gospel states, 'they are already saved' so there is no need to judge them. The bad is described in the Gospel as 'they are already condemned' because they did not believe. Therefore neither the good nor the bad will line up because they had already been judged.
 For puposes of analysis, Pope Benedict, Cardinal Burke, Pope Francis and Cardinal Kasper would fall under this first category. We shall put them in their proper places later.

 The second are those who have not heard the teachings of Christ in the New Testament. But they know the law of nature as God had imprinted it in their hearts; i.e. the natural law that is detailed in the Old Testament and known by all men. These will be divided into two; the line on the right side will be the sheep (those who have observed the spirituality of the Old Testament which is the life of repentance) while the line on the left side will be the goats (those who could have repented but did not.)
 The sheep on the right side are souls who have not heard the Words of Christ in the New Testament but who knows and have obeyed the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament which is written in the hearts of men. Actual grace enabled them to know in a clearer way the commands in the O.T. and enabled them to obey those commands. This is repentance that leads to natural Faith. It is not yet the supernatural Faith of the New Testament. It is clear that all the commands they obeyed as enumerated by Christ the King in His judgment are all Old Testament commands; feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and the imprisoned, etc. And they showed ignorance of Faith in Christ thus asking; 'when did we see you hungry?'
 The goats lined up on the left also knew the commands of the Old Testament as written in their hearts. Though given actual grace to know and obey those commands, they neglected to learn and obey those commands.

3. Note that the first group who were already judged and, therefore, will no longer line up with the sheeps and the goats because they are already saved or condemned were judged on the basis of supernatural Faith as the Gospel states. And this Faith is visible as acts of obedience to the commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament.
 Note that the second group who were judged as sheep and goats were saved or condemned based on obedience to the command of God in the Old Testament on 'love of neighbor.' And Christ who will judge them precisely said; 'because you did it to the least of my brethren you did it to me.

4. But who is the least of the brethren of Christ? It is not anyone. It is not necessarily your wife, your husband or your children. 'He who obeys my commands' in the New Testament, he is my mother, my brethren, the least of my brethren. For those to be deserving to be sheep, they should have performed the act of love of neighbor to a person 'with Faith." Not to any person. How can this happen? As St. Paul wrote; when God sees one who has not heard the word of God obeying the law of 'love of neighbor in the Old Testament, God will send him a man of Faith or even an angel so he can do the good work to the 'least of the brethren of Christ,' i.e. a man of Faith or an angel thus making him worthy to be among the sheep.

5. The Bishop's Synod.
 When the group of Cardinal Kasper headed by Pope Francis, himself, proposed to abolish the sins of adultery and sodomy, that is in effect telling souls to do evil in disobedience to Christ's command to repent of one's sin. To do so is the greatest sin against Faith.
 St. Thomas described three sins against Faith, which will show one has no Faith and, therefore, is not a member of the Catholic Church. The first is the sin of pagans who have never heard the Word of God, and this is the least serious. But it is still a sin. The second is the sin of the Jews who heard the Word of God and rejected it. This is more serious. The third is the sin committed by Pope Francis, Cardinal Kasper and their group wherein they have learned the Word of God in the seminary, in their masses and in seminars and they refused to be subject to the command of God that states that their proposal was against the commands of God. That is the worst sin against Faith that shows one has no Faith, is not a Catholic and cannot be a valid Pope. St. Thomas continued to say how to treat people such as Francis, Kasper, Marx, Tagle, Eterovic, Volpi, etc. etc. Have absolutely nothing to do with them and never submit yourself to them less you lose your own Faith. St. Thomas continued saying that people like them who refuse to subject themselves to the Law of God will convince others to do likewise.....thus dragging others to unbelief and to condemnation. That is why they go around making papal visits with those kind of cardinals.
 Because of their refusal to subject themselves to the commands of Christ as stated in the New Testament, they definitely do not even fall under the category of sheep, not even goat. Because they do not fall under that category, having heard the Word of God. They fall under the category of those already condemned because they did not believe. Well, at least they do not have to line up with the sheeps and the goats because they will go ahead...........
 Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-62350687141170234072014-11-17T17:15:00.001+10:002014-11-17T23:57:39.920+10:00The THREE SERVANTS
Introduction. The first reading describes the natural talents of a wife and how she doubles her talent by developing supernatural talents that will save her husband. Her natural talents were cooking and sawing. From these she develops the fear of the Lord that will enable her to help her husband spiritually. The supernatural talents are built over the natural talents. What doubles the talents is when the supernatural talent that benefits the neighbor is added to the natural talent.
 The second reading connects this first reading with next Sunday's Mass which is the Feast of Christ the King which reminds us of the judgment that follows after death wherein each soul has to give an accounting of all the natural talents God have given him; if the talents were used to raise him up to the supernatural level.

1. There were three servants.
 The master gave 5 talents to one; 2 talents to another; and 1 talent to a third. The servant with 5 talents doubled his talents and ended up with 10 talents. The second, also, doubled his 2 talents and ended up with 4 talents. And the third buried his 1 talent, was unable to double it, thus was deprived of the talent ending up with nothing.
 The first servant with 5 talents who doubled his talents thus ending up with 10 talents are persons who used their 5 senses to study all of God's visible creation and raised themselves up to the knowledge of the Creator. St. Thomas of Aquinas continued describing these souls as those who used earthly things to learn unearthly realities; these are souls who are able to think of temporal things and rise up to the thoughts of the eternal; these are souls who are able to go into their interior and progress to the mystical; from knowledge of the O.T. to the N.T.....and finally these are souls who are able to learn for themselves the way to salvation and are able, also, to teach others the way to salvation. Their ability to teach others the way of salvation is what enabled them to double their talents. These 5 talents is usually doubled in the monastic life and benefits others through evangelization. This is more perfect than the next.

 The servant with 2 talents who doubled his talents thus ending with 4 talents are persons who used the two faculties of their souls, namely their understanding and free will, to learn and put into action the commands of God in the O.T., referred to as the life of repentance. Here the soul, first learns with his mind ; then he uses his free will to put it into action. Using the same two faculties he teaches others what he had learned. His ability to teach others what he had learned with his two faculties is what doubled his talents. This is accomplish by people in the world and they benefit others through evangelization, too.

 The third servant neither used his talent for himself nor for others.

 The third servant who was given one talent went and buried his talent. St. Thomas comments that this one talent was meant to raise him up to the supernatural level for the attainment of his salvation. His guilt was not so much that he did not use it. He used it; but for the wrong purpose. He did not use it to attain his supernatural end. He used it for worldly ends, thus the meaning of 'burying it in the ground.' Since he did not use the talent for his own spiritual good and he did not use it for the good of others..... he was not able to double his talent. It remained the same....one talent, which is his mind. He did not use his intellect to know the way to salvation but used it, merely, to get in the front pages of magazines, get the praises of head of states and probably win a nobel award.

2. This Gospel is accounting time.
 This Gospel is the last Sunday in Ordinary time just before the feast of Christ the King. It is a reminder, not so much of death but of the judgment that follows death. Christians do not prepare for death but for the judgment that follows after death. We should know how God will demand an accounting. The accounting is based on how we used the talents God has given us, both material and spiritual. Did we use it for the Glory of God and the good of our neighbors, as the first two servants or did we use it just to get in magazine covers as the third servant did?

3. As the first reading states, when we choose a wife she must have talents. Natural and preferably. supernatural. The same way when a wife chooses a husband. This way they can help each other attain the kingdom of heaven. But this is rare nowadays. So from where shall we get our instructors? From talented priests, bishops and cardinals.

 So let us use these three descriptions of the servants to analyze ourselves , others, and especially our priests, bishops and cardinals and see what kind of servants they are. Let us leave the analysis of husbands and wives to the privacy of our thoughts and go to the priests, bishops, and even the Pope. We cannot afford to be led by one without any talent.
 Pope Benedict XVI is presently the exemplar of the first servant. Certainly there are a few others around. But Benedict had clearly used his five senses to study natural truths which in turn raised him up to knowledge of supernatural truths. This is evident in all his writings and expertise; especially in Liturgical knowledge which consist, precisely, of knowing visible signs and their spiritual meanings. Ask any question or present any problem and Pope Benedict had answered it in his writings. A few weeks ago, in a very short talk, he just gave the answer to the year old problem called Pope Francis.
 The majority in the just concluded Bishop's Synod, led by Cardinal Burke, clearly represents those who have doubled their 2 talents as can be seen in their arguments raising the discussions up, at least, to the moral level, though not entirely to the supernatural and theological level. Their arguments show that they are using their minds. And they benefited their neighbors by rejecting Pope Francis' proposal thus warning others that adultery and sex perversion were sinful.
 The minority in the Synod led by Pope Francis and his top men, like Kasper, Baldisseri, Forte, Tagle, etc... represent the servant who buried their talent under the ground. Firstly, they did not use their talents (their minds, their study of theology, their readings of the O.T and N.T.) to benefit themselves by thinking right on matters of dogma and morality. And secondly, instead of doing their ecclesiastical job of teaching the people right from wrong, they are proposing that people destroy their consciences, throw away the concept of sin, personally decide what is right and wrong and go straight to hell. They are going straight to hell and they have no talent to detect it. Because as the Gospel states, God took away the one talent (their theology training) from them. They ended up with nothing and thrown to hell.

4. In the Gospel, the amount of talents is immaterial. God looks at the dispositions; whether the servants used the talents according to the instructions of the master to benefit themselves spiritually and benefit their neighbors. Benefiting their neighbors is what doubled their talents. Christ rebuked the bad disposition of the third servant in that, not only did he fail to use the talents to benefit himself. He did not benefit his neighbors. Christ gave another alternative aside from doubling one's talent; and that is to lend it to bankers. They can benefit from it themselves and lend it to others. This is a suggestion that will make bankers benefit from the talent and benefit others, likewise.
 Pope Francis and his minority group fall under this third category of servants. God gave them talents; a mind and a free will, a course in theology, a library of knowledge from the Jesuits, the treasures of the Magisterium. They, also, have the occassion to help the world and especially the participants of the Bishop's Synod. They did neither. Lazy lout, Christ described them. During the Synod they behaved like one who have been deprived even of that one talent. There was not an iota of any semblance of Catholicism in them. Their proposal on the remarried showed ignorance of the New Testament and their proposal on Sodomites is against the Old Testament. St. James noted that their ignorance of those two commands shows their ignorance of the entire commands of God. Thus the twice rejection of their proposal by the majority who acted with 4 talents was an affront to Pope Francis and his group in their attempt to start an entirely new religion based on the hermeneutics of discontinuity earlier proposed by the school of Bologna of which Cardinal Tagle is a member.

5. The reward.
 'Well done' is a greeting of joy from the master at his great satisfaction for the servant's work.
 'Good servant' in that they had done good things; for themselves and for their neighbors.
 'Faithful' in that they did not use their talents to benefit himself, alone.
 'In small thing.' in that what they had done of doubling their talents is nothing compared to the reward they will receive for doing it.

6. The punishment.
 The first sin of the servant who received the one talent is sloth. God gave him talents by which he can attain eternal life and help countless souls attain eternal life. He utterly wasted the gift by not using it even for himself.....by giving Glory to God. And he did not use the talent to teach others the way to heaven.
 The punishment .... God took away his one and only talent. And sent him to hell in the after life.
 More than one year being Pope, Francis had not taught the world anything spiritual. His 'Evangelii Gaudium' was pure spiritual poison where he denied the theology of grace, rejected the existence of sin, took away the Supremacy of God and presented himself as the creator of the new religion with a new evangelization (akin to protestant revival meetings). As a bishop he wrote a book "Church of Mercy" introducing a new protestant sect with no objective norm of morality. His proposal in the Synod which majority of the bishops rejected is an off shoot from this book. He already had heretical tendencies even before he was Pope that could invalidate his election as Pope. Except he is saved by a provision in Vatican I stating; that we should not bother about anti-popes at this time because......
 The Synod Fathers had remarked that he is not acting like a Pope. Maybe, because he is not the Pope?
 Pope Francis and his group of Cardinals and Bishops acting, absolutely, without talent had made proposals during the Bishop's Synod; to do away with sin, morality, with the Catholic God and the sacraments. Which was rejected by the majority led by Cardinal Burke. The proponents of the objectionable proposals were Cardinal Kasper, Baldiserri, Eterovic, Tagle, etc, who were proposing an entirely new protestant sect. Apparently they have been propagating this sect years earlier. This tendency is taught by some Jesuits and we should know who they are (and their names are in the news) lest we unknowingly follow them towards Protestantism. Tagle, being a part of the Bologna group that believe in the hermeutic of discontinuity believes that the Catholic Church had ceased to exist before Vatican II. And that Pope Francis is assigned to establish the new Catholic Church totally different from that instituted by Christ, the apostles and the Fathers of the Church.
 Schism was obviously present during the Synod and strangely enough, the departure from the teachings of Christ, the apostles and the Fathers is led by Pope Francis, himself.
 But now that the Synod is over, the schism is beginning to spread wider and wider in the world as each Synod participant returns to their respective Dioceses and recount how Pope Francis was proposing to abolish all sins. Cardinal Burke, defending orthodoxy, was welcomed by 200 Bishops with a standing ovation. Forte, Pope Francis' point man in the Synod was defeated in an election in Italy. What is fearful is that while one side insists in their orthodoxy, the introducers of novelty and schism on the other had expressed their plans to campaign and expand their foothold on the Synod by recruiting bishops in preparation for the Synod next 2015 when they plan to have the rejected proposals to be eventually approved.
 Pope Francis and his group will have the advantage during papal trips. Francis and Tagle will join forces in the impending Philippine papal trip. and gather adherents to their new protestant sect. Considering that Catholics here are poorly catechized, imagine Francis and Tagle selling their rejected Synodal ideas to the Bishops. The Bishops practically know nothing about what happened during the recent Synod and most Catholics have no Faith and will believe anything.......the Catholic Church in this country is in to become the only 'new' protestant church in the Far East.

 The lazy lout adds another sin to his sloth. He insults God and calls him a 'hard man.' St. Thomas states that the punishment for sin is that one more easily falls into the next sin. The lazy lout sins and fall easily into the next sin of insulting God. The adulterer is encouraged to fall into the next sin of receiving Holy Communion sacrilegiously.
 Pope Francis had been insulting everything Catholic so much so that in England they are planning to write a book on 'Papal insults' towards Catholics. He has never insulted other religions. He has insulted God and Christ by describing the Church as demeaning, stiffling, possessed by the devil, destructive of freedom, etc....giving the impression that Christ is a hard man, indeed, while Pope Francis is merciful and compassionate. This is the woeful sin of scandal wherein it is better for him to tie a stone around his neck and jump into a lake than commit this sin. He intends to go further and campaign for the eventual approval of these rejected sins in the next Synod 2015. Cardinal Marx promised so.
 Listen to how God Who is merciful but is a hard man when he judges; 'take away the one talent from him and throw him into the darkness outside. What is a man with one buried talent doing in a papal chair that requires 10 talents?

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-37435140908617992762014-11-10T00:18:00.002+10:002014-11-10T00:18:21.679+10:00FIVE WISE AND FIVE FOOLISH1. In trying to remain in the road of the truth we must see to it that we are guided and surrounded by railings that both lead us to the straight path and at the same time prevent us from going over board. In this the Catholic Church always rely, first, on Scriptures; using both the Gospels and the Epistles. Then the interpretation of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. With both we study, too, the way the Popes proposed the truth to the Church. And occasionally we quote approved apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary wherein she never says anything new but simply confirms what is taught from Scriptures.
 When the Popes speak, he follows the same procedure. For him to divert or worst, to go against such procedure would clearly expose him as an anti-pope, going both against previous popes and the very teachings of Jesus Christ.

2. Let us look at the 31th Sunday in Ordinary time. We see two kinds of virgins. Let us see how the Gospel can be applied in today's setting. There are 10 virgins. Five were foolish and five were wise.
 Note that both were virgins, both had lighted lamps, both had oils in their lamps, both heard the cry that the bridegroom was coming, both met the bridegroom. But the foolish ran out of oil and was rejected; while those who had carried extra oil were admitted into the wedding feast.

3. Interpretation by St. Thomas of Aquinas. Virgins are people who are completely detached in mind and free will from the world. These are the wise virgins. While foolish virgins are merely physically detached from the world but attached to the world in mind and will.
 Both had lighted lamps which represents knowledge of the teachings of Christ that come with the beginnings of Faith. Both had Faith.
 They had oil in their lamps. These are good works in the form of obediences to many of the commands of Christ. Both had the beginnings of Charity.
 Both knew that the bridegroom is coming but has not yet arrived so they were waiting with their lamps on and had fallen asleep...... this is conscious remembrance of the day of death and/or the second coming of Christ . And in some way were preparing for it by their waiting. This is shown in that both had oils in their lamps and their lamps were lit. The lamp with oil is obedience to some of the commands of Christ the effect of which is some knowledge and understanding of certain truths of the Catholic religion. At this point both had some knowledge of the Catholic religion that can sustain them in their everyday life; but not sufficient to last until the seemingly delayed arrival of the bridegroom.

 4. The only difference between the two. Though both had lamps and oil in their lamps, the wise virgins carried extra oil with them; while the foolish virgins, though they had oil in their lamps did not have extra oil. The oils in their lamps were good works in the form of obediences to the commands of God which gave them certain depth of knowledge and wisdom in understanding, analyzing and responding appropriately to happenings around them.
 The extra oil the wise virgins were carrying was perfect knowledge of the teachings of Christ resulting in perfect supernatural virtues, especially Charity, which enables them to perfectly analyze and perfectly answer all questions. This is the spiritual state that the apostles reached after Easter and further perfected on Pentecost.

5. Eschatology and analysis of the Church and participants of the Bishop's Synod.
 The most evident sign of the wise virgin as defined by St. Thomas is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI staying as a monastic hermit in his cell praying for the Church. He is living detached from the world. His writings and talks shows he has the lighted lamp of knowledge of the teachings of Christ. He has oil in his lamp in that he puts into practice what he preaches. He knows the bridegroom is coming and prepared the world for it during his entire pontificate specially during the 'Year of Faith.' His extra oil is shown in his ability to teach Christ's teachings to others.

 There is no other evident presence of any other wise virgins who possess perfect virtues and teaching clear deeper doctrines explaining what is happening today though what is happening had been prophesied in the Gospels, interpreted by the Fathers of the Church and proposed by previous holy Popes to the Church. These events had been further announced by the Blessed Virgin Mary as actually happening as fulfillment of Gospel types. How come we do not know how to react to these events and are unable to analyze them? This is a crisis of Faith.

 The foolish virgins are not really foolish. Remember they are bright enough to become virgins, they have lighted lamps and they had oil in their lamps. In other words; they are detached from the world, they know the commands of Christ, and they have obeyed many of Christ's commands. They only lack having a perfect knowledge of Christ's command and, therefore, are unable to perfect their virtue of Charity.
 They know what is right and wrong; what is Catholic and what is not. But without the extra oil they could not answer certain deeper questions.
 These are the 'good' guys led by Cardinal Burke. They showed knowledge of Catholic doctrine which is the lighted lamp with oil. This is knowledge of the commands of Christ that cannot be compared to the ignorance of Catechism shown by Pope Francis and Cardinal Kasper's group.
 But the 'good guys' had so many unanswered questions, like why is the Pope harming the Church, why is he abolishing the concept of nature and sin, why does he dislike 'Summorum Pontificum' but love the Pentecostals, why is Pope Francis not behaving like a Pope, why are these German bishops thinking only of church tax, why is Pope Francis uniting sinners and all religion while dissolving the Franciscans, why does he fire those who preach Christ and invite Protestants to a sumptuous dinner? Such question can only be answered by one with 'extra oil.' The answer is that; 'We have an anti-pope. And nobody is wise enough to say it.

6. So what do we do? Do we go to the sellers of oil and buy? That is what the wise virgins said when asked for some of their oil. Go to Scriptures and the Fathers of the church and learn from them how to have extra oil or how to perfect your virtues. It is not that we are uncharitable. It is more because we cannot share our virtues with others even if we wanted to. So go to Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers. Unfortunately there is no more time. That was the problem. The bridegroom was arriving and the virgins had ran out of time.
 The 'good guys' in fact went to Pope Benedict to ask for extra oil to answer their questions. And Pope Benedict gave exactly the same answer as the wise virgins. 'You have to get your answers from the storerooms of Scriptures and the Fathers. And left their questions unanswered that they may grow and become wise virgins.

7. Francis, Kasper et al. Their behaviors and attempts to have their proposal approved by the Synod to violate the commands of God shows clearly that they are not virgins, they do not have the lighted lamps of the knowledge of Christ's command, they do not have oils in their lamps....and much more so they do not have extra flask of oil. The are neither wise virgins nor foolish virgins. They are no virgins at all. They are more like Lutheran schismatic and apostate perverts. Many had called them so and with good evangelical reasons.

Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-14073592340007921622014-10-31T15:20:00.003+10:002014-10-31T15:20:30.933+10:00IRREMEDIABLE PRIESTS, BISHOPS and CARDINALS1. CHRIST SPEAKS TO THREE GROUPS representing the three groups of men to which each of us can compare ourselves and gauge the state of our souls
 The first are the Pharisees and Scribes representing the priests, bishops and cardinals of today. We can include anti-popes of which the Church have had more than 40. The second are the common people who go from day to day trying to exist representing the common ordinary laymen in the world. The third are the apostles representing all those zealous souls who have left all things in the world to know and put into practice the teachings of Christ.
 The 31th Sunday in Ordinary time showed that among the three groups, the Pharisees and Scribes were impossible to convert. This fore shadowed incident is fulfilled today. In the latest Bishop's Synod it was impossible to teach some bishops and cardinals the commands of Christ; sadly, including Pope Francis. And this condition is prevalent among the priests, bishops and cardinals outside the Synod. The state of the priesthood is the main focus of today's Gospel.

2. As Christ taught His disciples He, today, continues to teach His present followers to be contemplatives in the 'new evangelization;' leading them deeper and deeper into the perfect knowledge of His mysteries.
 The apostles had left all things and were now living in community with Christ, wasting no time to feed themselves with the word of God, Christ lived in their midst, teaching them the truths of eternal life. We must do likewise to be true Catholics.

 The common people are the busy-bodies earning a living. But if preached to listen and become interested in the words of Christ. The true disciples are the true evangelizers, these common people are the object of the 'new evangelization.'

 The Pharisees and Scribes, according to Christ and as commented by St. Thomas of Aquinas, are 'irremediable.' These are the priests, bishops, cardinals and possibly fake popes who, because of their vanity, are beyond conversion. Christ does nothing further to convert them and abandons them to their own doings.

3. The apostles improved every time they heard Christ's teachings. The common people listen and when they go wrong, are easily set right. The clergy, when they become wicked cannot be amended, St. Thomas added. The 31th Sunday in Ordinary time had finished describing exhaustively those with Faith from those without Faith. From the 27th Sunday up to the 31th Sunday, the Gospels had concentrated in describing bad priests, bishops, cardinals and possibly an anti-pope. This was the necessary consequence of all these centuries wherein the priests had lived with decaying Faith and the waxing cold of Charity. It was inevitable that it would reach this stage...the lost of Faith and Charity among the priesthood, the rise of the last anti-pope and the spiritual destruction of the Vatican, the priestly head quarters of the Church. This was symbolized by God's removal of the vineyard from the unfaithful tenants and the transferring of the Church away from the city into the desert. This event is, further personified, by the 'Great Sign' of the Woman of the Apocalypse prompting John Paul II to proclaim our Lady of Guadalupe as the Patroness of the 'new evangelization,' who is the closest image of the 'Woman clothed with the Sun.'

4.What happened to the priesthood?
 If the devil would want to destroy the Church he will not waste his time destroying the billions of lay Catholics, Destroy one priest and he destroy thousands; if he destroys one bishop hundreds of thousand would fall.....if he raises an anti-pope millions could be lost. Don't you think he will aim for the last? All good thinking Catholics would think so. And that is what the devil did.
 The Scribes and the Pharisees were described as disobedient to the teachings of God. This was their inner spiritual defect. This defect appeared externally in their bodies through vanities in that they wore many external signs exhibiting holiness like phylacteries. Christ showed something good in them during that time which our priests, bishops, cardinals and anti-pope do not have today. Though the ancient pharisees and scribes did not obey the commands of God, at least, they taught the people to obey the commands of God. Thus Christ told the people to obey what they said but not what they did. We cannot say the same thing with Pope Francis and the Kasperites.

 Today, our pope Francis, some of his cardinals and bishops, are not only disobeying the commands of God but were proposing that the rest of the Church should, also, disobey the commands of God by welcoming sodomites and adulterers (aside from the many disobediences they advanced before the Synod). The Old Testament mentioned that God even called Lot and his family OUT of Sodom and Gomorrah before God destroyed those cities? And now, the pope and his personal circle of cardinals and bishops are telling us to welcome sodomites into our homes.
 If the priests, bishops, are cardinals during the time of Christ are 'irremediable' as described by St. Thomas, how much more hopeless are they today.
 After their momentary defeat at the Synod, like the Pharisee, they should have kept quiet. But no, they had vowed to gradually continue their agenda using their uncanonical papal power and the next Bishop's Synod ....for what? To advance, on one hand, their agenda of forcing the Catholic Church to welcome sodomites, adulterers and eventually all kinds of sins...while on the other hand persecuting, demoting, suppressing, forbidding, excommunicating, suspending all those who obey the commands of Christ. And it was prophesied that they will unite with the civil authorities to do their dirty job as they once did to St. Joan of Arc.
 These modern Pharisees and Sadducees are dragging the whole world to hell. They are worse than the ancient Pharisees and Sadducees.

5. Eschatology.
 It is unbelievable to think that we should come to this point, of which the above Gospel is a type. That we will have a Church where there will be few true disciples, a few candidates for conversion and practically most priests 'irremediably' lost. But that is what the Gospel for today is fore-shadowing. That is the eschatological picture of the Catholic Church as described by the Gospel.
 Most priests, bishops, cardinals and possibly an anti-pope 'irremediably' lost. Most laymen under them are equally lost as a consequence. A few priests, bishop, cardinals and laymen still at the beginning of their conversion because they are putting into practice the 'new evangelization' of Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI by by-passing the hierarchy and going directly to Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church....as exemplified by St. Augustine and Blessed John Newman...are the common folk that is still interested in things divine. And there is, lastly, the Church similarly fore shadowed by the apostles, in a small 'new' monastic' contemplative community described by Pope Benedict in the same mentioned document.

6. For purposes of the 'new evengelization;'
 there is no time to evangelize the non-catholic world. This means the pagans, the Orthodox, and the Protestants. Neither is there time to evangelize the irremediable priests, bishops, and cardinals. No time for an anti-pope to amend; and Vatican I, recognized this fact and made provisions for it. Nor is there time to evangelize those under the jurisdiction of these priests, bishops cardinals and anti-pope. In John Paul and Benedict's new evangelization these, just mentioned group, should be by-passed.
 Who, therefore, are the object of 'new' evangelization? As in the common 'tao' in the above Gospel, everybody who is too busy with the world but who would still take great interest when they hear the Words of God. They, therefore, take great efforts to further hear and understand the Words of God. The true apostles of God, as described by St. Grignon de Montfort, leads them to the theological virtue of Faith.
 And who are the 'new' apostles as described above? Like the early apostles, these are men and women chosen by God who are in the contemplative state (Pope Benedict described them as 'contemplatives') and specially called to evangelize. Their number? Just as many as the apostles. God does not need more.

Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-15981355947028626582014-10-29T13:30:00.000+10:002014-10-29T13:30:18.482+10:00THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT. 1. The greatest commandment. Love of God
 Both the question of the Pharisees and Christ's answer implied there are many other commandments. In fact, Christ mentioned a second command which He says is similar to the first. This is love of neighbor.
 Going into details, there would be hundreds of commands given by God the Father in the Old Testament; and there are more than 80 commands given by Jesus Christ in one Gospel. The commands in the O.T. can be summarized into the 10 commandments of God; while the commands in the N.T. can be summarized into the 8 Beatitudes...... or the two above commands.
 While the O.T. commands give us a list of what is right and wrong; the N.T. commands give us the degrees of what is right, good or holy. The N.T. commands presumes that all our past sins had been forgiven and, therefore, shows us the degrees of goodness and perfection that leads to Charity.

2. What is love of God. 'If you love Me, keep My commandments.'
 The command is to love God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. Let us look at these three faculties of the soul and use the common names used to describe them. St. Augustine used the words memory, mind and free will. The command is to use these three faculties of the soul exclusively directed to God. How is this done?
 To love God with all your mind...means to use your mind or intellect to know all the commands of God as taught by Christ in the New Testament in a complete and organized way.
 To love God with all your memory...means to use your memory to recall all the commands of God as taught by Christ in the New Testament in a complete and organized way.
 To love God with all your heart...means to put into practice all the commands of God as taught by Christ in the New Testament as summarized in 'Love of God' and 'love your neighbor.'

3. In this greatest command the whole law is based, i.e. obedience to this one great command is obedience to all the commands of God, and vice versa. If there is much time to teach a child the way to salvation, I would begin to teach him all the commands of God as taught in the Old Testament; this is the life of repentance. Then I will have such a person baptized. And lastly, I will guide him to obey all the commands Christ had taught in the New Testament. In short, I will evangelize such a soul.
 But if the person concerned is old or in danger of imminent death and there is very little time to evangelize such a soul, I would simply teach him how to love God with all his heart, with all his soul and will all his mind. Then to love his neighbor as himself.

 Though, strictly speaking, it is impossible to know what is in the memory, mind and free will of a person, what is therein can be learned by what the person says. St. Paul mentioned that what ever comes out of the mouth comes from the heart and mind and memory. If the contents are good, as when a person has Faith, good will come out. If the contents are evil as when there is no Faith, then evil will come out. If he keeps quiet we cannot know what is therein.

4. There is a second command which is like the first.
 This is to love one's neighbor as we love ourselves. Since love of self consists in loving God with all your mind, memory and free will, love your neighbor as we love ourselves consists in teaching our neighbor how to love God with all his memory, with all his mind and with all his free will. How to love God, love oneself and love one's neighbor.....is not explained in the Gospel. It is explained very well in the writings of the Fathers of the Church....without which it is impossible to explain or interpret the text of the New Testament. This is explained fully by St. Augustine in his 'City of God.'

 It is possible for me to know if I love God simply by going into my own mind, memory and free will. These faculties are mine and I can enter into them and know their contents. Blessed John Newman explained how this is done in his 'Grammar of Assent.' It is, also, possible for me to know if my neighbor, like my parish priest or bishop, love God. By listening to what they say as St. Paul said. But this is more difficult to do if the person does not speak.

5. The love of neighbor is an easier visible way to detect if we or our neighbor truly love God. I can know if I love God more reliably if I love my neighbor. If I teach my neighbor's mind the commands of Christ, help him remember with his memory what those commands are, and guide him to put into practice those commands.....then I love my neighbor. I have done to him what I did to myself in trying to love God, thus I love him as I love myself. The only way I can know if my neighbor loves God is by finding out if he loves his neighbor.
 It is immaterial and most difficult to know if my neighbor loves God with all his memory, with all his mind and with all his heart. That is his business. But it is my business to teach him how to love God if I truly love God. To teach my neighbor what I taught myself... is loving him as I love myself. And both are identical commands in its essence. That's why Christ said the second command is like the first. But the first command does not automatically mean obeying also the second. They are two identical but two separate commands. Both must be obeyed. Obeying the first perfectly includes obeying the second also. On the other hand, not loving one's neighbor is a sure sign one does not love God.

6. Not loving our neighbor is a sure sign we do not love ourselves and ultimately do not love God. Virtues and vices are opposites. Hate is the opposite of love. Or as St. Augustine wrote, hate is the absence of love as evil is the absence of good. How is hatred of self shown? If I do not instruct my own mind the will of God as expressed in His commands, if I do not recall in my memory the commands I have already learned and if I do not put into practice the commands I have learned....then I do not love God. And I do not love myself. If I love neither God nor myself I cannot love my neighbor.
 The sequence is this; I must love God first. Then I must love myself in the right way by loving myself the way I loved God. Only then can I love my neighbor. But in analyzing the presence or absence of love of God, the sequence is the reverse. We first find out if we love our neighbor; if so, then, we love ourselves in the right way. Then it follows we love God. A defect in one is a sign all the three are defective.

 Now, let us check if we love God and ourselves in the right way by checking if we love our neighbor.
 If we do not evangelize, i.e. if we do not teach the minds of our neighbors the commandments of God both in the O.T. and N.T. then, we are not teaching their intellect how to love God with all their minds. With this failure alone there is sufficient proof there is neither love of God (who said; 'if you love Me keep My commandments', nor love of self nor love of neighbor. The failure to teach the commands of Christ to others is because we have not taught ourselves.
 If failure to teach is a serious sin, what more if sin or vice is taught to the minds of our neighbor (as teaching sex education and same sex in schools). This is worst than mere failure to teach the commands, a more serious sin called scandal, a sin Christ condemned so strongly as deserving to be thrown into the sea with a mill stone around the neck. It can be worse if aside from failing to teach the truth, aside from teaching directly others to sin efforts are exerted to stop others from doing good....such evils would be so intolerable that the world would have no reason to continue existing.

7. Seeing that the two commands, love of God and love of neighbor, have visible signs by which we can know their presence or absence both in ourselves and in others, let us use these visible signs to analyze the personages involved in the recently concluded Bishop's Synod. So we can know who to obey and avoid. For Christ, Himself, commanded us to judge them by their fruits to see if they are of God or not.

8. Most of those in the Synod had spoken. What they said is available in prints. So we have visible signs by which we can know what is in their minds, their memories and in their hearts.The first group, who proposed that Catholics should behave as if adultery and sodomy are no longer sins, is led by Cardinal Kasper and the Austrio-German bishops. The opposing group evidently led by Cardinal Burke and the Polish-African Bishops voted against the proposal.
 Let us see who loved God with 'all their souls (or memory). The first group who proposed adultery and sodomy be acceptable morally do not have it in their memory that these sins are described in Scriptures as a sure way to hell. This is evident from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and Christ's continued advice to adulterers to sin no more and repent. They do not remember. If they remembered but still went against the six and ninth commandments of God, that made their sins even more grievous.
 Further more, they faced the opposing group who remembered these two sins are mortal and gave their arguments. But the first group remained adamant, i.e. they did not learn from the opposing arguments, thus they were not 'loving God with all their minds.'. Unable to love God with their souls and minds, they would, consequently, not love God with all their hearts. Cardinal Kasper's group does not love God at all. And their real leader is Pope Francis. Ergo Pope Francis does not love God at all. Since Christ's requirement for being Pope is; 'Peter do you love Me,' what is Francis doing there sitting in the papacy? He should not be there.

 Let us go to the clearer sign of true love of God. And that is love of neighbor. Is Francis, Kasper and their group teaching the minds of their neighbor what are the commands of God? No. Are they reminding us through our memories what are the commands of God as written in Scriptures and explained by the Fathers? No. Are they guiding us on how to put those commands into practice? No, how can they if they are not even telling us what those commands are. In fact, not only have they failed to teach us Christ's commands, they have even proposed that we commit the sins of adultery and sodomy. And worse they have forbidden us to do the right things; as in the case of those who like the old Mass and the good bishop Livieres (of Opus Dei) who just wanted to train seminarians well. They do not love their neighbors as defined.

 We have a Vatican bureaucracy, headed by a Pope, who neither love God nor their neighbor. They can only lead souls to hell. These people have no Charity and definitely no Faith which is the foundation of Charity. As St. Robert Bellarmine loved to say; they are neither popes, cardinal, bishops nor priest.....because without the love of God, they are not even Catholics (by this all men will know that you are my disciple if you love one another). No greater chastisement can come to the Church than to have an anti-pope and a retinue like those......because a true Pope will never, never, never behave in this way. Why such unbecoming bahaviour in a pope that is confusing the faithful? Because he is not the pope. And after the Synod, it is impossible for anyone to show by using both theological and liturgical visible signs that he is pope. If he is not, then, somebody else is.
 Each Catholic must settle this question in his mind. Because he is bound by Faith to respond accordingly.....under pain of losing his Faith through sin against Faith.

Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-6433325611589361112014-10-23T11:08:00.000+11:002014-10-23T11:08:03.654+11:00RENDER TO GOD, RENDER TO CAESAR, NONE to the Devil.1. The Gospel for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary time continues to develop the idea in describing the Church and its members. In the 27th Sunday we saw the tenants who had the beginnings of Faith and, therefore, were within the vineyard which symbolizes the Catholic Church. But due to their continued disobedience to give the owner his share of the harvest (which is true worship) they lost their Faith. They were punished; the owner took away the vineyard from them.
 The tenants were the priests, bishops and cardinals assigned to care and develop the weak Faith of those who had just entered the Church. Their punishment consists in God removing everything supernatural from them; namely, the knowledge of the truth, the power to absolve and power to consecrate. Suddenly one cannot find the visible signs of the Church (One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic) from the parishes, the dioceses and possibly from the Vatican (in case of an election of an anti-pope.)
 In the 28th Sunday in Ordinary time the picture of the tenants from the previous Sunday is still there in the persons of those twice invited but who refused the invitation of the King. Wherefore, we see God's messengers (those sent by God) by-passing the priests, bishops and cardinals and going directly to all kinds of people from the by-roads. We suddenly see the Church (pre-figured by the Banquet hall) filled. These are souls with Faith. But before they can sit down and feast on the fatted calf (which represents perfect knowledge of Christian Doctrine) God comes to check the guests to see if they have the three theological virtues of which Charity is the wedding gown.
 One was found with Faith enabling him to enter the hall but he did not have Charity, the wedding gown. He was forbidden to partake of the fatted calf and was punished like the priest, bishops and cardinals. In the Gospel we have a figure of the Church and those within her who had the three theological virtues needed for salvation.

2. The 29th Sunday Gospel describes three kinds of people. Those who render to God what is God's; those who render to Caesar what is Caesar's; and those who render to the devil what is the devil's. The first is represented by the Apostles, the second by the Herodians and the third by the Pharisees. The first are those with Faith; the second are those without Faith but can easily have Faith; the third are those without Faith and nearly impossible to have Faith.
 What must we render to God? Everything because He owns everything. This is done by using everything He created according to His commands as found both in the O.T. and the N.T. Specifically we must render to Him our minds through an act of Faith; and our free will through an act of Charity. These acts of the mind and will are rendered to God in the form of worship which consist in lifting up of our minds and hearts to God (this will be explained better in the 30th Sunday). Another thing we must render to God is love of neighbor. First, directed to their souls by teaching them the way that leads to Faith and Charity; and secondly, directed towards their bodies by supplying the needs of their bodies as much as our capabilities can. Rendering what is due to the bodies of our neigbors is equivalent to rendering to Caesar what is Caesar, according to St. Thomas.
 What must we render to Caesar? Caesar is personified by the Herodians. They are the civil authority (since the Jews were under the Romans and the Herodians were their employee). What Caesar needs to fulfill their duties of preserving the community in peace must be rendered to them.
 Here we must remember that we cannot render to Caesar anything that is contrary to God's laws. We must obey God first, rather than men.
 Rendering to the devil his due is what the Pharisees were doing? We must render nothing to the devil. Sin is what is rendered to the devil. Sin is what the devil wants and what pleases him.....if he is capable of being pleased. When we sin we render to the devil what is his. To please the devil is contrary to rendering to God what is His due because we must please only God. Sinners by rendering obeisance is rendering to the devil what is his.

3. Today, who is rendering to God what is his due? The Gospel of the 30th Sunday in ordinary time describes him (which we hope to explain in the next post.) Pope Benedict described him in the 'new evangelization'; he is a contemplative. The 'new ' evangelizer must, himself, first render to God his mind through Faith and his heart through Charity. Then he must go to his neighbor by preaching to them to render to God their minds through Faith and their hearts through Charity. The evangelizer cannot evangelize unless he is first evangelized. This is the way the 'new' evangelizer is different from the tenants in the Gospel of the 27th Sunday in ordinary time.
 Who is rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's? The whole world is rendering to Caesar what is Caesar. But sadly, the whole world is, also, rendering to Caesar what is God's.
 Who is rendering to the devil what is his due which no one should do because no one should sin? The tenants mentioned before which is practically all evangelizers today. Since anything not of grace is sin, St. Paul writes, then every soul that has no Faith is rendering to the devil both what they should render to God and what they should render to Caesar. All are going to the devil.
 This clearly points to that group in the Bishop's Synod who were proposing to render to the devil what belongs to God. Beginning with Pope Francis, who in one of his earliest speech denied the whole theology of grace with his love without dogma, thus rendering to the devil the whole Church. Without grace everybody is delivered to Satan. Then gradually he offered the souls of unbelievers by encouraging them to remain atheist; then the souls of adulterers by encouraging them to commit sacrilege by receiving Holy Communion without first repenting; then the souls of priest by remaining gay. This group led by Pope Francis, Cardinal Kasper, Cardinal Tagle and some others pushed an agenda for the Church to allow the sins of adultery and sodomy in morals. That is practically inviting God to rain fire and brimstone on the Catholic Church.These made up a third of the cardinals and bishops rendering, what St. Thomas forbade, to the devil what belongs to God, i.e. souls, by tolerating mortal sins.
 This group was evident within Vatican II as a promoter of the hermeneutics of discontinuity; simply stated, the Church of Christ, of the apostles and the Fathers is too old and has no reason to continue existing. So they proposed a new 'Church of mercy and compassion' which is neither a church nor with compassion and mercy. Pope Benedict put his foot down on them and they momentarily hibernated. But when the restraining force of Benedict was lifted, as prophesied, they came back to life with a vengeance. This group with a large following outside the Synod are popular and followed by the whole world. Fortunately, the restraining force of the opposing group, in an attempt to stop the schism and keep the unity of the Church, stood their ground. But the crack in the Church has widen. The schism exists; and as St. Paul prophesied 'a great apostasy' has taken place.
 It is now an irreparable schism that begun with Pius IX and became more visible during Vatican II. It exploded during the Synod with both sides strengthening their positions for the next Synod; one side rendering to the devil their whole lives and the souls of millions; and the other side, at least, rendering to God what is God's (fidelity to God's teachings.) Tragically, the head of the apostasy is in the seat of the papacy.....which is the solid proof that he is not a Pope, as St. Robert Bellarmine would judge. For him to continue giving the impression that he is Pope makes him an anti-pope, putting him with the more than 40 other anti-popes in the history of the Catholic Church. The 2014 Bishop's Synod had clearly drawn the demarcation line between the Church of Christ and the Church of tolerance for all wickedness (the new protestant church Francis, Kasper and Tagle are pushing down the throat of the true Church. Fortunately, the Synod Fathers totally rejected the draft proposals rendering to the devil what is due to God.

4. As mentioned in the past posts, the Church had been expecting these events because these had been prophesied and shown in the form of types and pre-figures. The 'decay of Faith, the 'waxing cold of Charity,' the disappearance of the Catholic Church in the parishes, dioceses and even in the Vatican, the taking away of the power to absolve and consecrate from priests and bishops.... and the rise of an anti-pope who will be looked up to by the anti-christs of the world. All these are part of Divine Revelation given to man. So he who has Faith is not surprised. We have followed these events as portrayed in the Gospels in Ordinary time. The Church even knows the next scenario.Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-71251160698183944232014-10-18T16:34:00.000+11:002014-10-18T16:34:12.941+11:0027th Sunday AND 28th Sunday and the BISHOP'S SYNOD1. The Church teaches us the FULLNESS OF CATHOLIC KNOWLEDGE during the whole Liturgical Year. Though it is best to go through the three cycles, it is enough to go through one cycle to have a working knowledge of Catholicism.
 The Liturgical Year is divided into two parts. First, a general outline describing the four steps of evangelization, namely, Repentance, Faith, Hope and Charity. This starts from Advent up to Pentecost. Secondly, a more specific description of Faith, Hope and Charity in 33 Sundays in Ordinary Time.
 From the first part we extract the four visible signs of the Catholic Church; One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. The second part will show the visible signs of one who is not a Catholic and one who is truly a Catholic.
 To be a Catholic, we must be able to integrate all the Gospel lessons into a united whole like a jig-saw puzzle. We cannot do that now but let us put together, at least, two Gospels showing the two sides that are now having a hotted discussion in the Bishop' Synod.

2. Let us discuss only the 27th and the 28th Sundays in Ordinary time. It describes both the Catholic Church and the individual Catholic.

3. THE 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Gospel describes the vineyard which represents the Catholic Church. The owner is God. The grapes are souls who have very weak Faith; Faith puts them inside the Church but because their Faith is weak they need proper care. This care is given by the tenants hired by the owner. The tenants are priests, bishops and cardinals whose primary job is the care of souls. Occasionally the owner would send messengers to demand His share of the grapes. These messengers are holy Popes, holy Cardinals, holy bishops, holy priests and even holy lay people as in the case of St. Francis. The owner's share is the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity; firstly, from the tenants; and secondly, from the grapes (the souls entrusted to them.)
 What happened to the tenants and the messengers and the vineyard? The Gospel states that the tenants refused to give the owner His share. That the tenants mistreated and persecuted the messengers. And they killed the son who was to inherit the vineyard.
 What did the owner do to the tenants is important because this is what happened to one group in the Bishop's Synod whom we shall call 'the tenants.' The Gospel states that the Owner took the vineyard away from them.
 Keeping in mind that the tenants are the priests, bishops and cardinals, what will be the consequences if the vineyard, which is the Church is taken away from them? They will absolutely have no knowledge of Divine Revelation (since this is infused knowledge that comes with the theological virtues). They will go against the Dogmatic and Moral teachings of the Church due to their lack of knowledge. Without the theological virtues which is the proper disposition for receiving a sacrament of the living like Holy Orders, their ordinations will be invalid, thus they will have no power to absolve sin and consecrate the Bread and Wine.
 The tenants, though at the beginning have Faith that enable them to qualify to be tenants and enter the vineyard, suddenly find themselves outside the Church that had been taken away from them due to their infidelity. The description of these tenants is clear in the writings of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church that we can identify them in the on-going Bishop's Synod and even name them. In fact, you can identify them from the news. At the time Cardinal Pell counted them, they made up 1/3 of the Bishops. But they held all the important positions in the Synod.
 Since Judas is the biblical type of these tenants they are probably spiritually possessed by Satan as can be seen in what they are doing. They are sending the Mystical Body of Christ to be crucified again, as St. Paul would say.
 So let's call these group 'the tenant.'

4. Now, let us look at the Gospel of the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Instead of a vineyard, the Church is described as a Wedding Banquet. The king is God. The Banquet Hall is the Church. Entrance to the Hall is through Faith and sitting down to eat the fatted calf is Charity. Note that to sit down and eat the fatted calf one needs a wedding gown which is Charity. The fatted calf is the deepest teachings of Christ given exclusively to contemplatives and mystics....or those who have reached Charity (or the Unitive way.) The son to be wedded is Jesus Christ. The Church is both the bride and the hall (the little confusion shows the limitations of parables.)
 Those invited twice are the tenants who said 'yes' showing little faith but they eventually did not go to the Banquet thus losing their Faith. Those from the by-roads are those neglected by priests, bishops and cardinals. The messengers are as usual God-chosen messengers......in some way 'angels'. Or as Pope John Paul and Benedict described them 'contemplatives'; and further described by St. Bonaventure as contemplatives living a new form of monasticism.
 Note that the messengers did not go any more to priest, bishops and cardinals (the tenants), but went directly to the souls in the by-roads. Remember the messengers were mistreated and beaten by the tenants. So the tenants are avoided this time. This is clearly stated in the 'new' evangelization.
 The tenants in the 27th Sunday and as described again in the 28th Sunday were sent to hell. St. Thomas of Aquinas writes, not to the inner hell but to the outer hell which is hotter.

 Those in the by-roads were led directly to Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church. These sources are the messengers of God. They did not go to human teachers like priests, bishops and cardinals.
 They were invited; this is the life of repentance. They entered the Banquet Hall; this is Faith. They went to the table with the fatted calf; this is Charity. One man, however, entered the Hall, showing he had repented and had Faith. But when the King entered to check, as He always does, if all had wedding gowns, He saw that this man had no gown and when asked why, he could not answer. How come he could not answer? Because he had repented and he had Faith. So he should know and should have the power to reach Charity and wear a wedding gown. It was careless negligence. The King had him punished.
 The picture of the Banquet Hall, what should be worn and what was the festive meal had been well described by the Scripture and the Fathers. So it is easy to know where is the Banquet and who are attending the feast among those in the Bishop's Synod. We can even group them together and call them by name.
 Let's call them the 'by-road'

5. ANALYSIS
 The vineyard was taken away from the tenants. So they will have no visible signs of Faith, Hope and Charity. They will necessarily go against the Dogmas and Morals of the Catholic Church. And this is what happened to one group headed by Cardinal Kasper, Cardinal Tagle, Cardinal Baldisseri, Cardinal Erdo, Archbishop Erdo, Archbishop Forte, Cardinal Schonborn, and Cardinal Dolan... just to mention a few. They are practically pushing a 'new' church that tolerates disobeying Christ's commands and going against Catholic dogmas like the theology of grace. In effect, this group is starting a schism prompted by their apostasy. They are described as making up 1/3 of the Synod but growing in number every day through manipulation and/or threats. Now they hold all the important positions in the Synod. And the head of this group is Pope Francis himself. How can a pope go against his office to maintain the teachings of Christ by changing established doctrines and introducing totally foreign, if not, heretical teachings? There can only be one reason. He is not a Pope but an anti-pope. Bergoglio had devised this new Protestant church when he was in Argentina with his book 'Church of Mercy' based on the wrong concept of mercy but without truth or dogma introduced by Cardinal Kasper. Both are heading the tenant group.
 The tenants are in schism. They are leaning towards a great apostasy. If one of them sits in St. Peter's throne then he would be the much awaited and prophesied anti-pope who will be against Christ. These tenants are ruling the Synod though they are only 1/4; but they are gradually increasing in number. Imagine Bergoglio is the leader of the schism.

 The by-road are those who accepted the invitation of the messengers. Unlike the tenants and those under them, they accepted the invitation through a life of repentance; they have received the theological virtue of Faith thus have entered the Banquet Hall. Having Faith they know the basic teachings and commandments of Christ. And this is clearly shown by mass media in such persons as Cardinal Burke, Cardinal Muller, Archbishop Shevchuk, Cardinal Sarah, the African Bishops who were belittled by Kasper, and the Bishops of Poland. Belonging to this group are all those theological lay authors outside the Synod who had been tortured by the machinations of the tenant group. All of them expressed a knowledge only those with Faith can express. And which the other side are completely ignorant of......as expected.
 This group are not yet showing that they have the wedding gown which is the perfection of Charity. But this polarizing experience in the Synod will help them progress towards this direction.

 The tenants are enjoying great popularity in the world because the world, of which Satan is the prince, is now welcome to this new church that tolerates all wickedness (as Pope Pius X described the heresy of modernism). And it is expected that the majority of the tenant priests, bishops and cardinals in the world will side with them. And those under them, too. The whole world, having lost its Faith, is ready to welcome this group and their teachings. Without knowing that they are being led to the wide, wide road that leads to hell and they don't know it. This is the great chastisement.

 Those who accepted the invitation from the by-roads who are in the Bishop's Synod seems to be all there is. Hardly anyone is in the world; probably one or two like Bishop Livieres of Paraguay who was fired for being a good bishop. The few are holding on but are over-ruled, suppressed, unheard, insulted, no media coverage and whose good, orthodox doctrines are not documented in the 'relationes,' the summaries of the meetings.

 Next week, the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Gospel will further show the truth of this on-going polarization in the Synod prophesied by St. Paul.

 Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-8103076281890608372014-10-09T03:30:00.001+11:002014-10-09T03:30:31.211+11:00THE VINEYARD - The Catholic Church TODAY.1. The Parable of the Vineyard as type of the Catholic Church
 The Catholic Church had been portrayed as a vineyard of the Lord in Scriptures. The owner is God. To work in the vineyard means to attain the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. This work can only be accomplished within the vineyard of the Lord, i.e. the Church. One, therefore, needs to enter or to be invited into her before one can work. There are tenants ( the priests, bishops and cardinals) and there are grapes (the laymen). The Gospel shows us the continuing tragedy within the Church. That souls, already within the vineyard, are lost because of the bad tenants.
 There are other aspects in the parable that have deep spiritual meaning; like what does it mean to spade and clear the vineyard of stones; to plant it with choicest vine, to built a watch tower, to hew out a wine press and to plant a hedge around it.
 However, let us concentrate only on a few aspect of the picture; who is the Owner, what does the vineyard represent, who are the grapes, , who are the tenants, who are the slaves sent to collect the dues, what happened to the tenants and the vineyard at the end of the parable. And after the vineyard was taken away from the tenants, to whom was it given?
 Having removed half of the important points we still have a lot of points to consider. The reason for choosing the latter points is because of its eschatological significance; i.e. what it is telling us today.

2. The Vineyard in the first reading (from the O.T.).
 A vineyard is described in the first reading of the 27th Sunday in Ordinary time. It had all the symbols of the Church but the emphasis was on the wild grapes and the tenants. The grapes (the people) inside were not well cared for by the tenants so the wrong grapes (bad fruits) grew. The owner showed great mercy by giving a fully well provided vineyard to the tenants; but showed, also, Divine Justice by destroying the vineyard due to the infidelity of the tenants.
 Watch the worker-tenants; and what the owner did to the vineyard. The worker-tenants were negligent in their work. The result was the wild grapes. The owner destroyed the vineyard, took away the hedges, gave it to grazing, broke the walls and let it be trampled. It was not pruned or hoed and overgrown with thorns and briers. Note the anger of the owner. He made the vineyard into ruin and summoned the clouds not to send rain upon it.
 If the vineyard is a fore-shadowing of the Catholic Church, observe how God will treat it with His Justice. It is a portrait of the Church as it approaches the end of its history; and its direction is neither towards renewal nor a 'New Pentecost' nor a golden era. It is total destruction.......followed by a totally 'new creation.' Note this carefully in this first reading because it is repeated in the Gospel; and the 'new creation' is the 'new evangelization' of Pope Benedict. Not the new evangelization after the papacy of Benedict.

3. The Vineyard in the Gospel reading (N.T.).
 The vineyard is where grapes grow. Grapes are the souls being evangelized and, therefore, had received the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity from God. This is a long and arduous process and great care and much discipline is needed for the souls to develop. Evidently very capable farmer-tenants are needed.
 Who are the farmers or tenants employed by God to work on the vineyard? Well, who are supposed to evangelize? Priests, bishops, Cardinals.....and, of course, the Pope. These tenants, in a sense, are also the slaves of the owner but their job is to work the fields as tenants. The owner have another group of slaves; these are his collectors of revenues. These are two actors; one called tenants the other is called slaves.

 Unlike in the Old Testament where the vineyard was producing wild grapes, in the Gospel the vineyard was producing good grapes. While in the first reading the tenant's fault was carelessly planting wild grapes; in the Gospel the tenant's fault was not giving the owner his share of the harvest. Christ had given the N. T. tenants (the priests, bishops, and cardinals) the way of evangelization, i.e. good grape vines. But the people (the grape vines) are not producing Faith, Hope and Charity. God is not receiving His due, i.e. souls with the theological virtues. The grape vines are of good quality and can produce good wine. But the good wine due to God is not given Him. The tenants are using it for their own purposes....probably getting drunk with it.

 So the owner sends his trusted group of slaves to collect His due. These slaves are, likewise, priests, bishops, cardinals and specially Popes. These slaves are 'sent by God,' thus holy souls, to His Vineyard to instruct the tenants, who are similarly priest, bishops and cardinals (but incompetent ones) how to evangelize by teaching the three proper steps, completely and in the right order. In the hope that the tenants, themselves, produce good grapes, cause the grape vines to produce good grapes and give God His just dues in the form of Divine Worship.
 Acting like a slave of God sent to the Catholic world, this is exactly what Pope Benedict did when he became Pope. He taught the whole Church the three theological virtues in his three encyclical ('Deus Caritas Est', 'Spe Salvi' and 'Caritas in veritate\), then taught the world how to acquire these virtues through the the 'new evangelization' (during the 'Year of Faith' and 'Porta Fidei'). God sent him because He was not getting His share of the harvest,... souls with Faith and Charity.
 We have here two sets of priests, bishops, cardinals and Popes. One set is the tenants who are running the institutional Church, i.e. the parish, the diocese and the Vatican. The second set are the saintly priests, bishops, and Popes God sent, precisely, to collect His dues. The Popes sent to collect the dues are real Popes The tenant Popes are not real Pope but anti-popes.
 In the confrontation between the tenants and the slaves who got the upper hand? The bad tenants. The Gospel states that the slaves (the good guys) were seized, they were beaten, killed and stoned. They were not able to get and give the owner His due.....which is souls with Faith and Charity.. Nobody was going to heaven.

4. Eschatological interpretation.
 From the Old Testament down to the present, priests, bishops and cardinals are withholding God's due by either teaching the wrong doctrines or incomplete teachings. The whole history of the Catholic Church is filled with priests, bishops, cardinals and anti-popes withholding God's due of souls (Arius, Peladius, Marcion, Luther, Photius, Wolsey and the Bishop's Synod of 2012 and the German bishops at Magdeburg come to mind.)
 The good slaves sent to collect God's due, the saints, come only occasionally...and observe how they are treated. Pope Pius IX was exiled by his own priest, bishops and cardinals. Another messenger sent by God to collect, Antonio Rosmini, were ganged up by the hierarchy. Pope Benedict rescued him from the hierarchical gutter.

 This had been happening from the time of the Old Testament up to the present. Priest, bishops and cardinals are producing monsters instead of true Christians. Of course, those outside the Church are worse. But let us first mind our own business. Not one good, decent tenant? None, states the Gospel. Only the slave-collectors and those who became their followers, like those who followed St. Benedict or St. Francis gave God His due.

 What did those bad priests, bishops and cardinals do? Aside from not caring for the vineyard, aside from not giving God His due.....they mistreated the slaves who came to collect. Recall how they mistreated Blessed John Cardinal Newman, a convert from Anglicanism, I am impressed he did not return to Anglicanism. The Catholic priests, bishops and cardinals were so un-Catholic towards him. Only the Pope who was one of God's slaves sent to the vineyard to collect from the tenants was able to collect from Newman. Newman, in turn, became a collector.
 True Popes are always faithful servants who remind people of their dues....which is obedience to God's command. When someone who claims to be Pope behaves like a tenant disobeying the commands of Christ, then he is not a Pope but an anti-pope.

5. Similarly, today, the collector-messengers of God are mistreated. They are thrown out from Vatican offices, persecuted for doing good, falsely accused, demoted to being chaplains of small islands and like Joan of Arc, shamelessly accused of heresy. But wait and see what they did to the Son of the Owner.

6. The Owner sent his own Son in the form of the Word of God probably in a document like 'Deus Caritas Est' or 'Porta Fidei' and they are thrown out of the window, suppressed, completely disregarded .....or as St. Paul wrote 'they crucified Him again.'

7. At the end of the Gospel the tenants plan and actually kill the Son who would inherit the vineyard; and they took over the vineyard.
 Let us look at a complete eschatological picture of the Gospel. The Church begins with having priest, and bishops who are either ignorant and/or disobedient to Christ's commands. Unchecked, their ignorance and disobedience destroy the structure and stability of the whole Church. This grow worse every month, and since whoever does not progress regresses the Church reaches the 6th hour (28th Sunday) in a deplorable condition. So, we are suddenly faced with a Pope and a Bishop's Synod who have completely failed in their evangelization shown in the fact that they do not even know how to evangelize (as shown in the 58 proposals of the previous Synod). They have killed the Son of God by throwing out of the window the Words of God as shown in the initial statements of the on-going Bishop's Synod in Rome. And they have taken complete control of the vineyard running the Church as if it was their own, as clearly seen from the initial ideas presented in the Synod. Those are the ideas from some German Bishops from Magdeburg, not from Christ of Bethlehem.

8. The owner sees the tenants staging a coup d' etat, have thrown away and killed the Word of God and installing their own thoughts and ideas. They have taken over the vineyard. What does God, the owner, do? He takes the vineyard away from the tenants and gives it to others who will do a good job. So God takes away the Church from these tenants. Suddenly you cannot find the Catholic Church in the parishes, in the dioceses and even in the Vatican. Thus fulfilling the prophesy that these places, specially the Vatican, would become the haunt of evil spirits and the anti-Christs, the Blessed Virgin Mary prophesied in La Sallete.
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 The apocalypse gives two descriptions of the Catholic Church. One is the description of the apostate catholic Church from whom the vineyard was taken away because of what the tenants did; this is described in the Apocalypse as the whore whose religion is extended in all the seas, whose priests wear red and purple and whose head office is on the city of seven hills....a perfect picture of the Bishop's Synod under Pope Francis in Rome. The Anglicans were right in interpreting this whore as the Catholic Church. But this is the apostate church; not the true Church..
 The second is the spiritual Church as described in John Paul II and Benedict's 'new evangelization', which nobody seems to know because it is spiritual. But the spiritual man knows it. It is the Woman clothed with the Sun. She left the parishes, dioceses and the Vatican which are all in the cities and flew into the mystical desert in a special place prepared by God. St. Bonaventure described this Church to whom the vineyard was given as the contemplative life or the 'new monasticism.' Thus the word 'new evangelization.' Pope Benedict knew it was time to move from the Vatican to a small monastic cell because the vineyard would be transferred to contemplatives, i.e. souls with perfect Faith, Hope and Charity.....a Catholic community that is as perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect. Thus Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Apocalyptic Woman is the patroness of the New Evangelization. Two ladies; the Woman clothed with the Sun and the whore. Both are called Catholic but one is going to heaven, the other to hell.

9 So where is the vineyard? To whom was it given? It was briefly described by Christ to the Samaritan Woman when He said; the day will come you will not have to worship in the parish, in the cathedral.... not even in the Vatican because true worshipers will worship in spirit and in truth. This was more specifically described in the second reading. The vineyard will be given to those who raise their minds in every form of prayer and in petitions full of gratitude. And whose thoughts are wholly directed to all that is true, all that deserves respect, all that is honest, pure, admirable, decent, virtuous or worthy of praise. In short, to those who live according to what they have learned and accepted, from what St. Paul said and did. This is what Pope Benedict described in the 'new evangelization' as the contemplative life or the 'new monasticism' quoting St. Bonaventure. These are the ones to whom the vineyard of the Lord will be given.....and who will receive the peace of God. Pope Benedict transferred here to head the true Church.

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-8997667138596612852014-10-05T17:26:00.002+11:002014-10-05T17:26:56.681+11:00A FATHER HAD TWO SONS - Both were Catholics.1. The 26th Sunday is advance knowledge of the Catholic Faith.
 Holy Mother the Church is teaching us the complete plan of salvation as taught by Divine Revelation in the Liturgical Year; starting with Advent and ending in Christ the King. The Liturgical Year begins with a summary of the four steps of evangelization and then proceeds with a detailed presentation of the development of Faith explained during the 33 Sundays in Ordinary Time. Each Sunday gives two visible signs. A sign of the absence of Faith, the other is a visible sign of the presence of Faith. While the sign of the deterioration of Faith is not portrayed, the development of the presence of Faith to its perfection is portrayed.
 Through the Liturgy one can know if he has Faith or not. He can, also know the stage of the development of his Faith. And whatever knowledge he has acquired he can apply it to others; i.e. if he is in the level of Faith portrayed in the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, he can know if others are in the same level or lower, whether the other is your husband, your parish priest or your Pope. The purpose of the Sundays in Ordinary Time is precisely for anyone to know if he has Faith or not; and if he has Faith in what level he is in.

2. The Sundays of the Liturgy describe those without Faith and they remain without Faith as the Sundays progresses. Among those with Faith some progresses to Hope and Charity. Others looses their Faith. The Gospel on the two sons shows two people with Faith; one has Faith but looses it. The other son has Faith; it does not develop. He becomes repentant and revives his Faith and proceeds to Hope and Charity. In the Gospel Christ says that the second was the one obedient to the Father.

3. Both sons had Faith.
 The Gospel narrates that both sons knew the Will of the Father; which is to go out and work in the vineyard. St. Thomas of Aquinas comments that working in the vineyard means to work for one's personal sanctity by going through the steps, namely, first; to live the life of repentance. Secondly, to receive grace together with Faith, Hope and Charity.
 Faith, like Charity, is defined as obedience to the commands of Christ. There is a difference between knowledge of the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament and the commands of God the Son in the New Testament. The O.T. commands can be learned naturally and needs only actual grace for its understanding and execution. The N.T. commands cannot be learned naturally. One has to rise to the supernatural level through grace to know and execute them.
 While Faith is knowledge of the commands of Jesus Christ in the New Testament that is only possible when one is in the state of sanctifying grace, Charity is both knowledge and putting into practice the commands of Christ... which requires greater graces or more intimate Union with God. So knowledge of the commands of Christ without putting it into practice is Faith....but dead Faith. This cannot merit the Kingdom of God.

4. Eschatology of the Church.
 While the Liturgy of the Mass shows the progress of Faith in the Gospels, it does not show the deterioration of Faith in a soul. The latter is shown in the prophecies of Christ. And here we see a conflict between the two. The progress of Faith in the Gospels of the Liturgy and the picture of Faith in the eschatological picture of the Church are the exact opposite.
 We see the younger son, a figure of the Catholic Church, receiving the theological virtue of Faith. Then, he looses this Faith. Then he regains this Faith through 'repentance.' And lastly progresses towards the perfection of Charity. That is the picture of the Church in the Liturgy.
 What is the picture of the Church from the prophecies of Christ? As we have seen a 'decay in Faith' and a 'waxing cold of Charity'.....a lost of Faith and Charity. The opposite of what we see in the Liturgy.

5, The intellect and the free will.
 Let us see how the intellect and the free will of the two sons operate in relation to Faith and Charity. Faith is an assent of the intellect; while Charity is consent of the free will. It is most complicated than this but let us simplify it just for the now.
 A truth is formed in the intellect, let us say, 'there is a God.' The intellect examines this truth to see if the truth can be judged to be credible. Logically the mind cannot ascertain the veracity of the truth because the mind has to start from the natural and judge something supernatural. Though the mind cannot be certain precisely because of the gap between the natural and supernatural the mind has to be contented in seeing the truth to be credible. Reasoning from nature the mind is convinced beyond doubt that the truth is credible because the tangible proofs, like the whole of creation, is convincing. So the mind gives its assent to the truth. From here it becomes complicated but let us leave the complication and go fast forward.

 So we are here where the mind had consented to a truth that 'God exists.' When there is a truth in the mind, the mind, itself, consults the free will and influences it to consent to what the intellect had assented to. Because the will is free, it can consent or dissent. The will can say 'I consent to the truth that 'God exists,' or I dissent to the truth that 'God exists.'
 If the intellect assents to the truth and the free will consents to the same truth, the will returns and orders the intellect to act upon the truth assented to. When the intellect agrees with the free will, by another process, the intellect thinks how to respond to the fact that 'God exists.' Hopefully, by this time the intellect had already learned that to respond adequately to the truth that 'God exists,' he must worship this God.
 The process by which the intellect assents to the truth is called Faith. The process by which the free will consents to the assent of the intellect...and the intellect ordering the will to 'worship' this God is Charity. And the result of this whole process produces a fruit called OBEDIENCE OF FAITH. The act of worshiping God is the obedience of Faith. This is what merits us the Kingdom of God.
 This is what is lacking in Pope Francis and his co-hort thus showing lack of Faith and Charity.

6. Faith is belief in all the commands of Christ often symbolized as obedience to only one command, as in the example in the Gospel, 'to go out and work in the vineyard.' That is only one command.
 Needless to say obedience to all the commands of Christ, which is the third requirement of evangelization as mentioned in the Apostolic Commission, needs firstly, knowledge of all the commands of Christ, then belief in all the commands and finally obedience to all the commands. This last step is what makes one a Catholic and deserving of Eternal Life.
 St. James wrote in his Epistle that obedience to one command is like obedience to all the commands because the author of the one command is the same author of all the rest of the commands. If you disobey one command you do not disobey the command, you disobey the author. Since the author of the one command is the same author of all the rest of the commands, disobedience to one is disobedience to all. And vice versa. Perfect obedience to one is obedience to all; thus St. Peter wrote 'in bearing everybody's burden you fulfill all the commands of Christ. Note that obedience to one command is like obeying all the commands.
 Thus the Angels were given only one command. The ones who obeyed remained angels while those who disobeyed the one command became devils. Adam and Eve were given only one command, to eat of all the tree except one. They disobeyed only one command and were similarly severely punished together with all their children up to the end of the world.
 We should never take lightly disobedience to one command. Never say; 'it's only one command.' That might be the way you think. But God does not think the way man thinks.

7. The Elder Son.
 The commands of God from both the O.T. and N.T. were in the intellect of the Elder Son. This is symbolized by his knowing the command of the Father 'to go out and work in the vineyard.' That is the beginnings of Faith. He progresses in Faith and assents with his intellect saying; 'I will go.' Then his Faith stops progressing. So he does not go because the will did not continue consenting. In effect, the assent of the intellect was not complete. He acted like half a man. The privation of the other half made his Faith defective. He had Faith but it was very weak .
 Having a weak Faith the intellect could not convince the free will to consent. So the Elder son partially assented but did not obey. His Faith was incomplete and so weak it easily 'decayed'.

8. The Younger Son.
 All the commands of God are, similarly, in the intellect of the Younger Son. He knew exactly the same command; to go out and work in the vineyard. But his intellect does not consent; he dissents, 'I will not go.' But the commands of God remains in his intellect; and that is good. After dissenting for a time, his intellect returns to the command of God still in his intellect and he changes his mind and assents to it. And not only that. He progressed. His intellect assents; then convinces his free will to consent; the free will consents and orders his intellect to act upon its assent to the command. Then the intellect, as commanded by the free will orders the free will to act and obey.
 What we see in the Younger Son was this; he was properly evangelized but there was a rejection by the intellect. The teachings properly done remained in his intellect. This presence allowed him to rethink and change his mind. From there he went straight from no Faith to the perfection of Faith which is obedience by 'going out and working in the vineyard' and proceeded in working towards the perfection of Charity.
 Evidently the intellects of Pope Francis and his Vatican bureacracy had not been properly evangelized as shown by the 58 proposals of the Bishop's Synod of 2013.

9. Liturgy vs Eschatology.
 What we have just discussed is the beautiful Liturgy of the Church. It is a lesson on how to grow from being a child and growing to become an adult in the spiritual life. This consists in having the Words of Divine Revelation in our minds; assenting to them with our intellect, consenting with our free will, directing our minds to put the truth into action, and lastly to actually obeying the command learned.
 Now let us see the Eschatology, in other words, what is actually happening in the Church today. This is based, not on the Liturgy but in the Eschatological teachings of the Church or from the prophecies of the Old and New Testament, taken from the book of Revelation, occasionally from the Fathers, the saints and lastly, the approved apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
 The eschatological scenario of these days is this: the 'decay of faith', the waxing cold of Charity, the lost of the power to forgive sins, the lost of power to consecrate the Bread and Wine, the total darkening of the truth, the lost of the Catholic Church in the world and the devil entering souls of priest, bishops, cardinals and even of an anti-pope. This is Good Friday repeating itself and its main figure is the destruction of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church. That will be followed by Easter Sunday. But how many will see Easter?

10. Neither the Elder nor the Younger Son.
 From the visible signs of the Elder and Younger sons as portrayed in the Liturgy of the Mass, nobody, neither laymen, priest, bishop, cardinal nor even the present Pope had reached the spirituality of the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. They do not have the visible signs. Keep in mind that the Liturgy are visible signs of invisible realities. Signs show that our priests do not have the invisible reality of Faith and Charity; which confirms they cannot absolve, cannot say Mass and cannot enter the Church and attain Eternal Life.
 Note the description of the two sons; they knew the one command of God, as the angels and our first parents knew the one command God gave them, which was the embodiment of all the commands of God. Note, also, the defect of each. The Elder, at first agreed to obey; but later on disobeyed. The younger son, at first disobeyed; but later on obeyed. Both, somehow disobeyed and obeyed. But both had in their minds the one command of the Father that embodied all the commands of God.

 Pope Francis had reformed the Curia; removing all who holds the doctrine of the Apostles and replaced them with the propagators of the 'new' religion made by men called 'the Church of mercy,' whose greatest command is the 'new charity,' which looks more like arrogance. Both words, 'mercy' and 'charity' do not conform to the definitions of the same words used by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is so new their definition is out of this world. With the reformed curia and the Bishop's Synod, Pope Francis is consistently showing disobedience to the commands of Christ. Christ commanded the adulterous woman; 'sin no more and then come follow Me.' The Vatican Bureacracy is saying 'continue sinning and sin further by receiving Holy Communion.' Christ said; 'Believe', Francis says; you don't have to believe to go to heaven. Christ said; 'evangelize'; Francis says; don't proselytize.That is the worst you can do.
 The constant disobedience shows the free will is not consenting (i.e. there is no Charity), just like the elderly son. But the elderly son knew the command with his intellect. Pope Francis and his bureau do not have the commands in their intellect, their inability to assent. There is no consent and there is no assent; unlike the two sons. The prophecy of Christ on the 'decay of faith' and 'the waxing cold of Charity' is being fulfilled.
 Pope Francis shows ignorance of the teachings of Christ on the theology of grace which makes up the entire Catholic religion being a Covenant of grace as shown in his first well publicized statement when he said 'you can love without the need for dogmas.' It is like saying; you can have Charity without Faith. That goes completely against the Catechism.
 Another ignorance is on the Gospel of the old and new wine in an old or new wine skin. The last sentence of that Gospel is; And Christ said the old wine is better.' In a homily to a small audience of laymen and several bishops and cardinals Pope Francis gave a homily on the same Gospel and said; that Christ said the new wine was better.
 Now, wait a minute. Is this inability to read or pure blindness? If he can read why did he say the opposite of what Christ said. The Pope was selling his new Protestant religion called the 'Church of Mercy,' which is neither a church nor is it merciful. Thus inferring that Christ was encouraging all to taste the new wine which was Francis's new man-made sect.
 The whole Vatican bureacracy that is backing up the 'Church of mercy' which should be more appropiately called 'Church that tolerates all wickedness' is ignorant that true mercy is based on Justice as clearly shown on the Friday Readings after the 27th Sunday in Ordinary time. The two sons had this knowledge in their intellect; Pope Francis, his curia and his bishop's synod do not have this knowledge in their intellect.
 The first reading for the First Friday Mass was a warning to the Jews and the priests to fear God's Justice that will come if they continue tolerating their wickedness. And the Gospel is Christ showing His Justice towards Chorasim and Bethsaida while showing mercy to Tyre and Sidon. True mercy is founded on Justice. Pope Francis 'Church of Mercy', which is the title of his book is not true mercy but tolerance of all wickedness which God condemned at the end of the same first reading.
 The present Pope and his group of 8 or 9 and Bishop's Synod are both disobedient to the commands of Christ and ignorant of the teachings of Christ. They have not reached the liturgical spirituality of the 27th Sunday in Ordinary time; i.e. they still do not have Faith, Hope and Charity.
 But they are on schedule in the eschatology of the Church. While the true Church is personified by 'Signum Magnum,' which is the Woman of the Apocalypse patroness of the 'new evangelization',...... Pope Francis and his bureacracy is personified by the whore in the city of the seven hills....the anti-Christ in the Vatican, prophesied by our Lady at LaSallete.

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-61550970410106102932014-09-27T18:32:00.001+11:002014-09-27T18:32:56.873+11:00AND THE DEVIL ENTERED INTO HIM because he did not believe.1. WE HAVE BEEN REVIEWING THE DOCTRINAL BASIS OF THE NEW EVANGELIZATION.
 We are painting a portrait of the Church TODAY from the truths of Divine Revelation, the writings of the Fathers of the Church, the propositions of the Holy Popes.... and applying them to the current events of the day.
 We had been discussing the doctrines on which the 'new' evangelization of John Paul II and Benedict XVI are based on. The 'new' evangelization is essentially the classical evangelization instituted by Christ as written in the last chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. The slight difference is because of the state of the world during those two different times that is surrounding the Church to which She had to adjust. This adjustment is necessary for the Church to evangelize effectively. The slight adjustment dictates how the Church should relate to the world.
 The 'new evangelization' is based on two prophecies of Christ which were explained by the Fathers, emphasized by the Popes and confirmed by the Blessed Virgin in her apparitions.

2. TWO PROPHECIES OF CHRIST which the 'new evangelization' had seriously taken into account and which irritates priests when reminded to take them into account.
 Christ described how His Church will be from His time up to the end of time. First, it will experience the 'decay of Faith' and secondly, it will experience the 'waxing cold of charity.' The Church experienced these mildly at the time of Christ but will experience them very severely in these our times; basing it on the ascetical principle 'he who does not progress regresses,' i.e. either you grow from Faith to the perfection Charity OR you regress from Faith back to paganism.
 With the two prophecies of Christ fulfilled today, we added prophecies from the old testament where the prophet threatened that because of unbelief God will withdraw from the priests both the power to absolve sins and the power to consecrate the Bread and Wine. This was a prophecy pre-figuring the state of the church before the birth of Christ and during the Passion of Christ; wherein in both cases the Jews lost the Ark, thus, their ability to offer the sacrifice. The world will eventually lose the power to consecrate the Bread and Wine. There will be no Mass as Christ prophesied to the Samaritan Woman at the well. St. Thomas writes, when the reality of Christ is about to appear, the shadows or types disappear.
 The liturgical abuses that started after Vatican II, the dislike of Pope Francis for the Old Mass and the recent appointment of Benedict's liturgical mortal enemy at the Congregation of worship and the sacraments had rung the death knell for the Catholic Liturgy and eventually the Catholic Church. We are seeing, indeed, the fulfilliment of the Prophecies of Christ and the warnings of His Mother.
 The prophecies tell us that most of the priests, bishops and cardinals are without Faith and as a consequence, as St. Paul wrote, 'all that is not of Faith is sin, they will only teach us to sin and lead us to hell. It will be very rare to find a John Vianney, a man of Faith, who can show us the way to heaven.
 Because of these two prophecies Pope Benedict insisted that every Catholic, without any exception, from cardinals down to the laymen, should check if they had Faith. He, first addressed the whole Church with the 'Jubilee of St. Paul,' where he reminded us that Faith comes with grace. Then in his 'Year of the Priests' he was insistent that all priest (I suppose including bishops and cardinals) return to the seminary and relearn their Moral Theology kneeling down before the Blessed Sacrament because that is the only way to learn theology; as expressed in the 'new evangelization' and quoting Christ in praising Peter in learning his theology the right way.

 AT THIS POINT we are faced with this reality; first, that we cannot learn the way to salvation from our priests, bishops and cardinals. Secondly, that there is no way by which we can know if the sins we confess are forgiven. Thirdly, there is no way to know if the Mass we are attending is truly a Mass or just a vaudeville
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3. LET US ADD ONE MORE PROPHECY to those mentioned above. This is the release of Satan from the bottomless pit as prophesied in the Book of Revelation.
 It is a Catholic belief that there are devils who were once angels but who rebelled against God. When the devils were driven out of heaven they were not sent to hell but to earth to test the children of men. But after the birth of the Catholic Church their leader, Lucifer, was chained in the bottomless pit to allow the Church to grow and multiply with little resistance. The 'little' resisting devils who were left behind, however, did a good job in attacking the Church; generally in two ways. First, by violently attacking the physical bodies of the members of the Church and/or secondly, by obfuscating their minds with doubts and error. Both to lead the soul to sin and heresy.

 The 'decay of Faith' is a defect of the human mind. The 'waxing cold of Charity' is a defect of the human will. Both defects were inherited by man in his fallen human nature. The devil's work is to worsen the defects of the mind and the will. After all the devils are pure spirits with corrupt minds and wills, thus designed to corrupt the minds and wills of men and possess them. Done by little devils before, their leader, Lucifer, the Seraphic devil, is prophesied to be released sometime around this century to test the Church one last time.
 Evangelization is meant to correct the defects of both the mind and will to enable man to possess God, instead.

4. TWO KINDS OF DIABOLICAL POSSESSION
 There are two kinds of diabolical possession; physical and the spiritual. The first, physical, is when God allows the devil to control the physical or bodily parts of a man. Their manifestations are what we ordinarily see in movies, like guttural voice, ugly faces, green saliva, levitation, super strength, etc. Many of the possessions in Scriptures are of these kind.
 It is easy to exorcise physical possessions. Priests, with the permission from their bishops, can easily exorcise this type. Often a mere life of conversion or entering a monastery can drive away such diabolical presence. It becomes more difficult, however, when physical possession is in the national or international level, i.e. the devil physically possessing whole towns, country, nation or even continents...as among the Aztecs in Mexico or the entire Africa, once upon a time.
 The second, spiritual possession, is more serious as in the case of Judas. Here, the person himself, by an act of his mind and free will opens his souls for the free entrance of the diabolical through avarice. Though this cannot happen without God's permission He allows it for the chastisement of the person concerned. God can, of course, exorcise such but He will never do it on His own. In the case of Judas, because of his avarice, neither Christ nor His apostles were able to convince Judas to willingly reject the devil.

5. TWO DIABOLICAL ATTACKS ON THE CHURCH in an attempt for possession.
 While the above possessions occur in individuals, it can, also, and in fact often occur to groups, nations, continents and the whole Church in the form of attacks.
 The physical attacks often happen to adults when they have the beginnings of Faith in the form of martyrdom or genocide. God allows it to perfect their Faith. It happens to children because of their innocence in the form of abortion. God allows it to bring them to heaven earlier. Both are rampant and world wide. The devil is cheated by God on both occasion but the violence of these attacks shows that the devil knows something we do not know.

 Because of the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity,' that are consequences of fallen human nature, the Church had become vulnerable to spiritual diabolic attacks. Lucifer's foolish ambition, is the destruction of the Mystical Body of Christ by spiritually possessing the priest, bishops, cardinals and, if possible, by raising an anti-pope spiritually possessed by him. On Good Friday he thought he succeeded in killing Christ. Today he will try to destroy the Mystical Body of Christ. Lucifer thought that by possessing one of the first bishop-apostle in Judas he could destroy Christ. Which he, in fact, seemingly succeeded without realizing he was playing into the hands of God who used him to redeem the world. Never creative in his ways, Satan will try it again these days.

6. THE ACTUAL ATTACKS ON THE CHURCH TODAY.
 The kingdom of God was made for children and it is being filled up through abortion, plaques, hunger and war. God is getting them, St. Augustine writes, before the devil can possess them. Adults with the beginnings of Faith are given the occasion to perfect their Faith through red martyrdom or through white martyrdom, described by St. Bonaventure as 'new monasticism.'
 In the group enumerated above only two are left out. Those without Faith and those with Faith. Those without Faith, merely tempted before, are now possessed spiritually by the devil, of which Judas was a type. While those with Faith and progressing towards the perfection of Charity are possessed by God in preparation for the last spiritual battle against the hordes of hell. The 'new evangelization' teaches us how to be possessed by God and to prepare for battle; as Pope Benedict wrote quoting the Prologue of the Rule of St. Benedict.

 Since this is the final battle, the host of devils will possess those without Faith, i.e. followers of all false religions, atheists, politicians, sinners, priests, bishops, cardinals and the existing anti-pope (uncanonically elected) will join forces. How will this force look like? The famed Anglican convert who become a fine writer on Catholic spirituality, Robert Benson, whose book Pope Francis read and commented on in a homily which he confessed he did not understand wrote: this force will be headed by the most evil man who ever existed; he will rule the United States and put under his control the European Union and United Nations. By the end of the book he is still trying to control the East specially China and Russia. After that he is joined by apostate Catholic priests, specially by one who becomes the Master of ceremonies of an entirely new religion where all opposite philosophies and all contradicting religions are united into one idolatrous religion in the worship of self. The apostate priest becomes an anti-pope and his name was Francis. Coincidence or prophecy?

 Let us compare Satan's possession of Judas and see how he will possess most of the priests, bishops, cardinals and even an anti-pope as eschatologically pre-figured on Good Friday. The Jews (the type of the Church) had no Faith; today most Catholics will have no Faith. The priests of the Jews (Pharisees and even the high priest, Caiphas) had no Faith and were, in fact, about to crucify Christ; most of the so-called catholic priests, bishops, cardinals will have no Faith (as Christ prophesied) and 'crucify Him again.' The few true followers of Christ, the apostles, were in hiding; today the few with Faith will be praying contemplatively. Judas, a bishop who had no Faith and was pretending to follow Christ was spiritually possessed by Satan and give the 'coup de gras', the last act prior to the arrest and crucifixion of Christ; today a bishop, raised as an anti-pope, will give the last death blow on the Church.
 AT THIS POINT ADD TO THE EARLIER TRUTHS THE FOLLOWING. That we are surrounded by people possessed by the devil who are all out to damn our souls.

7. THE PROGRESSION of Satan's possession of priests without Faith, leading to the election of an anti-pope.
 Satan's strategy from the beginning was to possess the unbelieving world and, eventually, the unfaithful priest, bishops and cardinals....and in the words of Don Bosco....with the goal that these faithless bishops and cardinals would elect one of their kind to be an anti-pope (only God selects the true Pope). If the devil succeeds as he thought he succeeded on Good Friday, he will think he is victorious over God. His rebellion is complete. But Satan was not expecting Easter Sunday.
 AT THIS POINT ADD THIS TO THE ABOVE . That those whom we were supposed to obey and lead us to holiness is leading us to heresy and damnation.

 THE PORTRAIT ABOVE is the situation the 'new evangelization' is trying to resolve. Here is a summary: the world that is outside the vineyard of the Lord is the kingdom of Satan. The cockles who are inside the vineyard of the Lord are spiritually possessed by 'little devils;' while the priests bishops, cardinals are spiritually possessed by the leaders of the devil. Satan will enter unto a particular
bishop of which Judas was the pre-figure (it is not a pope that will be possessed but a faithless bishop who will act like a pope... thus an anti-pope.) They were all given a chance to know Divine Revelation but refused.
 Each one of us stand alone in the battle for the salvation of our soul.......against the whole choir of demons; the whole pagan world of men; the whole world of unbelieving catholics; the priests, bishops and cardinals who are guilty of apostasy; and an anti-pope whom Satan had entered. This is an all-out attack on the foundations of the Catholic Church. The anti-pope will attack the dogmas and morals of the Church. He will appoint in the Curia apostates who would destroy the Mass and the Sacraments; thus fulfilling the prophecy about the disappearance of such sacraments as Penance, Holy Orders and Holy Eucharist. He will appoint faithless bishops who would destroy marriage and expose children to pedophiles thus eliminating the foundation of the Church. He will remove every priest teaching the religion of the Apostles and the Fathers. He will join with secular powers similarly possessed by the devil to prevent Catholics from obeying God's commands and, instead, force them to disobey the same commands as he, himself, is doing.
 This awful scenario is actually God's chastisement for an unbelieving generation. Its accompanying background will be the revolt of nature against men who had revolted against the Creator. Is there an Ark or a boat that can save us? Yes! But only those with perfect Faith can find it. John Paul and Benedict's 'new evangelization' tells us how to enter that Ark.

 8. JOHN PAUL II AND BENEDICT XVI's COUNTER MEASURE. The 'new evangelization' and its first rule.
 Having seen the doctrinal basis of the 'new evangelization' let us begin to describe it.
 From whom should we learn the way of salvation? The answer from the current evangelization is: from faithless priests ,bishops and some self-appointed ignorant lay preacher. The answer from the 'new evangelization' is: from none of the above. They are possessed by the devil (even Pope Francis admitted this in an address to the Evangelical Charismatics in Rome). They are all liars, heretics, apostates, fakes and everything that the devil is.
 The 'new evangelization' answers, quoting St. Augustine and Blessed John Cardinal Newman. Since all the above have no Faith and Charity, they do not know the answer....then learn directly from Christ (through the New Testament), from the Fathers of the Church and from the good and authentic Popes (at least from Pius IX - Benedict XVI). In other words learn from the Old Liturgy and Divine Office.
 And when you have learned the way to salvation whom should you evangelize? The answer from the classical evangelization is; to everybody specially the marginalized. What is the answer of the 'new evangelization?' Don't go to foreign lands, don't go to different religions, don't go to young and old, don't go to protestants and evangelicals, don't go to homos and lesbians, don't go to adulterers and idolaters, don't even go to your husband, wife or children. Concentrate on yourself. Stay in your room, lock the door and perfectly put into practice what you have learned from Christ and the Fathers of the Church. Not having done this you are completely useless to yourself and to others. In fact, not having done this you will cause great damage to yourself and others.
 The words of the 'new evangelization' is to be contemplatives first. That is almost like saying; go to a monastery, live a life of study and prayer in silence and solitude until you reach the illuminative state, i.e. the perfection of Faith and Charity......just like St. Therese of the Child Jesus whom Pope John Paul II proclaimed the Patroness of the 'new evangelization. Yes, just be like her who saved so many souls thus proclaimed as the co-patroness of missionaries, without leaving her cell in the Carmelite Monastery. Stick to yourself, only. And don't move until you are perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.
 Just with this beginning, John Paul and Benedict's 'new evangelization' is completely different from the evangelization of Pope Francis and the Bishop's Synod 2012 whose evangelization looks more like a protestant revival meeting.

 Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-20214752940728329582014-09-17T14:30:00.001+11:002014-09-17T14:30:46.449+11:00'THE DECAY OF FAITH' - and the lost of power to absolve.1. THE PROPHECIES OF CHRIST
 Christ had described our modern times as experiencing the 'decay of Faith' and 'the waxing cold of Charity.' This is like saying 'no Faith' and 'no Charity.' These two theological virtues go hand in hand. Without Charity there can be Faith; but this Faith is dead. On the other hand without Faith, there will be no Charity.
 Christmas and Good Friday are pre-figures of these our days, the year 2000 A.D. These was God's way of preparing us for what is coming. When Christ came during the His first Advent there was no Faith among the Chosen people, and consequently no Charity, too. All the priests were with Herod, helping him to plan the killing of the child. How many had Faith? A few shepherds and a few Magi together with Joseph and May. That was just a handful. And that will be the state of the Church and the world today.
 When Christ died on Good Friday all the priests and even the chief priest were with Herod, and Pontius Pilate plotting the destruction of Christ. How many had Faith? A few women, a few apostles and probably one or two priests. The rest of the Chosen People, purportedly an image of the Church were faithless; including one apostle, Judas. This, again, will be the state of the Church and the world today.

 Well, Christ said, exactly the same thing will happen during these times. All the priests, bishops and cardinals will be Faithless. And one bad bishop-cardinal, successor of the apostles, will betray Christ by being an anti-pope, as pre-figured by Judas.
 Where are the few Faithful? Very few indeed. And Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict showed how they look like and where they are in the 'new evengelization.'

2. WHY WILL THIS HAPPEN?
 Through His fore-knowledge Christ prophesied it would happen. But we cannot know the mind of Christ so let us use His teachings to explain what happened.
 The seminarians, priests, bishops, cardinals and the world must be evangelized; just as Christ evangelized the apostles and then commanded them to evangelize the rest of the world. The seminarians first, like the apostles, and then the rest of the world. That is the proper procedure.
 The apostles were perfectly evangelized as we can see during the 33 Sundays in ordinary time; specifically in the 21th Sunday and on-wards where we can see their progress towards perfection in the three theological virtues and in the three stages of the spiritual life. We can further see them acquiring the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit which is the perfection of evangelization. We can in fact pin point in their lives the entire progress of their spiritual lives while tending towards perfection in the entire Liturgy of the Mass.
 The apostles were to lead and teach us. Christ personally saw to it that they were taught and trained perfectly. The apostles entrusted this knowledge to their successors the Fathers of the Church. And the office of the Papacy had been decreed by Christ as the office that should maintain the perfection of Christ's teaching and hand it down to the Church as perfect as possible.
 Have the seminarians, priests, bishops, cardinals and present Pope checked if their teachings are perfectly in conformity to the teachings of Christ? In an 'instrumentum laboris' following the Encyclical 'Veritatis Splendor ' by John Paul II, ominously addressed only to Bishops (which is unique for an encyclical) John Paul sent a questionaire to the bishops to be answered by their diocesan priests. The priests should answer the questions and the answers should have been returned to the Vatican. Most of the bishops did not question their parish priests. The questions were supposed to find out if their priests had Faith or not. The fact that the bishops did not follow the instruction showed they did not see the importance of the questionaire; thus a sign that the bishops, themselves did not have Faith. What?? Bishops and priest do not have Faith? And consequently everybody else?

 What is happening? Let us go back to the training of the apostles.... and compare how our priests are being trained from the 18th century up to the present.

3. EVANGELIZATION defined.
 Let us look at the instruction Christ gave His apostles on how to evangelize as found in the Gospel of St. Matthew. Christ gave ONE instruction with THREE steps .....and gave the right order of execution. He said; FIRST...make disciples of all nations. SECONDLY...baptize them. THIRDLY...teach them all that 'I' have commanded you.
 A few points before we go any further. Note that we have to make them first disciples before we baptize them. Note that without they being disciples first, their baptism is ineffective. Lastly, that they cannot know the commands of Christ (referring to the 'I' in the last step) unless they have done the first two steps. Having seen the words of Christ, let us, now, go to its interpretation from the Fathers.
 The SECOND STEP is the bridge between the FIRST step, which is where you are coming from...to the THIRD step, where you are going to. Let us set aside for a brief moment the SECOND step and make a comparison between the FIRST AND THIRD steps.
 In the FIRST step we make them disciples. Of whom? Of God, because that is all we know about Him....that He is God!! To make them disciples is to teach them all the commands of God (the Father) as written in the Old Testament. In the THIRD step we must know all the commands of God the Son, Jesus Christ, as written in the New Testament. Note the difference. The commands of God the Father in the O.T. are in the natural level. All men can know them and all men can teach them. The commands of God the Son in the N.T. are in the supernatural level. No man knows them and no man can teach them. Only the Father in heaven can teach the commands of Christ...as Christ, Himself told the apostles in reaction to St. Peters answer to His question 'Who do people say I am."
 At this point we can see that our priest had studied only from men (teachers of theology). And not even the entire O.T. So they have not even finished the FIRST step.

4. The FIRST step is described as the 'Life of repentance.' The THIRD step is called the 'Life of Faith.' While the FIRST step, repentance, is easy to learn and observe because it is in the natural level, the THIRD step is impossible to learn and obey because it is in the supernatural or spiritual level; but it has visible signs that shows that the supernatural reality is there. The visible signs are described in the 33 Sundays in Ordinary Times.

 NOW, let us see how the apostles were evangelized. Here we can see that they followed the formula which Christ gave them in the so called Apostolic Commission, read as the Gospel of Ascension.
 The apostles underwent the FIRST step; they learned the commands of God as written in the O. T. through the preaching of St. John the Baptist who taught repentance. In effect, they were disciples of the God of the O.T. through the preachings of John the Baptist. The apostles underwent the SECOND STEP when they answered Christ's call to leave all things which is equivalent to Baptism of Desire (thus they never received the Baptism of water.) The apostles underwent the THIRD step when they directly learned from Christ and not from men the commands of Christ; and they obeyed them, too. They reached perfection in their knowledge and obedience to all the commands of Christ before Pentecost.

5. NOW, let us see the defect in the training of all priests that left us with priest with no Faith.
 FIRST step? Absolutely not a single priest ever studied all the commands of God as written in the Old Testament; thus no priest ever became a disciple of God as required before their baptism. For the simple reason that all were baptized as babies and could not possibly study the O.T. This has been happening as early as the time of St. Irenaeus (circa 180 AD). Before that, adult Christians enrolled to live a semi-monastic life of repentance before baptism thus fulfilling the FIRST STEP. Not anymore.
 This serious defect is continued and even made worse during the Bishop's Synod of 2012 called precisely by Pope Benedict to correct this defect.....due to an error by Bishop Eterovic in his 'Lineamenta' dated 2011, where the FIRST step was omitted for discussion.

 Without the FIRST step, the SECOND step which is baptism, as St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote, is spiritually ineffective; i.e. will have a very brief beneficial effect. This benefit is gone with the lost of innocence. Without fulfilling the First and Second steps all the seminarians who would eventually become priests and bishops....and probably pope, would not reach the THIRD step, where the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity are received from God. There you have it......a whole generation of priests without Faith as prophesied by Christ.
 Again, what happened? Since none of the priest fulfilled the FIRST step, they could not fulfill the SECOND and THIRD steps; thus not obtaining the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. How can they evangelize others; how can they lead others into the Church; how can they lead souls to salvation? They do not know the way.

 6. So what now? So the 'new evangelization' of Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI!
 As a priest, Joseph Ratzinger underwent the same defective evangelization. He was baptized as a baby and was not able to become a disciple before his baptism. As he grew older, he became a seminarian and ordained priest, still without undergoing any of the three proper steps of evangelization. Thus he showed the absence of Faith by exhibiting the heresy of modernism. But as a professor in Tubingen he was shocked by a reality; when the seminarians of Tubingen went on a strike praising Karl Marx and behaving like atheist. Well, what did you expect; those seminarians did not undergo the proper steps of evangelization.
 The shock Ratzinger got was, what Blessed John Cardinal Newman described as the necessary first step towards repentance, the FIRST step, which is taught in the Liturgy during Advent (remember Liturgy was his speciality also). Having missed the FIRST, and as a consequence, the SECOND and the THIRD step, he knew he had to repeat the same three steps. For those who missed the three steps and had to repeat the same three steps of evengelization, the alternative for the same three steps is found in the Liturgy. The Liturgy is precisely for such kind of people.
 Ratzinger saw that the FIRST step, which is repentance, is taught in its N. T. version during the season of Lent. Advent is repentance of the O.T., Lent is repentance in the N.T. Fortunately the correct interpretation for repentance in the N.T. was described by St. Augustine (who was one of his favorite.) He learned that the shock he got in Tubingen because the seminarians did not believe in God was the initial stage of repentance of the N.T. This was described by Blessed John Newman in 'Callista.'
 Ratzinger's environ was conducive for personal, private evangelization in that he was a professor in theology and a seeker of the truth. His personal, private study gradually moved him to the SECOND step, Baptism. But he was already baptized and this sacrament cannot be repeated. Unconsciously, just like the apostles, he underwent baptism of desire.which is the alternative for sacramental baptism. This baptism of desire according to St. John Chrysostom is shown visibly in the desire for monastic life which in asceticism is referred to as Second Baptism. He expressed this in his love for the Benedictine Way of Life.
 THIRD step; proofs Ratzinger reached this step are his numerous books, articles, talks, audiences, comments, etc., showed his knowledge was the kind only God the Father could teach. It was for this, precisely, that he suffered most....that his own bishops and cardinals could not understand him. Why? Because we had a case of a Pope with Faith speaking to Cardinals and bishops without Faith. That is like the parallel railroad track; it will never meet anywhere.
 Pope Benedict, in his 'new evangelization' written initially with John Paul II, is teaching us evangelization as taught in the Liturgy of the Mass, the way it was taught for the last 2000 years ......too old that absolutely no one knows how it is done ...unless one is truly seeking the truth and assiduously studying the truth based on Scriptures and the Fathers of the Church.
 Seeing the the state of the Church as he had described in his 'Ratzinger Report', sub-titled 'The Crisis of Faith'; and seeing how he, himself, was saved from such a spiritual disaster, he employed his whole papacy to evangelizing the Catholic Church according to the Liturgy. He repeated essentially the same formula of evangelization given by Christ in St. Matthews Gospel but using the four steps of the Liturgy of the Mass; namely, conversion, entrance into the Kingdom, encounter with Christ and Union with the Holy Spirit.
 Though John Paul and Benedict clearly proclaimed the 'new evangelization' according to the Liturgy, the Bishop's Synod of 2012 and Pope Francis who based his theology on the that Synod continues with the previous defective theology that had caused the 'crisis of Faith' described by Ratzinger in his 'Report.' It will be worse this coming Synod without any hope of getting back on track.

7. The 23th Sunday in Ordinary time treats of fraternal correction which is the highest form of Charity. Only those with perfect Faith and perfect Charity can correct fraternally because knowledge of both the commands of God in the Old Testament(FIRST step) and the commands of Jesus Christ in the New Testament(THIRD step) are necessary for fraternal correction. Without this knowledge correction will be done based on personal and private feelings. Very protestant!
 Today, most priest, bishop and cardinals and even the pope.....instead of giving fraternal corrections are encouraging the world to sin more. Atheist, who do not believe in God, are encouraged to continue in their unbelief and expect salvation; contrary to the words of Christ who said 'those who do not believe are already condemned' even while still alive. Those who have committed the sin of adultery, which St. Paul writes is deserving of hell, are encouraged to add the sin of sacrilege to their sin of adultery by receiving holy communion. And instead of fixing the world that is so messed up, the youth are encouraged to go out and mess it up more. What they say and do are infallibly visible signs of NO FAITH, as cleanly taught during the 33 Sundays in Ordinary time.

 God does not give the power to forgive sins to those who have not reached the heights of Charity. Today's Gospel explicitly says that God gives the power to forgive sins to those who have reached the heights of Charity shown in their ability to give fraternal correction. Why? Because without the FIRST and THIRD steps, there will be no Faith and no Charity. Without either they are not priests, bishops, cardinal...not even a pope......because as St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ, Doctor of the Church, states; they are not even Catholics.

 What should we do? Pope Benedict, by the grace of God and his zeal for the truth, was enlightened to see the state of his soul in relation to God. He, himself, put into practice what he learned and saw it worked in exactly the way his Saviour said it would work. And as St. Augustine, his favorite saint wrote; when you reach the end of the road, and only when you reach the end, you can look back and say, 'it was indeed the right road to God.'

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-21618242181870782032014-09-04T03:22:00.001+11:002014-09-04T03:22:40.048+11:00GET OUT OF MY SIGHT, YOU SATAN.1. No one knows the way to heaven except God.
 God must first tell us and show us the way. Then we follow. God created the angels and wanted them to go to heaven. And the angels, themselves wanted to go to heaven. But a group, led by Lucifer wanted to go before God could show him the way. Lucifer wanted to go ahead. This going ahead, even before God expressed the way, is assuming he had some knowledge which God had not given him. And this is pride in that he presumed he knew something God had not yet taught him. Humility is if he admitted he did not know the way and patiently waited for instructions from God. Lucifer chose pride; to go on his own ahead of God.
 God created Adam and Eve and placed them in Paradise. God was going to teach them what is good and evil, a knowledge essential for salvation. But God told them to wait for Him to give them that knowledge and not to go ahead of Him. But they could not wait.Tempted by Lucifer they tried to get that necessary knowledge without waiting for God; they did not get the knowledge from the devil. They got it from the right tree but they got it ahead, before God could give it to them.
 Both the sin of the devil and of Adam and Eve consist in doing something good BUT doing them ahead of God. Sort of they could not wait for God to say 'Go.' Sort of impatience the consequence of which was disobedience to God Who said 'Wait for My instructions.' Therefore, the sin of Pride. The first devils committed their own act of pride. But the pride of Adam and Eve were temptations from the devil. In both cases the cause of the sin is pride and both were from the devil.

2. The 22th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
 The Sundays in Ordinary Time continues to teach us the visible signs of Faith, the presence or lack of it. The lack of it is described by the Gospel as satanical; and the presence of it enables us to follow Christ. Thus laymen, priests, bishops, cardinals and popes can know through these visible signs if they have Faith or not, if they are followers of satan or followers of Christ, if they are outside or inside the Catholic Church. Or, simply, if they are cockles meant to be burnt in hell or wheat to be gathered in heaven. And the purpose of homilies like these is precisely to teach us what are the signs by which each of us can check on the state of our souls, most preferably, before we die.
 No one should presume he is going to heaven unless he has the visible signs of Faith. And these visible signs tell us where to evangelize. We should never go to places that abound with the signs of Faith, as St. Paul did not go to the Romans because 'your Faith is heralded throughout the world.' We evangelize in places where no Faith is visible. Knowing which place to go is only possible because Faith has visible signs, which we have been emphasizing. It is clear doctrine that we can know if a person has Faith or not, whether this person is we ourselves, our priest and bishops, and even our Pope. And to make this judgment is the obligation of the very Act of Faith.

3. Faith and satan.
 Faith, like Charity, is obedience to the commands of God, in general. Then St. Paul writes; 'whatever is not of Faith is evil.' Any disobedience to any command of God is a signs that one has no Faith and/or Charity, and therefore, outside the Church.
 So with Faith you follow Christ, without Faith you follow satan. These two choices are like Christ saying; 'you are either for Me or against Me.' You are for Christ or for satan. 'Friendship with the world is enmity with Christ'. There is no middle choice. As if the Gospel is saying; 'you are either in front of Me, i.e. ahead of Me; or you are following Me, i.e. behind Me. St. Peter was the example for both; he was an example of a follower of Christ and at the same time the example of satan.

4. Walking in front or ahead of Christ.
 The Gospel story narrates that Christ told Peter He was going to Jerusalem to suffer and be crucified by the priests; a foreshadowing of what will happen eschatologically today wherein due to lack of Faith and Charity most of the priests, bishops, cardinals and even an anti-pope will try to destroy the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ.
 Christ informed Peter that this was God's Will. But even before Christ could accomplish God's Will , Peter goes ahead and presents his alternative plan that was completely against God's Will; 'God forbid that any such thing ever happen to you.' Peter was proposing his own will. Because Peter was stepping ahead of Christ, Christ says; 'because you keep on walking in front of me you are trying to make me trip and fall'....which is satan's job. For so doing Christ called Peter 'satan.'
 Satan's job is to convince people to walk with pride in front of Christ, which act could seem to be following Christ because of his proximity to Christ. Today everyone thinks he is following Christ but is really walking ahead of Christ. And will receive the same judgment from Christ; 'get out of my sight.'

 Peter knew God's Will. Christ had just told him. Yet he went ahead and offered his personal suggested alternative which was clearly against the expressed Will of God just mentioned by Christ. That is satanic. So Christ calls Peter 'satan.' Here there is knowledge both of God's Will and one's private opinion.....and the deliberate choice of one's own private opinion. The sin is in the choice. Walking in front of Christ is doing your own will or doing God's Will but more because it is also your own will. This latter is more difficult to detect as satanic.

5. Walking behind or following Christ.
 Following behind Christ is to follow exactly on the footsteps He left us, expressed explicitly in the commands 'deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me.' You cannot follow Christ going about doing what you want like a child behind her mom in a shopping Mall. You have to walk exactly in the footsteps Christ had clearly delineated. To do what you want behind Christ's back is walking ahead of him. It is is not the place that counts. It is whose will you are doing.
 Walking behind Christ to follow in His footsteps is this; before making any suggestions, find out first God's Will and obey God's Will..... period.
 St. Thomas of Aquinas in his 'Catena Aurea,' a compilation of commentaries on the Gospel text taken from the Fathers of the Church describes the first, 'deny yourself,' as not doing the desires of the self. That covers all the things a person does when he walks ahead or in front of Christ.
 What a person does when walking ahead of Christ is always a disobedience to God's commands and contrary to what a person does when he walks behind Christ. It is easy to know whether you are walking ahead or behind. Or anyone for that matter; laymen, nun, priest, cardinal or even a pope. Because where you walk is a visible sign, like the spoken alternate suggestion given by Peter. You can hear what he said; analyze it and judge correctly that Peter was, at first, walking ahead or in fron of Christ. And Christ, Himself, said so. Thus Christ called him 'satan,' which he deserved and commanded Peter to go behind and follow Him.

6.Judge on what side of Christ you are walking.
 Whom am I to judge? I am a soul seeking God and who must follow behind Christ. And I must judge if I am following Christ; first, in accordance to Christ's command to avoid judging anyone rashly as forbidden by Christ. Next, I should apply the same judging procedure to others from layman to popes. I must judge my loved one and see if they have Faith or not. And if not, to evangelize them after evangelizing myself. I must judge other towns to know where I should go and evangelize and where not to go because they are already evangelized. If we do not judge then we should go nowhere unless we just want to go on a tour. St. Peter's error was his inability to judge properly thinking it was right for him to go ahead of Christ making alternative suggestions without first finding out God's Will and simply conforming to it. Again, to walk behind in the footsteps of Christ is; first, to deny all that pleases the self, secondly, find out God's Will and, thirdly, just do it. The first is 'deny yourself; the second is 'carrying the cross' which is God's Will; and thirdly,' just do it' is the 'following of Christ.'

7. It is easy to judge according to God's standards and we must do so.
 Peter judged; and that was alright. But he judged wrongly. Thus Christ corrected him saying; 'You are not judging by God's standards but by man.' Christ was in effect saying; because you are walking in front of Me you are judging by man's standard which is wrong. You should be behind Me and there judge by God's standards ( the basis of which is 'deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me'). Note clearly that Christ told Peter to go behind Him and there judge according to God's standards which are the commands of Christ.

8. John Paul II and Benedict XVI were trying to address a mountain of problems of which their 'new evangelization is the answer.' But everybody is evangelizing in complete ignorance of the mountain of problems and, therefore, cannot connect the solution to the problems.
 We begun by gathering the teachings of Christ and their eschatological implications to describe the problems we are confronting in the Catholic Church today, year 2000. He gave two basic prophecies from which all other conclusions are derived from. These two prophecies are; the 'decay of Faith,' and the 'waxing cold of Charity.' From these two we derived the other prophecies; God withholding the power to forgive sins and the power to consecrate Bread and Wine from those without Faith and Charity. Further consequence is the inability to rise to the supernatural level and acquired the infused knowledge of Catholic Truths which can only be taught by the Father in Heaven. This was the spiritual state of most seminaries, ergo, all priest and future bishops and cardinals had remained in the natural level totally devoid of the virtues of Faith and Charity. Further consequence is that all laymen and laywomen, all brothers and sister, all so-called ecclesial communities who depend on the same priests for instruction are in the same state of infidelity. And lastly, if most of the priest, bishops and cardinals are in this spiritual state they will surely elect one of their kind in a conclave. And this can only be an anti-pope. We shall show later how Pope Benedict was excluded from this torrent of infidelity. He explained this in his 'new evangelization.'
 Add to this state of the Catholic Church the state of the rest of the world............you will not find any good reason why this world should continue to exist.

9. The proof the whole Vatican bureaucracy are walking in front of Christ is in their own visible words and actions. From Pope Francis down through the Bishop's Synod up to the priests we see and hear words describing the human motivation of their actions referred to as 'their' bright ideas on how to run the church and save souls. 'Evangelii Gaudium' was so full of 'I's and 'mine's it was clearly Pope Francis' proposals and not Christ's. The same can be said of the 58 proposals of the Bishop's Synod.
 At the same time, they are disobeying the commands of Christ which shows they are not walking behind Christ. The Bishop's Synod omitted the first important step of evangelization in disobedience to Christ's Apostolic Commission. And Pope Francis said atheist can go to heaven; when Christ said those without Faith are already condemned.
 Presenting their own private, personal ideas is proof they are in front. And their disobeying the commands of Christ is further proof they are not behind. We have here double proofs they are in front thus deserving to be called satans.

10. The obligation of Charity obliges us to advice them; satan, because you are walking in front of Christ, you are causing the Church to trip and fall. Go, instead, behind Him. Stop judging by human standards. Instead use God's standards which consists in humbly following His footstep by 'denying yourself, taking up your cross and following Christ'.....this was the first step which Christ commanded in the Gospel which the Bishop's Synod omitted, an omission Pope Francis continued in his second encyclical.

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-34744045252936036862014-08-28T19:22:00.001+11:002014-08-28T19:22:59.494+11:00WHO DO PEOPLE SAY THAT THE SON OF MAN IS?1. Visible signs of Faith in the Gospel; by the words out of the mouth.
 St. Paul writes that whatever comes out of the mouth comes from the mind and the heart; no matter how the person tries to disguise them . Liars are easily exposed. Psychology depends so much on this fact; that what is in the mind appears in what one says.
 Faith is an act of the mind. It visibly appears in the words and actions of the faithful. It cannot be hidden. Though only a man of Faith can discern a man of Faith, all good men can sense that the man of Faith is a good man. Evil men can neither perceive Faith nor a good man. Without Faith the theological virtue cannot be discerned.
 The 21th Sunday in Ordinary Time continues to give us the visible signs of those without Faith and those with Faith......by the words out of their mouths. There are 33 Sundays teaching us the visible signs by which we should judge if we, our neighbors, our parish priest, our bishop and even our Pope have Faith, mindful of what Christ said; 'to test if they are of God.' To make such a judgment is demanded by the very Act of Faith.
 From the words uttered by men we can analyze two levels of intellectual functioning. The first is natural; the second is spiritual or supernatural . The natural level cannot make an act of Faith. The spiritual level because it has the help of grace, can make an act of Faith. The Gospel illustrates an example of both.

2. Two sets of words out of the mouth; one showing no Faith; the other showing strong Faith.
 The TWO LEVELS
 The natural level is when man, endowed with body and intellect, acts using both in his every day worldly affairs, like what to eat and wear; how to work and build a house. The spiritual level is when he acts using his body; and with his intellect enlightened by grace, thinks on how to go to heaven or what is right or wrong.
 Let us see these two levels illustrated in the Gospel of the 21th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Christ asked his disciples 'Who do people say that the son of man is?' Notice that two answers were given. One answer was pure human, natural knowledge; the other answer was enlightened by Faith.. This is similar to asking 'What is Faith' or 'who is Jesus,' and getting two answers; one from a protestant, a second from a true Catholic. The answers could be identical in wordings but from totally two different instructors; one a man , the other a God.

3. THE FIRST LEVEL is man thinking in the natural level but whose intellect is full of errors due to his fallen nature. This is personified by the Pharisees and Sadducee who used their intelligence but whose intellects were filled with errors regarding Christ. All the world's sciences would fall in this category; politics, sociology, psychology, environmental concerns......this is natural human knowledge but filled with both spiritual and scientific errors.
 Because of original sin these acts are way below the nature of man that can perform superior activities. This defect makes these acts sinful; basing it on the definition of St.Thomas who wrote that sin is the deprivation or absence of good, or a defective good, thereby a defect in the act of human nature is morally evil. And this defect is projected in the words 'out of the mouth' like a projection screen that shows the presence of vices and the absence of virtues.

 To Christ's question; 'Who do you say I am?' The Apostles gave the answer given by ordinary human beings born with original sin, probably with vices and without virtues.. 'He is the son of Joseph and Mary, a good man, probably a prophet and even possibly Elijah. Or he could be a total fraud. ' Well, that will be the usual answer coming from men who is incapable of making an act of Faith and thus needs redemption.
 Included in this first level are intellectual knowledge on the level of philosophy. Here they reason better according to their human nature; but do not cross into the spiritual level. In this level the mind discerns in some certain degree what is right from wrong, what is good from bad. This level exhibits knowledge of the different branches of philosophy.
 In answer to Jesus' question the disciples answered quoting this superior intellectual minds but still in the natural level; 'he is one of the prophets.' Prophets are known for showing what is right from wrong and good from bad.
 This slightly higher level of intellectual functioning is ordinarily shown by the simple, ordinary people whom Christ considered closer to the truth than the Pharisees. It shows their natural discernment that Christ possessed the knowledge of good from evil and right from wrong. That is a higher degree of truth about Christ but not yet completely right; because Christ was not only a brilliant philosopher nor a mere prophet. So, in effect, it is still a defective answer. And as such a defective Act of Faith; and being defective it is still sinful. That answer is not so bad but not good enough for salvation. It is not yet an Act of Faith.
 The knowledge of those in the first level can be taught by any men and can be learned by any man. Later on Christ would say that His teachings and that of the Catholic Church does not fall under this category thus cannot be learned if one remains in the natural level. Cardinal Ratzinger would note this and quote it in his 'Ratzinger Report' why seminarians don't believe in God.

4. The words from the mouth of one with Faith.
The SECOND LEVEL is the supernatural level. All Catholic Truths, like how to go to heaven, are in the supernatural level. Here man acts using his body and his soul enlightened by grace. Knowledge in this level cannot be taught by books nor men; it is taught through Divine Revelations by God.
We can see this in Christ's comment to St. Peter who answered; 'You are the Son of the Living God.' It needs Faith to believe there is a God; and Faith to believe in His Son. Only those raised to the level of the theological virtues can think of this and consequently give such an answer.
 Christ noted two things; first, that such knowledge cannot be taught by mere man and secondly, that such spiritual knowledge can only be taught by 'My Heavenly Father,' to souls while in the state of contemplation.
 St. Peter's answer can only come from the Father in Heaven. By this Christ showed that Peter.s words were a visible sign of his Faith.... still imperfect as the next Sunday Gospel will show...but good enough for him to receive the power to forgive sins.

5. INEVITABLE CONCLUSIONS.

 We have just seen that the knowledge of man in the natural state expressed by word of mouth is a visible sign of the absence of Faith; while the enlightened knowledge of a man in the supernatural state expressed by word of mouth is a visible sign of the presence of Faith. The former is personified by the Pharisees who obtained their knowledge from men; and the latter is personified by St. Peter who obtained his knowledge from the Father in Heaven.
 Since the sign of no Faith is labeled on those who are taught by men; and the sign of Faith is labeled on those who are taught by the Father in Heaven.....we have concrete criteria by which to judge everyone if they are from God or not, as Christ, Himself, wants us to find out. Though someone would object; 'who are we to judge.' Well sorry. Christ, Himself, told us to do so.

 a.) Let's return to the first response to Christ's question given by those that are taught by men.....thus showing the absence of Faith and, therefore, ignorance of Catholic Doctrines.
 Isn't this the situation in all seminaries, in all theological schools, in all Catholic schools, in all religious institutions and in all evangelization efforts in the Catholic world? That all had been taught by men and women thus had remained in the natural level totally incapable of learning Catholic Truths. Since the teachings of Christ are in the supernatural level their inability to rise from the natural level makes them fulfill the worse fears of Christ....they never even reached Faith nor Charity.
 The syllogism is clear. Those who learn from men are in the natural level. Those in the natural level cannot learn supernatural truths like the teachings of the Catholic Church. Therefore, all priest, bishops, cardinals and even the Pope who have learned from men do not know the teachings of the Catholic Church.
 Since men had been teaching men through the centuries, they would have remained natural-men up to now. And if they elect a pope they would certainly elect a man similar to themselves. And because he has remained in the natural level, without Faith and Charity, then he can only be an anti-pope. I repeat what St. Robert Bellarmine S.J., Doctor of the Church wrote; without Faith one would not be a pope, he is not even a bishop or priest because he is not even a Catholic.

 If mere men taught men-seminarians in seminaries; and if all graduates in seminaries had remained in the natural level, does it mean that all seminarians who would subsequently become priests, bishops and cardinals and possibly a pope be in the natural level? And not having risen to the supernatural level are without Faith and Charity. St. Bellarmine stated, they are not priests at all because they are not even Catholics. If they are not priests at all what about their absolutions during confession and what about their consecrations during Mass?
 God would not allow the gates of hell prevail against the Church. His Divine Providence would certainly intervene.

 Let us give an actual intervention. Joseph Ratzinger, like all candidates to the priesthood, studied in a seminary and learned his theology from men the wrong way. He should have become like any priest today, with decayed Faith and cold Charity. But he loved the truth and studied and prayed on his own. He opened himself to God's grace and God intervenes; upon receiving grace he begun to see the serious defect in his seminary training. In fact, he saw it from the lecture of one of his own seminary professor who introduced him to the writings of John Cardinal Newman who precisely wrote on this future state of the Church engulfed in sin entitled 'The Infidelity of the future.' He tried to get out of that situation by further self-study. It was from St. Augustine's 'City of man' that he realized he had remained faithless in the natural level. And it was in St. Augustine's the 'City of God' that he learned how to get out of it and rise to the supernatural level. His Augustinian journey to the supernatural level was further strengthened by his thesis on the 'Theology of History according to St. Bonaventure' where he learned that the journey to the supernatural level consists in the 'journey of the mind to God,' the title of Bonaventures mystical theology.
 By the time he was head of CDF he had a clear picture of where he stood in the eschatology of the Catholic Church. He knew he could not teach Catholics the truths of the Church. Only God the Father can do that. But he knew evangelization is the process by which he can teach Catholics, not the truths, but how to rise up the supernatural level from where souls can learn the truths from God the Father.
 That is the 'new evangelization' of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. It is a perfect description on how he learned he was in the natural level leading to hell. How he was able to abandon that level. How he learned how to rise to the supernatural level. And how to remain in that level while occasionally coming down to aid others to rise up. All of these are written down in his works and summarized in his 'Year of the Priests' and 'Year of Faith.' And this is what we are explaining for the imitation of all and described as the 'new evangelization.'

 b. We have just finished describing the state of those in the natural level; in brief, they are in the state where they have no Faith. Let us now go to the second response given by Peter to Christ's question. Christ praised Peter's response as a revelation directly from the Father in Heaven. A revelation from the Father can only happen to a contemplative, i.e. a soul who has the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. This is the level in the spiritual life described as the 'illuminative way.' It is the highest degree in the spiritual life. Now, note what Christ does after declaring that His apostles have, indeed, reach that highest degree. He gives them the power of the Keys, the power to absolve sins.
 Let us return to our syllogism. If most of our priest, bishops and cardinals had been bogged down in the natural level because they had been, simply, learning from men and not from God.....this means that they have not reached this high degree in the spiritual life. Therefore, God would not give them the power of the Keys because they do not have the proper disposition to receive it. Most of our priest cannot absolve. So what do we do to the poor penitents who believed wrongly that they have been absolved? Pope Benedict's 'new evangelization' solved both the problem of the priest and of the penitent as we shall see when we explain the 'new evangelization.'
 We can see now, why we must first lay down the dogmatic truths pertaining to the eschatological image of the Church, like the 'decay of Faith.' So we can show what problems the 'new evengelization' is trying to solve. We cannot be like doctors who prescribes to everybody 'take an aspirin and see me tomorrow.' We must go slowly and in detail in everything.

6. We can see the state of the Church just by listening to the words coming out of the mouth of the entire Church bureacracy. The words from their mouth are no different from what we hear from daily newspapers, rock star magazines or Vogue magazines. Nothing supernatural; everything is down to earth and natural....from Pope Francis, down to the Bishop's, down to the parish priest and seminarian....and down among the laymen.
 The highest and most difficult act of Charity is demanded of us; this is fraternal correction. We cannot save anybody. But we can evangelize by making all, priest first, realize the state of their souls as prophesied by Christ, Himself, 'decayed Faith and cold Charity.' And make everyone worried that the power to absolve sin and consecrate the Bread and Wine had been withdrawn by God in this our age as He had threatened through the prophets. But worse we should fear that together with these already occurring chastisements He had, also, allowed the greatest chastisement...the rise of an anti-pope as prophesied by St. Hildegard of Bingen.

Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-24222761071284979142014-08-23T04:20:00.002+11:002014-08-23T04:20:59.796+11:00THE CHANAANITE WOMAN and the daughter vexed by an evil spirit. 1. FIGURE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
 We have been painting the image of the Catholic Church; first, basing it on the dogmatic teachings of the Catechism, specifically on the writings of St. Augustine and St. Robert Bellarmine on whose writings 'Lumen Gentium' was based on. Secondly, on the writings of St. Bonaventure (the Seraphic Doctor) and St.Hildegard (12th century German mystic) among the few quoted by Pope Benedict. And thirdly, by looking at the Church's eschatological image as portrayed in Mariology that was incorporated in 'Lumen Gentium. With these sources we hope to paint a picture of the Church as close as possible to the year 2014 as all Catholic worthy of the name should do.

2. WE BEGIN WITH THE GOSPELS
 On the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we meditate on the Gospel about the Canaanite woman and her daughter who was vexed by evil spirits.
 There are 33 Sundays in Ordinary Time; starting after Pentecost and ending with the Feast of Christ the King. The Liturgical Year begins with Advent and ends with Christ the King. That is one whole year of instruction on the Catholic Faith. And the general Missal heading on the Sundays in Ordinary time is 'Instruction on the Faith'. It has some occasional sub- title like 'Keeping Sunday Holy on developing one's Faith.' So the 20th Sunday continues to teach us about Faith.
 The Gospel on this Sunday describes the Faith of the Canaanite woman who, St. Thomas of Aquinas comments, is a figure of the Catholic Church. She prays like one inside the Catholic Church; she prays with great Faith. And Christ, Himself, said so;'Woman, you have great Faith. Your wish will come to pass.' Thus she is a figure of the Catholic Church and we should check if our Faith is as strong as hers by comparing the way we pray to the way she prays. We attend the Liturgy to worship God and find out the progress of our souls. Our ability to truly worship God depends upon the progress of our spiritual life.

3. THE CHANAANITE WOMAN.
 The Chanaanite woman was not a Jew; she was a Gentile. So she knew nothing of Scriptures; which makes her amazing knowledge of Christ clearly a work of grace. Let us study her actions. First, she admitted she had a problem that she cannot solve. Second, note that she did not bring her daughter to a psychiatrist or psychologist. Third, he left her town in search for Divine help in the person of Christ. Fourth, she prays to Christ while outside the house. Fifthly, as Christ did not mind her while entering the house, she,too, enters the house and continues to pray for help. And sixthly, she humbles herself in adoration and in unceasing prayer. Those are the six steps of a prayer with great Faith. The important facts here are not the six steps nor the prayer but the great Faith of which the previous steps are necessary dispositions.

 Let us go again, one by one, through the six steps. First, the woman knew she had a problem that was completely beyond her capabilities. It was a hopeless case. She cannot be helped by ordinary means, she needs extraordinary help. She was convinced of this. This conviction is shown in the second step; she did not call for an ordinary help, like a neighbor or a shaman precisely because she knew this problem was beyond all human help. She did not even approach the Apostles who were beside Christ. Thirdly, realizing that this problem was beyond human help she abandons the human sphere and goes to the Divine sphere for Divine help. Fourthly, so the woman leaves her town, the figure of the human level, and through an act of natural Faith rises to the Divine level where she meets Christ; but she meets Christ outside the house (the Church) where Christ does not mind her. Fifthly, then Christ enters the house, a figure of His entering the Church, and the woman, also, enters the Church still continuing to beg in prayer. Now, note the description of this sixth step. Christ and the woman entered the Church where she continues to pray. That is a perfect picture of Faith; the woman and Christ, both inside the Church with the woman praying in adoration and contemplation shown by the fact that she worshiped Christ and addressed Him as 'Lord.' Only a contemplative in adoration can truly address Christ as Lord. Christ acknowledges the state of her soul saying; 'Woman, you have great Faith....' It was a description of a Catholic within the Church who truly has the theological virtue of Faith. It was perfect Faith that shows, also, perfect Charity.

 It was because of this dogma that Pope Benedict described those inside the Catholic Church as souls who are contemplatives symbolized in the Psalms as 'Sion' which means contemplative. And where he insisted that evangelizers like priests, bishops and cardinals should, also, be contemplatives.....quoting the description of the Catholic Church by St. Bonaventure, the Seraphic Doctor of the Church. And it is because of this same dogma why Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI declared Our Lady of Guadalupe as the Patroness of the 'New Evangelization'. Because she is the Apocalyptic Woman who abandoned the world (the natural sphere) to fly and live in the desert (the supernatural sphere) the figure of the contemplative.....praying unceasingly just like the Canaanite woman in the Gospel.

4. THE INFIDELITY OF THE PRESENT AGE.
 This was the title of a popular treatise written by Blessed John Cardinal Newman which described perfectly this present age....the description is completely contrary to the Gospel description of the Canaanite woman; thus heavily hinting that the present church is unlike the Canaanite woman which is a symbol of the True Church of Christ. In short, where is the Catholic Church? Let us look at the opposite picture, the present church.
 First, we do not believe we are in deep trouble. We even think we are entering a spring time misquoting Pope John xxiii. What he said was that he foresees a springtime but we are in an autumn where everything in the Church is dead. Secondly, that we can solve all our problems; from drug addiction to divorce, from economics to terrorism, from celibacy to evangelization...we can even save our own souls. From Pope Francis down to the Bishop Synod, not to mention all the parish priest, all have a human solution to all the problems in the world. Thirdly, so we do not leave the worldly solutions; sticking to them resolutely though centuries had proven that these solutions do not work and only make things worse. Fourthly, there is absolutely no recourse to spiritual or Catholic solutions even in the very halls of the Vatican though half the world is already crying for help. Fifthly, Christ had already entered the house (the Church) but because of the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity' (those deadly spiritual ebolae) most priests, bishops, cardinals and even possibly the present Pope are outside the house....in that they keep on giving their own solutions rather than the solutions that Christ gives only to those inside the house. And so number six, the sign of 'great Faith' is NOWHERE. And this is precisely what John Paul II and Benedict XVI is trying to cure with their 'NEW EVANGELIZATION' and which they presented to the whole world to study for a whole year in the just concluded "Year of Faith."

5. THE DAUGHTER WHO WAS VEXED BY EVIL SPIRITS.
 The young girl vexed by evil spirits is the daughter of the Chanaanite woman. The young girl is outside the Church. The Chanaanite woman is the Catholic Church; the daughter is one who thinks she is a Catholic but who truly is not a Catholic. "Lumen Gentium" quoting St. Augustine describes the woman as a member of the spiritual church while the daughter is a member of the physical church. The easier comparison is; the Chanaanite woman is the wheat, while the daughter is a cockle. Remember that the cockle was planted by the devil and later on burnt.
 In the Gospel we see the house. Christ enters and inside explained all things to His apostles. The explaining is what enables souls to make an Act of Faith. Those outside the Church are under the domination of the devil.
 Those within the Church are described according to their degrees of perfection, while those outside the Church are described according to their degrees of imperfections or defects.

 Under the devil's dominion.
 Ignorance. The first defect is man acting below the level of his human nature by not using his intellect, a power of his soul. Gilbert Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, two great thinkers, had always written with great hilariousness that the 18th Century was an age when the whole human race had completely stopped thinking. Chesterton, in fact, quipped that if only all men would sit down and think they will all become Catholics. Indeed, only people who think can become good Catholics. Because Faith is an complex act of the intellect. And yes, indeed, any philosopher can see that at that era the whole world had completely stopped thinking. Men lived and spoke by mere slogans read on billboards and advertisements, like 'just do it.' Good grief, do what? Ooops, the reason is not working. This is symptomatic of original sin, that the soul is still under the dominion of the devil. The daughter was vexed by the evil spirits in this way.....as all men who do not use their minds.
 Physical possession by the devil.
 When people do not use their intellect, the free will is on the loose like a wild bronco. Without the guidance of the intellect, the free will does what it wills....which was the sin of Lucifer, Adam and Eve. With that they become easily physically possessed by the devil as any virus or bacteria can easily possess the physical body......but not the souls. In the Gospels, Christ drove away devils from persons physically possessed. Exorcists can easily do this by merely teaching the possessed to make an act of repentance. And monastic tradition has it that mere living the monastic life frees possessed persons (since both repentance and monasticism are act of the intellect). Though possession is still very common today prompting the Vatican to establish a school of exorcism, exorcists had noticed that the 'new' post -Vatican II procedure for exorcism had been watered down and is not so effective. Exorcists say the devil just laughs at them. The Canaanite daughter, also, falls under this category.
 Spiritual possession by the devil.
 Judas was spiritually possessed. Let us see how it took place. First, Judas joined the apostles for the wrong reason. The Fathers noted that Judas saw the gifts the apostles were receiving and wanted to partake of them. Secondly, appointed as keeper of the funds he helped himself occasionally with it. He was stealing. Thirdly, because of this vice he was unable to make an act of Faith, he remained a pagan all the time. Fourthly, enslaved by the vice of avarice and devoid of the virtue of Faith Lucifer entered into him. Fifthly, being one mind and one heart with Satan he betrays Christ.
 The daughter does not fall under this category. Judas is the classic example of this kind of possession. Note that the mother could pray for the daughter. Not even Christ could help Judas.

 Notice that the three levels of diabolical possessions are based on the inability to use the intellect according to one's human nature. The intellect is the faculty that makes the Act of Faith. The inability to use the intellect properly makes it impossible to make the Act of Faith. And if ever there is a little or weak Faith, it easily 'DECAYS' because of avarice. If avarice had entered even the Church as early as the time of Constantine the Great how much more today. St. Ambrose of Alport, a Benedictine monk had raised the warning on how avarice had destroyed the Church during his era. And Pope Benedict repeats this warning today as he quoted Ambrose. Christ, Himself, prophesied that this age will be an age where men will be lovers of money.

 Judas, one of the first bishop and apostle, is the fore-shadowing of what will happen to the Catholic priesthood during this era.
 The atmosphere of the world today is perfect for spiritual possession of the devil. A slight prosperity destroyed the Church in the time of Constantine. The damage to the Church was incalculable through the centuries specially during the time of St. Francis of Assisi. All the saints fought this particular vice, avarice. Today we have reached the height of material prosperity which is the object of avarice. Pope Benedict had warned that avarice has entered the Church. It is like saying what Pope Paul VI said; that Satan had entered the Catholic Church.

 Exorcists cannot exorcise spiritually possessed persons. We do not even know the visible signs or the symptoms of spiritual possession. No one has been able to diagnose this kind of possession. There is absolute no theological treatise on this diabolical possession. The only thing we know is that it is worse than physical possession and this diabolical possession is identical to what happened to Judas.
 Let us, at least, learn the little we know about Judas and see who, today, is he a type of.
 First, Judas look very ordinary that absolutely none of the apostles suspected what he was up to. Today, those spiritually possessed look ordinary; like ordinary president, vice president, senators, representatives, public relation officers, judges, etc... And like Judas, they would look like ordinary priests, bishops, cardinals, apostles and even a pope. They can look like nuns, brothers or even monks. Nobody would suspect they are possessed except Christ and those with the theological virtue of Faith, like John the Evangelist.
 Secondly, they will look ordinary but they will have a diabolical attraction. People of different sinful tendencies would be attracted to them because they tend to tolerate if not down right encourage the sinful desires of all. Thus in an election or popularity contest they can win hands down. They will be elected without the people knowing why.
 Thirdly, they have a deep secret love of self and of money though exteriorly they teach love of neighbors and poverty. St. Thomas of Aquinas warned us that every virtue has its opposite vice that imitates that virtue, like the vice of same sex attraction can be mistaken for compassion.
 Fourthly, in everything they are against the teachings and commands of Christ thus they are anti-Christs...the very description of Lucifer.
 Fifthly, externally they kiss Christ, like kissing a woman's feet on Good Friday who has no semblance to Christ. Christ calls that kiss a betrayal; 'why does thou betray the Son of Man with a kiss?

 In the previous posts we have been describing an era today that conforms to the prophecy of Christ who described it as an era characterized by a 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity.' Then, we begun collecting the logical conclusions from the same sources; like the lost of power to absolve sin and to consecrate the Sacred Species during Mass. Now, let us add the message of today's Gospel; the Church, represented by the Chanaanite Woman is nowhere around (remember where she went?) and her daughter is not only vexed by evil spirits but spiritually possessed by Satan, like Judas. In such a situation since even Jesus Christ and His eleven original apostles could not do anything what do you think man can do?
 Any one who tries to do anything which Christ, Himself, would not do, like driving away Satan from Judas, is trying to be like gods. Isn't that the sin of Lucifer and the temptations of Adam and Eve? We live in a world spiritually possessed by Lucifer. Since neither Christ nor the Apostles could anything, God had transferred the Church to the desert as shown by the 'Signum Magnum' of the Apocalypse. In the meantime, in the world abandoned by the Woman, Pope Francis and the Bishop's Synod are trying to do what Christ would not do....driving away Lucifer in a world spiritually possessed like Judas. That is trying to play gods....the very sin of Lucifer.

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-11018100090067474752014-08-18T18:11:00.000+11:002014-08-18T18:11:00.979+11:00THE ASSUMPTION - The Catholic Church after the Storm at Sea. IMAGES OF THE CHURCH.
 There is an end to this earth; but not for the rest of the universe. The reason the Fathers gave was that this world was a testing place for the children of Adam and Eve and there should be an end to the test. No one is being tested in other parts of the universe no matter how much science fiction love to entertain the idea.
 God gave us much pre-figures and foreshadowings to prepare us for the dreadful final judgment. One is the Gospel on the 19th Sunday in Ordinary time. Let us recall the incident backwards. This is a picture of the end times shown by the last statement where the disciples worshiped Christ saying; 'Beyond doubt, you are the Son of God.' That statement could only be uttered by the Apostles in heaven because their Faith is 'beyond doubt.' This is not possible on earth. The boat, symbol of the Catholic Church, had been brought before the Beatific Vision. That is the end of the history of the Catholic Church.
 From the end of the story and going to the beginning, we see St Peter and his future successor almost at the point of being overwhelmed by Lucifer and his co-horts; something that had been happening before but most violently at this time as portrayed in the Gospel. The Pope cannot use anymore such instruments as a General Council or a Bishop's Synod and much more so he cannot use psychology and psychiatry. He has only one recourse; to recall his exegesis and St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Patroness of the 'New Evangelization.' She did nothing to save souls except to pray.....just like St. Peter shown in the buffeted boat. So the successor of St. Peter leaves the boat 'to pray for the Church' as someone said after seemingly resigning. But he did not abandoned his job as the Head-Pilot of the boat. He clearly said he was leaving to pray for the Church. He was leaving his material presence in the Church to go to Christ and pray because that Church is being overwhelmed by Vatileak and other countless deviations from doctrines. He could trust no one because everyone is part of the gay lobby. Peter's successor had to go straight to Christ.....straight to Christ as the Canaanite woman did. Christ escorts the same successor who left the boat momentarily..... back into the boat; thus fulfilling His Second Coming and, personally, re-appointing the Pope. Then the boat, the Church, is brought to heaven.
 Those who were in the boat were only the Apostles. Where were the 5,000 previously fed in the desert? They were not in the boat. Just like at the time of Noah. When the end came most of the people were still out of the boat. God, Himself, shut the door of Noah's Ark so no one could enter. The same will happen in these days... God will shut the door of the Catholic Church as in the time of Noah and most Catholics will realize too late that they are outside.
 So John Paul II and Benedict's 'new evangelization' was, precisely, an invitation for all Catholics to find out where they are; inside or outside. And in these posts we are reviewing what they wrote.

 THE CHURCH IS ASSUMED INTO HEAVEN.
 All who were in the boat are the Catholics specifically described in a similar boat trip in Lake Tiberias after the Resurrection of Christ. St. Thomas' description of the two boat trips is identical. Note that in the former boat trip the successor of St. Peter leaves the boat for a while and returns back into the boat with Christ; the Second Advent occurs while Peter is appointed head again. Then all the living souls within the Church are assumed to heaven body and soul.....just like the Blessed Virgin Mary. Unlike the Blessed Virgin the members of the Church will not die; St. Paul writes 'they will meet Christ as He descends to judge the world.' Today's feast of the Assumption is a continuation of last Sunday's Gospel and a foreshadowing of the Church today.
 The Assumption continues the theme of the 33 Sundays describing both the Catholic Church and the Faithful within the Church. While describing the assumption of the Catholic Church body and soul to heaven just like Mary, the Mass continues to describe the Catholic Church. The waves buffeting the boat in last Sunday's Gospel is a huge red, flaming dragon, referring to the leaders of the devil let loose on these days. To protect the Church, God transfers her to a special place prepared for her in the desert (first reading of Assumption.)
 Before the Church is assumed to heaven body and soul, God gives her a period of rest in the desert after battling the dragon. Note the sequence of events; the Church fights the dragon while in the world, then God brings her to the desert for a rest. But the devil continues to attack the Church in the desert but to no effect because God would foil all the attacks of the devil. What is that special place? In the 'new evangelization' Pope Benedict describes the Church quoting his thesis on St. Bonaventure. His definition is a further development of the commentary of St. John Chrysostom and St. Augustine on monasticism and is specifically described as the life of contemplation. This identical to 'resting in the Lord' which is the spiritual meaning of Sunday rest. It is not a physical place but a spiritual state. Though it is described as a mystical 'desert.'
 Even if we do not have an idea of what a mystical desert, a cursory idea of monasticism and the life in the desert will show that most priest, bishop, cardinal and even the present pope is not living that life though St. Ignatius lived this life in Manresa under the tutelage of the monk Cisneros. Pope Benedict using the words of St. Bonaventure calls the desert 'new monasticism.'
 Pope Benedict is describing the Catholic Church as the floundering boat in the 19th Sunday in Ordinary time and the 'Signum Magnum' of the feast of the Assumption. We can no longer find these signs in all the parishes, in all the dioceses and not even in the Vatican because the Church is no longer in the world. She had been given two wings and had flown in the desert in a very special place prepared by God for her to rest a little before her own assumption into heaven.
 For these reasons Pope Benedict had to leave the papacy for a while to join, in spirit, the true Church in the desert, and like the Canaanite woman, to pray for her daughter the so-called catholics vexed by evil spirits.......there to rest for a while in contemplation.

TO BE ASSUMED LIKE MARY WE MUST BE PART OF MARY.
 If we wish to be assumed to heaven like the Blessed Virgin we must be a part of 'the Woman', the 'Signum Magnum.' She has flown to the 'mystical' desert. She is no longer in the world where everybody is. This mystical desert is the life of contemplation, a life of unceasing prayer where souls 'magnify the Lord' (as Mary exclaimed in the Magnificat) focusing their minds and hearts towards God, unceasingly thinking of His presence and unceasingly finding out His Will. Unceasingly!!! Do you know anybody doing that? To be part of that Church, Pope Benedict had to step down from everything that had nothing to do with unceasingly prayer ....and truly be part of that 'Great Sign' that appeared in the sky and remain as the Pope of the True Church which is now in the desert. Everybody who is not in the desert at this time of the eschatological history of the Church is not part of the Church; thus the need for a 'new evangelization' because we are in new grounds.

HOW DOES THE 'NEW EVANGELIZATION' WORK.
 We can now touch on the 'new evangelization' of John Paul II and Benedict XVI because it seems everyone is getting them wrong.

 The 'new evangelization' can only be understood and implemented if we know this evangelical scenario which was developed by the so-called 11 Marian Popes also described as the Popes of the Second Advent. The image of the Church as the 'Signum Magnum' of the Apocalypse and her image in the Gospels before, after and during the Assumption of the B.V.M. shows the connection between Mariology, ecclesiology and eschatology. Vatican II clearly states that Mariology must be explained eschatologically and in view of ecclesiology. This was clearly begun by Pope Pius IX, whose papacy looked exactly like St. Peter in the sinking boat and who begun to steer the boat towards 'the desert' with his proclamation of the Immaculate Conception. Her popular image is the 'signum magnum.' The 'new evangelization' was perfected by Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI with the description of the Catholic Church in the 'Year of the Faith.' The patroness of the 'new evangelization' is Our Lady of Guadalupe which is the Apocalyptic 'Signum Magnum.'
 As briefly as we can let us describe how the 'new evangelization work.' It goes this way; the 'Woman' and her children are now in the desert. She sends her children to the world to point to the people in the world the Church that can only be found in the desert. The 'evangelizer' returns to the desert and leads the 'convert' into the desert to enter the Catholic Church; there to grow in Faith, Hope and Charity. After recharging his own soul with the virtue of Charity the 'evangelizer returns to the world; points to the Woman in the desert and invites souls to go to the desert where the Church is now. The 'convert' goes to the desert to be able to enter the Church which is in the desert and receive the virtue of Faith; and within the Church grow in Hope and Charity. And so forth and so on...... That is the 'new evangelization' which, it seems no one knows and no one is doing. Everybody is doing the opposite.
 Pope Benedict was emphatic that evangelizers should be contemplatives, graduates from the desert school (using the imageries of St. Bonaventure and Augustine). After the Bishop's Synod of 2012 he and the ITC (which at that time was a Pontifical Commission) observed that the Synod missed the essence of 'evangelization' which unfortunately is now being observed by Pope Francis, the Bishop's Synod and all priests.
 Today they exhort those in the world who are outside the Church to teach the people in the world to remain in the world where the Church is no longer in. And then they preach to those who are in the desert to return to the world and mess it up. That is the teaching from Pope Francis, approved by the Bishop's Synod and observed by all priests. As our Lady of Fatima described it; it is a procession of laymen, priest, bishops, cardinals and led by the pope that leads to hell. We are in the wrong direction. The 'new evangelization' is a frantic call for all to check their maps and GSPs...namely, Divine Revelation, the Fathers of the Church and the writings of previous holy Popes. And if we have time, the messages of the approved Marian apparitions.

CLEAR LEANING TOWARDS THE WRONG DIRECTION IN VAT. II
 'Gaudium et Spes,' bothered Benedict very badly. The Document many times went against the concept of the Church as described in Divine Revelations (like the concepts mentioned above). It even goes against 'Lumen Gentium'. Then, it is further badly interpreted by the spirit of Vatican II (whose spirit we must check if it is truly from God as Christ commanded). 'Gaudium et Spes', in summary tells us to leave the desert (where the Church is) and go get married to the world (where the Church no longer is.) Where will that lead you to? Fortunately, the document can still be interpreted correctly.

 The wrong leaning was more obvious when Cardinal Sin of the Philippines suggested that Mary be tackled in a separate document that was tending to pure emotionalism which is the spirit of the world. This showed in his preference for the Immaculate Conception and not Our Lady of Guadalupe. But that is the same Mary. The council Fathers over-ruled Cardinal Sin and approved combining the role of Mary with the document on the Church which makes devotion to her oriented towards ecclesiological and eschatological, the method we are following here.

IN SUMMARY
 Because of the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity' that has worsen the Church it is in great danger of sinking. Ordinary means like Council and Synods cannot help her. The Pope must use the last resort. He must abandon the ship for a while and with Faith walk towards Christ with the plea to enter the boat. After having gone into the boat the first time, to do so would be to re-enter the boat a second time thus fulfilling His Second Advent. But before this the Church must rest for a while undisturbed with her Pope, in a special place in the desert 'waiting with joyful hope for the coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ'.....which we recite every Mass after the 'Our Father.'

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-19118422329539150812014-08-14T03:41:00.001+11:002014-08-14T03:41:03.153+11:00THE CHURCH and the POPE in a stormy sea The Gospel is about the Apostles in a boat in the midst of a stormy sea.

 This Gospel, in the midst of the Sundays in Ordinary Time, describes the Catholic Church and everything going on within her. It has three levels of meanings. The first level is meanings taken from first impressions. The second is a deeper explanation of the truths it is presenting. The third is its eschatological and mystical meaning, i.e. what lesson it is teaching us today.

 The first impression one gets from the Gospel is a sailing event that got into some bad weather. And some magician took the opportunity to show off some tricks. The second level is more serious. The apostles were in the boat and they were in trouble because a bad sea surge hit them and there is danger of sinking. The Son God appears walking on the water. No tricks here. Desperate of their situation, Peter leaves the boat to go and ask Christ for help because he was desperate. He felt they could sink before Christ was within hearing distance. But he knew he could not tell Christ his prayerful wish unless he walked towards Christ. So first he prays to be able to approach Him so afterwards he can tell Him his more urgent prayer. Christ grants his first prayer and says; 'Come.' And Peter obeys. Because of this obedience he, too, walks on water. While doing so, his mind which was focused on obedience to Christ's command was distracted and swerved away from his more urgent prayer. A distraction caused him to lose his concentration on his prayer. For a short while he ceased to pray and he sinks. Christ allows him to sink to teach him a lesson on how to pray unceasingly which is the sign of Faith. He came and caught Peter by the hand. Now with Christ, Peter presents his more urgent prayer....for Christ to board and save the boat. Christ, also, grants, this second petition. So together they entered the boat. With Christ in His Church the sea calmed and the boat was now safe. The rest of the Apostles exclaimed; 'Beyond doubt, You are the Son of God.'

 This is the second level of interpretation but St. Thomas of Aquinas is not done yet. The focus is now on the Faith of St. Peter. The Gospel shows the five steps which make up the elements of Peter's Faith.
 First; St. Peter realized he was in deep trouble and he did not have the solution. Only Christ can help him. Faith is when we believe that we can do absolutely nothing without God's help. Without God we can do nothing; that we cannot save our souls, we cannot be happy, we cannot make other happy, we cannot solve national problems, we cannot solve family problems, we cannot solve problems of addiction and depression, we cannot find a husband or wife, we cannot have children or even pass a test..... without God's help. More, that we should believe that we cannot convert the Orthodox, the Anglicans, the Pentecostals and the Buddhist without God's help. Furthermore, that no one can absolve sins, consecrate Bread and Wine and preach a good homily without God's help, since God is the prime mover of such activities. But no one believes these things anymore. This proves the onset of the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity' today which Christ prophesied and which we have been mentioning in previous posts. St. Peter believed no one could save them from their predicament except God alone. Faith is belief in this reality.
 Second; St. Peter looked to Him, who alone can help him.....God, in the person of Jesus Christ. But momentarily He was not around. A few moments more of fear in the stormy sea just to strengthen their desire that will improve their act of Faith. Then Peter sees Christ walking on water some distant afar off and proceeds to the second element of Faith, i.e. to approach Him because He alone can help; 'I can do nothing here, You have got to help me' was in his mind. But He was far off separated by gusty winds and raging waves. Peter was saying his first prayer (the Publican's prayer) in preparation for his second prayer (the Chanaanite woman's prayer.)
 Thirdly; St. Peter had to approach Christ first before he can present his urgent prayer. So Christ grants Peter's first prayer and commands him. Obedience to His command, and not his first prayer, will be the sign of Peter's Faith; 'Come.' Peter shows his Faith by obedience, not by walking on water. The latter was merely the consequence of his Faith shown in the act of obedience to the command, 'Come.'
 Fourthly; to show the growth of Peter's Faith, Christ continues to give him progressive commands. He follows the first command with a negative command. Peter, if you believe there is nothing you can do about the situation show it by abandoning the boat and come to Me for help. This is equivalent to 'Deny yourself." It is like saying; if you truly believe (and this is part of Faith) that there is nothing you can do to save your family then leave father, mother, etc (this is the negative) and come follow Me (the positive). If you believe you cannot make them happy, then abandon them for while and come to Me for help. Without the conviction of your helplessness (which is humility) shown by your abandoning the ship God will not respond by listening and granting your more urgent prayer. So leave the boat and come to Me. Leave first the world and seek Me. These two make up the fourth element of Faith. We can see that Peter left the boat and was about to go to Christ. Keep in mind that before Peter left the boat he was convinced that he had to go to Christ for help. Peter's conviction is his motive for leaving the boat; just as saving the souls of one's family should be a father's motive for leaving his family. We have to make sure Peter had Faith even before we suggest he leave the boat; just as we have to make sure a seminarian has Faith before we tell him to leave his family and home to enter the priesthood; otherwise nobody will leave anything.
 Fifthly; Peter says; 'I will not move unless You command me.' So Christ gives Peter a series of commands. We read in the Gospel that Peter does nothing unless it is Christ's command; 'Depend on Me for everything,' 'Pray unceasingly for My mercy,' 'Leave the boat,' ' come to me,' 'And pray that I enter and save the boat, the Church.' And if you keep on obeying Me I will reward you by showing you without doubt that I am the Son of God (which is heaven.)
 Peter obeys; look for and prays to Christ for safety. Then Peter leaves the Church. Then he walks on water. Imperfect in Faith he ceased praying for a moment and sinks in the sea. Then he resumes obeying and grabs Christ's hand in obedience. Then Peter returns to the boat with Christ who would enter the boat for the last time. Peter's Faith grows to perfection in one stormy night.

Now, let us go to the eschatological and mystical meaning of the Gospel. While the above two levels of meanings can be learned from the first impressions on the readings of the Mass, this portion must be well prepared by the priest for the homily since this portion is not found in Scriptures. It must be researched through meditation and contemplation on Divine Revelation, the Fathers of the Church and the pronouncements of the valid Popes of the Church. Evidently the writings of the Doctors and occasional messages from the approved apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary are very valuable helps. Note that the source for this third level is contemplation and not the writings mentioned. A confusion between contemplation and the writings had caused havoc on the Church because on the dependency on research rather than on prayer.
 Let us go to the three main characters; Jesus Christ as He is. The Pope as successor of St. Peter. And the boat which is the Catholic Church in a very specific time in history. We are interpreting the Gospel as it should be happening today. This is eschatology and it is based on the mystical meaning of the Gospel.
 CHRIST was not in the boat. He was in the mountain praying. Keep in mind He is not in the boat. On one occasion Christ was in the boat sleeping; and they were also in the midst of a storm.'This describes the story of the Church during the first Advent of Christ from His birth up to His Crucifixion. That was quite a storm, indeed. But this time Christ was not with them. Remember that we must see the Gospel message as some event happening in the future. Christ was not in the boat because He had ascended to heaven after the Ascension. This is the image of the Church after the Ascension until the Second Advent. The Second Advent is when Christ returns to the boat.
 Let us now look at the storm. There were storms from the time Christ was born and it will grow worse until the end of time. Let us briefly describe this storm (we shall describe it in more detail in another post.) All pagans will deteriorate to become morally worse than animals. While Christian sects will join the pagans in attacking the Church. But since both have descended below the natural level their attacks will be in the sub-natural or human socio-economic level.' While the Catholic cockles having lost their Faith will drag Catholics down. These will mostly be cardinals, bishops, priest, brothers and nuns who have lost their Faith. They would be using Catholic theological terms in propagating heresies. Having lost their Faith, they have no power to absolve nor consecrate the Body and Blood of Christ; and they would not know the authentic Catholic evangelization for the salvation of souls. The storm as our Lady described in Quito, Ecuador is total darkness with regard to the Truths of Divine Revelation. Absolutely no one can evangelize due to total ignorance. As Pope Benedict wants to remind us; there will be a few exception but we do not know who and where they are. Because there is absolutely no one who can lead souls to God, Pope Benedict addressed this problem by supplying us with all the documents we need to learn to enter the Church of the apostles and the Fathers of the Church.
 Let us now look at the Church. Lucifer is instigating the storm against the Church and she is constantly in danger of sinking. In fact, many journalist had been announcing the demise of the Catholic Church since the 'God is dead' clamor in Germany. Today, the Church is not only in trouble ; she seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. But she easily resurrects somewhere.
 Let us now look at St. Peter, the most interesting personage . That was indeed St. Peter in the Gospel and he represents the future valid Popes. St. Peter represents all Popes but in this Gospel, he represents a particularly, specific Pope in the future. Firstly, he represents a Pope who will rule the Church during its darkest hour. Secondly; our Lady calculated this darkest century to be after the year 2000 A.D. Thirdly, during this darkest hour , as Paul VI observed, because the devil had entered and is causing havoc all over the Church, a successor of St. Peter will opt to leave the externals of the Papacy as Peter left the boat 'in order to pray for the Church,' as Peter similarly did. St. Peter Celestine did something similar; he abandoned the externals of the Papacy in imitation of St. Peter who stayed in the roof, to pray for the Church...but without resigning. But differing from Peter Celestine, St. Peter abandoned the boat for a moment without giving up his papacy to specifically ask Christ to board the boat again..... as He did before in quite similar circumstance. This was tantamount to asking Christ to return to the boat as He did during His first Advent. To request Christ to board the boat again is to ask Him for His Second Advent. Note what happened next. When Christ re-boarded the Church, the Apostles confessed ;' Beyond doubt You are the Son of God.' This is a confession that can only be made in Heaven before the Beatific Vision...according to St. Thomas of Aquinas. This Gospel is showing the last picture of the Church before the end of the world. And it will be preceded by a Pope momentarily abandoning the externals of the Papacy to approach Christ and pray for His Second Advent in the boat, the Church. The Pope does not resign but accompanies Christ back into the boat and the boat proceeds to heaven. It is significant that St. Peter was retained as the Pope during that storm at sea. Because when this pre-figured Gospel incident occurred the Pope was Peter who was not elected by a conclave but personally appointed by Christ. Similarly, the Pope that shall leave the boat for a while to invite Christ to re-enter the Church for the Second Coming will not be elected by a conclave. He will also be appointed by Christ just like Peter. So tradition has it that after the Pope who leaves the boat to pray for the Church re-invites Christ into the boat, like Peter,he will be again appointed directly by God and will be named 'Peter Romanus'. The Church begun with Peter and ends with Peter. And who is the Pope who will do what St. Peter did in today's Gospel. A Pope who like St. Peter is personally appointed by Christ and not elected by a conclave....after whom there will be no more valid Popes.

 Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-45385886701854850912014-08-11T00:35:00.001+11:002014-08-11T00:35:54.382+11:00UNDERSTANDING the 'NEW EVANGELIZATION'1. UNDERSTANDING THE 'NEW EVANGELIZATION.'
 Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI were the ones who popularized the word 'new evangelization.' Though it was Pope Benedict who insisted that this is not 'new' but the same classical, evangelical 'evangelization' taught by Christ in the last chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew and read as the Gospel of Ascension which all articles on the subject quote.
 As noted, however, the Catholic World could not understand Benedict; neither the priests, nor the bishops and neither most of the cardinals. He was speaking over their heads because their hearts were down in the world. The world could hear his parables but could not join him inside the house, as the Apostles did, to hear the meaning of his parables. It was the sure sign of what he suspected all along. That the church has lost her Faith. His three important encyclicals, 'Deus Caritas Est,'' Spes Salvi' and 'Caritas in Veritate' though praised politely, fell on deaf ears. All of Benedict's audiences, writings and talks met the same fate. The problem was not with him. As he, himself, had already noted when he was a professor in Tubingen and much more in the 1980s, the Catholic faith is nowhere to be found in the world. Of course, he very well knew where it is to be found; and he showed signs of groping for her in the dark; sort of ' I think it's there but I can't put my finger on her'. It surely is somewhere. So Benedict did a St. Peter; a St. Peter on the roof and a St. Peter on the waves. What a noble papacy! He did exactly as St. Peter did; of which he was a worthy successor.
 Though the 'new evangelization' was authored by both John Paul II and Benedict XVI no one else seems to understand it; no well- explained article about it can be found in the Internet. Though there are countless articles on the topic of the 'new evangelization' it does not resemble Benedict's concept by a mile. The official Vatican documents, like the 'Lineamenta' and the 58 proposals quote word by word the words of Christ describing His formula of evangelization, then they suddenly drop the two most important elements of His command and dwell on countless topics that had nothing to do with evangelization. If there is no clear commentary in the Internet, there is probably none anywhere.

2. THE NEGATIVE characteristics.
 We have been describing the NEGATIVE characteristics of the Church in the past posts. These are signs of what the Catholic Church should NOT be. These are bad and ugly signs prophesied by Christ that will happen to His Church. And these had been confirmed in the Epistles, by the Fathers of the Church, by the Popes and by the messages of Mary in her apparitions. Two signs often repeated by Christ are the 'decay of Faith' and 'the waxing cold of Charity.' Pope Benedict's 'new evangelization' describes these negative sign and explains why they happened.

3. THE POSITIVE characteristics
 The POSITIVE signs describes the true image of the Catholic Church TODAY. It had been described by the prophets in the Old Testament, further described by Christ in the New Testament, described by the Fathers of the Church like St. Augustine, described by modern saints like St. Bonaventure and described by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. In summary, it is described by 'Lumen Gentium' quoting St. Augustine and St. Robert Bellarmine. This is the true Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict's 'new evangelization' describes these positive signs as pure acts of God.

4. THE 'NEW EVANGELIZATION' AND THE TWO ABOVE characteristics.
 The 'new evangelization' of John Paul II and Benedict XVI is a papal attempt to teach men to avoid the negative signs which are humanly avoidable and expressed in the NEGATIVE characteristics........and to pray unceasingly meditating on the Words of God, which is the only way to enhance the beauty of the POSITIVE signs which is her goal of perfection. So to understand and be able to put the 'new evangelization' into practice we must first fully understand the negative character and how to avoid it, secondly, we must know the positive character it is enhancing and how to attain and perfect it. Knowledge of these two signs is like the barricade on both sides of the road that will help us go straight. This barricade is lacking today; so our evangelizations has no direction. Everyone is going off the road, down to the cliffs.

5. PAST POSTS ARE MAINLY ON THE NEGATIVE SIGNS.
 The negative signs which the Church should not have, were prophesied by Christ, thus; it will experience the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity.' These happened even when Christ was alive. It was present always through Church history except it will be worse today. We must know what 'worse' means.

 The NEGATIVE SIGNS PROPHESIED BY CHRIST ARE; the 'decay of faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity'. Then we noted the consequences of these negative signs with prophecies from the prophets of the Old Testament. The consequences are; the lost of the priestly power to absolve and the power to offer the Eucharistic Sacrifice.

 NO POWER TO ABSOLVE SINS. When did Christ give the power to forgive sins to theApostles? After 2 -3 years? He gave it at a specific stage in their spiritual training; just before Easter at the same time when He gave them the power to love their neighbors (which is a power that comes from God, too.) The Gospel says; Christ breathed on them and gave them both the power to love their neighbors and the power to forgive sins, noted St. Thomas of Aquinas. In Ascetico-Mystical theology this stage is described as the Illuminative stage. It is the highest degree in the spiritual life.
 This, in turn, prepares the Apostles to proceed to the more perfect degree of Charity and receive the power to love God; and the power to celebrate Mass. The power to love God and consecrate the Sacred Species go together. And in Ascetico-Mystical theology this is the highest stage in the Illuminative life.
 God never gave His own Apostles these power any earlier. He will not give these powers to anybody either who has not reached these stages in the spiritual life. The early holy Bishops knew the spiritual state of their priests and bestowed these powers to them accordingly. Because of the above negative signs there are sound theological basis supporting the belief that there is a possibility that all the priest we know do not have the power to absolve because they never reached this high level in the spiritual life required for God to give them these powers.

 NO POWER TO CELEBRATE MASS. The power to celebrate Mass was given to the Apostles when they rose to a degree higher than the just mentioned stage in the illuminative stage. As mentioned above, Christ gave the Apostles both the power to love God with their whole heart, mind, soul and strength on Pentecost Day...and they celebrated Mass, only after Pentecost. Not before. Again, note that the power to love God and consecrate the Divine Species were given together to the Apostles when they reached the highest degree of the Illuminative stage in the spiritual life. A higher degree of spiritual life is required to consecrate the Divine Species than to absolve sins.

 A cursory study of Ascetical and Mystical Theology, which cannot be cursory in the first place, will show that all the cardinals, bishops and priest we know have not reached the Illuminative stage which is the third and highest stage. Not even the second stage of proficiency. Not even the first stage the purgative stage. Not even our present Pope because he is part of those seminarians who underwent this already mentioned defective training. The signs of these stages are visibly clear in the Gospels and in Ascetical-Mysterical Theology and anyone can check them for himself. Knowledge of this theology is what we use to trace progress in the spiritual life.
 Everybody knows that the course on Ascetico-Mystical theology had long been removed in the seminary curriculum. Only a token one-year course remains containing merely a list of books on the spiritual life; without any of the book being opened. But let us try to pin point the foundational doctrine whose removal (like the removal of the main pillar of a building) caused the total collapse of the spiritual life including the power to forgive sins and consecrate the Bread and Wine,

6. WHAT CAUSED THIS MASSIVE FALLING AWAY FROM THE FAITH
 Evangelization consists of three steps mentioned in all documents on the subject; first, make disciple of all nations. Second, baptizing them.....Thirdly; teach them to obey all My commands. The first step is man's only role; the second is God's role with the help of the priest; the third step is purely God's role. Needless to say, it the first step is not done the second and third steps will not follow. In the Liturgy the first step is described as the life of Repentance, the second step is called the Sacrament of Baptism, and the third step is when God gives the soul the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity wherewith the soul is able to enter the Church and merit Eternal Life in Heaven.
 The cause of the massive lost of Faith is.......or let me put it more precisely....the reason why most do not even reach Faith is because of the removal of the first step. Remember the first step is; 'to make disciples of all nations by teaching them Repentance. The consequence is that the second and third steps became impossible. Without the first step, evangelization became impossible.
 This begun to happen when the Church changed the procedure of evangelization; when she baptized, which is the second step, without making the candidate a disciple, which is the first step. In the early times, when the Church inverted the second and the first step, which is alright if it 'made disciples' after Baptism , the evangelization would still work. In fact, the whole monastic movement was precisely to do after baptism what was supposed to be done before baptism. So what happened is that after Baptism, which is the second step, Christians went to the desert 'to do the first step' which is to make themselves disciples by living the monastic life. That way, evangelization, in fact, worked very well.
 But most of the men of the Church started with the second step and completely disregarded the first step. The first step which is the crux of evangelization being the human part of the process was completely omitted. The result...alsolutely no evangelization. Even at the last Bishop's Synod 2012 on evangelization, this first step which Pope Benedict reminded the Bishops is the crux, was intentionally omitted. From that time on, until today, the Catholic Church has absolutely no effective formula of evangelization.
 True evangelization were done by saints, raised personally by God occasionally, in the history of the Church. With the neglect of the first step of evangelization dictated by Christ in His Apostolic Commission it became impossible for most 'so-called' Catholics to reach either Faith or Charity. Again, the inability to reach Faith and Charity is due to the omission of the first step of 'evangelization' which is 'to make disciples of all nations' by teaching them repentance. Without repentance no soul would progress to the purgative stage, nor to the proficiency stage, and more so they will not reach the illuminative stage. So? No Faith, no Charity, no absolution and no Mass.

6. WE HAVE NOT YET DESCRIBED THE POSITIVE SIGNS OF THE CHURCH.
 This had been less described by the prophets but described well by Christ and by the Apostles. It is even better described by the Apocalypse and the Fathers. And all these positive signs were collated by Pope Benedict in his 'Jubilee of St. Paul,' 'Year of the Priests,' and 'Year of Faith.'
 We shall repeat the above teachings in the next posts, God willing; this is tantamount to describing how the Catholic Church should look like at this very moment after 2000 years.....surely a lovely mature women ready for her wedding with the Divine Bridegroom in heaven. It is described in 'Lumen Gentium.' How come no one is worried seeing that we don't have the signs of the true Church when John Paul and Benedict had described her clearly in the 'new evangelization'. We will try to repeat the description.

8, CONTINUATION OF THE NEGATIVE SIGNS
 These signs will occur mainly among the cardinals, bishops and priests since the command to 'evangelize' was mainly directed to them. It is they who are disobeying Christ's Apostolic Commission. The consequence is what Our Lady had been repeating in her apparitions from Quito, Ecuador to Kibeho, Rwanda,... that our cardinals, bishops and priests are going to hell and dragging everybody with them.
 As the 'decay' and the waxing' gets worse, the sacraments of Holy Orders and Holy Eucharist which are sacraments of the living and which can only be received validly by souls with Faith and Charity will cease to exist. Because there is no proper disposition on the recipients. With the unworthy reception of both sacraments of the living, the power to absolve and consecrate the Divine Species would be removed by God from priest......as prophesied and as what happened on Good Friday, a foreshadowing of this era.
 With the priestly power to absolve and consecrate the Species withdrawn by God, sins cannot be absolved and there will be no Sacrifice among those without Faith and without Charity like on Good Friday.....which should be happening by now after 2000 years of 'decay' and 'waxing cold.' This was foreshadowed, also, when Christ went to his hometown. He could not perform any miracle because of their unbelief. Again the greatest continuing miracle in the Catholic Church are the forgiveness of sins, the consecration of the Body and Blood of Christ and the salvation of souls. Without Faith, Christ who is the 'First Cause' of these miracles, will not be able to do them 'because of their unbelief.'

 This scenario of the Church today is utterly discouraging. But nothing to worry. These are the cockles, not the wheat. John Paul II and Benedict's 'new evangelization' teaches us exactly the way out of this seemingly unescapable devilish trap; how to change ourselves from cockle to wheat.....which the Jews believed was possible. Let us go back and study what they said.

 Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-45561331239196631352014-08-04T18:00:00.003+11:002014-08-04T18:00:54.979+11:00THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - in the multiplication of the bread.1. FAITH, THE SIGN OF THE CHURCH.
 It is good to check on the signs of the Catholic Church that makes her unique ; because right now she looks exactly like the thousands of other sects. No Dogmas. Maybe a few convenient dogmas to pretend it is still Catholic. Let us review our traditional, dependable sources for checks.
 The Catholic Church has four visible signs; One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. In the Liturgy there are 33 visible signs of Faith (described in the Sundays in Ordinary time), shown as visible signs of those within the Church; and consequently, also, visible signs of the Church. And in the Apostolic Commission given by Christ to the apostles, read on Ascension, the third instruction of Christ was; 'to teach them all that I have commanded.' That would be more than 80 commands (listed in St. Matthew) which are 80 more visible signs of Faith. All in all these are more than 112 visible signs of Faith showing whether one is inside the Catholic Church or not.
 These are the signs used by evangelists to find out where to go and where not to go; signs for a husband to find out if his wife and children are going to hell or heaven. And these are signs to see if your parish priest, your bishop, cardinal and Pope are bringing you to heaven or to hell, too. And if you see, as in the vision of Fatima, that the bishops and priest are going to hell and dragging you with them, the same knowledge of these signs specially the 'third instruction' in the Gospel of Ascension will teach how to change your course and go to heaven instead.
 Note that these signs can be applied to oneself, to one's spouse, to your children, to your parish priest, bishop, cardinal or even the Pope. And let it be repeated that the burden of proof that one is inside the Church is on those who have the visible signs. We do not ask people to prove that we are Catholics. We prove to others we are Catholics without saying anything; just by signs of which we have no control.
 If one is a Catholic husband or wife, a priest, bishop, cardinal or Pope.....he has the obligation to show his Catholic credentials without waiting for anyone to ask for it. The beginning of these signs is Faith. The perfection of these signs is Charity. St. Paul says that our Faith must be like a lamp in a lamp stand.
 These signs of Faith are manifest whether we like it or not. If it does not show, it is because there is no Faith. Faith is a supernatural virtue. It cannot be faked.

2. THE KINGDOM OF GOD parables.
 While the 33 Sundays in Ordinary time describe all aspects of Faith The 15th-18th Sundays deals with St. Matthew's description of the Church as it should appear in the Parish. Let us study the description of the Church in the 18th Sunday; this deals with the multiplication of the bread.
 St. John the Baptist had just been beheaded; the New Testament begins with Christ describing His Church. It begins by describing the kinds of soil; and the fertile soil is the good candidate for the Church. The three others were not. Then suddenly the Church is described as a whole. Christ is at the center and had just performed miracles before His apostles and listeners. And they are in the desert.

3. IN THE DESERT
 Christ the preacher, the apostles assisting Christ and the listeners were all in the desert. All of them had Faith. That is the Church! The desert is the symbol of Sion described in the Psalms; it is the community who have reached contemplative prayer. It is the 'original' monastic life. St. Paul described the Church as a 'walled camp.' As is clear in the Gospel, it is separated from the world, 'fuga mundo.' Pope Benedict in his 'Year of Faith' used the word 'contemplative' to describe all the members of the Church today. And he added St. Bonaventure's description of 'new monasticism.' In Ascetical-Mystical theology, Faith and contemplation are identical. True Catholics with the virtue of Faith are contemplatives; meaning to say, souls who intellectually are unceasingly conscious of God's presence and continuously finding out how to please Him. That is only possible if one is separated from the world and living in community 'in the desert.' St. Benedict combines the two concepts of being 'separated from the world' and praying contemplatively in community. This is the description, also, of the Church in Lake Tiberias after the Resurrection. St. John describes this in the last chapter of his Gospel and added that it is the last. Last...... of what?

 4. 'FUGA MUNDO.
 Thus in the Gospel Jesus, the apostles and the crowd had left the towns, cities and everything else ( the concept of 'fleeing the world' essential to monasticism) including their food to be in the desert to better learn the Word of God. This Gospel teaching shown by Christ in His 'Hidden Life' is what made Pope Benedict frown at 'Gaudium et Spes' that practically encouraged marriage with the world. Christ said; 'friendship with the world is enmity with Christ. And 'Gaudium et Spes' proposed marriage?
 Today, neither the present Pope, the bishop and priest, nor many monks and laymen are in the 'mystical desert.' Maybe a few Carthusians in the Alps. On this first point the present Church does not look like the Church in the Gospel at all. Only Pope Benedict seems to have left the world and the worldly aspect of his papacy while retaining its spiritual aspect to be in the desert, in Mater Ecclesia.

 5. WHAT TO FEED.
 The Gospel continues....the day grew late; it was time to eat. And it was the apostles who showed little Faith; not the crowd. They suggested to send the crowd to the towns and cities to buy food to eat. Can't He Who have just performed greater things not performed the easier act of feeding the crowd? If the miracles had strengthened their Faith they should have not suggested this. Christ answered further showing the nature of the Church. Christ said; do not send them to the town. Thus showing the persistency of avoiding contact with the world while learning the Word of God. Exhibiting further their weak Faith (note how we are judging the apostles using visible signs) they offered the little food they brought for themselves. Christ accepted this offer because they maintained their 'fuga mundo' to remain learning the Word of God in the desert. They only had 5 loaves and 2 fishes.
 Here Christ shows how to evangelize; He got the 5 loaves and 2 fishes and told His apostles to distribute them to the crowd. Christ commands His Apostles. The apostles do not go on their own. They obey the Apostolic Commission of Christ.
 St. Thomas of Aquinas comments that the 5 loves are the five books of the Old Testament; while the two fishes are the writings of the prophets and the Psalms. All those topics are from the Old Testament and makes up the first step of evangelization when Christ said; 'make disciple of all nations.' This is done before Baptism. Because this first step is not done before Baptism, most Baptism, according to St. Thomas, are ineffective. The child just gets his head wet but there is hardly any effect in the soul.
 In the New Testament the 5 loaves are the Gospels and Epistles; while the 2 fishes are the Fathers of the Church who take the place of the prophets. and still the Psalms but interpreted according to the New Testament as St. Augustine precisely did in his commentary on the Psalms.
 So in evangelization the cardinals, bishops and priests, in preaching to the crowds should dig their hands into the 5 loaves (the Gospels and Epistles) and the 2 fishes (the Fathers of the Church and the New Testament interpretation of the Psalms.) And nothing else.
 Those who claim to be evangelziers are not digging their hands from the fonts of Scriptures, the Fathers and not reciting the Divine Office with its New Testament interpretation of the Psalms. Nobody is doing it from Pope Francis, down to most Cardinal bishops, priests and last seminarian. Instead while teaching they are digging their hands in Pandora's box; promising salvation to atheists, to adulterers who eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood unto their condemnation, to perverts without repenting and to those who love the world over God. Then, they go; not to evangelize but to mess up the world as commanded by their boss. Note the difference.
 The 'new' post Vatican II Church that claims to be Catholic had thrown away the 5 loaves and 2 fishes and against the instruction of Christ, had sent the crowd to the towns to indulged in their favorite fast food. Just like the Jews in the desert when God punished them. Pity. They were already in the right place, the desert; but in the wrong restaurant.
 The crowd had been fed well; meaning the crowd's intellect had been satisfied with the fullness of the knowledge that can come from Faith alone, after which the Apostles (the evangelizers) collected 12 baskets in excess.

 6. CALLED TO HIGHER PERFECTION
 St. Thomas states that after having completely satisfied the minds of the crowd with the knowledge necessary for salvation that comes with Faith and Charity; the apostles had extra 12 baskets overwhelming with Divine knowledge about the things of God. The apostles and bishops should have more knowledge than the ordinary faithful.
 Again from Pope Francis down to the Bishop's Synod we see a dearth of knowledge so much so that lay journalists, lay female columnists, lay female judges and innocent children are correcting the errors of the Pope and asking questions left unanswered by Rome. Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria had lambasted Pope Francis as guilty of Liberalism, the foundation of the heresy of Modernism that easily leads to a hundred heresies; while five cardinals and four university professors just contradicted Cardinal Kasper, Pope Francis' top and favorite theologian for the heresies that are being introduced in the next Bishop's Synod for discussion and almost for certain approval. Though we can always hope against hope.
 The miracle of the multiplication of the bread and fishes takes place within the Catholic Church, not outside. It is the preparation for receiving the Body and Blood of Christ. Without the multiplication there can be no consecration. That is why Christ performed first the miracle of the multiplication before preaching the doctrine of the Eucharist.
7. HE COULD NOT DO MIGHTY WORKS.
 Let us return briefly to the Friday weekday mass of the 17th week in Ordinary Time. Christ was in His home town and could not perform miracles because of their unbelief. Let us review our continuing theses where we have been trying to describe a very specific era today that had been prophesied by Christ, explained by the Fathers, proposed by the Popes (from Pius IX to Benedict to XVI) and confirmed by the approved apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
 We have finished a few signs namely; the 'decay of Faith', 'the waxing cold of Charity.' If the bishops and priest have no Faith, they will surely elect someone without Faith also. And this can only be an anti-pope. And if there is no Faith from the Pope down to the Bishop's Synod and further down to the priests and laymen, then God will take away their powers to absolve sins, consecrate the Divine Species and the power to evangelize.
 The August first Friday Gospel states that Christ could not perform miracles because of their unbelief. The three on-going miracles in the Catholic Church are the forgiveness of sins, the consecration of the Eucharist at Mass and the salvation of souls. Because of the rampant 'decay of Faith' Christ, even if He wanted to, can no longer forgive sins, consecrate the Eucharist and save souls through His priests. The prophecies from the O.T. and the N. T. as explained by the Fathers, proposed by the 11 Popes mentioned and affirmed by the Blessed Virgin Mary had been fulfilled. Every Catholic should be aware of this so they can take the alternative route called the 'new evangelization' which unfortunately aside from Pope Benedict, no one is explaining. We shall explain these further, if God allows.

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-58001398414190895002014-07-26T11:34:00.003+11:002014-07-26T11:34:53.811+11:00Parables of the Kingdom.Why did Christ speak in parables?
 Christ spoke in parables to test His hearers and, at the same time, separate the chaff from the grain. The parables are for the chaffs, those without Faith; the mystical meanings are for the grain, those who have Faith. When Christ speaks in the New Testament all men can understand the human meaning of His parables; in fact all men can easily understand what is a seed and what is a rocky ground.
 But when Christ speaks and His hearers show interest in getting a deeper or mystical meaning of His parable then He, first, brings them into the house and explains the parable inside the house. The house is the Catholic Church. Those who enter her with Christ are those with Faith. And while inside they receive the mystical meaning of the teachings of Christ directly from Christ through contemplative prayer; and as a result are able to make the perfect human act of Faith that makes them deserving to receive the theological virtue of Faith.
 If Christ sees that His hearers are not really interested, as in the case of the Pharisees who were simply out to trap Him, then He abandons them; He leaves them behind while entering the house.

 This parable is the Gospel of the 15th Sunday in Ordinary time. The 33 Sundays in Ordinary time tell us the 33 different visible signs of Faith that comes in the form of parables.....and side by side Mother Church teaches us the 33 mystical signs of Faith that comes by understanding the mystical meaning of the parables; describing those with Faith as 'having eyes and see, having ears and hear.'
 The visible signs of Faith, like the growing seed in the fertile soil, can be understood by everybody and use to find out if they have Faith or not. They can, also, use these visible signs to check if their loved ones, or their parish priest, or their diocesan bishop, or even if the Pope has Faith; precisely because these are visible signs meant for unbelievers and usually given in the form of parables. And these visible signs are precisely meant for that purpose; so those without Faith may use these signs to see the state of their souls fearful of what was said in previous Gospel that he who does not believe is already condemned.
 Obeying Christ who commanded that we should judge by their fruits and to test if they are of God, we should, therefore use these instruments to find out if we shall be saved or condemned. And these Sundays in Ordinary time are meant for that.

 So let us continue with the trend of the past posts in describing a very specific era prophesied by Christ and confirmed by St. Paul in his epistles; and use the Scriptures to judge if we have reached that fateful day or not. Again, the description of this era is a 'decay of Faith' and 'the waxing cold of Charity'; the consequences of which God would chastise us by removing from the priesthood who have lost their Faith and Charity the power to absolve sins and the power to celebrate Mass. What we see here is the lost of Faith, of Charity, of the power to forgive sins and the power to consecrate the Divine Species. And the further consequence of the uncanonical election of an anti-pope by cardinals and bishop without Faith. All of these are prophesied in Scriptures; from the Prophets of the Old Testament, from Christ in the New Testament, confirmed in the Epistles, from the Apocalypse, from the Fathers of the Church and the statements of at least the 11 popes we have often quoted (from Pius IX to Benedict XVI); these Popes are often referred to as the Marian Popes or the Popes of the Second Advent.

 Chapter 13 of St. Matthew is a long chapter showing that Christ, the Kingdom and the Church are identical.....and specifically describes those who are inside and outside the Catholic Church. It describes both in visible form and in mystical way Catholics who are going to hell and Catholics who are going to heaven. It should be noteworthy that cardinals, bishops, priest and lay people can be found on both sides.

 In the parable of the seeds Christ presents four kinds of souls represented by four kinds of soil. Three were in some way defective and could not nurture the seed of Faith. And the fourth is fertile and is able to nurture Faith . St. Thomas of Aquinas, with his sense of humor, noted that out of 100% of mankind only 4% will be cardinals, bishops and priests who would have Faith and will be preaching the right way because they obey Christ's instructions on evangelization as described in the Gospel of Ascension. 96% of the priest will be preaching their own private ideas. That alone raises the possibility that our priest is one of them. But among the 4% priests who are preaching well only 4% of their listeners will be listening well to the Word of God. And among the 4% who are listening 75% will not develop Faith. For every 4 only one will make the Act of Faith. St. Thomas just showed that truly the way is narrow and few will be able to enter it. That few? This is further proof of the right description of the era we have been describing in the last several posts.

 Let us show how this Gospel explains further the fulfillment of Christ's prophecy on the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity.'
 The first kind of soil, namely the footpath because it is trodden by men and beast is hardened. It is impossible for any seed to take root in it. Everybody knows this. The second is soil that is rocky. And the seeds, also, cannot take deep roots in it. And the third is soil where thorny plants grow. Though roots can dig deep into it the plant itself is choked by the thorny weeds.
 Note that in the three examples Faith could not develop because of the state of the soil.

 So what could cause the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity' in the Church. St. Augustine who had a splendid ecclesiology explained. Our minds cannot take two opposite thoughts. The preferred thought will expel the other. We cannot think of spiritual thoughts together with worldly or sinful thoughts. Our preferrence will drive the other away. If we prefer the worldly thoughts, which happens most of the time, our minds will expel the spiritual thoughts. So St. Augustine even during his time discouraged any form of worldly Liberal education as detrimental to learning the things of God. This liberal education consists mostly of pagan Philosophy, Cosmology, Ontology and Metaphysics; these are naturally helpful in the study of supernatural truths but St. Augustine showed preference in setting aside these philosophies and study directly the supernatural truths of God following the advice of St. Paul to keep our minds on the things of Heaven and not on the things of the world.

 There was only one kind of education that helped the spiritual life. This was the monastic schools because they were aids to understanding the Words of God. These schools disappeared early in the Church though Blessed John Newman continued to praise it in the 18th century. Though he praised it as it existed in early Christian times and not as it existed during his time.
 The educational system in the world both in democratic and communist system are designed to remove all fidelity to God and instruct all students to fidelity to the state....in essence a form of idolatry with the state as God. That had been the goal of both democracy and communism because both philosophies are outgrowths of the French Revolution which was entirely atheistic and anti-Catholic. And so, all systems of educations, even in Catholic school, are directed towards the worship of man, therefore, idolatry of the worst kind.
 The education in seminary and theological schools are no different because they study subjects which are the objects of 'curiositas' the mere satisfaction of theological and moral curiosities and not the goal of 'studiositas' whose goal is personal salvation and the evangelization of others..... according to St. Augustine. The object of 'curiositas' is always sinful. Thus in seminary, without realizing it, seminarians are studying how to commit sin. And six years of such study will produce the kind of priest we have today; priests with 'decayed Faith' and ' no Charity'. It cannot be otherwise.

 With such unspiritual training God pitied the Church and gave her Cardinal Ratzinger who was a beacon light even as a priest. As Cardinal, steeped in his deep involvement in Vatican II, he was stunned at the post Conciliar atmosphere which he expressed in his interview with Messori and published in the book 'Ratzinger Report.' He observed that the documents of Vatican II were not well expressed and, as a result, were badly interpreted with a very different spirit referred to as 'the spirit of Vatican II' which is completely a break from the Church of Christ, the apostles, the Fathers and the previous Popes. It was a totally new religion divorced from the 'original Catholic Church.' And the new environment is such that the seed of the true Faith cannot grow at all because the mind, which is the faculty that makes the Act of Faith, is too hard with 'curiositas,' that kind of pure natural knowledge that is detrimental to making the act Act of Faith. The mind has no space for 'studiositas' acquired ordinarily through 'Lectio Divina' and contemplation.

 With souls of both laymen and priests like hardened footpaths, the seed of the Word of God cannot dig and anchor in the soul and becomes easy picking for the devil like seeds to birds of prey.
 The world further satisfies the increased hunger for sensual 'curiositas' to the detriment of 'studiositas.' The seemingly harmless documentaries on animals, atoms, space travels, strange foreign lands, history...etc..are pure 'curiositas.' This is the fruit that is nice to the taste and the eyes and seemingly good because it is in the garden of Eden but it is the 'forbidden fruit,' states St. Augustine. Exactly like the seminary and theological curriculum it looks good and nice but it is 'forbidden' because it is not what is supposed to be taught. What is supposed to be taught? The Gospel states: 'to teach them all My commands.' No seminary is doing that. Maybe they teach a few commands but not ALL.
 Add to this the conscious efforts of both government and state in filling up man's minds with entertainment to distract them from national problems. The governments of the world had truly filled the soul with stones and pebbles that there is absolutely no space for the roots of the Word of God to take hold. And now governments are filling up the minds of children with sin like sex education and all kinds of perverted sexual practices. To have Faith has become a rare miracle which occasionally shock us but it still happens.
 And the thorny bushes that chokes the young plant are the world events that brings anxiety; from the rising prices to the spread of deadly diseases, from the rise in crime committed by law enforcers themselves to the rise of drug use. And, of course, the fact that no cardinal, bishop or priests are teaching the right doctrines on 'evangelization' as seen in the Bishop's Synod of 2013. We are in big trouble.

 Then the Gospel describes the man of Faith as one who is like a fertile soil in which the seed of the Word of God is planted. And it grows and produces a hundredfold, sixty fold and thirty fold. And who is this man? The humble man. He is the man with the humility of Christ, a description only those with Faith can appreciate because it is a supernatural virtue taught by Christ, Himself, to those who have joined Him into the house, the Church. It is the humility described by Pope Gregory the Great in his treatise 'Superbia', it is the degrees of humility described by St. Augustine, the 12 degrees described by St. Benedict and St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
 No cardinal, bishop or priest has described it, as of recently, in its mystical sense which would have been the sign of their Faith. Even Pope Francis in his book described humility as a nice political virtue which in truth it is. But as a mere cure for corruption and not as the first Beatitude. But then he wrote it when he was still a bishop of Argentina. Though the way some journalists are describing his humility it is more the humility of a slum dweller and not the humility of Christ.

 When Pope John Paul II was traveling around the world he addressed Bishop's conferences ordering them all to redo the seminary curriculum because they were not producing Faithful priests. He emphasized that the curriculum should not be focused on theology or any theology for that matter. The emphasis must be on humility. Pope Benedict repeated that in the 'Year of the Priest.' But it seems nobody got it. When the head of the Congregation of Catholic Education was asked for a curriculum for seminaries his answer was; 'we do not have one. We are still making one.' What??? After two thousand years of training priests we do not have a curriculum!

 In my country, obeying the instruction of Pope John Paul II, the CBCP appointed the Committee of Bishop in charge of seminaries to reform the curriculum of seminaries. They worked for almost 10 years and came up with a curriculum based on the formula of 'evangelization' as presented in the Liturgy of the Mass. It was immediately approved by the Bishop's Conference. After three years they were asked how the curriculum was doing. The answer was 'we cannot find anybody to teach it.' What???? nobody knows how to teach Christ's formula of 'evangeliztion' described in the Gospel of Ascension! Isn't that a sign of no Faith among the priest-professors? What do you expect from the seminarians? From that time most seminarians are now cardinals, bishops and priests. Up to this moment the curriculum approved by the bishops based on the Gospel of Ascension that will lead us to Faith had not been implemented. Without Faith we should not expect to have Charity, nor the power to absolve, nor the power to consecrate We have a Church that is totally different from the Church of Christ, the Apostles, the Fathers and different from Cardinal Ratzinger's Church. It is a thought that could make anybody in his right mind resign.Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-29016017254700237202014-07-14T13:07:00.000+11:002014-07-14T13:07:06.410+11:00ST BENEDICT TODAY.1. God gave us a pattern.
 God gave us a pattern in history so His Church can prepare herself for any eventuality in the future. This pattern, writes the Fathers, is based on the 7 days of creation and is repeated through the Old Testament, through the New Testament and up to General Judgment day. The sixth day is what interest us. That would be Friday, fulfilled in the time of Judas Macchabeus in the Old Testament, fulfilled again on Good Friday in the New Testament and finally fulfilled today in our times.

2. The Church before the First Advent
 Before the First Advent of Christ, i.e. on Christmas Day, the Church in the world is described this way; first, there was no Faith in Israel because all the priests, like the Pharisees, had no Faith. This was noted earlier in the time of King Josiah. That is why there was no priest on His birthday. Secondly, there was no forgiveness of sin yet in the O. T., and thirdly, there was no sacrifice in the temple. Since there was no Faith in Israel the Ark of the Covenant where God was present disappeared in the time of Josiah kept by Jeremiah nobody knows where.
 Israel's disobedience to God's command was the visible sign of the absence of their Faith in God. Without Faith, their sins multiplied so God abandoned them as expressed in the disappearance of the Ark.

3. The Church before the Second Advent.
 As we approach the Second Coming of Christ referred to as the Second Advent, exactly the same three things will happen. First, as the prophet Amos wrote, there will be no Faith on the face of the earth because no cardinal, no bishop, no priest would know how to make an act of Faith. And as a consequence all the Faithful who tend to learn from priests will, also, be faithless. This is among the men of the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church it will be worse.
 Secondly, cardinals, bishops and priest being Faithless as prophesied by the prophets and by Christ and as prefigured on Good Friday, God will remove from them the power to forgive sins. So most of the people today will remain in their sins like in the time of King Josiah and on Good Friday; because Faithless priests cannot lead the laymen towards the grace of Faith that forgives sin; and the priests, themselves, are deprived of the power to forgive sin because they do not have Faith and Charity necessary to receive that power as shown in the Gospel of Pentecost.
 Thirdly, because cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen are without Faith and, therefore unworthy to worship God, God will remove from them the power to consecrate and celebrate Mass as He did by removing the Ark of the Covenant from the temple during the time of King Josiah and during Good Friday. Not only will God do those things; He will allow the destruction of the temple. He will allow the destruction of the Vatican, not necessarily architecturally but spiritually. Logically, if there is no Faith, no Charity, no Mass and no Blessed Sacrament, what is a temple for?
 God gave this pattern in Divine Revelation, this pattern should be repeated today. And in fact we see the pattern repeating itself. Firstly, we see the total absence of Faith among the cardinals, bishops, priest and laymen visibly seen in their ignorance and|or disobediences to the commands of Christ in the New Testament. Secondly, we see the sins of men remaining in their souls and even published when those sins should have disappeared and never returned in their souls if they made the act of Faith. Thirdly, we see the irreverence and lack of devotion during Mass plus the countless Liturgical abuses....signs that Christ is no longer in the Mass and in the Host. This has been prophesied because if the reality of Divinity is coming the fore-shadowings must disappear.

 The Catholic Church as described in 'Lumen Gentium' and in the writings of the Fathers of the Church is nowhere in the Vatican, nowhere in the dioceses, nowhere in the parishes and nowhere in the Catholic family. The documents and facts are visible anyone can check it up.

4. St. Benedict and his Holy Rule
 St. Benedict knew that these three prophecies had happened in the Old Testament, they had happened in the New Testament, they had happened during his time and they will happen in the future. So he made provisions to counteract these chastisements.
 Firstly, if in the future cardinals, bishops or priests are prophesied to be ignorant of the way to salvation because of their sin of infidelity, from whom can we learn the plan of salvation? In the last chapter of his Rule St. Benedict states that they should learn it from the Rule of the Master, from St. Basil, from the Institutes of John Cassian and from the Fathers of the Church. The solution St. Benedict gave for the infidelity of the future when all priests are ignorant of the Gospel way of evangelization was exactly the solution John Newman gave. And which Pope Benedict quoted in his 'Year of Faith,'...... a return to the Fathers of the Church.
 Secondly, if cardinals, bishops and priests because of their lack of Faith and Charity are not given by God the power to forgive sins how will the sins of ordinary people be forgiven? St. Benedict introduced the Monastic life which is essentially a life of Repentance, (a perfect act of contrition) a life par excellence for the forgiveness of sins of which confession to a priest is only a small part.
 Thirdly, because there is no Faith and Charity cardinals, bishops and priest are not even Catholics, writes St. Robert Bellarmine, so they cannot celebrate Mass nor consecrate the Sacred Species. If so, how will souls worship God? Christ told the Samaritan woman, ' the day will come when men will not have to go to churches to worship. True worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth. The monastic life is worshipping God with mind and heart, in spirit and in truth. And the monks in the desert had Mass only once a year if there was a priest because their whole life was in preparation for the Heavenly, eternal Mass.
 The monastic life had been a preparation for these coming three events prophesied by Christ in the Gospels. These three monastic formulae are based on the Gospel but described differently. That is why Pope Benedict in his first speech in St. Paul outside the walls reminded the world that the monastic life of St. Benedict is the solution for these three great chastisements God is sending the world today and called it the 'new evangelization'. And before he, seemingly resigned, Pope Benedict repeated for one last time, that this 'new evangelization' consist in introducing a 'new monasticism,' quoting St. Bonaventure, which is no different from the Christ's formula in the Apostolic Commission. And with Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict called it 'new evangelization' because it is an evangelical substitute for the classical evangelization described in the Gospel of Ascension. Unlike the evangelization of the Bishop's Synod of 2013 which is a totally different Gospel.

5. The eleven Popes, from Pius IX to Benedict XVI had seen and experienced these three chastisesments from God; namely, first, the prophesy of Amos foretelling that one day there will no one who can teach the way to eternal life; secondly, that the power to absolve sins will be taken away from priests and, thirdly, the power to celebrate and consecrate the Species will be taken away from priest because the fore-shadowings must disappear when the Light of the true Presence of the Second Advent comes.
 Pius IX faced his whole Curia who expelled him from the Vatican and exiled him in Gaeta. If his Curia was like that what did you expect of the rest of the Bishops. Pius X was faced with cardinals, bishops and priest seething with the heresy of modernism. Benedict had to face a group of seminarians who were praising Karl Marx. What further proof do we need.
 Of course, from the time of Pius IX to Benedict's time there were still a thin line of 'catena Aurea' that were clinging to dear Gospel and dear Fathers of the Church. But they were getting less and less by the time of Benedict who seems to be one among the last few.

 The lost of the power to celebrate and consecrate is getting to be more visible everyday. The Mass of the Apostles, the Fathers and the Saints was proven beyond doubt as truly a sacrifice and a true Presence. And people with Faith, like the saints attested to this. But when Faith was lost like today there is nobody who could vouch that the 'new' mass is truly a sacrifice and a true Presence. While countless saints in the past proved with their Faith and Charity that the Mass was a sacrifice and there was a true Presence, no one, today, can vouch that there is true Sacrifice and Presence in the New Mass. We can only guess. The last saints, like Fr. Pio, did not like it. Maybe there was no sacrifice and there is no Presence.....which we expect to happen as prophesied. And Pope Benedict can do only so much with his Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum' because he knows it had to end eventually that God will take away the power to celebrate and consecrate the Eucharist. He tried to prolong the celebration of the last valid masses. Did we really thing that God will allow the Mass to be celebrate and consecrated with the kind of Faithless and loveless creatures we have become?

6. St. Benedict and the Woman of the Apocalypse
 St. Benedict had mastered the Apocalypse. He knew that the Woman of the Apocalypse, whom St. John recognized as the Blessed Virgin Mary because he took care of her, is the personification of the Catholic Church. And Benedict saw that the Church left the world and 'flew' to the desert to a place specially prepared by God for her protection against the devil's last grand attack on the Church.
 At that time St. Benedict knew that the Church was still in the world. But he knew she would abandon the world and transfer to the desert. But he did not know the exact time for the transfer so he began to train his monks to prepare for that transfer. St. Benedict knew that the Church would cease to exist in the world. So his monasticism is the way on how to enter the Catholic Church in her 'new' location in the desert. Since entering the Church is still a process of evangelization, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict referred to the classical evangelization as 'new,' because for all outward appearances it looks 'new,' so 'new' that no cardinal, bishop or priest know anything about it through Pope Benedict described it clearly last year in his 'Year of Faith' and repeated for one last time in his 'Lumen Fidei' that bore, however, the signature of Pope Francis.
 Today, the process of evangelization by which souls are saved can no longer be preached as described in the Gospel of the Ascension because that can only be preached and understood by souls with the theological virtue of Faith. The way St. Benedict described evangelization is for preachers and listeners who do not have Faith and Charity. So it is just right for all of us today. This is how Pope Benedict presented it in his 'Year of Faith.'

7. St. Gregory and St. Benedict.
 Pope St. Gregory the Great wrote in his 'Life of St. Benedict' that the followers of St. Benedict will prepare the world for the Last General Judgment. Note that Pope Gregory did not say the Benedictine Order since the Order is in the same corrupt state as the rest of the world. He said 'some' followers of St. Benedict. Could this be the reason Pope Benedict, a diocesan priest who chose the name 'Benedict,' seeing that in St. Malachy's list of Popes he is the last Pope to be elected by a Conclave; since the one after him will be chosen by Christ, Himself, just as St. Peter was personally chosen by Christ? But Pope Francis was elected by a conclave, not by Christ. Oh well, there are still a lot of things that we do not understand. We have to be patient until God enlightens our minds. But we know Pope Benedict is a true follower of St. Benedict.

8. St. Benedict and the Sundays in Ordinary time.
 The 33 Sundays in Ordinary time are Sundays wherein Holy Mother the Church is teaching us everything about Faith, specially who are those with Faith and who are those without Faith. It is just right that the Feast of St. Benedict is right in the middle because he taught how those without Faith can attain Faith ......before it is too late.Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-53775871929796823662014-07-12T01:45:00.002+11:002014-07-12T01:45:50.500+11:00THE PAPACY OF ST PETER.1. We thought they would never get it.
 We have been writing on Pope Benedict's 'seeming' resignation since the time the world believed he did so. Theologians are now thinking twice and the issue is now raging in Rome. But the offshoot of the debate is raising more questions rather than clarifying just one question. The Roman debate have reached a point where both sides believe that Pope Benedict did not really resign as Pope. That he just set aside an unimportant portion of his job and transferred it to a subordinate. Now it appears that we have two Popes which both side of the debates accept had raised more problems. They are now proposing the existence of a Diarchy, i,e. the existence of two popes, which both sides agree is dogmatically impossible, because which one would be infallible, which is the easier question to answer because one never made a mistake while the other one commits mistakes very time he opens his mouth as his own handlers noticed.

2. The Argument.
 The argument that Pope Benedict did not give up his 'munus Petrinus' but only the management aspect of his 'Petrinus' is sound. But the argument is based on the analysis of his resignation letter. The author of this sound idea analyzed the content of Pope Benedict's letter and, sort of, read between the lines. Confronted with this line of analysis, if the author confronted Pope Benedict and asked what he really meant in his enigmatic letter, which he actually did, the Pope could easily say 'I meant really to resign,'...... if the Pope did not want others to know his real intention which was the case. And that was what Pope Benedict actually said when asked for his personal interpretation of the letter. But I suspect that Pope Benedict did not want his real intention to be publicly known. It would be like throwing pearls to pigs as the Gospel states.

 But I am glad the topic had been picked up and debated because all my past posts were precisely to clarify and settle this issue. Except that we cannot settle this issue by analysis of Pope Benedict's letter and reading between the lines, especially, if the Pope does not want his real motive made public. The process I followed was by analyzing his motives and his actions by basing it on the Gospels. Pope Benedict is a holy man. He acts in obedience to the commands of Christ on the Gospels. Only the Gospels can explain his actions.

3.Previous arguments.
 Let me summarize my previous arguments to help illumine the debate. Countless articles had been written on why Pope Benedict resigned. Mostly from journalists and what did you expect?...a view no different from a news that an NBA player made a field goal.
 But Pope Benedict's action was a supernatural act. And only those with Faith can understand what he did. The inability to understand what he did by many bishops is further proof of what I have been writing in past posts on 'the decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity' within the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict, I repeat, is a holy man. His actions are supernatural acts in obedience to a supernatural understanding of the commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament. And He can only be understood by those who understand the New Testament in a supernatural way. But let me explain everything in a lower intellectual category bordering the natural and the supernatural. Because that is all I can do for now.

 4. St. Peter, the first Pope, on the roof.
 Understanding Pope Benedict's action is a piece of cake because it is identical to what the first Pope, St. Peter, did. The Gospel described St. Peter on the roof praying and contemplating on the Words of Christ. That is the Pope's job par excellence. St. Peter on the roof was Pope par excellence. St. Thomas of Aquinas in his treatise on perfection writes that for the Pope or bishop to pray and contemplate on the Words of God is being perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect. The perfection required from a diocesan priest, a religious and from a layman is, of course, a lower degree of perfection.

 Why is prayer so necessary that it is the primary job of the Pope? Because the attack of Satan and of the whole world which is Satan's kingdom will be so intense against the Church so that, as Christ said, 'this can only be overcome by prayer and fasting.' Anything less just won't work. And Pope Benedict believes we have reached this age when all the leaders of the Satanic kingdom have been released as the Apocalypse had prophesied. And prayer is the only weapon for all Catholics.
 Why is contemplating the Word of God so necessary? Because we are living in an age characterized by the 'decay of Faith' wherein Cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen do not know their Faith thus we have to depend on those with a contemplative knowledge of their Faith, the characteristic of the 'new' evangelizers according to Pope Benedict.

 Pope Pius IX up to Pope Benedict XVI,(11 popes), had noticed the lack of Faith and Charity in the priesthood. Pius IX experienced his own Curia expelling him from the Vatican and exiling him to Gaeta. Pius X condemned modernism among priests , Benedict as a professor saw the total absence of Faith in the seminaries. All the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary from Quito, Ecuador up to Kibeho, Rwanda gave the same message......the infidelity of the priests. Amos prophesied the day when those who seek God will not find the answer from the priests. Well, Christ, Himself, prophesied the 'decay of Faith and waxing cold of Charity' in whom?...if not among the priests. When Christ was born, and when he died on Good Friday all the priests of the Old Testament had no Faith in Him. Christ said, exactly the same thing will happen during these times.
 The warning of Mary, the Mother of the Church, is that bishops and priest are going to hell and dragging everybody else with them.The lost of Faith among the Faithful today can only be due to the lost of Faith; first, among the cardinals, bishops and priests. Of course, St. Grignon de Montfort states that there are still a few Faithful priest around who knows the plan of salvation. But don't try looking for them because you won't find them. Why? They are contemplating and praying for you....just like the Pope, and living hidden lives.
 It really wasn't as bad during St. Peter's time but Peter, nevertheless, was obliged to be a perfect Pope like his Heavenly Father is perfect. But for the Pope to be on the roof is greatly needed today as taught by Pope Benedict, himself.

 So Pope Benedict did exactly the same thing. He decided to go to the roof, the monastery, to exclusively pray and contemplate on the Words of God. And as St. Peter did not resign when he was on the roof, Pope Benedict did not resign when he went to the monastery.

5. How come the other Popes did not go to the roof?
 To go anywhere in order to contemplate on the Words of God and pray is the perfection of the Papacy. All Popes reached that perfection in different degrees and according to the needs of their eras. When God commands the Popes to stay permanently in the roof as He instructed Benedict, this means that the state of the Church is hopeless. Extreme measures are needed and this measure is for him to pray for God's mercy for the Church.....exactly the same reason Benedict gave for retiring to the monastery. From now on everything will be God's work based on God's mercy. All human efforts at evangelization and saving souls proposed at the Bishop's Synod of 2013 are now futile to help the Church.

6. Come down the roof!
 When St. Peter was confronted with a pure management problem, on the feeding of the widows, Peter insisted on the primary role of the Papacy; to concentrate on prayer and contemplating on the Words of God. All inferior corporal works of mercy should be assigned to Deacons. Further inferior work should be left to laymen. Many works done by bishops and the Vatican bureaucracy do not have to be done by deacons. Most are mere natural jobs, like running a bank, which laymen can do. So there is no need to dress them up like Cardinals and bishops.
 Basing it, therefore, on the Gospel Reading, Pope Benedict, by his apparent resignation, had risen to the perfect practice of his Papacy like St. Peter; while Pope Francis is doing a job inferior to a deacon. Probably, a porter's job. Even here we cannot say we have a diarchy. What we have is a Pope and a porter, and a porter who, in his own words, is starting a new secularist religion without dogmas and without reference to the Tradition of the Fathers.

4. Pope Benedict could have easily imitated St. Peter by remaining on the roof and stayed in office until God called him to Himself. Why did Benedict have to 'seemingly' resign when obviously he is still strong and healthy up to the present? His reason is God's command. To fool the devil.
 Just as St. Joseph pretended to be Mary's husband to fool the devil so he can continue taking care of the baby Jesus without exposing the virginity of Mary, Pope Benedict pretended to resign to fool the devil, too, so he can continue to take care of the Church; as he himself said so.

 Pope Benedict saw and described the crisis of Faith in the Church as early as 1985. His book was describing the hermeutics of rupture wherein the Catholic Church became completely different from the Church of Christ, the apostles and the Fathers. This happened after Vatican II and is described as the 'spirit of Vatican II' practiced by Pope Francis and most of the cardinals, bishops and priests today. He described this in his 'Ratzinger Report' sub-titled 'The crisis in the Church.' The Church will be as it was foretold before the first advent, as it was on Good Friday and as it will be today. What will it be? As the Blessed Virgin said in her messages, the cardinals, bishops and priests have neither Faith nor Charity. Christ's words are; 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity. In other words, they are not inside the Church. They are not Catholics. Pope Benedict noticed this and analyzed it in his Report. But Moral theologians, like Pinckners traced this lost of Faith as early as the 14th century. This lost of Faith got worse on the 16th century according to the Blessed Virgin, and became totally decadent during the reign of the 11 Popes (from Pius IX to Benedict XVI - popularly referred to as the 2nd Advent Popes.) After Vatican II, Cardinal Ratzinger described the lost of Faith and Charity as totally irreversible. During his Papacy Benedict just went with the current in the hope he could salvage a few.
 What did he do to salvage the few? He pretended to resign.
 Pope Benedict had reached the perfection of his papacy by going to the roof like St. Peter. Now he will perform another perfect act of his Papal Office which St. Peter, also, did. St. Peter exposed himself to martyrdom. How will Pope Benedict do this?

5. The possibility of an anti-pope.
 Anti-popes are common in the Church. Natalius and St. Hippolitus, the first and second anti-pope who both subjected themselves to the true existing popes were, thus, reconciled with the Church. The second was even a saint. But anti-popes are, generally, works of Satan to destroy the Church. We had more than 40 anti-popes. Common occurrence, isn't it.
 If, as prophesied above, there will be decay of Faith and waxing cold of Charity among the cardinals, bishops and priests, as prefigured before the first Advent and on Good Friday, then there is the great possibility that during those times these unfaithful cardinals would elect one of their own kind, one without Faith and Charity. And that can only be an anti-pope, one who is strictly speaking not a Catholic and, therefore, has no right to rule the Church.

 Pope Benedict suspected that there is one just around the corner. Hildegard of Bingen, whom he raised to the dignity of doctor of the Church, noted this anti-pope in her 10th vision. St. Francis of Assisi warned his friars of this anti-pope in his death bed.
 If Pope Benedict remained as pope until his death, the election of an anti-pope as a successor without a real Pope at the helm of the Church would have been a catastrophe for the Church. Pope Benedict did a brilliant maneuver that could only be dictated by God, Himself.
 Benedict will not wait for his death. He wants to see the anti-pope and continue to be at the helm of the Church leading her against the anti-pope and the evil spirits. How can he get the anti-pope into the open? By pretending to resign and allow a conclave to uncanonically elect the anti-pope.
 Now we have a diarchy. No! We have one Pope and an anti-pope. That solves the problem of the debate in Rome.

 It is no accident that we are celebrating a year in honor of Peter Celestine. He is a saint who as Pope ruled perfectly as the Heavenly is perfect. And who chose, like Peter to stay in the roof (his monastery) to pray and contemplate on the Words of God. But Boniface, the other pope whose life and death makes him look more like an anti-pope martyred Peter putting him in a miserable jail for 10 months until he died. This lack of Charity and consequently the lack of Faith are signs he was not a Catholic and, therefore, an anti-pope. Boniface died miserably. Is Pope Benedict facing the same danger Pope Pius V saw in a vision similar to the third secret of Fatima?

 Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-34425084391079271072014-07-03T15:32:00.002+11:002014-07-03T15:32:12.970+11:00CORPUS CHRISTI - If you do not eat my flesh and drink My Blood you will have NO life in you.Nexus; we have been putting together a collage of evangelical truths as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. And we have been adding the logical consequences from these truths equally taken from Scriptures, the Fathers and other Catholic literature. The goal is to make a clear picture of the state of the Church and the world today.....at this very moment, 2014.

 We have taken up the words of Christ prophesying the 'decay of Faith' and the 'waxing cold of Charity.' This had occurred among the Chosen people before the birth of Christ and during His ministry . It has worsened after the centuries of the martyrs, it continued to further deteriorate through the centuries. It became intolerable before the Council of Trent. It became desperate before Vatican I and had become irreparable after Vatican II.

 As this decay of Faith and Charity worsens, as is expected, then most Cardinals, bishops and priests would have neither Faith nor Charity, as had happened many times in the Church and which we expect to happen at its worst today.
 In the Liturgy of Pentecost Christ gave the apostles the power to forgive sins after they have perfected their Faith and reached Charity. If most of our bishops and priest do not have Faith nor Charity then they would have neither the power to love their neighbor nor to forgive sins (as we have seen in the Gospel of Pentecost.) These gifts were given to the apostles when they had reached a certain level of perfection (in ascetical parlance, when they have reached the unitive way or the perfection of Charity.)

 Now, let us proceed to another conclusion based on the two prophesies of Christ. Christ gave His apostles the power to forgive sins before Pentecost. When did the apostles begin to celebrate Mass? Obviously not before Pentecost. The power to celebrate Mass was given to them after Pentecost; after their Faith and Charity had been perfected. If most of the cardinals, bishops and priests and consequently most of the laymen are without Faith, Charity and without the forgiveness of their sins, then they would not be able to eat the flesh of Christ nor drink His Blood. They would be eating and drinking the accidents of the Bread and Wine but would not be able to eat and drink the Body and Blood of Christ. The Sacred Host would go through their mouth, stomach and out but Christ would not abide in their souls. Because they have neither Faith nor Charity their masses would be, not only illicit, but invalid and the communion distributed would be mere bread and wine.
 The Sacrament of Holy Orders and Holy Eucharist depend on the proper disposition of both celebrant and recipient. And the proper disposition is Faith and Charity or sanctifying grace; and the Holy Eucharist must be celebrated and received in a community that is of one mind and one heart; i.e. a Church. If you have neither then, as St. Paul states, you are receiving the Body and Blood of Christ unto your condemnation.

 It had been prophesied at the time of Judas Macchabeus that because of the infidelity of the Jews God chastised them by removing from their priests the power to offer the Sacrifice. It was again prophesied that through the infidelity of the Jews by Good Friday, God would remove from the priests the power to offer Sacrifice. That is why the Ark of the Covenant where God's presence disappeared from the temple. Christ prophesied that the same thing will happen during these times. Because of the unbelief in the Church, the powers of the priests to absolve and celebrate Mass would be taken away by God. The destruction of the temple prophesied by Christ before His passion refers to the future destruction of the Catholic Church that St. Francis tried to prop up but now has collapse.
 God's withdrawal of the power to forgive sins and consecrate the Spicies from the priesthood, aside from being a chastisement for an unbelieving Church, is because of the arrival of the Reality of God. The coming reality must dispel the shadows. Christ is coming, its shadow, the Host, must give way.
 The rampant Liturgical abuses of priests and the dislike of the present Pope and Curia for the old, original Liturgy of the Mass is helping hasten the process. Without Faith and Charity (which anyone can easily prove) they are not popes, nor cardinals, nor bishops, nor priests because as St. Bellarmine stated because they are not even Catholics.
 Imagine with no Masses and no forgiveness of sins.....what chances do we have to be saved? Well, by returning to the instructions of Christ in the Gospel of Ascension which the present pope and bishop's Synod are not following; and learning what Christ told the Samaritan woman at the well where the disappearance of the Mass was implied. 'The day will come when true worshipers (will not go to Church for Mass) but will worship in truth and in spirit.'
 Briefly, the three stages of the spiritual life are; the purgative which is the life of repentance. The illuminative which is the life of Faith and the unitive which is the life of Charity. The Pope and bishops should be in the unitive way. Diocesan priests should be at least in the illuminative. The rest should be in the purgative. An analysis of each stage shows that no one is in their right places.

 Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-55253127290896278322014-06-21T10:07:00.001+11:002014-06-21T10:08:59.559+11:00TRINITY SUNDAY - He who does not believe is already condemned.1. LITURGY OF THE MASS.
 The whole plan of salvation that we must know and which we must teach all men through evangelization begins on Advent and ends on Pentecost. That is from the month of November to June. People can be evangelized for eight months, though only on Sundays, simply by explaining the Gospels. Then how come most Catholics are still ignorant of the commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament even after years of hearing Mass? The defect is in the Mass celebrant; the Cardinals, bishops and priests. There is a 'decay of Faith'. And a review of past videos of homilies in the Internet will prove the point. Homilies are nice but does not evangelize because they do not follow Christ's Apostolic Commission as narrated in St. Matthews Gospel read on Ascension.
 Imagine, the plan of salvation can be learned in 41 Sunday Gospels during that 8 months from Advent to Pentecost. Those 41 Gospel lessons can be learned leisurely in a one-month retreat in a monastery. And we have no time to set aside one month in our lives to learn how to prepare for our last judgment before God?! But our Cardinals, bishops and priests had studied these for at least 6 years in seminaries and theological schools. But they studied it the wrong way ending up learning nothing. And this, as had been noted, had been happening as early as the 14th century up to the present and nobody had corrected it when all they had to do was read the Gospel of St. Matthew on Ascension and read the commentaries of the Fathers of the Church as summarized by St. Thomas of Aquinas in his 'Catena Aurea.'
 Looking at the so-called Apostolic Commission by Jesus Christ in Matthew, the steps on evangelization are; make disciples of all nations, baptizing them......, commanding them to observe all my commandments. These steps must all be obeyed and obeyed in that order. The Liturgy of the Mass divides the same three steps into four ; repentance, Faith, Hope and Charity. Pope Benedict repeats the four steps mentioned in the Liturgy but using different words; conversion, entrance into the Catholic Church, encounter with Christ (the visible head of the Church) and encounter with the Holy Spirit (the invisible soul of the Church.)
 Around the 14th century the heresy of Nominalism rejected the need for the first step, conversion or repentance. And the 2013 Bishop's Synod retained this omission. Without the first step it becomes impossible to go to the second, third and fourth steps.

 In the Gospel for Pentecost Christ gave the apostles the power to forgive sins together with loving their neighbor with supernatural Charity. Pentecost falls on the fourth step. Cardinals, bishops and priest who have not reached the fourth step because they omitted the first step cannot absolve sins and cannot love their neighbor with supernatural Charity. Imagine if this is your bishop and parish priest.

 St. Thomas of Aquinas reminded us that when we throw a metal ball up, as it goes up it slows down as it approaches its apex until it completely stops and returns back to earth. But when a metal ball is dropped it accelerates the nearer it approaches the ground. The same thing happens in the spiritual life. As a soul ascends to the apex of Charity it slows down until it reaches the summit. But when a soul falls it accelerates faster as it approaches the ground.
 That is what happened to our Cardinals, bishops and priests. As they ascended towards the perfection of Charity they slowed down so that most of them stopped before they reached the apex. But when their Faith decayed and Charity grew cold, it deteriorated so fast that they immediately reached the bottom. Imagine all our priests affected by Nominalism during the 14th century. Probably the few who tried to rise to the perfection of Charity never made it due to their defective knowledge of Asceticism. While those influenced by the heresy simply plummeted down with high speed to zero in Faith and Charity as early as before the Council of Trent; thus the reason for holding that Council. And from that time up to the present we expect the fulfillment of Christ's prophecy that 'there will be no Faith upon the earth.' With no Faith there will be no Charity. Without Faith and Charity they cannot forgive or retain sins a power that goes with Charity.

 How was Pope Benedict able to remain uninfluenced by this great apostasy among the priests, we shall explain in a separate post. He noticed this great 'infidelity of the future' described by Blessed John Newman in the seminary of Tubingen, he noted it as a 'periti' during Vatican II in his 'Highlights of Vatican II,' he experienced it in the Vatican during Vatileaks and gay lobby scandal, he observed it during the 2013 Bishop's Synod.....just as St. Augustine noticed it in the Church of Hippo, as St. Francis noticed it in his time and St. Phillip Neri experienced it in the Papal courts. In fact Ratzinger was contaminated but was able to get out of the whirlpool saved by the teachings of St. Augustine and Blessed John Cardinal Newman.

2. HAVING FINISHED THE WHOLE OUTLINE, THE LITURGY RETURNS TO STEP 2, FAITH, on Trinity Sunday.
 Having given us the complete outline of the plan of salvation from Advent to Pentecost, Holy Mother the Church returns to the topic of Faith. In the old Sunday Missal you will find a general heading on the top page of Trinity Sunday saying: 'Instruction on Developing One's Faith.' These instructions will continue for the next 35 Sundays in Ordinary Time up to Christ the King wherein Holy Mother the Church will give us 35 visible signs of Faith. With those visible signs we can know if we or anybody else have Faith........whether he is a priest, a bishop, a cardinal or a Pope. With 35 visible signs we cannot make a mistake. And God does not want us to commit a mistake because upon Faith depends the beginning of our salvation. It is better though if we reach Charity. The importance of Faith is shown by the Gospel of Trinity Sunday.
 Christ said; 'He who believes in Him will avoid condemnation and he who does not believe is already condemned.' The importance of knowing if we have Faith or not is most evident in the above statements. We have to know if we have Faith while we are still alive because when we die it is too late to do anything if we do not have Faith and are already condemned. To help us Christ saw to it that the signs of Faith are visible and there are 35 of them. So if we don't have Faith we can still do something about it before it is too late. Probably enter a Carthusian monastery in the Alps.

3. 2 LEVELS OF UNDERSTANDING.
 The Gospel messages of the 35 Sundays in Ordinary Time have two levels of understanding; the natural and the supernatural. The natural message is the visible sign meant for the understanding of those without Faith but who are well on the way to receiving the gift of Faith. Pagans do not have this. But most Catholics, also, do not have this so they are ignorant of these visible signs.
 The supernatural level is the invisible, supernatural infused knowledge given exclusively to those with Faith, i.e. the contemplatives. These are spiritual signs which all members of the Church should have according to Pope Benedict. Only those with Faith can detect these spiritual signs in themselves and in others thus assuring them that they believe and, therefore, avoid condemnation (as the Gospel states.) It is this spiritual sign and knowledge that Pope Benedict was encouraging all Catholics to find out if they have during the just concluded 'Year of Faith.'
 God gave us the natural understanding of the N.T. Gospel messages precisely to enable us, firstly, to judge our selves. And secondly so we may know if others have Faith or not so we can begin evangelizing them accordingly. And thirdly, so we can know if our priests, bishops, cardinals and Pope have Faith so we can truly accept them in complete obedience as our Catholic guides to heaven. We cannot afford to commit the mistake of being under a parish priest named Martin Luther or under a bishop name Marcion or a pope name Felix (an anti-pope.) So we must know these visible signs of Faith and check everyone and every truth before believing and submitting. Our spiritual leaders must present proper credentials; proofs that their teachings are a continuity from the teachings of Christ as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. No credentials, no submission. For as St. Paul wrote; whatever is not of Faith is sin; i.e. those without Faith lead us to condemnation.
 The Franciscan friars and sisters should have checked if their commissars and the pope who appointed them have Faith using the 35 visible signs. St. Robert Bellarmine S.J., doctor of the Church wrote; if they have no Faith have nothing to do with them, not even if he is pope. Otherwise they will be led only to condemnation. For the Franciscans to have submitted to people without Faith showed that they, themselves, did not know the visible signs of Faith. Did they return to seminaries and reviewed their Moral theology as instructed by Pope Benedict during the 'Year of the Priest?' Did they check themselves if they had Faith when Pope Benedict ordered all Catholics to check on their Faith during the 'Year of Faith.' Maybe not. That act of disobedience is a visible sign that they have no Faith. Did they forget that St. Francis of Assisi before he died warned his followers that during these times there will be an anti-pope who will persecute his order? Maybe they forgot. Forgetfulness of prophecies which, St. Paul wrote is for believers, is, also, a sign of a lack of Faith.

 The devil, indeed, had entered the Catholic Church and ruined it. Was it Gaudentius who said that the ruin of the Coliseum in Rome will announce the beginning of the ruin of the Church of Rome, the same Church St. Francis of Assisi was preventing from collapsing? But St. Francis is no more. Though the buildings are still there, the spiritual ruin seems to had come.
 Sadly, if we use these 35 visible signs of Faith to check on ourselves, our loved ones and our bishops, priests, cardinals and even the present Pope the possibility is great that we will find no sign of Faith because we have arrived at the day Christ had prophesied. The Popes from Pius IX to Pope Benedict (as we like to repeat) had already noticed it and made provisions to minimize its destructive trend. Pius IX declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception precisely to stem the deterioration of Faith. Leo XIII imposed the study of St.Thomas of Aquinas for the same reason. John XXIII summoned Vatican II to re-evangelize the Church that have lost her Faith. And Ratzinger sounded the alarm in his 'Ratzinger Report' where he gave a clear theological description of this on going 'crisis of Faith.'

4. THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
 In the next posts we shall discuss the 35 visible signs of Faith as described in the next 35 Gospels in Ordinary Time so everyone can make that crucial judgment; do I have Faith so there is no condemnation in me; or do I not have Faith and, therefore, I am already condemned.
 Charity, the love of neighbor, also, obliges us to find out if our loved ones, our parish priest, our dear bishops, reverend cardinals and above all our present Pope.....are they saved or condemned? As the Gospel of |Trinity Sunday reminds us.....we can have that answer while we are still alive. St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote; God's judgment had already been made and we can know what it is pending final execution. Let us make certain it is the judgment for those with Faith. So we begin with a premise in the Gospel of Trinity Sunday, 'he who does not believe is already condemned,' and as the heading of the Missal states, let us understand how to grow in Faith and act on it; 'For blessed is the man who hears and acts.....he is like the man who built his house on rock........'Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-14887969098303598372014-06-17T17:36:00.002+11:002014-06-17T17:36:34.227+11:00PENTECOST - and the 'waxing cold of Charity.'NEXUS:
 We have been discussing Christ's prophecy about the continuous 'decay of Faith' that will worsen in the Catholic Church as we approach the end. And there is the other prophecy: its consequence which is the 'waxing cold of Charity.' With both prophecies the expectation is prophesied also and that is the rise of an anti-pope and that most of the hierarchy will be without Faith and Charity. These truths had been foretold primarily in the Old and New Testaments. These truths were further explained by the Fathers of the Church and further confirmed by the Blessed Virgin in her apparitions. Our role is to be watchful for these events and respond in the only Catholic way we can; the proper response is taught in the Liturgy of the Mass.
 Everybody seems to be talking and expecting a spring time in the Church quoting Pope John XXIII unmindful of the fact that the good Pope said we are still in the dead of winter where everything is dead in the Church and that the spring is still in the unknown future. In our recent posts we have been describing this winter where both Faith and Charity are frozen dead in the majority of Catholics.
 We will continue to further prove the frozen death of the Church with the Liturgy of Pentecost.

1. BY EASTER THE APOSTLES HAD THE WISDOM NEEDED TO PREACH BUT THEY DID NOT HAVE THE POWER TO PREACH UNTIL AFTER PENTECOST.
 The apostles had the gift of knowledge when Christ called them and had the gift of wisdom to preach by Easter. But they only had the power to preach after Pentecost. Their preaching before Easter and Pentecost were mere dry runs and, therefore, defective; as shown that once while preaching the apostles could not drive the devil out. After Pentecost the apostles could command the devil at will.
 Today, Catholic evangelizers have neither the knowledge nor the wisdom nor the power to preach ......and the Gospel of Pentecost will show why.

2. HOW COME PREACHERS DO NOT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE and eventually the WISDOM and POWER needed to preach.
 They do not have the knowledge and this is shown by the fact that they do not know the commands of Christ as enumerated in the New Testament and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church which is the content of the gift of knowledge. It means they do not have Faith, the virtue that makes one a Catholic. This gift of knowledge goes with the virtue Faith; both are infused in any soul that has undergone true conversion.
 They do not have the wisdom to preach because they do not have the knowledge in which wisdom is built on. Wisdom is the deeper knowledge of Divine Revelation. It is the superior form of knowledge.
 They do not have the power to preach because they do not have the love of neighbor and love of God which is Charity in which this power is built on.
 How come preachers do not have the knowledge, wisdom and power to preach, all of which are the advanced courses in the spiritual life? Because they haven't entered kindergarten though they behave as if they are doctors of the church.

 Pope Benedict repeated the need for these gifts in his 'Year of Faith" stating that knowledge, wisdom and power are found together only in contemplatives. These are infused gifts and are not learned from seminaries or theological schools. As Christ said; 'it is not men who taught you this but My Father in Heaven.' He did not hesitate to say that the Church today should be a Church of contemplatives; basing this truth from the Gospel narrative of the Apostles' boat trip in Lake Tiberias after the Resurrection of Christ.

 These gifts of Knowledge, Wisdom and the power to convert souls are no longer present in most cardinals, bishops and priest since the Council of Trent up to now, for reasons already mentioned above. This fact was further noted by Our Lady of Good Success in an apparition immediately after the Council of Trent in Quito, Ecuador in the 1600 when she told Sis. Mariana to go to the dark chapel at night for she would like to show her a vision. Mariana went and after she returned the Blessed Virgin asked her; 'what did you see? Mariana said 'nothing, it was totally dark' Mary said;' that is how the Catholic Church will look like in the year 2000 and forwards.....a Church in total darkness, without Faith and without Charity among the clergy.' This is nothing new since it was prophesied by Christ, Himself. After that came the avalanche of defections away from the Catholic Church in Europe. Today we can include South America, Quebec, the Far East, everywhere. It all begun with the spiritual defections of Cardinals, Bishops and priest. It was merely followed by the physical defection of the lay. Many had remained physically within the Catholic Church but are spiritually out of the Church.

3. DISOBEDIENCE TO ONE COMMAND IS DISOBEDIENCE TO ALL.
 We have seen the three important elements in Christ's formula of evangelization as enumerated in the Gospel of Ascension. We showed how disobedience to the first step, 'making disciples of all nations' which consisted in obedience to the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament caused disobedience to all the commands of God the Son in the New Testament.
 Now let us see how disobedience to the commands of God the Father and God the Son would cause disobedience to the commands of God the Holy Spirit.
 The Holy Spirit is the author of Love (here we wish to use the proper word 'Charity' or 'Agape.') Note that the Gospel of Pentecost day was not about the descend of the Holy Spirit among the apostles though the first reading referred to it. The Gospel was about Christ breathing on the apostles and giving them the power to forgive and retain sins.
 St. Thomas of Aquinas noted that this incident happened many days before Pentecost. Here Christ breathed on His disciples to give them the power to love their neighbors in preparation to giving them the power to love God. The power to love neighbor and the power to love God were given separately to the apostles; not together. The two loves were given days apart. Note that when Christ gave the apostles the power to love their neighbor He, also, gave them the power to forgive sins. The lesson is clear. The apostles must first receive from the Holy Spirit through the breath of Christ the power to love one's neighbor before they can forgive sins. This love of neighbor is a supernatural virtue acquired after the apostles have obeyed all the commands of the Father and of the Son as instructed by Christ.
 Cardinals, bishops and priest should have reached the heights of spirituality reached by the apostles on Easter for them to be worthy to undergo Easter and Pentecost. If they have not reached this spirituality where Christ would breath on them giving them the supernatural power to love their neighbors then they cannot absolve sins; all their absolution would be invalid. The sins of their penitents would be forgiven depending on the penitent's personal life of repentance, instead, which assuming there is 'decay of Faith and 'waxing cold of Charity' will be impossible for most penitent.
 Imagine this era which Christ prophesied where most priests do not have the power to forgive sins due to the 'waxing cold of Charity' whose author is the Holy Spirit ....and penitents are ignorant how to repent due to the 'decay of Faith' whose author is Jesus.

4. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE COLLISEUM
 Today we have a church that is experiencing a 'decay of Faith' and a 'waxing cold of Charity.' The first Christian martyrs, also mentioned, that the Church in Rome will decay at the same time as the Roman Colliseum is ruined.
 First prophesied by Christ, clearly explained by the Fathers and confirmed by the Blessed Virgin in her apparitions from Quito, Ecuador to Kibejo, Rwanda....... the Popes from Pius IX to Benedict XVI had, also, warned us of the approaching 'second Advent'. Pope John XXIII stated that he took the name John because like John the Baptist the precursor of the first Advent, he wants to act again as a precursor of Christ as we approach the second Advent to a Church that does not believe in Him. No Faith.
 Why would Pope Benedict write a book entitled Jesus Christ when there are so many books, films, etc.. on Jesus Christ? Because, he says, the Church does not know Christ from all those sources. And why did Pope Benedict raise St. Hildegard, a 11th century Benedictine Abbess as a doctor of the Church today after all these years? Because in her 10th vision of her book 'Scivias' she described the lost of Faith and Charity among most of the priests, bishops and the rise of an anti-pope sometime around an attempt on the life of a Pope. Could this, also, be the reason why Pope Benedict stepped down giving up the exterior administration of his papacy? To pray because there is absolute nothing he can do in such a situation except to pray as St. Peter, the first Pope, did in the roof top; believing Christ who said; 'this problem can only be solved by prayer and fasting.' What??? Not by renewal, not by revamping the Curia, not by appointing modernist bishops, not by raising to the cardinalate followers of the hermeneutics of discontinuity, not by starting a new sect, not by improving one's public relation image? Christ did not mention any of the above. He simply said; 'Prayer and fasting,' and the prayer part should be done 'unceasingly.' Which leaves one no time for kissing the feet of women, phoning married adulterous wives or feeding the widows of the Hebrews and the Greeks....nay, not even praying with orthodox, Jews and Palestinians nor with heads of democratic baby killers.

5. ST. PAUL noted; IF YOU HAVE IT YOU CAN DEFINE IT AND EXPLAIN HOW TO ACQUIRE IT. Further evidence of the absence of Knowledge, Wisdom and Power to evangelize prevalent in the Church today; from the Pope, down to the Cardinals, bishops and priest...and sadly among the nuns, the ecclesial communities and the ordinary Faithful.
 If you cannot define nor explain how it is acquired, then, you don't have it. If you have the Catholic Faith you can describe it and teach others how to acquire it. This is evangelization.

 I introduced the Catholic Charismatic movement around here. I learned it from an American priests who learned it in Ann Arbor. I noticed how much the movement depended on the letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians as doctrinal basis. But I was a monk. And I have learned that the Charismatic gifts were found only among the hermits, not in the outer desert, but in the more austere inner desert of Scetia. These were the mystics who have reached the perfection of Charity, the highest degree in the spiritual life. On the other hand the members of the present day Charismatics are laymen who are not even in the desert. It did'nt jibe. So I went and checked things out with Corinthians, as what all Catholics should always do.
 I noticed that the manifestations, as they are called, in the charismatic movement were identical to the gifts mentioned in Corinthians. The manifestations were not similar to the description of the gifts contemplatives and mystics who truly possessed the charismatic gifts so called had. In Corinthians, St. Paul clearly stated in very polite terms that because they could not define nor explain the gifts of the Holy Spirit this meant that they did not really have the gifts especially because of their serious sins. Neither the gifts nor the theological virtues can exist with sins.
 The Corinthians eventually left the Catholic Church. If they truly had the gifts they would never have left the Church. In short, the Corinthians did not really have the gifts because, as St. Paul reasoned because they could not define nor describe how the gifts were acquired.
 This was noted by Ronald Knox in his splendid book 'Enthusiasm.' What happened to the Corinthians happened also to the Montanists. These were a heretical sect whose charismatic manifestations were similar to the manifestations of the Corinthians. Their founder who, earlier, was a pagan priest who became a Catholic and introduced these highly emotional pagan manifestations into the Catholic Church was Montanus. He founded the Montanist sect where these manifestation were common. Later on the whole sect left the Church. Many modern Catholic Charismatics are similar to the Corinthians and Montanists......or to be more modern, identical to the Protestant Pentecostals.
 In a recent gathering of charismatics Pope Francis sent his good friend as their speaker....a Protestant charismatic. And the M.C. of the gathering was another Protestant charismatic. And the video greetings of Pope Francis sounded like the Protestant guests. The Catholic session was thoroughly Protestant confirming what another Protestant minister observed; that the Catholic Church is well on her way to becoming a Protestant sect. Their common denominator is that they could not define nor explain how the gifts are acquired; just like the Corinthians.
 Pope Benedict had clearly defined Faith, Hope and Charity in his three encyclicals. He had taught all priest how to acquire them in the 'Year of the Priests.' And encouraged the whole Catholic world to check if they have them in the 'Year of Faith.' That means he knows these virtues and certainly has them in his soul. He would be the perfect evangelizer because he obeys both the Gospels of Ascension and Pentecost.
 Pope Francis' 'Lumen Fidei' was very good but it was written by Pope Benedict though signed by Pope Francis. When the latter followed it up with another encyclical with the same topic in 'Evangelii Gaudium,' though lengthier and more verbose, the idea of Faith was unclear, confused and leading nowhere. His initial defective definition of love in his words 'love without dogma' which was more like Sigmund Freud's 'erotika' rather than St. Augustine's 'agape' derailed his encyclical thus leading the Church astray showing he does not love his neighbor......and the same can be said of the bishop's synod of 2012 from which Pope Francis based his encyclical.

6. The Liturgical year teaches us the visible signs of the steps towards perfection from conversion to charity, from observance of the Golden Rule to observance of Charity towards neighbors and Love of God. These visible signs, described in the Liturgy, are absent everywhere today. Prophesied by Christ, tackled by the Council of Trent, prophesied by Our Lady in Ecuador in the 16th century up to Rwanda in the 20th century, and attempted by 11 Popes to instill in the Church with minimal effects, though they were still bound to try due to their obligation as Popes,....... the prophecies have been fulfilled as expected.....the 'decay of Faith,' the 'waxing cold of Charity,' and its unavoidable consequence, the election of an anti-pope.

7.Repercussions.
 The Pope, Cardinals, bishops and priests have the burden of proof that they have Faith, Hope and
Charity, i.e. that they are truly Catholics before they deserve our reverence and obedience. If they cannot then Catholics should have nothing to do with them. This was emphasized by St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J. Doctor of the Church, Suarez, S.J. and St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church. Unless Pope Francis can prove he has the signs of Catholicity his name should not be in the Canon of the Mass. And neither should the Franciscan Immaculata be subject to the powers in the Vatican. Neither should the Lefebvre group join Rome because this is tantamount to a schismatic group transferring to another schismatic group. And the same can be said of such groups as the orthodox and protestant sects. They should check if the powers in Rome have Faith and Charity, in short Catholic. Their salvation depends on this.
 Why are we trying to pin down who the anti-pope is? Out of Charity! Because St. John writes that God will personally throw him into hell even ahead of the devils who are still roaming the earth. As a priest I should encourage him to give up being an anti-pope, submit himself to the true Pope and like St. Hippolytus, the first anti-pope, be counted among the saints in heaven instead.

Gloria Olivaehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13456321.post-12715975742828583442014-06-06T20:48:00.002+11:002014-06-06T20:48:56.676+11:00 CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL 'DECAY OF FAITH.' - Ascension Sunday1. LOVE OF GOD - is Obedience to God's commands, states the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter. Since there are three persons in the Blessed Trinity, love of God, then, is obedience to the commands of God the Father in the O.T., the commands of God the Son in the N.T., and the commands of God the Holy Spirit in contemplation.
 The Liturgical Year begins with the first lessons of the plan of salvation. And this is Advent teaching the life of Repentance as taught in the Old Testament and preached last by St. John the Baptist. The last lessons of the plan of salvation is taught on Easter Sundays. The topic is Charity, the goal of the spiritual life, taught on the Sundays before the Ascension. Then Ascension reviews in summary form the entire plan of salvation as summarized in Christ's Apostolic Commission, found in the last chapters of the Gospel of Matthew and John. Here Christ summarized what is to be done to save one's soul and the souls of other; the process is described as ' evangelization.'

 We have been putting together several teachings of Christ as interpreted by the Fathers showing their inter-relationship thus exhibiting the 'unity of Christian Doctrine' described by St. Thomas of Aquinas. All the commands of God lead to the perfection of Charity. All the commands of God are acts of love thus Christ said; 'If you love Me, keep My commands.' So that obedience to one command of God is obedience to all. While disobedience to one is disobedience to all, St. Peter writes in his epistle. This does not apply to the commands of men.

 We have seen in the previous posts three truths, namely: first, the impending 'decay of Faith' that had always been happening in the Church with its climactic disaster soon to come at an age prophesied by Christ and prefigured by the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem. Secondly, the consequence of the 'decay of Faith' is the 'waxing cold of Charity' since Charity presupposes Faith; no dogmas no Charity. And the third truth is the consequence of both 'decay of Faith' and 'waxing cold of Charity' is a Divine chastisement which could be a war, an earthquake or today, the rise of the last anti-pope. The cause of these three is disobedience to God's commands.
 The lost of Faith and Charity will, primarily, be in the hierarchy and will only spread among the lay as a consequence. This was prophesied in the Old Testament by Ezechias, Daniel and confirmed by Christ. And it actually happened during the time of Judas Macchabeus and on Good Friday as types that will eventually happen today. With the lost of Faith and Charity the enemy always raises an anti-pope. In fact, the entire hierarchy is prophesied to be anti-Christ as what happened to the entire Jewish priesthood on Christmas night and Good Friday (both are types of the state of the Church today.)
 We must view this whole scenario with the back drop of Charity as obedience to the commands of God.

 We cannot obey the commands of God and, therefore, love God unless we, first, understand and obey the words of God. To understand each command we should judge with our minds that these are, indeed, the commands of God as found in Divine Revelation. Having judged with certainty that this is, indeed, the word of God we must now assent with our intellect. Not to judge is not to know the commands, not to assent to the commands, not to obey the commands and, therefore, not to love God. Without making judgments one is, sadly, left egotistically loving oneself. 'Who are we to judge' is an unacceptable excuse.

 Not to judge will result in 'not being able to make an act of Faith,' consequently 'not having Charity' and finally being chastised with 'an anti-pope'.... as the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter and the Gospel of Ascension will show.

2. 6TH SUNDAY OF EASTER. The lesson of the 6th Sunday of Easter is this. Charity is obedience to the commands of Christ. We must first know His commandments and this is Faith. Then we obey His commands and this is Charity. And here let us add what St. Peter in his epistle wrote; while perfect obedience to one command of God, is obedience to all; disobedience to one command is disobedience to all the commands. Keeping this in mind let us proceed to the feast of the Ascension.

3. FEAST OF ASCENSION. EVANGELIZATION according to CHRIST.
 Cardinals and bishops are talking of evangelization. But nobody is saying it right. The only way of evangelizing was taught by Christ in the Gospel of Ascension. There is no other way. Though Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict referred to it as 'new evangelization,' the latter emphasized that it is not 'new' but the same old classical evangelization taught by Christ in the last chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. And in the 'Year of Faith' Pope Benedict repeated the exact steps described in the Gospel of Ascension using the wordings of the Fathers. That was the last time the word 'evangelization' was defined correctly.
 After Pope Benedict we suddenly saw a hundred privately devised evangelizations from Cardinals, bishops and priests entirely different from Christ's. What happened? They disobeyed the commands of Christ on how to evangelize! Why? The logical reason is; by their disobedience they showed they do not have Faith in Christ and they do not love God, i.e. decay of Faith and waxing cold of Charity.
 Today it has become urgent to re-define, for one last time, the steps Christ taught on how to save oneself and others....commonly referred to as evangelization. And then delete all the rest which is next to impossible because of the hardheadedness of those without Faith.

 In the Gospel of Ascension Christ gave four steps. The second, third and fourth steps are essential and they must all be obeyed and obeyed in the proper order as enumerated. We can set aside the first step which is 'to go to all nations' which is not essential and which had already been done ....and go to the next three steps which we should apply to ourselves and to others to be saved. The complete text is: 'to go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Teach them to carry out everything I have commanded you.' Then Christ describes the Church as quoted in 'Lumen Gentium', 'I shall be with you until the end of the world,' which is true only AFTER we have all reached the perfection of the fourth step.

4. FIRST STEP:
 The first step describes the initial step in becoming a disciple. This step must be done before baptism because it is the preparation to dispose the soul to worthily receive the grace of baptism. This preparatory step consists in teaching the soul the commands of God the Father as taught in the Old Testament (keeping in mind that the beginnings of love of God is obedience to the commands of God as given in the Old Testament) as preached by John the Baptist. This is often referred to as the life of repentance or the life of conversion. This was taught to catechumens who were not allowed to participate in the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
 Among the three steps, this is in the natural level. Humans can do it using mere human efforts. The commands of God in the Old Testament, summarized in the 'Golden Rule' can be learned and obeyed by all man precisely because they are in the natural level. This first step is the only step man can do using mere human effort in the work of evangelization.
 The first step is, also, defined as natural faith similar to the faith a child has for his mother as described by John Newman in his 'Grammar of Assent.'
 Obedience to the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament must be perfect before we can receive the graces of Baptism. Even pagans can obey these.

5. SECOND STEP:
 By now the soul should have learned and obeyed the commands of God the Father as written down in the Old Testament. This is how one begins becoming a disciple. This is equivalent to living a life of repentance or a life of conversion just as the first apostles did as disciples of St. John the Baptist. The disciple can now be baptized and receive the graces because he has the proper disposition to worthily receive the Sacrament. This proper disposition is a human and natural act of assent of the mind and consent of the will ......roughly described as natural Faith. This is knowing and obeying the commands of God the Father. This is the beginning of love of God as defined in the 6th Sunday Mass of Easter.
 So we proceed to the second step of discipleship and this is by receiving the Sacrament of Baptism. If the recipient is properly disposed by knowing and obeying the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament..and he receives Baptism; first, he receives graces by which his past sins, specially original sin, are forgiven. Secondly, he receives the supernatural virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity in its initial stages. Together with the virtue of Faith, God gives him the infused knowledge of Christ commandments as found in the New Testament; this is a supernatural knowledge that is infused with grace and we need this for the next step.

6. THIRD STEP:
 Unlike the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament that can be learned and obeyed without the aid of grace (because they were meant for all men) the commandments of God the Son in the New Testament are supernatural and can only be learned and obeyed with the grace of God. The grace attained in the second step is essential. While learning and obeying the commands of the Old Testament is compared by St. Thomas of Aquinas to a man rowing a boat, learning and obeying the commands of the New Testament is akin to a man rowing a boat and aided by a giant sail to propel him. The latter is easier though it sounds and looks more difficult to the uninitiated.

 The above three steps of the classical evangelization or the way to holiness seem extremely easy so why are we experiencing what Christ prophesied the 'decay of Faith,' and the 'waxing cold of Charity,' and as a consequence, the chastisement of having an anti-pope? Because there is disobedience to the first step which is tantamount to disobedience to all the three above commands of Christ; a sign there is no Love of God. And consequently, as St. Augustine states, there is neither Faith which is the foundation of Charity. And the reason why there is no supernatural virtues is because there is no natural virtue which is the first step of discipleship which consist in obedience to the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament. The visible sign of both 'decay of Faith' and 'waxing cold of Charity' is disobedience to the commands of Christ in the New Testament which is happening now from the present Pope down to the Cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen. And the fact that nobody notices this rampant disobedience is because all do not know the commands of Christ which are being disobeyed. Even the occasional seeming obedience to Christ's command is often imperfect in imitation of the devil who occasionally teaches truth as bait to catch the unwary to his temptations to disobey God (as shown in Christ's dialogue with the devil.)
 These rampant disobedience is seen in the Pope's approval of communion to the divorced and remarried, in some bishop's interest in mere global warming, and in the priest's liturgical abuses. The differences among religious order and the different ecclesial communities are because they are choosy what commands to obey and what to set aside. There is no one who obeys ALL the commands of Christ as prescribed in the 3rd step of the above Gospel. Any who knows the commands of Christ in the N. T. can very easily see this. But then no one knows the more than 80 commands of Christ in the N.T. And so, who is he to judge? But he who has the infuse knowledge of Christ's command is destined to seat with Christ to judge all men.
 The third step, obedience to all the commands of Christ, was not taught in seminaries or anywhere else, it seems, since the 1800. Historians feel these were not taught even as early as the 1400. They were sporadically taught in the writings of the Doctors of the Church, holy Popes and those who studied these doctors They were the Golden chain that maintained the Church alive. But these were only a handful.

 If the first step, which is the foundation, is disobeyed, it is impossible to obey the next two steps.
 So during the 'Year of Faith' Pope Benedict made a last attempt to call on all Catholics to check if they are truly evangelized and, therefore, know the way to holiness. Previously he proclaimed the 'Year of the Priests,' wherein he instructed the Bishops to make their priest answer a questionaire by which Pope Benedict may know the state of the priesthood. Hardly any bishop answered the questionaire. When Pope Benedict scheduled the 2012 Bishop's Synod he instructed them to concentrate only on the first step which is man's only role because the remaining steps are God's role. But Bishop Eterovic, head of the preparatory commission, intentionally removed the first step as a topic for discussion working on the erroneous presumption that all Catholics had already done the first step and that all the bishops had already obeyed the three steps.
 His presumption was wrong and the Synod, in disobedience to Christ's command as given by Pope Benedict, proceeded from one error to another. The International Theological Commission, a group formerly advising Ratzinger and now a Pontifical Commission, noticed this omission. And this defective schema is what everybody is teaching as the formula of evangelization interpreted in a thousand different ways. Every Cardinal, bishop and priest has their own version of evangelization. Even Pope Francis' 'Evangelii Gaudium' because it was based on the 2012 Bishop's Synod propositions on evangelization as can be seen in the footnotes differs from the Gospel of Christ. It would have made St. Paul cry out 'Anathema!'

7. WHAT HAPPENED? .... in more detail.
 We were baptized prior to taking the initial step. We did'nt know the commands of God the Father in the Old Testament. We don't even know the contents of the Book of Wisdom or the warnings of Daniel about the decay of Faith and the waxing cold of charity. We were baptized as babies and knew nothing. So most of us did not obey the first step.
 Alright!,,, the Church changed the order. The Baptism came first and then the initial steps of discipleship was supposed to be done later through the instructions of our parents and god parents. But did they do it? No!
 Done neither before nor after Baptism we never had the proper disposition for baptism. And as St. Thomas of Aquinas mentioned as commentary to this Gospel, the water touched the body but the grace did not touch the soul. The grace was ineffective through our fault. So the possibility is great that there was no forgiveness of past sins, there was no supernatural virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity received. The infuse knowledge of the commandments of Christ and the ability to obey them was not given. There was no entrance into the Catholic Church. And there is no hope to go to heaven. The baby, probably, became a Christian for a few hours and immediately reverted to paganism. This is what happened to all of us; from Pope Francis down to the youngest teen-ager. Because there is no Faith no one could remind us that we were ignorant of the commands of God. Because there was no Charity no one could teach us how to obey the commands of God. Truly the 'decay of Faith' and the waxing cold of Charity' have come upon us. And the 2012 Bishop's Synod work on the presumption that we all have obeyed the three commands of Christ's Apostolic Commission.

 Ok. It was not our fault. We inherited these defective curricula from the 14th century. And the congregation on seminaries did nothing to correct it. If we don't want to go to hell then we should do something about it. Because we are under sentence of eternal perdition if we do not have Charity and Faith. Here is a suggestion.
 Let us stop committing the sin of presumption which will consist of all sins. Then study the Gospel of Ascension and the interpretation of the Fathers (to make it easier) as compiled by St. Thomas of Aquinas' commentary to the Gospel of St. Matthew and St. John. There we shall learn the first step which consist in knowing the commands of God in the O.T. But that is too long so we go to the summary written by St. Augustine in explaining repentance summarized in three words: Prayer, fasting and good works.
 After obeying those three words perfectly we are now ready for Baptism. But oooppsss. We are already baptized and this cannot be repeated. Are there substitutes for baptism so we can recover the graces supposed to be received. Yes. White or red martyrdom. White martyrdom is living the fullness of the monastic life which is considered second baptism. But it is next to impossible to find a monastery living the fullness of monastic life. It is easier to be a red martyr. So many countries are offering this service free of charge.
 Either red or white martyrdom will give us the effects of Baptism well undergone.....which is Christ will be with us until the end of the world.
 Gloria Olivaehttp://email@example.com