JUDAS

1. The liturgical feasts are not mere historical events. They are eschatological predictions. The historical events tells the Church what would happen to her in the future so she can make provisions for what will happen. 

     Judas was not just a traitor who sold Jesus thus facilitating the crucifixion of  Christ. He is a type of a Catholic bishop who would sell  the Church to satisfy the cravings of the sinful world for a price. The Catholic Church knew very well these prophetic events; and her more insightful members, like John Newman,  have been waiting for their fulfillment in today’s world. And surprising enough, the Liturgy shows that they are very well on schedule. 

2. On Good Friday.
     Good Friday is not a day that we just recall and cry over. Good Friday will eschatologically happen again today just as it first happened on Christmas Day, the first coming of Christ. The liturgical scenario of Christmas Day and Holy Week are identical. That is why both season are preceded by Advent and Lent, both time for repentance expressed in the violet liturgical color.

     Like on Good Friday, today, all the priests and the bishops will be in the streets exhorting the people to abandon Christ and enjoy the company of Lady Liberty, the goddess of the French Revolution.  Even the Catholics who used to welcome Christ with their Hosannas will be betraying Christ with their disobediences to His commands. 
     The saints in the Church today, like James, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew. Thomas, etc will be nowhere to be found. They are not in the dioceses nor in the parishes; none of whom will have any of the visible signs of the true Church.  They will be in hiding. Only John and Peter will be around; of course,  prominently with Mary. Joseph and Nicodemus will appear later. 
     Before, the entire  Jewish hierarchy, who were the first priests of the Chosen People, the initial Catholic Church, were on a rampage against Christ. This is what will exactly happen today.

     The majority of the priests and bishops will be trying to demolish the teachings of the Catholic Church  as if there is no tomorrow. They will destroy the Mass, the rosary, devotions to the saints, practices of processions, religious and monastic way of life, forbidding making the sign of the cross when passing in front of a church and over and above all these, they will silence good preaching.
      Like the hiding apostles, the few good bishops and priests will be silently watching and in hiding for fear of being fired from their offices either by Pope Francis or by their own bishops. This fear is very well published in the news; we read of very good young bishops still far from retirement being fired from their dioceses just because they established flourishing seminaries; like Livieres and Altieri. 
     Like Peter and John, a smaller number of bishops and priests will be visibly seen suffering with the Church but they will be very discreet, hardly preaching and correcting the rampaging crowds because they know it is useless to do so, as Christ did nothing to stop the maddening mob because the crowd have made their choice.
     Like Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, two will come out in the open to bury the Body of Christ; these are the ones who want to defend Christ and expose the heretical bishops but are too politically correct in their behaviour.  Only a Peter, hiding among the servants in the Vatican will make a whimper in defense of the Mystical Body of Christ. Hardly anyone will notice him.
     There is John, of course, who was defiantly showing he was on the side of Christ; like Cardinal Arinze, Burke and Sarah. And over all these good people stands a mother, like a bronze statue fully human yet unmoved by the demolition of her Son…….the Catholic Church, experiencing every beating, spitting, lashing, falling….but untouched  showing nothing of those marks in her person. These are the contemplatives that are now the only true members of the Catholic Church as St. Bonaventure wrote and quoted by Pope Benedict.
     This is a scenario that could only happen to a God made man once upon a time on Good Friday, and is prophetically going to be fulfilled today, the year 2000. And it is right on schedule. 

      Right on schedule, just like the Romans who condemned Christ, the whole world, from the US to the European Union, from Central America to Asia…….the whole non Christian world had gone against the teachings of Christ. 
      Right on schedule, just like the Jews who led in condemning Christ, the whole Catholic hierarchy, led by Pope Francis, are going against every teachings of Christ as proposed by past true Popes; against adultery, against contraception, against unbelief, against hating the world.  Like Caiaphas, the Pharisees and the Sadducee,  it is the president of Bishop’s conferences, working in collegiality, who are declaring that the Catholic Church of pre- Vatican II is old, sickly and almost dead. So euthanize her and start with a new man made protestant sect made according to the sinful hearts of men. Instead of saving souls from sin, the cry is to save the world from global warming. There is even an encyclical on it. 
     Like on Good Friday, the main sport of most of the bishops and priests will be the destruction of the Mystical Body of Christ. How can this happen? Because they do not know the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed. Even if these signs are just under their noses. Instead,  they will think that they are the church even if they do not have even a shadow of any of the four signs. 
      Right on schedule, just like in Jerusalem, the world is in turmoil with insurrections, wars, terrorisms, invasions, Catholics against Catholics and plaques that will eventually destroy the whole world as it did the city of Jerusalem, precisely predicted by Christ before His passion. 

3. And right on schedule, the act in which all these events circle around is the ‘treason of Judas.’ His act was not the cause of all these; but it became the central point around which all the events are gathered around. Judas was one of the first apostles. He was personally chosen and trained by Christ. How could Christ commit such a mistake? He was one of the first bishops. He was hearing Mass……. when Satan entered into him. 
     How could Satan enter him when he was in the midst of the apostles, all of whom were exorcists; when he was, in fact, in front of Christ.When he was in the accompany of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Was Satan so powerful he could destroy a soul in the midst of the Catholic Church with Christ present in the midst of them? No!
     Judas, by God’s permissive Will, was allowed to betray Christ. No one else was seen who will do that heinous crime but Judas. Judas, by his way of life, set himself aside to do that one task. Nobody else. He was constantly mentioned for several days up to Maundy Thursday…..for the Church to see what kind of a person he was.

4. What kind of a person was Judas?
     He was a sinner just like all of us. But he was different from all of us because from all eternity his sin was to play a part in the death of a God. Today, we are expecting such a man, in fact a bishop like Judas, who would be a sinner like all of us, but would be different from all sinners in that he will play a part in the prophesied attempt in the destruction of the Catholic Church.  Judas, as St. John the Evangelist described him was ‘one with us but not one of us.’ ‘One with us,’ he is a Catholic, a priest, a bishop, a cardinal and even pretending to be a Pope. But his mind and heart have absolutely no semblance with the mind and heart of Christ. Just the opposite; while Christ encourages all to be chaste virgins, the present Judas will encourage all to abandon their wives and children, remarry, get an annulment from the Vatican fast and cheap and receive Holy Communion. And still receive a guarantee from the Pope that they will be saved like the atheist Scalfari. 
     Like Judas who went to both the civil Roman authorities and the Ecclesiastical Jewish authorities to sell Christ, Judas’ type today will go to all the secular heads of state of the world, not forgetting the UN, to change the teachings of Christ to please all of them. And he will go to all the Bishops, starting with the good ones like in Mexico, Japan, Poland and Ecuador to convince them to please all sinners by going against the commandments of Christ. Filling the Bishop’s conferences with the yeast of the Pharisees. Thus pleasing both ecclesiastical and civil authorities who in turn will please the whole world…….he will be the most popular Judas in the world. 

     Just as Judas was instrumental  in the Crucifixion of Christ, the ‘new’ Judas in the Vatican will be instrumental  in the crucifixion of the Catholic Church. The Romans and Jews,  the civil and ecclesiastical authorities, will do the crucifying.  Judas will walk away to hang himself. 

5. The sin of Judas.
     The sin of Judas was just like our sins. As St. Augustine defined sin as ‘aversion from God’ and ‘conversion towards creatures.’ Judas removed his mind and heart from God; thus he did not know and did not love Christ. He, instead, focused his mind and heart on creatures; thus his knowledge was all about creatures and his love was on all creatures. He was creatures oriented; he was too much in the natural level.  The ‘new Judas’ will be too much in the natural level. Like Pope Francis,  he was never in the supernatural level. The few attempts on his part to be supernatural is pitifully inadequate. As if he never took up theology. His interest are in the natural level and even in the un-natural level; from climate change and immigrants to gays, homosexuals and transvestites. His attempts to speak in the supernatural levels are like attempts of the dodo birds to fly. No way can a dodo fly. 

     It is for this reason that fingers are pointing at the Vatican for the eschatological ‘Judas’. A sinner like all of us; but from the beginning of creation, was known in the mind of God to be the man who will betray the Mystical Body of Christ. The new ‘Judas’ is just like us but from all eternity known that he was described in the last book of Scriptures. That book really knows too much.  And we see some cardinals, like from the Philippines, ambitious to succeed him?

     On Good Friday our hearts is, of course, on Christ. But it goes out more to Judas because of what Christ said; ‘Woe to him who would betray the Son of Man.’ Most pitiful was he in that Jesus Christ, the apostles and even the Blessed Virgin could not do anything to save him. Satan, having entered him, had complete control over him. Judas could not even repent because in his sin he gave Satan complete control over him. Christ, after His last desperate attempt to win him, even gave up and said: ‘do whatever you have to do.’ Of all the sins in the world, it was seen in heaven that Judas was the one who would commit it. 
     We feel the same thing today. We are sadden by  all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ being martyred all over the world. But our heart goes to him who would betray the Church these days. We know that, just like Jesus and Mary, there is absolutely nothing we can do to save that soul. Because the whole of heaven knows that his particular bishop will the Judas who will betray the Catholic Church by selling her today to the world, , 
 of which Satan is the prince, that is like selling the Church to Satan.

6. Last picture.
     The last picture in this diorama is John and Mary. Mary is the Catholic Church. John will take the place of St. Joseph and become the protector of the Church. Mary is the pure contemplative community that the Church had become by this time. And John, the apostle whom Christ loved and the symbol of the life of prayer is her symbolic protector. Both, of course, belong to the contemplative life. 
     The Liturgy of Maundy Thursday has the removal of all the Blessed Sacraments from all the tabernacles. The Blessed Host will only be found in one tabernacle, for adoration. 
     As the world approaches the eschatological Maundy Thursday, there will be no Blessed Sacrament in all the tabernacles of the world; due to the infidelity of the world exhibited in the uncontrollable liturgical abuses in disobedience to the teachings of the Catholic Church. From the tango in the sanctuary to the priest in hoverboard during his homily and crowned by the suggestion of the Philippine liturgists with Cardinal Tagle during the last Eucharistic Congress to completely change the Mass…..as Psalm 50 states; the true sacrifice will be found only in the community of true believers surrounded by a wall (that Pope Francis wants removed) made by God. “A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit; a contrite and humbled heart. Deal favorably, O Lord in thy good will with Sion (the true Church with the four visible signs); that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.”
     That is the true Church which Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI had instructed us to built with their ‘new’ evangelization. And which Pope Francis and the Philippine CBCP in celebrating the 500 years anniversary completely missed in their man-made ‘new’ evangelization. 
     The Church, at this time, is pre-figured by the Upper Room, with a very exclusive group; where Judas was expelled, before the deepest secrets of the Catholic religion was taught encapsulated in the Mystery of the Mass. But that will be another post.