1. . The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a feast that teaches us the eschatology and the prophetic message of Scriptures. Note how nothing about the bodily assumption of Mary is mentioned in the whole Mass. Of course, Mary was assumed to heaven body and soul. But that is the historical aspect of the event. The Liturgy does not recall historical events. It prepares the people of God for what is coming and how to prepare for it. But both the eschatology and prophetic aspects of the message is based on the historical event.
2. The Feast of the Assumption is suppose to prepare the Church for the final battle between the forces of evil and the City of God. The first reading describes the preparation between the two camps. A great sign appears in the sky a woman clothed with the sun. She is the Church and she is prepared by God. God gives her two giant wings and lets her fly to the desert in a place specially prepared for her. She is there with her children, the people of God. There God takes care of the entire Church. The desert is the ‘new monasticism’ described by St. Bonaventure and quoted by Pope Benedict. Benedict’s ‘new’ evangelization is preparing the city of God in a fort (the desert) for the last battle.
The forces of evil which had already engulfed the world follows the woman in the desert (into the monastic life) and floods the desert hoping to drown her (with worldliness.) But God opens the desert to swallow the waters to save the Church. God, Himself, is leading the final battle.
3. In this scenario, the battle continues in the peripheries; i.e. in the unnatural, natural and supernatural levels. But the major battle will be in the sphere of the natural intellect between the devil who is pure intellect and the intellect of the soul. Though Satan will, also, tempt the emotions and passions, at these times the battle will be in the intellectual sphere. The Church must also do battle in the intellectual sphere. And the soul will have an advantage if he has the supernatural virtue of Faith. For man to win, Faith is of the utmost importance. Because Faith is a supernatural act of the intellect. So it will be a battle between the intellects of the evil spirit and the Faithful. Obviously, Catholics without Faith would easily fall on the side of Satan.
The weapon the devil will use will be in the sphere of the intellect; and these are heresies. And the only weapon the Church can yield against heresies is a perfect Faith. This Faith consists in perfect knowledge of the teachings of Christ in the New Testament. Of course, this Faith must be enlivened with Charity.
4. The forces of the Church will be led by 12 champions referred to as 12 stars. Though this refers, historically to the twelve apostles, eschatologically it refers to 12 holy popes that will lead the battle for the Church on these days. Who among the Popes seems to have begun the battle against the onslaught of the heretical attacks on the Church? Pope Gregory XVI. From him down to Benedict XVI will make up 12 Popes represented by the 12 stars which according to St. Grignon de Montfort, are the apostles of the end times.
5. The first salvo fired on the Church is Liberalism. It was Pope Gregory XVI who noticed and exposed it. Liberalism will be the foundation, the root from which all other heresies will grow from. From Pope Pius IX to Benedict XVI we will see different expressions of liberalism.
6. Liberalism is a heresy, a mortal sin against Faith. It is the sin of Lucifer “I shall not serve.” It is Lucifer’s false promise ‘You shall be like God.’ And it will bring us to where Lucifer is…..to hell. Liberalism is the flood that have spiritually drowned the whole world, the convents, religious orders, monasteries, and most bishops and cardinals……because they do not know exactly where is that special place prepared by God for the Woman of the Apocalypse.
7. Faith vs. Liberalism.
Liberalism is essentially the opposite of Faith. While Faith brings us to heaven, Liberalism will bring us to hell. Let us define Faith and contrast liberalism to it.
Faith is an assent of the mind to the truths of Divine Revelation because they are revealed by God. So Faith is an assent to the truth that there is a God. That God had revealed His truths. And those truths can be known by men.
Liberalism is the denial that there is a God. A denial that He spoke. And that he does not know the truths revealed by God Liberalism is the belief that one decides what should be the truth and what should be moral. But it has no proof that what one decides is true nor what one decide is truly moral.
8. Charity vs. Liberalism
Faith dictates to the free will what is true and what is good. The free will’s consent to the intellect’s assent is called Charity.
Liberalism has no proof that the intellect knows the truth. So the intellect cannot inform the free will what is true and good. Thus the free will is forced to decide without any basis for certitude. So it chooses what ever it wants.
9. Liberalism is heresy because it goes against the act of Faith. It is a sin because it goes against the rules of morality. So liberalism contains all heresies and it contains all infraction of Divine Law. While Catholicism is ruled by dogmas, liberalism is ruled by one’s own personal opinion. Liberalism is the rebellion of the intellect against God and the refusal of the free will to love God.
Liberalism cannot prove that its truths are true; and it cannot prove that what it considers good is truly good. Everything is based on one’s personal opinion. The truth is true according to his opinion and the good is good according to his opinion.
Liberalism is the root of all heresy. All heresies come from liberalism. It is the tree of evil. All its fruits are evil. And it is the evil of all evil. It is the supreme rebellion against the authority of God. Liberalism is Lucifer in person.
10. All Protestant sects are products of liberalism shown in that all sects have their own personal definition of Faith. They interpret Revelation based on one’s own judgment. All of America and Europe have liberal cultures. Liberalism was condemned earlier by Gregory XVI (1832) and later on by Pope Pius IX (1864) in ‘Quanta Cura.’.
11.Liberalism can only be detected by an expert theologian; and not by the ordinary laymen. When the bishop or parish priest of a locality is liberal, it almost always follow that their subordinates have imbibed liberalism. That is a whole parish or diocese going to hell. The Pope was the greatest force against liberalism, as proven up to Pope Benedict. But what happens when the Pope, himself is liberal, as Cardinal Arinze noted. The main cause of liberalism is ignorance of Catholic teachings. It is purely devilish when one is intentionally liberal in spirit. Because the spirit of liberalism is the very sin of Lucifer.
12. The Feast of the Assumption announces the positioning of the two forces for the beginning of the last great battle. The first salvo had been fired by the devil in the spirit of liberalism. And the return fire of the Church was ordered by Pope Gregory XVI’s ‘Mirari vos’, 1832, the encyclical against the first modern error……liberalism. He who holds the heresy of liberalism is by definition anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-Divine Revelation, anti- Church (the keeper of Revelation), anti- Magisterium because he goes against all the teachings of the Church, anti-pope because he goes against all the teachings of the valid Popes, anti-truth because he believes only in subjective truth, anti-religion because he goes against everything supernatural and anti-self because he cannot prove anything he believes in. He is surely anti-the Blessed Virgin in her Assumption.