1. Liturgical instructions.
The teachings of Jesus Christ is best taught within the Liturgy; a holy priest must explain the words of Christ within a Liturgy, well celebrated according to Scriptures and Tradition. The preaching of the priest must be according to the visible signs portrayed in the Liturgy. Evangelization consist in explaining both; the words of Christ and the visible signs of the Liturgy. But even if these are done well, the people are not necessarily evangelized.
Let us look at the two parties; first, the priest celebrating the liturgy. And secondly, the listeners present in the Liturgy.
The priest must be holy; i.e. he must have the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed, which are One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. The priest’s holiness can be seen in his teaching his parishioners how to attain the Mark of Apostolicity; by teaching them all the teachings of the apostles and how to put them into practice. The teachings of the apostles are found in the Gospels; but how to put them into practice is found in tradition or the teachings of the Fathers of the Church.
As the holy priest teaches the Apostolic teachings and shows them how to put them into practice, then the whole parish will exhibit the Mark of Apostolicity, the fourth Mark of the true Church. When the whole parish exhibits the Mark of Apostolicity then we can say that the parishioners have Faith OR that the parish have become Catholic, the second Mark of the True Church.
With the Mark of Apostolicity and Catholicity, each member of the parish gradually become Holy. And all those who are holy are united by the Holy Spirit to become One. Of course, each soul would grow gradually according to their generosity. Some slower, some faster. Some will grow fast towards Charity. Some with Faith might even lose their Faith. But all those who maintain their living Faith will make up the Catholic Church.
2. The lessons of the Liturgy.
The Liturgy teaches us three general lessons. FIRST. It teaches us what we must do to attain everlasting life. This is the answer to the questions of the Young rich man and the lawyer. The Liturgy teaches us that the steps to attain everlasting life is; to repent, to believe and to love God and neighbor.
SECONDLY. The Liturgy shows how Christ led the apostles through the above steps, thus attaining everlasting life. This is the historical aspects of the teachings of Christ. The life of repentance, prior to having Faith, is taught during the season of Advent. The actual act of Faith is taught from Christmas up to Holy Week. And Charity is taught during Easter and the Sundays after Easter.
THIRDLY. The historical aspect of Eschatology, meaning to say the historical aspect of the Catholic Religion, is repeated in every personal quest for God; i.e Advent, Christmas, Holy Week and Easter will have to happen in every individual person desirous to be Catholic. It does not have to happen to them as a group. This is always personal and individual. Each man desirous to be Catholic should undergo their own personal Advent and Lent.
FOURTHLY. The Liturgy tells us what will happen in the future based on prophetic past events AND how to react to these events. Our reaction should be identical to the reaction of the Patriarchs, Apostles and the saints in the past to the same identical events.
Again, the Liturgy tells us what are the teachings of Christ; so we can know if we are living according to His commands or if we are going against His commands. The Liturgy is teaching us if our present era is identical to some past eras in the history of the Church. Is our era like Advent? Is it like Christmas night? Is it like Good Friday. If so, is our reaction like Joseph and Mary or like the Apostles?
3. In this 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Christ prophesied the lost of Faith in the Catholic Church. Of course Christ was referring to the Catholic Church because everybody else outside the Church really have no Faith
The lost of Faith had been happening in the Catholic Church. Adam and Eve lost their Faith in Paradise. That is why they were kicked out. The history of the Jews was the lost of Faith in every step they took.
Let us look at some pertinent events. In the Old Testament, most of the Jews were not waiting for the coming Messiah. They had no
Faith in the words of God who promised He has sending them a Messiah, describing him in detail so no one would miss Him. Because of their lack of Faith, the Jews are still waiting for the Messiah. They should have recognized Him in Jesus if they had Faith.
On Good Friday, the Romans and the Jewish people headed by their priests and high priest did not recognize Christ thus crucifying Him. The reason for this absence of Faith had been explained in Scriptures. It is still the same reason why today, there is no Faith in the world. And Christ prophesied that this would be the state of the world when He comes.
4. The state of the Catholic Church according to the Gospel.
The state of the Catholic Church today is like the state of a helpless widow who is surrounded by evil persons out to get everything she possessed. That is like the devil trying to get everything that could save one’s souls. The widow, devoid of all possible natural earthly help either from the state, from her relations and from the priest cries for help from God. And Christ says; if you pray always and not lose heart, I will render you Justice. Rewarding you and punishing your enemies.
This is suppose to happen today, when the Son of Man comes and finds no Faith on earth. It is happening exactly today, starting in 1950 just before Vatican II and getting worse everyday as predicted by the Blessed Virgin in Quito, Ecuador in the 1500, right on schedule.
5. The state of the world reflects the state of the Church. What is happening in the Church spiritually is what is happening to the world physically. But in analyzing, we start with the world’s affairs as the sign of the times and then go to the spiritual state of the Church.
Let us describe the two worlds as described by St. Augustine; this is the City of God, the city of men and women with Faith. And the City of man, the city of men and women without Faith.
The City of God is ruled by Christ; the city of man is ruled by Lucifer. The City of God is made up of the free children of God. The City of men is made up of the slaves of Lucifer.
6. The state of the states.
All the states at present are spiritually possessed by Satan as Judas was possessed. Let us compare them with Judas.
All the states are governed by a bureau of covetous people. The only reason they are there is for the money. Most of them have money for a hundred lifetimes but they continue to manipulate the world to earn more and more money at everybody’s expense. Due to their covetousness they are open to being possessed by Satan as Judas. Everybody, today, has a price. Pay them and they will do any evil. Even deicide.
Because they are covetous, St. Augustine writes; they lower themselves to the level of what they love. If you love humans you are a human. When you love money you lower yourself to the level of paper money. This is unnatural. Note that most of the sins of men today are unnatural perversions.
As a result of their covetousness, they kill. Since they are in the level of the unnatural, they hate the natural like love of humans; therefore, they abort, wage wars, promote euthanasia, terrorism and murder. Judas, because of his covetousness connived to kill a God. How much more babies in abortion and men in wars.
Lying is as natural to them as breathing because they have become the children of the Father of lies, the devil.
Being the children of the devil, they become slaves of the devil and does the work of the devil which is the destruction of souls.
The spiritual possession as on Good Friday is on the state administration; the executive, the judiciary, the military, the police, the bankers, all cabinet members. And how do they control the rest of mankind? By an form of education that will make them informed with useless facts and totally incompetent in using their intellect.
Education is to prevent all children from making an act of Faith. So all children end up deprived of both supernatural and natural knowledge. Children grow up not believing in God and believing in everything told them. This is an education concocted amidst the bloody era of the French Revolution and perfected in the U.S.
Hence from the covetous financiers who enrich them from the resources of all nations …..down to the child educated to be zombie…we have an entire nation without Faith. Christ expect the world today to be in that state.
7. This was first attempted by men in the building of the tower of Babel. It is an attempt by all men to establish a world order and attempt to go to heaven by their own efforts. The new world order is an attempt to unite all nations to establish their own heaven here on earth by their own efforts. This is the height of the Pelagian heresy. It is a human simulation of the first act of rebellion in heaven by Lucifer.
8. What is the Christian response to such a totally Satanic environ.
Only one thing…..praying always and not losing heart. It is unceasing prayer. This is no longer the time for going to all nations to preach. The Gospel had been reached throughout the world. Now, with the devil all around, this thing can only be tackled by prayer and fasting…..unceasing prayer and self denial.
What is unceasing prayer? According to St. Thomas of Aquinas unceasing prayer is reciting devoutly the eight Divine Office; Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline. These are the official prayers of the Catholic Church. Made by the Holy Spirit and recited by Angels, the Divine Office is prayed with the heavenly host thus the Church Militant and Triumphant are one in prayer.
9. Unceasing prayer is the fruit of Faith. Souls with Faith tend to pray. And prayer preserves the Faith that can easily be lost. So with Faith we pray; and we pray to preserve our Faith. The reason why there is no Faith today is because people do not pray enough. They may pray one, two, or three times. But this is not enough. It has to be the eight times mentioned and recited devoutly. In between we still have to pray but may be engaged with everyday needs like cooking or planting.
With repentance we reach Faith. With Faith we begin to say the prayer of Faith. With the prayer of Faith we strengthen our Faith leading to Charity. With Faith that is enlivened with Charity we can attain everlasting Life.
What is the state of he Church today? Just like the world. From Pope Francis down to the cardinals. the Church is interested only in worldly affairs, meaning money as shown in ‘Vultum quaerere.” With covetousness, the Church had joined the financial worldwide mafia in keeping all under them totally ignorant of natural and supernatural realities. Just as the Blessed Virgin said; the cardinals, bishops and priest are going to hell and dragging the whole with them. All the heads of nations are also dragging all souls to hell and laughing their hearts out in the process.