Author: Odon De Castro

 1. The birth of the Catholic Church.
     Pentecost is when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Catholic Church to be her uncreated soul. The Catholic Church is now a living entity. 
     Many will celebrate this day with calling down of the Holy Spirit upon their groups. This practice of calling down the Holy Spirit is a common practice among the so-called Charismatics. It is the very thing that proves that there is something wrong with that movement. Why?
     The Holy Spirit had already descended upon the Church and has remained  therein. Why do they continue to call down the Spirit upon individuals, upon groups, upon every Tom, Dick and Harry. That is based on the erroneous beliefs of Protestant Pentecostals; but it is also the erroneous belief of Catholic Charismatics; that the Holy Spirit can be called on demand. 
     I was in the forefront of the powerful and highly dogmatic Cursillo Movement here. And when it waned and was gradually overshadowed by the budding Catholic Charismatic movement, as a priest, I had to keep up with what is new in the Church. A Catholic priest from Ann Arbor with experience with House of Prayer Experience (HOPE) offered to teach me all about the Charismatic movement. 
     I was impressed with the doctrine that all Catholics should have an experience of the Holy Spirit. That was, indeed, a solid Catholic Doctrine. But when I saw their laying of the hands without following the proper process described by St. Paul, and saw the following abrupt praying with tongues and being slained by the Spirit the procedure does not seem to coincide with what we have learned from ascetical theology as described in today’s Gospel.  
     As a monk, I learned that the hermits were the true Charismatics. The so-called charisma are given only to those who have reached the heights of the spiritual life. It is not given to ordinary people engaged the whole day in office work. And definitely it is not given to Protestants. 
     The life of these new members of the Charismatic movement did not conform to the lives of the hermits. Could this be the same spirit? Or is it a different spirit?

2. Satan and his fakes.
     Demonology teaches us that the devil imitates God to confuse the faithful. He, also imitates the Holy Spirit. After all he is  a spirit, a bad spirit.
    Just as God chose 12 apostles to build His Church, Satan, also, chose 12 apostles to imitate the Catholic Church and confuse the people into joining him instead. So we have the Jehovah’s Witnesses with the same apostolic structure. 
     Besides, all the manifestations noted in the Catholic Charismatic movement are identical to the manifestations in the heretical group the Montanist. Montanus was a pagan priest who converted to Catholicism but who brought his pagan practices into the Church. It  was his group who had all these charismatic manifestations of tongues, falling down, prophetic utterances, etc. ..common among the Catholic Charismatic groups. No wonder Pope Francis likes the Catholic Charismatics who he entertained in Rome giving them Protestant speakers and similarly likes the Pentecostal Protestant Charismatics in Rome; even apologizing to them for the treatment they got from the Catholics before. 
     Obviously, Montanus must have brought his former pagan spirit with him into the Catholic Church. He eventually left the Church and led the Montanist sect which is the origin of most Pentecostal churches.  

3. Holy Spirit is already in the Catholic Church.
    When Pope John XXIII proclaimed he was opening the windows to let the Spirit into the Church, well, he was using literary forms to express a point.  The Holy Spirit is already inside; the problem was that we could not find the Church for reasons we have shown in past posts. 
    
    If we want to receive the Holy Spirit, we should not go to anyone, have hands laid on us to receive the Spirit.  We should look for the Catholic Church by looking for her four visible signs, enter her and receive the Holy Spirit within her.
     Pope Benedict had already summarized how to receive the Holy Spirit. First, repent. Second, have an encounter with the created soul of the Church, Jesus Christ. Third, have an encounter with the uncreated soul of the Church, the Holy Spirit. This is the true Catholic Charismatic and the Mass for today describes this process again.
     
     To merit eternal life the Blessed Trinity must abide in our souls permanently. The Gospel of Pentecost Day tells us how that is done. Instead of experimenting, the group from Ann Arbor should have just followed today’s Gospel.  

4. Preparing to receive God the Father. 
     First, we prepare our souls for the abiding of God the Father. This is done by knowing and obeying the commands of God the Father as described in the Old Testament. 
     As early as at this point, Pope Francis and his Curia shows that they are not disposed for the abiding of God the Father because of their disobedience to the 6th and 9th commandments of God the Father. 

     When the soul has learned and obeyed the Old Testament commands of God the Father, he may occasionally encounter God the Father, like Moses, but the Father will not permanently abide in him because the process is not yet complete. 

5.Preparing to receive God the Son.
     Secondly, after having prepared oneself for the abiding of God the Father through what is called life of repentance through obedience to the Old Testament commands, then the soul should proceed to prepare himself for the abiding of God the Son by obedience to the commands of Christ as described in the New Testament; specially the physical and spiritual works of mercy (which is love of neighbour).
     The apostles received the power to love neighbour when Christ breathed on them after Easter but before Pentecost, saying, ‘receive the Holy Spirit.’ They received the power to love neighbour but did not receive the Holy Spirit in a permanent way. 
     Here the soul can occasionally have an encounter with Jesus, like in Holy Communion, but there is no permanent abiding yet. Christ would still leave the soul, specially when the soul thinks of worldly things, the main concern of most charismatics.  
     When the soul has done the two  preparations,  the Gospel for Pentecost takes over. What does it say?  Having obeyed  all the commands, the soul loves God and God loves the person. And God, sorts of, prepare to take along God the Son and God the Holy Spirit to dwell in the human soul. 

6. The soul is prepared to receive the Blessed Trinity. The soul cannot receive the three person of the Trinity separately. 
Preparing for the Father, can be done alone in a private life of repentance.  Preparing for the Son can be done alone by living a life of Faith. But to receive the Holy Spirit, it must be received by a community or a Church. That is what happened at Pentecost. They, the first community called the Church, were praying together with Mary.

     How does the Church look like to be disposed to receive the Holy Spirit.
     

7. This was the image of the Catholic Church the first time. This must  be the image of the Catholic Church at this time. How should the Church look like? 
     First, like the first apostles they will be made up of men and women who have been personally chosen by Christ; and who have encountered the Father and the Son by their knowledge and obedience to the commands of God both in the Old and New Testament.
     Secondly, they will be living together with one mind and one heart within closed doors or closed walls to prevent the entrance of evil and worldly distractions from their unceasing prayer with Mary in their midst. That is like living  a monastic life. And, in fact, Pope Benedict called it ‘new monasticism.’
     Thirdly, they have attained love of neighbour and the beginnings of love of God thus they will be exhibiting the four visible signs of the true Church and/or 15 Marks of the true Church according to St. Bellarmine. The Catholic Church can be visibly seen in them.
    Fourthly, God the Father and God the Son shall abide in their souls. And the Holy Spirit who is always united with the Father and the Son will, also, abide with them but will come in the form of tongues of fire or whatever form his immense imagination may decide. 
     If this Gospel was followed by the Catholic Charismatic movement they would not be looking like Protestants. 

8. How would we know the Church have the Holy Spirit.
     Christ’s words were clear. The Holy Spirit will teach them all things. And he will remind them of all the teachings of Christ.
     When someone does not know the right solution to the immigration problem, if someone does not know the reason for global warming, when someone does not realise the need for capital punishment, when someone does not know how to solve marital problems except through adultery and sacrilegious communions, if someone does not know that atheist go to hell, if someone does not know that those other guys are not my brothers, ……and if someone in Casa Martha says in his homily that new wine is better than old wine……I am sure he does not have the Holy Spirit. 
     

 1. SETTLING WHO IS RIGHT. 
     Pope Francis ended his talk to the Bishop’s Synod with threats on those who try to block the changes he is introducing in the Church. And labels them with names which are insults. 
     This is more the behaviour of a spoilt brat than a Pope. It is, in effect saying; do what I want or else….. Pope Francis had flattering words for the enemies of the Church while bad names for the holders of orthodox doctrines of the Catholic Church. In fact, in England, they have been compiling a book of insults hurled by Pope Francis on good Catholics. They have not compiled the heavenly praises he has given the enemies of the Catholic Church. Which makes us wonder whose side is he. 
     
2. Basis for judging. 
     There are many conflicts in the world today, and it is difficult to see who is right and who is wrong. In the conflicts within the Church, it is easy to find out who is right and who is wrong because we have very solid bases for judging who is right and who is wrong. These bases are the dogmatic and moral teachings of the Catholic church that has been there for centuries. 
     Let us view a few of these religious conflicts and use only two bases to judge who is right and wrong; because we have to judge! We cannot afford to be wrong. We must be right because the very salvation of our souls depend on these decisions. 
    The two bases for judgment we have been using are; first, the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ. And secondly, the three theological virtues. The first is available to all because they are signs that are in the natural level. The second is in the supernatural level, so it is limited to those who are in the life of grace. Let us try to use both. 
     The four visible signs are the four signs mentioned in the Nicene Creed. This is accepted by both the Orthodox and Protestant Church because all of them were still with the Catholic Church when that creed was formulated in Nicaea.
     The three theological virtues are not acceptable to the Orthodox and Protestants because these virtues are in the supernatural level.  These sects are not in this level because of their being separated through schism. 
     The theological virtues were used before in judging candidates for canonisation but it is not used anymore today because nobody in the Curia seems to have any of these virtues.  But it was used by the Catholic Church before because it is the most reliable norm for judging candidates for canonization. Which means that today, we do not have any objective proof that our canonised saints are really in heaven because the most reliable means are not being used. 

3. Using the four visible signs to resolve conflict.
     Pope Francis threatened those who block his personal plans for the Church. The latest is ordaining women deacons. 
     We joined the Catholic Church to follow Christ to  everlasting life. We did not join the Church to follow Bergoglio  in his doubtful church of mercy that leads to where, we do not know. 
     Anyone who thinks he is going against the teachings of Christ, the apostles and the Fathers of the Church should stand up and be counted. Cardinal Arinze, very early in the Papacy of Pope Francis, called him a heretic for being guilty of liberalism, a heresy condemned by Pope Gregory xvi in ‘Mirari Vos.’ And Cardinal Arinze proved that Pope Francis was, indeed, a heretic and, therefore, should not be Pope. Arinze proved it and he was right.

4. Making a Catholic stand.
      Confronted with similar incidents that has occurred in the last Bishop’s Synod, the bishops are obliged to stand up and block the obvious heresies of Pope Francis that are now pilling up. Otherwise those bishops who do not make a stand are guilty of serious sin. What? And the news stated that they even clapped after the reading of the apostolic exhortation. Clapping makes their passive sin of scandal into a positive sin of scandal. 
     It is sad to note that Bishops who, at first, bravely went against Pope Francis’ heretical proposals  during the earlier Synods are slowly kowtowing during the latest Synods, specially in the latest exhortation ‘amores laetitia.’  Like in all sin of scandal, the Pope is literally dragging down to hell all the Bishops by means of threats. 
     I was surprised to hear that when the Philippine Bishop’s conference agreed to family planning in case of Zicka virus, the news stated that all the rest of the bishops agreed. I know that a few disagreed. But it seems they remained silent. That is unacceptable in the eyes of God. ‘He who denies My teachings before men I will deny before My Father.’ Imagine, the entire Bishop’s conference in the Philippines had silently agreed to a sin of scandal. They become accomplices. 

5. The grave sin of scandal.
     The threat of Christ for those guilty of scandal should give us sleepless nights. ‘ Scandal will come to the world. But woe to him through whom it comes. It is better for him to tie a mill stone around his neck and jump into a lake…..than to cause scandal.’  

     Who is right? The Pope or those who were brave enough to block his scandals? Answer; those who have the four visible signs of the true Church are the ones who is right. Those who do not have the four visible signs are wrong. 
      It is possible for a Pope to impose a truth and scandalise many people like when Pope Paul VI impose prohibition of family planning. Myriads of bishops, priests and laymen were scandalized to the point of rebelling against the Church. Paul VI was not guilty of scandal; but most of the bishops and priests were guilty of passive scandal. They were scandalised when they should not have been. They were like Judas who was scandalised when Mary washed the feet of Christ with perfume. Mary’s act was very good; it was not scandalous. But Judas was scandalized through a defect in him defined as passive scandal.
     But when a person does something wrong and this causes others to commit sin this is called positive scandal; this is very wrong. And this is what Pope Francis committed; it is one of the worse sins. He did not only show a scandalous behaviour, he preached to people through an official papal document called ‘Apostolic exhortation’ to commit sin; by telling bishops and priests to tolerate adultery and sacrilegious communion. That is telling three levels of people, bishops, priests and couples, to commit sin. That is active scandal on two counts.
     And Pope Francis encourage passive scandal. This happens when other people who heard what he said does not do anything; like the Filipino bishops who just kept quiet. That is what I would be guilty of if I do not say or write anything. I have read the scandalous things Pope Francis had been saying since the Bishop’s Synod of 2014 up to now, 2016. I know he is telling the world to commit sin, which is positive scandal. If I don’t say or react and make a stand I would be guilty of passive scandal, a very serious sin that can send me straight to hell. 

6. I must find out who is right and make a stand. If I make a wrong stand I would be guilty of positive scandal. 
     Because Pope Francis had made an apostolic exhortation, if I stay quiet, I would be guilty of passive scandal. Still a very serious sin which would be the sin of the majority who do not make a stand. 
     To read the more than 200 pages of ‘Amores Laetitia’ is too tedious. I’ll just find out who is right; Pope Francis or the bishops he is threatening…..by finding out who has the visible signs of Catholicity.
       If anyone applies the four visible signs of the Nicene Creed or the 15 Marks of the Church on Pope Francis, it will be obvious to everyone that he does not have any single sign of the true Church.
     The bishops Pope Francis are threatening do not have the four complete visible signs either. But they have some partial visible signs. That is having more than what Pope Francis has. The choice is clear. Pope Francis is committing the very serious sin of positive scandal; worse, he is forcing men to sin through a Papal document. And he is threatening those who would block him. This is the height of scandal that even Christ could not imagine could happen. 
      The same visible signs can be used in judging the quarrel between the traditionalist and the novus ordo. Who is right? Neither  the traditionalist nor the novus ordo, but the one who have the four visible signs of the true Church.  Which neither of them have. 

 7. Difficulty in analysing the four visible signs from the Nicene Creed.
     To detect the four signs, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, these signs must be there in their completeness. And the signs must be present in the community, parish or diocese. For example, ‘One’ means all the members of the Catholic Church must believe in exactly the same doctrines taught by Christ. To go around to find out if everyone have the same belief within the parish would be a tedious job. But in psychology we can use a process called ‘random sampling.’ If everyone you meet in the parish believe in the same truths we can safely say, the parish is ‘one.’
     As had happened during the last Synod, some good Bishops went against Pope Francis in his personal belief that married people living in adultery may receive Holy Communion. These bishop were certainly right in blocking Pope Francis with their vote. But when other proposals were introduced that were in violation of Christ’s command, the same bishops succumbed, as in the case of some bishops succumbing to the errors of ‘Amoris laetitia,’  which is merely a rehash of the Bishop’s Synod 2014 and contained what the Bishops had already repudiated. Those things repudiated became the contents of the apostolic exhortations.  

8. The good bishops.
     There are many good bishops. They have partial visible signs of the true Church. Which make them partially Catholics. But they do not have the full four visible signs of the Church. This means that they are just in the process of knowing what these signs are and are just starting to acquire them. In which case their parish or diocese cannot have the four visible sign because they are not yet capable of teaching them on how to enter the Church. And this is the sad scenario in that we see many bishops ‘one’ with one another, as what happened during the Synod, but there was no unity in their diocese. We see priests who show signs of ‘Catholicity’ but there is none in his parish.
     This is the case of the Orthodox and the Pius X group. They do not have the complete four visible signs. But they have the beginnings of the ‘third visible sign’ of the true Church, Catholicity. That is having more signs than what the Vatican have; and yet they want to leave their better condition to join a more schismatic Catholic church. When Kiril and Pope Francis met, the Orthodox head mentioned the right doctrines they believed in and the wrong doctrines Pope Francis was preaching.  It was embarrassing for the Catholic Church. It appeared that the Church of Russia has more correct doctrines than the Church of Rome.
     So we stand pat on the discovery that we cannot find parishes, diocese, religious congregations and lay institutes who have the four visible signs of the true Church. Though their priest and bishops have partial signs.This means the parishes and dioceses are not yet Catholic. This is of utmost importance for all of us because if we die and we do not have the four visible signs, we cannot enter heaven. And this is the precarious condition of Pope Francis since he does not have any single visible sign of the true Church. He, also, have visible mortal sins, like scandal (i.e, causing others to sin), documented in a Papal Apostolic Exhortation.  He is going straight to hell with his errors and sins of scandal ….and he is forbidding everyone to stop him from doing so? 
    He is in a situation where God might chastise him by removing from him the grace of repentance because of the enormity of his sin. And no Jesuit is helping him. Well, the Jesuits are, also, guilty as an accomplice for having allowed his sin to have a domino effect upon the whole Church. They are guilty of the woeful passive scandal.

9. This was expected.
    As we have mentioned, the events of the future had been prophesied in Divine Revelation. And what is happening today is no brilliant analysis of mine. It has been prophesied in Scriptures. And all good Catholic worthy of his name have been expecting these events. 
    The ‘Francis’ event had been watched by St. Bonaventure and many other saints like Blessed John Newman. It had been mentioned by popular writers liked Hugh Benson who described  an anti Pope, named Francis,  who will rise in the 18OO subservient to the ambitious head of the U.S. And described by Roger Coleridge, S.J, popular retreat master in his ‘Return of the King’ where he described an anti-pope who will start a new Protestant religion (just like  Bergoglio , SJ. who  authored  the ‘Church of Mercy and Compassion, ‘ a new Protestant Church based on the heresy of Martin Luther.) It was to be expected. 
     

 1. The principles governing dogma and morality. 
     The dogmatic and moral teachings of the Catholic Church are like jigsaw puzzles.  Puzzles are designed in such a way that each piece interlock with one another.  If we hang it holding one end of the corner, the pieces cling together and does not separate into parts. It remains a whole. The better puzzles are all like this. But if we leave out one part and hold the whole puzzle up holding one corner, the whole thing separates and crumbles to pieces. And so, as long as one single piece of the puzzle had not been put in place, we cannot lift the whole puzzle because it will disintegrate into many parts. 
     
     The same can be said about the dogmas and morals of the Catholic Church. In theology, the so called ‘unity of dogmas’ consist in that the dogmas of the Church must be presented complete, otherwise it’s complete picture which consist in ‘Knowing God’ cannot be known. Thus the person cannot make a mature ‘Act of Faith,’ this Act consisting in believing ALL the dogmas of the Catholic Church. 
     The same can be said about the Morals of the Catholic Church. We must know all the commands of Christ as presented in the New Testament.  This is to know  the ‘Act of Loving God.’ Take away one command and we will not know how to ‘Love God,’ which is the virtue of Charity. 
     Both Faith and Charity are needed to attain eternal life. Faith consists in knowing the complete dogmas of the Catholic Church; and Charity consists in knowing and doing all the commandments of Christ in the New Testament. 
     Thus the formula for evangelisation expressed in the Apostolic Commission as found in the last chapter of the Gospel of Matthew is ; ‘Go to all nations, baptising them….teaching them ‘ALL THAT I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.’ Note that salvation is in fulfilling the Morals of the Catholic Church; it is not enough to know the Dogmas. The greatest command is; ‘To love God.’…..i.e. morals. Not to know God…i.e., dogma.  Though both are needed; but the emphasis on morals is clear. “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” He did not say keep My dogmas. Again, both are needed because a strong moral life is based on a strong dogmatic foundation.
     When Pope Benedict XVI instituted the ‘Year of the Priests’ he commanded all priests to return to the seminary and review THEIR MORAL THEOLOGY.   Not their dogmatic theology.  Sadly nobody returned to the seminary to review their Moral theology.  Proof? Ask your priest friends if they did. And from their answer you will see why we are in trouble. 

2. Now, lets go to the moral principle of St. James 2:9.
    Disbelief to one dogma is disbelief to all the dogmas. And disobedience to one moral command is disobedience to all moral commands.
     This is the reminder we hear at the beginning of every class in dogma and morals.     
     This verse is always quoted before  lessons on the 10 commandments of God, like in the Compendium of the Catechism according to Pope Benedict XVI. This is a rule of morality almost no one knows. From Pope Francis down to the cardinals, bishops, priest and practically all lay Catholics. And their confessions clearly show this ignorance. Nobody ever confesses; ‘I disobeyed all the 10 commandments of God.’  And yet, that is what one does when he disobeys just one command of God as St. James wrote. 
     The complete verse is;  ‘But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.’
     ‘And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.’ 
     ‘For he that said; thou shalt not commit adultery said also; thou shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery but shall kill,
 thou art become a transgressor of the law.’
     The emphasis is not on the law but on the affront on the giver of the law. You have insulted the giver of the law; and that is equivalent to contempt for all His laws. 
     
3.  Everybody seems to be ignorant of this moral axiom. It is very clear. Anyone who commits a mortal sin is considered as having committed all mortal sins. Because all sins are interconnected as all virtues are interconnected. All sins come from Pride; while all virtues come from Charity. So disobedience to one command is an act of pride and, therefore, is tantamount to disobedience to all the commands. While perfect obedience to one command is tantamount to obedience to all the commands of Christ. 
     For this reason, those living the spiritual life are encouraged to concentrate in doing each act as perfectly as possible because perfect obedience to one command is considered obedience to all the commands of Christ. 
     
 4. When we say perfect obedience to one command, we mean perfectly obedient to the way Christ gave the command.  We cannot modify any command according to our whims. 
     An example is this; to obey the command ‘pray unceasingly’ means pray unceasingly with perfect humility. The perfection is, first, in the humility and, afterwards, in obeying exactly Christ’s instructions on how to pray.

5.  The beginning of the verse from James is significant; ‘if you do or say things due to human respect,’ i.e. to please others, this is a sin.  Human respect is the reason for all P.R. which seems to be the main motivation of all of Pope Francis’ behaviour,  having hired an expensive PR group to advise the Vatican. Christ had said  ‘pleasers of men cannot be pleasers of God.’

6. The ramifications. The arms of the octopus. Lets look at an actual situation of an error in dogma and an error in morals. 
     What will happen if a Pope commits an error in dogma? St. James wrote; all his dogmatic pronouncements will be erroneous. Let’s take an example. If a Pope says at the beginning of his papacy that ‘to love’ one does not need dogmas, he had commited an error in that he demolished the whole structure of the theological virtues that is the backbone of the Catholic teaching. From here it will be impossible for him to say anything right. All his pronouncements from here on up to the present will be dogmatic errors. 
     He will begin to teach that you can ‘love’ without Faith and Hope; which is impossible. He will say that you can ‘love’ even while in the state of mortal sin. He will say that you can be an atheist and still go to heaven. He will say that heretics and schismatics are children of God and will apologise for having corrected them; that would be two errors put together. And he will say that he cannot imagine a God having the heart to put anyone in hell. Then why did God create hell?
     Not only will he show irrationality in his thinking. He, also, shows lack of imagination. That is what happens when one does not have Faith because he had sinned against Faith by committing sin against the dogmas of the Church. 
     St. Paul’s ‘whatever is not of Faith is sin,’ means when a person makes a pronouncement not based on the dogmas of the Catholic Faith, his pronouncement will surely be erroneous. Why?
    Because the teachings of the Catholic Church are in the supernatural level. And Faith is needed to understand the supernatural truths. If one remains in the natural level, pronouncements will be ‘of the flesh,’  and not of the spirit. And whatever is not for Christ is against Christ.  If he makes a statement against one dogma, all his statements that will follow will be wrong.

     Now, let us see the consequence when one sins against morals. If while he was still a bishop he has committed the sin of scandal, which is one of the more serious sin, like allowing those living in mortal sin to receive Holy Communion, he will surely commit the next sins, like allowing all adulterers not only to receive Communion but for adulterers to remarry each other. And after committing the sins of abandoning their former partners, after abandoning their former children, after committing fornication with a new partner, and after invalidly marrying their new partner…..they can commit another sin of sacrilege adding it to their former several mortal sins. 
     Not only will that bishop multiply his own mortal sins. He will  drag other souls by multiplying their own mortal sins. And what if he makes his disobedience to the commands of Christ into an ‘Apostolic Exhortation.’ 
     If ever the Malthusian theory works, it is not in the field of population. It is in the field of sins against dogma and morals. What a Pope says rushes down to the cardinals, bishops, priest, laymen and their children with the speed of lightning. There is no stopping to it. The punishment for unrepentant sins is for the soul to fall and fall and fall into the next sin.
     The devil knows this. Everybody know this. Everybody knows we have to get to the top to destroy the whole. Crush the head of the snake and you destroy the whole. The devil knows this.  The Virgin Mary also know this. And so the battle is who will reach  the head first. 
     For many years the head, the Papacy,  had been protected; and even now. But the devil had introduced a new weapon. He does not try to control the head, the Pope, because he knows he cannot. But he knows he can deceive the world by putting up a anti-pope. In the history of the Church, the bishops and cardinals never knew which was the true Pope in such situation. Never. It took saints to know the difference. And the devil tried this more than forty times, with Felix in the 1400 as his last known attempt. He knows it worked in destroying many souls. Why should he not try it again. 

7.  Preparation for the final battle.
     Lucifer knows that if he is able to remove the dogmatic and moral guides of the Catholic Church, the world would have absolutely no way of finding out which is the true Church. Not knowing the true Church, the whole would not know what are the true dogma and moral teachings of Christ. Without dogmas and morals the whole world would be wallowing in sin, which is the situation right now.   

8. The result
     Imagine men in the world, from the Pope down to the smallest kid, spreading sin geometrically like the Malthusian theory. Why, we should have reached the guilt of the world as of during the time of Noah. Should it not be time for God to shut the door of the Ark. Christ had warned us in the Gospel that He would take away the vineyard, which is the Church, from unfaithful workers. Don’t you think He had already done so. 
     A world filled with sin, there will be no grace to overcome the devils, no knowledge that can teach repentance, Faith, Hope and Charity, no visible sign by which we can find the true Church.

9. The first deluge. 
     During the first deluge, God shut the door. Those outside could not enter. During these Easter Sundays, it is said that the disciples were together and the door was shut. That figure is the image of the Catholic Church during these times. The Catholic Church was a community living together behind shut doors, St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote. And Christ as on that day appeared in the middle of the night, the exact time He will return to finally judge the world.
     And what is our problem? As we have repeated in many past posts; using the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed and using the 15 visible Marks of St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ and Doctor of the Church, WE CANNOT FIND ANY OF THESE MARKS…..in the parishes, in the Diocese….they are not in religious orders or lay institutes….not in families…..and not in the Bishop’s Synod nor in the Vatican. We have challenged everyone to show us just one group who has these signs.  It seems that the door had been shut and we have been left outside. 
     These visible signs cannot be found because the world is filled with sin. But where is the Church? The Gospel of Pentecost gave the answer. “They are in community praying behind shut doors awaiting the coming of Christ through the closed doors. Pope Francis’ open doors and open walls will only invite the bad spirits. 
    
   

 1. Parousia.
     In its ordinary meaning, Parousia means the coming of an important person. In Christianity it often refers to the Second coming of Christ, either when we die or at the 2nd coming of Christ at the end of the world. 
     It is used in both senses; our own personal death and the 2nd coming of Christ at the end of the world, because on both occasion Christ is going to judge us.
     Parousia, then, is when we come to face Christ in order to be judged.  And the way we prepare ourselves for both is identical; to be in the state of grace. To prepare for the second coming of Christ is to prepare ourselves for death.  So it really does not matter whether we are preparing for one or the other; there is only one preparation for both. 
     St. Alphonsus Liguori and St. Robert Bellarmine have very helpful treatises on how to prepare for death.  The way to prepare for both death and the second coming of Christ is to repent and then have the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity. 

2. How far and how near. 
    GPS  (Global Positioning System) is very helpful when we are driving a car and looking for a specific destination. It is like God, Himself, guiding us directly to our destination. Well, we have something similar in the spiritual life. The Liturgy !! The liturgy tells us the path that leads to heaven, from the very beginning up to the end; the beginning is the season of Advent, and the final goal is the Feast of Christ the King. Every Sunday, Holy Mother the Church describes the sign posts that we must watch in our spiritual travel. These sign posts are visible sign of spiritual realities. As we go through the Sundays, the Liturgy tells exactly where we stand before God. Are we nearly approaching Him or are we very far away from Him?
     It even tells us if we have taken the wrong road and how to go back to the right road; just like the GPS.  But the Liturgy can, also, tell us if we have taken the wrong road and that we are hopelessly lost, which the GPS does not do. So, we really have a better instrument in the spiritual life made by God, Himself. 

3. Two signs.  A  pre-warning sign  showing we can still change our course and another sign showing it is too late.
    The whole of Scriptures is filled with pre-warning signs and hopeless signs. These are all meant to prepare us for the final pre-sign and final it’s-too-late sign.
     Let us look at the story of the deluge during the time off Noah.  The times of Noah were very bad and sinful times. So bad that God regretted He created man and decided to end the human race. But, of course, this was a temporary set back for the human race. The race will continue to exist and continue to be tested by God. But this one story will be a lesson on how the next subsequent Parousias will look like and how man should prepare for them. 
    It will not happen every year; but will happen often enough to teach men enough lesson to prepare for the last Parousia, the end of the world. 

     What is the pre-warning sign in the case of Noah? The building of the Ark. The sinful world of Noah saw the Ark being built. And Noah was telling them why he was  building the Ark; because of a coming chastisement due to  their sinfulness. At that time everybody had more than enough time to change and repent. But they did not.  The Ark was finish and the rain came; that was still a pre-warning sign. But when God, Himself, closed the door of the Ark…that was it. It was now too late. They knock and the door was not opened. The water rose, they called for help and for mercy, but it was too late. The door of the Ark was closed and God would not allow them to enter.
     Note that most of the people wanted to enter the Ark which was a figure of the Catholic Church but they could not because God closed the door. There is a possibility that one day God will close the main door of the Church which is the entrance shown by evangelisation. I repeat; God will close down the main entrance to the Catholic  Church. The story of Noah clearly shows this. 
     This is the urgency why we should set all things aside and work, first and foremost, to enter the Catholic Church before doing anything else……..because the main door might be closed by God. Remember it was not Noah who closed the door. It was God. 

4. Noah is a figure for today.
     We should expect the same thing to happen today. That one day when God sees the sins of today that surpass the sins during Noah’s time, rise like flood waters He will invite souls to enter the Catholic Church. But if He sees their continuous refusal, He will shut the main door of the Church. We will cry and knock but no one will open the door because what God has shut no man can open. Then we will all drown in our sins.

5. The Hope in the New Testament.
     God in His mercy will still shut the main door as in the time of Noah. But as a little joke that spread during my seminary days with the Jesuits, St. Peter noticed a steady flow of souls inside heaven though the main door is closed. It seems that a woman had opened a very small door somewhere to let some of her choiced souls inside. And that woman is the Blessed Virgin Mary.  
    At first , I though this was just some bad Jesuit joke like Karl Rahner’s  transignification heresy. But no. This was something true and genuine. In a picturesque way, the Blessed Virgin Mary seems to have open a very small door in the Ark of the Catholic Church. So that in the coming expected prophecy that the door of the Ark of the Catholic Church is closed by God Himself, Mary can allow entrance to some of her choiced souls. It is a hopeful element of the New Testament. 

6. The small door. 
     And this small door is found in Divine Revelation. The entire story of the Blessed Virgin Mary is just about her being the small door. As of recently, this was noticed in Pope Paul VI document on Mariology, ‘Marialis Cultus’ where he described the Catholic Church as a Marian Church. Earlier St. Grignon de Montfort had explicitly described her as the door that leads to Christ as the head of the Mystical Body. John Paul II was most expressive of Mary’s role as such that he took the title ‘Totus Tuus’ from St. Grignon. 
     When Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI  presented their ‘new’ evangelisation to the whole world they were, in effect, saying that the main door of the Ark of the Catholic Church, which is the main entrance through which all should enter, has now been shut by God. And that the ‘new’ evangelisation’ is the new path that leads to that small door opened by the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is not for all.  It is only for a few choiced soul devoted to her.
     This small door was first described by St. Bonaventure from where Joseph Ratzinger noticed it and made it into his thesis as a young priest. This was incorporated into some Franciscan spirituality since St. Francis of Assisi mentioned it in his farewell address to his friars.

7. The Woman clothed with the Sun.
     This ‘new’ evangelisation is described in the Apocalypse on the ‘Great Sign’ mentioned by Pope Paul VI, thus the first words of his encyclical ‘Marialis Cultus.’ It was earlier described in the last Gospel of St. John as he narrated the boat trip in lake Tiberius. So this teaching is all over Scriptures and in the teachings of the saints. 
     It is clear that the rain described in Noah’s deluge started from the very beginning of the Church. It seems that the waters of sin begun to rise around the 19th century, at the time of Pius IX when the Blessed Virgin Mary begun to appear regularly on earth. The rise of modernism during the French Revolution is suspected as the time the doors of the Ark were closed. And the apparitions of Mary were her efforts to point to the little opening into the Church described clearly in the Apocalypse. But it is coded so that almost nobody among the bishops and priests today seems to know where that door is. 

8. Significance of this truth.
    Since the main door of the Church is closed as prophetically portrayed by Noah’s Ark, it would be impossible for most to enter the Catholic Church today. As before, they can shout and beg and knock but the door will not be opened. There is only one small door open, personally controlled by Mary. And like before, Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI, true to their office as Popes had pointed to that door through the ‘new’ evangelisation.
     The great danger is everybody, today, is using the word ‘new’ evangelisation but the direction they are pointing to is the opposite direction, away from that small door and away from the closed main door. Pope Francis and most of all the bishops and priests are pointing to the wrong direction and calling it ‘new’ evangelisation.’ So beware. 

1. Of course, not.
     Christ had promised the gates of hell will not prevail against her…..well, the gates of hell will not prevail against her.  She will continue to exist up to the end of times because this Church will be the only welcoming committee that will meet Christ when He comes.
     But where is she? She is there where Divine Revelation said she would be. We have the four visible signs mentioned in the Nicene Creed. We have often referred to the 15 Marks of the true Church according to St. Robert Bellarmine. Why don’t we use these visible signs and look for her.
     God, precisely, gave us these signs so we can find her when we wish to look for her to enter her. Well, that is it. We will only find her if we look for her because we want to enter her. If we are just going to look for her out of curiosity or for other inferior reasons, like for research work, we will not find her. 

2. Looking for her.
    Looking for the Church today will be very difficult. All the prophecies from Scripture says so. With the ‘decay of Faith’ and  the ‘waxing cold of Charity’ prophesied by Christ  that will be the air that we shall breath,  to the total darkness prophesied by the Blessed Virgin in Quito, Ecuador  that will cover our eyes…….it will be a miracle if we find the Church today. 
     Though all the signs mentioned by the Creed and by Bellarmine are all still there, the blindness of the men of today will prevent them from seeing the signs. They won’t see the signs even if those signs are just under their noses. It is the same chastisement for their infidelity. 

3. The Messiah is born.
     The Messiah was born, He walked the earth, preached in Synagogues, perform wonders in the streets and they still asked; ‘Are you the Messiah?’ The Messiah was under their very nose but they completely missed Him. In the same way, today, most will not find the Church. It is a punishment from God for their not really being interested in the Church.
     How many have ever studied the different signs of the true Church and gone around to look for the Church. None of the bishops and none of the priests. Because if they were truly interested they would have looked for the Church long ago and they would have discovered that their own parish or diocese does not have the visible signs of the Church. And they should have lost all sleep from then on up to now. Because to know that you are outside the Church means damnation. So how can he sleep. He can sleep because he never checked on the signs and gone around to seek the Church.

4. The Church today was led  recently  by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. During their Papacy, these two Popes exhibited all the visible signs of the true Church. These signs can be found both in their writings and in their actions. If some signs are not obvious, the defect is in the beholder in that they have not really understood the signs.  Or they did not know how to apply it on the Church for the purpose of analysis.  Unable to apply the visible signs on the two previous Popes, many  are unable to apply it on the present Pope. This inability is beginning to show that we are facing, not just by a little problem of memory; but a very serious sin of ignorance of the Faith. 

5. Like father, like son.
    Because, just like the Jews, our present Cardinals, Bishops and priests are undergoing ‘the decay of Faith’ and the ‘waxing cold of Charity’ it would follow that the rest of the Catholic Laity would be in the same rut. Because the world is in spiritual darkness, nobody is noticing what is going on. 
     For so many years, this blog had been sounding the alarm that the house is on fire. And that we should either put out the fire or jump out of the house. We have suggested how to do both. But there is no reaction. Or worse they want to shut up our voice, instead.  But we cannot because our own salvation depends on ‘giving freely what we have received freely.’

6. Where is the Church?
     The first Church is the Holy Family. Then its continuation is the Apostolic community. Both are the images of the Catholic Church. Is your parish and diocese like the Holy Family and Apostolic community? Of course, not. So let’s see how they look like and that is how the Catholic Church should look today.
     The Catholic Church today was described by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI in their ‘new’ evangelisation.’ There is nothing in their description that did not come from  the past Father, Doctors and saints of the Catholic Church.
     The description given by Pope John Paul was taken from Scriptures and his favourite devotion, St. Grignon de Montfort.  Benedict XVI took his from St. Benedict,  St. Bonaventure (his thesis) and the monastic tradition.  Some were taken from St. Thomas of Aquinas commentary on the last Chapter of John. Also from the Apocalypse on the description of the Woman clothed with the Sun. And, of course, the works of St. Basil.
     All these authors describe the Catholic Church in her period of perfect development  about this our time. 
     Each member of the Church will be invited personally and individually by Christ; just as Christ did during apostolic times. Due to the absence of the physical Christ, this invitation will be a pure act of grace. The Psalm states that this invitation will be done secretly. 
    The individuals who are invited makes up the 153 large fishes when the net was lowered only on the right side and caught only good fishes. 
     As they were invited they were required to leave all things as was required from the young rich man. Pope Benedict emphasized that the invitation was for individuals and not for large groups. This was the main theme of John Paul’s ‘Veritatis Splendour’ that was meant to revitalise the Church specifically addressed only to the Bishops but hardly anyone implemented the Encyclical. So we do not have a church. 
     They live  a very ascetical life in community having their possessions in common and observing poverty. Pope Benedict took this from the ‘new’ monasticism concept of the Church by St. Bonaventure. 
     St. Grignon de Montfort described them thus, they have the cross as an emblem.
     St. Basil established, as a bishop, a Catholic Church in Turkey. It was a complete Catholic Church. The members left all things, lived in community, recited the complete Divine Office, and there was manual work. What was unique in his Church called Basiliades is its composition. Those who lived together in community but separated according to grouping were all kinds of people; young and old, healthy and sickly, priest, bishops and laymen, orphans and entire families, lame and blind, alive and dying. It was a complete microcosm of an entire Catholic Church.
     When the European Union was organised, the Catholic members of the committee designed a return of Europe to Christianity according to the Basiliades. It was an honest attempt of Europe to return to her Catholic roots. That was the original goal of the committee……until the atheist and heretics took over. The only Catholic thing that remained is the emblem……the emblem of the Woman of the Apocalypse, the blue color of the Blessed Virgin and her 12 stars. At least they knew that that was how the Catholic Church look like, …like the Basiliades. Is your Parish and Diocese like that?  
     Just one more. They live in strict enclosures and only get together for the Sacrifice of the Mass. And though their locality is unknown they are in constant battle with the forces of evil in the spiritual fields. That’s why outsiders see nothing and hear nothing. 

    Pope Benedict had been asking Bishops during their ‘Ad Limina’ visits if any of them had seen them.  And up to the present all have said ‘No.’ Yes, during these times, you will not find the four visible signs of the Church nor the 15 Marks of St. Bellarmine. You will not find the Church………not even in the Vatican. 

 1. There  will never ever be ‘peace’ on earth.
     Because there are no ‘men of good will,’ as the Christmas carol says. It was possible around the 10th up to the 13th centuries for the world to have ‘peace’ because the teachings of the Catholic Church had reached its fullness and maturity. Though the opportunity was there, and there were many places where there were apparent peace, true ‘peace’ was still illusive.
     If we define ‘peace’ correctly, at least according to human philosophy, it will appear that only the Catholic Church can bring ‘peace’ to the world. The goal of the Catholic Church is the attainment of ‘peace,’ correctly defined. “My ‘peace’ I give you.” The Catholic God is the Prince of ‘Peace.’ He alone can give ‘peace;’ this ‘peace’ the world cannot give. 
     The world will never have ‘peace’ because the Catholic Church whose goal is ‘peace’ and the only one who can bring ‘peace’ to the world, have ceased to be Catholic. She has repudiated her Prince of ‘Peace’  and have embraced the prostitute Lady Liberty.  In her spiritual adultery she lost her four visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church. 
     In losing the four visible marks of the Church, she lost her ‘peace’ and became ignorant of the definition of ‘peace.’

2. Why is peace impossible?
     No one has defined ‘peace’ correctly.  The pagan religions do not even have a definition for peace. The same goes with the Protestant sects. The Catholic Church, alone, have a very clear definition of ‘peace’. And its proper place in Catholic spirituality is clearly shown in the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter.  It is the 8th step.
     But why was Vatican II and the following Bishop’s Synod (2014 – 2015) filled with dissensions? And the records of those gatherings  showed  ample proofs of the absence of ‘peace.’  The 6th Sunday of Easter Gospel gave the answer; they failed to do the first 7 steps (see previous post.) They could not have the 8th step which was the reward of ‘peace’ that Christ alone can give. And which the world cannot give. 

3. ‘Peace is My farewell to you. My peace is My gift to you…..not as the world giveth it.’
     ‘Peace’ is a gift from God. It is the end of a whole process. The world can only promise ‘peace.’ But don’t wait for it. It will never come; because the world does not deserve it having committed adultery with the spirit of disunity. 
     
4. ‘Peace’ is not a means to a goal; it is the goal.
    Christ promised to give ‘peace’ to His disciples who had completed their training under Him. All finished,  except Judas, who committed suicide because he was not at ‘peace’ with himself and with the other apostles. That is a state of hellish misery that will make anyone commit suicide.

     ‘Peace’ is when a person is at ‘peace’ with himself and is at ‘peace’ with others. Let us go into it in more detail. ‘Peace’ is when man’s interior faculties, his appetites are in accord  with his mind and will. And when this peaceful interior is in accord with a similar interior ‘peace’ with another person  there is ‘peace’ within that one person and between the two persons.

 5.  An example.    
     Let’s take an example.   A husband wants to marry a woman to be able to take up the Sacrament of Matrimony for the sanctification of his soul. The husband thinks with his mind that he wants to save his soul using the Sacraments. The will, moved by the natural desire for a woman agrees with the mind for a marriage. The mind knows that to live with a woman without getting married to her is an evil. He knows that if he does this he will not find ‘peace.’  He knows that the right way is to marry her in the proper way. And he does this. Because the interior faculties obeyed the promptings of the intellect,  he experiences  ‘peace’ in his decision. 
     This husband is at ‘peace’ with himself because his interior faculties is in accord with what his mind has decided to be a right action and to which his free will had agreed to be a good act. 

6. Concord.
  We have described the husband. Now, let us describe the wife. Let’s say that the wife wants to marry a husband just for security. She has no intention of saving her soul or benefitting from the Sacraments. This wife does not will the good and is unconcerned with the truth. She is, only, after  money. She is not at ‘peace’ with herself, and she is not at ‘peace’ with her husband. She, only, has concord with her husband. St. Thomas distinguishes ‘peace’ from concord. ‘Peace’  is more profound.
     So there is a difference between ‘peace’ and concord. Peace is superior to concord. Concord is possible among people with evil will and wrong intentions.  The untrue and the bad cannot be elements of ‘peace. ‘

7. Why marriages fail.
     In the above example, the husband is a peaceful man, in that he was at ‘peace’ with himself (and we have defined this) but he was not at ‘peace’ with his wife. He was only  in concord with his wife because they were not of one mind and one heart. 
     The wife was not at ‘peace’ with herself and was living only in concord with her husband. That will not work because there is a defect; the interior faculties of the wife was not in peaceful co-existence with her mind and will. And the wife was not of one mind and will with the husband. St. James wrote; that this is the cause of all wars. Exterior wars are just expressions of internal wars. 
     Because of the lack of ‘peace,’ the husband, through he is at ‘peace’ with himself though in concord only with his wife, will feel this lack of ‘peace’ as detrimental to his happiness. To correct the imbalance or incongruent situation both will declare war with each other, Wars are declared to attain a ‘peace’ that is lacking. The husband who is in the right will be waging a just war. The wife who is in the wrong will fight an unjust war. 

8. The just war.
     The just was is meant to win over the wife; just as ecumenism is meant to win over the other religions into the Catholic Faith. That is a spiritually just war. For religions just to sit down and talk is not a war; it is a UN sponsored useless meeting. 
     If in the above example, the husband who is at peace with himself, though not of his own fault is, only, in concord with his wife, he can wage a just war and win his wife easily.

     But as the state of the whole Catholic Church is showing that there seems to be no peace even in the Vatican (this can be seen in Vatican II and the following last three Bishop’s Synod), because it does not have the four visible signs of the true Church, all the families have no peace, either with themselves or with one another. Peace becomes impossible.  The advice from the Pope is to carry the war from your family to the next and to the next and to the next through remarriages (i.e. through adultery).

9. The Catholic way to peace in the family.
     Begin with being at peace with oneself. How?  First, the  intellect should know what is the truth (from where? Of course from the teaching of Christ.) Secondly, his will must agree with the intellect that what is true is good for the same person. Then thirdly, with the mind agreeing peacefully with the will, the intellect  should put into action what they had peacefully agreed with. That accomplished action will be rewarded by God with the peace of Christ. If all the members of the family do the same thing then there will be ‘peace’ in the family which is a foretaste of heaven. They will never wish anything worldly in place of this ‘peace.’ It is a ‘peace’ that unites the family preventing every member from committing any sin. 
     That ‘peace’ is Love of God and  neighbour; because to be at ‘peace’ with oneself is Love of God. And to be at ‘peace’ with your wife and children is Love of neighbour. With that peace one really becomes a saint. It is the ‘peace’ that makes one love the Catholic Church because the family becomes the Church. That ‘peace’ is a foretaste of where the whole family will spend their eternity…..in the Kingdom of the Prince of Peace. 

10. How is the church solving the present mess. Making it messier. 
    Let us see how the Catholic Church under the Papacy of Pope Francis is solving the problem. 
     They are given more reason for the declarations of war and taking away all things that contribute to ‘peace.’ The Church had become the harbinger of war rather than of ‘peace.’ 
     The minds of couples are filled with each others defects thus feeling their hearts with mutual hatred. The mind, instead of being filled with the truth, becomes filled with lies; and the heart, instead of being filled with the good, becomes filed with the bad because of the continuing infidelity towards each other. Each person is filled with hatred which is the daughter of pride. Peace comes from Charity and humility. 
      When separated the couples and the children loses their ‘peace.’ When the parents remarry, everybody develops more hatred and loses further their ‘peace.’  When the parish priest and bishop annuls the previous marriage, everybody’s hatred increases further, and the ‘peace’ between the first family and the hierarchy disappears. And when everybody discovers that this annulment and remarried people are allowed to receive Communion by Pope Francis, then their ‘peace’ is totally lost and becomes pure hatred for the whole Church.  ‘Peace’ comes from Charity.  Hatred comes from mortal sin.

Thus the Vatican is no longer the Church of the Prince of Peace but the church of disunity and confusion,  the church of the Prince of the world.

 11.  How should we solve problem of marriages according to the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter. 
     First, bring the estranged husband, wife and children together.  Second, ask them if they want to solve their problem the Catholic way. If they say ‘yes’ then continue to the third step. If they say ‘No’, then send them to Pope Francis for a cheap and speedy annulment with Holy Communion as bonus. 
     If they say ‘yes’ then the third step is explained to them; i.e. the 7 steps from the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter. And tell them that if they go through those 7 steps they will all find not only ‘peace’ on earth because those steps will develop in them a Good Will, but they will find eternal ‘peace’ with God in heaven.

12.  Divorce and annulment will worsen the situation because not only is the wife not peaceful, the husband will also lose his peace. 
Now both husband and wife have lost their peace. If they remarry they will be contaminating other people with their unpeaceful lives. This life without peace will gradually turn to hatred and other untold evils. 
     Again, why will ‘peace’ never exist today? Because the Vatican Church who, alone can teach the way to peace had chosen the way to serious sin. Thus losing its Catholicity, it has lost its own peace.
     
     

  1. The training for the priesthood.
      In the early Christian times, candidates for the priesthood and candidates to the episcopacy were simply picked from monasteries because there were no seminaries.  The best priests and bishops were monks. And the best missionaries were monks. 
     The reason for this is that what the monks learn is what they used to govern parishes and dioceses. And what they learned is what they preach in missionary lands. In short, the formula on how to be a holy monk is the same formula used to make a holy parish or diocese. And the formula on how to be a holy monk is the same identical formula on how to teach pagans to become Catholics. The three formulas are identical. It is the formula of ‘evangelisation’ found in the Apostolic Commission given by Christ to the apostles as found at the end of the Gospel of St. Matthew. 

2. What is this identical formula?
     The way to be holy, the way to make others holy and the way to make pagans holy is identical. This is,  again, mentioned in the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter from the Gospel of St. John. This is a more elaborate description of the Apostolic Commission according to St. Matthew.  
     This formula is the basis for all curriculum in seminaries because, historically, the seminary curriculum is taken from  the training of monks. In monasteries, the seed (semen) of the Word is implanted by God in the souls; the monastic life makes the soul fertile. So the combination of the monastic life that makes the soul fertile and the planting of the seed by God is the perfect ambiance for holiness, for evangelisation and for missionary work. 
     This is, also, the way for husbands to help their wives become holy and for parents to make their children holy. 

3. Where did we go wrong?
     Now, where did all seminaries go wrong? Before going into the formula for seminary training in detail, let us look right away and see where we first went wrong. First God, indeed, plants the seed of the Word of God in the seminarian’s hearts. But there was no monastic life (it was abolished)  to make the soil fertile. So the seed would find itself on hard ground where the birds easily eat it up, on rocky ground where the roots cannot find firm hold, or in ground full of thorns. 
     This is the seminary environment. Because instead of keeping the monastic aspect of the training of seminarians, some bright seminary rector tried to adjust the seminary training to the wishes of the world. The seed still falls on the ground. But the soil is not fertile because they eliminated the monastic asceticism essential to make the soil fertile. The seminary was no longer the place where the ‘semen’ the seed of the Word of God can develop. 

4. Now, let’s go into details.
     As mentioned in previous posts,  Pope John Paul II came to the Philippines and in an address in Radio Veritas he ordered the CBCP to reform the seminary curriculum or seminary way of life (which of the two is not clear from sources.) But the two really go hand in hand. When you reform one, you reform both. Praxis go hand in hand with dogma. The news sources did not say, also, what was wrong with the present curriculum.
     But in the course of working on the project what was wrong became very, very obvious. There was something wrong; in fact there was a catastrophe and nobody knew it. 

5. The evangelical basis for seminary training.
     The outline for the Evangelical basis for seminary training or for the training of any soul, is based on the 5th and 6th Sunday on Easter. Here is the outline. We shall put it in the proper order.
     First, ‘he will be true to My word.’
     Second, ‘he will love Me.’
     Third, ‘We will come to him.’
     Fourth, ‘We will make our dwelling place with him always,’
     Fifth, ‘the Father will send in my name the Holy Spirit.’
     Sixth, ‘the Holy Spirit will instruct you in everything.’
     Seventh, ‘the Holy Spirit will remind you of all that I (Jesus) have told you. 
     
     So what was wrong?  No seminary followed the above steps.

6. Do only the first. The rest is the work of God. 
     Let us first go through the seven steps, and then return to the first, which is the only step that must be done by the whole seminary staff.  As we mentioned, the second step is just the consequence of the first step.  From the third to the seventh are exclusively, the work of God.

7. The entire basis for seminary training.
     Postulancy.
     First, all the commands of Christ must be taught during the first year during Postulancy. In one year, all the commands of Christ can be taught. And any seminarian who have not mastered all the commands must not proceed to the novitiate. These commands of Christ are the New Testament interpretation of the 10 commandments of God from the Old Testament. When given the New Testament interpretation, they will be expanded into around more than 80 commands. They are usually referred to as the Commands of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. 
     The theology professor will simply enumerate the command and will try to explain how that command will be put into practice. For example; he will give the command of Christ ‘to pray unceasingly.’ Then he should explain how to pray unceasingly (as we have explained in previous posts,) The professor will get the command from the New Testament and the explanation on ‘how’ from the writings of the Fathers of the Church (like the ‘treatise’ on prayer of St. Augustine or from the book of Pope Benedict XVI).
     That is all that the professor can do. Anybody who can read or write can do this. So even new graduates in the seminary, as often the practice, can teach in the seminary.  But sadly professors can do neither. In that they do not know ALL, only some, of the commands of Christ (often they do not know that ‘to pray unceasingly is a command of Christ under pain of sin.) And most often they do not know the interpretation of the Fathers of the Church on ‘how to pray.’ They think prayer is just like talking to another person. Hey, prayer is talking to God and that makes it a world of difference. 
     In the lecture hall, the seminarians will only hear the sound of the words of the professor. Nothing else. It is the Holy Spirit who explains the meaning of the sound of the words so that the seminarian will understand the message of the words. The meaning of the words is different from the sound of the word. Without the working of the Holy Spirit the seminarian will learn nothing spiritual. So he will not learn how to pray, which is a spiritual activity. The Holy Spirit is not always there. When is he there?
We will answer that after the Noviciate.
     Noviciate. After the seminarian had learned the commands of Christ from Divine Divine Revelation and the explanation of that command from the Fathers of the Church during his postulancy,when he starts the Noviciate he will try to put into practice what he had learned. He will not be able to put it into practice perfectly, but the little effort will be enough. He can perfect it later on.

     Now to the question, when will the Holy Spirit start acting on the seminarian? Before the first step; because it is through the power of the Holy Spirit will he be able to know the commands of Christ and to be able to obey them even slightly. Assuming the professor had explained the commands well. If the professor did not teach well, then the Holy Spirit will not act. Thus the importance of having professors with perfect knowledge, which is rare.  The human effort in seminary training stops here.

     Second step; ‘he will love Me.’ A seminarian who knows the commands of Christ and puts it into practice, it is he who loves God by very definition. ‘If you love Me, keep My commandments.’ So the seminarian who loves Christ is he who knows and obeys His commandments. This act is a combination of personal human effort and the gift of grace. After this, everything else is in the supernatural level and, therefore, over and above the capability of any seminary or school. Though some schools in Bologna and in Belgium like to presume that they can teach this.  They think they are the Holy Spirit.

     Third step. If the seminarian loves Christ, he loves, also, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Thus the Blessed Trinity will come to him. This presence is unlike receiving Holy Communion. This is a more permanent abiding.
     Fourth, ‘we will make our dwelling place with the seminarian always.’ This is heaven here on earth. No one can describe this experience. Even St. Paul could not describe it. When all the seminarians reaches this stage, they become one mind and heart. And no one will be separated from Him through sin. The sign that almost all seminarians do not reach this stage is that they engage in sins of impurity from entrance to ordination, aside from the common same sex temptations.
     Fifth, ‘the Father will send the Holy Spirit.’ The Holy Spirit comes with the Father and the Son. But he is coming with a special function or attributes specially referred to him. 
     Sixth, ‘the Holy Spirit will instruct in everything.’ The Spirit will teach you the answer to everything. You will have no question that you cannot answer or any problem that you cannot solve. This knowledge of the entire sphere of theology is infused; not learned from men nor books. 
     Seventh, ‘and the Spirit will remind you of everything Christ taught when He was on earth without you forgetting a single truth.

 8. When this outline for the seminary curriculum was read from the two Sundays of Easter, the Bishop’s Committee on Seminaries told  the research group to look around for a curriculum based on this outline. The group searched the entire Philippines and the best seminaries around the world.  Also several well known religious school in Rome, some theological schools in Europe, and some private seminaries. And lastly, the research group asked the Congregation of Catholic Education in Rome whose head was a Filipino. His answer was ‘we have no curriculum. We are still making one. ‘
     All of them had outlines but they were not based on the above outline. The Church is 2000 years old and we did not have a program for seminaries based on the Gospels? All curriculum were based on man made individual programs adapted to please the world.

9. So what is wrong with all seminarians? And all seminarians can confirm this.
    They do not know all the commands of Christ so they are not true to the Word of God.
     Second, not knowing the commands of Christ, they cannot obey them so they do not love God.
     Third, not having the proper disposition, God will not come to them.
     Fourth, Jesus might come to them occasionally but will leave them because the Trinity will not make their abode with them.
     Fifth, the Father will not send the Spirit to them due to a lack of proper disposition,
     Sixth, the Spirit will not instruct them so they will know absolutely nothing about the spiritual life.
     Seventh, they will know nothing about the past teachings of Christ as found in Divine Revelation, 

     With such ignorance, they cannot lead any soul anywhere near heaven.  This was the kind of seminary  Pope John Paul was trying to avoid. So the team had to begin from scratch. Fortunately history has information on how monastic life begun; how they formed their monks; and how the monks became the holiest people during their time, how the new monks were trained and how the monks converted the whole of Europe. It was all there on record. And it  was completely in accord with the above training program mentioned in the two Sunday Gospels of Easter.  Sadly, up to now no seminary is following the above outline.
     So we are still producing priest who have not repented, priest who have no Faith, and priest who have no Charity. These same priest are not united with their co-priests and bishops, they are not one mind and one heart with one another, they do not know their theology and the teachings of Christ. They are not free from their sin and the Trinity is not abiding with them. So they do not have the peace of Christ in them; and their source of pleasures are from he things of the world and from vices.
     All priests studied in such seminaries, from Pope Francis to the youngest bishops and priest. What a mess. If the Church is like this, what did you expect the world to be?


     

 1. Christ, after the Resurrection, appeared only to a few.
     It is said that if Christ, after the Resurrection, appeared to all, the world would be totally Catholic today. But He didn’t. He appeared to a very select few; to the few who were predestined to heaven. It was clear that to see the Resurrected Christ before one’s death is a sure sign one will go to heaven after death. If one does not see the Resurrected Face of Christ before one’s death, there is still the possibility that he can go to heaven but it is not certain. And this uncertainty is a big risk no one in his right mind should take. 
     So, like the Apostles, we must see the Face of the Resurrected Christ before we die. This is an undeserving gift from God. There is nothing we can do to deserve this. Except that Christ promised that if we reached this height in the spiritual life, He will manifest Himself to the soul. 
     This is not a physical apparition. It is a purely spiritual experience in which the Father will love the human soul and the Trinity will come to him to make their dwelling place with him always. This does not happen to everybody. It happens only to those who reach that level of spirituality shown by the 6th Sunday of Easter. The soul must have finished the spirituality represented by the 7 days of creation; because the spirituality of the 6th day of Easter occurs on the 7th day of creation. 

2. To emphasise the importance of this experience Christ left three pieces of cloths in the tomb.  The one that covered his face while on the cross to prevent the onlookers from seeing the hideousness of the face of a man crucified; today this is the sudarium of Oviedo. The second is the large clothe that covered the entire body of Christ; today this is the Shroud of Turin. And the third is practically a handkerchief; today this is the Sudarium of Manopello.
     What is the differences between these three pieces of clothes? The way the image of Christ is imprinted in them. In the first clothe, there is absolutely no image of Christ. Just blotches of stain blood.  In the Shroud, we see the entire Body of Christ, front and back but it is an image of the dead Christ. In the handkerchief of Manopello we see only the face of Christ. It is in colour and translucent. He is alive and smiling. He is even about to say something. His eyes are alive and looking straight at you. There is not a single sign of wound. It is, indeed, the Resurrected  Christ.
     Basing it on the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter,  Christ said; ‘I will go away. And those who see, only, My non-existing Face in the Sudarium of Oviedo will not follow Me to heaven. 
     ‘I will go away but you cannot follow Me NOW. But later on you can follow Me,’ are for those who will eventually follow Christ to where He is going to go. These are those who see Christ in the Shroud of Turin.
     ‘I will go away for a while and I will come back to you to bring you to where I will go,’ are those who see the Face of Christ in the Sudarium of Monopello. These are the souls who will see the face of the Resurrected Christ before they die, a guarantee that after death they will go straight to heaven. 
     It is said that when Martin Luther viewed the Face of Christ in the Sudarium of Monopello,  he saw nothing. Pope Francis and Cardinal Kasper who believe in the heresies of Martin Luther would probably see nothing, too.  But wait this picture is just God’s way of teaching us a lesson. The truth behind this devotion is the spiritual manifesting of God to a soul as described in todays Gospel. 

 3. To whom will Christ manifest Himself?
     Christ promised He will manifest Himself to those who are destined to go to heaven before they die. He made the promise. He will certainly fulfil it. How come we do not hear of anybody experiencing it? 
     God had never made it that we will die without knowing for sure where we are going. Before we die we can know for certain where we will go. To heaven or to hell. To those who will go to heaven, the Gospel for today writes, Christ will manifest Himself to them before they die. Just as Christ showed Himself, only,  to the Apostles after His Resurrection before they died. That was a sure sign of predestination. 

4. To whom will Christ manifest Himself?
     ‘Anyone who loves Me and to those who will be true to My Word.’  Christ will not manifest Himself to the world nor to bad Catholics.
     He will manifest Himself, only, to those who have Charity and who are obedient. These two words, Charity and obedience, have identical definition. Both consists in knowing the commands of Christ and obeying the commands of Christ. 
     What do we mean by knowing the commands of Christ? It means we know all the commands of God the Father as taught in the Old Testament and we should know its New Testament interpretation.  We cannot obey the commands of God the Father as it is in the Old Testament. That is passe.  We must obey the commands in the Old Testament according to its New Testament interpretation. Where can we find that? In the explanations of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. 
     Of course, there is also the commands of Christ in the New Testament, like to pray unceasingly and the one command that was lacking in the life of the young rich man. Nobody seems to obey these two just mentioned commands of Christ in the New Testament. This means that nobody is Charitable and nobody is obedient. Nobody is worthy to experience the manifestation of Christ. What?? In other words, nobody is going to heaven? Without Christ manifesting Himself to us we cannot be certain to go to heaven. But Pope Francis said everybody is going to heaven; even atheist, pagans, adulterers, Protestants, born again,  Jews. Well, we will not be the judge. God will be the judge. And God said that only to those to whom He manifested Himself. 

5. Those who love and those who are obedient.
     Who are these?
 These are the souls who have learned from Christ by encountering Him inside the Catholic Church. They have learned all His commands and the correct interpretation of His commands. ( this is the ‘what’ and the ‘how.’)
     The obedient are those who have put into practice all the commands of Christ . The act of knowing the commands of Christ is an act of the intellect. The act of actually obeying the commands of Christ is an act of the Free Will.  
     Those who love God and are obedient to God are those who with their intellect knows all the commands of Christ and who with their free will have obeyed all the commands of Christ. 
     It is to these souls that God will come and will make Our dwelling place with him always. 

6. How will Christ manifest Himself to you.
     ‘I will love you and make my dwelling place with you always. And I will send you the Holy Spirit who will instruct you in everything and remind you of all that I told you.’ There we have the formula on how to run a seminary. The curriculum musts be to teach the seminarians all the commands of Christ and how to obey them. If the seminarians learn all the commands and obey them, then the Holy Spirit will teach them the entire Moral and Dogmatic theology, Church history, etc. And not only that, the Spirit will remind them all the truths that Christ taught that is found in Divine Revelation. That is the way to learn theology; not the way it is done today. 

7. The situation today.
     Note the rampant disobediences to the commands of Christ from Pope Francis down to the priests and laymen; their disobediences to the command that husbands should love their wives as Christ love the Church, to the command that wives be submissive to their husband, that both parents be faithful to their children, that souls in mortal sin should not receive Communion unless they first repent. These disobedience to these commands, according to St. James is equivalent to disobedience to all the commands of Christ. The catechism repeats this. So what now?
     So these disobedient Pope and cardinals does not love Christ precisely because they are not true to His words. Thus God does not love them. Thus the Trinity will not come to them to make their dwelling on these priests. 
     Because they do not obey the commands of Christ, the Spirit will not instruct them in anything; and the same Spirit will not remind them of the things Christ taught in Divine Revelation. That is why these people hardly quote the teachings of Christ; only their own quotes.
     Then Christ will come again and will leave to go to heaven. And this Pope will all his accomplices will not go with Him to where He is going. 

     On the other hand, if we truly love Christ shown by our obedience to His commands (like His command for husband and wife to be united for life), then Christ says, ‘I will come back to you. And because you were obedient you will rejoice to have me go to the Father because you can follow Me.’


Conclusion.  He who does not love me does not keep my words. I will not send him My Spirit so he will not know anything of My instructions and he will not remember anything that My Son Jesus had taught in Divine Revelation. 


‘I do not love Bergoglio and I will not manifest Myself to him. And he will not go where St. Ignatius, St. Peter Canitius, St. Peter Faber went. Because he does not know My commands and have not obeyed My commands.’  With the way the Catholic Church is going today, confused and in heresy, many of us will hear the same identical words just mentioned. Isn’t there any Jesuit who can charitably and fraternally read St. Thomas’ interpretation of today’s Gospel to him? Oh, I forgot. The Jesuits don’t like St. Thomas as they often joked during my seminary days.

     

 1. The different religions
     The non-christian religions have absolutely no proofs that theirs is the true religion; because most of them if not all of them were made by mere men. They immediately have the problem of proving the existence of their God. Their God being man-made their human founder finds it impossible to prove they have a God at all.
     Such religions have the dual problem of not being able to prove the validity of their religion and the existence of their God. And their inability is enough proof that they are not true and valid religions.  Here no further discussion is needed. An attempt at ecumenism with them will turn out to be mere human conversation that will start from no where and go nowhere. It is impossible to talk with someone who is not sure of everything.

     The so-called Christian religions, i.e. the Protestant sects, also, have no proofs that theirs is the true religion. As St. Robert Bellarmine noted, their proofs taken from Scriptures are futile attempts in that they are the common signs that are identical to practically all religions. In short, the proofs used by one Protestant sect that theirs is the true religion is identical to the proofs of all other Protestant sects.
     Inspite of these identical proofs the Protestants have in proving that their sects is the true religion, they cannot unite. The reason being, the signs there are claiming as the visible signs that their sect is the true religion is not really the valid signs so it cannot unite different sects. 
     It will be impossible to talk to such persons, too, because they will be quoting Scriptures but their quotations, even if they quote the entire Scriptures, are not necessarily the signs of the true Church and the true religion. 

2. How to begin an attempt at ecumenism.
    For both groups, the non-christian religions and the christian sects, the beginning of a dialogue must begin with a discussion of the rules of Philosophy or natural theology and agree with the five proofs of the existence of God. If we can agree that St. Thomas’ five proofs are valid and, indeed, there is a God, the next step, which is Who is That God will be easier. 
     This procedure is effective for both non-christian religion and Protestant sects. 

     Another reason why this procedure is effective is because these five proofs of St. Thomas are ingrained in the minds of all men. So the basis of the proofs for discussion is found within the hearts of all men. There will be no need to use external proofs. 

3. The Catholic position
    Before Catholics can start any ecumenical move they must have a stand. And her stand is evidently the fact that only the Catholic Church have the four visible signs of the true Church of Christ. These four signs had been proven valid by Philosophy and, therefore can be used to convince non-christians. Secondly, these signs are found in Divine Revelation. Therefore, it can convince all Protestant sects.
    Furthermore, these four visible signs had been expanded and fully explained by the Fathers of the Church using both Philosophy and Theology, so it can satisfy both pagan and protestant groups. 

4. Ecumenism is really evangelisation.
    If we look at the process of ecumenism, it is in fact evangelisation. Ecumenism is a process by which the Catholic Church is evangelising non-christian and christian groups. If ecumenism is not evangelisation, then it is pure board meeting of no value whatsoever. 
     An activity like the prayers of all religion at the St. Francis cathedral in Assisi can be both an act of evangelisation or a pure public relation gimmick; depending on the intention of the meeting. As in the case of that Assisi meeting hosted by Pope John Paul II, his intention is to exposed all religions to the reality of the Catholic Church, as if saying; ‘try to know us.’ That is a very effective evangelisation
     But if the intention is to show that all religions are the same in the eyes of God and, therefore, they should not be fighting, then it is a heretical meeting. 
     It is not the external but the interior motive that is important. The reluctance of Pope Benedict to continue that meeting shows that the motive of evangelisation was not evident in the  ceremony. The heresy was more evident; though Pope Benedict allowed it to continue for reasons of ‘there is nothing much we can do about it right now; and we are now deep in this erroneous ceremony.

5. The biggest defect in the ecumenical movement.
     The biggest defect in the ecumenical movement is that the Catholics cannot prove that they are the true Church of Christ using the four visible signs mentioned in the Nicene Creed. If the Catholic Church cannot prove that she is the true Church, where is she leading all those religions and sects? Nowhere or better still straight to hell.
     The Catholic Church must first prove that she is the true Church established by Christ using the four visible signs, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.  In fact, showing these four visible signs and explaining these  four well is more than enough to attract anyone into the Catholic Church. There is nothing that is attractive i Church than these four visible signs mentioned in the Creed. 
     These signs are the only way by which the Catholic Church can prove that she is the true Church established by Christ. There is no other proof. These proof are so important because it answers a lot of question. For example; a debate is brewing in the Vatican whether Mario Bergoglio is a true Pope or not. The arguments are long and complicated. But if we simply settle down the question; does he have the four visible signs or not. That is the end of the discussion. If Bergoglio has the four visible signs, no doubt he is the true Pope. But if he does not have the four visible signs…….why, he is not even a Catholic. How can he be a bishop or even a Pope. Imagine, the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope, is not even a Catholic.
     These four signs are so important and answers a lot of question so much so that many of the Fathers and Doctor of the Church wrote commentaries on the four visible signs. They did not add nor subtract from the four signs. They merely expanded and elaborated the four signs. And St. Robert Bellarmine has one of the simplest and most extensive 15 description of the Mark of the true Church.
And frankly, no matter how hard I try to look for those signs in Pope Francis, I could not find any. 
     I applied the signs before on Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI and both had flying colours. Simply from their writings and a few of their actions they showed all the visible Marks of the true Church. 
An example; the conversion of a Muslim journalist and personally baptised by Pope Benedict is true sign of the true Church. Pope Benedict was clearly the head of a One, Holy , Catholic and Apostolic Church. But when Pope Francis became Pope, the same Muslim journalist left the Catholic Church in dismay to Pope Francis’ actuations. What do you say to that?
     The present ecumenism is an attempt to create a one world religion, a project of the UN, to which the presidency had been offered to Pope Francis. This is based on the heresy of indifferentism; the belief that all religions are equal and, therefore, can be joint together into one happy religion. 

6. For fun.
    With nothing better to do I applied the newly acquired knowledge of the four visible signs of the true Church from the Creed on my Parish priest,  two Diocesan Bishops, and other bishops whose informations are available in the internet. I could not sleep. Almost all of them did not have any of the  visible signs of the true Church.
     Since Pope Francis was becoming popular with the wrong people, I applied, not so much the four visible signs of the Church on him. Instead, I applied the newly translated 15 visible Marks of the true Church written by St. Robert Bellarmine, a Jesuit Doctor of the Church, which is an expanded version of the four visible signs. And I nearly fainted. I begun to see that practically all the priests, bishops, cardinals that were analysed did not have a single visible sign. And worse, even Mario Bergoglio did not have a sign of the true Church. In fact, he had the opposite signs of the true Church described by St. Bellarmine. 
     There is nothing much that can be done but to inform some Jesuits of this finding. I know a few since I studied for more than 10 years under the Jesuits. But there was no reaction. They merely continued to praise Pope Francis for worshipping Mother Earth and pushing global warming. 

7. There goes ecumenism. So what now?
     The bishops who have been noticing something weird with Pope Francis should gather together and check if he has either the four visible signs or the 15 Marks of the true Church by Bellarmine. If he does not have, then these bishop should declare him as not a Catholic and, therefore  has no right to be sitting on St. Peter’s chair. If he has even just one visible sign, then please inform me and I will be the first one to apologise for the harsh judgment. 
     His Jesuit confrers should show Pope Francis is a Catholic using the four visible signs or the 15 Marks of St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ. within a month since he had been a Pope, already, for more than two years. If not a Synod of wise bishops should declare him  an anti-pope.  This is the normal canonical process. Then, maybe we can have some real ecumenism afterwards. 

 1. The direction of the Just.
     There is a spiritual principle mentioned by St. Thomas of Aquinas; that one must advance every second and every minute continuously in the spiritual life.  You cannot stop advancing in the spiritual life. If you stop you will regress.
     The great saints never regressed  nor even stopped advancing in their spiritual life.  That is what made them saints. To reach Charity you must continuously progress otherwise you will never reach Charity.  Every minute counts, we cannot waste time by stopping or worse by regressing.
     
2. The direction of the sinner.
     There is also another principle in the spiritual life.  That when you are in the state of grace and you sinned, you lose the state of grace.  And if you do not immediately repent, you will easily fall into the next sin and into the next and into the next  sin. And the more you sin the faster you will descend from one sin to another sin. 

3. Consider the above two principles.
    If the two principles are considered together, we will see that by the end of time,  the righteous will become more and more righteous;  while the filthy sinner will wallow deeper in his filth. This is according to the Book of Revelation. 

      The sinner had seen the sin committed on Good Friday, the deicide committed by the Jews. That was a most horrible sin. But greater is the sin of the men today who do not wish to learn from the lessons of the past and who do not wish to obey the commandments of Christ for which He died in order to teach man how to save his soul. 
     The Psalmist seeing the hard headedness of man cries out; ‘let the wicked reach the height of wickedness.’  But how does the Psalmist describe the righteous, those who do what is good and right. The Psalmist described the ‘new’ evangelisation preached by John Paul II and Benedict XVI but which, it seems,  nobody understood since absolutely nobody is talking about it today; neither Pope Francis nor any of the bishops. 

4. The direction of the just.
    The Apostolic Commission gives four steps;  first, to go to all nations. Secondly, to baptise. Thirdly to teach them all My commands. And fourth, to teach them HOW to obey My commands. 
     Man is supposed to do only the first two steps; first, the going around the world. And secondly, the baptising. Jesus Christ is supposed to do the third. And the Holy Spirit is supposed to do the fourth. 
     In most cases, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are unable to do their part because most man cannot finish the second step. From the second step man regresses back in being unrepentant and go lower by multiplying their sins. 
     The just are those who accomplish steps one and two. Having accomplished their part, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are able to do their promised parts.
   
     Thus the Psalmist cry out; ‘let the righteous be raised by God in secret to the heights.’ These souls who advanced in their spiritual life without pausing along the way are ‘secretly’ raised by God to the heights of contemplation and the mystical life.  So as Pope Benedict described the ‘new’ evangelisation, the Catholic Church will be a very small community of people who have the reached the heights of the contemplative and mystical life by an Act of God.  Without any help from men, teachers, professors, experts or whatever. They will be raised by a pure Act of God.  A Church formed by God, Himself.  What a beautiful Church this must  be. It is,  because of the impending wedding banquet that will soon follow with the Son of God in heaven. 

5. What does God see in these souls.
     God sees that they are taking their medicine faithfully. The healthy are taking their medicine to keep healthy. And the sickly are taking their medicines to cure their illness.
     The medicine for both is prayer. The sickly pray ‘Have mercy on me.’ While the healthy pray; ‘If there is iniquity in my hands, I have repaid.’ 
     The weak is asking to be free from his iniquity; ‘save me because of your mercy,’ The one who is healthy prays not to fall again ‘judge me according to my righteousness,’
     One is restored to health and prays not to fall again; the other prays that he might be upheld in his health.  One ask for mercy because he has no merit.  The other ask for justice because it is given to one who is already righteous.

6. What happens.
     The righteous have reached the boundary where human efforts stop and the Divine activities begin. So, as St. Benedict writes in his rule, the soul fly effortlessly forward in the sweetness of the Lord.   Grace takes over all activities that lead to the perfection of Charity.
     On the other hand, the sinner unable to stop sinning and repent reach that stage where God takes away the grace of repentance from him. So like Judas, who surely have learned how to repent from Christ, suddenly did not know how to repent.   His knowledge was gone. He could not repent. 

7. Two things are happening today which nobody is noticing. 
     Souls who have seriously studied the first step in the spiritual life, i.e. the life of repentance, have developed the virtue of Penance. Suddenly, they find themselves  in  the second step, Faith. And rushing pass the virtue of Hope they reach  Divine Charity. And the journey is effortless.
     The have not studied Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church,  they do not have spiritual directors, have not even gone to any school (secular or religious.) have no contact with nuns, brothers, priests or bishops……..and yet they know their Catholic theology. 
     
     While on the other hand we have religious  teachers  and theologians, graduates with five degrees, bishops with five thousand volume libraries and even a Pope that knows nothing about Christ and His teachings who thinks  the Fathers and Doctors  of the Church are from Mars and does not recognise St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Thomas of Aquinas. 

8.  What shall we have today according to Psalm 7?
    We shall have a world physically and spiritually possessed by Satan. And we shall have a very small Church of contemplatives that had been personally raised by God. Both will be poised for one great battle that will be God’s last test for men.  Of course we would hope to be on the side of the righteous. Then we should take our medication; the virtues that will keep our souls healthy and the life of repentance that will remove all the illnesses of our souls.