Author: Odon De Castro

1. Satan cannot destroy souls.
    Satan cannot do anything without the permission of God. Anything that God allows Satan to do is for the testing of man; to see whether he is worthy of eternal life or not. God has not allowed Satan to destroy man’s souls. Man, alone, is the reason for the destruction of his soul. Satan can only suggest to man to go to hell. 
     Angels, too, cannot do anything without God’s permission. They cannot bring man to heaven. They can only suggest to go to heaven. Angels are, also, used by God to test mankind. 
     God is in the midst of these two opposing forces as judge but very biased on the side of the angels and of men.

2. Man has been placed here on earth to undergo and pass a test.
     Man wasn’t place here on earth to enjoy it or take care of it. He placed him  here to pass a test, eventually leave it and receive either his reward or punishment somewhere else; either in heaven or in hell. 
     The test is this; in this conflict on whose side will man be; the side of the devils or the side of the angels. To take sides man must know the strategy of each side so he can effectively cooperate on the right side. 

3. Satan’s strategy.
    Satan’s strategy consist in suggesting to man that it is heaven to go to hell. Now, who in his right mind will believe that? No one. So Satan’s first step is to see to it that man remains ignorant of the truth. And secondly, to make man love fantasies of the truth and the good. This is the classical pincer movement; attacking from two sides and meeting at the middle, like a crab’s pincer claws. The pincer movement must reach the middle for the death blow.

4. The strategy directed towards the individual.
     Satan’s strategy is first directed to the individual. Then afterwards it is directed to the entire Catholic Church. So, let us first look at his strategy towards the individual; this will be presented as a suggestion or as a temptation. Satan will tell his eternal lie; that the truth and the good can be found here on earth in the world of the senses rather than in that nebulous place called heaven. Satan is intelligent enough not to say that the truth and the good is in hell. No, no, no.  He will say it is here in the US, in Europe, in the shopping Mall, in the beaches and ski resorts, in a bar or with a prostitute. 
     Satan will bombard the intellect with advertisements about these things and show that these are the things that are true and good for us. Nobody can deny that comfortably sitting in a five star hotel by a swimming pool with a glass of brandy on one hand and a lady on our lap is too good to be true. There you have both a false truth and a false good suggested to your intellect. 
     These sensual stimuli are flashed to the free will of man and arouses his inward passions. Then both the inward passions and the mind cooperate to force the free will to desire these things that had been suggested by Satan. You have just been caught in the web of Satan’s temptation.  After this, the next steps for man’s destruction will be very easy. 

5. The strategy directed towards the Catholic Church.
     Let us see what Satan did at the very beginning of creation; he attacked the head of mankind and later on attacked the children. He attacked Adam and Eve who were the head of the  human race.  Then  he attacked Cain and Abel. That is the top men in the human ladder and the bottom in the ladder. If we go to the spiritual organisation like the Church, that would be an attack on the Pope and the youngest Catholic child. Those would be the top and the bottom of the spiritual ladder. 
      
6. The pincer attack.
     The pincer attack would go this way. Satan will attack the Pope and drag him down to the level of the child just before baptism (age of original sin.)  On the other side of the pincer, Satan would destroy the child spiritually (by keeping him in the state of sin) and, then,  raise him up to be a Pope. With that dual overlapping swiping movement, Satan can completely demolish the Catholic Church.  Except God will not permit that the Church would disappear from the face of the earth. By an act of Divine Providence He will preserve the Catholic Church up to the end of the world. But let us set aside this Act of Divine Providence for a while and concentrate on Psalm 7 that describes Satan’s strategy. 

7. The attack on the top.
     Satan knows, from his role in the fall of Adam and Eve, that to attack the one on the top of the ladder is a good strategy. So even from the beginning his plan was to attack the spiritual head of the Church. In the Old Testament he attacked the Pharisees and Sadducees and he was very successful.  In the New Testament, he attacked Christ, the apostles and all the Popes. Though he could not overwhelm the true Popes because they were fortified by Christ, he was able to install more than 40 anti-popes; which is pretty good for a devil. 
     What did Satan do? Simple.  He introduced heresies on the spiritual heads. And because Satan does not really know who would be the Pope, and if the Pope is already Pope he cannot  destroy the Pope  so he must work earlier in his work of destruction. He must introduce the heresy earlier; in the seminary! And keep those heresies intact during the whole course of human history. That way the possibility of choosing a Pope among the heretical priests and bishops becomes a very great possibility.
     This explains how the heresies from Arius….down to Martin Luther..up the the present with Cardinal Kasper subsists. In fact, the prestigious Cardinal Arinze, learned head of the Congregation of Worship, included Pope Bergoglio as guilty of the heresy of liberalism, a heresy condemned by Pope Gregory XVI’ (Mirari vos) and later on in the Syllabus of Errors by Pius  IX.
     Church history contains in every century Satan’s attack on the Church by introducing heresies. And he has never let down his efforts in this regard.  He seems to have poured down on the Church all the past heresies plus new ones at the start of the 18th century.   
      When Our Lady of Good Success warned us about this in the year 1500, she was just reminding us of Psalm 7. But since most do not pray Psalm 7 anymore it was necessary for the BVM to remind us of it. 
      So Satan’s attack on the head is in place and working very well. Imagine,  more than 40 anti-popes! And heretics who are alive and occupying important position at the Vatican! 

     Satan has been attacking the heads. He hopes that if the bishops and priests hold heretical doctrines this will contaminate the parents under their care. With parents in heresy, the children will be raised in heresy though baptised. This is an indirect attack on the children of Catholics. Through the erroneous teachings of their parish priest and diocesan bishops, the parents know nothing of their religion. And their children will inherit their ignorance of their religion. This ignorance, itself, is a sin (according to St. Thomas of Aquinas.) That child is going nowhere than down.

8. The direct attack at the bottom of the ladder, the children.
     The ignorance of the parents is the first cause of the deterioration of the children. The next potent devilish factor for the destruction of the child is secular education.  St. Augustine who had actual experience wrote that his secular education was the greatest obstacle to his finding God. Secular education falls under ‘curiosities,’ that knowledge that is utterly useless for the attainment of true happiness. This, too, is the biggest obstacle to knowing God. It also falls under ‘creatures’ that prevents souls in knowing and loving God.
     St. Augustine believes that true Catholic education should be ‘studiositas’ akin to the education in the early monastic schools and revived by Blessed John Cardinal Newman in his ‘Idea of a University.’
     Add to this secular education TV, video games, cell phones, shopping malls, movies, newspapers, magazine, etc…  That child will have absolutely no desire for the things he cannot see. Absolutely no desire for heaven and that is a sign of no Faith. 

 9. Now let us make these two ends meet. 
      While the anti-pope descends to a way of life based on doing what he wants, (i.e. original sin,). and completely disregarding the Will of God……the child, on the other hand,  who was born with original sin and was sustained by his parents to be in that state grows up to be a priest, a bishop and a Pope. Can you imagine the scenario we are facing. It is a Catholic Church that is totally in chaos; or better still, a Catholic Church that has become totally a Protestant sect.
      And the Pius X group, the Orthodox and the Anglicans want to rejoin the Catholic Church. Why, that is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.  That is leaving their schism to enter into a more serious schism.  

10. Psalm 7 described a Church as mentioned above.  It, indeed, happened many times during the Old Testament. And in a noticeable way at the time of Judas Machabeus. Again it happened on Good Friday. And eschatologically it is happening today. 
     Because of heresies that have entered the seminaries notably introduced by William Ockam around the 1300, the seminaries was never able to produce men of Faith. All graduates of seminaries did not know how to save souls. It became worse at the 14th century; and remained in that awful state up to the present. No seminary can teach the way to heaven. If there is a holy priest that can teach that it is due to private, personal efforts with the help of the grace of God. Not because it was learned from the seminary……seminaries were never meant to do that in the first place. Seminaries were supposed to teach how a seminarian can learn the way to heaven from God through prayer; not the way they are learning it right now which is too human which are meant for such subjects like botany but not for theology. Christ, Himself,  said so; ‘it is not men who taught you that but My Father in Heaven.’
      
11. What are we faced with?
     Psalm 7 says; we are faced by the fact that we can have an anti-pope who is behaving like a child in the state of original sin. And that we have a child in the state of original sin and whose sins had gotten worse that have become a pope. 
     What do we do in such a situation? Psalm 7 says; ‘walk the way of righteousness.’

1. Outside the Church there is no salvation.
    We will not discuss the definition of the above terms first because it will be lengthy. We will first go directly to the Gospel. There are two general ways by which we can know who are the true disciples of Christ. 
     The first way is through what God, Himself, established so that all men can know which is the true Church. This is through the four visible signs enumerated in the Nicene Creed; namely, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. 
     These are four visible signs so that all men can clearly see and easily discover the Church. There is no other visible way by which the true Church can be recognised. These four visible signs are so clear any one can see them even with one eyes closed. There is no reason why one cannot see these signs except through intentional malice. 
     Recognising the signs does not necessarily mean that a person is inside that church. Entering would be an entirely different process. To know the Church and to enter the Church are two different processes. 

2. There  is another way by which the true disciples of Christ can be recognised and this is through the supernatural and theological virtues. These are not visible; they are spiritual and invisible and are present only on those who are perfect Christians. Like the four visible signs all men can still know  them as the signs of being a disciple of Christ, but it is more difficult compared to the four visible signs. 
    Though Faith and Hope are equally signs that one is a disciple of Christ, the Gospel for today specifically mentions the virtue of Charity as the perfect sign of true discipleship. This is what is referred to in today’s Gospel when Christ said; ‘this is how all men will know  you for My disciples your love for one another.’ Christ was referring to the theological virtue of Charity.
     In fact, this sign was only given to the apostles when they were almost perfect when Christ said; ‘You still cannot come with Me because you are not yet perfect in your Charity.’

3. Canonisation process.     
    This sign is what was used before during the canonisation process. The Congregation in Rome simply checked if the candidate have undergone the four general steps in the spiritual life, namely, Repentance, Faith, Hope but more specifically the theological virtue of Charity.  If he or she has Charity, then he or she surely would have the rest of the virtues. Charity is what makes a person a saint and deserving of eternal life (as mentioned in the Gospel of 4th Sunday of Easter.) The document proclaiming St. Therese of Lisieux a saint simply described her Charity. 

     This thorough canonical process was participated by all before. So all could see the signs that this person, indeed, is a saint. ‘All men knew that St. Therese was Christ’s disciple because of her Charity. She was described as the doctor of Divine Love.
     Today, the process had been changed. The arduous task of checking the life of the candidate if they have reached Charity, the only infallible proof of sanctity, had been dispensed with.  So we cannot really be certain if the saints canonised by Pope Francis are truly saints because the old traditional procedure used to canonised St. Therese was not used. If one is to believe that Pope John Paul II is a saint, he has to personally study the four steps (of evangelisation), personally study the life and works of Pope John Paul II, and only then make the personal, individual conclusion that he is a saint. And this conclusion is reached without the aid of the Vatican offices whose job it is to help man believe that he is a saint.

4. The four visible signs and the virtue of Charity. 
      The four visible signs, One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, ….are signs describing a community.  Faith, Hope and Charity are, also, virtues that describe the community, called the Church, (‘see how they love one another’ the pagans use to describe the Christian community). However, the four visible signs can be found in a true Catholic community that is not yet perfect. While Charity can only be found in a perfect Christian community. And the apostles were about to reach this perfection in today’s Gospel.  

5. ‘Judas had just left,’ the Gospel begins. 
     The Church has to be perfect before she can be wedded with Christ in heaven.  The apostolic community could not be perfect because of the presence of Judas. The Catholic Church must be perfect as a community. How?  By each individual being perfect. 
     Today, the Catholic  Church is not ready for her wedding in heaven unless the Judasses are out and the Peters and Johns are perfect. Christ said that the angels will be like winnowing fans separating the chaff from the wheat. It has to be. Otherwise the Church cannot be perfectly Catholic. And the goal of John Paul II and Benedict XVI’s  new evangelisation is, precisely, to perfect the Church and not to fill it up with garbage. The two Popes got the adjective ‘new’ from Christ’s word in describing the ‘new’ commandment.
     Excommunication is for this purpose; to remove Judasses. But this had been abused and used to remove good bishops who are pains in the neck of other bishops who experience remorse of conscience for not doing their jobs. Such was the case in the well published uncanonical removal of Bishops Livieres and Altieri.

6. My children, I am not to be with you much longer. 
    Christ comes and go. In the Gospel, He was to go with His Crucifixion and return at His Resurrection; go again in His Ascension and return at His Second coming. Go again after the Last Judgment and stay in heaven permanently afterwards. 
     In ‘I am not to be with you,’ He was  referring to His death wherein He was going to the Father. And the apostles were insisting in going with Him.  Christ did not say ‘No,’ which would be for the rest of the world. He said ‘Not now.’ ‘Later!’  Why ‘later?’ Because  though they had, first, repented. Secondly, had Faith. Third, had Hope. And fourthly, they had Charity…..their Charity was not perfect. How come? Because Christ had not yet finished teaching them ‘How much He loved them’ which will be the basis of the ‘new’ commandment. 
      They could not come along with Him to where He was going, to heaven,  without perfect Charity. 

7. Christ is always with those with perfect Charity. He withdraws from those who disobeys His commandments. 
    During His passion, the apostles, due to fear, was abandoned by Christ ‘for a while.’ But they sought Christ again through repentance (the first step in returning to Him,) Seeing Christ resurrect they will regain their Faith, Hope and Charity. But their Charity remains imperfect. 
     To the Jews Christ says; ‘you cannot come with Me.’ To the apostles with Judas among them Christ says; ‘you cannot come with Me.’ But now, without the unbelieving Jews and without Judas you will be able to come with Me.’ But just one more lesson and this I still have to teach you because you don’t know this. 
     I am going to be crucified and die to save the world.  You must do the same.

8. A ‘new’ commandment.
    This is not in the O.T.  I have not taught this yet because I have not undergone My passion. Only now after My passion can I teach you and give it to you as a command. And this is a ‘new’ commandment. 
     This is not identical to the ‘Love God and neighbour’ in the Old Testament. That was mere natural love. Only Christ, a God, can teach this command and only after His passion and death. This is a very new supernatural knowledge that can only be learned by those who have done their repentance and are steeped in Faith and Hope.
     St. Thomas of Aquinas writes; this command is, indeed, ‘new’
 because its features are new, its meaning is new and its standards is new.  Man acquires a new nature (supernatural grace that makes him co-natural to God). Man acquires a new Spirit (the Spirit of Love that makes them children of God). And man makes a new covenant with God.

9. Characteristics.
    The command is ‘love one another such as my love has been for you. ‘ Two persons must reach perfect Charity. It cannot be attained by one person alone, because where is the ‘other?’  So Christ’s commanded that there must be two or three gathered together and that is the only time He will be in their midst to make up the Catholic Church.
      This implies the necessity of community life, just like the apostolic community.  St. Benedict discouraged monks to be hermits without perfecting their community lives first. Repentance, Faith and Hope are attained in community. The perfection of Charity is attained ‘alone within a community,’ St. John Chrysostom wrote.  Thus Christ was crucified alone. The two thieves  were not part of His community. 

10. The nature of the ‘new’ commandment.
     The exemplar of this ‘new command’ is God the Son made man. Its spirit is God the Spirit. This lesson can only be taught by God. But during these days God has become silent because He knows no one is listening, Psalm 7 states. Christ, Himself, had prophesied that there will be waxing cold of Charity. Everybody will love everybody and everything except God because man wants his heaven here on earth. 
     Pope Benedict reviewed this ‘new’ command in his ‘Deus Caritas Est.’ The present Pope had not described it until now and  erroneously referred to Freud’s ‘ID’ as the ‘new’ command. 
     St. Thomas noted that God gave His apostles many gifts. But none were emblems of true discipleship than this; obedience to the ‘new’ command. An obedience to a command that covers all commands. Disobedience to this of which is disobedience to all His commands.  

11. How come Christ did not explain it in more detail in the Gospel?
     Nobody will understand it anyway.  Very few can reach such heights of virtue. In fact, its perfection can only be attained in heaven by most. Christ taught this ‘new’ command to His apostles as the Gospel clearly shows. But the Evangelist did not write down His explanation as they often do less pearls be exposed to pigs. But the Fathers and Doctors of the Church wrote it down so that we, Catholics,  do not have any excuse.  St. Francis de Sales, comes to mind, as one of those who extensively described it in his ‘Treatise on the Love of God.’
       

1. The Psalms
     The 150 Psalms are the official obligatory prayer of the Catholic Church. It is supposed to be prayed by all priests and religious. And laymen are encouraged to pray portions of it, when possible. 
     All the 150 Psalms are ordinarily prayed in one week. Stricter order prayed the 150 Psalms in one day. The hermits can even go through them three times a day.
     
     To pray the length of the 150 psalms is in obedience to the command of Christ ‘to pray unceasingly.’ To pray unceasingly is to pray the psalms divided into 8 Divine Offices a day; while praying shorter prayers, like ejaculations in between thus praying the whole day or unceasingly.  The obligation to pray the Divined Office for all officials in the Catholic Church is because the Divine Office is the official classroom of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Faith is not learned in classrooms. It is learned in the oratory while reciting the Divine Office.
     During the Divine office Dogmas, Morals and Eschatology are learned.  That is practically the whole teachings of the Catholic Church. When prayed devoutly the deepest knowledge on theology can be learned just by reciting the Divine Office.
     The crisis in the Catholic Church begun when the Church begun to lessen the prayers of the Church. The Church no longer pray 8 times a day. She does not pray the 150 Psalms anymore. She does not pray ejaculations in between Divine Office anymore. She does not pray unceasingly anymore. In short, the Church had disobeyed one of the most important commands of Christ; ‘to pray unceasingly.’ Without unceasingly prayer the soul of the Church dies.

2. See what we can learn from Psalm 7. And this is only one Psalm, entitled ‘the silence of God.’
     The silence of God happens when the church becomes unfaithful or the individuals commit sin. God, the psalm states, goes away high over and above man’s ability to understand so that none of the unfaithful sinner can know or understand Him. This is what it seems to be happening today. Pope Francis, in his first speech entitled ‘Love without dogma,’ seems to be totally ignorant of the whole theological structure of the theological virtues which is the very foundation of the whole framework of the teachings of the Catholic Church. From then on, all the things that he had said and done go against the teachings of the Catholic Church preached by the apostles and the Fathers of the Church. The same seems to be the case with most of the bishops (not all, off course) many priests and almost all of the lay catholics. The Psalms says that during this time God will be silent. Why? Because of their sins, the new Testament people who would congregate around God after He had abandoned the Old Testament covenant will discover that God has gone high over and above their ability to know Him; i.e. during these days almost nobody will know God.  
 3.  Psalm 7 describes the concept of sin. 
    It teaches us that sin is aversion from God;  and conversion towards creatures, which includes self-love. Self-love is to love oneself more than God. And this is a sin because we must love God above all things. 
     At the beginning man sinned like man. Today man will sin like Lucifer.  The sin of men today is like Lucifer’s;  Pride and rebellion from God. 

4. The sin of Lucifer.     
     Lucifer’s sin begun with ‘groundless boasting.’  Lucifer was boasting for what? He had nothing to boast about because everything he had came from God. Nevertheless, he was boasting, probably on how beautiful he was, which was true. But that was a gift from God! He was probable boasting for being intelligent. But that was also from God. So Lucifer had nothing to boast about.
     But his boasting was this. He believed that his beauty and intelligence were of his own doing. We are all doing that. We earn money and we believe we earn it rather than that was a gift of God. We are healthy and we think it is because of our staying for hours in the gym. Without knowing that health is a gift of God. 
     To claim for oneself what is in fact  gifts of God is ‘groundless boasting.’  Groundless boasting gives in to Pride. Pride sparks rebellion towards God.  And rebellion towards God makes man dominate others in the desire to be ‘like Gods….who as God really dominate the entire of creation. 

5. Man who was made to the image and likeness of God,  because of the continuous bombardment of temptations from Lucifer, will end up in the year 2016  likened into the image and likeness of the devil. Like Lucifer man will engage in ‘groundless boasting.’ He will boast of anything and everything as if everything is a product of his own ingenuity and efforts. 
     This is the beginning of man’s pride. Then he proceeds to do his own will in complete disregard to the Will of God, just like Adam and Eve. This is the beginning of man’s rebellion against God due to his pride. He is not contented with doing his own will; he will imposed his often mistaken will on all those around him in imitation of God who does whatever He wishes. This is the sin of Lucifer; ‘he wanted to be like God. So man imposes his democracy on everyone, imposes his morality on everyone, and like Pope Francis, impose his new protestant religion which he called the church of mercy and compassion on everyone. 
     Today the original sin of Lucifer had become the common sin of man of the 20th century. Because of this innumerable sins of the men of the New Testament, God will become silent. Suddenly, man will know absolutely nothing about God. Thus most men will have no Faith. And this we should expect because Christ, Himself, expects it; ‘when the Son of man comes, will He find Faith here on earth.’

6. God shows His anger by separating some sinners away from Satan. 
     Though at first possessed by Satan,  some souls will be separated  away from Satan and made righteous by God. These men will be humble, the opposite of pride. They will not attribute anything on themselves.  They will glory on the fact that everything right and good in them comes from God alone. Thus they have nothing to fear when Christ suddenly comes on Judgment day. Because they have lived in the fear of God.

    While the righteous will be protected by God and made perfect in holiness, the wicked will become more wicked and reach the heights of their wickedness. During this time the difference between the wicked and the righteous will be very pronounced. It will take very little to differentiate each one. 

7. God will examine the mind, the heart and the inwards of each person.
    God will first examine the mind to see what it contains; heavenly things or the things of the earth. What the mind contains will certainly go down the heart. If the mind is filled with worldly things, the same thing will fill the heart. And the inwards which contain the passions will compliment the worldly mind and heart. 
    But if the mind if filled with the things of heaven, then the heart will be filled with the same. And the disciplined control of the mind over the heart will prevent lustful passions to rule the inwards.

8. Judging each according to their merits God shoots them with an arrow.
    The sinners are referred to by Psalm 7 as heretics. God’s arrow slays them. While the righteous are shot with the arrow of love wherein they shine with the said theological virtues. 
     And in doing so, the righteous are able to pray to God to be angry at the devil who have enslaved souls. God’s anger is able to make the devils release some souls prayed for by the righteous. 

9. Psalm 7 predicts the weakening of the Church’s Faith. When this happens it is not the weakening of the Faith of the laymen. It is the weakening of the Faith of those who are supposed to lead; the priests, the bishops, the cardinals and even the Pope. Since it is impossible for the Pope to weaken in Faith because Christ, Himself, have promised to pray for the Pope that his Faith, precisely, does not weaken so he can confirmed the Church in Faith; then who will weaken? A pretender to the papacy. And the Book of the Apocalypse had hinted on this calling him the ‘false prophet’ who would be complimenting the great dragon, the anti-christ in trying to destroy the Catholic Church. And Pope Francis is one of the candidates. 


10. How to pray the Psalm.
     When Pope John Paul II demanded from all bishops to reform the curriculum of the seminaries, a proposal was made and was approved by the Bishops. This proposal was to teach the seminarians how to pray the Psalter. Though approved by the Bishops it was never implemented. Why? Because they could not find professors who teach such a subject. 
     When praying the Psalms we must first try to understand the Old Testament meaning of the verse since the Psalms are Old Testament prayers. Then while praying them, we must try to give the New Testament interpretation of the words. Then we should try to discover the eschatological picture it is presenting on how that prophetic verse will be fulfilled today, year 2016. If we pray this way, then one third of the lesson we can learn just from Psalm 7 is what have been just written above.  The two thirds will follow.  
     

1. The Jews were discussing.
     ‘Are you the Messiah?’ They were asking Christ. And Christ gave two answers. He said; ‘I have told you many times I am the Messiah but you do not want to believe.’ ‘And I have not only told you but I have worked signs and wonders that only God can perform to prove to you that I am the Messiah. But you have refused to believe.’
     Christ had given them ample proofs both in words and deeds that He was the Messiah; but they still refused to believe. What’s wrong? Well, if a person has no Faith, no matter how much proof you give they will never believe. The defect is not on the proofs; it is in the absence of Faith. This is the reason St. Augustine says that discussions in all these ecumenism meetings are useless just like the discussion between Christ and the Pharisees.  The issue here is Faith. And most of the time the meetings are futile because discussions cannot solve problems of Faith.
     
2. Faith is the matter.
    Then Christ, Himself, gave the answer to the problem. The problem was not the insufficiency proofs like words or works; the problem was the Jews had no Faith. 
     See the problem in meetings of groups without Faith? Everything!
     This situation is similar to the problem the missionaries of mercy are facing. They are going to all the peripheries to preach. Preach what?  They would probably give proofs in words and works of whatever they will preach.   Both the missionaries and the people they are going to have no Faith.  Proof of which is that they do not have the four visible signs of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed. 
     So Christ, Himself, gives the answer to the question; ‘how come the Jews could not see that Jesus is the Messiah inspite of proofs both in words and works were given by Christ, Himself.’  Christ’s answer was; ‘because they do not believe.’ Without Faith problem cannot be solved, like all the problem of the U.N.
     But Christ have given them answers, how come they still did not  believe? What if they have studied at the Gregorianum, the school of Bologna, at Catholic U., at Loyola, at St. John’s Abbey. They, still, will not believe because Faith is a gift from God. It is not part of a diploma that can be given by any school.
     So how come they have no Faith even if they have studied in the best Catholic schools? And Christ answered; ‘they have no Faith because they are not My sheep.  Only Christ’s sheep have Faith.

3. Who are My Sheep?
     The Gospel of the 4th Sunday of Easter clearly described who are the Sheep of Christ. First; ‘they hear My voice.’ The Sheep of Christ have heard the voice of Christ from Divine Revelation. They have heard that voice. When someone speaks and his voice is identical with the voice of Christ as He spoke in Divine Revelation, then he is a Sheep Christ.
     If the voice says, you should love your wife as Christ love the Church……you are certainly hearing the voice of the Shepherd and he said exactly the same thing in the letter of St. Paul. 
     But if a voice says that you may divorce your wife and marry your new live-in-partner, that is not the voice of the Shepherd. That is the voice of a thief or a murderer says the parable. 
     Secondly; ‘My Sheep’ follow Me. That is, ‘My sheep know and obey My commandments.’ To be able to say this you must know the more than 80 commands of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. And not only that. You must have obeyed all those commandments. That is what it means ‘to follow Christ.’ If you know and obey all the commands of Christ in the New Testament, then you will always be sure that the voice you hear is Christ. 
     On the other hand if the voice tells you to disobey the commandments of Christ as listed in Divine Revelation then you can be sure it is not the voice of the Shepherd; it is the voice of thieves and murderers. Like for example; it the voice tells you to practice family planning when there is danger of virus infection, then keep your distance from such persons. If the voice tells you you can continue in your unbelief, go far from him. The parable of the good shepherd warns us that these voices are from murderers and thieves. 

4. The Gospel tells us to assure ourselves that we are Christ’s Sheep. Because if we are His Sheep, we would believe, we would know the commands of Christ, we would obey the commands of Christ…..and no one can snatch us from the hands of Christ and the Father. 

5, The Jews were worried; in fact they were in despair when Christ said this because they did not know whether they were sheep or not And we should, also, be worried because Christ did not explain that time who were sheep and who were not.
     When does one become sheep? From all eternity even before one is created, God had decided if one is a sheep. They call it predestination. In the first reading of the 4th Sunday of Easter the Acts states the reason why some had Faith; ”All who were destined for life everlasting believed in it.’  So those who were predestined to go to heaven from the day of their creation are the ones who have Faith and declared SHEEP by God Himself.

     They were sheep, that is why they were able to know the commands of Chris, to obey the commands of Christ and to believe.  It is not the other way; we do not say that this person is doing great things for the Church so he is destined to go to heaven. It is the other way around; it is because he is predestined to be a sheep that is why he can do great things for the Church. 
     So we do not say, ‘he believes that is why he is a sheep.’  We should say, ‘he is a sheep that is why he believes.’ That is exactly what Christ said. ‘You do not believe because you are not My sheep. If you were My sheep, you will believe.’ It is by being a sheep that a person becomes worthy to receive the gift of Faith.

6. So how can we know if we are sheep?
    Christ gave the answer; first, if you know My voice. And secondly, if you follow Me. In other words, if you know My commandments ( this is knowing His voice) and you obey My commandments, (which is following Him), then you are a sheep.
     If you want to know if you are a sheep predestined for everlasting life or one on the way to hell, just study the commands of Christ and obey them……that immediately excludes you from those going to hell…..and you can be sure you are a sheep destined for eternal life. 
     On the other hand if you find yourself completely uninterested in being a sheep, uninterested in studying the commands of Chris and do not care obeying any commands of Christ,……you better be worried. Especially when these signs are confirmed by the fact that your interest is more in being a boss rather than a sheep; if your interest is knowing the desires of the U.N. rather than the Will of God; if your desires are to do your own will rather than God’s Will…..then these confirms that you are not a sheep. You will not have eternal life because any devil can easily snatch you because you do not belong to God. 

7. The present situation is that  we cannot find any sheep using the description given by the Gospel. A big number of the Bishops during the Synod showed they were no sheep due to their ignorance and disobedience to the commands of God in the Old Testament. And there were even led by Pope Francis who made into an Apostolic Exhortation all the decrees disapproved by the majority of the Bishops because they were in violation of God’s commands. And this group continues in their little way to continue to do their own will instead of the Will of the Shepherd thus erasing every little similarity with the voice of the Shepherd. And this un-sheepy tendency is carried down to the level of the parish priests and to the laymen. The world and the Catholic Church are filled with goats. not with sheep. 
     Everybody is following their own voices, not the shepherd’s. everybody is following their erroneous consciences based on a fallen nature, instead of following the Shepherd’s. Everybody does not recognise the voice of the Shepherd due to the thousand cacophony of voices from the U.N., the E.U. and from the bottomless pit. Thus everybody is going to eternal punishment.

8. The New Covenant.
     As the Gospel describes it and commented by St. Thomas of Aquinas; this is a contract between man and God. Man promises to hear the commands of Christ and follow Christ by obeying those commands. And God on his part promises ‘no one will snatch such a soul from Him. And He will grant such soul eternal life.’  The teaching of the Catholic Church given to us by Christ cannot be more simple.  Then how come many bishops in the Synod do not believe that the 6th and 9th commandments are commands of God that cannot be violated even by the Pope. In fact it is Pope Francis himself who is leading the bishops in their disobedience. Because they do not believe. And the reason they do not believe is because they are sheep chosen by God from all eternity to be so. 
     By definition they are not sheep; if so they cannot be shepherds, 
     
 

 1. Pope Benedict during a Christmas audience described the irreversible decline of civilisation. 
     Pope Paul VI noticed the entrance of the devil into the Catholic Church. Having done so, Satan would not simply be taking a leisure walk at St. Peter’s Basilica. He will attempt to sit at the driver’s seat. Take control of the Church and drive it to destruction. After all he is Satan and we do not expect him to do less than that. 
     How could he do that? He cannot sit in the chair of St. Peter no matter how much he disguises himself. He can only enter into the person of a willing bishop who will pretend to be a Pope since he cannot control a real Pope. Exactly what he did when he entered Judas to sell Christ. Judas, in fact, is the pre-figuring of this attempt to enter, not into the body but into the soul of a bishop to control the Church and destroy it.  
     After the devil entered Judas, Judas could no longer do what he wanted. He could only do what Satan dictated him to do. Judas could not repent even in the presence of Christ and the apostles. The same thing would happen to a Pope into whom Satan would spiritually enter into. He will drive the Catholic Church to destruction according to the dictates of Lucifer and nobody will be able to do anything about it. So rightly had Pope Benedict described this as an irreversible decline. Nobody can stop it. 
     Pope Benedict knew that this was the ultimate goal of Satan. Except God was preventing Satan from being able to do it because it was not yet the time. But God had given the Church hints how this was going to occurs shown already many times in history……….to prepare the Church for it. 
     So many good Catholics in good standing had been waiting for this prophesied event.  Sts. Augustine and Benedict were waiting for it. Sts. Francis of Assisi and Bonaventure were waiting for it. St. Grignion de Montfort and Blessed John Newman were waiting for it.  But it was Pope Benedict, while studying St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas of Aquinas very assiduouusly studied it because he suspected it would occur during his time. God, in His Divine Providence made it occur in the era of one who knew about and was expecting it…….the Papacy of Pope Benedict. 
     No one will understand the Papacy of Pope Benedict XVI without putting it in this perspective. 

He emphasised that this decline cannot be stopped; because there is nothing in this world that can be used to stop this inevitable decline towards total destruction. Of course, God can stop it. But He won’t because it is His own chastising  power that is causing this irreversible decline. The world is declining towards that direction because it has lost its reason for its existence; the world had lost its Faith, Hope and Charity. 

2. For God or against God.
    The only reason why God was sustaining the world in existence is because of the Faith, Hope and Charity of the Catholic Church. And when there is no Faith, Hope and Charity, as we saw in the Old 
Testament, He destroyed nations. Sort of, why waste the space for them. 

3. The universal test.
     Aversio a Deo, conversio ad creaturam. God’s Will is that we focus all our minds and hearts towards Him and His Will. That takes a lot of efforts; this is based on His command, ‘to love God with all your heart, all your mind and all your strength. That really leaves nothing for anything else. 
     How to destroy a soul; here is a manual for idiots just like a lot of books addressed to this group. Well, it’s so easy an idiot does not have to study it. It is all natural. Be natural and you can destroy your soul and everyone else’s soul around you. What do you have to do? Remove the focus of your mind and heart  from 
God and focus them on the things of the world; i.e. the world of creatures. 
     During the Lenten season, we learned that the world of creatures belongs to Satan. He said so and for once we can believe him. Creatures do not belong to him but God had allowed him to use it to test men. And if the mind and will are removed from God and directed towards creatures, then that is sin and can bring us to hell. So what is the idiot’s formula on how to lead souls to hell?  Distract   the mind and heart away from God and direct it towards creatures and that is it. He is in sin and if he dies in that state he goes straight to hell. 
     So what do you have to do to destroy man’s soul. You do not have to distract his mind from God. Just fill up his senses, his eyes, ears, smell, taste, feelings, etc with sensible things pleasant to the senses and passions………and the mind will automatically turn away from God; is then directed towards creatures and that soul is in the state of sin. Now, if every year you find new things to distract the senses so as to occupy the mind and will with new sensations and novelties, that mind and will shall never ever focus itself on God. 

4. So there we have remove the mind and will away from God. 
     This is done simply by bombarding the senses with worldly stimuli; like movies, nice food, cell phones, magazines, books……anything that can be perceived by the senses. When the mind and will are focused away from God, that soul is lost. It will take great efforts to return to God because you will need graces which God does not easily grant. 
     The devil cannot directly influence the mind and will. His influence is indirect in the form of external images for the senses. And Holywood is the greatest destroyer of souls because it produces all the stimuli that eventually causes the mind and  will to sin. This is Satan’s general strategy. He uses this for all. 

5. Who will be the first one to fall.
     The pagan world will first to fall because they do not have theology or at least philosophy to support their thinking and free will. They will naturally be in accord to this natural tendency to enjoy pleasing the senses with no sense of morality to guide them.
     The Protestants will be able to control themselves slightly because of their knowledge of morality. The same thing can be said for the orthodox Church. The Catholics, because they have both Divine Revelation and the Fathers should really be able to control all emotions and passions, direct they mind to the things of heaven and chose those things that lead to eternal life with their free will……with no difficulty at all, 

6. The stimuli are over powering.  Out of pure strength or tidal wave, the stimuli from sciences, and the sciences like tourisms, exotic beaches and hide outs, etc.,etc. man fell into the trap of tourism…. from the common tourisms for graduation rewards, our Catholic schools are in trouble. 

7. Continuous advanced robotics and technology continues to break frontiers of the imagination that attracts the intellect……thus continuing to dethrone God from His throne. When God is completely dethroned, then  like  Judas, he becomes open to spiritual possession; the kind of possession where Satan takes completely control over the person, thus exorcism becomes impossible. 
     While this cannot happen to a true Pope, it can happen to an anti-pope. In fact the prophesy describes a bishop  spiritually possessed by Lucifer to the point that Satan controls the complete  person. The person cannot control anything because he had surrendered his intellect and free will to the devils. This is not possible with a true Pope but it is possible with an anti-pope. 

8. The present situation.
     The majority of people had sold their souls to the devil; or as we would describe what happened to most souls, they had really sold their souls to the devil without realising kit. Judas did not even noticed it when Satan entered into him. 
     Due to the total conversion of majority of bishops and priests towards ‘creatures’ or worldly matters there will be total aversion towards God. A state where repentance and conversion is nearly impossible. If this include the Pope then what we have is a grand chastisement from God. Here God uses everything, all the devils, and all the angels to chastise men. 
     The aversion towards God and the conversion towards creatures will be the work of the devil, while the natural calamities will the work of the angels. Both under God’s orders will chastise men for his infidelity. God, also, will have His part by withdrawing the power to forgive sins and confect the Eucharist; so there will be no Mass and no absolution for confession. 
     Add to this the lying wonders God will allow the devil to perform; like fake miracles to be performed by Popes under his influence. Which St. Thomas wrote are really performed by devils using illusions. 

9. What do we have here?
    We have a civilization that is spiritually possessed by Satan. Abortion, Euthanasia, terrorism, wars, impossing one’s own belief on others by force, destruction of the family, the lost of the sense of sin, the idea that God is dead, the complete lost of the fear of God……all of these are signs of spiritual possession of the soul akin to what happened to Judas. In this case exorcism is impossible.
     For those who are serious is saving their souls stronger medicine is needed like the monasticism of St. John Climacus. Which nobody will buy making salvation during this times impossible for most.
     The four visible marks of the true Church is nowhere to be found; neither in parishes nor in dioceses, neither in ecclesial communities nor in the Vatican, neither in priests nor in family members. 
     So we have come to a point in history that man has lost the reason for his existence because we cannot find 10 men who will stand and beg that God spare the world. This is the final and grand chastisement from which there is no backing out……the irreversible decline of civilisation no one can stop because it is God, Himself, who has instigated its decline. 





    
    

 

1. The elections
     Man proposes, but God decides. So much efforts are being exerted in the elections. Money spent, volunteers campaigning, alliances made, press conferences attended, debates here and there. But the doctrine of Divine Providence states that it is God who dictates the outcome of the election;  with God giving the nation the leader it deserves. A very bad, lousy leader if the nation deserves to be chastised, and a very good able leader if the nations deserves to be blessed.
     And who deserves to be blessed? Those who obey the commands of God. The history of the Israelites is a perfect example of this; in that when they were obedient to God, they were blessed and won battles. When they were disobedient they were chastised and lost battles.
     The impression the world has, that so much depends on human efforts to win an election is a Pelagian heresy that exist world wide today. Well, the Pelagian heresy is good for business as well as making the whole process of election exciting. So, I won’t spoil the fun; I’ll stop here and hold back explaining this doctrine and just watch everybody enjoy this coming elections both in the US and in the Philippines while wondering why all the activities when God, in fine,  is the one who decides the outcome. 

2.     This point is raised because the same thing happens in the selection of a Pope. The cardinals do not select the Pope in a conclave.  The Pope was never elected in a conclave in early times.  Selection of a Pope was done by discernment of Divine Providence expressed by the existing Pope appointing the next Pope.   Pope John Paul II, in fact appointed Joseph Ratzinger as Pope in his death bed, the usual way of choosing a Pope in early Christian times. 
     Here,  the rule is the same. Cardinals do not elect the Pope. God appoints the Pope. And God choses a Pope that a Church deserves. If the Church is Faithful, God gives her a holy Pope. If the Church is unfaithful, God gives her a bad Pope or even an anti-Pope. And we have had 40 anti-popes just to show how many times the Church was unfaithful to God. 

3. In what way does God chastises the Church when she is unfaithful aside from giving her a bad pope or an anti-pope? God allows the devils to assault the Church. God had also done this many times. He had allowed the devil to assault the Church almost once every one hundred years; though the Church had been unfaithful more often than that.  History is the witness. And Pope Paul VI had, in fact, noticed that the devil had entered the Church; not to be its new spirit but to assault and destroy her from within. 
     God allowed the devil to assault the Church some time during the time of St. Benedict. The young boy Benedict had to leave theRome to become a hermit to save himself;  not because of the assault of the devil but because of the corruption in the Church. The devil did not stop attacking St. Benedict, even using corrupt diocesan priests like Florentius who fell dead from a balcony for persecuting St. Benedict. Which makes us wonder who is worse, the devil or the diocesan parish priest.  The devil cannot attack St. Benedict without God’s direct permission. A diocesan priest can.

4. Today, the devil is in the world, controls the world and owns the world.  How did that happen? Because God is chastising the Church for her infidelity; i. e., due to her disobedience to the commands of God, like disobediences to the 6th and 9th commands,  all the commands on ecumenism, and the command on capital punishment.
     Catholics are disobeying the commands of God today as if they are possessed spiritually by he devil, like Judas. Is the devil so powerful that he can have Christ crucified and enter Judas in front of Christ?
     Now, don’t get me wrong. This is not due to the power of the devil. This is because God is chastising the world for disobeying the commands of God. And what is happening is what St. Paul described as ‘deliverance to Satan.’ God is allowing Satan to do what he wants with the world, especially with the unfaithful Christians. But Satan is not chastising the world in obedience to God’s command, though his act is outwardly an act of obedience.  His motive is because of his pride, envy and hatred towards men.
     Every evil in the world is committed by the human co-horts of Satan, through through the insinuation  of Satan …….but the sin is the result of an Act of Chastisement from God for the disobedience of men to the commands of God.  From abortion to terrorism, from wars to acts of injustices, from drug addiction to adultery,  from Tsunamis to global warming…….these are Acts of chastisement from God with Satan and the devils executing the chastisement after the very same devil had proposed and insinuated to men to disobey the commands of God. St. Thomas of Aquinas wrote;  That God chastises men for his sin by allowing him to fall deeper into greater evil. 

5. Whatever God does is to test man; so man can know if he loves God or not. God does not need this information. He knows if man loves Him or not. But man does not know that. So God tests him. If he loves God, he is blessed by God. If he does not love God he is chastised here on earth and damned in the next life.  So through chastisement man should know if he loves God or not; and from where the blessing or the chastisement comes from. If there is a super typhoon that kills thousands in your locality that is a chastisement because you have sinned and have not repented. St. Alphonsus Liguori in his book ‘Chastisements’ wrote that these are God’s way of telling you that you have unrepentant sins and you are getting worse due to your lack of repentance. If you die now you go straight to hell. 
     Since everything is a test from God it is important that we know what is going on and pass the test. But the final test is an extraordinary scenario that needs deep knowledge and much graces. 

6. The genesis of the chastisements experienced by the world today.  And how God uses the devil to chastise the unfaithful.
     It all begun in Paradise. Adam and Eve were endowed by God with a mind and will. They need both to pass all their test before they can merit eternal life in heaven. The test was; given the choice will they love God or creatures. And the devil was part of the test. By nature man was created good. But the devil entered the picture and suggested to man to chose loving himself rather than God.  The devil only made a suggestion or recommendation. That is all that the devil can do. And Adam and Eve chose the devil’s recommendation rather than God’s explicit command. 
     That is like choosing the recommendation of Cardinal Kasper rather than obeying God’s explicit command forbidding divorce and remarrying. In the eyes of God, Adam and Eve clearly sinned and were so severely punished that the whole human race was included in the punishment. That is what is going to happen to all those who follow Cardinal Kasper’s resolution that was rejected by the majority of Bishops during the 2014 Synod. The whole genealogy of the families who disobey God to follow a sinful suggestion could be punished by God. Why not? God did it to the whole human race  before.
     Because Adam and Eve sinned by disobeying God’s command, they opened themselves to committing more and more mortal sins. Fortunately Adam and Eve repented. But not the children; keeping in mind that the good one, Abel, was killed by the bad one, Cain, who continued existing. Let’s say Cain never repented.  God will chastise him to remind him that he has not repented. To chastise him God will send him a devil to assault him and probably possess him.
     Now, let’s pretend Cain enters the seminary and he has not yet repented. Then God will, further chastise him, by sending him the devil that will teach him the heresy of nominalism. Because he has not repented and continued in his sin, he becomes a heretic with his belief in the heresy of nominalism.  Unrepentant in his sin God, further, chastises him and sends him another devil to chastise him by giving him AIDS.
     If with Aids, Cain still continues to live a sinful life neglecting his repentance so God sends him another devil to chastise him as God did to Job. God gives Cain a lousy bishop as his superior. This bishop tolerates all the vices of Cain, so Cain progresses in vices rather than in virtues. This would further anger God. So God gives Cain the all-in-all chastisement He can imagine; He gives Cain an anti-pope whose every teachings are all heretical. Cain even is thrilled by this because now he can enjoy loving himself with a Pope tolerating his favourite vices. 
     Well, God never runs out of ideas. So, now, after God has run out of ideas on what the devil can do to chastise Cain, God now uses the good Angels. So God sends Tsunamis to Cain’s beach house, explodes all volcanoes besides Cain summer house, and turns up all global temperature wherever Cain goes.  But still sees Cain pleasing himself rather than God. Then God goes for the jugular.
     God hides all books and documents that teaches the way to save ones soul. He silences all  good preachers that can teach Cain how to go to heaven. All the priest, bishops, Cardinals and Pope that Cain go around with knows only how to wash the feet of pagans and how to tear down walls.
     By this time Cain should realise that there is absolutely no way by which he can go to heaven; especially he is still guilty of killing his brother Abel. Why, he will surely go to hell.
     This is the situation of all Catholics today. And they are not even guilty of killing their brother.  God is chastising the whole world, especially the Catholic Church and in such a situation even the guiltless Catholics are included in the Chastisement. How do we dissociate ourselves from the rest?

7. God is sending the world the greatest chastisement He can probably send that this has not even cross the mind of St. Alphonsus Liguori who wrote extensively on Chastisements. What have the Catholic Church done to call upon herself such calamity?She, in connivance with the whole world had committed the sin of Lucifer. 

1. The Introit of the Mass for the 3rd Sunday of Easter was in praise of the ‘joy of loving,’ ‘amoris laetitia.’  Indeed, both love and joy are fruits of the Holy Spirit. The joy of loving is both from the same spirit.  The whole Mass of the 3rd Sunday of Easter is about the ‘joy of loving.’
     Last week the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis with the same title came out. The  timing and the identical topic gave the impression that he Exhortation was an explanation of the 3rd Sunday of Easter. So let us compare the two.

2. The ‘joy of loving’ from the 3rd Sunday of Easter.
     The Gospel describes the apostles’ fishing trip in Lake Tiberius. This trip was after Easter and their last fishing trip. St. John’s Gospel prophetically showed this trip as the image of the Catholic Church before she is presented to Christ as His bride in heaven.  

     The Gospel describes the Catholic soul that will surely go to heaven. They were described as the 153 big fishes caught in the net that did not break, were not hauled into the boat and caught only  from the right side of the boat. As described by St. Thomas of Aquinas and noted in a previous post, these are the members of the Catholic Church at this very specific time in the history of the Church, all of whom are destined to go to heaven.
      The number 153 represents ‘the joy of loving.’ Let’s do some arithmetic.

      Take the number 10 as representing obedience to the 10 commands of God. Then take 7  as the number of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Add the two together and it makes 17. Now, add the numericals from 1 – 17 and that will make 153, the number of fishes in the net representing the spiritual state of the souls that are all destined to enter the Kingdom of God. And what is the spiritual state of their soul?  They had obeyed all the 10 commandments of God and they have the fruit of the Holy Spirit described as the Joy of loving…….these are the first two fruits of the Holy Spirit, Love and Joy. 
     This ‘joy of loving’ is the fruit of the Holy Spirit that the soul receives AFTER it has obeyed the 10 commands of God. Disobey the 10 commandments and absolutely no fruits from the Holy Spirit. This is the significance of the number of fishes 153.

     The Mass for the 3rd Sunday describes three steps leading to the ‘joy of loving.’ 
     First is obedience to the commands of Christ. This was emphasized by the First Reading where questioned by the High Priest, the apostles answered; ‘Better for us to obey God  than men. (Keep this apostolic response in mind.)
     Second, let’s define ‘loving Christ.  Christ asked Peter; ‘Peter, do you love Me?’ Christ is asking the same question from all of us. It is important that we know what he means when asking that question. Christ did not expect receiving the answer; ‘love is never having to say I’m sorry.’ Though Peter was really very sorry for having denied Christ three times. But by this time that was history. This is after Easter and approaching Pentecost. Peter had wisdom and knowledge, gifts of the Holy Spirit. 
      
     St. Peter answers but Christ wanted to make sure both of them had the same definition of ‘love.’ After St. Peter answered ‘yes’ Christ defines what He meant by ‘love,’ and says ‘this love is shown by feeding my lambs and feeding my sheep.’ St. Thomas comments on this and says that Christ was telling Peter to feed His spiritually young lambs and older sheep with the dogmas and morals of Faith, i.e. with the contents of Divine Revelation. In Catholicism there is absolutely no other way of showing love than to teach oneself and the other how to go to heaven, by teaching them the commandments of Christ.   

     And thirdly, only after the apostles have learned how to love in the truly Catholic way can they receive the fruit of the Holy Spirit called ‘joy.’ There you have a complete picture;  perfect obedience to the 10 commandments of God, perfect knowledge of how to love, and after putting into practice the right way of loving, the reward of receiving the fruit of the Holy Spirit, ‘Joy.’ Thus the Introit’s the ‘Joy of Loving,’ an experience on earth by souls who make up the 153 members of the Catholic Church.

3. Clarifications.
     Love is obedience to the commands of God. These commandments are, first, the commandments of God the Father from the Old Testament. And secondly, the commandments of Christ from the New Testament.
     When we refer to love, it is obedience to the commands of Christ in the New Testament. Pope Benedict in describing the ‘new’ evangelisation calls obedience to the Old Testament commands as life of repentance; and he calls obedience to the New Testament commands as an encounter with the soul of the Church or encounter with Jesus Christ. And when the soul has received the fruit of the Holy Spirit, Pope Benedict calls it encounter with the spiritual soul of the Church or encounter with the Holy Spirit. 
     So, again, the first step is to obey the commands of the Old Testament. The second step is to love Christ by obeying the commands of Christ in the New Testament. The third step is encounter with the Holy Spirit where the soul receives the fruit of Joy. Thus it can be said that the soul is experiencing ‘joy in loving,” or ‘amoris laetitia.’

4. The week before, the Vatican issued an Apostolic Exhortation entitled ‘amoris laetitia,’ that seems to be describing the Liturgy of the 3rd Sunday of Easter. But let’s look a the details.
     First, it tolerates husbands who abandon their real wives and children, encouraged by the Vatican document to annul the original marriage, remarry and in some cases receive Holy Communion.  Let us see how many mortal sins were committed.  One, abandoning one’s wife; secondly, abandoning one’s children. Thirdly, marrying another woman. Fourthly, annulment of previous valid marriage and fifthly, receiving Holy Communion. That is five mortal sin.
     What are the effects of these mortal sins in the soul? He does not love God nor neighbour. In fact, he does not love anybody, not even his own self in the right way. The only love he has is self-love which according to St.Thomas is, also, a sin.
     If there is disobedience to the commands of Christ,  there is no love, since Christ said; ‘If you love Me, keep My commandments.        If there is no love of Christ, then the Holy Spirit will not give any fruits of joy. With the initial disobedience to the commands of God, there can be no love nor joy, thus no ‘amoris laetitia.’

5. Conclusion
     The Apostolic Exhortation cannot be so called  because it goes against the teaching of the apostles and it is not exhorting. It is an encouragement to sin. It cannot be a Catholic document.
     The authors are not part of the 153 fishes in the net. They do not love as St. Peter did because they are not feeding the lambs; they are poisoning the lambs and sheep. They will certainly not have the four visible marks of the true Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed. They would not have the three theological virtues because there is no encounter with Jesus nor with the spiritual soul of the Church, the Holy Spirit. In short, the authors and the document are  not according to the teaching of the Catholic Church. It is even anti-Catholic in that it goes against the above Liturgical message of the 3rd Sunday of Easter. 
    So what do we do? As the first reading says in the words of the 
Apostle to the High Priest; ‘we would rather obey God than men.’ Well, the signature at the bottom of the Apostolic Exhortation seems to belong to a man. While the author of the 3rd Sunday of Easter readings is known to be God. The title of the Apostolic Exhortation should have been ‘The thrill of being able to do what the passion wants.’
     
     

   

1. Let us imagine the eternal battle for souls, between the Church Militant on one side, then there is Lucifer and the devils on the other side. Let us imagine the standing of both armies before hostilities begun. All of this is imagination for easier and better understanding of what is happening in the world today where hostilities are between principalities and dominions. It is important to know where we stand, and on which side we are.
     The place where each army stand is purely imaginary. It never stood there in the first place. Each army had been sifting positions from the beginning and forever more.  What interest us is where each one stand today and on whose side we are. Where we stand does not necessarily say on whose side we are since battle lines keep on sifting.  Being in a particular place could describe whose side we are but exactly the same spot can make us belong to the exact opposite side the next moment.

2. Let us now describe the two armies.
     Let us call the first, the Catholic Church. Let us call the other group, Lucifer and his devilish cohorts. We shall personify the Catholic Church with the name ‘I,’ as in ‘I am a Catholic.  And we shall personify the devilish forces as ‘Lucifer.’ So the battle is between ‘I’ and Lucifer. Let us now describe the weaponry of each group.

3. The ‘I’  and the Catholic Church.
     ‘I’ am within the Catholic Church. As such my greatest weapon is the presence of the Blessed Trinity within me. In such a state there is absolute nothing that can  destroy my soul.the devil cannot even approach me. And the devil never attacks such a person. He has an angelic nature and he knows when a person had become invincible against him and his cohorts. 
     The devil attacks ME when I am on the way to entering the Catholic Church. As long as I am outside the Church, I am very vulnerable, not only against the slightest attacks of the devil. I am even in danger in stumbling all by my self. 

     As a ‘viatores’, i.e. still on the way towards the kingdom of God, the Catholic Church, but not yet quite inside, the devil’s attack are relentless.  What other weapons do I have? An intellect and a Free will. Together with these two faculties are accompanying helps  like actual grace, a knowledge of Divine Revelation, devotion to Mary, the Guardian angels, the sacraments, and ascetical practices like meditation. Note that the soul on the way into the safety of the Church has a lot of sophisticated weaponry for its defence referred to by St. Jerome as a ‘super abundance of graces’. Those just mentioned above are just a few. 

4. Lucifer and his cohorts has these weapons.
     An angelic intellect and a pure spiritual nature. He, also has the ‘world,’ as defined by St. Augustine, at his service to destroy the soul of man. The very flesh of man with its concupiscence is, also, at his service. There are also the millions of other devils all out with the intention of destroying souls and countless of human cohorts under their orders; priest, bishop and anti-popes.
     And the devils have their intense pride and envy towards any man with the possibility of going to heaven.

5. Between these two forces is a biased judge, God.
     This battle is God’s way of testing the children of man to see if they deserve eternal life or not. The whole thing is God’s show. It is totally under God’s control. If ‘I’ play by the rules of God, He helps me in everything and makes me victorious making the devil lose in every battle. But if ‘I’ do not fight according to God’s rule, He abandons me and ‘delivers me up to Satan,’ as St. Paul wrote.
    
6. The real battle or contest.
     The battle is really man against himself. Can he convince God that he is on His side……then he wins the battle. If God is convinced he is in Lucifer’s side…..then he loses the battle and is condemned. In effect, man knows all the time who is the winner because he decides at every moment who will win.

7. Let the battle begin. 
    Satan attacked a man endowed with full knowledge. He aimed at the intellect by thwarting man’s reasoning so man can  rationalise and do what he wanted though the intellect knew that what he wanted was against the command of God not to eat of the fruit. Man, following his defective reasoning forced the free will into acting. Man ate the forbidden fruit and sinned. Lucifer won the first round. God punished man and all his children. That is how serious was the sin of Adam and Eve.
     Lucifer, the pure spirit would never change his tactic. It worked the first time; it will work up to the end of the world. Lucifer’s strategy was simple; deceive the intellect into error and the free will following the dictates of concupiscence will follow.
      Because all men are born with original sin, their intellects are obfuscated; they cannot think right unless well trained in Philosophy,  which is rare. With a defective intellect, Lucifer simply had to arouse the concupiscence of men through the things of the world; eateries, tourist spots, women, food, fashions, ambitions, money, high positions. With all these stimuli, the concupiscence takes over the free will independently of the erroneous intellect. 
     Add to this the concept of lineage. Let’s go to Cain and Abel. Cain sinned. In that state, unable to repent, he kept on falling into sin after sin. The longer he lived, the more grievous his state of soul became. Then Cain gives birth to children whom he cannot train well because he was in sin. So Cain was contributing to the population sinful souls.  These sinful souls will be multiplying and giving life to more sinful souls. Along this one line of Cain, one cannot imagine the number of sinful souls that will populate the earth.
     Now, let’s go to Abel. He was the good boy. He dies young killed by his own brother. His is unable to bring forth siblings that he could have trained well in the worship of God.   The line of Abel is cut off while Cain’s progeny multiplies exponentially by leaps and bounds.
     Imagine if Cain and Abel lived in the same house. Ten years after the murder of Abel, that house would easily be a house of juvenile delinquents. The way the world is right now.

     So Lucifer would simply confuse the mind of all men so that it is their concupiscence that will rule their free will; they will all end up following their passions while their intellect wallow  in error and ignorance. With this scenario the devil have just to wait for the fruits to fall from the tree. Men would go directly to hell.

     If Lucifer would like to do a little work, he would simply increase the stimuli that would be a source of sensual entertainment to the five senses.  With the five senses occupied with five stimuli, the free will will be forced to follow whatever passion or concupiscence that is aroused by the five senses. Lucifer being an angel knows how to combine sensual stimuli to move the passions and concupiscence to dictate to the free will to satisfy the  pleasure elicited by the senses. 

     Following St. Augustine definition of sin, i.e. ‘aversion a Deo et conversio ad creatures,’  Lucifer just have to multiply the creatures that will bombard the senses to stimulate the passions and concupiscence and these will in turn dictate to the free will to choose the stimulated sensual pleasure…..and there we have a sure formula for sin. 

8. The  children of Cain and Abel.   
     Abel could not produce any priest or bishop because he did not have any children. While Cain would produce schismatics, heresiarchs, murderers, thieves and politicians. If there were seminaries that time, they would be filled with Cain’s sons and not Abels. Well, that is what happened with our seminaries.
     If our seminaries were filled with the children of Cain, those children of Cain would eventually say, ‘let us consecrate our kind as 
Bishops.’ Why not? And eventually they would say, ‘why don’t we chose one of our kind as Pope. And that happened more than 40 times in the history of the Catholic Church. 

      Of course, God would always raise saints. But like Abel, they are good, they die and leave no children. While the children of Cain multiply like rabbits. Hmm… who said that?

9. So today…
    The world is filled with the children of Cain. The head of states, the judges, the members of the police and military, every parent, doctor, judge……the priests, bishops, cardinals and even the present Pope is a child of Cain. And out of envy and pride, just like Lucifer and Cain, they want to kill Abel. Just watch how the present Pope exposes the underground Catholic church in China to the Chinese Communist government in his attempt to be popular to the Chinese government just as other governments expose their population to dangerous immigrants with the encouragement of the Pope.

1. No other way.
     The only kind of ‘love’ in the Catholic Church is what we call CHARITY. All the thousand other kinds of love is mere variations of ‘love of self,’ which is the sin of Lucifer and Eve. Yes, it is a mortal sin not so much because you love yourself, but more because to love yourself you have to hate God. This is St. Augustine’s ‘conversio ad creaturas’ entails ‘aversio a Deo.’ It is impossible to love God and one self at the same time unless the definitions of love as drastically changed as we had done in the previous posts.
     What Christ said to St. Peter is for all of us, too, as is always the case. Christ was teaching a way of loving men  never before imagined was possible. It is an imitation of God’s love for man. Man must now imitate God and love  God, self and neighbour in the same way.

2. After Easter.
     Note the scenario when this questionings occurred. It was after Easter. All the apostles have finished their training, all of them are almost perfect Christians. 
     We saw in the past post that the power to love one’s neighbour, a gift from God, was only given at the Second Sunday of Easter; that was past after their training period. And that was the only time they received the power to love their neighbour, which is humanly unattainable.
     Notice that the power to love their neighbour was given at the same time that they were given the commission to go and preach. Both occurred on the Second Sunday on the Octave of Easter. That is how advanced the apostles were in their training.Yet most men think they can evangelise and love their neighbour at the very beginning of their training. No way.
     Notice that the power to love God, which is a gift from God, too, was given only at the Third Sunday on the Octave of Easter; so even more advanced training is needed to be able to do so.  
     It was expected that Pope Francis would not be able to love God and follow the example of St. Peter at the beginning of his Pontificate. Knowing that the training of priests had been defective since the 10th century, never improved in the following centuries and even became worse before Vatican I and II he should have thought twice before speaking. 
     So in his first papal speech on ‘Love without dogma,’ he did not define love the Catholic way; he did not even define it psychologically. His definition was way down   to the level of the psychotics.

3, St. Thomas wrote; ‘there is no way of showing love than for one to be a faithful shepherd to the flock of Christ and working under the supervision of the same Shepherd. This is the rule for parish priest, for superiors of orders, for parents and for the ordinary persons.
     For bishops and priests, to ‘feed my lambs’ means to supply them constantly with food for the Faith in the form of morals and dogmas. These must be the morals and dogmas revealed by Christ. And St. Thomas wrote; that to teach the lambs one’s own personal teachings is to treat the lambs as one’s own and his action is definitely love of self.
     The father of the family and ordinary people should ‘feed the lambs’ by teaching their wives, children, friends and neighbours the revealed dogmas and morals revealed by Christ.
     To feed the lambs is directed towards one goal; to teach the dogmas and morals of Christ as found in Divine Revelation. Together with this teaching is to guide them to the observance of these teachings, to defend these teachings when under attack, to give good example by putting these teachings into one’s life, to correct those deviating from these doctrines, etc.
     Charity has only one definition; whether it is directed to God,  to husband and wife, to children, to neighbours…….and even to enemies. Love of enemies is teaching them the dogmas and morals taught by Christ  
     In Christianity, there is absolutely no other way to love than to ‘feed’ the lambs of Christ. 

     Pope Francis and his bureaucracy in the Vatican is treating the Catholic Church as if it is their own personal church running it the way they want. He wants the Church to join his own church which he established in Argentina called the church of Mercy. And the cardinals and bishops on his side are doing the same thing. The Bishops of the Philippines are, in fact, recruiting and advertising this new church as the substitute for the old, dicrepid, sickly Church of Christ and the apostles.  And they are doing what they want with the Church in complete rebellion to the Shepherd under whom they should be subservient. They do not even mention the Shepherd under whose supervision they should be working under.
     They have all taken over ownership of the Church showing their great love for themselves, not love for the Shepherd, Jesus Christ. 

4. Pinpointing what is wrong with the Church. 
    Many have proposed what is wrong with the Church; from the crisis of Faith to the taking over of the church by the spirits of darkness. They are all correct; but if we point at the ultimate cause for all the problems in the Catholic church, we can sum it in this one thing………we do not love God or anybody. We only love ourselves which St. Thomas keeps on repeating is a mortal sin; because that was the sin of Lucifer and of Adam and Eve.

5. Charity is a personal work and the work of the Holy Spirit.
     Charity is first a work of the intellect in that it desires the truth for the other; then it is, also, an act of the will wherein we should wish the good for the other. We should wish the highest good, salvation, for the Pope, he bishops and priest, the nuns and brothers, the husbands and wives, the children. But to love the lambs is an activity over and above the capabilities of both intellect and will. We need the grace of the Holy Spirit that we cannot attain humanly speaking. We just have to wait until he Holy Spirit gives it to us. Otherwise, we cannot feed the lambs. When we wish the good only for ourselves we love ourselves only. 
     The intellect must know what is right and what is good for the soul. Then the Holy Spirit should enter the picture because the Spirit is Charity itself. Charity is not man made. You cannot learn that from the seminary. It is a gift from the Holy Spirit. 
     It is given only to the Catholic Church; never to private churches. Today, a totally new church is being proposed to Catholics. And these new missionaries are being assigned by Pope Francis to all the important positions both in the Vatican and in 
Bishop’s conferences for a grand schism. That is what happens when we say ‘join my church.’  It is the best church, all mercy and no punishments. We have stolen the lambs from the true Good Shepherd and made the lambs our own to be disposed the way we want with the motto; ‘Do whatever you want.’  Looks like the statue of Liberty. Don’t blame the Americans; the statue came from Europe.

6. Pope Francis should have thought of this before his first Papal speech. Let us see how the intellect and the free will works.
    The intellect is a spiritual faculty. When it thinks of something below its level, like money, that item is taken from its lower level and raised to the level of the intellect which is a spiritual faculty. Thus the idea of money becomes spiritual in the intellect.
     If the intellect thinks about a spiritual reality, since both are in the same level, both are spiritual, the spiritual idea remain spiritual. 
here is no problem here.
      But if the intellect thinks of a Divine idea that is in a higher level than the intellect, like the concept of God, it pulls down the Divine Idea to its spiritual but human level.  The idea of God becomes a mere spiritual idea that is inferior to a Divine Reality.

      
     Again, we may think of money and raise the idea of money to a higher level but we should never think of God because we will tend to drag the idea of God down to he level of our intellect. 
     While the intellect bring objects it thinks to its level, the free will adjust to the level of the objects it loves.
    When we love money, the will descends and begin to look like money. When we love God, the will ascends and we begin to look like God.

      So summarising, think of lower things but love higher things. Things cannot go higher than the mind; but it can go higher than the will. The mind cannot think of the Divinity of God but the will can love the Divinity of  God.

7. The mistake of Pope Francis in his first speech on Love without dogmas. He loved without thinking. You should know whom you are loving.  To love something without thinking is a disaster. And so Pope Francis love the idea of ‘love’ without first thinking theologically what is love. 
     So his intellectually defective concept of ‘ID’ from Sigmund Freud was not raised higher to the level of Ego or super ego, the latter being more in the level of the spiritual mind; and he loved that idea of love. Instead of the mind raising the idea to the spiritual level, his free will’s love of his own idea dragged him down to the lowest level of the dark unconscious where the devils dwell.
     Instead of thinking and raising his thoughts to the level of the spiritual, he used his will and as expected, was dragged down to the level of the unconscious.

8. The whole world.
     Pope Francis is the son of the world. Like everybody else he is emotional, moved more by concupiscence. And this emotion guides and dictates on the rest of the body. But the whole world with most of the cardinals, bishops and priests are like this. As Hilaire Belloc had noticed during his time; the world had stopped thinking.  And yet to be a good Catholic needs a lot of good thinking.
     Gilbert Chesterton, on the other hand wrote, if everybody just sits down and think, the world would become Catholic. Hmmm..’ isn’t that the description of monasticism? Hermit monks just sit down and think.

1. Peter, do you love Me?
    Jesus Christ asked Peter three times. ‘Peter, do you love Me? And Christ defines true love three times. ‘Feed My sheep and lamb.’ Before we define ‘true Christian love’ let us define the common, ordinary term ‘love,’ as used by Romeo and Juliet, by rock stars, by romantic crooner, by valentine well wishers. Well, this kind of ‘love’ is what St. Thomas of Aquinas calls an ordinary love of self coated with sugar. It is something purely emotional thus it has nothing rational in it. Obviously it is something  natural and will not last long. 
     Let me repeat what St. Thomas wrote; that this purely romantic love is nothing else than camouflaged self love and is, therefore, a sin. 

2. True love.
     True love is commonly referenced in Christianity as Charity, a theological virtue that goes with Faith and Hope. The most common definition of ‘love’ was given by Christ. ‘If you love Me, keep My commandments.’
     There you are. To love, you must keep the commandments of Christ. Therefore you must know the commandments of Christ. These commandments are found in the New Testament but are based on the 10 commandments of the Old Testament. We can describe these commandments as New Testamentized Old Testament commands. They are the perfected version of the 10 Old Testament  commandments. 
     In a homemade survey, it was noticed that no priest nor bishop knew these perfected New Testament commands. And yet these are the commands that are being taught for evangelisation; ‘teach them My commands and how to obey them.’
     Notice that the words of Christ are; ‘keep My commandments.’ This means knowing the commands, knowing how to put them into practice and actually putting them into practice. It is a description of a wise man, the man who built his house on rock. 

3. How long it takes to learn.
      It could take a week to read all the commands of Christ. And conservatively 30 years to put them into practice……..thus enabling us to really say; ‘we love Christ.’ And that is studying these commands every day, the whole day….for 30 years…exactly the time it took Christ to live His hidden life. Precisely that was what Christ did during that time…….to show us how to ‘love God.’ This is commonly called the monastic life. Monastic life is the imitation of the 30 hidden years of the life of Christ.
     Did St. Peter have 30 years to learn how to love Christ? Well, he was over 30 years old when Christ asked him that question.

4. Love of God as defined in Scriptures.
     Love of God was defined in Scriptures taken from the words of Christ; ‘if you love Me, keep my commandments.’ He who loves God knows and keeps all His commandments as perfected in the New Testament. 
     Who is he who loves his neighbours? He who teaches his neighbours to keep the commandments of Christ, i.e. in the New Testament. 
     And who is he who loves himself in the right way? He who instructs himself and obeys the commandments of Christ. As we have shown in the past posts, the love of God, the love of neighbour and the true love of self is defined as ‘obedience to the commands of Christ. We say ‘Christ’ and not ‘God’ to emphasize that these commands are the commands of Christ, the perfected Old Testament commands.
     Most priests and bishops know a handful of the commands of Christ. None from Pope Francis down to the layman knows ALL the commands of Christ. Therefore, nobody can really say they love Christ. Pope Francis showed this ignorance during his first Papal speech that hugged the headlines around the world. When he mentioned that ‘love’ needs no dogmas. 

5. Pope Francis, do you love Me? No!!!
    In his first Papal Speech Pope Francis said that love needs no dogmas. If the speech is read he was defining love as if it was equivalent to Sigmund Freud’s ‘ID.’ This is not the supernatural Charity of Christianity. It is not even the natural love of Romeo and Juliet. It is the unnatural love of the catatonic. That was the way he defined it since he removed the need for dogmas.
     There can be no love without knowing the person loved. And the person loved can be known with the intellect.  If the person loved is God, we need the intellect raised by grace to the supernatural level. And this is called Faith. Through Faith we learn the dogmas about God and only in believing these dogmas can we have Faith. Only after having Faith can we have Hope. And after Hope, then and only then can we reach Charity. 
     Teaching a love without dogmas, Pope Francis destroyed the whole structure of the theological virtues leaving a love with nothing on and looking like Sigmund Freud’s ‘ID.’ Then and then Pope Francis evidently showed he does not love God. He was totally incapable of loving God.
     To love God is a combination of an act of the intellect, the will and the help of grace. Without these three, there can be no Charity. Pope Francis did not have all the three.  He, himself, abolished the intellect and the will when he abolished dogmas in his definition  of love. 
     Without Charity, a person is in the state of sin. From here on everything he does is a sin and erroneous as a consequence of this initial sin of ignorance. This is why everything he said from that time on until now are wrong. It is the inevitable punishment from God for the state of his soul that is devoid of Charity due to his ignorance. 
     Because of Pope Francis’ wrong definition of Charity, he shows he does not have Charity. One who has charity can define charity correctly. If he has no Charity, he will disobey all the commands of Christ because all the commands of Christ are based on  Charity; ‘upon this all the commands are based.’
     As a consequence for not having Charity, Pope Francis does not love himself in the right way; as shown by his disobedience to the commands of Christ, like the 6th and 9th commandments. His tolerance of mortal sins shows hatred of self. As a further consequence he does not love his sheep and lambs in that he is sending them to the wolves by tolerating their sins of adultery, contraception, immorality, infidelity, idolatry and nature worship.

6. Feed My sheep and Lambs.
     The one and only way we can show we love God is to feed His sheep and lambs.
    The lambs are the initiates, the sheep are the perfected. To feed the sheep is to support the believers from falling away from the Faith by constant instruction in morals and dogmas;  showing by example what Christ had preached; by resisting the adversaries; and to correct wanderers…….all these according to St.Thomas Aquinas. These are My sheep, they are not yours. If you consider these sheep as yours, then the Church have lost these sheep. You have kidnapped them for the devil because you will direct them the way you want. No, no, no. These are not your sheep. These are My sheep. Take care of them as I would take care of them; by teaching them My commands, defending them from being tempted to disobey My commands and gathering those who wander away from obeying My commands. Do not care for them the way YOU want. That is loving yourself. Caring for them the way I want is loving Me.