1. The classical evangelisation.
The classical evangelization is the one described at the end of the Gospel of St. Matthew; when Christ commanded His disciples to go to all nations baptising them. And teaching them all His commands and how to obey them. Note these four instructions of Christ to appreciate the difference between the classical and the ‘new’ evangelization. This classical evangelization is portrayed in the apostle’s boat trip in Lake Genesareth. Let’s see how it looks like.
All the apostles were in the boat. Christ was, also, in the boat. They caught nothing, until Christ ordered them to lower the nets on any side of the boat; left and right side, front and back part of the boat, anywhere. And the apostles caught all kind of fishes. Some good, some poisonous; some big, others small; some useful others useless. They caught so much fishes that the nets were at the breaking point. They hauled the fishes into the boat so that the boat was at the point of sinking with so much fishes.
The boat is the Church. The apostles were the church leaders, the net is evangelisation by which they catch fishes. The fishes are the souls evangelized. The different kind of fishes are the different kind of souls, good and bad. The nets in danger of breaking are schisms. And the danger the boat sinking is the usual danger that is part of the life of the church because it tries to put inside both the good and bad fishes. The apostles would eventually separate the good from the bad.
2. The ‘new’ evangelisation.
The ‘new’ evangelisation is portrayed in the apostle’s boat trip in Lake Tiberius; this was after the Resurrection of Christ and described at the end of the Gospel of St. John which is read on the Friday Mass of the Octave of Easter.
Unlike Genesareth, there were only 7 apostles in the boat; the sea was very calm, Christ was not with them in the boat; He was on the shore waiting for them. They caught nothing. Until Christ told them to lower the net. This time Christ specifically told them to lower the net on the right side only. And they caught 153 large fishes. The nets were not in danger of breaking; they could not draw the fishes into the boat. They left the fishes in the net dangling in the sea but outside the boat. As Peter went down the water to go to Christ on the shore, the other disciples followed in a little boat. Note this little boat. Then they pulled the net to shore and offered it to Christ who has there with a fire on, with bread prepared and fish already roasting on the fire.
3. Differences between the classical and the ‘new’ evangelisation.
In the ‘new’ there were only 7 apostles in the boat; in the classical there were 12 including Judas. In the ‘new’ the sea was calm, in the classical it was not very calm. Both in the ‘new’ and the classical, they caught nothing. And in both it was only when Christ commanded them to lower the nets were they able to catch fishes.
While in the classical, the nets were lowered anywhere, in the ‘new’ the nets were lowered only on the right side. While in the classical they caught many and all kinds of fishes, in the ‘new’ they caught only 153 but large and good, edible fishes.
While in the classical, the nets were in danger of breaking, in the ‘new’ even if there were much fishes the net was not in danger of breaking. While in the classical, the fishes were hauled inside the boat, in the ‘new’ the fishes were left in the net outside the boat. While in the classical, the fishes were loaded in one boat that nearly sank, in the ‘new’ the fishes were loaded in two boats, one smaller than the other
Lastly, while in the classical, the apostles sorted the fishes throwing the useless ones and keeping the good ones; in the ‘new’ all the fishes were good and were presented to Christ who was waiting in the shore.
4. Analysis of the ‘new’ evangelisation.
There were only 7 apostles in the boat. The number seven mystically refers to the perfect training that the leader of the Church had undergone. 7 refers to perfect knowledge of the teachings of Christ. They were in the boat, the Catholic Church. And they caught nothing; because it is Christ who tells the evangeliser when and where to lower the nets. It is not the missionary, nor the bishop, nor even the Pope who dictates where to lower the nets. It is Christ alone…..in whatever form of evangelisation. It is sinful presumption for anyone to take on this role; as what is happening with the missionaries of mercies. Wherein it is Pope Francis and the missionaries who dictate to themselves where to go and lower the nets. They surely will catch nothing. And that is good because it is the wrong net anyway.
The 7 apostles caught nothing and waited for Christ to say where to lower the net. The number 7 mystically describes the apostles as contemplatives who can know the place where to lower the nets directly from God through prayer. Pope Benedict had been emphasising the fact that the ‘new’ evangelisers should be contemplatives. Only contemplative leaders of the Church would know where to lower the nets.
In the ‘new’ evangelisation, the net was lowered only on the right side of the boat. Why right side only? That is the place of the sheep on judgment day; the ones destined to go to heaven. How did the apostles know the good fishes were there? God informed them during their contemplative prayer.
They caught only 153 large fishes all of which were destined to go to heaven, the shore where Christ was standing, i.e. heaven. We shall explain 153 which is the description of all Catholics during this time, all of whom are destined to heaven as shown by the Gospel narrative. Imagine all the Catholics in the boat will surely go to heaven; but they should be marked 153. What is this?
But wait. As they were hauling the 153 fishes to shore, i.e. heaven, there was another small ship following, also, with fishes which was part of the 153, also destined to heaven. St. Thomas described them as outsiders in the Catholic Church, like pagans, but who are, also, destined to enter heaven.
The fact that most of the 153 fishes were not hauled inside the boat which is the Catholic Church shows that these predestined, holy Catholics will be outside the ecclesiastical framework of the Church; i.e. they are not canonically members of the Church. You know those complicated canonical procedures that stifle the predestined.
5. The mystical meaning of 153.
During these times, the ‘new’ evangelisation’ is meant to gather these Catholics that has these characteristics mystically referred to as 153, represented by the number of good fishes caught by the net.
The ‘new’ evangelisation is not for all. It is meant to gather a select group who are already prepared to be gathered by the net. It is not clear who prepared them. It seems God, Himself had prepared them because they live in an era where no cardinal, bishop or priest know the way to salvation; exactly like on Good Friday, the sixth day which Pope Benedict had warned us about.
153 are Catholics who know perfectly and have obeyed the 10 commandments of the Old testament. Thus they have finished their life of Penance and posses the virtue of Penance. Having accomplished their life of repentance, they have received graces that have forgiven all of their past sins, they have, also received the theological virtues of Faith and, therefore, have encountered the Physical soul of the Catholic Church, Jesus Christ.
Having entered the Catholic Church through having encountered the Physical soul of the Catholic Church, Jesus Christ, they proceed to enter further into the Catholic Church by having an encounter with the spiritual soul of the Catholic Church, the Holy Spirit. And in having encountered the Holy Spirit, they receive the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Now watch this little trick. If you add 10 commandments to the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit, that makes 17. If you add all those digits from number one plus two plus three…..and so on up to 17,….you will get 153, the number of fishes.
6. Conclusion
During these days the Catholic Church will be made up only of those who encountered Christ inside the Catholic Church through knowledge and obedience to all the 10 commandments and have encountered the Holy Spirit in the inner sanctum of the Catholic Church thus possessing the 7 gifts of the Spirit. Most of them are Catholics and a few are non-Catholics (in the small boat) but both chosen, taught and predestined by God.
There is no other interpretation to this Gospel after Easter.
Now, let’s look around. Pope Francis, the entire Vatican bureaucracy, most of the cardinals, bishops and priest had been pushing during the last two Bishop’s Synod for remarried people having their marriage annulled and remarrying and even going to receive Holy Communion. Isn’t this a disobedience to the 10 commandments of God and the commands of Christ in the New Testament? They surely will not have the much superior 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. They have neither the 10 nor the 7. They will never add to 153 and be part of that Church in the boat in Lake Tiberius.
Does that mean that we have a Catholic Church that is mostly outside the Church and, therefore, not destined to heaven? That is what the Gospel seems to teach.
We have everybody, from Pope Francis to the Bishop’s conference in the Philippines announcing that they are basing their programs in the Year of Mercy and Preparation for the Centennial on the ‘new’ evangelisation. Their evangelization is neither the classical nor the ‘new’ evangelisation. Both programs are neither the boat in Genesareth nor the boat in Tiberius. Looks more like the boat in Styx.
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