1. There is only one war that is going on.
It is the eternal war that begun in Paradise and will end only at the end of the world. This is the war between good and evil. On the side of good is God who will always win. On the side of evil is the devil who will eventually be completely defeated.
And God had placed man in between to test him; which side he will take. Upon his choice God will judge him; either he deserves to be with God for all eternity or be condemned with the devils in hell.
This eternal war had taken many forms. St. James wrote; it could be in the form of a civil war, a global war, a gang war or just simply a spat between husband and wife. But it is the same war whose origin is from the evil in the hearts of man; the war between good and evil, both of which is in the heart of man. Its more evident form is the war of religions where closer logical examination will show, according to St. Paul, that it is between God and the devils.
What Pope Francis said in Poland is confusing in that he denies that there is a war of religions going on. But that the ‘wars are only about money, resources and dominion.’ It should be the other way around. That wars on money, resources and dominion are basically wars between good and evil; a test by which man is made to choose and upon which his very salvation depends.
This is most evident in Poland. A nation racked with wars, evidently between the forces of evil against the Catholic Faith of the nation. This had been the test of their people; will they continue to serve God or will they serve the devil who use terrorize them with the force of arms.
The devil’s usual weapon is terrorism; the threat to life, the most precious thing for man. The test is obvious. Christ said; ‘he who loves his life will lose it. But he who hates his life for My sake will save it.’ And Christ continued; ‘do not fear those who can kill the body but cannot touch the soul. Fear Him who can kill both the body and soul.’ And Poland had just passed through that trial with the help of their own countryman Pope John Paul II.
Though this weapon was found effective by the devil, he found another more effective weapon. And this is sweet heresy. Heresies are sweet candies, nice to the taste of one’s concupiscence, nice for the passions and according to one’s personal desires. It is the classical ‘forbidden fruit’ which was nice to the eyes and the taste. This, definitely, is more effective. Even man when he possessed grace, knowledge and wisdom while in Paradise fell for it and ate it.
2. The strategy of each side.
The strategy of the good had been the same from the beginning up to now. Know what God had revealed as found in Scriptures and as interpreted by the Fathers of the Church. And as proposed by the Magisterium of the Church (keeping in mind what is the Magisterium). There should be absolutely no change to that strategy. It is still the same strategy up to now. Changes are detrimental to this strategy because it will cause confusion.
The strategy of the evil had been the same from the beginning up to now. It is to mix a lot of the strategy of the good and then insert just one or two evil items among the good. The evil will corrupt all the good and transform everything into evil. This is what makes the evil difficult to discern. Because all the good must be known to detect the small evil that can destroy the whole. Heresy, mixed with the good, is almost impossible to detect.
The syllabus of error cannot be detected among the many lawful and unlawful things in the world. Even bishops and priest cannot detect them. How much more the laity.
Pope Francis and his Vatican bureaucracy had been doing this lately, specially in better Catholic nations like Mexico and now Poland. It is a suspicious attempt to sound reconciliatory but it is a basket of fruits and flowers with one hidden asp in it. He begins to praise the Catholic roots of Poland, how she withstood the Communist regimes. Then he inserts impurities in the Docat just as his man Schonborn inserted heresies in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the YouCat of the last WYD. And now that again. All are errors concerning Matrimony and Family Planning.
And even before the arrival of Pope Francis, the Polish bishops already warned him that they would not follow his suggestions on the remarried receiving Holy Communion. So Pope Francis suggested again to the youth about messing things up and opening up to what is evil. And, of course, the opening of borders to migrants of a religions that is so opposed to the Catholic Church. As usual he was giving the impression that these are Catholic Doctrines. Many of the denizens of the School of Bologna with their heretical hermeneutics of discontinuity condemned by Pope Benedict XVI were guests speakers.
3. Of course.
Then there is the usual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Compare that to the WYD in Spain when Pope Benedict and the youth knelt down silently in the mud under the rain…….to the one in Poland where there seems to be a party going on in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Of course, that is nothing compared to the International Eucharistic Congress in the Philippines where the speakers did not even believe in the Holy Eucharist.
4. Men possessed by the devil.
The message in Poland is to open up. This is an invitation to the devil to come in. It was what happened to Judas. He was open. And without his permission ‘Satan entered into him.’ And nobody could exorcise him because he had an open invitation to Satan.
In Catholic asceticism, we must be careful on what enters our senses. What enter the senses that are always open, like sight, hearing, smell, etc..are registered in the mind. Having gained entrance into our minds, it is easy for the free will to consent to whatever sinful things that have entered the mind.
The idea is to prevent evil things to reach the free will. But how can that be done if it is already in the mind which exist side by side with the free will. So the wiser thing to do is to prevent evil things even to enter the mind. And this is done through the ascetical practice called ‘custody of the eyes.’ But the more complete practice is to live the monastic life where all the senses are controlled so that sources of sin that enter the senses are brought to the minimum.
But in the WYD in Poland, with a course on sex, where everyone is encouraged to open up to everything including evil, to the hearing of heresies and error, and the presence of delegates from very permissive societies …..the experience is not an encounter with Christ, as Cardinal Tagle hoped it was. It is an encounter with a sinful world and the possible possession by Satan.
The world does not believe in God, shown by the lack of the gift ‘fear of the Lord.’ There is no fear to disobey God. So everyone is doing what he wants and saying what he wants. Even if they go against the teachings and commandments of God. Just look at the prevailing issue of the remarried. That is against the teachings and the commandments of God as clearly expressed in Divine Revelation with threats of condemnation attached to it. Yet it is being forced on all the bishops conferences by the Vatican team.
People act as if there is no hell or at least that God sends no one to hell. Oh, by the way Pope Francis said that following some Jesuit theologians.
5. On whose side.
When we look at what happened in Poland, we see the eternal war raging, as it is raging in elections going on around the world, as it is raging in every parish and diocese, as it is happening even in sport events. It is raging everywhere in the tiniest nook in the world. As Pope Paul VI just confirmed; ‘Satan is around and have entered the Church.’ And the choice is between God and Satan.
Did you think Satan was not in Poland during WYD? No one was looking. He was more in Poland than in France considering the Catholicity of the two nations. But when people don’t fear God, they would not know who is with them, God or the devil. And many participants were not Polish. They were from countries with lax morality.
The eternal war was raging in Poland during WYD as in any day. There are two sides. Who is in what side? Those who know their Divine Revelation and the Fathers can answer that.
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