1. The Visible signs of the true Church of Christ.
They are found in the Nicene Creed recited every Sunday Mass.
And the signs are expanded by the Fathers and Doctors of the Church due to their great importance; in that they are the only way the true Church, the true God and the true disciples of Christ can be recognised beyond any doubt.
These signs can easily be learned by all, precisely made such by God so they can be used by everybody to recognise the true Church and be able to enter her.
2. With these signs any one can go around applying them to everything Catholic. Do this and you will find the following; most Dioceses and Parishes do not have the signs. Most Priest, bishops, cardinals do not have the signs . Most religious congregations do not have the signs. All popular religious groups do not have the signs. And almost all families do not have the signs.
There is great ignorance of what those signs are because today, during Mass, Catholics had been reciting the Apostles’ Creed that does not enumerate the four visible signs of the Church, which the Nicene Creed, the older Mass, emphatically proclaims; ‘I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.’
3. Apply these signs to Pope Francis using his talks, writings and autobiography and anyone can see that he does not have a single sign of the true Catholic Church; neither he nor almost his entire Vatican Curia with the exception of done or two. They do not have the four visible signs nor the 15 expanded Marks of the Church described by the Jesuit Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine. If Pope Francis does not have them, can we expect to find them among the cardinals, bishops and priests? More so we won’t find them in ourselves. We cannot find those signs among the brilliant writers in the internet.
It all depends on each person to have those visible signs or not. So there is no one to blame except the persons concerned. On the other hand Pope Benedict, basing it on his talks and works and behaviour have all the visible signs.
4. Some have partially a few signs. If only partially then all the signs would not exist yet. All the signs will only appear when all are present since one sign depend on the other; for example, a parish should first be ‘apostolic’ before it can be ‘catholic.’ And they should first be ‘apostolic’ and ‘catholic’ before they can be ‘holy.’
When the head, like a bishop or parish priest, have only partially a few signs, the rest of the parish or diocese, would not have any of the signs. And so even if the priest or a bishop have the beginnings of one or two signs, the entire parish or diocese will not have any of the visible signs.
This was evident during the 2015 Family Bishop’s Synod. Bishops who defended the indissolubility of marriage defended the true teaching of the Catholic Church. But their own diocese did not have the four visible signs of the true Church. Why? Because the said bishop believed in only one truth of the Church, the indissolubility of marriage. He did not show belief in the other truths of the Church. This lack of knowledge disabled him and his Diocese to have the four visible signs of the true Church.
5. When a bishop or a priest only have the beginnings of one or two signs because they know only a few truths of the Church, they can either grow more in knowledge or lose the little they have as what is happening to the two bishops in the news. It is not a good sign. It reflects very badly on their dioceses. Since they are slowly losing the visible signs, it is definite that his entire diocese does not have the signs and is, therefore, not Catholic.
What went wrong with the two bishops featured in the news? Before, one went against the error of Pope Francis in allowing divorce and tolerating sodomy. And he was right in going against the Pope. He should have remained in his right stand because a schism occurred during the Synod where Pope Francis left the Catholic Church while he did not join the schism. The bishop was obliged under pain of sin to separate himself from the schism of Pope Francis who rejected Catholic moral teaching.
But what happened recently? He hinted that the Pope was right after all and he does not want to join a schism with the Pope. No! You cannot join someone in error. You must separate yourself from a schism.
The same news, however, stated that the US bishops were really pressured by Soros to submit to his program in causing world wide chaos to which Pope Francis consented to by preaching, himself, ‘to mess up the world.’ Take the issue regarding total open door to migrants. What is wrong with total open door which is Pope Francis’ favourite past time? It goes against the teachings of St. Paul which was explained by St. Thomas of Aquinas regarding the obligation to the common good. This great influx of migrants encouraged by the US, Europe and by other countries is against Catholic teachings. There is a superior Catholic way of doing this thing right. But the way it is being done by all, including the Pope, is unCatholic, as we shall show in another post.
Another bishop who was known for orthodoxy but did not have the four visible signs yet showed a regression in Faith. His comment was that the two US candidates for presidency were no different from each other. Now, that was really a bad comment. If he had the four visible signs of the Church, he would know Catholic teachings. And he would know that, though both were not Catholics, one would be closer than the other to the truth, just like himself.
Analysis shows that one candidate was even more Catholic than Pope Francis, as shown above, that one candidate followed St. Paul and St. Thomas of Aquinas in prioritising the common good while the Pope is not concerned with the command good, spiritually or politically. The bishop’s defect? Ignorance of Catholic teachings which is a sign he does not have Faith and the subsequent four visible signs of the true Church.
Since both bishops had partial signs of Catholicity before, it seems as we feared, they lost the little they had. While the bishops of, for instance, Poland, Mexico, Africa, Eastern Europe, etc begun to increase in the number of signs of true Catholicity. It is for this reason that Pope Francis is concentrating in destroying them by going there and continuously sending commissars to dislodge them from the truth. China’s true Church, the underground, had been betrayed by Pope Francis to the atheistic communist government. And the emeritus Bishop had declared; ‘don’t obey the Pope.’ And they should really not. Obey a Judas? ‘Obey God and not man,’ St. Peter said in Acts 5:29. The Pope is not God; he is just a man specially when he says all gods are the same.
6. The gathering together.
We have seen in the past posts that Satan is now on the loose with God’s permission. And like on Good Friday, he has begun to possess spiritually the human race and he did Judas. Let us further describe the present state of the world.
The Gospel described it as gathering the wheat together and gathering the chaff together; the former to be carried to the barn and the latter to be burned.
It has become a world wide phenomenon that the good are getting better while the bad are getting worse. While the staunch defender of marriage who were on the side of orthodoxy are now succumbing to Pope Francis’ pressure to implement ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ an exhortation unacceptable even to lay theologians, the Polish, Mexican, African and underground Chinese bishops are standing up against Pope Francis and his ‘new’ church……..and maintaining fidelity to the Church of Christ and the apostles.
7. The forces accelerating the gathering process. Here is where we stand.
The entire pagan world is possessed by Satan. They are now on a rampage of sex and killings with the innocent as their victims; the sign of spiritual possession.
The head of nations will be lying tyrants slowly abolishing all religious rights followed by abolition of all rights, as headlines show; a sign their father is the father of lies.
Those whose office is to evangelise do not know how to do it as shown in ‘evangelii gaudium.’ That is from Pope Francis down to the parish priest and assistant nun. None of the Mass media would be broadcasting the truth; only trash, sin and errors.
As a result all men are ignorant of the truth making them totally ignorant on what is going on around thus acting like zombies. The only language they understand, like dogs, is how to please their senses. Thus the devil continuously entertains them and entice them with entertainment gradually leading them to their fall. At the same time the devil threatens them with death if they show some hesitation in following.
All the members of the Catholic church who abandon the service of Christ turn traitors following the adage the corruption of the good is the worse.
The few good men are silenced.
The Church is praying and living its ‘hidden life’ like Christ’s hidden life.
8. It is just like Good Friday. But multiplied a thousand times in its ferocity against the Church. The devils know it is the last round; for them it is now or never. They are greatly aroused by their hatred so expect the worse.
The Catholic world is made to chose; the right or the left, the sheep or the goats. But due to the above description of the prevalent state of the Church and the state of the world, most Catholics do not know which is the right side. Being made worldly, he has no desire to go to the right side. Enticed by the attraction of worldly pleasure on one hand, and surrounded by threats not to go to the right side on the other hand, the Catholic has no choice. Isn’t that awful?
The great chastisement is that man will have no choice but one. Perdition because they delayed too long their repentance.Their punishment is the withdrawal of the grace of repentance as St. Paul warned us.
What choice can they have when they only know the left side but not the right side? Could this be the great chastisement nobody is waiting for? I cannot imagine any greater punishment for mankind for having neglected the salvation of their souls for such a long time. But, by the justice of God, they deserve it.