1. St. Bonaventure – state of the world.
We shall describe the state of the world, not by gathering facts from the present but by repeating the descriptions given by the Church hundreds of years before. In effect this is a prophetic description already fulfilled in the past and which is expected to repeat today.
So the Church is waiting for these events. Which Church? The Church that has the four visible signs or the 15 Marks of the true Church mentioned by St. Bellarmine.
St. Bonaventure described these days in a enigmatic way which makes it a little difficult to understand. It was for this reason that the young Joseph Ratzinger found it challenging to base his sacerdotal thesis on the topic. And though the topic was rejected by the faculty, Ratzinger succeeded in having it accepted.
He successfully defended his thesis, but he was dissatisfied in not having fully understood the treatise. He was planning to continue and finish his research on Bonaventure when he was elected to the Papacy. As Pope, he was dreaming of the day he could be free to continue studying this enigmatic treatise of the Seraphic Doctor. In the monastery Mater Ecclesia he has his opportunity. And many are awaiting his latest enlightenments.
Are the latest comments of Archbishop Ganswain the result of Pope Benedict’s continueing study on Bonaventure? It seems, because the statements are evidently the continuation of that thesis.
2. How are these days described by St. Bonaventure? Identical to the 6th Day, i.e. Good Friday.
First; people will be lovers of self and lover of money, (this is followed by a long list of vices). This was first described by St. Paul in his second letter to Timothy and St. Bonaventure got his description of these days from St. Paul.
Loving oneself is doing one’s own will. Covetousness is a product of love of self; it develops into love of money which is the root of all evil. This makes both people and their surroundings filled with evil. When one is open to love of self and covetousness, Satan is able to enter the soul freely.
Today, everybody is guilty of this, but more so are the very rich and the powerful. Thus the world is posed for the free entrance of Satan into their minds and hearts.
Secondly, Judas, definitely, love himself and loved money. For it is said that he used to get from the pouch meant for the support of the apostles. He had no love for Christ nor for the apostles. His love of self and money opened him to Satan.
Such people are extremely gentlemanly. No one will ever suspect that they are spiritually possessed. Humanly speaking they will be the star of the parties. Even bishops and cardinals will not be able to suspect that they, themselves, are possessed. They will look like sheep; but underneath they are wolves.
Since people of this age had been described as lovers of self and of money, Satan will not hesitate even for a second to possess them. For this reason the world today is possessed spiritually by Satan just like Judas.
Thirdly, being possessed by Satan they know they will end up with Satan in hell. So all their activities will consist in obeying Satan whose only desire is to bring souls to hell. So people today i.e. from Hollywood to the Bishop’s conferences, are aiming at drawings souls with them to hell.
Fourthly, the devil’s and the possessed person’s most potent weapon to force souls to deny Christ is death. Everybody fears death, even the good and the saints. Except saints are able to overcome the fear of death, But most people, since they are not saints, fear death. So they will do anything to avoid death. Threaten them with death if they do not deny Christ and they will deny Christ without a second thought.
Persons spiritually possessed by the devil are cold blooded killers. The will kill anybody for no reason. All the more they will kill if they can get some advantage in doing so, like earn a fortune. They kill, not because they have the freedom to kill. They do not have. They can only kill if God allows them; these possessed persons do not know that. Nevertheless they will threaten people in the hope they will apostatised. Whether the victim will be killed or not is in God’s hand, not in the killer’s hands.
Thus the Jews, led by the Pharisees, Scribes and the High priest went about coldly murdering Christ. The killers were made up of the laymen, the pagan civil authorities, the state officials, the Roman soldiers, the priests, the bishops, the cardinals and the high priest, the Pope.
Fifthly, another signature trait of one spiritually possessed by the devil is that they are liars. The devil is the ‘father of liars.’ This is more manifest in Politicians; they will lie, they will promise, they will threaten, they will bribe to get what they want.
Sixthly, their goal had always been to get what they want. By this time, what the devil wants and what they want are identical. This is the essence of ‘original sin,’ the first sin used by Lucifer that caused the fall of man. Now, they will not, only, do what they want. They will force others to do what they want. So the Christian who wants to do God’s Will becomes out of place in this world that wants to do, only, what it wants.
So, as the Book of Revelation states, the true Christian community will leave the Satan-filled world and go to a place specially prepared by God for them to safely stay. Of course, the beast will still try to drown the Church in the desert but God will protect her by opening the earth to swallow the waters of destruction. Thus, the ‘new’ evangelisation of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI consist in guiding the people of God into the ‘mystical’ desert; this is essentially different from all the other evangelisations described today by both Pope Francis and most Bishop’s conferences. John Paul II and Benedict’s evangelisation is akin to St. John the Baptist; it consist in bringing souls to the desert to point where Jesus is. Thus Pope John XXIII precisely said that his Papacy and Vatican II were meant to do the job identical to St. John the Baptist. And that is to be a voice in the wilderness inviting people to go there to know Christ. That is the reason Rocalli took the name Pope John. That goal was completed with the Papacy of Benedict XVI.
3. Where do we place Pope Francis.
First, Pope Francis said he will do what he wants regardless of what others say. He calls these ‘non-negotiable items.’ This is love of self. And he accompanies this with his love in entertaining very wealthy personalities who donates large amount of money like George Soros. To receive donations to obey God’s command is praise worthy; but to receive donations from Soros to further the agenda of his ‘open society foundation’ for the advancement of abortion world wide and the suppression of religious freedom is devilish. Thus, the big joke is that Hilary Clinton and Pope Francis are just pawns of George Soros with pictures to prove it.
Secondly, because of his love for self by doing his own will in disobedience to God’s will, and selling his loyalties for a prize, he had shown the vice of covetousness.
Thirdly, having the same disposition as Judas, he opens himself to being spiritually possessed by Satan; signs he had even while in Argentina with his heresy of indifferentism. Spiritually possessed like Judas, who like him was a bishop who turned traitor, his agenda had been to encourage people to disobey God’s command.
Fourthly, he had threatened the good bishops and priest they would be fired or demoted if they do not tow the line.
Fifthly, he lies in that he says souls no longer go to hell, that unbelievers can go to heaven, that the sins that cry up to heaven are no longer causing anyone to cry up to heaven, that marriage is no longer indissoluble, that the rosary is a waste of time, that capital punishment is unCatholic, that saving the environment is a work of mercy (never!!) and that babies are causing global warming.
Sixthly, and he forcing everybody to believe what he believes and to do what he wants; completely disregarding what God believes and what God wants.
He is not different from Obama, Hilary Clinton and George Soros. This reminds me of Robert Benson’s ‘Lord of the World’ where his character Father Francis, a apostate Catholic priest was a lackey of the President of the U.S. and anti-Christ, Felsenburgh. And he is using his papacy to force the Catholic Church to do what he wants, rather than what God wants. And what he wants were contrary to what God wants. His ‘Vultum Deum quaerere’ is completely contrary to the asceticism of religious life. That exhortation will not bring any religious near his goal of Charity. It will make all religious worldly, lover of self and of money, thus disposed, also, to be spiritually possessed by Satan.
4. Pope Francis is Father Francis in ‘Lord of the World.’
Let us go back to Good Friday and look at these two little details regarding Caiaphas and Judas. The former was an Old Testament figure while Judas was a New Testament figure. Both were figures of a present Pope that will be high priest like Caiaphas and a bishop like Judas.
John 11 verse 51 states; ‘He, (Caiaphas) did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation.
Look at Caiaphas and what he said. He did not say it of himself. He prophesied. He was describing his future deed.
Let us look at Pope Francis, in a plane ride from the Philippines,
he quotes Benson’s prophetic novel and encourages other to read it.
He did not say the contents of the book of himself. Yet the book was talking about himself.
Pope Francis was Father Francis, the apostate Catholic priests in cahoot with Felsemburgh, president of the U.S. and perceived ruler of the world and the anti-Christ. Both were out to destroy the Catholic Church as Caiaphas was out to kill Christ in collusion with the Roman civil authority. Pope Francis was not prophesying on his own. The author Benzon was prophesying while Pope Francis was pointing at the contents of the prophesy; which is, that there will be an anti-pope that will work with the powerful anti-christ to destroy the Mystical Body of Christ. There we have the whole of Good Friday re-enacted today, year 2016. The state of the world today is like Good Friday.
The ancient Catholic Church had been waiting for Good Friday to be relived today. Today, the 6th day, we have the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ undergoing a crucifixion. We have the secular head of all nations, like the U.S., pre-figured by Rome involved in the crucifixion. We have Pope Francis, cardinals and bishops as the main mover for the crucifixion. And we have a high priest pre-figured by Caiaphas, making the prophecy using the words of Benzon, that there will be an anti-pope that is influenced by the U.S. president. Satan had spiritually possessed the crowd that day, both the Jews, the Pharisees, Scribes and the Romans.
If the world is filled with evil spirits what do we do? As the Apocalypse says; follow the Woman with twelve stars into the desert where God had prepared a special place for them. Where they shall be protected against the attacks of the devil.