1. There will never ever be ‘peace’ on earth.
Because there are no ‘men of good will,’ as the Christmas carol says. It was possible around the 10th up to the 13th centuries for the world to have ‘peace’ because the teachings of the Catholic Church had reached its fullness and maturity. Though the opportunity was there, and there were many places where there were apparent peace, true ‘peace’ was still illusive.
If we define ‘peace’ correctly, at least according to human philosophy, it will appear that only the Catholic Church can bring ‘peace’ to the world. The goal of the Catholic Church is the attainment of ‘peace,’ correctly defined. “My ‘peace’ I give you.” The Catholic God is the Prince of ‘Peace.’ He alone can give ‘peace;’ this ‘peace’ the world cannot give.
The world will never have ‘peace’ because the Catholic Church whose goal is ‘peace’ and the only one who can bring ‘peace’ to the world, have ceased to be Catholic. She has repudiated her Prince of ‘Peace’ and have embraced the prostitute Lady Liberty. In her spiritual adultery she lost her four visible signs and the 15 Marks of the true Church.
In losing the four visible marks of the Church, she lost her ‘peace’ and became ignorant of the definition of ‘peace.’
2. Why is peace impossible?
No one has defined ‘peace’ correctly. The pagan religions do not even have a definition for peace. The same goes with the Protestant sects. The Catholic Church, alone, have a very clear definition of ‘peace’. And its proper place in Catholic spirituality is clearly shown in the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter. It is the 8th step.
But why was Vatican II and the following Bishop’s Synod (2014 – 2015) filled with dissensions? And the records of those gatherings showed ample proofs of the absence of ‘peace.’ The 6th Sunday of Easter Gospel gave the answer; they failed to do the first 7 steps (see previous post.) They could not have the 8th step which was the reward of ‘peace’ that Christ alone can give. And which the world cannot give.
3. ‘Peace is My farewell to you. My peace is My gift to you…..not as the world giveth it.’
‘Peace’ is a gift from God. It is the end of a whole process. The world can only promise ‘peace.’ But don’t wait for it. It will never come; because the world does not deserve it having committed adultery with the spirit of disunity.
4. ‘Peace’ is not a means to a goal; it is the goal.
Christ promised to give ‘peace’ to His disciples who had completed their training under Him. All finished, except Judas, who committed suicide because he was not at ‘peace’ with himself and with the other apostles. That is a state of hellish misery that will make anyone commit suicide.
‘Peace’ is when a person is at ‘peace’ with himself and is at ‘peace’ with others. Let us go into it in more detail. ‘Peace’ is when man’s interior faculties, his appetites are in accord with his mind and will. And when this peaceful interior is in accord with a similar interior ‘peace’ with another person there is ‘peace’ within that one person and between the two persons.
5. An example.
Let’s take an example. A husband wants to marry a woman to be able to take up the Sacrament of Matrimony for the sanctification of his soul. The husband thinks with his mind that he wants to save his soul using the Sacraments. The will, moved by the natural desire for a woman agrees with the mind for a marriage. The mind knows that to live with a woman without getting married to her is an evil. He knows that if he does this he will not find ‘peace.’ He knows that the right way is to marry her in the proper way. And he does this. Because the interior faculties obeyed the promptings of the intellect, he experiences ‘peace’ in his decision.
This husband is at ‘peace’ with himself because his interior faculties is in accord with what his mind has decided to be a right action and to which his free will had agreed to be a good act.
6. Concord.
We have described the husband. Now, let us describe the wife. Let’s say that the wife wants to marry a husband just for security. She has no intention of saving her soul or benefitting from the Sacraments. This wife does not will the good and is unconcerned with the truth. She is, only, after money. She is not at ‘peace’ with herself, and she is not at ‘peace’ with her husband. She, only, has concord with her husband. St. Thomas distinguishes ‘peace’ from concord. ‘Peace’ is more profound.
So there is a difference between ‘peace’ and concord. Peace is superior to concord. Concord is possible among people with evil will and wrong intentions. The untrue and the bad cannot be elements of ‘peace. ‘
7. Why marriages fail.
In the above example, the husband is a peaceful man, in that he was at ‘peace’ with himself (and we have defined this) but he was not at ‘peace’ with his wife. He was only in concord with his wife because they were not of one mind and one heart.
The wife was not at ‘peace’ with herself and was living only in concord with her husband. That will not work because there is a defect; the interior faculties of the wife was not in peaceful co-existence with her mind and will. And the wife was not of one mind and will with the husband. St. James wrote; that this is the cause of all wars. Exterior wars are just expressions of internal wars.
Because of the lack of ‘peace,’ the husband, through he is at ‘peace’ with himself though in concord only with his wife, will feel this lack of ‘peace’ as detrimental to his happiness. To correct the imbalance or incongruent situation both will declare war with each other, Wars are declared to attain a ‘peace’ that is lacking. The husband who is in the right will be waging a just war. The wife who is in the wrong will fight an unjust war.
8. The just war.
The just was is meant to win over the wife; just as ecumenism is meant to win over the other religions into the Catholic Faith. That is a spiritually just war. For religions just to sit down and talk is not a war; it is a UN sponsored useless meeting.
If in the above example, the husband who is at peace with himself, though not of his own fault is, only, in concord with his wife, he can wage a just war and win his wife easily.
But as the state of the whole Catholic Church is showing that there seems to be no peace even in the Vatican (this can be seen in Vatican II and the following last three Bishop’s Synod), because it does not have the four visible signs of the true Church, all the families have no peace, either with themselves or with one another. Peace becomes impossible. The advice from the Pope is to carry the war from your family to the next and to the next and to the next through remarriages (i.e. through adultery).
9. The Catholic way to peace in the family.
Begin with being at peace with oneself. How? First, the intellect should know what is the truth (from where? Of course from the teaching of Christ.) Secondly, his will must agree with the intellect that what is true is good for the same person. Then thirdly, with the mind agreeing peacefully with the will, the intellect should put into action what they had peacefully agreed with. That accomplished action will be rewarded by God with the peace of Christ. If all the members of the family do the same thing then there will be ‘peace’ in the family which is a foretaste of heaven. They will never wish anything worldly in place of this ‘peace.’ It is a ‘peace’ that unites the family preventing every member from committing any sin.
That ‘peace’ is Love of God and neighbour; because to be at ‘peace’ with oneself is Love of God. And to be at ‘peace’ with your wife and children is Love of neighbour. With that peace one really becomes a saint. It is the ‘peace’ that makes one love the Catholic Church because the family becomes the Church. That ‘peace’ is a foretaste of where the whole family will spend their eternity…..in the Kingdom of the Prince of Peace.
10. How is the church solving the present mess. Making it messier.
Let us see how the Catholic Church under the Papacy of Pope Francis is solving the problem.
They are given more reason for the declarations of war and taking away all things that contribute to ‘peace.’ The Church had become the harbinger of war rather than of ‘peace.’
The minds of couples are filled with each others defects thus feeling their hearts with mutual hatred. The mind, instead of being filled with the truth, becomes filled with lies; and the heart, instead of being filled with the good, becomes filed with the bad because of the continuing infidelity towards each other. Each person is filled with hatred which is the daughter of pride. Peace comes from Charity and humility.
When separated the couples and the children loses their ‘peace.’ When the parents remarry, everybody develops more hatred and loses further their ‘peace.’ When the parish priest and bishop annuls the previous marriage, everybody’s hatred increases further, and the ‘peace’ between the first family and the hierarchy disappears. And when everybody discovers that this annulment and remarried people are allowed to receive Communion by Pope Francis, then their ‘peace’ is totally lost and becomes pure hatred for the whole Church. ‘Peace’ comes from Charity. Hatred comes from mortal sin.
Thus the Vatican is no longer the Church of the Prince of Peace but the church of disunity and confusion, the church of the Prince of the world.
11. How should we solve problem of marriages according to the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter.
First, bring the estranged husband, wife and children together. Second, ask them if they want to solve their problem the Catholic way. If they say ‘yes’ then continue to the third step. If they say ‘No’, then send them to Pope Francis for a cheap and speedy annulment with Holy Communion as bonus.
If they say ‘yes’ then the third step is explained to them; i.e. the 7 steps from the Gospel of the 6th Sunday of Easter. And tell them that if they go through those 7 steps they will all find not only ‘peace’ on earth because those steps will develop in them a Good Will, but they will find eternal ‘peace’ with God in heaven.
12. Divorce and annulment will worsen the situation because not only is the wife not peaceful, the husband will also lose his peace.
Now both husband and wife have lost their peace. If they remarry they will be contaminating other people with their unpeaceful lives. This life without peace will gradually turn to hatred and other untold evils.
Again, why will ‘peace’ never exist today? Because the Vatican Church who, alone can teach the way to peace had chosen the way to serious sin. Thus losing its Catholicity, it has lost its own peace.