Opposing and Exorcising Evil with Confession and the Virtue of OBEDIENCE

The Archbishop continues: "Even though our city leaders apparently do not take this threat seriously, I do. As a Catholic priest and bishop I have witnessed in my ministry the battle between forces of good and evil in both ordinary and extraordinary ways. It is not merely a struggle rooted in human weakness and ignorance, though these are certainly the source of much suffering and mayhem in our lives and in our world. Demonic activity and the chaotic forces of evil are very real. The madness of war accompanied by increasingly brutal acts of terror, the violence in our schools and communities are all evidence that something is terribly wrong.
G.K. Chesterton, a convert from the Anglican Church wrote; “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it” 


            Fight evil with obedience

We can make up for sin and give more power to the forces of good through the virtue of obedience.

So I am joining with Archbishop Paul S. Coakley  not to go to the Civic Center but rather join the Archbishop  in obedience to his most  recent directives "THE HOUR HAS COME" The Archbishop  invited everyone to go  and join him at St Francis of Assisi Church for a peaceful prayerful  Eucharistic witness. Do not go to the Civic Center Venue to confront the Satanists.

Archbishop Coakley has invited all Catholics, Christians, and people of good will to join him in prayer at 3 pm.on Sunday, Sept. 21st."We will gather for a public act of worship at St. Francis of Assisi Church. I invite all Catholics as well as other Christians and people of good will to join us for a Eucharistic Holy Hour, an outdoor Eucharistic procession and Benediction beginning at 3 p.m. We will prayerfully bear witness to our faith as an expression of our solidarity and in reparation for acts of blasphemy. Bishop Slattery has asked all parishes of his diocese to conduct a Eucharistic Holy Hour at the time the Black Mass is taking place.

"THE HOUR HAS COME"

Archbishop Coakley is discouraging protestors from engaging with those present at  at the black mass. In his most recent statement on his blog titled "THE HOUR HAS COME" the archbishop commented: “I am aware that other groups are planning to show their opposition to the blasphemous event at the Civic Center. I urgently ask everyone to avoid confrontations with those

Civic Center

who might oppose them,” he says.

“Our witness ought to be reverent, respectful and peaceful."  (MAY I ADD OBEDIENT!)" I urge those who might plan to attend the black mass in order to pray or to protest not to do so! Please do not enter the venue. It would be presumptuous and dangerous to expose oneself or others to these evil influences.”  The devil is real and not to be played with.

So please reconsider where you hold your peaceful prayerful protest in Oklahoma City.  It will have much more spiritual effect if done in obedience. Do it in union with the bishops not on our own agendas because of a media effect.  You will really be helping to exorcise the civic center and the church from the effects of the  "smoke of satan. You will be fighting a spiritual battle with spiritual weapons. You will be helping to expel the smoke of satan from civic center and in the church  through the sins of very proud disobedient Catholics.

  Battles between good and evil

The archbishop continues: "The crucial battleground for the forces of good and evil is the human heart. As a Christian, I believe that Jesus Christ came to conquer the power of sin and to cast out demons. This was an essential part of his mission and ministry. It continues in his Church. Through his death and resurrection, Jesus Christ has gained the victory. He has destroyed the power of Satan, the Prince of Darkness and Father of Lies. The war has been won, though skirmishes will continue until Christ comes again in glory. As people of faith we dare not lose hope. Victory is assured."


 
If God is real so is the devil! What is disturbing today is that society now has accepted to openly worship Satan. Proponents of the Black Mass satanists want the right to teach our children satanism as an alternative religion. By the letter of the law, the Satanists claim a questionable right to “freedom” of religion.

The Black Mass has been done for centuries hidden in the dark of night underground by Satanists, this first  public Satanic event symbolically proclaims to the nation that our Christian moral code will no longer be accepted and will be attacked. Satan is a tyrant who will tolerate no other religions before him. All religious, economic, sexual or social in the name of tolerance, must be permitted. All except for those who cling to the old consensus, Christians and Jews. We will must be targets and shackled with laws that violate our consciences even put to death.

It is hard to comprehend but there are people who in this life choose to serve Satan and help him as his instruments of evil to destroy the church of Christ on earth. Some people really give themselves to the devil and are used by him to destroy civilization and the church.
                     
Humanae Vitae.  "so controversial, yet so crucial for humanity's future."  Benedict XVI

Where did this power came from this great evil unleashed in the church and the world.  Satan received his power because Catholic's have failed in the witness of their faith.  Recall the words of Venerable soon to be Blessed Pope Paul VI in the late 1960's as he lamented that "the smoke of satan has entered the church."  What happened that this evil spirit entered the church? It was the verbal disobedience of the bishops along with their priests and the faithful to his encyclical Humane Vitea. 

On 12 May 2008, Benedict XVI on the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae. said that the encyclical was "so controversial, yet so crucial for humanity's future." Humanae Vitae became "a sign of contradiction but also of continuity of the Church's doctrine and tradition... What was true yesterday is true also today." Humane Vitea was the last encyclical letter written by Ven. Pope Paul VI.

Satan's smoke is in the church today through the disobedience of her children including priests bishops and cardinal's to the magesterium of the church.This disobedience is magnified today when any prelate decides and implements which laws passed by the Churchs Magesterium that he will obey or not obey. 

Pied piper leading the children to their death

In a sense we have many little popes running around creating their own magesterium! Many trusted to their spiritual ruin. This is in a simplistic nut shell why the evil spirit has gained so much power in the world coming first in ranks of the church in the 1960's.  So goes the church so goes the world. There is so much to be said here but for the sake of the original subject on the black Mass and obedience to the bishop of Oklahoma I cannot elaborate further. 
 In short having said all of this, we will defeat Satan's power if we can humble ourselves in obedience to lawful church authority. But church authority must also be obedient to the living teaching magesterium.This is where our faith is tested to see God behind our lawful superiors especially when their lives do not reflect their faith.  A certain Do as I say not as I do scenario.  It is taken for granted that our obedience in all areas except for sin. No one can may obey a sinful command.But if in doubt God will never fault us for obedience to a superior. We will gain many graces for ourselves and others.

 Disobedience rooted in the sin of pride

Souls in hell with the demons

Let us not repeat the "Non Serviam" I shall not serve with our personal acts of disobedience. Disobedience is always rooted in  the sin of pride.  Be they satanists or within the church even the highest ranks of the church!! Satan

wanted to be like God in saying I shall not serve.  Pride is the first sin, and the root of all the others. We are still tempted to give the same answer, we will not serve God, and if we answer thus we put ourselves in Satan's kingdom, and live in a hell on earth to serve him.

We must not re-write church law to fit our own agendas. We become like  Lucifer who wanted to become like God. Our pride has so blinded us we cannot see that we are no longer in the light but sitting in the dark leading others into the dark.Self deceived and blinded  by our pride our personal agenda is what matters.  No matter what centuries of the doctrine of the saints or present church law stipulates. May God have mercy on proud Catholics! We will see and weep one day what our sins of pride have done to the church and the world giving the devil more power in our lives.

Recall the recent severe storms in the Oklahoma area, the mile wide tornado’s ect. These were warnings and are the beginnings of natures revolt against Man. If we invoke the prince of this world we will suffer the consequences of his powers against man. God will allow it these chastisements because of our unrepentant sins of commission and omission! Satan is the great liar and deceiver and we are falling into his trap. We have seen the beginning of the end of America. 

Returning to Chesterton, “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it”  Wake up America!

 Current updates:
Spiritual Warfare in Oklahoma City and another battle yet in Rome?

History News updates and posts concerning the Black MAss

        

The Epic Battle between St. Michael and Lucifer that took place in Heaven is still being waged on Earth!

Today is the memorial to our Guardian Angels. Did you thank your Holy Angel for never leaving you even when he witnessed your most grievous sins. Your Holy Angel stood by your side grieivng and yes maybe even wanting to avange the honor of God but he did not he stood by waiting and praying for grace that God will open your eyes and you will repent! If you had a conversion experience this was also due to your Holy Angel who guided you to the people that would help you. Just like St Augustine who  through the prayers of his Mother St. Monica was led to St Ambrose whose homilies St. Ambrose helped awaken in St Augustine the light of faith!'  Similarly, our guardian angels  protect, defend and guides each of us through the warfare that is still taking place on Earth. 

The same war that began in Heaven at the beginning of time in the book of between St Michael and the Good Angels who cast Lucifer and the bad angels out of Heaven. Rev. chapter 12. St. John writes of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflected the battle in heaven at the beginning of time in the book of Genesis.  I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. Genesis 3:15 

 Did you thank your  Guardian Angel today? 

It is he who will lead you through this life and the epic battle still waging around us between the good and the bad angels. Man is also a participant in this epic battle still being fought in time on earth. Man has a choice in time for and against good and our holy guardian angel wants us to be with then beholding the face of the father in Heaven!  to the Judgment seat of Christ.The battle that took place in heaven at the beginning of time will wage on earth  until Christ returns and makes his enemies his footstool. Each human person will also have his choice in this same battle either for God and His will or for mans will. "O Angel of Christ, my holy Guardian and Protector of my soul and body, forgive me all my sins of today. Deliver me from all the wiles of the enemy, that I may not anger my God by any sin. Pray for me, sinful and unworthy servant, that thou mayest present me worthy of the kindness and mercy of the All-holy Trinity and the Mother of my Lord Jesus Christ, and of all the Saints. Amen".  An Eastern Orthodox prayer to the Guardian Angel

The Epic Battle between St. Michael & Lucifer that took place in Heaven still waged on Earth!

Fall of the rebel Angels by Frans Floris

⁷ And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels: ⁸ And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. ⁹ And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world; and he was cast unto the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night. ¹² Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Rev.12:7-12

Woman of the Apocalypse Peter Paul Ruben

The Woman of Genesis 3:15 and the Woman with the Dragon in Rev.:12 can viewed as the Church founded by Christ and/or the Virgin Mary who is the Mother of Christ and Mother of the Church.

Meditations on these verses should be made with both interpretations present because both are interchangeable. For me I can see more that Our Lord is referring to the Church of God that he left behind on earth when he ascended to Heaven. Her offspring are those who are baptized that the devil is seeking. The rivers of water the devil spews from his mouth are the heresies, the lies that make good evil and evil good. The devil uses them to try to destroy the church by these deceptions. 

Pope Francis & Benedict XVI 

Entrusted the Vatican City State 

to St. Michael the Archangel last July

This was a significant action taken by the Pope and may also signify that the pope is reinforcing the words of Venerable Paul VI.  The church is in the midst of the epic Battle of Revelation Chapter 12  with the forces of evil in the world. Evil "whose smoke has entered into the very confines  of the church. As  Pope Francis entrusted the Vatican City State to St Michael the Archangel he said :"Though the devil always tries to disfigure the face of the Archangel and that of humanity, God is stronger, it is His victory and His salvation that is offered to all men. We are not alone on the journey or in the trials of life, we are accompanied and supported by the Angels of God, who offer, so to speak, their wings to help us overcome so many dangers, in order to fly high compared to those realities that can weigh down our lives or drag us down. In consecrating Vatican City State to St. Michael the Archangel, I ask him to defend us from the evil one and banish him. "  Read more....

Venerable Pope Paul VI 

and the MYSTERY OF EVIL

 

This battle and deceptions were notably assessed and written about by the Venerable Paul VI as early as 1972 in a General Audience given on November 15 of that year.

 CONFRONTING THE DEVIL'S POWER  

"What are the Church's greatest needs at the present time? Don't be surprised at Our answer and don't write it off as simplistic or even superstitious: one of the Church's greatest needs is to be defended against the evil we call the Devil.

Man's Fatal Tempter

There are many things we do know, however, about this diabolical world, things that touch on our lives and on the whole history of mankind. The Devil is at the origin of mankind's first misfortune, he was the wily, fatal tempter involved in the first sin, the original sin. That fall of Adam gave the Devil a certain dominion over man, from which only Christ's Redemption can free us. It is a history that is still going on: let us recall the exorcisms at Baptism, and the frequent references in Sacred Scripture and in the liturgy to the aggressive and oppressive "power of darkness." The Devil is the number one enemy, the preeminent tempter.

So we know that this dark disturbing being exists and that he is still at work with his treacherous cunning; he is the hidden enemy who sows errors and misfortunes in human history. It is worth recalling the revealing Gospel parable of the good seed and the cockle, for it synthesizes and explains the lack of logic that seems to preside over our contradictory experiences: "An enemy has done this."He is "a murderer from the beginning, . . . and the father of lies," as Christ defines him. He undermines man's moral equilibrium with his sophistry. He is the malign, clever seducer who knows how to make his way into us through the senses, the imagination and the libido, through utopian logic, or through disordered social contacts in the give and take of our activities, so that he can bring about in us deviations that are all the more harmful because they seem to conform to our physical or mental makeup, or to our profound, instinctive aspirations.

Venerable Paul VI with President John F. Kennedy

This matter of the Devil and of the influence he can exert on individuals as well as on communities, entire societies or events, is a very important chapter of Catholic doctrine which should be studied again, although it is given little attention today. Some think a sufficient compensation can be found in psychoanalytic and psychiatric studies or in spiritualistic experiences, which are unfortunately so widespread in some countries today. We can presume that his sinister action is at work where the denial of God becomes radical, subtle and absurd; where lies become powerful and hypocritical in the face of evident truth; where love is smothered by cold, cruel selfishness; where Christ's name is attacked with conscious, rebellious hatred,where the spirit of the Gospel is watered down and rejected where despair is affirmed as the last word; and so forth.”

This was audience given by Venerable Paul VI in 1972.  How much deeper men have fallen and embraced the darkness of sin and error! What will it take to deliver us from it? The Divine intervention foretold at Fatima during the Miracle of the Sun? A purification by fire? 

Sts. Michael, Garbriel and Raphel

September 29^th  was the Feast of Sts. Michael, Garbriel and Raphel. This years feast fell on Sunday and the Sunday Mass usually takes precedence. However, If you were fortunate enough to participate in the Extraordinary or Tridentine form of the Mass you were able to celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of St Michael the Archangel. A double First Class Feast  may take precedence over the Sunday Mass. St Michael had his day in Divine providence  this year in the Extraordinary form of the Liturgy!

Around  530 A.D., on September 29^th , Pope Boniface II dedicated a church in the great circus, at Rome, to St. Michael the Archangel.   This particular Church was named after St. Michael to show the power of martyrdom and how it converted pagan Rome to the Christian faith. Previously in Italy, In the year 492, St Michael had appeared in a cave on Mt. Gargano in the region of  Foggia in the Kingdom of Naples. St. Francis of Assisi knelt at the entrance to the cave and could not bring himself to enter because of the holiness of the site.  St Michael appeared at Mt Gargano as the head of the heavenly army to remind us of that Great epic battle that took place in heaven at the beginning of time is still being fought today on Earth! 

The Hebrew meaning of Michael is, Who is like God, denoted the combat which took place in Heaven between the archangel and Lucifer. As we have fallen through sin into the power of satan it is St Michael’s mission along with our holy guardian angels to continue the fight for our deliverance.  And since Christ's coming the Church has ever venerated St. Michael as her special patron and protector. She invokes him by name in her confession of sin, summons him to the side of her children in the agony of death, and chooses him as their escort from the chastening flames of purgatory to the realms of holy light. 

When Antichrist shall have set up his kingdom on earth, it is Michael who will unfurl once more the standard of the Cross, sound the last trumpet, and binding together the false prophet and the beast, hurl them for all eternity into the burning pool.

The battle that took place in heaven at the beginning of time will wage on earth  until Christ returns and makes his enemies his footstool. Each human person will also have his choice in this same battle either for God and His will or for mans will. 

Holy Michael the archangel defend us in battle that we perish not in the dreadful judgement!--Amen. Maranatha -Come Lord Jesus

 

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