Reflections 100th Jubilee Year and Revealing of Third Fatima Secret! Fatima and Islam!

Penance! Penance!
Penance!  

The 3rd Secret Revealed 

The Silence of Shepherds

The Via Cucis of the Popes

Fatima & Muslims
Interpreting the 3rd Secret

My Immaculate Heart will Triumph!

I recall with gratitude to God the grace he gave for me to be present at Fatima for the Beatifications of the little shepherds Jacinta and Francisco. Somewhere in the sea of humanity on the right side of the center and just behind the priests our little group spent a shivering night outdoors on the 12^th of May, 2000 in order to stake out our claimed spot for the Beatification Ceremony.  Holding on to the spot took some maneuvering and Christian fortitude. As the hour for beatifications drew near we had be firm and steadfast not to have the Portuguese faithful rest it away from us. Being present for this occasion was a great consolation and something I will always be grateful to God for. The remembrance of all the graces from the Jubilee year gives courage to press forward when the crosses of life press more intensely. 

Are things Better or Worse

Since the Great Jubilee 2000?

Have we taken advantage of the Graces afforded us during the Great Jubilee Year? The Holy Doors of Mercy opened to us by the Church? Have we passed through the Holy Doors in repentance for our sins and to make a new beginning?  Or was it just a symbolic act because everyone else was doing it? I can’t  help to think that the world is still plunging towards the final confrontation between Good and Evil. Immediately after the Great Jubilee year, in 2001 we have endured the 911 attacks and the rise of Islamic extremist groups some probably funded by left over Marxist groups in the former Soviet Union, now the Russian Federation.  

Today we live with the constant threat of Terror attacks on Christian and post-Christian West throughout world. Sadly, we are witnessing the effects of our own apostasy of the faith in the use of birth control, sterilizations and abortions. As a result Christian Europe is fast on its way to becoming Muslim. Christians are choosing a life of pleasure-seeking over procreation, faith and family.

The recent Global financial crisis of 2007, considered by many economists as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s still threatens us with the possibility of another world wide depression. “War is a punishment for sin!” Our Lady of Fatima told this to the shepherd children. She warned that God would punnish the world for its disobedience to His will through wars, hunger, and persecutions of the Church, the Pope, and the faithful. "If My requests are not granted, Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father (Pope) will suffer much and various nations will be annihilated."

CARDINAL ANGELO SODANO made the following comment At the end of the Mass presided over by the Holy Father at Fatima announcing that the 3rd Secret will be made public: The successive events of 1989 led, both in the Soviet Union and in a number of countries of Eastern Europe, to the fall of the Communist regimes which promoted atheism. For this too His Holiness offers heartfelt thanks to the Most Holy Virgin. In other parts of the world, however, attacks against the Church and against Christians, with the burden of suffering they bring, tragically continue. Even if the events to which the third part of the “secret” of Fatima refers now seem part of the past, Our Lady's call to conversion and penance, issued at the start of the twentieth century, remains timely and urgent today.

"Prophecy in the biblical sense does not mean to predict the future but to explain the will of God for the present, and therefore show the right path to take for the future.” 

 Benedict XVI June 26, 2000 Commenting on the third secret of Fatima as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

2001 Cover Soul Magazine-Artist Depiction of 3rd Secret

  

Seeing that the world is still restless with Wars and rumors of Wars why isn’t the three-fold cry for PENANCE in the third secret being shouted from every Catholic pulpit? Why are we not hearing this Cry of the Angel of the judgment of God proclaimed repeatedly by our Priests and Bishops?  It is the Gospel message that Jesus says to his hearers


“I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish .  Luke 13:1-9

Penance!   Penance! 

Penance!

THE PATH OF PENANCE AT FATIMA

PILGRIMS APPROACH THE SANCTUARY ON THEIR KNEES

Why are our Shepherds Silent?

The shepherds silence while often injurious to himself will always harm his flock!”

A recent Homily by St. Gregory the Great in the Office of Readings shed light for me on our present situation in the church and why the Message of Fatima with its cry for penance and conversion is not preached.  St. Gregory writes:  “Look about you and see how full the world is of priests, yet in God’s harvest a laborer is rarely to be found.  Pray for priest that they may have the strength to work on our behalf! That their tongues may not grow weary of exhortation. That after they have accepted the office of preaching their silence may not condemn them before the just judge!—Frequently the preachers tongue is held fast on account of his own wickedness. On the other hand it also happens because of the peoples own sins. The Lord tells Ezekiel: ‘I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth so that you shall be dumb and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.’  He clearly means this: “The word of preaching will be taken away from you because as long as this people irritate me by their deeds, they are unworthy to hear the exhortations of truth!  It is not easy to know for what reasons the preachers words were withheld his own wickedness or the peoples, but it is indisputable that the shepherds silence while often injurious to himself will always harm his flock!”

“The Lady of the message seems to read the signs of the times—the signs of our time—with special insight... The insistent invitation of Mary Most Holy to penance is nothing but the manifestation of her maternal concern for the fate of the human family, in need of conversion and forgiveness” (Pope John Paul II, Message for the 1997 World Day of the Sick, No. 1, Insegnamenti, XIX, 2 [1996], 561).

Let us not blame the popes that they have not sufficiently fulfilled the requirements for the Consecration of Russia. Sr. Lucia wrote in a letter to John Paul Ii it had been done in 1984. She stated that.  It is the people themselves who are to blame. I am adding by their sins, missing Sunday Mass. Recieving Communion in a state of mortal sin.  Immodest dress, a lack of the spirit of prayer, not praying the daily family Rosary. Not making their Communion of reparations on the 5 first Saturdays and not  wearing the Brown Scapular as a sign of our personal consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is what Our Lady wanted from the people!

Sr. Lucia wrote: "Since we did not heed this appeal of the Message, we see that it has been fulfilled, Russia has invaded the world with her errors. And if we have not yet seen the complete fulfillment of the final part of this prophecy, we are going towards it little by little with great strides. If we do not reject the path of sin, hatred, revenge, injustice, violations of the rights of the human person, immorality and violence, etc.-And let us not say that it is God who is punishing us in this way; on the contrary it is people themselves who are preparing their own punishment. In his kindness God warns us and calls us to the right path, while respecting the freedom he has given us; hence people are responsible”. Sister Lucia 1982

All the consequences of our failure to heed the messages by fulfilling her simple requests have followed.

 Fatima and Islam

Since the fateful day of Sept 11, 2001 we now see more clearly that the Muslims who also have God for their Father play an integral role in this final Mystery of Fatima in the battle between the forces of Good and the forces of evil. God the Father, Creator of all things visible and invisible, allowed the Mother of his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity, true God and true man, to be venerated with the same name as Mohammad’s daughter, Fatima!  Imagine that! This is a great Mystery still buried in the Fatima Message!  it undoubtedly will be made clear in the unfolding God’s providence over time and reveals his plans to men at the proper time and season. Muslims who also await the Day of Judgment with us, when God will render judgment to all those who await the Resurrection from the dead, should be treated by Christians with respect of having the same Father in Heaven who created us all!  

The Apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima Portugal are intimately tied to the Islamic world. Islam is an Arabic word that can be defined as "to make peace." Islam is the religion founded by Mohammed, which considers the Koran as its holy book. In addition, Islam accepts the New Testament of the Christians and the Old Testament of the Jews as Divinely inspired works.
  
The two great women of Islam are the Virgin Mary of Nazareth and Mohammed's daughter, Fatima.  After the death of his daughter, Fatima, Mohammed wrote of her: "Thou shalt be the most blessed of all the women in Paradise, after Mary".  God could have sent his mother anywhere else in the world but he chooses this plot of land called Fatima. The land was named such by a Christian leader who married a Muslim maiden named after Mohammed's daughter. She converted to the Christian faith and took the name Oureana she practiced great charity among the poor people surrounding the Castle of Ourem.

The Providence of  God in sending His Mother to Fatima and allowing her to be venerated with the name of Mohammad's daughter, links the Muslim People and Islam, with the Mystery of Fatima.

Below the Castle of Ourem near the Fatima Apparition Site where    a Muslim Princess named after Mohammad's daughter Fatima 
   converted to the Christian Faith and took the christian name Ourana

    History of the Location of Fatima 

Where Our Lady Appeared in 1917

The legend of the name of the village of Ourem and Oureana the moorish princess is retold by Friar Bernardino de Brito in his Chronicle of the Order of Cister (1602): In a surprise attack on the St John's Day in 1158, a Christian knight, Gonçalo Hermigues and his companions kidnapped a Moorish princess with the famous Arab name of Fatima.  The knight took Fatima to a small village of the recently-created Kingdom of Portugal, in the Serra de Aire hills. The princess fell in love with the Christian knight and decided to become herself a Christian, taking the name of Oureana. They got married and the princess received as prize the town which she called Ourém, after her name. She lived in the Castle and practiced great charity to the poor peasants living in the valley below. So beloved had she become a peasant who was the recipient of her charity named a parcel of his land after her birth name of Fatima. It was to this very small plot of land named after a Moorish princess that God sent his mother in 1917.  The town of Fatima rose up on this land after the appearance of Our Lady in 1917.  It was not to nearby Adjustral where our Lady  appeared in August after the children were taken to jail that the apparitons took place.  

She could have been called Our Lady of Adjustral. This act of Divine Providence of God by sending Our Lady to this small hamlet called Fatima, connected the Muslim Religion and Islam with the drama of Fatima.

An editorial for the Rosary Net  published on line by Father Thomas Carleton  made the following poignant comments that need to be prayed over and considered by Christians as we continue to meditate on the connection of the Fatima Message with those of the Muslim Faith.

“We have to make known that despite the accusation of violence so often made against Muslim extremists; they are not guilty of the terrible slaughter of innocent life in the womb that occurs with such lack of scruples throughout the western world.  Likewise in Islamic countries they maintain a high respect for the dignity of true marriage between a man and a woman. The Holy Father, Benedict XVI after his speech at the Germany University, had an opportunity to re-affirm the Church's important teaching regarding the religion of the Muslims 

  

* ‘The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the Day of Judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, alms giving and fasting’"  Benedict XVI-2006

At Fatima we learn that there is a price to be paid individually and collectively for the offenses committed against almighty God. We must do penance as individuals and as nations, to avoid the just punishments of God. All of humanity will suffer Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The good with the bad. In the third part of the secret of Fatima we see the intercessory role of Our Lady, saving the world from great apocalyptic suffering and destruction. She is able to forestall the punishments through the prayers: Rosaries and Communions of Reparations offered for God’s mercy to descend upon poor sinners. 

Interpreting the 3rd Secret

The Vatican Information Service published a synopsis of the Commentary of Cardinal Ratzinger now Pope Benedict XVI on the third secret of Fatima.  I am including  the following excepts from the article published by the Vatican Information Service JUNE 26, 2000 (VIS)  Pope Benedict XVI said, as  prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, that the "key word" of the third secret of Fatima "is the triple cry, 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'

 “The images of the secret: ‘The angel with the flaming sword on the left of the Mother of God recalls similar images in the Book of Revelation. This represents the threat of judgment which looms over the world. Today the prospect that the world might be reduced to ashes by a sea of fire no longer seems pure fantasy: Man himself, with his inventions, has forged the flaming sword.”  Benedict XVI June 26, 2000 Commenting on the third secret of Fatima as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Sister Lucia had already given an indication for interpreting the third part of the “secret” in a letter to the Holy Father, dated 12 May 1982.

                                                                                                                                                                                                   

“The vision (3rd Secret)  then shows the power which stands opposed to the force of destruction  the splendor of the Mother of God and, stemming from this in a certain way, the summons to penance. In this way, the importance of human freedom is underlined: the future is not in fact unchangeably set, the image which the children saw is in no way a film preview of a future in which nothing can be changed. Indeed, the whole point of the vision is to bring freedom onto the scene and to steer freedom in a positive direction. ... Its meaning is to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations of the 'secret,' such as, for example, the claim that the would-be assassin of May 13 1981 was merely an instrument of the divine plan guided by Providence. ... Rather, the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them." Benedict XVI June 26, 2000 commenting on the third secret of Fatima as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

                 Text of Third Secret

Immediately after the vision of hell the children beheld the following vision written by Lucia: “At the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance , Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God. …. 

    
The Via Crucis

    of the Popes

                                   

        

A drawing from J. Gill illustrating the 3rd  part of the secret of Fatima taken from the last book of Sister Lucia, “Calls from the Message of Fatima”   Secção de Livraria, Cova da Iria 2496-908 Fatima, Portugal

  

"In the Via Crucis of an entire century, the figure of the Pope 
has a special role."

In his arduous ascent of the mountain we can undoubtedly see a convergence of different Popes. Beginning from Pius X up to the present Pope, they all shared the sufferings of the century and strove to go forward through all the anguish along the path which leads to the Cross. In the vision, the Pope too is killed along with the martyrs. When, after the attempted assassination on 13 May 1981, the Holy Father had the text of the third part of the 'secret' brought to him, was it not inevitable that he should see in it his own fate? He had been very close to death, and he himself explained his survival in the following words: '... it was a mother's hand that guided the bullet's path and in his throes the Pope halted at the threshold of death' (May 13 1994). That here 'a mother's hand' had deflected the fateful bullet only shows once more that there is no immutable destiny, that faith and prayer are forces which can influence history and that in the end prayer is more powerful than bullets and faith more powerful than armies.”  Benedict XVI June 26, 2000 Commenting on the third secret of Fatima as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

     My Immaculate Heart 

Will Triumph!

In order that the faithful may better receive the message "I would like finally to mention another key expression of the 'secret' which has become justly famous: 'my Immaculate Heart will triumph.' What does this mean? The Heart open to God, purified by contemplation of God, is stronger than guns and weapons of every kind. The 'fiat' of Mary, the word of her heart, has changed the history of the world, because it brought the Savior into the world because, thanks to her 'Yes,' God could become man in our world and remains so for all time. The Evil One has power in this world, as we see and experience continually; he has power because our freedom continually lets itself be led away from God.  But since God himself took a human heart and has thus steered human freedom towards what is good, the freedom to choose evil no longer has the last word. From that time forth, the word that prevails is this: 'In the world you will have tribulation, but take heart; I have overcome the world.' The message of Fatima invites us to trust in this promise."  
Benedict XVI June 26, 2000 Commenting on the third secret of Fatima as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

             

                   



A Priest Never Belongs to Himself He is to be Configured to Christ!

Does Our Consecration 
as Priests

 extend to the Daily Reality of our Lives?

Pope BenedictXVI at the Holy Thursday Chrism Mass   criticized dissent from church teachings as illegitimate pathways toward reform and renewal. In the presence of  1,600 priests, bishops and cardinals, the pope cautioned against calls for women’s ordination, saying such campaigns seemed more “a desperate push” to fulfill one’s own preferences rather than a sincere attempt to conform one’s life more closely to Christ. The pope said he wanted to use the occasion to ask all priests, including himself, to meditate upon what their consecration really means.

Do we operate as men of God in fellowship with Jesus Christ? This question places the Lord before us and us before him. “Are you resolved to be more united with the Lord Jesus and more closely conformed to him, denying yourselves and confirming those promises about sacred duties towards Christ’s Church which, prompted by love of him, you willingly and joyfully pledged on the day of your priestly ordination? We need,  I (also) need, not to claim my life as my own, but to place it at the disposal of another – of Christ. I should be asking not what I stand to gain, but what I can give for him and for others. Or to put it more specifically, this configuration to Christ, who came not to be served but to serve, who does not take, but rather gives – what form does it take in the often dramatic situation of the Church today.

  

           

A Priests Concern should always 

be for the Salvation of Souls!

We are concerned with the salvation of men and women in body and soul. Zelus animarum leads to salus animarum.  No one should ever have the impression that we work conscientiously when on duty, but before and after hours we belong only to ourselves. A priest never belongs to himself. People must sense our zeal,  through which we bear credible witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Let us ask the Lord to fill us with joy in his message, so that we may serve his truth and his love with joyful zeal.

A Priests Near Death Experience 
Changes His Life!

While reading the Comments and various news reports of the Pope's address to the Priests on Holy Thursday. I recalled a program I saw on Mother Angelica Live in the late 1980’s about a priest who had a near death experience and how it changed his life.  Fr. Steven Scheier was involved in an accident in 1985 while traveling back to his parish. He had a head-on collision with a pickup truck and with Jesus who had condemned him to Hell.

Fr. Scheier was standing before the judgment of Jesus. He doesn’t know how long it lasted. He says the Lord took him through his entire life, and showed him every incident how he had failed in his priestly service. Before the accident he was thinking there would be time to convert but during his judgment scene, Jesus told him there is no more time. He said he knew he was talking to Truth and when you are talking to Truth you can’t give excuses. At the end of his judgment, his sentence from Jesus was hell. Fr. Scheier said “yes” as that was the only logical thing he deserved.  However, because of his devotion to Our Lady, (he was saying Hail Mary’s aloud as he was dying and then recovering) He was favored by God to have another chance.   At that moment, he heard a woman’s voice say, “Son, will you please spare his life and his eternal soul?” 

The Lord replied, “Mother, he’s been a priest for 12 years for himself and not for me, let him reap the punishment he deserves.” “But Son,’ she said, ‘if we give him special graces and strengths . . . then let’s see if he bears fruit; if not, your will be done.” There was very short pause, after which Jesus said, “Mother, he’s yours.”

I hope by including his story in this post it will help someone to save their own soul.  We so easily put blinders upon our eyes and excuse ourselves from grave faults. Bishops, priests and laity take advantage of the time God has given you today to serve Him!  Pray to God that he will show us the truth about ourselves today! It is not guaranteed we shall see tomorrow!   

Click alsoWindow’s Media Player: Fr. Schierer Interview with Mother Anglelica

       
 A priest for himself not for Me!

Father survived the accident but did not recall his near death experience until he was fully recovered and returned to his parish ministry. One day when celebrating Mass, the Gospel was about the fig tree (Luke 13:1-9).     When he was reading the Parable of the Fig Tree the words leapt off the page to him, especially the order to cut down the fig tree but getting a reprieve of one more year to bear fruit. As he read the Gospel he recalled his near death experience.  He finished Mass as best he could and back at the rectory

He remembered the spiritual conversation that had taken place shortly after his accident. In that conversation Fr. Scheier found himself standing before the judgment of Jesus. He doesn’t know how long it lasted. He says the Lord took him through his entire life, and showed him how he had failed in his priestly service. Fr. Scheier said “yes” to everything Jesus said about his life. Before the accident he was thinking there would be time to convert but during this judgment scene Jesus taught him there is no time. Now before Jesus he was talking to Truth and when you are talking to Truth you can’t give excuses. At the end of his judgment, his sentence from Jesus was hell. Fr. Scheier said “yes” as that was the only logical thing he deserved. At that moment, however, he heard a woman say, “Son, will you please spare his life and his eternal soul?” The Lord replied, “Mother, he’s been a priest for twelve years for himself and not for me, let him reap the punishment he deserves.” “But Son,” she said, “if we give him special graces and strengths then let’s see if he bears fruit; if not, your will be done.” There was very short pause, after which Jesus said, “Mother, he’s yours.”

                             

                         

 The Parable of the Fig Tree

"Look here, for three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the ground?” “Sir,” the man replied, “leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down.” Click for complete  Homily by Fr. Tommy Lane   

The Pope mentions a group of Austrian Priests' Calling for Disobedience

Recently a group of priests from Austria issued a summons to disobedience, and at the same time gave concrete examples of the forms this disobedience might take, even to the point of disregarding definitive decisions of the Church’s Magisterium, such as the question of women’s ordination, for which Blessed Pope John Paul II stated irrevocably that the Church has received no authority from the Lord. Is disobedience a path of renewal for the Church?

We would like to believe that the authors of this summons are motivated by concern for the Church, that they are convinced that the slow pace of institutions has to be overcome by drastic measures, in order to open up new paths and to bring the Church up to date. But is disobedience  really a way to do this? Do we sense here anything of that configuration to Christ which is the precondition for true renewal, or do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the Church in accordance with one’s own preferences and ideas?

Surely Christ himself corrected human traditions which threatened to stifle the word and the will of God? Indeed he did, so as to rekindle obedience to the true will of God, to his ever enduring word. His concern was for true obedience, as opposed to human caprice. He lived out his task with obedience and humility all the way to the Cross, and so gave credibility to his mission. Not my will, but thine be done: these words reveal to us the Son, in his humility and his divinity, and they show us the true path."

Let Us Pray for Our Priests! 

Priests at the Holy Thursday Mass

Lord Jesus, you have chosen your priests from among us and sent them out to proclaim your word and to act in your name. For so great a gift to your Church, we give you thanks. We ask you to fill them with the fire of your love, that their ministry may reveal your presence in the Church. Since they are earthen vessels, we pray that your power may shine out through their weakness. In their afflictions let them never be crushed in their doubts never despair; in temptation never be destroyed; in persecution never abandoned. Inspire them through prayer to live each day the mystery of your dying and rising. In times of weakness send them your Spirit, and help them to praise your heavenly Father and pray for poor sinners. By the same Holy Spirit put your words on their lips and your love in their hearts, to bring good news to the poor and healing to the brokenhearted. And may the gift of Mary your mother, to the disciple whom you loved, be your gift to every priest. Grant that she who formed you in her human image, may form them in your divine image, by the power of your Spirit. Amen

Also see: 

 A Priests Concern should always be Salvation of Souls!

 Bloggers Banter over Traditions!

 The Priestly Blessing is an Epiphany for those with faith!

Videos:

Direct Window’s Media Player: Fr. Schierer Interview with Mother Anglelica

Embedded Sancte Pater Blog:    Fr. Schierer Interview with Mother Angelica

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?

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