DOLLY PARTON WAS RIGHT! We Are FREE to Reject God's Love!

 

DOLLY PARTON WAS RIGHT! We Are FREE to Reject God's Love!

God loves us and He created us to have fellowship with Him and choose to follow His commands. There is no true love in a relationship unless WE ARE FREE TO REJECT THAT LOVE, and end up eternally destroying ourselves!

"If you're gay, you're gay. If you're straight, you're straight. AND YOU SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE HOW YOU ARE AND WHO YOU ARE." - Dolly Parton

THIS PHRASE IS VERY DECEPTIVE since it brings out the positive great gift of God - our free will. But there is no mention of the difference between good and evil, between what is good for us and what harms us. Underlying this phrase is the secular mindset of atheism and that sin and hell do not exist, and thus we have no responsibilities for our actions and there will be no eternal consequences!

WE AS TRUE CHRISTIANS LOVE THE SINNER BUT HATE THE SIN. But the diabolical GAY agenda accuses true Christians of hating homosexuals because we hate the sin of living out the GAY lifestyle. They conveniently and shrewdly do not make this fundamental distinction, since for them God and sin do not exist!!! True Christians love homosexuals and pray for them that they might trust God and obey his saving Commandments, which leads to true happiness and eternal life! After all we are all sinners! Regarding this shrewd deception we can truly apply this verse: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil” (Is 5:20).

Dolly Parton has repeatedly spoken out in support of drag queens, particularly those who dress as her. Dolly Parton has said that she would've been a drag queen if she'd been born a boy.

The secular Godless world has made Dolly Parton a “SAINT”!

The real God, the Creator of the universe, totally respects our free will. And thus God allows us to be how and who we want to be!

That is why both heaven and hell exist! God will not force anyone to respect and obey his holy and saving laws! GOD WILL NOT FORCE ANYONE to spend eternity with God in heaven!!!

In heaven there is room for only ONE God, not two! Everyone in hell thinks he is the source of all truth, as if he were God! A great number of people today have chosen to believe the fundamental of lie of Satan, as Satan tempted Adam and Eve in the garden of paradise.

THE FUNDAMENTAL BATTLE OF ALL TIMES is who establishes the truth, God or the world, God or Satan, God or each person? This battle will increase even more in the next few years before the second coming or Jesus Christ. Lucifer said, I am God, I decide the Truth, and Saint Michael the Archangel replied with his name: “Who is like unto God?” Original Sin was the same deception: “But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3:4-5)” Many modern philosophers led us into the “COPERNICAN REVOLUTION” of not seeking anymore reality and the truth outside of ourselves by way of our five senses but inside of ourselves, as if each one of us “will be like God”. “Abandoning the investigation of being, modern philosophical research has concentrated instead upon human knowing. …” (No. 5; Encyclical Letter: Fides et Ratio; John Paul II; 09-14-1998). In this fierce and underhanded battle, it is very important to be “wise as serpents” and not just “innocent as doves” (Mt 10:16)!

For myself, I TRUST MY LOVING CREATOR and thus I seek to understand and live the Ten Commandments as God intended (not according to the world), which were given to us for our true good, not for our harm

Dear friends, LET US REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THE END in this period of the great apostasy before the revelation of the Antichrist (2Thess 2:3-8), as all true saints have done, so that we can fly together to Eternal Life, with much prayer, true humility, and sacrifice, as Our Lady (of Fatima, Lourdes, ...) constantly and earnestly advises us!!! Here on earth, if we were to see heaven for an instant, we would immediately die of joy. If we were to see hell for an instant, we would immediately die of terror. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that all the suffering and pain in the world combined is not equal to the minimum purification in purgatory!!! God does not let us see heaven or hell here on earth to respect our free will; otherwise, we would have no choice but to do His holy Will. This is our great dignity on the level of the angels, and therefore our great responsibility before God, created in the image of God (Gen 1:26-27)!

IF A CATHOLIC STOP going to CONFESSION at least once a month, and stops praying the ROSARY every day, that Catholic will automatically lose faith in the EUCHARIST, and everything else! “The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life” (Vat. II: LG 11; CCC 1324). The Eucharist is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ!

IT IS OUR CHOICE, to sincerely seek the Truth according to our Creator, or to invent the truth according to our changing whims and blind arrogance! No one goes to heaven by chance and no one goes to hell by chance. It is our choice and God respects our choice because God is true love!!!

I said to a priest I know for over 30 years: “Father Stephen, you have always said to the people in your parishes what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear to get to heaven! I would not want to be in your shoes when your die!!!” This is perhaps the MOST COMMON AND GRAVE SIN of most priests, bishops and fathers of families today! When these, who are responsible for the religious and family communities, “are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark” (Is 56:10), they are not “good shepherds” but “hirelings” (Jn 10:11-13)!

This is exactly what Dolly Parton does along with a great number of so-called “Christians” who only offer to people HALF-TRUTHS, the easy part of the whole Truth! What a sly deception that so many are very happy to accept, the easy way!

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Mt 7:13-14).

So yes, Dolly was right in saying: "AND YOU SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE HOW YOU ARE AND WHO YOU ARE."

Out of true love, God respects our freedom, our choice, to chose LIFE in obedience to God or to chose eternal DEATH in our blind arrogance to decide right and wrong according to us little gods, as Satan, “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44) temps us to do!

Very few people today trust God and thus seek to discover God’s Truth and the criteria of salvation according to the Creator of all that exists. JUST ABOUT EVERYONE TODAY SAYS I’M OK and I will go to heaven. But when they die, God will say, yes you are OK according to you but not according to ME. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers’!” (Mt 7:21-23).

Today a great number of “Christians” REFUSE TO SUFFER DAILY WITH CHRIST, but are very willing to believe the great lie that heaven is automatic and hell does not exist!!!

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The Far Greater Danger Is Lukewarmness and Compromise – Bishop Fulton Sheen

 

The Far Greater Danger Is Lukewarmness and Compromise – Bishop Fulton Sheen

Venerable Fulton Sheen to be beatified in St. Louis on 24 September

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-03/fulton-sheen-to-be-beatified-in-st-louis-on-24-september.html

In the 20th century, VENERABLE ARCHBISHOP FULTON SHEEN BECAME A PROPHETIC VOICE FOR OUR TIMES. He spoke often about persecution, the trials the Church would face, and the coming of an antichrist spirit. But among his most striking warnings was this, that persecution alone is not the greatest threat to the Church. The far greater danger is lukewarmness and compromise.

Fulton Sheen declared, "THOSE WHO WILL NOT STAND FOR ANYTHING WILL FALL FOR EVERYTHING. The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. Persecution tests the faithful. It strengthens those who cling to Christ. But lukewarmness, the slow, the quiet erosion of zeal deadens the soul from within." Fulton Sheen warned, "The danger today is not persecution from without, but corruption from within. When the faith no longer inspires sacrifice, it dies."

The Archbishop foresaw a time when Christians would face a FALSE SENSE OF PEACE, when compromise would masquerade as tolerance, and when many would choose comfort over the cross. Fulton Sheen said, "The Antichrist will promise a Christianity without the cross, but it will be an empty shell, a counterfeit of the true faith."

Yet he never left us in fear. HE CALLED US TO COURAGE, TO CLARITY, TO LOVE WITHOUT COMPROMISE. He proclaimed, "The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. May we have the courage to stand with Christ even if the world stands against us. Persecution may wound the body, but lukewarmness kills the soul.

Blessed ignorance does not lead us to the God who is the Truth (Jn 14:6). Blessed ignorance does not lead to eternal life!

“So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven” (Mt 10:32-33). Since God is the Truth, we could rewrite this verse in this way: “So everyone who acknowledges the Truth before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies the Truth before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven”.

POPE JOHN PAUL II, WHEN ASKED, ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE HIS DEATH, FOR ONE VERSE IN THE BIBLE TO LEAVE THE PEOPLE OF GOD, HE RESPONDED WITHOUT HESITATION: “THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE” (JN 8:32). The Pope knew well that most people today, who are totally immersed in the atmosphere of relativism, do not want to take the risk of having to change their lives and suffer. “I decide”, the truth, good and evil, as our first parents of humanity decided (Gen 3,4-5). The modern philosophers, such as Decart and Kant, helped us to no longer seek the truth outside of our heads in creation and in divine revelation. “I think, therefore I am” (Decart)! “I am” is the name of God that God said to Moses (Ex 3:6)! As Pope Benedict tells us, a great number of people have willingly embraced relativism; each person becomes a god. The problem is that in the heaven that was created by the Creator of the entire universe, there is room for only one God, not two! The One true God is the Truth (Jn 14:6)! The Truth of God will set us free, whereas the truth of us creatures will make us slaves!

Fulton Sheen reminds us the greater danger is not suffering for Christ, but forgetting him. Today, the choice is set before us to live boldly in the Truth or to fade silently into compromise. MAY WE RISE WITH HEARTS ON FIRE, REFUSING TO BE LUKEWARM, so that when the world looks for light in the darkness, it finds Christ alive in us.

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Blessed Cardinal Newman said he felt fortunate to be living in the time when the enemies of the Church were on the outside looking in. The day would come when there would be enemies of the Church on the inside looking out. Today we talk about theological descent in the Church. Descent is a nice word for heresy, lies, all sorts of lies!

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The Church has always survived emperors, revolutions, and wars. WHAT WOUNDS MOST DEEPLY IS SUFFERING FROM WITHIN. Confusion, compromise, silence, betrayal. Decades ago, Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen warned in 1947 that this would happen. In his book "Communism and the Conscience of the West", Sheen wrote, "The mystical body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot." He was not speaking dramatically. He was speaking biblically. Just as Christ was betrayed by one of his own, so too would his Church experience betrayal from within her visible ranks. Not every crisis would come from enemies outside. Some would come from those who were supposed to guard the Truth.

A year later in 1948, during a radio address later published in the same work, Sheen gave a warning that now sounds almost prophetic. He said, "THERE WILL BE A COUNTERFEIT CHURCH, a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ." He described a religion without a cross, a Christianity emptied of sacrifice, a faith that keeps its language but loses its substance. It would look compassionate but avoid repentance. It would speak of peace but remain silent about sin. It would promise unity while quietly eroding truth.

SHEEN UNDERSTOOD THAT THE GREATEST DECEPTION WOULD NOT LOOK EVIL. In that same 1947 work, he wrote that the antichrist will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will come disguised as a great humanitarian. He will talk peace, prosperity, and plenty. He will tempt Christians with the same three temptations with which he tempted Christ. The danger would not be obvious rebellion. It would be subtle compromise, a softening of doctrine, a reshaping of morality, a church tempted to be accepted by the world instead of faithful to Christ. And yet, he never spoke with despair.

In 1974, during an appearance on the Mike Douglas show, Sheen said something that would shake every Catholic awake. "WHO IS GOING TO SAVE OUR CHURCH? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious". He was not attacking the hierarchy. He was reminding the faithful that in times of crisis, God raises up saints among the laity, with true virtue and humility. The renewal of the Church has always begun with ordinary believers who refuse to grow cold.

Sheen also said in 1972 that we are living in the "DAYS OF THE APOCALYPSE", not meaning the end of the world, but a time of unveiling, a time when what is hidden in hearts is being revealed. The Church, he explained in retreat talks near the end of his life, is going through her passion. She will follow her head just as Christ was mocked, betrayed, and crucified before the resurrection. So too, the Church must pass through suffering before renewal (CCC 675-677; Catechism of Catholic Church for adults (CCC; ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1V.HTM)

THIS IS WHERE LUKEWARM CATHOLICS MUST WAKE UP. The crisis inside the Church is not proof that Christ has abandoned her. It is proof that she is being purified. And purification is painful. It exposes weakness. It reveals corruption. It forces a choice. Will we conform to the spirit of the age or will we cling to the cross? Sheen's message was never to panic. It was never to leave the Church. It was never to rebel. It was to become holy. Because the Church does not ultimately belong to the bishops or theologians or movements. She belongs to Christ and Christ has already conquered death.

SHEEN BELIEVED DEEPLY THAT AFTER THE PASSION COMES THE RESURRECTION. The Church may endure a good Friday but Easter is not cancelled. Christ remains in the Eucharist. The sacraments still give grace. Truth does not expire because culture shifts. The real question is not whether the Church will survive. She will. Christ promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against her. The real question is whether we will be faithful during suffering? When Sheen said, "It's up to you the people," he was handing the responsibility to us to pray, to fast, to defend the faith, to demand holiness first from ourselves. Renewal does not begin in Rome. It begins in hearts.

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen is seen by many Catholics as someone who SHOULD BE RAISED TO THE ALTARS because of three main things. His heroic virtue, his extraordinary evangelization, and the lasting spiritual fruit of his life. Because he didn't just speak about Christ, he led millions to Him. In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI declared him Venerable, officially recognizing that he lived a life of heroic virtue. For over 60 years, he made a daily holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament. Drawing the strength for his preaching from prayer, NOT FROM POPULARITY. Through his television program, "Life is Worth Living", he brought the Catholic faith into millions of homes. Boldly preaching truth, repentance, and the reality of Christ in a world growing secular and confused. He warned of crisis within the Church, but he never preached despair, only purification and hope. For many Catholics, Fulton Sheen represents clarity without compromise, courage without bitterness, and holiness in the modern world. And that is why his voice still matters today.

Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen, pray for us.

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A Masonic plan to destroy the Church

"Religion does not fear the dagger’s point; but it can vanish under corruption. Let us not grow tired of corruption: we may use a pretext, such as sport, hygiene, health resorts. It is necessary to corrupt, that our boys and girls practice nudism in dress. To avoid too much reaction, one would have to progress in a methodical manner: first, undress up to the elbow; then up to the knees; then arms and legs completely uncovered; later, the upper part of the chest, the shoulders, etc. etc."

(International Review on Freemasonry, 1928)

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When God wants to punish humanity, He does not give to the Church the pope of which it needs, but leaves to the Church the pope that it merits – Msgr. Fulton Sheen

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Is it possible that the prophecy of St. Francis of Assisi is for our times, and that there was a coup d’etat at the conclave of 2013, with many Masonic cardinals already present in the Church?

SATAN WILL RECRUIT THE FALSE PROPHET FROM OUR CATHOLIC BISHOPS!

The Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, wrote in 1948:

“[Satan] will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and EMPTIED OF ITS DIVINE CONTENT.”

“We are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era. The two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for the catastrophic contest.”

“The False prophet will have A RELIGION WITHOUT A CROSS. A RELIGION WITHOUT A WORLD TO COME. A religion to destroy religions. There will be a counterfeit Church.”

“Christ’s Church the Catholic Church will be one; and the false Prophet will create the other.”

“THE FALSE CHURCH WILL BE WORLDLY, ECUMENICAL, AND GLOBAL. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association.”

“A world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content, it will be the mystical body of the anti-christ. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the false prophet. Satan will recruit him from our Bishops.”

“THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT BE SO CALLED; OTHERWISE HE WOULD HAVE NO FOLLOWERS. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a trident nor wave an arrowed tail as Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the Devil convince men that he does not exist. When no man recognizes, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as “I am Who am,” and the Devil as “I am who am not.”

“Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find warrant for the popular myth of the Devil as a buffoon who is dressed like the first “red.” Rather is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as “the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. HIS LOGIC IS SIMPLE: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. But above all these descriptions, OUR LORD TELLS US THAT HE WILL BE SO MUCH LIKE HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD DECEIVE EVEN THE ELECT – and certainly no devil ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers to his religion???”

(Communism and the Conscience of the West, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Bobbs-Merril Company, Indianapolis, 1948, pp. 24-25)

The “Prophecy of Saint Francis” (Assisi) tells us:

“2. The power of the demons will be greater than usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community and of others, will withered to the point that very few Christians will want to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with a sincere heart and perfect charity. At the decisive moment of this crisis, a personage not canonically elected, raised to the Pontificate, will endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his error.

7. Some preachers will keep silent about the truth and, denying the truth, they will trample upon the truth. The sanctity of life will be held in derision by those who only profess it outwardly, and for this reason Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy Pastor, but a destroyer.”

http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2013/11/prophecy-st-francis.html

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References:

Before He Died, Fulton J. Sheen Gave This CHILLING Warning to the Church!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAO5kQQt7-Q

Not Persecution… THIS Is What Bishop Sheen Feared Most!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz1qFUZFWdY