The
Final Confrontation – Pope John Paul II
Few
people realize or want to realize the gravity of the situation today;
we have let ourselves become attached to the things of this world or
to the glory before men instead of the eternal things of heaven. Few
people realize or want to realize that to ignore or to change the
laws of God, for our own priorities and convenience, will have,
later, greater consequences than an atomic bomb. It is much easier
and more gratifying to be “politically correct”. “Ignorance Is
Bliss!”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2016/06/ignorance-is-bliss.html).
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but
my words will not pass away” (Mk
31:31). “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the
prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For
truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota,
not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished” (Mt
5:17-18; 24,35).
On November 11,
2013, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,
the Apostolic Nuncio (Papal Ambassador) to the United States,
addressed the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at their
annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
Archbishop Viganò
quoted as “profoundly prophetic” remarks made by Blessed John
Paul II (then Cardinal Wojtyla) during the Eucharistic Congress on
Aug. 13, 1976 for the Bicentennial celebration of the signing of our
Declaration of Independence:
“We
are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation
humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of
the American Society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian
Community realize this fully. We are now facing the FINAL
CONFRONTATION between the Church and
the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between
Christ and the antichrist. The confrontation lies within the plans of
Divine Providence. It is, therefore, in God's Plan, and it must be a
trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously….”
(Cardinal Ivan Dias also quoted this at Lourdes, France, on December
13, 2007).
Archbishop Viganò
said that he viewed these words “as a
call to attentiveness, watchfulness and preparedness
for whatever proclaiming the Gospel may mean for us as successors of
the Apostles, who were called to give radical witness to their faith
in Jesus Christ.”
Pope
John Paul II said to a group of pilgrims in
Fulda, West Germany, in November 1980, speaking about the secrets of
Fatima, that: “We have to be prepared to suffer, before long, great
trials which will require of us the disposition to sacrifice even our
life for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is still possible
to diminish this trial (predicted at Fatima), but it is no longer
possible to avert it, because only in
this manner can the Church be effectively renewed. How many times
has the renewal of the Church been brought about in blood!
It will not be different this time.”
(http://www.fatima.org/thirdsecret/fulda.asp).
We
remember the dramatic words pronounced
by Pope Paul VI on June 29 1972, after
the Second Vatican Council, denouncing that “By
some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God…
One no longer trusts the Church; so many trust in the first profane
prophet, who speaks to us in a magazine or in some social slogans, in
order to run after him and ask him if he has the formula of true
life. And we do not realize instead that we have already become lords
and teachers. Doubt has entered our consciences, and it has entered
through the windows which were meant to have been opened to the
light. This state of uncertainty reigns even in the Church. It was
hoped that after the Council there would be a day of sunlight in the
history of the Church. Instead, there came a day of clouds, of
darkness, of groping, of uncertainty…”
(http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/homilies/1972/documents/hf_p-vi_hom_19720629_it.html).
A
few months before Pope Paul VI died, on
September 8, 1977, he confirmed this grave judgment in a conversation
with Jean Guitton. Here are the words of Paul VI recounted by the
French philosopher:
"There
is a great disturbance at this moment in the world and in the Church,
and what is in question is the faith. It happens now that I find
myself repeating the obscure saying of Jesus in the Gospel of Saint
Luke: 'When the Son of man returns, will he find faith on the earth?'
It happens that books are published in which important points of the
faith are undermined, that the bishops are silent, that these books
are not found to be strange. This, according to me, is strange. I
read again every once in a while the Gospel of the end times and I
realize that in this moment there is emerging some signs of the end
times. Are we near the end? This we will never know. It is necessary
to always be ready, but everything can still last quite a while. What
strikes me, when I consider the Catholic world, is that a
non-Catholic type of thought seems to predominate
sometimes within Catholicism, and this non-Catholic thought might
become the stronger one within Catholicism in the future. But
it will never represent the thought of the Church.
A small flock must remain, however small it may be."
(http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/23572?).
There
is less prayer than ever before, more
sin than ever before, even worse, indifference as if sin no longer
exists, and so we have given much greater power to “the father of
lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44). In particular Satan has more power to
“disguise himself as an angel of
light” (2Cor 11:14), to offer his
very deadly beautiful lies as if they were the “truth that sets us
free” (Jn 8:32)!
Thus
it is very important in these times of
great confusion, when even Catholic
bishops are no longer in agreement about the fundamentals of our
faith and morals, to not only pray much and to study the Catechism of
the Catholic Church for adults, but to
keep our eyes open so as not to fall into the beautiful lies of Satan
presented as if they were the Truth!
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Joseph Dwight with Pope John Paul II in Saint Peter’s Basilica
after the
Liturgy of Good Friday of 1987.
