Dear Fellow Priests – Holy Christmas 2020
(This painting can be found in the Chapel of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Roma, Italy – the Angelicum, where I studied philosophy and theology from 1983 to 1989.)
The following email was sent to the more than 150 priests of the diocese of Perugia, Italy, on December 24, 2020.
Dear fellow priests,
With the corona virus, we see each other much less, and we talk among ourselves much less, unfortunately.
At least I want to wish you a Holy Christmas with Baby Jesus in the Eucharist in the arms of Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother. All the true saints passed as much time as possible in humble adoration, with the help of Mary, before this Baby, the “divine Prisoner in the Tabernacle”, as the saints tell us.
God gave to us priests a great vocation with the corresponding graces, and thus He gave us a great responsibility! In this battle over the eternal destinies of the immortal souls, in this “dour combat” (CCC 409), we priests are like the colonels in the divine army. We are called to be pastors who protect the sheep from the very astute wolf. If we spiritual colonels pray very little and do not study the strategies of the “father of lies” (Jn 8:44), disguised “as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14), how can we warn and help the souls entrusted to us to not fall into the hidden traps and the deadly poison of the beautiful lies presented as if they were the truth or a good thing?
Today it is very “politically correct”, even in the Church, to no longer speak about the greatest danger to souls, SIN, in the name of “love” and “mercy”, even though eternity is much more important than this short life!?! How many times during the Holy Mass we say the words: “Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world”? But if sin no longer exists, there is no more need of the Lamb of God, of a Savior!?! Considering 50 or 60 years ago, today there are very few who go to confession!
Jesus said that “the truth will make you free” (Jn 8:32). But Jesus was talking about the Truth of God, not of the world. We are living in a world more full of falsehoods than ever before - beautiful deadly lies from “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44), presented as if they were the truth, hidden destructive deceptions - such as the devil, hell and sin no longer exist!!! Why did Jesus refer to hell in the four Gospels about 70 times? Why did Our Lady of Fatima show the three children hell, and the many souls which go to hell every day, in July 1917? God does not send anyone to hell; many people do not want to spend eternity with God because they decide the truth for their lives, not God. In heaven there is room for only one God, not two! “The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God” (CCC 1035). The great majority of the pastors today “are all DUMB DOGS, they cannot bark” (Is 56:10; Pope St. Gregory the Great, Office of Readings, Sunday and Saturday, Week 27 of OT; Sermon of St. Augustine on the Shepherds, Office of Readings, Weeks 24-25, OT), and thus do not warn the sheep of the very sly wolf, Satan, and his very numerous collaborators! These poor pastors, who seek to please men who want a false Christianity without the cross of Christ, who seek glory before men (Jn 5:44; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18; Gal 1:10), offer misguided compassion and half truths (which are worse than lies!), especially to speak only about mercy without “GO AND SIN NO MORE” (Jn 8:11; 5:14)! Why are families today falling apart more than ever before? Why do we close our eyes to the true causes and to our great responsibility, as pastors, for this great tragedy and the great damage to the children deprived of a father and a mother? How many people, and in particular, how many pastors have embraced the easier way of “IGNORANCE IS BLISS”? Are we good shepherds, ready to lay down our lives for the sheep, and lose human esteem, in order to protect the sheep, or are we hirelings (Jn 10:11-13). Our Lady continually asks us to pray for priests and bishops!
There is less prayer and more sin than ever before, and thus it is we who have given great power to the “powers of evil”, and thus people believe the well prepared lies on the TV rather than the Truth of the Gospel explained by the Church. This is why we can be so easily manipulated by those who control the mass media. People who do NOT sincerely pray (to live: “THY will be done”, not “MY will be done”), do not believe that eternal heaven and eternal hell exist, and so only this short life is important, and thus people are very afraid to die from the man-made corona virus which is not worse than the normal flu. Where are the voices of the pastors to protect the sheep from this well organized manipulation toward the New World 0rder with the support of a 0ne World Religion slowly emptied of all Divine content in a sly hidden way?
Did God give us the Ten Commandments for our true good or for our harm? Do we trust ourselves or God? Do we believe that it is no longer possible to live the Ten Commandments and thus God made a mistake to give us these Commandments?!? Has human nature changed after 2000 years?
Does the truth come from God or from the Church? Is the Church the servant of the Truth or the Author of the Truth? If we believe that the Truth comes from God (or rather is the Truth (Jn 14:6)), then the Truth of Divine Revelation throughout time, explained infallibly by the Church for 2000 years with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, cannot change according to the whims of men in each period of the world!
The Truth comes from God, and not from the Church, and thus no priest, bishop or pope can change, even in a sly equivocal confusing way, the Truth of Divine Revelation which is well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC; ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM).
If I realize and believe that the Truth comes from God not from me, and I have a little virtue, especially humility, I should be willing to listen to someone who says to me that what I wrote or said was not in harmony with what God has revealed to us throughout human history (called Divine Revelation), while quoting documents of the Church. But if I believe or feel that the truth comes from me, I will not be willing to dialogue with anyone not in agreement with me, as have done all the dictators in the history of the world. By throwing out the precious laws of God, we quickly go toward “might makes right” as it is in hell!
Why is there no dialogue today with the cardinals, bishops, priests and lay people who tell us that we must remain faithful to the Truth of God revealed in all the centuries, the Truth that does not change with the world? If we believe to be so intelligent and enlightened today in the “modern Church”, to be able to finally interpret all of Divine Revelation in the right way, why are we so afraid to dialogue with those who clearly and simply explain to us certain profound and radical breaks with the Divine Revelation throughout time? “For everyone who does evil HATES THE LIGHT, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (Jn 3:19-21). The Light is Jesus, the Light is the Truth (Jn 14:6)!
In this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), “the Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection” (CCC 675-677). But “IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH!” - Our Lady of Fatima, Portugal, 1917. There will be fulfilled the Protoevangelium (Gen 3:15) – Saint Louis de Montfort!
God has chosen “the HANDMAID of the Lord” (Lk 1:38), Mary, His Immaculate Mother, to crush the PROUD head of the ancient serpent and his followers (Gen 3:15), and to be the General with “twelve stars” in this cosmic battle against the “great red dragon” (Rev 12:1-3)! Our Lady continually tells us to consecrate ourselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and LIVE this consecration of obedience and total trust in our heavenly Mother. “This is the moment for all to take refuge in me, because I am the Ark of the New Covenant. At the time of Noah, immediately before the flood, those whom the Lord had destined to survive his terrible chastisement entered into the ark. In these your times, I am inviting all my beloved children to enter into the Ark of the New Covenant which I have built in MY IMMACULATE HEART for you, that they may be assisted by me to carry the bloody burden of the great trial, which precedes the coming of the day of the Lord.” (“To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons”; http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/; July 30, 1986; March 15, 1993).
If you might like to use the Consecration formula to the Immaculate Heart of Mary used in the Marian Movement of Priests (MMP), visit: http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/2015/10/our-lady-priests-appendix.html.
SAINT PADRE PIO said: "It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the HOLY MASS." This saint also said: “The ROSARY is the weapon for these times”! A good confession (a Sacrament) is more powerful than an exorcism (a sacramental)!
Best wishes for a Holy Christmas with Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Give great joy to Baby Jesus for His birthday (not ours!) by spending time before Him in the Tabernacle with the Holy Rosary! Since this Baby loves each one of us immensely, He suffers immensely due to our lack of faith and our great indifference! As pastors, we must give a very important gift to Baby Jesus by protecting the precious immortals souls for which He came to die for! Baby Jesus died for me. I pray that I might be ready to do the same for Jesus, and for His mystical Body, the Church, if He offers me the gift of martyrdom in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21), of the “great apostasy” (2Thess 2:3-4) before the manifestation of the Antichrist, and of the “Abomination of desolation” for 1290 days (Mt 24:15; Dan 12:11; 9:27; 11:31)! With the help of humble adoration of our Eucharistic Baby Jesus , with Mary, I hope our eyes will be open enough to realize that what will happen in the year 2021 is not by chance but has been well programmed for many years for the world (Masonry) and for the Church (“the Sankt-Gallen group”; ecclesiastical Masonry).
Father Joseph Dwight
http://josephdwight.blogspot.com
https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/joseph-dwight-index/
