MERRY CHRISTMAS DEAR FELLOW PASTOR 2024
The following was sent to more than 150 priests and religious in the diocese of Perugia, Italy.
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Dear fellow Pastor of the precious souls of God,
I want to wish you a Holy Christmas!
As pastors, we have a great responsibility before God and before the immortal souls entrusted to us! The good pastor is ready to lay down his life for the sheep like Jesus (Jn 10:11). It seems to me that this “lay down his life” today means to OFFER THE TRUTH OF GOD, which truly makes us free (Jn 8:32) in a world that does not want to hear the Truth of God which does not change with the world!
The Truth comes from the Creator, not from the creatures, and thus not even from the Church. THE CHURCH IS THE SERVANT OF THE TRUTH, not the Author of the Truth (Jn 14:6). The Church must protect and defend the precious gift of the Truth, not change the truth in a hidden sly way to please the world. Thus no priest, bishop or pope can change the Truth of Divine Revelation given by God during the history of humanity, infallibly explained in the documents of the Catholic Church, and well 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).
We are living in a world more full of falsehoods than ever before - beautiful deadly lies from “the father of lies”, Satan (Jn 8:44), presented as if they were the truth, hidden destructive deceptions - such as the devil, hell and sin no longer exist!!! The great majority of the pastors today “are all DUMB DOGS, they cannot bark” (Is 56:10) as Pope St. Gregory the Great tells us in the Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT). And thus a great number of pastors do not warn the sheep of the powerful and hidden traps of the very sly wolf, Satan, and also of his very numerous collaborators! These poor pastors, who seek to please men instead of God (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 love and mercy without “GO AND SIN NO MORE” (Jn 8:11; 5:14)! They are not “good pastors” but “hirelings” that abandon the sheep and run when the wolf comes (Jn 10:11-13). Did God give us the Ten Commandments for our good or for our harm? Do we trust God or ourselves?
In the Sacred Scriptures, in particular in the letters of Saint Paul, we read often the WARNING TO PASTORS TO PROTECT THE SOULS FROM ERRONEOUS DOCTRINES that cause great damage among souls and in the Christian communities. For example, Catholics knew well for 2000 years, from the Sacred Scriptures and from the Teachings of the Church, that it is a grave mortal sin to have sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman. Where are the true pastors that explain that the Truth of God does not change, even today in the modern world?!? After death, what will Jesus say to these “hireling” pastors who remained SILENT instead of protecting the precious souls entrusted to them=
St. Thomas Aquinas quoting from St. Augustine, in his commentary on the right of subjects to resist flaky superiors, recalled that in St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, St. Paul rebuked the first pope, St. Peter, “to his face because he clearly was wrong” (Gal 2:11-14). There being an imminent danger for the Faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects. Thus, St. Paul, who was a subject of St. Peter, questioned him publicly on account of an imminent danger of scandal in a matter of Faith. And, as the Glossa of St. Augustine puts it (Ad Galatas 2.14), “St. Peter himself gave the example to those who govern so that if sometimes they stray from the right way, they will not reject a correction as unworthy even if it comes from their subjects.” (Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae, Q. 33, A. 4).
Dear fellow pastors, WE MUST NOT BELIEVE THE BEAUTIFUL LIES TODAY THAT HEAVEN IS AUTOMATIC AND HELL DOES NOT EXIST! Talking about the great responsibility of priests and bishops: Saints John Chrysostom, John Eudes and Athanasius said that the road (or the floor of hell) to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path! We are the generation (Mt 24:34) of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21) of which Jesus spoke about, when “if possible, even the elect” (Mt 24:24) will be led astray. We are the generation of the great apostasy of which Saint Paul wrote about in 2 Thess ch. 2 before the manifestation of the Antichrist, when the Body of Christ, the Church, will pass through the passion and crucifixion, as did Jesus 2000 years ago (CCC 675-677)!
HOW MANY PRIESTS AND BISHOPS TODAY, for the true good of their flock, have the courage to imitate the saints and the prophets and say as Saint John the Baptist, the “greatest born of women” (Mt 11:11), who said to king Herod: “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife” (Mk 6:18)? John the Baptist said that Jesus “must increase, but I must decrease” (Jn 3:30). A great number of priests today want to increase before people and thus are not transparent so as to lead people to Christ, the Truth (Jn 14:6), but rather to themselves! They seek followers for themselves instead of following Jesus to Calvary! So many religious leaders and parents seek to please the people without distinguishing and determining if it is a sin or not, if it truly does good to the person or not, today and tomorrow and for eternity! This is false and destructive love; this is misguided compassion! Few religious leaders today have the courage of the first Pope, Peter, the day of the birth of the Church, Pentecost, to say: “You have crucified Jesus” (Acts 4:10), “the author of life” (Acts 3:15), with your grave, mortal sins!
IF A CATHOLIC STOPS going to CONFESSION at least once a month, and stops praying the ROSARY every day, this Catholic will automatically lose the faith in the Most Holy EUCHARIST, and everything else! The Eucharist is the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ!
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 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!
May I wish you a holy and blessed Christmas. I would like to offer you a simple but profound meditation about the birth of our Savior from the messages of Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi, on December 24, 1974.
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“To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons”
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December 24, 1974
The Holy Night
Moments of Anxiety
a "Spend these hours of vigil with me, my son. Forget everything else, and do not let yourself be taken up with anything else...
b Relive with me these moments of anxiety and painful apprehension when my spouse received a refusal at each request he
c made for hospitality for this night - pain and apprehension not for ourselves, but for my Son Jesus who was about to be born. Every refusal given to us was a refusal given to Him.
d Many times during the day He had, so to speak, knocked at the door of my Heart. The time had come for his birth, and I, the Virgin, was now, as a Mother, to give Him to all humanity.
e But humanity had no place to receive Him. Every door which closed opened a new wound in my Heart which opened itself more and more to beget in love and pain - in this pain my Son Jesus.
f And thus there was no welcome for Him but the poverty of a cave and the warmth of an ox and the young donkey which had carried us throughout the day.
g Relive with me these hours of vigil, my son, that you may understand that it is your poverty alone that has drawn down upon you the predilection of my Son Jesus who has given you the gift of being a priest especially beloved of my Immaculate Heart.
h Your poverty which makes you only and always such a little child; your total poverty: of goods, of attachments, of ideas, of affections. To be poor means precisely to possess this nothingness. It is this nothingness which attracts God's pleasure and which is alone capable of receiving it.
i Priests whom I cherish, you must all be poor in this way. This is why I ask you to be as little children.
j Then I will always be able to lead you by the hand, and you will let yourselves be led with docility. You will listen only to my voice, because you will not be filled with other voices and other ideas.
k And the voice and the ideas which I will communicate to you will be those of my Son. How clear then for you will all the Gospel be! The Gospel of my Son will be your only light, and you, in a Church filled with darkness, will give the full light of the Gospel.
l You will not be rich in other affections. Your only affection will be mine, that of your Mother. And I, as your Mother, will bring you to love my Son Jesus with a total love. I will lead you to such a degree of love that you will not be able to live without Him. I will make love for Him your very life, and He will truly be able to live again in you!
m My beloved sons, this is why I need your poverty, your humility, your docility.
n Do not be afraid if the world does not understand you and does not accept you; there is always the Heart of the Mother which will be your home and your refuge."
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A very good help in this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21) when the Body of Christ, the Church, and will be crucified (CCC 675-677), and of the great apostasy before the manifestation of the Antichrist (2Thess 2:3), is: “To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons”.
Almost twenty Cardinals and more than 150 Bishops, more than 50,000 priests and religious, have followed the Marian Movement of Priests (MMP), receiving by way of the book which contains the messages, precious teaching from the Mother of God, in this devastating attack of the ecclesiastical Masonry on the sound doctrine of the Church and the Sacraments, especially the Most Holy Eucharist.
Many cardinals and bishops have given their Imprimatur to this book. You will find in these messages of Our Lady revealed through Don Stefano Gobbi a resemblance to the writings of Saint Louis de Montfort, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and to the messages of Our Lady of Fatima, with the sweetness that only the Mother of God, and the Mother of each of us, could communicate to those open to the caresses of Our Lady!
I would highly recommend that you read slowly one meditation from this Blue Book each day so as to let Our Heavenly Mother form and prepare you for this period of the purification of the Church and of the World.
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In about a week I hope to publish an article which might offer an idea of what we might see in the year 2025! The title of the article will probably be:
GREAT SURPRISES WELL PLANNED FOR 2025
(The accelerated destruction of the Catholic Church and the manifestation of the Antichrist!)
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My Journey To God In A Very Secularized World – INDEX
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It is not by chance that Jesus came into the world in extreme poverty and died on the cross. Jesus wants to know if we love only Jesus Risen, or if we truly love Jesus in poverty and in suffering!!!
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 with your family before Him in the Tabernacle with the Holy Rosary! Baby Jesus died for me; I pray to be ready to do the same!
BUON NATALE!
Father Joseph Dwight
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(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.)
