Letter To Sister

The following letter was sent to “my Sister”.

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Dear “my Sister”,

Thank you very much for putting on the web the pictures of the family last November. I finally got around to downloading them. It took a while because there were over 500 pictures!

On our last phone call for your birthday, I told you that I do not heat my apartment next to the church in the winter so as to give my savings to Jesus who is dying of hunger in Brazil and Africa. Did you know that 100,000 die every day of hunger? 20,000 of them are children. Jesus does not exaggerate! Read chapter 25:31-46 of the Gospel of Matthew; this represents the FINAL EXAM for each of us, not just for Saint Francis or Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta or some other “saint”. Blessed Mother Teresa’s motto was: “You did it to Me”, “the least of these my brethren” (Mt 25:40). The Gospels are for everyone. THIS LIFE IS EXTREMELY SHORT COMPARED TO ETERNITY!

Many Catholics and Christians today say that a God who is love would not send anyone to hell, if they still believe that such a place exists. Recently there was a study done in which it was discovered that ONLY HALF OF THE PEOPLE WHO GO TO CHURCH REGULARLY BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A PERSONAL RESURRECTION AFTER DEATH. The old saying goes: If you do not live as you believe, you end up believing as you live.

POPE BENEDICT HAS INDICATED MANY TIMES THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST TRAPS OF THE DEVIL TODAY IS RELATIVISM. Everyone makes up their own rules (the truth with a small “t”) as if they were God without seeking to discover the rules according the Creator of the entire universe who sent only His Son Jesus and Who left us a Church with the Pope until the end of time so that those of good will and with humility could find the truth which leads to eternal life.

WHO DECIDES WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG, GOOD AND EVIL, TRUTH AND REALITY? One has to work hard every day to stamp out the imprint of the Creator in his heart and to reject the many inspirations and graces from God in order to convince himself that God does not exist! Thus when such a person dies, even if he says he does not believe in God, it will be revealed to him in an instant his whole life, including how hard he worked to deny and run from the truth stamped in his heart; this will be his judgment for all eternity! Whether one likes it or not, or believes it or not, man is made in the image of God (Gen 1:26-27). NO ONE GOES TO HELL OR TO HEAVEN FOR ALL ETERNITY BY CHANCE! God, because He is Love, will always respect our great gift of our free will and thus will never force anyone to spend eternity with Him in heaven or eternity without Him in hell! “God created you without you, but He will not save you without you” (St. Augustine). The puppets of Satan, the proud modern philosophers, would make us to believe that each person becomes a god so we, by ourselves, decide what is reality and what is truth! The so-called “Age of Reason” actually turned reason on its head. There is very little enlightenment found in the “Period of the Enlightenment”! Secular humanism is bankrupt! For a believer in God-Love, René Descartes’ famous supposition “I think therefore I am” should read “I LOVE THEREFORE I AM”!

But MOST PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO TAKE THE RISK OF HAVING TO CHANGE THEIR LIFE AND SUFFER, so they remain in their convenient relativism. Most people have swallowed the absurdity of many modern philosophers that if I decide that hell or the devil do not exist, then they do not exist! Even though there is one God, one Jesus Christ, and one Bible, Jesus knew there would be tremendous confusion about the Truth and the true path to heaven after He ascended to Heaven, so He left us his Church with the Pope as the head for those who have the humility to listen and conform their lives to the teachings of His Church on earth with His Vicar as the head. There are thousands of independent protestant groups which interpret the one Bible in their own way, often in contradictory ways. Christ promised to Peter and to all of his successors: “You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail” (Mt 16:18). This promise was made only to Peter and his successors, not to the bishops or priests. Most of the bishops were against the Pope in the forth century during the Arian heresy. Most bishops, priests and laymen and laywomen were against Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae; we see now the disastrous results of ignoring or rebelling against the Vicar of Christ. (Visit: “Prophecies of Humanae Vitae”; http://pop.org/201003231196/prophecies-of-humanae-vitae).

“How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking… The small boat of thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves – thrown from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism, and so forth. Every day new sects are created and what Saint Paul says about human trickery comes true, with cunning which tries to draw those into error (cf. Eph 4,14). Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas, RELATIVISM, WHICH IS LETTING ONESELF BE TOSSED AND “SWEPT ALONG BY EVERY WIND OF TEACHING”, LOOKS LIKE THE ONLY ATTITUDE ACCEPTABLE TO TODAY’S STANDARDS. WE ARE MOVING TOWARDS A DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM WHICH DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANYTHING AS FOR CERTAIN AND WHICH HAS AS ITS HIGHEST GOAL ONE’S OWN EGO AND ONE’S OWN DESIRES.” (Then Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), Homily for the Pro Eligendo Summo Pontifice Mass, 18 April 2005. ; http://endtimeslion.com/?p=188).

Pope John Paul II (among many other occasions) spoke firmly against this “PICK AND CHOOSE SMORGASBORG TYPE CATHOLICISM” in LA in his September 1987 visit: “It is sometimes reported that a large number of Catholics today do not adhere to the teaching of the Church on a number of questions, notably sexual and conjugal morality, divorce and remarriage. Some are reported as not accepting the Church’s clear position on abortion. It has also been noted that there is a tendency on the part of some Catholics to be selective in their adherence to the Church’s moral teachings. It is sometimes claimed that dissent from the Magisterium is totally compatible with being a "good Catholic" and poses no obstacle to the reception of the sacraments. This is a grave error that challenges the teaching office of the bishops of the United States and elsewhere. I wish to encourage you in the love of Christ to address this situation courageously in your pastoral ministry, relying on the power of God’s truth to attract assent and on the grace of the Holy Spirit which is given both to those who proclaim the message and to those to whom it is addressed.” (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/1987/september/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19870916_vescovi-stati-uniti_en.html).

So many Christians today convince themselves that they are good and holy because they live 7 or 8 of the 10 commandments so as to feel they are saved or good, or live the commandments ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN CONVENIENT CRITERIA without seeking to discover how the One Who loves them immensely intended His commandments to be lived for their own true good. How many of us TRUST OURSELVES AND GIVE LIP-SERVICE TO THE GOD WHO WE SAY IS LOVE. Today, most Catholics want a CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT THE CROSS AND WITHOUT HUMILITY, in particular, before the Most Blessed Sacrament, and before the inconvenient teachings of the Church approved by the Pope. “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 18:3).

SINCE SO FEW PEOPLE PRAY TODAY, the forces of evil have taken control of the motors of the culture (mass media, schools, religious institutions, the governments) to manipulate our minds anyway they decide. We are drunk in our egoism; thus having swallowed the lies over the years that we have been bombarded with, we have become totally blind to our real personal situation and the situation of the society and world around us. By now after years of patient preparation of destroying the moral fiber of the American people, these people, who feel they are so much more intelligent than us expendable and dim-witted creatures, can manipulate us and play with us anyway they want to, like a bird that plays with a wounded bird meant to fly high in the sky. This acquired power and money of the militant secularists, nihilists, and relativists in key positions of power and influence is recycled into accelerating their diabolical agenda even more; we are quickly approaching a spiritual, cultural and thus a social and economic avalanche. It is amazing that these powerful people, so close to their hidden leader, Satan (the ones higher up in the Freemasons regularly adore Satan!), and who claim there is no God, know better than the great majority of Catholics the source of our great strength. These poor puppets of Satan have succeeded in destroying the faith and reverence of the great majority of Catholics before our greatest source of strength, the Eucharist; when they take full control of the societies and nations of the world, the celebration of the Holy Mass will be totally outlawed as past dictatorships have done in the past.

How many people in groups such as the “Tea Party” put so much energy and time into problems regarding their pocketbook but do not see that the coming economic crash is a result of not resisting the undermining and onslaughts of the godless world leaders in the past few decades to destroy the moral fabric of our society. The first priority of our new world dictators is not to bring the USA totally under the New World Order but to promote the “culture of death”; the rest follows as a natural consequence. These proud and shrewd world manipulators pretend to serve the people but are manipulating and forcing their hidden agenda “by stealth”, by going forward three steps and then one or two steps back incrementally. We were promised at the time of the manipulated passage of the healthcare bill that there would be protection of conscience; now we see we were deceived. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS FLED ENGLAND TO BE ABLE TO WORSHIP FREELY without government harassment or persecution; the US government is already more pervasive into our lives and into our religious liberties than the English government was several centuries ago.

“YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44). After these puppets of Satan succeed in taking full power, they will no longer have to take one or two steps back! “For the sons of this world are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light” (Lk 16:8). Most people today are content to swallow the well thought out rhetoric and nice words of our leaders and mass media instead of remembering the admonition of our Savior: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS” (Mt 7:15-16). Planned Parenthood (the world’s largest abortion provider), supported by the manipulation of millions of American tax dollars, is waging a battle of epic proportions, with the most advance marketing techniques, to overturn the antiabortion laws in the Philippines (RealCatholicTV.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EI0vNdV4FA).

THE GREAT MAJORITY OF CATHOLICS DO NOT EVEN HAVE ONE HOUR A WEEK TO THANK THEIR LORD IN THE EUCHARIST (after a good, sincere confession with a well-formed conscience), Who gave them everything they have! These ruthless “angels of light” (2Cor 11:14), who declare that there is no God, realize that our greatest source of strength to defend ourselves from their onslaughts is the Eucharist! They even steal Consecrated Hosts to desecrate the Body of Christ in their Black Masses! And they call themselves atheists! Satan knows all to well that God exists!

WE CATHOLICS, WHO WERE GIVEN MORE GRACES (“talents” (Mt 25:14-30)), ARE FAR MORE RESPONSIBLE for having given the militant secularists, nihilists, and relativists, these anti-God slaves of sin and pride, the power and control that they enjoy today. If we would have persevered in daily prayer and living the Gospel and the 10 Commandments according to God’s revelation and not according to our convenient and hidden egotistical standards, many of these poor anti-God slaves of sin and pride would not have fallen into Satan’s subtle but very powerful traps, or at least would not have the incredible power and influence that they have today. As an example of this sophisticated brainwashing and POWERFUL MANIPULATION OF THE PUBLIC WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PUBLIC, you might check out the book “After the Ball” (1989). The authors, Kirk and Madsen, tell us straight out the bottom line of their master plan: "The campaign we outline in this book, though complex, depends centrally upon a program of unabashed propaganda, firmly grounded in long-established principles of psychology and advertising." (http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=32898). Kirk and Madsen's "war goal," explains marketing expert Paul E. Rondeau of Regent University, was to "force acceptance of homosexual culture into the mainstream, to silence opposition, and ultimately to convert American society." Visit: “Selling Homosexuality To America”, by Paul E. Rondeau, at http://theshepherdsvoice.org/politics/selling_homosexuality_to_america.pdf. Visit also: “Political Correctness: How They Market Homosexuality”; (http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=7368).

Pope John Paul II was asked a few years before his death if he could give just one scripture quote for the people of God. He responded without hesitation: “THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE” (Jn 8:32)! It is not at all easy to persevere everyday in seeking the truth when we are surrounded by so many people who follow only the easy momentary fad and are manipulated and greatly pressured to be “politically correct”. THIS GREAT DANGER IS ESPECIALLY AUGMENTED and gone unrecognized when the ones who we should be able to trust - such as those who have been given by God a special vocation and grace to recognize the deceits of Satan (with fatigue and diligence) so as to lead and warn those people under their care of the numerous and subtle and powerful ensnarements of Satan today - do not correspond to their calling and inspirations from God: the BISHOPS AND PRIESTS.

Satan has laid more subtle and powerful traps today than ever before. Those who seek the truth and express their findings openly are more and more ridiculed and pushed and maneuvered, in the most sophisticated ways, out of the public square. Soon the true Truth seekers, and above all those who truly live the Truth, will be eliminated all together so as to create a utopia on earth with “total” freedom completely detached and separated from the Truth (big “T”)! “Wiki Answers” responds to the question: WHY IS THE DEVIL CALLED THE FATHER OF LIES? Because he functions on deception. He has to deceive people from the Truth in order to get them on his side. The devil is an angel that turned from God. Jesus came into the world to shine a light in the darkness and expose the devil for what he is - a liar. All lies come from the devil. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_the_devil_called_the_father_of_lies). These liberals offer beautiful words like “Freedom of Choice (Act)”, “Pro Choice”, “The Common Good”, “Social Justice”, “Women’s reproductive rights!” which is one of their code words for contraception and abortion, but in reality these things greatly hurts women and all of society. But is not behind these slogans of “freedom” and “rights” A GREAT, DECEPTIVE LIE? The devil is “a liar and the father of lies” (Jn 8:44)! Only the Creator offers true and lasting freedom (Jn 8:32) which is always accompanied by suffering with Christ crucified! “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed” (Jn 8:36). These lies, under the guise of appealing slogans and promises of eliminating suffering, lead to the most horrible slavery not only here on earth but for all eternity!

Our grandparents of our traditional “old time religion” remembered the words of Jesus Christ: “Truly, I say to you, it shall be MORE TOLERABLE on the day of judgment for the land of SODOM AND GOMORRAH than for that town” (Mt 10:15). If this is the promise of Christ for one town, what will happen when homosexual acts and homosexual lifestyle are promoted, protected and encouraged by the law in the WHOLE WORLD?!? Christians, as their Savior Jesus Christ, love the sinner and those with homosexual tendencies, but hate the sin, the act of homosexuality. Of course Gay activists do not make this distinction and thus accuse Christians of hating homosexually oriented people. Gay activists have willing destroyed the consciousness of what sin is according to the one true God, Who imprinted His law into nature itself; thus how can they possibly make or understand this vital and fundamental distinction?

HUMAN RIGHTS COME FROM GOD! The quickly developing socialistic dictatorial state is telling us that our rights come from the State and therefore the State can take away these rights when the State decides to do so. We have allowed the State to legally kill a whole category of unwanted human beings in the womb of their mothers, a true genocide! Tomorrow the State will change the category of unwanted human beings and we will be killed for whatever reason the State decides. Read “First They Came” (the Nazis) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...). The Gospel tells us that the strong must help the weak: “You did it to Me!” (Mt 25:40). But today we are moving quickly toward a relativistic culture which leads to a “religion” of the strong taking advantage of and eliminating the weak.

THE U.S. BECAME THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BECAUSE our founding fathers did their best to write a constitution to protect people from a future bad government. “POWER CORRUPTS; ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY!” Our founding fathers, from experience, knew that history shows that the greatest thief and tyrant in the end is the government which has no authority above it and which no longer responds to the desires of the people. Thus these founders tried their best to write a constitution with checks and balances so that each of the three branches of the government would help to check the human tendency to accrue power and control over the other two branches. Upon his farewell address to the nation, GEORGE WASHINGTON tried to impress upon his fellow countrymen that it was “RELIGION AND MORALITY” that served as the foundation for our young nation. Without the foundation of Religion and Morality that George Washington and the other founding fathers provided for us, there is simply no real hope for the future of the United States of America.

If the majority of the citizens THROW OUT ABSOLUTE NORMS AND TRUTH FROM GOD and take the easy and egotistical way of relativism, why should the citizens be upset when the elected government officials and the appointed judges do the same? When we begin to understand what is going on here, we can see more clearly that positivism and relativism leads precisely to what Pope Benedict called the “tyranny of relativism” or the dictatorship of relativism. Having thrown out the inconvenient absolute Truth from God, which is always united to self sacrifice for others, we are heading quickly to “MIGHT MAKES RIGHT”, since we have taken the easy egotistical and prideful way of living and legislating. WE ARE GOING MORE AND MORE TOWARD STANDING TRUTH ON ITS HEAD AND EXALTING UNTRUTH! If we do not seek and do the will of God, we will end up doing the will of Satan in the many forms of egoism.

Whether we believe it or not, this short life is only to give each of us the opportunity to choose where we will spend eternity, in heaven with the absolute Truth, or in Hell, with the father of lies and all the relativists who fooled themselves and accepted and embraced the lie of believing that they are the absolute Truth. WE TRULY ARE ALREADY UNDER A DICTATORSHIP. Who is spending tremendous amounts of money to spray, without the knowledge or consent of the people below, all the populated areas of the earth with the “chemtrails”, and for what reason? It is only a matter of time that we will experience the horrific consequences of what we all have contributed to by our sins and lack of prayer. What would Hitler have done if he had the technology and surveillance systems that are available today?

Jesus tells us: "ENTER BY THE NARROW GATE; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (Mt 7:13). SAINT FAUSTINA wrote in her diary (no. 153): “One day, I SAW TWO ROADS. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And their number was so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings.”

The devil wants us to be “full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures” SO THAT WE MIGHT NOT WAKE UP TO THE REAL STATE OF OUR SOULS, otherwise he might lose many souls before they die. The philosophy of life for most people today has become: “IGNORANCE IS BLISS!”; bliss today, but tomorrow, and after death?!? After death, our choice is confirmed eternally by God, just as it was for the angels who made their choice in one instant immediately after their creation. “Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they were defeated and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him” (Ap 12:7-9). The word “Michael” means: Who is like God? The dragon, who became Satan, continues to tempt us with the same sin that caused him to fall. “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; ORIGINAL SIN).

I regularly bring HOLY COMMUNION TO THE SICK AND THE ELDERLY who are not able to arrive to the Church for Sunday Mass. There was one lady, Rita, about 80 years old, that I was not sure if she wanted to receive Holy Communion since 3 or 4 years ago when her health was better, she often did not come to Mass in the Church where I celebrated which was only 10 yards from her house. Two weeks ago when I came to visit her and her husband Roberto, she asked me, in a very decided way, if she could receive Holy Communion. She made a good confession, received Holy Communion, and expressed her gratitude to me in a very heartfelt way. She then asked me if it might be possible that Roberto might make his confession. I told her that would be fine but I do not think he is willing to confess his sins at least according to the teachings of the Church, but rather according to his own personal criteria, which would render the confession invalid and even a sacrilege. Roberto never went to Sunday Mass except perhaps on Christmas. He was not willing to confess these sins even though the maid from Romania, a woman of faith, pleaded with him. I told her that the sacrament of confession is not magic. Pardon for sins is not automatic because God, due to His authentic love, totally respects our choice. If we freely choose to not make this act of humility to confess our sins to an instrument of God, a validly ordained priest, our sins with imperfect contrition (who can be sure of having perfect contrition?) are not forgiven. When she could not understand the great stubbornness of Roberto, who undergoes dialysis three times a week, I reminded her of the saying: “AS YOU LIVE SO SHALL YOU DIE.” The maid told me that Roberto had begun to complain in the last few months of seeing devils during the night, but even so, he refused to confess his sins. Even though Rita’s health was much better than that of her husband, Rita died a week later a holy death.

What the world does not tell us, as well as so many leaders in the Church due to human respect, is that true love means respecting our great dignity, being created in the image of God (Gen 1:26-27) and thus RESPECTING OUR CHOICE, OUR FREE WILL. The TV communicates to us in all kinds of subliminal and even blunt ways that our dignity is at the level of our dog which freely has sex in the middle of the road. If I choose freely to not try to live the 10 commandments with God’s help (prayer) according to God’s criteria (not the world’s or my own comfortable and conveniently formed conscience) during my whole life, when I die, for love, due to my great God-given dignity, God confirms my choice and I go to the place where the One and only God is totally absent. If God showed us even a tiny instant of heaven or a tiny glimpse of hell, we would no longer be free to say NO to God. Love means respecting this primordial gift of our great dignity (Ps 8:5), and thus respecting our freedom which is also accompanied with a tremendous responsibility for ourselves and for those over whom we have been given responsibility as parents, priests, bishops, civil authorities, etc. Here on earth we are surrounded by God, even those who do not want the Truth (big “T”). But if a person rejects the Truth all his life, when he dies, he discovers that the Truth is God. The greatest pain in hell is the total absence of God which is a pain far worse than all the fires put together. The greatest joy in heaven is to see God face to face! “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1Cor 2:9)!

Pope John Paul II said two years before he was elected Pope: “We are now standing in the face of the GREATEST HISTORICAL CONFRONTATION humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the FINAL CONFRONTATION between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.” (Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, "Notable & Quotable," "Wall Street Journal" (Nov. 9, 1978); http://www.ewtn.com/library/scriptur/flfire.txt). This message was repeated by Cardinal Ivan Dias at Lourdes on December 13, 2007. These strong words of Blessed Pope John Paul II, “final confrontation”, indicate clearly that we are the “generation” in which Jesus referred to in Matthew 24. “For then there will be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be” (Mt 24:21). The more we pray and offer our sacrifices to God, as our Lady of Fatima asked us to do, the less the forces of evil can take control of the motors of the culture to lead us away from God and toward temporal and eternal destruction. We so easily and so willingly forget that life is a battle, a “DOUR COMBAT with the powers of evil” (CCC 409)!

TO FIGHT IN A BATTLE, is it not prudent and necessary to know not only your own weapons, tactics and strategy, but also the weapons, tactics and strategy of the enemy? It was recounted to Pope John Paul II that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, “knows too many bishops who do not believe in the Devil”. The Pope replied bluntly: “ANYONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE DEVIL DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL”. When Amorth was asked “What do you see as Satan’s greatest success?”, he replied: “The fact that he has managed to convince people that he does not exist. He has almost managed it, even within the Church. We have a clergy and an Episcopate who no longer believe in the Devil, in exorcism, in the exceptional evil the Devil can instill, or even in the power that Jesus bestowed to cast out demons. … And they no longer believe in the Devil. We have entire Episcopates trying to counter exorcism. We have countries completely devoid of exorcists, such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. This is a shameful shortfall.”; (http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879). We go on the spiritual battlefield with a bow and arrow and the enemy has a machine gun or a canon, because so MANY GENERALS (THE BISHOPS) AND CAPTAINS (THE PRIESTS) TELL US TODAY THAT THE ENEMY DOES NOT EVEN EXIST!

Precisely because we priests and bishops are far more WORRIED ABOUT HUMAN RESPECT than what God wants, at Fatima the three children were shown the horrible sufferings in hell of the eternally damned and the thousands who fall into hell everyday likes sparks into a huge flaming fire.

POPE PAUL VI STATED: “We have the impression that through some cracks in the wall the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” “Apostasy, the loss of the faith, is spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within the Church.” As with his encyclical Humanae Vitae, his teaching was ignored as well as ridiculed (http://endtimeslion.com/?p=203).

SIXTY YEARS AGO it was even against the civil law in the USA and in most countries of Europe to buy or sell artificial birth control because the civil governments wanted to protect the common good, knowing that artificial birth control greatly harms the relationship between a husband and a wife and thus poisons the fundamental cell of society, the family. Sixty years ago it was still part of the cultural conscience to make individual SACRIFICES FOR THE COMMON GOOD. Now there is no more concern for the common good but only for self satisfaction and self indulgence; if an unwanted baby or an unwanted old person gets in the way, eliminate them! We have quickly slid down the slippery slope to abortion, euthanasia, experimentation on human embryos, homosexual marriages, resulting in what Pope John Paul II called the “culture of death”! This is the strategy of Satan, to put the frog in a pot of cold water and slowly heat it up until the frog is cooked. If you throw the frog in boiling water (sin openly revealed for what it truly is and what the true effects of sin are) it jumps out immediately. VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE JUMPING OUT OF THE BOILING WATER OF THE CULTURE OF DEATH TODAY IN ORDER TO SAVE THEIR IMMORTAL SOULS! Even for the majority of church goers today, religion exists to serve themselves, for what they want and can get out of it or to feel saved or holy or good or to impress their neighbors, instead of for the motive of helping them to discover the will of God and to help them to do the will of God, as they profess in the “Our Father”: “THY WILL BE DONE”! God’s will is to love God and neighbor at the expense of oneself, as Jesus did on the cross. The same words that Jesus uses to give life to the world are used by some to take life. Jesus says at every Holy Mass through His instrument the priest, “THIS IS MY BODY” given up for you (on the cross) that you may have life! There is a great spiritual conflict going on here. These same words are spoken from opposite ends of eternity with totally opposite results! Let us live those words as Jesus did and give ourselves “to the least of these my brethren” (Mt 25:40) so that we too might hear the words at the end of our life: “enter into the joy of your master” (Mt 25:23; Jn 3:15-16)!

Sister Lucia of Fatima said to Father Agostino Fuentes, the postulator of the cause of beatification of Giacinta and Francesco (December 26, 1957): “Our Lady is very displeased because it is not taken into account her message of 1917. Neither the good nor the bad have held them in consideration. Believe me my Father, the Lord will punish the world very soon; THE PUNISHMENT IS IMMANENT! Many nations will disappear from the face of the earth, many nations will be annihilated. The devil knows that the religious and priests, living less their beautiful vocation, drag many souls to hell. It is now the time to halt the punishment of Heaven. We have at our disposition TWO EFFICACIOUS MEANS: Prayer and Sacrifice. She said that, the other means exhausted and despised by men, HE WILL GIVE, WITH TREMBLING, THE LAST ANCHOR OF SALVATION WHICH IS THE MOST HOLY VIRGIN IN PERSON, signs of tears, messages of several seers spread in all the parts of the earth. Our Lady said that if we do not listen and if we still offend we will not be pardoned. Father, it is urgent that we realize this terrible reality. We do not want to frighten the souls, but it is an urgent appeal to reality. From the time when the Virgin gave such a great efficaciousness to the Rosary, there does not exist any material, spiritual, national or international problem that cannot be resolved BY WAY OF THE HOLY ROSARY AND BY OUR SACRIFICES. To recite the Holy Rosary with devotion will be to consol Mary and to wipe away so many tears from her Immaculate Heart.” Our Lady expressly said: “We are nearing the end times”.

Have you ever read “THE DREAM OF THE TWO COLUMNS of St. John Bosco, with a ship (the Church) in the middle of a great storm, with the Pope at the helm, being attacked by many small boats from all sides, being guided between the two pillars with the Eucharist and Mary at the top of the two pillars? Let us cling to Jesus in the Eucharist as long as It will be possible, and Mary our mother with our “weapon” (as Saint Padre Pio called the Holy Rosary) in hand (http://thereedofgod.blogspot.com/2010/04/don-boscos-prophecy-of-two-columns.html). The Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, used to say to priests and bishops to make a holy hour everyday before Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament; he said that IF YOU WISH TO OFFER TO OTHERS DIVINE SPARKS, SPEND MORE TIME IN FRONT OF THE DIVINE FIRE, THE EUCHARIST! Only in this way will we be ready and able to give our lives to Jesus and to Jesus hidden in each of our neighbors as Jesus gave His life for us! Without this consistent priority on prayer, WE FALL SO EASILY TODAY INTO ACTIVISM, especially we priests; when this happens, we become instruments of ourselves but not instruments of God, and in the end, there are no true and lasting fruits.

TWO ARMIES ARE QUICKLY BEING FORMED TODAY. In the first book of the Bible, Genesis 3:15, we find the “Protoevangelium” or "First Gospel" in which the woman “will crush the head of the serpent”. In the last book of the Bible we find the woman, along with St. Michael the Archangel, in battle against the dragon. The 13th of May 1917 Our Lady appeared at Fatima as the Woman clothed with the sun: “According to the divine design, she came from Heaven to this earth, seeking the little ones privileged by the Father, “a Woman clothed with the sun” (Ap 12, 1). She, because she is little, will form the army array with the smallest ones from all parts of the world. The woman clothed with the sun appears next to the dragon. THE DRAGON FORMS HIS ARMY ARRAY with the most powerful, the strongest, the greatest, and the wisest, with those who have the highest places. He despises the least ones because they are not worth anything. He values the first ones, the strongest, because he believes he will win with this stronger army array – strong and intelligent spirit, but proud” (Fr. Stefano Gobbi). These “proud” are not only the mighty and rich and powerful, but all those who have freely embraced the convenience and egoism of relativism so as to decide good and evil by themselves, the criteria of salvation on their own as if they were gods. The problem is that in heaven there is room for only one God, not two; in hell everyone believes that they are god, just like the one they willing followed, Lucifer, who became Satan.

ST. LOUIS DE MONTFORT WRITES IN THE TREATISE ON TRUE DEVOTION (#49): “In the second coming of Jesus Christ, Mary must be known and openly revealed by the Holy Spirit so that Jesus may be known, loved and served through her. … As she was the way by which Jesus first came to us, she will again be the way by which He will come to us the second time, though not in the same manner”. (TD 50) Montfort continues: "Mary is the sure means, the direct and immaculate way to Jesus and the perfect guide to Him, it is through her that souls who are to shine forth in sanctity must find Him. He who finds Mary finds life, that is, Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth and the life. … But Mary's power over the evil spirits will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lie in wait for her heel, that is, for her humble servants and her poor children whom she will rouse to fight against him. IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD THEY WILL BE LITTLE AND POOR AND, LIKE THE HEEL, lowly in the eyes of all, down-trodden and crushed as is the heel by the other parts of the body. But in compensation for this they will be rich in God's graces, which will be abundantly bestowed on them by Mary. They will be great and exalted before God in holiness. They will be superior to all creatures by their great zeal and so strongly will they be supported by divine assistance that, in union with Mary, they will crush the head of Satan with their heel, that is, their humility, and bring victory to Jesus Christ" (TD 54) (http://spir-food.blogspot.com/2011/07/funeral-stefano-gobbi.html).

Christ used the word “learn” only one time in the four Gospels: “Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I AM GENTLE AND LOWLY IN HEART, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Mt 11:29-30). His “yoke is easy” for those who are in love with Jesus!

WE ARE ALL SINNERS! Those who have the humility to confess their sins according to the criteria of God which He reveals through Jesus and His One true Church, and then, with the help of God to live accordingly, will be saved. Those who do not have this humility and refuse to confess their sins according to the criteria given to each person through the revelation of God that each has received from God (for Catholics, the teachings of the Church), will loose their souls for all eternity, even if they, as little gods, do not believe that hell exists! After death, there are only two places which will remain for all eternity: heaven and hell. Purgatory is temporal and will no longer exist after the end of the world.

DO WE BELIEVE THAT GOD LOVES EACH OF US IMMENSELY? Then do we trust Him; do we believe and trust that His holy will for each of us is the best for each of us even if it entail suffering and self-sacrifice for other? Do we believe that God has a beautiful design for each of us that can be fully realized and enjoyed if we only do not wilfully reject or ignore these beautiful graces and inspirations that God offers to us for our own good and true happiness? Or do we believe that we are more intelligent and wise than His voice on earth, the Pope? At that time Jesus declared, “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes” (Mt 11:25).

JESUS COULD HAVE FOUNDED HIS CHURCH WITH 12 PERFECT ANGELS FROM HEAVEN. But Jesus, who is God and infinitely wise, founded the Church with 12 men who were sinners. One of the fundamental tests for all of us is to not throw out the incredible treasures of the fullness of truth and sanctification within His Church despite the fact that there are numerous sinners and scandals within His Church especially today! Countering the Donatist sect of the fifth century, who felt they were the only group that would be saved, St. Augustine even exclaimed: “How many sheep there are outside the Church and how many wolves are inside!” Precisely for this reason Our Lady does not tell us to abandon the Church and her ministers but to pray for them; their responsibility before God and man is very great!

THE FINAL MESSAGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, October 13, 1973, to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa at AKITA, JAPAN: "As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms that will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary. WITH THE ROSARY, PRAY FOR THE POPE, THE BISHOPS, AND THE PRIESTS. … The work of the devil will infiltrate even the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their conferees…churches and altars sacked, the Church will be full of those who accept compromise and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord. The demon will be especially implacable against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of so many souls is the cause of My sadness. If sins increase in number and gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them." (http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/akita.htm).

“MY SISTER”, I WANT TO SPEND ETERNITY WITH YOU! No cross, no crown, no pain no gain, no matter what the culture of death tells us today, with all of its powerful and refined techniques and bombardment of lies and brain washing. There is no Resurrection without the Crucifixion; there is no Easter without Good Friday! Satan tells us that we can avoid the cross at all costs and then afterwards all goes well; most people have willingly and happily swallowed this lie. Jesus instead tells us: “He who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it” (Mt 10:38-39). Let us seek what our loving God wants for each of us and not fall into relativism; let us listen to His Vicar on earth and all those bishops and priests who are in union with the living Pope in this “final confrontation” in the history of the world and in the history of the Body of Christ, Holy Mother Church!

Your brother,
Fr. Joe

P.s. You might find rather interesting the book “Lord of the World” by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) who was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and whose conversion to Catholicism caused a stir. Even though the book was published over 100 years ago, it gives an imaginative foretelling of the end of the world. Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Ratzinger before his election to the papacy, made positive references to the novel in some of his talks. You can download the book at: http://www.authorama.com/book/lord-of-the-world.html.

Funeral Stefano Gobbi

Cardinale Ivan Dias

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Recently I had a beautiful experience that I would like to share with you.

Last year I participated in the spiritual exercises at Collevalenza will many of the bishops and priests and a cardinal of the Marian Movement of Priests with Father Stefano Gobbi, the founder of the movement. We were about 300 priests and about 30 bishops from around the world.

The following year on the 24th of March 2011 I participated in the regional Cenacle of Prayer at Collevalenza during which I concelebrated the Holy Mass with Father Gobbi and afterwards we exchanged a few words in the sacristy as well as a nice photo (above).

I attended also this year the annual spiritual exercises for all the members world wide with many priests and bishops present and one cardinal. The spiritual exercises began on June 26 and ended July 2. But on June 29 Father Gobbi died of a heart attack in Milano. His body was immediately brought to Collevalenza so that all of us participants in the annual spiritual exercises could celebrate together the Funeral Mass. Also Madre Speranza (Mother Hope), who founded Collevalenza with many spiritual children died during their annual spiritual exercises as she had expressly desired.

During the homily of Ivan Cardinal Dias, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, he said that every time Pope Benedict sees him, he always asks how is Father Gobbi. The cardinal also said during the homily that shortly before Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope that Cardinal Ratzinger said among the cardinals that we are living in the most difficult period in the history of the world and very few realize the gravity of the situation in the world and in the Church.

It is also interesting that Pope Benedict XVI wrote in the book "The Ratzinger Report" (1985): "One of the signs of our times is that the announcements of 'MARIAN APPARITIONS' ARE MULTIPLYING ALL OVER THE WORLD."

The day after the funeral Cardinal Dias communicated to us at Collevalenza by telephone that he saw Pope Benedict and told him of the death of Father Gobbi, the Pope said: “He went straight to heaven!”

Father Stefano Gobbi, during his annual spiritual exercise for the priests and bishops of the movement, he often quoted the writings of St. Louis de Montfort. Here are some of the writings of Father Gobbi and his citations of St. Louis de Montfort.

Montfort writes in the Treatise on True Devotion (#49): "In the second coming of Jesus Christ, Mary must be known and openly revealed by the Holy Spirit so that Jesus may be known, loved and served through her."

“Montfort continues: "God wishes therefore to reveal Mary, his masterpiece, and make her more known in these latter times because she is the dawn which precedes and discloses the Sun of Justice Jesus Christ and therefore she must be known and acknowledged so that Jesus may be known and acknowledged. As she was the way by which Jesus first came to us, she will again be the way by which he will come to us the second time, though not in the same manner". (TD 50)

Montfort said: "Mary is the sure means, the direct and immaculate way to Jesus and the perfect guide to him, it is through her that souls who are to shine forth in sanctity must find him. He who finds Mary finds life, that is, Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth and the life. But no one can find Mary who does not look for her. No one can look for her who does not know her, for no one seeks or desires something unknown. Mary then must be better known than ever for the deeper understanding and the greater glory of the Blessed Trinity". (TD 50 #5)

Montfort "It is chiefly in reference to these last wicked persecutions of the devil, daily increasing until the advent of the reign of anti-Christ, that we should understand that first and well-known prophecy and curse of God uttered against the serpent in the garden of paradise. It is opportune to explain it here for the glory of the Blessed Virgin, the salvation of her children and the confusion of the devil: 'I will place enmities between you and the woman, between your race and her race; she will crush your head and you will lie in wait for her heel' (Gen. 3:15). God has established only one enmity - but it is an irreconcilable one - which will last and even go on increasing to the end of time. That enmity is between Mary, his worthy Mother, and the devil, between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and followers of Lucifer. Thus the most fearful enemy that God has set up against the devil is Mary, his holy Mother". (TD 51)

Montfort comments (TD 54): "...The slaves of Satan, the friends of the world - for they are all one and the same - have always persecuted and will persecute more than ever in the future those who belong to the Blessed Virgin, just as Cain of old persecuted his brother Abel, and Esau his brother Jacob. These are the types of the wicked and of the just".

"As apostles of the last times, you must follow Jesus along the road of disdain for the world and for yourselves, of humility, of prayer, o f poverty, o f silence, o f mortification, o f charity and o f a more profound union with God. You are unknown and despised by the world and by those who surround you; you are often obstructed, marginalized and persecuted, because this suffering is necessary for the fecundity o 'f your very mission". (451f; June 8, 1991)

Montfort: "...But Mary's power over the evil spirits will especially shine forth in the latter times, when Satan will lie in wait for her heel, that is, for her humble servants and her poor children whom she will rouse to fight against him. In the eyes of the world they will be little and poor and, like the heel, lowly in the eyes of all, down-trodden and crushed as is the heel by the other parts of the body. But in compensation for this they will be rich in God's graces, which will be abundantly bestowed on them by Mary. They will be great and exalted before God in holiness. They will be superior to all creatures by their great zeal and so strongly will they be supported by divine assistance that, in union with Mary, they will crush the head of Satan with their heel, that is, their humility, and bring victory to Jesus Christ" (TD 54).

“Here I would like to make clear a very important truth of our spiritual life: When the messages of Our Lady and therefore the prophecies of Montfort speak about little Apostles, the most worthless before the world and themselves, it does not mean that we are free from all sin: the difference is that we don't let pride overcome us, but we humbly run to Jesus, to Confession, we feel humiliated for having betrayed our consecration and we live a life of penance because we know we have been pardoned by Jesus and Mary, that we have nothing of our own and consequently, we find the strength of our apostolate solely in the strength of Jesus and Mary.”

Montfort concludes: "...They will perceive the splendors of this Queen and will consecrate themselves entirely to her service as subjects and slaves of love. They will experience her motherly kindness and affection for her children... They will love her tenderly and will appreciate how full of compassion she is and how much they stand in need of her help. They will have recourse to her as their advocate and mediatrix with Jesus Christ. They will see clearly that she is the safest, easiest, shortest and most perfect way of approaching Jesus and will surrender themselves to her, body and soul, without reserve in order to belong entirely to Jesus". (TD 55)

"The twelve stars also signify a new reality. indeed the Apocalypse sees me as a great sign in heaven: the Woman Clothed with the Sun who does battle with the Dragon and his powerful army of evil.”

“And so the stars about my head indicate those who consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart, who form part o f my victorious army, and who allow themselves to be guided by me in order to fight this battle and to attain in the end our greatest victory. Thus all my beloved ones and children consecrated to my Immaculate Heart, called to be today the (Apostles o f the last times, are the most luminous stars o f my royal crown”. ((#414j) Dic. 8, 1989)

“The gift of littleness is a special grace that the Father gives to those who He calls to fulfil His designs. These little ones are therefore privileged by You: they have the privilege to understand your design, to enter into this design, so that You might reveal it to them you reveal it to them only because they are little: “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes” (Mt 11:25).

“One can do many things, but without humility, there is nothing that remains for eternity.”

“The woman clothed with sun appears next to the dragon. The dragon forms his army array with the most powerful, the strongest, the greatest, the most wise, with those who have the highest places. He despises the last ones because they are not worth anything. He values the first ones, the strongest, because he believes he will win with this stronger army array – strong and intelligent spirit, but proud.”

The 13th of May 1917 Our Lady appeared at Fatima as the Woman clothed with the sun: “According to the divine design, She came from Heaven to this earth, seeking the little ones privileged by the Father, “a Woman clothed with the sun” (Ap 12,1). She, because she is little, will form the army array with the smallest ones from all parts of the world.

“Behold why Our Lady goes in search of these little ones privileged by the Father. If you do not have the grace from the Father to become small: “Yes Father, for such was thy gracious will to open your kingdom to the little ones”. If you are not these little ones to which the Heavenly Father reveals Himself showing His kindness, you are not sought out by Our Lady, because She, little, in order to win the battle, forms her battle array with the smallest ones. If one is not small, he does not understand the Movement at all.”

“Behold, the condition to be part of the battle array of Mary: to be small. If you do not want to ever enter into crisis: be small. Do you want to go forward in the midst of many difficulties? Be small.”

“And so the stars around my head indicate those who consecrate themselves to my Immaculate Heart; they are part of my victorious battle array; they allow themselves to be guided by Me in order to fight in this battle and in order to obtain in the end our greatest victory.”

One can find further information at the Marian Movement of Priests website: http://www.mmp-usa.net/main.html.

Epiphany

Epiphany

We celebrate in this period the solemnity of the Epiphany! For many people today science has become the authoritative voice, the infallible authority, instead of the words of Jesus explained by the authority that Jesus left us here on earth, His Church with the Pope as its head. A person, who I know well, continued to frequent the sacraments regularly and to pray the Rosary, as he had learned from his family of birth, up until his second year of college. At a certain point he began to have sexual relations with girls out of wedlock without repenting or going to confession. He also began to focus on the defects of his father which helped him to justify throwing out all together the Catholic faith that he received from his parents. After more that 30 years outside of the Church and away from the sacraments, he even make the statement that all religions are the same. One of his poor sons, who was deprived of the inestimable gift of the Catholic faith, declared that he was a “deist”. A few months ago when I telephoned my friend, he expressed to me his preoccupation about the year 2012. At that point I described to him what science had discovered with the help of the computer regarding what the wise men saw 2000 years ago which motivated them to make a trip of about 1000 kilometers in order to find the King of the Jews. For those who did not receive this information from me 2 years ago or from other sources, I offer a brief description of this discovery. Unfortunately, after I finished this explanation, my friend was not interested in continuing our conversation on the phone.

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God created the universe, which moves like a huge precise clock. The universe was above all created for the King of the Universe, Jesus Christ, and secondarily for human beings. The last time the planets were in the galactic alignment predicted by the ancient Mayans, for the date December 21, 2012, was 26,000 years ago.

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM has fascinated many for centuries. For millennia, believers, scoffers and the curious have wondered at the Biblical account of the Star. The Bible recounts unusual, or even impossible astronomical events at Christ's birth. For many doubters, the account of the Star is easily dismissed as myth. For many believers, it is a mystery accepted on faith. But what happens if we combine current historical scholarship, astronomical fact and an open mind?

Using Johannes Kepler's discovery of how the solar system works, improvements in our knowledge of first century history and the spread of computers, one discovers that in September, about 16 month before the birth of Christ, the wise men from the East saw something in the sky that they had NEVER SEEN BEFORE. The “King Planet”, Jupiter, made a triple pass around the “King Star”, Regulus, like a coronation. Then after Jupiter finished its rendezvous with Regulus in June of the following year, it moved beside Venus giving the impression of the most brilliant star the wise men had ever seen with the naked eye. That particular evening, our Babylonian wise men, who were good astronomers as well as well informed of Jewish prophecy, would have seen the spectacle of their career while facing toward Judea. Surely this prompted them to start off on their long journey toward Judea following the star all the way to Jerusalem which we read about in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2. Read more at the web site(http://bethlehemstar.net/).

How many very intelligent astronomers and scientists there are today who do not believe in God? You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink! Let us give praise to God for His marvels in His creation! FOR MANY PEOPLE TODAY, SCIENCE IS INFALLIBLE, BUT NOT CHRIST OR THE POPE.

WE MUST DISTINGUISH HERE BETWEEN OBSERVING THE SIGNS OF GOD IN HIS CREATION AND ASTROLOGY.

ASTROLOGY holds that stars exert forces on men. Astrology assumes that stars are causes of earthly events. Astrology is a: "...form of divination based on the theory that the movement of the celestial bodies - the stars, the planets, the sun and the moon - influence human affairs and determine the course of events."(The New Columbia Encyclopedia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to ‘unveil’ the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone" (CCC 2116). See also: Job 31:26-28; Deut 17:2-5; 2Kings 23:4.

Still, the Bible does make a surprising number of references to signs in the heavens. See: Job 9:9; 38:31; Is 40:26; Ps 19:1-4; Rm 10:17-18; Lk 21:25; Deut 4:19.

BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS ASSUME THAT WHAT HAPPENS UP THERE MATTERS. If we are interested in following the counsel of the Bible, we must hold a distinction in mind. The Bible assumes that there can be messages about earthly events. It may be useful to think of this as a thermometer distinction. A thermometer can TELL you if it is hot or cold, but it cannot MAKE you hot or cold. There is a big difference between a sign and an active agent. This is the difference between "astrology" and what the Bible holds forth.

Let us thank God for the great gift of our faith! May you experience a faith filled celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany!

Father Joseph Dwight

Christmas Letter 2010

Dear friends,

How are you? I hope my Christmas greeting finds you well!

For many people Christmas is a joyful season because THEY HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE enough to have received from their parents or from other faith communities a knowledge and a first hand experience of what Christmas means in the lives of people around them. Many others, who HAVE NOT BEEN SO FORTUNATE to have experienced a true communion of love with God personally and with others, have taken refuge in the less demanding belief of deism. They believe that God is a supreme being; at the beginning of things, He created the universe, maybe gave it its laws, wound it up like a clock and then let it go. In this belief God is both spatially and chronologically distant from the world with no personal relationship with His creatures. This belief allows them to escape from the humility of submitting to a being greater than themselves as well as what this superfluous so-called God might demand of them. For many people today, science has become the infallible guide rather than Christ or the authority that Christ left us here on earth in the midst of so many conflicting opinions and confusion (Mt 16:18). These people who do not recognize or seek the true meaning and purpose of life imprinted in their hearts and eternal souls have not been aided by a great number of so-called Christians today who use religion to satisfy themselves rather that using religion to discover God’s will as well as using religion to obtain God’s help to put into practice His holy and loving will for each of them.

When we look at the vast universe of which we are a part and just a mere speck, we see billions of galaxies, we see billions of stars and planets in each one of those galaxies. When the physicists look at this vast universe they see that it is expanding. And so the atheistic scientists are having to come to the conclusion that if it is expanding then there had to be a beginning. And if there was indeed a beginning of the universe as there was, then there had to be One Who brought all of that into existence and gave it its beginning, God. THEY ARE HAVING TO COME TO THAT INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION, as Saint Thomas Aquinas called: “The Unmoved Mover”, that put everything into existence. In coming to the conclusion of God some would ask: “Is it really true what Christians believe that this vast incomprehensible God became a man and dwelt among us?” And some would say no, that is too great a thing, too humbling a thing for this great God to do such a thing. They know something of God’s majesty but so many do not yet know His love because one normally comes to know and TOUCH THIS LOVE IN PEOPLE WHO LIVE COHERENTLY THEIR FAITH.

And thus, without a healthy environment and culture of authentic altruism which can only be lived with the help of God, these scientists and so many others take the easy, self-satisfying way of deism or atheism, trusting in themselves rather than their Creator who loves them so much. Without this childlike trust in God, they do not realize that His commandments are for our good and best interests, like good parents who sometimes ask their children to do difficult and painful things for their own good. They grab on to anything that serves their desires and agendas to eradicate God, irregardless of the proven facts. As an example, these secularists, nihilists, and relativists, have USED FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES DARWIN'S FALSE THEORY OF EVOLUTION. Karl Marx wrote (January 16, 1861): “Darwin's work is most important and SUITS MY PURPOSE in that it provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle. One does, of course, have to put up with the clumsy English style of argument. Despite all its shortcomings, it is here that, for the first time, 'teleology' in natural science is not only dealt a mortal blow but its rational meaning is empirically explained.” (http://theworldsocialist.blogspot.com/2009/03/marx-and-engels-on-origin-of-species.html). Karl Marx read the Origin of Species in 1860 and wrote that Darwin's book was very important and served him as a basis in natural science for the struggle in history. (http://www.quodlibet.net/articles/johnson-evolution.shtml).

In the mid-1970s the seminal discovery of Elso Barghoorn clearly and empirically REVEALED THE TOTAL FALSENESS OF THE RANDOM ORIGIN OF LIFE, but the mass media and almost all of our so-called objective (infallible?) scientists were not interested in this well documented and verifiable discovery. (“Origin of life: RANDOM ORIGIN OF LIFE WAS EXPLODED BY 1970s DISCOVERY - who didn't get the memo?”; “Gerald Schroeder's The Hidden Face of God”; http://collidinguniverses.blogspot.com/2008/08/origin-of-life-random-origin-of-life.html).

In the beautiful book: “The Life of Christ”, Archbishop Fulton Sheen offers us a powerful thought for this advent season as we prepare for the coming of Christ. He tells us that there have been men born into the world who claimed to be God, or to have been sent by God, or to have a message from God. Some of these men were Confucius, Buddha, Mohammad. Yet it would seem that if God were to come Himself or to send someone from Himself or with a very special message from Himself, that He would give us some indication that this person was coming. In others words, HE WOULD PRE-ANNOUNCE THAT HE WAS SENDING THIS PERSON, OR THAT HE HIMSELF WAS COMING. Yet none of these men mentioned were pre-announced before their births. But the birth of Jesus Christ was pre-announced!. In fact it was pre-announced all the way back to the time of the fall of our first parents, when God spoke to the serpent, who deceived our first parents, and said: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers. You shall strike at his heal and he shall crush your head” (Gen 3:15). This so-called “proto-evangelium” (first gospel) was a pre-announcement of Christ. But then even with the call of Abraham, later on David, God renewed that promise to send someone to His people. It was not just an awaiting of nine months for a child to be born into a family, it was an awaiting for almost two thousand years. So Jesus Christ was the only one whose birth was ever pre-announced. And that is why we know that He was sent by God the Father because the Father loved us so much He sent His own Son into the world.

When we think of experiences of love that we have had or MANIFESTATIONS OF LOVE, like Mother Teresa, where does that love come from? We know that its source is in God Who is love as Saint John tells us (1Jn 4). St. John also tells us that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn 1:14). And so we understand God’s love when we look at the Child in the manger. And the Word was made flesh for you and for me! But St. John also wrote in his Gospel referring to the eternal Word made flesh which we find in the Christmas liturgy: “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world know him not. He came to his own home, and his own people received him not” (Jn 1:10-11).

For those of us who have received the great gift of faith from our relatives or from others, let us be truly thankful. But let us do all we can to SHARE THIS GIFT OF LOVE WITH THOSE LESS FORTUNATE than we by our concrete example of love for others. Love by definition must be given away. You cannot eat love; you cannot buy it; you cannot barter it; you cannot sell it; you cannot store it; you can only give it away. A song is not a song until it is sung. A bell is not a bell until it is rung. And love is not love until it is given away. And God gives us His Own love so that we might give it back to His children around us, these human beings with whom we live.

Let us pray at this time for all those who have fallen into one of the greatest traps of Satan as Pope Benedict puts it, the “TYRANNY OF RELATIVISM”, so that they might come to know, love and serve such a wonderful, loving God who came into the world to die for each one of us personally and individually. Precisely because our God is a God of love, He totally respects our primordial gift of our free will, and thus He respects our choice to say yes to Him and trust Him or to say no to Him for all eternity by trusting only in ourselves! “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 18:3-4). We forget so quickly the words we hear when we receive the ashes on Ash Wednesday: “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return”. What can dust do by itself (Mt 19:26; Mk 10:27; Lk 18:27)? The greatest joy in heaven is to be totally in the presence of God; the greatest pain in hell is to be totally separated from God their Creator. Satan and the world on the other hand tell us that the devil and hell do not exist so we can live without any restraints or responsibility like the animals and afterwards everyone goes to heaven if you still believe in this outdated idea! Unfortunately many priests and bishops have bought into this way of thinking in the name of God Who in His love would never send anyone to hell for eternity, if hell or the devil even exist. But TRUE LOVE MEANS THAT OUR PRIMORDIAL GIFT OF OUR GREAT DIGNITY, CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, WITH A FREE WILL, BE RESPECTED, even if we chose freely to not seek to live the 10 Commandments and do God’s holy will. Otherwise our dignity is reduced to the level of irrational animals with no immortal soul. Our great God-given human dignity necessitates that each of us will live for eternity in heaven or hell, whether we like it or not, or whether we believe it or not! “Woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born” (Mt 26:24).

WHO DECIDES WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG, GOOD AND EVIL, TRUTH AND REALITY? One has to work very hard every day to stamp out the imprint of the Creator in his heart and soul and to reject the many daily inspirations and graces from God (“The Hound of Heaven”!) in order to convince himself that God does not exist and he can live as he pleases without regard for God or for the neighbors who do not satisfy themselves! Thus when such a person dies, even if he says he does not believe in God or the existence of hell, it will be revealed to him in an instant his whole life, including how hard he worked to deny and run from the truth stamped in his heart; this will be his judgment for all eternity! Whether one likes it or not, or believes it or not, man is made in the image of God (Gen 1:26-27). NO ONE GOES TO HELL OR TO HEAVEN FOR ALL ETERNITY BY CHANCE! God will always respect our great primordial gift of our free will and thus will never force anyone, kicking and screaming, to spend eternity with Him in heaven or eternity without Him in hell; at the moment of our death, He will confirm for all eternity our decision we made here on earth during our very short life! God created you without you, but He will not save you without you. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Is 5:20)!

In our human way of talking here on earth, many people, who have willingly accepted and embraced so many times in their life the convenient and subtle lies of relativism, will say to Jesus when they die: “I did not know this or that or …” And Jesus will say: “Yes, you did not know, but you willingly chose not to want to know, YOU DID NOT WANT TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH OR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOVE ACCORDING TO THE WORLD, with so many hidden egotistical motives, and TRUE LOVE that I explained while I was on earth leaving my Church, the Catholic Church with the Pope as the head, to explain true love more clearly through the ages to the end of time.” Ignorance is bliss!

The puppets of Satan, the proud modern philosophers, would make us to believe that each person is a god so we, by ourselves, decide what is reality and what is truth (Gen 3:4-5)! The so-called “Age of Reason” actually turned reason on its head. There is very little enlightenment found in the “Period of the Enlightenment”! Secular humanism is bankrupt! For a believer in God-Love, René Descartes’ famous supposition “I think therefore I am” should read “I LOVE THEREFORE I AM”! When all of these little gods die, where do they go? To a heaven that they created? To nothingness as they have decided and declared to themselves and to others, since they have decided that God or hell or the devil do not exist! In the heaven of the Creator of the universe and of all of reality and its laws, there is room for only one God! Whether we believe it or not, whether we like it or not, whether we decide or not, reality and truth are established by the one true God. We so easily and so willingly forget and ignore that LIFE IS A BATTLE, A “DOUR COMBAT WITH THE POWERS OF EVIL” (CCC 409)! Our proud mortal enemy, Satan and his followers, almost always disguises himself as an “angel of light” here on earth (2Cor 11:14). “At that time Jesus declared; “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes” (Mt 11:25; Lk 10:21). How many wise men 2000 years ago, as well as today, did not recognize the Creator of the universe born in utter poverty as a helpless baby, or did not recognize the infinite God substantially present in bread and wine, or covered with blood on the cross? “But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong” (1Cor 1:27, 20; 3:18; 4;10).

Let us be strong , with the help of God through daily prayer, to overcome the great pressures on us today such as “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS” so as not to fall prey to the “spiral of silence” about our precious Christian values through these highly sophisticate and well organized and financed “jamming” and “cognitive dissidence” techniques used today by those who want to extinguish true self-giving, self-sacrificing love that they see in those men and women of good will for whom the Christ Child was born (Lk 2:14). The research on “political correctness” is that it allows people to feel involved in something bigger than themselves without having to make any sacrifices. Today it is OK to expose in public pornography, signs of disrespect for parents, signs of Sodom and Gomorrah or diabolical signs, but it is against the law, forced on us by our activist dictatorial unelected judges, to pray in public schools or to put signs of Christmas (which comes from the two words: “Christ Mass”) or to inscribe the 10 Commandments in public, precisely in our so-called “land of the free”, the land of “democracy”! These haughty elite do not even want us to use the words “Happy Holidays” because the word holidays comes from the two words “Holy Days”. The great majority of Americans do not realize that we are already totally under the dictatorship of the “New World Order”. “Freedom” has been separated from Truth, Truth with a big “T”, which ironically leads to the exact opposite of freedom which is horrible slavery, the “tyranny of relativism”, based on everyone’s self-made truth with a little “t”!. Thus as the majority of Americans discard the Christian foundation of values that our founding fathers of America gave us, the law of the land will quickly disintegrate into “MIGHT MAKES RIGHT” which is exactly what the world manipulators, the elite of the NWO, want! “For the sons of this world are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light” (Lk 16:8). Jesus warned us: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits” (Mt 7:15-16). Do not the fruits show that one of the highest, if not the highest, priority for Obama and Clinton is to force Americans to pay for abortions not only in America but in the whole world even while we are in the greatest economic crisis since 1929? Why is so much money given to EMBRYONIC STEM CELL (HUMAN BEINGS) RESEARCH ,which has NOT RENDERED ANY positive results, instead of adult stem cell (not human beings) research which has RENDERED MANY POSITIVE RESULTS?

AS THE OLD SAYING GOES, IF YOU DO NOT LIVE WHAT YOU BELIEVE, YOU WILL END UP BELIEVING AS YOU LIVE. We have arrived to the point today that only 50% of church going Christians believe in the resurrection after death. Jesus tells us to love the sinner but hate the sin; but many people today non longer make this distinction, and those who do make this distinction are accused of hating the sinner: “HATE CRIMES”! Very soon this accusation will become outright persecution and ultimately martyrdom for those who are ready for this great gift from God to share in the mystery of Christ’s redemption (Col 1:24)! The world autocrats must eliminate true Christianity and substitute it with a false christianity without the cross of Christ because Christianity, and specifically the Catholic Church, is the last obstacle still standing on the chess board so as to make a sweep of the board by the forces of what Joseph Ratzinger once called the “dictatorship of relativism”. WE ARE TO BLAME for having given the power and control to these egotistical puppets of Satan who have in turn accelerated the sinking of the ship with the money and power that we have given to them so as to hasten the culture of death by the promotion of the greatest sins and the elimination and destruction of the last remaining religious voices in the public square! As our Lady of Fatima said, wars are primarily caused by the sins of all of us. The “sons of this world” know much better that the “sons of light” (Lk 16:8) that THE PROMOTION OF SIN AND THE DESTRUCTION OF TRUE CHRISTIANITY is the most powerful and quickest and most efficient way to render the masses incapable of resisting their destructive agenda. So many do not realize that the economic crisis and all other crisis are fundamentally rooted to this demonic plan to destroy the spiritual fiber of each individual, of each family and thus of the real backbone of our society and of our culture. This Satanic strategy is much more potent for the forces of evil than nuclear bombs or any other material power. Just as those closer to God are more docile to God’s holy will, so too those closer to Satan are more docile to the demonic strategy and plan of total destruction on earth and in hell for all eternity!

READ ABOUT the use, without our permission or consent or knowledge, of these very powerful, sophisticated and highly developed techniques and their effects on us as an unsuspecting public: “SELLING HOMOSEXUALITY TO AMERICA” by Paul E. Rondeau (http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/rond/shta/shta_01sellinghomosexuality1.html; http://www.couplescompany.com/FEATURES/politics/2004/Selling%20Homosexuality.pdf; http://www.untwistedtruth.com/).

Let us pray for those following the father of lies (Jn 8:44), whose consciences are not already totally dead, before it is too late! LET US PRAY MORE THAN EVER AND OFFER MANY SACRIFICES for our deceived brothers and sisters as our Lady of Fatima has asked us to do. In this way some will convert from the deception of arrogance and the illusion of egoism, and we ourselves will be ready to suffer and even offer up our lives for others as baby Jesus did for us on the cross on Mount Calvary 33 years after His birth! The Truth Shall Set You Free (Jn 8:32)!

Many people today have misguided compassion and do not want to hurt the feelings of others; for these seemingly nice people, this short life on earth is more important than eternity. Is this true love? But the prophet Ezekiel tells us: “If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life” (Ezek 33:8-9). Referring to the OBJECTIVE TRUTH St. James wrote: "Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one converts him, let him know, that he who converts the sinner from the error of his ways shall save his soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." (Jms 5:19-20; see also: Mt 18:15-17). Referring to the SUBJECTIVE TRUTH or personal guilt St. James wrote: “Who are you that you judge your neighbor?” (Jms 4:12; Mt 7:1-2). One must always distinguish and not lump everything together and then judge!

While alive we can change everything with a good confession and a true change of life; AFTER DEATH NOTHING CAN BE CHANGED FOR ALL ETERNITY whether we believe or agree or not! The Creator make the rules, not we who will return to dust from whence we came (Gen 2:7)! We need more religious leaders and laymen and laywomen to warn us of this eternal trap. Forewarned is forearmed! The Beast will be able to perform "signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect" (Mt 24:24; Mk 13:22; Rev 13:8; 19:20)! Every time our Lady appeared in the last 180 years she has always asked for prayers for the Pope, bishops and priests, the main targets of Satan, the generals and captains in this great “cosmic struggle”. If more RELIGIOUS LEADERS had less FEAR OF HUMAN RESPECT and the courage to speak about the reality of sin (mortal, grave) and its eternal consequences, we foot soldiers would be much better prepared for this period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21)!

To fight in a battle, is it not prudent and necessary to know not only your own weapons, tactics and strategy, but also the weapons, tactics and strategy of the enemy? It was recounted to Pope John Paul II that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, “knows too many bishops who do not believe in the Devil”. The Pope replied bluntly: “ANYONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE DEVIL DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE GOSPEL”. When asked “What do you see as Satan’s greatest success?”, Amorth replied: “The fact that he has managed to convince people that he does not exist. He has almost managed it, even within the Church. We have a clergy and an Episcopate who no longer believe in the Devil , in exorcism, in the exceptional evil the Devil can instill, or even in the power that Jesus bestowed to cast out demons. … And they no longer believe in the Devil. We have entire Episcopates trying to counter exorcism. We have countries completely devoid of exorcists, such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. This is a shameful shortfall.” (http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=2879).

How incredible it is that today so many of our generals (bishops) and our captains (priests) in this great spiritual battle for our eternal souls tell us that the enemy does not even exist! We go onto the field of combat as buck privates led by these numerous commanding officers and we are massacred, unless we seek, in humility and trust, the directives of the divinely guided Vicar on earth of the Supreme Commander, THE LIVING POPE, with whom all bishops and priest have taken an oath to remain in unity and communion. Our enemy does not sleep and he is much more intelligent than any human being!

Let us remember and help our children to remember that Christmas is NOT OUR BIRTHDAY BUT THE BIRTHDAY OF JESUS Who came to show us the way to heaven and to die for each one of us! I remember as a child how my parents encouraged us (six children) to place a piece of straw into an empty crib during advent for each little sacrifice of love and self-denial we did so that at Christmas the crib was full of the straws of our sacrifices for baby Jesus. Today so many children expect only presents for themselves and they have not learned from their parents or friends the real reason for the season! My parents also knelt down with us six children everyday for 15 minutes to pray the daily family Rosary with the pictures of the 15 mysteries before us to help us to meditate on the life of Christ, to pray the Gospel through the loving eyes of Mary.

Forgive me for such a heavy and long Christmas letter, but my mother Mary, the mother not only of Jesus but of all of us, sheds many tears as seen in many of her recent apparitions because so many thousands of her children fall in hell for all eternity everyday as shown to the three children at Fatima (July 1917).

My best friend Jesus, who died for me, suffers more than we can possible imagine, and the great majority of people, including Christians, are TOTALLY INDIFFERENT AND INSENSITIVE to this astounding suffering and they become angered if you try to tell them of our great coldness toward the One Who loves us more than everyone put together and Who gave us everything we have, including His only Son to die on the cross for our cold indifference!

Very often there is a tendency to not consider very much the possibility of offending God, much less to cause great pain to God due to our insensitivity and indifference. We say: “After all He is God; He does not need us and besides He is far above all these things!” We forget that the greater the love is, the greater is the pain due to insensitivity and indifference. JESUS, who loves each one of us immensely, SUFFERS MORE THAN WE CAN IMAGINE due to our indifference. One might say how can this be if Jesus already died 2000 years ago? We must remember that for God there is no past or future but only THE ETERNAL PRESENT. Jesus suffered (“suffers”) not only for the sins of those who lived before and during his crucifixion, but also for all of the sins after his crucifixion. We slough off so easily this fundamental indifference of not responding to love. This is the fundamental definition of sin. How many wives (or husbands) suffer greatly because their husbands (or wives) are so insensitive and indifferent!? Every time we fall into sin, it is a nail, it is a thorn embedded in the Heart of the Sorrowful Mother’s Son, and She cries out to us: “have pity, have mercy!”

Let us thank God there was a heart well prepared to receive the infinite Son of God, baby Jesus, 2000 years ago, the Immaculate Heart of Mary! The hearts of men were so cold 2000 years ago that only a few recognized the Creator of the universe born in utter poverty, covered with blood on the Cross and hidden in the appearance of a piece of bread in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Today the situation of human hearts is much worse. LET US MAKE REPARATION for the incredible suffering of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the foot of the cross with our prayers and sacrifices by loving baby Jesus hidden in the most rejected and defenseless people today as well as in every tabernacle of the world as our Divine Prisoner.

St. John the Baptist, as a six-month old fetus in the womb of his mother Elizabeth, leaped for joy in the womb of Elizabeth when he recognized Jesus as a very small embryo in the womb of Mary (Lk 1:44)! Little boys and little girls leap for joy in their mothers wombs, not abstract fetal tissue! The SECOND PERSON of the BLESSED TRINITY in His infinite wisdom, Who could have come into the world in anyway whatsoever, chose to become incarnate in the womb of a human woman and spend NINE FULL MONTHS IN HER WOMB!?! Christ sanctified everything He did; He identifies Himself with “the least of His brethren” (Mt 25:40): unwanted babies in the wombs of their mothers! You might say that Jesus, Who the entire universe cannot contain, showed us the preciousness of life in the womb by patiently spending nine months in the womb of His mother Mary! How can a Christian not stand up and defend Jesus in the wombs of millions of mothers planning to abort their precious gift of life from God within their wombs, and at the same time celebrate Christmas? Are we Christians if we do not do all we can to help concretely so many women abandoned by their boy friends, husbands, relatives and society in their difficult moment? If we help and comfort concretely those who are left out in the cold by so many around them, we will truly be warming baby Jesus for this Christmas! If we repent, confess our sins and begin to love every unwanted neighbor concretely as Jesus did, then we will offer a true gift to baby Jesus on His birthday and wipe away many of the tears of His and our heavenly Mother, the Mother of all of us whether we want to discover, recognize and believe this great gift from God or not! A true mother suffers greatly due to the indifference of her children especially of those who do not even communicate for Christmas and do not even recognize this woman as their mother! How hardened of heart we have slowly become over the years of our life and we do not even realize it or want to discover how far we have drifted from basic respect and concern for all human beings made in the image of God as well as the real situation of our hearts and souls and our relationship with our personal Creator!

One receives and experiences the real joy of Christmas as well as Easter when one recognizes that he or she is a sinner, when one recognizes his or her sins. This Baby came for sinners not for the self-justified (Mt 9:13). Popes Pius XII and John Paul II wrote that THE GREATEST SIN IS THE LOSE OF THE SENSE OF SIN! The very numerous people who call themselves Christians today but do not acknowledge and confess their sins have a very shallow, materialistic happiness for Christmas; they are sucking off from the spiritual reservoir of those who paid the price before them to create a culture of life by their personal and collective sacrifices. To give or create life, one must sacrifice oneself, one must continually die to self to give life to others, one must “to limit ones freedom on behalf of another” (John Paul II). It is easy to destroy life by sucking off of others to satisfy our own masked egoism and spiritual sloth. It is easy to destroy a tall building; it is difficult and time consuming to build a tall building!

May you have a most blessed celebration of the birthday of the Child who was born in extreme poverty and completed His mission of love on the Cross for us!

Fr. Joseph Dwight

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