Dear Fellow Priests – Holy Christmas 2021
The following email was sent to the more than 150 priests of the diocese of Perugia, Italy, on December 24, 2021.
Dear fellow priest,
With the coronavirus, we see each other seldom, and with the social distancing, we speak with each other very little! Thus we share very little of our thoughts as priests in the same diocese! I would like to, at least in this occasion of Christmas, to share with you some of my thoughts that are very much on my heart.
Perhaps some of us realize that we are the generation of which Jesus spoke about (Mt 24:34) in chapter 24 of the Gospel of Matthew. Perhaps some of us realize that this is the period of the “great tribulation” (Mt 24:21) and of the great apostasy before the manifestation of the Antichrist of which Saint Paul wrote about (2Thess 2:3).
Thus I believe in this period of great confusion it is very important for us as priests and pastors of souls, to remember the fundamental things of our faith. The Truth comes from God, not from the world e not even from the Church. The Church is the servant, the defender, the protector of the Truth, not the AUTHOR of the Truth!!! The truth of the world changes with the whims of the world in every period of the world. The Truth of God does not change with the world because the Truth of God does not change. God is the Truth (Jn 14:6)! “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Mk 31:31). “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished” (Mt 5:17-18; 24,35). “Do not be deceived; GOD IS NOT MOCKED, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life” (Gal 6:7-8)! A great number of people in this period have embraced the easier philosophy of life, IGNORANCE IS BLISS, DESIRED BLINDNESS, in order to avoid their RESPONSIBILITY before God and before their neighbor. Thus one does not listen, one does not dialogue, with the people not in agreement with themselves! One ends up being more and more ignorant and also more domineering because they are not open to seek the Truth outside of their own heads. But if one does this, in particular as pastors of souls, how can we discover the Truth in the midst of so much confusion, the Truth of God which sets us truly free (Jn 8:32), and also how can we warn the sheep of the deadly traps, very numerous, powerful and hidden, today.
St. Thomas Aquinas quoting of St. Augustine, in his commentary on the right of subjects to resist flaky superiors, recalled that in St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, he 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).
If I realize and believe that the Truth comes from God not from me, and I have a little virtue, especially humility, I should be willing to listen to someone who says to me that what I wrote or said was not in harmony with what God has revealed to us throughout human history (called Divine Revelation), while quoting documents of the Church. But if I believe or feel that the truth comes from me, I will not be willing to dialogue with anyone not in agreement with me, as have done all the dictators in the history of the world. By throwing out the precious laws of God, we quickly go toward “might makes right” as it is in hell!
If the Truth comes from God, and not from the Church, this means that no priest, bishop or pope can change the Truth of Divine Revelation which is well summarized in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults (CCC; ed. 1992, promulgated by Pope John Paul II; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM). Simply put, this is precisely what several cardinals wrote in the “Dubia” (November 2016) and in their book “Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church” (October 2014), and many other cardinals and bishops and orthodox Catholic professors in the last eight years. These cardinals and bishops and professors were not just offering their opinions among all the other human opinions, but rather they were doing what all the saints did and what Saint Paul did 2000 years ago! WHY IS THERE NO LONGER DIALOGUE, in the last eight years, with any cardinal or bishop or priest or professor who proclaims that we must remain faithful to the saving authentic Truth of Christ which does not change with the world?!? Instead these courageous men are silenced in various clever and hidden ways. Jesus said “the Truth (of God (the Rock) not of the world (sand)) will set you free” (Jn 8:32). Jesus did not say “a pope or a bishop will set you free”!?! Did God give us the Ten Commandments for our own true good, or for our harm? Do we trust ourselves or God? Do we want to spend eternity with God in peace or with all those who want to command and make war with each other for all eternity?
What will we say to Jesus, who is the Truth (Jn 14:6), when we die? - That we followed the unchanging truth of Jesus, well explained by His Church, or that we followed the easier worldly (false) “truth” of the majority of people or of many important people in the Church who did not remain faithful to the truth of Divine Revelation? For 2000 years Christians have understood from the words of Christ, well explained by the Catholic Church, that it is a grave mortal sin to have sex outside of marriage. Now after ‘Amoris Laetitia’, there are many divisions in the Church and a great number of Catholics believe that “cohabitation” (outside of Christian marriage) is OK since God loves me and God is merciful. With this new concept of (false) mercy, detached from Divine Truth and from conversion to the will of God, many believe they no longer have to heed the first words of Jesus: “Repent, and believe in the Gospel” (Mk 1:15; Mt 4:17), or even the Ten Commandments, and they can delete from the traditional “Act of Contrition”: “I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the near occasion of sin”!?! “YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS” (Mt 7:15-20)! Jesus did not say “you will know them by their leaves”, which would be their nice words, disguised “as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14)!
Our Lady of Fatima told us: “More souls go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other reason”!
In the final message of the Blessed Virgin, October 13, 1973, on the anniversary of the last apparition and of the miracle of Fatima, at Akita, Japan, she said to Sister Agnes Sasagawa: “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 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.”
Sister Lucy of Fatima said to Father Agostino Fuentes, the postulator of the cause of beatification of Francesco and Jacinta (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 imminent! Many nations will disappear from the face of the earth, many nations will be annihilated. … THE DEVIL KNOWS THAT THE RELIGIOUS AND THE PRIESTS, NOT LIVING UP TO THEIR BEAUTIFUL VOCATION, DRAG MANY SOULS TO HELL. … We have at our disposition TWO EFFICACIOUS MEANS: prayer and sacrifice. … The third time 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 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 FILL THE SOULS WITH FEAR, BUT ONLY IT IS URGENT A RECALL TO REALITY. From when the Holy Virgin gave such a great efficaciousness to the Rosary, there does not exist any material, spiritual, national or international problem that cannot be resolved with THE HOLY ROSARY AND WITH OUR SACRIFICES. To recite it with devotion will be to consol Mary and to wipe away so many tears from her Immaculate Heart. … Our Lady expressly said: “We are approaching the end times”.”
We are living in a world more full of falsehoods than ever before (Mt 24:24; 2Thess 2:11-12; Dan 12:8-10) - beautiful deadly lies from “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44), presented as if they were the Truth, hidden destructive deceptions - such as the devil, hell and sin no longer exist!!! The great majority of the pastors today “are all DUMB DOGS, they cannot bark” (Is 56:10), and thus do not warn the sheep of the very sly wolf, in sheep’s clothing, along with 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 mercy without “GO AND SIN NO MORE” (Jn 8:11; 5:14)! Our Lady continually asks us to PRAY FOR PRIESTS AND BISHOPS! In ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and in the two preceding synods, there was no mention or concern of the great harm done to children of separated parents (NO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY), but only the desires of the adults.
Do we believe, like many in the “modern church”, that hell does not exist? Why did Our Lady show hell in all of its harshness to the three children? And then Our Lady said: “You have seen hell, where poor sinners go. In order to save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If they will do what I have said, many souls will be saved and there will be peace … When you recite the Rosary, after each mystery say: “Oh my God, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell and lead all souls to heaven especially those in most need of thy mercy”.
Why did Jesus say: “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 7:13-14)?
“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.” (Diary of St. Faustina, no. 153)
“Today, I was led by an Angel to the chasms of hell… But I noticed one thing: that most of THE SOULS THERE ARE THOSE WHO DISBELIEVED THAT THERE IS A HELL” (Diary, 741).
“The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God” (CCC 1035).
It might seem impossible to live the Ten Commandments of God in a world further away and more rebellious toward God than ever before in the history of the world. When the disciples “were amazed at His words”, and even “exceedingly astonished”, at the beginning of their walk with Christ, Jesus did not offer false and empty and destructive compromises as so many leaders in the Church today are offering to the numerous gullible “Christians” as we see on the TV today. But rather Jesus said: “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God” (Mk 10:23-27).
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by giving heed to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons …” (1Tim 4:1), or of Witch Doctors from the Amazon, or of recently endorsed priests and bishops who promote in a shrewd sly way homosexual unions and that the Eucharist is only a symbol as the protestants believe!
The Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, wrote in 1948 that Satan will recruit the false prophet from our Catholic bishops!
Why is there no dialogue today with the cardinals, bishops, priests and lay people who tell us that we must remain faithful to the Truth of God revealed in all the centuries, the Truth that does not change with the world? If we believe to be so intelligent and enlightened today in the “modern Church”, to be able to finally interpret all of Divine Revelation in the right way, why are we so afraid to dialogue with those who clearly and simply explain to us certain profound and radical breaks with the Divine Revelation throughout time? “For everyone who does evil HATES THE LIGHT, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed” (Jn 3:19-21). The Light is Jesus, the Light is the Truth (Jn 14:6)!
In my article, “The Cause And The Solution For The Great Apostasy” (https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-cause-and-solution-for-great.html), I wrote:
Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi tells us that the great apostasy (2Thess 2:3) began with the priests. "These priest-sons of mine, who have BETRAYED THE GOSPEL in order to second the great satanic error of Marxism ... It is especially because of them that the chastisement of Communism will soon come and will deprive everyone of all they possess. Times of great tribulation will unfold. Then it will be these poor sons of mine who will begin the great apostasy. Watch and pray, all of you, priests who are faithful to me!" (July 28, 1973; “To the Priests, Our Lady's Beloved Sons” (approved by many bishops and cardinals); http://our-lady-priests.blogspot.it/).
“By your word, which will repeat ever more loudly and clearly the truth which my Son Jesus has come to reveal to you. Do you see how many of your brother-priests BETRAY this truth, in the attempt to adapt it to the MENTALITY of the world, impelled by a false illusion of being better understood, listened to by more people and more easily followed? NO ILLUSION IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THIS.” (February 2, 1976).
“What is it that is obscuring the beauty and the brightness of the Church? It is the smoke of the errors which Satan has caused to enter into it. These are becoming constantly more and more disseminated and are bringing very many souls to the loss of the faith. The cause of such a vast diffusion of errors and of this great apostasy rests with UNFAITHFUL PASTORS. They remain silent when they should speak with courage to condemn error and to defend the truth. They do not intervene when they should be unmasking the rapacious wolves who, hidden beneath the clothing of lambs, have insinuated themselves into the flock of Christ. They are MUTE DOGS who allow their flocks to be torn to pieces. You, on the other hand, must speak out with force and with courage to condemn error and to spread only the truth. The time of your public and courageous witness has come.” (September 8, 1985).
BUT THE FEW PRIESTS WHO REMAIN FAITHFUL to the unchanging Truth of God will be the main instruments in the hands of Our Lady for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary before the Second Coming of her Son, Jesus Christ. “Behold: when everything will have come tumbling down, all that will remain will be the strength of their tears that will compel me to intervene in an amazing and terrible way. And my TRIUMPH will begin with these beloved sons, my priests.” (February 23, 1974).
MOST OF THE FEW FAITHFUL PRIESTS WILL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF MARTYRDOM, but Mary will be at the foot of their cross as She was for Jesus 2000 years ago. “Oh, and even they (priests consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary) in GREAT PART will be called to the ultimate testimony. But their blood will wash and purify this world, so that from it a new world may be born, renewed in love and consecrated anew to the triumph of God!" (December 26, 1974). “Above all, I ask you to offer me the fragrant and precious flower of your suffering. On the altar of my Immaculate Heart, I want to offer all my children, in a perennial act of immolation and reparation. Only through the suffering of my littlest children can I hasten the time of the triumph of my Immaculate Heart in the world.” (May 1, 1994).
EVERYTHING HAS BEEN WELL PLANNED FOR YEARS. Things are happening quickly now. It is we who have given this power to these power hungry people, since few pray and even fewer live their prayer. Do we trust God or do we trust ourselves or the world or Satan?!? The forces of evil have the mainstream media totally in hand. The people do not have the strength to resist because very few of the good pray and live their prayer: “THY will be done”, not “MY will be done”! Very few live the Ten Commandments, and thus they are not able to distinguish between the beautiful lies of the TV and the Truth that sets us truly free (Jn 8:32)! This GREAT EXAGGERATION of C0VID-19, which is not worse than the normal flu, with the help of the TV, the mainstream media, with the cowardly doctors, with the corrupt politicians, with the traitorous priests and bishops, WORKS PERFECTLY for the program of the elite of the world.
Most Mas0ns do not know they are WORKING FOR SATAN until they are brainwashed during at least 24 degrees of Mas0nry. But immediately at the first degree of Mas0nry one must accept religious syncretism, that all religions are equal, which means that Jesus Christ is at the same level with Mohammad or Buddha or any religious founder. To become a 33 degree member of Mas0nry, one must take the oath “Ordo ab Chao”, which is a Latin expression meaning Order out of Chaos! “Ordo ab Chao” is the motive to promote “UNCONTROLED” immigration, as well as undermining commerce and the whole of the structures of societies in a covert and underhanded way using their very numerous bribed Mas0nic politicians and corporate directors!
The elite of the world have planned for years to diminish the population of the world to less than one billion, which means that in the next several years they plan to eliminate over seven billion people!!! The UNCONTROLLED immigration, well organized, will be another phase of eliminating the Christians in the USA, as they are doing in Europe. Eighty percent of the immigrants into Europe in the last eight years are not families with children as the TV shows us, but young strong males, military men of Africa! After the illegal immigrants have done their work, they will be eliminated. In the end also the highest Mass0ns will be eliminated, that is, separated from their Creator for all eternity with the one that they served and adored, Satan, “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44)!
Dear brother priests,
Jesus was born in extreme poverty and ended his life on the cross. We call ourselves Christians which means to be followers of Christ. Behold our way, behold our supreme example to follow!!! In this way we will not be scandalized by what is happening today in the world and in the Church, the Body of Christ, which must pass through what Christ passed through (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 675-677; http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1V.HTM).
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!!!
I tell people to do what you learned at your First Holy Communion: Sunday Mass, monthly confession, and the daily Holy Rosary. The great majority of Catholics do not do this!!! If we do not have time to do this, we do not have time for God, and thus we will not have time for God for all eternity!
SAINT PADRE PIO said: "It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the HOLY MASS." This saint also said: “The ROSARY is the weapon for these times”! A good CONFESSION (a Sacrament) is more powerful than an exorcism (a sacramental)!
I have attached an important Message To the American People by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, as well as a file with many of my recent articles that you might find helpful in this period of great confusion full of traps from our very astute mortal enemy, Satan.
http://josephdwight.blogspot.com
https://josephdwight.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/joseph-dwight-index/
Best Wishes for a Holy Christmas with Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Give great joy to Baby Jesus for His birthday (not ours!) by spending time before Him in the Tabernacle with the Holy Rosary!
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.)
