A friend recently asked: “How long do we have left as a society?” In answer to that question I informed her about an interesting and comprehensive study that a renowned British anthropologist, Joseph Unwin, PhD., presented to the British Psychological Society in 1935. Unwin sought to prove that the traditional monogamous model for marriage was not essential to the maintenance of a healthy society. After studying 86 different cultures, across time and continents –and much to his surprise — he came to the inescapable conclusion that the traditional male-female monogamous model for marriage was indeed the best foundation for a healthy and productive society.
Unwin found that societies that adopted this model typically took about three generations to reach their peak of productivity and progress. After that, frequently, a gradual development of complacency and licentiousness would take place and what he described as an ”outburst of homosexuality” would sometimes occur. When that happened, and the society started to move away from the traditional model of male-female monogamous marriage as its foundation, it would begin to unravel. It would then take another three generations of deterioration from that point for the society to collapse.
It is my opinion that between the end of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction of the South, proceeding through the Industrial Revolution, and continuing up until about the end of World War II in 1945, the U.S. reached its zenith. Then came the U.S. Supreme Court’s Everson decision in 1947 which imposed an unconstitutional “Wall of Separation” between Church and State. This directly contradicted the vision of the founding fathers. 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.
Our thinking about human sexuality was transformed in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s by Alfred Kinsey, using false and fraudulent statistics — including the 10% myth concerning the number of homosexuals in the population. His work was based largely on the deviant sexual practices reported by those in prison. His flawed conclusions were not surprising since 86% of convicted child molesters against males describe themselves as being either homosexual or bisexual. A young college student at the time, Hugh Hefner, was influenced by Kinsey’s work and started what was to become the Playboy empire which in turn helped launch the sexual revolution of the 1960’s.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Griswold in 1965 (which found a new constituitional “right to privacy” for contraception) was the next big judicial construct. This in turn helped fuel the feminist revolution of the 1970’s since women were no longer “chained to their homes” by babies to raise. But, since contraception does not always work, the U.S. Supreme Court had to find a new application for the constitutional right to privacy, which it did in Roe v. Wade in 1973. This travesty of a judicial decision allowed for abortion on-demand. With the new influx of contracepting and “liberated” women in the workplace, having more extramarital affairs than ever, it was of course necessary to adopt liberal No-Fault Divorce laws. In this way, the cheating spouses could easily get out of their lifelong marital commitments with little or no legal penalty or social stigma.
This in turn created the situation where there were far more little boys growing up with no strong male role models at home and far more little girls being raised with no father or by step-fathers more likely to sexually abuse them (e.g. Ellen DeGeneres). In either event, we increased the number of male and female homosexuals by enhancing the risk factors for developmental gender confusion and the psycho-social deficits which eventually lead to the same-sex attraction. Hence, the need for yet another constitutional right to privacy to be announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in the horrific Lawrence decision in 2003 — this time for homosexual sodomy. Thus, what started with the uncoupling of sexuality and procreation in the Griswold (contraception) case has now reached its unnatural conclusion with the legalization and normalization of homosexual sodomy in the Lawrence case. After all, if sex is only about adult emotional attachments, and not procreation, then why not homosexuality?
Of course, the downward slide of our society has been greatly accelerated by the explosion of pornography on the Internet which has weakened the natural romantic attraction between young people and replaced it with unbridled selfish sexual gratification. This has further lessened the natural resistance and even revulsion to various sexual perversions. Indeed, just this past week we have witnessed the sitting Chief Appellate Justice of the largest federal judicial district in the nation, posting disgusting sexual images on his website (involving people and animals) while presiding over a pornography trial involving beastiality and extreme fetishes. Where does all of this lead us — to same-sex “marriage,” of course. And how much time do we have left by Unwin’s standards — I would say that we are at least at the end of the second generation of deterioration, if not already well into the final third generation before the collapse.
Can we stop this societal suicide — possibly, but not if we can’t stop same-sex “marriage” in California in November 2008, and not without supernatural help. Without the foundation of Religion and Morality that George Washingoton and the other founding fathers provided for us, there is simply no real hope for the future of this country.
Finally, since it is only in our maleness and femaleness that we are made in the image and likeness of God, the destruction of the concept of gender is perhaps Satan’s greatest accomplishment. Moreover, since the sacramental marriage of a husband and wife is used to image the relationship of Christ and His Church, even the idea of same-sex ”marriage” is a sacrilege. Therefore, separate and apart from the seemingly accurate prognastications of Professor Unwin, I just don’t see how a God of Justice can tolerate such a diabolical mockery of His divinely ordained instituion of marriage for very long. Indeed, the same man to whom our Lord entrusted the Keys to the Kingdom warned us that: “…in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts… ” (2 Peter 3:3). In conclusion, I informed my friend that although we have had the privilege of living in the greatest nation in the history of the world, based on the foregoing, we may very well be seeing it in its waning years. May the God of our fathers have mercy on us and our beloved country.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Whoa.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Thanks for laying out the truth so clearly.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:37 am
And drawing nigh, he said: Wilt thou destroy the just with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24
If there be fifty just men in the city, shall they perish withal? and wilt thou not spare that place for the sake of the fifty just, if they be therein?
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.
Genesis 18:26
And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes.
Genesis 18:28
What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.
Genesis 18:29
And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.
Genesis 18:30
Lord, saith he, be not angry, I beseech thee, if I speak: What if thirty shall be found there? He answered: I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
Genesis 18:31
Seeing, saith he, I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord: What if twenty be found there? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of twenty.
Genesis 18:32
I beseech thee, saith he, be not angry, Lord, if I speak yet once more: What if ten shall be found there? And he said: I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.
Pray for ten just men and the conversion of sinners.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Thank you, well done! In the book of Genesis, as all throughout the Bible, God’s judgment is always invoked when we cross the line of messing with, contradicting His original covenant with Man, that of marriage, which is solely His Province. Even His judgment on Israel could not be changed, not even for King Josiah, because of these blasphemous and sacrilegious abominations, including child sacrifice, which is the true character of abortion. I believe Ted Flynn has a book on private revelation and the last days, in which he mentions a warning from one approved apparition of our Lady, where, in talking about America’s role in these historic struggles, she says, Tell America she must not go too far in her politics. God have mercy on us all, and strengthen us.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Long ago and far away, as a young Evangelical/Fundamental Christian, I read the “end time” Scriptures and thought, “Well, obviously, this isn’t going to happen in my lifetime. The necessary ’signs’ are not there, yet.” That was about 1965.
How far (and, how fast!) the mighty have fallen.
God have mercy on us.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:54 am
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Just wanted to point out the anachronism: the Industrial Revolution occurred long before the Civil War and Reconstruction.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I love history, and have spent a few years studying ancient and contemporary civilizations (Ancient Egypt, Greece & Rome, China, Japan, and Western Europe).
What is surprising about each civilization is how quickly each became a world power (or the major power or empire in their region of the world), and equally, how quickly they collapsed.
Though the Ancient Egyptian civilization laster 3,000 years, it was a “superpower” in the region for only about 250 years. It had about 900 years of peaceful isolation within the Nile Valley, 100+ years building as a regional power, and perhaps 250 years as “the superpower” of the region, another 400 years of slow corruption and decline, and about 250 years of being overrun and subjugated by foreigners.
Though their period of civilization and greatness was much shorter, Imperial Rome was at the height of its powers for only about 200 years, after which it underwent a period of slow corruption and decline until it was overrun. But it only lasted about 200 years as a “superpower”.
All the ancient and more recent Western European civilizations and great Empires had a very brief period of power and domination. The USSR was to shortest (barely 70 years).
The British Empire lasted about 150 years, the great Empires during periods of Chinese History anywhere between 100-300 years.
The USA is in the process (like it or not), of a slow decline. Morally, economically, and militarily. The policies of the present USA president and the administration have done much to accelerate the decline. But if you take as a model that all great world powers or civilizations had anywhere between 150-250 years of greatness, followed by a slow decline….the USA has just about used up it’s period of greatnness. We’vre over-extended ourselves militarilly and globally, and our society is becoming corrupted by immorality and decadence.
The collapse of society, morals, values etc. was the beginning of the decline of Imperial Rome, the Byzantine Empire, and other powers. And it is exactly the same with the USA.
I’d give the USA another 100 years of existance. It’s all downhill form now. But 200-250+ years from now if we came back to see what was the USA, it’s pretty well certain that instead of 1 nation united under the President and Constitution, we’d see anywhere from 50-150 new independant countries in the land area which used to be the USA….some democracies built on the old USA model, some monarchies, some dictatorships, etc. But the USA as we know it will be only a memory.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I wouldn’t take fundamentalist Biblical prophecy too literally anybody! I’ve lieved with these bible fundamentalists for a year when my family and I first came to the USA from Japan, and the USA “Bible based” Christians are fanatics.
To claim, or support the idea that the USA is/was/ or should be a nation under God (and only the “born-again” version of a Christian God), is sick. The Constitution is an entirely secularist document. Some of the writers of the Declaration of Independance were masons (very much secularists against any established religion).
It’s very dangerous to espouse a God-centered country or government. That’s like Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Muqtad’a al Sader, and Osama bin Laden in reverse.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
“Then came the U.S. Supreme Court’s Everson decision in 1947 which imposed an unconstitutional “Wall of Separation” between Church and State. This directly contradicted the vision of the founding fathers.”
No kidding. A plumber’s “check-valve” is the correct metaphor. It keeps “samsRELIGION” from polluting/ tyrannizing the populace yet allows free-flow of the Decalogue into the public sector to “bless” and “cleanse” the heathens.
“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.”
George and his ilk were mostly “papist-haters”! (Please don’t quote Freemasons on a Catholic website!) George couldn’t keep his Decalogue straight from his “cherry trees”. If he were alive today he’d be a card-carrying ACLU member and paying his dues regularly too! If “Benjie” hadn’t been partying and raising Mason-money for mercenary-aid from France: George would have run out of gunpowder, platitudes, rations, and would have left his diary from a British stockade.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
We’re Catholics here, so we take the seriously, but not literalisticly. Revelation is particularly meant to be taken allegorically.
As for the Constitution, it is meant to protect religions as well as liberty. The Founding Fathers of this nation said clearly on many occasions that the Constitution could only govern a moral society, and that it was not sufficient for any other.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
It would appear our friend Hirotomi is looking to pick a bone with someone.
Why would it be strange to expect a nation to live under God? Any student of history would have noticed that every nation has been exactly that, especially the successful ones. Our nation was founded on a continuation of the Western Tradition of Christian Law, basically English, which recognized, in our case specifically, and overtly, that God’s Law and Nature’s Law formed the foundation of our own. All of our rights are specifically identified as having come from God, not the State, and only thus could our freedom(s) be guaranteed and secured. The First Amendment granting Religious Freedom is not a dissociation from Religion, but its guarantee. They took the position that the Truth was strong enough to compete and to assert itself among all the false doctrines and misconceptions, and best expressed when free to answer any challenges. They also expected that the government had no say over the Church, and it being God’s province, they left it untaxed, and its definitions untampered with (think marriage). Their design in leaving the most power closer to the people, following a principle known as subsidarity(sp?), actually followed one of the best of legal traditions in the Christian West since the fall of the Roman Empire. In not choosing a particular church, but in supporting and extending freedom to all true religion, and encouraging its practice in support of civic peace and tranquility, they recognized that the role of the state is the protection of God’s Laws, not their abrogation, and the setting of laws not as barriers, but as channels to freedom, the model of which is Religion and the dignity of the human person. Freedom can only be kept anywhere to the extent that Religion and morality are practiced there.
As for our poor unfortunate current President, his efforts at saving civilization and protecting our country have been heroic, constant and clear. The fallen state of our morals is not attributable to him, or any president, unless you want to fault our last one, Mr. Clinton. We are quite capable of choosing and fighting for the good, and we have had many enemies, truth be told, who have wanted us to be destroyed from within. Mr. Bush, it could be argued, has risked much of his political capital in taking public stands that are specifically moral, and in giving good example. (The shambles of the party that he is leaving behind is partly his fault, but that has nothing to do with our slide into moral degradation.) We may be demoralized politically at the moment, but it is more due to the lack of outspoken defenders of morality and leaders of political strength who want to lead us in God’s direction, not away from it to some anchorless, benighted secularist society where the obvious right is belabored and besmirched so that, tired by predictions of failure and impotency, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Do not underestimate the strength which freedom has given our country even yet. For the foreseeable future, we will still be the bulwark of civilization, giving freely of our blood and money to uphold the right. Like Samson, we need to recover our strength by serving the Lord, not running away from Him.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I guess I’m in the disputing mood. Arkanabar is wrong on the Catholic interpretation of scripture, and Revelation is not meant as an “allegory”. I invite you to read the book on the valid interpretation of Scripture by Dr Scott Hahn, called “Scripture Matters”. In it, in talking about the levels of meaning in scripture, he quotes St Thomas Aquinas thus, “All other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal.”
God bless.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
“As for our poor unfortunate current President, his efforts at saving civilization and protecting our country have been heroic, constant and clear”
My family lived under a system before WW II when the Emperor was viewed as god. Everything he did was right, every action he took was unquestionable. Even though it was the military who dictated to the late Emperor Hirohito, the average people took it as the Emperor actions, and He was god.
qfrpu’s comments remind me me exalting the leader of the country to heroic status, even when not deserved. Also, the notion of the USA as beackon of civilization, hero of the free world is also a cultish notion. The exaltation of a nation as hero for others, or glorying in the supposed values of the nation as superior to others is walking down the same path that Hitler traveled, and Hirohito and his advisors traveled.
The USA need not be the hero of civilization. Nations rise or fall on their own. They don’t need the USA to step in as hero or protector. Not only does this stir resentment (as in Iraq…the people didn’t appreciate the invasion..they want us out), but broadens a conflict from one localized site….to many. As Bush has done.
Some of these comments don’t sound Catholic at all. I’m Catholic, and I’m distrubed at some comments sounding more from the undereducated, narrow-minded right wing, militaristic Bible pounding, flag waving, gun toting red necked “good ol’ boys” from the USA South , the kind who spit on my brother Shoshiru last year when we when they found out he was Catholic.
Catholics have a respect for the Bible, but we believe as Arkanabar stated. We are not fanatics. We support the USA, but we’re not fanatics about that either.
One of the biggest reasons why civilizations collapsed, is that elements within them pushed an agenda which was wrong but they continued to push it fanatically regardless. The notion of the USA as hero and defender of the freeworld, beacon of civilization, etc. is a notion whose time has past. It in in error. To continue to push it (as Bush and McCain are doing), will only hasten the fall of the entire system…which is already showing signs of it already.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I’m going to have to agree with Hirotomi here. Our government is secular, and that’s the way the founding fathers and mothers wanted it.
I really get sick of evangelicals talking about how all Hell broke loose when women got more power in society. What are you saying about Christianity then? Women are a second class citizens in Christianity? Also, if the writer is so opposed to homosexuality, then why on Earth would priests be celibate? What percentage of them are gay? It seems like homosexuality is almost institutionalized in the all male priesthood of the church. What about the godhead itself in Christianity? Jesus who was male was born from a male god, and the Holy Spirit is also male. Where’s the goddess? How did a male god have a child? Let’s don’t be so quick to bash homosexuality when Rome’s institutions are basically homosexual to begin with.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Well, “had we world enough and time”…, as the poet says to his Coy Mistress. I thought this was a website for Catholics and those who at least understood the rudiments of their faith to discuss issues and things Catholic.
Shankari freely admits to no understanding of the rudiments of the Faith, and I don’t suppose I’m going to be able to do that work here. God is Spirit and has no gender. I could explain the Trinity, but it doesn’t seem that it would make a difference to your understanding, or complaints. However, there is secular, and then there is secular.
The kind of secularism that many militant atheist humanists are trying hard to re-define into the USA contradicts our own history and sense of self. Perhaps you should refer to Pope Benedict’s comments on this “good” aspect of our secularism from his talks during his recent visit. Our forefathers came to these shores to experience religious freedom, first and foremost, and were led by steps to accept the openness to the truth of other voices, all within the framework of equal protection of the law. This framework and openness are consonant with both the biblical understanding of Man and the Christian Tradition of Law, since true law and freedom are conformed to man, whose image and dignity coincides with that of God. They wanted a country whose life would flourish with and from religious devotion, and whose laws and politics would be directed by and to the Godly.
As for Hirotomi, your comments make me ask the question is anything worth fighting for? Do you think that it was good, or made any difference that the Allies won WWII? You can disagree with the Irag War or its conduct, but to think that there is no need for heroes or defending what is good and right, is to misunderstand Jesus Himself.
The root of war is sin. If people devoted their lives to conquering themselves and submitting humbly to God, wars might never come. That is our commission from Christ until He comes, to submit the world and our living in it to Him, so that when He comes, He will bring the perfection that transforms it back into the fishbowl of grace, so to speak, that it was meant to be. I am sorry for the persecution that your brother experienced, but there is, as the Bible says, only one enmity in the world, and it causes all the others, and mixes in with them and confuses good and bad people alike. But if we think that avoiding death and the struggle for the good and holiness is the object of this world, to live comfortably pursuing personal accomplishment, then we’ve missed the point of the Gospel. There is a progress to history, one caused and directed by Christ, not the one that the world watches, but meant for our salvation, and He expects us to give our lives, as He did, in the struggle to accomplish it. What we can’t do, or won’t do, to our detriment, He will, because the work is His.
Sorry to enlighten you to the fact that Catholics take the Bible more literally than anyone, but that is the case. One easy case in point would be our interpretation of the 6th Chapter of St. John’s Gospel. How literal can you be? Isn’t it embarrassing? Yet we have an understanding of Grace that others don’t, and which allows us to see its Truth, and further, to see in it the revelation of the fulfillment of God’s Plan.
While some of your comments on the past and current history of nations may have their relevance and a certain truth, I can only say that God judges nations in history. The Emperor, nice man and average joe that he was, lived in a pagan system that had become an affront to God in some ways, and God has rendered His judgment on it. The Bible is replete with examples of this, but it is as true today as then. Like pharaoh, our doom usually comes from our own hand.
Our time indeed comes whenever we face a war. You may form a template of truths and place them over our current events and struggles to arrive at a view of them that may or may not turn out to be true, but certain things cannot be ignored, and are not inconsequential. We are in a war with an enemy that is implacable, and who will risk more than we may know, and it’s not just because they don’t like our place in the world or how we live. You may be correct in thinking that God will humble us through these struggles, for the reasons that you have cited, or others, or it may turn out that ten years from now we will see a providential aspect to our aggressive prosecution of an effort to remove the sources of these threats and dangers. God may use us up, along with others, in creating the basis for the world He wants for the next stage of history. But none of that is a reason to ignore choosing what we must do, or our call to be heroes. We may say, Why aren’t others being heroes, and we can invite them, or they, pray God, may arise, but ignoring evil never works. Our best strength is our godliness, and our only route to survival is our moral living.
Many are being tempted to an excuse and a jibberish to forgo their moral template in voting, and in supporting a hard road. They want to take a holiday from our realities, and pretend they can substitute a different construct. When those times come, the best advice is to stay humble, be patient, and look before you leap.
June 21st, 2008 at 1:39 am
Believe it or not, I left out two things.
My last line should have read, “the best advice is to stay humble, be patient, stop being ashamed of your struggle, and look before you leap.”
I also meant to invite my friends to read, for an introduction to Catholic thought in approaching the modern world, a great and very readable book by George Weigel. called “The Truth of Catholicism: Inside the Essential Teachings and Controversies of the Church Today.”
God bless.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:15 am
There is a good article about God’s Law on the Custody of Children and the Marriage Relationship here:- http://jahtruth.net/cuofch.htm
June 21st, 2008 at 4:33 am
“As for Hirotomi, your comments make me ask the question is anything worth fighting for? Do you think that it was good, or made any difference that the Allies won WWII? You can disagree with the Irag War or its conduct, but to think that there is no need for heroes or defending what is good and right, is to misunderstand Jesus Himself.”
My answer, not if it ruins our own nation. Maybe I speak from some experience. Of course, I was not born in Japan before WW II. I am only 26. I came here to the USA with my parents, maternal grandparents, and 8 brothers and sisters in 1997. But I know alot about Japanese history, and how the nation was ruined even way before the end of the war by a militaristic clique of generals who even threatened to execute the Emperor, Hirohito, if he did not bow to their agenda (taking over the whole of Asia, and then the USA) Of course we know how everything ended in disaster for Japan…the result of following fanatics. But the economy of the country was already collapsing before the end of the war, because we over-extended outselves…and nearly everything was going into the military. We were the empire that was supposed to last 10,000 years. It was taught that it was our destiny to rule Asia. So we poured everything into that aim, and ruined our country, and other countries (China, Korea, etc.) in the process.
I respect what qhrpfu writes, (and I am not saying that what you personally are a fanatic in holding these views), but it fanatical to hold such a view of the USA. I am sure you are a Catholic, and it is inconsistant with Catholic tradition and teachings to hold these views about the idea of nationhood. This view is more what we hear from the lunatic Bible-pounding “born-again” Christians on TV, and in the political circle. It is more the view that Hitler and his clique held about “the Fatherland”. It was what we Japanese held about our race and country for 50 years ending in the disaster if Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We were a “divine race” destined to rule the world. It was/is sick.
UNfortunatly, this president and Vice president, and many advisors hold some or all of these warped views. It is obvious as to how Bush thinks of “America”. It is what the fundamental Bible Christians believe….and it is a tyranical mindset which will lead to the ruin of our own country.
Qhrphu’s qoute:
“We are in a war with an enemy that is implacable, and who will risk more than we may know, and it’s not just because they don’t like our place in the world or how we live. You may be correct in thinking that God will humble us through these struggles, for the reasons that you have cited, or others, or it may turn out that ten years from now we will see a providential aspect to our aggressive prosecution of an effort to remove the sources of these threats and dangers. God may use us up, along with others, in creating the basis for the world He wants for the next stage of history. But none of that is a reason to ignore choosing what we must do, or our call to be heroes. We may say, Why aren’t others being heroes, and we can invite them, or they, pray God, may arise, but ignoring evil never works. Our best strength is our godliness, and our only route to survival is our moral living. ”
is the most disturbing. I respect you for believing this. It is noble. But it is also a violation of valid judgement. Because If anything, it’s the duty of all nations to stand up against injustice. That’s Catholic teaching. But it’s not Catholic teachings that we as a nation must take on the whole of the evil single handedly, and hold ourselves up as God’s annointed, or God’s champion against evil. That’s sick. It reminds me of the TV clip I saw last year of “born-Again” Christians in S. Carolina weeping over the flag and pictures of President Bush and raising their arms up to God screaming “Strengthen Him Jesus , strengthen America against the enemy, against al-Qaida, against Iran…” If you saw it, you’d change your mind. These people are fanatics, and their views unfortunatly shape alot of USA foreign policy. Perhaps that will change when another party is in office.
Although respect your views alot, it isn’t worth ruining our own economy, or our nations future. Maybe I am an isolationist, but I know from history what this mindset will lead to…and it’s the collapse of the country, not any kind of ultimate victory with God etc.
To fight injustice and speak for moral truth is the Catholic teaching. But not thru war.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:54 am
Sorry if maybe I sound like a bigot against “born-again Christians”, but we as a family had alot bad experiences when we first came to the USA and had the misfortune to choose to settle for a year in the South (Knoxville TN), before moving to Philadelphia (greta place, beautiful growing city….enlightened and open mided people!!)
My parents had alot of harassment from these “born again Christians”, first because we were not white, Anglo-Saxon Americans, second, because we were Catholics. I never had fights before coming to the USA, but only there in Knoxville.
So if I sound off too much, I appologize. I found this site because I love the Catholic Church, especially traditionalist Catholic. But when I read comments that reminded me of these undereducated lunatics I lived with for a year, I had to contradixt what is really a wrong mindset. Unfortunatly, this kind of belief is too common in our country today, expecially since 9/11 and the Iraq war.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:45 am
George Washington said Religion & Morality served as the foundation of a Nation. Is that Freemason George Washington who called his King a Tyrant & yet kept slaves? Is that Freemason George Washington who started the process of murdering off the Native Tribes including those that helped him & those that helped the British as his Govt & the Europeans began stealing the Native Tribes land?
Doesn’t sound too moral to me at all. Freemason Georges’s Monument is called an Obelisk of Freemason of Idolatry. Even Jesus known Idoltary is an obomination to his Father. Jesus actually did not teach “Religion.” Jesus taught is Father’s Spiritual Kingdom that is not of the world of man, nor worldly things. The people that hated Jesus the most were the Religious Political factions of Israel. It was most of the Religious Leaders of the Temple that sought to kill him. Jesus told the Religious Political Factions of Israel their father was the devil who was a liar & murderer from the beginning.
Jesus did not give any indication he came to start a “New Religion.” All men did was turn Jesus back into Religion & through the Religious Political State they controlled they began to murder, torture, & steal from people just as Jesus said they would do as they would be False Teachers, False Prophets, and Wolves in Sheeps Clothing. They just learned how to used Jesus’s and God’s name in order to manipulate, enslave, and seduce people to what is nothing more than their own evil worldly agenda’s upon the earth which is what taking God’s name in vain really means.
The founders of America said they patterend their Nation after Rome & Rome was as big of a murdering Empire as an Empire could be in those days even conquering Israel before Jesus was born of human flesh.
Jesus said the Kingdom is here on earth but you must seek the Kingdom & find the Kingdom. Just as Jesus wasn’t shy about telling the largest part of the Israelites their father was the devil he won’t be any less shy with any other people.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:27 am
Look, guys and gals, I’m not here to comment on the current political situation, no matter what you feel it might be. I was only interested in commenting on an interesting article.
Hirotomi, you haven’t seemed to listened to anything I’ve said, and have mis-characterized the few things you’ve focused on. You can ruin your nation through surrender as well as overzealousness. My only political point to you is that many people, and you seem to be one of them, are looking for an excuse to vote for a candidate and party of rabid anti-Catholicism by abandoning their moral grid, and calling that improvement. It would be nice to blend in with the crowd and put your conscience to rest, because that’s where the real struggle is. Some devils are not apparent, because we’ve taken our thinking caps off. And the thinking is up to us, not God.
ShadowDancer, they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but these are just stupid remarks, and they are not, certainly, Catholic remarks. Getting a few facts right, and with an attitude, does not a world view make. And does not make up for the ones you got wrong. Maybe you read my prior remarks about knowing the rudiments of the Faith. Again, I recommend George Weigel’s book, but also the Catholic Catechism, and the Bible. But unless you know how to read the Bible, it won’t do you any good. I would give more credence to those who knew and understood Him, than to someone reading Him with a life-on-earth-is-meant-to-be-comfortable-and-all-there-is mindset. The Kingdom is within, not “on earth”. It is there by the indwelling of God’s presence and grace, or is that too much like Religion for you?
June 21st, 2008 at 11:46 am
God did not create us to abuse or misuse this gift of life of ours. God did not create us to abuse or misuse this Creation He formed for all of us in which we all live, move and have our being.
We are all created in the Image and Likeness of God. God is Omniscient. We have our fintie degree of consciousness. God is Omnipotent. We have our fintie degree of human potency. And God is Omnipresent. We, too, are present somewhere within His Creation.
And since no one coerced God into creating anything and everything we, too, have a free will.
Yet, in order for free will to be free, God gave and gives all of mankind the ability to either obey Him, His Commandments, His Personal and Direct Divine Revelation and Teachings in the Person of Jesus, The Christ, our Savior and Lord or not. Human obedience to God is at the very heart of all religious and spiritual endevours.
God came to us all, roughly 2,000 years ago, by taking on our human nature in the womb of a Virgin via the Life Giving Power of His Holy Spirit, in order to save us all from the plethora of erroneous, destructive and degenerative human opinions regarding the meaning and purpose for all of our lives and how we rightly are to live these lives granted to us all by Him Who created all that is visible and invisible.
Unfortunately for all of us and our human race in this day and age, people from all walks of life, from every imaginable background, stature, social standing, do not believe they are all in need of a Divine Savior. And the reason for that is simply human hubris, human pride. This hubris, this personal pride, is nothing but an entirely unjustified and unsubstantiated grossly inflated notion of one’s sense of self worth which brings about in the individual, in indivduals, this silly notion that their mere human opinion has the same weight and potency of a Divine Decree! Or in other words, their mere human opinions about anything and everything is the result of their own self-endowed ‘divine
omniscience’.
Right back to square one with the human race in our century - Mankind in Adam and Eve bethinking that they have become ‘gods’, being able to recreated the Creator’s All and all that is contained therein - to include themselves as either male or female - according to their own whims, desires, passions and fancies.
But alas for all of mankind. The One True God, Creator of all that is seen and Unseen, clearly knew and knows what is transpiring within and amongst the peoples of the nations of ours world (to include the United States of America of 2008 A.D.)…
“People will abandon modesty, and dissipation will reign. Falsehood and greed will attain great proportions, and woe to those who pile up treasures. Lust, adultery, homosexuality, secret deeds and murder will rule in society. At that future time, due to the power of such great crimes and licentiousness, people will be deprived of the Grace of the Holy Spirit, which they received in Holy Baptism and equally of remorse.” - Prophecy of St. Nilus - circa 400 A.D.
http://www.fisheaters.com/nilus.html
A much more contemporary Prophecy was granted to Pope Leo XIII in 1884 A.D.:
“From in front of the Tabernacle, he had heard a confrontation between Jesus and Satan. Satan was bragging to Jesus that if he had enough time and enough power, he could destroy the Church. Jesus asked him ‘How much time and how much power?’ Satan replied he would need a century and more influence over those that would give themselves to him. Jesus said ‘So be it.’ The 20th Century is the century that was given to him to test the world.” - from Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
http://www.pwhs-mfi.org/newsletter/news11/prayer_michael.htm
It is simply wishful thinking on the part of 300+ million US citizens that this social and nation evil which is sweeping across our now thoroughly secularized nation will go on and on and on unchecked and unaccounted for by a Creator God Who loves Justice.
“Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden? …
Then the serpant said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods…’
- Genesis 3:1-5
Around and around we have gone all these centuries of human history, only to wind up right back at ‘Square One’.
- Fr. Joseph
Archimandrite - Nazareth Hermitage - USA
June 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
To Fr. Joseph:
I agree with you: “Around and around we have gone all these centuries of human history, only to wind up right back at ‘Square One’.”
And yet, would you agree: Our Lady of Fatima has given humankind a “sun-dance” prophetic message in 1917 foreboding future cataclysmic events dependant-upon humankinds’ “response”?
Some people would say that “America Needs Fatima” now more than ever! Would you agree?
If so… there can’t be much “time left” to respond?
June 21st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
To ShadowDancer:
[I like most of what you write… I’d be interested to hear about what you think of Pres. Andrew Jackson, who orchestrated the first “Trail of Tears”?]
Yet, you say: “Jesus did not give any indication he came to start a ‘New Religion.’
He did choose twelve, (eleven-) humble first-leaders, eleven of whom deserted Him in His neediest-hour, one-of-whom ’sold-him-out’! He did forgive one leader He chose to be the Rock upon which He built his (earthly) Church! He did give the “keys of the Kingdom” to Peter…the power to loose-and-to-bind both on Earth and in Heaven… and He did forge a New Covenant with His Twelve using His Own Flesh and Blood (hidden in bread and wine at the Last Supper!)
He also foretold His necessary-departure so-as-to-send His Spirit to embolden His Leaders with supernatural Power they couldn’t witness without!
You may dislike the way current “descendants” carry-out the remnants of the “religion” He began, yet He also cautioned those who would listen to Him not to “judge”.
Discern: Yes! But, above all: (Show) Love! And show Mercy!
These are very hard lessons to live. No other “religion” demands its followers to love their enemies…even to the point of giving their very lives for them, as He Himself did upon the Cross for sinners!
“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him. God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.” +John 4:23-24
If worshiping God in “spirit and in truth” is a “religion”: Then I am guilty! I do so imperfectly: Yet more-perfectly when I allow His Grace and His Spirit to dwell within.
June 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
About the time we have left: I read or heard once that Nixon during his term as president once asked an aide, (I think it was that ret. Air Force General, former head of NATO who eventually became Sec. of State) whether he (too) thought the country had passed its peak and was going down hill. This is in the seventies. One doesn’t have to be religious to see it, hear it, and feel it all around us.
By even the utter exhaustion of western musical ideas and creation, the acceptance and idolization of no less than “The King” with sexually suggestive gyrations while counterfeiting the voice of an African-American, heralded a major demise in a critical area of culture. Ever since our “Pop Culture” as it has come to be called, has been set by squeaing subteen girls.
My second point and also as a long term student and lover of history I much appreciate the timeline of the existence of a country as a “superpower” as around 200 + years or so as described earlier by Mr. Takemitsu, I believe that the exponential increase in speed; the purpose and success of most of our more recent inventions (I am thinking primarily of communications - by sail, horse, mail service v. the Internet, etc.) when factored in (throw in suitcase nukes, bio releases, and even greater decadence) will shorten that timeline to a handfull of decades.
June 21st, 2008 at 5:28 pm
“My second point and also as a long term student and lover of history I much appreciate the timeline of the existence of a country as a “superpower” as around 200 + years or so as described earlier by Mr. Takemitsu, I believe that the exponential increase in speed; the purpose and success of most of our more recent inventions (I am thinking primarily of communications - by sail, horse, mail service v. the Internet, etc.) when factored in (throw in suitcase nukes, bio releases, and even greater decadence) will shorten that timeline to a handfull of decades.”
Thankyou for appreciating my observation. Yes, as a history major and lover of history, I see many similarioties between ancient and contemporary civilizations, and the USA. The moral decay of Imperial Rome, in addition to its exhaustion as a global super power and stretching armies too thin is what did it in. The civilization was bankrupt. Same as USA cluture and civilization. Long ago, USA civilization and culture gave best ideas and discoveries to the world (electric light, telephone, phonograph, car, airplane, not to mention a hundred others in many areas of culture and science (but not so much art, except maybe “Art Deco” which was a distinctly American trend mustly in architecture and signs in the late 1920’s thru 1930’s. But point is, this greatness is past. Now it seems the most America imports for rest of world is immoral lifestyle, glorification of homosexuality, etc.
I understand qhrpfu’s comments, and respect them. But still, I think USA is past the time when can be the hero of the world and come to aid of smaller nations to overthow tyrants and bring freedom. IN 1940’s and 1950’s this was peak time for the USA to do this….but Vietnam was the turning point against this. Bush # I and II (especially Bush II) didn’t see this. Bush # II has done a great deal to excelerate the decline of the USA…..rapidly.
It’s getting to the point where there will be no stopping or slowing the collapse. NOW (God forbid!!), if the USA gets involved militarilly with Iran, or if the USA goes to protect Israel because the Israelis do something stupid like innitiate a pre-emptive attack on Iran (or especially GOD FORBID if the USA secretly approves of this), then our country, and USA civilization is doomed. There will be such outcry that no longer people will be content to wait for Congress etc to put an end to it all, or a new President. There will be caos in all sectors. And we won’t have afew decades….but possible 1-2 decades. Maybe not even that.
This column and everyone’s views on “How Long does America have” has really been interesting….even though it doesn’t have much to do with Catholicism, and this is a Catholic site! I’ve enjoyed everyone’s comments, especially qhupfu….even though I disagree alot. I’m surprised how mucuh of us agree about the inevitable decline of USA. It is obvious.
I appologize if I make ocassional mispells. But I communicate alot better written in English than I do in speaking it…believe me!!! : )
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Dear rememberCenturion,
You asked me about Fatima and the Fatima Message. Bear with me as this reply will be rather lenghty.
It was the Lord Himself Who beckoned me to accept His Call to be ordained into the Monastic Brotherhood by my Metropolitan Archbishop Athanasius. May this reply to you (and to any other readers) bring Blessing, honor, reverence and respect to my Archbishop. And may it please the Lord to grant St. Michael the Archangel, my Guardian Warrior Angel Aloysius and all of the Heavenly Host many Divine Graces to launch a world-wide spiritual ‘Counter Attack’ against all the enemies of God, His Church and His human race.
It was back in September, 1993 that I was brought into the Spiritual Presence of the Blessed Trinity - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. People have no idea of the absolute and complete ‘terror’ of being confronted by a very ‘Angry’ God. As Sacred Scripture has it “It is a terrible thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God”.
Having said that, I was tasked to relay a Divine Message to the mere human officials of the U.S. Federal and State Governments (which I did). The Crux of that Message was that unless this U.S. Nation stopped/halted the permitted practice of abortion throughout this nation (via Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton), the United States would find itself on this “trash heap/garbage dump” along with all of the other nations of the world’s history which defied Him and His Holy Will for nations, states and peoples of the world down through human history.
All the calamities, all the disasters, all the evil into which this U.S. Nation would fall per that Message I delivered to the U.S. Federal and State Officials have occured - and there is yet more instore.
The Spiritual Gifts of God the Holy Spirit include 1) Knowledge 2) Understanding and 3) Wisdom along with 4) Courage/Fortitude 5) Piety 6) Reverence and 7) Fear and Awe of God. Those Gifts coupled with His Divine Graces has for over these years collected and compiled the following information with regards to His View of our ‘world’ and His Church and the goings-on therein.
Following delivery of His Message via the mails to U.S. Federal and State Officials (merely and utterly mortal HUMAN officials - all who will DIE and all who will face His Divine Judgements upon their deaths), two Lay Carmelites insisted that I should visit a reputed Apparition site of the Lord and His Mother at Conyers, Georgia back on February 13, 1994 in order to retrieve the specific Message given for that day. I obediently complied with their instruction and insistence. Here is that Message of/for February 13, 1994:
http://www.ourlovingmother.org/Messages_Monthly_1994_OurLovingMother.aspx
There was also this ‘Standing Message’ for the United States of America previously given much further back on March 19, 1991 and March 21, 1991:
http://www.ourlovingmother.org/Messages_TenCommandments.aspx#five
I mailed Pope John Paul II a personal account of my encounter with an ‘Angry’ God along with the Message I was charged to share with U.S. Federal and State Officials regarding halting abortion all across these United States of America.
I received a reply from the Pope assuring me he had received and understood the Message, and he made a veiled reference to that Message to the U.S. Government in his encyclical ‘The Gospel of Life’. Last sentence in paragraph 91 which reads:
“91. … On the eve of the Third Millenium, the challenge facing us ia an arduous one; only the concerted efforts of all those who believe in the value of life can prevent a setback of unforeseeable consequences.”. On-line reference at:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/JP2EVANG.HTM
With respect to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos, the Woman of Genesis 3:15 and of Revelation 12:17 and her Fatima Messages, Instructions and Requests, it was during a Marian Movement of Priests Rosary Prayer Cenacle that she granted me a vision of the Twelve Stars of her Crown and an inner locution of her own voice pleading, begging, crying to me (of all people) with these three simple words, “Defend the Church!”
And it was also during a Marian Movement of Priests Rosary Prayer Cenacle where one Rev. Mother was a given a Vision of the Lord - a Vision of Him giving me a ‘Commission’ to be an ‘Informer’ and ‘Communications Expert’ in His Holy Army.
So the following ‘Information’ is being shared here in the hopes Divine Grace will work in, with and throughout the members of His Church, Clergy, Religious and Laity, in answering His Mother’s ‘Call’ to also ‘Defend the Church’ and by thus doing, they will be ‘Defending Humanity’ as well.
As Our Lady of Akita, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Most Holy Theotokos, relayed to the Carmelite nun, Sr. Agnes, back on October 13, 1973:
“The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church…et al” On-line ref:
http://www.theworkofgod.org/aparitns/Akita.#Messages
For everyone-in-the-world’s personal spiritual information:
The Deities of Masonry
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/mason1.htm#018
Satanism Practiced in the Vatican
http://www.fatima.org/news/newsviews/milsatanism.asp
http://www.tldm.org/news/martin.htm
A List of Masons in the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
http://www.crossspot.net/ldprophet/Freemasons.htm
The Murder of Pope John Paul I
http://www.tldm.org/news3/johnpauli.htm
Warnings From Beyond To The Contemporary Church (Confessions of Hell)
http://www.tldm.org/News4/WarningsFromBeyond.1of3.htm
The Permament Instruction of the Alta Venditi
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Venditi.htm
Pope John XXIII Was A Practicing Freemason
http://www.rense.com/general73/ppe.htm
So with Devil-Worshipping Luciferians in/throughout ‘The Helm’ of His Church here on earth, that is the reason ‘Why?’ the Collegical Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has not been allowed to take place. For if it did take place, that would be the utter doom/death/destruction of all that Satan has instigated and erected throughout our contemporary ‘world’ of 2008 A.D. which is now on the very brink of the Satanic/Luciferian planned Third World War which will result in a huge ‘harvest of souls’ for Hell - and all those lost souls are lost to the Greater Glory of our God in Heaven!
“The Third World War must be formented by taking advantage of the differences created by the ‘agentur’ of the ‘Illuminati’ between the political Zionists and the leaders of (the) Islamic World.” - On-line reference:
http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm
On line video entitled “Heaven’s Key To Peace” to any and all who are interested in seeing to it that God the Father’s Divine Will gets done ‘down here’ on earth as it is in Heaven:
http://www.fatimaondemand.org/cat-doc.htm
The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos, the Woman of Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12:17 clearly exposed the Satanic/Luciferian Masonic spiritual ’stranglehold’ on her Son’s Church in her locution revelations given to one Fr. Stephano Gobbi of the Marain Movement of Priest in the book “To The Priests - Our Lady’s Beloved Sons’ in her Message #406 dated June 13, 1989 which she refers to as ‘Ecclesiastical Masonry’ in her Son’s Church here on earth.
The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos, the Woman of Genesis 3:15 and Revelation 12:17 clearly warns the United States of America specifically with her words “You (USA) will know the hour of weakness and of poverty; the hour of suffering and defeat, the purifying hour of the great chastisement.” in her November 15, 1990 message given at Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Again, with regards to the Mother of God’s and the Mother of the Church’s Fatima Messages/Requests/Instructions to the Ecclesiastical Hierachy of the Church, there is this message given by the Lord to one Dr. Mary Jane Even dated back on June 1, 1993:
“Have I (Jesus, The Christ, Son of God, Lord of lords and King of kings) not also asked for the union of Bishops to consecrate Russia to My Mother’s Immaculate Heart? Was it done? No, not correctly nor as I requested. Rather a lukewarm attempt, not united, only stated by the Holy Pontiff. He knows he has not done it properly. Oh, the disobedience of My Prelates. Well, I will see to it Myself.”
Again, with respect to Fatima, here is related quote regarding the Fatima Message:
“He (Satan) will succeed in seducing the spirits of the great scientists who invent arms with which it will be possible to destroy a large part of mankind in a few minutes. Satan will have in his power the leaders who command the people and who will incite them to produce enormous quantities of arms.” - On-line ref:
http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_12.htm
Contemporary developments in ‘Weapons of Total Destruction’ of the Human Race:
http://www.prahlad.org/pub/bearden/scalar_wars.htm
http://www.viewzone.com/haarp00.html
Read from ‘Project Nemo’, the Gaiacomm Executive Report on page 12, the parenthenically enclosed paragraph which begins thusly:
(Generation of geomagnetic-field aligned ionization to control the reflection/scattering propertiese of radio waves…et al) from this on-line reference:
http://www.gaiacomminternational.com/popup.php?popup=p1
Then we can consider Monk Johannes Friede’s (circa 1257 AD) prophecy which contains the words:
“Not all of this will be the result of natural causes. But man will penetrated into the bowels of the earth adn will reach into the clouds, gambling with its own existance.” On-line reference at:
http://www.cukierski.net/stormpackage.shtml
And as such things take place right over everyone’s head in full view right in front of their very noses:
http://www.carnicom.com
So, in closing my dear rememberCenturion, it was THE LORD Who gave power to cause Satan ‘to fall like lightning from the skies’ precisely because HE and His Mhystical Body here on earth ARE ‘The Offspring’ of her Womb as clearly stated in Almighty God’s Adamic Covenant of Genesis 3:15 which is stated in that Covenant being fulfilled per Revelation 12:17.
The REAL, TRUE, AUTHENTIC & VALID Bishops of His Church here on earth can STILL perform the Mother of God’s Request/Instruction/Command for them to perform a solmen and public Collegial Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart.
If the Bishops of His Church DO that - it will be very much like a replay of what THE LORD did for the peoples of this world with Father St. Elijah’s ‘public Supernatural contest’ on Mount Carmel. Go read and ponder 1 Kings 18:20-40
- Fr. Joseph
Archimandrite - Nazareth Hermitage - USA
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
Dear rememberCenturion,
I’m disappointed. My previous (and rather lenghty) reply did not get posted regarding Fatima.
The solemn and public Collegial Consecration of Russia that was desired and ordered by the Mother of the Church but was shunned, rejected and denied by the members within the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy was to be for the peoples of the entire world very much a replay of St. Elijah’s supernatural/spiritual contest on Mount Carmel. See 1 Kings 18:20-40.
Because of their disobedience the the Mother of God, the Vatican Prelates have cooperated in ensuring our world is now filled with every manner of ‘false prophet’ spouting off every manner of false religion, false doctrine, false morality, etc.
Christ was betrayed by Judas for a mere 30 pieces of silver. Our Catholic Church and our world’s 6 billion human souls have been similarily betrayed by those who fancy themselves a being members of ‘our own ranks’.
- Fr. Joseph
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
Sorry, Fr. Joseph, our spam filter had captured your post. But I noticed your complaint and found it and released it.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
More timeline pressures: How about the quality of those who have presented themselves as candidates and winners of the presidency of the United States, including of course, the two current beauties, for the last 20 years? How about the very strong and popular support for to multi-acculturate society, to disunify it. And how about the despair one can feel about any possible remedial, short of a new constitutional convention or revolution, given the state of what is called “education”.
Russia should have been consecrated to Our Lady around 1960, as Sister Lucy constantly repeated, perfectly heading off VAT II, a work of Satan, carrying his trademark confusions. Why were our Lady’s commands not obeyed? Simple. Despite her sanctioning of Fatima and all the her exhortations, Rome hypocritically doesn’t have the Faith to do it. What other reason can there be?
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
With reference to the coming PBS feature (Tuesday June 24th I think) of a supposed current movement toward Christianity in China.
I’m eager to see if it even mentions the faithful underground Catholics and their ongoing persecutions and imprisonments since 1949 and who seemed to be betrayed by our celebrity pope, JPII, (many say “The Great”) who ignored them and played footsies with the “State” catholic regime. When in a Lenten retreat as Cardinal Wojtyla he preached universal salvation to Pope Paul VI and his household he may later have thought our Chinese brethren needed no support. May God bless Benedict XVI for beginning to reverse that and recognize their heroism and dark abandonment.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Dear mkochan,
You caused me an unexpected moment of joy today, “resurrecting” what I thought was a ‘dead and buried’ reply to rememberCenturion. Surely, that was Divine Providence at work - the Hidden Hand of God at work in/with/amongst the members of His Mystical Body here on earth.
I momentarily pondered just how I might properly ahow my gratitude to you for going ‘the extra mile’ in helping me out with what I wanted/had to relay here.
I can’t give you either ’silver or gold’ as I’m a poor man, but the Thought of requesting that the Lord Bless you, your family, your friends, your relatives with special and specific Graces for all of you with my daily votive Mass for the Universal Church today did come “flashing” into my mind.
“Thanks-a-lot” for lending me a helping hand!
Now then, if we can only convince Pope Benedict XVI to issue a ‘Papal Order’ to ALL of the Bishops of His Church here on earth to perform the Collegial Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of the Church in the next couple of days or weeks, then 4,600 Bishops of His Church will likewise be “lending US ALL a helping hand” (6 billion human souls here on earth in this year 2008 Anno Domini) in obtaining God’s Personal Divine Blessing for all of His spiritual children here on earth.
Imagine ‘The Possiblities’ of 6 billion human souls all created in His Image and Likeness returning to the Spiritual Home of their Father, their Eldest Brother, their Advocate and Counselor, and….to their Spiritual Mother!
THAT just might cause a wee, itsy-bitsy, tiny Unexpected Moment of Joy for all Those in Heaven, not to mention an untold amount of Grace imparted to countless suffering Holy Souls in Purgatory!
- Fr. Joseph
Archimandrite - Nazareth Hermitage - USA
June 25th, 2008 at 3:06 am
May it please God the Father of us all to Grant/Release the necessary Divine Graces upon the Church and all of mankind to avert World War III should the following posting of mine find His Favor.
Now to specifically address Mr. Charles S. LiMandri’s statement within his article above “Then came the U.S. Supreme Court’s Everson decision in 1947 which imposed an unconstitutional ‘Wall of Seperation’ between Church and State.
It was about 10-13 years ago when as a Lay Carmelite I found myself strangely led to read books on the Occult. It seemed as if St. Michael the Archangel was helping me to make specific selections.
In R. Swinburne Clymer’s “The Book of Rosicruciae”, Franklin Roosevelt was called “one of their own”. To obtain their Initiate, one must be a 33rd degree Mason to begin with. Additional information was given that at the King George V hotel in Paris, France in March, 1931, the various Occult organizations such as the Freemasons, various Hermetic Orders as well as Kabbalah groups along with the Rosicrucians formed and entered into a formal ’spiritual alliance’ - their umbrella group would be called the “International Occult Alliance’.
The primary goal of this Occult Group was to replace the Catholic Church with their ‘Holy Gnostic Church’ so as to impart esoteric gnosticism and spiritism onto all the peoples and nations of our world.
Rosicruican Initiate/33rd Degree Freemason U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt coaxed the U.S. public into going along with his notions as to who would be ‘fitting’ to be assigned to the U.S. Supreme Court. On-line reference:
http://www.hpol.org/fdr/chat/
By 1947 A.D., the U.S. Supreme Court was “packed” with like-minded Freemasons, and the U.S. Supreme Court remained dominated by Freemasons from the 1947 A.D. “Everson vs. Board of Eduation” to 1973 and the ‘Roe v. Wade’ decision.
Between 1947 and 1973, we see every manner of U.S. Supreme Court judicial “fiat” in any number of contrived cases brought before the Masonic Court in order to diminish the influence of the Catholic Church on the minds, hearts, souls and spirits of millions of U.S. citizens so as to implement installing the ‘Holy Gnostic Church’ into the minds and hearts of generations of U.S. citizens.
You are welcome to read Mr. Paul A. Fisher’s book entitled “Behind The Lodge Door”. On-line reference:
http://www.catholictreasures.com/cartdescrip/10050.html
From page 135 of this book entitled “Catholic Principles of Politics” sitting on my lap, we read,
“Let princes adn rulers of the people bear this in mind and bethink themselves whether it be wise and salutary, either for public authority or for the nations themselves, to set aside the Holy Religion of Jesus Christ, in which that very authority may find such powerful support and defense. Let them seriously consider whether it be the part of political wisdom to exclude from the ordinance of the State and from public instruction, the teaching of the Gospel and of the Church. Only too well does experience show that when religion is banished, human authority totters to its fall. That which happened to the first of our race when he failed in his duty to God, usually happens to nations as well. Scarcely had the will in him rebelled against God when the passions arose in rebellion against the will; and likewise, when the rulers of the people disdain the Authority of God, the people in turn despise the authority of men. There remains, it is true, the usual expedient of suppressing rebellion by force; but to what effect? Force subdues the bodies of men, not their souls.”
Pope Benedict XV’s Encyclical ‘Ad Beatissimi’ November 1, 1914
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1403934
So you see, my dear fellow U.S. citizens, whether you are a Catholic Christian or not, the U.S. Surpeme Court was used by the International Occult Alliance of the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Hermetic Orders and Kabbalahists in order TO ESTABLISH a U.S. State Religion and ‘Church’ - their ‘Holy Gnostic Church’.
Do avail yourselves to Dr. Harold Bloom’s book entitled ‘The American Religion’ wherein he clearly holds up a mirror up to the contemporary ‘American Religion’ which he identifies as American Gnosticism.
- Fr. Joseph
Archminadrite - Nazareth Hermitage - USA
June 25th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Dear mkochan,
Please check your ’spam filter’. I submitted yet another rather lenghty comment here regarding the moral/ethical degeneration of the USA since 1947. Thanks!
- Fr. Joseph
June 25th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Read it on-line, ‘The Devil’s Final Battle’
http://www.devilsfinalbattle.com
From the Roman Missal, Opening Prayer of the Mass for the Universal Church:
God our Father,
in Your care and wisdom
You extend the Kingdom of Christ to embrace the world
to give all men redemption.
May the Catholic Church be the sign of our salvation,
may it reveal for us the Mystery of Your Love,
and may that Love become effective in our lives.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
From the Dismissal of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom:
Priest: Lord, bless those who praise You and sanctify those who trust in You.
SAVE YOUR PEOPLE and bless Your inheritance. PROTECT THE WHOLE BODY OF YOUR CHURCH. Sanctify those who love the beauty of Your house. Glorify t hem in return by Your Divine Power, and DO NOT FORESAKE US WHO HOPE IN YOU. Grant peace
to Your world, to Your churches, to the Clergy, to those in public service, TO THE ARMED FORCES, and to all Your people. For every good and perfect gift is from above, coming from You, the Father of lights. To You we give glory, thanksgiving, ad worship, to the Father and to the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and to the ages of ages.
To any of the Bishops and Clergy of either the Western Church or the Eastern Church who might wind up reading this appeal of mine, could you offer up the Sacrifice of the Mass, the Divine Liturgy, for the Victory of the Immaculate Heart of the Mother of God over the evil one, his elemental minions and his human stooges, dupes and allies here in our world.
At times, I feel as if I’m with the 101st Airbone holding out at Bastogne, waiting and waiting and waiting some more for the 10th Armored to break through and relieve the siege.
- Fr. Joseph
Archimandrite - Nazareth Hermitage - USA
June 27th, 2008 at 7:41 am
To those who share the Holy Catholic Faith; to those who by the Grace of Our Lord Jesus, His Passion and Death, to the Glory of the Eternal Father and by the Most Loving Holy Ghost (Spirit) in whom all Truth is and will ever shall be, will convert to this Holy Catholic Faith; to those who read this from whatever of the six false religions of the world that they claim to have a belief system and to those who hate the Holy Faith, the Faith which assures that the Queen of Heaven will Triumph over the evil one and his minions, it is with humility that I enter this question of how long does the US have. This will be a long response and will be in installments. Sorry but their is much to say and much education will not be accomplished in one sitting. The last time I looked most people hadn’t a CD drive for me to insert the disc of understanding. God wants you to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Guess what it has taken me decades to learn, no more a lifetime and I don’t know it all. Installment one: Understanding Prophecy and who is the Queen of Prophets?
As St. Paul assures us that some can only eat vegtables and others can eat the meat of the Faith, I begin with an apology that for some I will appear to state things which may be difficult to understand since the ground will be new territory for them. I advise you to read more, study more and most importantly to pray more. The concepts, terms, comments and prophecies can be read at a later date for those interested; it is however, not my initial goal to do and exhaustive presentation of facts. This format of exchange, albeit “Catholic” presupposed that some level of education is necessary to keep up with the comments I’ll be sharing.
To begin: The Queen of Heaven, the Queen of Prophets has shed more tears than I can imagine and Her Messages are not acted upon by the present Church Hierarchy. This was predicted not just at Fatima. This disobedience is at the root of the problem. It is the old “non servium” of the evil one- satan. (I don’t capitalize the “s” because he isn’t worthy of any proper name distinction). The battle is introduced in Gensis 3:15. If you read in your Bible you’ll find as I have many different “bibles” in my possession that the words of this prophecy have been changed to suit the wiles of the demonic and his minions. The heretics have King James, a homosexual, whose version we have is now somewhere at the 14th or 15th variation depending on what “authority you take as “gospel”! Nevertheless, the issue is there will be emnities, ie plural,hatreds between you (satan) and the woman. …between your seed and Her seed. She shall crush thy head and thou shall lie in wait for Her heel! The Heretics have it completely confused and they indicate the battle never ends with the “he or it” strikes at the head while he strikes at the heel. For those who don’t understand, open your “bible” and read what it says. Now, if you have the NIV or the new Jeruslem or the newest NAB (the standard now fostered by the American Church, your going to get the enemies words and not God’s Word. The only official english translation and the one the Federal Government states is the True Bible is the Douay Rheims. Try finding it in Walden books, Barnes and Noble… you know the standard book outlets run by the New World Order crew. Why would satan want you to know the Truth. Scripture has it that the Truth will set you free!
Focus on the Queen of Prophets as God Himself tells us that She will crush his head, ie pride, final decisive battle. Father Paul Kramer’s book is a good start. Read it. Installment two will pick up where I left off! By for now.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Maybe, just maybe, I hear the faint rumblings of the Church Militant’s 10 Armored in the far, far distance. Please, let that be so! Please.
http://letsrollfourms.com/catholic-bishop-speaks-out-t17431.html
This is all very much like trying to hold and defend ‘The Bridge’ as depicted in the “Saving Private Ryan” movie.
“St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection…et al”
Almighty God, grant those in your Church Militant - her Leaders and her Lay Faithful - the Supernatural Courage and Gifts of Your Holy Spirit to CONFRONT, ENGAGE AND DESTROY all the malicious spiritual enemies - whether elemental or incarnate - arrayed against Your Church and Your Saved and Redeemed Humanity here on and all across our planet earth. Amen!
- Fr. Joseph
Archimandrite - Nazareth Hermitage - USA
‘Informer’, ‘Communications Expert’ - His Holy Army
June 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
‘Informer’ - ‘Communications Expert’ - ha - can’t even type!
http://letsrollforums.com/catholic-bishop-speaks-out-t17431.html
- Fr. Joseph
June 27th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Fr. Joseph. these are some pretty virulent anti-Catholics you have linked to! Surely that is not what you intended….
June 28th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Dear mkochan,
Before I speak about Mr. Phil Jayhan, his 9-11 website & all the vehemently anti-Catholic types who love joining Mr. Jayhan in his anti-Catholicism with their own specific form or anti-Catholicism, I simply must bring the following to your attention.
Anti-Catholicism is the premier ‘personal religion’. I would say that anti-Catholicism is the Number One ‘Religious Belief System’ in the entire world!
The political Zionist state of Israel is vehemently anti-Catholic. All the Islamic nations of our world are vehemently anti-Catholic. This Masonic United States Corporation with its global-business-finance corporate headquarters in the Disctric of Columbia is vehemently anti-Catholic. Every last economic, business and financial corporation here in the USA as well as throughout the entire world is vehemently anti-Catholic. The US and world’s entertainment industries are vehemently anti-Catholic as are viritually every last one of the US and world’s media outlets. Public schools here in the US as well as the rest of the world are vehemently anti-Catholic. And then so many of supposed ‘Catholic’ institutions such as colleges and universities are themselves vehemently anti-Catholic! And by gosh, we Catholics have so many anti-Catholic members of the Hierarchy and the Church’s Clergy as well! But of course, I need not remind you that virtually every last one of the world’s current 27,000+ and counting ‘bible-based’ sects, cults and ‘churches’ are all vehemently anti-Catholic as well. And just how many ‘Catholic’ career politicians in the U.S. Corporation headquarters of the District of Columbia are vehemently anti-Catholic themselves? Or, for that matter, in and throughout our US Corporation’s District of Columbia headquarters ‘government’?
So Mr. Jayhan and his 9-11 website is but an insignificant “drop in the bucket” - and with all the anti-Catholicism of so many from so many different walks of life nowadays, should you find it strange that “birds of a feather flock together”? That is why Mr. Jayhan can have atheists, witches, new agers and just about anyone else who has as their ‘Base Religious Belief’ their own vehement version of anti-Catholicism.
Anyways, regarding Mr. Jayhan’s 9-11 website. I immediately began contributing to his website and forums when he first posted to the Internet his personal T.V. watching “discovery” - watching the Boeing 767 plunged into the World Trade Tower in SLOW MOTION. He noticed both an odd anomaly ‘pod’ protruding from its lower fuselage with visual evidence of some sort of ordinance/rocket eminating from this same aircraft prior to impacting the World Trade Tower.
And ‘Why?’ would I contribute to a vehemently anti-Catholic website, receive gobs and gobs of personal insults, attacks, etc. due to my being a Catholic Christian? Time after time, following my defense of the Catholic Faith, Mr. Jayhan would eventually “ban” me from making any other postings or comments to ‘his’ website.
The reason ‘Why?’ is because of 1) having served in the United States Armed Forces, swearing a MILITARY OATH to defend the Constitution of the United States of America (and NOT the US Corporation of the District of Columbia’s geo-political business and financial plans imposed on the nations/states/people of our world) in the United States AIR FORCE and 2) having worked on/in/with both military and civilian aviation for 33 years as a U.S. Departement of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Licensed Airframe and Powerplant mechanic!
The on-board Satellite Communications Systems couple to the on-board Auto-Pilot and Auto-flight and Flight Management/Control Computers on BOTH those ‘terrorist hijacked’ Boeings used vs. the NYC Twin Towers were remotely controlled and flown by elements WITHIN the U.S. Corporation’s Department of Defense, its FAA, its CIA, etc. And there was NO ‘Boeing 757′ to hit the Pentagon either.
I work daily on Boeing 767s, 757s and 737s - and it was incumbent upon me, by the Grace of God the Holy Spirit as an ‘Informer’ and ‘Communications Expert’ in His Holy Army TO INFORM Federal Officials, State Officials, Law Enforcement Agengies of every type in existance at the Federal and State levels as well as to the members of our Catholic Church’s HIERARCHY here in and throughout our United States OF AMERICA of this hidenous mass-murdering CRIME conducted against U.S. citizens and FELLOW U.S. Catholic Christians in N.Y.C. back on 9-11-2001.
But “of course”, all the members of the Catholic Hierarchy here in the USA I wrote to and informed “turned their back in silence” and not a peep came eminating from ANY pulpit or Catholic news outlet or media - and all of my ‘Catholic’ Federal and State officials followed the Church’s Hierachy’s lead adn “turned their back in silence” as well.
For all of the personal TAUNTING & ABUSE I received due to my Catholic Faith on websites/from websites such as Phil Jayhan’s 911 Letsroll or Pilots for 911 Truth or from the webmaster at Rense.com didn’t “hurt” as much when compared to having ‘my own Catholic People’ turn their back on me and remaining quiet/silent while they allowed Catholic PARENTS send their sons and daughters off to fight a bogus, illegal, immoral and UNconstitutional War in Afghanistan and Iraq!
I’m a Viet Nam Era Veteran, you see. “Been there. Done that!”
And while all of THIS is going on - the lies, the lies and the lies allowed to go on and on and on due to the COWARDICE of ‘The Leaders’ of my own Catholic Church sit snuggly and comfortably behind the closed/shut doors of their Chanceries and their Vatican Offices - GOD HIMSELF offers the entire world, His world WORLD PEACE by His Own Hand if only His Church’s PRELATES would perform a solemn and public Collegial Consecration of Russia to His Mother’s Immaculate Heart in order TO HONOR HIS OWN MOTHER!
Too many supposed Catholic Church Prelates are, in fact, in spirit ‘Satanic Sadists’ who ENJOY watching our entire human race be ground up and spit out like dog meat all across this world of ours due to the International Occult Alliance’s WARS and bogus fiat money Central Banks all across this world of ours!
And that is to say nothing of the ‘Catholic’ politicians who likewise turn their backs on their fellow human beings, their fellow US citizens, their fellow Catholic Christians here in the US and throughout the rest of our world.
The Lord is STILL holding back His Hand of Chastisement and STILL offering His Divine Mercy to those Prelates and Civil Officials of His Church so as to give them all ample time to repent! But the lure of their bank accounts, their personal cash-flows, their ‘appearance’ and ’standing’ in human society is appareantly “trumping” their call to duty to God, to their Country and to His Church!
There…I hope that answers your questions and concerns.
- Fr. Joseph
June 28th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Installment 2: Given you’ve read the first installment and you did your homework by opening your “bible” and if you found your “bibles” translation to be wanting of the “crush the serpents head” description, you should be reaching down deep in your pockets for the money to purchase that “pearl of great price”. In this matter I am speaking of the Word of God. Federal Law states that, ” The Holy Scriptures are the Word of God!” For the moment, and as an aside but truly necessary at this point in the installment process, I need to digress… First, look at the pregnant image, iconos, of the Lady of Guadalupe. She has Jesus inside, She has the stars of Her crown, the heel on the serpent’s head and She has the halo of the light of Heaven to be sure. I’m not going to go too deep here, but this undeniable image is outside our human science and we, for all of our knowledge cannot explain away how St. Juan Diego’s tilma hasn’t rotted to dust, how the image got on it, the winter issue of roses and a host of other ‘phenomenon”. Surfice it to say, my Faith accepts the absolute Catholicity of this image of my Queen and Mother of the Savior. Human sacrifice was rampant and this Mother came to fight for, and to claim the Americas for Herself and Her Most Wonderous Child at the midpoint in the two continents! Ya think She cares for our salvation?!!! Maybe we should give Her her due as Queen and Loving Mother! This event of the 1500’s is in stark contrast to the events in the Old World. Eight million Catholics became heretics in Europe. This is the work of satan. The battle rages as predicted in Genesis 3:15. She, the other creature, in the prophecy responds with eight million conversions of pagan indians. Ya think those instant conversions were few and far between? The priests had all they could do to handle the baptisms, much more, the teaching of the Faith. At this point, you should realize the battle is raging and the Americas was then, and is now, very much in the thick of things. True Catholics accept the prophecy and the words “crush his head” has a permanancy to it. Yes, the pride issue was the first sin and Her humble response was accepting the Word made Flesh. For with God all things are possible, Our Dear Savior taught. She has come to defend the Americas. Deo Gratias!
Okay, you say in your creed. that is if you say it correctly… I believe…notice I didn’t say we believe. This is a personal attestation of belief. History records the three Creeds as always in the person of I. You may not think this is important but you know Scripture has it, “he who despises small things will fail little by little! Back to the creed… you say you believe in the seen and the unseen. Well, do you think the battle rages only on this human plane? No, the Holy Angels, under the great command of the Prince of the Angel, St. Michael the Archangel, one of the seven Lampstands that stand before the Throne of the Most Blessed Trinity, are engaged in a constant battle with the demons, fallen angels. The Church records much on the Holy Angels and the homework is to read many of the great books on St. Michael and the nine choirs of Angels. Holy Scripture records the angels in various roles of messenger and also as a warrior for God’s people! Read the Old Testament. There is St. Raphael helping Tobit. Curing/healing/comforting are, it would appear, the virtues of this great Lampstand that stands before the Lord. Incidentally, the Garden of Gethsemane finds Our Lord’s Guardian Angel, St. Raphael comforting Him fromthe horrors of the impendind Passion but also we must recognize this Divine Conscience knows each and everyone of us and the state of our sins and whether we would be saved or not. How much of a comfort was St. Raphael to Our Dear Suffering Lord all drenched in His Precious Blood at just the thought of the battle that rages for the souls of mankind. His prayer should be ours as well:”Not my will but Thy Will be done.” We pray this in the Our Father!
Okay so you’ve come to know some of the players in this great battle that still rages on… Let’s go back to the first prophecy to pick up on the “Woman of Genesis” Later, we’ll review the “Woman of the Cross” and also the “Woman of the Apocalypse”. For true Catholics, She is the Church! She is above all the Holy Angels and St. Michael and all the Holy Angels await in rapture the commands of the Holy Virgin Theotokos, Mother of God! For that matter, She is above all the Popes and the entire hierarchy of the Church. She is not some executive secretary in a corporate structure that we can just ignore if we so desire. Wow! What is your mentor speaking of? None other then the great disobedience to the Queen of Heaven. Fr. Joseph wrote of this in his earlier citings on this great question that is before us about the US! This disobedience, Sister Lucy, God rest her soul, taught us that the Blessed Virgin called it a “diabolical disorientation”! Given that the majority of the readers in this Catholic Exchange most assuredly have not read about Fatima to any extent and that the works on this subject are voluminuous… I can only say stop your activity traps and get reading if you really want to know the answer to this great question before us. Be assured, I will help you along. Read Fr. Michel’s Triology on the Whole Secret of Fatima. You’ll have the great battles with freemasons and the Chapter 12 Queen of Heaven battles against the great red dragon and the black beast. The imagery is likened to the Lord of the Rings but Tolkien used the Holy Scripture as source material for his Trilogy masterpiece. The red dragon-Communism is linked with the Black Beast- Freemasonry. The pieces are beginning to take shape, at least you, the reader, can see the outlines of some of the pieces in this great puzzle. Educating you to this point is like taking your dining room table and sweeping it clear to open the box of the multitude of pieces that we know interlock to reveal the puzzle image for which you and I are but one piece in this great puzzle. I pray you find your self in this great puzzle of the Book of Life. The other puzzle I’ll allude to from time to time but the important one is the Book of Life. Now, at this juncture, we can clearly see some pieces have been linked together for us. The battle and some of the major personalities have been brought to this question for they are all linked! In future installments, I’ll begin the writing of the icon of the Church Militant that Fr. Joseph alludes to. However, I know some of you are maybe somewhat confused. Let me say you must envision this puzzle, this Book of Life and the Family that God has invited us to be apart of. It is the only relationship you need to maintain and the real front lines battle that rages for the souls of your loved ones as well. Okay, ask yourself if the Queen of Heaven the great Warrior Queen gives Her subjects the Brown Scapular to wear as the armor to protect our front and back, why ar eyou not wearing it!???!!! Any excuse is just an excuse and your pride stands in the way of the protection of this great country which I and hopefully you must share. Installment three later. Put the Scapular of Her Protection on and cease your endless chatter of the litanies of excuses. She offers it and at Fatima, She said “Only I can help you!” For the Catholic, these words relate to the third secret and to the very battle over your soul and your loved ones. May you pray Her Rosary the weapon as St. Padre Pio so often instructed us. Bye for now. Tom
June 28th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Dear Brother Tom,
You just keep on teaching and don’t let up.
“My People PERISH for lack of knowledge.” - Prophet Hosea - Hosea 4:6
I prefer not to think of the many times I’ve been assaulted by malicious evil spirits. The great saint of the Eastern Church, St. Seraphim, described them accurately as “the despicable ones”.
The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. How can I describe it from my own personal experience/point-of-view as being “Spiritual Body Armor” as well as being ‘Divine Dog Tags’ for those who know about such things from military service.
And, yes, take it personally from me, St. Raphael runs and operates the most incredibly ministering ‘M.A.S.H.’ unit.
- Fr. Joseph
June 28th, 2008 at 11:47 am
And dear mkochan,
And lest my last reply to you sounded as if I have “no respect” for the Bishops of His Church here on earth, my entirely negative comments about those in the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy concern those who simply ‘dress up and play act the part’ such as those many Masons who, like the dual-citizenship Zionists who are dragging our US Nation into the very pits of hell, will lie, cheat, steal and murder all in order to advance ‘the father of lies’ goals and desires for the Church and for all of mankind.
My Bishop, Metropolitan Archbishop Athanasius, is a very blessed, prayerful, humble man of God and faithful Servant to the Lord’s Church here on earth. My Fr. Bishop is graced with personal visitations from the Lord Himself Who shares His Thoughts and Presence with my Bishop on a very intimate ‘One-to-one’ basis.
From time to time, as a GOOD Fr. Bishop, my Bishop sends me ‘word’ to me from the Lord giving me personal guidance, instruction, encouragement and at times direction as to what He needs and what He desires and what He knows will be ‘effective’.
With specific regards to your concerns about the rampant public and socially acceptable “anti-Catholicism” raging about and around us in our ‘world’ today, I think that the Lord wouldn’t mind me sharing this particular Bit of Information with you - as YOU are a part of His Mystical Body - His Church - here on earth.
Verbatim, from a letter the Lord dicated to my Fr. Bishop for me personally, I quote:
“Why? Because My Mother has taken you as one of Her own personal companions, one who She fully intends to use for the comfort and consolation, the Salvation, of Great Masses of Souls who are in the midst of Terrible Pain and Suffering. These are they who have brought upon themselves untold torment after their death for the injuries they have caused My Church in their lifetime. And how did they offend My Heart so often, and cause such ruin? It is because they gave themselves freely to Gossip and Slander. This particular kind of Calumny has been particularly insidious, as it is a hidden thing within the heart. At times it is spoken, but more so it is the hidden judgements and slander within the heart and mind. These carried along with them in their lifetime, a constant complaining and ingratitude for all the good within people.
“They took every opportunity to raise themselves up in unholy righteousness against their neighbor, and particularly those within My Church. If only they had acted as the Good Samaritan, and stopped to tend Her wounds. However, rather than build up and encourage, working to heal the discouragement, every one in his own turn chose to heap more condemnation and indictment upon an already sick and crippled Body. What more could I do for these? What other recourse oculd I have had, than to send them into the same poison and rancor that they have spewed out for years within their lifetime.
“It is for this reason I speak to you today. I need souls who will give of themselves, as you have so many times. I need encouragers and heroic souls, woh are willing to stand in the gap as Moses did, and truly, sincerely pray out of Love for My Church, My Body, and all of the wandering souls upon the earth. Would that I had a calvary of regiments just for this purpose….et al”
So, in closing my dear mkochan, I have a Standing Order from the Mother of God…
“Defend the Church!”
Just like the closing battle scenes of ‘Saving Private Ryan’, I have no where to go to but stay here at/on this ‘Bridge’. I’m very, very low on ammo. There are no ‘Reinforcements’ in sight. The ‘radio’ is dead. And all one can do is but HOPE that those ‘OFFICERS’ back a ‘Headquarters’ recognize the dreadful seriousness of this Spiritual Situation for the Church, our ‘world’, and the entire Human Race redeemed and saved by the Shed Blood of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on His Cross - and prayerfully call out for a “Divine Air Strike” along with Spiritually Strategic “Carpet Bombing”…
…I’ll try to ‘hold THIS Bridge’ as long as I can.
Sure could use 65 million US Catholics to come charging/a’runnin’ with Fixed Bayonets. But what are the chances of THAT happening…really???
- Fr. Joseph
June 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
To Tom and Fr. Joseph,
I find this all very fascinating! I knew something very, very serious was going on for a while now. Seemed like it was whispered in my soul or something. I don’t have what it takes to verbalize it. Well, anyway, keep on talking because I am listening to you both!
p.s. My husband is an A & P also, Fr. Joseph.
~Michelle
June 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Dear Michelle,
I am quite certain that there are those times when you and your husband ’share a glance’ to/at one another - and the two of you (without a word spoken between the two of you) know what it is that you are sharing, communicating and confirming to one another.
By the Sacrament of Marriage, the Lord has made the ‘two of you’ one, and the two of you share in the same ‘life’ and the same ‘living’.
By your Baptism into His Body, the Church, you are likewise ‘made one’ with the Lord ‘in spirit’ via His Divine Graces you regularly receive via His Church’s Sacraments - foremost amongst them receiving Him in the Chrisitan Sacrament of the Eucharist. And by your Confirmation/Chrismation, you are given the Spirit of Truth - His Holy Spirit - to teach you all manner of thing and to lead you into all truth.
That “knowing-in-your-heart” that something was ‘wrong’ is the Working of the Holy Spirit. You yourself witnessed the Workings of His Grace initmately within your personal life - even though you could not express it in terms of mere human words.
Once that sort of “knowing-in-your-heart” that something was ‘wrong’ is recognized, it is precisely at those times/in those events that the Lord desires you to ‘ask, seek, knock’ about that particular “wrongness” you sense in spirit at the very core of your being.
And the Lord desires such ‘asking/seeking/knocking’ on your part precisely because YOU are part of His Mystical Body here on earth - and that He needs your hands, your feet, your eyes, your ears, your mouth, your mind, your free will, to be about some sort of per