Go and sin no more

 

The horror story version of the Spanish Inquisition came from one letter proven to be a forgery, and one overly dramatic text which was published in Heidelberg in 1567.  It was ANONYMOUS (with a pseudonym) and it had ZERO CORROBORATING WITNESSES in any text to follow it.  It was nothing more than a sophomorically written piece of war propaganda, published the year before one of the more decisive Catholic-Protestant wars.  That forged letter was the same thing.  

Being that the forged letter is mentioned in the BBC documentary, it's not mentioned at all here.  After all, why be redundant?  Why look like a plagiarist?   And remember, things written in this discourse ...this post... are not mentioned in the BBC documentary, at all.   The BBC only had 48 minutes of airtime to spend on this subject.  It had to budget info.

The other pertinent fact is that every case brought before the Spanish Inquisition had a case file attached to it which was well preserved in Spain's archive system throughout the centuries.  That archive system was made opened to the public decades ago.  So, the BBC took up the Spanish government on its open invitation, and payed historians to report on what they found, after having scoured the Spanish Inquisition's archives.

As an added point, the Spanish Inquisition was a secular organization founded by Isabella, after Isabella asked the Vatican for its "approbation."  Approbation means permission . . . mostly.  The bottom line is that Isabella was in charge, and Spain's monarchy was independent of the Roman Inquisition which does not come close to the horror story tale of the Spanish Inquisition set forth in the easy-to-disprove Montanus Tale.  None the less, Isabella needed expert witnesses for the Inquisition.  This is where educated theologians of the Roman Catholic variety come into play. 

Moreover, the Spanish Inquisition began in 1478, before Luther was even born. At the time, Spain was still being occupied by its invader of the past  767 years.  The Moors were soon to be ousted.  Isabella was going to make sure that the Moors would only return to Spain as tourists.  Ironically, the Muslims Moors were allowed to stay in Spain without needing to convert to Catholicism.  That scenario is explained further down, in the discourse.  

All in all, the word Protestant didn't exist until the Year 1529.  Thus, the Spanish Inquisition was NOT established to hunt down Protestants.  However, it was designed to stop deadly fanatics from starting rebellions as did the Jan Hus followers, years after his death.  He was burnt at a stake in Germany approximately 16 years before Joan of Arc was torched in England.  Her devotees never went around England killing people.  If they did, she would never have been canonized.  In summary, the Spanish Inquisition was meant to be a watchdog organization for the queen of Spain.

The Spanish Inquisition was disbanded, dissolved, terminated in 1834.  The Year 1834 is five years after England "emancipated Roman Catholics," in the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.  During that year, the Prime Minister of England was the same man who beat Napoleon at Waterloo.  In fact, his brother was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1822 to 1828, opening the way for Roman Catholic liberation.  A number of laws put Catholics in a crippled social position.  The idea was to make Catholicism so vexed by laws that Catholics would leave the Church.  The Duke of Wellington's name was actually Arthur Wellesley ... not Wellington.

The conclusion is that nothing occurred in Spain that was any worse in statistical numbers than what was occurring in France, Italy, England, the Netherlands and the such.  In fact, the worse events of the 16th Century were [1] Henry VIII's England, [2] Cromwell's massacres in Ireland, and of course the most intense of the nightmares having been under the rule of  [3] Czar Aleksey Mikhailovich Romanov (1645-1676).  In fact, there were more executions in the Netherlands, between 1557 and 1562, than there were in Spain.  IN fact, even in New England horse theft and destroying tobacco crops would get the death penalty, along with the dreaded witchcraft.  Spain did NOT execute people for witchcraft.  Etc go the examples.

This discourse in relations to the 1994 BBC documentary

Now, the content and statistics in this discourse do NOT appear anywhere in the 1994 BBC documentary, except for the final number of executions, in the Inquisition's 354 year existence.  That number as 9 to 14 executions per year, on average.  However, during Spain's final war toward its independence ... it's re-conquering thereof ... namely, the Granada War ... an average of 77 executions per year occurred during the final six years of that war.  In as much, it was a complete lie to have claimed that the Inquisition cost 500,000 to a million lives.  Even the claim that 32,000 people were executed there.  That number was 8.5 to 10 times highest than the 354 year realty.  

In order to keep this in perceptive, in United States death penalty statistics were posted in this post.

Likewise, the specific information conveyed in the 1994 BBC documentary appears nowhere in this discourse.  In fact, I found historic evidence ... gathered by historic society members ... that did not exist in 1994.  That added evidence makes the horror story version of the Spanish Inquisition even more of an insult to a reasonable human's intelligence.   All in all, I did my own homework, and the experts payed by the BBC did their own homework.

Recent USA Death Penalty Stats as a comparison to the 16th Century

The tactic of spreading wartime propaganda is to distort proportionality --- to skew statistics.  Thus, in order to instantly disarm the most hate-filled of anti-Catholics, posted herein are death penalty statistics of the United States of America.  It can make America look like a nation operated by monsters.  But, anyone who knows American government knows that the United States is obsessed with procedure, appeals, and even the amending of testimony.  Private factions within America were the monsters, as in the lynch mobs of the South and the 19th Century Know Nothing Party of the Midwest.  Anyway, take a quick peek:

From the Year 1900 to the Year 2002, in the United States of America there were 8,335 executions.  As of January 1, 2021, there were 2,339 Americans on Death Row.  Between June 1972 and January 1, 2021, they were 1,532 actual executions which took place in America.  That's as 48 year period.   In fact, between June 1972 and New Year's 2021, there were 9,700 people sentenced to death in the U.S., with 4,855 of those cases being reversed during appeal, and with an additional 287 defendants having their sentences commuted to a lesser punishment. 

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/death-penalty-census

Note: It was in July of 1976, two days before the heavily celebrated American Bi-centennial, when the U.S. Supreme Court green-lighted the death penalty in the United States, provided that death penalty statutes were non-prejudicial and not vague.  None the less, the death penalty statistics on the United States would have been much higher.   See: Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976.)  It was actually five death penalty cases addressed in unison.

In addition, between 1962 and 1989 (in our own modern era) the Soviet Union's judges signed over 24,000 death sentences, with approximately 2,500 those cases resulting in pardons.  Stalin's stats were on par with Hitler's.  It was a rare time in history.  So, we overlook things too bizarre for humanity to repeat.  We simply look for patterns in governmental conduct through the ages.  Hitler and Stalin were not patterns.  None the less, the following links take you to an informative source about the death penalty.

https://www.rbth.com/history/331226-death-penalty-russia

The bottom line is that, today, the exaggeration of the Spanish Inquisition is merely deliberate anti-Catholic propaganda. The propaganda did things such as incite people into violent acts against Catholics.  So, if you insist on pushing the hyper-exaggerated version of the Spanish Inquisition, then you are doing the same thing as inciting a riot or inciting prejudicial deprivation of a Catholic's rights or committing reckless endangerment, in light of the recent mass riots which have been occurring throughout the United States.  After all, during the George Floyd riots, Catholic statues were toppled.

The bottom line is this:  Spain's great nightmare was instead its 20th Century Civil War.  They were even executing statues of Christ at the time.  Nuns were killed too.  In history, atheism always results in a real nightmare.  After all, Atheists have attitudes, let us politely say.

Making Catholicism sound like a horror story can get Catholics seriously harmed.  Therefore, the White Anglo-Saxon anti-Catholic Propaganda Bull Crap has got to end, now.  If the defamers refuse to desist, then the conversation can be resumed before an United States Federal Court magistrate, in what's known as a Diversity Action, concerning what is known as False Light Defamation.  Demonizing Catholics got many a Catholic killed already, especially in Henry VIII's England and during Robespierre's Reign of Terror.  And of course, Catholic property is once again getting torched and vandalized.  Even Catholics in Africa are being murdered, simply for being Catholic.  End of temporary intro.

Here is where the original discourse began

In college, I had a mentor who had a 4.0 qpa (quality point avg).  He was a straight "A" student.  He happened to have been a black (Haitian) native French speaker.  Both of our dads were mechanical engineers.  Plus, he was very accepting of my Vietnamese girlfriend.  In fact, he's the one standing next to me, in my senior-year college yearbook National Honors Society photo.  Well, during finals-week one year, I remember him sitting back, saying, "I don't need to study for finals," while everyone else was rushing around the school grounds.

He said to me once that his key to academic success was, "Review, review, review." This is why, in my writings, it's occasionally mentioned, "Let's review."  So, let's review.

[1] The only way in which a validly ordained priest will ever stop being a priest is if Jesus Christ suddenly stops existing.   It is written,  

~"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever."  Hebrews 13:8.

~"But he, because he remains forever, has a priesthood that does not pass away."  Hebrews 7:24.

~ "The LORD has sworn and will not waver: “You are a priest forever in the manner of Melchizedek."  Psalm 110, verse 4

[2] If Jesus Christ would not have taken his Mother Mary into Heaven, in glorified body & soul, he would have sinned against his own commandment which states, "Honor your father & mother."  

Being that Christ's Eternal Father regarded Mary as his "highly favored daughter," Jesus would have dishonored his father, by not taking Mary up into Heaven glorified in both body & soul.  

Being that Mary was the Ark of the New & Everlasting Covenant, Jesus would have performed sacrilege in leaving a sacred vessel on Earth to turn to dust.  

Speaking of such, there were NEVER 1st degree relics of the Virgin Mary handed down by the successors of the apostles ... or anyone else, for that matter.  And of course, if and only if Mary's bodily remains would have been left on Earth, the Apostle John would have made sure that they were treated with respect and kept in safe-keeping, as an heirloom.  The Catholic Church is known for it's relic collection.  The fact that there were never relics of the Virgin Mary indicates tentatively -circumstantially- that her body is not on Earth or in the earth.

[3] Even during the time of St. Paul, 3rd degrees relics were being used by believers of Jesus Christ.  This fact is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles,  Ch 19 v 11 -12.  "So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God accomplished at the hands of Paul  12  that when face-cloths or aprons that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them."   Thus, the use of relics was NOT a Medieval invention. 

[4a] The sign of the most asinine and fraudulent of buffoons who have no business being payed journalists is in their non-academic, non-doctrinal, & non-reality explanation of indulgences.  In as much, an  indulgence is NOT the absolution of your sins.  It is NOT a permission slip for you to go out and sin.  There is NO sheet of paper that you go and buy which says, "indulgence."  An indulgence is a completely spiritual phenomenon.  And no earthly records are kept on people getting indulgences . . . through their pious act.  Let's get into specificity, so that there will be no confusion.

[4a1] An indulgence is a complete or partial remission of the penitential punishment due to sin AFTER THE SIN HAS BEEN FORGIVEN in sacramental confession.  An indulgence is acquired by performing a pious act.  This includes reading the Bible which, in itself, proves anti-Catholic Protestants to be liars, in their claiming that the Catholic Church suppresses the Bible and hides it from humanity.  The list of indulgences are in the Enchiridion of Indulgences.  Translated into English, it means Handbook of Indulgences. 

[5a] The Catholic Church officially recites, reads, and teaches the Bible far more often than the Protestants have ever done, as in [a] 8 times a day in the Divine Office, aka Liturgy of the Hours, [b] 3 times per each Sunday Mass, [c] 2 times per each weekday Mass, and in [d] Catholic educational classrooms, as well as [e] during retreats operated by clergy, [f] and in numerous Catholic writings, as bibliographical reference sources.

For a church accused of never using the Bible, it's super ironic that Catholic writers place an array of Bible verses throughout their texts, as well as use the Bible in bibliography references  Moreover, when Catholic writers quote Church doctors and canonized saints, there are quoting writers who use even more Bible references in their writings.  Check and see how many Biblical references are used at this site, alone. 

[5b] It was the Catholic Church which declared which books constituted the Bible, at the Council of Rome, in 382 C.E.   If not for the Catholic Church, there would be no New Testament.

[5c1] Martin Luther added the word, ALONE, to the phrase, "Faith suffices."  Luther also removed seven books from the Bible, in the 1500s.  In the 1900s, three of those books that Protestants were told were fake were found with the dead sea scrolls, proving that Luther removed authentic Biblical texts from the Bible.

[5c2]  Luther wanted to remove from the Bible the Epistle of James and the Book of Revelation..  This is because both books accentuated the  

~ need of Good Works, as in"Faith without works is dead Faith" ... and 

~ the need for penance, as in the phrase, "These are the ones who washed their garments white," in order to gain entrance into Heaven.

[6] Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary is completely Biblical and rooted in the Gospel of Luke; "Henceforth all generations will call me blessed, because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name."  Luke 1:48 - 49.  Therefore, if you refuse to call Mary blessed, then you are the anti-Biblical one.  And if you're a Sola Scriptura Protestant, then you're a hypocrite.

Now, concerning the vast array of Protestant sects and their traditional despising of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the females among them are envious that they couldn't be the Mother of the Savior.  They're jealous of Mary.  It's that simple --- and that simple-minded.  Plus, they don't want to admit to Mary's purity, so that they don't have to strive for purity, themselves.  Do not be deceived.  Some of them love "the low-down & dirty," whatever that actually means.

Concerning those who despise the Pope, it's only because the most vehement Protestant is envious that he's not the pope, himself.  As a result, the followers of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, Conrad Grebel, John Knox, Thomas Muntzer, etc ended up developing a splintered religion where everyone can now declare himself his own personal pope.  Now, how about that, for staying in touch with reality!!!  Yes, today they all get a "participation trophy" --- in their minds.  During the 1520s, however, the "Protestant Reformers" were at each others' throats, condemning each other.  For example . . .

. . . Calvin put to death the very educated Michael Servetus.  Elizabeth I sentenced many a Protestant to death, and she was a Protestant herself.  And of course, Zurich Switzerland's very Protestant city council put to death Felix Manz, Jacob Falk, and Henry Reiman, by drowning them.  Being that the three men were Anabaptists, the drowning of them was done in sarcasm, where the executions where referred to as their "third baptism."  In fact, Luther and Zwingli could not come to an agreement in doctrine, even after they met and spoke.

In addition, Balthasar Hubmaier was put in a prison so unhealthy that he was basically sentenced to near-death, followed by him giving-in and recanting his Anabaptist beliefs in public - - -  at the hands of the staunch Protestants of Zurich.  Martin Luther started no reform.  He started war and mass execution.

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When you begin devotion to the Rosary, a Rosary session can be like a workout at the gym.  Then, as the months proceed, the prayer starts flowing, as you make connections ... in identifying and understanding things about life --- about existence itself.  You then recognize presences.  The presences are what bring that sense of peace ... or even spiritual color..

Beginners have been observed getting a colorful grace, at the start of their Rosary devotions.  Such a thing is an imprimatur from Heaven which tells the beginner that the Rosary is the Express Lane to the realm of things sacred.  The realm can be called the Realm of Graces & Mercy.

Through the Rosary, you perceive things much more clearly.  If you are a youth, the Rosary will spare you from doing asinine things you will regret in your later years on Earth.  None the less, that which you perceive in Rosary meditations is actually elements of the infused knowledge already given to you by the Holy Spirit, at baptism. Thus, the Rosary dissolves the encumbrances that prevent you from perceiving the infused knowledge that was already given to you long ago ... if you're baptized.  It's like cleaning a windshield and making driving easier. 

If you are not baptized, and you pray the Rosary, Heaven is still listening to you.  It is then a matter of you going to the next step.  It's all based on free-will, in the end.  Yes, God is dependent upon your free will.  Yet, there is something known as Efficacious Grace, where you were guaranteed to do something that God wanted you to do in the first place, without you losing your free-will in doing it.   

Now, the spiritual mechanism in Efficacious Grace, in how it guarantees a good work on your part without infringing upon your free will, became a debate long ago, between two legitimate theologians.  One was Luis de Molina, and the other theologian was Domingo Bañez.  The pope at the time allowed both teachings to be promoted.  The pope also forbade one side of the debate to condemn the other side.  

More Effects of the Rosary

Sometimes, praying the Rosary is like going into that tunnel people mention in their near-death experiences.  This happens at night, when there are no bright lights or sunlight to distract you.    It then becomes a tour in a very intriguing realm.  

Sometimes after a Rosary, you are simply drained.  At other times, you get a sense of composure during stressful or tragic times.  There are arid periods, too.  

Then come the times when you are looking for an answer.  In those circumstances, after you're done, go do something else, so that you shift your mental processes.  This is so that you don't come up with your own conclusion, pretending that it came from God ... or an angel ... or a saint.  Even go to sleep. Praying for an answer, while using your own mind ... your own prejudices ... your own desire ... is a waste of prayer.   Then, after you shifted your attention, in working or in playing or in whatever, you'll notice something or realize something.  A realization comes to you.  Sometimes an answer comes during the Rosary.  Such a thing is actually a supernatural occurrence.  Yet, such things are not uncommon.  God is always in charge ... even when all Hell is breaking loose.  

In sequence, there are times, during Rosary prayer when you feel like a tree extending its branches --- or like a bird extending its wings.  At other times, you fall asleep while praying the Rosary, and it turns out to be a sound sleep.  Sometimes, you find yourself praying when you are literally as mad as Hell, keeping your composure.  And at yet other times, you feel a sense of infatuation, while or after praying the Rosary.

In summation, there are many seasons to the human being, and there are many different effects that come about, when human beings pray the Rosary.   In fact, you should ask St Luke and Saint Elizabeth, as well as John the Baptist and Saint Joseph, to join you in prayer.  It will only make your prayer stronger.  It will only make your praying more powerful.

Concerning those "arid periods" mentioned in spirituality books, one of the remedies to spiritual dryness is to engage in physical workouts of some sort ... even fun workouts.  This is because spiritual dryness is basically boredom.  Physical workouts end the boredom within your senses and it increases your awareness of things.  Fasting increases your awareness, also. 

Now, if you are dry or distracted during a Rosary meditation, simply think to yourself that the event upon which you're meditating really happened at some time in the past ... that it's not make-believe.  This includes the Birth of Christ, the Passion of Christ, the Resurrection of  Christ,  the Ascension of Christ into his Heavenly Realm, etc.  Your praying still counts, even during an arid stage of prayer.  If you are reaching out to God, you are praying, even if you're as arid as a desert. 

All in all, the Hail Mary is a commemoration of the coming of the Messiah.  Therefore, it's the cornerstone of the New Testament.  The first person to pray it was the Archangel Gabriel, and not Satan.  In fact, Satan refuses to pray it.  Thus, the Hail Mary is angelic.  People who condemn the Hail Mary are the ones who are Satanic. 

The Rosary meditations, themselves

The meditations (called mysteries of the Rosary) include meditating on [1] Jesus being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, [2] Jesus being born in Bethlehem, [3] Jesus being presented at the Temple 40 days after his birth, [5] Jesus being found in the Temple, after a three-day search for him, [6] Jesus' Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, [7] Jesus being scourged at the pillar, [8] Jesus being crowned with thorns, [9] Jesus carrying his cross, [10] Jesus dying on the cross, [11] Jesus rising from the dead, [12] Jesus ascending into Heaven 40 days later, and other events involving the action of Christ.  So, how can the mysteries of the Rosary detract from Christ, when it consists in meditating on Christ?  The condemnation of the Rosary, therefore, has been the Hypocrisy of the Year, year after year, for 500 years.

It is literally blasphemous to condemn as Satanic a devotion which calls Jesus blessed dozens of times, all the while meditating on a series of events that involved the exact same Jesus Christ.  Blasphemers are not smart people.  They are owned by an urge, be it the urge that comes from resentment or lust or gluttony or laziness or even the arrogant desire to rule others, by making up one's own rules & doctrines.  They react to urges, and not to wisdom.  And of course, those urges are actually violent streaks.  Thus, they launch their violent streaks.  All in all, wherever blasphemy begins, thinking always ends.

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Perhaps you know how it goes with those who watch TV evangelists clad in business suits.  They all declare themselves "saved" for all time and eternity.  They simultaneously declare themselves exempt from penance, restitution, good works, and the need of a conscience.  They claim that they can sin all they want, and still go to Heaven, because they "accepted" the Nazarene "as their Lord and personnel savior."  It's like those fad diets which state that, as long as you take a pill a day, you can eat all you want and still lose weight.

The devotees of business suit preachers are all dismissive of the Epistle of James which states, "Faith without good works is dead faith," and they vehemently deny the existence of Purgatory.  They instead profess belief in a Marxist Communist Heaven, where there are not varying degrees of glory, but rather a one-size-fits-all degree that everyone there has.  Thus, the self-declared "saved" all state that doing good works is worth nothing, and that God will not reward anyone for a lifetime of sacrifice & giving.  

They resent the idea of anyone being higher than them in Heaven.  So, in their make-believe minds, they demoted those who truly do have a high degree of glory in that realm of existence.  And quite frankly, the existence of the seven Seraphim, alone, proves that there are higher and lesser degrees of glory within the vast Beatific Vision .  None the less, envy and resentment is one of the reasons why the followers of TV "evangelists" despise even the idea of the Virgin Mary, as well as the actual Virgin Mary, herself.  They slash her honor and reputation, like street hoods in the night --- or else like crooked accountants in a backroom.   

These TV watchers are the ones who declare the three following things:

 {I} The Roman Catholic Church   =  the Whore of Babylon --- even though the true whore was the Herodian Dynasty which sold-out Israel to Pagan Rome which, in turn, was the Beast upon which the Whore of Babylon rode. 

 {II} Every pope who ever lived     =  the Antichrist --- even though there's only one Antichrist yet to come and there were 266 popes thus far.

{III} The Hail Mary & the Rosary  =  pagan worship crafted by Satan --- even though the origin of both things is found at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke.  

The Reality Check ===> No one devoted to the Virgin Mary believes that she created the Heavens and the Earth.  However, they all believe this of Jesus Christ, in him having done so, before he became man and dwelt among us.  

In addition, no one devoted to the Virgin Mary believes that she is an infinite being who has existed throughout eternity.  However, they all believe this of Jesus Christ, her only son.

In continuing, no one devoted to the Virgin Mary believes that she can create a living being of any kind.  However, they all believe that everything created only came into being through her son, Jesus Christ --- [1] before he became man, [2] after he became man, [3] and even now.

Furthermore, no one devoted to the Virgin Mary believes that she has the power to absolve anyone of his/her sins.  However, they all believe this of Jesus Christ, the High Priest. 

The subsequent Reality Check =====> All people devoted to the Virgin Mary believe that the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ are what enabled God the Father to create her free from the darkness of Original Sin.  This means that everyone devoted to Mary believes that she was created by God. 

The thesis statement is that no one devoted to the Virgin Mary believes that she's God or divine or to be worshiped.  There's a distinct difference between love and worship.  Devotion is love.  Attribution is worship.  Acknowledgement is worship.  People devoted to Mary love her.  They don't worship her.  To say so is to commit defamation.  To say so is to lie.  To say so is to attempt to create contempt toward the people who fulfill the Biblical prophecy in Luke 1:48 which states, "Henceforth, all generations will call me blessed, because he who is mighty has done great things for me and holy is his name."

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In addition, here is a word of advice for some of you, out there.  Yes, some of you out there like to mock, belittle, defame, misrepresent, push-around, and brutally assassinate the character of the Roman Catholic Church.  You do this entirely impervious to the meaning of the word, Roman.  

Roman means Italian.  Have you ever been in a room with an outraged Italian man?  Have you ever been in a room with ten outraged Italian men?  Do you know what ten outraged Italian men do in the same room?  ANS:  They plan their revenge, after having given a long time span of leniency and patience to the offenders.

Well, some of you out there obsessively call the Roman Catholic Church the Whore of Babylon.  And of course, it's your ploy.  It's your tactic, in the quest to deceive people into leaving the heavily populated Catholic Church for your heretical denomination, so that they will put their money into your tax-free collection baskets.  

Well, you are definitely too brain dead to realize that, in obsessively calling the Roman Catholic Church the Whore of Babylon, you are calling the great grandmothers and great great grandmothers of all those Italian men a bunch of whores.  You are calling Italy and Italians of the past 1,700 years completely evil, always and in every way.  This is libel, slander, and false light defamation.  It's also an element of HARASSMENT and incitement of violence against Catholics, as did happen in the 1800s against Irish Catholics.  The anti-Catholic diatribes of today were the same ones used in the 1800s.  (See: Know-Nothing Party).  There are massive consequences for such things.  God will not be on your side in this matter.

Remember, it's a sin to provoke a sin, and you guys have gotten way too pushy, defamatory, and abusively arrogant. Violence against Catholic property has been occurring as of recent.  You are in the ranks of the Muslims armies who attacked Italy, Sicily, Spain, France, Sardinia, Hungary, Slavic regions, and Austria, as well as having kidnapped European women and property in the Mediterranean Sea.  You are in the ranks of the very pro-abortion political activists who have been vandalizing Catholic interests, such as Pro-life centers.  To be against Catholicism is to be against life.

In doing what you're doing, you are in the process of declaring war on Italians, and provoking violence similar to that endured by Irish Catholics.  Are you sure that you're ready for that?  Do you really want to mess with Italians?  It wouldn't be a bad idea for you to tone it down, and show some respect, for a change.  It's called displaying Christian Charity.  But, you're not going to do such a thing, because you need the grace of God to be graceful, and God's grace bounces off of you like water bounces off a rock.  You're going to mock and defame all the more.  None the less, fair warning has been extended here to you, in Christian Charity.

 

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BTW, in obsessing themselves with claiming that they accepted Jesus as their Lord & personal savior, they were giving-away the fact that they were very anti-social people.  It was instantly evident that they had "no peoples skills."  But, it's really great that God got their approval to exist.  Super nice guys.

Their anti-social propensity was also evident in them stating that the did not believe in the existence of any organized church.  Yet, they organized and bought churches for their "non-organized religion" services, all the while calling their "non-organized belief in God," a tax-exempt religion.  They inferred that the organized religions have an impersonal savior, while they have the exclusive personal savior.

They completely forgot the Apostle John's official teaching that "He who claims to love the Lord, yet hates his brother, is a liar."  The purpose for 'church' was to fulfill the commandment to "love one another as I have loved you."  It's goal was not to turn Jesus into an invisible friend who talks only to you and no one else.  The way of Christ is universality; not factionalism, not sectarianism, and not isolationism.  It's either all is one or all is none.  None the less, the Born-agains basically created their own church in the corner of a pre-existing church.

 As far as them being void of diplomacy and wisdom, they apparently didn't realize that, every time they called the Roman Catholic Church the "Whore of Babylon,"  there were calling our Italian great grandmothers of centuries past a bunch of whores.  That is where they lost us Italians big time, being that we knew that our grandmothers were proper ladies, devoted wives, and devoted parents who actually went to church on Sundays.   

The "saved Christians" didn't realize that their hatred of Roman Catholicism was nothing more than a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant racist aversion toward Mediterranean people who came from a landmass much closer to Africa than to England.  After all, the coast of Sicily is only 210 to 220 miles away from Tunisia's coastline.  Sicily is closer to Tunisia than Pittsburgh is to Philadelphia.

And let us not forget how those new & improved Protestants repeatedly stated that it's the Devil telling you to pray the Hail Mary, when the fact is that the first part of the Hail Mary is the greeting of God the Father, spoken through the Archangel Gabriel whom God sent to the Virgin Mary ... 

... while the second part comes from the Gospel of Luke, when commemorating how the Holy Spirit inspired Elizabeth to say, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.  For who am I that I should receive a visit from the mother of my Lord?"  

But, according to those people who used called themselves the redundant phrase, "born-again Christians," it's the Devil telling you to repeat the words of God the Father and to recall words which came from the Holy Spirit.   I didn't know that God the Father and the Holy Spirit were the Devil.  Silly me.  And let us also not forget:  The Born-again Christians declared that statues and stained-glass commemorations are the work of the Devil, too.  Apparently, the Devil only recruits the finest of artists.  Incidentally, Saint Elizabeth was the mother of John the Baptist.

Tell me, wise one, what is so Satanic about commemorating the birth of Christ on stained-glass?

None the less, it was in Italy where one found miraculous bleeding hosts, saints incorruptible in body (or at least very slowly corruptible in body,) the miraculous blood of San Gennaro, and the miraculous bones of San Nicholas of Bari which exudes a fragrant liquid used in miraculous healings. 

The Shroud of Turin is in all-so-Satanic Italy, too.  So tell us, all-so-saved, Born-Again Christians, is the Shroud of Turin a cloth of the Devil?  According to you, everything in Italy is. 

BTW, if the Catholic Church is Satanic, then so too is the New Testament, meaning that no Protestant is allowed to read it.  For those unaware, the 27 books of the New Testament were officially declared the 27 books of New Testament through the Catholic Church Council of Rome (382) and the equally Roman Catholic Council of Carthage (397.)   This means that the New Testament which Protestants wave like a flag was the compilation of the very Catholic Church that Born-again evangelicals condemn.   So, in order to be a Protestant, you need to be a hypocrite in denial of historic fact.   

Or else you have to be a pushy buffoon.  In either way, their way was to steal the Catholic Church's New Testament --- steal Catholic Church property in Northern Europe & the British Isles --- steal the Catholic Church's dates for Christmas and Easter --- take for themselves the writings of St. Augustine --- take for themselves the WWJD teaching of Saint John of the Cross who happened to have been the first one to write that you should only do what Jesus would do in a similar situation.  But, when it comes to the writings of Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Louis de Montfort, Alphonsus Liguori, or Therese of Lisieux, it's on of those "who are they?"

Incidentally, at the beginning of the Protestant-Catholic War of 1618, a crowd of "activist" Protestants in Prague literally pushed out of a top-floor window three Roman Catholics.  So, being "pushy" is definitely a foundation stone of Protestantism.  After all, Protestantism started by STEALING church real estate, while destroying other types of church property.   That's a very pushy thing to do.

 

 

What type of man is it who despises & writes-off an exquisitely beautiful woman who is gentle & non-abrasive?  We can diplomatically state that such is a man who has a very serious problem.

When it comes to the women who despise the Virgin Mary, it's a matter of envy in one part.  In the other part, it's a matter of wanting to bury out of sight Mary's purity.  Such hateful women want to hide Mary's purity, so that they won't feel obligated to strive for purity, themselves. 

Such hate-filled women sometimes display elitist arrogance, in demeaning & disrespecting the woman chosen by the Second Person of the Holy Trinity to be the one from whom he would derive his complete humanity.  Such women love their sins and claim that they can live in their sins, while being guaranteed eternal life, on account of them expressing belief in the miraculous Nazarene who came into this world through the very Mary they despise.  The problem is that, in the end, they discover that they worshiped their habit of sin and not God.  They are too insensitive to realize how offensive to Christ is the disrespect shown to his mother.  After all, he made his mother what she is today. 

Remember, there is a twisted mindset in the type of person who regards himself/herself as "saved."  That type of person insists in the notion that Jesus endured defamation, mockery, burning pain, piercing pain, blood-pressure loss, and death so that "saved people" can keep committing fornication, adultery, theft, defamation, evidence tampering, drunkenness, sins of anger, blasphemy, labor abuse, etc, and then go to Heaven, after having made people's lives on Earth a living Hell.  Well,  Christ came to take people out of their sins --- not to have them cemented in their sins.  Thus, "the saved" go into an interior convulsive rage at the announcement of Mary's purity and sinlessness.  In response, they obsessively say whatever it takes to make her look defiled, worthless, contemptible, and an annoying burden to God. 

But of course, the Gospels repeatedly recorded Christ saying the same one thing to a number of the people he miraculously cured: "Go and sin no more."   As you can see, the "saved" aren't saved from anything.  After all, Christ came to "save his people from their sins."  The "saved" claim that the sins of the future are already forgiven and that they are guaranteed eternal life, no matter what sin they commit.  

Needless to say, they deny the need of penance and a priest' s absolution.  Oh, and they vehemently deny Purgatory, because it terrifies them.  Their problem is that, simply because they say that something doesn't exist, it doesn't mean that they have the power to make it stop existing.  Hell is there, if you believe so or not.  Purgatory is there, despite anyone's denial in its existence.  Angels exist, despite their usual invisibility and absence of a material body.  God exists on God's own, independent of a vote from academics.  A person does not make his own reality.  That's called make-believe.

Interesting how people who do not believe in God insist on getting their children to believe in the existence of Santa Claus --- to replace belief in God.  

 

The same people claim that you can live a life without following Jesus' commandments, and yet be saved with guaranteed entrance into Heaven, by merely "accepting him as your Lord and personal savior." However, Jesus said, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments."  To not do so is the opposite of love, and such a thing is the opposite of "being saved."  

In fact, the "saved" born-again Christians say that, if "it's" not in the Bible, they won't believe it.  Well, there are many things in the Bible that they and the rest of the Protestant world refuse to observe.  One is the indissolubility of marriage.  Divorce and remarriage is a mortal sin.  The Gospels quote Jesus saying this.  So, the Protestant allowance for divorce & remarriage is it's greatest hypocrisy, invalidating itself so much so that Protestantism CANNOT be truthfully regarded as Christianity.  Next:

 This is one of those instances where Catholicism does involve you thinking for yourself, contrary to what the Protestants claim.  Remember, Catholicism forbade slavery, under penalty of excommunication and loss of church privileges, as far back as 1435, concerning a papal bulletin which ordered the ending of slavery in the Canary Islands.  This was 57 years before Europe knew that Central America ... and South America even existed.  The writers who claimed that the true church allowed slavery during the era of Expedition should be defendants in a multi-million dollar class action defamation lawsuit.  Another revelation to the brainwashed modern mind is this:  The Conquistadors included Jews in their ranks, and the Conquistadors mostly certainly did commit atrocities.  However, the fact that Columbus was indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned in Spain shows that there were people in power with a sense of morals and civility.  

Moreover, many a white European was kidnapped by Muslim pirates and sold into slavery.  Well, there was a Roman Catholic religious order dedicated to buying-back from the Muslim kidnappers the European slaves.  And yes, this included sexual slavery which is an element of rape.  Lookup "Our Lady of Ransom" and the Catholic religious order dedicated to "redeeming captives."

The bottom line is that, in the near future, after the end of the wars that Biden's negligence is triggering, the demonizing of Catholicism, especially the hyper-exaggerated Spanish Inquisition, will be subjects of extremely expensive lawsuits.  BTW,  the archives of all of the Spanish Inquisition cases were made open to the public, decades ago.   So, scholarly contractors of the BBC did an in depth research project --- and adopted the research of others --- of the inquisition.  This resulted in the 1994 Documentary, the Myth of the Spanish Inquisition.   I can go into detail here, but this a digression from the topic at hand.  However, you can watch the British Broadcasting Company's documentary, yourself:

                                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhlAqklH0do 

Protestantism, the Great Blackout: the Secularization of the Sacred & an Anti-religion

Another Australian original.

The absence of the sense of the sacred in Protestantism is blatant.  Everyone
sees it.  They see the Protestant preachers wearing business suits, as if Chris-
tianity is the religion of cold, hard cash.  Therefore, religion to these guys is
nothing but a money-making scam.  All in all, the TV evangelist "suits" have
turned the sacred into the secularized profane.

As far as goes Protestantism in its capacity of an Anti-religion, it is a complete
abbreviation of original Christianity which comprised priests, bishops, the sacra-
ments, penance, praying for the deceased in Purgatory, and the moral obligation
to make restitution for sins of theft and deception.  The Protestant doctrine de-
clares that you don't have to go to confession and receive absolution.  You don't
have to be confirmed,  and according to the same doctrine, you neither have to
do any acts of penance or pay people the money you stole from them.  There is
no catechism to learn, because, according to Protestanism, you are your own
pope who can make a doctrine that contradicts any of the millions of other
personal popes.

All in all, Protestantism basically states that you don't have to do anything, except
a ritual that instantly makes you "saved" for all time and eternity.  The great evil in
that ritual is that it denies the necessity of the sacrament of Baptism.  And and and,
the Gospels expressly quoted Jesus Christ as saying, go forth and make followers
of all nations, BAPTIZING them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Thus, each Protestant claims that he knows more than Jesus Christ.

The Protestant Denial of the Need of Baptism for Salvation, replaced by a
simple-minded ritual where you say, "I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord &
personal savior 

Here is Protestant Contradiction #1:  They originally stated that you have to be
baptized again, being that they do NOT believe in the validity of infant baptism.
Then, they say that you merely have to "accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and
Personal Savior," thereby denying that Christ founded an all-encompassing
church that welcomes any living human to join it, and thereby denying that
you must be baptized, in order to be remitted the state of Original Sin.

For those unfamiliar, the "Born-again Christian"  .... aka Protestant ... teaching is
that all you have to do is walk up to "the altar" of a Protestant church and say that
you accept Jesus as you Lord, etc.  This is called an "altar call."  Stop there.

Firstly, Protestant churches do NOT have altars.  They have railings where you
kneel.  An altar is a consecrated piece of furniture where you make a sacrifice,
and in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, Christ is sacrificed under the transubstatied
form of consecrated bread and consecrated wine.  None the less, the Born-Again
Christian ritual is very simple-minded, and it is claimed that, as soon as you say,
"I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and personal savior" you are forever saved.
Thus, they claim that you do not need baptism for salvation, thereby claiming
that the four authors of the four Gospels are liars.

The Protestant Hatred of the Virgin Mary

It's the religion which states that you detract from Jesus by having recourse to the
woman whose blood became his blood.  They say it's the sin of idolatry to have
recourse to Mary, the woman who raised Jesus and knew him better than any
member of the human or angelic race.  They say that it's a sin to ask Mary to
pray for you.  Their hypocrisy consists in the fact that they say that you do
NOT have to stay away from sin in order to not be in Hell for all eternity.

So, let's review:.

                               Q:  Can you pray for me?   ANS: Yes, you can.
                 
         Well, so can Mary.  In as much, I can assure you that her prayers have far
         more effectiveness than yours and mine combined will ever have.  If  I can
         ask you to pray for me  without it being an act of idolatry, then I can ask
         Mary to pray for me without it being idolatry.

The recurring them in all Marian devotion consists in the devout saying:

Holy Mary,  Mother of God, PRAY FOR US SINNERS, now and at the hour of
the death of each of us.  Uniting our prayers with Mary's perpetual act of prayer
is the essence of Marian devotion.

The essence of Marian devotion consists in the following:

You open yourself to realm of angel where Mary is Queen.  Mary then takes
the Child Jesus and places him in your arms, as if you were a visiting shepherd
on the first Christmas night.  Then, when you did, Mary takes you and places
you in Jesus' mystical arms.  Jesus mystical arms is his eternal realm.  Its' the
House of Jacob, mentioned by the Archangel Gabriel during the Annunciation,
where Mary was told that she would conceive and bear a son who must be
named Jesus.  Jesus means "God is Salvation."

In answer to the Born-Again Heresy's Claim that Marian Devotion is Idolatry 

Worship is the act of attributing the beginning and end of your existence to
someone or something.  Those devoted to Mary know that she didn't create
the Heavens and the Earth.  Thus, we don't worship her.  Concerning the Pro-
testant claim that we worship her, only a pervert would come up with that
idea, in the first place.  That wasn't even on our minds.

Furthermore, Jesus and Mary are NOT in competition with each other.  There is
no jealously between the two.  Each one wants to honor the other and each one
wants the other loved by humanity.  They want people to know the love they
see in each other.  Jesus wants you to know Mary and Mary wants you to know
Jesus.  They are one with each other, and infinitely so.  In as much, the greatest
proponent and advocate of Marian Devotion is Jesus, himself.  Not honoring his
mom deeply offends him.

When you honor Mary and/or one or more angels, and/or one or more saints, you
are honoring the God who created them.  When you despise Mary, you despise
Christ and you are actually saying that Christ can't save anyone from his/her sin.
You are saying that he can't keep anyone free of sin when you deny Mary's per-
petual sinlessness.  You're simply saying that God will let you go to Heaven,
even if you are reeking with sin.

In fact, you are saying that he cleanses no one of sin, but merely lets people who
are corroded with sin into Heaven, if they do that silly Southern Baptist church
railing ritual which is erroneously referred to as an "altar call."  Well, that's not
Heaven.  Heaven is NOT a place where you can bask in your lusts with immun-
ity, as the Southern Baptists long since claimed.  Heaven comes from within the
soul where within is the Holy Spirit.  What makes Heaven consoling is the people
in it.  Therefore . . .

When a saint dies, the proper thing to say, upon his/her death, is:

                                                Heaven has just become a better place.

The Great Rupture; Not Great Rapture

"The Holy Father will have much to suffer." - Our Lady, at Fatima.

The Belief in the Great Rapture:  The Ultimate April Fool's Joke.

For those of you living among the sugar sprinkled driveways of upper middle
class American and who insist that Cardinal Angelo Sodano was correct in June
of 2000, in stating that the Dark Days prophesied at Fatima are behind us, know
this:  We've been in the tribulation for years.  It's sixteen years later, and the state
of the World if far more grievace ... with ISIS, mass refugee migrations, drug
slayings, police animosity, pollution in China, national indebtedness, war, war,
and more war which includes the continued war against newly conceived hu-
man life and war against the Laws of Ecology.  The younger generation is a
horde of mindless followers, obsessed with tattoos and gaudy emissions of
chemically-laden air fresheners that trigger violent asthma attacks and cause
testosterone to turn in estrogen via the enzyme aromatase.   If you don't feel t
he pain across the world, then you are one of those who is causing the pain.
The pain got so intense, that it started migrating to Europe.

You have the moral obligation to be part of the effort to right wrongs, and not sit
around, watching gossip television and whatever you do in your sugar sprinkled
lifestyles, as you live in houses filled with the label, Made in China, Made in
Vietnam, Made in Bangladesh, and other slave labor nations, accomplice that
you are.
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To start, acknowledge within your mind that, at Fatima, the Virgin Mary dispelled the
notion of the Great Rapture, as was proposed by Nelson Darby circa 1830 and which
was absorbed into the Southern Baptist tent revival mindset.  That mindset still lingers.
Mary assured us that, in end, her Immaculate Heart would triumph, and that an era of
peace would be granted to the world ... not the Southern Baptist world getting beamed
up by Scotty, while the rest of humanity becomes overwhelmed by the wrath of God.

The Southern Baptist world, even today, has shown itself to be a punishment to man-
kind.   After all,  it was the legislators from the Southern Baptist red states who sabo-
taged the US economy, as in the 2008-09 Great Recession that cost people pensions
and homes.  Tennessee congressman, Stephen Fincher, provides one of the many ex-
amples of the predatory nature of the Southern Baptist red state politician.  He thus
far received $3.48 million taxpayer dollars, via farm subsidies, and then he voted to
cut food stamp allotments by $39 billion.

The outrage is that Fincher quoted the Bible, taking out of context a verse from an
epistle of St. Paul, in order to rationalize reducing the food stamp program allot-
ments upon which children and the disabled are dependent.  In doing so, Fincher
created added hatred toward an already hated Christianity ... and added disrespect
for Christ.  People who equate Christ with Stephen Fincher want nothing to do with
Christ.  The Eternal will NOT overlook Fincher's desecration of the scriptures, so
done for his selfish gain.

The hatred, incidentally, is toward the false Christianity of a George Bush II and
Fincher.  In as much, someone needs to inform the public that the doctrines em-
braced by Bush, Fincher, and company were condemn as heretical ones at the
Council of Trent.  This would lessen hatred toward all forms of Christianity.

For those unfamiliar, Pennsylvania native and broken-family by-product, Newt
Gingrich, as a Georgia congressman, manipulated the congress and Clinton into
making NAFTA law.  It did no more than increase America's accomplice status
in the sin of Defraudment of Laborers of their wages.  It happens to be one of the
four sins which cry to Heaven for eventual vengeance.

Then came all-so-saved George Bush II with his prolonged wars, economic crisis,
elevated suicides amongst veterans, disdain for environmental necessities, and ele-
vated consumer prices which is progressively becoming a fulfillment of the New
Testament prophecy, "A day's wages for a loaf of bread."

http://www.pagesofmary.com/2011/11/nafta-newt.html

The Southern Baptist world goes about, causing untold human suffering,from
the congress to the business world.  It then arrogantly thinks that its people are
God's chosen ones who will be swept up and made immune to the very evils that
they, themselves caused ... as in NAFTA.  They cause untold havoc throughout
the world, and then the think that they will no accountability to pay.

For the record, I was in the former confederate south the vast majority of ten years,
for health reasons.  I was even there as recently of April/May 2013.  I experienced
that world at point black range.  I can go into detail, but will be polite at this point.

Protestantism is the epitome of division and anti-unity.

The first mark of the true church comes from the fact that there is only one Christ.
Being that there is only one Jesus Christ, there can only be one faith in Christ.  He
is eternally changeless and does NOT become a different moral code to different
people.  Thus, the true church is of one mind ... united ... in an unchanging belief.
It's not fickle ... frivolous ... or subject to fads.  Yet, it adapts to the weather of the
various age, all the while not deforming the absolutes of the faith that transcend
time, space, and fashions.

This presents a question.  Which religion that professes a faith in Christ is the au-
thentic one, being that there are at least 217 denominations in the United States,
alone, dozens of which profess conflicting doctrines?

ANS:  The one that was here first.  It would be the religion to which the original
apostles, the original martyrs, the second generation apostles, and the martyrs of
Rome belonged.

Rome is the hint, as to which Christian profession of faith is the authentic one.  It
was here first, and it was designated for annihilation and extinction by the ancient
Roman Empire, as well as Henry VIII's England, the French Revolutionaries, the
German Kulturalkamp fanatics, and Soviet Russia, as well as the Boxers of China,
the know-nothings of America, and numerous other political factions.  In the 20th
Century, it was attacked from within by corrupt clerics as vile as Cardinals Dolan
and Dignity Mass Donald Wuerl.  Yet, it didn't collapse.

Jump to the 1830s, a time mentioned by the Virgin Mary, in an apparition to Saint
Catherine Laboure, as very evil times.  Ironically, 1830 was the year when the Book
of Mormon was published, the U.S. Indian Removal Act was enacted, the Belgian
Revolution transpired, and France's July Revolution occurred.  Well, the 1830s was
a time when a new doctrine in the world of Protestantism was presented.  It was
called the Great Rapture.

The world, rapture is a variation of the Greek, for "getting caught up" in something.
This doctrine was the conclusion of an individual who knew Greek.  He was John
Nelson Darby, a minister who left the "Church of Ireland" and founded a group
called the Plymouth Brethren.  He had assistance from Henry Drummond, a bank-
er who founded a religion called the Catholic Apostolic Church.

The belief is that, shortly before the Great Tribulation, God will secretly sweep
up into Heaven those whom Protestants called 'saved.'  This comprises people
who despise the idea of institutional church and who claim that they become
instantly guaranteed Heaven by 'accepting' the Nazarene rabbi as their "lord
and personal savior," entirely hateful of the social aspect of the church, in
disregarding the command, "Love one another as I have loved you."

They believe that a divine vacuum cleaner will sweep them up into Heaven
shortly before the arrival of the Great Tribulation, sparing them of pain and
death.  This is based predominately on a gross misinterpretation of the fourth
chapter of the First Letter to the Thessalonians.   Concisely speaking, they
believe that they will be swept up into the clouds, while Christ meets them
halfway ... literally.

The verse refers to the very end of the world.  Rural Protestants say no.  How-
ever, they contradict themselves by claiming that this rapture will be done by
God in stealth, where suddenly, thousands of automobiles will be left without
drivers, as if the Eternal God is irresponsible enough to let multitudes of cars
crash into human life and property throughout the world.  The New Testament
passage speaks of the event being very much noticed by all ... as in the End of
the World and the Second Coming of Christ. 

   For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command,
   with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. 
   And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, 
   will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the 
   air, and so we will always be with the Lord

The verse speaks of a loudly proclaimed end of the world, where no one is left
clueless.  None the less, the rural protestants claim that all of the "saved" will
be swept up into Heaven, and those going to Hell will be left behind, to suffer
the tribulation.

The first blasphemy of this false doctrine is that it is contrary to the Apostolic
teaching that God only chastises people, in order to convert them ... so that they
will go to Heaven.  It is written, "I chastise the ones I love."  Thus, the tribulation
will be done, so that people will be freed from their attraction to sin.   The equal-
ly sinful Southern Protestants are claiming that they never have to be freed from
their attraction to sin and that there is no need for them to correct their lives.

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The other asininity of this false prophecy is that, after the Great Apostasy and
Great Tribulation there will be the symbolic 1,000 year reign of Christ.  Now,
if there are no Christians left on Earth, then who is going to teach Christianity
to anybody?  There is also the need of "witnesses of Christ" to spread the faith.
If all Christians get raptured, then Christianity have forever ended on Earth.
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The same scriptural text, the Book of Revelations, describes the eternally blessed
as those who washed their garments white.  This denotes people who actually did
penance and committed acts of charity; not those who did a cult-like ritual in a
rural church where they 'accepted' Jesus as their 'lord and personal savior,' and
then claimed that the sins of their future are forgiven of them ... and that they
never have to do any good works, despite the scriptural passage which states
that faith without good works is dead faith.

This Great Rapture doctrine progressively became popular, because it fit the lazi-
ness of a Protestantism,  Let's review:  It claims that you are already saved and
are not required to do any good work for eternal life.  No confession.  No penance.
No examination of conscience.  No avoiding the near occasion of sin.  No acts of
charity.  No restitution for the damage that your sins caused.  No Catholic action
groups that speak out against social evils.  No charity groups.  No required time
for prayer or true meditation,  etc.  That's Protestantism ... an anti-religion.

Of course, Protestantism, by its nature, is the sin of presumption, in presuming that
salvation is already granted.  Well, if salvation were already granted to you, you
would be in Heaven and not on earth telling people that the Catholics got it wrong.

The danger of today's rural Protestantism is that its adherents now call themselves
Christian, as if they are the true Christianity, linked to the original apostles.  They
used to call themselves ana-baptists, then born-again christians, thereby showing
their dissent from original christianity.  They now present themselves, in all of
their hicktoid crassness as the only christianity.

Study history and you will find that they are self-styled imposters.  They are not
linked to the original apostles.  Rather, they are linked to inbreeding, lynch mobs,
chattel slavery, anti-Catholicism, isolationism, the creation of the native Ameri-
can Trail of Tears anti-federal government sentiments, low SAT scores, lower
wages, pellagra, rickets, gerrymandering, the murder of the Michigan Freedom
Riders, hatred of U.S. Civil Rights acts, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
nighttime cross burning, and an extreme hatred for the Chair of Saint Peter.

The truth is that they disfigure the Face of Christ in their severely heretic beliefs;
of beliefs that never existed until 1520 ... then the 1830s.  These people make a
mockery out of Christ, and cause multitude to be repelled by the name of Jesus,
because the multitudes only see the faces of these unclean, rural, isoclationists
who hate the idea of universality and the need to do some type of good work or
another.  They constructed a grotesque caricature of Christianity, and the eternal
God will not overlook the desecration of the True Faith.

When all Hell breaks loose on earth in the near future, these people will be in a
state of shock so severe that they will freeze.  Their haughty arrogance will be
gone.   They will realize that their prayers don't work and that there is no such
thing as the Great "pre-millennial" Rapture.   In fact, every denomination that
heavily promoted the Great Rapture doctrine will dissolve.  The problem is that,
during the oncoming tribulation, the people who believed in that doctrine will
dissolve, also.  God is not mocked.

Incidentally, the Second Mark of the Church

As a review, the four marks of the true church is that its One, Holy, Catholic,
and Apostolic.  Let's go to the Second Mark of the true Church:  It is called
Holy, but the actual meaning is "consecrated" ... set aside for a special and
specific purpose.  What is the special purpose?  ANS:  To convey sacramen-
tal grace and to provide a forum to manifest such grace, as well as teaching
humanity what grace entails and how to stay in the state of sanctifying grace.
The manifesting of such grace is known as Good Works.

Concerning this, heroic martyr, Saint James, stated that faith without good
works is dead faith.  Let's go one step further:  Faith without good works is
a sick joke.

Now for the Third Mark of the True Church:  That it is apostolic.  The apostolic
mark of the church enables the conveyance of sacramental grace.  This includes
the "laying on of hands."  This includes the priesthood ... something real and not
merely ritualistic.  The most evil priest in the history of mankind still has the pow-
er to absolve a person from sin.  The most evil bishop can still ordain and confirm.
For a sacrament to work, it does not depend on the degree of holiness of the priest
involved.  It depends on the infinite perfection of the Eternal God which doesn't
deplete or depreciate.

To profess yourself to be a Christian, while having no belief in the sacramental
power of the priesthood, is eternally deadly.  Fatima seer, Jacinta Martos, young
child that she was, stated, "Without confession, there is no salvation."

Such disbelief in the sacrament of Penance (Reconciliation) is the result of pride,
as well as laziness and the vanity known as spiritual gluttony.  After all, if you ad-
mit that a sacramental priesthood exists, then you are admitting to the need for the
Sacrament of Penance which consists in confessing to a priest and doing peniten-
tial acts ranging from praying to fasting to physically demanding mortifications.
You are thereby admitting that you are not the lord and master of faith, and that
you actually have to do something for eternal salvation.

Those who refuse to admit to the existence of the Sacrament of Penance are too
proud to go to confession.  Plus, there is a sector of the disbelievers think that
confession isn't glamorous enough for effecting an ultra-cosmic experience.
Thus, you have the spiritual glutton involved in damning this sacrament.  The
other sector of disbelievers are simply too lazy to do penance.  Ironically, they
exert more energy in ranting, raving, and damning the Sacrament of Penance
than it takes in doing the penance.

The Forth Mark of the True Church is its Universality, aka its Catholicity.  This
consists in the fact that it is for all who believe, and not only for a small elitist
cult ... or for an elite socio-economic class ... or one race ... or one nationality.
In fact, it is for neither for the bigot nor the isolationist.   It is not for those who
seek to cause division or who seek to create a caste system.  The universality
of the Catholic Church is evident in the fact that it has 22 rites, ranging from
the Ukrainian Rite to the Melkite Rite to the Byzantine Rite to the Maronite
Rite to the Roman Rite to the Ambrosian Rite to the Chaldean Rite to other
ones.

Its ironic that, now that the signs of the times show that the Great Chastisement
isthe next logical destiny of humanity, no one is preparing for it.  Years ago, when
people were following Father Stephano Gobbi and Medjurgorje, people were cry-
ing wolf and saying that the sky is falling.  They kept saying that the chastisement
was on the horizon.  It never came.  Now that they have fallen asleep, the great
chastisement is blatantly en route to humanity.  Of Course, Cardianl Angelo So-
dano, in his June 2000 rouse, had multitudes let down their guard.  They still do
not realize that Sodano was covering for Maciel and even false prophet Stephano
Gobbi in the Jume 2000 proclamation which Benedict XVI stated was not some-
thing to which any Catholic is bound to believe.  The events that transpired be-
tween July 2000 and September 2013 prove that we did NOT enter the prophe-
sied era of world peace.

It's also interesting that Pope Francis I designated the nearest First Saturday as the
universal day of voluntary Prayer & Fasting for world peace; September 7.
For the record, Francis had long since been the advocate of the Rosary.

In addition, Saint Louis of Montfort repeatedly spoke as if it went without saying
that there would one day be the conversion of Moslems.  He never mentioned that
there would be the conversion of banal and crass rural heretics who now have the
audacity to call themselves "Christian," even though their way is contrary to the
Christianity that existed from the time of Peter and Saint Ignatius of Antioch,
throughout the centuries.

Do not be deceived.  Test the spirits.  Simply because a person identified himself
as Christian, it doesn't mean he is.  Be on guard for the wolves in shepherd's cloth-
ing.  One such person was the Ayn Rand groupie, Paul Ryan.  He presented him-
self as Catholic, yet he designed a budget which was a sin against distributive
justice.  He attempted to deceive you into thinking that his false doctrine was
Catholicism.  Thus, the American bishops politely made it known that Ryan
was orchestrating a deception.

In conclusion, if you are at the doorway of death, and there is no other priest
around than one you know to have been wicked, get that priest to your side,
for the final sacraments of the church.  His act of mercy toward you might
result in God reciprocating the good deed and granting the priest the grace
of conversion.  It's the power of the sacrament per se involved, and not the
state of the priest's soul that matters.

Concerning this, there is one thing that you absolutely have to understand:
Catholicism is the Kingdom of Mercy.  When you cease habitual sin, you
are having mercy on Christ. When you undo lies, by bringing forth the truth
on a subject, you are having mercy on those deceived.  When you stop an in-
vading army, you are having mercy on the people they are invading.  When
you bring to justice a person who abused authority, you are having mercy on
the power abuser's victims.  When you hold accountable those how retaliated
against whistle blowers, you are having mercy on a number of people.  Plus,
according to St. Francis de Sales, when you pray for the Souls in Purgatory,
you are committing all of the acts of mercy simultaneously.

Protestantism developed laws that punish the least of Christ's brethren, as in
vagrancy laws, etc.  They don't see poverty as a result of unjustifiably high
prices, low wages, a constriction of the money supply, or even seasonal cir-
cumstances.  In as much, the merciless never receive God's mercy.

God needs you to not get "raptured up in the sky."   Instead, you are need-
ed to be instrumental in the conversion of sinners, repairing damage done
in society, and works of charity, as well as the proliferation of the King-
dom of God.  You don't get that done by being beamed up by Scotty.  In
as much, the belief in the Great Rapture should illustrate the hatefulness
& isolationism of those who adhere to it.

The works you do on earth go with you into eternity.  If you do nothing for
the benefit of anyone else other than your good ole boy network, you enter
eternity as an accomplished nothing.  Sin is nothingness, according to Saint
Catherine of Siena ... doctor of the true church.
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Envy is why a 1/3 of the angels rebelled and targeted humanity for eternal destruction.

Author's Preliminary Note:   The prime
reference of the following text is a teach-
ing of the early church martyr, St Ignatius
of Antioch.  A concurrence of this text
comes from 18th Century Dominican
priest, St. Louis of Montfort.  It was
St. Ignatius, in the Year 100, who
coined the title, Catholic Church.

The title commonly used to define the only church that Jesus Christ ever

founded is not a Medieval invention.  The title traces itself to the original
apostles, their immediate successors, and the early church fathers.  As far
as concerns Louis of Montfort, he accentuated the phenomenon where the
Archangel Gabriel was actually making reparation for the Sin of Satan, on
behalf of all the angels, by saluting Mary the way in which Gabriel saluted
her.

The First Creation

Before time began, it was resolved in the mind of God that there would be be-
ings created with intellect and free will.  There would be two general species
created, so that one species would compliment the other one.  It was simulta-
neously resolved that the created beings would possess everlasting existence.
Now, before the creation of time, space, and physical matter, there was the
creation of beings of pure spirit.  This was the first species created in the
image and likeness of God.

These were beautifully created people with extreme agility and talent.  None
the less, a problem was presented by these creatures' existence.  They were
made to exist forever, but each one had to show commitment to the creator,
in order for each one to exist in a state of everlasting of life.  Within the
commitment would be expressions of gratitude and charity.  This was im-
portant, because the alternative for any spirit not transacting in gratitude
and charity was everlasting death. 

The Test

God would reveal to the newly created spirits God's Will, in order to see if
they consented in it, in order to see if they marveled in it, and in order to see
if they looked forward to its completion with anticipation.  Within the divine
will was the intention of God to become a member of God's own creation.
However, it was not a member of the newly created spirit community that
God willed to become.  Rather, God willed to become a member of the next
species to be made.  It was to be a species comprising material existence and
spirit.  It was humanity.

God was already pure spirit and had no desire to be redundant in becoming a
member of a species which was also pure spirit.  God was going to become
man.   In God's will to become man, there was the matter of providing for a
mother.   Being that God would need a mother, one specific woman, yet to
come, was chosen to be the mother of God.  This woman was the central fo-
cal point of God's will.

This woman was the spirits' test, in order to enable them to show fidelity to
God.  All spirits who would be overcome with a sense of delight and/or won-
der and/or compassion over the idea that God would become a member of a
new and foreign creation will have proven their commitment to, and therefore
charity toward, God.  They would have also shown their assent to honoring the
woman destined to be the mother of God.  They would then become instantan-
eously glorified and endowed with eternal life.

The War

Among the newly created spirits were some exceptionally gifted ones.  In fact,
some were created to burn with a white incandescent charity.   These were the
Seraphim.  Now, being exceptionally gifted has a danger to it.   The danger con-
sists in the fact that, the more that is given to you, the more that is expected from
you.

Among the spirits was an exceptionally gifted one of great beauty.   His name
was Light Bearer.   This can be translated into the name, Lucifer.   Lucifer re-
garded his species of creation as the most magnificent thing that anyone could
image.   In fact, Lucifer considered his species to be so magnificent that it would
only be right for God to want to become a member of it  ....  so thought Lucifer.

All that Lucifer had to do was be compassionately moved over the idea of a for-
eign species coming into existence which would include the woman destined to
be the mother of God.  Lucifer did nothing other than become envious over God
wanting to be made human instead of being made spirit all over again.  He simul-
taneously became filled with a seething hatred over the woman destined to come.

Lucifer resolved to rise to glory on his own power.   In sequence, he began a
rebellion within the spirit world, in the attempt to overthrow the Will of God.
However, within the spirit world was another spirit who also was exceptionally
gifted.  His conclusion was a rhetorical question by which he stated, "Who is
like the Lord?"   Translated into Hebrew, "Who is like the Lord" is mi cha el.
The mi - cha - el spirit made a stance to defend the Heaven which God had cre-
ated.   Other spirits joined him.   This resulted in the first and only World War
of the spirit world. 

The result of that war was that the army of the mi-cha-el spirit won.   In fact, the
result of the spirit war is summarized in the words of Jesus of Nazareth when he
said, "I saw Satan fall from Heaven like a bolt of lightning."

Lucifer, the magnificent creation who comprises pure spirit, had now became the
impure spirit.   A third of the spirit world did also.  In sequence, his lightning style
expulsion from Heaven resulted in of all the lights going out in him who was once
called Light Bearer.   He then became the Prince of Darkness.   The spirit capable
of doing great good had now become the Evil One.  He had now become the Devil. 

The Original Sin

Equal to the former beauty of the Prince of Darkness was his hatred for mankind ...
... even before mankind was created.   No sooner was mankind created than was
the Devil scheming to destroy it.   He started by targeting the first generation
woman whom God created as a gift to the first generation man.

The Devil, symbolically referred to as the ancient serpent, set off to target the
first generation woman.   His quest was to trick her into committing spiritual
suicide.   He figured that,  if he could get mankind to sin,  then God would dis-
own humanity and destroy it.   The Devil would then prevail in his hatred of
mankind, he thought.   This meant that he would never have to see the lady
chosen to one day come into existence and be the mother of God Incarnate.

Now, whatever the exact act was, know that the original sin is something that

can never be done again.   The sin could only be committed while in the pre-
ternatural state;  in the state of man before the original sin rendered him in the
state of vulnerability and mortality.   The eating of the forbidden fruit was sym-
bolic of partaking in something already produced through the knowledge of
good and evil.   The woman was deceived into thinking that she was being
given the path to everlasting life.   She was told that God was an envious liar
who was deliberately keeping her away from glory.

The man for whom the woman was created partook in her sin solely out of a
sense of peer pressure.   He wanted to please his mate.   In addition, mention
that they saw themselves naked, after having committed the original sin, was
symbolic that they had realized that they were stripped of grace.

When God intervened, after mankind's fall from grace, guarantee was made
that there would be an enmity between the offspring of the woman and the
diabolical serpent;  that the offspring would crush his head when he would
strike for the offspring's heal.   The very act that the Evil One orchestrated,
in the hope of having mankind destroyed, assured that mankind would have
a savior.   It would now be guaranteed that the woman destined to be the
mother of God would come into existence.    The Devil couldn't thwart the
Will of God.

Take note on how the symbolic image of serpent accentuates the reality of
crushing the Evil One's head.   Thus, the intercepting of the serpent, when the
serpent lunged to inject deadly venom, is the operative image upon which to
reflect.   Holding down the serpent's head is symbolic of keeping evil at bay;
of keeping evil constrained.

The Ensuing State of Affairs

In all the spiritual world there is only one enmity;  one battle line.   It is between
the woman chosen to be the mother of God and the Devil.   To say that the great
enmity is between God and the Devil is to make the Devil an equal of God.   God
is infinite and incomparable.   The Devil is finite and he fools himself.   The apo-
calyptic enmity is between the Mother of God Incarnate and the Devil.   In fact,
she is also the Queen of Angels, meaning that she influences the actions and re-
solutions of those spirits who were created before she was.

The pertinence to this is that the Devil is the first person to commit blasphemy
against the woman destined to blossom with immaculate love for God.   Such a
thing is defamation.   In refusing to honor this woman, the Devil committed a sin
against God which required reparation.   That reparation would be made one day
by a spirit named Gabriel when he would say before the destined woman, "Hail, 
full of grace.   The Lord is with You.   You are the most blessed among women."   

The Archangel Gabriel is the Angel of Reparation.   The act of reparation made by 

Gabriel became the foundation stone of the New Testament.

Patrick Pontillo
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The Greatest Saint of Modern Times

St. Therese had an infatuation with snow.   It reminded her of purity.   It reminded her of herself.

She didn't have a media propaganda machine contriving loudly chanted logans that nev-
er came from the heart.   Instead, she was a devoteé of the Sacred Heart, interacting with
the most intimate mysteries of  Divine Mercy.   She was never published in the pages of
any literary anthology during her lifetime.   Yet, she wrote poetry that will bring tears to
the eyes of anyone not as lifeless as stone.   In fact, this young woman's autobiography
was published two years after her death, and her writings are now part of the legacy left
behind by the greatest saints thus far produced by the same church which recently pro-
duced some of  humanity's greatest devils.

She was born in Normandy France, in 1873.  She next entered religious life in 1888.
She then entered eternity on September 30, 1897.   Her name was Thérèse Martin.
In religious life she was Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.   Devoted
intelligentsia know her as Thérèse of Lisieux.

She was a Carmelite nun who died from tuberculosis at
the age of 24.  This translates into a compacted volume
of wisdom left behind, in written form.   She left behind
deeply anchored insights which carried within themselves
paradoxical weightlessness.   Now, the maturity level of
her texts, coupled with the poetic timbre within the same,
provides evidence that she was a saint of the most stellar
magnitude.   However, she was down to earth, knowing
that the stars for which poets and dreamers reach are
arrayed throughout the universe within each one of us.

She belongs in the Hall of the Lionhearted, as does Saint Bernadette Soubirous, due
to the sufferings that she endured through tuberculosis, as well as through the suffer-
ings rendered when she learned of her father's illness.   Yet, she identified herself as
a little flower inconspicuously placed in the garden of Our Lady.   However, she has
been more like the mystical hummingbird who intensifies the color of the flowers that
she has been visiting since her death.   The other flowers, incidentally, are defined as
other members of humanity who sometimes learned of her without searching for her. 

2 - The Way of Littleness Easily Fits through the Gates of Heaven

She proceeded through life on the premise that doing little things with great love results
in great sanctity.   She once wrote that the saints can soar to the lofts of contemplation,
as if to be eagles, but that she would go about fluttering her little wings.   Her way is
much like the way of the 18th century Franciscan saint, Francis Pontillo, originator of
the way of littleness.   This is not unusual, being that history has shown cosmic alliances
between the ancient Carmelite order and the Franciscan order prophesied by Francis
of Assisi to be one destined to endure until the end of the world.

Even though she is the saint of the little way, the greatest secret in her estimation is that
the greatest saints, upon death, don't go through a judgment procedure, but rather en-
ter into an abyss of Divine Mercy.  Embracing the Mercy of God comprised the way
of Thérèse.   Of course, mercy never comes to the merciless, so Thérèse knew that
she had to transform into mercy itself, so that mercy could be her endless possession.

Thérèse lived the reality that the mystery of love is that of transforming into the object
of your love.   Thérèse's love was mercy, and her transforming acts of mercy consist-
ed in praying for others, offering her pains for the eternal destinies of others, heroically
enduring her pains, and enduring the faults of others equally as heroically.   The life of
Saint Thérèse makes for a good compass when you get lost in life, forgetting how to
conduct yourself in controversial and stressful situations. 

3 - Popularity Without Any Madison Avenue Fanfare

The fact that the Little Flower rose to prominence without media propaganda in her
lifetime is the evidence needed to show that nothing about her is fake.   In fact, there
are things about Thérèse that the vain, pompous, and pampered can neither feel nor
comprehend.   She suffered intensely, and she made suffering sacramental.   In fact,
the fruits of her sufferings manifested themselves after her death, in miracles and even
visions given to certain nuns.   Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus is a testimony to the
Gospel truth that the last shall be first and the first shall be last.  

A certain newspaper columnist who can be identified as a member of the non-cosmic
and heavily pampered Vatican II church called Thérèse God's cheerleader, as if this
Carmelite saint were nothing more than a frivolous air head.   This columnist called the
proven miracle worker a mere cheerleader as if the pampered columnist were the in-
tensely cosmic one who heroically fought the battle between Heaven and Hell.   Such
profane writing is, of course, a legacy of the Vatican II church ---  a church marked
by the repeated desecration of the altar, the ensuing desecration of the altar boy, the
compromise of cowards, and the emergent doctrine of kissy-pooism.   The more that
a pampered member of the modern church writes on the Little Flower the more the
pampered writer ends up blaspheming the eternally mystical God.

4 - The Prophetic Thérèse

Thérèse served in the Carmel of Lisieux with two of her sisters.   One was the prior-
ess of the community.  On her death bed, Thérèse told her sister, Celine, to publish
her autobiography "immediately, or else the Devil will make sport of it."   When
asked if it will bring benefit, the Little Flower said, "It will benefit everyone, except
those with exotic tastes."   She was prophetically correct.

Thérèse once wrote that she had to win the palm branch of Saint Agnes, and if she
couldn't win it with her blood, then she would win it with her love.   Now, the palm
branch of Saint Agnes is symbolic of martyrdom, and a number of holy cards depic-
ting virgin martyrs have them holding a palm branch.   When Thérèse was exhumed,
her palm branch was uncorrupted.  Therefore, in 1910, when the body was first ex-
humed, Heaven spoke through a miracle.   The 19th Century palm branch that was
buried with Thérèse went uncorrupted for 13 years under the ground.   In 1910, it
was as freshly green as it was in 1897.  In fact, it was as freshly green going into the
21st Century.   See:

http://www.thereseoflisieux.org/my-blog-about-st-therese/tag/1910

The Little Flower once spoke to a fellow Carmelite nun on the importance of praying
for priests, mentioning it with a notable intonation of urgency.   Thérèse stressed the
importance of praying for priests, and we see what happened to the priesthood dur-
ing the decades of the 20th Century, when the majority of western humanity stopped
including prayer in their daily and nightly lives.   The result of not praying for priests
was a devastation that exceeded the destructive capacity of a nuclear arsenal.   The
words of the Little Flower turned out to be prophetic. 
                  
 The Cause for Her Canonization

The greatest champion in the cause of the
Little Flower's canonization was Scottish
priest, Fr. Thomas Nimmo Taylor.   At the
least, he was the one most moved by her
writings.   While visiting the convent where
Thérèse was stationed, the prioress said to
him,  "You might as well canonize every 
nun here."   Thérèse was an unknown even
among her own, despite a death which result-
ed in the instantaneous healing of one of the
nuns present.   In fact, when she was dying
(and the Carmelites were gathered around
her),  the sister in charge of convent public
relations asked what she was to write about
young Thérèse, in the notice of her death. 




During her death, she stated, "I had no idea that a person could suffer so much."
She also stated things such as, "Yes, be patient."   "Why would I want to suffer
any less?"   At the end, she was heard saying, "Oh, I how I love him."   She then
sunk into death, as if it were her end.   Then suddenly, she sat up quickly, with a look
of exhilarated surprise, as she looked upward at the statue of the Virgin Mary associ-
ated with her childhood healing.   She then died.   Just as instantly did a nun present
become immediately cured of a serious illness.   Going by memory, it was a statue of
Our Lady of Victory present at the Little Flower's death.

The writings of the Little Flower revealed a lot.   The miracles attributed to her and
the visions of her revealed even more.   The writings of  Thérèse of Lisieux were not
destined to be consigned to dust-ridden shelves.   Rather, a following of humanity in
love with her way ensued.   In fact, it was two years before her canonization when
the Society of the Little Flower was established.   It's mission is to make Thérèse of
Lisieux known and loved far beyond the confines of her native France.   It's mission
is to also help in the training of Carmelite seminarians, among other things.   In fact,  
the Circle of Roses Giving Program helps the Carmelite order in general.

It's important to point out that the Carmelite order is amongst the oldest in the church,
with a roll call of doctors of the church.   Thus, it's a time-tested order that can easily
undo the evils found to have been done by certain religious orders that were founded
in the 20th Century.   When in doubt, go Carmelite and save the church.

On May 3rd, 1944, Pope Piux XII named the Little Flower co-patroness of France.
Thirty-four days after she was commissioned France's patroness, the successful allied
invasion of France transpired.   Seventy-nine days later came the Liberation of Paris.
This saint has been known to work quickly.   The only problem is when people don't
petition her for her intercession.   If you don't ask her to pray for you, and if you don't
ask to unite your praying to hers, she can do nothing.

Being that it's mission is to ultimately inspire others to be like Saint Thérèse, the mis-
sion of the Little Flower Society is to actually make the world a better place, as well
as making Heaven more populated.  Being that the church has been overrun by those
void of a conscience, the mission has become more demanding.   Now, there are ap-
proximately 500,000 active members, at present.   However,  Faith, Hope, and Love
have been laid waste throughout a scandal-ridden and sodomized church.   Therefore,
humanity needs the Little Flower more now than ever before, and the Society  of the
Little Flower needs to work overtime.   So, feel free to become a hero and join, or
else join and then become a hero.   Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, as she is known
in America, will help you through your training wheels stage, if you are a beginner.

Through the Little Flower's Society, you can enlist yourself and others in Mass enroll-
ments, for stipends (donations) as little as $5.00.  In fact, you can enroll electronically,
becoming a beneficiary of Carmelite Masses, prayers, and good works.   Having the
showering droplets of the Little Flower's protection is then what you need to reflect
on, after becoming an enrolled member of the society.   If you remember that you're
under the umbrella of her protection, it will keep you from doing something regretful
during stressful times.   Let the Little Flower into your world, so that she can either
save it or save the worlds of those near you.   For starters, you can learn about the
Society of the Little Flower by going to:

http://www.littleflower.org/

Whenever writing about the Little Flower, it's always wise to finish by stating, "to be 
continued."   This is because the Little Flower will continue the conversation in one
way of another.  Become the beneficiary of what she is willing to give you --- herself. 

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My reflections of a Trappist monastery

I have written in condemnation of certain cardinals.  I publicly stated
in early 2012, both in writing and during a recorded interview, that Pope
Benedict XVI needed to resign.  I also called for the canonical disband-
ing of the Legionaries of Christ religious order.  I then condemned the
vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan who identified himself as an ad-
herent to the Catholic Faith and a pro-life champion.  He was no such
thing.

In light of the aforesaid, a presumptive person would immediately brand
me as an anti-Catholic at the outset.  The same type of person would guess
that I'm vehemently antagonistic to the idea of Catholic monasticism and
anything Catholic.  Well, guess again. 

Firstly, those cardinals whom I condemned were/are wolves in shepherds'
clothing, and St Francis de Sales stated long ago that it's an act of charity
to warn the sheep of the wolves in their midst, wherever the wolves may
be.  Thus, I was performing an act of charity.

Secondly, Benedict XVI did resign almost one year to the day after I pub-
licly stated that he should do so.   I was on queue and on target, yet I got
shunned for stating what I did. 

Thirdly, a religious order founded by a morphine addict and molester who
regularly had legionaries hand deliver envelopes of 'polite bribery' to Vati-
can officials was not founded in good will.  Being that the founder's writ-
ings and plagiarisms were banned, the entire religious order needs to be
dissolved.  Any religious order founded by a devil needs to be liquidated.

Fourthly, as far as goes Paul Ryan, he repeatedly lied, he publicly praised
atheist Ayn Rand, and his budget was declared immoral by the American
bishops.  There was nothing identifiably Catholic about Ryan.  He was an-
other Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, pretending to believe in Catholicism as
a ploy to get the Catholic vote. 

The Subject at Hand:  Trappist Monasticism

I was a long-term guest at a Trappist monastery, for the intention of writing
about Corporate Sin and the Sin of Cooperation.  That subject is at this site,
incidentally.  None the less, I vividly saw that Trappist monasteries are the
pillars that keep humanity from crashing down into annihilation.

The strength of any Trappist Monastery comes from prayer and sacrifice.
In addition, the unique aspect of the Trappists (Cistecians of the Strict Ob-
servance) is that it was the only Catholic monastic order (at least up to the
time of its founding) dedicated to the Virgin Mary.  At the Trappist Mona-
stery where I stayed (in Massachusetts), her presence was everywhere.

At the monastery, I learned with neither tutor nor book that Christ in the
tabernacle is a lighthouse asking you to watch with him.  I learned that
the Great Silence which starts after Compline (prayer service) is an ex-
pansive time of peace where you start to notice things not yet realized
about life and existence.

I learned a number of other things at the Trappist monastery, the most
significant one being how to tell a holy person from a fraud.  A fraud
attempts to make himself look superior in insight and countenance, all
the while acting as if he is distant from the rest of humanity, on some
type of Mount Olympus,  looking down upon mankind.  The fraud
makes himself seem glamorous and unapproachable.   This is no-
thing more than conceit.

The saint, in contrast, acts like the boy next door.  When you are
around a saint, you feel at home.  You feel so at ease in the pre-
sence of the person that you feel as if you knew him/her all your
life.

In the presence of a fraud, people guard what they reveal, lest they be
written-off as unacceptable.  In the presence of a saint, a person feels
that he/she can confide anything to the saint and not be betrayed in
terms of confidentiality.

Conversing with a saint can be a very heart-moving experience.  The
fraud provokes a fake form of piety ... such as flag waving, putting
your hand on your heart, and saying the pledge of allegiance to his
national flag.  Saints are NOT into nationalism.  Saints are universal-
ly minded people.
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At the monastery, I stayed in the attic of the guest cottage.  In the
evening, at the completion of sunset, I would hear the sheep in the
back yard for a short while.  Then deep into the night, I would hear
something gnawing at the floor board, somewhat on a regular basis.
The atmosphere was so peaceful that it gnawing sound didn't disturb
me.
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