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Pope Pius XI († 1939): “These are the worse days in the history of mankind since the deluge. The time is ripe for a supernatural intervention.”

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History of the Church: The Formation of the Apostles of the Latter Times

By: Phil Friedl

Pope Pius XII Last Words: “After me, the flood.”

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All Copyrights Reserved 2009Printed With Ecclesiastical Permission 2009

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Dedication of the Book

This book is dedicated to my Catholic ancestors, who suffered martyrdom for the Catholic faith and also those who are blessed because they died in the faith. “Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord.” (Apocalypse 14:13) There have been many nights I have prayed for those ancestors that are suffering dearly in purgatory in hopes that they are to be released from that horrendous prison. My dear beloved ancestors, I know that you can see I am writing to you. We are one blood, for we are Christian, and that we are of the same blood because we come from the same family. I am looking to thee, princes and princesses of Christ not to let our family name be disgraced and shamed before God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Angels, and the Saints for having nearly our whole family apostatizing from the faith. It is because of thee, my dear ancestors, that I owe my gift of faith. In this day and age, the article of the Communion of Saints in the Christian faith, is completely forgotten. This is why I am turning to you my dear ancestors, that you may obtain through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the conversions of my family members. My father, mother, brother, uncles, aunts, cousins. Also those that are related to me in name, but not in blood.

I ask you especially that you obtain for me the grace that I may be present at the last hour of the deaths of every family member. I want to receive them back into the faith, or if having returned to the faith, receive the last Sacraments of the Church. In addition, I want to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet at their bedside. For according to Divine Mercy: In My Soul, the diary of Sister Faustina, Our Lord said to her: “When they shall pray this chaplet at the bedside of the dying, I will stand between the Father and the dying soul, not as the Just Judge, but as a Merciful Redeemer.”

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Table of ContentsIntroduction..................................................................................................7Chapter 1......................................................................................................8Chapter 2....................................................................................................12Chapter 3....................................................................................................15Chapter 4....................................................................................................18Chapter 5....................................................................................................20Chapter 6....................................................................................................49Chapter 7....................................................................................................64Chapter 8....................................................................................................71Chapter 9....................................................................................................79Summary....................................................................................................85Appendix: How To Prepare For The End Of The World...........................92About The Author ...................................................................................100Works Cited Page.....................................................................................101

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IntroductionThe Fruit From The Tree Of Heresy

“The sole reason why society is perishing is because it has refused to hear the word of the Church, which is the word of life, the word of God. All plans for salvation will be sterile if the great word of the Catholic Church is not restored in all its fullness. The right to preach and instruct the people which the Church has received from God Himself in the persons of the Apostles, has been usurped by a crowd of prattling newspapermen and ignorant babblers.” 1

Just like wheat, weeds start off small, looking although insignificant, but when fully grown and the roots are far into the ground being well established, they are a danger to the survival of wheat. We must understand this, I have only three types of heresy written down for this treatise, when there are probably thousands of different types of heresies, in one way similar to that of the other. The three types of heresy I have chosen to use are: Lutheranism, Gallicanism, and Liberalism. Lutheranism is only a seed, in comparison to the devastation it had on the Church, to that of Liberalism. However, Liberalism, started off as Lutheranism, and over the ages of four hundred years, the enemies of the Church sowing the seed of error well within the bosom of the Church as Pope St. Pius X stated in his encyclical, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (8 September 1907): “We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative especially by the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church's open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom.”

We cannot understand the error that I am to refute, historically speaking, unless we see what happened previously to the Church. “In the history of heresy we frequently find some individuals, even many, who, in spite of themselves, are dragged into the torrent of error for no other reason than their supreme ignorance.” 2

1 The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret2 What is Liberalism?

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Chapter 1Result of The Error Lutheranism:

“For unless there come a revolt first.” 3

Protestantism derives it's name from the word protest. To protest means to oppose or to resist. People protested against the authority of the Church on the claims that the Bible is the sole authority and by faith alone is one justified. Martin Luther nailed his ninety five theses “on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg (November 1, 1517).” 4 Martin Luther called the Epistle of St. James “a straw Epistle.”5 In St. James it states, “faith without works is dead.” (James 2:20) This is obviously contradictory to what Martin Luther preached. Meanwhile, the true horror was that all people whatever rank they be, were able to interpret the Bible any way they pleased. By making the assumption that people had the ability to interpret the Bible any way they please, means that there cannot be absolute truth. If there are no absolute truths, it is then impossible to think or to apply logic. For example, we all agree on the absolute mathematical truth 1 + 1 = 2. But to deny this mathematical truth, is to say that: 1 + 1 = 2 and 3 etc. We obviously know that this cannot be true. There can only be one true answer. It is the same concept for the Bible. There can only be one true interpretation of the Bible. This true interpretation of the Bible, can only come from the Church, the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.6 The Church alone produced the Holy Bible and subsequently is its proper interpreter.

What then are the affects that these teachings of Luther had on society? Besides the many theological errors Martin Luther held, his main error that he preached was revolt against both ecclesiastical (the Church) and civil authorities (the State). Now since day laborers have the ability to interpret the Bible, they began to leave their humble and poor jobs to go and preach. In Switzerland a city called St. Gall, a crowd of people left

3 II Thessalonians 2:34 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 19405 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 19406 This is what we have today in our society. It is to say that sodomy is right but wrong

at the same time. Both of them are contradictory. This leads to insanity in the mind, for the mind is resting on a doubt. For doubt is defined as in the Catholic Encyclopedia: “A state in which the mind is suspended between two contradictory propositions and unable to assent to either of them.” And as the Council of Trent affirms in their catechism: “The mind rests content in the knowledge of eternal truth.” If the mind is not at rest, then it is holding a falsehood.

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this city to preach to the nations saying: “did not the Bible say, Go, teach all nations and preach the Gospel to them?”

Thomas Münzer of Zwickau made an erroneous theological conclusion. He believed that Christians baptized as infants need to be rebaptized (this group is called Anabaptists). “He also taught an interior light given by God to each one to interpret the Bible; that there is no spiritual or temporal authority; that all things must be possessed in common by all men, who for one large community of brethren enjoying equal rights and exercising conjointly both sacerdotal and royal powers.”7 According to this definition of communism8 that is exactly what Thomas Münzer of Zwickau preached. Communism is condemned by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Divini Redemptoris (19 March 1937). Do you not see the seeds planted over four hundred years earlier coming to full maturity in the future? Look too at this tree of Lutheranism when it fully bears the fruit of Liberalism!

There were many men and women who ran through the streets barefooted. They preached from the roofs of houses to fulfill the line from Holy Scripture: “That which ye hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.” (Matthew 10:27) In God's divine providence, the wicked have but only a short time to exasperate this filth of error and immorality upon the earth. (Apocalypse 12:12) When this time is over, God says, “time shall be no longer.” (Apocalypse 10:6) We all understand that one day we will pass unto eternity. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment.” (Hebrews 9:27) As Martin Luther, an apostate Catholic monk, grew older he retired gradually from the forefront of the Protestant League, which he created for the revolt against the Church. The apostate Catholic princes from the Protestant League stole the wealthiest monasteries and bishoprics for their own personal use. Irreligion and immorality and vices of all kinds flourished wherever Lutheranism spread. “We experience it daily,” Martin Luther says in a sermon, “that the people are seven times worse today than ever before under the Papacy; they are more avaricious, more unchaste, more envious, more intemperate, more dishonest....” 9 He was especially dissatisfied with the state of things in his own Wittenberg, where he nailed his ninety five thesis. “Let us get out of Sodom,” he wrote to his wife, an apostate Catholic nun, in 1545. “I prefer 7 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 19408 “A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in

common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.” - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/communism

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to wander about homeless, and to beg my bread from door to door than to poison my poor last days by the spectacle of all these disorders.” 10

Lutheranism sowed the seed of error allowing people to disregard the authority of the Church, allowing the error of separation of Church and State to spread rapidly. 11 The Church is the soul of State, and the State is the body of the Church. Just like the soul, the Church is superior because she is of Divine origin, where as the body is just a mere instrument for the soul, so too the State is just the instrument of the Church. If one separates them, body and soul, the separation results in death, as the Council of Trent declares, 12 so too does society die when the Church and State separate, it collapses spiritually, morally, and physically. All marks of holiness and sanctity disappear since none heed the advice of the Church, just like when a child ignores its mothers pleas: “do not put your hand in the fire, you will hurt yourself.” Morality is next to break down and the very fabric of society becomes degraded, lawlessness that is disobedience, begins to breed even at a very young age, their parents are either ignorant themselves or were the very ones sowing this horrible seed. Lastly physically, when all of this evil is consummated, that is the former and the latter, absolute chaos is guaranteed and bound to happen for society, for then you have souls completely detached from God, His commandments, His Church, and His will. There can simply be no good at all. As what happened to the Roman Empire. 13 For all that is contrary to God's will is

10 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 1940 11 “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”

Syllabus of Errors12 “Moreover as Christ was true and perfect man, He of course was capable of dying.

Now man dies when the soul is separated from the body. When, therefore, we say that Jesus died, we mean that His soul was disunited from His body.” Catechism of The Council of T rent

13 “Upon these factors making for public decadence were superimposed others which were even more serious moral and spiritual in character. Although Christianity was now established in classical society, it could not transform it in a day. Not only did it still contain many pagans in its bosom, but several fairly recent converts let themselves be tainted by the atmosphere around them. We need only to open St. Augustine, St. Jerome, or any other Father of the epoch to find proof that evangelization had not been able to halt the moral disintegration. From the idle upper classes who lived only for luxury, for silks from the East, perfumes, jewelled rings on every finger, down to the ordinary idle man in the street who spent his time gambling at dice, knucklebones, or hopscotch, there was scarcely a free man who was willing to do an honest day's work. It is useless to dwell on sexual morality; divorce, male and female prostitution, and a falling birth rate reached scandalous proportions. Despite imperial efforts to lessen their horror and their number, the gory gladiatorial games

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sin, and to sin is to be a servant of Satan.

“Now, the will of God is the perfection of God Himself, holy, just, pure, merciful, true; and anything contrary to these perfections in thought, word, or deed is sin. The conformity of man to the will of God, to the perfections of God, is the sanctity or the perfection of the human soul; and the more he is conformed to the will of God, the holier and more perfect he is. Therefore, to be at variance with God is to be deformed; and the monstrous deformity of the human frame is not more humbling nor more hideous-nay, it is not humbling and hideous, compared with the deformity of the soul. When the soul is unlike to God, when it is departed from the perfection of God, when instead of purity there is impurity, instead of justice there is injustice, instead of truth there is falsehood, instead of mercy there is cruelty, instead of the perfections of God there is the direct contrary of those perfections; no deformity or hideousness that can strike the eye is so terrible.” 14

continued to provide the mob with its degrading entertainment, and St. Augustine speaks sadly of those wretches who amuse themselves with carnivals and vile spectacles even while the enemy is at their gates slaughtering their brethren. And indeed, in the spiritual sphere itself, the situation was distressing too. Degenerate paganism was no more than a literary loyalty, a form of conservatism among a few intellectuals and great lords, and, among the common people, for those who still clung to it, a hotchpotch of superstitions, astrology, and magic. From this point of view the atmosphere of the age was so full of miasmas that Christianity itself had to be constantly on its guard lest it become contaminated. In truth, society at the beginning of the fifth century was indeed, as St. Eucherius, the Bishop of Lyons, so aptly put it, 'a white haired world.' Roman civilization had sunk to the point where no remedy in the world could save it, for its physiological wear and tear had gone so far that all aids were useless. What is so surprising is not that this world died, but that it took so long to do so. The underlying causes which determined its ruin had been there for the past two hundred years after all. But the organism was so strongly built that it had obstinately resisted destruction. In the final hour, when everything was falling apart, there were to be a few men, even if they were only ambitious careerists or semi barbarians, who held fast and would not give in. And even among personalities as ludicrous as those of the last emperors, the sense of a kind of pride, of a last loyalty to the past, produced a few energetic gestures, such as that of Honorius, who, when trapped in the Ravenna marshes, with no army, with no means of action, obstinately refused Alaric the title of 'master of the militia' of which he judged him unworthy.” The Dark Ages of the Church

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Chapter 2Exaltation of Catholicism:

“For he hath given his angels charge over thee.”15

St. Thomas More once said to the apostate Catholic King Henry VIII: “The Pope is the descendent of St. Peter, our only link with Christ.” Those who apostatized from the Catholic faith will immediately cease to have any link to Christ, for they ceased by their actions to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.

By the mercy of God, for the sake of the elect, God inspired the Council of Trent to be summoned. For as Canon Law 222 states: “There can be no Ecumenical Council unless it is convoked by the Roman Pontiff. It is the right of the Roman Pontiff to preside over the Ecumenical Council either in person or through others; to determine the matters to be discussed and in what order, to transfer, suspend, or dissolve the Council, and to confirm its decrees.” 16 Without the Roman Pontiff, the Catholic faith cannot be clarified further, as explicitly expressed in dogmas.

“The best comment on the work accomplished by the Council of Trent is contained in the Acts of the Vatican Council (1869): The salutary providence of Christ has been most clearly manifested in the abundant fruits which have accrued to the Christian world from the Ecumenical Councils, and especially from that of Trent, though it was held in evil times. For the result has been that the sacred dogmas of religion have been more exactly defined and more fully stated; errors have been condemned and repressed; ecclesiastical discipline has been restored and placed on a firmer basis; the cultivation of knowledge and piety has been fostered among the clergy; colleges have been founded to train youths for the clerical ranks, morality has been revived among the Christian people by the more accurate instruction of the faithful and the greater frequentation of the Sacraments. Other results are the closer union of the members with their visible Head, and an increase of vigor throughout the mystical body of Christ, the

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multiplication of Religious Congregations and other institutes of Christian piety, and a zeal that is constant, even unto death, for the propagation of the kingdom of Christ throughout the world.” 17

The Protestant Revolt, having its foundation on sand, that is apostate Catholics, ceased to obey ecclesiastical and civil law. By not obeying they ceased to be in submission to the Roman Pontiff. The goal of Satan is to sift the Roman Pontiff as wheat. “Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.” (Luke 22:31) By having St. Peter's successor under his (emphasis: Satan's) control, Catholics would accept error for truth, and truth for error. “Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.” (Isaias 5:20) Satan desires by any means to get rid of the Roman Pontiff. For the Roman Pontiff holds the keys to Infallibility and Jurisdiction, both are necessary for the preservation of the Church, the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. These keys are explicitly given to St. Peter. (Matthew 16:19) The former (emphasis: the key of Infallibility) retains the faithful in the purity of Truth, which is the Christian Faith, while the latter (emphasis: the key of Jurisdiction) confirms the faithful with sanctifying grace through the Sacraments and ultimately the salvation of their souls. Most importantly Pope Boniface VIII clearly proclaims in his encyclical Unam Sanctam: “Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” For it is written, “And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.” (John 10:16) If they, the sheep, are not subject to the Shepherd that Jesus Christ appointed, how are they to be His flock?

What then is the first comment that Martin Luther said about the Pope in the early days of the revolt against the Church? “How sincere these protestations were, may be judged from the fact that three days after he had written to the Pope, he wrote to Spalatin, the chaplain and private secretary of Fredrick the Wise: “I am not sure whether the Pope is Antichrist himself, or only one of his apostles.” 18 Martin Luther contradicted himself early on after his departure from the Christian faith.

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He professes:

“We freely confess that in the papacy there are many good things worthy of the name of Christian, which have come from them to us; namely, we confess that in the papacy there is true Scripture, true baptism, the true sacrament of the altar, the true keys for the remission of sins, the true office of preaching, true Catechism, as our Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, Articles of Faith. I avouch, that under the papacy there is true Christianity, yea, the kernel and marrow of Christianity, and many pious and great Saints.”19

However, Martin Luther later confirmed his belief about the connection with the Papacy and the Devil. “In 1545 he wrote the coarsest of his pamphlets, Against the Papacy Founded by the Devil, in order to hinder his followers from attending the Council of Trent.”20 And as God would justly say to those obstinate Protestants who acted similarly to Martin Luther: “Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded. You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.” (Proverbs 1:24-26) Martin Luther died of apoplexy on the 18 th of February, 1546, in his sixty-third year.

“One evening, towards the end of his life, Luther was walking in his garden, the stars shining brightly above him. 'See how the stars are shining,' said his wife to him 'O beautiful light,' he replied, 'but it is not for us.' 'Why? Are we then disinherited from Heaven?' 'Perhaps,' Luther replied, 'because we have abandoned our state: we cannot return, we are too deeply plunged in sin, and it is too late to repent.' In these sentiments Luther died.” 21

19 The Religion of Protestants20 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 194021 Stories from The Catechist

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Chapter 3Result of The Error Gallicanism:

“He that heareth you, heareth me.” 22

“In 1673 Louis XIV began to confiscate for his own use the revenues of all vacant sees and to claim for himself the right of appointing new bishops, leaving to the Pope the formality of confirming his choice. When the Popes resisted these claims, Louis summoned a General Assembly of the French Clergy (1681) and obtained from it the Declaration of the Four Articles, known as the Four Gallican Propositions, namely that: 1) The Pope may not interfere directly or indirectly with the temporal concerns of princes. 2) In spiritual matters a General Council is superior to the Pope. 3) The rights and customs of the Gallican Church are inviolable. 4) The Pope is not infallible, even in matters of faith, unless decision confirmed by the consent of the Church.” 23

Gallicanism is just the applicable form of Lutheranism (better known as Protestantism). Gallicanism is what Martin Luther, could not ever possibly dream about. Since Martin Luther, the apostate Catholic monk, believed the Pope to be Antichrist; he would have rejoiced in the errors of Gallicanism. For the authority of St. Peter's successor was minimized temporally (meaning in civil matters) and in spiritual matters (that is in faith and morals) by the Gallican Church in France.24 In the French territories of the eighteenth century, Papal Bulls could not be published without the consent of the Crown (emphasis: the State). Also all French subjects were exempted from the jurisdiction of the Inquisition and other Roman Tribunals.25 This Gallican Church in essence was completely independent. We must define the word independent as, not being subject to

22 Luke 10:1623 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 1940 24 “Roman pontiffs and ecumenical councils have wandered outside the limits of their

powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have even erred in defining matters of faith and morals.” Syllabus of Errors,

25 “The ecclesiastical forum or tribunal for the temporal causes, whether civil or criminal, of clerics, ought by all means to be abolished, even without consulting and against the protest of the Holy See.” Syllabus of Errors,

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the Pope.

“In order to alleviate the financial distress of the State the National Assembly, in November 1789, decreed the confiscation of all the immovable property of the Church, assuming in return the obligation of maintaining the Church and her ministers from the public funds. The clergy had thus become at one stroke the paid servants of the State. Nor did the Assembly stop there. In the following year the monasteries, convents, and other religious houses were suppressed, and all Church property was placed under the control of the State.” 26 (Much of Church property remains in the hands of the State in 2009.)

When the monarchy fell on August 10th 1792, September was the Reign of Terror. There were a number of bishops who were martyred for the Catholic faith, in addition, 215 priests guillotined. The Christian Religion (emphasis: the Catholic Faith) was done away with, forbidden, among the French people. The Gregorian Calendar was replaced by a new one. Instead of having seven days for one week, the French had ten. They replaced all the Holy Days of Obligation with those of Republican and secular “Holy Days”. To top these horrendous blasphemes, a girl of ill repute was put on the consecrated altar of Notre Dame in Paris, and the French people worshiped her as the Goddess of Reason (November 10, 1793). This horror did eventually come to an end after a few months.

As one can see so far in history, the first step was to separate the Church from the State. The devil's second step was to get people to disregard the papacy, through Gallicanism. The papacy is the foundation of the Church. You break the foundation of a house, the house will then fall. “Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock.” (Matthew 7:24-25) Did not Jesus Christ found His Church upon the rock? “And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18) Not even the gates of Hell can destroy this foundation (emphasis: the papacy) of His House (emphasis: His Church). For Jesus specifically prayed for St. Peter

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and His successors. “And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” (Luke 22:31-32)

If the foundation (emphasis: the papacy) of His House (emphasis: the Church) will not fail, will then His house fall if the floods of apostasy, winds of heresies, fires of schisms, and earthquakes of impiety attempt to destroy it?

But if the Shepherd (the successor to St. Peter) is taken away, the sheep will scatter. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.” (Zacharias 13:7) When the sheep scatter the loss of souls is innumerable. For it is written, “All you shall be scandalized in Me this night and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed.” (Matthew 26:31) Without a Shepherd, how will the sheep be guided? How will the sheep be protected from the wolves? “And the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep.” (John 10:12)

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Chapter 4Exaltation of Catholicism:

“Thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” 27

It was on December 8, 1854 (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) that Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary to be dogma. In defense of this two thousand year tradition within the Church, God raised St. Bernadette of Lourdes, a young peasant girl to bring testimony into the eyes of men, the godless and the impious. There have been numerous miracles at Lourdes. This simple but amazingly pious lady, who became a nun, changed innumerable souls. One of her famous conversations was the following:

“The Prussians are at our gates,” said the Chevalier Gougenot des Mousseaux to St. Bernadette, “are you not afraid of them?”

“Not in the least.” Replied St. Bernadette.“Then you think there is nothing to fear!” “I am only afraid of bad Catholics.”“Of nothing else?”“Nothing else, Monsieur.” 28

“The Blessed Virgin appeared many times to the young peasant girl St. Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto of Massabielle, near Lourdes, France. 'I am the Immaculate Conception,' were the words of the vision. A miraculous spring suddenly came into existence. More than half a million pilgrims annually visit the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes from all parts of the world, and many well attested cures have been wrought there by bathing in the water or by merely visiting the shrine, but especially by the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Bernadette was canonized on Dec. 8, 1933. In 1864 Pius IX published the famous Syllabus, a collection of eighty propositions which reiterated the condemnation of pantheism, naturalism, socialism, communism, freemasonry and other forms of religious liberalism, some of which were then finding support outside and inside the Church. “The sense of the propositions must

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be gathered from the various allocutions, encyclicals, and letters of the Pontiff in which the context will give their full condemned meaning,” because the condemned propositions are nothing but excerpts from these documents. The greatest spiritual triumph of Pius IX was the Vatican Council, the first General Council held since Trent. When he convened it by the Bull Aeterni Patris (June 29, 1868), the times were so troubled that few believed it could ever meet. But on December 8, 1869, 719 representatives of the Church amongst whom were almost three fourths of the entire episcopate, assembled at the Vatican. In the first sessions the fundamental truths of Christianity: God's existence, nature, and providence; the possibility and fact of revelation; the harmony between reason and revelation were defined, and the principal errors of the day: atheism, materialism, rationalism, and pantheism, were condemned. In most parts of the Church the definition of Papal Infallibility was received with enthusiasm.” 29

With the advent of proclaiming Papal Infallibility as dogma, the Church revivified Her rights as being the only source of salvation, as St. Jerome full of angelic ardor speaks out against the opinion of Jovinian: “I speak to the successor of the fisherman, and to the disciple of the cross. Following no chief but Christ, I am united in communion with your Holiness, that is, with the chair of Peter. I know that on that rock is built the Church. Whoever will eat the lamb outside this house is profane. Whoever is not in the ark of Noah shall perish in the flood.” 30

The errors of the world, the flesh, and the devil, wanted to sift the successor St. Peter, as Jesus foretold, “Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.” (Luke 22:31) By also defining Papal Infallibility, it is a further proof of the truth, that the papacy is an absolute necessity. The Pope is precious as a pearl. Did our Lord say not to cast our pearls before the swine? (Matthew 7:6)

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Chapter 5Result of The Error Liberalism:

“He hath but a short time.” 31

What is the definition of Liberalism? “Liberalism is, therefore, the radical and universal denial of all divine truth and Christian dogma, the primal type of all heresy, and the supreme rebellion against the authority of God and His Church. As with Lucifer, its maxim is, 'I will not serve'.” 32 Let us remember what we must look out for, the revolt. “Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” (II Thessalonians 2:3)

In 1903 Pope St. Pius X said in his first Encyclical E Supremi, “When all this is considered there is good reason to fear lest this great perversity may be as it were a foretaste, and perhaps the beginning of those evils which are reserved for the last days; and that there may be already in the world the 'Son of Perdition' of whom the Apostle speaks (II Thessalonians 2:3).”

Paul VI was 6 years old when the encyclical E Supremi was written. Paul VI wrote: “The Church is a problem. And here we face a strange phenomenon indeed.” 33 Paul VI addressed the following: “The tail of the devil is functioning in the disintegration of the Catholic world. The darkness of Satan has entered and spread throughout the Catholic Church even to its summit.” 34 For Paul VI is an antagonist just like Satan himself. Paul VI has reached even to the summit of the Catholic Church for he is reigning unopposed. At the time of Paul VI there was no Vicar of Christ. “And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.” (II Thessalonians 2:6) A true Vicar of Christ withheld the power of Antichrist. It was only until the death of Pope Pius XII that Antichrist (Paul VI) could be revealed in time. Could we then not say that Paul VI is working with Satan? Is not Satan the antagonist to Christ? Paul VI continues on in his address: “Apostasy, loss of faith, is spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within the Church.” What a coincidence, this guy gets illegally elected for the seat of the papacy, and apostasy is at “the highest levels within the Church.” Paul VI is saying in so many words I am The Antichrist. Please do not forget that part of the

31 Apocalypse 12:1232 What is Liberalism?33 The Church 34 Address on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Fatima Apparitions, October 13, 1977

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definition of Antichrist 35 is a mass apostasy from the Catholic faith!There can be no worse time man will ever experience, than the age

when The Antichrist has walked upon the earth. In the early 1900's, a Catholic priest stated, that there are no souls who are currently practicing the interior life of prayer. When that happens he states the power of God is in chains. The Saints teach that when there are no souls who practice prayer in the interior life, a whole nation will fall into decline. And that God had given evil men the power to do whatever they desire. 36 If there are no souls in the world that practice the interior life of prayer, could not the whole world then fall into decline?

King David cries out: “Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.” (Psalms 11:2)

That is to say, there are no Saints who are training themselves in the interior life of prayer. And that the Catholic faith is forgotten and despised among men. Pope Pius XII told us: “There will be storms and winds. The Church has not finished her martyrdom. But a cry of reawakening is passing through the world we are in a springtime of history. May God grant that it will be one of the most beautiful springs man has experienced, after one of the longest and bitterest winters, a spring which precedes one of the most brilliant and rich summers.”37

Here I am going to summarize the definition of Antichrist into a couple of points.

1. Antichrist will be an individual human being. 2. Antichrist will have an extreme hatred of the Catholic Faith.

• Paul VI stated that the Church is the problem.3. Antichrist will cause a widespread Apostasy from the Catholic

Faith.

35 “A designation of Christ's chief antagonist, who will precede his second coming and the end of the world, and whose activity will be directly connected with a widespread apostasy from the Christian faith. He will be an individual human personality, marked by utter lawlessness, self deification, hatred of Christian truth, and rivalry with Christ through mock miracles. He will cause the fall of many, but be destroyed by Christ.” A Catholic Dictionary

36 The Soul of the Apostolate , Jean-Baptiste Chautard O.C.S.O., published in the early 1900's: “It is a terrible misfortune when there is not to be found one really interior soul among all those at the head of important Catholic projects. Then it seems as though the supernatural had undergone an eclipse, and the power of God were in chains. And the Saints teach us that, when this happens, a whole nation may fall into a decline, and Providence will seem to have given evil men a free hand to do all the harm they desire.”

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• Paul VI also informed us that apostasy is at the highest levels within the Church.

4. Antichrist will be destroyed by Christ• This I will prove below.Now to I am going to prove to you that Paul VI has the mark of the

beast, 666. Let us remember that Paul VI was six years old when Pope St. Pius X talked about the Antichrist already being born (emphasis: encyclical E Supremi). Paul VI was born on the twenty sixth of September in 1897. He died on the sixth of August in 1978. Paul VI died on the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus Christ What is the Transfiguration? It is the manifestation of Divine Glory of Jesus Christ.

St. Matthew states: “And he was transfigured before them. And His face did shine as the sun: and His garments became white as snow.” (Matthew 17:2) St. Paul says: “And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.” (II Thessalonians 2:8) Therefore Paul VI, fulfilled being Antichrist by being destroyed by Christ, for he died on the feast day of the Transfiguration of Christ, for Christ killed the wicked one with the spirit of His mouth. Let us remember: “out of His mouth proceedeth a sharp two edged sword.” (Apocalypse 19:21). Here is the signature of Paul VI.

Take a close look at the P's which begin his name. When the name is flipped upside down you can see the three distinct sixes.

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St. John announces: “Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty six.” (Apocalypse 13:18) We thus have fulfilled the prophecy of 666, the mark of the beast.

• Paul VI was six years old when Pope Saint Pius X talked about Antichrist already being born.

• Paul VI was killed by Christ since he died on August sixth the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ. (Paul VI fulfilled the definition of the Antichrist)38

• His signature was 666.• We can thus conclude that Paul VI is The Antichrist.

Here now I am going to combine biblical and church history to show that many events foretold by Jesus Christ in the Bible have come to light. There is much to take in and understand. Our Lord commanded us, “he that readeth let him understand.” (Matthew 24:15) As I have studied history I have seen similar correlations. I am going to take two events in history. Both of these events have one thing in common. Those who were obliged to pray for themselves as well as for their neighbor failed horribly. “And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.” (Matthew 24:12) God sent two punishments, the Black Plague and The Antichrist.

38 “A designation of Christ's chief antagonist, who will precede his second coming and the end of the world, and whose activity will be directly connected with a widespread apostasy from the Christian faith. He will be an individual human personality, marked by utter lawlessness, self deification, hatred of Christian truth, and rivalry with Christ through mock miracles. He will cause the fall of many, but be destroyed by Christ.” A Catholic Dictionary

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Cause: Catholics failed to pray the rosary in the 13-14 century.Affect: Punishment of the Black PlagueCause: Our Lady commanded Catholics to pray the rosary at

Fatima, they failed.Affect: Punishment of the Coming of Antichrist

“All things, even the holiest, are subject to change, especially when they are dependent on man's free will. It is hardly to be wondered at, then, that the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary only retained its first fervor for one century after it was instituted by Saint Dominic. After it was like a thing buried and forgotten. Doubtless, too, the wicked scheming and jealousy of the devil was largely responsible for getting people to neglect the Holy Rosary, and thus block the flow of God's grace which it had drawn down upon the world. Thus, in 1349, God punished the whole of Europe and sent a most terrible plague that had ever been known into every land. It started first in the east and spread throughout Italy, Germany, France Poland and Hungary, bringing desolation wherever it came, for out of a hundred men hardly one lived to tell the tale. Big towns, little towns, villages and monasteries were almost completely deserted during the three years that the epidemic lasted. As long as priests followed Saint Dominic's example and preached devotion to the Holy Rosary, piety and fervor thrived throughout the Christian world and in those religious orders which were devoted to the Rosary. But since people have neglected this gift from Heaven, all kinds of sin and disorder has spread far and wide.” 39

“You must pray the rosary.” Our Lady to Lucy, Francisco, and Jacinta 40

“Then Our Lady revealed the Message of Fatima, two parts of which Lucy told her bishop in 1938, as the war drew near. The third part of the secret is known only to Lucy. It has been committed to writing and is in the custody of the Bishop of Leiria, who does not even know himself what is in

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the sealed envelope in his secret archives. It will be opened in 1960.41 She opened her hands, as in the first two apparitions, but this time the light from her palms penetrated the earth and seemed to throw Hell open before them. They seemed to be before a great sea of fire, into which were plunged demons and souls in human form, black and burning, like live transparent coals. The fire lifted them up, but they fell back on all sides, without weight or balance, amid blood curdling screams of pain and despair. The demons had the form of strange animals, horribly repulsive.

“You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them Our Lord wishes to have established in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart. If people do what I shall tell you, many souls shall be saved, and there will be peace in the world. The war is going to end. But if they do not stop offending God, another and worse war will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that it is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, hunger, persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father.

“To prevent this I shall come to ask the consecration of Russia to My Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the first Saturdays. If they listen to my requests, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, various nations will be annihilated.

“In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.” 42

Let us bring to light in points the important parts.1. There will be a second and worse war43 if people do not stop

offending God.41 When Cardinal Ottaviani asked Sister Lucy in 1955 why the Third Secret would be

allowed to be revealed in this particular year, she replied, “Because then it will seem clearer.”

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2. He is going to punish people by war, hunger, persecution of the Church and the Holy Father.

3. Russia will spread her errors throughout the world.4. Various nations will be annihilated.5. This point I will bring up in a later chapter. In the end, My

Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.

“And to the angel of the church of Sardis, write: These things saith he, that hath the seven spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast the name of being alive: and thou art dead.” (Apocalypse 3:1-4) We know God, hates the lukewarm souls more than a soul that is cold, meaning dead to divine grace. “Because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.” 44 It is as if Jesus Christ said to this poor soul:

“You did not have the flaming pillar of charity and purity of intention you ought to have conducted in your life, which the Divine Graces I have given you should have enabled you to do them with ease. The Divine Graces that I have given you, should have made your pilgrimage on Earth feel more like a banquet at a King's feast. Nor did you lead a scandalous life of a devil, which would have made my judgment on your soul with ease. I would have cursed you just like I did to the barren fig tree, the Devil, and his angels. I stand at the Throne of Infinite Divine Justice and Purity disgusted, I wish to vomit you from my presence with all My Infinite Power, because of the thought that such a soul, bore the name Christian.”

This is exactly what happened during the nineteenth and twentieth century, the clergy and the faithful were almost completely lukewarm in their faith. “I know thy works, that thou hast the name of being alive: and thou art dead.” They are alive, but dead. Materially speaking, Catholics were alive, but they were completely dead to grace and works of penance. “It is a bad sign,” says Fr. Martial Lekeux author of the Art of Prayer, “for love of prayer is the barometer of religious vitality.” Fr. Mateo the author

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of Night Adoration In The Home who published this book in the 1950's writes:

“We are, in fact, on the brink of an abyss of social corruption: the home already undermined in its very foundations by this upheaval of immorality; a good part of that portion of society which by right is considered the best, the most Christian, seriously affected by the contagion of unbridled sensuality; the woman who thinks herself good and even devout, dressed in a style not only immodest but scandalous, dancing, conversing and amusing herself in a manner that would imply she had never been baptized. In her worldly mindedness she will even smile with the air of a pagan when the Pope or Bishop condemns these excesses, preaching modesty of dress and chastity of heart and of social life. And the young girl who scarcely a few years ago was as a lily for the altar of Mary Immaculate, is caught today in the giddy whirl of pleasure and passion, to fall, alas, a withered flower; in the course of a short time, under the pressure of the worldly current, she is talking and dressing in an indecent fashion like everybody else, yet she still calls herself a 'Child of Mary.' What a mockery!”

Living without the interior life, according to Pope Pius XII is the heresy of action. “Without divine grace, nothing holds together, nothing counts, nothing has supernatural value. Without the interior life we fall into the heresy of action.” 45

“Our whole purpose,” Cassian one of the Fathers of the Church exhorts us, “our entire perfection, is to pray unceasingly. That is the reason which helps us brave labor and seek contrition of heart. The whole edifice of the virtues has but one purpose, namely, to attain perfection in prayer. Without this perfection, which unifies all the parts and makes for a solid ensemble, there will be neither solidity or durability. This constancy in prayer is neither acquired nor achieved without virtues, but, on the other hand, without prayer the virtues, which serve as its foundation, would

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never attain perfection.” 46

Catholics refused to work with grace for their own sanctification. The will of God consists in our sanctification. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification.” (I Thessalonians 4:3) For the world has come to know World War II and its horrors. The fulfillment of Our Lady's words came true. “There will be a second and worse war if people do not stop offending God.” Catholics especially, kept offending God, we therefore were punished by God. “I am only afraid of bad Catholics.” 47

In Our Lady's words: “He is going to punish people by war48, hunger,49 persecution of the Church and the Holy Father.” The words said by Our Lady, must first be understood in a spiritual manner. Hunger is signified by the taking away of the Sacrifice of the Mass. “And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.” (Matthew 9:15) The faithful, are sustained by divine graces, but through this Sacrament especially. Reinforced by the writings of St. Bonaventure:

“That in the Mass God manifest to us all the love that He has borne us, and includes in it, as in a compendium, all His benefits. On this account the Devil has always endeavored to abolish the Mass throughout the world by means of heretics, making them the precursors of Antichrist who, before all things, will endeavor to abolish, and in fact will, in punishment for the sins of men, succeed in abolishing the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar, according to the prediction of Daniel: And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice because of sins.”

“Besides the benefits which we ask in holy Mass, our good God grants many others which we do not ask. St. Jerome distinctly declares, Absque dubio dat nobis Dominus quod in

46 The Art of Prayer 47 St. Bernadette48 The United States alone in the twentieth century spent roughly twenty six years in war

out of the last one hundred. 49 According to some estimates there are roughly 25,000 people that die every day from

lack of nutrition. That means roughly 1042 are dying every hour, and 17 people every minute.

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Missa petimus; et qoud magis est, sape dat quod non petimus (cap. cum. mart. de celeb Miss.). 'Without doubt,' says the saint, 'the Lord grants all the favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be those fitting for us; and, which is a matter of greater wonder, ofttimes He grants that also which is not demanded of Him, if we, on our part, put no obstacle in the way.' Whence it may be said that Mass is the sun of the human race, scattering its splendors over good and wicked; nor is there a soul so vile on earth who, hearing holy Mass, do not carry away from it some great good, often without asking, often without even thinking of it. This is the lesson conveyed by the famous legend told by St. Antoninus of two youths, both libertines, who went one day into the forest, one of them having heard Mass, the other not. Soon, it is said, there arose a furious tempest, and they heard, amid thunder and lighting, a voice which cried 'Slay!' and instantly came a flash which reduced to ashes the one who had not heard Mass. The other, all terrified, was seeking escape, when he heard anew the same voice, which repeated 'Slay!' The poor youth expected instant death, when lo! He heard another voice, which answered, 'I cannot, I cannot; today he heard, Verbum caro factum est; His Mass will not let me strike.'” 50

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What is the continual sacrifice? The prophet Malachias says: “For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice.” (Malachias 1:11) This picture shows the times when Catholic Mass was celebrated constantly throughout the whole world, that is the definition of continual sacrifice.

How can we further confirm that Paul VI is the Antichrist? He took away the Sacrifice of the Mass and instituted a false mass. Daniel the Old Testament prophet warns: “And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice, because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he shall do and shall prosper.” (Daniel 8:12) Daniel again admonishes us by saying: “The continual sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination unto desolation shall be set up.” (Daniel 12:11) According to St. Matthew: “When therefore you shall see the abomination

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of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.” (Matthew 24:15)

Cardinal Henry Manning writing his treatise, Present Crisis of the Holy See clearly states: “The holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist, and of these prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know, and they are the Fathers both of the East and of the West, the Greek and the Latin Church—all of them unanimously,—say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of Antichrist, the holy sacrifice of the altar will cease.”

According to the Council of Trent, when the Fathers of the Church are in unanimous opinion they are infallible. We must follow the syllogism that the unanimous opinion of the Fathers is interpreted implicitly. Lateran Council (Denzinger 270): “If anyone in word or mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that has been handed down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God, and likewise by the holy Fathers and the five venerable universal Councils, let him be condemned.”

How long we have been without the Mass? The old prophet tells us: “For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar.” (Osee 3:4) We did not have a king, a pope, for nearly 32 years. We do not have a prince, a bishop. We do not have a sacrifice, meaning The Tridentine Mass. The Tridentine Mass has been gone for more than 50 years. We do not have an altar, a Church, for the Tridentine Mass. How long can we live without food? I dare not say anyone can live 50 years without food.

“The followers of Antichrist will be marked with a character in intimation of the sign that St. John saw upon the foreheads of the servants of God. This indicates that Antichrist and his prophet will introduce ceremonies to imitate the Sacraments of the Church. In fact there will be a complete organization – a church of Satan set up in opposition to the Church of Christ. Satan will assume the part of God the father; Antichrist will be honored as Savior, and his prophet will usurp the role of the Pope. Their ceremonies will counterfeit the Sacraments and their works of magic be heralded as miracles.” 51

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St. Thomas Aquinas writes, “St. Augustine says that Antichrist with his adherents will form a church just as Christ and His followers are a Church.”52 With the advent of Vatican II, the apostate Catholics continued to follow the schism of Antichrist (Paul VI). (II Thessalonians 2:3) According to the doctrine which Antichrist put down, he instituted new Sacraments. They named their Sacraments as the following: Baptism, Eucharist, Penance and Reconciliation, Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick. The Sacraments instituted by Christ for the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church are called the following, Baptism, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, Extreme Unction. As one can see they bear a similar resemblance to that of Christ, the latter though confers grace, the former do not. Antichrist cannot institute new Sacraments that issue grace. He however can replicate the Sacraments for the destruction of souls by making them sacrilegious in the eyes of God. And that is exactly what he did. The following statement is their canon law according to the church of Antichrist which is commonly referred to as the Novus Ordo Church. Novus Ordo for those that are not familiar with that term, means New Order. They replaced the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with the Novus Ordo mass. Below is a scanned picture showing you in their own words that they changed the rites of the Sacraments. By changing the essential parts in the rites of the Sacraments, according to Sacramental Theology, makes the Sacrament invalid and if performed sacrilegious.

“Following is a declaration regarding the meaning to be given to approval of translation of formulae of sacramenta. The liturgical renewal effected in accord with the Constitution of Vatican II, introduced certain changes also in the formulae pertained to the very essence of the rites of the Sacraments. These new words, just like the other words, must be so translated into the vernacular languages53 that

52 The Reign of Antichrist 53 Pope Pius VI condemned the following Jansenist proposition (DZ 1533): “The

proposition of the synod of Pistoia by which it shows itself eager to remove the cause through which, in part, there has been introduced a forgetfulness of the principles relating to the order of the liturgy, 'by recalling the liturgy to a greater simplicity of rites, by expressing it in the vernacular language, by uttering it in a loud voice'; as if the present order of the liturgy, received and approved by the Church, had emanated in some part from the forgetfulness of the principles by which is should be regulated, rash, offensive to pious ears, insulting to the Church, favorable to the heretics against

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the original meaning be expressed according to the specific character of the languages. Out of this provision have arisen some difficulties which are are coming to light when those translations are being sent by the episcopal conferences for the approval of the Apostolic See. In these circumstances, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith again calls to mind that it is necessary that the translation of the formulate which are essential in the rites of the Sacraments should faithfully render the original meaning of the typical Latin text.” 54

Our Lady at Fatima told us: “Russia will spread her errors throughout the world.” We are told however that “the spiritual man judgeth all things.” (I Corinthians 2:15) Many believe that Russia will spread Communism over the world, true some countries did adopt Communism. When the Communists took over Russia in 1917, they called it the “October Revolution”. Russia was still on the Julian calendar. 55 The Communist revolt actually occurred in November on the Gregorian calendar. Mary appeared the last time on October 13, 1917 according to the Gregorian Calendar. Therefore Mary appeared one month before the communist revolution in Russia. When Mary said that Russia will spread her errors, it could not have been Communism, for Communism had not conquered in October on the Gregorian calendar when Mary appeared. Therefore we must take Communism out of the equation. What then does it mean when Our Lady at Fatima states: “Russia will spread her errors throughout the world”? What is the Greek Russian Orthodox church

it.” The Council of Trent: “If anyone says that the rite of the Roman Church, according to which a part of the canon and the words of consecration are said in a low tone, is to be condemned, or that the Mass ought to be celebrated in the vernacular only, or that water should not be mixed with wine that is to be offered in the chalice because it is contrary to the institution of Christ: let him be anathema.” (DZ 956)

54 The Canon Law Digest Volume VIII 55 The Julian calendar named after Julius Caesar is just like the Gregorian (Ours) with

one big difference. By the seventeenth century the Julian Calendar was off ten days. Pope Gregory XIII ordered the revision to fix the calendar. “No other act of Gregory XIII has gained for him a more lasting fame than his reform of the Julian calendar which was completed and introduced into most Catholic countries in 1578. Closely connected with the reform of the calendar is the emendation of the Roman martyrology which was ordered by Gregory XIII in the autumn of 1580.” (Catholic Encyclopedia) The Protestants and Greek Orthodox rejected it. They retained the Julian Calendar, some until the twentieth century.

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known by? The schism!

“At the request of the Emperor Constantine Monomachus, who earnestly desired peace, Pope St. Leo IX sent three legates to Constantinople, but Cerularius obstinately refused to receive them. Thereupon they laid the document containing his excommunication on the altar of St. Sophia in the presence of the clergy and the people with the words 'Let God be the Judge,' and immediately left the city. It was the 16th of July 1054. All attempts made in the later times by Popes and Emperors, and Councils to reunite the East and West were frustrated by the incurable narrow-minded hatred of the Eastern bishops, clergy, and people.” 56

“Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are ready to die.

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For I find not thy works full before my God.” (Apocalypse 3:2) Strengthen the things that remain, what does that mean? “Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.” (II Thessalonians 2:14) The only Vatican Council (1870) defined the dogma, Papal Infallibility and condemned many other heretical errors.57 In addition, Pope Pius IX pronounced the Immaculate Conception as dogma as well in 1854. The faith and interior life of Catholics before the schism is what needed to be strengthen!58 St. Paul wrote: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the

57 Atheism, materialism, rationalism, and pantheism, were the heresies of their day.58 “Quite recently, on 20th February 1959, an important Catholic weekly, La France

catholique, published an article by Maria Winowska, generally considered to be one of the most lucid thinkers of our time, entitled The Third Temptation. The title refers to Christ's temptation in the wilderness, when the Devil offered Him all the kingdoms of the earth: 'All shall be thine, if thou wilt fall down before me and worship!' Maria Winowska introduces a young Hindu, who has just been baptized. Together they go up to Montmartre. Before their eyes was spread the vast, magnificent spectacle of Paris. The young Hindu burst out: 'Why don't you live according to your faith? The Gospel is clear: in the first place, prayer, in the first place, wisdom, in the first place, faith, in the first place charity,. It's all there on paper, but in practice?'

“Maria Winowska replied: 'You are right, but all the same, there are people amongst us, men and women, who do follow the Gospels. That is certain. There are even a great number of them. And that pleads for us. But there are many weaknesses, deficiencies, and illogicalities.'

“The young Hindu went on: 'European Christians, for the most part, live as if they had no faith. I don't mean that they haven't any, but they certainly conceal the fact.' And he continued, relentlessly: 'I have met priests who talked to me of pastoral techniques, of methods, of adaptations, of the press, cinema and television. They are certainly good priests, but why don't they say what is essential? For us, wisdom is much more than that, more than anything else in the world. What proportion is there between Creator and the created?'

“Naturally Maria Winowska protested that we could not judge the clergy from a superficial contact. One cannot accuse them of activism without knowing the whole of their inner life. We have already two 'revolutions' in religious matters in the past fifty years; a liturgical revolution which is far from having borne its full fruit, and a biblical revolution which is only just beginning. We have now to achieve a mystical revolution which will respond to the justified longing of Maria Winowska and our young Hindu.

“The great temptation for Christians of our time, and no petty temptation at that, but the most widespread, general and dangerous of temptations, is that of preferring things to God. The young Hindu maintained that he had tried to test the Christians he had met, by the test used by the Devil in the wilderness.

“'Do you know,' he said, 'that there were very few who would not have agreed to make a little bow, perhaps just a little click of the heels, to a tempter offering them the kingdoms of the world. They would say: 'If one got all that, it would

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man of sin be revealed the son of perdition.” (II Thessalonians 2:3) The Latin translation of this verse is the following. “Ne quis vos seducat ullo modo; quoniam nisi veniret discessio primum, et revelatus fuerit homo peccati filius perditionis.” (II Thessalonicenses 2:3) 59 When we look at the Latin word discessio,60 it means: “A going away, departure, to go asunder, part, separate.” This word, discessio, would more closely signify schism instead of revolt. Let us rephrase it in English. “Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a schism first, and the man of sin be revealed the son of perdition.” (II Thessalonians 2:3) We can now seen a theme of schism written within Holy Scripture and the apparitions at Fatima are both in concordance with each other.

The schism that we are eluding to, from the writing of St. Paul, is what many people call Vatican II. 61 The schism began in 1958 with the advent of John XXIII-II. John XXIII-II named himself after an antipope from the Western Schism on purpose. The Western Schism occurred in 1378-1417. The definition of antipope is “One claiming to be pope.” 62 Why then did John XXIII-II take the name of an antipope from the 14 th

and 15th century? Lets make a small time line to keep things straight.October 9, 1958 --- Death of Pope Pius XII October 28, 1958 --- Election of Antipope John XXIII-IIJanuary 25, 1959 --- John XXIII-II announced his intention of having Vatican IIOctober 11, 1962 --- Convened a convention (Vatican II)June 3, 1963 --- John XXIII-II died of stomach cancer.June 21, 1963 --- Antipope Paul VI (Antichrist) was elected

be to the greater glory of God,' or 'One has to make certain concessions to the world, in order to dominate it,' or again 'Christianity won't be able to survive if it doesn't adapt itself to progress.' I am only quoting a few, but I can assure you that all these people had more confidence in human techniques than in faith.'

“In brief, out of forty seven persons cautiously sounded by our young Hindu, only three or four truly preferred God to things. And it goes without saying that he had only approach good Catholics.” Satan In The Modern World

59 Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis 60 Cassell’s Latin Dictionary61 Vatican II is what many non Catholics to believe to be a council of the Church. This is

however false, for it taught contrary to the teachings of the Church (emphasis: heresy) therefore it cannot be a council. In support of that, John XXIII-II was a modernist when he summoned Vatican II. Modernists are non Catholics, therefore under canon 222, a council was never truly convoked nor are the dogma proclaimed at this so called council valid orthodox doctrine.

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August 6, 1978 --- Paul VI died of a heart attack 63

August 26, 1978 --- Antipope John Paul I was elected September 28, 1978 --- John Paul I died of a heart attackOctober 16, 1978 --- Antipope John Paul II electedApril 2, 2005 --- Death of John Paul IIApril 19, 2005 --- Antipope Benedict XVI elected (Reigning illegally)

Let us remember that Vatican II, the schism, came in 1962 and Paul VI was elected in 1963. This fulfills the line from Holy Scripture “for unless there come a schism first, and the man of sin be revealed the son of perdition.” (II Thessalonians 2:3) We must follow the syllogism then that Paul VI, is the Son of Perdition. The Son of Perdition is just another term for Antichrist. Just as we have multiple titles for the Pope. The Pope could be called Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Prince of Peace etc. We must note similarities in history that happened at Vatican II and the Arian heresy. The Church suffered dearly when the Arian heresy was spreading. By reading history, the Arian heresy lasted roughly between the Council of Nicea and that of the Second General Council of Constantinople which was from 325-380 A.D. There are a few things that must be noted:

“In 355 a council convoked by the Emperor (Constantius) at Milan and completely dominated by him condemned St. Athanasius and agreed to receive the Arians into the Church. Pope Liberius, Hosius of Cordova, Eusebius of Vercelli, Lucifer of Cagliari (in Sardinia) and Dionysius of Milan, who refused to comply with the imperial command, were exiled. Hilary of Poitiers, who called the council 'a synagogue of the malignant,' was scourged and then banished to Phrygia, where he wrote his profound work On the Trinity in the Twelve Books, which has gained for him the title of Father and Doctor of the Church. An antipope

63 “And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, him.” (II Thessalonians 2:8) This line is referring to Antichrist. The spirit of His mouth is found in Apocalypse 19:21. “And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two edged sword.” (Apocalypse 19:21) A heart attack is a sudden death, medically speaking. We must then conclude that Christ killed Antichrist with His sword for Antichrist died a sudden death, as by a sword. Those who are pierced in the heart, I would suspect, would not last very long. Medically speaking a sword would cause instant death.

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was set up in Rome.” 64

“At Seleucia the majority of the Bishops signed it (Homoean Creed) without much discussion; at Rimini 320 out of 400 at first declared their adherence to the Nicene Creed (Catholic Profession of Faith), but all were subsequently forced by threats of imprisonment and exile to sign the Semi-Arian (heretical) formula. The formula was then sent to all the bishops of the Empire, and only a few refused to accept it. It was the time of the deepest humiliation of the Church; the time of which St. Jerome wrote: 'The world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian.'” 65

“St. Gregory of Nazianzus had already been consecrated bishop of Sasima in Cappadocia by St. Basil, but he had never taken possession of his See. When he accepted the invitation to Constantinople, there was a mere handful of Catholics left in that bulwark of Arianism. 'The city,' says St. Gregory of Nazianzus in one of his poems, 'had passed through the death of infidelity; there was left but one last breath of life.' He established himself in a small private house, which he turned into a place of worship, and called it the Anastasia - The Resurrection. Here he began to preach the true doctrine. In his sermons, especially in the five so called Theological Orations, he dwelt continually on the Catholic doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, which he set forth with such marvelous clearness and eloquence that he earned for himself the title of The Theologian and Defender of the Godhead of the Word. In the short space of less than two years and in the face of the fiercest opposition from the Arian populace, he restored the ascendancy of Catholicism.”66

Let us connect the dots:

✗ Back Then: In 355 A.D. a false council was convoked by the Emperor at Milan (an Arian himself).

64 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 194065 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 194066 Church History: A Complete History Of The Catholic Church To 1940

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✔ Our Time: On January 25, 1959 John XXIII-II (Antipope) announced a false council Vatican II.

✗ Back Then: The false council called by the Emperor was known as “a synagogue of the malignant,” by Bishop St. Hilary of Poitiers who was scourged and then banished to Phrygia. An antipope was established in Rome.

✔ Our Time: We have had a succession of antipopes till this day (2009). Only until July 16, 1990 was a pope elected after 31 years. Pope Michael denounces Vatican II and calls the line of antipopes Maledictus67 I-V accordingly.

✗ Back Then: Nearly all 400 bishops signed the Semi-Arian profession of faith. Thus St. Jerome wrote: “The world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian.”

✔ Our Time: Almost all bishops present at Vatican II signed the documents of the Novus Ordo Church. Nearly all Catholics accepted Vatican II and its doctrinal differences with the Church and apostatized from the Catholic faith. “For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.” (Matthew 24:21-22) There is currently not a single Catholic bishop in submission to the Pope. “The world groaned and was astonished to find itself Modernist.”

✗ Back Then: St. Gregory of Nazianzus established himself in a small private house, which he turned into a place of worship, and called it the Anastasia - The Resurrection.

✔ Our Time: Pope Michael is established in a small private house. There is a small place of worship, a private chapel. He named the seminary building - The Annunciation.The eminent theologian Cardinal Henry Manning writes about the

Antichrist and the latter days in his treatise: “Then, the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were, from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries.” 68

“And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall 67 Maledictus means to speak badly of God.68 Present Crisis of the Holy See

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grow cold.” (Matthew 24:12) The schism occurred because Catholics were lukewarm if not completely dead to the grace of God, especially to the inspiration of the Holy Ghost in their lives. The thief,69 that is Antichrist, had come and stole their souls away from the thrones which awaited them in Heaven had they been faithful to God. “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of Heaven, and cast them to the earth.” (Apocalypse 12:4) Let us recall to mind that in the center of earth is where Hell is located.70 When St. John says Satan casts them to earth, means Satan and those he dragged with him went to Hell. Stars are the souls of the just (if completely faithful to Christ, they will be Saints) according to the Old Testament prophet. “But they that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.” (Daniel 12:3) And again in the New Testament: “One is the glory of the sun, another the glory of the moon, and another the glory of the stars. For star differeth from star in glory.” (I Corinthians 15:41) Those that are learned according to the commentary on Holy Scripture means, “Learned in the law of God and true wisdom, which consists in knowing and loving God.” And those that love God, do penance for their sins and follow the commandments. “He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men, shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 5:19)

Now according to the teachings of St. Thomas of Aquinas, 71

69 “Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe, and do penance. If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee. But thou hast a few names in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.” (Apocalypse 3:3-4) “In this way Theologians teach that all evils in the world (sin excepted) are from God. In all there are two things to be considered, the guilt and the punishment. Now God is the Author of the punishment which attaches to sin, but in no way of the guilt.” Heliotropium We can conclude that Antichrist is the wrath of God, for God is the punisher of sin.

70 Mystical City of God 71 Summa Theoligica, St. Thomas of Aquinas, Secunda Secundæ Partis Q 39. A 1.

“I answer that, As Isidore says (Etym. viii, 3), schism takes its name "from being a scission of minds," and scission is opposed to unity. Wherefore the sin of schism is one that is directly and essentially opposed to unity. For in the moral, as in the physical order, the species is not constituted by that which is accidental. Now, in the moral order, the essential is that which is intended, and that which results beside the intention, is, as it were, accidental. Hence the sin of schism is, properly speaking, a special sin, for the reason that the schismatic intends to sever himself from that unity which is the effect of charity: because charity unites not only one person to

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schism is a sin against charity. For where there is unity, there must be charity. “But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.” (Colossians 3:14) St. Augustine confirms this in his writing De Fide et Symbolo:

“We believe, too, in Holy Church, assuredly the Catholic Church. For heretics and schismatics call their assemblies ‘churches’. But heretics, since they hold false ideas of God, violate the faith itself, while schismatics, although believing what we do, have by their wicked divisions broken away from fraternal charity. Heretics, then, do not belong to the Catholic Church-for it loves God; nor do schismatics-for the Church loves its neighbor.”

We must then acknowledge that charity grew cold. For had they truly loved their neighbor (emphasis: brothers in Christ), they would have not fallen away from the Catholic faith. “Charity never falleth away.” (I Corinthians 13:8) “And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.” (Matthew 24:12) Iniquity (sin) hath abounded, charity (divine love) shall grow cold (nonexistent). By St. Augustine's definition, schismatics do not fulfill the commandment of God, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” (Matthew 22:38) The Greeks denied the Holy Ghost as an article of faith in the creed which started their schism in the tenth and eleventh century. The Holy Ghost is known by divine love, so to deny the Holy Ghost is to grow cold in divine love and thus cause a schism. For schism is completely against the virtue of charity

another with the bond of spiritual love, but also the whole Church in unity of spirit. “Accordingly schismatics properly so called are those who, willfully and

intentionally separate themselves from the unity of the Church; for this is the chief unity, and the particular unity of several individuals among themselves is subordinate to the unity of the Church, even as the mutual adaptation of each member of a natural body is subordinate to the unity of the whole body. Now the unity of the Church consists in two things; namely, in the mutual connection or communion of the members of the Church, and again in the subordination of all the members of the Church to the one head, according to Colossians 2:18-19: 'Puffed up by the sense of his flesh, and not holding the Head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth unto the increase of God.' Now this Head is Christ Himself, Whose viceregent in the Church is the Sovereign Pontiff. Wherefore schismatics are those who refuse to submit to the Sovereign Pontiff, and to hold communion with those members of the Church who acknowledge his supremacy.”

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(emphasis: divine love). The Greeks were conquered by the Turks coincidently on the feast of Pentecost in the year 1453 A.D. “The Holy Ghost,” says St. Gregory the Great, “appeared in the form of a dove and of fire, because His work is done gently and zealously, and whoever is wanting in gentleness and zeal is not under His influence. He appeared in the form of tongues, because He gives to man the gift of speech, by which He may inflame others to the love of God.” There is nothing more dear to the Holy Ghost as to help your neighbor stay away from the path of Hell. “He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:20)

What does it mean when Our Lady spoke to the children that “various nations will be annihilated”? The word nation is defined as: “A large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own.”72 According to a 1959 estimate there were 509,505,000 73 Catholics world wide. Since there are two senses of interpretation of “various nations will be annihilated”, which are spiritual and material, we are always going to be interpreting in the spiritual sense. Annihilation can spiritually mean two things, 1) Apostasy from the Catholic faith. 2) Dead to grace (emphasis: living in the state of mortal sin, damnation).

According to the teaching of the Church, when a Catholic apostatizes from the faith, they completely abandon the Catholic faith, but they are subject still to the jurisdiction of the Church. 74 They are a dead branch, lopped from a tree. “If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth.” (John 15:6)

But if they are in the state of damnation, that is mortal sin, they are still in the Church, but bear no fruit. “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.” (John 15:4-5)

Now is just like in the Arian heresy where nearly all Catholic

72 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nation73 1959 National Catholic Almanac 74 A Practical Commentary On The Code Of Canon Law , Canon 87: “By baptism a

person becomes a subject of the Church of Christ.”

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bishops accepted the Arian profession. “The city,” says St. Gregory of Nazianzus, “had passed through the death of infidelity; there was left but one last breath of life.” The last breath of life for the city of Constantinople, was St. Gregory of Nazianzus! The Arian heresy made St. Jerome say, “The world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian.” When Vatican II occurred in 1962, Catholics apostatized from the Catholic faith by accepting the doctrine of Liberalism, among many others. We could say as well, “The world groaned and was astonished to find itself Modernist!” A Catholic, Dr. Don Felix Sarda Y Salvany, stated in his book What is Liberalism, which was published in 1899: “Its [Liberalism] dreadful doctrine is permeating society to the core; it has become the modern political creed and threatens us with a second revolution, to turn the world over once again to paganism. Are there any good Catholics who do not believe this? Let them but read the signs of the times, not with the eyes of the world, but by the light of the Faith, which Jesus Christ gave to them.”75 For at least sixty years the world was poisoned with the error of Liberalism.76 He describes three types of liberals, the extreme, the moderate, and the tainted. I am going to quote the Catholic who is moderately tainted with liberalism.

“But his maxim is, in the Church to live as a Christian, outside of the Church to live as the world lives, according to the times in which one is born and not obstinately to swim against the stream. He dies with the priest on one side, his infidel literature on the other and imagines that his Creator

75. What is Liberalism? 76 “Liberalism, whether in the doctrinal or practical order, is a sin. In the doctrinal order,

it is heresy, and consequently a mortal sin against faith. In the practical order, it is a sin against the commandments of God and of the Church, for it virtually transgresses all commandments. To be more precise; in the doctrinal order, Liberalism strikes at the very foundations of faith; it is heresy radical and universal, because within it are comprehended all heresies. In the practical order it is a radical and universal infraction of the divine law, since it sanctions and authorizes all infractions of that law. Wherever found, whatever its uniform, Liberalism in its practical action is ever a systematic warfare upon the Church. Whether it intrigue, whether it legislate, whether it orate or assassinate, whether it call itself Liberty or Government or the State or Humanity or Reason or what not, its fundamental characteristic is an uncompromising opposition to the Church. Liberalism is a world complete in itself; it has its maxims, its fashions, its art, its literature, its diplomacy, its laws, its conspiracies, its ambuscades. It is the world of Lucifer, disguised in our times under the name of Liberalism, in radical opposition and in perpetual warfare against that society composed of the Children of God, the Church of Jesus Christ. ” What is Liberalism?

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will applaud his breadth of mind....The extreme Liberal roars his Liberalism; the moderate Liberal mouths it; the tainted Catholic whispers and sighs it. All are bad enough serve the devil well. Nevertheless, the extreme Liberal overreaches himself by his violence; the fecundity of the tainted Catholic is partially sterilized by his hybrid nature; but the moderate is the real Satanic type; his is the masked evil, which in our times is the chief cause of the raves of Liberalism.” 77

What did Jesus Christ say again? “But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.” (Apocalypse 3:16) This typical Catholic in the early twentieth century, is externally a Christian, that is participate in the Sacraments, namely the Sacrament of Penance and Holy Eucharist, but outside of the Church, they forget the Christian faith, and continue to act as they please. As Christ said: “No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24) “I know thy works, that thou hast the name of being alive: and thou art dead.” (Apocalypse 3:1)

Cardinal Henry Manning writes in his dissertation, Present Crisis of the Holy See, “The writers of the early ages, the Fathers both of the East and of the West, foretold that, in the last age of the world, the Church will have to undergo a third persecution more bitter, more bloody, more searching, and more fiery than any it has undergone as yet.”

What is more feared than to have an enemy from within the Church? Pope St. Pius X stated in his encyclical, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (8 September 1907): “We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative especially by the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church's open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom.”

That is why this persecution is horrible. The world accepts inconsistency the Church does not. For the Church is the bearer of truth. For God is truth, therefore, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.” (Apocalypse 4:8) For if something was true, it was true in the past, it is true in the present, and in the future it

77 What is Liberalism? Note a moderate liberal is similar to the lukewarm, for they (moderate liberals) are neither cold nor hot. They are sitting on the fence as the saying goes. They are neither wholly for Christ nor wholly for Satan. No person can serve two masters!

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will remain true. Liberalists deny the doctrine of absolute truth, by their actions. “But his maxim is, in the Church to live as a Christian, outside of the Church to live as the world lives, according to the times.” The doctor continues: “He dies with the priest on one side, his infidel literature on the other and imagines that his Creator will applaud his breadth of mind.” Alas, this poor Catholic was vomited from the mouth of Christ, for he attempted to serve two masters, Liberalism and Catholicism. St. John Vianney († 1859) was fighting it in his day.78

“For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.” (Matthew 24:21-22)

“And the brother shall betray his brother unto death.” (Mark 13:12) Our enemies then are our own brethren, the ones we grew up with. We

78 “How the world has changed since the time of the first Christians. Ah, how large is the number of those who are no longer Christians except in name and whose conduct resembles that of the pagans! Ah, you will say to me, that is a bit strong now! We are not sorry that we are Christians; on the contrary. Tell us what you mean by saying that we have no more than the name of Christians. Well, my friends, that is very easy. It is because you are afraid to perform your acts of religion in front of other people and that, when you are in a house, you do not dare to make the Sign of the Cross before eating, or else that, in order to make it, you will turn away so that you will not be noticed and laughed at. It is because, when you hear the Angelus ringing, you pretend not to have heard it and you do not say it for fear of someone making fun of you; or again, it is when God puts into your mind the thought of going to confession and you say: 'Oh, I am not going. They would be laughing at me.' If you behave in this manner, you cannot say that you are Christians. No, my friends, you are like those Jews of long ago, rejected or, rather, you have separated yourselves. You are nothing but apostates. Your language proves it, and your way of living manifests it equally clearly. Why, my dear brethren, was the name of the apostate given to the Emperor Julian? It was given to him, you will tell me, because he was a Christian to begin with but later he lived as the pagans do. Well, then, my good friends, what difference is there between your conduct and that of the pagans? Do you know what the ordinary vices of the pagans are? Some, corrupted by the hideous vice of impurity, spew from their mouths all sorts of abominations; others, given over to gluttony, seek only tasty food or to fill themselves with wine. The sole preoccupation of their young girls is with clothes and the desire to look attractive to others. What do you think of conduct like that, my dear brethren? That is the conduct of people who entertain no hope of any other life. You are quite right. And what difference is there between your life and theirs? If you want to speak frankly, you will admit there is none and that as a consequence, you are Christians in name only. Oh, my God! That You have so few Christians to imitate You! Alas! If there are so few of them to wear their cross there will be only few, too, to bless You for all eternity.” Sermons of the Curé of Ars

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played together and hung out together. They are the ones that we went to school with. They are the ones that we confided our deepest secrets and our greatest trust. “And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.” (Psalms 36:36) He is no longer our brethren, for he is not a true Christian. Out in public he acts as an enemy of the Church by engaging in the worldly doctrine of Liberalism, but when he enters a Church among us he presumes, that we are his brethren, for he participates in the Holy Sacraments. Did not Christ say, “And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household”? (Matthew 10:36) Are not our greatest enemies the ones closest to us, our own brethren?

Pope Pius XII's last words were: “After me, the flood.” He is signifying to us that we are going to be overwhelmed by our enemy. The Pope is the father of all Christians. But what happens when our father is taken away from us and we are only left with our ruthless brethren? For after the death of Pope Pius XII († 1958) we did not have a pope, a father, for over three decades. Cardinal Henry Manning writes in his dissertation, Present Crisis of the Holy See (1861), “Three hundred years the world strove to cut off the line of the Sovereign Pontiffs; but the flock was never scattered.” It has roughly been 300 years according to the perspective of Cardinal Henry Manning, that the world has been trying to scatter the flock of Christ. For we know, “saith the Lord of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.” (Zacharias 13:7)

That is what happened, our own brethren betrayed us by accepting the worldly doctrine of Liberalism 79 and promulgating it at Vatican II. The 79 “The first great French Revolution was the inauguration of the reign of Antichrist, of

the denial of Christian faith, of the ruin of the Christian order, of the subversion of the authority of the Church of God, both in public and private life; and from that day to this, the principles of turbulence and apostasy have scourged and tormented kingdoms. At that time they all but entered England; at this time they are striving to enter again. Be firm and fear not the clamorous talk of those who write to pander to the public opinion of the day. We know that He in whom we believe is the “Resurrection and the Life,” the Head of His Church on earth, the sovereignty of which shall never fail. Whether the Church be clothed with temporal power or not, so long as the world is Christian, the world will believe in Jesus Christ and in His Vicar. So long as it believes He has a Vicar upon earth, no king, prince or sovereign whatsoever will venture to claim him as a subject. (Continuation of footnote 74): Even at this moment, the unjust and sacrilegious revolution of Italy has not dared to call him subject, but with pretenses of guarantees, which are mere illusion, has attempted to throw dust in the eyes of the Christian world and to deceive those who cannot be deceived. So long as the world is Christian, the Chief Pastor of the Christian world will remain as he is, subject to no human authority. This is his

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world desires to strike the shepherd of Christ, that is the successor of St. Peter, for without a shepherd, the sheep will be helpless. Our own brethren participated in this action, for they did nothing about correcting their error. They were amongst us, they participated in the Holy Sacraments as if they were our brethren, but in the end they were secretly working with the enemy, the world. “And the brother shall betray his brother unto death.” (Mark 13:12) “Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are laid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut down.” (Zacharias 11:2) The fenced forest is the fold where the flock of Christ is. “The fenced forest is cut down”, means that the sheep have been scattered and destroyed. And again: “The wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep.” (John 10:12) 80

temporal power. It is not the possession of a bit of land or of a city; it is independence of all power on earth; being the delegation of Him who said: 'All power is given to Me in Heaven and in earth; go, therefore, teach ye all nations.' There may, indeed, be another alternative; and I acknowledge, looking at the stream of events, the time may come when nations, governments, and legislatures may cease to believe that Jesus Christ has a Church upon earth; and in the day when they cease so to believe (and I am bound to say, their acts led us to think they are not far off from the state of unbelief), then the world will not be Christian, and then I acknowledge that the Vicar of Jesus Christ will have no temporal power over the world that has rejected his Master. Though I am no prophet and no expositor of prophecy and know nothing of what is to come, save only as the Catholic Church and faith guide me, of this I am sure from the lips of Jesus Christ, that in those days which we call the latter times, 'kingdom shall rise against kingdom, and nation against nation, and brother betray brother to death,' and the world shall be in misery it never knew before. When these things shall come to pass, the tyranny of the world will be well nigh over, and the despotism of men will no more torment the Church of God; revolutions will no longer prosper, because there is One at the door who must reign until He puts all enemies under His feet, and when that time shall come, will come also the 'resurrection of the just.'” The Fourfold Sovereignty of God,

80 “On the other hand, as St. Augustine often reminds us, the same spiritual treasure can belong in its entirety to all men, and at the same time to each, without any disturbance of peace between them. Indeed, the more there are to enjoy them in common the more completely do we possess them. The same truth, the same virtue, the same God, can belong to us all in like manner, and yet none of us embarrasses his fellow – possessors. Such are the inexhaustible riches of the spirit that they can be the property of all and yet satisfy the desires of each. Indeed, only then do we possess a truth completely when we teach it to others, when we make others share our contemplation; only then do we truly love a virtue when we wish others to love it also; only then do we wholly love God when we desire to make Him loved by all. Cont. 81 Give money away, or spend it, and it is no longer yours. But give God to others, and you possess Him more fully for yourself. “We may Go even further and say that, if we desired only one soul to be deprived of Him, we excluded only one

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soul- even the soul of one who persecutes and calumniates us-from our own love, then God Himself would be lost to us....This truth, so simple and yet so sublime, gives rise to an illuminating principle: it is that whereas material goods, the more they are sought for their own sake, tend to cause disunion among men, spiritual goods unite men more closely in proportion as they are more greatly loved. This principle helps us to appreciate how necessary is the interior life; and, incidentally, it virtually contains the solution of the social question and of the economic crisis which afflicts the world today.

“The Gospel puts it very simply: 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.' If the world today is on its death-bed, it is because it has lost sight of a fundamental truth which for every Christian is elementary. The profoundest truths of all, and the most vital, are in fact those elementary verities which, through long meditation and deep thought, have become the norm of our lives; those truths, in other words, which are the object of our habitual contemplation. God is now showing men what a great mistake they make when they try to do without Him, when they regard earthly enjoyment as their highest good, and thus reverse the whole scale of values, or, as the ancient philosophers put it, the subordination of ends.

“As though in the hope of compensating for the poor quality of earthly goods, men are striving to increase their quantity; they are trying to produce as much as possible in order of material enjoyment. They are constructing machinery with the object of increasing production at a greater profit. This is the ultimate objective. But what is the consequence? The surplus cannot be disposed of; it is wasted, and unemployment is the result. The worker starves in enforced idleness while others die of surfeit. The present state of the world is called a crisis. But in fact it is more than a crisis; it is a condition of affairs which, if men only had eyes to see, ought to be revealing it; it ought to show men that they have sought their last end where it is not to be found, in earthly enjoyment-instead of God.

“They are seeking happiness in an abundance of material possessions which are incapable of giving it; possessions which sow discord among those that seek them, and a greater discord according as they are sought with greater avidity. Do what you will with these material goods; share them equally, make them the common property of all. It will be no remedy for the evil; for, so long as earthly possessions retain their Cont. 81 nature and man retains the nature which is his, he will never find his happiness in them. The remedy is this, and this only: to consider the one thing necessary, and to ask God to give us Saints who live only on this thought, Saints who

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Chapter 6Exaltation of Catholicism:

“But at that time shall Michael rise up.” 81

The Old Testament prophet Daniel instructs us: “But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time.” (Daniel 12:1)

“For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.” (Matthew 24:21-22) St. Matthew states, “neither shall be.” That means this tribulation and apostasy is one of a kind and it will get better. After the tribulation the Church will be restored to its proper place in society. “Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste.” (I Corinthians 5:7) What St. Matthew wrote also correlates to, “A time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time” from the Old Testament prophet Daniel.

In the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, Pope Leo XIII († 1903) he writes, “In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck the sheep may be scattered. Arise then, O invincible Prince, bring help against the attacks of the lost spirits to the people of God, and give them the victory.” We must notice the sequence of events. 1) When the Pastor has been struck. 2) The sheep may be scattered. 3) Arise then, O invincible Prince. We know that the pastor (Pope Pius XII † 1958) was struck. The sheep were scatter by Vatican II (1962) which lead to the great apostasy. Michael then must arise. Behold, after 31 years, Michael has arisen to the call! It is Pope Michael (elected July 16, 1990). I am going to have to quote Apocalypse to prove the validity biblically speaking of Pope Michael. We are the Church of Philadelphia.

“And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia, write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the

will give the world the spirit that it needs. God has always sent us Saints in troubled times. We need them especially today.” The Three Ways Of The Spiritual Life

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key of David; he that openeth, and no man shutteth; shutteth, and no man openeth: I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened, which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of the temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God, and my new name.” 82

“And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia, write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David; he that openeth, and no man shutteth; shutteth, and no man openeth.” Before the election of Pope Michael, his name was David Bawden. That will fulfill that line from Holy Scripture, David. According to Canon 219: “The Roman Pontiff legitimately elected obtains, from the moment he accepts the election, the full power of supreme jurisdiction by divine right.” The 'key of David' is jurisdiction. Those that perform and receive illicit Sacraments (that is without jurisdiction) commit mortal sin. As Canon 218 expressly tells us:

“As the successor to the primacy of St. Peter, the Roman Pontiff has not only the primacy of honor, but also supreme and full jurisdiction over the universal Church, in matters of faith and morals as well as in those pertaining to the discipline and government of the Church throughout the whole world. This power is episcopal, ordinary and immediate, and extends over each and every church, and over each and every pastor as well as over the faithful, and is

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independent of all human authority.”

The Roman Pontiff is subject to no one as Pope Eugene IV († 1477) says: “Where I am there is Christendom,” nor can his jurisdiction be usurped from him. Due to both of those facts, Pope Michael would fulfill the line: 'he that openeth, and no man shutteth; shutteth, and no man openeth'. This previous Canon 218 is also a dogma pronounced by the Vatican Council (1870).83

“I know thy works. Behold, I have given before thee a door opened, which no man can shut: because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.” We have little strength because there are very few Catholics who are submitted to Pope Michael in comparison to the six and half billion population that is roughly on this Earth. It also shows, despite our very small numbers, we have kept His Word, which is the Christian faith.

“Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie.” There are two main oppositions. The Traditionalists and those that follow the Novus Ordo church. The Traditionalists were an overreaction to the Novus Ordo liberal ecumenical modernist heretical church. There is a surprisingly silent majority in the Traditionalist heretical sect who are Feeneyites.84 Traditionalists are seeking a solution outside of the papacy. Traditionalists by their actions

83 “If then any shall say that the Roman pontiff has the office merely of inspection or direction, and not full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those things which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world; or assert that he possesses merely the principal part, and not all the fullness of this supreme power; or that this power which he enjoys is not ordinary and immediate, both over each and all the Churches and over each and all the pastors of the faithful; let him be anathema.” Dogmatic Canons And Decrees

84 “The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office examined again the problem of Father Leonard Feeney and St. Benedict Center. Having studied carefully the publications issued by the Center, and having considered all the circumstances of this case, the Sacred Congregation has ordered me to publish, in its entirety, the letter which the same Congregation sent me on the 8 th of August, 1949. The Supreme Pontiff, His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, has given full approval to this decision. In due obedience, therefore, we publish, in its entirety, the Latin text of the letter as received from the Holy Office with an English translation of the same approved by the Holy See. Given at Boston, Mass., the 4th day of September, 1952. Walter J. Furlong, Chancellor Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. The Canon Law Digest Volume III, Canon 1324. Feeney teaches that there cannot be salvation in baptism of desire and of blood. The Church has condemned that proposition.

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claim that they do not need a pope. Their actions further prove this by not electing a pope since the 1958 schism. We must conclude they do not seek the salvation of souls of their neighbors nor themselves, but rather like hirelings they desire only to fatten their stomachs and flee at the occasion when danger presents themselves. For according to Pope Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam, “Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff,” if they have not desire to elect a pope, they have no desire to submit to him. If they have no desire to submit to him, they have not desire to save their souls. Instead these bishops have usurped the position of the pope by making their own little kingdoms. They set up their own chapels and churches to bring in revenue (donations given to them) to maintain their life style. They have in practice become nothing, but sacramental bishops. These bishops are nothing but a manufacturing plant of the Sacraments. They have not come to administer the Sacraments as a Catholic Bishop would, that is with devotion, respect, and honor of the seven Sacraments, but impiously profaning them by not having jurisdiction. On the other side, the Novus Ordo church committed a schism in doctrine and in practice. For they claim to be Catholic but their clerics are notorious pedophiles and sodomites. They adhere to liberalism as many other impious and disgusting heresies. Most of them both clerics and laity are extremely ignorant. Ignorance is curable, but not willful ignorance. Willful ignorance cannot be cured until they cease to be willful in remaining ignorant. When they are contradicted in debate they deny that they have been contradicted. It is a vicious circle of denial, which will inevitably lead to their eternal damnation. They say they are Christian as St. John writes in the Apocalypse, but they do lie.

“Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.” There will come a time that God will end the reign of this terrible schism. For He will have mercy to the little ones, that is the elect, the chosen ones of God. “But for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.” (Matthew 24:22) It is for the sake of the elect that God spared the whole world. For if He did not shorten those days, “no flesh should be saved.” (Matthew 24:22) Blessed Tomasuccio de Foligno († 1377) announces: “By about twelve years shall the millennium have passed when the resplendent mantle of legitimate power shall emerge from the shadows where it was being kept by the schism. And beyond harm from the one who is blocking the door of salvation, for his deceitful schism shall have come to an end.” Now if God

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shortens the tribulation because of the elect, will He not allow them to be glorified before the all men who suffered dearly for His sake? “Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.” (Proverbs 29:23) We had no pope for more than three decades. It was after a small papal election purely consisting of laymen and women that the vacant papacy was filled. Through the laws of devolution85 the seat of the papacy was filled. The clergy has failed to elect the pope, the faithful had to see to it that they elected a pope. According to Canon 682: “The laity has the right to receive from the clergy the spiritual good and especially the necessary means of salvation, according to the rules of ecclesiastical discipline.” The laity has the right to elect a pope, for it is necessary for the salvation of all the faithful to be subject to the Roman Pontiff. “And now, therefore, I say to you, refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought; But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God.” (Acts Of Apostles 5:38-39) And according to Canon 682 the clergy has failed in their duty to God and their neighbor in supplying the necessary spiritual good, the Roman Pontiff. The laity therefore had to supply the Church a Head, because the Church is a perfect society for it is divinely instituted by Christ Himself.86

85 Devolution: When a patron has failed to exercise, or has exercised improperly, his right of presentation to a benefice, the right is transferred, for that occasion only.

86 Summa Theologica, St. Thomas of Aquinas, Prima Secundæ Partis, Q. 91 A. 1: “I answer, that a law is nothing else but a dictate of practical reason emanating from the ruler who governs a perfect community.”

Satis Cognitum Leo XIII: “For this reason we find it called in Holy Writ by names indicating a perfect society. It is spoken of as the House of God, the city placed upon the mountain to which all nations must come. But it is also the fold presided over by one Shepherd, and into which all Christ's sheep must betake themselves. Yea, it is called the kingdom which God has raised up and which will stand for ever. Finally it is the body of Christ-that is, of course, His mystical body, but a body living and duly organized and composed of many members; members indeed which have not all the same functions, but which, united one to the other, are kept bound together by the guidance and authority of the head. Indeed no true and perfect human society can be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority.”

Mystici Roporise, Pope Pius XII: “Hence, this word in its correct signification gives us to understand that the Church, a perfect society of its kind, is not made up of merely moral and juridical elements and principles. It is far superior to all other human societies; it surpasses them as grace surpasses nature, as things immortal are above all those that perish.”

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Therefore a perfect society, will always have a solution to the problems her own apostate children caused when abandoning her.

“A Council acting independently of the vicar of Christ is unthinkable in the constitution of the Church. Such assemblies have only taken place in times of great constitutional disturbances, when either there was no pope or the rightful pope was indistinguishable from anti-popes. In such abnormal times, the safety of the Church becomes the supreme law, and the first duty of the flock is to find a new shepherd, under whose direction the existing evils may be remedied.” 87

Pope Pius XII († 1939) stated: “The world is on the verge of a frightful abyss; men must prepare themselves for suffering such as mankind has never seen.”88 What kind of suffering is worse than not having an Roman Pontiff for more than three decades? Where has that happened before in Church history? What is worse then not being able to save your soul because your pastors, spiritual fathers, refuse to nurse and take care of their spiritual children? The Novus Ordo adherents, Traditionalists, apostates, and infidels will 'come and adore' us before our feet because they must become subject to us if they wish to save their souls. “Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”89 They must admit we are in the light, that is the truth. They must admit they were in darkness, that is the bitterness of error and sin. They also must renounce and ask forgiveness for their errors, their slanders, their blasphemes, their calumnies, if they desire to receive the eternal truths of the Christian faith. This will cause them much suffering for they have accustomed themselves to boasting of their proud, vain, foolish, false beliefs and afflict the just day and night. If they do not comply, God will cast them out before us. “The accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.” (Apocalypse 12:10)

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“And a great sign appeared in Heaven: A woman90 clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: And being with child, she cried travailing in birth, and was in pain to be delivered. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her son was taken up to God, and to his throne.” (Apocalypse 12:1-2,5)

Who is this man child who was to rule all nations with an iron rod? It is the Pope. A papal election is binding on all souls. A papal election therefore is the rod that the Pope rules all nations with. All souls must believe and accept that Pope Michael's papal election as valid. “He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes.” (Proverbs 13:24) Since the Pope is the spiritual father of all Christians he uses the rod to correct his children in all things.

“If then any shall say that the Roman pontiff has the office merely of inspection or direction, and not full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those things which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world; or assert that he possesses merely the principal part, and not all the fullness of this supreme power; or that this power which he enjoys is not ordinary and immediate, both over each and all the Churches and over each and all the pastors of the faithful; let him be anathema.” 91

“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of the temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.” We know that this is the worst time in mankind's history. Listen to Pope Pius XI († 1939): “These are the worse days in the history of mankind since the deluge. The time is

90 Catholic Commentary: A woman... The church of God. It may also, by allusion, be applied to our blessed Lady. The church is clothed with the sun, that is, with Christ: she hath the moon, that is, the changeable things of the world, under her feet: and the twelve stars with which she is crowned, are the twelve apostles: she is in labor and pain, whilst she brings forth her children, and Christ in them, in the midst of afflictions and persecutions.

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ripe for a supernatural intervention.” 92 Let us now listen to Venerable Louis of Granada:

“Nor should we be disturbed if the number of those who are lost is greater than the number of those who will be saved, for St. John tells us that countless souls will be saved and they will take with them to Heaven those who have followed their example and done penance for their sins. Hence, it is a source of greater glory to those who are saved if the number of the condemned is greater, because it was the fortunate lot of the former to win Heaven in spite of the fact that they lived in the midst of so many evil men. Moreover, the very condemnation of sinners will redound to the glory of divine justice, which leaves no sin unpunished, and it will redound likewise to the greater consolation and happiness of the blessed who have escaped such a terrible fate.” 93

It is for the greater glory of God that we, the elect,94 should be spared amongst the godless and impious. Remember it is for the greater glory of God that Lot and his family was spared from the destruction of Sodom. This shows that numbers does not prove truthfulness of a matter. It was through the virtuous life of Lot's family that they were spared. If they have the true faith, then they will be lead to Heaven for the truth by nature is spiritual and thus makes us realize our spiritual end, namely God. If the whole world said that 1+1=3 and every person accepted the proposition except one person; that one person who refuses to accept a falsehood (1+1=3) for the truth (1+1=2) is still right and correct. It does not matter what the nearly seven billion other people on this earth believe that 1+1=3.

“Truth is not democratic, it does not depend upon a majority vote. The whole world can be wrong and one man, opposing its opinion and belief, can be right. Christian intolerance seemed intolerable to the tolerant pagans. So the tolerant pagans proceeded to kill the intolerant Christians...only to

92 Fatima Secret: A Layman's recall to the Age of Faith 93 Summa of the Christian Life 94 “Those chosen by God either (a) for the grace of faith and the true religion (most

common interpreted meaning), or (b) for eternal glory.” A Catholic Dictionary, the Elect, (Page: 165) I am using the definition in the first sense mentioned.

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find that with each new persecution the number of Christians increased instead of decreasing. If on the other hand Christians had been 'tolerant,' they would have been merely one more sect in the pagan world.” 95

Why should it surprise us that there are less than fifty Christians on this earth?

“The Church is of ancient birth: since Saints have been so called, the Church hath been on earth. At one time the Church was in Abel only, and he was fought against by his wicked and lost brother Cain. At one time the Church was in Enoch alone: and he was translated from the unrighteous. At one time the Church was in the house of Noah alone, and endured all who perished by the flood, and the ark alone swam upon the waves, and escaped to shore. At one time the Church was in Abraham alone, and we know what he endured from the wicked. The Church was in his brother's son, Lot, alone, and in his house, in Sodom, and he endured the iniquities and perversities of Sodom, until God freed him from amidst them.” 96

“He that shall overcome, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God; and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God, and my new name.” In these lines, there is one part that is dicey. It seems to imply implicitly that those that are with the Church before the temptation that will come upon the world, seemed to have obtained the grace of final perseverance. Although the Council of Trent says that we cannot merit the grace of final perseverance. But what we do know, when St. John writes: “my new name” is the name Michael. In honor of the tradition of Jesus changing the name of Peter from Simon, the Popes have followed suit for over a millennium. The name Michael has never been in the line of the Papacy before. Pope Michael, therefore, fulfills New Testament prophesy.

“The last discourse of Pius XII is a dark vision, almost an

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apocalyptic prophesy about the Church and the world, he talks about himself as lost wayfarer, submerged in shade, shade almost of death. He confides to be in the middle of the night, 'The humanity' he says, 'doesn't have the strength to remove the tombstone manufactured by itself.' And he concludes with a supplication: 'Come, my Lord, send your angel and illuminate our night as the day.'” 97

I am going to summarize a few of points we have covered that are fulfilled in Holy Scripture:

1. The Antichrist has come. (Apocalypse 13:18)2. There was a schism. (II Thessalonians 2:3)3. The Mass was taken away. (Daniel 8:11-12)4. The flock was scattered. (Daniel 12:7)5. The Church was reduced to a handful. (Isaias 10:19)6. Michael arose during the Greatest Tribulation. (Daniel 12:1)

I have covered biblically the New Testament about Pope Michael and his fulfillment of prophesy. Now I am going to go to the Old Testament, to further hammer the nail into the coffin.

“And after this the children of Israel shall return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and His goodness in the last days.” (Osee 3:5) There are two things that I must bring to light. 1) The children of Israel shall return. 2) David their king. The children of Israel is interpreted as the Church by theologians. “David their king”, evidently Pope Michael's name prior to taking the papacy, is David Bawden. “David their king”, a king is normally at the top of the pole of power, so thus the Papacy in the Catholic Church is the highest office one can have, and the Pope is judged by no one except God.

“In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.” (Amos 9:11,13) Let us break this down into parts. 1) Tabernacle98 of David, that is fallen 2) Repair what

97 The Last Years of Pius XII98 Tabernacle: (Latin tabernaculum, a tent) The box like receptacle where in the Blessed

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was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old. 3) Behold the days come.

“David, as he had done when only a simple shepherd boy, composed Psalms and Canticles in honor of the Most High, and conducted himself in all things according to the holy will of God. Wherefore the Lord blessed him, and not only favored all his undertakings, but promised him that one of his descendants should rule the whole world, and sit upon a throne more lasting than the Heavens.” 99

What does it mean when it says, “the tabernacle of David, that is fallen.” The definition of tabernacle is where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. Now when it says, “of David” God prophesied that Christ would come from the line of David. “And when thy days shall be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish His kingdom. He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of His kingdom for ever.” (II Kings 7:12-13) It is through David that Christ was to establish the Heavenly Jerusalem, His kingdom and Church. The line “the tabernacle of David, that is fallen” from Holy Scripture means that the Mass was taken away. For the tabernacle by its definition signifies the dwelling of the Holy Eucharist (Christ), the line “of David” is from the line which Christ is born from, and being fallen, means taken away. We move onto the quote, “Repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.”

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Abbey Church of Cluny (Tenth Century)

The Churches physically themselves have fallen into the hands of the enemies (apostates) and non Catholics. Many of them have been destroyed. Once beautiful Churches as the abbey church of Cluny are now gone. But however, we are going to have churches, one day which God ordains in His providence, such as the abbey church of Cluny, so the worship of God, sacrifice of Mass, can be duly offered to Him and honor Him.

“Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.” This is a signification of the universal conversion predicted by the Fathers of the Church.

“All the holy Fathers agree that after the death of Antichrist (emphasis: August 6, 1978) the whole world will be converted, and although some of them assert that the world will last but a few days after his death, while others say a few months, some authorities insist that it will continue to exist many years after. St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Francis of Paula, and a number of other Saints

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have predicted this ultimate universal conversion.” 100

The universal conversion is predicted in the Bible. “And he laid hold on the dragon the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.” (Apocalypse 20:2) The number of years should not be taken literally, for it was condemned in the reign of Pope Pius XII. 101 But what should be understood by the amount of years that it will last for a notable time as Our Lady said back in 1917: “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.” I will expand on the Universal Conversion in a later chapter.

“And there was left but a small people, and a prince in the house of David.” (Ecclesiasticus 48:17) Now according to the Old Testament prophet Daniel he states “But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people” (Daniel 12:1), we can make the syllogism that Michael is the prince. We can further deduce that Pope Michael is the great prince. (Daniel 12:1) I already explained to you the significance of David, that Christ having founded His kingdom and Church upon earth through him, so too will Christ reestablish His reign through David, His Vicar of Christ, Pope Michael. “The dethronement of the Vicar of Christ is the dethronement of the hierarchy of the universal Church, and the public rejection of the Presence and Reign of Jesus.” 102 We can therefore state, that the enthronement of the Vicar of Christ, that is Pope Michael, is a public acceptation of the Presence and Reign of Jesus Christ upon earth. And of course, let us not forget that there are but a small handful of Catholics under Pope Michael that a child can count the faithful.

“And when the scattering of the band of the holy people shall be accomplished, all these things shall be finished.” (Daniel 12:7) The election of Pope Michael occurred on July 16, 1990 the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. How many elected Pope Michael on July 16? Only 6. I

100 The Admirable Heart of Mary101 Millenarianism (Chiliasm) Decree of the Holy Office, 21 July 1944 (Denzinger

2296): “In recent times on several occasions this Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office has been asked what must be thought of the system mitigated Millenarianism, which teaches, for example, that Christ the Lord before final judgment, whether or not preceded by the resurrection of the many just, will come visibly to rule over this world. The answer is: This system of mitigated Millenarianism cannot be taught safely.”

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would consider that a small band. Wouldn't you? Isaias discloses to us: “And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.” (Isaias 10:19) I think a child can count and write 6 names...Don't you think?

“Something must remain,” says the Antichrist (Paul VI),“a little flock must remain, however small it may be.” 103

By dismantling the Christian faith, Antichrist has still one more other objective. According to St. Francis de Paul († 1507): “Antichrist will restore the power of Islam.” 104 It is been researched that the total population of Muslims in 2009 is 1.82 billion people. 105 We forgot however to put the current figure of those who follow the Vatican II Church.

“Vatican II solemnly declared: 106 'But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Moslems; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.' Read this carefully. What Vatican II is saying is that Moslems worship the true God. Therefore Vatican II is saying that Allah is God. Vatican II was opened by Angelo Roncalli and John the Baptist Montini as Antipope Paul VI solemnly declared this to be the doctrine of their new church. This is the doctrine of John XXIII-II, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II the Great Deceiver and Benedict XVI. Many of their statements bear this fact out, and the last two have publicly participated in worship in mosques, adoring their god Allah, which has been proclaimed to be the god of the people of god. In Lumen Gentium, paragraph 2 the Church is defined as the people of god. Since the same declaration declares that Moslems worship the one true God, we must interpret the people of god to be equivalent to the people of Allah.” 107

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Let us not forget too that the Vatican II believes they worship Allah. This is clearly stated in their documents. The Vatican II Church is roughly 1.2 billion people in 2008. Now we do some simple math. 1.82 billion Muslims + 1.2 billion people of Allah (Vatican II Church)108 = 3.02 billion are estimated to be worshiping Allah out of the 6.6 billion total population of the world. Compare that to the Church in 2009, which consists of less than fifty Christians. St. Francis de Paul († 1507): “Antichrist will restore the power of Islam.”109

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Chapter 7The Apostles Of The Latter Times: “Little children, it is the last hour.” 110

St. Louis de Montfort († 1716) talks about the apostles of the latter times:

“The training and education of the great Saints, who will appear towards the end of the world, is reserved for the Mother of God. These great Saints will surpass in holiness the majority of the other Saints like the cedars of Lebanon surpasses the lowly shrub. These great Saints, full of grace and zeal, will be chosen in order to oppose the enemies of God who will appear everywhere. By their word and example these Saints will bring the whole world to a true veneration of Mary.” 111

If we consider these apostles of the latter times to be cedars of Lebanon, then the Saints, like St. Dominic, St. Mary of Egypt, St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Thomas of Aquinas, St. Bernard, St. Benedict, St. Louis De Montfort, St. Curé of Ars are but lowly shrub! What a statement by the Saint himself. Think about what destruction the Saints of these latter times are going to wreak havoc on the damned devils!

“If the Devil was so preoccupied with St. Jean Marie Vianney that he employed every means at his disposal to divert him from his task, either by exhausting his energy by insomnia, or by bringing him into such anguish of mind that he wanted to escape into the wilderness, it is because he knew the efficacy of the saint's prayers, of his scourgings, of his ministry to sinners. A woman who showed many signs of possession, and who seemed to be almost a mouthpiece of Satan, reproached him one day in front of witnesses:

'How you make me suffer....If there were three more like you on earth, my kingdom would be destroyed...You have stolen more than 80,000 souls from me.'

At the time these words were spoken, the Curé d' Ars

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had in his parish a missionary whom he had asked to preach to his flock. Turning to him the Curé remarked reducing three quarters the figure which all had heard mentioned:

'Did you hear that, my friend? The Devil claims that between us we are destroying his empire, and we have stolen 20,000 souls from him?'

The Devil had, of course, said quite clearly 80,000, without mentioning the missionary. The modification was only another example of the saint's humility.” 112

One of the best writings that I have found on the apostles of the latter times is from St. Louis de Montfort. 113 He writes that these Saints of

112 Satan in the Modern World113 “In a word, God wishes that His holy Mother should be at present, more known,

more loved, more honored than she has ever been. This, no doubt, will take place if the predestinate enter, with the grace and the light of the Holy Ghost, into the interior and perfect practice which I will disclose to them shortly. Then they will see clearly, as far as faith allows, that beautiful Star of the Sea. They will arrive happily in the harbor, following its guidance, in spite of the tempests and the pirates. They will know the grandeurs of that Queen, and will consecrate themselves entirely to her service as subjects and slaves of love. They will experience her sweetness and her maternal goodness, and they will love her tenderly like well-beloved children. They will know the mercies of which she is full, and the need they have of her help; and they will have recourse to her in all things, as to their dear advocate and Mediatrix with Jesus Christ. They will know what is the surest, the easiest, the shortest, and the most perfect means of going to Jesus Christ; and they will give themselves to Mary, body and soul, without reserve, that they may thus belong entirely to Jesus Christ. But who shall those servants, slaves, and children of Mary be? They shall be ministers of the Lord who, like a burning fire, shall kindle the fire of divine love everywhere. They shall be “like sharp arrows in the hand of the powerful” Mary to pierce her enemies. (Psalm 126:4). They shall be sons of Levi, well purified by the fire of great tribulation, and closely adhering to God (I Corinthians 6:17), who shall carry the gold of love in their heart, the incense of prayer in their spirit, and the myrrh of mortification in their body. They shall be everywhere the good odor of Jesus Christ to the poor and to the little, while at the same time, they shall be an odor of death to the great, to the rich and to the proud worldlings. They shall be clouds thundering and flying though the air at the least breath of the Holy Ghost; who, detaching themselves from everything and troubling themselves about nothing, shall shower forth the rain of the Word of God and of life eternal. They shall thunder against sin; they shall storm against the world; they shall strike the devil and his crew; and they shall pierce through and through, for life or for death, with their two-edged sword of the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17), all those to whom they shall be sent on the part of the Most High. They shall be the true apostles of the latter times, to whom the Lord of Hosts shall give the word and the might to work marvels and to carry off with glory the

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the latter times have a great devotion to Mary, ever Immaculate Virgin, Star of the Sea. The Saint says: “They will arrive happily in the harbor, following its guidance, in spite of the tempests and the pirates. They will know the grandeurs of that Queen, and will consecrate themselves entirely to her service as subjects and slaves of love.” These apostles of the latter times will arrive happily to Heaven, they will obtain the gift of final perseverance, from the Mother of Grace. Listen to St. Bonaventure: “Since the whole divine nature was in the womb of the Virgin, I do not fear to teach that she has a certain jurisdiction over all the streams of grace; as her womb was, as it were, an ocean of the divine nature, whence all the streams of grace must emanate.” Now according to an exorcism made by St. Dominic on a possessed soul, the devils cried out in terror for the St. Dominic asked them “who, of all the Saints in Heaven, was the one they feared the most, and who should therefore be the most loved and revered by men.” 114 Let us then listen to the reply that the devils gave to St. Dominic:

“Oh you who are our enemy, our downfall and our destruction, why have you come from Heaven just to torture us so grievously? O Advocate of sinners, you who snatch them from the very jaws of Hell, you who are the very sure

Cont. 114 spoils of His enemies. They shall sleep without gold or silver, and, what is more, without care, in the midst of the other priests, ecclesiastics, and clerics (Psalm 67:14); and yet they shall have the silvered wings of the dove to go, with the pure intention of the glory of God and the salvation of souls, wheresoever the Holy Ghost shall call them. Nor shall they leave behind them, in the places where they have preached, anything but the gold of charity, which is the fulfillment of the whole law. (Romans 13:10). In a word, we know that they shall be true disciples of Jesus Christ, walking in the footsteps of His poverty, humility, concept of the world, charity; teaching the narrow way of God in pure truth, according to the holy Gospel, and not according to the maxims of the world; troubling themselves about nothing; not accepting persons; sparing, fearing and listening to no mortal, however influential he may be. They shall have in their mouths the two-edged sword of the Word of God. They shall carry on their shoulders the bloody standard of the Cross, the Crucifix in their right hand and the Rosary in their left, the sacred Names of Jesus and Mary in their hearts, and the modesty and mortification of Jesus Christ in their own behavior. These are the great men who are to come; but Mary is the one who, by order of the Most High, shall fashion them for the purpose of extending His empire over that of the impious, the idolaters and the Mahometans. But when and shall this be? God alone knows. As for us, we have but to hold our tongues, to pray, to sigh and to wait: 'With expectation I have waited.' (Psalm 39:2)” The Secret of the Rosary

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path to Heaven, must we, in spite of ourselves, tell the whole truth and confess before everyone who it is who is the cause of our shame and our ruin? Oh woe unto us, princes of darkness: Then listen well, you Christians: the Mother of Jesus Christ is all-powerful and she can save her servants from falling into Hell. She is the Sun which destroys the darkness of our wiles and subtlety. It is she who uncovers our hidden plots, breaks our snares and makes our temptations useless and ineffectual. We have to say, however reluctantly, that not a single soul who has really persevered in her service has ever been damned with us; one single sigh that she offers to the Blessed Trinity is worth far more than all the prayers desires and aspirations of all the Saints. We fear her more than all the other Saints in Heaven together and we have no success with her faithful servants. Many Christians who call upon her when they are at the hour of death and who really ought to be damned according to our ordinary standards are saved by her intercession. Oh if only that Mary (it is thus in their fury that they called her) had not pitted her strength against ours and had not upset our plans, we should have conquered the Church and should have destroyed it long before this; and we would have seen to it that all the Orders in the Church fell into error and disorder. Now that we are forced to speak we must also tell you this: nobody who perseveres in saying the Rosary will be damned, because she obtains for her servants the grace of true contrition for their sins and by means of this they obtain God's forgiveness and mercy.” 115

St. Louis de Montfort goes on in his treatise of the apostles of the latter times: “They will know what is the surest, the easiest, the shortest, and the most perfect means of going to Jesus Christ; and they will give themselves to Mary, body and soul, without reserve, that they may thus belong entirely to Jesus Christ.” Now Venerable Louis of Grenada states in his Summa of the Christian Life: “It is the common teaching of all the Saints that the perfection of the Christian life consists in the perfection of charity.” The quickest way to perfection must be charity. “But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.” (Colossians

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3:14) Why is Mary, the ever Immaculate Virgin, the easiest means to going to Jesus? For she is full of charity (divine love). She desires that you and I become perfect in virtue. Why? Because she loves you. “When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.” (John 19:26-27)

Jesus said to His mother while hanging on the cross, behold thy son. Alas she is to be our spiritual mother. She as if said to you: “Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.” (Isaias 49:15) Will this good Virgin of virgins, ever forget someone who loves her? Never. For as long as we love her, we will never be despised by her. Let us not forget the words by St. Bonaventure: “He who neglects her will die in his sins.”

Now St. Louis de Montfort continues in his treatise: “But who shall those servants, slaves, and children of Mary be? They shall be ministers of the Lord who, like a burning fire, shall kindle the fire of divine love everywhere. They shall be 'like sharp arrows in the hand of the powerful' Mary to pierce her enemies. (Ps. 126:4).” These apostles will have an ardent charity. Nothing shall terrify these apostles of the latter times, for they will bear the mark of the Virgin (†), on their foreheads, just as the servants of the devil, will wear the mark of the beast (666). (Apocalypse 14:9) For it is written: “I will put enmities between thy seed and her seed.” (Genesis 3:15) They are the sharp arrows of divine love, placed at the hands of Mary to strike in the hearts the ones she loves.

Furthermore, St. Louis de Montfort answers his rhetorical question: “They shall be sons of Levi116, well purified by the fire of great tribulation, and closely adhering to God (I Corinthians 6:17), who shall carry the gold of love in their heart, the incense of prayer in their spirit, and the myrrh of mortification in their body. They shall be everywhere the good odor of Jesus Christ to the poor and to the little, while at the same time, they shall be an odor of death to the great, to the rich and to the proud wordlings.” According to the definition it says: “the name [Levite] is used figuratively for a Christian cleric below the order of priest.” We are currently without Holy Orders. We however we are in submission to Pope

116 Levite: “A descendant of the Jewish patriarch of Levi, the men of whose tribe were hereditary ministers to the priests of the Tabernacle and Temple; hence the name is used figuratively for a Christian cleric below the order of priest, especially a deacon.” A Catholic Dictionary

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Michael. All that is required in preaching is jurisdiction, and that comes directly from the Pope. And the Pope gets jurisdiction directly from Christ. A speech was given by the Bishop of Grenada at the 22nd Session of the Council of Trent, he tells us: “When any bishop is elected Supreme Pontiff, either by cardinals or by the people according to the times, from whom does he obtain the supreme power of jurisdiction? From Christ, of course…”117 It is my assumption we will be preaching before we attain Holy Orders.

St. Louis de Montfort progresses on the theme of sons of Levi by stating they will be, “well purified by the fire of great tribulation, and closely adhering to God.” In St. Matthew's Gospel he writes: “For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.” (Matthew 24:21) What happens then to those souls that are in tribulation? The Old Testament prophet Daniel adds: “Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire.” (Daniel 12:10) “Silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace.” (Proverbs 27:21) Fining pot and the furnace are the different types of tribulations, meaning in intensities, by which these sons of Levi will tried.118

St. Louis de Montfort explains these sons of Levi, “shall carry the gold of love in their heart, the incense of prayer in their spirit, and the myrrh of mortification in their body.” These sons of Levi, who may be seminarians, shall carry the gold of love in their preaching, that is the love of Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary in the hearts. As I have explain to you earlier the benefits of loving Mary.

“They shall be clouds thundering and flying though the air at the least breath of the Holy Ghost; who, detaching themselves from everything and troubling themselves about nothing.” Mid level clouds according to the University of Illinois definition 119 are composed primarily of water droplets and ranged from 6,500 to 20,000 feet (2,000 to 6,000 meters). These clouds are so light that air directs their movement. Now the least breathe of the Holy Ghost when directing these apostles of the latter times, are so detached from all worldly things are like the clouds, for they are thousands of feet in the air separated from those worldlings clinging to the ground. These apostles are troubled about nothing for they

117 Concilium Tridentuum Editio Gorresiana 118 It was also through the assistance of the sons of Levi that Moses killed 23,000

Jewish Idolaters. (Exodus 32:26-28)119 http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml

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have obtained all they ever desired because their minds rests content in the knowledge of eternal truth. For the Truth is spirit and angelic by nature, therefore the spirits of the apostles will rise above the slime of the earth which they were made from, and rest in God. (Genesis 1:26)

“They shall shower forth the rain of the Word of God and of life eternal. They shall thunder against sin; they shall storm against the world; they shall strike the devil and his crew; and they shall pierce through and through, for life or for death, with their two-edged sword of the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17), all those to whom they shall be sent on the part of the Most High.” What is lightning? According to the definition given by Princeton University lightning is an “abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light.” 120 These apostles of the latter times being charged up with zeal for God and for the salvation of their neighbors will strike the devil, unnoticed, until it is too late for the devil to react. These apostles shall say, “I saw Satan like lightning falling from Heaven.” (Luke 10:18)

St. Louis de Montfort instructs us: “the Lord of Hosts shall give the word and the might to work marvels and to carry off with glory the spoils of His enemies.” The devil shall cry out in anguish: “How you make me suffer....You have stolen more than 80,000 souls from me.” But these apostles, let us remind the readers, are not like the Saints of old, who were but shrubs compared to these Cedars of Lebanon. “All this is verified in the cedar of Libanus, which is the stateliest and most majestic tree of Palestine. It often reaches a height of 100 feet and more, and the girth of the trunk in old trees may exceed 40 feet.”121 What is a cedar compared to but a shrub? How many innumerable souls then will be converted by these apostles? “With expectation I have waited.” (Psalms 39:2)

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Chapter 8The Angelic Pastors:

“He had compassion on them: because they were distressed.” 122

“In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.” It is through these angelic pastors that peace will be had in this world. The angelic pastor who will start this reign of peace will be Pope Michael, for St. Michael battled against Satan and won in Heaven, so will then Pope Michael, conquer the enemies of Christ, through his preaching, for he is the Vicar of Christ. “And he shall rule them with a rod of iron.” (Apocalypse 2:27) It is through these Angelic Pastors that Satan shall be bound up in Hell according to Holy Scripture: “And he laid hold on the dragon the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.” (Apocalypse 20:2) However, we are not to believe that peace will last one thousand years, for that was condemned under the reign of Pope Pius XII († 1958).123

It is my opinion, that there will be Popes who take the names of Raphael, and Gabriel. I am going to make an assumption on the line of the papacy. It will be Pope Michael (currently reigning), Pope Raphael, and Pope Gabriel. It is my presumption that these popes will have a deep and tender devotion to their angel, as did Pope Michael. For he had a devotion to St. Michael since he was a child.

St. Catherine of Siena († 1380) talks about the Church of the latter times: “The bride (Church) now all deformed and clothed in rags, will then gleam with beauty and jewels and crowned with the diadem of all virtue. All believing nations will rejoice and have such excellent and holy shepherds, and the unbelieving world, attracted by the glory of the Church, will be converted to her.” 124 Why would she, the Church, be deformed? She is deformed by the lukewarmness of souls. What is more disgusting

122 Matthew 9:36123 Millenarianism (Chiliasm) Decree of the Holy Office, 21 July 1944 (Denzinger

2296): “In recent times on several occasions this Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office has been asked what must be thought of the system mitigated Millenarianism, which teaches, for example, that Christ the Lord before final judgment, whether or not preceded by the resurrection of the many just, will come visibly to rule over this world. The answer is: This system of mitigated Millenarianism cannot be taught safely.”

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than an object that would induce you to vomit? “Because thou art lukewarm I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.” (Apocalypse 3:16) This lukewarmness is foretold of the previous Church Sardis. Remember Christ said to the Church of Sardis: “ And to the angel of the church of Sardis, write: I know thy works, that thou hast the name of being alive: and thou art dead.” (Apocalypse 3:1) But with the Church of Philadelphia, those under Pope Michael currently, Christ says, “Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.” (Apocalypse 3:9)

I believe the most accurate prophesy is that of Abbot Merlin Joachim († 1202).125 I will only take apart some of these sections.

125 The Prophets and Our Times, #97: “A remarkable Pope will be seated on the pontifical throne, under the special protection of the angels. Holy and full of gentleness, he shall undo all wrong, he shall recover the states of the Church, and reunite exiled temporal powers. He shall be revered by all people, and shall recover the kingdom of Jerusalem. As the only Pastor he shall reunite the Eastern to the Western Church, and thus only one faith will be in vigor. The sanctity of this beneficent Pontiff will be so great that the highest potentates shall bow down before his presence. This holy man shall crush the arrogance of religious schism and heresy. All men shall return to the primitive Church, and there shall be only one pastor, one law, one master-humble, modest and fearing God. The true God of the Jews, our Lord Jesus Christ, will make everything prosper beyond all human hope, because God alone can and will pour down on the wounds of humanity the oily balm of sweetness.

“The Heavens proclaim the glory of God, and the faithful are in joy and happiness, because the Lord has vouchsafed to be merciful to them. He shall invite his elect to the banquet of the Lamb, where melodious canticles and harmonious concerts will be heard.

“The power of this Pontiff's holiness will be so great as to be able to check the fury and impetuosity of threatening waves. Mountains shall be lowered before him, the sea shall be dried up, the dead shall be raised, the churches shall be reopened and altars erected.

“It should be known that there will be two heads, one in the East, and the other in the West. This Pope shall break the weapons and scatter the fighting hordes. He will be the joy of God's elect. This angelic Pope will preach the gospel in every country. Through his zeal and solicitude the Greek Church shall be forever reunited to the Catholic Church.

“Before, however, being firmly and solidly established in the Holy See, there will be innumerable wars and violent conflicts during which the sacred throne shall be shaken. But through the favor of Divine clemency, moved by the prayers of the faithful, everything will succeed so well that they shall be able to sing hymns of thanksgiving to the glory of the Lord.

“This holy Pope shall be both pastor and reformer. Through him the East and West shall be in everlasting concord. The city of Babylon shall then be the head and guide of the world. Rome, weakened in temporal power, shall forever preserve her

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“A remarkable Pope will be seated on the pontifical throne, under the special protection of the angels.” It is through St. Michael's quick actions that two thirds of the total amount of angels did not fall from sanctifying grace. It is through the actions of the Vicar of Christ, Pope Michael, that the world will be converted to the Catholic faith. “Christ silent and veiled in the Holy Eucharist and Christ visible speaking to us in the person of the Pope – these are two objects of Satan's venerable hatred and rage. And these are also two objects of St. Michael's greatest devotion and solicitude.” 126 After a nearly a three decade interregnum without having a Pope, but only antipopes, St. Michael and all the holy angels will obtain the graces for the Church to have angelic popes. Just as the devils were permitted to carry out Divine Justice by damnation of souls through the reign of Antichrist; the angels will be able to carry out Divine Mercy, and to restore the Church with angelic pastors. And it will be through the devotion and intercession to angels will this exemplary restoration come. “According to the great St. Alphonsus Liguori, veneration of the holy Angels, and particularly of St. Michael, is an outstanding sign of predestination.” 127

“The sanctity of this beneficent Pontiff will be so great that the highest potentates shall bow down before his presence. This holy man shall crush the arrogance of religious schism and heresy. All men shall

spiritual dominion, and shall enjoy great peace. During these happy days the Angelic Pope shall be able to address to Heaven prayers full of sweetness. The dispersed nation (Jews) shall also enjoy tranquility. Six and a half years after this time the Pope will render his soul to God. The end of his days shall arrive in an arid province, situated between a river and a lake near the mountains...

“When a monster shall appear to thee in the sky, thou shalt find a ready escape towards the east, and after nine years thou shalt render thy soul to God.

“A man of remarkable sanctity will be his successor in the Pontifical chair. Through him God will work so many prodigies that all men shall revere him, and no person will dare to oppose his precepts. He shall not allow the clergy to have many benefices. He will induce them to live by the tithes and offerings of the faithful. He shall interdict pomp in dress, and all immorality in dances and songs. He will preach the gospel in person, and exhort all honest ladies to appear in public without any ornament of gold or precious stones. After having occupied the Holy See for a long period of time he shall happily return to the Lord.

“His three immediate successors shall be men of exemplary holiness. One after the other will be models of virtue, and shall work miracles, confirming the teaching of their predecessors. Under their government the Church shall spread, and these Popes shall be called the Angelic Pastors.”

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return to the primitive Church, and there shall be only one pastor, one law, one master-humble, modest and fearing God.” 128 “And he shall rule them with a rod of iron.” (Apocalypse 19:15) He will rule the faithful by the example of holiness. The virtue shining forth from this holy pastor will be like an iron rod crushing the arrogance of all of those who attempt to overthrow him. He will be so holy that none of them can find a fault against him. By not finding a fault against this holy pastor, they can not make an excuse or rationalization to neglect their duty in sanctifying themselves. “If the priest is a saint (as the saying goes), the people will be fervent; if the priest is fervent, the people will be pious; if the priest is pious, the people will at least be decent. But if the priest is only decent, the people will be godless. The spiritual generation is always one degree less intense in its life than those who beget it in Christ.” 129 Let us read a part of the prophesy of Our Lady of Good Fortune:130

“By sending to His Church the Prelate who will restore the spirit of His priests. Upon this My beloved son, whom My Divine Son and I love with a predilection, we shall heap many gifts, of humility of heart, of docility to varying inspirations, of strength to defend the rights of the Church and of a heart with which he will, like a new Christ, take possession of the mightiest of men as of the lowliest, without scorning the least fortunate among them. With a wholly divine gentleness he will lead consecrated souls to the service of God in religious houses without making the Lord's yoke weigh heavily upon them.”

“He shall be revered by all people, and shall recover the kingdom of Jerusalem...It should be known that there will be two heads, one in the East, and the other in the West. This Pope shall break the weapons and scatter the fighting hordes. He will be the joy of God's elect. This angelic Pope will preach the gospel in every country. Through his zeal and solicitude the Greek Church shall be forever reunited to the Catholic Church.” The main question is how will this angelic pope restore the

128 “The Lord showed me how beautiful the world will be after the awful chastisement. The people will be like the Christians of the primitive Church.” Abbess Maria Steiner († 1862) The Prophets and Our Times

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schismatic Greeks with the Church? It is because of his devotion to the souls in purgatory. The communion of Saints will not just be only a belief in the creed, but it will be zealously practiced. And through the intercession of these suffering holy souls will obtain the grace to have the Church united as it once was before.

“Judas the Machabee also, renowned for his solicitude for the dead, was visited by apparitions from the other world. 'Nicanor being puffed up with exceeding great pride, sought to set up a public monument of the victory of Judas. But Machabeus ever trusted with all hope that God would help them; and he exhorted his people not to fear the coming of Gentiles, but to remember the help they had before received from Heaven, and now to hope for victory from the Almighty. And speaking to them out of the law and the prophets and withal putting them in mind of the battles they had fought before, he made them more cheerful. Then after he had encouraged them, he showed withal the falsehood of the Gentiles, and their breach of oaths. So he armed everyone of them not with defense of shield and spear, but with very good speeches and exhortations, and told them a dream worthy to be believed, whereby he rejoiced them all. Now the vision was in this matter: Onias, who had been high priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in his looks, gentle in his manners, and graceful in his speech, and exercised from a child in all virtues, holding up his hands, prayed for all the people of the Jews. After this there appeared also another man, admirable for age and glory, and environed with great beauty and majesty. Then Onias, answering, said: This is a lover of his brethren, and of the people of Israel. This is he that prayeth much for the people, and for all the holy city, Jeremias, the prophet of God. Wereupon Jeremias stretched forth his right hand, and gave to Judas a sword of gold, saying: Take this holy sword a gift from God, wherewith thou shalt overthrow the adversaries of my people Israel.' (II Machabees 15: 6-16) This apparition of two just souls to Judas Machabeus and his victory over the enemy are regarded by some interpreters of Scripture as being the reward he received for the twelve thousand

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drachms of silver he had sent to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered in atonement for the sins of those who had fallen in battle.” 131

For the Church is one, “But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection.” (Colossians 3:14) This angelic pope will conquer the enemies of the Church though the golden sword of charity. He shall pierce the enemies of Christ with divine love, and they will be helpless. Just as a sword causes death to the body, the golden sword of charity will cause death to the spirit of the world in the souls that this pope shall pierce. After the old man was killed, only then can the new man be put on. “To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind: And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.” (Ephesians 4:22-24) And you think that such a thing is impossible? “St. Bridget heard the souls in Purgatory call to Heaven, saying in a loud voice, 'O merciful God, reward a hundred fold the charity of them that by their good works assists us to come from out of this darkness to the eternal light and to attain to Thy beatific vision.'” 132

Let us remember that schism is a sin against charity. Charity must then be the solution to fixing the problem between the schismatic Greeks and the Church!

The Angelic PastorsThe Age of Michael--------The Age of Raphael--------The Age of Gabriel

There will be three distinct periods in the age of the Angelic pastors. 1) The Age of Michael 2) The Age of Raphael 3) The Age of Gabriel

The Age of Michael will consist in fighting the devil upon the Earth and binding Satan for a thousand years in Hell. “And I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.” (Apocalypse 20:1-2) Since the pope has jurisdiction on earth because Christ had given him the keys (Matthew 16:19), he is able to bind Satan in Hell, for Hell is in the center of the earth. Again I refrain you from

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believing that Satan will be bound exactly one thousand years, for as I have stated in previous chapters, that Millenarianism cannot be safely taught. This binding of Satan will bring great spiritual profit for the interior lives of all the faithful upon the earth. This angelic pastor by binding Satan in Hell is preparing the soil for good crop of the salvation of souls. “But he that received the seed upon good ground, is he that heareth the word, and understandeth, and beareth fruit.” (Matthew 13:23) This is going to be a prelude for the next angelic pastors. Just as St. Michael cast Satan out of Heaven, so will Pope Michael and his successors cast Satan from the hearts of Christians and non Catholics, and allegorically bind Satan in Hell for only charity (divine love) will reign in the hearts of these Christians. “Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.” (Canticles 8:7)

The Age of Raphael will consist in the angelic pastors leading all souls of the faithful to the height of the spiritual life. That is why as St. Louis de Montfort kindly phrases it: “These great Saints will surpass in holiness the majority of the other Saints like the cedar of Lebanon surpasses the lowly shrub.” For St. Raphael is the patron saint of marriage. There are two concepts of marriage, the first is the Sacrament of Marriage, the second one is mainly forgotten, that is the religious life, a soul espousing God. When the soul espouses God she is in the seventh Mansion according to St. Teresa of Avila in her writings on the Interior Castle:

“But in this Mansion everything is different. Our good God now desires to remove the scales from the eyes of the soul, that it may see and understand something of the favor which He is granting it. First of all the spirit becomes enkindled and is illumined, as it were, by a cloud of the greatest brightness. It sees these three Persons, individually, and yet, by a wonderful kind of knowledge which is given to it, the soul realizes that most certainly and truly all these three persons are one Substance and one Power and one Knowledge and one God alone; so that what we hold by faith the soul may be said to here to grasp by sight, although nothing is seen by the eyes, either of the body or of the soul, for it is no imaginary vision. Here all three Persons

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communicate Themselves to the soul and speak to the soul.”133

Last but not the least, the Age of Gabriel will be end of the reign of the Angelic pastors. Just as St. Gabriel gave good tidings to the Blessed Virgin Mary for being chosen as the Mother of God. (Luke 1:26-33) These angelic pastors will give the faithful good tidings that Christ is coming soon for the second time and that they should haste to prepare themselves as the five wise virgins did (Matthew 25:2-4), by having enough oil to last the night. Oil signifies purity. Let not the flame of the purity of your interior life extinguish! As did the five foolish virgins. “But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them.” (Matthew 25:3) It was only after their decision to half heartedly remain pure in heart that was it already too late for them to enter with the bridegroom. “Now whilst they went to buy, the bridegroom came: and they that were ready, went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. But at last come also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not.” (Matthew 25:10-12) After death there is no hope to enter into the kingdom of God. For at the last moment of your life, you are to make a eternal decision that is going to last for all eternity, so long as God is God. “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.” (Apocalypse 4:8) These angelic pastors do not know specifically when Christ is to come a second time, “but of that day or hour no man knoweth.” (Mark 13:32) These angelic pastors entreat the flock to be ever diligent and faithful to God. “Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come.” (Matthew 24:42)

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“Time shall be no longer.” 134

“There is but one only true Church; and that is so evident that one possessed of even ordinary good sense cannot anywise doubt it. A Catholic priest and a Protestant minister were one day walking together; they chanced to meet a Jewish rabbi. 'Hold!' said the Protestant minister, laughing, 'we three are of so many different religions; now, which of us has the true one?' 'I will tell you that,' said the rabbi; 'if the Messiah is not yet come, it is I; if the Messiah be come, it is this Catholic priest; but as for you, whether the Messiah be come or not, you are not in the right way.” 135

What shall it be like when Christ comes a second time? “But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Luke 18:8) Let us read some lines from Holy Scripture.

“For many seducers are gone out into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a seducer and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward. Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son.” (II John 1:7-9)

We are going to type the Latin for out for those that can read and understand, as Christ told us to do. (Matthew 24:15)

“Quoniam multi seductores exierunt in mundum, qui non confitentur Iesum Christum venisse in carnem: hic est seductor, et antichristus. Videte vosmetipsos, ne perdatis quae operati estis: sed ut mercedem plenam accipiatis. Omnis qui recedit et non permanet in doctrina Christi, Deum

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non habet: qui permaet in doctrina, hic et Patrem et Filium habet.” (II John 1:7-9) 136

We are going to back to the Latin for a specific reason. We are looking at the word recedit. It's root word is recédere. The definition of it is: “To fall away, or depart or stray from.” This is another connotation for schism and apostasy. What we are going to look for after the Church of Philadelphia and the universal conversion, is a possible schism(s) and or apostasy, as we have seen in this time. However, the Shepherd (emphasis: the pope) will not be taken away from them, the future Christians. Our time was noted as the greatest tribulation, the key to that tribulation was having no pope for more than three decades (1958-1990). “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand to the little ones.” (Zacharias 13:7) To look at the history of what will happen in the future, we are going to look at the Church of Laodicea, in Apocalypse:

“And to the angel of the church of Laodicea, write: These things saith the Amen,137 the faithful and true witness, who is the beginning of the creation of God: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold, nor hot. I would thou wert cold, or hot. But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, not hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest: I am rich, and made wealthy, and have need of nothing: and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Behold, I stand at the gate, and knock. If any man shall hear my voice, and open to me the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit with me in my throne: as I also have overcome, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.” (Apocalypse 3:14-21)

“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold, nor hot. I would thou wert cold, or hot. But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, not

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hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.” This is the same problem that the Church of Sardis had. It was so bad that God punished them with the Antichrist who subsequently brought in the greatest tribulation known to mankind. “For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.” (Matthew 24:21) But these lukewarm Christians are worse than those before the chastisement of Antichrist, for they came after the universal conversion and the period of peace. “The new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God.” (Apocalypse 3:12) They ought to have learned the Christian spirit not the worldly spirit. For the Christian spirit consists in this:

“He who prays is certainly saved. He who prays not is certainly damned. All the blessed (except infants) have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying; if they had prayed, they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in Hell, to think how easily they might have been saved, only by asking God for His grace; but that now it is too late, the time of prayer is over.” 138

But instead of taking the Christian spirit, these Christians adopted the worldly spirit. One of the maxims of the world is “It does not matter what you believe so long as you act well.” That is the spirit of the world, not the Christian spirit! “But his maxim is, in the Church to live as a Christian, outside of the Church to live as the world lives. He dies with the priest on one side, his infidel literature on the other and imagines that his Creator will applaud his breadth of mind.” 139 There are many that state an old phrase: “History is doomed to repeat itself.” Let us consider that secular phrase as rubbish and replace that with what St. Bernadette says, “I am only afraid of bad Catholics.” I will most certainly agree with the Saint on that!

“I am rich, and made wealthy, and have need of nothing: and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”

“Many years ago there was a certain lord who kept a fool in

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his house, as many great men did in those days for their amusement. Now this lord had given the fool a staff, and charged him to keep it till he met with one that was a greater fool than himself, bidding him, if he met with such a one, to deliver the staff to him. Not many years after, the lord fell sick, and, indeed, was sick unto death. His fool came to see him, and the sick lord told him that he must shortly leave him. 'And where art thou going?' said the fool. 'Into another world,' said the lord. 'And when wilt thou return; in a month?' 'No,' said the lord. 'In a year?' 'No.' 'When, then?' 'Never never!' 'And what provision has thou made,' said the fool, 'for thy entertainment in the place where thou art going?' 'Alas! None at all.' 'What!' said the fool, 'none at all? Here take my staff. Art thou going to dwell there forever, and hast made no orders for thy entertainment in a place from which thou wilt never return? Take my staff, for I am not guilty of any such folly as this.'” 140

These negligent Christians, the Church of Laodicea, act as fools! They forget the spiritual and only focus on the materially aspect of this world. The spiritual however is superior to the material. But it does not go to just the Church of Laodicea, it goes throughout Church history, negligent Christians. It was through the very hard tribulations of the Christians in the Church of Philadelphia did the riches of grace and restoration come about. The Christians in the Church of Laodicea are forgetful that these materials and spiritual goods are gifts from God, and can be easily taken away.

“I counsel thee to buy of me gold fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich; and mayest be clothed in white garments, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and do penance.”

“A poor widow one morning said to her little ones: 'My children, I have nothing to give you today for your breakfast; there is no bread, nor flour, nor even an egg in the house. Go and ask God to come to your assistance, for He has promised to help His children in their need.' One of the

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children, aged only ten, went out of the house, and seeing the door of a Church open, entered and fell on his knees before the altar. He looked around him to see if there was anyone near, but he saw no person; the Church seemed to be empty. Thinking himself alone, he spoke out aloud. 'O good Father who art in Heaven, we poor children have nothing to eat today. O my God, give us something to eat, that we may not die of hunger.' When he had said this prayer he rose up, and hungry though he was, went to school for his morning lessons. On his return home, he was surprised to see on the table a great loaf of bread, a dish full of flour, and a basket full of eggs. 'Oh, mamma,' he cried out with great joy, 'God has heard my prayer. Was it an angel who brought in all these nice things by the window?' 'No,' said the mother, 'but God heard your prayer, and has answered it in His own way. When you were keeling at the foot of the altar, and when you thought you were alone, there happened to be a pious lady near you whom you did not see. She heard your payer, and it is she who brought us all these good things. She was the angel God sent to help us. Let us kneel down and thank Him for His goodness to us.”141

And this is how the Church of Laodicea should act, as beggars. For that is all Christians are beggars. We are poor in and of ourselves. It is God who supplies everything except our own free will. There will be few in the Church of Laodicea that will act as a little child in the story above. “Unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 18:3) For this child displays, confidence, perseverance, zeal, patience, and gratitude. The child was confident that God would send food to him and his family. He persevered in prayer until he was finished. He was patient for he bore all his suffering in silence and with submission when learning his school lessons. He was zealous because he obeyed his mother promptly and went to pray to God in the Church. And he was grateful of the food that was given to him, for he thanked God for His goodness. In essence, he was an 'alter Christus'.

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him, and he with me.”

“St. Eulalia was only twelve years old when she was seized as a Christian and condemned to die. It was towards the beginning of the fourth century. Calpurnian, an officer of the emperor, commanded her to be cruelly beaten with rods, but the holy virgin remained firm. When her body was all one wound she turned towards the officer, and with a firmness with which the Holy Ghost inspired the martyrs, she cried out: 'O Calpurnian, open your eyes and look at me. Take care to observe well my countenance, that you may know me again on that terrible day of judgment. You and I shall on that day have to appear before Jesus Christ: I to receive the reward of my sufferings, you to receive the chastisement due for your cruelty.' After these words the martyr was put to death. Her pure soul went to paradise, and her body was laid in the grave to await the day of its glorious resurrection.” 142

The future Christians are going to be gravely tempted against their faith. But as long as they have charity reigning supremely in their hearts let them not fear anything. For with charity reigns all virtues. For charity (divine love) fulfills both of the commandments laid out by God. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40) Our Saviour told us to love Him always so that our candle, a soul in sanctifying grace, may forever burn before the altar of the Lord. “The two candlesticks, that stand before the Lord.” (Apocalypse 11:4) The two candlesticks represent the two commandments that God commanded us to obey. (Matthew 22:37-40) “A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched.” (Ecclesiasticus 23:22) The reason why Adam and Eve fell from the garden of paradise is because they ceased to love God in their hearts. For we know that “charity never falleth away.”(I Corinthians 13:8) Those who are in love are always faithful. We must love Him, if we wish to remain faithful to Him. As we can say charity (divine love) of many shall grow cold because iniquity (sin) hath abounded. (Emphasis: Matthew 24:12)

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SummaryIntroduction:

● We are to understand it is through people's ignorance that they fall into heresy.

● Christians were fighting an enemy within the Church, yet many were not aware of it because of their ignorance.

● This fault could have been willful ignorance which is inexcusable. A Christian who willfully did not want to know what the problem is and correct it is like a penitent seeking the Sacrament of Penance, but not in the least bit determined to give up the sins and the occasions that lead him to sin.

Chapter 1● There were many causes that brought about the Protestant

Revolution against the Church. What I covered was only the tip of the iceberg. With that being said, Martin Luther, was just the fruit, (emphasis: result) from the bad tree.

● The doctrine that Martin Luther produced was the denial of absolute truth, the seed of Liberalism.

● This lead to a social and spiritual revolution against Church & State.

● The fruits of this social revolution caused the death of society. (Emphasis: Separation of Church and State) Affects from the social revolution can still be felt today especially.

● Liberalism we must remember is “whether in the doctrinal or practical order, is a sin. In the doctrinal order, it is heresy, and consequently a mortal sin against faith. In the practical order, it is a sin against the commandments of God and of the Church, for it virtually transgresses all commandments.” Today we have results for there are none that heed the agony of Church.

● The seed of revolt, Liberalism, was targeted mainly against the Papacy. So the flock may be scattered. (Zacharias 13:7)

Chapter 2:● St. Thomas More († 1535): “The Pope is the descendant of St.

Peter, our only link with Christ.”● To be Christian and to save their soul one must submit themselves

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● Pope Boniface VIII († 1303) clearly proclaims in his encyclical Unam Sanctam: “Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”

● Without the Pope there cannot be a valid council of the Church according to Canon Law 222.

● Martin Luther thought the Papacy was intertwined with the devil: “I am not sure whether the Pope is Antichrist himself, or only one of his apostles.” He latter confirms this belief by writing a pamphlet to Pope Paul III († 1549) naming it Against the Papacy Founded by the Devil.

● Martin Luther although contradicts himself, he also states: “I avouch, that under the papacy there is true Christianity, yea, the kernel and marrow of Christianity.”

Chapter 3● Gallicanism made further divisions between the papacy and

society.● The heretical Gallican church pronounced 1) The Pope may not

interfere directly or indirectly with the temporal concerns of princes. 2) In spiritual matters a General Council is superior to the Pope. 3) The rights and customs of the Gallican Church are inviolable. 4) The Pope is not infallible, even in matters of faith, unless his decision is confirmed by the consent of the Church.

● As Cardinal Henry Manning phrases properly in his treatise, The Fourfold Sovereignty of God: “So long as the world is Christian, the world will believe in Jesus Christ and in His Vicar. So long as it believes He has a Vicar upon earth, no king, prince or sovereign whatsoever will venture to claim him as a subject.

● Cardinal Henry Manning also confirms: “The dethronement of the Vicar of Christ is the dethronement of the hierarchy of the universal Church, and the public rejection of the Presence and Reign of Jesus.”

● The French people revolted and confiscated Church property. They even put a girl of ill repute on the consecrated altars of the Notre Dame in Paris and worshiped her as a Goddess.

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Chapter 4● The Church fought back with the grace of God declared and

defined the Pope as being infallible in faith and morals at the only Vatican Council. 143

Chapter 5● The faithful Christians had to strengthen the things that are to

remain and be ready to die. (Apocalypse 3:2)● The things that needed to be strengthen were the interior life of

Christians and the articles in the Christian faith recently pronounced.

● St. Hildegard († 1179): “The time is coming when princes and people will renounce the authority of the Pope. Individual countries will prefer their own church rulers to the pope.”

● “Out of forty seven persons cautiously sounded by our young Hindu, only three or four truly preferred God to things. And it goes without saying that he had only approached good Catholics.”

● We can state that nearly all Christians were in a state of lukewarmness.

● Our Lord does not like lukewarmness “But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, not hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.” (Apocalypse 3:16)

● As St. Alphonsus Ligouri states in his writing The True Spouse of Jesus Christ about the state of lukewarmness on Apocalypse 3:16: “The Redeemer signified that He was ready to abandon the tepid soul; for what is vomited is taken back only with horror.” He asks the rhetorical question on how God begins to vomit a soul out of

143 “Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, for the glory of God our Saviour, the exaltation of the Catholic religion, and the salvation of Christian people, with the approval of the sacred council, We teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when, in discharge of the office of pastor and teacher of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, is, by the divine assistance promised to him in Blessed Peter, possessed of that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be endowed in defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that, therefore, such definitions of the Roman pontiff are of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church, irreformable. But if anyone-which may God avert!- presume to contradict this our definition, let him be anathema.” Dogmatic Canons And Decrees

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His mouth. He answers: “He ceases to give her (emphasis: the soul) the vivid lights of faith, the spiritual consolations, the holy desires, and the loving calls which he was accustomed to bestow upon her. Bereft of these blessings, she begins to neglect her meditations, Communions, and visits to the Blessed Sacrament, or to discharge these duties with repugnance, disgust, and distraction. Thus the miserable soul finding only pain and trouble, and no comfort in any of her exercises of piety, she finally abandons them all, and falls into grievous sins.”

● The consequences of lukewarmness among Catholics both clerics and faithful are the following, according to Cardinal Henry Manning in his book The Fourfold Sovereignty of God:

“There may, indeed, be another alternative; and I acknowledge, looking at the stream of events, the time may come when nations, governments, and legislatures may cease to believe that Jesus Christ has a Church upon earth; and in the day when they cease so to believe (and I am bound to say, their acts led us to think they are not far off from the state of unbelief), then the world will not be Christian, and then I acknowledge that the Vicar of Jesus Christ will have no temporal power over the world that has rejected his Master. Though I am no prophet and no expositor of prophecy and know nothing of what is to come, save only as the Catholic Church and faith guide me, of this I am sure from the lips of Jesus Christ, that in those days which we call the latter times, 'kingdom shall rise against kingdom, and nation against nation, and brother betray brother to death,' and the world shall be in misery it never knew before.”

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● This lukewarmness by Catholics prior to 1950's and up until 1950's was the reason for God sending the Divine Justice punishment of Antichrist. “Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe, and do penance. If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee. But thou hast a few names in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.” (Apocalypse 3:3-4)

● Antichrist is the antagonist to Christ, for Antichrist is a thief, Christ is a shepherd. Thieves are out to steal, shepherds are out to protect. Antichrist stole souls from Heaven (Apocalypse 12:4), Christ brings souls to Heaven. “This day thou shalt be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43)

● Joachim of Fiore († 1202): “Towards the end of the world, Antichrist will overthrow the pope and usurp his See.” 144

● After the death of Pope Pius XII († 1958) the flock was scattered.● Christ states that there are few souls in the Church of Sardis that

are worthy of obtaining Heaven. These few are the scattering band. “And when the scattering of the band of the holy people shall be accomplished, all these things shall be finished.” (Daniel 12:7)

Chapter 6● Nicholas of Fluh († 1487) “The Church will be punished because

the majority of Her members high and low will become so perverted. The Church will sink still deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. After that she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.”145

● “There is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.” (Romans 11:5) This remnant from the Church of Sardis elected a new pope to continue the perpetual successors of St. Peter which was declared a dogma at the Vatican Council (1870). 146

● The new pope, chose the name Michael because ever since he was

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divine right, that the blessed Peter has a perpetual line of successors in the primacy over the universal Church, or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of the blessed Peter in this primacy, let him be anathema.” Dogmatic Canons And Decrees

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a child he had a special devotion to the Archangel. By choosing this name he fulfilled the line from Daniel: “But at that time shall Michael rise up.” (Daniel 12:1) “According to the great St. Alphonsus Liguori, veneration of the holy Angels, and particularly of St. Michael, is an outstanding sign of predestination.” 147

● There will a divine chastisement during the Church of Philadelphia. “Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of the temptation, which shall come upon the whole world to try them that dwell upon the earth.” (Apocalypse 3:10)

● Blessed Maria Taigi († 1837): “There shall come over all the earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Nothing will be visible and the air will be laden with pestilence. During this darkness artificial light will be impossible. He who out of curiously opens his window to look out or leaves his house will fall dead on the spot. On this terrible occasion so many of these wicked men, enemies of His Church, and of their God, shall be killed by this divine scourge, that their corpses round Rome will be as numerous as fish, which a recent inundation of the Tiber had carried into the city. All the enemies of the Church, secret as well as known, will perish over the whole earth during that universal darkness, with the exception of some few, whom God will soon after convert. The air shall be infected by demons, who will appear under all sorts of hideous forms.” 148

● Abbess Maria Steiner († 1862): “The Lord showed me how beautiful the world will be after the awful chastisement. The people will be like the Christians of the primitive Church.”

Chapter 7● St. Louis de Montfort († 1716): “These great Saints will surpass in

holiness the majority of the other Saints like the cedar of Lebanon surpasses the lowly shrub.”

Chapter 8● The Angelic Pastors will convert the world according to the

unanimous infallible opinion of the Fathers of the Church. They will reclaim Church lands.

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● They will bind Satan in Hell by having charity (divine love) inflame the hearts of the faithful.

● A period of peace shall reign on the earth according to the Bible (Apocalypse 20:2) and the words of Our Lady from Fatima: “In the end, My Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world.”

Chapter 9● Christians will fall away from their once great fervor, for charity

will be hardly in their hearts.● They will be incredibly lukewarm as were the Christians prior to

the coming of Antichrist. ● There will be another small remnant of the Church. But much

larger than during the tribulation of Antichrist. “But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?” (Luke 18:8)

“One day Napoleon, from the rock of St. Helena, contemplated the Heavens, the earth, and the sea; he was reviewing in his mind the empires of the world and their institutions, the great men of the past, and their works, and then exclaimed: 'The nations of the earth pass away, and the thrones fall to the ground, the Church alone remains.'” 149

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Appendix: How To Prepare For The End Of The World“If we make a mistake as to the state to which we are called, our

whole life, as St. Gregory says, will be an error.” 150 What do we mean by the end of the world? There are two interpretations to that particular phrase. There is the second coming of Christ, which is the end of the world for everyone. But there also the end of the world for the particular individual. Now death to the individual can happen at any time before the second coming of Christ. It is the end of the world for you. The world does not wait for you to die, the world can continue on without you. For you are but slime of the earth. We creatures, are of no importance, the world does not need us to sustain itself. There can be only two choices in this life. You can choose to live a life of virtue or a life of vice. Virtues are perfections in accordance to the will of God. Now with vice, it is an variance with the will of God.

“Philip II, king of Spain, during the time of the holy Sacrifice, noticed that two of his nobles, forgetting the sanctity of the place, were behaving in a very disrespectful manner in the presence of God. He said nothing to them at the time, but when Mass was over, and they had left the chapel, the king sent for them. When they came into his presence they saw at once by the severity of his countenance that he was very angry. 'I observed today,' said the king, 'the unworthy manner in which you conducted yourselves in the chapel at Mass. For that sin I banish you both from my presence for ever. I cannot allow anyone to live with me who behaves so disrespectfully in the presence of God. Do not dare, as long as you live, to enter my palace again.' These words, pronounced in a tone of severity, made such an impression on the two nobles that one was stuck with apoplexy and died on the spot, and the other soon after lost his reason, and remained insane during the rest of his life. If the words of a king in this world had such an effect on those who had offended, how terrible will be the effects of those words of the Eternal King of Heaven: Depart from me, ye accursed, into everlasting fire.” 151

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And so these two poor souls, one dropped dead the other became insane. What then is more foolish or rather insane, when we do not prepare ourselves for death? We continually offend God by our sins, whether they are mortal or venial. But you may say, “It does not matter what you believe so long as you act well.” That is the spirit of the world, not the Christian spirit! The spirit that you have in your heart is, “in the Church to live as a Christian, outside of the Church to live as the world lives.” Listen then to another story, this one is about St. Bruno.

“An ancient tradition among the Carthusians says, that what led St. Bruno to the monastic life was the following fact which took place in Paris, on the death of a man named Raymund, who had always been considered a good Christian. As the dirge was being sung around bier, at the fourth lesson, beginning with these words 'Responde mihi' Raymund raised his head and said: 'I am accused by the just judgment of God.' The burial was delayed, and the next day at the same place in the office, Raymund spoke again and said: 'I am judged by the just judgment of God.' And on the third day in the presence of great numbers who had heard of the occurrence, he said: 'I am damned by the just judgment of God.' Bruno was present, and with his own ears heard the terrible voice of this hypocrite, accused, judged, and condemned: but his heart was more struck than his ears. He renewed his good resolutions, and nothing could prevent him from putting them into execution.” 152

Look at that Christian who was considered good in the eyes of the world, he was damned! He was not good enough in God's eyes, for he died in the state of mortal sin. Let us listen to St. John Vianney and how he informs us on how we should live.

“Generally speaking, one dies as one has lived. That is one of the great truths which Holy Scripture and the Fathers repeat in many different places. If you live as good Christians, you will be sure to die as good Christians, but if you live badly, you will be sure to die a bad death...It is true, however, that sometimes by a kind of miracle, one may

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begin badly and finish well, but that happens so rarely that, as St. Jerome puts it, death is generally the echo of life. You think that you will return then to God? No, you will perish in sin...”153

“As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.” (Deuteronomy 33:25) What makes you think, that throughout your whole life you have been sinning against God and His Divine Mercy, expect then to get pardoned at the hour of death? Throughout your whole life you have continually proved to God, that you do not sincerely love Him. Let not lukewarmness set in your heart. That is why you must not wait for the last hour of death to convert. Can a student pass an exam if he has no knowledge in that field in which the examination is going to take place? What then makes you expect to pass your eternal examination if you do not prepare for it now? You must convert today, and now, to show Him how much you love Him. You must say with your whole heart, “That from this moment, I shall change and not go back to the way I was.”

“There lived, long ago, in one of the monasteries of the Cistercian Order, two holy monks who had a great affection for one another, and who seemed to lead unblemished lives. One of them died. Soon after his death he appeared to his friend whom he had left behind, while offering up his prayers for the repose of his soul. As soon as he saw him, and perceived that his face bore marks of suffering, he asked him how he came to be in that state. The deceased monk answered, saying three times these words: 'No one can imagine – no one can imagine – no one can imagine.' 'What do you mean,' said the other, 'by these strange words?' The dead religious answered, 'No one can imagine how severe are the judgments of God, and how terrible His punishments.' Saying this, he disappeared, leaving the religious full of fear.” 154

I have proved to you the necessity of preparing oneself for the hour of your death, which will be the end of the world for you. Do not worry so much about what will Christ do at the end of the world, you need to

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prepare yourself for your judgment. Your death could happen as you read this treatise. Now there are two routes you can choose to either do penance and enter into the kingdom of God, or do not do penance and enter Hell. I will tell you how simple it is to do penance.

Our Lord commanded us to do penance for our sins. “But unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:3) Our Lord never said that penance must be hard. He did however say, “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Mark 14:38) There are a few ways to make our payments to God for our debt to sin. The first is actual damnation of our soul. Where for all eternity we have to pay back our debt to Him. The second is an imperfect payment in charity. This “charity covereth a multitude of sins.” (I Peter 4:8) Since it is not a complete payment we would have to descend into purgatory until the rest of the debt is payed off. “Learn hence, my friend, how tormenting is the fire of Purgatory when scarcely an hour seems to be thirty years, and learn, too, to have pity on us.” 155 The last route to pay off the debt of our sins, is to do complete penance for our sins. This is a perfect act of charity which “covereth all sins.” (Proverbs 10:12)

“In Portugal there was a devout client of Mary who during his life practiced the devotion of fasting on bread and water every Saturday and chose Saint Michael and Saint John as his advocates with the Blessed Virgin. At the hour of his death the Queen of Heaven appeared to him accompanied by those two Saints who were praying for him. The Blessed Virgin looked at him with a joyful countenance and thus answered the prayers of the Saints: 'I will not depart hence without taking this soul with me.'” 156

Let me ask you my dear friends, how hard is it to fast once a week on bread and water? Or even just to say one Hail Mary everyday? How grueling can that labor be? Can it even be considered labor?

“In the country of Normandy a certain robber was beheaded, and his head was thrown into a trench; but afterwards it was heard crying: 'Mary, give me confession.' A priest went to him and heard his confession; and questioning

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him as to his practices of devotion, the robber answered that he had no other except that of fasting one day of the week in honor of the holy Virgin, and that for this our Lady had obtained for him the grace to be delivered from Hell by that confession.” 157

Think about this my dear friends, it is through divine love (charity) that we are to remit the temporal punishments for our sins. It is through the Sacrament of Penance that eternal punishment is remitted. However, we still have the debt of temporal punishment we sinners must back pay back to God fully. It is through charity (divine love) that temporal punishment be paid. A perfect act of charity “covereth all sins.” (Proverbs 10:12) A perfect act of charity, when saying, “I love Thee Jesus” or “I love thee Mary,” remits our temporal punishments! The only thing that is necessary to get to a perfect act of contrition is for us to kindle our fervor for the love of God through the practicing of the interior life. There is a difference between the Protestants and the Christians. For Christians believe that you need the Sacrament of Penance for remission of eternal guilt of sin. Protestants do not believe that. They believe today (according to today's standard of Protestantism) that so long as you believe in Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are not only redeemed but also saved. They neglect to pay most importantly the temporal punishments for the sins they have committed. In addition, they confuse the difference between the words 'redemption158 and being 'saved'.159 Being saved means, according to Protestants, that you are going to Heaven no matter what you do. You could commit all the sins you want on Earth, and still be 'saved.' It is similar to Calvin's erroneous theology of predestination. But redemption is the paying through the death of Christ for our sins actually committed by us and being born into original sin. Christ remits the eternal punishment for our sin through the Sacrament of Penance. We however must suffer the guilt of our sin by temporal punishment, for Christ did not commit actual

157 The Glories of Mary158 “Man having been created in a state of original justice by his sin forfeited the

friendship of God and became enslaved to the Devil. Christ by his death on the cross, in which he became a substitutional victim for the human race, paid the price for our redemption (buying back); by His satisfactions He blotted out our sin, and by His merits he won for us the restoration to the grace and friendship of God.” A Catholic Dictionary

159 “The freeing of the soul from the bonds of sin and its consequences and the attainment of the everlasting vision of God in Heaven.” A Catholic Dictionary

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sin, we however did. Therefore according to God's Justice we ought to suffer temporal punishment for committing actual sin. The thief on the cross suffered his temporal punishment willingly. “And we,” says the good thief, “indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds.” (Luke 23:41) The good thief goes on to say, “but this man hath done no evil.” (Luke 23:42) This God-Man has done no wrong, He ought not to suffer any punishment for He is innocent. It is only those who accept their temporal punishments from God will enter into the kingdom of Heaven. “And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43) He did not say that to the other thief who died blaspheming Christ. The blasphemer wanted Christ to let him down from the cross so he could stop suffering the temporal punishment due to the sins he actually committed. “And one of those robbers who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.” (Luke 23:41) The robber denied that Christ was God, if thou be Christ, he states, spare us from these punishments we are receiving. But at last what does God do? All three of them died upon the cross. All three of them suffered the temporal punishments, even the innocent suffered them (emphasis: Christ). 160 If the innocent must suffer unto death with temporal punishments, what makes the guilty exempted from them?

“Let all your things be done in charity.”(1 Corinthians 16:14) The first step to God, must be an act of love, however feeble your love may be for God. A great bonfire is started with but a few sparks and some dry wood. Divine Love in your heart must too start small. “May He open your heart in His law, and in His commandments, and send you peace.” (2 Machabees 1:4) In the beginning, your love for God, is like a candle in the wind. The distractions of this world can easily blow out your sole happiness, peace, and love in this life and for eternity. That is why that we must make continual acts of love. “We ought always to pray, and not to faint.” (Luke 18:1) By continual prayer and meditation we add more fuel to the fire (Divine Love). “My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.” (Psalms 38:4) By constantly praying we are securing and preparing ourselves for our last moment, death and judgment. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment.” (Hebrews 9:27) Our Saviour told us to love Him always so that our candle, a soul in sanctifying grace, may forever burn before the

160 Let us not forget either Mary the Mother of Christ is Immaculate for she is full of grace as the angel proclaims. (Luke 1:28) She died of love according to Venerable Mary of Agreda in the work Mystical City of God.

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altar of the Lord. “The two candlesticks, that stand before the Lord.” (Apocalypse 11:4) The two candlesticks represent the two commandments that God commanded us to obey. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

“A hot soul is a burning fire, it will never be quenched.” (Ecclesiasticus 23:22) The reason why Adam and Eve fell from Heaven is because they ceased to love God in their hearts. For we know that “charity never falleth away.”(I Corinthians 13:8) Those who are in love are always faithful. We must love Him, if we wish to remain faithful to Him.

Divine Love is the source of all virtues: Humility, Liberality, Chastity, Meekness, Temperance, Brotherly Love, Diligence. “For, with the heart, we believe unto justice.” (Romans 10:10) That is with the heart we become holy, let us recall that justice is another word for holiness. Therefore we must at all costs cultivate divine love in our heart for it consists in the satisfaction of our sins (penance) as well as the propagation of virtue. “Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.” (Matthew 5:15)

“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.” (Matthew 5:6) That is to say blessed are those souls that hunger and thirst after the body and blood of Jesus Christ who consists of all holiness. Love is the only true way to God, for first He commanded us to love Him and our neighbor. Love makes a soul irresistible to God, as well as God to the soul. It is a reciprocal action. “Love attracts love.” (The Art of Prayer, Fr. Martial Lekeux O.F.M.) This love when it reaches it's complete climax, the soul espouses God in a spiritual marriage. “Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.” (Canticles 2:10) Let us recap:

1. There are three ways to satisfy the punishments (both eternal and temporal) due to our sins: 1. Damnation (For having failed to do penance.)2. Incomplete (Sent to purgatory to suffer until every last

farthing.)3. Complete (Doing sufficient penance on earth to cover all sins.)

2. Our love for God starts off small, like a spark.3. We must always pray, for prayer is the fuel that makes the fire of

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divine love enormous.4. There are two ways to increase divine love:

1. Meditation/Contemplation2. Remembering the presence of God

5. That souls in sanctifying grace are candles sweetly burning on the altar of the Lord.

6. The two candlesticks that burn before God are two commandments. The first commandment is to love God and second is to love our neighbor.

7. Those that are consumed with the love of God, will obtain eternal happiness, “for they shall have their fill.”

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About The Author

Throughout my life I always had a fascination with history. I have studied many topics in history, from the American Civil War, to World War II, to the Special Forces in Vietnam and to the present condition. During grade school I made a presentation on the Battle of Hastings. I always had a keen desire of learning about the middle ages and the ages of faith. The ages of faith are known more widely in the secular world as, the dark ages. When I entered the Annunciation Seminary in the fall of 2008, I began studying and writing a dissertation on the History of Chivalry and the Church. Henceforth, I chose to get a doctorate in Church History.

My whole life, I have desired to specifically learn more about chivalry and its profound affects it had on society. That is why I began writing this current dissertation, the one you are about to read when I entered the seminary. My main goal is to look at Church History and see where the clerics and the faithful made mistakes. I want to learn from their mistakes and improve the yield in saving souls. “And some fell upon good ground; and brought forth fruit that grew up, and increased and yielded, one thirty, another sixty, and another a hundred.” (Mark 4:8)

The only desire that I have for writing this dissertation on Church History, is that all souls after reading this, have an ardent longing for the kingdom of God. But we know sadly, few want to go to Heaven. “How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!” (Matthew 7:14)

“Everyone that is damned, is damned because he wills his own damnation.” 161

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