Christ, the Church’s one
foundation (cf 1 Cor 3:11).
Jesus is the
fulfillment of the expectations and hopes of Israel. The Spirit
descends upon Him in baptism in the Jordan and consecrates Him
to bring the salvation of God. This salvation becomes good news to
the poor, freedom preached to the captives, sight offered to the
blind, dignity for the oppressed and the year of grace as God's gift.
This salvation is no
longer offered in an undetermined time, but it
happens "today", in the "today" of the finally
accomplished time by the Son of God made man. It is in this time of
grace that the Lord comes to the streets of His creatures and
proposes Himself as Savior.
The today
of Jesus becomes the today for us, called to respond to the
invitation of the Lord, to react in a positive and decisive way to
His proposals of salvation. Jesus fulfills the Word of God, and
indeed He is the Word Himself of God, Who fills my life not with
things but with people to love. And He can reassemble into unity the
fragments of this world, with a love that becomes sharing, attention,
sense, sight, freedom, common road.
But we must always
remember that “the truth shall set you free” (Jn 8:32)! If
we invent the truth (small “t”) according to our own heads, as do
so many people today, tomorrow there will be slavery. Instead if we
seek the Truth (big “T”) from Jesus explained by His Church (the
Catechism of the Catholic Church; www.vatican.va/archive/ccc/),
and we put into practice the Truth with the help of Jesus, with much
prayer and the Sacraments, tomorrow there will be true freedom and
true joy!
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An Experience of Life:
About a year ago, at
the end of the celebration of the Holy Mass, a
boy of my age presented himself to the Community to which now I
belong for nearly six years, speaking to us about his encounter with
Jesus. I remember vividly a particular sentence: "Jesus loves
you just as you are." JESUS LOVES YOU. With these words, he
invited us to the catechetical meetings.
I think it is
difficult for everyone to accept these words; the first thing that
can come to mind is to ask Jesus, Who loves us so much, why does He
allow all the pain and evil that we encounter in our lives.
I also asked myself
these things, I also asked myself why did it
happen precisely to me that my life is upset and the lives of my
loved ones for a fact that I never wanted and desired. Why does Jesus
allow that my father is in a precarious physical condition, why did
He allow my wife to take refuge in silence rather than allowing
dialogue and discussion, why did He permit me to be allowed to see my
beloved children only three times a year for a few hours at the most?
I wanted to discover
the meaning of that phrase, and I wanted to see with my own eyes and
hear with my own ears if this was true or if they were words of some
religious fanatic. Here we are not dealing
with knowing Jesus, His history, but we are dealing with discovering
Jesus Who lives in us. The catechetical meetings did not make me feel
good, in fact, I suffered even more than before, but my pain was
caused, and still is, by the Word of the Lord which comes like a
sharpened tip in my heart to bring the light I had lost, to make me
discover the true meaning of LOVE.
I forgot:
my name is Lucio, I am a convict in the home district of Montorio
Veronese (Italy), sentenced to thirty years in prison. If it is
permitted to me to rejoice, and I am the most insignificant, why do
you not seek love and happiness also? We are brothers in the Lord and
as brothers I desire the best for all of you.
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Father Joseph Dwight
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P.s.
I invite you to
visit periodically my principle web site:
http://josephdwight.blogspot.com.
At this web site I put the references of the more important articles
and the new updates as well.
Recently I published the following
articles that perhaps you will find interesting and perhaps helpful
and enlightening:
The Masonic Plan For
The Destruction Of The Catholic Church
It is most interesting how often we
find this FALSE “LOVE” USED AS A POWERFUL STRATEGY in the 33
directives of the Grand Master of the Masons to the Catholic Bishops
to destroy the Catholic Church! The word “love” APPEARS A
WHOPPING 11 TIMES in these 33 directives! “Satan disguises himself
as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14)!
Directive 26.
“Use committees of lay people and priests weak in faith who might
CONDEMN AND REPREHEND WITHOUT DIFFICULTY EVERY APPARITION OF MARY and
apparent miracle … Indicate the Seers as disobedient against
Ecclesiastical Authority. Bring down their good name in the mud, so
that no one will hold in consideration their Message.”
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The “Prophecy” of
Saint Francis (Assisi)
“At the decisive
moment of this crisis, a personage
not canonically elected, raised to the Pontificate,
will endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the mortal poison of his
error.”
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Prophecies of Blessed
Anne-Catherine Emmerick
May 13, 1820: “I
SAW ALSO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO POPES. . . I SAW HOW
BALEFUL WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS FALSE CHURCH.”
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A DAMNED PRIEST WARNS
ABOUT HELL
The following is the
documentation of the confessions of a human demon, a dammed priest,
by way of an EXORCISM (April 5, 1978) on a Swiss woman.
THE ABBOT VERDI-GARANDIEU,
A HUMAN DEMON, priest of the diocese of Tarbes, France in the
seventeenth century, addresses this pathetic message, THROUGH A
POSSESSED WOMAN, to his brothers in the Priesthood, to beseech them -
by order of the Most Holy Trinity and the Virgin Mary - to go back
onto the narrow road of the Gospel, and so prevent themselves in
their turn, from suffering in eternal Hell the horrible fate which
befell him because of his infidelities to grace.
During an exorcism
the demons are forces to reveal what is commanded of them in the name
of God or the Blessed Virgin Mary etc. These confessions OFTEN REVEAL
SATAN’S MOST POWERFUL BUT SUBTLE AND HIDDEN TRAPS which lead
countless numbers of souls toward and into hell. I believe the
following document will help many people of good will to take the
precious gift of life, as well as eternity, much more seriously in a
world in which Satan has done all he can to put us to sleep
spiritually and to convince us that hell does not exist.
You can DOWNLOAD THIS
DOCUMENT, which can be printed, at:
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“THE DREAM OF
ST. JOHN BOSCO” of the two pillars
indicates to us the great importance of staying very close to Jesus
in the Eucharist (while it is still possible) with our Rosary in
hand.
SAINT PADRE PIO said: "It
would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do
so without the Holy Mass." This saint also said: “The Rosary
is the weapon for these times”!
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Just as Mary had a fundamental role in
the first coming of Jesus Christ, so too it will be for the second
coming of Christ!
A prophetic book precisely for our
times is “TRUE DEVOTION TO MARY”, by Saint Louis De Montfort.
This treasure was found 130 after the death of the saint; very
quickly it was translated into many languages.
To read some excerpts of what Father
Stafano Gobbi, the founder of the Marian Movement for Priests,
wrote about Montfort’s book, visit: “Funeral
Stefano Gobbi”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.com/2011/07/funeral-stefano-gobbi.html).
Blessed Pope John
Paul II wrote about this book:
“The reading of this
book was a decisive turning-point in my life. I say ‘turning-point’,
but in fact it was a long inner journey… This ‘perfect devotion’
is indispensable to anyone who means to give himself without reserve
to Christ and to the work of redemption.” “It is from Montfort
that I have taken my motto: ‘Totus tuus’ (‘I am all thine’).
Someday I’ll have to tell you Montfortians how I discovered De
Montfort’s Treatis on True Devotion to Mary, and how often I had to
reread it to understand it”.
To see or DOWNLOAD THE
WHOLE BOOK, “True Devotion To Mary”, visit one of the following
websites:
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