Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Spiritual Food 1508


The liturgy is a gift to be received in humility, not something we construct for ourselves, not a fabrication”!


Dear friends,

The last week of last June, I participated in the International Spiritual Exercises, at Collevalenza – Sanctuary of Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June 22-27, 2015. A whopping four meditations were dedicated to the theme of the Eucharist and how Satan, at all costs, wants to take away or destroy the faith, love and humility before the Eucharist. If I find time in the following months, I will publish one or more of these meditations in my Spiritual Food.

In the Spiritual Food 1501, 1502 and 1503 (all together: “The Neocatecumenal Mass”: http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/02/the-neocatecumenal-mass.html), I wrote about my experience of the devastation due to the disobedience by the three founders of the Neocatecumenal Way, to not follow faithfully and exactly the liturgical books of the Catholic Church for the whole Church, as Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI had asked the three founders of the Neocatecumenal Way to do.

So many in the Neocatecumenal Way feel more and more important before people as if they know better how to offer the solutions for the Church and the world than Pope John Paul II or Pope Benedict. The more time passes in celebrating the Mass not in conformity to the liturgical books of the Church the more the Mass becomes something that exists to serve the Community and the people instead of an opportunity, a gift to be able to fulfill our first obligation to our Creator expressed in the First Commandment: “You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve” (Mt 4:10; Deut 6:13; Mk 8:33). The three founders of the Neocatecumenal Way, Kiko Argüello, Carmen Hernandez and Father Mario Pezzi, in their letter to the Pope on January 17, 2006, did not obey the letter (December 1, 2005) in which were articulated the directives of the Pope. In effect, the three founders of the Neocatecumenal Way expressed that they know better than the Vicar of Christ on earth what is best for souls and for the Church!

The manipulative maneuvers within the Vatican, just before Pope Benedict was to meet with the neocatecumenals on January 20, 2012, shows just how much power the Neocatecumenal Way has and how obstinate they are in not trusting in God through His first representative, the Pope, but trusting in themselves! God works through the humble not the proud! New members of the Neocatecumenale Way are not guilty of this great lack of trust in God, but without knowing it, they slowly slide toward the cult of man instead of going toward the cult of God since the leaders of the Neocatecumenale Way refused the guidance of God by way of the guidance of Holy Mother Church! Thus, as the years pass in this type of formation, especially regarding the way the Holy Mass if celebrated, these members become more and more imbued with this same spirit of which Jesus referred to in His prayer to the Father: “I thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes” (Mt 11:25; Lk 10:21).

Pope Benedict XVI, in the General Audience in Saint Peter's Square, Wednesday, 3 October 2012, told us:
“Dear friends, the Church becomes visible in many ways: in charitable action, in mission projects, in the personal apostolate that every Christian must carry out in his own walk of life. However the place in which she is fully experienced as Church is in the liturgy; it is the act in which we believe that God enters our reality and we can encounter him, we can touch him. It is the act in which we come into contact with God: he comes to us and we are illuminated by him. For this reason, when in reflections on the liturgy we focus our attention exclusively on how to make it attractive, interesting and beautiful, we risk forgetting the essential: the liturgy is celebrated for God and not for ourselves; it is his work; he is the subject; and we must open ourselves to him and let ourselves be guided by him and by his Body which is the Church” (http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20121003.html).

The following was the keynote address at “TIME DRAWN INTO ETERNITY: Sacred Time and the Liturgical Calendar”, a conference held by the “Te Deum Institute of Sacred Liturgy”, Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Titular Bishop of Manaccenser and Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Most Rev. Peter J. Elliott, MA Oxon, MA Melb, STD, tells us:
“Our Pope (Benedict) invites us to see the glory of Christ Priest and Victim in the liturgy. He leads us into this glory, above all by his own example of a priest humbly entering the divine mysteries of the altar. By word and demeanor he reminds us that liturgy is a gift to be received in humility, not something we construct for ourselves, not a fabrication. Here he strongly rejects a decadent style of liturgy that set in soon after Vatican II. That style was contrived to be a deliberate break with the past.”
“Time opens a door into the cosmic dimension of liturgy. The Pope, as Cardinal Ratzinger, expounded a cosmological vision of worship. He insisted that the liturgy of the Church is not just the product of human cultures. Rather, liturgy intersects time and space, history and the cosmos, because creation is healed through the redeeming love of Christ. The Paschal Mystery of our Lord and Savior can never be separated from his Body, worshipping in this material universe through the liturgy yet worshipping in the glory of eternity, magnificently expressed at the Second Vatican Council in Sacrosanctum Concilium 8: “In the earthly liturgy we take part in a foretaste of the heavenly liturgy….”.”
In Milestones, Memoirs 1927-1977, the short autobiography that covers the first fifty years of his life, our Holy Father Pope Benedict explains how his love of the liturgy began when he was a boy. “Naturally the child I then was did not grasp every aspect of this, but I started down the road of the liturgy, and this became a continuous process of growth into a grand reality transcending all particular individuals and generations, a reality that became an occasion for me of ever-new amazement and discovery. The incredible reality of the Catholic liturgy has accompanied me through all phases of life, and so I shall have to speak of it time and again.”
“Cardinal Ratzinger’s critique of liturgical discontinuity rested on the conviction that authentic liturgical development is always organic. This understanding was favored by the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council in Sacrosanctum Concilium. But changes that followed the Council were not always organic. As he bluntly put it, organic growth was replaced, “…as in a manufacturing process, with a fabrication, an on the spot banal product.”
“Change in liturgy should not be concocted by committees or individuals or produced by experiments. That undermines the foundation of liturgical continuity - that liturgy is a gift, from God, through the Church. Yet he is frank about past problems, comparing the liturgy to an endangered fresco preserved by whitewash, which was stripped away, only to be “endangered by climatic conditions as well as by various restorations and reconstructions”.”

Benedict XVI and liturgical reform; Dom Alcuin Reid, OSB:
“As he (Pope Benedict) so eloquently explained as Cardinal: "If the Liturgy appears first of all as the workshop for our activity, then what is essential is being forgotten: God. For the Liturgy is not about us, but about God. Forgetting about God is the most imminent danger of our age. As against this, the Liturgy should be setting up a sign of God's presence.”
"Yet what is happening, if the habit of forgetting about God makes itself at home in the Liturgy itself, and if in the Liturgy we are only thinking of ourselves? In any and every liturgical reform, and every liturgical celebration, the primacy of God should be kept in view first and foremost."
Commentators have remarked on Benedict XVI's courtesy and humility. These, and his profound love of the Church, mean that he will take seriously the words he wrote not twelve months ago: "The Pope is not an absolute monarch whose will is law, but is the guardian of the authentic Tradition, and thereby the premier guarantor of obedience. He cannot do as he likes, and is thereby able to oppose those people who for their part want to do what has come into their head. His rule is not that of arbitrary power, but that of obedience in faith."
“Pope Benedict XVI will not act beyond his competence in respect of the Sacred Liturgy, but he will act, for he is convinced that, as he wrote in 1997, "the true celebration of the Sacred Liturgy is the centre of any renewal of the Church whatever."

One finds in “Spiritual Food 1507” the words of Our Blessed Mother revealed to Don Stefano Gobbi:
"It is lack of discipline to disregard with ease the norms which the Church has laid down for the regulation of liturgical and ecclesiasticl life. Today each one tends to direct himself according to his own tastes or free choice, and with what scandalous facility are violated the norms of the Church…” (February 2, 1979)

In the meditation below one finds these words:
In the face of this reality, the denouncement by Fr. Gobbi regarding error that is taught as truth on the great silence and omission on the part of some Ecclesiastical authorities in the face of liturgical and doctrinal abuses, seems to be timely and reflect a weak side and debility of some members of' the Hierarchy who lack a spirit of true communion with the Holy Father, and with the teaching of the authentic Magisterium of the Church, and apostolic zeal for the defense of the faith.
There are messages that affirm the influx of Freemasonry among the members of the Hierarchy. From this group will emerge an element that will through corruption take over power of the Church and abolish the sacrificial character of the Holy Mass. This man will act as an antichrist who will draw Protestant teaching into the heart of the Catholic Church. Protestantism denies the sacrificial value of the Eucharistic Celebration and recognizes only the convivial aspect of the Last Supper.
If on the one hand this assertion may seem strong or exaggerated, on the other hand, it seems to be evident that the actual fact referred to by a Salesian priest, a missionary in the State of Amazonas in Brazil, regarding the archbishop of the capital of that state, which decreed the prohibition of the Holy Mass in the parishes on the outskirts of the city on the second Sundays of each month, in order to encourage the celebration of the Word presided over by religious and lay faithful. Would this not be a subtle way to create doubt among believers between the most important value of the Holy Mass and the celebration of the Word, and would this not be a form of protestantization of the Church's teaching on the Eucharist?


At the International Spiritual Exercises of the Marian Movement of Priests, at Collevalenza – Sanctuary of Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June 23-29, 2013, one of the meditations offered to over 200 priests and to over 10 bishops of the movement was the following with the title, Conclusion.


CONCLUSION

After the study carried out on the person and the role of the Virgin Mary in the book ASFPM (Ai Sacerdoti figli prediletti della Madonna), we reached the following conclusions:

1) FR. STEFANO GOBBI
The interviews that he granted and the conferences carried out by him in the cenacles of the MMP (Marian Movement of Priests) reveal his deep spiritual sensitivity and apostolic zeal. He does not fear judgments, criticism or endorsements regarding his person. His only goal is to lead with fidelity the fulfillment of the mission which the Lord entrusted to him by means of Mary, Mother of God and Mother of the Church.
Fr. Gobbi felt inwardly inspired to carry out the work of the MMP during a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady in Fatima. As he has said numerous times, the Message of the Movement is the continuation and the updating/carrying out of the message of Fatima. He supports the view that the message about die third secret has not been fully revealed. He believes that there is something that refers to the Church and that for diplomatic reasons has been kept hidden (1). With this conviction, he keeps promoting the MMP in his trips around the world in order to lead priests and the faithful to the message that on May 8 1972, it was entrusted to him while he was at prayer before the image of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, i.e., to lead all to consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to the spirit of interior and exterior communion with the Pope and the Magisterium of the Church.
Regardless of the mystical and supernatural factor of interior locution with which the author claims to have written the book, one cannot deny his theological preparation coated with a strong Marian spirituality. Since Fr. Gobbi's health has been threatened by serious cardiac problems, one can observe God's providential assistance and the maternal protection of Our Lady that allow him to continue to travel around the world spreading the MMP through the messages of the book ASFPM.

2) The MMP
It is the fruit of a Post-Conciliar reality, in which the Church has experienced a period whose results were contrary to its expectations, as has been stated by Cardinal Ratzinger in an interview with journalist Vittorio Missori in 1984. Pope Paul VI spoke out several tines about the situation of confusion within the Church. Cardinal Ratzinger noted the mistaken interpretations that were made in relation to the Conciliar documents, the spirit of disobedience and the fashion of wanting to renew all things thereby putting at risk the good that already existed. He referred to contemporary times as being difficult and of great tribulation, stating that the smoke of Satan had been introduced into the inner sanctum of the Church leading those who should be a sign of communion and unity to become a cause for scandal, disunity, criticism and questioning. The MMP then emerges, as a presence of prayer, love, and fidelity to confront the spirit of disobedience and neglect, in reparation for the lack of humility and zeal.
Through the witness of priests and religious that was presented in the first editions of the book, even in the form of a brochure, one can reap the positive aspect of MMP. Just like a tree is known by its fruit, so to the MMP brought life, and spiritual renewal, it rekindled the spirit of obedience and love for the Church in the heart and life of a large number of priests mud religious that had entered in a state of vocational crisis during the Post-Conciliar period.
In the face of the many movements that are legally recognized by the Church, the MMP appears as a form of spirituality. Fr. Gobbi insistently claims to be only the promoter of the global movement instead of its founder. The only' founder of the MMP in his words is Our Lady (2). To belong or not to the Movement, to find oneself in an advanced or less advanced state, depends only on how each member lives the three points that characterize the identity of MMP, that is, the entrustment of self to Mary through the consecration to her Immaculate Heart, the spirit of unity, love, and fidelity to the Pope and the Magisterium, and the observation of the commitments of one's own state of life. This way of describing participation in the MMP by means of measuring how one lives its content, has demonstrated to be quite positive compared to the existence of numerous ecclesial movements, which, although they have solid and well-structured statutes, are not observed with integrity by some of its officially enrolled members.

3) The CHURCH
After fifty years of the conclusion of Vatican 11 and the great wave of relativism that has spread everywhere, one can question whether in the Church today there exists internal unity, an authentic sign of Ecclesial communion. The presence of religious leaders and heads of State at the funeral of the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, showed the world that today it is possible to have more dialogue and respect before the diversity of cultures and religious professions. With the quick election of his successor to the Papal See, one can see the sign of Church unity, but at the same time, it can be questioned how it is that in the face of certain episodes there is so much silence on the part of Ecclesiastical authorities.
As an example, we can mention the condemnation of books with doctrinal errors whose writers continue to use catholic publishers for their publications (3) or still, the approval of some dioceses which encourage the faithful to attend certain films of a religious character, which contain scenes that are contrary to the fundamental truths of the Catholic faith, generating in this way, confusion and disorientation among the faithful (4).
In the face of this reality, the denouncement by Fr. Gobbi regarding error that is taught as truth on the great silence and omission on the part of some Ecclesiastical authorities in the face of liturgical and doctrinal abuses, seems to be timely and reflect a weak side and debility of some members of' the Hierarchy who lack a spirit of true communion with the Holy Father, and with the teaching of the authentic Magisterium of the Church, and apostolic zeal for the defense of the faith.
As can be seen in this study, the work of Freemasonry - especially in Europe of Latin origin and mainly in South America, such as Uruguay and Brazil - was openly in opposition and persecution of the Church. Its philosophy promotes a way of life with a type of relative religiosity. Cardinal Ratzinger, commenting on the current historical period and on modern thought, described in the last homily of the conclave, before his Papal appointment, the existence of a form of ideological dictatorship in which everything that is relative is admissible, and where the freedom to profess the assertion of absolute or religious values is considered a fundamentalist vision (5).
To some priests, especially members of the MMP, these words of the Holy Father spoken on the eve of his election are the confirmation that there is a mysterious power of evil that is globally promoting religious relativism in order to destroy the truths taught by the Catholic Church. This mysterious power for some consists in the unthinkable action of Freemasonry that continues to act in the same way as in previous centuries.
There are messages that affirm the influx of Freemasonry among the members of the Hierarchy. From this group will emerge an element that will through corruption take over power of the Church and abolish the sacrificial character of the Holy Mass. This man will act as an antichrist who will draw Protestant teaching into the heart of the Catholic Church. Protestantism denies the sacrificial value of the Eucharistic Celebration and recognizes only the convivial aspect of the Last Supper.
If on the one hand this assertion may seem strong or exaggerated, on the other hand, it seems to be evident that the actual fact referred to by a Salesian priest, a missionary in the State of Amazonas in Brazil, regarding the archbishop of the capital of that state, which decreed the prohibition of the Holy Mass in the parishes on the outskirts of the city on the second Sundays of each month, in order to encourage the celebration of the Word presided over by religious and lay faithful. Would this not be a subtle way to create doubt among believers between the most important value of the Holy Mass and the celebration of the Word, and would this not be a form of protestantization of the Church's teaching on the Eucharist?

4) The Book ASFPM
With reference to the type of spirituality of ASFPM book, it could be observed through the second part of this study, that in it is found the description of the message of Fatima, the spiritual simplicity of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, and of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary as taught by St. Louis Grignon de Montfort. This statement made by an Irish priest which is found in the introduction of the book, can be verified as authentic and true (6).
Before the comments front those who wish to reduce the book to a handbook of sentimental reflections by denying its substantial content, one can truly find the existence of a soft language with maternal expressions clothed with compassion and tenderness, but which on the other hand, lead the reader to reflect seriously on the theological truths and about the behavior of life to be lived out according to the teachings of the Gospel. One cannot deny that the book is a radical call to conversion.
As for the doctrine of the book, as one Bishop, who participated during the spiritual exercises in San Marino, stated, and which is also found in the introduction of the book in the translation into English, there is nothing that is contrary to doctrinal and moral teachings of the authentic Magisterium of the Church (7).
One can say also that the reader finds in the book ASFPM a presentation of a type of spiritual and doctrinal Mariology with a parlance used by great theologians and writers of spirituality that preceded the Conciliar period such as Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange of international renown, and Frs. Emil Neubert and William Most. In addition to the four dogmas that refer to the Virgin Mary, these authors, in harmony with the statements of' many saints and Popes, considered the role of Mary with the use of the terms Mediatrix of all graces and Co-Redemptrix. Such terms are mentioned in some of the messages of the book ASFPM, above all, the second; as far as the first, it is used less frequently (8). Although concepts applied to the Virgin Mary that have been used by theologians of the post-Conciliar period are not Bound in any message (9) one can see that in the book there is no statement which is contrary to the moral teachings and doctrine of the Church.
The main aspect of ASFPM book is the presentation of a May's maternal love which is expressed through the image of her Immaculate Heart. The description of the spiritual motherhood of the Virgin Mary predominates with a rich symbolism that reveals her motherly love for all men, especially priests.
The prophetic-apocalyptic style of the messages of the book ASFPM is very strong. Starting in a subtle way, it gradually becomes predominant, especially beginning with the messages of 1989. There are statements that describe the theoretical and practical Marxism as the red dragon of the Book of Revelation. Although this description might seem too excessive in the beginning of the composition of the book, there was a rethinking of this by those who criticized this aspect, especially with the episode that occurred soon after the Marian year of 1988, that is, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that at a pastoral level the book ASFPM is an excellent manual for spiritual reflection with solid doctrinal assertions: its contents express the true objective of Mariology, i.e., it leads the reader to the acquisition of a solid Marian spirituality, in which we contemplate Mary in the mystery of Christ and the Church and as a Mother and Teacher of the spiritual life.
For all that refers to the prophetic-apocalyptic messages, Fr. Gobbi's advice is valued, in which he invites the reader to assume an attitude of respect toward the message and at the same time to keep an interior detachment to the apocalyptic genre. The messages of the ASFPM book were drafted in order to express the urgency, the importance, and the necessity of prayer before a particular historical moment, depending on God's merciful action and Mary's maternal intervention for its implementation, modification, or cancellation (10)


(1) In the message of March 11, 1985 it was clearly stated that the third secret refers to the Church and the world.
(2) Sec also: Clergy Retreat Cenacle: Witness of Holiness, Witness of Love, Effingham, USA, by the Marian Movement of Priests, St. Francis, ME., 1994.
(3) This is the case of sums books of ex-Friar Leonardo Boff that despite the clear statement of the Holy See, on the doctrinal errors contained in his works, continues to publish their books by Catholic publishers, generating confusion among the people that lacks knowledge about the Christian faith.
(4) This is the case with the movie “The Nativity Story”, written by protestant Mike Rich that shows the loss of virginity of Mary in delivery, and that has been praised by Catholic newspapers in some North American dioceses. This film was challenged by the Religious Order of Franciscans of the Immaculate. See also: http://www.marymediatrix.com
(5) Cf. Last homily during the Conclave on April 18, 2005 in L'Osservatore Romano, April, 19, 2005, pp. 2-4. This passage was quoted by Fr. Gobbi during the week of International Retreat in Collevalenza in June of 2008. See also: Audio CD: Escrcizi Spirituali del Movemento Sacerdotale Mariano, Collevalenza, Italy, 2003.
(6) Cf. ASFPM, p. 45.
(7) Cf. Conference of Bishop Ruben Di Monte during the international meeting of MMP in San Marino in 1994. See also English edition: Our Lady Speaks to Her Beloved Priests, 4th edition, by Bishop Edward C. O'Leary from Portland; 6th edition by Bishop James J. Byrne from Dubuque, Iowa.
(8) The ASFPM took presents with more frequency Mary as Co-redemptrix which refers to her maternal mediation. The messages most often use the term Mediatrix of graces. omitting the word "all".
(9) This is the case with the concept of prototype which was much used by modern theologians to describe Mary as time image of the Church. This term was used in many pronouncements of Pope John Paul II. See also L'Osservatore Romano, Jan. 9th 1984, p. 1.
(10) Cf. Audio cassette: Esercizi Spirituali del Movimento Sacerdotale Mariano, Collevalenza, Italy, 2006. Fr. Gobbi insists on the importance of not following false teachings and false private messages.


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An Experience of Life:

I was returning home after a pizza with Pino, a of mine friend. In front of our car, another car was driving in a zigzag pattern. It did not help to flash my lights, or honk the horn. Only by driving alone side could we put an end to this dangerous driving. For us, the two boys in the other car, in the grip of drugs or alcohol, cannot be strangers: they are neighbors to be loved.

They headed toward a nearby neighborhood, but irritated by our concern, they refuse to be accompanied and they drove away. Yet we could not leave them like that. We followed them into the village, where they hit against a bench. We tried a different approach: we pretended to be old acquaintances. A little reassured, they asked us for help to find even more of the "stuff", also indicating who could provide it. With difficulty we succeeded in deterring them and we busied ourselves in helping them wash themselves at a fountain: they were in fact stained with blood. In a lucid moment one of them said: "It’s not true that you know me! Who are you to treat me like this? It’s the first time that someone has been interested in me when I was in this condition."

Salvo C. - Catania



Father Joseph Dwight

P.s.

At the International Spiritual Exercises of the Marian Movement of Priests, at Collevalenza – Sanctuary of Merciful Love (Madre Speranza), June 23-29, 2013, one of the meditations offered by Father Ivan Pojavnik, to over 200 priests and to over 10 bishops of the movement, was “The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, part2”. I would like to offer a few paragraphs of this meditation which can help us to understand and to distinguish between true love and false love which greatly harms us. A great number of Christians do not realize the difference and thus not even the great danger of the very destructive poison of false love.
I added these paragraphs to the end of my article:
The Hidden Broad Road to Perdition

“My motherly plan is to give comfort to you in your sorrow, to pour balm on each of your wounds, and to give confidence and great hope to you in your discouragement. How difficult are the days in which you are living! This is the conclusive period of the purification and the great tribulation. In fact, all humanity is possessed by the spirits of evil, and my Church is shaken by the impetuous wind of errors, of divisions, of unbelief and of apostasy … The time is close when justice will espouse itself to divine mercy, for the purification of the earth. Prepare yourselves, all of you, to bear the pain of the great purifying trial (Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi – June 27, 1996).”

“Neglecting the prayer of the Rosary, after the Council a theological current formed a new god-man, whose cult has become very wide spread in the last decades. Accentuating in a unilateral way the Love of God, this current has practically obscured the Justice of God. They say: “God is Love and does not send anyone to hell and thus it is empty”. It is true that God does not send anyone to hell, but it is the definitive love of self to the point of despising God that drives the souls to the infernal abyss.”

“Each day many souls are being eternally lost! How many souls are going to hell because people no longer pray, because sin increase and reparation for it is no longer made, because error is followed with such ease!” (Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi – November 25, 1978).”

“It is a revealed truth: heaven and hell do have their inhabitants and will never end (cf. Mt 25,31-46).”

“God is Truth and Love. Without the truth there is no true love, but false love, that is love turned upside down: egoism. The cult of God revealed in Christ, Who is Love, without the Truth and Justice (cf. Sir 5:1-7), introduces adoration of a god-man who resembles a Santa Clause. This type of god-man has tolerated the diffusion of heresies in the Church, indiscipline at all levels, the pedophilia of a certain number of priests and religious, the violations of the vow of celibacy, has watered down penance and the announcement of the “Four Last Things”… The cult of god-man has lead to the gradual disappearance of sacramental confession and innumerable sacrilegious communions which have wounded the heart of the Church, so that She is in agony in every part of the world; and will lead to the horror of the desolation (cf. Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi – December 31, 1992). From this one can see that this god-man, behind the façade of love, hide an immense wickedness with which he attempts to destroy the Church and to seduce a great number of souls to eternal damnation.”

“In these last times, the struggle between good and evil, between grace and sin, between God and Satan, is reaching the summit of its power. It seems that, in your days, Satan has attained his victory, as during the Sabbath when Jesus lay lifeless in the sepulcher.” (Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi – April 16, 1995).”

“Spreading the modern forms of the cult of the god-man, Satan has seduced almost all of humanity, which by now lies interiorly in the sepulcher, that is in the underground hemisphere of the globe. Succumbing to the most subtle forms of such a cult, there has been spread among the Christians the great apostasy of faith in the God-Man. During Holy Saturday Our Lady was the only one who remained steadfast in faith, hope and charity. In this new Holy Saturday the lived consecration to her Immaculate Heart is a medicine which preserves us from the epidemic of atheism (cf. Our Lady to Don Stefano Gobbi – May 13, 1976).”


P.s.
Like many of you, I try to save as much as possible to be able to give financial assistance to those who are much worse off than we are. For many years I support two adoptions at a distance, in other countries, and when I have some left over, I also have offered financial assistance to the poor by way of Aid to the Church in Need.

If you read my “Spiritual Food 1506” of June (http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2014/12/letter-to-fellow-priests.html), I am more and more convinced about what I wrote:
IF IT WILL BE APPROVED OFFICIALLY, that is by the pope, in October of this year at the Synod on the Family, what Cardinal Kasper promotes, that is, to be able to have sex outside of marriage without any obligation to do or live what we as Catholics say in the “Act of Contrition”: “I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more, and to avoid the near occasion of sin” (sin according to God explained by His Church, the Magisterium of the Church, not according to the relativism of each person or of the world!), THEN WE HAVE ARRIVED TO THE GREAT PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE AS WELL AS THE PROPHECIES OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, SAINT HILDEGARD (DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH) AND MANY OTHERS! After Satan deals a mighty blow to the soul of the world, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church, the world will deteriorate more quickly and go rapidly toward the infernal abyss.

If we have arrived to the prophecies of the false pope, then the Vatican is totally in the hands of the Freemasons. I receive frequently requests for money from Aid to the Church in Need, as well as confirmations of my donations. I already had my suspicions about the possibility that in a very covert way, Aid to the Church in Need would be taken over by the Freemasons in the Vatican. Less than a week ago, for the first time, the letter that arrives to where I live changed the letter head, the return address of Aid to the Church in Need. Before there was always printed on the return address part of the envelope:
L’Ecco dell’Amore
Aiuto alla Chiesa che Soffre
Fondazione di diritto Pontificio
Piazza San Calisto, 16 – 00153 Roma
(Behold Love)
(Aid to the Church in Need)
(Foundation with Pontifical Rights)

Now it reads for the first time:
Aiuto alla Chiesa che Soffre – Onlus
Con i Cristiani perseguitati
Fondazione di diritto Pontificio
(Aid to the Church in Need - Onlus)
(With the persecuted Christian)
(Foundation with Pontifical Rights)

I already had an idea that Onlus was together with the Freemasons. So I Googled: Onlus Masonry (Onlus Massoneria), and quickly found many connections between Onlus and Masonry. Then I Googled: Onlus birth control (Onlus anticoncezione), and I quickly found that Onlus spends a great amount of the money donated to Onlus to promote abortion, artificial birth control, etc.

I am sad about this even though I suspected this, but at least I know now that any money I give to a once very good and reputable organization approved by the Vatican, has now been totally taken over by those who promote the culture of death! People think they are giving their hard earned money to help the poorest of the poor but now their money will go to building abortion clinics around the world and to provide artificial birth control.