Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Matthew 5:8

"Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." (Mt 5:8)

It is impossible to arrive to purity of heart and maintain purity of heart without suffering with Jesus. If someone says that you can arrive to any virtue without suffering with Jesus, it is a lie. A great number of people today prefer the easy lies, without sacrifice.

Saint Fautina wrote in her diary:
Then I saw the Lord Jesus nailed to the cross. When He had hung on it for a while, I saw a multitude of souls crucified like Him. Then I saw a second multitude of souls, and a third. The second multitude were not nailed to [their] crosses, but were holding them firmly in their hands. The third were neither nailed to [their] crosses nor holding them firmly in their hands, but were dragging [their] crosses behind them and were discontent” (Diary, 446).

We can ask ourselves, in which multitude do we find ourselves in at this moment in our lives, in our spiritual walk with Jesus?

Jesus then said to me, Do you see these souls? Those who are like Me in the pain and contempt they suffer will be like Me also in glory. And those who resemble Me less in pain and contempt will also bear less resemblance to Me in glory” (Diary, 446).

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An Experience of Life:

I am a hairdresser and I offer my services at the homes of my clients.

One day I was called by a lady. She was married a year ago, and was expecting a baby, but she wanted a divorce because life with the mother-in-law was impossible. I listened to her, then I advised her to wait.

A few days later the mother-in-law called me, she too wanted to get her hair done. She immediately spoke ill of the daughter-in-law. "That's funny - I said - just two days ago I was at her house and she said good things about you ...". When I met again the daughter-in-law I said to her, "Your mother-in-law spoke to me about you, it seems to me that she truly wants well for you…"

A few days later, the family gathered together for a party. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law saw each other for the first time in many months. They let me know that it was a beautiful moment and they thanked me and asked me: "Who taught you the beautiful things that you tell us?". I revealed to them my secret: it is the Gospel that teaches us to be peacemakers.

F., Pakistan

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Father Joseph Dwight

P.s.

How many priests and bishops do not explain the value of the great gift of suffering and of sacrifice? We must pray very much for priests and bishops to have the courage to live the Gospel fully in order to be able to proclaim the Gospel with their example and then with their words.

In the document, “A Damned Priest Warns About Hell”, one reads the following:

The poverty of large families is a great blessing


To those who are in need, who have many children, and they have to work a lot, since they do not have time to devote to luxury, to excesses or pleasures, one should say: "Praise the Lord three times a day, on your knees, and thank Him for having given to you, with your children, work, and to have offered your children so that you raise them and of them you make the next citizens of heaven, because for each of your children you will gain more grace." Instead of this, they say, sometimes they also say, and even priests, that ... I do not want to talk!

E: In the name of Jesus Christ, say the truth, only the truth, Verdi Garandieu, for the glory of God, about the priesthood!

V: ... Instead of that, when a woman or a man come to say to them "it is not good for us; we had a third or fourth child or just a second, it depends. We have housing problems. We have this problem here or another ... " Then the priest, instead of saying to them: "Hold on, live in this old apartment and in these rooms with the grace of God (crying); pray every day and thank Him for what you have! "Instead of what (crying) ... I do not want to talk!

E: In the name of Jesus Christ continue, Verdi Garandieu, say the truth and only the truth for the glory of God!


The pill leads to abortion


V: ... Instead of that these priests really become seducers and give these poor, but in reality these people are not poor, they are not so much in misery, they are not so terribly miserable ...

When I say "poor" I mean that they are because they have fallen into sin, because the priest gives them bad advice to not behave precisely according to the commandments of God in this particular case; in this case, they have to take the pill or what there is in this field. He advises them this or that, or this or that other medicine, and this medicine obviously ... the majority of doctors prescribe without batting an eyelid.

Men do not notice that they are sinking into misfortune, because from the pill and from the condoms to abortion it is not far off, and abortion is already a murder (cries); it is a mortal sin. Perhaps these priests forget it or maybe some know it, but in this time of modernism and mass defection they no longer want to admit that it is still valid today what it has always been, for thousands and thousands of years.

It is clear that humanity has increased and that is no longer what it once was when God punished immediately ONAN with death (Gen 38:9-10), but He will still punish each one of them, who, alas, I must say, take contraceptives and He will recall them to order, because this is no longer the order of things, and abortion even less. It is not in the plan of God, in His plan of salvation. And I have to ...

E: Speak the truth, Verdi Garandieu, and only the truth, for the glory of God and in the name of Jesus Christ!

V: ... and I must say, I, Verdi, that I was a priest, that the priests, and not only priests but also the bishops, cardinals, it is evident, they should shout to their people from the height of the pulpit, yes, shout: "Endure your suffering with patience, because life on earth is not made to be lived in debauchery and luxury, to eat and drink, but to walk after the LORD and to practice the imitation of Christ."

Because there where there is still renunciation and sacrifice, this is what they should say, there is also grace, and where there are no longer neither renunciation or sacrifice, or prayer, grace also disappears. There where there is no longer grace, we watch, and if we can penetrate only through a crack, if we can only pass a horn, even so we have already penetrated into these lay people or clergy, and this then continues. If there is open a crack, it soon widens, then the whole door is opened and not only this. It is not only the whole door to be opened. Finally, the whole house is to collapse as is happening now in your churches. Yes ...

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Visit:
A DAMNED PRIEST WARNS ABOUT HELL

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.


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NEW! NEW!
Visit also:
Father Pellegrino Maria Ernetti (1925-1994), a Benedictine Monk in the Abbey of Saint George Major in Venice (Italy), where he received hundreds of people each week to undergo exorcism, began to record on magnetic tapes these exorcisms, and so little by little emerged a catechesis on the devil.
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LIKES AND DISLIKES OF THE DEVIL


Saturday, January 4, 2014

1Cor 3:11


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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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:





Tuesday, December 3, 2013

1Thess 3:12


May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all (1Thess 3:12).


Throughout the Gospel , we often hear the exhortation to vigilance. In the liturgy of Advent, preparing for Christmas, the coming of the Lord, we hear even more this advice to vigilance. Because without vigilance, it is impossible to love according to the Gospel, following the example of Jesus, without the hidden motive of self-interest!

This invitation shows us that there is a profound truth in our lives: it is the truth of God who gives Himself and is the foundation to our existence, transforming us from the inside. It is thus necessary to be vigilant so as not to waste opportunities. It is said that the Christian is a man and a woman of hope: vigilance and prayer are two attitudes of hope, so as to be disciples of Jesus, vigilant and committed to live His New Commandment .

Attention is the first name of Advent, because consciousness is easily seduced and spirituality watered down, with the result of the prevailing mediocrity, made of habit, of complaint and neglect of significant projects. The Gospel suggests to us to watch praying. To pray is to become full of oxygen, it is to fly high , it is to avoid suffocating in banality. To the one who puts everything in God's hands, He gives the strength to stay awake, that is, to see and to live the reality with eyes wide open: Each moment , because each instant is pregnant with the future, no moment is neutral.

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An Experience of Life:

The Dad’s disease affected the family atmosphere, creating a lot of tension between everyone.

I asked God for the complete healing of Dad so as to return to be the family as before, but the situation did not change, in fact it seemed to get worse. Not seeing my prayers answered, I slowly drifted away from God.

A neighbor , knowing my situation , he began to invite me to his group of friends. I was happy with them, the way of being together gave me peace. When I talked about that I no longer believed in God because He did not listen to my prayers, they listened to me in a great silence. Then they proposed the idea, if it was ok with me, to ask, together with Jesus the good that He wanted for my family. I went home with a new peace inside of myself.

Before entering, still a little doubt, but, as soon as the door was open, I found Dad who greeted me with a big smile. I knew I had to ask God for the love in order to be the first to love, those who where next to me.

R.U.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Ephesians 4:32

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you (Eph 4:32).

The experience of God's forgiveness is what can change us from the inside, because it makes us experience the generosity of His mercy and an inexhaustible possibility of life . In the first place is not our possible conversion, but the joy of forgiveness, joy above all of God in offering us His forgiveness . Jesus in the reception of sinners gives us a glimpse this joy. The three parables that make up the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke (15:1-32) clearly convey the good news: God is a good father, his home is a safe space . The focus of the three stories focuses on the joy of God for change.

In the parable of the lost sheep attention is drawn to the activities of the pastor who searches: he leaves, goes behind, until it finds. And precisely to the intensity of the search is connected the joy of finding again. God rejoices in forgiveness. The parable tells us what God feels, not what the sinner must do. The sympathy of God and his love for the sinner precede the conversion. We convert because we are loved . We convert because we are forgiven. The shepherd goes in search of the lost sheep because it continues to be precious in his eyes. How beautiful it is to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation: it makes you experience the joy of God which becomes your strength.

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Un’Esperienza di Vita:

As I walked with my load of "lollipops" I noticed a crowd of people around a boy: he had stolen and sold a pack of cigarettes in order to eat something.

When things like this happen here with us the police are not called, but they beat you badly right on the spot.

How to get off the hook that guy who was not such a villain like they wanted to make it appear? From my proceeds of the day I took the money and I paid for him. And so calm returned and I was able to warn the boy. After a few days I passed by that area again: a person recognized me and stopped me, remembering the episode of the cigarettes; he thanked me for the example I had given.

K.Y. - Camerun

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P.s.
Perhaps you will find interesting these three documents which I published on my blogs:
 
The Masonic Plan For The Destruction Of The Catholic Church

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The “Prophecy” of Saint Francis (Assisi)

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Prophecies of Blessed Anne-Catherine Emmerick



Friday, October 4, 2013

Ramans 13:8

“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law” (Rom. 13:8).


WHAT IS TRUE LOVE AND WHAT IS FALSE LOVE?

All the virtues must be governed by the virtue of prudence, otherwise all the other virtues are no longer virtues. St. Thomas Aquinas ranked prudence as the first cardinal virtue, because it is concerned with the intellect. Aristotle defined prudence as "right reason applied to practice." It is the virtue that allows us to judge correctly what is right and what is wrong in any given situation. When we mistake the evil for the good, we are not exercising prudence - in fact, we are showing our lack of it. Because it is so easy to fall into error, prudence requires us to seek the counsel of others, particularly those we know to be sound judges of morality. Disregarding the advice or warnings of others whose judgment does not coincide with ours is a sign of imprudence. Prudence “guides the other virtues by setting rule and measure” (CCC 1806, 1788; see also: Summa Theologica II-II Q47-51).

IF ONE HABITUALLY TALKS ONLY ABOUT GOD IS ALL MERCIFUL but without talking about, in the same talk and in the same context, “go and sin no more”, as Jesus did in the Gospels (Jn 5:14; 8:11), there is a great tendency to take the easy way of not seeking to amend ones life with the help of God. If one only talks about “go and sin no more”, without talking about, in the same talk and in the same context, the infinite mercy of God, one can easily fall into despondency or desperation. Here is where the hidden deception lies which causes great damage, of not presenting the essential elements of God revelation, for a particular situation or topic, together in the same talk and in the same context!

SATAN CONTINUALLY SEEKS TO UPSET THIS BALANCE; if we do not heed the teachings of the Church regarding the maintenance of the proper balance in these important areas, great harm is done to individual souls, communities and to the whole Church, and thus to the whole world.

AGAIN IT IS NECESSARY TO REFER TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH FOR PROPER BALANCE AND INTERPRETATION, otherwise we can so easily go with the group mentality that has slowly neglected this divine guidance, and slid into a type of false ecumenism or a false mercy of misguided compassion, while forgetting that each one of us must also be “wise as serpents” (Mt 10,16), and study the documents of the Church regularly and often. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (published 1992) was a great gift to the faithful of the Church, but very few Catholics have a copy of this precious guide in their own homes. How many pastors neglect to talk about mortal sin and its earthly and eternal consequences, especially about those mortal sins most common today? Is this true love, or is this love only for this very short life while putting aside the criteria of eternal salvation according to divine revelation?

IF PARENTS TELL THEIR CHILDREN ONLY WHAT THE CHILDREN WANT TO HEAR, will the children be ready to confront a very difficult world full of temptations and pitfalls? Such children, with gravely imprudent and negligent parents, are not trained as good soldiers or good athletes to be able to win, to win eternal salvation in the “dour combat” of life (CCC 409). Such parents, and such priests and bishops, have not prepared us for this “dour combat” and thus we were not trained to strengthen our spiritual muscles of defence against the subtle and clever onslaughts of Satan. Our Lady has very often urged the faithful to pray for the priests and bishops.

“Negligent religious leaders are often afraid to speak freely and say what needs to be said – for fear of losing favor with people. As Truth himself says, they are certainly not guarding their flock with the care expected of a shepherd but are acting like hirelings, because hiding behind a wall of silence is like taking flight at the approach of the wolf. These are the people whom the Lord is reproaching through the prophet, when he says: ‘THEY ARE ALL DUMB DOGS, THEY CANNOT BARK’ (Is 56:10) … If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right, what else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Whereas, if he stands firm in defense of his flock, he is building up a wall for the house of Israel against its enemies. And so again the sinful people are told: ‘Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you; they have not exposed your iniquity in order to provoke you to repentance.’ (Lam 2:14) …” (Pope St. Gregory the Great; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT).

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An Experience of Life:

The other day we had returned home so tired and strained that I almost lost control and we talked in such a strong way that I was even afraid of the reaction of my husband; I really thought that our marriage might have reached an end.

I then tried, as much as I could to “repair” that situation, but he was very angered by my way of doing things which had been stronger than my own words.

The next day I had some errands to do: I would have had to go to help a very poor family. But I immediately thought that it was becoming an escape if I did not go first to ask pardon from the one who felt offended due to my behavior.

I threw out that self-defence which I had at the bottom of my heart, those useless thoughts that were suggesting to me: “Basically he too was wrong; it seemed to me that he was the one to start it all, I was so tired…”.

I knew that precisely that day my husband had a very important meeting and I had a certain fear of his reaction given the fact that the other evening he did not give in… but… I telephoned him and I ask his forgiveness. He forgave me and with that freedom that is given by way of feeling forgiven and loved, to go and try “to do something good” now had sense!

F., Panama


Wednesday, September 4, 2013

1 John 3:18


Let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth. (1 Jn. 3:18)


The first question that we learned in the catechism as children was: “Why did God create you? And we answered: To know, love and serve God. TODAY THIS IS TOTALLY UPSIDE DOWN: religion exists for a great number of people to serve me, not to help me to serve God, not to help me to discover the will of God from the teachings of the Church guided by the Pope (Mt 16:18), not to help me to do the will of God with the help of prayer and the Sacraments (as we say in the Our Father: “THY (not mine!) will be done”!). The great majority of people today do not want to take even the first step to discover what God wants. The philosophy of life is: “Ignorance is bliss”! Bliss today, but tomorrow, and after death?!? The recent Popes tell us that the gravest sin today is that we have lost the sense of sin. One trusts in himself and not in God-Love! “Jesus I trust in You!” (Saint Faustina).

A teacher asked a child what is love. The little girl answered simply that live means to want to be together and to pass time together with those who you love. How many parents, and in particular, the fathers of children, pass very little time with their children. If a girl does not receive love from her true father, afterwards, she easily welcomes false love from boys that want to take advantage of her for their own egoism and pleasure. If a boy does not receive true love from his father, the boy seeks to gain the attention of the father by seeking success in doing instead of being, in the simple friendship of true love between Dad and son. If there is not the presence of the father at all, there is the danger that the small boy identifies himself with the mother and to develop the disorder of homosexuality in which the relationships with other homosexual boys is not altruism but egoism, because the boy never received true love of altruism from the male model in his family. Behold how the fathers in the families can love “in deed and in truth”, to love their children as the father want to be loved, as the children want to be loved, and above all to be together in the simplicity of wanting well for each other with the help of God.

If a person did not receive true love in the family, how can he love others? We are born in original sin, in egoism; without pray and if no one offers personally true love, not only empty words, it is very difficult to come out of the pit of disguised egoism. Thus my brothers and sisters, let us pray much and offer small sacrifices for those who did not receive this authentic love from the family, which are very numerous today! But the most fundamental thing is to pass as much time as possible with the Divine Prisoner in the tabernacle, Who gives us drop by drop divine milk in order to have more and more a deep relationship with Him, without which it is impossible to have a relationship or human friendship based on true love and altruism, not disguised egoism. Then when we have that opportunity to love concretely, let us love totally to the point of being ready to give our life for Jesus Who hides in each brother who presents himself before us during the day, in particular those in our homes, not just those on the other side of the street with which we do not live in the same house!

"It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass", Saint Padre Pio.

“The Rosary is the weapon for these times”, Saint Padre Pio.

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An Experience of Life:

I live near the wall that was built in my country to divide us between the Arabs and the Jews. I see it every day opening the window of my room. Along the way, then, there are checkpoints where the soldiers stop anyone wanting to pass to check the documents, and so to go school, to visit relatives or friends becomes an adventurous undertaking ...!

I become agitated every time the soldiers stop us, but then I remember that I can offer my fear to Jesus and that the soldier is a man like me, so I have to love him.

In this way I feel that Jesus becomes everything to me, giving me the strength to re-begin each day, the weight of the difficulty becomes lighter.

Juliana, the Holy Land




Saturday, August 3, 2013

Luke 6:32


‘If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.’ (Luke 6:32)



"Love your enemies." How is it done? It is just, it is all divine. Truly here we see the greatness of the "good news", a shocking news.

In the book of Samuel, chapter 26, we read about an episode of the Old Testament where we already see the style of one who forgives and loves as God loves, who sends rain on the good and the bad (Mt 5:45). In fact, the first Book of Samuel describes a generous pardon, that of David who does not kill King Saul, who instead had threatened his life. David has a higher outlook, he sees things from God, he sees in the Lord's anointed King Saul, which is why he respects the dignity and life of the king.

Yes, when a man forgives it shows his being a child of God, of a Father who loves everyone, Who is kind to the ungrateful and to the wicked. In this way the Christian realizes in himself "the image of the heavenly man" (Col 3:10) as Saint Paul notes.

"Love your enemies." This imperative is part of a series of indications with which Luke highlights the new way of loving of the disciple of Christ, a love without limits, a love that surpasses the logic of giving and receiving to assume the style of God. The generosity of God is absolute and the love of God without limits. A love that reaches even the enemy.

Love then, for the enemy, is the last frontier of a boundless mercy. To love in this way makes us similar to God, it realizes the image of the heavenly man.

But we must remember what Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote: “Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.” Today in many countries of the world, the governments are pushing forward very strongly laws against “homophobia” even though this manipulation is against the will of the majority of the citizens of these countries. This word “homophobia” did not even exist a few years ago! Jesus taught us to love the sinner but hate the sin. But the non-believers, or “believers” who do not practice their faith, who are in the great majority today, do not distinguish between the sinner and the sin, and so, they accuse the true Christians of hating the people who have the tendency of homosexuality. Very soon there will be a true and open persecution against all those who express openly, even in the churches, that it is a grave sin, the act of homosexuality, which hurts not only the person who commits this immoral act, but also it greatly harms the families and the society. How quickly we forget what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19)!

True love of the enemy means to desire the true good of the enemy here on earth but also for all eternity. So many people today, also a great number of religious leaders and parents, seek to please and satisfy the desires of the flesh of the people without distinguishing if it is a sin or not, if it truly does good to the person or not. This is false and destructive love; this is misguided compassion! Few religious leaders today have the courage of the first Pope, Peter, the day of the birth of the Church, Pentecost, to say: “You have crucified Jesus” (Acts 4:10), “the author of life” (Acts 3:16), with your grave, mortal sins!

Jesus said to the apostles: “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Mt 10:16). Our Lady continually asks us to pray for the priests, the bishops and the Pope, because there is a great temptation today, with so many people brainwashed by the mass media, the schools and almost all of the religious institutions, almost all under the control of the forces of evil, to accept this false and devastating “love”. Thus it is much easier, in the name of “love” (false), to live the easier part of the words of Jesus, to be “innocent as doves”: “Ignorance is bliss!” It is difficult to go against the current today, to seek the Truth with difficulty, with study and with assiduous prayer, in order to also be “wise as serpents”!

One of the acts of charity most important especially today and which is gravely lacking today, especially by priests, bishops and parents, is to make known, to make hated and to overcome sin. But a very great number of leaders have sacrifices eternity on the altar of human respect precisely because a great number of “Christians” do not want to know, to hate and to overcome their sins that they have allowed themselves to become habituated to!

It is true that we priests studied in pastoral theology “the need to apply the “law of graduality”. But what I find is that the recent popes, in the world today, put us on our guard not so much about the lack of applying the “LAW OF GRADUALITY” but rather the danger of the “GRADUALITY OF THE LAW”, which must be refuted in as much as it reduces the value of the law to a mere ideal.” (Visit: “An Open Letter To A Fellow Priest”; http://testimony-polo.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-letter-to-fellow-priest.html).

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An Experience of Life:

In my country, for more than a century, two hundred ethnic minorities have lived in peace and harmony.

In the same period when the towers collapsed in New York, also in Nigeria a civil war broke out because of disagreements between ethnic groups, between Christians and Muslims, with looting and massacres on both sides.

The government tried to restore order, but not succeeding, both Christians and Muslims formed troops of surveillance. I too was in one of these groups and fought on the side of the Christians.

One evening, during an inspection tour, we came across a Muslim group. We had surrounded our enemies. The majority of Christians suggested to kill them. But I could not do it: the Gospel says that we are to love everyone, whether Christian, Muslim or Buddhist, and love even our enemies.

I called our group leader and I proposed to him and to the others to save their lives, not because they might not have hurt us, but because those of other ethnicity are, like us, children of God. These words struck everyone and the lives of all those Muslim boys were spared.

I was happy because, even though we were enemies, God's will for His children is that we love each other as brothers.

Sumnei (Nigeria)