“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”.”
(http://missatridentinaemportugal.blogspot.it/2011/03/bishop-elliott-our-pope-invites-us-to.html;
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2011/06/30/liturgy-is-not-ours-it-is-not-a-form-of-self-expression/;
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resources/roman-missal-3rd-edition/bishops/the-glory-of-the-liturgy-pope-benedicts-vision/).
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."
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.
