lundi 13 janvier 2020

This holy, gentle and almighty hierarchy (which frightens some)

In Heaven Jesus reigns, Mary governs, Joseph administers.
Saint Teresa of Avila




Saint Joseph -image of God on earth*- her chaste husband, shows the Blessed Virgin, his callous hands, worn out by the work he so generously performed on earth to provide for the Son of God, and his most holy Mother.

The Most Holy Virgin Mary shows her divine Son and Lord, her Immaculate heart and yet pierced by the seven swords co-redeemers of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the martyr of her entire life.

Christ shows his Father, who has put in him all his indulgences, the five wounds of his Passion to obtain our salvation and the blessings upon which our human condition depends in order to reach heaven.

This staircase of merits is impenetrable to the non-Catholic spirit**.  He must accept, then understand, that the Mother of God is the Door of Heaven, that Christ requires in order to reach him that we take the same path as him, to come down to us – to hear his Holy Mother- that those who protest to be friends of a God whose venerated Mother they despise are therefore genuine needy whom our fervent prayers must turn away from hell.

“To those who believe no explanation is necessary; to those who do not believe any explanation is not sufficient” (Saint Augustine).  For, yes, faith is a voluntary act, therefore intelligence. Where can we find the one who believes without his knowledge? This Catholic who is unaware that the modernist abandonment of evangelization hastens to see in every pagan, heretic, or misguided even the most obstinate?

If before their death they do not repent of their stubbornness to take The Blessed Virgin from above (as if it were possible to the rest) some will bitterly regret it. The expression is weak. The difference between them and demons is that being alive, they can change. But let them stop lending their spirit clouded by pride to the enemies of their soul.



All these people have in their mouths are “I am blessed” “Count your wounds”. Yes we must praise God, yes we must give thanks, but what God prefers is to be besieged by our prayers as a Father whom his child solicits without respite, until obtaining satisfaction. God loves that we would show him our dependence: this is the best way to praise his work, because he has inscribed this need of Him in our soul… And as the thing cries out to its owner, so our soul thirsts for God. 

Everything we hold to be good on earth does not come from God. “Material success is a sign of divine election” (Calvin inspired by the Talmud). It is above all a mistake that makes it possible to do anything to appear favored by God.

For it happens that God grants (lets) the fortune by those whom he wants to lose. So can God want our loss? No, but he exists among men, his creatures, those who do not belong to him. He knows it from all eternity.  He created them so that they would pray to him, “continue with their diligence” and ask him to take them as his children rather than mere creatures. God wants all men to come to the Truth and be saved. (Exorcism of Saint Michael). We gain access to the Truth through the Church which founded this same Truth, knowing and loving the Incarnation of this Truth, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us pray that, even at their end, there will be more who turn to him. I am not speaking here of the same anti-Catholic people with their presumptuous “If I sin, I will regret it later”. Know that God is jealous of his graces (God’s graces are God), and when we have lost innocence, contrition and penance are the hinges of the same door that God does not systematically open.  We don’t have to rely on that kind of thing. Let’s just walk straight, whatever it takes. We’ll be paid liberally— If we knew the gift of God.

What could be more beautiful than these workers of the last hour, who later attained the Truth, love it immediately and work to keep it alive in them until the Master returns.  For He is God, who takes the first step when it comes to our salvation. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you (John 15:16) Moreover, to catch this outstretched hand of God is in itself a grace. But we must bring at least some of ourselves. These 2 loaves and 5 fish represent our good will. Non-Catholics must pray all the time to know God, to love him to serve him.  And when we already have this grace - eternal wealth- well we must pray to persevere, because the world, the flesh (our bodies and spirit) and their puppeteer the devil never disarm.

Saint Augustine teaches us that the old man dies only twenty minutes after us. See this from here.

The Catholic Church since the dawn of time, makes our prayers pass through the Most Holy Mother of God. The one to which all Saints address themselves. Only the Immaculate in her conception, the Father’s favourite masterpiece and daughter, the incomparably beloved Mother of the Son of whom she is the Mold, the Holy Spirit’s unmarried Bride, alone, the eternal Hortus Conclusus-, obtains from the Trinity everything she asks of them.


We have an example of this at Cana, where by her prayer she precipitated things, because poor married couples had no wine. As God she reflects, Our Lady abhors seeing her children in embarrassment. She saw the lack of wine coming. Isn’t she our Pro/Emptiness? She pleaded for it. His Son answers him: Woman (Co-redeemer of the genre) you know as well as I do that my hour has not yet come. And she trusting (always humble and obedient) -Do whatever he tells you.  This Do everything He tells you, each of His appearances is a repetition.

All this is to say to hasten to the "blessed who count their graces" for whom true faith is reduced to papism. Become faithful devotees of the Mother of God, live the sacraments of the Church, obey her, implore your perseverance, pray for me as I pray for you. And go to heaven… Because there is hell, too, and we have our place up there or down there.  

Ah! So you like private judgement? Then indeed, it’s up to you.


*First Greeting to Saint Joseph of Saint John Eudes.

**Bishop de Ségur Louis Gaston de Ségur wrote it and closer to us, Bishop Fulton Sheen, I paraphrase them: «It is not the Catholicism that Protestants hate but the idea that they have of it from the slanders that are transmitted to them»

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