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Jesus in His Human Nature Died on a Cross…
the Very
Same Thing Has Happened to His Ecclesial Body (Part
1)
When someone dies, his or her body is inanimate.
This person does not ‘wake up’, and
people normally bury the corpse.
Our Creator became a Human Being. This in itself
is astounding. Knowing Who God is, then who of us --- before He made plain He
would do so --- could have dared to think (or even speculate!) that Our Maker
would also allow Himself to be murdered?
How can God ‘die’ at the hands of
weak little human beings? How could He permit Himself, Almighty & Supreme,
to endure our foolish disdain & cruelty?
Why would He let us despise, overpower & slaughter Him?
The notion is confounding. Only centuries &
millennia of Christianity, whether of the true ‘version’ (read: Roman
Catholicism) or false kinds (read: Eastern Schismaticism
or Protestant Heresy, etc.), has made it seem ‘routine’ and
‘palatable’. Granted, various pagan stories or
‘mystery religions’ have toyed with the idea of one of their
‘gods’ experiencing ‘death’… but the real & everlasting Uncreated
Creator?
Why would the Ground of Being clothe Himself in
‘creaturehood’ --- our human lowliness,
the physical ‘shadow’ or image of His Divinity --- and further
humiliate Himself by consenting to perish from our wicked violence?
What’s the point?
Most of us don’t contemplate this. Not
really. Not from God’s Perspective.
As an adult, imagine becoming a tiny helpless
baby for several decades.
As a human, imagine becoming an ant… one
that’s stepped on.
Why would you give up strength to become weak?
How can Life Himself ‘lose’ His Life?
That’s the riddle, the conundrum.
God continually surprises infinitesimal
creatures, the ones made to look like Him. His Imagination is far greater than
ours. His Courage outstrips our valor, His Purpose constantly exceeding our
ability & willingness to fathom or suspect. What His Determination from All
of Infinite Eternity dares, we dare not determine.
Unless, of course, we dare
to truly WANT HIS ETERNAL TRUTH.
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Jesus in His Human Nature Died on a Cross…
the Very
Same Thing Has Happened to His Ecclesial Body (Part
2)
This Eternal Truth, this Word Become Flesh, is
the Author of Truth.
What He declares to exist, what He, by the Spirit
of His Divine Mouth, speaks into existence is what is real… and hence what is true. If it does not exist --- if He does not will it to be real --- then it is not true. Our Creator from All Eternity has no
‘mouth’, no ‘body’, it is thus a Parable we tell. He speaks not through waves of sound in a
thing we call ‘air’, but by ‘waves of thought’ in the
Spirit of His Infinite & Divine Intellect. Yet it is no charade or fantasy,
this thing we call ‘reality’. He makes out of nothing, ex nihilo. Notwithstanding, what He
creates is indeed something re vera. That is to say,
‘tis truly something that is real. And this created reality is not a ‘part’ of the
Uncreated Creator; that is pantheism and a lie of the devil. But it is
real, apart from His Realness, though
dependent always, in its created
realness, upon His Uncreated Realness. Without a Maker’s
Will that we exist, we could not
exist; that is theism and the truth.
Having made us in His Image, Our Creator gave us MINDS & WILLS.
To wit, most of us have adequate
intelligence to both know we exist and to ask the question of why we
exist. What is our purpose? The
world could not have come
into existence by ‘accident’, nor are ‘random
mutations’ and ‘natural selection’ over untold
‘billions of years’ enough to rationally
explain, with mathematical
probability, that life, intelligent consciousness & cosmological or
biological order could come into being by mere ‘chance’. I.e., some
form of Darwinistic ‘evolution’ or ‘evo
devo’ is not
enough, ever, to explain any order at
all in our world. If ‘chance’ with ‘rules’, then
the ‘rules’, which randomly popped into existence for no
reason at all, have no further reason to ‘consistently’ stick
around or apply ‘equally’ to all, and there is thus no reason to
assume, naively, that such ‘rules’ along with
‘chance’ make any ‘order’ ever…
Period.
Too, most of us have adequately free wills
to both choose what we think, say & do, while, at the same time, resolve
to think, say & do what is good, as opposed to what is evil. How has Our Creator spoken, and what is it
He tells us is good to think, say & do? Our choices have consequences, both in this world
as physical human beings, and in the life to come after death. Why should we consciously choose to
think, say & do evil, and what makes us fantasize that we can pretend
to know the difference between good and evil without seeking for Our
Maker’s Purpose in making us, and that there is no punishment for
being evil or no reward for being good? He’s God --- not us.
End of sentence.
The fact that most of us have adequate
intelligence & free will is UNDENIABLE
PROOF God intends us to use our
intelligence to seek His Purpose for our existence and to use our will to choose what is good (His Purpose for us whole & entire) rather than to
choose what is evil (His Purpose for us either partially
unknown & disbelieved or else fully unknown & disbelieved).
Or else why give us intelligence & will to begin with?
WHAT’S THE POINT?
If you know
the Creator exists and that He is Omniscient (All-Knowing) as well as
Omnipotent (All-Powerful), making everything out of nothing sheerly
for His Own Good Pleasure --- because He wants
to do so and not because He
‘needs’ us --- then, it follows logically, He wanted to make us for a reason. And,
being all-knowing and all-powerful, that our adequately intelligent minds and adequately free wills must, then, play an essential role in
our ability to freely &
intelligently fulfill this Divine Purpose.
Clearly!
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Jesus in His Human Nature Died on a Cross…
the Very
Same Thing Has Happened to His Ecclesial Body (Part
3)
And this is merely basic logic… simple
reasoning and common sense.
Any adequately intelligent human being with free
will can figure this out if he or
she wants to, and, with God’s guaranteed assistance (ask, seek & knock, see Matthew 7:6-29
& Luke 11:1-13 for Gospel proof of this divinely-guaranteed religious
principle), be sure to GET THE RIGHT
ANSWER (read: Roman Catholicism Whole & Entire), FIND A FULL ANSWER (read: understand Roman Catholicism Completely & Correctly)
and HAVE GOD’S DOOR OPENED
(read: enter Heaven Forevermore as a Good & Baptized Roman
Catholic after death). To think otherwise is willful stupidity.
You might as well walk around with eyes closed
and pretend you can see.
That’s what your mind is --- the eyes of your conscious intelligence.
That’s what your will is --- opening or closing these eyes.
It’s your choice:
Blindness or sight? Intelligence
or stupidity? Truth or falsehood?
The Second Person of the
Triune Deity, the Eternally-Begotten Son of God, became the Son of Man, Jesus
Christ, in the Womb of His Mother, the Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary, for this
Purpose. To open our eyes, help us understand, and tell us the truth about
existence. As Jesus replied to the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, regarding
His Monarchy:
“‘My kingdom
is not of this world [right now, I
don’t claim a kingdom on this earth]. If my kingdom were of
this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be
delivered to the Jews [were I
claiming a kingdom right now on this earth, I’d have my disciples
fight their fellow Jews to keep Me from falling into your hands, Pontius
--- recall Jesus forbidding Peter to defend Him with his sword to
prevent His arrest]: but now my kingdom is not from hence [until I return in what is the future
for you, poor Pontius, I lay no claim to direct kingship over this earth,
and my disciples are not yet numerous enough or strong enough to establish
Catholic realms on earth… for Me presently, being King means those
who are good Catholics, obeying My Doctrines].’ Pilate
therefore said to him [Jesus]:
‘Art thou a king then? [So You really are a King?]’ Jesus answered:
‘Thou sayest that I am a king. [You
yourself have said it, Pontius. It’s true what you say… I really am a King.] For this was I born, and for this came I into the world [This is why I, God, have become a Man, this is why I am in a very real, visible & human form upon this
earth that you can look upon, and see, and hear]; that I should give testimony to the TRUTH. [I’m here on earth as a human being to tell everyone what it
is that they must believe is the TRUTH in order to be able to fulfill My
Purpose for their lives, obeying Me as the Divine Monarch above all other
creaturely monarchs or leaders.] EVERY ONE THAT IS OF THE TRUTH, HEARETH MY
VOICE [If you belong to God, Who is the
AUTHOR OF TRUTH, then you’ll LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY, EVERYTHING I TEACH,
and recognize Me as God in spite of My Human Nature, and you’ll believe
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING I TEACH & COMMAND, PROPERLY & FULLY IN ITS
ORIGINAL & CORRECT SENSE, learning how to be virtuous & baptized Roman
Catholics, whole & entire, in My Ecclesial Body, the Singular Means of
Salvation.]’” (John 18:36-37 DRC)
To which Pontius replied
wearily, like a skeptical Modern:
“What is truth?”
(John 18:38b DRC)
As we remarked above, in
Chapter 29, truth is what is real. And it is God Who makes something
real out of nothing. Ergo, God is the Author of Truth. And, the
truth is, we are made in God’s Image, to look like Him and be like Him
--- yet always in obedience to Him, as real
& good Roman Catholics. Deity apart from Him is a lie.
Since we are created to be like Him, then, like Him, we can envision both good and
evil.
Sadly, unlike him, most of
us choose evil… at least some of the time.
This includes telling lies,
especially about what is religiously true.
He made us real, out of nothing. Therefore, we are real. He also made us
intelligent with wills, able to choose between
good & evil. Therefore, we oftentimes choose to believe in lies, particularly lies that are religious. The lie itself is real --- it really exists --- and the fact that we
tell the lie is itself real…
we really told it. Yet what
the lie says is unreal.
Because it’s not true,
not wholly, even if partly
true. Nonetheless, God did not
tell falsehoods, and He does not
‘make’ us to tell these lies. Hence, God is not a liar.
We are. The devil is, too.
Jesus came to free us from those
religious lies.
This is why people hate Him,
hating His Roman Catholic Truth.
Because, like their
spiritual father, satan, they love lies.
What is truth? The
Epistemologic Works answers this perilous question.
We refuse to leave
Pilate’s query unmet. Nor do we shrink from answering the supposedly
‘clever’ questions of a skeptical Modernist world --- or the
supposedly ‘unquestionable’ assertions of a New World Order --- and
even if they never dare ask these questions, or question modern assertions, or
care to know the answers. The truth is there, regardless. Read the
home page
of this website, at least the very upper part. Read
Straight &
Simple (to your left in the navigation panel), focusing on the first
subsection of questions & answers, explained in very simple,
easy-to-understand responses. Or, do you say you don’t believe
Roman Catholicism has existed from the start with Jesus & His Apostles,
being exactly what they taught? Then examine
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
in the Books & Articles section,
especially Chapters 1 to 33, which is Part One of the book. It proves, from the
writings of earliest Christians or historians, only one or two or three or four
or five centuries after Christ, that they were all of them neither any more nor
any less than Roman Catholic whole & entire. Don’t like ‘no
Salvation outside the Church’, want to think it’s
‘impossible’ to know which religion or philosophy is fully true,
God leaving us ‘powerlessly’ and ‘feebly’ ignorant,
blameless for our religious falsehoods or failure, as people of sound
intelligence, to seek God and become Catholic? Think we somehow stumble our way
into Heaven in the practice of any religion at all when we die, which includes
so-called ‘agnosticism’ or ‘atheism’, since they dare
to teach us obviously religious things… like ‘I can’t know if
God exists’, or ‘God can’t possibly exist’? Desperately
want to believe, even if calling yourself ‘catholic’, that God
permits everybody into Heaven with the new ‘sacraments’ of
‘ignorance’ & ‘sincerity’?
Then take a look at
Helplessly Ignorant
in the Books & Articles section.
It demolishes these cloying
arguments, opening your mental eyes.
The truth is there, dear
soul… you only have to want to
see.
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Jesus in His Human Nature Died on a Cross…
the Very
Same Thing Has Happened to His Ecclesial Body (Part 4)
Jesus said something
stunning & ‘offensive’ to His Own People, the Israelites.
Their religious leaders, the
Pharisees, did not --- most of them --- like Jesus. They therefore
continually sought opportunities to trap Him with situations where He would look
bad in the people’s sight, allowing them to smash their own Messias
into the ground. That is, discredit Him and get rid of Him. In this case, as
Jesus taught upon the premises of the
Sacred Tradition tells us
she was none other than St. Mary Magdalene.
As she lay there on the
ground, a rich & wicked woman prior to her conversion, finally forced to
pay the piper for her terrible sins… what would Jesus do? To forgive
sin is only something God has authority to do in the ultimate eternal sense,
unless He delegates this astonishing authority to others (which is precisely what He’s done
for certain men of the New Covenant era, meaning
Roman Catholic priests!).Being priests or levites
during the Old Testament era without this divinely delegated authority in the
strict & ultimate sense, and hating Jesus with a passion, they despised the
fact that Jesus publicly dared to forgive penitent & believing people their
sins, thereby revealing, quite clearly to everyone, that He was therefore
daring to act like God in the Flesh on earth. Would, perchance, this
Nazarene teacher do the same here in the
How did Jesus deal with
these bad Pharisees’ latest ploy?
He leaned over and began
writing in the dust at His feet. The Holy Ghost in Sacred Scripture never
reveals what He wrote. A shrewd Catholic, though, can guess accurately.
We’re told that, as Jesus wrote, the crowd of leaders who had dragged
Mary Magdalene before Him in disgrace slowly slipped away, one by one,
beginning with the oldest and on down to the youngest. We’re also told,
in the midst of His writing in the dust, that they, insistent, demanded He
answer their original question, which was, “…Moses in the law
commanded us to stone such a one [a
person caught in adultery ought to be executed for this wicked crime]. But
what sayest thou? [But
what have You to say about this, Jesus of
So what do you think Christ
the God-Man was writing on the ground?
What could make them slip
away, one by one, failing in their ploy to trap Him?
Right --- all the sins of adultery, fornication or impurity
for which her accusers themselves were guilty.
And they were supposed to be good Old Testament Catholics, priests & levites, orthodox Pharisees rightly leading the
Which is why, after
they’re gone, He asks Mary Magdalene one question:
“Woman, where are they
that accused thee [you]? Hath [has] no man condemned thee?” To
which she responds with dawning surprise, amazement & overwhelming
gratitude, “No man, Lord.” And Jesus says, with an act of His
Divine & Merciful Authority, “Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and
now sin no more.” (John 8:10b-11 DRC)
There it was. He forgave her
for her sins, demonstrating again He was God on earth, capable of doing so. Yet
is this all that He did? Modernists or Novus Ordoists
love to fixate on a purported ‘mercy’, ignoring anything about
judgment & commandments. A fixation that ignores, as well, what Jesus told
Mary Magdalene as He refrained from condemnation for the moment: “Go, and
now sin no more.” How’s that again?
“Go, and now SIN NO MORE.” (John 8:11e DRC)
Quite different from
Antipope Francis’ version of ‘mercy’, isn’t it? In his
mind --- a thinking that he’s
revealed quite clearly over the decades, both before he became
the latest antipope and afterward, too, having pretended to sit on the
Throne of St. Peter for five years as of March 2018 --- crimes of
adultery or homosexuality or other impurities of our corrupt flesh are so
‘overlookable’ to the point of being, really, nothing important at
all. Who cares about the Sixth Commandment or the Sacrament of Matrimony? We
are way too uptight about these things, people! Catholics of old were too
severe! We’re all changing and modernized. The ‘catholic
church’ needs to get with the times as well. Conservative types must stop
being ‘pharisaical’. Stop being so ‘judgmental’! Sure,
transgressions are ‘bad’. I’m not denying that sin is sin. But it’s not that bad. This
refusing to let people in sins of impurity receive the ‘eucharist’ is very cruel. You’re making them
feel left out and unloved! Mellow out, people. We’re more
‘enlightened’ now… if someone’s trying his or her
‘best’, then we must not be objective, based on the facts
vividly established in the external forum, and make a stubborn sinner feel
bad by refusing to give them the ‘help’ of the ‘eucharist’ or other religious aids. Medieval
Catholics thought that way. We’re smarter now. The old policy no longer
works. Suddenly, after millennia, we’ve
finally realized how stupid that was!
Don’t resist the
‘holy spirit’! He’s leading in ‘new’ directions
now.
We ‘catholics’
have finally figured out how to be ‘merciful’.
The old
‘severity’ is cruel & unmerciful!
And yet it’s not.
If a sin leads to hell, then
right judgment is priceless.
Realizing the sad truth, and admitting our hideous guilt, is both humble of us (the sinners) and merciful of God (that
He would give us any chance at all to be penitent and escape the damnable
consequences of our mortal sins). Real Catholics may be horrible sinners. I certainly am! But real
Catholics are also honest. We
don’t pretend our
hideous sins aren’t
hideous.
And DAMNABLE.
Which
is why real Catholics confess their mortal sins. Again & again as needed.
Catholics do penance for their mortal sins, too, making satisfaction for their
crimes against God. A real Catholic can be a terribly bad, sinful Catholic.
Once more, I certainly am!
All the same, real Catholics profess Catholicity whole & entire, perpetually accusing themselves of their
sins, seeking to die a good death.
Which
is why real Catholics, however sinful, try to be merciful & good.
If merciful to others, then God will be more merciful to us at our judgments. And, however pathetically at times, real Catholics keep trying to
be better Catholics.
As Jesus said, instructing our first pope, St. Peter, about forgiving, in
response to Peter’s query regarding how many times he should forgive his
fellow Catholic for sins against him, “Jesus saith
[says] to him [Peter]: ‘I say not
to thee [you], till seven times [up to the seventh sin, then altogether stop forgiving your
fellow Catholic, which is what Peter suggested, thinking himself very
magnanimous to go as far as seven times]; but till SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN TIMES.’” (Matthew 18:22 DRC)
Now, Jesus’ point was not to forgive your fellow
Catholics up until the four hundred ninetieth time, then stop forgiving them altogether. No. This is a tiny little
parable and hyperbole. That is to say, Jesus is telling us to not ever stop forgiving while
you’re on this earth. No matter how many times fellow Catholics sin
against you, keep on forgiving them
every single time they ask, and always forgive injury regardless till you die!
This is what God does with
Catholics on earth. For as long as we’re alive, for every single sin we
commit, whilst accusing ourselves penitently and
trying to make amends (satisfaction), showing that we’re sincere and
resolved, again and again, not to sin another time, then, notwithstanding that
we do sin again, God forgives repeatedly, provided we are penitent, and He
patiently gives us time to be good till we die.
Most of the Pharisees were
bad. They sinned, they weren’t sorry, and they had little or no mercy on
other fellow Catholics of the Old Testament who had sinned. Many other Old
Covenant Catholics were similarly blind. They either hated their Christ (like
most of the Pharisees) or else liked Him only because He gave them free food
and healed their sick, etc. These latter members were easily turned against
Christ when it got crucial (pun intended). Against these bad & arrogant
people, especially leaders, Jesus said:
“‘I know that
you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word [the Catholic Religion whole & entire]
hath no place in you [you refuse to obey
God and become Roman Catholic, precisely what I, your Messias, God in the
Flesh, am teaching you]…’ They answered [the Pharisees that were bad], and said to him: ‘Abraham is
our father [indeed, yes, we are
descendants of Abraham, and that alone makes us ‘good’ and loved by
God].’ Jesus saith [says] to them: ‘If
you be the children of Abraham, do
the works of Abraham [be good like Abraham and please God
by doing so]. But now you
seek to kill me, a man who have [has]
spoken the truth to you [Roman
Catholicism, whole & entire], which I have heard of God [which I, Eternally-Begotten Son of the
Triune God, have, in my Sacred Human Nature, gotten from this same One True
God]. This Abraham did not
[unlike you, Abraham actually listened to and obeyed God, including everything in God’s One True
Religion]. You do the works of your father.’ They said
therefore to him [this majority of
Pharisees who were bad said to Jesus]: ‘We
are not born of fornication [we are
neither literal earthly bastards nor adherents to false religion]: we have
one Father, even God [we believe in,
teach and belong to the Maker].’ Jesus therefore said to them:
‘If God were your Father, you would indeed love me… Why do you not know my speech? [Why can’t you comprehend My teaching, and why
don’t you choose to believe
in what I teach you?] BECAUSE YOU CANNOT
HEAR MY WORD [because you hate the saving truth and
obstinately refuse to believe
in My Covenant of the New, foretold by Jeremias
(Jeremiah) the Prophet during the Old Testament in Jeremias
31:31-32, which New Covenant of God is solely Roman Catholicism Whole & Entire].’”
(John 8:37, 39-42c, 43 DRC)
And this is where Jesus gets
really ‘offensive’, driving the truth home:
“YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, and the desires of your father you will
do.
He was a murderer from the
beginning, and he stood not in the
truth [satan
would not obey Our Maker and
would not be Roman Catholic
--- meaning the truth God
made real from All of Eternity, which has been knowable as ‘Roman Catholic’ from the first
century, with Christ & His Apostles and since St. Peter established his
Throne in Rome of Italy ---
such that, from that point onward very near the beginning, the devil repeatedly
tells nothing but religious lies,
defying God’s Roman Catholic Truth]; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh
[speaks] a lie, he speaketh of his own: FOR
HE IS A LIAR, AND THE FATHER THEREOF [when satan communicates, he always tells lies about the Roman
Catholic Religion since the devil is the first heretic, schismatic & apostate, resolutely
refusing to obey or profess or get out of the way of God’s Saving Truth of Roman Catholicism Whole & Entire].”
(John 8:44 DRC)
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Jesus in His Human Nature Died on a Cross…
the Very
Same Thing Has Happened to His Ecclesial Body (Part 5)
My
goodness.
Did you comprehend what you just read above, dear reader?
This is God Himself, Our
Lord & Savior (if truly Catholic…), being ‘harsh’ in His
Speech to others. He tells them the truth, they don’t want to believe it,
they don’t like Him, and they’re determined to murder Him --- all
the more so after this speech.
It wasn’t very
flattering to them, was it?
Oh, I know, people who
consider themselves ‘catholic’, but are on the
‘conservative’ side, love to quote St. Frances de Sales (who was famous for writing apologetic works
and re-converting newly arisen Protestant heretics back to the One True Faith
of Roman Catholicism), where he said something to the effect of,
‘It’s easier to catch flies with honey than it is with
vinegar.’ In other words, try to be nice, soft spoken, and don’t
lambaste with glee and fury and fiery rhetoric! All well
& good. I agree.
But sometimes so-called
‘harshness’ is indeed called for.
Jesus told us not to worry
what to say when hauled before mighty leaders or some powerful judge because of
one’s Catholicity, assuring us the Holy Ghost would provide us with
everything needed to be said at that moment. Have you read some of the words of these martyrs right before
they’re tortured & murdered, my beloved
soul? Sometimes things they said even in the midst of heinous torture, defying
these pagans? They’re saints, undeniably. They died bravely
for the One True Singularly Saving Faith. Everything
they spoke was also undeniably guided by the Holy Ghost.
And sometimes they were exceedingly candid, to the point,
and ‘harsh’.
The wicked, stubborn &
increasingly fulminating judge or emperor or what-have-you, despite witnessing
increasingly incredible miracles that the Triune God of the Roman Catholic
Church does on behalf of these intrepid martyrs, only infuriates them the more,
causing them to get yet more cruel & more desperate in their attempts to break
the martyr’s courage, instead of making them step back, take a deep
breath and say:
“Hm. Maybe there’s something to this
Catholicity. Maybe my pagan gods --- or my own fantastically incredible &
godlike self --- aren’t so incredible or powerful. These martyrs and
their Christ seem to be able to do things that are jawdropping
and miraculous, regardless of all my efforts to stop them & break them.
Maybe I should convert.”
Unfortunately, that prudent
thought didn’t often occur to them.
They were luciferian, arrogant
& doggedly evil.
The majority of Pharisees
who were bad were the same. To wit, luciferian, arrogant
& doggedly evil. Jesus Christ was not the Messias [Messiah]
they expected & wanted (they
were expecting a mere man, but great prophet, who would be born great &
powerful --- like them --- and would restore the earthly glory &
splendor of Solomon’s Kingdom at it’s height, they then sharing
in the fame, luxury and power of this New Age). They adamantly hated
Jesus & His Humility, His Poverty & His Catholic Teaching.
And so they murdered Him. On
the Cross. Torturously. Mocking
Him.
God from All of Eternity, in the Flesh, truly died and was buried.
Jesus’ disciples were
crushed beyond belief, stunned & afraid. Everything they had yearned for,
everything they had believed, everything they had followed Christ for, had now
seemed to come collapsing to the ground, like the
They thought He was the
Christ. Now He was
‘defeated’, in the tomb & dead.
Did you know, precious soul, an ancient tradition foretells the
same for His Church?
A learned Benedictine monk
of recent times, who was a liturgical & historical expert, assures us of
this fact. He, in turn, references a much earlier source for this fact. Who?
The marvelous saint, bishop, doctor & early Church father, St. Augustine of
Hippo, that’s who. He preserves this Sacred Tradition for us in one of
his many, many, many writings. Augustine was once thought to be the greatest
Doctor (Teacher) of the Church, until the amazing St. Thomas of Aquinas
surpassed him in most Catholics’ minds by the 1500s. Some of us (myself
included), still think he’s the greatest, with
And really, do Catholics
want to quibble over who is the greatest?
Both are marvelous and
Church Doctors. Isn’t that enough?
But what did Augustine
preserve for us in the AD 400s?
Why, we have at last come to
EXHIBIT NO. 11.
Let us now read our highly
educated Benedictine monk’s historical account:
“From the day of
Pentecost, when her birth took place [i.e.,
the birth of the Catholic Church], the Church down the ages, has reproduced [read: recapitulated, imitated, or followed
the pattern] the whole life of Christ whose mystical Body she is [viz., the Body Ecclesial --- the Roman
Catholic Church --- is the ‘mystical’ Body of Christ, inasmuch as
it is the Holy Ghost Who is the ‘animating soul’ of this Catholic
Church & Christ’s Body, the collective human members of Jesus’ Ecclesiality, who have received the Sacrament of Baptism,
and --- if of sound mind --- have been catechized & taught, professing,
freely of their own will, the Roman Catholic Dogmas, whole & entire, that
Christ & His Apostles have given us from the beginning of the New Testament
era in the first century AD]. Our Lord, in His earliest infancy, was the
object of persecution and had to flee into Egypt during the massacre of the
Holy Innocents [the babies under two
years of age around Bethlehem and in the area of the tribe of Benjamin who died
at the hands of King Herod’s soldiers, who feared Jesus lest He, Jesus,
the King of the Jews, supplant Herodian dynastic
ambitions, ruining Herod’s plans to rule Judea indefinitely via his
descendants], and in the same way the Church, in the first years of her
life underwent the most violent persecutions, being often obliged [forced] to hide in the catacombs [caves hewed out of limestone underlying
Rome] or in the desert [in the
wilderness outside inhabited areas]. Again, as a growing boy, Jesus lived
in retirement at Nazareth [meaning, out
of the public eye with a quiet life… not that he didn’t work or
lead a regular human existence, at least in part, for an adolescent Jew of that
time] where he passed the greater part of His life, in recollection and
prayer. Similarly the Church from the time of [Emperor]
Do you grasp what you have
just read, my dear & beloved reader?
Do you see clearly &
honestly, with mental eyes wide open?
If truly Roman Catholic,
then we know, with Divine & Ecclesial Certainty, how Our Lord & Savior,
Jesus Christ of Nazareth --- Eternally Begotten Son of the Father, and
therefore wholly God from All of Eternity, as well as wholly Man from the
moment of His Conception in His Mother’s Immaculate Womb --- permitted
Himself, in the Sacred Flesh gained from this same Mother, the Ever-Virgin
Immaculate Mary, to be arrested, put on trial like a ‘criminal’,
condemned, beaten, flogged, mocked, forced to carry the means of His Own Death
(the Holy Cross), crucified, laid bloody & supine, yet bent, in the arms of
His Mother, and, finally, entombed, lifeless, in the Holy Sepulchre
for three days (i.e., across three days, amounting to forty hours total per the
saints). Inanimate. Emptied.
No sign of life. And no one revives of his own will & power, does he?
Death is the End.
We can argue about
‘when’ death of the body actually & finally occurs. Stopping of
the heart? (This used to be the common
understanding, till contemporary medical knowledge, techniques, drugs & technology have made it seem a little naïve…)
Cessation of brain activity? (This is more commonly thought nowadays, but still challenged, doubted
or questioned.) Cellular decay beyond normal possibility
of resumption of functioning? (Inarguable,
one would think, at this point. Then again, there’s the example of St.
Lazarus’ revival in the Gospels. But he didn’t do it on his
own, did he…?)
The point is, everyone except Mary thought this was the end of Jesus.
All hope was gone in the
hearts of His many disciples.
Nobody belonging to Him
thought it possible.
And yet it happened;
God really permitted it.
The AUTHOR OF LIFE
was LIFELESS IN THE TOMB.
When someone dies, what
occurs? The heart stops and
the brain no longer operates. Cellular corruption can be debated, but --- as
real Roman Catholics --- we know
Jesus’ Body did not
decay. He was incorruptible in the Tomb. Yet His Heart & His Brain
ceased to function, didn’t they?
Heart did not pump, brain did
not lead.
Now you put it together,
beloved reader. We have an ancient tradition.
It is little known today,
but vouched for since ancient times till this very hour.
The Roman Catholic Church,
which is the Singular Body of Jesus Christ, follows in outline the Life of
Her Divine Founder, the God-Man. Just as He was young and fled for
sanctuary in
Inconceivable? No more than was God becoming
a Man, and put to death.
This is the Great Apostasy,
people. It is here, now. It is no ‘myth’.
Modernists have tortured
& crucified Roman Catholicism.
God’s
This means, in plain
language, hardly anyone is left anywhere in the world who is actually Roman
Catholic (His Body is inanimate and
hidden in the Tomb). And Her Hierarchy, the priests, bishops & pope of
God’s Singular Church, have, all of them, just like the Apostles of old
at Jesus’ Arrest, fled… and
many of them, like Judas Iscariot, have proved traitorous, selling out
the True Religion for thirty pieces of silver.
How quickly that silver has
tarnished.
Without a functioning
Hierarchy, however, for the time being --- not
even a real pope, for how can the whole Body be dead with a
functioning Brain still alive? --- what do
we get?
Right. No pumping of the Heart & Its Blood (most
of the Sacraments taken away for awhile…) and no leading of
the Brain & Its Thoughts (all the clergy have abandoned their posts, no
longer teaching & upholding the dogmas & commandments of the Roman
Catholic Church Whole & Entire…) We are bereft & forlorn.
We are clinging by a thread, the Sword
of Damocles hanging over the world’s collective head.
It is HOLY SATURDAY, my precious souls. The earth is frozen.
It is very dark, we are cold
& stumbling, and we await:
The Dawn of Easter…
just around the corner.
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Thirty-three is a curious
number.
A few people know it’s
important to high-ranking Freemasons.
Perhaps a very few people
understand the mathematical, geometrical & symbolic significance of this
fascinating number. (If inquisitive, the reader can study
Helplessly Ignorant. Specifically, Part Six as thus far posted;
Chapter 141 in particular. I’ve not yet made a grand explanation of the
implications of 33. Nonetheless, this will give you a few insights &
clues.) There is, though, one obvious religious
aspect for Roman Catholics.
And that is? It’s the age to which Jesus had attained
when He died & resurrected.
Both Sacred Scripture --- if
you reason through the evidence from the Gospels --- and Sacred Tradition
assure us of this fact. Indeed, if you get really exact in your calculations,
He lived bodily upon the earth outside His Mother’s Womb for 33 years, 3
months & 42 days (40 days, if one subtracts the two almost full days He was
dead in the Tomb… which, by the way, is why I separate the 42 days, since
Our Lord died exactly at the moment of 33
years & 3 months… notice the 333?). And, of course, He was in the Sepulchre
for over how many days? Right, 3. Symbolism through & through, but, unfortunately, no time for
commentary on these holy things right now.
3, 33, 333 & 3333, etc.,
have other peculiarities as well, too many to mention.
For instance, a typical
human spine has 33 vertebrae
altogether (this includes each individual coccyx bone). Or, in the math of
triangles, trigonometry, the sine of the fascinating angle, 19.47122 degrees
(the precise decimal can go on indefinitely…), is, exactly, 0.333333333333333333333333333333333, ad
infinitum (somewhat similarly, the decimal threes go on for infinity). The
endless threes is interesting --- decimally, spot on for the fraction, ⅓
--- however, the bewildered (and curious enough) reader may ask,
“What’s the significance of the angle, 19.47122 degrees?” Oh,
nothing much. Just the
precise spherical coordinates of a circumscribed tetrahedron. And… a tetrahedron? Equilateral triangles arranged as a pyramid, except with no
square base in classic Egyptian style (the foundation is an equilateral triangle just like
its visible faces), meaning, four sides total instead of five. 4 triangles, 4 threes: 3333, as it were.
When it comes to 33… lots of threes, eh?
The
point?
Why did God make our world so that a three saturated
tetrahedron… simplest of the three-dimensional Platonic solids,
known to ancient Greeks… with one of its four vertices anchored at the
pole of a sphere (ball or globe), would then, with the lower three of
four vertices, touch below the equator at 19.47122 degrees, a triangular (three!)
angle?
And how is it the sine of this angle is 0.3333333, etc., i.e., ⅓ (one third)?
We could go on but, again
--- there’s way too much to explain.
It all seems to revolve
around three & thirds, though.
In the Base Ten System
(counting by tens), that is.
But we’ll note a
couple of other religious aspects:
St. David, the Messianic
King, Prophet & Ancestor of the Old Testament in
Sacred Scripture, very specifically chose and conquered the Jebusite
mountain city,
It’s surprising, too,
how several saints of the Catholic Church have died at this age of 33… apparently more than
what sheer statistics & probability would predict, though I can’t
claim to have yet studied the matter rigorously enough to know for sure. E.g.,
the stupendous young woman, Catherine of Siena, who suffered untold pain &
misery in this life, both physical and --- despite
‘extraordinary personal charm’, per contemporaries in her circle of
disciples --- spiritual, she suffering continual persecution from her
fellow Catholics and even at the hands of her fellow Dominicans, she being one
of their tertiaries. Amongst many marvels, she
received the stigmata (wounds identical
to Christ’s, although, in St. Catherine’s case, at her humble plea,
God rendered them invisible so that she might not be honored yet more highly or
lose the humiliation of her persecutors) and entered into correspondence
with countless leaders in Italy, whether of civil or ecclesial rank, they, in
turn, beseeching her advice & prayers. She practically single-handedly
convinced the seventh
Whilst
two parts of her body, at least, remained incorruptible.
Yet there is one more religious aspect of 33
we’ll mention.
On 16 June 1846, the College
of Cardinals elected Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti
as the next pope, upon the death of Gregory XVI on 1 June 1846, barely over two
weeks earlier. Cd. Mastai-Ferretti
then took the name of Pope Pius IX after accepting. Elevated by a group of
cardinals eager to show friendliness toward the political reforms sweeping
through
Part of it is the
aforementioned modernizing of our part of the world.
Today, what was thought to
be ‘progressive’ or ‘forward thinking’ back then, is
nigh well quaint or backward by our contemporary standards. This is the curse
of ‘progress’. No matter how much we move
‘forward’, hindsight always makes you look ‘stupid’.
And part of it is our
increasing wickedness and anti-Catholicity.
Consequently, regardless of
how ‘loose’ and ‘easy’ Pius IX may have appeared to his
contemporaries, in contrast to his more ‘strict’ or
‘reactionary’ forebears, he can’t help but look so very,
very, very ‘traditional’ or ‘hideous’ to people
nowadays.
But part of it is Pope Pius IX’s unfortunate experience.
You see, not even two years
after he was elected… and in the immediate wake of his freeing of those
political prisoners… the revolutionaries struck all over western Europe in the first half of 1848, attempting to
topple ancient governments. In fact, people then often referred to 1848 as the
‘Year of Revolution’ because of the profound impact on their lives,
and the fear it instilled in leaders as the spectre
of France’s 1789 Revolution threatened to flood Europe with bold rebels,
modern ideas & bloody carnage.
This included the Papal
Estates. Pius IX barely escaped with his life.
Upon his return less than a
year later, he was a chastened man. The enemies of God’s Catholic Church
were not ‘reasonable’ persons satisfied with compromises or
charitable peace offerings here-and-there. They were revolutionaries and
it was all-or-nothing. Any claim of theirs otherwise was mostly
pretence, to gain what they could at the moment. Modernist revolutionaries are
simply not shackled by old-fashioned morality. It’s elementary --- the end justifies the means.
All’s fair in love and war…
Or
cruel, violent & bloody modern revolutions driven by fanatical men.
Pope Pius IX kept hold of
the millennial old Papal Estates for another couple of decades. Eventually,
however, an offspring of Italian Freemasons (the ‘Carbonari’),
morphing into yet another militant group of the time & locale, unified the
Pius IX died on 7 February
1878. He is the second longest ruling pope in history. (St. Peter holds first place, having reigned
as the Vicar of Christ for, per my calculations, 33 years.
That number again, eh?) Pius reigned for just shy of 32 years total.
Indeed, if one counts inclusively instead of exclusively (that is to say, instead of counting up all
full years total, you count all years covered, even if the first
& last years are partial), beginning with the first year of
Pius’ papacy, 1846, and ending with 1878 when he shuffled off this mortal
coil, you get the number of 33
years, regardless. Because 1846 to 1878 is obviously 32 (to wit, 1878 minus 1846 equals 32), but, then, including both
first & last years as if they were full years (despite them being only partial during Pius’ rule),
you get 33 (to wit, counting 1846 as the first year,
then adding each year successively all the way through to 1878,
including that last year additionally in the count as well, the
summation is 33). This, e.g., is how we reckon Christ as dead in the Tomb
for 3 days. Actually, by our way of thinking, it was the last part of Friday,
all of Saturday, and Sunday’s first part --- 3 days inclusively, not
exclusively. Yet back to Pius.
A mere 3 months & 3
days after Pius IX’s election (yes… that
number again!), on a fateful 19 September 1846, Heaven sent the Mother of God
--- the Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary --- to two young Catholic children on a high
& lonely, yet beautiful, mountain. As Catholics, we can know this with
moral certainty because, before Pope Pius IX ended his illustrious yet troubled
reign, Pius and his Vatican Curia officially ruled, with supreme authority,
that this Apparition of Our Lady was truly worthy of belief, and that no
authority anywhere else in the Church, under the Papacy, could rule otherwise.
This Heavenly Apparition is
known as Our Lady of La Salette, and it has proven to
be a most upsetting, controversial, highly attacked & savaged Apparition of
God’s Mother, with only Our Lady of Fatima in the 20th century
to rival it. Why? First of all, the children, whilst apparently honest about
the event from the very start… and not wavering in their testimony over
the years & decades… were not very impressive Catholics. And not just because they were dirt poor and uneducated.
Catholics in that part of southern France were very, very, very bad Catholics,
and one of the complaints & warnings of Heaven’s Queen was that they
were constantly breaking the 2nd & 3rd Commandments,
blaspheming continually and not attending Mass (or, if occasionally going on Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation, going
only for entertainment, out of boredom, to ridicule and mock). Ergo, said
She, great punishment was about to come upon that area, famine & disease,
with even small children dying pitifully. This prophecy was borne out.
Fortunately, La Salette’s seers lived, but were
initially ill-taught & impious.
Why, asked many, would God
choose these two unpleasant youngsters?
Why would Mary make them Her
messengers, warning the Church?
Finally, Our Lady imparted
to the two youngsters ‘secrets’, one for the boy, Maximin, and a much longer one for the girl, Melanie. These
secrets (read: something to be kept private, reserved only for the proper time or proper people)
were written down a few years later and sent to the pope, Pius IX. A very
devout & intelligent English bishop investigated them and the Apparition
very carefully even while it was being officially approved by the
In 1879, which
is 33 years from the date of
the Apparition.
Is there something special about this number?
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Indeed there is.
This beating heart of French
Catholicity was fatally stabbed with the Revolution of 1789. The Crucifixion of
the Catholic Church began in earnest, so to speak, with the despotic &
cruel Revolutionaries, nailing Christ’s Ecclesial Body to a Global Cross
at the hands of Modernist Zealots. Margaret Mary, the saint mentioned above,
obeyed Jesus’ order, telling the King of France, in 1689, Christ wanted
him to officially order
Chance? I think not. The devil wanted Christ’s
Catholic Body dead.
What better place to begin
than with Her Ecclesial Heart?
And, oh, it may just be one
of those weird coincidences. But do you know what the international direct-dial
phone call code is for the nation of
Getting the symbolism?
Understand why Mary appeared at La Salette?
The Crucifixion of Her Son’s Ecclesial Body began with
Worse was to come as She appeared 57 years after 1789. The two seers, Her young
messengers --- Maximin & Melanie --- reported
that She was dressed like a priestess (which
ought not to shock the intelligent Catholic… recall how Christ said that
there is neither male nor female in Heaven, meaning that the Queen of Heaven
can now function as a priestess without violating Her Son’s Law) and
sat upon a large stone, Her Face in Her Hands, weeping. She was disconsolate,
saying Her Son’s Arm of Judgment was heavy upon Her Self, struggling to
keep Him from punishing severely as Catholics, including the entire world (which was still obstinately not
Catholic!), committed transgressions of such horror that He could no longer
refrain from striking.
She begged them, and all
Catholics, to do strenuous penance.
And she gave them
‘secrets’, to keep till time to reveal. When She
told Maximin his secret, Melanie reported that she
could see Our Lady’s Mouth move, whilst hearing no words. Likewise, when She told Melanie her secret, Maximin
asserted that he could see Her Lips move, while hearing no words spoken. The
‘secrets’ were truly secret, inasmuch as the children themselves,
in being given the secrets, knew not the other’s message. Yet were such
‘secrets’ meant to be secret forever? If so, then why tell them to
begin with? Granted, Church leaders eventually convinced the children that they
should impart messages of such importance to Christ’s
Vicar, the Bishop of Rome.
As a result, they privately
wrote them down in March of 1851. Per the careful investigation of their
contemporary, Archbishop Ullathorne, we know for a
morally certain fact that Melanie’s secret involved ‘infallibility’
and the ‘antichrist’. We also know, through logical
implication, that a particular cautious remark of the young Melanie, upon
completing her task, reveals that her secret involves the Papacy.
And here we come to a rather
‘controversial’ side of the secrets.
For while Melanie published
her secret in November of 1879, twenty-one months following Pope Pius IX’s death, with the approval & imprimatur of the
Right Reverend Msr. Salvatore Luigi Zola, bishop of
the Diocese of Lecce, near Naples in Italy, the secret revealed was amazingly
attacked, insulted & reviled. Now, my dear soul, when this kind of reaction
occurs, it generally means one of two things. Either, one, the thing
reviled is truly evil, worthy
of attack. Or else, two, the thing reviled is truly good, hated by satan
and his human minions, who are non-Catholics or bad Catholics. I have found nothing about Melanie that is worthy of reviling; and Our
Lady of La Salette has the highest approval of the Church. Therefore, it seems clear to me this hatred
is satanic.
Critics claimed (out of thin
air) that Melanie could not accurately recall what the Heavenly Lady imparted
to her, over three decades later. This
is ludicrous. Anyone old enough to think back 30 or 40 or 50 years
knows very well that certain events are literally unforgettable --- that you will never lose an accurate memory of them unless dementia
strikes. I know of no evidence that Melanie had dementia in 1879, and I have
worked with elderly people for decades of my life. I can assure you… even
when afflicted by dementia, indelible
memories are still indelible. It
takes a lot of dementia to erase indelible events or words. Plainly,
Melanie’s heavenly message is accurate.
Critics also claimed (out of
thin air) that Melanie had been too influenced with ‘apocalyptic’
literature. I turn the sword back upon them. I claim (maybe out of thin air, or
maybe not…) that they were too influenced with
‘anti-apocalyptic’ literature. The point? Anybody can lob accusations at anybody else
without actual substantiation. Accusations of this sort are meaningless
without hard facts & solid logic. Whether Melanie had read
‘apocalyptic’ literature or not since the Apparition, her account
of Mary’s message to her stands on its own. Either the Apparition is real, or it is not. The Church has ruled with
highest authority that Our Lady of La Salette is worthy
of belief --- and that nobody
in or out of the Church can tell us otherwise. Furthermore,
Archbishop Ullathorne’s assiduous study of the
Apparition and its seers at the time of the event (to wit, in the first few years following its occurrence) proves
beyond a doubt how the messengers (Maximin &
Melanie) were absolutely unwavering in their gravity & carefulness
when it came to reporting the event with astonishing precision.
Period.
But, then, the critics have
claimed (later on) that the
No law or ruling can apply to absolutely every single
situation. Consequently, a wise Catholic must know the purpose
of the legislator (the one with authority
& jurisdiction to make laws or rules for certain Catholics in the Church)
in order to be able to determine factually if a particular situation is covered
by that law or ruling… or not. For instance, perhaps the
legislator is wicked or careless. Should
a bad law or bad rule by this evil person be followed, citing
‘obedience’ as your justification to do so? Obviously
not. Notwithstanding, despite a law or rule that is good,
that law or rule ceases to be justifiable when the outcome is bad and goes against the
legislator’s intent.
This theological or canonic
principle is called ‘epikeia’ (i.e.,
‘equity’).
St. Thomas Aquinas teaches
it in the Summa Theologica.
It is no ‘slippery
slope’ or ‘lame excuse’.
The
upshot?
Maybe the
That anti-Catholic
‘popes’ now hold sway, and a false ‘catholicism’
exists.
These two things ---
antipopes and a false church --- are part of the Great Apostasy. Deceiving the
entire world, they bring souls into damnation, keep most humans souls on the
path to damnation, and seek to annihilate whatever Catholicity remains upon the
earth, no matter how small and tiny and powerless and insignificant it is.
Modernists will not be satisfied apart from uttermost victory.
Ergo, even if a legitimate & virtuous
ruling at the time in 1915, this ruling cannot
be binding upon Catholics today, howsoever few we are. The paucity of
Catholics today are in no danger
of being ‘rebellious’ or ‘bad’ toward valid & legitimate clergy.
Roman Catholic shepherds have abandoned us, leaving us prey to spiritual
wolves. It is, therefore, against
the Truth to insist that this prohibition applies today.
The purpose of the
That salvation is impossible
when following false ‘clergy’ who are not actually Roman Catholic.
The situation today is dire, the Great Apostasy nearly cresting, and real Roman
Catholics need guidance in dealing with this crisis. It is thus justifiable
to look at the secret of Melanie, published with a bishop’s imprimatur,
to see if what the Celestial Queen told her is something valuable to us today, helping
us to save our souls.
And guess what? It is valuable. At least half of it has already come true.
That is not chance, and an honest
person must admit a sad fact:
Melanie was right. We
are now in the Great Apostasy.
My beloved soul, if you are
both able and willing to admit this reality --- or, at a bare minimum, to
seriously entertain the possibility --- then what we are about to examine is
not merely a ‘curiosity’… it was one of Heaven’s final
ways of warning any Catholic good enough, or afraid enough, to care. And while
the Apparition seems long ago, presently speaking, Queen Mary’s message
is still relevant. At the very least, investigating it, as a real & devout
Roman Catholic, is deeply reassuring:
That Jesus Christ is in
control and His Mother watching over us.
The Great Apostasy is
hideous. The evil we face is enormous. Nevertheless, Our Almighty Creator is
not ‘blindsided’ or ‘impotent’. He foreknew from All of
Eternity how our rebellion would unfold, and He determined from All of Eternity
to permit our horrendous blasphemy --- even more horrendous than
humanity’s wickedness right before the Great Flood --- in order to
demonstrate His Justice & Mercy.
Justice,
inasmuch as He punishes the wicked tremendously.
And Mercy, inasmuch as He
saves any who are humble.
It is to the humble that Her message was directed.
Consequently, we will quote
parts of Melanie’s lengthy secret that the beautiful but lachrymose Lady
of La Salette imparted to her and thus arrive at EXHIBIT NO. 12:
“…Melanie, what
I am about to tell you now will not
always be a secret. You may make it
public in 1858. [This statement
from Melanie, who in turn quoted the Blessed Virgin Mary Herself, plainly
reveals to us how Melanie was in no way at all prevented by Heaven from revealing
her secret publicly --- apart from a possible request or command of
the pope, Pius IX, that she not reveal her secret while he was alive.
Whilst tangential, we may infer from the timing of her publication of the
secret the year after Pius’ death that she was probably deferring to
Pius IX, perhaps tacitly if not a wish that he stated openly to her in some
communication.] The priests, ministers of my Son, the priests, by
their wicked lives, by their irreverence and their impiety in the
celebration of the holy mysteries, by their love of money, their love of honors
and pleasures, the priests have become
cesspools of impurity. Yes, the priests are asking vengeance, and vengeance is HANGING OVER THEIR
HEADS… The sins of those dedicated to God [to wit, the Roman Catholic clergy, the
Hierarchy] cry out towards Heaven and call for vengeance, AND NOW VENGEANCE IS AT THEIR DOOR,
for there is no one left to beg mercy and forgiveness for the people. [If the men in the Vatican --- clergy ---
were all basically good who issued the order to suppress
Melanie’s published secret, then this right here seems surely to be the
reason they did so, since such blunt & unflattering language
conceivably, though unintentionally, of course, could lead bad laity to be rebellious
& disrespectful toward their Roman Catholic leaders. Notwithstanding,
if these men in the Vatican were themselves the wicked clergy warned
about in Melanie’s secret, then is it a surprise or shocking that they
would want this warning suppressed? It may have made their evil goal harder
to reach as the contents of her secret reached more and more Catholic
persons, at least a few of them willing to do something about it!]…
God will strike in an unprecedented
way. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! [As we have shown already in the previous chapters of this book, Inter
Regnum, it is not fully unprecedented
that St. Peter’s Throne sit empty for a very long time, with large gaps
between legitimate popes, or that there be extraordinary & widespread
confusion over who is truly the pope. Rather, it is the concurrence of precedented, baleful events that is
‘unprecedented’ in today’s era, such terrible things
coming together at length all at once. Moreover, it is unprecedented,
literally, during the Roman Catholic Church of New Testament times, that Global
Apostasy should occur throughout the earth, the Hierarchy Itself eventually failing, altogether, to oppose the central heresy of our time, which
is ‘salvation-through-ignorance-and-sincerity’.
Again, please see Helplessly Ignorant
if you are unaware of or skeptical & obstinate about the true, original,
ancient & narrow meaning of the Roman Catholic Church’s Infallible
Salvation Dogma. Ergo, whilst God punishing humanity without precedence
could mean several other things as well, it is the ‘Amos Curse’ initially that is meant. Viz., that
He removes graces, leaving almost everyone --- including men in the
Ecclesial Hierarchy --- blind to the One & Only Saving Religion of Roman
Catholicism Whole & Entire. Please see Amos 8:11-14 for prophetic proof
of God threatening His Adherents with the curse of losing knowledge of
His One True Religion and embracing various damnable heresies instead.]…
The chiefs, the leaders of the people of God [read: Roman Catholic Hierarchy] have neglected prayer and
penance, and the devil has bedimmed
their intelligence. They have become wandering stars which the
old devil will drag along with his tail to make them perish. [Mind you, “…bedimmed their
intelligence…” does not necessarily mean that clergy recently have
had ‘low IQs’ or ‘cognitive disabilities’. It simply
means they’re oddly blind,
prejudiced & unwilling or unable to think clearly about certain
dogmas, or heresies afflicting our era. Proof of this is stark --- look at their bizarre defense of the
salvation heresy or an equally strange tendency to twist understanding
of the Sacrament of Baptism. Please realize my reference for Melanie’s
message accidentally misspells “wandering” as “wondering”,
“wandering stars” referring to Sacred Scripture in Jude 1:13, where
Christ’s Apostle chides
heretical or schismatic Catholic clergy quite
scathingly.]… May the curate of my Son, Pope Pius IX
never leave
We could go on, but
Melanie’s secret --- with commentary --- is long.
The questions to ask yourself, my precious reader are these:
Are you paying close attention? And do you get it?
This was published in 1879,
people. 1879!
The Bishop of Lecce, Italy,
gave it his official imprimatur.
This seer, Melanie Calvat, was a Roman Catholic in good standing all her life.
The Apparition she saw & heard, Our Lady of La Salette,
Pope Pius IX formally approved public
devotion & prayers to, on 19 September 1851… which
approval came after he had read the
secrets. His successor, Pope Leo XIII, on 21 August 1879, added his supreme approval with a
Canonical Coronation formally granted
to Our Lady’s Image at La Salette’s
Basilica.
Get it now? There is NO decent & logical reason to
obstinately ignore Our Lady of La Salette. There is NO just & cogent reason to
maliciously attack Melanie’s honesty, sanity or memory. To do so is a
lack of awareness & imprudent AT
BEST; it is slanderous, vicious & reveals one’s bias AT WORST. Fairness, logic & facts
most thoroughly vindicate MELANIE’S
SECRET FROM THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.
End of sentences.
In 1879, when Melanie
printed this secret 33 years after the Apparition on the 19th of
September, 1846, most real & good Roman Catholics could hardly believe possible
what the secret revealed or predicted. The simple fact alone that, as I write, 139
years after it was first openly & widely published, at
least half of what it says has proven true, demonstrates beyond
reasonable doubt the secret is to be taken seriously.
Period.
Now you do some leg work,
dear reader.
Think rationally and without
prejudice. We’ve already put in helpful commentary alongside the translation
of the message that Melanie had printed in 1879. Now note the words with which
I’ve chosen to finish the quote (albeit, Melanie wrote more of the secret
past the point of those words):
“
We repeat:
“
Put two and two together.
Make that God-given intelligence work for you.
If Rome LOSES THE FAITH (Roman
Catholic and none other, of course!) and simultaneously becomes the
throne OF THE ANTICHRIST (and if ‘anti-Christ’,
then, too, consequently ‘anti-Catholic’ & ‘anti-Peter’!),
then does this not logically require us to realize that Heaven, through the
Blessed Ever-Virgin Mary, via Melanie Calvat, is,
hence, telling us no legitimate pope
rules for awhile, with an antipope
instead?
I mean, think about it.
If
Accordingly, ‘inter
regnum’, Peter’s Throne empty, a
big gap between popes.
Meanwhile, if Rome becomes
the throne of the Antichrist,
then who else but a man pretending
to be a ‘pope’ --- whilst in
reality he is not Catholic,
ergo, really an antipope
--- could the Antichrist be, if the term ‘anti-Christ’ is not merely symbolic of
rebellious & anti-Catholic Modernist Humanity as a whole, but the epitome, additionally,
of apostate rebellion in the person of a single human being, or series of persons?
Getting it?
A real Pope represents
Christ on earth. In
Thus, the Antichrist
enthroned in
Savvy? If not, then think it
through until you do, dear soul.
Hate the idea? Then be
honest. You don’t like
the truth.
Oh, and the significance of
the year, AD 1864, remarked upon in Melanie’s secret as when, exactly,
hell would vomit forth Lucifer and most of his demons upon the earth to lead
humanity into terrible sin? There are three pertinent things I have found so
far.
First, after at least two
prior attempts, an official ecclesial inquiry to the Holy Office of the
Second, we know for a morally
certain fact that Pope Pius IX read the children’s secrets. We also
know, from the testimony of a personal eyewitness, that Melanie’s secret
was of great import to him, moving
him deeply and causing him to evince sorrow for the future. Is it any
surprise, then, that he would choose, in
1864 --- the very year spoken of
in the secret of Melanie as when
Lucifer & hell would be unleashed upon earth in a uniquely horrifying way
--- to release what is, arguably, his most controversial document ever,
papally speaking? We refer to the Syllabus
of Errors. In it, drawing from his official papal utterances up until then,
he systematically listed dozens of statements in positive, and, lumping them
together, condemned them all…
each & every one… as
against the Roman Catholic Faith. The uproar from the world was
staggering. Editors, writers and newspapers all over earth, in the modernized
region of the globe, both loudly & soundly condemned his condemnations
with unbridled passion. Ask yourself --- why
would any of them care? If not
Roman Catholic, then why should they even
take Pius seriously? It’s as if a wound were
touched, or a bandage ripped off. The howl was deafening. Why this document, why this pope, why this
point in time? The answer is simple. The Modernist Religion was poised to take the upper hand, and
this pope pierced them to the heart,
refuting Modernist principles in
relatively short, pithy & succinct style. In short, he issued a war cry
to the world, protecting his flock, defying the legions of hell.
And third, Karl Marx &
Friedrich Engels, had developed the principles of what
later became known as ‘Communism’.
Both of them German atheists, their political theory or
‘philosophy’ of Communism was endued with disbelief in a Maker --- particularly
One Who is Roman Catholic --- right from the
get-go. By the 1840s, their Modernist Creed was gaining notoriety… at almost exactly the same time as Our Lady
of La Salette decided to appear to two tiny &
unknown children in southern France… though not tremendously far from
where Karl Marx had begun to lay the foundations of the next Modernist
Revolution in the Rhine Valley, prior to relocating to London, England, via
Paris, France, first (where Marx met Engels), then via Brussels, Belgium, with
other spots along the way, when the Prussian government grew belligerent toward
Karl’s flouting of ancient forms of authority and traditional religion. In 1864 --- that fateful year
--- Marx joined his scholarly efforts with a more politically leaning
International Workingmen’s Association (IWA), which was founded in
This, I surmise thus far, is
the Unholy Triad of Events significant to AD 1864.
It seems ‘so long
ago’… yet everything resonates just as pertinently today.
And it’s why Pius fought so hard to define Papal Infallibility by 1870.
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Part One of Inter Regnum (Chapters 1-12)
Part Two of Inter Regnum (Chapters 13-27)
Part Four of Inter Regnum (Chapters 35-42)
Part Five of Inter Regnum (Chapters 43-50 & 1-3)
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