1. Man was not meant to know evil. He demanded it by right. He came to know it through experiencing its bitter harvest, a harvest that he was not able to overcome without the divine intervention of The Redeemer whereby, if he chose well this time he would be provided with access to the Indwelling Holy Spirit to combat the Evil One that had been loosed upon the earth by that first succumbing to the Tempter's suggestion. An enemy hath done this.
2. Ecumenism betrays Catholics and lies to the world about Our Lord Jesus Christ. Protestants being confirmed in their errors will absorb, deplete, drain the true faith of its content so that no Christianity will exist on earth. Nobody can be saved without the perennial Catholic faith taught up to the advent of the Council of Vatican II. The Pope left Catholics orphaned when he went searching to accommodate the world. Growth halted, stagnated, regressed. Truths were watered down becoming untruths fed to the world in order to attract it to the a faith that was being dismantled piece by piece. Inevitably the Church is despised and outsiders are confirmed in their sins, as indeed are all of us if there are no Sacraments.
3. Lay Catholics are in the best position to know what is truly happening. The common pewsitter who has practiced his faith to the best of his ability has believed all that has been taught from the beginning right through previous councils. That belief cannot be destroyed as our leaders prostitute themselves to win favours in the world.
4. Man has a choice between Mercy and Justice. There is no in-between. He cannot justify himself before God. He cannot say he is without sin. So he can be either forgiven and purged, or judged and condemned.
5. Referring to statements made by John Paul II and his example of equating the legitimacy of all monotheistic religions simply because they are monotheistic then I am faced with the prospect that the faith I have always been taught is false....that it is not the one, true faith and that Christ did not pay for the sins of mankind. Well that takes care of every Christian who ever lived doesn't it? All those protesting individual Christian denominations would have no case to protest against...since that is the only reason for their existence. By whose authority does a Pope speak when he misrepresents Christ? More importantly, what or who is the authority the monotheistic religions recognise in Pope JPII (and now his successor Benedict XVI) that they pay him such respect when they all pray together but say they don't?
6. Pope Paul VI throughout his pontificate exalted man, portraying Christ as demonstrating the highest and most perfect condition to which man could aspire - above and beyond the reach of being judged on whether his actions are good or evil. If it is true that no Pope can lose the faith taught and handed down throughout history from Christ and his apostles then his words and actions spoken and done in the Name of Christ will be a faith that imprisons him for all eternity. How could it be otherwise?
7. The One, Holy and Apostolic Church has been crucified by her enemies just as Christ was crucified. Buried underground for a time the world loses as Adam lost and for the same reasons. Man demands the right to know and practice evil...only this time, unlike Adam, he glorifies himself as above being judged, declaring an end to any distinction between good and evil. The Church has fulfilled her purpose. Like Christ before Pilate there is no more to be said. Having given explicit teaching on what constitutes good and evil the Church leaves us to ourselves.....that is, without recourse to her protection when we have preferred a lawless society. My conclusion? Man has accepted in his soul the basest condition possible He is in the process of losing access to, and knowledge of good and evil, let alone the remedies available. And this time it is final.
DEDICATION
Even as this is still a work-in-progress, I would like to dedicate and leave it as a legacy to my sons: Allan, Robert, Geoffrey, Stephen, Glenn, Gregory, Peter; to my grandchildren Beau, Priya, Darcy, David, Vinie, Tom and Jack; to my sister Mary O'Brien and my brother John O'Brien and his wife Christine; to my beloved daughters-in-law Avril and Barbara and to all those that my children and grandchildren love. I leave it to my late husband's family one and all as also to any reader that may happen upon it. May you all be given the grace to see, understand and believe that the original Church founded by Christ exists today. Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.
I make this dedication to all these people that I love because it is my deepest prayer that they come to know the truth about Jesus Christ and His Church, and that they will seriously ponder what has been written here. Death can come like a thief in the night. I pray they will not die an uprepared death; that they will die in a state of grace by seeking humbly the advocacy of Christ whose redemptive wounds plead for them before the Father in heaven. My own soul depends on living according to the truths I have imbibed through the Catholic Church and receiving her Sacraments and so I pray with all my heart that these people I love so dearly will wake up to the only way they too can save their souls, but more much more, to come to know and love our King of Love on Calvary.
PS. 3th November, 3003 : Avril died just over two years ago. She is forever remembered in my prayers.
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GOD and NEIGHBOUR
My Catholic faith shows me that pride is indeed the brick wall too powerful for gentle humility to bring down. Pride is diametrically opposed to humility. By definition pride will not tolerate it. It is unacceptable that an all-powerful God would stoop down to our level and become one of us. That he actually became our neighbour; that he humbly submitted to the injustice that brought about his cruel death without using his power to show his persecutors who was boss.
Either he was not God and couldn't do it, or being God as he claimed - he laid down his life.
No, it does not make sense so of course he was not God. God would never do that. It is stupid and unnecessary.
Yet, why is it that even before the time of Christ, the Old Testament laws wed irrevocably (a)Love the Lord Thy God having no other Gods before me to (b) Love thy neighbour as thyself? According to the New Testament...what was done to our neighbour Jesus Christ was done directly to God. According to the New Testament when we sin against our neighbour we sin against God. I ask, what humbler way can be devised to show so explicitly what love of God and love of neighbour means than by God allowing himself to become a victim of man's injustice to man? Then in his death throes to forgive them for they know not what they do?
Does that mean as God he abdicates his power to accuse and judge despots; protect and provide advocacy for victims? Will he let injustice go unpunished? Well, if he did, that would certainly mean that this whole process was indeed unnecessary. Justice, mercy and logic demand should a time not come when judgement would be meted out? How? and When?
All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.
Light is shed on how this power will finally be manifest.
Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink. I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.
And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.
