Moving to New Residence
By the special providence of God We are moving to what seems to be a more safe location, just forty six miles north of Our present residence. The new home is partially finished, so We shall live in very cramped quarters in the home beside the new construction – now in progress. The new residence is in a wooded rural area with its own well, sewage disposal, plus commercial electricity and phone. We must do Our duty each day and be ready for any worldwide call that God may make.Anyone looking into world affairs can see that a world war is brewing in the area in and around Israel. Fearless Saddam Hussein is coming to the help of the Palestinians. We quote a news clip: The official Iraqi News Agency says more than 7 million people – nearly a third of the population – volunteered for the force. It was unknown how many were in the first batches to be trained, but the figure appeared to be in the thousands. The sinfulness of the world also augers for a great punishment from the Hand of Almighty God, and that could very well be the Three Days of Darkness spoken so often by holy and reliable seers over the past hundreds of years. Once those calamities (that supposedly will take three quarters of the human race to death) are over, the Catholic Church will rise out of the worldwide heap of ashes. The universal tragedy of the flood at the time of Noe seems to be about to be repeated shortly. Woe to the world that continues to despise Christ, this time, in His one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. Come one, come all to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, for outside of the Church (outside of this ark) there is no salvation for even one single person.
It is only natural that expenses are involved in this move, and all the brethren should respond to their duty (seen in the Commandments of the Church) to support the Church – according to their means. Neglecting this is sinful, and observing this, brings a just reward from God that will be enjoyed forever in heaven through the Beatific Vision.
Consider Our services to Catholics. We make it possible for you to be Catholics. We pray for you daily, and Church law requires all pastors of souls to say Mass for their faithful every Sunday and Holy Day of obligation. One and all, dutifully stay out of mortal sin, and daily grow in holiness. “Jesus, I live for Thee! Jesus, I die for Thee. Jesus, I am Thine in life and in death. Amen”
Sobering Facts
It is a fact of life that our days and minutes on this earth are all numbered. All of us shall die and meet our just Judge, and His judgment will give one and all either heaven or hell.In all teachings, it is required of Us that We stand with tradition. In the book The Catechism Explained, written over 100 years ago by Rev. Francis Spirago (available from TAN Books) one finds on page 630: “But the longer penance is postponed, the worst it will fare with the sinner. It is the opinion of the Fathers (recorders of sacred tradition) that as almighty God has appointed beforehand the number of talents to be confided to every individual, so He has fixed the number of sins which shall be forgiven to each; when this number is complete, there is no more pardon to be found. St. Augustine (a Father of the Church) says that the long-suffering of God bears with the sinner up to a certain point; after that he cannot obtain forgiveness. In his first illness the infidel Voltaire repented; but he presently fell into greater wickedness than before, and his end was a dreadful one.”
It is a sin against the Holy Ghost to envy the spiritual good of another, for the one who envies thus, tells God how much good He must give each individual. God gives his gifts freely as He likes, and God’s gifts are not the same for each person.
The first observation from the above quotation is that every person has just so much grace (or just so many graces) from God. When that supply is used up, God will give that person no more. When looking on how Voltaire and other God-haters died crying to God for mercy, and yet did not convert, it leads one to believe that those men had used up all the graces God gave them to make it to heaven. Without actual grace no one can ever repent of his sins (no matter how much he tries), or advance the least bit on the way to eternal salvation. Every salutary act (for forgiveness of sins or advancing in holiness) must be preceded by, accompanied with and followed by the operation of actual grace. By way of review, actual grace is God’s supernatural assistance which enlightens the mind and strengthens the will to do good and to avoid evil. In the normal course of life we must pray for an abundance of actual grace. Without it a renegade life is sure to follow.
A second observation from the above quotation from the Fathers of the Church is that God had determined the number of sins that He will forgive each person. Once that number is forgiven it is like trying to wash without access to any water or like substance. Since nobody knows the number of sins God will forgive him, it behooves each one to keep from all mortal sins, lest he goes over the mark of forgiveness, and just waits (in this life) for the curse of God to come down on his soul when he dies. Consider what a terrible fate awaits all those who refused to accept God’s Holy Church. Think of all those who cohabitate outside of marriage, in cold defiance of God. God punished the sinful world, at the time of Noe, by destroying the entire world’s population, save the family of Noe. Quite creditable private revelations tell us that God will send Three Days of Darkness, and through them, seventy-five percent of the population will be destroyed. God has a special care for those who do His holy will. Literature on this punishment which is likely in the not-too-distant future is available.
Lift Up Your Hearts
We are going to break the bread of a wonderful mystery: holiness. All Catholics know that without sanctifying grace at the moment of death one cannot enter heaven. Being in the Church is like being at the wedding feast spoken of in the Gospels. It is to be noted that one person in that wedding feast did not have on a wedding garment. That means he did not have in his soul sanctifying grace.The necessity of being in the Catholic Church in order to be saved is explained by the Council of Florence in the Bull “Cantata Domino,” dated February 4, 1441. It is found in Denzinger # 714. It is as follows:
It (the Church) firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41), unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.Just in case some of you may think that the Council of Florence and Ourselves have over stated the necessity to be in the Church for salvation We shall quote I Corinthians 13, 3:
“And should I distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity (sanctifying grace), it profiteth me nothing.”It follows that all those not in the Catholic Church are either in original sin or in mortal sin. Those dying in original sin go hell where it is called, the limbo of the infants (without the beatific vision and without suffering). Those in mortal sin go to hell where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth forever.
What is Sanctifying Grace?
Sanctifying grace is the supernatural quality of the soul that makes the person to be a (supernatural) child of God and an heir of heaven. In I Corinthians 3, 16 St. Paul states:“Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?”When all men are conceived (except for Our Lord and His Blessed Mother) they do not have this wonderful state of grace. It was lost by the sin of Adam which each one of us inherits, being children of Adam. It is re-gained again by baptism, the first time, and when lost by mortal sin, it is possible to re-gain it again by the sacrament of Penance. This placing of a divine quality in the soul is called justification. The Council of Trent defines justification in the Sixth Session, Chapter IV as follows: A Brief Description of the Justification of the Sinner and its Mode in the State of Grace. In which words is given a brief description of the justification of the sinner, as being a translation from the state in which man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace and of the adoption of the sons of God through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Savior. This translation however cannot, since the promulgation of the Gospel, be effected except through the laver of regeneration or its desire, as is written:
“Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5)Father Edward Leen in his book (imprimatur date 1937) The Holy Ghost and His Work in Souls, on pages 248 & 249, writes with all his might:
“When grace then inheres in the soul, it raises it to a condition of being which transcends all the limits of nature and natural good. It is not a purely moral entity. It is a real physical supernatural quality inhering in the soul, not making the soul simply good, but making it, in a sense divine. By it, according to the words of St. Peter, we are made partakers of the Divine nature. (II Peter 1, 4) “Grace to you and peace be accomplished in the knowledge of God, and Christ Jesus our Lord, by Whom He hath given us most great and precious promises, that by these you may be made partakers of the Divine Nature.” These inspired words of the Head of the Apostolic College are the utmost effort that has ever been made by human language to express the inexpressible. No paraphrase or analysis can equal their power to give man an understanding of the destiny to which he has been called. They open up perspectives of dazzling splendor. They point to heights of attainment that are of overpowering sublimity.”Sanctifying grace effects in the soul a divine quality. That change makes the soul a “temple of God.” God (in His substance) always dwells in the souls that have sanctifying grace, and He leaves only when mortal sin is committed, and this divine condition is lost. The Holy Ghost effects that change (justification) in the soul, and then He dwells there together with the Father and the Son.
We see the faithful most reverent when receiving Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, where He is “really, truly and substantially present.” After the Eucharist is digested, Christ is no longer there substantially. However, the Holy Ghost is “substantially present” in the soul as long as no mortal sin is committed. Knowing this, a Catholic in sanctifying grace should want to continue his thanksgiving as long as he lives. He should keep in mind that the Holy Ghost is dwelling in his soul in order to make him ever more and more holy. With that life in the soul, and with the Holy Ghost working there, the virtues (faith, hope and charity) (prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude), the gifts of wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord, are all in full operation.
Christ said, by their fruits you shall know them. The Fruits of the Holy Ghost are listed as follows:
- Charity
- Joy
- Peace
- Patience
- Longaminity
- Goodness
- Beniginty
- Mildness
- Faith
- Modesty
- Continency
- Chastity
Every Catholic should memorize the following prayer to the Holy Ghost:
Come, O Spirit of Counsel, help and guide me in all my ways, that I may always do Thy holy will. Incline my heart to that which is good: turn it away from all that is evil, and direct me by the straight path of Thy commandments to that goal of eternal life for which I long. Amen.
Lord Teach Us to Pray
In response to that petition of the Apostles to Our Lord, Jesus Christ taught them the “Lord’s Prayer.” In order to constantly increase in holiness as explained above, actual grace is necessary (a) before, (b) during and (c) after every salutary act. We are natural human beings, so in order to do acts that have a supernatural value (something that can be given a supernatural reward in heaven) we must have the assistance of actual grace which “enlightens the mind and strengthens the will to do good and to avoid evil.” This is needed even when the soul is elevated to the supernatural state by sanctifying grace.Holy Father, Teach Us How to Become and Remain Catholics Until Death
First of all you must understand what the Church is. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ with Christ as her head. He does not rule the Church directly, but he puts the ruling of His Church into the hands of men, giving them His authority, and although it is exercised by men, it is nonetheless divine.The Catholic Church like any society is a juridical body with a chain of command. If one is not in that chain of command, in some way, he does not belong to the society. Hence, saying that one is a Catholic without being in a Catholic parish (or some unit in the Church as clergy or Religious Order) is an impossibility. With only three units in the Catholic Church today, you must be registered with Us, Gordon Cardinal Bateman (Australia) or Father Robert Lyons (USA). The USA parish under Father Lyons is named St. Mary’s Parish. Those in the USA now registered with Us, need not re-register with Father Lyons.
Before being registered in a Catholic parish one must have a valid baptism of water, believe all that is taught by God through His Church and be subject to the Roman Pontiff, (presently) Pius XIII. Hence, before any move is made, your baptismal status must be settled, and that is done by the Bishop or priest who admits you into the parish. You may have no baptism, a doubtful baptism or a valid baptism when you come to us. Any problems in this regard must be settled, and other proper procedures observed as directed in your case. You must have sufficient knowledge (united to faith) of the Catholic faith to be able to practice the Catholic life. Here We quote Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, saying: “He knows His sheep, and His sheep know Him.” You must know your pastor, and your pastor must know you. Those living in a sinful life, as for example, living with another man’s wife or with one’s homo partner and the like make it impossible to enter or remain in the Catholic Church. The sole reason for being a Catholic is to prepare for heaven, by being (as far as possible) always in the state of sanctifying grace.
The Catholic has rights and duties. He has a right to be in the unity of the Church. He has a right to the teachings of the Church and her sacramental life. He has a right to a Catholic burial in consecrated ground and to be prayed for by the Church until (if needed) he is liberated from the sufferings of purgatory and admitted into heaven. The Catholic is accompanied through life and in death by Holy Mother Church.
The Catholic also has obligations. He must not only observe the Ten Commandments of God, but he must also observe the basic Six Commandments of the Church (as seen in Catechisms). These include Mass attendance, fast, abstinence, proper marriage and the obligation to support the Church according to his means. As stated above, observing this law (even if it can be no more than the widow’s mite) binds under sin, and its observance brings perseverance in the faith and great blessings for a just reward in heaven.
Being a Catholic is not a free option. There is no such a thing as “freedom of religion,” meaning that before God one can chose any religion he likes. Christ gave all men His religion, and since His Ascension into heaven, it is ruled by Blessed Peter and his legitimate successors, the Popes. This absolute necessity is stated clearly over and over by Popes. The Council of Florence (1438-1445) among other things defined:
“…that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be save, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”Pope Boniface VIII in his bull, “Unam Sanctam” (November 18, 1303) after explaining the powers of the Church and the state, defined:
“Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
One More Novus Ordo Wakeup Call
A news release from Damascus, Syria, entitled “John Paul to be first pope to enter mosque,” says: “John Paul II will tour a Muslim shrine in Syria in May, a cleric said Tuesday, making him the first pope to visit a mosque…” That is a planned and official sign by John Paul II that he holds that Islam is all right. Pope St. Pius V lead the Catholics of the world to oppose the Muslims and he beat them with the miraculous battle at Lepanto. Pope St. Pius V did the will of God. John Paul II is doing the will of Satan. A word to the wise should be sufficient to get the deluded Novus Ordo Catholics to leave their present day whore of Babylon. When Muslims get the upper hand in a country they demand that every citizen either bump his head on the ground in their false adoration or lay his head on the block for removal. John Paul II is not offering his head for removal, so draw your own conclusion, and be not deceived.Works of Mercy
Christ’s brethren are to be known by their actions: The Corporal Works of Mercy:- To feed the hungry
- To give drink to the thirsty
- To clothe the naked
- To harbor the harborless
- To visit the sick
- To visit the imprisoned
- To bury the dead (Matt. XXV.36), (Tobias XII, 12).
- To convert the sinner
- To instruct the ignorant
- To counsel the doubtful
- To comfort the sorrowful
- To bear wrongs patiently
- To forgive injuries
- To pray for the living and the dead
Pius, pp. XIII
March 15, 2001
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