Brown Scapular -- Wearing it or Having it On
Our Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, made the following promise to Saint Simon Stock and to all those who wear the brown scapular. “Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.”We know that there are many zealous persons, who are not Catholics (i.e., those not in the tCC), who faithfully have the scapular over their shoulders. We must explain the difference between having on a garment and wearing a garment.
All of you know what is meant when a TV reporter says of a ball player who changed to a new ball club: “Now he is wearing the Mariner uniform. Last year he was wearing the Red Socks uniform.” The uniform is the external insignia that shows that he is on a team. If that same man had on the uniform of the Yankees while he was mowing his lawn it would mean nothing, for he has no contract to play ball with the Yankee ball club.
We say a police officer wears the uniform of the city where he has authority. There it means that he has a contract to work as a police officer with that city. If he resigns from police work, and then still has on his uniform while he mows his lawn, you will not say he was wearing his uniform as a sign of his being a police officer.
We continue with the dogma of the faith: “Outside the Church there is no salvation.” Even if one dies having on the brown scapular, if he is not in the Church, he will not get into heaven. Only a Catholic who has on the brown scapular can be said to be wearing the brown scapular, as stated by the Blessed Virgin: “Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.” For the Catholic the scapular is a uniform showing that he is in the brown scapular association inside the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. For one outside the Church it has no such meaning, and it does not contain any promise that he “will not suffer eternal fire.”
We are not telling non-Catholics not to have on the brown scapular, but We are inviting them to become Catholics (in the tCC) where alone it carries the promise of Our Mother in heaven: “Whosoever dies wearing this Scapular shall not suffer eternal fire.”
Just being a Catholic does not assure one of eternal salvation. One must die in the state of sanctifying grace in order to enter heaven. Hence, if a Catholic has on the scapular while he is in mortal sin he is not thereby safe. A Catholic must live his Catholic faith in the state of sanctifying grace. In so doing the scapular gives him a great assurance that he will get to heaven.
Do Things to Get to Heaven ---
Avoid Things to Get to Heaven
Just looking at the Ten Commandments of God you can see the above distinction
immediately. The Fourth Commandment is: Honor thy father and thy
mother. The Fifth Commandment is: thou shalt not kill.
In the first part of this letter We tell one and all (in a single facet) what to do in order to get to heaven. Next We proceed to teach something that you are not to do in order to get to heaven.
Stay Out Of FORBIDDEN and SUSPECT SOCIETIES
It is impossible to do justice to this topic in a newsletter. However, rather than leave you in ignorance of this problem, We shall give you a short yet helpful explanation. Evil is like a disease, and since We cannot quarantine evil We must, like a loving parent, tell Our subjects to avoid that which is a danger to your faith.Our human nature requires that we do many things together, so God created two essential societies: His Church and civil governments. Besides that, there are openings for many societies which can be either good or bad. The good ones the Church encourages, and the bad ones the Church forbids the faithful to enter.
We quote two canons from the Church’s Code of Canon Law of 1917.
Canon 684 is:
“The faithful are deserving of praise, if they join associations created, or at least commended by the Church; but they must beware of associations, which are secret, condemned, seditious, or suspect, or which seek to evade the legitimate vigilance of the Church.”Canon 2336 is:
“Those who give their names to the Masonic sect, or to other associations of the same kind, which plot against the Church or legitimate civil powers, incur by that very fact an excommunication which is reserved, in the simple manner to the Holy See.”In this study We draw heavily from an article by Rev. Lawrence I. McReavy J.C.D., M.A. entitled “FORBIDDEN and SUSPECT SOCIETIES.” Considering the way the Church condemns evil societies there are three classes:
- societies banned under pain of sin and excommunication;
- those banned under pain of sin, but not of excommunication; and
- those which are merely declared to be suspect, and therefore deserving of special vigilance of the local ecclesiastical authorities (as Bishops, Abbots, etc.)
The class 2) societies do not plot against the Church and state, but they “withdraw themselves from the legitimate vigilance of the Church, by requiring their members to maintain secrecy concerning their leaders, constitutions, or activities, even in the face of a legitimate demand of the Church to be informed on such matters.” If a Catholic enters such a society he is not excommunicated, but he commits serious sin. By “repentance” he can get forgiveness, but if he continues in the sin he excludes himself from the sacramental life of a Catholic.
The Church has condemned a number of societies by name, and in the interest of brevity We shall list them without comment.
- Certain Societies for promoting the Union of Christendom
- The Independent Order of Good Templars
- The Odd-Fellows, Sons of Temperance, and Knights of Pythias
- Spiritualist Societies
- Theosophic Societies
- The Friends of Israel Society
- The Communist Party
- Opus Dei
Prior to bogus Council Vatican II, the Knights of Columbus were looked upon as being honorable. However, they have joined or continue with the Novus Ordo Church. Likewise, We have observed that they are very closely aligned with the Masons in that they have regular meetings together and some joint financial accounts. There is a truism which goes as follows: “Tell me your friends, and I will tell you what you are.” Our Lord made it clear that one cannot serve two masters.
We place before you the ideal. Form and join good societies, and at the same time join with Us in condemning and avoiding evil and suspect societies. Consider the caution given by Our Lord as it is recorded in the Gospel of St. Matthew 16, 26: “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?”
Know Your Enemies
It is clear to anyone with eyes that society, the world over, is deteriorating at an alarming speed. While it is true that fallen human nature brings on its own destruction, it is also true that most destruction is effected by conspiracy. In this treatise, We shall bring to your attention a chief conspirator for the destruction that is presently taking place before our very eyes. That man is Auguste Comte (1798-1857).Pope Pius IX and Pope St. Pius X fought with all their might to alert mankind of the menace of free thinking and materialism. The father of this evil was Auguste Comte. He set in motion the reign of Satan with the following philosophical principles. We shall enumerate them and comment on them where that is helpful.
The principles set forth by Auguste Comte are as follows:
- Replace Christianity With Positive Religion
- Abolish Monarchy
- Institute and Expand Communistic Principles
- Limit Education & Establish Sociological Control.
- Control the Environment to Control Mankind
- Destroy Moral Authority and Crush Personality
- Control Public Opinion
- Liberalize Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
- Destroy the Natural Family and Diminish Male Role
- Establish Evolutionary Theory and Control Sciences
- Promote Global Integration
- Consolidate Political Power in Wealthy and in Leaders of Industry
- Establish cities and Humanity’s Centers of Operation
- Phase Out Constitutional Government and Set Up a world Management System, now also called “Regional Government” or the “New World Order.”
The civil order is another matter. The world must be divided up into individual states with various names, such as homeland, country, nation, kingdom and the like. Each state is sovereign, and no uniting body as a united nations or world parliament can take that sovereignty away. Since nations have mutual dealings, they must have some type of overall society, formed by themselves, to deal with war and peace, trade, communication, finance, overlapping corporations, use of God’s gifts to man, as rivers, lakes, irrigation and the like. In all these things, might does not make right, only justice and charity is right.
The many states are not alone in their problems, for God established that the spiritual power is over the material power (states). The Church must judge if the operations (laws and policies) of the individual states and the united parliaments have acted correctly before God and man. For this reason the Church has a veto power over all civil governments and united nations parliaments. It is unfortunate that civil governments do not observe this, and to them We must say what Christ said to His Father in heaven while He hung on the Cross: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Take a hard look at what Auguste Comte said in number nine above: “Destroy the Natural Family and Diminish the Male Role.” Civil governments play God by attempting to dissolve marriages, giving (so they think) the right to re-marry over and over again. That aberration continues until the general public is perverted, and then even marriage and divorce are abandoned for free cohabitation where marriage is no longer an entity to deal with. Comte and his followers have made the public so immoral that free cohabitation has become commonplace. That gives way to one parent families where many children are brought up as criminals.
The paragraph continues “and Diminish the Male Role.” The head of the true family is the father. Likewise the true state is made up, not of individuals, but of families. Hence, the father is to represent the family before the civil government. By destroying the family the true state is also destroyed. What remains is what Comte wanted from the beginning, namely, a tyrannical government, making the general public slaves to godless tyrants.
Let us consider Comte’s proposition number ten: “Establish Evolutionary Theory and Control Science.”
Evolution removes the foundation of truth from all things. It even removes from the minds of men the very basic belief in the one true God, the creator of heaven and earth. In order to make communism work in China, the new communist government forced the teaching of evolution on the people. The Communists thus secured their satanic position and government.
Now you know the source of problems in science. Comte ordered, “Control Science.” In plant life there is gene alteration, making digestion of those plants difficult if not impossible. In the biological arena, every form of reproduction is now being tried. At the present time mankind sees cloning as a normal path for the future. Cannot men learn from history? In the Old Testament God eventually stopped the building of the tower of Babel.
It is a sad odyssey that men succumb to the machinations of Satan and his minions while they pass up the kind invitation of God. Jesus Christ says in Matthew 11, 29 & 30:
“Take up my yoke upon you and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.”Be it known to one and all, (seen in all history) the yoke of Satan is bitter, and the burden of Satan is heavy. That is true not only in hell but also even during life on earth.
The daily news reveals much corruption in government officials. This pertains both to their personal lives and also to their conduct in office. Of these government aberrations God has this to say in Ecclesiastics 10, 3:
“An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people.”Coming back to Comte, men must know his evil directives, and must oppose them with every legitimate material means and spiritual means available. By becoming members of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that Christ founded, mankind will live only in a true family where the father is the head of the family, and represents it before the civil government.
What are those who live holy lives and work for a just social order to expect in return? We shall go to the Letter of St. Paul to Timothy 3, 12 to 17:
“And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error, But continue thou in those things which thou has learned and which have been committed to thee, Knowing of whom thou has learned them. …All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice (meaning in all goodness and holiness).”Dear reader, do you suffer persecution in one form or another? If you do not, it is questionable whether you are truly living Godly in Christ Jesus.
From “Retreat Notes for Religious,” by Father Edward Leen, C.S.Sp., he writes on how to look at Christ:
“It is true that in coming in contact with Our Divine Lord we come in contact with One of unutterable tenderness and sympathy. It has been well said, however that all great souls are marked with a great depth of tenderness and insight and also with something that to the superficial seems to be a hardness that terrifies. They have a disdain for mere detail, for they are absorbed in the essential. They are adamant, inflexible, in face of the unreal and untrue. Christ was a great soul and although a Man of ineffable tenderness He was also a Man with the adamantine quality. There can be no pact between Him and what is untrue and therefore, tender as He is, when He comes face to face with me, mild as His glance may be, that glance must burn up and shrivel anything in me that is false to what I am, that is, a child of God.”Each one of us must meet Him at death to see and experience both His kindness and His keen justice.
Devotions to the HOLY ANGELS
From the booklet of the above title by an unanimous author We bring to your attention, for your devotions, some teachings concerning the three named angels.St. Raphael
The name of this blessed Angel signifies “cure” of God. He is the patron
of travelers. In the book of Tobias one reads the account of
how he brought safety and comfort to the son of Tobias and finally to the
entire family. Invoke St. Raphael together with St. Christopher in
all your travels.
St. Gabriel
It was he who announced to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she was chosen
to be the mother of God. His name, Gabriel, signifies “power of God.”
His peculiar grace is to imprint in hearts the knowledge and love of Jesus
and Mary. Let us be devout to him, and he will render to us the above
service so desirable.
St. Michael
When Lucifer raised his rebellious head, and sought to be like the
Most High, Michael, the Prince of the Seraphim, and the first of “the Seven
Spirits who stand before the Throne,” opposed his haughty pretensions and
overthrew him in the contest. St. Thomas supposes this blessed Spirit
to be the breath of the Savior, which will destroy Antichrist. He,
together with St. Joseph, is the patron of the Church – the protector of
the dying – he in fine, who on the last day will seize the trumpet, and
with a Surgite Mortui, “Arise, ye dead!”, will arraign all
men before the Judge of the living and the Dead. He is, then entitled
to singular love and devotion.
Pius, pp. XIII
August 26, 2001
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