Faith Blindness Is Similar to Color Blindness

In order to explain the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven Our Lord Jesus Christ frequently resorted to the use of parables. In imitation of Our Lord and lead by ordinary divine light We present the parable below to explain the mystery of the Catholic and divine infused virtue of faith. Our opening text defines faith and states its absolute necessity for eternal salvation.

In Hebrews 11, 1, we read: “Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.” Verse 6 says: “But without faith it is impossible to please God,” and obviously it is impossible to get to heaven. The faithless are doomed to hell forever.

Parable

Give your first consideration to the words explaining faith as: “the evidence of things that appear not.” The person who sees normally (not color blind) sees not only the objects before him, but he also sees them in their colors. To the person who is color blind all the objects before him are seen, but all of them are in shades of black and white. No matter what he does he cannot change that fact. If no one ever told him that there are such things as colors he would never know that they exist for anyone on earth to see.

In the seminary while studying empirical psychology the problem of color blindness had to be studied. In order to deal with color two things must be considered. The first thing is that there must actually be color (in some causative way) in external objects. The second element is that there must be a power in the viewer to see the colors. The viewer must have it in himself to see color, and the objects before him must have color in them in some causative way.

If a person goes to a black and white movie or views black and white photographs every object seen will be in the spectrum of black and white. The persons both with the power to see color and those without the power to see color all see the same colorless objects. The objects have no cause within them to produce color.

The parable is this! Those who cannot see the things of divine and Catholic faith, that is, in their divine properties are faith-blind. A person without faith knowing that the man at the altar is a priest and that the priest completed the consecration of the Mass just cannot see any change in that what still appears as just bread and wine. He cannot see that the consecrated species are the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, really, truly and substantially present. He would have no qualms what so ever to throw left over consecrated hosts out to the birds or just walk on Them himself. We have heard of such things taking place in non-Catholic Christian religions.

It is important that We explain faith-blindness both for those who have the faith and for those who do not have the faith. Those who have Catholic and divine faith will thank God for the marvelous quality of their Catholic and divine faith. They will be more careful not to offend against their virtue of faith lest they may lose it and possibly never get it back again. Those with the faith must make acts of faith especially when they get to the age of reason, when temptations against faith surface and especially while going through door of death.

Please lay the example of color blindness beside faith blindness. The power of the infused virtue of faith resides in the individual. It does not belong to human nature, so at birth every descendent of Adam and Eve is without the infused virtue of faith. It is given to the individual at the moment of baptism whether that baptism is of water or desire. It remains attached to the soul for life unless for some reason it is discarded by unbelief. It can also be hampered in its operation by any mortal sin. Once one has lost his/her faith it is almost impossible to receive it back. Note well, We said, “almost” impossible to acquire it again. Any one who has lost his faith should make the utmost efforts to regain it while he still has all his faculties, for it is highly unlikely that he will be able to regain it at the moment of death.

As with the power to see color, an external object is required, so too faith also requires that the objects of faith (mysteries) actually exist. The whole spectrum of the Catholic Faith is divine. It begins, as the Apostles’ Creed says that one believes “in the holy Catholic Church…”

During Our ministry We had a young man come to Us for instructions in the Catholic faith. He sat through the instructions just as any other catechumen. One day he asked Us to hear his story. He told Us that he saw religions at nearly every corner in the road. He determined to study all the religions he could find, and in the end he would choose the best one for himself. That, indeed, was a laudable motive for a person without the virtue of faith. In his account he made the following remark. “When I first came here I was in the process of searching to find the best religion on earth and then taking it for myself. I no longer do that. Here I have found the only religion given to man by God for man’s eternal salvation. All the other religions are false and avail nothing for eternal salvation.”

Let us put it this way. Just suppose that our Catholic religion was colored blue. Let that be the example of the divinity of the Catholic Church. Once the young man saw that Church in blue, he immediately saw that all the other religions were just shades of black and white. No matter where on earth he might go he could always find God’s Church to man. He could always know that all the other religions were man-made, and useless for the attainment of heaven. In other words when he viewed all the Churches in the world all of them were shades of white and black except the Catholic Church, which had the divine color (so to say) of blue. A faith blind person could never see that.

This young man was able to make the above judgment for two reasons. He had the infused virtue of Catholic and divine faith, and with that he was able to see the divinity of the Catholic Church and also make the judgment that all other religions are false. The Catholic Church is not the best religion on earth. She is the only (true) religion on earth.

At this stage in the treatise on faith let us revert to the definition of faith as given in the Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews 11, 1: “Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.” We who have the sight of divine faith see no more with our natural sight and natural reason than do other persons who lack the virtue of divine faith. It is only because we are not faith blind, not color blind (so to say) in the supernatural order.

It is evident that each and every one of those who read these words are either able to see color or they are colorblind. The same is true in the supernatural order. Each and every reader of these words is either a person with divine faith or he is without divine faith.

Lest some of you may think that the operation of faith works in a vacuum We must explain the problem of discovering the objects of faith. Let us take a simple example. If you have a person before you who knows nothing at all of the Old or New Testaments, and then posit the supposition that he has in himself divine faith (actually an impossibility). Tell him that what he sees in the Mass, the consecrated Host, is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, really and truly and substantially present. Even if he had divine faith he could not believe that, for he needs the foundation (preamble) of the truths of the faith. He must know the Creator God, the Incarnation, the Redemption, the succession of Holy Order and so forth before he can believe in the Eucharist as defined above.

There are those who think that all that is necessary for accepting divine truths and realities are the (preamble) foundations of the faith. Many people know the Old and New Testaments inside out, and still they cannot believe what is divine in them. They cannot believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man. We heard of a Protestant minister who was a prolific writer with shelves of books that he wrote on the truths of the faith, and still he could not accept the truth that the Catholic Church was God’s only religion on earth. With all his studies and books he still could not do the works of faith as defined by St. Paul (Heb. 11,1) where the divine is present when to his senses and brilliant mind he could not lay hold of “things that appear not.”

This faith blind Minister saw all things as shades of black and white. Not one color stood out, so all the things before him were no more than just shades of black and white. He was faith-blind, so his Protestant religion had the same color (so to say) as all the other religions in the world. The Catholic Church for him had nothing special about it for him. We never heard if he ever received the infused virtue of divine faith, so it is likely that he passed from this life to the next life just full of knowledge of the faith but without divine faith. Shudder at this: without divine faith it is impossible to please God, and it is alsoimpossible to avoid hell and to enter heaven.

There are many who say that if they were in the Holy Land and had seen the many miracles that Christ performed they would not have turned against Him on Good Friday as the priests and people did, to the point of calling for His crucifixion. All the miracles in the world do not make one ounce of faith. The signs from heaven are to lead the faithless to see that there is something special going on, and they are to pray for divine help, that is, for faith. They are to cooperate with actual grace and thus with the help of God become persons with the infused virtue of divine faith in their souls. In the natural order it would be that the person who was colorblind received the sight to see color.

Those of us who have the virtue of divine faith must be careful not to do anything that can lead us to lose our divine faith. The highly intellectual people like to pride themselves in their ability to figure out all the problems before them. If there is a problem that is above and beyond the powers of human reason they are tempted to simply deny the divine truth, and by that they lose their faith. We remember on Okinawa there was a priest who felt confident that he belonged to the elite. One day in the presence of many other priests he denied the perpetual virginity (Mary is a virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ) of the Blessed Virgin. Since it was in Novus Ordo days he remained uncorrected by the superiors. Low and behold, at the next election the brethren elected him as the highest superior of the Capuchin Order on the island of Okinawa. Obviously, he did not treat us well or fairly.

In a recent publication We read the account of how the Jews are attacking the Scriptures (the Bible as it is written and approved by the Church). They attack God’s holy word by attacking the Oberam-mergau Passion Play. They claim that the play is anti-Semitic, for the play tells the truth of how the Jews called for and were responsible for the death of Christ on the Cross. Pontius Pilate professed the innocence of Christ, and he said he was not a Jew (He was a Roman). He told Christ, that His own people turned Him over to him to get Him crucified. The account of how even the high priest of God’s religion (at that point in history) said that Christ must die. Now the Jews do not want that history to stand. Anything that is shameful to the Jews, so they now say, must be removed from the Oberammergau Passion Play and from the New Testament accounts of Christ’s passion and death. It is true that anti-Semitism (opposing a Jew for no other reason than that he is a Jew) is wrong. However, it is not anti-Semitism to speak the truths of history, for those truths can never be undone without making a lie.

A bit of sadness comes over Us as We recall an unhappy incident in Our life. We were riding in a Jeep with a Jewish lawyer who was serving as a lawyer in the armed forces. He told us in no uncertain terms, “You can tell me all the good things you want about Christ, but do not come along with that baloney that He is God.” It even pains Us to repeat (as an example of history) that man’s horrible blasphemy. His knowledge of Christ and His Church was complete, for he was married to a Catholic woman, and they had a son who received Catholic baptism.

In the Apostles Creed we profess belief in God the Father.., in Jesus Christ.., in the Holy Ghost.., the Holy Catholic Church.., the communion of the saints..., the forgiveness of sins…, the resurrection of the body…, and life everlasting. Amen.

You may have thought that being a Catholic merely follows from knowing the arguments that proved that the Catholic Church is God’s one and only Church. That is not the case. Over the years We have instructed many non-Catholics in the faith. In the beginning of this newsletter We gave you the example of the Japanese young man who came to Us to learn what We had to say about Our religion. Once, sort of in a flash, he received the infused virtue of divine faith, he told Us that he saw the truth that the Catholic Church is the only Church on earth that is from God.

We recall where a mother and daughter took a course in religion by mail. Both the mother and daughter progressed normally. However, one day the mother came up short. She had a problem believing that the Eucharist is the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. In disgust she said to her daughter: I followed the instruction to this point, but I just can never believe that the Catholic Eucharist is the true Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. The daughter of faith breathlessly relied: Why mother I believe it, for Christ said so at the Last Supper., “This is My Body…” This is My Blood...”

There is much confusion in the entire world today as to where is the Catholic Church. Where is the Church that God gave to men for man’s eternal salvation? Once one knows (from arguments which are crowned by divine faith) the Catholic Church (under Pope Pius XIII) he automatically abandons all other religions that claim to be of divine origin.

We made a study of what went wrong and what made Council Vatican II the origin of a new religion. We studied its sixteen document. We also studied the new Liturgy, the new Canon Law and the new Catechism of the Church. Our conclusion was and still is that the Novus Ordo is not God’s Church. For years We worked with others to assemble faithful Catholics for a papal election. As the date came closer there was a great schism, and even at that We pushed on without being in any guiding position. Finally, a well-organized papal election elected Us as the Pope on October 24, 1998. We freely accepted the office of Vicar of Christ, and the Catholics of the time both those who took part in the voting and those who did not take part in the voting accepted Us as the Pope, the Vicar of Christ. The account of the pre-election and election process can be found in the website given in the information box on the first page on this newsletter.

By means of the papal election and Our consent, plus Our divine faith We believe that We are the Pope, the Vicar of Christ and the immediate successor after Pope Pius XII (d. October 9, 1958)

For those who know Us and are not one with Us it is Our judgment there must be one or two things missing in you. You may not know of the October 24, 1998 papal election. If you know that, the next and likely problem left is that you lack the virtue of divine faith.

The example is this. Behold before you are all the Churches in the world. One alone has the divine color, and you cannot see it. They all look the same, and for one reason or another you like one where you hang on, likely for the consolation of it.

Only those who die with faith, hope and charity (having sanctifying grace) will enter heaven. It is presumed that those with faith will find God’s one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

In the natural order, those who are colorblind never find a color. In the supernatural order, those who are faith blind never find the color of divine objects.

Once again, in the natural order you are able to see color or you cannot see color. The same is true in the supernatural order. You are able to see supernatural “color” or you cannot see supernatural “color.” The most pitiful fact of history is that the spiritually color blind in the Holy Land failed to see the divinity in the crucified Savior, and at the instigation of the devil they clamored for His death on the Cross – and shamefully called for His Blood to be on themselves and their children. That operation of history continues through all history. O God have mercy on the human race, by giving one and all an abundance of graces, lest they die in wretchedness and hunger.

State in Prayer What You Need

Presuming that one is in God’s Church (in the banquet hall) and presuming that one is there in (the wedding garment) sanctifying grace one should approach God as follows:

O God give me an increase in the infused virtues of faith, hope and charity; prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude. Perfect and bolster all of those with the gift of the Holy Ghost, of wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord. Crown my divinely assisted acts with the fruits of the Holy Ghost, namely: charity, joy, peace, patience, longanimity, goodness, benignity, mildness, faith, modest continency and chastity.

Lead me to live the eight beatitudes, (the first and last being) Blessed are the poor in sprit for theirs’ is the kingdom of heaven, and, Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice sake for theirs’ is the kingdom of heaven.

Assist me, in my way of life, in the performance of the spiritual and corporal work of mercy, and may all this be done in the spirit and practice of the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience, in conformity with my state of life.

As I end my life on earth in death may I die praying the Golden Arrow:

A deeper moving into the powers offered by the Holy Ghost can be stated as follows: