Things Necessary for Eternal Salvation

As We look at all those who right now are not members of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church, We are compelled to try to assist them by giving the fundamental things to be known and believed in order to be saved.

The first step on the way to heaven is this. One must be in the Church that Christ founded and placed on the shoulders of the Apostles with Peter at its head. Where Peter and his successors reign, there alone is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

There are three dogmatic definitions on this point that We shall quote as proof of the teaching: “Outside the Church there is no salvation.” The English version that We quote from is THE SOURCES OF CATHOLIC DOGMA, translated by Roy J. Deferrari from the thirteenth edition of Henry Denzinger’s Enchridion Symbolorum. It was published by B. Herder Books Co., St. Louis & London. The imprimatur is dated April 25, 1955. Marian House, Powers Lake, North Dakota, 58773, made the volume We quote from.

The first quotation is taken from number 430, given by the Lateran Council IV, 1215. It is: “One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved.” In a footnote the words of St. Cyprian are quoted: “There is no salvation outside the Church.”

The second quotation is taken from number 468, given by Pope Boniface VIII in the Bull, Unam Sanctam in 1302. He says: “Furthermore, we declare, say, define, and proclaim to every human creature that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff.”

The third quotation is taken from number 714, given by Pope Eugene IV, in the Bull, Cantate Domino, 1441: “It (the Church) believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants of 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.”

We shall elucidate the first quotation. This decree makes it clear that being in the Church is necessary for every single person, since “no one at all is saved” outside the Church. That universal necessity is expressed in all three quotations.

In the second quotation Pope Boniface VIII makes it clear that being in the Church requires that one be subject to the Roman Pontiff. We are the Roman Pontiff. There are persons who treat Us cordially and with apparent Christian charity, and who live seemingly good lives, but who will not be subject to Us. Christ said that the sheep know their shepherd, and the shepherd knows his sheep. Until a person makes known to the Pope, or a priest subject to him, that he sees him to be the Pope, the Pope cannot know that he is his sheep. God demands this mutual understanding and union before there is any claiming to be a Catholic, which is an absolute demand for eternal salvation.

In the third quotation many shocking statements are made. First of all, those outside the Church are named. They are:

Pagans do not know God. Jews damage their concept of God by denying the divinity of Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity. Heretics have a general faith, but they question or deny some truth of the faith. Schismatics (strictly speaking) have the faith, but they remove themselves from being ruled by the Church. They rend the seamless garment. They could have the entire Catholic life, except for being subject to the Pope. They do not remain schismatic for long, as their schism usually evolves quickly into their becoming heretics.

It is a sad fact of history that where bishops and priests with their faithful remove themselves from their subjection to the Pope they fall lower and lower. They may do everything as Catholics, and they think that living in that way they can work out their eternal salvation. They have their priests and bishops. They have their seven sacraments and the like. However, God refuses to give grace to those who receive valid sacraments while not being subject to the Pope. Hence, an adult who receives a valid baptism without being subject to the Pope, gets the indelible character on his soul, but he gets no graces. A man can be ordained a priest or consecrated a bishop, and still he will not receive grace, and without sanctifying grace no one can enter heaven.

Please note the words of the third quotation which says: “…and 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 rewards, 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.”

Please note this: anyone living outside of the Church, even while practicing a long and zealous Christian way of life, will not be rewarded for his charitable life, even if he saves his soul by a death-bed conversion. Every person outside the Church is throwing away his time. All the good he may do, can have only one possible good effect, that is, that his good and charitable life may obtain for him his conversion.

The quotation above from the Lateran Council IV refers to the “…Church of the faithful.” The minimum requirements as to the things to be known and believed by one in the Church are as follows. These things are beautifully and succinctly given in Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, Holydays and Festivals throughout the Ecclesiastical Year, by Leonard Goffine, 1880 edition. Page 308 reads:

You can make the mnemonic following four words, to remember the above. They are 1-Creator, 2-Remunerator, 3-Trinity and 4-Redemption.

If a person is in the throws of death, and he wants to become a Catholic and be received into the Church, with baptism you must instruct him with the above four points before you can give him the baptism of water that he desires. A person who is not pressed for time must learn many more of the truths of the faith before he may be given the baptism of water. Before God, he receives the baptism of desire when he knows the above four things and with the help of actual grace makes the act of perfect charity (loving God because He is all good in Himself) or the act of perfect contrition (being sorry for his sins because he offended God who is all good in Himself).

We shall elucidate the four words that contain the doctrines that must be both known and believed (with divine faith) before one can enter the Church and move on the way to eternal salvation.

CREATOR: All things that we see about us have been created. They came into being by reason of a former being, and finally from a Being (God) who is the one and only uncaused cause. Once a being is created it is ruled by the creator both in the natural order and in the supernatural order (how one must live in order to enter heaven). God’s creative act continues forever, in that, He keeps things in existence. For example, God forever keeps all angels and all men in existence: whether they make it to heaven by a good life, or make it to hell by a bad life.

REMUNERATOR: The creator (almighty God) furthermore, in all justice, rewards every angel and every human being with either heaven or hell, as they deserve. God knows all things even our most secret thoughts; hence, He judges justly, and against His judgment there is no escape and no appeal. At the end of the world all men will have to line up before God in either the right hand column or in the left hand column. Those on the right hand column will enter the everlasting joys of heaven, and those on the left hand column will enter the everlasting punishments of hell. Both reward and punishment will be meted out in perfect justice. No rightly performed good act will go unrewarded, and no act of moral evil (not repented of) will go unpunished.

TRINITY: The full revelation of the Trinity was revealed just before Christ entered heaven. He commanded the Apostles to go into the whole world and teach all men. They were to baptize those that believed the message “in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” The word “name” is in the singular to show that there is one and only one God. And still, there are three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.

REDEMPTION: Stemming out from the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity comes the doctrine of the Second Person Who was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary and born of her to redeem mankind by the shedding of His Blood. While on earth the Second Person, Jesus Christ, founded His Church on the Apostles with Peter at the head. The redemption wrought by Christ’s bloody death was to remain on earth to the end of time. Finally, the Holy Ghost, the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, came on earth on Pentecost Sunday to remain with the Church to the end of time. Thus, what was merited by Christ is and will be given to man to the end of time, that is, until the end of the world. As has been thrice define above, every single human being must live and die in that Church to be saved, that is, finally, to get to heaven. All those who die outside the Church are lost, meaning, they are damned and will suffer in the everlasting fires of hell.

In an ordinary course of instructions the catechumen must study four tracts. They are:

One knowing and believing the above is to be received into the Church by the Sacrament of Baptism of Water.

We return to the teaching of Pope Boniface VIII given in the Bull Unam Sanctam above. Lest some think that living a morally clean life by itself, will get one into heaven, Pope Boniface defined for every human creature (in a clear dogma – believe it or be damned) “that they by necessity for salvation are entirely subject to the Roman Pontiff.” We know people who are very nice folks, read Our writings and know the necessary things to be saved, and just remain neutral. In the parable of the white garment at the wedding feast Christ teaches that only those in the wedding feast have the white garment of sanctifying grace. There are those, sad to say, who at the wedding feast do not have on the wedding garment, and in the end they are to suffer the weeping and gnashing of teeth with those in the exterior darkness of hell.

Dear reader, if you are for any reason not subject to the true Roman Pontiff, Christ’s Vicar on earth, you are not on the road that leads to heaven. Outside the Church there is no salvation. Being subject to a bogus Pope, except for some very special circumstances, profits nothing. In this brief treatise it is impossible to go into all the circumstances where “invincible ignorance” of knowing the Pope will save one from the crime of not knowing the Pope.

In the Gospel of St. John 1, he writes of Christ:

It is a sad tale, but heretics take this last scripture text out of context, and they bring on their own ruin in hell.

Give your serious consideration to the quotation from Cantate Domino given above. First of all it says that four classes of persons will go to hell. They are pagans, Jews, heretics and schismatics. If you are not with Us in the Catholic Church you will fit in one of the above classes of persons on the fast track going to hell.

We shall revert to John 1, 8-9 where it is said:

There are two modes of enlightenment. One is the message itself, and the other is the supernatural power (divine faith) to accept that message.

In the Gospel (in the Ascension Day Mass) of Mark 16, 14-21: we find Christ scolding the Apostles as follows:

God “enlightened” the Apostles with human witnesses, namely, the holy women. His disciples had the message, and they had the divine faith handed to them, still they were scolded for “their lack of faith and hardness of heart.” Since God “enlighteneth” every person who comes into this world He gives every single soul a chance at both divine faith and the content of His message to men.

Just take the example of Our family. Our parents, Hubert and Cecelia Pulvermacher handed on the Catholic faith to all nine of their children. All of them accepted it, and they lived it for many years, until the Novus Ordo of bogus Council Vatican II struck. After that most of them abandoned their divine faith and the practice of their Catholic religion. We fear that Our Lord will have a scolding for them when they stand before His judgment seat at their moment of death. We fear and dread that Christ will “upbraid them for their lack of faith and hardness of heart.” May they, as We pray daily, come to the harbor of truth and unity of faith.

The workings of God are mysterious. What made Our Catholic parents the true messengers of the divine and Catholic faith? We had next-door neighbors, where parents directed their children into their false religions. In order for those children to get to heaven, they had to prayerfully study the Catholic faith as it was known and practiced in the Catholic Church, and to their praise there were such converts to the Catholic Church.

Faith

We cherish the hope that there will be readers who really want to study this topic, namely, divine faith. Hence, We lead you to a source from which you can learn much on this topic and many other topics as well. The book that We recommend is A Catholic Dictionary, by Donald Attwater, (Our volume has a 1930 imprimatur, and hopefully the volume by TAN Books is under that same protection). Buy it from TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 424, Rockford, IL 61105 at $24.00 plus postage. 1-800-437-5876. The starting page is 196.

There are three headings to consider.

Ad-1: Content of faith: “the sum of the truths taught by the Catholic religion.”

Ad-2: Theological virtue of faith: “by which our intellect is disposed to assent firmly to all the truths revealed by God, because of the infinite truth and wisdom of God who can neither deceive nor be deceived. The words of St. Paul (Heb. 11,1), “Faith is the substance of the things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not,” make a convenient definition of Faith, and all other definitions are a development of this. “If you would reduce the words to the form of a definition, you might say: Faith is a habit of the mind by which eternal life is begun in us, in that it makes the intellect assent to things which appear not…The fact that it is called evidence (argumentum) distinguishes faith from opinion, suspicion and doubt, in which there is no firm adhesion of the intellect to anything; the fact that it is ‘of things which appear not,’ distinguishes it from knowledge and understanding, by which a thing becomes apparent. The fact that it is ‘the substance of things hoped for’ distinguishes the virtue of faith from faith in common acceptance which is not ordained to any hoped-for-happiness….”

Ad-3: Justifying faith: Faith is necessary for justification, but it must be true faith and not merely the confidence which Luther depended upon: “If anyone say that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins on account of “Christ…let him be anathema (Council of Trent); Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be condemned” (Mark 17, 15&16). And for salvation this faith must be informed by (the virtue of) charity.”

For certain, every human being will go either to heaven or to hell. When one is conceived he does not have salvation. Hence, up to the age of reason his only salvation is the baptism of water. When that is not had and the person dies he goes to the part of hell called the limbo of the infants. Every person attaining the use of reason is forced in some way by God to decide to be either with God and receive sanctifying grace, or to reject God and go into the state of mortal sin.

Our Lord liked the parables of the supper or wedding feast to explain the Church and heaven. Three classes of excuses were used, and Christ said that those that did not come to the supper would not have a taste of it. Even those in the Church who are in that wedding feast go to heaven only if they wear the wedding garment of sanctifying grace.

Every person who cooperates with God, as He demands, will go to heaven, and every person who refused to cooperate with God will go to hell. Heaven and hell, both are without end. What could be more wonderful than to go to heaven forever? What could be more terrible than to go to hell forever? We as Pope exist to incorporate you in God’s one true Church, and to assist you all through life, so that heaven will be your bliss, enjoying the beatific vision forever.