Part One:
While driving his car a young man enjoys the thrill of
driving fast, really fast. He feels that
he is such a good driver, has razor sharp reflexes and is able to weave through
traffic with such precision that the speed limit doesn’t really apply to
him. “That is for other people,” he
thinks to himself. Assuming that he is
successful in avoiding a close, crunching encounter with another object, is he
correct in his belief that the speed limit holds no authority over him? What will happen when those dreaded flashing
lights appear in his rearview mirror?
If he ignores the first set of flashing lights and presses on, will not
more appear until their authority is manifested by brute force as they pull him
out of his car? Will not his
protestations of immunity fall on deaf ears as he is presented with the dire
consequences of his actions?
In our
country today, there is a total lack of understanding of our rights and
obligations in relation to lawful authority.
“Rights” are being made up out of thin air which are, not rights, but
crimes and grave sins. I hope to lay out
for you a guide which will give you the power of discernment of what is right
and what is wrong.
The highest
level of authority is, of course, God.
The one true God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, made
everything that is. This is the end of
the climb as we move up the chain of authority.
There is no other. Thus when He
speaks all of creation, especially humans and angels, will be held responsible
to His commands. That He is an
unimaginably good God, who wants the best for us, should make us eagerly desire
to obey His commands, as a child knows how to obey his parents. On this same authority level is Jesus. As the second person of the Trinity, He is
God. He is also appointed to be our
judge on the last day.
And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where
Jesus had appointed them. [17]And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. [18] And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. [19] Going therefore, teach ye all nations;
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost. [20] Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the
consummation of the world. Matt 28: 16-20 Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the
commandment of Jesus which puts the Catholic Church over the entire world. As I said earlier, when God speaks we should
listen and obey. It is through the
Church that He speaks to humanity. When
the Church teaches that contraception is a grave evil this applies, to every
human ever born, of every nation, every tribe and every belief. Like the posted speed limit applies to
everyone driving a particular road, this road is the road of life. All the ethical teachings apply to everyone,
teachings on marriage, co-habitation, homo-sexuality, divorce, etc. Not believing it will not make the
consequences of disobedience go away, but rather, will make the debts all the
greater. Conversely, simple, loving
obedience will bring peace and joys which we cannot fathom.
Part Two:
Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living
God. [17] And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art
thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but
my Father who is in heaven. [18] And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church,
and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against
it. [Matthew 16:18] [Latin] [19] And I will give to thee the keys of the
kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound
also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed
also in heaven. [20]Then he commanded his disciples, that they should tell no one that he
was Jesus the Christ. Matt: 16; 16-20
This verse demonstrates again, the authority of the Catholic
Church. Notice the mark of real authority, the keys to heaven, given to a
simple fisherman, Peter. Simply put,
when the Church declares a sin to be a sin that is what it is, end of
argument. There isn’t a vote of the
people, it is not a matter of personal opinion, nor can anyone simply run
around the Church waving his “Jesus get out of jail free card”. Jesus is the One who gave that job to Peter
and his successors. Those successors are
all the popes down the continual line to Benedict XVI, our current pope. They bind us upon earth with the
responsibility to be obedient to the teachings of Christ. Again, all those sexual licenses that are
running rampant are extremely grave. If
people die with those on their souls, they stay dead…worst of all, they are in
hell. Mary showed hell to some children,
whom she appeared to at Fatima Portugal in 1917, just a quick peek. They nearly died of horror and would have too,
were it not for her spiritual support. IT IS REAL! Please never forget that, or believe the lies
of those who would have us be complacent.
“Ooops! I have already
sinned! The mean Church will send me to
hell!”, one is tempted to shout. Not
true. The Church sends no one to
hell. Quite the opposite, She works to
help everyone to get to heaven. She has
the authority to loose upon earth as well.
She cannot simply discard the teachings of Christ and tell everyone “I’m
OK, you’re OK.” Christ did not give Her
that much authority. What She is charged
to do is teach the commandments as they were given by Christ and help those who
stumbled and fell. This is through the
sacrament of confession. The sin must be
confessed to a true priest with sincere contrition and a firm purpose to never
repeat. This is the loose upon earth teaching.
Without the Church it is very doubtful that anyone could make it through
this world to heaven. Is confession
scary and painful? No, it is the
ultimate relief from spiritual pain and troubles. It is the kindest gift God has ever given us
besides Himself. It is the true “get out
of jail free card”. “Your sins are
forgiven.” That is the most musical
sound a person can hear when spoken with real authority. You can almost hear the keys turning the lock
as heaven is once again opened to you.
“Then, I can go ahead with the sin I want to do and confess it
later.” Certainly not! Can anyone be
truly contrite and remorseful over a sin they are glad they committed? Those two conditions of the heart are
required. Can one intentionally hurt a
loved one for pleasure and claim to be sorry later? Further, there is
forgiveness of sins and there is also restitution of the damage done. This is where the redemptive value of loving
suffering comes in, but that is another paper.
Trust me dear people, you do not want to commit one sin…ever. Pray for help. Never miss an obligatory Mass!
The complete
hierarchy of authority is: God – Jesus – Catholic Church (Pope) – people –
states – federal government. My next
letter will be about our true rights and obligations as Christians. In the meantime, the next time you are
surfing-the-web look up www.churchmilitant.com
and watch some videos of The Vortex.
They are very instructive as well as interesting.
May God
bless you and may your heart swell with love of Him.
Part Three:
Why do I write these letters? The main reason is I love you as
you are my family and I wish you happiness. Related to that is the harsh fact
that the world is lying to you, in fact bombarding you with lies from every
medium (TV, Internet, News, Friends, etc) which if followed can only lead to
misery and despair. Finally, I believe that our country, the United States, is
on the edge of a human tragedy. There will soon be suffering in this country
that we find unimaginable now. Suffering brought to us by people who do not
believe in our good God and do not believe in His divine justice. Without a sound
moral compass as you try to cope with troubles you will certainly be lost. Time
is short! With God though, you will be at peace, will know your duty and will
not be afraid of anything, not even death.
My other letters outlined the descending order of true
authority. God – Jesus – Catholic Church – people. Here, at the people, is
where it gets messed up. The people rightfully form their world, their
governments and their civic order. In a just world all these governments and
laws would be in conformity with the teachings of the Church. However, when people do not recognize the
lawful limits to their authority as they manage these affairs then disunity,
error and conflict enters the realm. Grasp this concept. No one is able to pass through to another authority they do not
themselves hold. Example: If I lend
you my car for a week then you have the authority to drive it as you need. Do
you have the authority to lend it to another? No. Do you have the authority to
repaint it in your favorite color? Certainly not. The body of the people have
real and true authority passed down from God through the above listed order to
rightly form their worlds, but not unlimited authority. For example, they may
certainly create civil laws defining how a man and a woman may apportion their
property within a marriage. But they cannot define a marriage in any other
fashion than what the Church requires, which is how Jesus requires, which is
how God requires. If the people create the government how can they infuse the
government with the power to do things they cannot themselves do? Now we see
the so many errors, errors which only anger God and ruin people; fornication,
homo-sexuality, cohabitation, divorce, remarriage, single parent childbearing,
contraception, etc. Worse still, the people are clamoring to have the
government codify these grave sins into law! This can only bring our people
abject misery.
There is another way to have temporal authority. That is to
simply take it by force. “I will not obey!” is the battle cry of the sinner.
Adam and Eve started it and it continues through this day. The Catholic Church
has the lawful authority to define the true morality as she obeys the command
of Jesus to “teach”. Each and every one of the other “churches” began their
time with that awful battle cry. This is the great error of Protestantism. Every Protestant church began at this level, the level of people declaring their independence from higher authority, the Catholic Church. This has brought us the mass confusion of our
time. Rather than One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church teaching with one
voice the true will of God, we have thousands of conflicting and babbling
churches teaching errors and anything desired by human will. Listen to the Catholic Church. Read
her long history. Obey her precepts. Never miss an obligatory Mass! Here you will find peace, order, quietude of
soul and the true happiness God wishes for you.
Here you will learn courage, born of faith that will withstand anything
evil can throw at you. Here you will find God.
May God bless each of you.
Part Four:
As we
descend down the lawful hierarchy of authority we see the formation of states;
God – Jesus – Catholic Church – People – States. People form states to protect their mutual
interests. We need order, peace and
mutual understanding in our daily pursuits.
As an example, try to play the game of Monopoly without using the
printed rules. The game wouldn’t get
very far. The people have, over time,
formed the structures we call government so as to promote those favorable
characteristics of society I mentioned above.
From our collective authorities we empower the state to form and enforce
laws for our mutual benefit. However, we
do not pass through to the state our complete set of authority and rights. We retain the right of property ownership,
privacy in our affairs, right to bear arms for righteous reasons, our moral
obligations, freedom to come and go, to pursue wealth and even the right to
modify or replace the state. The
interest of the state is to insure that our activities do not harm others,
either personally, physically or materially.
However, the state oftentimes forgets their reason to be and begin to
abuse their authority, thus our right to replace them in extreme cases. This has formed organically over eons. That is why the Declaration of Independence
states:
When in the Course of
human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
I live in
Virginia. You may live in another. These states are among fifty in our
country. The federal government was
formed so as to protect the mutual interests of the several states in areas of
concern. Specifically, before the
adoption of the United States Constitution, which state could speak for the
others in international negotiations; which state could raise an army
sufficient to protect all thirteen; which state should print the money we all
would use; who decides standard measurements and economic practices? These and many more concerns were the
motivations for adopting the Constitution.
So we find the bottom of the hierarchy, the very bottom; the federal government; God – Jesus – Catholic
Church – People – States – Federal.
Again, who formed the Federal Government?
We the People of the
United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Now with an
understanding of this eternal line of authority you can discern the good from
the bad; the true from the erroneous.
For example, a young couple goes to a priest wishing to marry. They marry with the blessings of the Catholic
Church. The state they reside in
recognizes their marriage for civil reasons.
They fall away from each other.
They approach the state for a divorce.
Can you see the dichotomy? They
lawfully married with the blessings of the Church in conformity to Her
authority, but when it came to divorce they went down the chain for
relief. It is not possible to morally
divorce because the Church forbids it and retains that on them. If they are a part of the People who formed
the state how could they give authority to the state to create a divorce when
they had not the right themselves? In
reality, the only thing the state will be able to do for them is to apportion
their properties between them and to declare that for future property and tax
purposes they are separate. In the realm
of God they remain married and bound to the restrictions thereof, no other
sexual partners, cannot marry another, etc.
That is what they will be held to on the Final Judgment. The People and the States can declare
otherwise until doomsday, but that won’t change anything about it. Do not fall for that lie.
Another example is the “same sex” marriage
controversy. Is it possible for the
federal government to create such a thing?
No. Was it licit for them to say
that abortion was constitutional?
No. Lies, lies, lies and damned
lies! Worse, we now have government
goons who are trying to enslave us to their service. This has become possible only because our
People have abandoned their lawful place in the hierarchy and have neglected
their duty to obey it and to see that the governments keep to their lower place. Everyone has an internal need to know that
there is an ultimate authority that has our interests at heart. The trouble is, if we write out God – Jesus –
Catholic Church, the descending order flips over and leaves us with Federal Government
– State – People. Look who is on the
bottom now and who is now in the place of God, defining marriage, approving
abortion, mandating contraception, same sex "marriage", etc.
This is why
it is imperative that you learn and embrace Catholic teaching. Without it we are certainly the blind being
led by the blind and evil. At this
point, the first American Republic is dead.
It will not be revived. In the
cultural storm that we are about to be pounded with, the Catholic Church will
be your refuge. May God bless each of
you and don’t miss Mass!
Part Five:
I have
encouraged you to attend Mass without fail.
There are several serious reasons for this, which I will try to explain
- as if the incomprehensible could be explained! Dear Lord, help me here. First, what is the Mass? The Mass is the most perfect act of
adoration, supplication, offering and thanksgiving humanly possible, for God
created it and He is actually there Body, Soul and Divinity. In the Old Testament we see time and time
again the Israelites sacrificing animals in an attempt to mollify God’s anger
with our sins. Indeed, animal sacrifice
was given to Adam and Eve to do as soon as Heaven was lost to us and continued
right up to the first Good Friday. The
reason for this is it requires innocence to be sacrificed for the guilty. But what could possibly be innocent enough,
infinite enough, precious enough, good enough to be offered to God, who created
everything that there is, to erase all the sins of the world? Himself!
That is Love defined. It would be
more plausible for me to go down to the animal control center to offer my life
in trade for the life of one mangy stray dog.
That God would sacrifice Himself for mere creations of His own doing
defies logic. This act requires
thanksgiving. There can be no other rational
response.
At the Last
Supper, Jesus instructed the Apostles on this mystery. Though they did not understand at the moment
what He was telling them, the wisdom infused into them at the Miracle of
Pentecost sealed their understanding of it.
This completed the mystery wherein He told the multitudes that one had
to “eat His flesh” to have life, a teaching which scandalized many at the time
and continues to scandalize millions today.
In order to eat His flesh, He
must be there. The Eucharist is Him as
completely as if we were born two thousand years ago and were standing below
the cross while He slowly died. God is
the master of even time. Try to
understand this point. God created time,
He made it and He exists outside of it.
For eternity into the past, the other way, He Is. He Is, He knew Himself, He was complete and
needed nothing, wanted nothing and besides Himself there was nothing and that
was good and sufficient. Then He created
for no other reason than He was good and good creates. Every atom, every part of an atom, every part
of each part of every atom that exist anywhere that there is, He specifically
made. He is Jesus. Read the first
three paragraphs of John. “In the beginning was the Word…” So, the finest mystery of the Mass is this,
when we attend Mass, we are literally and truly standing at the foot of the one
and true cross in thanksgiving and offering and there is not two thousand years
separating us from Him. We are given the
same grace as Mary and John as they stood there, indeed, we stand there beside them. I am having a hard time typing this through
tears. My God! My God! We must be there! Where else would we want to be?
This is why
it is silly to be Protestant or a member of any other “church”. The Catholic Church is the one true church
where He is truly and physically present.
We go to Mass for four reasons as I listed above; Adoration (it is His throne room), Thanksgiving (self evident), Reparation
(to show contrition and sorrow and to offer Him to God), and Petition (ask for needs for He is a
good King!).
Imagine if
your child suffered a mental event which completely erased his memory of
you. Whenever you crossed paths with him
your heart would break knowing that you were nothing to him while you loved him
so much, watched over him, provided for him.
Your heart would reach out and say “It’s me! I love you! Remember the times we had?” and only
indifference is returned. This is our
effect on God each time we skip Mass. He
knew us before we were born and He waits for us to love Him.
Finally,
obedience is the counter force to the sin of disobedience. Remember the battle cry of the dammed? “I
will not obey!” Our reply, through
obedience, is “Lord, I love you!” So,
our gentle church charges us with the following acts of obedience, which upon
perusal are very sublime in that it takes true faith to complete them while
being a mild burden to bear:
The Six
Commandments of the Church
1. To hear
Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation
2. To fast
and abstain on the days appointed
3. To
confess at least once each year
4. To
receive, worthily, the Holy Eucharist during the Easter time
5. To
contribute to the support of our Pastors
6. Not to
marry persons who are not Catholics, or who are related to us within the third
degree of kindred, nor privately without witnesses, nor to solemnize marriage
at forbidden times.
May our
great and good God bless each one of you.
May Mary pray for you and find a sweet place in your hearts.
Part Six:
What is the
point of it all? God. God is the origin and point of everything
there is. It is His intent that we love
Him, serve Him, and be with Him in Heaven.
All the history of mankind, all the wars, all the traditions of nations,
all the drama are merely the tales of each human working their way to God or
hell. It all boils down to the last four
things: Death – Judgment – Heaven – Hell.
And
when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him,
then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. [32] And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall
separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the
goats: [33] And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on his left. [34] Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his
right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world. [35] For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was
thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in:
[36] Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I
was in prison, and you came to me. [37] Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did
we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? [38]And when did we see
thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? [39] Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to
thee? [40] 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.
[41] 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. [42] For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was
thirsty, and you gave me not to drink. [43] 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. [44] 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? [45] 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.
Mathew
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That’s it! That is the meaning of the world, right
there. The answer to all the questions
such as, “Why do children get sick?” or, “Why did that guy shoot those poor
children?” or, “Why do mean people get rich?” or, “Why is life so hard and why
do I not have enough money?” All of it
is the struggles of mankind over sin and self interests as they search for
God. Some believe and some don’t. Some believe errors. All of it is for us to use our time, short as
it is, to be with God, to love God, to follow God. Take the highway. Join the Catholic Church and live Her
teachings as She obeys Christ, the Lord of all. Get to Heaven, the place you were created for!
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