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8th October 2021
Reign Of Error Steve McGarry
Over forty years ago Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote: “All of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilisations and changes whole epochs. The present world situation is complicated still more by the fact that several hours have struck simultaneously on the clock of history.” It is clear that in the meantime, many more hours have struck on that same clock. There are several different and even opposing interpretations of these events, but one overriding factor is quite clear and Solzhenitsyn has put his finger on it. Quoting the old people of Russia he said: “The reason why all this has happened to us is that we have forgotten God”. Since God is the source of all good, the further society moves away from Him the more does evil triumph. The Abbe Courtois,(A famous French Abbot and spiritual director) put it like this: “The cataclysms of history are but the projection upon the surface of the globe, of the state of conscience of mankind.” As a backdrop to the natural disasters of recent times the spiritual eye can discern hurricanes
“The reason why all this has happened to us is that we have forgotten God”.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, West Germany, 1974
of demons, floods of greed and wildfires of lust. So as we view with varying degrees of dismay, a world sinking ever deeper into a Godless crisis, the dire warnings issued by The Mother of God at Fatima in July 1917, come to mind. “If you do what I tell you, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, promoting wars and persecution of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer and various nations will be annihilated.”
are obliged to ask ourselves what can we do? In fact the question would be more correctly stated as: What must we do?
Yes, the word she used was “annihilated”. That particular hour has not struck on the clock of history. Not yet.
Not all of us are called to be preachers, but we are all called by virtue of our Baptism and Confirmation to be temples of the Holy Spirit and soldiers of Jesus Christ. As soldiers we are expected to arm ourselves properly, with the spiritual weapons that we have been given, the sacraments, the gospels and the rosary and to fight every day against the ever growing army of those who seek to eradicate the Catholic Church from the face of the Earth. We should make our own the words spoken by Churchill during WWII.
Again, in August Mary said: “Many souls go to hell because there is no one to pray and make sacrifices for them”. Conscious of such an unimaginable disaster for so many souls and of the horrendous suffering which Jesus Christ underwent in order to save them, we who claim fellowship with Him
“We shall defend our (Island), faith, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
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The most urgent requirement for those who have remained true to the faith is to live more intense spiritual lives, in order to atone for the Godlessness of others. How do we do that? By imitating Christ. Jesus Christ the saviour of the world, spent three years going about preaching the Gospel and working miracles. The other 30 He spent proclaiming the vital importance of the ordinary chores of everyday life. St. Joseph is the greatest saint in Heaven after Our Lady. The Gospels do not record a single word spoken by him. All that we know is that he always did what he was told. Other than that, he seems to have gone about his business just like his neighbours. However there was one enormous difference which went unnoticed. When he became betrothed to Mary she brought Jesus into his life and from then on he lived every day with Jesus and Mary. One could argue that Joseph had the huge advantage over the rest of us, in that he was actually living in the presence of Jesus and Mary every day. We do not have that privilege. Or do we? Remember what Jesus said to doubting Thomas: “Blessed are they who have not seen and yet believe.” Sister Josefa Menèndez, a victim soul, died a holy death at her convent in France at the age of thirty-three. This is what Jesus said to her in 1922: “The soul who constantly unites her life with Mine, glorifies Me and does a great work for souls. Thus, if engaged on work of no value in itself, if she bathes it in My Blood and unites it to the work I Myself did during My mortal life, it will greatly profit souls… I so much want souls to understand this! It is not the action in itself that is of value; it is the intention with which it is done. When I swept and laboured in the workshop of
Nazareth, I gave as much glory to My Father as when I preached during My Public Life… My love goes so far that My souls can draw great treasure out of mere nothing. When as soon as they awake they unite themselves to Me and offer their whole day with a burning desire that My Heart may use it for the profit of souls, when with love they perform their duties, hour by hour and moment by moment, how great is the treasure they amass in a single day!”... But I desire souls to unite themselves to Me not only in a general way. I long for this union to be constant and intimate as it is between friends who live together; for even if they are not talking all the time, at least they look at each other, and their mutual affectionate little kindnesses are the fruit of their love”. (The way of Divine Love. Sr. Josefa Menendez) The Holy Sacrifice Of The Mass The enemies of mankind may have the most sophisticated weapons. They may have endless wealth and control over social structures and the major means of communication, but they do not have the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass or the rosary. We Catholics do, and if we have not succeeded in conquering the world for Christ, it can be due solely to
REIGN OF ERROR 9 our failure to activate the awesome power that is at our disposal. The Mass is the supreme means by which we can be united to Christ and so share in his divine life and power. We say this prayer at the offertory: “By the mystery of this water and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity” The drop of water that the priest puts into the chalice represents our individual offering. That drop mixes inextricably with the wine, and at the consecration is changed into the blood of Christ. So as we place our morning offering in the chalice at Mass, that which was of little value at the offertory, becomes of infinite value at the consecration, when it is changed into the blood of Christ. When we receive Holy Communion we become one body, one spirit in Christ. We should emerge from every Mass therefore, buoyed up by the words of St. Paul: “ If Christ is with us, who can be against us”? LET NO DAY PASS WITHOUT GOING TO MASS.
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No Man Can Serve Two Masters John Lacken “No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24) Being in the service of mammon seems to me to be one of the core problems with our modern society and it is a delusion which leads many into thinking that having enough possessions will make them free and independent. Those who think this way tend to ignore the reality of death. The problem is not something new and Our Lord highlights the reality of our existence in the parable of Lazarus told in St Luke’s Gospel. “There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom: And he cried, and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame. And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive
The Rich Man and Lazarus - Fyodor Bronnikov (1827 - 1902) good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted; and thou art tormented. And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither. And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee, that thou wouldst send him to my father’s house, for I have five
brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments. And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance. And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither
8th October 2021 Catholic Voice PROMOTE YOUNG MARRIAGES 13 will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.” (Luke 16:19-31) We humans are creatures. We did not bring ourselves into existence and, whilst our parents gave us certain biological characteristics, they are not our creators for they too depend for their existence on others. The chain can be followed right back to the first man and the first woman, Adam & Eve. The book of Genesis teaches us about our creation. “And God said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moves upon the earth. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26-28) Because we are creatures, we are not the ultimate masters of our own destiny. Our final destiny is determined by our creator. God, being a good and sentient being, did not create us on a mere whim. Far from it. God created us for a specific purpose. He commanded us to increase and multiply and fill the earth. Therein lies our destiny. The history of mankind as related to us in Sacred Scripture, slowly and progressively reveals the deeper My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I beg pardon of Thee for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. Amen. Angel to the Children of Fatima 1916
meaning of our existence and the life that God has in store for us. Unfortunately, many people look upon Sacred Scripture and try to interpret it and read it as one would read any other book. We hear people speak of the wrathful God of the old testament as opposed to the more merciful God of the new testament. The simple error that is made here is that Sacred Scripture was not written for God it was written for man. God does not and cannot change. God does not alter His plans based on human developments and advancement, because God foresaw all of these. The change that we witness in Sacred Scripture shows us the changes and development of mankind. After the fall of man in the garden of Eden through original sin, God sent Adam and Eve out of the garden to fulfill their destiny. They were sent forth to increase and multiply and fill the earth. The chosen people were promised a Saviour and they were destined to reject that Saviour when He came. This led to the establishment of the Catholic Church by Jesus Christ which came to life at the first Pentecost. Everything that God has done in relation to man, was done to help us to live out the reason for our creation based on the two great commandments: “Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments depend the whole law and the prophets.” (Matthew 22:37-40) God created us and God, throughout history, and in particular since
the time of the foundation of the Catholic Church, has given us directions for our lives which will lead us eventually to be with Him in the eternal Kingdom in Heaven. However, God also gave us free will, because without free will we are not capable of loving. The danger of free will is that we may choose ourselves as the object of our love rather than loving God and neighbour. The whole history of creation tells us of those who rejected God and of those who accepted Him. We have Lucifer and the fallen angels. We have St Michael and the good angels. We have Adam & Eve, who rejected God in favour of the lies of the devil. They desired to be equal to God and were fooled into thinking that this was possible. Throughout Sacred Scripture we read of men and women just like us and of how they behaved. We learn of those who pleased God and of those who rejected Him. Characters like John the Baptist, Moses, Abraham, the woman caught in adultery, St Peter, St Paul, St Matthew, St Mary Magdalen, chose to follow God. They had their struggles, just like us, but they rejected serving mammon in favour of serving the One True God. Characters like some of the Pharisees, and High Priests, and Judas, chose to reject God in favour of their own concepts of what God should do. They formed a God in their own image and likeness and when they discovered that God did not conform to their ideas, they rejected Him in favour of an illusion. Christ rebuked St Peter severely when St Peter tried to tell Him that going to Jerusalem and being crucified was a bad idea. “But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men.”” (Matthew 16:23)
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