Fr. Campbell, "“And He will send forth His angels” (Mt.24:31)"
“And
he will send forth his angels with a trumpet and a great sound, and
they will gather His elect (chosen) from the four winds, from one end of
the heavens to the other” (Mt.24:31).
God
chooses carefully those who will be with Him in Heaven for all
eternity. Because our eternal destiny depends on how carefully we
prepare for it in this world, St. Paul says, “…work out your salvation
with fear and trembling” (Phil.2:12).
The first step on the road to Heaven is to believe in Jesus Christ, and respond to His invitation:
“Yet
a little while the light is among you. Walk while you have the light,
that darkness may not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does
not know where he goes. While you have the light, believe in the light,
that you may become sons of light” (Jn.12:35-36).
Our Lord predicted a terrible end for the unbelieving Pharisees:
“Therefore
I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe
that I am he (the Messiah), you will die in your sin” (Jn.8:24).
Those
who believe must then be baptized, for without Baptism you cannot live
in the spiritual realm, and you will never breathe the air of Heaven.
You must obey the Holy Commandments of God, and become an obedient
member of His Church. You must shun the company of evildoers. Otherwise,
you will be led into sin. You can’t dress like them, you can’t speak
like them, you can’t do what they do. But if you keep bad company, you will do what they do, you will speak like they speak, and think as they think. Again, St. Paul’s advice:
“But
immorality and every uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be
named among you, as becomes saints; or obscenity or foolish talk or
scurrility, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For know
this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous
one (for that is idolatry) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
and God. Let no one lead you astray with empty words; for because of
these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
Do not, then, become partakers with them… and have no fellowship with
the unfruitful works of darkness… (Eph.5:3-7;11).
Having
heard Our Lord and St. Paul, lets now hear from Francis Bergoglio,
whose doctrine is in direct opposition to theirs. In his homily on
November 5, Francis says Christians must be inclusive, not exclusive:
“The
Christian includes, he does not close the door to anyone… He who
excludes, because he believes himself to be better, generates conflicts
and divisions… Let us ask the grace of being men and women who always include, always, always!…
the attitude of Jesus is to include… God has included us all in
salvation, all!... We… all have this attitude of excluding… which, as I
said, can end in wars.”
That
little phrase about ending “in wars” reveals the mind of Francis
Bergoglio. The Catholic Church insists on the truth of its teachings, so
it is “exclusive”. We must forget our differences so we can be
“inclusive”. What we need is One World Religion. Then there will be no
“conflicts and divisions”, and no wars.
The
first thing Francis wants us to give up is TRUTH. If the Catholic
Church insists on its uniqueness as a religion, and the absolute
integrity of its doctrine, it “can end in wars.” This, of course, does
not apply to the Novus Ordo church, which is “inclusive”. It has
abandoned truth to please the world. But is Francis inclusive “always,
always”? Only when it pleases him! He excludes Traditionalists with
angry words, and threatens to excommunicate them. With us he is NOT
“inclusive”.
Now we exclude others not because we think we are better than they are. But we must do better than they do
if we want to save our souls. I’m sure you wouldn’t think of inviting
crooks and perverts to dinner, where they have free access to the
children. But you invite into your living room the liars and predators
who inhabit TV land, and the world of the Internet. Unless God has
blessed you with great spiritual discernment, it becomes your
world, a false world in which you will become ensnared in the lies and
schemes of the devil. Satan is determined to destroy the True Catholic
Church and its teachings, and his agents have been at work doing this
for centuries. The vicious and bloodthirsty predators who control the
media are the devil’s agents, and most of the entertainment they force
feed us is becoming increasingly corrupt and corrupting. Even most
children’s programming is loaded with false and worldly ideas disguised
to look cute and innocent, but which lead the children into darkness.
Indeed, the most dangerous place for the children is seated in front of
the TV, or browsing on the Internet or their Smartphone. The devil, whom
Jesus called the Prince of this world (Jn.8:30), rules the media.
Despite
what Francis says about being “inclusive”, God does not include
everyone. In the beginning God destroyed the earth by the Great Flood,
and only Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their wives were
saved. The rest were all swept away in the Flood (Mt.24:38,39).
After
God brought His chosen people out of Egypt, they wandered in the desert
for forty years. And with few exceptions, not including even Moses,
only those who were born in the desert were allowed to enter the
Promised Land.
And at the end of the world the wicked will be excluded from Heaven:
“And
there shall not enter into it anything defiled, nor he who practices
abomination and falsehood, but those only who are written in the book of
life of the Lamb” (Apoc.21:27).
Of those who are obedient to God and His holy Commandments, Our Lord says:
“I
am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To him who
thirsts I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely. He who
overcomes shall possess these things, and I will be his God, and he
shall be my son” (Apoc.21:6b,7).
