Filled With the Holy Ghost To Seek the Conversion of Men and Nations To the True Faith
Vatican II does not teach conversion it teaches tolerance, convergence and dialogue (masonic principles)
The
missionary work of the Church to seek with urgency the unconditional
conversion of all men and all nations to the her maternal bosom, outside
of which there is no salvation and without which there is no true
social order, brought us glorious missionaries who were willing to
embrace many sacrifices, including martyrdom itself, to spread the Faith
of the Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so
that men and all nations would be able to order themselves rightly
according to the Deposit of Faith that He has entrusted exclusively to
Holy Mother Church for Its eternal safekeeping and infallible
explication and by means of a fervent cooperation with the graces won
for us by the shedding of Our Lord's Most Precious Blood and that flow
into our hearts and souls through the loving hands of Our Lady, she who
is the Mediatrix of all Graces. The work of conversion does not end when
one is Baptized or Confirmed.
The
work of conversion away from our sinful selves to become more conformed
to the Cross of the Divine Redeemer and the merciful designs of His
Most Sacred Heart for us is one that is constant. Every beat of our
hearts, consecrated as they must be to that same Sacred Heart of Jesus
through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, must burn with fire
for the love of God as He has revealed Himself to us through His true
Church and as we seek to grow in holiness and to make reparation for our
sins and those of the whole world. It is useless for us to be converted
in the Baptismal font unless we are willing to let God the Holy Ghost
help to convert us every day to cooperate more fully with His Seven
Gifts and Twelve Fruits. Saint Paul the Apostle explained that the
spiritual man, the one who is filled with Sanctifying Grace, cannot be
understood by the sensual or worldly man:
For
what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is
in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the
Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but
the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us
from God. Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human
wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things
with spiritual. But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are
of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot
understand, because it is spiritually examined. But the spiritual man
judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. (2 Cor. 2:
11-15)
We
must keep this in mind when our relatives and friends and associates do
not understand how we can refuse to keep our silence when a putative
"pontiff" calls a mosque as a "jewel" or as a "sacred" place or as he
prays as a Jew without mentioning the Holy Name of the Divine Redeemer
(doing voluntarily what the leaders of Sanhedrin tried to force the
Apostles to do, that is, to mention the "name of that man no more") and
has he praises the nonexistent ability of false religions to help build
the "better world."
We
cannot care about what others think of us. We must say and do only
those things that are pleasing God, never fearing to raise our voices to
defend His greater honor and glory and majesty when these are offended
by one claiming to speak for the Catholic Church on earth. The Mystical
Bride of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Holy Mother Church,
is as spotless and as immaculate as Our Blessed Mother herself.
The Catholic
Church did not give us "hootenanny" liturgies before the aftermath of
the "Second" Vatican Council. She did not give us "inter-religious
dialogue" and "inter-religious" prayer services. She gave us liturgies
that came from God the Holy Ghost, not travesties that reaffirm people
in the spirit of the world.
The Catholic Church
can only give us clarity of doctrine, not ambiguity and complexity that
took one "clarification" after another to attempt to make "clear." And
Holy Mother Church has always mirrored Our Blessed Mother's hatred of
heresy and error, which was part of the meditation written by the late
Father Frederick Faber on the Sixth Dolor of Our Lady:
In
the judgment of the world, and of worldly Christians, this hatred of
heresy is exaggerated, bitter, contrary to moderation, indiscreet,
unreasonable, aiming at too much, bigoted, intolerant, narrow, stupid,
and immoral. What can we say to defend it? Nothing which they can
understand. We had, therefore, better hold our peace. If we understand
God, and He understands us, it is not so very hard to go through life
suspected, misunderstood and unpopular. The mild self-opinionatedness of
the gentle, undiscerning good will also take the world's view and
condemn us; for there is a meek-loving positiveness about timid goodness
which is far from God, and the instincts of whose charity is more
toward those who are less for God, while its timidity is searing enough
for harsh judgment. There are conversions where three-quarters of the
heart stop outside the Church and only a quarter enters, and heresy can
only be hated by an undivided heart. But if it is hard, it has to be
borne. A man can hardly have the full use of his senses who is bent on
proving to the world, God's enemy, that a thorough-going Catholic hatred
of heresy is a right frame of mind. We might as well force a blind man
to judge a question of color. Divine love inspheres in us a different
circle of life, motive, and principle, which is not only not that of the
world, but in direct enmity with it. From a worldly point of view, the
craters in the moon are more explicable things than we Christians with
our supernatural instinct.
We
must therefore permit God the Holy Ghost to come into our souls with
His bright burning flames at every moment of our lives so that we will
filled with love of God and hatred of our own sins as we seek to
cooperate with the graces He sends us through the loving hands of His
Spouse, Our Lady, making sure to honor His Spouse as we pray as many
Rosaries each day as our states-in-life permit. May this be our prayer
this day and every day our own lives:
Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created.
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Let
us pray. O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the
light of the Holy Ghost, grant us in the same Spirit to be truly wise,
and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
