“The Shepherd and Guardian of your souls” (1Pet.2:21-25)
The
world is in Revolution. Society is fast approaching absolute disorder,
chaos. This is certainly the work of the devil, the first revolutionary,
who led the fallen angels in revolt against the authority of God, and
the order established by Him.
The
devil, Lucifer, was a super intelligent angel, far superior in
intelligence to human beings. He was more brilliant than all the other
angels, so brilliant that he thought he could rival God. Holy Scripture
speaks of his pride, which caused him to stumble, and he was cast out of
Heaven. Thrown down with him were his followers, a vast number of
angels now known to us as devils, or demons. They will never see God,
nor know Him. The prophet Isaias declares:
“How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning?
How art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? And thou
saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God. I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in
the sides of the north. I will ascend above the height of the clouds. I
will be like the Most High. But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,
into the depth of the pit” (Is.14:12-15).
Since
the devil lost Heaven, was he going to be content to let us go there?
It was his hatred and envy that caused him to incite disobedience and
rebellion in the human race, a Revolution against the order willed by
God for His creation, by cleverly deceiving Adam and Eve.
The
devil’s intention is to return the world to the chaos from which it
began. But his followers think they can establish a New World Order. The
Masonic motto (of the thirty-third degree) is “Ordo ab Chao” (Order out
of chaos). Their intention is to bring human society into chaos, so
that they can establish their kind of order in the world. But
they are deceived by the devil. The New World Order is a fraud, because
only God can create order. Without God we are left in chaos, absolute
confusion. The devil’s ultimate intention is to turn the whole human
race against God. Then, having deceived them, he will destroy them.
Only
God can create order because He is Supreme Order. Think of the perfect
order of the Blessed Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three
Persons in the perfect Unity of the One God. When human affairs reflect
that order, human society flourishes. When God’s order is rejected,
chaos is the result – the chaos of Hell.
God’s
perfect order was rejected by the Novus Ordo “church” at Vatican II.
Chaos prevailed. Cardinal Suenens declared that “Vatican II is the
French Revolution in the Church.” Cardinal Ratzinger (later Benedict
XVI) confirmed that Vatican II was “an attempt at an official
reconciliation of the Church with the world as it has been since 1789”
(the year of the French Revolution). Yves Congar, an influential priest
“expert” at Vatican II, boasted that the Church had had “its October
Revolution” (Communist Revolution in Russia in October, 1917).
With
Vatican II, the Novus Ordo “church” adopted the “dialogue” invented by
the early Marxist revolutionaries. We are now to have “respect” for
other peoples’ beliefs, no matter how far they are from the truth.
Catholics dialogue with Jews, Muslims, and the communities of the
so-called Reformation. The object is no longer to arrive at the truth,
but to arrive at a “consensus”. Everything that gets in the way of the
relationships is sidelined. Strongly held convictions are laid aside,
meaning that a Catholic is likely to lose his faith.
A
prime example of this is Francis Bergoglio, to whom friendly
relationships with his Jewish or Muslim friends are more important than
the teachings of Christ and His Church. More than that, he is impatient
to have all Catholics engage in such dialogue, where they will lose
their Catholic Faith, just as he has, if he ever had any to begin with.
Our
Lord Jesus Christ told His Apostles, “Go into the whole world and
preach the gospel to every creature” (Mk.16:15). But now the Novus Ordo
“church” no longer preaches the Gospel. It dialogues! To Francis there
is no need for anyone to become Catholic or to be baptized. They can all
be saved where they are, no matter what they believe.
On
Holy Thursday Francis washed the feet of Muslims, Hindus, and Coptic
Christians, as well as Novus Ordo Catholics. He should have been pouring
water on their heads, baptizing them. But to Francis we are all
brothers who worship the same god, whether we call him Jesus Christ,
Allah, Buddha, or whatever. Who needs Baptism?
We
can take no vacation from the Revolution. It is relentless, and it is
everywhere. The worldly man will be devoured. Only the spiritual person
will find rest, because in spite of the devil’s brilliant intellect, he
has no understanding of truly spiritual realities. To them he is blind,
like the “sensual man” spoken about by St. Paul:
“But
the sensual man does not perceive the things that are of the Spirit of
God, for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand…”
(1Cor.2:14).
Then
the closer we are to God, the safer we are from the devil and his
Revolution, so that he cannot reach us, as the psalm says:
“For
this shall every faithful man pray to you in time of stress. Though
deep waters overflow, they shall not reach him. You are my shelter; from
distress you will preserve me; with glad cries of freedom you will ring
me round” (Ps.31:6,7).
The words of the Epistle of today’s Mass should give confidence and peace to our hearts:
“Christ
has suffered for you, leaving you an example that you may follow in His
steps: ‘Who did no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth.’ Who
when He was reviled did not revile; when He suffered, did not threaten,
but yielded Himself to him who judged Him unjustly; Who Himself bore our
sins in His body upon the tree, that we, having died to sin, might live
to justice; and by His stripes you were healed. For you were as sheep
going astray, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of
your souls” (1Pet.2:21-25).