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May 13, 2015
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May 13, 2015
R. Man is able to go to heaven and be full of God's
grace.
The devil is envious – that he would be
condemned to hell forever and man
could be able to share in God's life – through
baptism and could some day if he loves and
serves God – be with God eternally in heaven.
Satan is angered that man could go to
heaven and is filled with hatred and
envy of man.
Satan does not want anyone loving,
being united, going to the Eucharist, knowing
the love God has for men. Satan is hate.
Satan wants man to succumb to his temptation
of him and he is disgusted and hates man
in his weakness of passions and anger and
envy and sin. Satan wants man to fall –
satan lures man with temptations and lies
to man to try to get him to sin against
God. Satan hates – he hates the men he
tempts – Satan is the father of lies –
Satan is envious of God's love for man –
Satan hates that a just man could go to
heaven and he would be lost forever
to hell.
Satan is envious and hate-filled toward man.
Lucifer has so much intelligence.
Satan will be in eternal misery in hell.
The devil tempts men to do his own will
against God's will and he wants man ultimately
in hell with him eternally.
The devil wants men to do his dirty work
through tricks and deception and lies he (the
man) plays on other men – trying to force
the just man into anger and envy and
hatred because satan is hate and wants
man to lose his soul.
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
136. THE FOURTH DAY
A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS
The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human naturePRAYER. The usual preparatory prayer.
window at a former Jesuit Seminary
137. FIRST PRELUDE. This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.
138. SECOND PRELUDE. This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.
139. THIRD PRELUDE. This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
FIRST PART
THE STANDARD OF SATAN
140. FIRST POINT. Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.
141. SECOND POINT. Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.
142. THIRD POINT. Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.
The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
SECOND PART
THE STANDARD OF CHRIST
143. In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.
144. FIRST POINT. Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.
145. SECOND POINT. Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.
146. THIRD POINT. . . .
end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
R. The devil hates us and wants us to lose
our soul. The devil is real – he knows how
to tempt a person angry their whole life to
blame others for their own hatred and to
give into the life of darkness satan wants
them to follow.
We know that God allowed Job to be
tempted by satan. We know satan tempted
Jesus after He fasted.
Satan is an opportunist – he works in
men's memories and his passions to tempt
men to give in. satan wants man to bring
violence on his brothers in hatred.
God commands us to love our brothers
as ourselves.
Satan works in sense appetites and
the selfish man can easily give in to
satan. Satan works in temptation and a
man must control his actions through
right reason or satan can tempt him and
the man in enslavement to satan can give
in impulsively because he is full of
pride and his reasoning is clouded, his
anger flares, his violence he gives into
in his heart blinds him to how God
calls us to love, to be acting as God desires
us to be.
God has elevated our knowing and loving
capacity in baptism and we offend
God when we use our actions to bring
violence to our brothers – rather than
living God's commands for us to love our
brothers as ourselves.
The evil man can listen to satan
and plot evil in his heart – the more
he spends time with satan.
God has given us the gift of the Eucharist
and Jesus is truly present there in His Divinity
and humanity – the devil wants man to
absolutely reject God and to serve him
and hate God, others and hate himself.
The devil wants violence. The devil
wants hatred. The devil doesn't want
any man spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart
of Jesus or showing the Sacred Heart of Jesus
as the Heart of God on fire for men.
We see the willfulness against the commandments
of God as evil fingers penetrating men's lives
in the world –
Violence! Mary warned at Fatima –
Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima
by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
From Fatima Peace Plan — Tan Books p.4-5.
July 13, 1917
THE CHILDREN SEE HELL
As she spoke these words, Our Lady stretched out her hands, and bright rays came forth which seemed to penetrate into the earth. All at once the ground vanished, and the children found themselves standing on the brink of a sea of fire. As they peered into this dreadful place, the terrified youngsters saw huge numbers of devils and damned souls. The devils resembled hideous black animals, each filling the air with despairing shrieks. The damned souls were in their human bodies and seemed to be brown in color, tumbling about constantly in the flames and screaming with terror. All were on fire within and without their bodies, and neither devils nor damned souls seemed able to control their movements. They were tossing about in the flames like fiery coals in a furnace. There was never an instant's peace or freedom from pain.
July 13, 1917
"During her appearance in July, Our Lady, in answer to Lucia's plea, promised that in October she would work a great miracle so that all might believe and know who she was. Again, the Mother of God told the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to say many times, especially when making a sacrifice, this prayer: "O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of poor sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." (11)
"During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:
"You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.
"The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. (12)
"To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....
"But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world." (13)
11. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to
Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN
Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). pp.3-4.
12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
13. Ibid., p.5.
R. When we did not listen to Mary – we suffered –
what do you call the devastation in violence
of a World War – as World War II - where the very
fiber and love of men's lives, families, burned
as the Jews were in incinerators, gold stole
from their teeth, babies killed brutally –
Violence – you say – how can this happen?
How come people are now ignoring God as they
are today –
Abortion about a million and a half babies slaughtered
in their mother's womb –
Pornography at an all time high –
How wonderful it would be to use the internet
and the internet radio to spread these
prayers and devotion to the Sacred Heart and
Immaculate Heart, as Mary told us at Fatima.
When the internet is used for pornography
is used to show evil in the world, to
solicit evil, violence, opinion
against God, temptation –
Yes, the devil doesn't want the daily message –
Yes, the devil doesn't want the radio –
Yes, the devil doesn't want 24 hour adoration
in China – or 8 days a month we
pray with usually 6 Masses –
praying for the Church, the priests and
the world –
The devil wants people to skip Sunday Mass
for sports and work when they could
go to Mass –
The devil wants anger – using our hearts for
anger and pride and envy and jealousy –
when a person could have loved
and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ
to the world – so souls would know
the love of Jesus –
The devil is real and if you let his foot
in the door – he comes in and if
a person is angry – he works to get
them to give into temptations to hurt,
to be violent, to oppose good and
serve him in tearing apart what good people
built in love with God's help.
The devil keeps working to try to tear
the place down through a person who
gives into them – it can be impulsively
because they do not discipline their actions –
Vices are bad habits –
A family that is dysfunctional can have
a hero child and a scapegoat child
and teach jealousy and envy at an early age.
A person can be jealous and envious because
of insecurity themselves –
Jesus healed to lead people to His teachings.
Jesus cast out demons –
Jesus gives us His miracles of healing in
the scriptures, casting out demons –
Jesus has given us the gift of Clearwater
where we see Mary's image like
this –
Jesus has given us waters for healing –
Jesus gave us – the Mary and Jesus
waters - we have people who
have used them.
Jesus told us to put the glass in the
statues and Mary appeared to me May 5th
and told me she wants a statue with the
glass from her image face in the homes.
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All 5ths -
Our Lady of Clearwater Florida
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R. It is about what Mary and Jesus and
God the Father want with Clearwater
during the month – on the 5ths,
during the retreats –
It is about hell –
Mary told us to pray for souls going to hell.
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