26. The Demon fears and hates them
November 14, 1973
“(…) I am for you a Mother, kind and jealous, vigilant and terrible against the Evil One who wants to do you harm. I will send my Angels to guard and protect you from every danger and from every snare which the Evil One sets for you (…).
Let all the Priests of my Movement know how much the Devil dreads them and hates them, and how much they will have to suffer because of his plots. Now the Evil One is beginning to suspect something. And he will rage about with ever increasing fury. But I will be with my Priests to protect and defend them.
They will not be touched,,-, -not even a hair of their head, because they are my beloved sons and I am now forming them and bringing them up; I am preparing them so that they will be strong), and invincible at the hour of the decisive battle.I love them, I keep them in my Heart, one by one; I protect them, I bless them.
Prayer of Our Lady Acheropita:
Blessed Virgin, Mother of God and our Mother –
Acheropita,
Turn your gaze upon ourselves and our families.
Throughout the centuries, your miracles and apparitions,
Have shown you are always the Mediatrix.
Have compassion upon us and relieve the difficulties
in which we currently find ourselves
and mitigate the sadness and bitterness of our lives.
Thou, crowned Queen, at the right hand of your Son,
Full of immortal glory, you can assist us in our need.
May all that is in us and around us,
Receive your maternal blessing.
Queen Acheropita!
Oh! Let us dedicate our whole lives to you
and give honor to you for your service to our brothers.
We request your maternal goodness
and the grace that we may live under your constant protection,
comforted in our trials and freed from these present troubles.
With confidence we can repeat,
That none turn to thee in vain that have called upon you
with the title “Acheropita.”
Amen.
391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.266 Scripture and the Church’s Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called “Satan” or the “devil”.267 The Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: “The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.”268
392 Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels.269 This “fall” consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter’s words to our first parents: “You will be like God.”270 The devil “has sinned from the beginning”; he is “a liar and the father of lies”.271
393 It is the irrevocable character of their choice, and not a defect in the infinite divine mercy, that makes the angels’ sin unforgivable. “There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death.“272
394 Scripture witnesses to the disastrous influence of the one Jesus calls “a murderer from the beginning”, who would even try to divert Jesus from the mission received from his Father.273 “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”274 In its consequences the gravest of these works was the mendacious seduction that led man to disobey God.
395 The power of Satan is, nonetheless, not infinite. He is only a creature, powerful from the fact that he is pure spirit, but still a creature. He cannot prevent the building up of God’s reign. Although Satan may act in the world out of hatred for God and his kingdom in Christ Jesus, and although his action may cause grave injuries – of a spiritual nature and, indirectly, even of a physical nature- to each man and to society, the action is permitted by divine providence which with strength and gentleness guides human and cosmic history. It is a great mystery that providence should permit diabolical activity, but “we know that in everything God works for good with those who love him.”275