July 28, 1973
These Priest-sons of mine, who have betrayed the Gospel in order to second the great satanic error of Marxism…
It is especially because of them that the chastisement of Communism will soon come and will deprive everyone of all they possess. Times of great tribulation will unfold.
Then it will be these poor sons of mine who will begin the great apostasy. Watch and pray, all of you, Priests who are faithful to Me!”
We’ve been hearing a lot about Socialism and Communism in the current election. Here’s what the Church has to say about it in the Catechism.
2425 The Church has rejected the totalitarian and atheistic ideologies associated in modem times with “communism” or “socialism.” She has likewise refused to accept, in the practice of “capitalism,” individualism and the absolute primacy of the law of the marketplace over human labor.206
Regulating the economy solely by centralized planning perverts the basis of social bonds; regulating it solely by the law of the marketplace fails social justice, for “there are many human needs which cannot be satisfied by the market.”207 Reasonable regulation of the marketplace and economic initiatives, in keeping with a just hierarchy of values and a view to the common good, is to be commended.
Communism and it’s political cousin Socialism, are forms of government that have atheism at its base. Their aim is to set up a government structure that supports all the needs of the people. The problem then is that a government that strong capable of giving you everything you want, also has the power to take it all away. People were created to be free to love and serve God in all that He asks of us. A big governing power can put blocks up against this, as we are seeing now during this Pandemic. We need to increase the Kingdom of God, not government which is the Kingdom of man. God has placed us in families, and communities, so that we are to take care of each other and as we do, grace flows from it.
DIVINI REDEMPTORIS the ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI
ON ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM ( on the 19th of March, 1937)
17. There is another explanation for the rapid diffusion of the Communistic ideas now seeping into every nation, great and small, advanced and backward, so that no corner of the earth is free from them. This explanation is to be found in a propaganda so truly diabolical that the world has perhaps never witnessed its like before. It is directed from one common center. It is shrewdly adapted to the varying conditions of diverse peoples. It has at its disposal great financial resources, gigantic organizations, international congresses, and countless trained workers. It makes use of pamphlets and reviews, of cinema, theater and radio, of schools and even universities. Little by little it penetrates into all classes of the people and even reaches the better-minded groups of the community, with the result that few are aware of the poison which increasingly pervades their minds and hearts.
There is a book out by Dr. Taylor Marshall called ‘Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within’. I will be reading up on this today since this is a subject that has interested me as I started noticing some priests professing hard core liberalism…you know, the folks that hold abortion rights at the core of their platform. That alone is enough to have us crying out to the Lord in anguish. But it doesn’t stop there. They are indeed spreading their ways, often in such a hidden manner that it barely becomes discernible to the general public until it is too late.
Our Lady warned us that Russia would spread “her ways”, back in the apparitions at Fatima, Portugal…which of course means Communism.
The original text, in Portuguese, was read and interpreted with the help of the Bishop of Leiria-Fatima. Sister Lucia agreed with the interpretation that the third part of the “secret” was a prophetic vision, similar to those in sacred history. She repeated her conviction that the vision of Fatima concerns above all the struggle of atheistic Communism against the Church and against Christians, and describes the terrible sufferings of the victims of the faith in the twentieth century.
Our Blessed Mother requested that Russia be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart. The church claims that this has already taken place, although some question its validity as it may not have been done exactly as requested. We know that a consecration is only acceptable when our full heart is in it, so by withholding some of it, does it reflect a lack of intent? Here’s an article on the subject from a different point of view. –> The Consecration of Russia.
And here’s one that suggests that although the Consecration itself is valid, there are other components to it. —> Consecration and the First Five Saturdays Devotion.
So what are we being asked to do?
- Pray and obey
- Penance (living a sacrificial life, dying to self and uniting with Christ…less of us, more of Him.)
- The First Five Saturdays (the priest mentioned it this past Sunday also, and how timely is it that a first Saturday is coming up this weekend. Thank You Lord, for so lovingly and gently guiding us.)