Advent reflections: 'One world at a time'

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        The venue is Paradise, the real Paradise where most everyone
on earth hopes to go after death. St. Anne (the Mother of the
Mother of God), St. Edith Stein, and St. Teresa of Lisieux, are sitting
in a distant corner of Paradise, far from the seductive rays of the
Beatific Vision, seeking the least possible distraction in order to be
able to think clearly.
In this "shady nook" of Paradise, they review the reasons for their
next sojourn on the earth below. They are upset over the state of the
Catholic Church, and over the events taking place therein. They are
involved in these events by the wishes of Our Lady of Fatima; and are
charged by Her to carry out most of Her plans on earth for the triumph
of the Immaculate Heart -- which She promised at Fatima.
The poetic tone in the conversation of the the saints displays how
persons talk in Paradise, I assume. For some reason, perhaps
because they want their speech to sound like singing, they generally
speak in alliterative phases. I truly don't know why; but, for whatever
reason, in simple words, they just do.
We will listen to this poetic, often alliterative, conversation.

       St. Teresa:
        Christ is angry….

Disturbed and distressed,
He's "turned His Back" on His Mystical Body.
He willfully "went away."

        Why was His wrath?
Why did He break His betrothal with His beloved Bride,
the Catholic Church?
During the day of the dancing of the sun at Fatima,
He was there.
After that, still frequently offended by the faithful,
He waited a while, then "went away."

We shall sadly consider the reason why Christ abandoned His Bride,
and "went away."  

Who of you here wants to start?      

        St. Anne:         
        I'll start by saying that some attributes of God
have gone forgotten in our customary, current,
common-place, certainty, that "God is Love."
God IS Love,
from which forgiveness flows -- but block that Love,
or loosely leave our own love lacking,
by inserting someone or something in between,
        He changes, becomes jealous and angry,
and, perhaps, even vengeful.
        That God can be jealous and angry when injustice is injected
into the First and Second Commandments,
is almost unthought of in these times in the Catholic Church.
   The Christians, the Mormons, the Muslims, the Buddhists,
and Hindus, the Dalai Lama and his followers, etcetera,
        are all inclined to call out the same credo, "God is Love."

For sure, Christ died to save souls;
but didn't Christ also die to restrain the wrath of our God the Father,
Who's realistically larger than just Love?
        Has not the priest on the altar, facing his flock,
with the Host held high in his hands,
staved off the jealousy, anger and vengeance of God?
        That's one of the primary purposes of the priest's practice.
        Catholics believe that the sacrifice of Christ on the cross
cleans the consciences of Catholics,
when they seek their sins to be absolved.
        So, therefore, do they think they no longer need tremble
before the thundering temper of God
-- the same temperament, I'm told,
that terrorized His tribes in Old Testament times.
Wise it would be for Catholics to take thought
of the other attributes of God
-- as did the tribes in the Old Testament.

        St. Edith: 
May I intrude with a troublesome topic, to wit, "Sin?"

St. Anne and St. Teresa:
Of course, Edith.

St. Edith:   
        This topic shall pertain to this talk in a more meaningful manner
than that of traditional Catholicism;
in which some "sin" is "venial sin," and other "sin" is "mortal sin,"
        subject to how serious the sin is. 
        In this discussion, I'll describe all sin,
whether venial or mortal, as "sin;" 
for example, slander, slaying, small theft, swindling, sexual sins,
etcetera, will simply be stated as "sin."
        I'll use "GRAVE SIN" to describe the different, distinctive,
disobedient acts against the First and Second Commandments.
        These "GRAVE SINS" are wholly different in nature from "sins."
They cut sinners off from the Source of forgiveness,
and substitute an idol, ideology, or "ism,"
or some other physical or mental act, for God.
  When GRAVE SINS against the First and Second Commandments,
are committed by the cherished children of God,
        they're personal affronts to Him,
arousing His Jealousy and Anger
-- and eventually His Wrath.       
   
        St. Anne:
Excellent,…Edith.
Now I'll continue to determine more details, or terms,
that touch on this talk.
To start: "Divine Providence." 

        Divine Providence was pictured when Jesus explained:
“Every hair on your head is numbered.” 
        Since that must be true: 
        all slashes of swords;
all lunges of lances;
all cracklings of cannons;
all bursts of balloons;
all cuts in corpses by coroners;
        all curative or killing kinds of equipment,
and their needs;
are numbered.
So, all evolution,
most often reported as unplanned process
of random variation and natural selection,
is providential by divine design,
whether well-disposed to people or not.

    Every little wriggle of every little spermatozoon,
in the daily world production of millions of millions
of giga-spermatozoa, is providential.        
        One wee, wraith-like, wriggly, spermatozoon,
among, maybe, twenty million per milliliter per male,
swam swiftly to hurriedly conceive a hateful Hitler,
as did another wriggly one, at another time,
conduce to produce an Honest Abe.
        In those two examples, the wee spermatozoa impregnated the eggs
randomly, without reason;
but, through inconceivable mystification
its deeds were determined by Divine Providence,
as Divine Providence determined the details
of our days from birth to death.

St. Edith:
You presented that impressively, dear Anne.

        I trust I'm not too tardy with this; but when on earth, I said:
            "Whatever did not fit in with my plan did lie within the
            plan of God. I have an ever deeper and firmer belief
            that nothing is merely an accident when seen in the
            light of God, that my whole life down to the smallest
            details has been marked out for me in the plan of
            Divine Providence and has a completely coherent
            meaning in God's all-seeing Eyes."
So I bask in the brightness of the beauty
of its meaning made manifest to me.

        And yet, simultaneously, as ever from the days of Adam and Eve,
because of God-given freedom of will,
animal-humans
-- as we shall call them, since humans have evolved,
animal-like, from animals --
willed the acts that conclude in certain accountable outcomes.
       Animal-humans evolved, with Providence and freedom of will,
every hair on their heads being numbered,
most every deed being deemed to be free.

St. Teresa:
Adam and Eve.…..

St. Edith:
Please wait a minute.
I know it's tempting, Teresa, to intrude at this time;
but I've still to sew up my subject -- evolution.
I must include an account of Adam and Eve.
Our people below have trouble untangling the two tales;
and we should try to attend to that.
The tale of Adam and Eve is an antique type that teaches to distinguish
animal-humans from ordinary animals.
It also teaches that things are twisted down there.
Tragically typical is the trespassing of the truths of the Father.

Genesis tells us the tale of Original Sin;
which we intend to talk about at a later time.
But, in the century preceding the last one,
some research reached the reasonable assumption
that the human race evolved from animals,
and visibly survives as animal-humans.
Animal-humans, or humans, hunger for Heaven,
whether they've "evolved from animals"
or "descended from Adam and Eve."

Perhaps the future will find the facts as more fossils are found
to analyze animals throughout the ages.

St. Teresa:
If you don't take offense, Edith,
I'll tell the tale of Adam and Eve.

I'll use the story to summarize what I have to say,
in lieu of linking ourselves to the convolution of evolution.

Adam and Eve were blessed with the bliss of imbued obedience;
        nevertheless, their souls were "slain" by the snares of the snake.
But, after sustaining their terrible tumble, they continued on
as typical animal-humans with selfish souls
as we see them today.
Adam and Eve are parents of a peerless, progeny named mankind.
        Out of all mankind, our Yahweh/God chose Hebrew clans
        to be His children.
He laid laws on them.
        He assured them He would show them the shortest route
to holiness, happiness, and harmony;
and He has -- many times.
When His children carried out the conditions of the covenants,
        and especially when they responded to the spirit
of the First and Second Commandments,
        He gently rained His grace upon them.
      But when they didn’t, He vented His vengeance on them.
Eventually, He gave them the greatest gift of all, His Son,
to grant the grace of glorification to animal-humans,
in spite of Adam and Eve's transgression,
and their progeny's additional misdoing.
His Gift was called the Christ, our Savior;
and, also, the Lamb of God,
since His sacrifice was similar to the slaying of the lamb
in patriarchal holocausts.
That killing was duplicated by Christ on the cross.
He was slain as a sacrifice,
to justify and satisfy, before the Father,
the Original Sin of Adam and Eve.

In telling the tale of our Christ's "retirement" from earth,
we now know that Catholics below
are suffering a spiritual life in somewhat a similar manner
to those in the times of the Old Testament.
    Grave Sin is now regarded by God
just as distasteful and disgraceful as it was then.

St. Edith:
But we still must explain why Catholics deserted our Savior,
        and why Christ abandoned His Bride. 

St. Anne:
Yes, you're right; and we'll do so.
We'll consider it -- coupled with Creation.

St. Edith:
Why couple it with creation?

St. Anne:
You shall see.

Christ first created the "chaos" in the Cosmos;
and out of the "chaos" created Order, including our Earth;
and on our earth He consequently crafted
the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church.
Christ still exists in the "Mystical Chaos;"
as He also exists in the Mystical Body -- but not currently.
Therefore, the catholic "Chaos" and the Catholic Church,
are one and the same, in Christ
-- in its mystical meaning.
A pope can't be crown of the Mystical "Chaos"
-- that's absurd,
nor likewise be crown of the Mystical Body
-- also absurd.
He's administrative manager of the Catholic Church,
along with managing some other ministries.
It's clear that Christ is Crown of both "Mystical Chaos"
and Mystical Body.
A pope is no more than a cell in the Mystical Body,
and one of the stars in a Christian constellation
of the "Mystical Chaos."

It makes no difference in defining infallibility
to step softly or restrictedly,
or stubbornly and strictly;
it nonetheless is obnoxious to Christ.
Of all the persons to people the earth,
Christ, with a crown of thorns, was the only infallible one,
not any other:
not writers of the gospels;
not Saint Paul;
not any saints;
not any past or present pope.
Well, maybe my daughter Mary was;
but She seldom instructed anyone,
except Her Son, when He was young.

St. Anne continues:
With the impossible prospect of appreciating God's position
on a point of pressing importance,
I propose an approximate analogy
-- a passage in Genesis which shows the significance
of the Babylonian land:
 “. . . come let us build ourselves a town and a tower
with its top reaching to heaven.
Let us make a name for ourselves...
Now Yahweh came down to see the town and the tower
the sons of man had built. 'So they are all a single people
            with a single language!’ said Yahweh.
            This is but the start of their undertakings.”
“Babel” means “The Gate of God,”
a bygone Babylon now in Iraq.

        The Old Testament terminates the tale
with a perplexing profusion of language pervading the planet
-- the penalty that Yahweh passed out to the people of Babel
for beginning to build
"a tower with its top reaching almost to heaven.” 
The people of Babel were building a “ziggurat,”
a standard, stepped, shrine-like, pyramid structure
of the temple-towers of the time.
      This one would be taller than any of the other.
On its outer rim ran a ritual roadway,
designed for constructing the structure,
beginning on the ground at the bottom
to terminate atop the temple-tower.
        On certain occasions, clerical processions
wended their way up the roadway
to a consecrated chapel on the crown,
where the loftiest religious leaders prayed
to draw the deities down.

St. Teresa:
Anne…let's look at your lecture in architecture;
for the purpose of that you proposed. 

        You're right -- the tale of the Tower of Babel is aptly adequate
as an applicable analogy of the current Catholic Church?
Its content could closely be comparable
to the corporeal and incorporeal patterns in the Church,
in its ziggurat-like, caste-like, institutional and spiritual essentials.
       The hierarchy rises higher and higher,
“brick” by “brick,” one on the other,
from the locked-in, lower, level of the laity,
to the leader on top
-- the Loftiest Liturgical Law -- the Pope.
       Periodically, he promulgates, Ex Cathedra,
to the crowds of the Catholic Church beneath,
the infallibility of faith and morals.
        The prayers of the Pope pulls down to the people,
"God's untarnished truth"
--even God Himself at times--
        through the “Gate of God,” the Vatican,
the top of the temple-tower of this unfortunate faithful fixture.

Our familiar, infallible, Catholic Church also maintains
that its members
“…are all a single people…”
-- some aiming to "make a name" for themselves
in a ziggurat-shaped system
stretching up the stratum of "bricks" to the summit,
where, perhaps, even God resides.
     
St Edith:
Please, tell me if I take you out of your theme, Teresa;
but I'd like to try to continue
to tell the tale of the tall tower of Babel,
-- in my own terms.

St. Teresa:
No problem, Edith; go right ahead.

St. Edith:
The SIN of the Babylonians was the same
as the GRAVE SIN of Satan,
        and the GRAVE SIN in the current Catholic Church.
I'll explain.
Duns Scotus asserted that the SIN of Satan
was in his DESIRE to be similar to God
-- but not to be God.
That evil archangel was very able.
He knew, and still knows,
"similar to God" is absurd.
His SIN is found in his DESIRE to be similar to God.
It's a subtile distinction.

You can't see GRAVE SINS;
they're rooted in the will.
        They're prized possessions of impenetrable pride,
and closely cherished.
The person that possesses them is seen unselfish on the surface;
while he or she unconsciously continues
in deceptive self-glorification
-- the DESIRE to be similar to God.
        It's a spiritual state that seems to grow stronger
the loftier the luminary lifts himself up the levels in any church,
especially in Orthodox Churches.
I consciously include the Catholic Church.
We are intimately interested in its "destruction."
I'm sad to state, "in its destruction;"
as we shall speak about later.
        As we pointed out previously, there're persons below,
subdued and self-effacing,
who commit GRAVE SINS
'gainst the First and Second Commandments,
without sensing it;
being abysmally buried -- since boyhood perhaps --
in subtle, self-deluding, self-deceits
-- the DESIRE to be similar to God.

The doctrine of the Church has definitely drifted
from its orthodox and semi-orderly path.
      Adam and Eve empowered the pace
by their patrimony of pointless, impervious, pride.
It was speeded up,
by a petty portion of poison and prevarication
        on the part of Satan.
        Continually, there had come up in the chronicles of the Church
a modest amount of apostasy
-- given the nature of animal-human nature.
        The disorder, however, didn't drastically deepen 'til 1870,
        when the principle of apostasy was pinpointed
by the Cardinals of the Catholic Church.

It's a Church containing a corpus of doctrine,
decisively decided
        by the topmost on the totem pole of the temple-tower.
        In short, what the structure seems to be
is a Church with the DESIRE to be similar to God.

St. Teresa:
You're distorting a trifle, dear Edith
-- and taking a long time to do so.

It's simple.
Yahweh/Christ beheld below
the biggest, most singular, system ever to exist
-- the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church --
        with its splendid structure "that the sons of man had built.”
It's a priestly, prideful, institution,
totally not intending to trespass the wishes of Yahweh/Christ
as those "traitors" did in the Temple-Tower of Babel.
God was well aware that a world-wide system,
stimulated spiritually to sculpting a structure
more saintly than any on earth,
        with a faithful filled with the fruit
of dictated doctrine,
        runs the risk of unconsciously succumbing
to a DESIRE to be similar to God.      
        We have seen in the Catholic Ziggurat-Church,
a creeping, unconscious DESIRE
become a GROUP DESIRE.
     
The Divine Groom Christ lingered a little,
to look down at His once most beautiful Bride,
and watched her wax more wrinkled and woeful.
He grew gloomy, glum, and grave.
      He pondered awhile in the presence of apostasy;
then became jealous,
then angry,
and "left."
           
St. Edith:
You've arduously analyzed all that, dear Teresa;
but it's even more easy.

Assume that you were the groom,
and, well into the wedding,
the blushing bride broke to you, she was infallible;
what would you do?
        You'd swing around slowly, and walk away from the altar;
wouldn't you?
             
St. Teresa:
Of course, I would.

But if you don't mind, I'll move on…

I can see that apostasy
was never so completely compacted in the Church before.
        Inroads of "infallibility" now taint nearly all the tried and true faithful,
not simply a smattering of souls.
The cherished creation of Christ on earth,
His Mystical Body,
has been cast away from Him.
The consequence for the Catholic Church could be
a continuous decomposition through cracking and crumbling
into contrasting, contrary
...chunks.

St. Anne:
      May I take my turn here, please?

St. Teresa:
Of course, Anne. Go right ahead.

St. Anne:
        Contemporary Catholics can't conceive what's meant
when it's claimed by critics that apostasy
has compacted itself in the Church.
        For that to happen,
Catholics would have had to harbor a hero
-- such as the Pope?
or have had to craft some concrete concepts
-- such as the "ism" of Catholicism?
        and have focused on them with some fantasy too.
      Catholics know they can't carve, or canonize,
idols or "isms."
That's crazy, and inconceivable;
and, commonly,
Catholics are not parochial in their point of view.
        The faithful will fast confirm
they've not profaned the First and Second Commandments
which forbids having any other gods before Him.
       
        St. Teresa:
Idolatrous images do exist; but Catholics just can't seem to see them.
        They live in them, lifelong,
concealed, self-crafted...and cherished...churchly goals.
When a meaningful mass of the minds of mortals,
Catholic or non-Catholic, coincide,
graven images, as in "isms," ensue.
        Recall the Communism in the last century;
and Naziism;
and the militarism of the Japanese?
        All were "isms" -- self-molten magnets --
which millions of minds served and adored
-- and died for.

St. Edith:
I've been injured by one of those "isms;"
as you know -- Naziism.
The Nazis burned my earthly body
-- a holocaustal oblation for others --
much as the killing the Christ's Body
-- murdered for all mankind.
But now I've been given the grace of gratitude,
and have a haven, here in Heaven.
I do have some self-reproach, however,
for my somewhat selfish sentiments;
since, the Nazis incited so much suffering
in my Jewish friends and family.

      If idiosyncratic ideologies and "isms" survived a short time ago,
and caused the chaos of the Second World War,
        then why shouldn’t some survive now?
        Our current crop of Catholics
are no more "clean" and correct toward their Creator
than the faithful of forgoing eras.
        Today on earth, we've Capitalism, Commercialism,
and Materialism, for certain;
and other "isms" and ideologies.
        It's not a magnification of the mind's imagination
to say Catholicism is also an "ism."
   
    When an "ism" or ideology grows greater than God,
it goads His Jealousy and Anger.
        Then follows an even more forceful feeling
-- wrath.
        Catholics are apt to forget
that if Yahweh was a Jealous God,
        then the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost -- and Yahweh        
-- all THEY, all GOD --
must still be a Jealous God.
Yes, THEY is a Jealous God
Who, at any challenge,
could change into Anger and Wrath.

St. Edith continues:
       For contemporary Catholics,
self-carved concepts
are the most indicative as idolatrous.
       They possess the Satanic skill to impersonally pose, as:
the most meaningful to mankind;
the most fruitful and favorable to mankind;
        and, the most ethical and esteemed in mankind.        
        This self-assured state of the soul among religious and laity
-- attained by tacit trust in their own tenets --
  secures its enduring existence,
within the unconscious,
unchallenged from childhood on.
       
With Christ "ceasing to exist in the Church,"
the course of contemporary Catholics changed.
        A void prevailed
-- and Satan and his dastardly devils dropped in.

St. Teresa:
I'd like to speak to stress something serious.

The deviation in dogma developed during the First Vatican Council,
when the Cardinals declared the Pope,
under certain conditions, infallible.
        It was seen by Jesus as “the straw that broke the camel’s back.” 
        From that painful point on,
He "aimed His Eyes and Ears away"
        from His Mystical Body,
away from His own beloved Bride.

The nagging question will no-doubt be,
what might it mean to the many members of the Mystical Body
that Jesus has "aimed His Eyes and Ears away" from them.
I'll further put forth a few such phrases
to attempt to translate His "retreat" to Heaven.
        For instance, I might say,
He has "passed away" from His people.
        Or I might propose,
He "peers" at His people through a one-way,
see-though, mirror,
so He can see them and hear them;
but can't be seen or heard by them.
        When they search for Him,
they might see an image resembling themselves;
some even concluding it could be Christ.
        The unaffected folk might say
“He turned away from us,”
        or, “He turned His Back on us,”
or, “He does not see or listen to us.”
For animal-humans to conceptualize Christ
-- or His emotions --
or any change He carries out,
is past their imperfect powers.
    There's not a phrase to formulate in words
Christ's "wending away."
In "wending away" from the Catholic Church,
He's "walking out" on all the world;
since the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ,
        is Christ in the world.

Unfortunately, our Father has not stayed here in Heaven.
With rancor and rage He's interrupted the world
with "events" for the earthlings,
especially for Catholics.
That's not good news.
Seldom, since the silence of Christ on the cross,
has He severed the stableness of the earth like that
-- with a disturbing toll of catastrophes
in the last one-hundred years.
        The world has not often witnessed
such trepidation and terror.

St. Anne:
I should say something about Satan,
who is not inactive at all.
I detest and despise that Devil
-- a conceited, crafty, corrupt, and contemptible, creature.
        He's utter evil,
and not be confronted
by the minor, more menial, minds of animal-humans.  
        He's immensely more immorally imaginative,
than animal-humans,
who he'll frequently fake and fool.
He's prince of the planet;
and might put himself most anyplace.

The dire, deathly, demonstrations of demonic possession,
admired in the movies,
are simply the strivings of Satan
to convince the common folk
what a complete contrast he seems to be
from what he actually is
-- in a single syllable, a LIAR.                          
If you sense for whom you are seeking
you can see him almost everywhere.
You caught sight of him in the Catholic Church
when it detailed the devilish doctrine,
of infallibility.        
What that crook controls in the Church
-- a conquering coup for him --
        has shaped him to seem he's somewhat like God.
        The most crucial contender, Christ,
has "come away."
Only Mary, the Virgin without Sin,
and some of Her saints,
can withstand him.
       
        Decrying the incompetence of Catholics
to resist, unassisted, Satan,
is no cause for concern;
for Satan, as I said, is extremely intelligent.
        To conceal himself in a conscious way
        -- in a world of relatively well-informed people --
is central to his cause,
which must stay in secret or not be successful at all.
        I recall a quote from a recent cinema: "The Usual Suspects:"
          "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled
was convincing the world he didn't exist."

I wish that our Almighty Father
wouldn't empower him to prowl around the planet;
infecting people, infecting all nations, infecting the Church.
That's not to refute the Father, however
-- never.
I just wish....

St. Teresa: 
Let's get back to our basic business,
the evaluation of "events" on earth,
in the shadow of GRAVE SIN.

        Animal-humans will sense distress after sinning;
but only a few will feel strange at all while staying in GRAVE SIN.
Such SIN, simply stated, is a state of the psyche.
Most common commitments to GRAVE SIN
don't often incite a secret, or strong, sense of shame,
-- or misery of mind.
Whether feelings of fault are fomented or not,
if the animal-human hunting the Truth
tracks down the Truth,
and doesn’t convert to it,
        he stays in a SIN which stridently speaks
'gainst the Holy Spirit
        -- a very serious SIN. 
        I portend tough times for the Catholics below,
      with kins parting company,
consciences cracking,
and the faithful fracturing.
     
St. Edith:
I'll point to a passage in John’s First Epistle.
          “…Anyone who sins
has never seen Jesus Christ,
or known Him.”
        Because Christ no longer listens to the priest,
or to the faithful in confession,
or in the Mass,
or anywhere else,
their sins are not absolved by Him,
since they've "never seen Jesus Christ.” 
        They can only be saved by another "system,"
and not by the effects of forgiveness
by the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ.
       The Father is now involved in validating salvation
by the homicide of hordes of animal-humans,
as He did in Moses' time in "quartering the camp"
-- as we soon shall consider.
Yet, still, He enjoins adjudication to ensure Divine Justice.

Nevertheless, all on earth might take solace in the sentence
that Paul has cited from Habakkuk the Prophet:
“Anyone who is upright through faith will live.”

St. Anne:
Now, we shall join the two together,
earthly jealously and Divine Jealously,
and compare the pair.      

      In animal-humans,
jealousy often rejects judgement.
It's unsettling to see;
'cause it’s often selfish, shoddy, and pseudo-dramatic
in a lamentable and mournful manner
-- suitable staple for silly soap operas.       
        But worse, when serious suspicion, perhaps, is substantiated,
jealousy swells up
like the timorous trembling of a breakable balloon,
the animal-human favoring to feed
on its own jumbled judgement.
It can stormily self-inflate to relying on what it reckons,
and not upon reality.
It ministers to its own mental misery.
        It’s not a moderate emotion.
       
May Mary maintain matrimonial matches,
with no unmanageable, jaundiced, jealousy.      
     
St. Anne Continues:
And now for Divine Jealousy…..
In Deuteronomy 4:23-24, Yahweh put forth the following:
            "Take care therefore not to forget the covenant which Yahweh
your God has made with you;
Yahweh your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God." 
        "A Consuming Fire, a Jealous God"
-- how truly terrifying.
        We cannot tune out the tone of the text.
        Our God is a Jealous God.

The Jealousy of God is nearly analogous to animal-humans';
but, His is tremendously more traumatic when turned on,
than their's, or our's, could ever be.
What else could we count on from Almighty God,
whose Justice entails the intangible truth
of exceptional, but ever sensible, jealousy
-- quite distinctive from that of animal-human's.
Our God, in the midst of His mighty fury,
is realistically lucid, logical, and level-headed.
His Jealousy is always justifiable,
not like that of animal-human's
whose jealousy, many a time, is jaundiced,
and control is ofttimes the trouble.
Justice and jealousy is also joined
in the elemental emotions of mortals,
where they are modeled
-- though very much marred --
after those fulfilling the many facets of our Father's.
        In the Almighty,
Jealousy and Justice fortify themselves to defend the Father
in a fit fashion we can hardly fathom.
In animal-humans, they are frail, flawed, and finite
-- the effect of Original Sin.

St. Edith:
        An example of God's Jealousy is found in Exodus,
in a tale I turn to at this particular time,
to probe in a passage which dramatically demonstrates
His divine Jealousy.

        When Moses was up on Mount Sinai,
God/Yahweh handed to him carved tablets
with the Ten Commandments thereon, and said:
“You shall have no other gods to rival me.”
        Lightening crackled and crashed.
With rumbling rolling, the thunder roared.
The mountain fumed from fierce flaming.
        A trumpet was played powerfully
to impressively report the supremacy of Yahweh,
Who, with greatness and gravity,
spoke these words to His children:
          "You shall never bow down to them
-- human crafted images --
or serve them,
for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God…” 
Then Yahweh said to Moses:
"Go down now, because your people
whom you brought out of Egypt
have apostasised."
        And a little later:
            "My wrath shall blaze out against them and devour them." 

      When Moses moved down the mountain
with two tablets of Testimony in his hands,
he beheld his adherents
bowing down to a beautiful bullock
made of metal molten from the excellent earrings,
and other ornaments, of the women and children.
        Moses was maddened and threw down the tablets.
He burned the bright and beautiful bullock,
grinding it to grit,
and scattering it on a stream.
        But Yahweh was not satisfied.
He forced from His followers atonement
to balance the Scales of Justice
-- atonement on one tray,
GRAVE SIN on the other.
        Yahweh told Moses to assemble the sons of Levi and say:
          “Gird on your sword, every man of you,
and quarter the camp from gate to gate,
killing one his brother, another his friend,
another his neighbor….”
"…for I, Yahweh, am a Jealous God.” 
       
About three thousand men and women and children
died that day.

St. Edith Continues:
It's striking to see what Yahweh thought suitable
to satisfy His Justice
-- a savage slaying in a divinely decreed...holocaust.
        Animal-humans were barbarously "baptized" in blood
as atonement for an intolerable act.
The killings were comparable to the sacrificial suffering
of lambs or sheep to Yahweh,
in the traditional, tribal, Old Testament,
holocaust.

    It's imperative to appreciate, in these age-old annals,
the part that participants played.
Earlier, when God slowed Moses coming down from the mountain,
Aaron, and others, forged an effigy
-- a "bright and beautiful bullock" --
and built before it an altar,
falling in front of it to flaunt:
"Tomorrow is a feast in honor of Yahweh." 
Aaron, and others, had seemed to accept the golden bullock
as publicly playing the part of Yahweh.
       When they built it, they bellowed:
"Here is your God, Israel"….
"Who brought you out of the land of Egypt."
       
        It's fair to affirm that the followers of Moses
had fashioned with good faith, and great effort,
an effigy to play the part of Yahweh
-- not intending to trespass against God's good intentions.
Personally, they gave up great goods
-- golden ear rings and golden ornaments --
to aggrandize the greatness of their vainglorious goals.
        But Yahweh raged with wrath.
        He concluded the creation was crafted
-- unconsciously covetous --
in an effigy equal to Himself.
       
        No humor here for Moses' adherents,
nor for our current Catholics.
What's shown is the subtle psychological state of Aaron and others,
        comparable to that in contemporary Catholics:
        with their beautiful basilicas "built for God,"
often with golden altars;
        with their hospitals,
of most modern means for medical emergencies;
with their scholarly schools of vast value;
        with their spiritual assumption of surety in belief,
supported by infallibility.
How similar to the structures that Aaron, and others,
with struggling and sweating, assembled.

Yes, most difficult for earthlings to deduce is idolatry:
        born of ambition;
motivated by imagination;
        shaped by striving to save souls;
cursedly and unconsciously increasing
to a desire to be similar to God.
    
St. Anne:
Dear Edith and Teresa:    
        Because of Divine Jealousy and Divine Justice,
God/Yahweh ordered Moses
to send for the sons of Levi
to "quarter the camp;"
that is, to kill a quarter of those in the camp.
When God/Yahweh's tenuous but intense Jealousy
        fomented His furious rage,
He reverted to vicious violence to adjust the balance of justice.
The rough, raw, awareness of God/Yahweh's reaction
was, in reality, a divine ritual -- a Divine Holocaust.
Moreover, it charged
some recalcitrant companions of Moses to recant,
to reconcile themselves with God,
and atone for their transgression.

St. Teresa:
The most mighty emotion of Yahweh/God is Love.
        It exceeds the competency of Christians to conceive.
        But Yahweh/God is not only Love;
as we know, He can also be Jealous.
        His most loyal Love is leveled on His chosen children, the Jews,
and on His adopted children, the Christians.
Any striving to obstruct that Love,
even by a seemingly senseless substance of some kind,
is apt to agitate a jealous anger.
      And any attempt to attack that anger
will fatally finish in failure.
        When Yahweh/God said:
“My Name is Jealousy, I am a Jealous God;” 
    with unthinkable authority
He cited His children's covenanted accountability
to consciously credit Him as their God.      
        Let's consider the comment:
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
We hardly ever hear this maxim anymore
-- indisputably indispensable for dependency on the Father.

 The offense of the followers of Moses in forging a golden bullock
-- in other words, a golden idol --
would require a holocaust,
in this case, a Divine Holocaust,
comparable to the common earthly holocaust.
I'm sorry to say, a sanguine, slaughterous, sacrifice
was, and is, necessary
to align the level of the trays
on the Scales of Divine Justice.

St. Edith:
Do you think, dear Anne and Teresa, that God, today,
        can be as jealous as in the time of the Old Testament?
      Some analysts say that persons have improved to the point
        where they're preferable to the primitives.
 
        St. Anne:
You should know, Edith, that the Nazis had that notorious notion.
Nevertheless….to the argument of those analysts I'll answer:
life does not evolve to advance in likable lines;
for example, afar-roaming AIDS,
rankling our race below,
progressed from primates to animal-humans.
        Creation does, indeed, evolve providentially,
but probably not with the positive prospects
that animal-humans like to propose.
        As beings evolve for better or for bitter, 
the trail of their lives, in terms of time,
is not much more than a little loop on a very long line.
        Yet God stays changeless.
He stays in timelessness.
He doesn’t exist in time, unless He wants to.
       
If, therefore, in Old Testament times,
He was a JEALOUS GOD,
        He still must be a JEALOUS GOD.

St. Teresa:
        How jarring is God’s Jealousy!!!
How abrupt and barbed the bite He brings to bear
on beings who rebuke Him. 
        An All-Knowing, Omnipotent, God,
must be master of His ascendancy,
of His authority,
of His awesome absolutism over animal-humans,
        of His majesty and amazement.
        He's Master of emotional matter
that has immeasurably more meaning
than that of the mankind He's made.

Animal-humans will ask, after all this:
is it true that God, too,
can be LOVE?

        St. Anne:
We've already suggested the subject, Teresa;
but haven't studiously considered it yet.
But let's attack that particular topic at a later time, Teresa.
For now, let's concentrate on the concepts of "holocaust;"
of "Divine Holocaust;"
and, later, again, "God's Love."

St. Teresa:
All right, Anne.

St. Anne:
In the Old Testament times of Hebrew tribes,
the "holocaust" stood as a standard for sacrifice,
proposed by the patriarch priests to propitiate their Yahweh/God.
It usually subsisted in sacrifice of lambs
-- pure symbols of sensual and spiritual sanctification.
When a beast/oblation
-- whether lamb, or sheep, or other offering -- was sacrificed,
its blood was sprinkled on the altar and its body burned.
      With the burning of the body and blood of the beast/oblation,
came the concept of “holocaust”
-- “a whole burnt offering.”

A holocaust occurred in certain archaic cultures,
in assorted, sacred, sacrifices.
        As a rule, these rather routine rituals
were perpetrated without pity by high-placed priests,
with human beings as oblations.
They were common in the cultural rites of the Canaanites,
        and in those of the Aztecs and Mayans.
In several societies of that sometime world,
the craving for ceremonial satisfaction
in sacrificing an animal or animal-human,
seems to have sprung from an instinctive desire
to seek a service from the gods.

In Jewish society, for sure,
such sacrifice was proscribed by Yahweh/God.

Edith?

St. Edith:
It's time to define "DIVINE HOLOCAUST,"
a holier happening than human holocaust.
The "design" of "Divine Holocaust"
shows a part of the perplexing puzzle
that is God’s composite "Personality"
        -- His lasting Love for us, and jarring Jealousy.
        Without Divine Holocausts by our Divine High-Priest,
in which "somewhat stainless" segments
of the animal-human species are sacrificed to God the Father
for the salvation of other significant souls,
there'd be no saving someone on earth today.
Because of the constant compacting of that putrid pox
called GROUP APOSTASY,
Christ now has "departed" the earth.
If those in control of the contemporary Catholic Church do not change,
God's Jealousy, "like a consuming fire," 
will slowly spread to more souls,
and strengthen, for certain, His striving for Justice.

At least, that seems to me to be
the unhappy happening.

St. Teresa:
  One can see, that the sacred sacrifice in Divine Holocausts
      is much more personally painful
than in those of the plain patriarchal;
since the oblations are beings who are breathing animal-humans,
and not just bludgeoned beasts.
Sadly, it seems most essential to God,
that with GRAVE SIN
-- and Christ "cut off" from Catholics --
the sacrificed must be "somewhat stainless" of GRAVE SIN,
not just stainless of "standard" sins.      
Even if not immaculate, they're still the most meaningful to the Father
-- like the victim/offerings in Uganda and Haiti.

   Anne, why not enumerate some noteworthy phenomena,
or "events,"
which have palpitated the planet:
because of its people's apostasy;
because of Christ's "ceasing to counsel" His Catholics;
and because of the Father's interference in earthly affairs.

St. Anne:
To me the most memorable, momentous, "event"
was the flaming furor of the fire
that vented the volcano, Krakatoa,
in Indonesia in the Indian Ocean, in 1883:
"the loudest noise ever heard."
There're real reasons it arose;
but I imagine it as an apt analogy
of Christ annoyed by the announcement of popes' infallibility.

Another memorable, momentous, matter
occurred in December 2004 -- Christmas day in the U.S.A.
One sub-terrestrial, tectonic, plate,
tilted and traveled under another tectonic plate,
below the floor of the Indian Ocean near Indonesia.
The titanic trembling triggered mighty tremors
which speeded steep tsunamis to sweep the seas,
taking a toll of two hundred and thirty thousand
in eleven lands;
to leave, more or less, fifty thousand still lost,
and hundreds of thousands homeless.

In another "natural phenomenon" on May 12, 2008,
still Whitsunday in the Western U.S.,
an earthquake shook the Szechuan sector of China,
to slay at least sixty-nine thousand,
with sixteen thousand still missing,
and four million more removed from the means
of elemental maintenance.

Some other cases of holocaustal "occurrences,"
which followed from the First Vatican Council, are:
the wretched worthlessness of the World War I;
the unstoppable spread of the Spanish Flu
while World War I wasted on;
      the twisted detestable tides of truculence in World War II;
      the Holocaust of the Jews in that World War
-- horrifyingly, "whole burnt offerings";
     
the phosphorous fire-storms in German and Japanese
non-bellicose bodies of noncombatants;
the exterminating atomic attacks;
      the mass murder of almost a million Tutsis by Hutus;
      and, the modern Muslim dismayingly demented terrorism.

AIDS has swept Africa, and other areas,
plaguing adults, and killing their kids.

In the class of other chilling "cataclysms," is included climate change,
which appears as a prospect
for potentially extreme trials and tribulations.

But, with all of this, we can not anticipate the action
our Father/High-Priest is determined to take in the future.

St. Edith:
With the killing of Christ on the cross,
Divine Holocausts had waned away for worthy Christians.
Christ was their salvation.
When He "vacated" the Church and left a void,
the Father revived the Divine Holocaust
as the vehicle for salvation.
I'm sure that Divine Holocausts seem alien to animal-humans,
      but they've constantly occurred in Christianity;
      for example, the suffering for the sake of other souls.
It's similar in kind to the killing of Christ.
The Lamb of God was undeniably innocent;
but sacrificed Himself to His Father
for the sake of the souls to be saved.

The concepts of Divine Holocaust, Divine Providence,
plain holocaust, and free will,
could be confusing to Catholics.
      Does this mean that Divine Providence has "proposed"
the apostasy which posits a Divine Holocaust
to put things proper with God?
And plain holocaust and free will don't matter?

St. Teresa:
How mystifying is the mind of God!!!
       How topsy-turvy the trials on the terrestrial turf below!!! 
      It looks so dismal down there,
seeing Christians sail off on a sluggish showboat,
christened "The Roman Catholic Church,"
      with APOSTASY applied palely on its aft;
cheerfully chugging off -- into what?
into a shadowy, somber, sunset.

St. Edith:
It behooves us to hold, somehow, a discussion
of the horrible holocaust of the Jews
in World War II….

Since I was a Jew on earth with family affiliations,
and affinity and affection for Jewish friends,
I appoint myself to explain their expulsion from populations,
and their Holocaust.
Some have sought to set straight the designation
of the eradication of the Jews as "Shoah;"
but, in my opinion, the common catchword is correct
-- I'll continue to call it a "Holocaust."
Why the word "Holocaust?"
We'll dip here into the dire depths of our discourse.
Let's first ask about those banal beasts who burned bodies
in cursed barbed-wire camps:
did they not do the will of the Fuehrer,
and not the will of Father?
Wasn't the Fuehrer a self-crafted idol?
and wasn't an "ism" -- Naziism --
an idol also?
By far, at the time, the illustrious leading religions of Germany
-- Protestant and Catholic -- were Christian;
the bottom line being,
that Christians crafted those two idols of crushing encroachment
on the Second and First of the Father's elementary Commands.
Therefore, the "Holocaust" of the Jews in World War II
has to be called a Divine Holocaust -- a divine "device"
to save the souls of Catholics, and other Christians,
found fatally at fault by the Father
for the GRAVE SIN of crafting idols.
How could holocausts be so cruel
as to demand such dreadful deeds
as the miserable, monstrous, mass murders
of most of the cherished children of God in Europe?
I can here only note, another quote of Yahweh/God's:
"...for my thoughts are not your thoughts, 
my ways not your ways -- it is Yahweh who speaks."
        It's a painful puzzle, and often present
in prominent persons of surpassing faith.

St. Teresa:
Let's continue this talk to stress to ourselves
that it's not well defined if such dastardly deeds
are the projections of God's Jealousy,
are the doings of Divine Providence,
are wielded by Man's free will,
or worse, are the wicked works of the Devil.

St. Edith:
You're right, Teresa;
but now I'll return to my topic of the Jews.

Did God the Father serve up those suffering victims
as "whole burnt offerings" for a Divine Holocaust,
as shocking and sickening as that situation was?
In other words, did He offer them up
to Himself here in Heaven,
in a rite correlative to Hebrew holocausts,
      for Divine Justice,
for the sake of saving some Christian apostates?
      Yes….truly.
That's what He did.
The Father's ways are not the Catholic's ways.

But did He do nothing, then,
but take note of the burning of bodies
of His own beloved children?
No…..There's free will.
The acts of animal-humans in this process,
principally those of the Christian perpetrators,
must be punished for the purposes of Divine Justice.

So what happened, Teresa?

St. Teresa:
      The Father fomented fierce, fiery, holocausts
for those who'd endorsed that idolatrous "ism" of Naziism,
and abused His beloved sons and daughters.
Phosphorous fire-bombs whipped up forceful, fire-storms
to burn up breathing burghers
-- portions of the German populace --
      in another real re-enactment of "whole burnt offerings."
      Just as Yahweh did in Old Testament times,
the Father/High-Priest enkindled Divine Holocausts
to make right with Justice
the pestilent apostasies of the Christian people.
   
St. Edith: 
Maybe here, I'll venture to volunteer to review,
once again, the Father's Love;
for as we've heard from below, and know,
He is Love.
Reliably, the finest feature in the Father's profile
-- although, from what we've said earlier,
it might look a little lacking --
is everlasting Love.
Christians, in the future, will feel that fact,
if not on earth at least here at home in Heaven.
        However, our Father is not only Love,
but Jealousy and Wrath, and Mercy and Compassion, too
-- and, to genuinely good persons,
gives the gift of grace of peace
"that ‘passes all understanding." 
       
St. Anne:
But there's another Gift, a gigantic Gift,
that the Father has willed an unworthy world.
He's designated my Daughter, Mary,
the QUEEN OF HEAVEN,
to mediate for them 'til Christ "moves back."
      Catholics should pattern their prayerful practices
to properly pray the rosary;
and continue to take communion, though Christ is not there.
It'll be constantly clear the commitment is there
-- and Mary appreciates that.
When Mary hears prayers presented to Jesus,
She repeatedly interposes,
and always replies to the welcome ones.
Though it's usually not what the person finds useful,
She has high hopes that it's helpful for their heading to Heaven.

Mary sends Her saints
-- especially us --
to "kill" Catholics,
to change them and convert them
to the Holy Spirit of Truth.
Animal-humans can't conceive that private persons,
or teeming tens of thousands,
might be killed
-- sometimes spiritually and sometimes actually --
by awesome acts of Love and Righteousness
applied by our Father/High-Priest.
      The Scales of Justice must be stabilized,
on one plate with GRAVE SINS of apostasy;
and on the opposite plate,
with comparable, holocaustal, counterweights
of animal-human beings,
who suffer to save the souls
of other animal-human beings.
It's one of the reasons that caused John to conclude
that "God is Love.”
He scanned the more sweeping scene, to see
what earthlings can't seem to see.
     
        Our Catholic comrades on earth today
might deduce that Christ's deadly decision to "withdraw"
is doctrinally deviating.
Christ's never "receded" from the Church before.
      The faithful, unfortunately,
can't grasp the gravity of GRAVE SIN,
nor the substantial spoilage of the spirit that results.
Perhaps, some of them
-- in the higher hierarchy --
might see some of it from the divine baskets
below their hot-air balloons,
which are bordering on bursting from "proper" pride.
They stand there,
as if boxed-up in their divine baskets,
dreading they'll drop down to self-ordained, doctrinal, death.

St. Teresa:
We have to heed here that the animal-human
in the higher hierarchy
is hardly ever valued by God as a victim.
He's not somebody "somewhat stainless"
that the Father/High-Priest desires.
He's concerned with his concepts, often theological,
and publicly unsuspecting he's personally apostate.

I'll tell you the old, oft-told, tale of the tall Elephant
in the interior of a trafficked habitation.
No one saw him.
The tale appears poignantly pertinent to apostasy
placed in the middle of Old Mother Church.

We can succor ourselves for certain,
that, despite the future "spiritual rubble" of Old Mother Church,
a “New Catholic Church” will emerge,
        more alive, attractive, and authentic than ever
        -- a bright and beautiful Bride of Christ.
        This will occur with the conquering of the Church
by the Immaculate Heart of our Mother Mary.

Would you chose to continue, dear Edith ?

St. Edith:
Okay….

Plenty of people, principally Protestants,
postulate that the presence in Portugal
of Mary, the Mother of God,
during the dawning decades of the preceding century
was primarily a "Catholic occurrence."
      It was not.
      It was a "World Wonder."
What transpired in Portugal is of positive importance
for the whole-wide world.
Our Christ is not only for Catholics,
who constitute His Mystical Body
-- no, His Mystical Body, below on earth,
makes salvation available for everyone.
      That may've been the motive when Mary appeared
in the proximity of a provincial village in Portugal,
called Fatima,
the name of a daughter of Mohammed,
and a world-wide icon in Islam.
The gift that Our Lady gave at Fatima is not to be disregarded,
      and not to be interpreted for one's own attraction,
      or for the Church's chief concern.
It's for the whole world,
which Her Son suffered to save;
and She, the Mother of the Earth,
will now seek to save,
until Christ "reinstates" Himself on earth.
     
As the Mystical Body of Christ diminishes,
all mankind moves to more meanness and misery.
Meanwhile, the gates to Hell, leading to oblivion,
loom larger, and more loosely latched,
for the lost.
 
St. Anne:
As pointed out previously, persons should pray
to the Lady of Fatima to save the souls
of the many members of the Mystical Body
mired in apostasy.
      They should also pray to Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
my daughter by different name,
since Our Lady of Mount Carmel has a major mission
in the unworthy world below.
      As Moses petitioned to Yahweh to temper His treatment
of the traitorous tribe who trespassed His authority
-- and Yahweh relented a little --
the prayers and pleas of our people,
especially by proper praying of the rosary,
might move Mary to mediate
for the members of the Mystical Body to the Father.
      People should plea with Her
to implore Her Father
to diminish the many of mankind suffering as sacrifices.

St. Edith:
The "noteworthy phenomena" that initially Anne noted:
the "gargantuan gust upward" of Krakatoa;
the two world wars;
the tsunamis;
AIDS;
climate change;
the human holocausts that've occurred on earth;
to us are evidence of the "exit" of Christ from the Church.
To most of mankind, however;
they're credulous occasional acts of uncommon occurrences.
Most persuasive substantial signs
of Christ's "desertion" of His supporters
will be finally found in the future, I feel.
And this I presume:
spiritual dissociation will ensue inside the Church.
      As the sparkle stales to insipidity
within the spirit of the Mystical Body,
and becomes more cloudy and less clear,
      the evidence for what we advance,
becomes less cloudy and more clear.
Only then, when the highest heads in the Hierarchy
are made to modify their methods,
will the Father's tactics triumph.
      Our Christ will descend to society for the second time,
      the Groom of a grown, more graceful, Bride.
Our Father will return here to Heaven to remain at rest.      
     
A part of the poem, "Pippa Passes," appears appropriate here,
published by the poet, Robert Browning, in 1841.
The little, lively, lassie, Pippa, who skips pass the poet
on her way down the lane, sings the subsequent song:
"The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in His heaven--
All's right with the world!"

St. Teresa:
What a fine, fascinating, future for the earth, dear Edith.
      In this time of gloomy, grave, disagreement with the Church
-- of sorrow and sadness to us --
please disclose how Catholics can change
and come back to Christ.

St. Edith:
    If they intend to return to Christ,
they need to have faith in the Father.
That doesn't signify, simply,
to be sure of His existence;
but further, to have a firm faith in His Justice.
      He will whip the unworthy ones who warrant whipping,
and welcome the unwavering with worthwhile rewards.
      We know He will.

St. Teresa:
And those victim/sacrifice/offerings, including the Jews,
who the Father ordained to die to save Sinners?

St. Edith:
      Most of the casualties in Divine Holocausts,
including the Jews,
are honored here in Heaven, and highly happy.
      They are held up by God as model mini-martyrs.
Their intended use was told, Teresa,
in the Third Secret of our Lady of Fatima:
      "in which the angels gathered up
the blood of the Martyrs
and with it sprinkled the souls
that were making their way to God." 
     
St. Anne:
May I terminate this troubling talk, by proposing, in two parts,
some promising points?

St. Edith and St. Teresa:
Of course, Anne.

St. Anne:
For Part Number One, we'll return, for a temporary time,
to the "holocausts."

Human holocausts were common in many cultures,
in practices planned to parallel
the sacrificial slaughter of animals.
Victims were killed in a manner
that was supposed to please, or appease, the gods.
Blooded bodies being burnt for oblation
became common in Aztec, Mayan, Incan, and other cultures.
      Vernal, virginal, maidens, or beauteous, budding, boys,
were sacrificed to the gods
by ritually ripping out the heart.
      The high-priest rent it out right under the ribs
and held it high up in his hands,
to gain the gradual growing glee of the "congregation"
-- that uncool crowd of the common folks
I'll laughingly label "the laity."
      While the heart still twitched and trembled,
its damp blood dripping down like drops of red dew,
the priest burned it black in a bloody bowl
for "the laity" to look at.
      A "whole burnt offering?"
A "holocaust?"
    Certainly.

St. Anne Continues:
    I propose now Part Number Two; and presently I'll put the pair together.

      The problem for my Daughter, Mary, is,
though She does not choose to cause Her children conflict
She knows She must.
She summons Her saints
-- that's us --
to "kill" the apostates, to "compel" them to concede, and accept
the requests of Christ,
even though He's "cut off" from them.
The Father's feelings for His faithful are flawless.
 He's been most lenient and loving
in selecting Mary to serve to save Sinners,
'til Her Son, for the second time, "enters" on earth.
      She looks outcast, and caught in a core of complications:
    on one side, the wrath of the Father for the faithful;
on the other side, sadly, the acts She feels She must perform
'gainst the simple, saintly, desires of Her once-human heart.
She's still an earth-born Lady, and the Mother of all mankind.

We see Her soundlessly standing there,
and softly shedding the tears of sorrow -- praying.
She suffers to sacrifice Her heart,
by sending Her saints down to cause some "crucifying" conflicts;
that as few as possible will perish
in the painful passing to a “New Catholic Church.”

And to place the Two Parts Together….

So stands my Daughter Mary,
like an Aztec high-priest,
and maiden too,
      Her Heart held high in Her hands
      -- the beating, bleeding, burning, oblation
of Her own Immaculate Heart.

James Callaghan, November, 2011                                                

I loved the words from Thoreau!

I think he should be proclaimed Caretaker of the Earth, even without canonization. And the thought is so beautiful...

God never seems to be around when we exercise our free will in accordance with our narrow world view. When we do not act from our innate image of God but from our worldly philosophies or what we "think". When we want our actions to have a wished for outcome.

The season of Advent is when we can practice developing our capacity to look outside ourselves for God in everyone and everything.

All of this leaves me cold. I consider it the bad result of people considering the old, inadequate theology of God as a person. The problem is made extremely more complicated with the trinitarian idea of one God composed of three persons. It all represents the awful inadequacy of people who continue to presume, pretend that that can even know anything about God to dare to begin to describe God, much less talk about God. Notice, I refuse to use pronouns of any gender. I will only repeat the term "God" which should be considered beyond our ability to describe. We belittle God by attempting to do so. We end up talking to the Infinite as if that Infinite is finite, in the same ways we talk to people we have known, starting with a parent, the first-known. Leave it alone. Let's grow up. Let God be God and quit presuming to be able to speak to or about God in any personal way. It just does not work. It makes God as small as humans. I am fully aware my advice would require a grand amount of new thinking, new ways of speaking, new ways of writing. But we must crawl out of the slime of outdated mythology, out of the Dark Ages, out of the Middle Ages--and even out of the new and horrible mis-translation into English of inappropriate, ancient Latin for the Holy Communion. We can do much better than the Vatican. Let us do it on a national basis. The so-called vernacular varies greatly even at that level.

Emergent Christ/Church
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In the dynamics of cosmic evolution, divergence, convergence and emergence are qualifications that energetically correlate to each other as communication, consciousness and conscience correlate. The phenomena of correlation are photo-electrically assembled and driven by negative/positive charges.

Wave/particle dynamics energize processes of divergence, convergence and emergence. DIVERGENCE is quantum-electric determination that opens potentials of self-elaboration; CONVERGENCE is the balance of positive-negative charges in substantive qualifications. Energy complexity is conditioned by substantive dispositions; this is true at every step along the way of transformation — evolution; EMERGENCE occurs by way of associations of sustainable correlations. Communication and consciousness converge in the foundational weave of outcomes that evolve and become purposely self-reflective — the faith-ground of communal relationship — religion.

In the human person, Divinity Consciousness is the collective insight of the Communal Self (The People Church) enabled by awareness of self-interest dependent on Other-Self — what is Eucharistic Altruism. In Christian consciousness, the ever-emerging People Church is communally the Body of Christ, inspired in the self-reflectivity of Divinity Consciousness.

http://evolutionarychristianity.com/blog/general/ilia-delio-the-emergent...
http://www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?id=87419
http://www.secondenlightenment.org/Adult%20Faith%20Study.pdf
http://www.divinicom.com
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Hi, Angie!
Thank you for the beautiful reflection to open this liturgical year. The dialog between two doctors of the church, a philosopher and the only authority in Heaven for the Blessed Virgin Mary. You are relating in colloquial English the message of St. John of the Cross - live and love today!
Have a blessed Advent!

@James Callaghan: Was that a comment? Or a 3 act play you submitted? All you people who are looking for and promoting a new Catholic Church? You already have it..in one or the other of the thousands of Protestantism offshoots...or were you thinking of forming your very own new church of protest? The beauty of the True Church is that it IS ancient and and un-changing and out-of-step with modernity for those who value only the culture of the moment. Pray it will remain thus until Christ comes again! All the negatives you belabor are faults of men...not the Living Bride of Christ! Christ gave us His Church as a hospital for sinners...not a hotel for saints! If you don't like the seemingly archaic "lodgings" perhaps it is time you checked out for where you can call things as YOU would like them to be and allow those who will humbly obey the opportunity to be one in Truth with the Holy Spirit, The Father and The Son. Ours is a Trinitarian God Who is also through the Son a Personal God. This is what the Church has always taught while at the same time over the centuries enlarged our knowledge of Him though the Sacraments. You are correct that we cannot in this life fully know Him on our own...thus He has gifted us His Church in which He reveals Himself.

When we live as though the Holy One, the True One, the Righteous and Just One, the Christ-of-God, is with us always, then has the reign, the 'kingdom' and kindom of God come.

And to any who might misinterpret this message, the Christ-of-God is NOT and never has been a pope.

I begin to see how true it is that 'anti-Christ' does not mean 'against Christ' as we have so readily assumed. The word 'anti,' in its Scriptural useage, means, "instead of." Anything or anyone that claims to 'replace' or be in the place of Christ for us, is anti-Christ.

JESUS did forewarn us that there would be "many" who would claim to be the Christ. Doe this ring a bell?