The Devils Plan

by childlogiclabs

I know the devils plan.

The devil has been working up to this moment for a very long time.

You see the devil has a lot of time to think and he is constantly retracing his steps to see where he went wrong and how he can overcome God next time.  This is the pride of the demon to keep trying, thinking eventually he will win.  He won't. I've read the end of the book, we win.

The Last Judgement

But don't be complacent.  When Christ comes again and it is the end of mercy, and His perfect judgement begins there will be many screams and horror as the damned realize they have no time left.  They were given EVERY opportunity to repent and for all eternity they shall suffer torment.  Yes, there is victory, but there will be horror for many.  

When Christ comes many will pray and beg for death.  They will beg for death on the realization that they are eternal, that they were always in eternity and their evil thoughts and deeds where always seen by God.  They will wail and cry because the time of mercy is finished and they have wasted thousands of chances God gave them in their life to repent.  This will be a horror I cannot even begin to describe although I have seen it.  It will only be by God's grace that those that have stood on the side of the Christ will be able to stand and see the damnation of so many souls.  

Last Judgement

By their own hand they are condemned as the books of their lives are opened and they have written every evil thought and deed as they chose to 'do as thou will'.  Know that by your own words you are condemned. 

"By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned", Matthew 12:37

They cried out to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,because the great day of their wrath has come and who can withstand it? Revelation 6:16

But I will tell you the truth.  Now, right now is the time the devil has planned for.  Right now is when it seems to all be coming together for him.  

You see the devil knows that what constrains him is the Catholic Church.  The Holy Mass, the sacraments and the prayers of the faithful restrain him in many ways and he has no defense against this.  He has sent many evil Antichrists before that have killed millions (Napoleon, Mao Zedong, Stalin, Hitler) but they didn't wage the full horror the devil would have loved seen come to the world.  Let's face it, each of his Antichrists where contained to an area or the world and could not go full global with their horror.

Not so with the Antichrist to come.

You see the devils plan this time is to decimate the church before the next Antichrist comes on the scene.  In this way the next Antichrist will not be contained and wreak havoc all over the globe. 

Let me give you some data to back up my claim: 

This is his plan.  Decimate those that can do him the most damage (The Catholic Church) which he has no defense against.  The devil cannot come against the Holy Mass or the Sacraments, he can only lessen the number of Masses being said and the number of sacraments being administered.  In this way he hopes to get the world to such an atheistic state that the scene will be ripe for his next Antichrist.  

This is where he is wrong.  Yes, faith is under attack and many are falling away from the true battlefield which is the Holy Mass, but even if there is only one Holy Mass celebrated on the earth, that one Holy Mass changes the whole earth.  

Deeds of the Antichrist

Yes my friends the next Antichrist is coming and he will be worse than anything ever seen on the earth.  The Holy Catholic Church will be forced into exile and persecuted as it was in the beginning.  But the Holy Priests and faithful, the true remnant, will keep the Holy Mass alive on the earth and the gates of Hell will NOT prevail against it.  

“He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, shall persecute the saints of the Most High..", Daniel 7:25 

As in the time of the holocaust there will be many that we think of as friends that will abandon us when the greatest time of persecution comes.  The Holy Mother Church will be very much alone in her struggle to keep the devil at bay.  Many of our protestant brethren will relish in our diminishment and do so even now.  They will join any evil force that attempts to bring down Holy Mother Church because she is a constant reminder of their true origins and they will be fooled that to do her harm is to do a good to the world.  

Get ready kids, this is coming. 

 The prayers of the religious have restrained the evil one for so many centuries, but now as the religious orders are dwindling, and as those religious that are left are falling way to the ways of the world, the demon is about to be fully loosed upon the world.  

The remedy is simple.  We, the laity must step up and take the place of our fallen religious.  

The Holy Mass is both heaven and BATTLEFIELD.  The Holy Mass is where those who are in a state of grace plead to the throne of God for the other.  

We have an opportunity at every Holy Mass to go to the Throne of God and plead for mercy for those that will face the last judgement even if we do not see it ourselves.  

The demon is a snake, so stay close to your Mother. Pray the Holy Rosary. 

My Mom isn't afraid of snakes. 

So go to Holy Mass, stay close to the Sacraments and the Church, pray in front of the Holy Eucharist and pray the Rosary.

If you are a fallen away Catholic, come home.  You are most welcome on the battlefield.  All it takes is confession

Trust me, when these times befall us, you do not want to be with the masses.  We will be the underdog and the only place of safety.  Come home.

The time is shorter than you know.
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Heaven and Battlefield Part 1
Heaven and Battlefield Part 2
Heaven and Battlefield Part 3

Encounter With The Virgin

This encounter started sometime back, I will begin there.  

For some time after my husband's death, I had been not living a good life.  I was breaking a commandment pretty regularly.  It wasn't I was mad at God for my husband's death, it was because of the intensity of the pain I was suffering because of grief.   In truth, it hurt worse to go to Church than it did to sin.  

I knew better, I had already had the Vision of the Eucharist, so I knew the truth, and I would say to myself, "What are you doing! You know better!!" 

After three years, when my heart had healed sufficiently, it was time to come home.

Mother calls.  

I'm driving to work and I hear her sweet voice in my ear.  

"Pray me a Rosary."  

I thought, "A whole Rosary?" (There was a time when just one Rosary would have not been enough for me, now it was unthinkable!) 

"Just give me a decade." 

Remembering all that her Son had done for me, I thought, "Ok, I can do that."  

I pray the decade, which led to two decades, which led to the Rosary every day.  

It is true, if you pray the Rosary, you cannot stay in sin, you will either give up the Rosary or the sin.  

I gave up the sin, and I came home.  

I started going to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church.  The first Holy Mass I ran out of, because my sin was very much on me, and the demons did not want me there, and they made sure I was in pain.  But I went to confession, and did my penance, and then starting praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament again.  At first I would go across the river to St. Martin de Tours after Holy Mass on Sunday and pray there, but then one day I asked Father Eric Augentein if I could stay after Mass and pray and he said yes!! (Thank you Father!!) 

I appreciated him letting me stay and pray because I didn't have to cross the bridge, but there was an added benefit, I was alone with HIM!! 

My heart was heavy, because as I was falling back in love with Him, I knew deep in my heart that I could never be what I most wanted.  I could never be a bride of Christ.  Not because it was not possible, but because of my past.  If I could not be faithful in little things, and because of my sin, I didn't think I could ever be faithful to Him in large things.  

My heart was so sad because I loved Him so much, and wanted to be His, but thought I never could be, ever.  

Mother has a way fixing things.  

What I saw was totally unexpected.  I had resolved that I would never have my wish to be a bride of Christ and resolved to go on with my life.  I NEVER TOLD ANYONE OF MY DESIRE.  I kept it in my heart only.  

After about a year of being "home", I was in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church by myself praying the Rosary.  I am adoring the Holy Eucharist in the Tabernacle, when I see in my mind Our Lady of Fatima standing before me.  She was wearing the white with the gold trim and she was smiling at me.  As this was only in my mind, I thought it was my imagination.  (I have a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima) I began to think of something else, a Math equation, to make it go away. (That always works!)   It didn't go away.  I found I had no control over what I was seeing in my mind.  And it was like the Blessed Virgin knew what I was doing to make the vision of her go away, because she smiled at me like any Mother who says, "I know what you are doing."

Then in the vision in my mind, The Blessed Virgin approached me where I was kneeling in my pew and took a white cloth and placed it on my head and with her two small hands smoothed it down on either side of my head. 

Then she was gone.  

I began to cry.  She was letting me know that she accepted me as a potential Bride of Christ.  What I thought was IMPOSSIBLE, she made possible.  

Vision of Eucharist (Part I)

It's time.

This is what I saw.  The words underneath the vision of the Eucharist is what I heard.  A man's voice, gentle, but with authority to it that you did not question.

Now the history.

I was baptized a Catholic as an infant.  Although I went to Catholic School, I never did get my first communion or my confirmation.  (There were problems at home).  We had school Mass every Friday morning.  We didn't have a "blessing", if you hadn't had your first communion, you just sat there and watched everyone else go.  This was torture.  

After Catholic School, I would still go to Holy Mass, at St. Michael the Archangel Church, but I would never take Holy Communion.  Again, I would just sit there.  I can't tell you how bad I wanted to take Holy Communion.  I KNEW it was Jesus, and as a result I was also terrified of it also.  Although I saw other people take the Blessed Sacrament, I  got to a point that I gave up ever being able to receive Holy Communion.  I can't tell you how much I would hunger for what I thought I would NEVER HAVE.  

I still prayed the Rosary.  Marriage, years went by.  

One night I had a dream.  In the dream I went into a beautiful church, and when I walked in there was red carpet and pews to the left.  To the right was the Altar in this Church and the Holy Eucharist was hanging over the Altar.  The Eucharist was as BRIGHT AS THE SUN!!  Before the Altar, was a one person kneeler.  (Like the one below - red cloth and everything!) The only difference was the kneeler in my dream didn't have the top part where you place your elbows when you pray. 

I knew Jesus was standing next to me, to my right.  I wasn't permitted to turn and look at Him.  I heard Him say in my dream, "Kneel and receive Communion." 

I said to him, "But Lord, there is no Altar for me to kneel on." (I meant the top was gone from the kneeler).  

The Lord said to me, "I will become the Altar." And He laid across the posts and became the wood and the cloth and I knelt and received Holy Communion.  

When I woke up, I knew what I had to do, I knew He was calling me to get my First Communion.   But how? I didn't know there was anything like RCIA.  I loved the Priest at St. Michael the Archangel, but he had such a deep voice he kind of scared me.  I thought I would find another Catholic Church to get my Communion from.  I called St. Martha's Catholic Church and their RCIA was starting in a few weeks. (Go figure!) 

I had never been to St Martha's, never stepped in the door.  I signed up for RCIA and started going there for instruction.   The first time I stepped into the Sanctuary at St Martha's, my breath was taken away, and i cried.

It was the EXACT same Church as in my dream.

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More of this story coming in (Part 2).

Storm the Gates (Part 2)

NOTE:  The following of what you are about to read, is for your discernment.  I do not ask nor require anyone's belief.  Also, God did everything in what I am about to tell you, I only asked.  Even in the asking, God gave me the breath to speak it, the will to ask it, so really He did it all.  I am only writing this now because I was told to write, and write I will. 

Praying the Stations.  

A friend of mine at Church showed me how to pray the stations, and I had watched a show that told how powerful the stations where.  So, on my own, after church, I began to pray the Stations of the Cross in front of the Blessed Sacrament after I had prayed my Rosary.  I didn't know what I was going to pray for, but I found I was soon directed.  One day when I was about to start the Stations, I heard the Lord say to me, "Offer them."  I thought, "OK, I can do that." So I started offering each station to the Father for whatever I was praying for.  As I started to pray the Stations this way, as an offering to the Father, some things happened in the process.  It was over many Stations of the Cross offered over time that taught me a lot.  I will talk more about the Stations of the Cross and what I have learned about them, but let me share some basics for now. 

1.  The only way to the Father is the Son, His Cross and His Passion.  

2.  God hurt greatly while His son was going through his suffering, but desires that the       suffering of the Son be offered to Him in order to save souls. 

3. By offering the Stations to the Father, if you seek nothing for yourself but the things that God desires out of the love of your heart for God and for the ones He loves, is more powerful than I can ever describe.

4. If you want to know the Father's heart, offer Him the Stations of His Son.

5.  The Holy Flesh of the Son formed in the womb of the Blessed Virgin is so precious to God the Father, that if a request is made on the 11th Station, if it is considered just in His sight, the Father will hardly deny a request made on this Station because of the Holy Wounds.  

Storming the Gates (A Prayer Answered)

One day after Holy Mass, I was going to pray the Stations. My prayer that day was that the demons that come out of hell and tempt weak souls into mortal sin be prevented from coming to the earth.  Why did I pray this? What led me to this prayer?  Well to be truthful, when you pray the Stations of the Cross you also learn the state of souls in the world, and it is quite frightening how many are on the path to destruction.  (Jesus said this in Scripture).  My heart is for the lost souls and the blackest of hearts, and this is what I beg God for.  

So this day, I was asking that the demons be preventing from coming out of Hell and tempting weak souls into mortal sin.  I began the Stations, and at each Station I was begging God to grant my request with many tears for those that are already in mortal sin.  

I come to the 11th Station. 

I am crying and begging God for my request, because of my love for those that are weak and tempted.  I offer this Station to the Father and I hear our Lord say to me, 

"Send Michael Forth!"

Pray the Stations!


Next Installment:  Another Prayer Request and Answer on the 11th Station.

The Casino

The Lord had put it on my heart to go to the Casino.  I wondered why I had to actually go to the Casino, so I asked Him, "Lord, why do I have to go?  I can pray for them in front of the Blessed Sacrament!"  

The answer was silence. 

So, in obedience, I filled up my car and went to the Horseshoe Casino. 

I always take what I consider the "big gun" on these missions, which means the blue Our Lady of Fatima Rosary that my husband bought for me before he died.  When I walked in from the parking garage, I had it constantly before me, praying it publicly.  I made it to the Casino and walked through the doorway to where the slot machines where.  

I immediately felt the weight of the sins of the people in the Casino, it was hard to bear, I only wanted out of there.  (I don't know peoples sins per se, just the 'weight' of them, I don't know how else to describe it.)  This isn't a parlor trick, God wastes nothing, and I know if I am given 'information' there is a reason why I know what I know.  Many times I have been places and received nothing, but when God does show me the heart or the sin then it is up to me what to do about it.  Be mindful, no one can do anything for God.  He doesn't need me or my prayer.  So what I am given is for my salvation in that I can purify my heart by showing love for my neighbor by offering my tears and supplications to God for them.  With each act of love I express in this way, my heart is becoming more purified so that I, and hopefully my brethren I pray for, can attain heaven. 

With the pain I was in, I didn't want to stay there.  I went outside, and just outside the door to the casino is a little love seat in front of the stairs.  I thought of sitting there, but then realized I wanted to get as far away from the casino as possible.   I had seen some chairs in the next hallway, I was determined to go out there and sit.  The Lord spoke to me, "No, sit there." (the  love seat).  In obedience, I sat in the love seat and continued praying my Rosary, publicly.  The people going up and down the stairs could see me clearly.  

{Interesting note:  If you pray your Rosary in public, the Catholics are easily determined from the non-Catholics by how they look at the Rosary.  Protestants will look curiously at the Rosary as if it is something they may have seen before, but the Catholic will look at the Rosary and immediately avert his eyes, especially if he or she is where she maybe shouldn't be!}

A young man passed by me and seeing the black Rosary I wear around my neck said, "Nice Rosary!"  and then went into the Casino.  I got up and immediately went after him, because whenever anyone comments on the Rosary I am wearing, I know that is one I am to speak to.  I caught up with him in the center of the Casino.

I took off the black Rosary from my neck and handing it to him, I said, "This is for you."  He looked surprised and then we began to talk, I asked him if he was a Catholic.  He said, he used to be, but didn't go to Mass anymore, he said it was, "Just easier not to."  He then began to speak ill of the Church.  I reminded him gently of the beauty of the Church and what God has given us in the Sacraments and the Holy Mass.  We sat down at a Blackjack table that wasn't being used and I began to tell him my story,  how the Rosary brought me into the Church and about the Real Presence of the Eucharist.   I explained to him what I saw in a dream, of the Holy Eucharist hanging in the air, bright like the sun, with the symbol for the Alpha on the left side and the symbol for the Omega on the right side and how I heard a male voice say, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end."  

After about 30 minutes of talking with him he was saying, "I believe you."  

We were about to leave each other and I asked him one last question.  "Tom, I want you to ask God why He sent me to you today."  

He went his way and I was left standing there in the center of the Casino.  I slowly began to look around at all the people around me gambling with all the bells and noise from all the machines.  

As I stood there, it hit me....of all these people, and I was sent to only one.  

As I began to leave the Casino, I was drained and exhausted.  If I was this tired from just feeling the weight of sin, how much more did Jesus hurt going to homes of  the sinners and the tax collectors, and He KNEW their sin...I don't know people's sin, only the depth of it at times. 

As I got in my car to leave, it hit me, "Ok God, now I get it!  This is what Jesus did!  He didn't pray at the Synagogue all the time, He went out to the sinners."  

Then something else hit me.  If I had disobeyed God and sat where I wanted to sit, I would have never seen Tom. 

We must be willing to be courageous and go to where the most lost are and bring them to the Father.  Be brave, you have more protection from God than you know. 

I have a feeling there will be more "excursions".  Please pray for me. 

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(Oh, and just for a lark, take your Rosary and pray it in public, like a Walmart or somewhere else and see what happens! ) 

What Really Happens at the Holy Mass.

This is where I am happiest, at the Holy Mass.  Now I will tell you what really happens at Holy Mass.

The Lord told me some time ago, "I want you to go to Holy Mass everyday."  I thought, "O.k., I can do that."   At the time I was only going to Holy Mass once a week, an occasional day Mass but I mostly just prayed in front of the Blessed Sacrament.  I didn't understand, but I obeyed.  Going to Holy Mass everyday required some coordination, I would have to get up earlier and find a Mass along the way to work.  Also, the Mass would have to be close enough to work that when it was finished I could still get to work on time.  I found several different permanent options, and a few back up plans if for some reason I couldn't get to my regular daily Mass.

It took about a year of going to Holy Mass daily, but then things started to change.  This was no longer an obligation, but a joy!   God started to open my eyes to what was really going on in the Holy Mass.  I was astonished at what I learned.  

• The Holy Mass is the greatest event that ever happens on the earth.
• The Holy Mass is the greatest victory on the earth.
• Without the Holy Mass the world would cease to exist.
• The Holy Mass is where the love of God and Earth meet, or literally Heaven on Earth. 
• During the Holy Mass the love of God comes down in sheets! (I feel it!) 
• Each Holy Mass offered has some benefit for every person still living on the Earth.  Not just Catholics, but all.  The amount of this benefit is according to the grace and mercy of God and known only to Him.
• The Holy Mass is a great benefit to the souls in purgatory, and releases many souls.
• The Holy Mass received with reverence gives us a love for things that are Holy and of God.
• The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered to God defers a right and just judgement against us that we would have otherwise suffered, and has done so since the Last Supper. 

  

Now, think what a Priest really is.  A Priest, is not just for Catholics, but by God's grace, he is a Priest for the whole world and the Holy Mass and the Blessed Sacrament is God's house of light, calling all to Him.  May he never shun lightly offering this gift to God which only he can do for us. 

A Priest offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to God stands between all of us and the fires of Hell, which we all have deserved at one point in time by our sins.   The things that help us avoid hell, are the Confessional, the Holy Mass and Blessed Sacrament.  This is not forced, but only offered to us as a gift.  (How I wish more would take advantage of these most precious gifts for the sake of the judgement that all must face!) 

If you truly understood what the Holy Mass truly is, you would RUN to confession, and want to do what is right before God so that you can receive well that which is most Holy.  The Holy Mass and most Blessed Sacrament ARE NOT YOUR RIGHT...they are God's gift and should be treated with an eternal gratitude.  If you knew what was in a Catholic Church and what was really happening at a Holy Mass, you would enter Church on your knees, with contrition of heart.

Go to Holy Mass daily!

War

I am at war.  Although I may not look like it, trust me I am in a great war that never ceases around me.  I fight a battle everyday for the souls in purgatory and the lost souls that fall into hell everyday.  The loss of souls is one of the greatest tragedies in the universe.  Because God's justice is perfect, lost souls are in hell of their own volition.  There is nothing more heartbreaking to realize that this sentence is for all time.  Those that are falling into hell right now will still be suffering there 1 million years from now, and 100,000 x 100,000 million years and so on..

Stepping on the battlefield for lost souls  is one of the most treacherous things you can do in relation to the status of your own salvation.  The reason for this is that you can't do anything for God.  You aren't doing God any favors by your prayers, even if 1000 souls where to be released from Purgatory with your prayer, you didn't do it, God did.   You just asked that the battle be waged, God is the one that did everything.  But in the warriors walk you are at constant risk of the same pride of the demon, thinking that what you may do in prayer is 'needed' by God.  I assure you, it is not.  Your prayer and supplication is for your brethren and for your advancement in holiness while on the earth.  Even your personal holiness should not be for you.  

When we seek to be holy or a saint, that is still seeking something for ourselves, but we should seek to be holy so that we can go before God and plead for others who are lost.  The motivation for this should always be out of love for God and love for others.  One of the greatest prayers that you can say is "Not for me Lord, not for me."  Nor should you seek that anyone see the war you are engaged in.  This is a silent work done alone just between you and God for others.  

Even in the gifts God gives sometimes we should seek less.  Don't seek to know the result of your prayer because if you knew what God was doing, then again you are subject to pride.  It is by the lack of knowledge that we attain great faith.  Sometimes even the gifts God gives we should seek less of them.  Don't seek visions and dreams, but ask God to give you less of these, for they too can be a source of pride.  By many graces we think we are special before God and rise ourselves above others when we should be a servant to all.  Ask God only to give you enough to keep you motivated in prayer. 

Engaging in the battle for souls is one of the greatest purification process you can ever partake of.   For if you pray for a lost soul with great love without seeking recompense for yourself, God will open His heart to you and He will hear your prayers.  This is when the demon's harvest of souls is greatly decimated. So much so that he will have no reason to hide from you.  Many times the evil one has tried to scare me from my work with different physical manifestations and has expressed great anger while I was engaged in prayer.  

Once in Saint Michael Catholic Church I was praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament and I clearly heard hooves stomping on the beams above me.  I ran out of the church.  A few days later when I came back, again I was praying and the Lord said to me, "Where I am you are not to run."  I've been scared a couple of times since, but I didn't run, because He told me not to.   

Courage in face of this hidden malice is something that can only come from God.  God is the one that gives courage, for fear is not of Him.  If we strive after this courage for the cause of the lost, God will give it to us.  

 Slowly as you continue to take the battlefield more and more, you realize how powerless the demon is in the face of God.   That doesn't mean he won't continue in his efforts, but you are affected less and less.  I think Saint John Vianney spoke of almost getting used to it, this is because you know that unless God allows it, the demon cannot hurt you.  

The Battlefield

First He let's you know the battle before you, how dire the situation really is.  Many now are on the path of destruction.  The scope of the problem is overwhelming.  Yet as one created in the image of God we have the great gift of intervention for our brethren.  

Does a soldier take the battlefield assured of 100% health at the end of the battle?  No.  Warriors know that the possibility of wounds or even death are a possibility.  But those who step on the battlefield take the risk because the victory is worth all that we must suffer to attain it.  

Even to our last breath and our last drop of blood we must fight for the lost...their souls are worth it. 
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“Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your kin, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.” Nehemiah 4:14

Whisper His Name

Father was a no show at the 8 a.m. Holy Mass today.  The old man stood at the back door waiting for him, he said he had talked to Father and that he had said he would be there.  At 8:02, we decided to have a communion service.  Jim, wonderful servant of God, did the service for us.  One of the men came up to me and a woman that I was speaking to after the service.  You never saw this man without his rosary in his hand.  It gave me such hope to see one so faithful every day to the Rosary of our Blessed Mother.  He came over and speaking to the woman spewed a derogatory comment about Father.  My heart dropped.  The woman agreed and joined in the bashing.  This isn't the first I had heard of this, and every time I hear it, it broke my heart.  

They invited me to McDonald's for breakfast, I declined and said I would stay and pray.  The woman said to me, "Well he needs it!" (Meaning Father.)  What she didn't know was that most of my prayers would be in supplication for THEM, and not Father.  

Do you know what a Priest is? What he does?  Yes he is still a human being, but one set apart by God.  By his obedience and anointed hands he has agreed to give his whole life to bring us heaven upon the earth.   Think about that, a man gives his whole life so that you can have something that you could not have without him.  If you truly understood this, you would seek to serve your priest instead of him serving you.  

Without a Catholic Priest there is no baptism, and our children and family remain in their sin. 

Without a Catholic Priest there is no absolution of our sins.  

Do you know how powerful the Confessional is or how it saves you from hell?  Do you know from the hands of a Priest in giving one absolution is more powerful than 500 years of sacrifices on the altars of the Jewish people?

  

Without a Catholic Priest there is no Confirmation, no gifts of the Holy Spirit. 

No wisdom, piety, fortitude, knowledge, prudence, understanding and no fear of the Lord.  Think about that, no fear of the Lord.  Those who don't fear the Lord take a fast track to the devil, and if fear of God was lost upon the earth, what a horrible evil place this world would be.  

Without a Catholic Priest there is no special union in Marriage in the Catholic faith, the marital union with the Holy Eucharist which brings not just two souls together, but two souls as one united to God.  For when a couple marry in the Catholic Church with the Holy Mass and take the most Blessed Sacrament, they are not only marrying each other, but their union unites them with God in the holy Eucharist.  

Without a Catholic Priest there is no Anointing of the Sick, which also cleanses sins.  How many souls have made it to purgatory only by the grace of having received this sacrament before death!  And how many fell into hell for the lack of it and dying in their sins. 

Without a Catholic Priest there is no Priesthood, for only a Bishop (who was first a Priest) can give us Priests and Deacons through the Sacrament of Holy Orders.

Without a Catholic Priest....and I shudder to think of it... there is no Holy Mass.  The Holy Mass is the marriage of Heaven and Earth.  In our earthly flesh we cannot even conceive how fortunate we are to be present and join in the prayers to God at the Holy Mass.  We should thank God daily for the Holy Mass, for I tell you the truth, without the Holy Mass and the clean oblation offered to God at each Holy Mass, the world would cease to exist.  

And without a Catholic Priest there is no Holy Eucharist, no Jesus truly, and substantially present, body, blood, soul and divinity in the most Blessed Sacrament.  This is the one reason why the Catholic Church will always exist until the end of time, because our Lord said, "I am always with you, until the end of the age."  Because He said it would be so, and He would not leave us.  

You don't speak ill of A-N-Y priest, either in your thoughts, and especially not out of your mouth.   Because if you say the slightest word against one of God's priests, you are slapping our Lord in the face.  Our Lord Jesus instituted the Priesthood, and every Catholic Priest is His.

People talk about bad priests (thank goodness I have never met one!), but I tell you the truth, if you knew what a priest will have to account for when he goes before the throne of God, even if he was the worst Priest on the planet, you would lie down and beg God for him.  We are called to be holy, but a priest is not only called to be holy, but to bring souls to God and God will ask him to account for every soul that he served and whether he led that soul to God or away from Him.  

If you knew the power of God that comes by the grace of the Catholic Priesthood you would whisper your priests name in fear of having the wrong inflection and offending God.  

Yet with all this, God is so good, for he only lets a few of us know the truth, otherwise our Priest might fall to pride and self accomplishment when it is all God.  So God in his mercy, even though He has given us this wonderful gift of the Catholic Priesthood, He gives them the gift of humility, for even with all that He has given a Priest to do, they still have to wash their own dishes and do their own laundry. 

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Some of my Favorite Priests:

And these don't include my "Everyday Holy Mass before I go to work." Priests! 

Love them too.

God Bless you Fathers!