Modernists’ Meanest Mischief

 

“Take care that no one deceives you. Because many will come using My Name and saying: ‘I am the Christ’, and they will deceive many.” [Mt. 24:4].

“Take care….”

That’s what we have done in the previous pages, directing our first four “stones”, our first four searching examinations, not at men and women, but at their deceitful doctrines and practices, “by which they are deceiving many”. Held up against Catholic Tradition, against Vatican II, against the teaching authority of the Catholic Church and against that outstanding phenomenon of our twentieth century, the Six Apparitions of Our Blessed Lady at Fatima, we wonder how any Catholic could ever be in doubt if the twisted contortions held up against the transparent Light of Catholic Faith and the pure water of Catholic doctrine could ever be taken as a substitute to satisfy the hunger of their souls. And with the ingestion of all that foreign matter, a lot of innocence has been drained away, with the result that once again the world is full of violence as it was before the Great Flood, and yes, probably even worse than it was then….. For, if mankind of that ancient time, without the Redemption in the Blood of our God, without the Cross, without the Blessed Sacrament, without the Mother of God or a Church created in Her image and likeness, deserved such a massive retaliation from God, what does the world of our time deserve, which has turned its back on all these priceless gifts? What flood will be big or powerful enough to wash our world clean? The question has to be faced, even if for no other reason than for any Catholic not to be caught off guard. Which takes us back to the above quoted warning of Christ: “Take care that no one deceives you…”, and to our reply that in the previous four sections we did take care. If the warning so easily presents itself for the second time in the last section of this paper, could that be because there is still one area of deception we have overlooked? A form of mischief-making that finally would succeed in letting us be caught off guard? A pressing thought.

We have seen that those who follow false ‘apparitions’ and listen to their unholy ‘messages’ are steered by these in the wrong direction and so will be lulled into sleep to be caught off guard by their own free will. This worldwide pheno-menon was dealt with in a previous section of this paper and thus cannot be meant here. There must still be another way of being caught off guard not yet dealt with. To find the answer we must look at Modernism and its innumerable adherents amongst ex-Catholics as with new eyes.
Since Pope St. Pius X has spent a whole encyclical on the heretical doctrines of these modern enemies of the Holy Church when he gave us “Pascendi” in 1907, it is hardly likely that astute Catholics are going to be caught off guard by what these enemies teach. No matter how hard they try to “look like the Lamb”, they only have to open their mouths and we immediately know that “they speak like the dragon” (Rev. 13:11). So it seems that we will have to direct our critical scrutiny away from what they teach in order to concentrate on the praxis of the Modernists, the way they do things when dealing with orthodox Catholics. To do that in an orderly fashion, we will have to make the following digression.

“Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women”. [Lk. 1:28].

“And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. She cried out in a loud voice: ‘Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb.... And blessed art thou for believing that the promise made to thee by the Lord would be fulfilled’”.
[Lk. 1:41,45].

“As for those people who were once brought into the Light, and tasted the gift from heaven, and received a share from the Holy Spirit, and appreciated the good message of God and the powers of the world to come, and yet in spite of this have fallen away: – it is impossible for them to be renewed a second time. They cannot be repentant if they have wilfully crucified the Son of God and openly mocked Him”. [Hebr. 6:4-6].

“Is there any need to say anymore? There is no time for me to give an account of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, or of David, Samuel and the prophets. These were men who through Faith conquered kingdoms, did what is right and earned the promises. They stopped the mouths of lions; put out blazing fires, and emerged unscathed from battle. They were weak people who were given strength to be brave in war and drive back foreign invaders. Some came back to their wives as from the dead, but others submitted to torture, refusing release so that they would rise again to a better life. Some had to bear being pilloried and flogged, or even chained up in prison. They were stoned, or sawn in half, or beheaded; they were homeless, and dressed in the skins of sheep and goats. They were penni-less, and were given nothing but ill-treatment. They were too good for this world and they went out to live in deserts and mountains and in caves and ravines. These are all heroes of Faith but they did not receive what was promised, since God had made provision for us to have something better, and they were not to reach perfection except with us. With so many witnesses as a great cloud on every side of us, we too then should throw off everything that hinders us….”
[Hebr. 11:32-12:1].

“If the soul has its own embodiment, so does the spirit have its own embodiment. As Scripture says: the first man, Adam, became a living soul [Gen. 2:7], but the last Adam has become a life-giving  spirit” [1 Cor. 15:44-45].

I praise You for I am wonderfully made.

O Lord, You search me and You know me,
You know my resting and my rising,
You discern my purpose from afar;
You mark when I walk or lie down,
All my ways lie open to You.

For it was You who created my being,
Knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I thank you for the wonder of my being,
For the wonders of all your creation.

Already You know my soul,
My body held no secret from You
When I was being fashioned in secret
And moulded in the depths of the earth. [Ps. 138].

These texts taken from sacred Scripture prove beyond any doubt that every man, woman and child is unique. That each human being is first of all a living soul to be able to live the corruptible life on this earth. But these texts also show that we can receive the spirit to live already here on earth the incorruptible Life of Faith. We must now conclude this digression with a few well-chosen texts to see what this means. But before this is done I want to put stress on what St. Paul says in the second last quote above: The soul has its own embodiment. The unique soul of every man, woman and child has its own embodiment: a unique body by which that unique soul is recognised as is so eloquently expressed by the Psalmist: “You knit me together in my mother’s womb” And the unique share of each man, woman and child in the Holy Spirit, this spirit in man also has its own embodi-ment: the way the Faith (Jewish, Christian, Catholic) is being lived. People who do not enjoy a share in the Supernatural Life while here on earth only have a soul according to St. Paul which will help them to live here on earth but will not be enough to get them to heaven, as the above quotes from the Letter to the Hebrews so clearly show. St. Paul calls all those witnesses “the heroes of Faith”.
This uniqueness of every human being is inalienable. This means that the responsibility for our own actions cannot be transferred to somebody else. After the Fall of our first parents Adam tried to pass the blame for his action onto Eve, and Eve tried to pass the blame for her action onto the devil. But God would not have a bar of that, and – as Scripture testifies – it is still the same for us.

“We shall all have to stand before the Judgement Seat of God, as Scripture says: ‘By My life – it is the Lord who speaks – every knee shall bend before Me and every tongue shall praise God. It is to God, therefore, that each of us must give an account of himself’” [Rom.14:12].

“Let each of you examine his own conduct; if you find any-thing to boast about, it will at least be something of your own, not just something better than your neighbour has. Everyone has his own burden to carry”. [Gal.6:4-5].

“For all the truth about us will be brought out in the law court of Christ and each of us will get what he deserves for the things he did in the body, good or bad” [2 Cor. 5:10].

If God has intimate knowledge ‘of how we are knitted together’, and ‘of our resting and rising’, as well as ‘of our purpose’, then He is also fully aware ‘of all the truth about us’. This may be a scary thought if we think we are alone. There-fore, in anticipation of coming to grips with one of Modernism’s meanest decep-tions (to which all the above quotes prepare us), we had better finish with a couple of reassuring quotes, one from the Old Testament and its parallel in the New.

“The Lord God says this: ’I am going to look after My flock Myself and keep all of it in view. As a shepherd keeps all his flock in view when he stands up in the middle of his scattered sheep, so shall I keep My sheep in view. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered during the mist and darkness….I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong. I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them’”.
[Ez. 34:11-16].

“Jesus spoke this parable to the scribes and Pharisees:
‘What man among you with a hundred sheep, losing one, would not leave  the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the missing one till he found it? And when he found it, would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders, and then, when he got home, call together his friends and neighbours ? “Rejoice with me”, he would say, “I have found my sheep that was lost”. In the same way, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous men who have no need of repentance’” [Lk. 15:3-7].

Now that we have been suitably prepared from the best possible source there is to understand what comes next, we may start asking ourselves ‘What have all these quotes from Sacred Scripture in common?’ What does God’s Revelation reveal in the inerrant Word of God, the Bible? What do we find out no matter where we open any book of the Old or the New Testament?

First, there is the Blessed Virgin Mary, the one who, as a pure creature (so as not to compare Her to Her Son} did more for mankind in her own person than all the other human beings put together.
Then there is Elizabeth, John the Baptist, St. Paul himself and that whole ‘cloud of witnesses’ those men and women of Faith he calls up before the Bar of History: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Joseph, Moses, Rahab the prostitute, and confessing to have no time to go on to mention the deeds brought about by the Faith of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the Prophets. Add to that all the Saints we know who ever lived in the New Testament, those shining examples beckoning us to come to their homeland, and to forget all the glamour and corruptible things this earth has to offer.
And what have we got? What does all this add up to?
It adds up to this, that, as St. Paul testifies, anything great for God and man-kind, anything beneficial, powerful and lasting was brought about by individuals, by men and women of Faith.

And the one great fact that has emerged in the second half of our 20th century is: that Modernists intensely dislike individuals enough to ruin this picture….

Why would that be so?
Because human beings who exert their individualism, and especially those with a deep Catholic Faith, express their belief that, having been created in the image and likeness of God, they are first and foremost themselves, having recei-ved from God their own uniqueness and their own purpose. This makes them unmanageable for Modernist bullies. For human individuals are more than indi-viduals: they are persons, and it is in their personhood that they resemble God.
So what then is a person?

A person (and this could never be expressed any better, because it comes from the great St. Thomas Aquinas) is the owner of his or her acts, and this ownership, as all the above quotes from Sacred Scripture testify, cannot be delegated, trans-ferred, minimised or abandoned. It remains the person’s property. And it is for this inalienable property, this divine right, in which human beings resemble the three Divine Persons, that all Modernists have a great dislike for all those Catholic individuals who see through their hypocrisy and falsehoods and stand up to them.

This brings us to the core of their meanest mischief by which they vent their intense dislike and fight off these Catholic individuals.

All those who, through their true Faith and their love of God, live in state of grace, form a very mysterious bond called the Communion of Saints. This bond, being an Article of Faith, has been revealed by God and so comes from God. It is composed of individuals as, according to the above quotes, God only recognises individuals and persons. Now if Modernists already experience great difficulty controlling Catholic individuals, especially persons of Faith, that is, those who really take possession of their good acts and exert their ownership, then they have no hope of exerting their bullying tactics over the Communion of Saints.

And it was their intense dislike for the Communion of Saints that finally gave them the idea of how to fight those Catholics who are at home in it. For it was for this reason: for the destruction of the individual Catholic person and for the destruction of the influence the Communion of Saints has over those Catholics, that the Modernists latched onto something that does not exist, and to which they gave a name that has no meaning: ‘community’.
Allow us to explain.
Those who consciously live in the Communion of Saints know exactly what this Communion hopes for, and believes in, and loves. They know its goodness and Truth, and its unity, that which binds together the Saints in Heaven, the souls in Purgatory and those in state of grace on earth. They feel at home in it as in the City of God. For they know that they are no strangers in that City; they know how well-known they are themselves and how appreciated they are as individuals, as lies so eloquently expressed in all the quotes above. They are in daily contact with the Saints to be inspired by them in their love for God, Church and neighbour.
And they know who do not belong to this Communion, those who are attached to their sins, the women on the pill, those who live in irregular relation-ships, the murderers, abortionists, thieves, pedophiles, and all the other outsiders who all shelter in ‘the community’ but are not found in the Communion of Saints.
On the other hand, what does ‘the community’ think? No one knows and no one cares. What does it want? No one knows what it wants. What does it believe in? What binds it together? No one knows. It is just an agglomerate of people each with their own private thoughts, fears, plans and sins. ‘The community’ harbours a lot of sinners who would never be part of the Communion of Saints. There is no cohesion or unity in the community, nothing that sets it apart, nothing that guides or inspires it. The mere fact that some people live in the same area has never created a bond, except maybe in times when there is a common threat. But when left to their own devices, each ‘member’ follows his own private thoughts and pursues his own private plans which can be as contrary as any other member’s plans and thoughts are. And these are hidden under a veneer of some frivolous camaraderie to hide the fact that he or she never really feels part of a ‘community’ except maybe when driven by some politician or  a minister of religion.

Now all this may be quite understandable that people cannot come to grips with what is so ill-defined as ‘the community’, where every contrary thought lives and finds a home, were it not for the praxis of the Modernists we talked about before, the use they make of this concept community when dealing with orthodox Catholics. With Catholics that is, who refuse to be bullied by them, considering themselves as belonging to the Communion of Saints where everything is well-defined. The very fact that such Catholics live out in their lives Christ’s command-ment to love God first and their neighbour as themselves, and thus in their quiet way are far more charitable, out-going and Christ-like than any ‘member’ of a fictitious ‘community’, is the very fact that makes them so loathed by Modernist priests. For such Catholics show that, as individuals and as persons, they are in charge of their own Catholic actions, and so maintain a Catholic identity that is totally opposed to the ‘catholicity’ that emanates from Modernism and is enforced by Modernist priests and their ‘catholic’ community stooges. And all of a sudden this hideous concept of ‘community’ has become the recycling bin in which all these free and easy children of God, Catholics who are the owners of their own actions and stand up for the Catholic Church, must be thrown in order that they can be controlled by their Modernist bullies and come out as twisted as they are themselves.
Thus the references to ‘community’ are never-ending as if coming from a cracked long-playing record. And Hell has no mercy! These Catholics are subjec-ted to all sorts of sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal and public humiliations and persecutions, even by priests who pride themselves as being on their side’.
Loud singing of songs which no longer represent their Catholic Faith, but are composed by Modernists who, like John Wesley, have seen the power of singing to promote the new twists in Catholic thinking. Abuses in the Liturgy of the Mass, piped music and taperecorders, soloists, announcements, jokes, laughter, clapping, talking and all the other din that makes the House of God resemble a cinema.
And on top of that there is another reason why ‘community’ is such a handy instrument in the hands of Modernism. Modernist priests are no good shepherds. They loathe ‘to stand in the middle of their flock’ and keep all of it in view. And they most certainly do not want to go after the lost sheep, being lost themselves. Nor do they care ‘for the fat and healthy ones’. In other words, they have put a barrier between themselves and the really Catholic part of their flock. One can hear them talking and laughing outside after Mass with a lot of banter and hilarity, but only about trivial things. The things that matter or are a worry to orthodox Catholics are never allowed to be brought up. To priests like that there are no problems. Is it not true that nowadays in nearly every parish the majority of parishioners consists of ‘catholics’ who love the freedom of conscience that Modernism brought with it, a freedom they never enjoyed in the Communion of Saints. Such parishioners are quite happy to be fully paid-up members of the modern salvation club: the parish community, in which ‘salvation’ is inevitable. So, after Sunday Mass, the parish community together with the PP slips back into the wider outside community, while the orthodox Catholics lose contact with the PP and are locked up in some imaginary paddock to be safely stored away out of sight, so as not to upset the parish community. For all he cares they can look after themselves until the next Sunday, when they are temporarily released in order that the whole tragedy can start all over again. And so the suffering goes on, year in, year out, with hardly any relief in sight.
And of course here we recognise the danger we talked about on the first page of this final section: the danger of being ‘sucked in’, the real possibility of being caught off guard. If the majority of parishioners in any parish consists nowadays of ‘catholics’ who have gone over to the new religion, then this shows that the pressure to conform, to leave the Communion of Saints and join a non-existing ‘parish community’ was too great for these original Catholics, and thus must not be underestimated to be strong enough to seduce others. If a PP sees that the majority of his parishioners do not mind joining in with modernistic songs, have no objections to loud, piped music, abuses in the Liturgy, or laughter, clapping and talking in church, why should he think they are lost? They only follow his example and he does not consider himself lost! After all, has he not made sure that they are being taken care of by the ‘parish community’? All the other Catholics have to do is join in. Thus, in the fictitious absence of any lost sheep, he has freed himself to ignore the real Catholics of his flock, to spend happy hours with his parish community, attend seminars and lectures, or to read questionable books which will further erode his already dwindling spiritual immune system.

Meanwhile of course, our dear Catholic friends, far from being buried in the parish community or being locked up in some paddock, use their God-given natural understanding and the supernatural insights of their Catholic Faith to undo the evil of Modernism in their sphere of influence. They prove to be irrepressible.
They do their own thing in the sight of God because, as real natural and super-natural persons they are the only and inalienable owners of their own actions for the spread of the Kingdom of God here on earth, as millions of God’s children have done before them and will continue to do so after them. Under no circum-stances will they ever allow a parish community or anybody else to take charge over what is their God-given right and obligation.

And with this we have uncovered the last of our ‘five smooth stones’.

It is our firm resistance against any attempts by one of the gravest misdeeds of our Modernist adversaries: the destruction of our Catholic individuality by making us leave the Communion of Saints in order to make us enter the vestibule of the ‘Church of Darkness’: a non-existing ‘community’ where everything goes, even the most contrary things….

This fifth stone too, as were the previous four, is not directed against flesh and blood, but against yet another insidious, looming shape that surrounds us everywhere we go and is directly threatening us and our children. And we may be forgiven for directing our readers’ attention once again to what has already appeared on page 33 of this book as the best summing up for the form this holy resistance may take. I am referring to what was stressed and held up at Fatima in 1917. In the hands of intrepid Catholics this is bound to destroy Modernism and the insidious use it makes of ‘community’ to make Catholic individuality and the Communion of Saints inoperable.
For that it deserves no mercy…..

“It is not those who say to Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but the person(!) who does the will of My Father in Heaven. When the Day comes many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy (preach) in Your Name, cast out demons (baptise) in Your Name, work many miracles (change bread and wine into Your Body and Blood) in Your Name?’ Then I shall tell them to their faces: I have never known you: away from Me you evil men!” [Matt. 7:21-23].

From this we learn that, what Modernist priests do is very serious in the eyes of Him who founded His Catholic Church on the Rock of St. Peter, not for the destruction of Catholic Faith and Catholic individuality, but for making them shine in all their glory.
Please pray for these priests! It is very telling that Our Blessed Lord uses the word “many” in the above quote……