Reason and God

25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation: and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Epistle Of Saint James, 1 : 21 - 27

A man's fortune is in his deeds for God. When we are called and don't answer, the punishment will be coming, for when the Church and our Apostolic Catholic Faith is in danger, no matter how big and strong the enemy is, we are morally obliged to defend what has been given to us, unworthy sinners, from God Himself.

So when there are claims of naturalistic approach, when these calls for action are made, one has to say no, we are not like these, we don't give up because the odds are in our disfavor [humanly speaking], we have to do what is right and, based on our supernatural faith, which was given to us by God Himself,

we hope to receive the upper hand from God also - as promised.

There are calls also for "accepting everything", not of course distinguishing the circumstances of ability to defend the Church and being in no such position at the end of the battle - and while we are still given the duty to defend the image of God in our soul - the Catholic Faith and the Holy Mother Church, it is those circumstances that make it impossible at that particular moment, which make us free from such obligation - but never a moment sooner !

For God our human reason is nothing but vainly exaggerated reaction of our imperfect human mind, while setting aside totally, or in part, our God given trust in Him, even when at the same time God has given us many examples that we are not to be afraid and always trust in Him, even when the odds are clearly not in our favor.

In his book "Against the Heresies" [Angelus Press, 2003]

His Eminence Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre wrote the following

[in regards to the Pius XI's encyclical Divini Redemptoris

on Atheistic Communism]:

Page 310 :

Their goal: Annihilate Christian Civilization

Such are the Pope's predictions. It was not too long ago, and I think that if he were alive today, he would repeat the same thing.

....the Pope [Pius XI] says that the consequences of

these errors, this revolution, where foreseeable,

and he concludes his prologue with his sentence:

"This all too imminent danger, Venerable Brethren, as you have already surmised, is bolshevistic and atheistic Communism, which aims at upsetting the social order

and at undermining the very foundations of Christian civilization ."

There are voices today who, being clearly in error [but we don't judge their motives, only their works], who strive to "calm the waters" by asserting that:

"....we must avoid any natural reaction because

it is contrary to our Christian life....."

and then these voices add:

"Today's excessive concern with chastisement and punishment is just such a natural reaction, providing an excellent ground for the action of the Devil..."

These such voices also claim, contrary to our Catholic Faith

[this will be explained in detail further down], that :

".....the history of the Church is that of the faithful Bride who follows her royal Spouse [that is Christ], on the way to Calvary.

Darkness covers the earth and the lamentations of Jeremias resound again in the slow and painful agony of the Holy Mother Church......."

And the even more serious error comes next:

On the day of the Passion, another chorus rose to pity the Man of sorrows, who had "neither form, nor beauty to attract our eyes," stripped of His clothes, as today the Church is whipped by an odious modernist doctrine and stripped of Her liturgy. Then, the women of Jerusalem were that chorus.

Today another such chorus exists: it consists of those who react too naturally before the imposing mystery of the redemptive Passion, being renewed in the Church, which requires the death of the Just and His descent to the tomb.

The Church follows the steps of Her Master

and Her way is identical.

Such statements are contrary to Our Apostolic Catholic Faith, of which the Holy Mother Church is the tool for our salvation, and as such, as we know from the Gospel of St. Mathew 16 : 18 Our Lord Jesus Christ tells St. Peter:

And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Our Lord said nothing about the Holy Mother Church, of which St. Peter was the "rock of Her foundation" will "follow Our Lord to the Cross and die there .....with the Master ......" .......!!!!!

What is even more serious is to compare this error of pacifism with the Holy Scripture, namely the Book of Ezechiel 33 : 1 - 5:

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them:

3 And he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:

4 Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his blood shall be upon his own head.

5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not look to himself, his blood shall be upon him: but if he look to himself, he shall save his life.

But there is even more serious message of God toward the watchman himself [Ezechiel 33 : 6]:

6 And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman.

And such serious charge cannot be set aside just because, as it is asserted, those who try to warn others about Russian and Chinese communist assault on the World [and most importantly Our Apostolic Faith], posses "excessive concern with chastisement and punishment" - when we know, we have a duty toward God [first] and then toward His flock on Earth to tell the truth and warn the others about the dangers, never putting on line our own foolish reasons what may come if we tell the truth, or whether to defend ourselves is "impossible' .....because of the "strength" of the enemy......and these voices perhaps forget that we are not to question, only to do what God tells us to do in such regard......

But the situation is even more serious because these Russian communist criminals have invaded the Church and are striving to take away our Catholic Faith at all cost - so that they can run the World as they see fit [in accordance with their evil ideological atheistic world-domination strategy] and don't have to worry about people, who would posses the protection of God, to oppose them....

And the Devil is behind this scheme of the communists, do not forget that for a moment - and his fight against God and His true Church has to be opposed with everything available !

What we read also in the Summa Theologica

of St. Thomas Aquinas about the vengeance is the following:

Whether vengeance is lawful?

Objection 4:

Further, a man is said to avenge himself when he takes revenge for wrongs inflicted on himself. But, seemingly, it is unlawful even for a judge to punish those who have wronged him: for Chrysostom [*Cf. Opus Imperfectum, Hom. v in Matth., falsely ascribed to St. Chrysostom] says: "Let us learn after Christ's example to bear our own wrongs with magnanimity, yet not to suffer God's wrongs, not even by listening to them." Therefore vengeance seems to be unlawful.

[St. Thomas Aquinas'] Reply to Objection 4:

Sometimes a wrong done to a person reflects on God and the Church: and then it is the duty of that person to avenge the wrong.

For example, Elias made fire descend on those who were come to seize him (4 Kgs. 1); likewise Eliseus cursed the boys that mocked him (4 Kgs. 2); and Pope Sylverius excommunicated those who sent him into exile (XXIII, Q. iv, Cap. Guilisarius). But in so far as the wrong inflicted on a man affects his person, he should bear it patiently if this be expedient. For these precepts of patience are to be understood as referring to preparedness of the mind, as Augustine states (De Serm. Dom. in Monte i).

Conclusion

For myself, I cannot remain silent when murders and communist tyranny is about to enslave this Earth, with the aim of, in the words of the main present times Russian communist culprits:

[Quoted from the 1994 book The Perestroika Deception written by KGB (Ukrainian born) defector Anatoliy Golitsyn], page 116:

"There must be no letup in the war against religion because

as long as religion exists Communism cannot prevail.

We must intensify the obliteration of all religions

wherever they are being practiced or taught."

....statement by Mikhail Gorbachev on 15 December 1987 to a group of communist party officials, cadres and Soviet military personnel in Uzbekistan.

If these pacifist voices seem to "grasp the gravity of the situation", differently that is, and claim also ....

"Of course our human hearts tremble and we cannot avoid the fear that rises in us at the thought of the sufferings which could strike us; but we must offer to Our Lord the homage of our trust, and rest on His grace. We must not count upon our own forces - what is nothing must not be taken into account - but upon His word: "Do not fear, my little flock."

May Heaven grant you the understanding of our words! We do not belong to that impious generation that mocked Noah: we also, even more than any others, believe in the chastisement. But we refuse to approach it with a naturalistic spirit that throws souls into distress and paves the way for Satan.....

.....that is such people's personal choice, but to fight for truth and justice, especially, and most importantly, when the Holy Mother Church is under attack from barbaric committed Russian communist criminals, who at the same time will stop at nothing, it is clear to me that what we have to do is, as His Eminence Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre says in the already quoted section of his book "Against the Heresies" [Angelus Press, 2003] on page 314 - and it is mentioned in regards to the faithful living under the yoke of communism [!!!]:

"When you are persecuted, you defend

the Church, you defend the Faith."

[Amen to that ! - ed. note].

I can also quote from the brilliant book "The Graces of Interior Prayer" by

Fr. August Poulain [English translation published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. LTD, London 1910] the following passage about modern times political prophets:

A suspicious character in modern political prophecies is the fact that they never lead us to withstand wicked men, and never suggest any serious manner to resist them....

Also, the following from St. Teresa of Avila [her book Interior Castle,

page 174] should show the clear folly of the above opinion of the certain contemporary ecclesiastical authority about what we are expected to do for God [the said opinion proposes to do nothing more than prayer and penance - plainly to become pacifists] contrary to what we can produce and to what God expects from us:

Would it be a good thing for the soul to remain in that state of aridity, hoping for fire to come down from Heaven to burn up this sacrifice of itself which it is making to God as did our father Elias ?

No, certainly not; nor is it a good thing to expect miracles:

the Lord will perform them for this soul when He sees fit to do so......

But His Majesty wants us to realize our own wickedness, which makes us unworthy of their being wrought, and

to do everything we possibly can to come to our own aid.

And I believe myself that, however sublime our prayer may be, we shall have to do this until we die.......

To overlook God's wrongs is most wicked...

To make it even more clearer - I have to raise my voice when

I think error is being advocated, errors which are contrary to the clear teaching of several Popes [regarding communism], and so I would like to quote from the Holy Bible again the following:

Deuteronomy 20 : 1 - 4

Laws relating to war.

1 If thou go out to war against thy enemies, and see horsemen and chariots, and the numbers of the enemy's army greater than thine, thou shalt not fear them: because the Lord thy God is with thee, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

2 And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before the army, and shall speak to the people in this manner:

3 Hear, O Israel, you join battle this day against your enemies, let not your heart be dismayed, be not afraid, do not give back, fear ye them not:

4 Because the Lord your God is in the midst of you, and will fight for you against your enemies, to deliver you from danger.

And as St. Thomas Aquinas says about vengeance

and whether vengeance is lawful:

Objection 2: Further, he that takes vengeance on a man does not bear with him. But we ought to bear with the wicked, for a gloss on Cant 2:2, "As the lily among the thorns," says: "He is not a good man that cannot bear with a wicked one." Therefore we should not take vengeance on the wicked.

Reply to Objection 2: The good bear with the wicked by enduring patiently, and in due manner, the wrongs they themselves receive from them: but they do not bear with them as to endure the wrongs they inflict on God and their neighbor. For Chrysostom [*Cf. Opus Imperfectum, Hom. v in Matth., falsely ascribed to St. Chrysostom] says: "It is praiseworthy to be patient under our own wrongs, but to overlook God's wrongs is most wicked."

But we must conclude that when it comes to defending the Catholic Church and Our Apostolic Catholic Faith, we do not act that much in the manner

of vengeance, but we act most of all in justice, and that is a virtue, for as

St. Thomas Aquinas states again:

Fortitude disposes to vengeance by removing an obstacle thereto, namely, fear of an imminent danger.

Zeal, as denoting the fervor of love, signifies the primary root of vengeance, in so far as a man avenges the wrong done to God and his neighbor, because charity makes him regard them as his own.

Now every act of virtue proceeds from charity as its root, since, according to Gregory (Hom. xxvii in Ev.), "there are no green leaves on the bough of good works, unless charity be the root."

Therefore, as already presented by this website in regards to the many Catholic historical precedents [besides the main guiding principle of defending God's Honor - for His everlasting Glory !] of the Cristeros and the Spanish Civil War, and the command given by the Pope Urban II to the knights at the council

of Clermont in November 1095 thus [from Anne W. Carroll's book “The Crusades.”]:

“Men of God, men chosen and blessed

among all, combine your forces!

Take the road to the Holy Sepulcher assured of the imperishable glory that awaits you in God's kingdom.

Let each one deny himself and take the Cross!”

With a shout — "God wills it” — the Assembly rose.....

.....we have to conclude that we rather listen to God than to the imperfect and trembling human "reason and common sense" - for it is Our Catholic Faith that guides us on this path, on which, as it is clearly understood and even welcomed as victorious, we may be martyred by the Russian and Chinese communist war machine, but never we will be forced to shamefully acknowledge that we did nothing and that we didn't defend the Glory of God and His Honor - so our resolve will never be, as the above mentioned errors are presented by some:

"Even more, some propose infallible means to get through the times of persecution without suffering any evil...."

.....

"Christianity is not found in a sterile search for strange practices [!!!!!!] whose only goal is to spare us suffering.

Where would we be if the martyrs

had not shed their blood ?

[Ed. note - this above is misleading - in my case I have never proposed

that we should seek such means at all, my position is to oppose the Russian

communist evil with war on them when they come in order to defend the

Honor of God, our Catholic Apostolic Faith and the Holy Mother Church.....

our personal well-being was not even mentioned or brought into context......]

"Let us remain in our place, where the will of Christ

has put us, trusting in His grace....

.....We must not count upon our own forces - what is nothing must not be taken into account - but upon His word: "Do not fear, my little flock."

I'm sorry, but in good conscience I am not prepared to face God with such

pacifist attitude towards His Church - and please, don't get my words in the

wrong way - nobody's asking anybody to fight because we all have our free

will and have to answer to God for our actions [or lack of], but people

with God given teaching authority should instruct in accordance with

the Catholic Faith, what Christ teaches us and what has been given to us

for safekeeping.....the problem is that so far nothing has been done in that

regard and only the message is blamed instead.......

God is watching our every move and deed - and I honestly fear for those

who take such a gamble and decide themselves that they'll "remain in their

place"......that is when the need for decisive action in defense of Our Church

and Faith arises.....

God said by the mouth of the holy prophet Jeremias:

Cursed be he that doth the

work of the Lord deceitfully:

and cursed be he that

withholdeth his sword from blood.

Jeremias 48:10

If we loose the Faith and the Church continues to be in shambles because we have decided to "remain in our place" and not even mention these Russian [etc.] communist criminals by name [for example that is] as the true enemies of the Holy Mother Church, we are no better than the communists themselves.....for as His Holiness St. Felix I teaches [taken from the SSPX source]:

"To not condemn error is to approve it.

To not teach the truth is to condemn it."

Therefore, as stated already, we'll rather be prepared, just as those of the Spanish Catholics - the Carlists, with their already trained militia "Requete" [yes, they knew the communists were coming and these Catholics did something about it - never afraid what can happen to them !], so also we, even disorganized, as it seems at times, but also confidently awaiting Our Lord's grace to point us on the rightful path we must follow - and that is not some fearful women crying, as it is erroneously pointed out by some, but we are strong and firm in Faith and as such we assert our rightful claim and we approach in defense of what Our Lord has suffered for on the Cross - the Devine reconciliation and satisfaction of the Devine Justice, showing to us that we must hold sacred Our Apostolic Catholic Faith, the means of salvation for our immortal soul through the Holy Mother Church - and we are on the way, but never through pacifistic heresy !

This IS a Holy Crusade against Russian and Chinese Communism, never mind we don't have a good Pope to call it as such [never altering His Holiness authority of course, which comes from God !], but we are still responsible for the Church and the Faith, and ultimately for the salvation of our immortal soul - and that makes it a sacred duty towards God, which cannot and must not be altered by anything.....and anybody.

In Christ and Mary

yours truly

Note:

His Eminence Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre said in 1982 sermon titled "The Infiltration of Modernism into the Church", given in Montreal, Canada the following:

Yes, I am a rebel. Yes, I am a dissident. Yes, I am disobedient to people like those Bugninis. For they have infiltrated themselves into the Church in order to destroy it. There is no other explanation.

Are we then going to contribute to the destruction of the Church?

Will we say: "Yes, yes, amen'; even if it is the enemy who has penetrated right to the Holy Father and who is able to make the Holy Father sign what he wants?