Meltdowns<http://donotbediscouraged.blogspot.com/2009/02/metldowns-detachment-and-future.html>, detachment and the future
http://donotbediscouraged.blogspot.com <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ix8QB2UwaIQ/SZAsbi5jNRI/AAAAAAAAARw/6izo--HZ-RY/s1600-h/The+Titanic.jpg> [] The Obama factor, the financial crisis, the Legion of Christ meltdown and the Society of Pius X holocaust controversy had a lot of heads spinning last week. Perhaps you awoke this morning wondering what shoe is going to fall next. Upheaval and collapse is all around us. Pride, arrogance, sin, corruption, denial and complicity all combine to cause the rise and the fall of nations, institutions and people. Many innocent people get hurt. Many people are angry, anxious and discouraged. The Church and the entire world are going through what St. John of the Cross called the dark night of the spirit. In this time of intense spiritual warfare and purification, once again I would like to point your direction to this text from a Spanish spiritual writer that has been so helpful to me. Please read it prayerfully. “This adventure of faith will consist in burning bridges, setting aside all rules of common sense and all probabilities and, like Abraham, disregarding arguments, explanations, and proofs, untying ourselves from all rational positions and, bound hand and foot, making the great leap into the abyss of the dark night, surrendering ourselves to the totally Other-God Alone-in pure and dark faith. The contemplative of the future will need to enter the unfathomable regions of the mystery of God-without guides, without supports, without light. God will be experienced as the Other Limit; God’s distance and proximity will be meditated upon simultaneously; and as a result, there will be a feeling of dizziness which is a mixture of fascination, fright, annihilation, and dread. The contemplative will have to run the risk of being submerged in this bottomless ocean where dangerous challenges are hidden. These, the contemplative cannot shun, but must face and accept them in their burning insistency. Those who return from this adventure will be figures sculpted by purity, strength, and fire. Transformed by the ecstatic closeness of God, above them will appear the living and illuminating image of the Son. They will become the transparent witnesses of God” (Ignacio Larrañaga, O.F.M. Cap., “Sensing Your Hidden Presence: Toward Intimacy with God”, p. 12.) My dear friends, there is no doubt in my mind that we are in the middle of an intense period of purification. Everything around us is crumbling. Something new will emerge from the rubble. Pope Benedict has spoken about a Church which is smaller, but more faithful. Read the text from Fr. Ignacio Larrañaga again. Read it slowly. This is why I have been inviting you to incorporate into your spiritual life deep contemplative prayer. <http://www.fjicthus.com/Prod/16/Contemplative-Prayer.aspx>My Electronic Parish website has a new section on contemplative prayer that can help you to get started. I would not be surprised if there is a furthering of the meltdown throughout this week. Satan has launched an intense attack on the Church. This is why a powerful spiritual life is so vital in order to persevere. Pray the Rosary every day. Remember that the real name for Our Lady of Guadalupe is not Guadalupe. Her real name is <http://www.sancta.org/nameguad.html>Our Lady of “quatlasupe”. “Quatlasupe” is the Aztec word for “she who crushes the serpent”. Stay close to Mary. She will protect you. Use the sacramentals: holy water, blessed salt, miraculous medals and the St. Benedict medal. God has provided us with an arsenal of weapons to fight Satan. “Put God’s armor on so as to be able to resist the devil’s tactics. For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the Sovereignties and the Powers who originate the darkness of this world, the spiritual army of evil in the heavens. That is why you must rely on God’s armor, or you will not be able to put up any resistance when the worst happens, or have enough resources to hold your ground” (Ephesians 6: 1-13). This is a time to prepare yourselves to become more active and alert in the different apostolates that you have been involved in. God may be inspiring you to become part of God's plan at this time to defeat Satan from his plans to dominate the world. Some of you have been given specific missions in these times of intense tribulation. You know who you are, and you know that it is time to act now. We need great saints, we need great heroes. There will be martyrs. The world economy will continue to spin out of control. A corrupt and sinful people cannot sustain an ordered society. There will be further economic turmoil, maybe even a total collapse of the world economy. It could fall quickly and loudly. There will be a moment of intense violence. Order will be imposed by a police state. Peace will emerge, but our world will change dramatically. Gone will be the credit cards, the malls, corporations and a global economy. Gone will be the abortion industry, the contraception industry and the pornography industry. Gone will be the drug cartels and the military complex. Gone will be the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bildenbergers, the World Bank and the United Nations. Gone will be the corruption within the Catholic Church – entire religious orders and dioceses will go out of business. All of this will be gone because the money that has been sustaining the corruption and the sin will be gone. My dear friends remember the words of St. Teresa of Avila: “Let nothing trouble you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes. God never changes. Patience obtains all. Whoever has God, wants for nothing. God alone is enough” (Poesías 30). Abandon yourself into the loving hands of an awesome God that loves us unconditionally. Allow yourself to be purified. Do not let yourself be consumed by anger, anxiety, frustration, discouragement or resentment. Enter into the dark night of the spirit. Do not be afraid. If you persevere, “you will become the transparent witnesses of God”. The Titanic has hit the iceberg. God is the lifeboat. Jump in. Further reading - latest updates on the meltdown... <http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1311>George Weigel on the Legion of Christ and what to do now <http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5180FH20090209>Latest on SSPX Bishop Williamson <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877388,00.html>Time magazine on the New World Order emerging Posted by Fr. 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