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Thanks for tuning in to Everything Catholic again, and merry Christmas to all of you.
Now, for this video, I would like to share this very important clip with you. How do we know what we can trust on the internet when some bloggers or whoever it is that talk about this seer or that mystic, etc.? Okay.
In response to the question of, um, there being out there many unqualified bloggers, individuals spreading false teachings who are promoting this or that unapproved seer who in the end turn out to be false, as we've all experienced in recent years. This has happened many times, as we all know. This is not a surprise. But I did put all on notice years ago. I produced a video putting many people on notice that were running after these alleged self-proclaimed seers to their own demise. Now, many of them are upset because they've invested a lot of time, their own reputation, and money that can never be recovered.
Well, what do I say to such individuals? You should have known better. The church has taught you. I, as the church's spokesperson, have taught you not to go running after these as flames, after the moths after the flame. But unfortunately, human nature often times has the upper hand, and people suffer as a result of the human will leading them rather than the divine will. So, what do you do with these people? You correct them in a very fraternal and, uh, brotherly way, which I've already done, so I won't reiterate what I've said before. There are many videos out there I've put on this very topic.
But what I will limit myself to say is as follows: You can avoid being deceived by false seers, claimments of prophetic supernatural messages without church approval. How do you do so? Well, I want to share with you that I have always and will continue to always maintain unflinching loyalty to the church's teachings, to sacred scripture, to sacred tradition. Tradition, scripture, tradition, and magisterial teachings are the triple pillars. Triple pillar, triple column, three pillars, three columns that you ought to always adhere to. The church's teaching does not change on morals and doctrine. It may be explicated to a better understanding, but the substance never changes. So, I uphold the respect and lawful obedience befitting all ecclesiastical authorities who remain in union with the Roman Pontiff. If they separate themselves from the Roman Pontiff, do not follow them on faith and morals.
So, as a theologian accredited by the Vatican, by the church, and a pastor of souls, it is incumbent upon me and a matter of duty and vocation to tell you the truth in love, to put you on notice of the dangers of the false teachings that include priests and laity who are alleged to have so-called prophetic knowledge of future events. Now, I'm not saying they're all wrong, but the majority are. I know, and I speak from experience, um, after having read scores of these so-called prophetic messages of these self-proclaimed seers and compare them assiduously with the doctrines of scripture, tradition, magisterial teachings, I can assure you without equivocation that these individuals and their revelations are not of God. The vast majority are not of God. But from human reflection, the human mind, the human will, and with interference of the devil, and something may be of God is there as well. It's a poor of truths and falsehoods that you have to sift through.
To begin with, here are some red flags. A seer claiming that they don't need the church's support is someone you don't need to follow. Or if they were formally condemned in writing by their bishop, you don't follow them. Or were told by the bishop that their teachings do not enjoy the support of the church, provided the church goes along with that bishop. Because there are cases where a bishop inadvertently contradicted the magisterium. But once that bishop is made aware and he changes his position, then that's okay. Then he, he's back on the straight and narrow like the rest of us following the magisterium. And the magisterium's job is to articulate, not create the teachings in their normative revelatory expression in scripture and in their transmission form through tradition.
Part of the reason for the lack of ecclesiastical authorization on the part of these seers is the fact that they often times use a copy and paste approach to giving messages. This is where it confuses the laity. They'll take something from Father Goi, they'll take something from True Life in God, they'll take something from Luisa Piccarreta, will take something from Fina and mix it with their own hackneyed opinions or ideas that contradict church teaching that the laity are not aware of. Now, it does not matter if they're in good or bad faith. That's not the point. The point is the result. Does it do good or harm? So, if someone tells you we must stand up for tradition by denouncing the Pope, that does more harm than good. You're severing yourself from the Roman Pontiff. And whenever you do that from a validly elected Roman Pontiff, you're severing yourself in Christ. Jesus said in Matthew 16, "Upon this rock, Peter." That's the office of the papacy. "I will build my church, not your church. And the gates of hell will never prevail against it." There's the guarantee. And even the First Vatican Council stated, "Every successor who follows the office of Peter, who is a validly elected to the throne of Peter, will maintain the truth in its integrity." That's a guarantee. Okay?
Now, that's just one small example. Other red flags are unfulfilled prophecies, right? Failed predictions. This happens a lot. "Oh, Pope Ratzinger is going to call a new conclave. Pope Francis is going to be murdered, assassinated." And people still follow these individuals. I, and this, this to me tells me they're completely off the rails.
Now, another red flag is that the message is predicated upon the urgency of saving one's own life through safe havens, safe shelters, refuges, physical refuges. The emphasis is on that. It's not on your soul, it's on your body. That's another red flag. No one's going to save your body. You're going to die one day, whether you save yourself for a year or two or not. But technology has advanced at such an alarming rate, and what's coming to this earth in terms of a chastisement is beyond technology's defense. Technology will not stop what's coming. No one's going to be safe. The only refuge we have in these end times are spiritual weapons: consecrating ourselves to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary, ensuring our eternal salvation by frequenting often the sacraments of confession and communion, of obtaining the church's indulgences, especially in this plenary Jubilee Year of Mercy of Hope, of availing ourselves of the sacramentals like the brown scapular or the Miraculous Medal, the crucifix, the Bible, the Rosary, holy water, holy oils, and the list goes on. Benedictine medals. We also have the Chaplet of Divine Mercy in the hour of power, the 3 p.m. hour when God's mercy is open to the world. We also have the First Nine Fridays devotions. Today's the first Friday of the month of May in the year of our Lord 2025. Jesus promised gave 12 promises to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and the 12th was eternal salvation. Why not avail ourselves of this? And there's a whole story about that being proven by Bruno Cornacchiola, who wanted to go kill Pope Pius the, I think it was the 12th, and he was stopped by the Blessed Mother, now known as Our Lady of Revelation at Tre Fontane, Italy, because he made the first consecutive nine Fridays. She intervened to keep herself from going to hell. And you have, uh, other devotions. Well, this goes on in the Divine Will, right? Jesus tells Luisa, "Whoever meditates on these hours of the Passion, I will protect their place where these hours are recited at least in part, and even be mindful of them and their surroundings." He tells her this in a volume where they have nothing to fear because I protect them through hosts of angels who guard them. People who live in the Divine Will are surrounded by hosts of angels who are escorting their divine acts to the throne of God. Of course, we have the True Life in God devotion, which is approved by the church, bears four seals of ecclesial approval, magisterial seals of approval that are meant for these end times, and that talk about how to prepare, consecrating ourselves to the two hearts, and so forth.
Another red flag is mental imbalance. A person who is not focused on the spiritual but on the external, looking for signs in the clouds, images on window panes, and things like that. Again, I'm not saying these things do not occur. God uses everything. Clouds, window condensation that can form the image of Mary. That can be a work of God. Yes. But they don't go chasing after these things. If they come, they welcome them, but they don't go running after them. Same thing with a vision. If I have a vision at night, I don't go running telling everyone and, and pray, "God, I wish I, I have this vision again tonight." I don't do that. If God gives it, we thank Him. If He doesn't, we thank Him equally.
Um, virtues. Another red flag if they're not obedient. One of the key virtues is obedience. Of course, it's the growth in the virtues of all the virtues: patience, love, humility, tolerance, mercy. But obedience is one of the chief virtues because St. Faustina says in her diary that the devil can wear any cloak of virtue, including humility. He can feign humility. But the one virtue the devil cannot cloak or wear is obedience. He refuses to obey the will of God. He cannot do that. And many of these refuse to obey the will of God as expressed by our Lord through the hierarchy. He established the hierarchy for a reason. What did Jesus say in Matthew's gospel? "Obey the scribes and Pharisees, the church of his day, because they occupy the seat of Moses, but do not follow their example because they do not practice what they preach." So, the Lord was basically saying there are some hierarchs that are immoral, but they still have authority, and you must obey them. Now, to some people, this is intolerable. "How can God expect me to obey someone whom I know is a sinner?" Well, you ask God that question. He gave it to us. I didn't. But God asks of us to do that. He does not ask us to sin.
I remember one time I was asked by one of the superiors while I was being trained as a novice in the early '90s on the virtue of obedience, and I had the temerity to ask him, not knowing if after asking the question he would throw me out of the community, but I asked it anyway: "If you were to tell me to jump from a five-story apartment ceiling or roof, am I supposed to obey you?" He said, "What would you say if I said if I told you to?" I said, "I would say to you, 'After you.'" And he said to me, "Good answer." So, if someone in charge of authority in the church tells you to do something that you know is a sin, you don't do it. And if you're not sure if it's a sin, you seek counsel. This is the same counsel of Maximum Kobe: "Obeying everything unless it's sinful. You know, it's sinful." Okay. So, yeah, that would be my advice to these individuals.
>> And for the second clip that I'd like to share here with you is going to be on sins. I thought this is really a good thing for me to share with the rest of you. And I think the explanation Father Yanuzi provided here has a lot of details in it. Please listen to this.
We all know mortal sin, venial sin. These are both actual sins. Mortal sin cuts us off from the grace of God's divine life, and venial sin does not. We are still in God's grace in venial sin. Both voluntary venial sin and involuntary venial sin do not cut us off from God's grace. So, if you're in God's grace, you can receive God's gifts, even if you've committed voluntary venial sin or involuntary venial sin. This is a teaching of the church. You can be in involuntary venial sin or involuntary venial sin and receive the sacrament of the Eucharist. That's a gift. You can be in involuntary venial sin and involuntary venial sin and receive the sacrament of Confirmation, of Marriage, of Holy Orders. But if you receive these sacraments in voluntary mortal sin, voluntary mortal sin, it's a blasphemy. It's a sacrilege, right? You still receive the sacrament, but you're condemning your own soul. Now, St. Paul says in his letter to the Corinthians, "He who unworthily receives the body and blood of Christ incurs his own condemnation." But if you're in involuntary or involuntary venial sin, that's not a sacrilege. You're not cut off from the grace of God. You can still receive the sacraments. You may not be as disposed as you ought to be, but you're not so indisposed that you are barred from them.
So, the church, in order to dispose you better, has at the beginning of the Mass, the act, the penitential act, where you are forgiven of venial sins, voluntary and involuntary venial sins. Now, when you go and confess your sins, whether it's sacramentally to the priest or privately, or even during the Mass at the beginning of the Mass during the penitential act, we must be mindful of the distinction between contrition and attrition. Attrition takes away venial sin, but it does not take away mortal or grave sin. Contrition alone, which includes attrition, takes away both mortal and venial sin. Contrition is the love of God. Attrition is the fear of hell. How do I know I have the love of God and not just the fear of hell? This is how: by a firm resolution not to commit that sin again. Judas Iscariot, he had attrition. He did not have contrition. Simon Peter had contrition. The fear of hell does not lead to a resolution. The love of God does. And therefore, Judas never asked for forgiveness. He never resolved not to commit that sin again. Instead, he was deceived. He allowed himself to be deceived by Satan and took his own life. He, he despaired in the grace of God. He sinned against the Holy Spirit, considering his sin greater than God's mercy, being deceived by Satan, but it was the fruit of a lot of his misdeeds during his life. He did not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. He was a thief. He took from the common purse. St. John the Evangelist attests to as much. And he knew the value of nothing and the price of everything. Simon Peter, on the other hand, had contrition because not only did he believe that Christ was divine, as is testified to in Matthew chapter 16, but he repented with a resolution. He asked forgiveness and he made the resolution not to do it again, and he kept faithful to that resolve to the point of being crucified upside down.
Now, there is a distinction between deliberate or voluntary sin, venial sin, and ineliberate or involuntary venial sin. Actual sin comprises mortal sin and venial sin. Venial sin may be voluntary or involuntary. Okay. Now, involuntary venial sin, the church addresses when speaking about the desire that accompanies it. Okay. And this desire can be efficacious or not efficacious. An efficacious desire that accompanies a venial sin is one that includes the deliberate voluntary intention to realize or gratify the desire to sin, and therefore, it is accompanied by some level or degree of malice. It's little, it's less malice when it's venial. It's greater malice when it's mortal. But when speaking of voluntary venial sin, there's efficacious desire that includes the deliberate intention to realize or gratify the desire to sin. An inefficacious or involuntary desire of venial sin is one that carries a condition in such a way that the will is prepared to perform the action in case the condition were verified. For example, "I would gladly eat meat on Friday if I had a dispensation." In general, this is the case when the action is forbidden by positive law only, and the action is contrary to the natural law and is permissible given circumstances in a particular state in life. So, let me rephrase this in layman's terms. Let me use another example, but make it mortal here. I'm just going to deviate to give an example of inefficacious desire. "I would kill so-and-so if I had to do it in self-defense." Now, this desire is dangerous. It's sinful. Jesus even says in scripture, "A man who does something in his heart already commits sin, even adultery." A man who lusts over a woman in his heart has already committed adultery. Certainly, it's not the same gravity as actually doing it because now you're engaging two people, then one. But it's still a sin. Same thing in wanting to kill someone if you were doing it in self-defense. That desire is sinful. You're not doing it, but you're harboring it. Okay.
Well, then, that will be all for the video this time. And as always, thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us. And hopefully, all of you have learned so much from this video. And remember, if ever you have any feedback or suggestions, please let us know in the comments below. And from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for your continuous support, contributions, and prayers. And until the next one, thanks again for watching, and may God bless you.