Dawn's computer is acting up so she called me this morning. She told me about that one lady author who wrote about masonry in the founding of America. It seems she has another book and it deals with the Church's passion. Dawn also gave me a link to follow and look what I found.
These conspirators have even managed, by God?s permission (Amos 8:11-13), to make it difficult to get hold of past infallible papal decrees that are necessary for Catholics to learn in order to save their souls and defend against the Antichrist.[24] Note, I said difficult, not impossible, because the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church and he who seeks shall find, but only if he passes the test of fire as described by the holy prophet Daniel. ?Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.? (Daniel 12:10)
God has made the truth very difficult to come by in these days precisely because Catholics have been slothful in the past when the truth was right under their noses, and they disobeyed holy popes who have taught with all clarity and authority. Most Catholics have abused holy popes, and so now God has made it imperative that they struggle to find the truth to prove if they really love God and his eternal truths above all other earthly considerations. That means Catholics who want the truth in these days must give up almost everything of their precious possessions and priorities that have been directed away from God and the Catholic faith. Some will even initially embrace the truth when presented to them; it will be very agreeable and sweet tasting, as indeed the truth is, but the test comes with the persecution that follows.[25] And so many who initially, enthusiastically embrace the truth will fall away upon persecution,[26] because they cannot endure the bitterness of persecution it causes in their belly. ?And I heard a voice from heaven, again speaking to me and saying: Go and take the book that is open, from the hand of the angel who standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went to the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the book. And he said to me: Take the book and eat it up. And it shall make thy belly bitter: but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. And I took the book from the hand of the angel and ate it up: and it was in my mouth, sweet as honey. And when I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.? (Apocalypse 10:8-10) This bitterness in the belly is the pain, the cross, the crucifixion that all Catholics must undergo if they are to profess the truth faithfully and finish the race without falling away.[27]
I have witnessed many Catholics who at first were very zealous and truthful in their position, seeming to be rocks in the faith, who later fell away, when the persecution became too intense, and in all cases it is because they were to attached to the world and people, be it family, friends or a desire to have Catholic community, regardless of the faith these ?Catholics? hold. They all exhibited the same deadly sin, pride, which held them fast in their departure from the faith, to cover up their cowardliness, and in turn they became the useful idiots of the conspirators. The holy prophet Ezechiel, speaking for God, condemns these fallen away traitors - otherwise known as lapsi. ?But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? All his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.? (Ezechiel 18:24)
We can all be cowards at times, as were the original apostles when they denied Christ during His passion, but to follow an act of cowardliness with pride leads to the sin of betrayal in that one will whole-heartily embrace his deadly error. The apostles quickly repented and felt shameful and guilty because of their act of denial and did not have pride. They were truly sorry and our dear, merciful Lord forgave them, but, woe to those who go on denying the Lord after their act of betrayal in arrogant pride.