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Dear Friends in Christ,

Today, we begin the penitential season of Advent. We are awaiting the Second Coming of Jesus as we prepare for the annual celebration of His First coming on Christmas Day. Just as there were signs (the prophecies) that foretold His Birth, so there are signs that foretell His Second Coming. The Gospel reading (Saint Luke 21:25-33) for today presents those prophecies given to us directly from the mouth of Jesus Himself. Yet, because they are prophesies, they are not clearly understood by everyone.

The Second Coming of Jesus will be at the transformation of this physical world. Just as we see the seasons change before us as summer gives way to winter and then winter gives way to summer, so shall we observe the present world and life give way to the future world and life. Many people around the globe fear and tremble at the current state of the world. Environmentalists fear climate change, as it is bringing about irreversible damage to our physical world. Economists fear the demise of the world economy. People fear the demise of human physical and mental health, the demise of human populations due to war, famine, and even widespread refusal to reproduce in lawful marriage. These fears can be and often are quite crippling to specific groups of people.

As with the many physical or material concerns we may have, there is an even greater spiritual concern. We are in the midst of the Great Apostasy. Saint Augustine says: "Let us see if perhaps it be not better to understand that the events which were foretold by these words shall not be fulfilled in this manner, but rather that they will come to pass when tribulations shall be so spread through the whole world that it will affect the Church, which will be persecuted in every place, and not those who will persecute her; for it is they who will say: 'peace and security.'" The multitude of false churches or false religions will be those preaching of great "peace and security," as they live in the assurances of a false ecumenism or indifferentism.

There are, no doubt, a great many in this world who lay claim to being "Christians" or followers of Jesus Christ. Let us beware, things are not always what they seem to be. The Church has been burdened with false or heretical beliefs since Her beginning. One heresy is set aside only to encounter another. Even when the Church exposes and denounces the various heresies, a certain number obstinately continue down that path of error and even entice many to follow them. Over the centuries, heresies have multiplied, and so have false churches of "Christianity." There is a synthesis of all these elements in Masonic Modernism.

It is a demonic spirit that entices many in the world to "seek what unites us rather than that which divides us." Embracing all religions as different paths to the same god is demonic. All the false religions of the world are "sister churches" because they have the same demonic father. All the false religions of the world do lead to the same destination, but it is not to the True God in Heaven. Only the True Religion that Jesus gave us, pure and unadulterated, leads to Heaven. The true Church does not have any "sister churches." There is only one God, and He gave us only one Church. All the other churches are the works of men or of demons.

Many claim that we all believe in the same God, that we all pray to the same God, or that all Christians believe in the same Jesus. This is not true at all. If this were true, Jesus would have had to have said that it is not forbidden to divorce and remarry. In contrast, He said, "What God has joined together let no man put asunder" (Saint Matthew 19:6). Or He would have said we are only symbolically bound to eat His Body when He said, "If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread which I will give, is My Flesh for the life of the world" (Saint John 6:52). Or Jesus would have to have said the Church does and does not have the power to forgive sins. We could continue this analogy for quite some time, but it seems this should be sufficient to illustrate that True Catholic belief differs from non-Catholic belief. The God of the True Catholic Church is not the god of all the non-Catholic churches.

Everything seems to be well in the Masonic Modernist religions, and they are claiming "peace and security." Their "prosperity doctrine" sees nothing of the reality, only their illusion of sunshine and roses. Their illusory god is all mercy without any justice. Only the minority is concerned with the welfare of souls. The Masonic Modernists will all be united with their god in eternity, but their god is Lucifer, not Jesus Christ.

The faithful need not fear, because they know they have a Father in Heaven Who loves them and that everything works for the good of those who love Him. We need not fear the signs of winter because we know that summer will follow. Similarly, we need not fear the Coming of Jesus because we know that renewal and goodness come with Him. May we then lift our heads because our redemption is at hand.

May the Immaculate Heart of Mary inspire, guide, and protect us!

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