The
Holy Father, Pope Francis, talks frequently about the
Devil.This is
another example of how Francis is, in his preaching, a bit
more concrete than Benedict.
During
his fervorino for Mass today, Pope Francis spoke about the
“prince of this world”.
“We can safeguard the Church, we can cure the Church, no? We do so with our work, but what’s most important is what the Lord does : He is the only One who can look into the face of evil and overcome it. The prince of the world comes but can do nothing against me: if we don’t want theprince of this world to take the Church into his hands, we must entrust it to the One who can defeat the prince of this world. Here the question arises: do we pray for the Church, for the entire Church? For our brothers and sisters whom we do not know, everywhere in the world? It is the Lord’s Church and in our prayer we say to the Lord: Lord, look at your Church … It’ s yours. Your Church is [made up of] our brothers and sisters. This is a prayer that must come from our heart”.
My
friends, the Devil is real. Francis sure believes in the
Enemy.
Let’s
review.
The Devil
and the fallen angels hate you.
They have
angelic abilities. They never sleep, never tire, are never
distracted, have no need to travel from point a to b, and
they never miss what you are up to.
Think
this through.
Imagine
what sort of profile on you some government agency could
put together.
Imagine
that government agencies wanted to build a psychological
profile of you, much as the FBI might when they use clues
and evidence to hunt down an unknown serial killer.
So these
government agents … just to make this fun, let’s call it
The Agency (under Obama’s fourth term), teamed up with his
newly minted Domestic Security Force, are profiling
Catholics… because they are probably terrorists and
dissidents and refuse to worship Moloch and offer
sacrifices of incense to the statue of the POTUS.
The
Agency and DSF start to plot your movements through
your mobile phone as you move in and out of cells which
they monitor to triangulate your location. They
learn something about you through your patterns of travel.
They learn about your tastes and interests through
your purchasing history. They monitor your calls,
where you go on the internet, what you write and read in
your email and on webpages. They look at all your
online transactions. Through your credit card records they
hunt up the actual receipts and examine what you bought at
every store… including those embarrassing things.
After all, you leave amazingly information-rich and
detailed trails and clues to who are with every move and
purchase. The Agency and DSF review all your library
checkouts, your magazine subscriptions, your movie going
habits, your DVD choices through Netflix or digital
downloads through iTunes. They watch your channel
selections through your cable or satellite. All this
information can be mined. They watch your every
interaction with your friends… and strangers too, for that
matter, with listening devices and cameras. After
gathering all this information, the Agency’s profiling
experts build a picture of you, get into your head.
They figure out what you are about, who you are, and what
you going to do next.
They are
merely humans with a lot of bits of
information.
How much
better can fallen angels, the demons do this?
Angels,
the holy angels and the fallen, have missed nothing of
your live since the instant of your conception. And
they never forget anything.
Fallen
angels, the enemy, the Devil, can’t literally get into our
heads or thoughts or touch our will, but they
don’t have to in order to know us really well.
And
they hate you. They hate you. They
hate you.
With
relentless malice the “prince of this world” will work to
trick you into letting him have some control in your life.
Demons will cleverly and with perfect timing
stimulate appetites and passions based on how well they
know your proclivities. They strive to twist your
heart and mind away from God in order to diminish even
by a little the love everyone will share in
heaven as they shine in the magnified glory of the
Trinity.
The Devil
and other demons are always held in check by God.
They cannot simply have their way with us or the
material cosmos around us unless God permits it according
to His plan. But they are devious and tireless.
It is
good that Pope Francis talks about the Devil, the enemy of
our soul, the prince of this world.
Remember
your Guardian Angels. Call on them to help you.
Remember Our Lady, Queen of Angels. Remember
St. Joseph, whom we invoke in his beautiful litany as the
“Terror daemonum… the Terror of demons”.
Examine
your consciences and go to confession.
The
Sacrament of Penance is a mighty weapon against the
demonic agents of Hell.
A good
confession can put to flight the dark legion that seeks
your downfall.
A good
confession prompts the angels and saints to raise joyful
praise to God in their longing for you someday to be happy
with them in heaven.