János Philip, jphilip@mail.bme.hu
“Good diffuses itself naturally.” The philosophical fact flows from what we learned in last Sunday’s gospel. Our identity, i.e. who we are, is our priority number one. Who we are is always related to our being in Jesus Who created us, redeemed us and through the Holy Ghost sanctifies us. Hence our being is prior to our doing and our action must correspond to our relationship with our Lord. Let us then take the next step in our journey to Christmas. Our being expresses itself in our actions.
One sows a word and reaps a thought;
one sows a thought and reaps an act;
one sows an act and reaps a habit;
one sows a habit and reaps a character.
Our character derives from the actions begotten by our reflection on the life of our Lord. We are called to imitate the virtues we discover in our meditation on the Life of Jesus. Through these actions a habit of virtue is developed and the birth of our character in Christ takes shape. Through our examination of conscience we discover the vice we hold onto and we conquer it through our effort to subdue it and perform the alternate virtue. John the Baptist is asked:”Who are you?” They thought that his virtue was heroic and so could he be the Christ, or Elias, or one of the prophets?
In answer John speaks clearly when he states that “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness, make straight the way of the Lord.” He defines himself by his relationship to the Lord. His actions speak so loudly that people were drawn to him as a means to find redemption. Consequently, he baptized them in the waters of the Jordan. His being flowed into the meaning of his life: to prepare others through penance to follow and accept the Lord.
In their hearts the scribes and pharisees had no desire to change their lives filled with power, riches and pleasures of the day. Much like the Americans today the material order became dominant over the spiritual and we must cry out as John the Baptist did and say “Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make straight his way.” This water baptism is only a means to encourage the souls to examine their lives and put the eternal in first place. There is One Who is coming that all of us are not worthy to untie even His sandals. In other words He is all and we are nothing, a mere speck on the landscape of this earth.
Look about you. Are souls really seeking the truth? Are they seeking the good? What do they really want? Every soul that is masked is saying “My health is more important than my faith.” They believe that the government really wants to take care of them when in reality they are producing a vaccine meant to depopulate the world. The power elite want nothing more than to have 6 billion people vanish into the soil of this earth.
Recently, Bishop Williamson wrote a very eye opening summation of the protocols of the elders in which one comes to realize the depth and the width of this Cosmic battle being waged against the devil’s advocates. We know them as the power elite, the technocrats, the communists, the financial establishment, the masons and every other -ism that cries out to be heard and obeyed. They are to be resisted through the power of the holy rosary by which Our Lady will crush their commander in chief, Lucifer.
As John the Baptist defined himself as a “voice crying in the wilderness”, so we too must begin to use our voice in prayer, in resistance to evil and to lift up only that which is true. In the weeks to come pay no attention to what the news says as much as to “why” they are saying these lies. Satan has always wanted to destroy that which God created and he does it through diabolical disorientation” or simple deceit. Resist him steadfast in the faith. Pray more rosaries in the day for the gift of wisdom in order to know what God wants of you in this world of confusion. Keep the faith and prepare well. The good will diffuse itself and draw others to save their souls. One strong link in a chain can hold the whole thing together.
In the hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Fr. Voigt
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