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Seeking the Ruin of Souls
Not many people comprehend what eternity
is. Fools that they are! Fools! We are engaged in a
spiritual warfare, a battle between God and Satan, for our
immortal soul. The choices we make will determine the
outcome.
A woman from Chicago once told me that a demon said to
her, “We will battle for your soul your whole life.” The
holier you become, the more intense the spiritual
warfare. Satan and the demons will fight you to the end
and will not give up. Spiritual warfare is a fight until
death for until the end of time the devils will use their
angelic intelligence and strength to oppose and obstruct
all that is good.
As a result of original sin, God punished mankind by
allowing Satan to exercise a “reign of death” over the
human race. This “reign of death” is manifested in many
ways: temptation, infestation, obsession, possession, and
black magic. Demons intensely hate us and can injure us
in body and soul.
“Satan and the demons... continually strive by lies,
[temptations,] and false pretenses to seduce... [us] to
commit sin and thereby incur eternal damnation.”
(Pohle-Preuss, God—The Author of Nature and the
Supernatural, p. 345.) We must fight against formidable
enemies, for Saint Peter has written, “For your adversary
the devil, as a roaring lion, goes about seeking someone
to devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith.” (1 Peter
5: 8-9.) Since time is short, Satan is trying harder
than ever to take as many souls to Hell with him as
possible.
Demons have a job to do—to destroy people through sin so
that they spend eternity in Hell. Hell is eternal; it is
permanent. It is total separation from God, total
isolation, despair, helplessness and torture with no
respite whatsoever. The damned are tortured forever. God
is infinitely merciful, but also just. When the sentence
is passed, there’s no more mercy and the soul’s fate is
sealed forever. Unrepentant sinners blame God for sending
them to Hell, but they really sent themselves there. They
rejected God’s infinite mercy and refused to repent before
they died in the state of mortal sin.
When we commit sin, we open doors to evil. Evil is very
structured; sin is also structured. Unless we are
vigilant, sin will creep into our lives so slowly and
seemingly small at first that it is hardly noticed.
Nevertheless, this condition is extremely dangerous to the
soul.
Addictions and habitual sins usually begin with a slight
temptation. The temptation must be quickly resisted by
prayer and fleeing from the danger. If the soul
repeatedly consents to sin, it may take a lifetime to
conquer it. Satan promises happiness, but only delivers
momentary pleasure followed by uneasiness, bitterness,
guilt, shame, and punishment.
Our Lord said, “He who is not with Me is against Me.” We
must choose our master: God or Satan. We cannot hibernate
or refuse to choose. There is a difference between
following God or following the devil. When I follow God,
I say, “I will do whatever is right no matter how I
feel.” When I follow the devil, I say, “I will do
whatever I feel, no matter what is right.”
Selfishness is the leading cause of problems in our
relationship with God. When a soul cares more about
himself or herself than God, there is a problem. Don’t
let ego get in the way. In our relationship with God, He
wants us to conform ourselves to His holy will by our love
and obedience. It’s not about getting our own way. When
we give up our own way or what we want for the love of
God, we show that we care about Him first and foremost.
Why does God require us to engage in spiritual warfare in
order to save our immortal soul? Just as God tested the
angels and our first parents, He tries us in order that we
may merit the happiness of Heaven by our obedience. God
gave us free-will to choose good or evil and He will judge
us accordingly. He provides all souls with the graces
necessary for salvation.
The greatest sacrifice of our free-will is to offer God
our love and obedience. Obedience is the
The humility and obedience of Our Lady were clearly
manifested at the Annunciation when she said, “Behold the
handmaid of the Lord. Be it done unto me according to thy
word.” Conversely, the pride and disobedience of Lucifer
were demonstrated when he told God, “I will not serve!”
Our primary purpose in life is to glorify God and to save
our immortal soul. Strictly speaking, in order to be
saved we must be in the state of sanctifying grace, pray,
co-operate with God’s grace, and obey the commandments.
God wants us to be with Him in Heaven where there is only
good, love, peace, joy, and everlasting happiness.
God loves all of humanity and He does not want even one
person to go to Hell, but many choose to go to there
because they refuse to love God and obey His
commandments. Instead, they choose sin and do what they
want. Sin is disobedience to God’s laws and an abuse of
our free-will. After death, unrepentant sinners lose
their chance for Heaven because they were stupid, trusted
the evil that is in this world, and died in the state of
mortal sin.
The greatest sacrifice of our free-will is to offer God
our love and obedience. Obedience is the surrendering of
our will in order that we may fulfill the holy will of
God. God’s glory is then promoted by all that we do in
order to be subject to Him. This includes obeying the
commandments, fulfilling our daily duty, corresponding
with God’s grace, overcoming temptation, offering our
prayers to Him, receiving the sacraments, offering up our
sufferings, performing acts of charity, etc. “This is the
object of obedience. If inspired by love [of God,] it is
the supreme act of love.” (Rev. Henry Brinkmeyer, A
Retreat for Sisters, p. 253.)
God makes use of the demons to inspire us with a horror of
sin and to increase our faith. Demons are like chained
attack dogs that have limited power. They will assault
and tempt us, but are restrained by God. Demons sometimes
promise and give people anything they want, but they will
take their souls in the end. Damnation of human souls is
what demons ultimately want.
Demons are our ruthless enemies and want to destroy our
marriages, homes, families, friendships, parishes,
country, and belief in God. Satan tells the demons what
to do, who to tempt, and who to torment. Sometimes the
names of demons signify their mission. Some that I have
personally dealt with in exorcisms include Pride, Vanity,
Suffering, Control, Deformity, Despair, Destruction,
Unforgiveness, Depression, Suspicion, Hate, Abuse,
Infirmity, Seduction, Tragedy, and Torture. Demons
relentlessly tempt us to commit sin, to be proud and
self-centered, so that we die in the state of mortal sin
and spend eternity with them in Hell.
The devil never sleeps. Satan and the demons continually
strive to ruin, frustrate, thwart, and sabotage our
efforts to be holy. Don’t ever underestimate the power
and seduction of the devil because his traps and
deceptions are cunning and innumerable. In order to draw
people away from God and toward sin, demons put
distraction, after distraction, and distraction before
them. When souls become absorbed and attached to the
things of this world, they become spiritually blinded.
Satan and demons attack us at our weakest point. They
place obstacles such as temptations, complacency, pride,
lust, discouragement, worldliness, gossip, and tepidity to
try to prevent us from fulfilling the will of God and to
cause the ruin of our souls.
One of Satan’s traps is a universal relaxation in all
things pertaining to God. So many people do not want to
have any kind of religion. They want to just do their own
thing and worship at their own pace and in their own way.
This was expressed by a fallen-away Catholic who said, “I
am committed to God, not a church. My personal
relationship with the Lord is based on me and only me—no
other man or church, so I will do what is fit for me. I
go to church when I need to go.” Such people do not want
to fit into God’s paradigm, but want Him to fit into
theirs.
We can overcome temptations to unbelief by prayer,
frequent Confession and Holy Communion, fasting, and the
daily recitation of the rosary. Catholics must avoid
dangers to faith including provocative fashions, the
media, evil movies, lying, neglect of prayer and the
sacraments, hatred, alcoholism, drugs, and pornography.
When others leave the Faith, all people can do is to pray
and make sacrifices for them, let them know the truth, and
then it’s up to them to listen or not. Some people are
stubborn. No matter what you tell them, it will not faze
them since they do not have faith. Some come back; others
do not. Of the mothers who pray the rosary, their
children have a chance. Pray, fast, make novenas, and
have Masses offered for the conversion of your children.
Every sin stems from pride. It is one of the worst sins
because it encompasses all the others. Ecclesiasticus
states that pride is “the beginning of all sin.” It was
the sin of Satan who refused to serve and adore God.
Pride is an excessive love of self and an undue sense of
our own superiority or value.
Pride is unreasonable because it is always the product of
lies and falsehood. Cut it out of your life like a
cancer. Pride is responsible for wars, divorces,
friendships torn apart, children not speaking to their
parents, and families that do not speak to each other for
years. Hatred is powerful when it is used against
others. It should, instead, be used against sin.
“Self- delusion, [the] blindness of [a] soul to its own
condition, is one of the worst outcomes of secret
pride... In their self-conceit and self-sufficiency, they
have blinded themselves.” (Rev. Henry Brinkmeyer, A
Retreat for Sisters, p. 118.) Jeremias has written, “Thy
arrogance hath deceived thee and the pride of thy heart.”
Proud persons smother the voice of conscience, resist the
plainest dictates of common sense, have a hardened heart,
cling to their prejudices, shut out the light, ask no
advice nor take it when given, will not listen to any
admonition, and commit sins of injustice.
St. Peter stated, “God resists the proud, but gives grace
to the humble.” We can become humble by practicing
charity and obedience, by bowing down to God’s will and
accepting it without complaining. Forgive those who hurt
you in any way, shape, or form. Be humble and loving. If
you want to be holy, be humble. If you want to be very
holy, be very humble.
St. Vincent de Paul has written, “The most powerful weapon
with which to overcome the devil is humility; because, not
knowing how to use it, he does not even know how to defend
himself from it.” St. Augustine said, “Humility is the
foundation of all the other virtues; hence, in the soul in
which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other
virtue except in mere appearance. Similarly, it is the
best disposition to receive celestial gifts.” (The
Spiritual Diary, p. 35.)
Many sinners like their immoral lifestyle. Pride never
allows them to ask for spiritual help. Once the devil has
a grip, he does not let go. Most people continue to sin
and don’t care about where they end up after death because
they don’t believe there is a Heaven or a Hell or a
Purgatory. They live for the pleasures of this world
alone and feel that there is nothing after this life—so
they say, “Enjoy it when you can.”
Our Lady of Fatima said, “More souls go to Hell for sins
of the flesh than for any other reason.” Sadly, the
majority of young men and women are not pure, holy, and
virginal. The demons in Hell love this fact.
Vanity is the result of too much focus on self and not on
spiritual things and God. There is so much materialism
and completion among females. Women sometimes dress
indecently to impress other women, not just men, because
they are in competition and want to show off.
The devil successfully uses phones and computers as his
tools to destroy souls. Computers and phones have evil
games and pornography, along with destructive social
media. Most television shows are bad, along with the
commercials. The devil controls many things, including
the media and movies. Many movies glorify murder,
fornication, adultery, and drug abuse. As a result,
people are desensitized and do not see these things as
evil or harmful to their souls.
The devil also uses discouragement against us.
Discouragement always springs from wounded and
disappointed self-love and pride. “We have been hurt, we
have not succeeded, we have failed; our self-respect has
been wounded; an unkind word has been said to us; our
ambitions have been curbed; our plans have not been
endorsed; a friend has abandoned us or an enemy has been
made; others are praised, we are forgotten; bad
inclinations that we thought dead arise from the depths
with renewed vigor; we make no headway in self-conquest
despite our prayers and communions; we relapse always into
the same old sins and weaknesses... We have tried so hard
and we are no better than we were years ago... and our
labors are not appreciated.” (Rev. Henry Brinkmeyer,
Retreat for Sisters, p. 107.) An inordinate love of self
is at the bottom of all these complaints.
St. Paul said, “To those who love God, all things work
together unto good.” Our falls into sin can cause us to
humble ourselves, experience God’s infinite mercy and be
used as stepping stones to something higher by evoking new
efforts. We are a failure only when we stop trying and
make no attempt to rise and amend our life.
When souls fall into discouragement, panic often ensues;
it paralyzes them. Discouragement often leads to despair,
not immediately, but gradually. We must make the
resolution to never yield to discouragement. “Let us
determine never to listen to... [Satan’s] voice bidding us
to stop trying, suggesting the omission of this or that
[prayer or spiritual] exercise, telling us that we shall
never succeed, whispering to us that we are failures, that
God does not love us, that we shall never be conquerers of
ourselves, that we shall never be saved.” (Brinkmeyer,
113.) What the saints who have preceded us have
accomplished, we also can accomplish through humility,
prayer, faith, trust in God, and co-operation with
grace.
Satan tries to make us helpless by making us hopeless. If
people pray to Our Lord and Our Lady, their despair would
turn to hope. They need to trust in God, but many people
don’t trust because they want things now and their way.
Sometimes sacrifice is needed as well as patience and
prayer. Hopelessness can be avoided if we look to the
things of Heaven because nothing in this world is forever
and will not bring true peace and happiness anyway. Many
fall into despair and die from drug and alcohol abuse,
suicide, and other kinds of reckless behavior.
Many people are to the point of despair because they do
not trust that God will get them out of the situation.
They do not see a way out, but God is the way out and Our
Lady will help them. The following short prayer shows
Mary’s power: “Precious Mother Mary, Mother of Divine
Grace, you always make a way where there is no way.
Please help me.” Most people are full of pride. If they
are less prideful, pray, and surrender to God, He will
help them.
How can people overcome hopelessness? Be charitable, stop
focusing on themselves and be more focused on others; help
them. Remain close to God and the sacraments. Be loving
towards friends and family. Peace and strength are not
found in self-sufficiency or in any worldly type of
security, but only in God.
“Let nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. All
is quickly passing. God alone changes not. Patience
endurance will obtain everything. Whoever has God wants
for nothing. God alone suffices.” These are the wise
words of St. Teresa of Avila.
Do not be afraid. Fear is what Satan and the demons
want. They want you to be afraid. However, if we are on
God’s side and are under Mary’s mantle, we will receive
supernatural aid. “Many devils appeared in the form of
wild beasts to a newly-converted... [Catholic] of Japan,
and tried to frighten him, but he, unmoved, bade them do
their worst, as far as they were permitted by God. ‘I
have no arms,’ he said, ‘to defend... [myself] from your
fury; my only protection is the sweet names of Jesus and
Mary...’ [Scarcely] had he pronounced those powerful
names, when the earth opened and swallowed... [the demons]
up before his eyes. (D. Roberto, The Love of Mary, pp.
104-105.)
Demons like it when priests and people are so afraid of
them that they forget that God and the Blessed Virgin Mary
are more powerful than all Hell together. The demons try
to keep priests and people so fearful that they forget to
pray to God and Our Lady for help. We must be very
cautious of the snares and deceptions of the evil spirits
because they still have the powers of their angelic nature
that far exceed human nature.
“Let us fear no evil because the Lord is with us.”
Prayer united with complete faith and total trust in God
will give us the light and strength we need. We also need
courage and perseverance—the continued effort to do or
achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or
opposition. Through prayer, co-operation with grace, and
humble reliance on God we will reach our goal.
Satan and the demons also blind souls through worldliness,
causing them to totally disregard eternity. Souls
infected with worldliness seek only sinful pleasures,
power, wealth, or success at any cost. They are enslaved
to human respect and seek not to please God, but only to
please themselves. God never holds the supreme place in
their life. Satan is the ruler of this world and to him
its corruption is wonderful. Sadly, most people are
corrupt.
We must remember that everything in life is temporary and
will one day be left behind. The only things that we can
take with us into eternity are our merits and our sins.
We must avoid Hell at all costs by co-operating with God’s
grace, putting forth the effort necessary to save our
immortal soul, and avoiding the spirit of the world.
The devil also incites us to gossip, because it is a
common sin that causes great division in homes, families,
churches, etc. Gossip ruins reputations and damages
relationships. It can cause division between
parishioners, priests, and everyone in general, especially
if it’s malicious. Communication by phone, text, and
social media is not sinful if it is necessary, just,
charitable, true, and beneficial to all. It’s better to
be silent than chatty. Chattiness eventually leads to sin
because it can turn to gossip and many other things. It
is better to be silent than to say unkind things. In
Hell, gossips will be tormented in the tongue and mouth.
Think before you speak.
We must guard our speech and treat others as family
members since we all belong to God. People should stay
quieter. If they have nothing good to say, they should
offer up their silence. Look at the good in everyone
instead of the negative. St. Joseph spoke little because
he was continually praying.
Limit your phone usage. That gadget that people are on
for hours and hours prevents them from praying and is
generally a waste of precious time. That is something
that Satan and the demons like. They want people to be
addicted to their phone because they’re on it almost every
opportunity. Some people can’t be without it for an hour,
let alone one day. Since phones are frequently used for
evil purposes such as pornography, evil websites and
games, they have become Satan’s tabernacle.
Remember that demons tempt people to infidelity in many
ways. Don’t look at filthy, sick websites, movies, books,
and magazines. Males must not look at females with lust
and perversion in their eyes. Males must guard their
eyes, thoughts and hearts.
Females, don’t wear revealing clothing. If you do, you
sin and you cause men who are watching you to commit sin.
Do not go to filthy, sick parties. Avoid hanging around
people who will take you off the right track. Hang around
good Catholic friends.
Excessive drinking and drugs lead to seduction. When
people lose control of their senses, they do many things
they later regret. Marijuana is used by many as a
medicine or as an escape, but it leads to other drugs. It
takes away people’s ambition and makes them lazy. They
don’t want to do anything with their lives. Marijuana is
sold as something not so bad, but it still affects the
body and mind.
When people give in to temptation and sin, graces are
rejected and it becomes easier to just continue to sin
again and again. Unbelief enters to the point that people
do not care about what happens to their immortal soul.
That’s what Satan and the demons want—for people not to
believe. Habitual mortal sin leads to a loss of faith.
It is a moral, not an intellectual problem.
The first step in Satan’s plan to cause Catholics to lose
their faith is tepidity. He tempts us to perform our
religious duties merely through routine, without any
energy or enthusiasm regarding attendance at Mass,
reception of the sacraments, and prayer. This leads to
indifference regarding the evil of venial sin. By
degrees, the soul becomes callous, with no remorse for the
evil of venial sin.
Venial sins are then scarcely noticed and become
habitual. “The soul is in a comatose condition, not
necessarily fatal, but approaching the danger line [and
eventually the big fall of mortal sin.]” (Rev. Henry
Brinkmeyer, Retreat for Sisters, p. 144.) Venial sin
weakens the soul, desensitizes the conscience and sets the
soul up for a mortal fall.
Through tepidity, the soul is no longer vigilant to avoid
unnecessary occasions of sin or triggers. It grows
negligent and falls into mortal sin. The next step is
hardness of heart where sins increase in number and
gravity. This goes on for months or even years. Ordinary
daily duties are performed, but the soul is addicted and
enslaved to a secret vice. The final step is that the
corruption within the soul enslaved to mortal sin becomes
evident to others. The person’s behavior gives many
exterior signs of the horrible condition of his or her
soul.
At this point, a person stops saying prayers, gives up
confession, misses Mass with regularity, no longer avoids
the occasion of sin, habitually rejects God’s grace, and
is reluctant to put forth any effort to be good. This
sets up a pattern. The person demands self-satisfaction
and his or her weaknesses and vices take control.
Can such a tragic state of soul ever be cured? The soul
is in serious danger of going to Hell; nevertheless, with
God all things are possible. Our Lord can cure a soul
bound in sin, but it must first want to break its bad
habits, be vigilant, pray, practice self-denial, and
receive the sacraments. God’s mercy is infinite, but the
soul must avail itself of it while there is still time.
Heaven is full of repentant sinners who were the
recipients of God’s infinite mercy.
The forces of evil are waging war against us. How can we
defeat them in this spiritual warfare? The following will
provide grace, power, and protection: frequent attendance
at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, frequent reception of
the sacraments, family prayer each day, including the
recitation of the rosary, adoration of Our Lord in the
Blessed Sacrament, practicing devotion to the Blessed
Virgin Mary, prayers to St. Michael, fasting and
self-denial, getting your home blessed, and the use of
sacramentals, especially the Brown Scapular, the St.
Benedict medal, the Miraculous Medal, the rosary, Holy
Water, etc.
The rosary is Our Lady’s favorite prayer. Satan and
the demons hate it because it attacks and weakens them.
They scream when they see those beads and tremble when we
begin to pray the rosary. Demons try to prevent us from
praying the rosary because it saves souls, snatches souls
in danger of Hell, and converts sinners.
Pray the rosary as it should be prayed. When we devoutly
pray the rosary, the Blessed Virgin Mary sends graces down
to help us. The rosary protects us from sinning. Our
Lady of Fatima told Lucia that the rosary would have
special efficacy in these times.
Prayer gives us light, strength, consolation, pardon,
help, grace, and love. All those who burn in Hell did not
pray or prayed little. Prayer is the first step toward
God and it is the decisive step. To him who prays with
perseverance, little by little, God gives so much light,
so much strength, that even the most debased sinner will
at the end come to salvation. St. Alphonsus Maria de
Liguori said, “He who prays will certainly save his soul.
He who does not pray will certainly lose his soul.”
Prayer is powerful against Satan and evil spirits.
Therefore, they attempt to distract us during prayer or
cause us to shorten them or omit them altogether.
Pray much, pray much, especially the rosary. We must have
a consistent daily prayer schedule. We can’t be up and
down and only pray when something is wrong or we’re afraid
something bad is going to happen. St. Teresa of Avila
said it was unlikely that a person would save his soul if
he did not spend at least 10 minutes per day in prayer.
Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary rescues numberless
souls from the devil. Our Lady is the Cause of our Joy,
but she is the cause of the demise and torment of demons.
On Mount Carmel, centuries before the birth of Our Lord,
the prophet Elias saw forming over the sea a small cloud
in the shape of a foot, foretelling the Woman foretold in
Genesis who would crush the head of the serpent. She is
terrible to the evil spirits, crushes their heads, and
sends them back to the pit of
Hell.
Demons hated Mary since the beginning of time because she
is human and so holy, humble, good, and powerful. Our
Lady protects people and leads them to her Divine Son.
She is our spiritual mother and clearly sees our needs and
dangers. As the Mother of Mercy, she is moved with
compassion and hastens to help us, console us, provide for
us, and defend us, especially when we are devoted to her
and confidently and lovingly invoke her aid.
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori said, “A devout servant of
Mary will never perish.” This means that they will not go
to Hell. The Blessed Virgin Mary will fight for their
soul at the end of their lives, but they must pray.
“St. Bonaventure says that the devils fly before her face
as wax melts before the fire. When they hear her name
they tremble, and many are the victories over them which
the servants of Mary have gained by the mere invocation of
her name.” (D. Roberto, The Love of Mary, p. 104.) “A
tame parrot that was kept in the house learned the Ave
Maria and often repeated it. It happened one day that
escaping from its cage into the open air, this parrot was
caught by a falcon; the poor thing, squeezed in his
talons, cried Ave Maria! Ave Maria! The falcon fell dead
on the ground and the parrot in triumph sang, Ave Maria!
Ave Maria!” (Roberto, 197-198.)
St. Louis Marie de Montfort summarized total consecration
to Jesus through Mary when he said we should live by Mary,
with Mary, in Mary, and for Mary. This is explained by
Thomas à Kempis: “Salute Mary, think of Mary, invoke Mary,
honor Mary, commend yourselves to Mary, remain with Mary
in your house and walk with Mary when you go out; rejoice
with Mary, grieve with Mary, work with Mary, pray with
Mary; with Mary carry Jesus in your arms, stand with Mary
at the foot of the Cross of Jesus, live and die with Mary
and Jesus. Do this and you will live.” (D. Roberto, The
Love of Mary, p. 366.)
Let us perseveringly pray for the conversion of sinners,
especially our family members and loved ones. Many
prayers, united with sacrifices can snatch sinners from
the devil’s grasp, even though it may take time. Be kind,
loving, forgiving, merciful, and charitable to others. Be
as Christlike and Marylike as you can. Read good books.
Avoid the temptations the world uses to seduce so many
souls: pornography, drugs, alcohol, and many other things.
Life is not a preseason game or a dress rehearsal—you have
only one life to get it right. Life is the training
ground provided by God to sanctify and save your immortal
soul, to build character and develop qualities that will
make your society and nation a better place. With each
passing day, time slips by faster and faster, like sand
through an hourglass. You are only allotted so much time
before you die. Then life is over and the time for mercy
ceases.
As the battle for your immortal soul rages, there must be
no giving in, no throwing up your arms in hopelessness.
God’s grace and Our Lady’s intercession will sustain you.
It is your duty to pray and ask for God’s help, co-operate
with His grace, keep the Faith, and never consent to
mortal sin.
You must remind yourself daily that when all is said and
done, it is not your parents, friends, or neighbors who
will be held accountable for the choices you have made.
As you live, so shall you die, and so shall you be for
eternity. You will reap what you sow. This life is a
period of preparation for the next.
Not many people comprehend what eternity is. Fools that
they are! Fools! Heaven or Hell, whichever it be, is
only the logical continuation of the kind of life you have
lived here on earth. He who continually fears Hell, will
never fall into it; but he who is negligent will
undoubtedly fall.
I’ll conclude with a story. “Francis Ottajano, a student
of the famous university of Alcalà [Spain] was most devout
to the blessed Virgin, but was so troubled with doubts of
his... [salvation] that he was continually tormented with
the most horrible fears of his damnation. He was on the
very brink of despair.”
“One day when he had been more than usually troubled by
these thoughts, the Blessed Virgin appeared to him,
accompanied by a multitude of angels and saints... and
said to him: ‘My son, why do you fear? Why do you not
confide in me? Do you not know that I am the mother of
compassion and mercy?’”
“‘Look at this book; it is the Book of Life, in which are
written the names of all those that are saved. Here is
your name placed among those of the predestined, together
with the names of all those who will be saved by your
preaching.’ The young man raising his eyes, saw, with
infinite delight, his own name written in letters of gold;
but however much he tried to read the names of the others,
it was impossible for him to do so. The amiable lady
then, smiling, shut the book, and, giving him her
benediction, disappeared; and with her departed all the
troubles... of the young man.” (D. Roberto, The Love of
Mary, pp. 319-320.)
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Queen of
Angels Catholic Church in Santa Clarita,
California, is much like any Catholic church you
might have attended before the Second Vatican
Council occurred in the 1960's. This Council,
supposedly intended to bring about a genuine
spiritual renewal in the living of our Faith,
inaugurated liturgical changes that broke
drastically from the Church's sacred liturgy and
traditions of nearly 2,000 years. It
is because of these changes and the resultant
universal loss of faith among so many bishops,
priests, nuns and laity, that Queen of Angels
and chapels like this one are drawing more and
more interest from concerned Catholics all over
the world.
The pastor of Queen of Angels is Father Dominic
Radecki, CMRI, a priest belonging to the religious
Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen . The bishop
and priests of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate
Queen (CMRI) offer only the Tridentine Latin Mass
in all the churches and chapels they serve.
Remaining faithful to all of the Church's
venerable teachings and traditions, Queen
of Angels Church reflects the stability and
endurance of truths and doctrines that will
never change with the times.
The faithful receive Holy Communion on their
tongues as they kneel at the communion rail in
humble adoration of the Real Presence of God.
Ladies wear head coverings and modest clothing out
of respect. The reverent silence in the House of
God indicates a living faith in Christ Who dwells
in the tabernacle.
We have a full schedule of activities at our
church. The Sacraments are administered exactly
the way they were before Vatican II: Baptism,
Confirmation, Penance, the Holy Eucharist,
Matrimony and Extreme Unction. Parish
organizations who attend Queen of Angels, ranging
from basic catechism instruction for the youth and
converts to the Faith, to our Confraternity of
Christian Mothers. For those who wish to lead a
more dedicated spiritual life, we have the
Confraternity of Mary Immaculate Queen. We invite
you to check out all of our parish activities on
this website.
We at Queen of Angels welcome visitors to our
parish at anytime of the year, but especially at
Christmas and Easter. Although the number of
parishioners has outgrown our small church,
newcomers are always welcome.
Each of our parishioners adds something unique to
the family atmosphere we think is very special
here at our church. Come and see it for yourself!
If you have not been to a Latin Mass in many
years, if you have never been to one at all, you
will be pleasantly surprised at what you find at
Queen of Angels. You will feel as if you have come
home, as indeed you have.
Queen of Angels Catholic Church
Prayer to the August Queen of Heaven
August Queen of Heaven, Sovereign
Mistress of the Angels, who didst receive from the
beginning the mission and the power to crush the
serpent's head, we beseech thee to send thy holy
angels, that under thy command and by thy power
they may pursue the evil spirits, encounter them
on every side, resist their bold attacks, and
drive them hence into the abyss of woe.
Most holy Mother, send thy angels to defend us and
to drive the cruel enemy from us.
All ye holy Angels and Archangels, keep and defend
us. Amen
O good and tender Mother Thou shalt ever be our
love and our hope.
Holy Angels and Archangels, keep and defend us.
Amen
Novena of Confidence
to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(for family relations that have fallen away)
O Lord Jesus Christ, to Thy Most
Sacred Heart I confide this intention (silently
mention here the names you are praying for). Only
look upon me, then do what Thy Heart inspires. Let
Thy Sacred Heart decide. I count on it. I trust in
it. I throw myself on its mercy, Lord Jesus! Thou
wilt not fail me.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I trust in Thee.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, I believe in Thy love for
me.
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Thy
Kingdom come!
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I have asked Thee for
many favors, but I earnestly implore this one.
Take it, place it in Thy open, broken Heart, and
when the Eternal Father looks upon it, covered
with Thy Precious Blood, He will not refuse it.s
It will no longer be my prayer but Thine, O Sacred
Heart of Jesus. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place
my trust in Thee. Let me never be confounded.
Amen.
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The following true story explains this well.
The university professor challenged his students
with this question. “Did God create everything
that exists?”
A student bravely replied, “Yes, he did!” “God
created everything?” the professor asked. “Yes,”
the student replied. The professor answered, “If
God created everything, then God created evil
since evil exists, and according to the principle
that our works define who we are, then God is
evil.”
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and
boasted to the students that he had proven once
more that the Christian faith was a myth. At that
point, another student raised his hand and said,
“Can I ask you a question professor?” “Of
course,” replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, “Professor does
cold exist?” “What kind of question is this? Of
course it exists. Have you never been cold?”
The students snickered at the young man’s
question. The young man replied, “In fact sir,
cold does not exist. According to the laws of
physics, what we consider cold is in reality the
absence of heat. Absolute zero (-460 degrees F)
is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes
inert and incapable of reaction at that
temperature. Cold does not exist. We have
created this word to describe “the absence of
heat.”
The student continued. “Professor, does darkness
exist?” The professor responded, “Of course it
does.”
The student replied, “Once again you are wrong
sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is
in reality the absence of light. You cannot
measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break
into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How
can you know how dark a certain space is? You
measure the amount of light present. Isn’t this
correct? Darkness is a term used by man to
describe what happens when there is no light
present.”
Finally the young man asked the professor. “Sir,
does evil exist?” Now uncertain, the professor
responded, “Of course! We see it every day.
It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to
man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence
everywhere in the world. These manifestations are
nothing else but evil.”
To this, the student replied, “Evil does not exist
sir, or at least it does not exist in itself.
Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just
like darkness and cold, a word that man has
created to describe the absence of God. God did
not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love
that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is
the result of what happens when man does not have
God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the
cold that comes when there is no heat or the
darkness that comes when there is no light.” The
professor sat down.
The young man’s name – Albert Einstein.
May Crowning
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Prayer
The time may be delayed, the
manner may be unexpected, but the answer is sure
to come.
Not a tear of sacred sorrow, not a breath of holy
desire poured out to God will ever be lost, but in
God's own time and way will be wafted back again
in clouds of mercy and fall in showers of
blessings on you and on those for whom you pray.
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General Information
Baptisms: One
parent and the sponsors must be practicing
Catholics who attend only the Traditional Latin
Mass. Call the pastor to make arrangements.
Confessions:
Sundays - one hour before Mass.
Weekdays - 10 minutes before Mass.
1st Friday and 1st Saturday -
during the Rosary.
Communion for the Sick:
Inform Father if you are unable to attend
Mass and wish to receive Holy Communion and/or
Extreme Unction.
Marriages
For registered members of Queen of Angels
parish only. Please contact the rectory at least
six months prior to the wedding date for marriage
instructions.
Mass Intentions:
If you would like to have Holy Mass
offered for your intention, please use the
envelopes provided in the back of the church. The
customary offering is $25.00. Mass requests are
honored in the order in which they are received.
If you wish a Mass offered on a particular day, it
must be submitted at least a month in advance.
Mass requests for special days will be honored
when possible.
First Holy Communion Classes:
Classes are held every Sunday at 9:30 AM.
Confirmation Classes:
For the children: on the first and third
Sunday of the month at 9:30 AM.
For the adults: on the second and fourth Sunday of
the month at 9:30 AM.
Prayers For Rain
O God, in Whom we live, move and
have our being, grant us seasonable rain, so that
our temporal needs being sufficiently supplied, we
may seek with greater confidence after things
eternal.
Be appeased, we beseech Thee, O Lord, by the gifts
which we offer, and garnt us in season the
blessing of sufficient rain.
Grant us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, beneficial rain
and deign to pour out showers from Heaven upon the
parched face of the earth. Through Our Lord Jesus
Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee
in the unity of the Holy Ghost. God, world without
end. Amen
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