True Catholic Faith: Clarion Call of the Church’s Timeless Teaching

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

A little while longer, and now you shall not see me. Dear faithful, in this life, there is nothing shorter than time, but there is nothing more valuable. Regarding time's shortness, consider for a moment the following. The past is no more, the future is uncertain, and the present is but a moment.

And then it's gone like a vapor. Saint Alphonsus Liguria spiritually applies our Lord's words in today's gospel to the shortness of time. A little while and now you shall not see me. In other words, I, the Lord, will be gone. Just like that.

So time is short, but time is also precious. In fact, priceless. For in every moment, if we spend the time we are given well, we can acquire treasures of merits for heaven. But if we spend it poorly, we eventually sin and thus acquire demerits for hell. Saint Bernardine of Siena taught that time is of as much value as God himself in as much as in every moment of time well spent, the possession of God is merited.

Indeed, in every moment of this life, a man can obtain the pardon of his sins, the grace of God and its increase, and consequently, the glory of heaven and an increase of that glory. Saint Bernardine also said that though there is nothing more precious than time, there is nothing of less value than time in man's estimation. Oh, time despised my men during this life, he lamented. How much shall you be desired at the hour of death, and particularly in the other world? But time is found neither in heaven nor in hell.

In hell, the damned explain exclaim with tears. Oh, that an hour of life were given to us. They would pay any price for an hour or even for a minute in this life in which they might repair their eternal ruin. But this hour or minute, they shall never have. Interestingly, Saint Alphonsus recounted that a deceased Benedictine nun appeared in glory to a certain person and said that she was in heaven and in the enjoyment of perfect happiness.

She stated, however, that if she could desire anything, it would be to return to life and to suffer affliction in order to merit an increase in glory. The nun added that to acquire the glory which corresponded to a single Ave Maria, to just one Hail Mary, she would be content to suffer the long and painful sickness which brought on her death till the day of the final judgment. On that day of judgment, Jesus Christ will demand an account not only of every month and day that has been lost, but even of every idle word. He shall likewise demand an account of every moment of the time which has been lost. According to Saint Bernard, all time which is not spent for God is lost time.

And so dear faithful, today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts. God calls you to confess your sins, to restore ill gotten goods, and to be reconciled with your enemies. Lose no time. Make no mistake about it, dear faithful. The devil is an expert at the effective use of time.

He knows that your life on earth is very short and so he loses not a moment of time tempting you day and night as he seeks to bring you to hell. Shall you then waste the time which God has given you to save your soul? Many say, I will later give myself to God. But why, answers Saint Bernard, do you, a miserable sinner, presume on the future as if the father placed time in your power? Why in other words do you presume that you will later give yourself to God as if he had promised to give you the time of returning to him?

Why do you presume he will give you that future time when you plan to convert? Saint Augustine warns you, do not say tomorrow I will convert because although God promised you forgiveness when you convert, he did not promise you a tomorrow when you procrastinate. Saint Bernardine weeps over the blindness of those negligent Christians who squander the days of salvation and never consider that a day once lost shall never return. When they are about to die, what price would they not give for another week, for another day, or even for another hour to prepare the account which they must then render to God. Saint Lawrence Justinian says that for a single hour, they would give all their property, all their honors, and all their delights.

But this hour shall not be granted to them. At that dreadful hour, the priest who attends them shall say, depart Christian soul from this world, and then time shall be no more for them. At that hour, the hour of death, conscience will remind the sinner who has rashly presumed on God's mercy, and who has kept postponing his conversion to a later time Of the time which he has had to become a saint in which he has rather used in multiplying his debts to God. His conscience will remind him of all the calls and of all the graces which God has given him to induce him to love him, which he has abused and rejected. At that awful moment, he shall also see that by his own fault and by his stubborn presumption to the end, he has made his conversion now morally impossible.

Amid the torturing darkness of imminent death and unimaginable remorse, the dying sinner shall then say, oh, fool that I have been, my life misspent, my lost years in which I shall have gained, I should have gained treasures of merits and become a saint. But I have neglected both. And now the time for converting and saving my soul shall be no more forever. But of what use shall these wailings and lamentations be when the curtain of this world is about to close and the lamp is on the point of being extinguished? When the dying sinner has arrived at that great moment on which eternity depends.

Dear faithful, sixty years have passed since the closing of the second Vatican Council. Oh, the precious time lost. Oh, the precious souls lost. Paul the sixth, the promulgator of the Vatican two documents, had a dream of an easier religion. Blast blasphemously opining that the Holy Ghost had mistakenly established the Catholic religion as practiced for 19 centuries as too difficult for the faithful.

The false pontiff stated explicitly in 1964 that one of the council's principal aims was to make the practice of the Christian life easier. To the so called popes and bishops of Vatican Two, including the recently elected Robert Prevost, the so called Leo the fourteenth, who have had the goal of an easier religion, a religion in which hell is not part of the gospel, a religion that teaches that unrepentant agnostics and atheists can be saved, a religion that teaches that the 10 commandments are mere ideals, a religion that says that the human person has the right to embrace false religions, a religion that says that the Jews have their own path to heaven and that Catholics and Muslims worship the same God, a religion that teaches that God can positively will adultery and that adulterers can receive the Eucharist, a religion that states that sodomites as such can be blessed as a couple, or the summation of all these so called teachings, a sonata religion which evolves according to the preferences of the people and which thus excludes the cross. To the so called popes and bishops of Vatican Two and to all the false teachers of these pernicious doctrines, the Lord says, go behind me Satan.

Thou art a scandal unto me. Dear faithful, in his mercy, our Lord gives us every year, every day, every hour, and every minute of our lives as a precious gift that we might weep for our sins and increase or acquire the divine grace. The wide gate and the broad way of following the inclinations of fallen nature of the false Vatican 2 religion are obstacles to the great gift of God's mercy. And hence, they lead to eternal perdition even though the world sees them as causes of rejoicing. Recall what our Lord told us in today's gospel.

Amen. Amen. I say to you that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice. And you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. Let us therefore beg our lady of sorrows for the grace of not wasting another moment of our lives, but that we might weep and lament our sins and so obtain and increase to the highest degree possible the divine grace that filled her heart.

And let us beg the Lord Jesus Christ, the king of glory to permit us to carry if but only a small portion of his glorious cross. Only then shall our sorrow be turned to joy. Admaiorum Dei gloriam. For the greater glory of God. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.

Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.