Recognizing Sign of the Times

I a young boy I knew was terribly afraid of water as a toddler what happens he'd fallen upon a printer drown and from that point on he was just terrified of it plumb scared of water and so when he turned four so his dad decided it was time for to get over it but he was still afraid of water so sometimes he hear these horror stories about dad taking the kid out to the end of the dock and just dropping him off and it was sink or swim but that didn't happen with this little boy his dad loved his son and so what he did is he started off by having his son hang on to him around his neck like piggyback then he'd swim around with him on the top not going under the water and all that until the boy thought well that isn't so bad that's kind of fun and then his dad would tell him all right we're going to go under for just a sec so hold your breath you just barely go under and come right back up again before they could get scared you kept doing that and over time you know I mean this to know happen one day but over time they could get fined realize hey that's kind of fun to see so we're going to go down little longer and hold on and whatnot and then one day eventually told a little boy all right you're not going to hang out at me and where you can do a little swimming on your own but don't worry I'll be right here I'll hang on to you nothing bad is going to happen here and so forth of course at first that was real scary too but after a while little boy got used to what was going on and got to the point where he didn't need his dad right there next to him and finally somewhere in this whole process the fear left him you never want a medal or anything but he learned how to swim he's not scared of the water anymore what happened was the love and trust he had his dad but absolute confidence the little boy had as long as his dad was right there close by nothing really bad could happen him that's really serious was going to hurt him that love and confidence gave that little boy the power or the ability to deal with the situation but at least for him was really terrifying and all that brings me around to what's actually the most important point of tonight's conference and in fact the whole mission what's the most important point of the conference in the whole mission is the love Sacred Heart has for us of love our Lord has four see just like that knowledge that the little boy had of the reality of the loved and cared closeness of his dad gave a little guy so much confidence and so much security the game and ability to overcome his fears overcome as tear and worries and learn how to swim so also the knowledge each one of us has of the love and care and closest to the sacred hat heart has to us the clothes of how close he is how much he loves us that should give us all confidence and give us security it can give each one of us to overcome whatever fears or worries we have whatever problems were having in life no matter what kind of crosses God has decided to place on us okay so we don't ever want to forget the love the sacred heart has for us that love he's burning with love for each of us that's why in the artwork of course it shows his heart like it's on outside his chest that's just artwork his heart was glowing with so much love that is shining through his chest it's incandescent with the flames of his love for man that's why he became man he didn't do that for the ages he did it for us why did he become man because He loves us why did he suffer and die on the cross because He loves us why to give his mother to watch over us because He loves us why did he establish Holy Catholic Church because He loves us why is he sitting there right now in the tabernacle because He loves us why does he come to us in Holy Communion because he loves it he doesn't need anything he doesn't need to be in the tabernacle he doesn't need to come to Holy Communion to us we need him and he puts himself at our mercy in our disposal this is the good God that can do everything and he puts it he's humbled himself so much he becomes a piece of food and even if we're not properly disposed even if God forbid we will remake a sacrilegious communion he still humbles himself so much at that point in time give a person a time to repent huh he hasn't left us orphans he loves us he's right here he's alive he's alive he loves us the question is do we love him do we trust him with the Sacred Heart wants for each one of us is to have that absolute profound trust and confidence for him a love firm the knowledge the confidence he's close to us an absolute confidence he's right here he's watching over us he loves us and he wants to give each one of us such profound love for him such a profound confidence in him that we can deal with any situation no matter how terrifying it might seem to someone else he doesn't want us to panic he doesn't want us to Chicken Little even if he puts us in a time of the sky is falling we don't have to do the chicken little routine God loves us he wants us to become Saints he'll send us whatever graces we need to deal with the particular circumstances as long as we strive to hold up our end of the deal like stainless to grace but keeping the commandments by doing our duty in our state of life huh what matters is the road loves us He loves us and if he put us in particular circumstances it's not a surprise to him might surprise us it's not a surprise to him and he wants us to become Saints in those particular circumstances now that being said let's get started back home in Montana and we see moon dogs or Sun dogs it's a sign that something's on the way ok father what's a moon dog or what's a Sun dog and what are they a sign of well first off at least back home moon dogs and Sun dogs are fairly common optical phenomena they might be here in Kansas to hook it outside Lotso and check the weather like I should but anyway sometimes when we look up at the moon or the Sun we can see kind of a halo that's surrounding them or maybe just parts of a hill there's the Sun or the moon and there's two little curves off to each side right at either side and then right on the side of the halo or that little curve on each side by an each one there's a bright light right here on right there so for example you'd have the moon and a light there and a light there that would be a moon dog and that'd be the other moon dog where you'd have the Sun and that bright light would be the Sun dog and there'd be another Sun dog okay sometimes they'll be a whole halo sometimes only be a curve and you'll see those real bright lights and it's called moon dogs or Sun dogs when we see moon dogs or Sun dogs and like I say they're pretty common it's a sign that something's on the way see those moon dogs or the Sun dogs are produced by moonlight or sunlight they're passing through ice crystals in the upper atmosphere so they're Cirrus the shears stratus clouds way up there which means it is warm front that's coming off the Pacific Ocean and those clouds that produced those moon dogs or Sun dogs are the very lead edge the very thin wedge on the very front of that warm front where one front works is you have a massive cold air the warm air comes off the ocean but because it's warmer and it's less dense it starts sliding up over that cold air to get a really long thin wedge so you have really high in the front that's real thin and then if you go back to the Pacific it gets fatter and fatter till it's finally on the ground over here and it's moving this way see it's moving from the west to the east is what's coming on West wind's there so anyway right there that lead edge of the wedge is where those cirrostratus clouds are they would have the ice crystals that cause those moon dogs or Sun dogs so they're on the lead edge way up there maybe five or six hundred miles away that warm front is sitting on the ground it might it might just still be on the Pacific it might just be rolling off the Pacific you know so it's 500 600 miles of waves in the middle of Washington somewhere anyway what's there if you go down you go cirrostratus it goes down pretty soon you get to nimbostratus because what it means there's a couple days you're going to have weather might be rain might be snow but you can have weather you get some precipitation so that's it when we seem ago we few days we've got rain we know that it's an absolute Sun once we know what the sign means we know what's going to happen anybody can do it you see look up there and see like I said I don't know how the weather works here but at home you see amigo there's going to be weather and it'll be there okay nothing new people have been doing it since the beginning our Lord spoke of predicting the weather by reading the signs in the sky in fact not only they speak of predicting the weather by reading the signs and heavens he actually castigated the Jews why because they were able to read the signs in heaven what was going to happen in the weather but they were unable to read the signs The Times quote is our Lord quote you know how to interpret the appearance of the sky but he cannot interpret signs at times close quote and when you see a cloud rising in the West you see at once a shower is coming and so it happens and when you see the south wind blown you say there will be scorching heat and it happens you know how to interpret the parents of earth and sky but why do you not know how to interpret the pleasant time close quote you know how to interpret the appearance of the sky but you cannot interpret the signs at times why do you not know how to interpret the present time why do you not know how to interpret the signs of the times let us question not be asked of us tonight we're going to spend some time considering a few the sign of the times we'll start by looking at signs of the church and signs our society then we'll spend a few minutes considering what those signs ought to mean to us okay now through the whole conference the quotes have been abbreviated cut and pasted to save time I've added my own editorial comments and so forth and so forth alright let's start by considering the sign the time and the church now obviously you don't need to come here to have me tell you that the state of the church is an absolute catastrophe I mean it's a wreck it's a disaster of biblical proportions okay we already know that but what we want to do is focus a little more closely and what we're going to do to start off is focus on attitudes and beliefs to the Catholic lady not because I'm a priest and want to pick on a lady and so forth but because we have the data we have we have the data number one and over two frankly I think that for the most part the lady are far more conservative than the clergy so if what we see in the lady if it's a bad it's going to be worse than the clergy that's how it works okay well this part there will be some numbers and all that it's just in the beginning don't worry because then we'll analyze it later but I don't want to thank citrine I'm going to do statistics all night no way but we need to get some hard data and we'll go from there okay so let's get started with our first sign our first sign is the beliefs of Catholic elementary school religion teachers all right survey was taken well it's published in 2000 it's probably taken to 99 it summarizes the beliefs of religion teachers in Catholic elementary schools the beliefs of Catholic elementary school religion teachers the percentage of lay religion teachers and Catholic elementary schools will identify the Church's position on a falling issues with their own church's position with their own and remember this information is already almost a decade old percentage of religion teachers and Catholic elementary schools who identify Church's position and artificial birth control of their own is 10 percent 10 percent of Catholic elementary school religion teachers agree with infallible teaching the church in regards to birth control in other words 90 percent of religion teachers in Catholic elementary schools are not Catholic ninety percent of religion teachers in Catholic elementary schools belong to a different religion that's the first statistic that's the first thing we notice elective abortion 26 percent 26 percent of Catholic elementary school religion teachers agree with infallible teaching a church and regards to abortion in other words 74 percent disagree the religion teachers infallibility of the Pope makin some progress now 27 percent given the first two statistics the fact that only 27% of Cass County Schools believe the Pope is infallible shouldn't come as a big surprise euthanasia 31 percent the male priesthood 33 percent indissolubility of marriage 54 percent the real presence in the Eucharist 68 percent now we're getting somewhere I don't know what the other 32 percent Lehmann did of Jesus 91% so roughly 10% of Catholic religion school elementary teachers don't believe Jesus is God so let's summarize this section really quick what have we seen so far even if we grant a generous margin of error to the results we could still characterize these results as symptomatic of profound apostasy and descent from infallible teachings especially the infallible moral teachings of the Catholic Church and remember this is among religion teachers and Catholic elementary schools that's outrageous but surely it must be better than the pews sign we'll check that Achuthan appease by taking a few minutes to consider some statistics which for the most part were reported recently in the New Oxford Review so these are by Gallup surveys over the years ask can you be a good Catholic without this without obeying the church hierarchies teaching regarding abortion in 1987 39% agreed yes you can be a good Catholic without agreeing with the Church's teaching an abortion 2005 58% so you go from 39 saying you can dissent to 58 sandakan descent how about defecation and divorce and marriage 1987 57% 2005 66 % without their marriage being approved by the Catholic Church 1987 51 city can descent 2005 67 so you can descend without a Bama church's hierarchies teaching birth control 66 percent Sidious 2005 75 there's a trend in the 1934 survey 29 percent of Catholics thought it would be a good thing if when we were allowed to be priests 1985 47 percent of Catholics 1992 67 percent of Catholics were seen a trend situation comes in a clear focus when the answers we break them down by the ages of the respondents we'll be done with all these stats in just a minute 2005 longitudinal study of pre-vatican - Catholics these were ages 65 and older in 2005 Vatican 2 Catholics those were 45 to 64 in 2005 post Vatican 2 catholics 26 to 44 and 2005 and millennial catholics ages 18 to 25 in 2005 so they did a longitudinal study the Catholics were asked to respond to this statement you can be a good Catholic without attending Mass every week now there's a complicated statement but we're talking about a commandment here can you be a good Catholic without attending Mass every week the ones that agree pre-vatican to Catholics 69% say yes plus Vatican to Catholics 76% say yes Millennials 95 percent say yes these are statistically significant but I mean you know you don't know whether do a jaw drop or what of that ninety-five percent say I can be a good Catholic and I go to Mass every week okay next one individuals as opposed to church hierarchy of the final say on abortion pre-vatican to Catholics 31% CS post Vatican to Catholics 44 Millennials 77 Catholicism contains a greater share of truth than other religions do pre-vatican to Catholics 61% think so Millennials 44% now in another survey they did around college on college Millennials only 19% agreed that cath Alstom contains a greater share of truth than other religions do these clods Millennials are the people that in theory least would be the leading tier of future Catholics intellectually right but they're not Catholic on abortion in 1987 42% of pre-vatican few Catholics saw the final authority and search leaders 24% a post Vatican 2 catholics a final authority and church leaders that's 87 2005 pre-vatican do catholics go from 42 to 33% post Vatican 2 Catholics come from 24 to 19% on perverted behaviors pre-vatican to two Catholics in 1987 46 percent in 2005 33 percent plus Vatican Fix in 87 26% 19% in 2005 on non marital sex in 1987 47% of pre-vatican to Catholics saw final model floating church leaders in 2005 was 30 percent in 1987 23% of post Vatican two catholics sutta thority and church leaders in 2005 21 percent last statistic in 2005 43% of pre-vatican to catholics said they have a high commitment to the Catholic Church 17 percent of post Vatican 2 catholics said that they have a high commitment to catholic church and amazingly zero percent of millennial catholics said they have high commitment to the catholic church conclusions again even if we grant a generous margin of error to these results we can still characterize them as being symptomatic of a profound and growing apostasy and a growing dissent hasn't slowed on continues to grow a going to sent from infallible teachings especially the moral teachings that are infallible the church monks catholics and a huge the authors write quote catholics have increasingly seen authority than their individual conscience while the acceptance of church leaders as the locals locus of model 30 declines no kidding the authors say because older Catholics have higher commitment than young adults one cannot expect any increase in high commitment Catholics in the near future and as new oxford view points out what an understatement we're done with the new ox review two very important points to meditate on briefly the first point inside the church pews a classroom certainly in the pulpits there seems to be an absolutely astronomical level of what I call graduates of a Jiminy Cricket School of moral theology by that I mean people that say well let your conscience be your guide that's the rule just let your conscience be your guide and they run around seeing like Jiminy Cricket - Pinocchio that's fine and true as long as your conscience is conformed to reality to the natural law and divine laws of God okay then it's that's true what but if we can conform our conscience another way of seeing that is we have to take every effort to conform our conscience to the teachings of Holy Mother Church God set up the church precisely so we know you can know without any shadow of a doubt what we must do and what we must avoid in order to obtain eternal life when we were baptized God gave us this new kind of life supernatural life he placed it into our souls when we were born and what this life does it gives us the ability to get to heaven and to live there when we die by our own nature we can either get to heaven nor can we live there heaven is completely inaccessible to us as mankind it is completely inaccessible you point out if we want to go down and look at a coral reef 200 feet under the water or 150 feet or whatever we can do that not of our own nature you can't get down there but we can use technology you know a diving bell scuba tanks a submarine there's different things that we could go down and spend time tooling around 150 feet under the water huh not a real nature but we can get build technology for it rent it or something there's no possible amount of technology research money there is no way to get the heaven from here of our own means it's completely totally and absolutely beyond our ability as men to get to heaven it requires powers that are beyond our natural powers super natural powers that's what God gave us we're baptized if we die with a supernatural life we'll go to heaven we might have little summer school and purgatory for a while but we're going to get to heaven if we die without it we can't go to heaven which means we have to go to hell there's no other chances okay naturally speaking there's no way to go to heaven all right now what does that have to do with the moral law Christ established the Catholic Church in order to give us the supernatural if you want to make sure we die having that supernatural life we'll be judged on the question do we have that supernatural life it's called sanctifying grace it means being the state of grace if the answer is yes we die off we'll be saved if the answer's no we die thought it will be damned what does this have to do with the moral law everything in order to understand it let's consider our natural life suppose you go over to somebody's house and I got the wood stove all fired up and it's red hot you stand there talking and you back into it how long are you going to sit there leaning against wood stove only as long as it takes for you to jump away from it and if you haven't done that you know you can imagine that but everybody that's done that you know I mean you're going to move and you can move fast what God gave us pain receptors the purpose of pain receptors is to tell us wait a minute you're getting in trouble you're about to end yourself it's to protect your natural life if we didn't have pain receptors who might lean up against that wood stove wondering what's that burning smell of flesh you know do you notice your clothes on fire and your why we wouldn't know he's given that to us so that we can protect ourselves or we know when we're injured and we need help here's the thing with supernatural life it's completely beyond our nature you can't smell it they can't see it they can't taste you can't touch it you can't hear there's no way of being able to sensibly tell whether you have this life what condition it's in what hurts it and what doesn't hurt it God had to let us know he wants us to get to heaven we have to have this it's beyond our power so he gives us a conscience so we already know the natural law you can't get things in the natural law not wrong for very long some things can get wrong but not most of them all these politically correct perversions they know that's why they make these different laws called phobia this and phobia that because they don't want us to remind them because their conscience is they're in a bad way you can whistle past the graveyard all you want but if you're really scared when somebody says boo it's going to hurt and that's what they're worried about with all these phobia laws anyway so we have a conscience but we also have to know what are the things that will harm our supernatural life so God has given us these moral teachings if you stay inside these boundaries your life will grow if you go outside them they'll either be injured that's a sin or it's it's supernatural suicide that's a mortal sin now God is so merciful that we could do all kinds of knuckleheaded objectively wrong things but if we don't know he never holds it against us as long as we don't know and it's illegitimate I don't know but I'm not a well I don't want to find out I think it's probably wrong and I'll do it anyway but a legitimate I don't know invincible ignorance he doesn't hold that against us he won't take supernatural life away but when we commit a mortal sin remember that seriously wrong we know it's wrong we do it anyway that is supernatural suicide it destroys that life in us so that moral law is a gift from God that he delivers to us for the same reason he gave us a supernatural life I love you so much I'm going to give you this chance to go to heaven and I'm going to tell you where the trail is don't go crawl through these fences and you're good to heaven it's a gift it's a gift he's not hassling us he's not trying to take we're fun he's trying to make sure that we're happy in this life and the next that we don't have a guilty conscience in this life we see him free and were happy with him forever in the next that we stay at trouble in this life and we don't burn the next acts with the moral law is okay so if we reject it we're rejecting the only road map to heaven in choosing destruction a path to hell that's if we reject it deliberately again God's mercy himself so if we don't know any better we don't suspect we may be wrong no harm so to go back to it what do we mean by the Jiminy Cricket School of moral theology then we mean people who just simply consciously decide to pick and choose right and wrong instead of conforming themselves to the teaching the church and they say things like well I'm an adult I can form my own conscience after all it's my choice I mean I'm sure you've encountered it priests do all the time when you go to a bus depot when you when you go to an airport or something you can be guaranteed that they're going to come up and somebody's going to have an issue and and they'll start talking about things and what you know they just don't worry and then what you tell them the truth I mean you try to do this gently as possible I know I'm from Montana don't have a lot of class and simplicity you know but you try to tell them gently well you know look if you do that you'll go to hell I mean you don't necessarily say that but they're happy if you tell them what they want to hear but they're not happy if you tell them the truth it's a disaster this is the Jiminy Cricket School amorphous laude so many needs to squish this crooked and it's the oldest lie in the book open it up the devil starts talking to Eve and he's asked what God told her as soon as she says that you if we you know about diamond and says you will not die the death you shall be as God's knowing good and evil in other words know you're not going to lose your state of grace you're not going to lose that supernatural life God gave you you won't die supernaturally speaking even if you commit this mortal sin you will be like God you get to decide what's right and wrong the locus of moral authority is in your conscience you decide it's your choice that's literally the oldest line in the book literally literally it's in the third chapter of Genesis it's the first word that says the first lie out of the devil's lips that we have a record of right there and it's only a few hours in the end of the creation of man okay we have some notices here though for people that haven't noticed God reserves to himself the right to decide what's right and wrong this idea is expressed by the people that did the research and then analyzed that the Gallup poll did it form within to analyze this idea that they notice that Catholics are increasingly seeing Authority and individual con conscience 'as well the acceptance of church leaders as the locus of more authority declines is literally a lie from hell I'm not being rhetorical that's literally what it is literally the individual is not the center of the moral universe God is God is second point there's one thing these statistics demonstrate I don't say this with a delight at all we have lost the younger generation the juries in the faith has not been passed on here plain and simple in the greater church we've lost the younger generation we've lost them it's not just true here I've got a lot of friends the fraternity over in Australia there are virtually the people of practice that are young are either from Malta or they're Maltese their ethnic thing or they're from Lebanon that's about it lost through the native Australian young people they have checked out they've been baptized confirmed and they go to the bar or the beach whatever it is they have no time for the church they've left you still have some ethnics people that have a very strong ethnic identity thanks be to God and they're going and that's it this is even a traditionalist over there it's unbelievable all right let's turn to sign the times in our society sign divorce rate corner surveys done in 2004 by the Barna Group this is a Evangelical Protestant Research Organisation 46% of all married baby boomers have already divorced 33 percent of the married couples of the previous two generations divorce Catholics are substantially less likely to divorce than Protestants with 25 percent of married Catholics divorcing as compared to 39 percent of Protestants among married born-again Protestants 35 percent of divorced which is exactly the same percentages found in married adults who are not born again 23% of born-again Protestants get divorced two or more times Lum cross and most likely to get divorced or Pentecostals of a 44 percent divorce rate and it's greater in the Bible Belt but up north that's interesting too anyway Barna said there's no end in sight regarding this problem quote you can understand why atheists and agnostics might have a high rate of divorce since they are less likely to believe in concepts such as sin absolute moral truth and judgment if a survey found that the percentage of atheists and agnostics who have been married divorced is 37% very similar to the numbers for the born-again population given the current growth from the numbers of atheists and agnostics and the younger two generations are predisposed to divorce we do not anticipate a reversal of the present pattern within the next decade close quote sign in the u.s. cohabitation is up 1,000% since 1960 40% of our children now spend some other childhood living with the cohabitating couple the proportion of children now living with their married parents dropped from 85 percent in 1975 to less than 70 percent today sign in the early 1960s 8% of all United States children were born out of wedlock as of 2002 33.8 percent of all children were born out of wedlock sign the birth rate the birth rate here in the US has dropped to the lowest level since national data have been available it's done a full seventeen percent since 1990 sign according to CDC that's the u.s. Center for Disease Control in 1965 16 percent of married women of childbearing age in the u.s. were surgically sterilized in 1995 percentage was 41 percent from 16 percent 41 percent now it was 12 years ago sign according to CDC listen to this one and I just was on the website this morning according to CDC 98 percent of women who have ever had relations have use at least one method of contraception but 82 percent of women have used the pill at some time in their lives sign here's a lot is thrown out there what percentage of physicians refuse to prescribe birth control how many physicians here in Kansas City refuse to prescribe birth control how many Catholic physicians in Kansas City what percentage physicians in the Catholic hospitals here in Kansas City review to prescribe birth control sign 95% of all abortions are chosen as a method of birth control 95 percent its emergency contraception 95 percent the remaining 5% result of other things nearly oh no already something this is from Alan Guttmacher Institute I'm reading from Planned Parenthood their research on so it's this is from the enemy nearly all in the this is in 1995 nearly all the 1.3 million abortions year are done because a woman did not want to be pregnant at that particular time the majority of women undergoing abortion give one or more of the following reasons number one number one reason a baby would interfere with work school or other responsibilities that's 75 percent of abortions number two you can't afford to have a child sixty-six percent number three they don't want to be a single parent to have problems in their relationship only 1% of women aborting say they've been advised that there's a defect only one percent to become pregnant by some time it's not in their interests to report this stuff sign pornography as of four years ago US porn revenue exceeds the combined revenues of ABC CBS and NBC the three major networks have make about 6.2 billion porn revenues larger than all the combined revenues of professional football baseball and basketball all the franchise's the porn industry according to conservative estimates four years ago brought in 57 billion dollars worldwide in which the US was responsible for 12 billion so the United States 12 billion dollars four years ago and porn there were 800 million rentals of porn DVDs and videos 800 million rentals 800 million 70 percent I'm quoting from Bishop Finn's here 70% of 18 to 24 year old men visit porn sites in a typical month 66% of men in the 20s and 30s report being regular users of porn 90% 90% of 8 to 16 year olds using the Internet have you'd point online most while doing their homework parents you'll answer for that if it's happened in your home 11 year old is the average age of the first Internet exposure to pornography as of 2004 11 11 what is that doing to these young people 11 years old sign in the US by the age of 19 70 percent of boys and 46% of girls have lost their virginity sign the new forms of marriage the decriminalization normalization of various conversions that are unnameable sign pro pervert legislation and brainwashing this I'll read you excerpts from an article on worldnetdaily October 13th of this past year Kluber 13 2007 mom and dad the terms as well as husband and wife the terms have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who probably was going to communion that weekend you know he's Catholic on a bill of signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms and vice versa if they chose the bill sign includes Senate bill 777 which should be 666 it bans anything in public schools it could be interpreted as negative towards perversions perversions and other lifestyle choices of an alternate type there are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs however also signed with Assembly Bill 394 which targets parents and teachers for such an indoctrination through anti harassment training from now on on a banned list will be any text reference or teaching aid that portrays marriage as only between a man and a woman materials have said that people are born male or female I mean I know that you know you don't want to laugh but where they dream this up not in between sources that failed to include a variety of perverted perverted and perverted historical figures and other perverted things I just had to skip that furthermore homecoming kings and homecoming Queens on the black assembly bill 394 promotes the same issues to state but a publication postings curricula and handouts to students parents and teachers it also creates a circumstances where parent says marriage is only for a man and a woman and the presence of a teacher with a certain orientation could be convicted of harassment and a student who believes people are born either male or female could be reported as a harasser by teachers suffering from another one of these perversions Schwarzenegger also signed assembly bill 14 a dozen and huh it prevents the prohibit state funny-funny program that does not support a range of alternative sexual practices including state-funded social services run by churches affected would be daycares preschool or after-school programs food and housing programs Senior Circuit says anti-gang efforts job programs and others it also forces every hospital in California even private religious hospitals to adopt policies in support of perversions perversion and perversions and opens up nonprofit organizations to lawsuits if they exclude members that engage in perverted verted or perverted conduct sign this whole over-the-top earth worship extreme environmentalists the deep green movement it's coupled so often with a hatred for mankind and i could talk of this for great lengths I haven't encountered as much of it here it's certainly a problem at home because when I'm from but there's a hatred of mankind it seems the focus seems to be towards darker types of hamp mankind especially those that live in poverty or don't travel in the right social classes okay to cite one example out of dozens I picked this because she writes for newspaper over there the National Catholic Reporter her name's Rosemarie Radford Reuter an eco feminist they call our theologian I'm sorry that's absolutely wrong she said in May 1998 an ecological conference quote we need to seek the most compassionate way of weeding out people in place of the pro-life movement in place of the pro-life movement we need to develop the spirituality of recycling a spirituality includes ourselves in the renewal of earth itself we need to compost ourselves why don't these people ever take their own advice why is it always going to be people like us that are you expected to compost ourselves several months later she told a National Conference of call to action a distant Catholic organization or a distant organization how much people must find the compost pile we must return to the population level of 1930 that's about 2 billion people what does discreetly unannounced is what to do with the 14 billion surplus people or the 4 billion surplus people excuse me so 2 billion on what the other 2/3 point you off my planet by sundown sign we New Age movement lead pan is a convert from Marxism to Byzantine Catholicism he's an outstanding work and tracking and recording the religious viewpoints of followers the New Age movement these are beliefs they're subscribed to by many influential men and women upper echelons of power and politics United Nations environmental movement academia the median big business lead pen summarizes these new-age views quote many Christians view the New Age movement is merely self-indulgent silliness unfortunately it's far more substance to New Age beliefs than astrology Crystal's weird workshops and psychobabble New Age spirituality have a firmly entrenched anti-christian worldview and harbor special hatred for the Catholic Church they believe that the fall was really humanity's ascent into knowledge assisted by Lucifer who may Hale is the bringer of light and wisdom they expect an imminent apocalyptic transformation that will lead humanity into the new age by acts of men or by an act of spirit earth will be cleansed of those who refuse to evolve in the new age there will be world government the economy made remade to promote sharing traditional morality and traditional families will disappear Orthodox religions especially Judaism are separative and obsolete the New Age they too will vanish close quote sign federal appeals court Detmer vs. Landon in 1986 found that witchcraft is a constitutionally recognized religion with the same rights and protections that other religions enjoy 1986 the last sign this pertains to Italy it's the only country which I could find these statistics since these are Italian statistics at least a Catholic country in the United States is certainly not never has been these statistics can't translate directly into our experience in the u.s. they're indicative they can give us some idea of our own situation here in the States okay and the year 2000 there were a hundred and sixty-seven exorcists working in Italy in that year those 167 exorcists had 500,000 requests for assistance from troubled people okay many of those probably had other troubles we don't know the exact percent but many of them indeed did have problems with a demon okay let's stop and back up and remind ourselves of what we're doing here we started by talking about moon dogs and Sun dogs either signed to the sky by which at least back home we can predict the weather we noted that our Lord explicitly spoke of predicting the weather by reading the signs and not only that he actually castigate the Jews for not for being able to read the signs of the heavens but not being able to read the signs of the times we've just spent the past few minutes considering a few of the signs of the times some of the signs in the church and some of the signs in our society now let's spend a few minutes considering what those signs out of meet each one of us okay let's start by considering the general trends inside the church we've seen rejection or the moral authority of church even by those who consider themselves Catholic we've seen an assuming of the spirit of personal autonomy with authority supposedly vested in individual conscience is and there's a corresponding rejection of the teaching authority of the church a corresponding rejection of the teaching thority of our Holy Father the Pope which means a corresponding rejection of the teaching authority of Christ our Lord we've seen it at least in the wider circles of Catholic Church we've lost the younger generation they're gone they're gone outside of church what have we seen the collapse of the stable two-parent family skyrocketing divorce rates shacking up becoming an armed numbers of children born out of wedlock skyrocketing all accompanied by declining birth rates a collapse sexual immorality an unbelievable number of women sterilized virtually universal use of contraception at least at some time in a relationship we've seen 95 percent of the abortions performed in our country every year I really acts of emergency contraception so-called virginity among teenagers is becoming rare and rarer harness through the roof as our perversions and now this is significant with a California legislation we're beginning to see the state use force to promote perverse behaviors in the public school system we're now seeing the state positively promote one of the four sins the cry out to heaven for vengeance for those of it might not realize this in 2005 the Ninth Circuit Court found the right of parents to train educate and place more Lestrade's upon their children quote does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door close quote that ought to put this latest stunt the California that we talked about from the pulpit and a little finer focus to we've noticed a upsurge environmentalism it's an essentially religious point of view assumption the earth is overpopulated that's a denial of Providence of God right on the face but people from that point of view want two-thirds of humanity to get lost we've seen that New Agers have a firm Antichrist outlook especial hatred for Catholicism and that they treat Lucifer they treat Lucifer as a bearer of light and wisdom they're expecting an apocalyptic transformation to cleanse the earth of people that won't evolve that means people like us by the way when they say people that won't evolve we won't get the new ideas that's our problems we're stuck we have to pass people I got we've seen it for over 20 years federal courts have recognized witchcraft as a constitutionally protected religion at least in Italy absolutely incredible numbers of people are suffering from demonic oppression obsession and possession okay so there's some of the signs of time so what are we talking these are all signs of an emerging worldview we're seeing a cultural convergence here we're seeing all kinds of different strains coming together our culture the signs of emerging world viewing by a worldview what we mean is a certain way of approaching reality a certain common way of understanding the world around us these signs all flow from into this worldview okay for the rest this conference we're going to try to get a clear hand on this emerging worldview in order to do that we'll start by posing a question in biblical terms first we'll read a passage from the inspired inerrant Word of God then we'll take a moment to make sure we understand clearly the passage what it's saying and then we'll pose the question okay we'll read a passage explain it pose a question the passage is taken from the fifth chapter st. Paul's letter to the Galatians please listen carefully st. Paul quote now the works of the flesh are manifest which are fornication uncleanness immodesty luxury idolatry witchcraft enmities contentions jealousies anger quarrels dissensions sex envies murderers drunkenness carousing and such like of which I for tell you as I have for told you that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God but the fruit of the Spirit is charity joy peace patience banana tea goodness long-suffering mildness faith modesty continence chastity against such there is no law and neither of Christ's have crucified their flesh with the vices and can cube a census close quote let's take a moment to make sure we understand the passage st. Paul was two series of behaviors he describes the work of the flesh and the fruits of the spirit Holy Spirit by the fruits of the spirit he means actions done by man were guided by the Holy Spirit here's that list again the fruits of spirit charity joy peace patience Benina t goodness long-suffering mildness faith modesty continence chassis that's the fruits of the spirit by works the flesh he means actions that are done by men that are not guided by the holy spirit that only leaves two possibilities they're either guided by the Fallen human spirit that's one possibility or they're guided by evil spirits that's the other possibility and in any event someone that's being guided by a fawn human spirit ends up being guided by the evil spirits the final results are the same here's that list again fornication uncleanness immodesty luxury idolatry witchcraft enmity contentions jealousy anger orals dissensions sex envies murders drunkenness carousing and suchlike okay now that we can all see the meaning of the passage let's pose the question we've looked at the sign of the times so which spirit is leading our society is our society characterized by charity joy peace patience been eating goodness long-suffering mildness faith modesty continence and chasity or is our society characterized by fornication uncleanness immodesty luxury idolatry witchcraft enmity contentions jealousies anger quarrels dissensions sex envies murders drunkenness carousing in such life which spirit is leading our society is it the Holy Spirit it's the Holy Spirit or the spirits behind the works of flesh the Fallen human spirit and ultimately behind the fallen human spirit the demonic spirits well no one can seriously claim their societies guided by the Holy Spirit in fact that would be the height of blasphemy to make a claim like that if we want to read the sign of the times and we'll get to the forecast in a few minutes if we want to read the signs of times the signs tell us one thing as a culture we not only not fighting our disordered desires we're not fighting the weaknesses to which our fallen human nature is pone but we're positively embracing these disorder desires and that means one thing it means that the spirits that lead our society ultimately our evil spirits the spirits guiding our society our evil spirits it's essential to understand as a culture we've rejected the light of Christ and whereas light doesn't shine there's only darkness and it's real darkness when people refuse the light of Christ when they refuse the help of grace for example when people refuse to follow the natural law which is written in every man's heart he understands it at a fundamental level and go home and read the first chapter of Romans verses 18 to the end it's 18 lines Romans 1:18 to the end okay when people refuse to follow the light of the natural law that's written into our very nature by our loving creator when they refuse to follow the natural law for example by embracing a perverted lifestyle a bracing abortion embrace infanticide when people refuse to follow that law then they place themselves under the guidance of evil spirits whether they know it or not obviously most people are involved in sinful and heinous behavior act out a weakness in that malice nevertheless as long as they don't struggle then embracing the darkness that's when they reject the natural law if they know a reject the divine law that's even more grave because they understand it no one can run away from natural law many people don't don't know the divine law there's a difference once we understand that it's easy to understand something we can see this cultural convergence we're seeing this cultural convergence that's happening right before our eyes is simply a result of evil intelligence who have been patiently preparing guiding and channeling different cultural streams and movements slowly coordinating this merging worldview over time they never sleep they never sleep and when evil spirits gain control over society religiously speaking what does that become it's an easy question to answer well answer with Scripture and history history historically speaking except of any of us here have Hebrew blood before the conversion of our ancestors to Catholicism into what religious category would we place all our ancestors there all pagans we're all descended from pagans unless we have hebrew blood is that the same as saying that our ancestors were guided by evil spirits yes it is here's the proof text Psalm 95 5 says all the gods of the Gentiles are demons period inerrant Word of God God clearly teaches the all God's Gentiles that's our ancestors of pagan nations where demons when evil spirits can control the culture it always becomes pagan when evil spirits gain control of a culture it always becomes pagan so what are we seeing when we see the sign of the times we're seeing signs of the increased pagan ization of a culture inside the general circles of the Catholic laity religious priests and outside the church in the general society we're seeing the pagan ization the church and society we have front-row seats to watch the society become pagan right before eyes and it's happening fast a culture of death is essentially a pagan culture it may not be explicit but it's essential when the Holy Father previous holy father talked about a culture death that is a kind and gentle and pastoral way to talk about pagan culture invade and conquering Christian culture now before we make predictions of upcoming events let's spend a few minutes taking a closer look at the beliefs of people in our culture right here in our society who have already explicitly rejected Christ and embraced paganism so we're not talking about something that comes from the mountains of Nepal and it's been pagan all the way back since they got off the ark that's not what we're talking about right here we're talking about people that may very well been baptized and they've turned away from that and embraced paganism okay there's one problem the problem with describing modern paganism it's sort of describing sir like kind of pin down tomato seeds on a plate every time you start pushing down on it together think you got the blasting pin down it squirts out from under your finger okay so we'll have to be general here well father works a Brooks Alexander right here Brooks Alexander's a very astute observer he's a convert to evangelical Protestantism from the counterculture himself he actually had the work on it referring to here vetted by witches and other neo-pagans to make sure he was treating their beliefs and attitudes accurately okay they didn't agree with his assessment obviously because we're coming from opposing teams but to make sure that it's not on that in other words I'm not pulling some wacko preacher man type thing out of who knows where okay it's this isn't a comic book so we'll start by making some basic distinctions just so we have a terminology right think of three concentric circles a small circle surrounded by a medium circle surrounded by a larger circle okay the small circle is Wicca now Wicca strictly speaking is a religion invented in the late 40s and early 50s by an Englishman named Gerald Gardner okay that's Wicca the medium circle is witchcraft witchcraft includes Wiccans those are people that follow Gerald Gardner strictly speaking and people call themselves witches but do not follow Gardner's teachings the largest circle is neo-paganism that includes Wiccans and witches but it also includes other groups and individuals that follow other strange occult things Druids Norse gods Roman gods Greek gods pagan things the broadest term is neo-paganism the the narrows term is Wiccan which is a medium okay all Wiccans and witches are neo-pagans but on all neil pagans or witches okay now that we have some terminology let's try to pin down their belief again because these are basically anarchical religions based for the most part on feelings rather than truth it's sort of like trying to pin down a tomato seed that being said we'll try to summarize five basic attitudes and neo-pagans again we'll follow Brooks Alexander's work closely number one modern pagans neo-pagans find their identity in a difference from an opposition to both Christianity and the culture that flows from it they have this fundamental attitude of an explicit rejection of Christ coupled with an attitude of cultural insurrection so the first attitude they have an oppositional identity it's a based on explicit rejection of Christ and Christian culture mores and a corresponding attitude of cultural instruction second modern pagans neo-pagans subscribe to animism pau ISM and pantheism you're probably already going what do you mean those sound contradictory I'll explain and again this it's funny what does that mean animism polytheism pantheism or basic religious attitudes in neo-paganism right let's see animism by that they see a spiritual life force in all things in other words not only we and animals in the plants Ally the rocks and minerals alive the stars are live you know all these things are alive ok so it's like the Gaia hypothesis if you're talking about deep green ecology that the whole earth is alive ok this this sort of thing so you know you can her try you know the rocks and so forth pause even as the word indicates indicates a belief and more than one God belief in many gods and goddesses direct opposition to monotheism however in spite of this belief in many gods and goddesses they still believe in this basic divinity I'll put that in quotes that underlies all things it pervades matrix like a substrate of nature it's the forest loop so it's underneath everything ok this is where the pantheism comes in the universe is alive with this energy of consciousness and that that's the divine and everything is made of this divinity at the fundamental level ok that also implies that since everything in nature is filled with this divine energy the natured self is holy which leads the whole environmentalist earth-based nature religion aspect the importance of the seasons and all that sort of thing and within neo-paganism also since the divine is hidden in nature it can be uncovered since the divine is hidden in nature it can be uncovered someone can tap into that power they can recognize their divinity they can become enlightened they can become empowered they can manipulate that energy by means of rituals that's what we mean by magic and sorcery that's the principle underlying their understanding magic and sorcery one of my converted friends I have friends that have converted from this at a certain point and it is witchcraft is a Wiccan there would be a demon show up you know he's got the altar and in the middle is pentagram there would be a demon shop he said it's kind of chalky see-through white his chalky looking thing sitting there and scary-looking and he says I know it sounds funny not by now but I didn't think was a demon from Hell I didn't believe in Hell I was tapping into nature and this is something from another plane so you don't mess with it you back away okay anyway the magic they're tapping into this power and they don't even wear the powers come from there doing these kind of rituals huh it's really important a young person told me recently that's been quite involved in this stuff well Christians pray but they do rituals hold that thought will to return to that later Christians pay but they do rituals okay anyway second basic attitude is this belief in animism seeing the spiritual life force and all things polytheism and worship of many gods or goddesses and pantheism that belief that under everything the universe it's alive with this energy of consciousness that's the divine and it's the substrate above all being okay this belief leads in a nature worship the quest for empowerment the quest to manipulate this power by means of magic rituals third modern pagans neo-pagans embrace feminism neo-paganism is strongly female centered and goddess oriented there's reasons for this historically certain with Wicca because Gardner had this for different reasons I don't want to develop all that we don't have time to pursue it it's very interesting this is one of the reasons there's so much Sophia worship in witchcraft and female religious orders in the United States the congregation's are really infect I'm totally serious I was making this up and I'm not I was talking to priests about three weeks ago that was talking about sand mass for the Wiccans who are you talking about least about this convent you like you know anyway you can fill in the rest right the third basic religious attitude is an embrace of feminism for modern pagans or neo-pagans deny the reality of sin in their universe there is no such thing as sin this is essential for us to understand quote the specific Christian beliefs most often targeted for denial and repudiation by new pagans are the concept of sin and the uniqueness of Christ this almost visceral rejection seems to be one of the few genuine universals of the modern witchcraft movement and appears to hold true across a neo-pagan spectrum close quote the fourth basic religious attitude is there's no such thing as sin but anyone that explicitly rejects sin must also logically reject the need for a savior if there's no such thing as sin we don't need to be saved from anything now I'll use one of their monuments so to speak I'll quote you some verses from a pagan song a popular pagan song if we can use that terminology I mean most of musically on the radio is popular pagan songs this one is really big just a couple verses I once was found but now I'm gone away from the faithful fold all those it pretroop that holiness is to do as you are told the long scripture priests and pair have all instructed me my skin my bones my heretic heart or my authority cause this I'm not being sarcastic this is a poem that expresses the same attitude that we saw with the Catholic religious teachers and attitudes in the pews his personal autonomy comes from me it's the same thing continuing now they tell me jesus loves me but I think that he loves in vain he must go unrequired on me he has no claim I can hardly read that can make your hair stand him my goddess is our Lady moon whose tides are undie pin me my skin my bones my Heretic our our my authority and well I believe this glorious air and outlaw all remain my body will not be subdued and I will not be saved and if I cannot shut it law I'll say it secretly my skin my bones my heretic heart are my authority there you get this rejection again of Christ they're not going to be saved in this cultural opposition I'm gonna be an outlaw forth basically this attitude there's no such thing as sin 5 modern pagans are neo-pagans believe in something spiritual represented prosity they have all kinds of different ways of expressing but basically what this means is what goes around comes around ok that's the idea that what goes around comes around alright that's what the energy put in the universe comes back to you ok at a fundamental level neo-pagans reject quote the idea that we are accountable for our behavior to a higher moral authority and a revealed moral standard instead consistent with its pantheism you know paganism believes that ethical behavior arises naturally out of the workings of spiritual reciprocity the idea that the energy put in the world comes back close quote the result is what I call a method L system based on something called the Wiccan rede this is a guideline they invented recently probably by Gerald Gardner but it's not very old but they put it into Old English so give it some pretense of it antiquity an authority here it is and it harm none do as you will which means wrong that doesn't hurt anybody do anything you will this is not a very vigorous moral loss of legal system so v basically this attitude of new pegged is spiritual reciprocity what goes around comes around ok so v is summing up the five religious attitudes generally speaking first and identity rooted in an opposition to Christianity Christ our Lord and the culture that flows from it basically rejecting Christ and an attitude of cultural insurrection second belief in animism polytheism and pantheism third embrace of feminism fourth rejection notion of sin fifth this idea of spiritual reciprocity what goes on comes wrong obviously each one of these attitudes really result resonates with many of the currents in our modern secular society there's a reason for that the source of the same the evil geniuses they're hiding behind these currencies views this stuff has been vomited up right out of the bowels of hell Brooks Alexander has a thoughtful analysis quote at every point and in every respect neo-paganism stands in contrast and outright and tagging them to the Christian understanding of reality your paganism aversion to Christianity is more than just a sociological device for carving out its religious identity it also reflects a deep spiritual antipathy towards the moral basis of Christianity Christian ease to them suffocating sense of sin and judgment the bad news that makes the good news good altom utley neo-pagans reject the good news that God has given us a savior because they reject the bad news that we needed one to begin with and ironically it is this part of the religious mudan attitude that puts neo-paganism increasingly in harmony with the mood and attitude of the sect of society around us close quote before we go on let's take a moment to consider a very important factor that most of us are probably blissfully unaware of and that is the role of the Internet in the growth and spread of neo-paganism the internet plays approximately the same role in subversion of our society as the clubs and the lodge is played during the French Revolution just as the clubs and lodges provide a venue for the revolutionaries to meet and discuss and forward their agenda so also the internet provides a venue for the neo-pagan cultural revolutionaries to me and discuss and for dare gender Brooks Alexander the Internet has been central to the development of a neo-pagan movement for two reasons first it strengthens the hand of culturally marginal types in general by allowing people to connect together who would otherwise remain isolated from one another this makes them come you know I know some real oddballs growing up in Montana but their individual oddballs you know I mean who are they you know whatever buddy you know they could get into the stuff but who are they going to run into they were just out there by themselves being an oddball you know I mean the people have problems wherever you are but it's no longer true because they can connect second they do so well maintain individuals privacy and an amenity as one neo-pagan author notes now here's a neo-pagan writing prior to the advent of the internet World Wide Web witches and pagans were isolated from one another several covens could exist in the same city or even in the same neighborhood and never even know about one another most witches live their lives in a figurative bloom closet we kept ourselves and our groups to ourselves the net changed all that on the web isolated individuals and groups found one another the web de Lawd community be created when on a bend the anonymity of online communications liberated witchin folks to express their thoughts feelings and experiences in relative safety so in a sense the web became our church clothes code that's a neo-pagan author Brooks Alexander the web became our church is more than just a figure of speech their net functions for new pagans in several ways that are parallel to the way the church functions for Christians just as Christianity is most visible and most accessible through its church's neo-paganism is undoubtedly most visible and accessible on the Internet as we're going to see in just a moment it's where they find contact interaction edification encouragement teaching and deed for many witches in the opions the Internet becomes the primary means or even the sole means of fellowship with their co-religionists thanks to Brooks Alexander will set them aside on let's pause for a minute to get some idea of the role of Internet we'll just consider one website got the data on it to neo-pagans inaugurate this website in February 1997 when they started at 56 pages of content in a section of neo-pagan links and context the set was an instant hit by the end of its first year the website had 385 pages it had had 1 million two hundred thirty-five thousand two hundred thirty seven hits it then had a list of several thousand witches Wiccans and Pei pagans on it state and country pages it listed 385 circles and events and it had not links to 976 pagan websites October 2003 just over six years of operation 96 million hits the contacts on it two thousand three hundred fifty pages of text with 4G six thousand named contacts they have people from all over the world and just the links they had five thousand neo-pagan web sites on their link so there were seven thousand lakes five thousand Watts neo-pagan August 2006 after only nine years of operation the site had received over eight hundred and five million raw hits with over thirteen million unique visitors to the website as of three days ago after only eleven years of operation the site has over a hundred and forty thousand registered active users and they drop out right away that's when the the guy that runs it says it has about a thousand pages of content has a 102 thousand pagan personal listings this almost three thousand pagan clergy has around fifteen thousand links and in terms of neo-pagan events and gatherings these are the events and gatherings it has twenty three thousand events and gatherings we've got an explosion a virtual explosion of neo pagan world and their beliefs are the most clear concise expression of this emerging worldview Brack - Brooks Alexander and then we'll set him aside witchcraft is going mainstream it's not a prediction it's a description of current reality it is a striking fact that the neo-pagan movement spearheaded by modern witchcraft has experienced an unbroken string of breakthroughs and successes over the last 35 years legally socially and politically in the context of the ongoing culture war the some of things that that neo-paganism has not been on the losing side of any major battle it is fought it is plain that modern witchcraft anti-christian is basic both to its origins and its own self-image if witchcraft is in fact good and not evil then the system that calls it evil is evil there is no way to escape the logic of that relationship modern witchcraft first found its identity in opposition to Christianity and there is still a strong current of hostility to everything Christian that runs through the movement there's an attitude that is widely embraced and oakley encouraged within the neo-pagan community and add to the not only rejects the Christian message but also blames Christian Church and demonizes Christian believers what draws and binds current cultural trends and social movements together is not their allegiance to a common agenda but rather the common participation and a mood or attitude the common attitude is one of rejection refusal towards the main culture and I want to make a paramedic thought they think they're counter cultural I am speaking to the counterculture right now we are the counterculture the common attitude is one of rejection and refusal towards main culture and especially towards its Christian based concept of moral and spiritual limits that gut-level energy of cultural changes one of the things that is fueling our culture wars in the form of social and put of conflicts over such things as abortion perversions and cloning all of those conflicts arise out of an indignant refusal to accept any limits at all on the right of the self to do whatever it wants in pursuit of its own self-interest that is the mood and temper of our times it is a spirit of the age site guys today is approaching critical mass the convergence of cultural trends fads and fashions the change we're seeing around us represents a revolt by the world system by worldly values and by worldly people against the constraints of Christian culture close quotes okay we've already reached the stage of essential paganism barring divine intervention barring divine intervention we will soon be living in an explicitly pagan society for a picture of our current cultural situation just think of an egg our culture is like an egg that's shaking and waiting to hatch huh though a shell is holding back the seething mass of neo-paganism that's about to explicitly burst forth and discover its power they don't know and they don't realize how powerful they are yet in terms of their ideas have basically conquered the shell is it's incredibly thin veneer and I mean thin of what remains of an extremely weak and superficial Protestant Christian social order except five hundred years to fall apart since the Protestant revolt and there's almost nothing left little blow it's all it's going to take maybe the next election I don't know as we saw on the signs of the times there isn't much there that goes for Christian social art they have the cultural momentum they have the cultural momentum they've got the momentum before we close I want to submit a few quotes from modern neo-pagans reconsideration we don't have time to develop these ideas I'm going to do my best this first one really gets to me so I might apologize in vet in advance if I start crying before I do that I want to give you a reading assignment because that will compose me another one read the second chapter of the book of wisdom read the last line in the first chapter and read the whole second chapter read from the last line and the first chapter the book of wisdom through the second chapter you'll see why second chapter of the book of wisdom and just one sentence before and then read that it's one chapter not that long with the second half of the first chapter Romans okay excerpts from an interview with a pagan priestess this is an interview conducted by other pagans and I'm only using excerpts quote when I was a little kid growing up in a Catholic working-class family in Whittier Orange County California I had seven older brothers and sisters I sang in a folk group at church for Senate Saturday night Mass 16 was a pivotal age when everything changed in my life in a year 1981 I went from being a nice Catholic girl who obeyed all the rules to being a more punk like politically radical which I had my first intense spiritual experience when I was seven around the time of my first communion I was praying and suddenly I was surrounded by light sorry I could feel it and see it cerana me I know it was God I was in the divine presence this really affected me and from that moment on I've been looking for that again she had a signal grace got a reached out to her give her a signal Grace and the demons were watching took them nine years and they took her out they saw it this is someone called to be a saint and great Saint really affected me and from that moment on I've been looking for that again question but you haven't found it I found bits and pieces of it I think those big experiences don't happen very often this was a formative experience for me obviously caused me to want direct contact that's one thing paganism gives me what a lie I'm not saying that she's lying she believes that but what a lie the devilís of God are huh and you can imagine when somebody has these kind of gifts from God bringing a really dark power or give her special preternatural things the Devils are these special things to really distract her from that because they realize this is so-called a great level of holiness so we have to do something give her an illusion so that she doesn't notice what we're up to and we got to get her snared in as many things as we can I found bits and pieces of it I think those big experiences don't happen very often this was a formative experience for me obviously it caused me to want to read contact and that's one thing paganism gives me paganism can give me direct contact with goddess whatever we want to call sometimes this is sometimes called a mystical experience most top-down hierarchical religions don't provide this close quote so here we have a Catholic girl completely lost and misled by the demons we I'm certainly been praying for it I first read this interview a number of years ago about four years ago and I read it and sometimes I read it every day sometimes I'll go for a couple months there's just something here two more quotes to consider one prominent neo-pagan author she's the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio so I'm confirming all your worst suspicions about NPR she writes quote religion had no official place my childhood I was brought up in a family of agnostic atheist still feeling that there was some dimension lacking in their lives I embarked on a quasi-religious search teenager I felt ecstatic power in a Catholic Mass as long as was in lad close quote last quote Jerry Garcia says you don't know was lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead band was risen called warlocks grub Catholic here's Jerry Garcia speaking of his childhood quote sunblocks fiercely 100 yards from the door of our house was God's house in those days they still had the wonderful Latin Mass with his resident sonorities and mysterious ritual movements the incense the music choir organ bells candles muted light - stained glass windows close quote Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead when the Latin Mass disappeared there's this gigantic vacuum created gigantic vacuum the law that masked loss of our going chat mysterious rituals incense candles devotions and that vacuum was filled with mysterious rituals incense candles devotions vestments unfortunately all from hell I told you all that thought for the in-person Christians pray we do rituals the collapse of Catholic devotional life the Latin Mass see we have what they're looking for we have the answer my friends are converted witches and neo-pagans love the old Mass the tradition rather Olivia resonates with them hop back in a day it turned the pagans into Catholics gladden mass from the pagans and the Catholics and it can do it again it hasn't lost any of its power if still to use it words of Jerry Garcia the wonderful at mass with its resonance sonorities and mysterious ritual movements incense music wire organ bells channels emitted light to stained-glass windows that's what it still is okay fully clothed remember the story of that little boy who was scared of the water but he had so much love and confidence in that dad that loved him as long as dad was close by right there watching son nothing really bad was going to happen nothing was seriously going to hurt him that loving confidence gave that little boy the power the ability to deal with a situation that was terrifying for him remember that's what the sacred heart wants us to have for him that was profound love and trust in him an absolute confidence in him the realization he's close to us he's right here watching over us that if he sends as the cross or asked us to do something that scared because he loves us and he wants to give each one of us what we need to become Saints even if we can't see it right now little boys dad wanted him to learn how to swim so he had him do since kind of scary things and to get over his fear of water the Sacred Heart wants us to become Saints so no matter how terrifying something might be we want to have that profound love and confidence in him finally there's one more factor to consider then we considered by started by considering fire back home we see son dogs and moon dogs we can predict upcoming events in a whether we consider the signs at times of seeing or society's going pagan their societies under the guidance of evil spirits we haven't consider what that means for us what does it mean for us we're striving to live according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit we're striving to bring forth those the spirit charity joy peace patience than any goodness long-suffering mildness faith modesty continence chastity and as we're struggling to do those things we find ourselves living aside it's increasingly dominated by men who have embraced the works the flesh they've embraced fornication uncleanness immodesty luxury idolatry witchcraft enmities contentions jealousies angers quarrels dissension sex envies murders drunkenness carousing in such life so we're striving to love God more and more and we're embedded in a society that is controlled by the moments of fallen human nature and especially the guidance and promptings of evil spirits and under those guidance promptings of evil spirit were embedded in the society it hates God more and more a pagan society so we're striving to love God more and more and we're better than a society that's becoming more and more profoundly pagan what does that mean for us barring divine intervention what does it mean being the same thing it always means in the same thing always means every time a society becomes dominated by these kinds of men it always means the same thing for people like us always means persecution shouldn't be surprised anyone here but it means persecution it's not a prophecy that is not a prophecy given the current cultural trends and barring divine intervention it's not a prophecy it's a certainty it is a certainty all this reads something I have put in the bolt and sometimes prophetic foreshadowing Archbishop Raymond Burke of st. Louis there's going to be a persecution that's clear we live as our Holy Father says in society of a culture of death where people want to convince us that everything should be convenient and comfortable they don't like to hear voice which says this isn't right bishops will be persecuted he said and also priests and laypeople it's what it means to be a sign of contradiction we just have to accept that we have to remain tranquil proclaim the truth with charity but insisting on the truth if we look for example of her Lord we have to take up the cross for the defense of life God loves us he saw this day he loves us during the persecuted day shifts into 5080 st. Cyprian Bishop of Carthage wrote some beautiful lines he's writing about persecution during a persecution while just reading some of the titles from chapters of his work st. Cyprian quote afflictions and persecutions are brought about for this purpose that we may be tested we must not fear the injuries and penalties of persecutions because the protection the Lord is greater than these salts of the devil unless Tenny one should be frightened and troubled at the flexions of persecutions which we suffer in this world it was before foretold that the world would hold us in hatred that it would arouse persecutions against us that from this very fact but these things come to pass is manifest the truth of the Divine promise it recompense ha's and rewards which shall afterwards follow there is no new thing which happens to Christians since from the beginning of the world the good have suffered and pressed and slain but unrighteous close quote st. Cyprian Bishop and five of the church let's close ladies and gentlemen let's not have any illusions we need to be serious there are storm clouds gathering on the horizon when you see Sun dogs and moon dogs in Montana you know it's a few days to the weather I can't tell you how many years if we have years I don't know what the crystallization event will be but we're going to see it it's not going to be something years and years and years down the path these kind of aggressive movements toward school-age children the way they treat pro-lifers these are just signs right now they're gearing up right now do these tortures to people I guess it's okay as long as I speak Arabic must be what the average American thinks I have no idea what they think but the same government that will torture foreigners will not make a distinction for torturing us I don't say that's going to happen we have an interesting principle at stake now the storm clouds are gathering we better be serious about a holy faith deadly serious 24 hours a day 7 days a week whining complaining feeling sorry for ourselves isn't going to change anything God knew what he was doing he knew when he was going to put us in history what our circumstances were going to be it expects us to become Saints no circumstances and with a book of Romans it says or sin abounds grace does abound even more we've got rivers of sin out there that have to be oceans of grace available for us become Saints okay holiness can change everything we need to become holy before it's too late the rest of the mission will be concerned with just that one thing we need to become holy we need to become Olli please no more closer to prayer dear Lord we beg you put down with mercy upon us poor weak sinners give us all the graces we need to be faithful hopeful and even cheerful as we go about doing our duty and its present darkness give us an absolute confidence in your love and closest to us an absolute trust in your son's Sacred Heart get them that love you with all our heart we need perfectly resigned to all the trials of this life that may bravely resist the temptations of the enemy and grant us the grace of persevering on to the end we ask this in Jesus Holy Name 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 him a father and son Holy Ghost amen god bless him

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Length: 94min 31sec (5671 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 09 2014