Pushing Up Daises

Posted on November 29, 2023 by veilofveronica

“The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres…churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord. Our Lady of Akita to Sr. Agnes Sasagawa October 13, 1973

The following is my recollection of what I experienced in prayer on November 10 and November 12, 2023. I post it here for your discernment. My only intention in posting this is to help people grow closer to God.

I went to Mass in the morning and during the Consecration I closed my eyes to pray. I saw in my head Our Lady of Sorrows. Her eyes with tears and dark circles, she looked like this;

Her face came so close to mine. And then she seemed to enter into my forehead. Suddenly I was viewing her from the top down. She bent over and I saw a fountain adorned with angels.

She was drinking from the fountain. I heard her say, “drink from the fountain of life,” but I also knew she was relaying to me that this fountain of life had to be dwelling inside of me in order to face the sorrows to come. As if she knew I understood, the image then changed, she was now Our Lady of Grace;

She was beautiful and was inside of a church looking out upon the people. There were hundreds of flowers like white daises hanging from the ceiling. Her hands were outstretched. The people had what looked like clouds of black spores over top their heads. But light emanated down from the daises and the black spores dispersed into nothingness and people’s heads became clear.

The last thing I saw was a top down view of a spiral wooden staircase. It reminded me of the miraculous staircase of Saint Joseph.

Then everything stopped and it was time for communion. All I knew was that whatever was coming would be a sorrow, and that we as a people need to be interiorly prepared, and that God and His Mother are working all things for the good of those who love them.

The next day Bishop Strickland was forcibly removed from His office.

Feeling disheartened I went on November 12, 2023 to our old chapel to pray. I laid prostrate on the floor and poured my heart out to God. I told Him that I understand the church teachings and I want to live them completely in my heart, not just know them in my head, and that I wanted to live them even if no one else did.

I closed my eyes and saw rows and rows of daises. These daises were living and breathing beautiful in a way I had never seen before. This was the 2nd time in 3 days I saw daises. I asked the Lord, “what’s with the daises?”

I got an immediate answer. “Daises bring comfort to a Mother who has lost a child.” And I again saw Our Lady of Sorrows, holding the Body of Jesus, but I knew that Mary was mourning for the church, to whom she is Mother. She was holding the Mystical Body. I burst into tears.

Then I realized though that the daises were alive in a way that only God could portray them, beautiful life of His creation, different than what we have corrupted. And I thought of how what’s impure and unholy needs to actually die, so a new Pentecost can be ushered in; one where the Gifts of the Spirit are poured out and we know that God alone is good.

We are being purged of our attachments to particular goods, so that, we will be attached to God alone, who is good.

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.” Mark 10:18

Now is the time for praying without ceasing. Do not tire of praying for transforming union with God. Try not to be discouraged in your suffering and ask God to help you be thankful. It isn’t wise to focus too much on the sin of others that we cannot control and it definitely isn’t wise to want their eternal damnation. Want what God wants. Prepare yourself, purge your sin, and pray like never before and most of all Trust God.

“and let the one who believes in me drink.” As the scripture has said, “Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.” John 7:38

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Whose Kingdom Do You Serve?

Posted on November 21, 2023 by veilofveronica
The Meeting Between Melchizedek and Abraham – Peter Paul Rubens 1617

Prayer is nothing else than union with God. When the heart is pure and united with God it is consoled and filled with sweetness; it is dazzled by a marvelous light. – St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney

At my parish we rolled out Family Catechesis from Sophia Institute Press as part of our religious education program. We’re teaching parents to teach their children the faith. The following is a talk I gave to the parents on prayer.

If you want to know what your Spiritual Gifts may be, take the Spiritual Gifts Inventory!

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Get Battle Ready

Posted on November 16, 2023 by veilofveronica

Lord, I give you permission to use me in any way You desire. I ask you to give me the grace to see Your hand in action, so I can give you all the glory. Amen. – Father Tom DiLorenzo

We were privileged to have our Diocesan exorcist, Father Dan Reehil, come speak to us about Spiritual Warfare and give great insight into the Children of Fatima.

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Holy Water

Posted on November 15, 2023 by veilofveronica
The Descent from the Cross – Van der Weyden – 1435

Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep. 1 Samuel 30:4

A POEM OF DIVINE GAZE

POEM BY LEAH FISH:

Holy water

The tears that are cried

Holy water 

Flows from my eyes

Washing the face

That bears so much pain

Holy water

From the wellspring within

A fountain where He meets me

A fountain

I see him

Just dip one finger in

It changes

It stirs something deep. 

O living water

Flow from my eyes

Living water

I take the drink you’ve offered me.

Take my tears!

Flooding from the depths of me

I give my tears, each one I cry

I take my tears and wipe the dirt I see

Your face is swollen 

Your hair is matted

Your eyes barely seen

Yet You give me tears

I can offer

Tears that well up and flow from a place 

where we meet

Water to wipe your cheeks

Reflections I can see

Tears that soften me

Holy Tears given and

I offer back to thee

Please take them

May they console You in Your Agony

I look into Your Face and see a mother like no other.

A Mother You offer me.

She opens her mantle and wraps it gently yet firmly completely surrounding me

I look into Your Face and I see thee

I look into Your Face and Your gaze embraces me

Your gaze upon me

An embrace of my Divine Spouse enraptures me 

No words as the eyes of lovers meet

Knowing

Only those who know can understand

The intimate penetrating gaze that has no words

Yet fully and completely

sees

hears

listens

knows and touches me

in a place deeper than the deep

wider than oceans

farther than the stars!

All creation held within a small round Host before me

Humble King

Intimate Lover

I surrender

I give You all of me

I hold nothing back

I love You!

More of You and less and less of me 

Help me be smaller still

To come to the very center

The narrowest door

The one to the inner chamber

Where it is simply our hearts together

Beating as one. 

Light-fire- sun

Intimate Lover

Incarnate King

You enrapture me

As I look into Your gaze upon me. 

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Unveiling the Temple

Posted on November 9, 2023 by veilofveronica

At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split. Matthew 27:51

With the news today of the Vatican allowing transgenders to be baptized and become Godparents, I am sure many people find themselves confused. We live in a time of identity crisis, where most of the world does not know the Father, and where confusion reigns the day. I like to look at these things through a wider lens of the story of God and His call to His people, who it seems, are not listening, but who He wants to save. In order to do this, we have to look at the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Prior to the fall, the union, it is beyond what we can picture. God wants us back in union and He gave us Mary, who is singular, in her grace filled unity.

Mary was saved preveniently by the Passion, death and resurrection, applied to her outside of time. Let’s now step back a moment into the Old Testament.

In the Old Testament the Temple held the Ark of the Covenant.  The area where it was kept had a veil, a curtain, that separated the Ark from the front portion of the temple.  The area of the Ark had no candles or natural light.  It was illuminated by God’s glory.  The lambs were slaughtered outside, the One High Priest would take the blood of the lambs and he would crawl under the veil or curtain and he was the only one allowed to do this.  He would then pour the blood of the lamb onto the ark in the center where it was illuminated by God’s glory.  This area in the center of the Ark where the blood was poured was known as the Mercy Seat.

Mary, who is the new ark of the covenant, was saved preveniently by the cross.  Her body is also a temple of the Holy Spirit, full of grace. Because she was already saved, the act of the temple veil being torn in two at the crucifixion had already been applied to her, meaning she was unveiled before God at the time of her conception, totally transparent and Immaculate.  In the Old Covenant the One High Priest had to crawl under the veil and he was the only one allowed in, but with Mary because the merits of the Cross were already applied to her, she was unveiled by the Holy Spirit and so bound to the Spirit was she, that the One High Priest, Jesus, made His home in her totally transparent, totally unveiled, totally pure, womb. Her soul and body so full of grace that she became the Ark, the Mercy Seat, at her Fiat to the angel. She was, so to speak, completely naked and unashamed before God. This is about her body and soul being so open to God, so unveiled, because of the saving Grace of God. His blood sacrifice applied to her, once and for all.

At the Nativity, like the Glory that illuminated the Ark of the Old Covenant, Mary too would have been illuminated with the light of God’s Glory. You can picture the birth, not as a regular birth, but one so filled with light that would emanate and pass through her. A light that would make Joseph fall face down on the ground. A light that would be marked in the heavens. She would have borne none of the curse that came upon us at the fall for she was Immaculate.

This light of the Mercy Seat is extended to us at our baptism. It’s where Christ gives us a piece of Mary, so to speak. That is to say, that through the Immaculate Conception, we are reborn in the waters of baptism, like waters of her womb, the womb of the temple, and we are washed in her Immaculate Conception, the gift that God gave her, and we are born again. But from there, we have to journey to the cross for our own complete unveiling. While Mary remained unveiled with God, from conception to the Cross and her own dormition, we have work to do. Most of us don’t want to be unveiled, that is to say, we don’t want to be shown how far we are from God. We don’t want to take up our Cross and follow him. This is because, in comparison to Mary, we are a misery. I know I am. But this unveiling of us brings total purification.

The unveiling is actually known as the Apocalypse and it’s where everything becomes transparent, and God reveals all.  We will see how far we have fallen. We will see how twisted our identity has become and how demons trained us to think. Our souls will be laid bare, and we will see clearly.  Those inside the church have failed at many things. Many and have rejected the invitation to the cross and to purification. We even stopped praying for people to convert to Christ. We find ourselves in a house that is burning, wondering how we got here.

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.  He sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they would not come.  Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited: Look, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.’  But they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his slaves, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Matthew 22:1-7

Rome is burning. God has invited all to the banquet.

Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. Go therefore into the main streets, and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’ Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all whom they found, both good and bad, so the wedding hall was filled with guests. Matthew 22:8-10

With all the people at the banquet, we will soon find out who is purified and who is not. God will be the judge, not us. Your duty is to see to it that your own heart is pure and surrendered to God.

“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless.  Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are called, but few are chosen.” Matthew 22:11-14

Pray to be purified. Take up your cross and follow Him. Be unveiled by God because this is where true charity will be forged within you. You will be a Temple of the Holy Spirit.

One day at the end of time, our bodies will be glorified for those who chose God, which is to say who chose Jesus, love, mercy and truth. The wedding garment will be white. It will render you without blemish.  We will either be naked and unashamed accepting mercy, or we will find ourselves naked and ashamed and rejecting mercy, blaspheming the Spirit to which Mary is so bound. The blasphemy of the Spirit is the unforgivable sin. Take Mary into your home. Don’t blaspheme her or her Holy Name. No matter where these times lead us, let the direction of the Cross guide you. Follow Christ and His Mother. Pentecost is on the other side.

O, My Jesus, save us from the fires of hell and save all souls in most need of thy mercy.

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Grief

Posted on October 30, 2023 by veilofveronica

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18

The past couple of years with all the things that have happened in the world, and all the things that have happened personally, I have touched grief up close. There is a book by Daniel Walser called To Make a Life. I have not read it so I don’t know if I can recommend it. But in the book, he apparently describes grief like being in the upstairs room of a house on fire and all of your friends are outside trying to help with firehoses but they’re not in the fire with you, and most don’t want to come close because they can’t stand the fire. Christa Wells wrote a song called Come Close after reading this passage in the book.

The other day I listened to the lyrics of the song;

I’m afraid of the space where you suffer
Where you sit in the smoke and the burn
I can’t handle the choke or the danger
Of my own foolish, inadequate words
I’ll be right outside if you need me
Right outside

What can I bring to your fire?
Shall I sing while the roof is coming down?
Can I hold you while the flames grow higher,
Shall I brave the heat and come close with you now?
Can I come close now?

So we left you to fight your own battle
And you buried your hope with your faith
‘Cause you heard no song of deliverance
There on the nights that followed the wake
We never though to go with you
Afraid to ask

What can I bring to your fire?
Shall I sing while the roof is coming down?
Can I hold you while the flames grow higher,
Shall I brave the heat and come close with you now?
Can I come close now?

Lay down our plans
Lay down the sure-fire fix
Grief’s gonna stay awhile,
There is no cure for this
We watch for return,
We speak what we’ve heard
We sit together, in the burn

What can I bring to your fire?
Shall I sing while the roof is coming down?
Can I hold you while the flames grow higher,
Shall I brave the heat and come close with you now?
Can I come close now?

I cried because I have been in both positions of this song. I have been the person on the outside who doesn’t understand and has had “foolish inadequate words,” who left people to fight their own battle. I have also been inside the burning house this past couple of years.

In the past few years besides the Global pandemic we all went through, I lost my dad and I was the one who found him dead. I lost my mom to dementia, though she is still living. I lost my dreams for my kids who became filled with anxiety in an overwhelming world. I lost my health when I threw my back out and got COVID. I lost a lot of my ministry that I was doing and I lost my little dog, Rosie too. And I was left in the fire of it all. Save for a very small number of friends and family, I may have choked to death. I almost lost my faith. My faith was tested to an extreme and my sweet remembrance of time with God, who seemed to have left too during that time, was what I clung to. I finally realized that God loved me in the middle of it all. I look back now in thanksgiving, but I was stripped to nothing. It is a surrender I cannot explain.

I have emerged on the other side of that severe time with a deeper understanding of God and His love for us. I can see how in the church we have failed on a lot of levels to minister to people who were in a house on fire. People who turned to the church when their son or daughter experienced same-sex attraction and the church had no answer to help, or perhaps did but relegated it to the embarrassing basement where we won’t talk about it openly. I can see why it needs to be talked about. But I also see the grave error of trying to throw away truth and accept sinful disorder as a place that God cannot be big enough to overcome, as was the opinion I read in the book, Building a Bridge, by Father James Martin. There is no belief that God can lift a person out of sin, so people don’t even try. This is not correct.

I can see too how tradition brings comfort and protection and how it must not ever be lost, but I can also see that tradition alone is not the Savior. Tradition has revealed Truth. Truth is a person and we must never ever leave truth behind. Both sides can miss the narrow way; the way of love.

I was watching a Jansen Bagwell’s video on Halloween the other day and in the video he was talking about when Jesus went to Gadarenes and healed two demoniacs sending the demons into the swine (Matthew 8:28-34). The response of the people in this town was to ask Jesus to leave. It was easier to go back to what they knew, rather than to acknowledge the one who heals can heal even the most possessed sinner. We too who know the law of the Lord can lose sight of the fact that God is big enough to heal anyone or anything too. We can all be short sighted.

Today, I went to confession. For my penance the Priest told me to meditate on my favorite passage in the bible. My favorite passage is when Jesus gives Mary to John at the Cross. I opened to read chapter 19 of John and I read my favorite part but I kept reading a little further. I read this from John 19:38-42;

After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed his body. Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds.  They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews. Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid.  And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

I started to cry in church at the picture of these two religious men, men who knew who Jesus was but were afraid to openly go where he went, wrapping His dead body with such love and such care. The two of them witnesses to the Love of God they saw in Jesus but were too fearful to let go of their religion to follow. When they placed him in the tomb in their grief, they placed their own expectations and religious belief in there with him. They would never leave behind where they came from. They would soon understand the fulfillment of where they came from. It took the death of God for them to fully surrender and know that God is good.

We are in a period of time where the church is being crucified. It is a grief and we must process it. For this is not the end of how God intended things to be. We must always remember that the purpose for this is purification. We must always remember that God is good even when the world looks so bleak. We are headed towards the tomb, but it isn’t a tomb, it is a tabernacle. We will come forth from it with new life if we let God work in us. Even after the Resurrection it took some time until Pentecost, but a new Pentecost is coming.

To all the people out there who came to the church for help when your house was on fire with a situation of grief, where your hopes and dreams or your loved ones or your health were lost, I am sorry. Don’t leave truth behind but instead speak to God about your fear and then follow the truth of what the church teaches and be open to where God takes you. To all the people out there who are afraid to leave your comfort zone and surrender to God’s plan, know that God wants better things for you, better than you can imagine and let go of your worries and fears and pray like never before and let God pour grace into it all.

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Do You Believe?

Posted on October 19, 2023 by veilofveronica
Ford Maddox Brown – Jesus washes the feet of Peter

Why do you call me good? God alone is good. Mark 10:18

On October 12, after viewing what was happening in Israel and at the synod, I took a blessed picture of Saint Michael and I placed it on my front door. I prayed for protection and guidance for my family.

In the early morning hours of October 13, well before I would normally wake up, I received a phone call of yet another crisis. I won’t go into it here except to say it was another huge personal suffering. I laid in bed in tears asking God if he had heard my prayers. In the silence the still small voice asked me a question.

Do you believe that I AM good?

I responded, “yes, Lord, I believe, at least I am trying, help my unbelief.”

He whispered, “Mary believed, in all things and in all circumstances, that I AM good.”

I was then shown an image in my head of God physically moving a mountain. And I knew, I knew, that God alone is good. I had no doubt that he has the nations, the synod, and my personal circumstances in the palm of His hand and I was able to rest.

Over the next week as I went to daily Mass I listened as we prayed for peace in the Middle East and God whispered, “there will be no peace without conversion.” And I knew that is exactly what we are supposed to pray for.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” John 14:6

Last night I went outside and took off my shoes. Though it was cold I placed my bare feet on the grass in my backyard. My yard has been blessed. My home has had Mass prayed here. I stood on this holy ground thinking of Moses at the burning bush.

 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ” Exodus 3:14

In the quiet of the night my feet grounded in creation, God said, “I AM good”. And my body sobbed as I breathed out grief. Grief that we don’t know how good He is, so good that He sent His only Son;

‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. John 3:16

And I began to pray ardently for the conversion of myself, my family, my community, my nation and of the world.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; It is the name above all names Lord, and at the name of your Son Jesus every knee shall bow: Thy Kingdom come; May every nation be baptized in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, baptized into the Kingdom: Thy Will be done; pour out and confirm us in the Holy Spirit, bring us a new Pentecost: On earth as it is in heaven; Lord bring us into union with you, in our marriages, our families, our communities and our nations, return us to Eden: Give us this day our daily bread; May we all come to know your true presence, your Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar: and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; May we be absolved and reconciled to you, to the church, to one another, receiving your mercy so we may love as you love; Lead us not into temptation; Lord strengthen and purify the Priesthood the guardians of the flock. Help them protect us and guide us in the authority you gave them, help them and help us to evangelize your love to those who do not know you: but deliver us from evil; Lord we are sick, very sick, our hearts are blackened, anoint us with your holy oil so that we may be healed in our minds, hearts, souls and bodies, and so that we may be with you forever. Amen.

Believe.

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The Passion Begins: Bear Good Fruit

Posted on October 4, 2023 by veilofveronica

If you will only obey the Lord your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth;  all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the Lord your God: “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.“Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, both the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock. Deuteronomy 28:1-4 – on obedience

When I first sat down to write this post, I was apparently confused, something that seems common these days. It has become known to me now that Pope Francis answered the first Dubia originally sent quite awhile ago on July 11. The second Dubia was a response to his response, which asks yes or no questions. This analysis is one of the response to the first Dubia, which the 5 Cardinals did address themselves so perhaps this is redundant. The answer to the first Dubia was a veritable word salad of ambiguity that definitely appeared to contradict teaching. What I read was Protestant. It explains why a second Dubia was sent. My heart is sad. For my part, I will comment on two things.

First, in regard to blessing same-sex unions, part of the answer states, “However, in our relationships with people, we must not lose the pastoral charity, which should permeate all our decisions and attitudes. The defence of objective truth is not the only expression of this charity; it also includes kindness, patience, understanding, tenderness, and encouragement. Therefore, we cannot be judges who only deny, reject, and exclude.” It goes on to say, ” Therefore, pastoral prudence must adequately discern whether there are forms of blessing, requested by one or more persons, that do not convey a mistaken concept of marriage. For when a blessing is requested, it is expressing a plea to God for help, a supplication to live better, a trust in a Father who can help us live better.”

This begs the question that was asked. What kind of blessing are we talking about? If a person, a child of God, asks for a blessing, it seems to me the Priest can bless that person, for within the blessing invoking the Most Holy Trinity, will come the conviction of sin on a person’s heart. At Mass the righteous and sinner are blessed are blessed alike. Blessing guides people to truth. However, the question was asked about blessing the sin, this can never be done, as it calls down curse not only upon the sinner, but also the one blessing the sin.

 “But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees that I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you: “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.  “Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.  “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.  “The Lord will send upon you disaster, panic, and frustration in everything you attempt to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds with which you have forsaken me.  The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until it has consumed you off the land that you are entering to possess.  The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.  The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.  The Lord will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed. “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your corpses shall be food for every bird of the air and animal of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away. The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, scurvy, and itch, of which you cannot be healed. Deuteronomy 28:15-27 – on disobedience

If the response remains unchanged, we just had curse called down upon us and it will come from the work of human hands. We can expect war and pestilence. Let’s pray that the Pope responds solidifying teaching to this second Dubia.

The question’s “nuance” is over the difference of blessing a person vs. blessing a sin. We do and we should exclude blessing sin. Sin is not our identity, but it is being made to be by modernists. While at Mass a blessing of the people is called down upon sinners, we ask though that the unrepentant sinner not receive communion. Imagine if women suddenly started coming to the Priests asking for blessing for their abortion. Or if thieves started coming to Priests asking for blessing to steal. Or adulterers brought their concubine for blessing their illicit sexual act.

Which brings me to the next point. The answer to the Dubia also stated that Priests could absolve the unrepentant because, “There are many ways to express repentance. Often, in people who have a very wounded self-esteem, declaring themselves guilty is a cruel torment, but the very act of approaching the confessional is a symbolic expression of repentance and of seeking divine help.” This may or may not be a true statement. There is actually no way to know if someone approaching the confessional is repentant, unless they actually say so. To assume that simply showing up is an expression of this, is to assume someone else’s interior. To be sure, the Pharisees themselves had their self-esteem wounded by Jesus, and I would think declaring themselves guilty was too cruel a torment for them. Yet, they sought him out. But it wasn’t because of contrition, but pride. Pride wrapped in a cloak of pastoral mercy is still pride, and it is deadly. The unrepentant thief on the cross did not hear the words, “today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:42-43)”, that was only for the thief who expressed remorse.

So where does this leave us? It leaves us knowing the truth, knowing what will come as a result of this, and knowing we must be more like Mary in order to persevere in this Passion. We cannot be compelled to sin, we can say no to sin. If it gets us exiled like Athanasius, then so be it. I won’t leave, but I will be obedient to consequences of bearing witness to the truth.

The other day I went to confession and the Priest told me for my penance to write down the Hail Mary three times and really meditate on each word as I wrote it down. And so I did. This is what stuck out to me;

fruit of thy womb

 Jesus’ words came to me, “

“A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.  So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.” Matthew 7:17-20

The fruit the Blessed Mother bore was God Himself. She is our guiding light in these times of what a creature should do in the face of Passion. Mary is co-redemptrix in that her identity as “the Immaculate Conception” began at her conception as a gift from God through the merits of the cross to come, but it was completed when she stood at the cross as she gifted back to God what always belonged to him – the sacrifice of her Son.  She stood trusting in the goodness of God entirely gazing in love, sorrowful, but still loving.  This journey from her conception to the cross fulfilled her complete identity as Immaculate Conception, at once full of grace always full of grace, she completed the race, so to speak. 

 I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.  From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing. 2 Timothy 4:7-8

From his side, the church was born through her and her spousal union with the spirit, the uncreated and created Immaculate Conception; when we are baptized we are gifted part of the Immaculate Conception to be “born again”.  If we travel to the cross as she did we reach the fullness of perfection. God wants to perfect his church, the bride. And I think we are headed in that direction, but the question is, will we be perfected, or will we give up in despair when we see the signs of the times? I like to ask myself, in the players that were present for the Passion, which one will I be? I would love to be Mary, but she was singular in her perfection as a creature. Many of these players struggled, but it was Judas who despaired didn’t get the crown. We refer to the others as Saints. We are different from them, but we have years of sanctifying grace from the Sacraments and we have the Communion of Saints and the Rosary.

We’re in for a wild ride. Focus on His Holy Face and Trust. Pray for the Pope, Bishops and Priests. Repair, Fast and Pray like never before. God’s plans are bigger than we can imagine. May God Bless you all.

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18

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Fighting Communism

Posted on September 22, 2023 by veilofveronica

For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.  James 1:23-24

I have been reading a book called The Secret of the Holy Face, The Devotion Destined to Save Society, by Father Lawrence Daniel Carney III. The author points out how this devotion is meant to combat communism. All these years the Lord drew me to this devotion, even using tragedy to bring goodness and a blog named Veil of Veronica. I thought, “of course”. This is the devotion to usher in the Divine Will and combat what’s being thrust upon the world. The movement of sexual perversion and identifying yourself that way, coupled with climate change, the nebulous blob that seems to ask that all humans just die for the sake of the planet, and we find ourselves on the brink of a new world without God.

 This all too imminent danger, Venerable Brethren, as you have already surmised, is bolshevistic and atheistic Communism, which aims at upsetting the social order and at undermining the very foundations of Christian civilization – DIVINI REDEMPTORIS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI
ON ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM – March 19, 1937

Without God and doing what he asks, we forget what we look like. His Holy Face brings us back to relationship, with Him and with one another.

To be clear, I do not condemn people who struggle with same sex attraction, or even those who don’t know their proper identity, after all, their struggles are real. Therein lies the brilliance of this God ordained devotion. When you look at the Holy Face of Jesus you can see that you are in relationship with a real person. When your loved one stands in front of you struggling, you can see you are in relationship with a real person. You can pray and guide a real person to their true identity. The demonic driven agenda, however, you must oppose on all fronts. Our true identity lies in the fact that we are children of God. Anything else is perversion. You can label yourself whatever you want, but truth is a person and that person is Jesus Christ, and until you know Him you actually know nothing, especially not yourself.

Additionally, I actually do believe our environment is poisoned, but not from the CO2 we breathe out, rather, it is from the sin of our hardened hearts that we breathe out. A pure heart that loves God has a God who can pour his power into weakness and make the environment their dominion. A sinful unrepentant hard heart reaps what it sows, and the environment around them becomes desolate. Again, a mere look at the Face of God and you will see back a true identity and a Kingdom of heaven; a Kingdom of Love where all of creation shouts for joy.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
    let the sea roar and all that fills it;
    let the field exult and everything in it.
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy
   before the Lord, for he is coming,
    for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness
    and the peoples with his truth. Psalm 96:11-13

It is time to look at His Holy Face. It is time to see that He is the one who calms and keeps the storm. Promulgate this devotion. Jesus Himself left us His face during the Passion with the Veil of Veronica, in His death on the Shroud of Turin, and in His resurrection on the Veil of Manopello.

By looking at His Face we can see his Sacred Heart, we can see the love in His heart for us. We can ask Him to help us love others as He loves us. It is this relational knowing of God that can crush communism. Place His Face where all can see.

 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18

Archconfraternity of the Holy Face

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Even the Elect will be Deceived

Posted on September 19, 2023 by veilofveronica
Luca Signorelli 1501

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.  Take note, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever the corpse is, there the eagles will gather.Matthew 24:24–28

The other day I was invited to a movie preview, where the movie is shown prior to its actual release. I often get invitations to preview Christian themed movies prior to their release. I don’t write this as a movie review, although, it would appear that is what I am doing, but I write it as a warning to stay awake to certain things.

The movie I went to see is a musical about the birth of Christ that is due for release in November. I was actually very excited to see the movie because I love all things Jesus and I love musicals. I was expecting to be thoroughly uplifted. Though I often have trepidation about the depiction of Mary when Protestants depict her, I was not prepared for what I saw. I actually got up and walked out after 30 minutes. Our Lady was depicted as a feminist being held down by the man (Saint Joachim). She didn’t want to get married but was being forced to. She wanted to be a teacher and all her dreams were being smashed. There was even a scene where she told Saint Anne that she wished she had more faith!!!!

And Joseph, well, he was trying to pick up women in the market! He didn’t know the woman he was trying to pick up was Mary. But the message was clear, Joseph was out on the prowl.

It was as if the bible was never read prior to the making of this film. And the early church Fathers were certainly not read. Mary wasn’t a faith filled woman full of grace;

The angel came to her and said, “Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.” Luke 1:28

and Joseph certainly wasn’t a righteous man;

 And her husband Joseph, since he was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her….Matthew 1:19

I wish I could tell you that the movie got better but I didn’t stay long enough to find out. I left a scathing review of how they essentially blasphemed the Mother of God.

To be fair, there was an opening where the makers of the film spoke of why they made the film. You could tell they loved Jesus. I know they did not know what they were doing.

 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. Luke 23:34

And I left so sorrowful, not wanting to give another minute of my time to such a lack of understanding. What could have been so heartening became a grief. I felt that in an effort to relate to the modern man, the movie had made Mary and Joseph the dregs of modern man.

I thought of the verse at the top of the article. The eagles pecking on the corpse of womanhood trampled upon left by a society who doesn’t really know God, even those baptized, who perhaps, desire to, but cannot look up enough to believe their nature can be elevated. Even the elect will be deceived. This isn’t just a statement about Protestants who denigrate Our Lady, Catholics do it too. There is one thing I know for sure, Our Lady, daughter of God the Father, Mother of the Son, and spouse of the Holy Spirit, is the key to these times. Those who degrade and blaspheme her will be deceived. People who do not realize Mary had total mortification of natural ego, are themselves submersed in ego. It is ego that keeps us from seeing and ego that leads to deception.

“My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord;
     my spirit rejoices in God my savior.
 For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness;
    behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed.
The Mighty One has done great things for me,
    and holy is his name.
 His mercy is from age to age
    to those who fear him.
 He has shown might with his arm,
    dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart.
 He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones
    but lifted up the lowly.
 The hungry he has filled with good things;
    the rich he has sent away empty.
 He has helped Israel his servant,
    remembering his mercy,
 according to his promise to our fathers,
    to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”

Luke 1:46-55

This may have been just a movie, but it speaks of the larger deception. But for those who submit themselves under the mantle of the Mother of God and surrender themselves to her Son, who is God Himself, they will be lifted up, even in their weaknesses.

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