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After what were considered to be the golden days of Judaism in, and immediately after the reigns of King David and King Solomon, Jewish spirituality began to wane.

It was the vocation of the great Prophets to remind the people, of God’s covenant with Abraham, and of the great nation that they would become, if they remained true to that covenant.

However, it seems that it was only a comparatively few who remained faithful . These few came to be called the ‘remnant’. It was during the exile in Babylonia that the remnant were purified and prepared to deepen their faith on their return to  rebuild Jerusalem.

However, as the centuries passed by,  even the ‘remnant’ began to lose their way as Jewish spirituality became little more than a formalism that emphasised the outer expression, rather than the inner reality of their relationship with God.

 It was then that  another group could be seen emerging from within the remnant since the time of the Maccabees. They wanted to remain true to the ancient spirituality that had first developed and grown out of their sojourn in the desert under the leadership of Moses.

This group came to be called the Anawim, or the Poor of Yahweh. Some members of that group can be mentioned by name for they appear in the Gospels.

I am referring to such people as Our Lady’s cousin Elizabeth and her husband Zachary, their son John the Baptist, Simeon and Anna and of course St Anna and St Joachim, and  St Joseph.

They were all characterized by a pure and simple biblical faith born out of their inner humility that made them realise their need of God, and their  need therefore  to prepare for His coming in profound personal prayer.

Our Lady herself was the most perfect embodiment  of the spirituality of the Poor of Yahweh and of the deep personal prayer that made them at all times open to the action of God.

Her Immaculate conception enabled her to  join her son Jesus  in the sublime contemplation that would become the prayer of the first ‘saints’ , and of myriad others throughout subsequent centuries.

This is the prayer that  did, and still does, enable the Holy Spirit to enter into them to unite all God’s people together. It was Our Lady’s unique inner spiritual poverty  that enabled God to send His Holy Spirit to enter into her to conceive His own Son Jesus Christ within her womb.

He would be the most complete and perfect  member of the Poor of Yahweh. His utter poverty was demonstrated by the way in which He despoiled Himself of the glory that He had experienced from all eternity in order to enter into our fallen world  to become a weak human being like us.

He did this  to show us, and  to teach us by His own example how, like Him,  we too are called to make reparation to God for how we, like our first parents and fellow human beings, rejected Him,  and for the redemption of ourselves and for all mankind.

Many Catholics today like to call themselves the ‘remnant’,  but sadly like their Jewish predecessors they are deeply divided within themselves by what has been called a cafeteria spirituality that I will detail later.

Their self-chosen spirituality is predominantly characterised by external observances rather than the inner reality of the new worship ‘In Spirit and in Truth’ that Christ Himself lived before  handing it on to us through His apostles. 

Christ would say to them today, as He said to their forebears who He encountered throughout His life on earth, “These people worship me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me”.

Their main unity seems to  come, not so much from their deep union with Christ the Head of the Church, but  because they all abhor what had happened to the Church hierarchical, and most particularly to its leadership in Rome, that distracts them from living the inner spiritual lives that should be their main focus of attention.

Endlessly scrutinizing the daily shock-horrors that come from Rome, the silence of the shepherds, their persecution of their priests, and perpetually pointing the finger at anyone other than themselves, is the most common displacement activity that  prevents  them   from the personal repentance, prayer and sacrifice to which Our Lady is calling us all.

Remember the words of St Catherine of Siena, ‘The trouble with the world is me!’ 

Just as it was out of  the remnant that  the Anawim, or the poor of Yahweh emerged, the same must happen again to-day.

It is not from  a remnant of united protesters,  that the true leaders of  the Church to come will rise, but from the Anawim. The one basic characteristic that unites them all is that, in their inner spiritual  poverty, they are  all characterised by their utter and radical  need of God, that impels them to continually turn to Him in Prayer.

This profound prayer is the outward expression of the spirituality of the Anawim first lived to perfection in the Holy Family at Nazareth before it was lived in the early Church.

It is for this reason that  a picture of Our Lady of Walsingham has been chosen to illustrate these introductory podcasts. Before the reformation Walsingham was one of the most visited shrines in Christendom, because it was believed that, on Our Ladies personal wishes, a replica of the Holy House at Nazareth had been built there.

This was the place as we shall see where Jesus, Mary and Joseph first lived to perfection the Spirituality that could be given to our first forebears immediately after the Holy Spirit had been sent on the first Pentecost Day.

After first destroying this Holy Pilgrimage site Henry VIII had the Statue of Our Lady of Walsingham burnt, and then thrown into the River Thames, which was at the time little more than an open sewer!

This Traditional Catholic Spirituality  has been given to us by God, so beware of all manmade Spiritualities designed by counterfeit Gurus who cherry pick quotations from the scriptures and from Catholic tradition to prove their heresies.

But most of all beware of modern deceivers who turn to the wisdom of the modern world to substitute Gospel wisdom for the wisdom of Globalism in which mother earth, who the Greeks called Gaia, is the new god.

If this is not devilry, then what is?

True Catholic spirituality is Royal, Redemptive, Restorative, Sacrificial and Contemplative.

If you cannot wait to practise it but don’t know how to begin then simply follow the recent teaching of our Lady, that I have just quoted,  which is summed up in the three words repent, pray and sacrifice.

Do this daily and you will gradually open yourself ever more fully to receive the Holy Spirit, who will not only show you what true Catholic Spirituality is, but He will give you the power, or more precisely the love, His Love to practise it to perfection, in imitation of Christ. 

I have firstly described this spirituality as Royal, because it is the Love of God, or the Holy Spirit that Jesus Christ the King continually pours out on all human kind, through the human nature that He freely chose to inhabit whilst He was on earth.

It was this human nature that was glorified by God in heaven immediately after His Ascension. However because the Royal Power of Christ the King,  like the power of His Father, is Love then it cannot be forced on anyone, unless they freely choose to receive it.

No Sacrifice was made by God in His initial plan to create other beings to share in His infinite love, that leads to endless and ongoing happiness for all human beings. It was simply an act of infinite unfathomable benevolence.

But His second profound, and infinitely sublime plan, did involve God making a sacrifice. For this New Divine Plan to be put into operation  sacrifice was made that must be explained, for sacrifice is the one word, and the one action firstly performed by God, then by us in response to His Sacrifice, that explains everything.

This must be done before it is too late,  because sacrifice is the one thing that is utterly alien not just to contemporary disbelievers but to  superficial ‘believers’ too, who only seem to be galvanised by self-seeking, self-satisfaction and self- indulgence, even in their religious and in particular in their liturgical  observances.

You do not need to be a theological giant to see and understand this fully. In fact intellectual giants don’t seem to see it at all, except at best in their heads. It is only the saints who seem to see it.

It is  because of their pure and contrite hearts, that God’s sublime truths  can be seen in three dimensions, in technicolour, and in high definition. Because it is only in the contemplative purification, that is the making of all the saints, that the true existential and experiential vision of God’s love can be seen, and tangibly experienced, in such a way that their whole lives are irrevocably and permanently changed by it.

Let me give you an example to show you what I mean.

Most people, and many Franciscans themselves,  have never fully realised why Saint Francis, insisted on a life of such radical and beggarly poverty. The truth of the matter is that the life of beggarly poverty  that St Francis chose to live was not chosen in order to copy how Christ lived whilst He was on earth, but for something far more awesome.

It was inspired by the way the One he called Friar Jesus sacrificed Himself for all human kind  by the way  He emptied Himself of all that He experience in Heaven.

This radical self -emptying was called by the Fathers of the Church His Kenosis. In performing this act of incomparable humility Our Lord  had to   temporarily forego  the experience of Ecstatic Bliss that He had enjoyed from all Eternity in  order to redeem us and make the ultimate reparation that only He could make.

It was this that inspired St Francis to  deprive Himself of everything to the nth degree.

But for St Francis of Assisi this  Kenosis, or the self-emptying of Christ in order to redeem us, did not end there. For Francis, Christ’s insatiable desire to redeem us involved an even more demeaning act of self-abasement, that involved something even more radical than entering into our flesh and blood.

It involved Our Lord, Christ the King choosing to become common food,  ordinary bread and wine so that He could, not just be with us, but in us both physically and spiritually.

This would enable Him   to suffuse and surcharge us with what the Fathers of the Church called the Pleroma, namely the cornucopia of God’s love that carries within it all the infused virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit that  would enable us to follow and imitate  Christ daily in all that we say and do. 

That is why the sacred mystery of the Mass was central to Franciscan spirituality, as it was to the first followers of Christ in the Early Church. It is here, as St Francis saw so clearly, that our spiritual Kenosis, in imitation of Christ, enables His spiritual and physical presence to bring to birth the  Pleroma within us.

It is this, the fullness of the Father’s love that can   alone enable us to share in, and take part in, the mystery of the redemption for ourselves, and for the world, that Christ Our Lord now chooses to redeem through us.

The Sublime Sacrifice of Our Lord was made, so that God’s original plan could be reinstated by His Son in the person of Jesus Christ, in whom God’s sacrifice for Human Kind, was made flesh and Blood at the Incarnation.

Last, but not least, God’s incarnate sacrifice that was embodied in Jesus Christ  and in His time of  sacrificial  acts of love, that finally became a continuum of pure selfless loving,  would enable reparation to be made to God.

This reparation would firstly be made by Christ the King. It would be made  for  what has come to be called Original Sin, and the plague of sinfulness that followed in its wake that was, and continues to be, an effrontery to God.

It would then be made by those, who chose to follow and imitate Our Lord by taking up their daily crosses to follow Him. But it must be said that without His life-long act of reparation our acts of reparation would be worthless.

If God’s sublime plan was to be real then Jesus Christ must be a real man despite His divine nature that had enabled Him to revel in the Glory of God from eternity. That is why as the scriptures put it “He was like unto us in all things but sin”, and that meant that like us He was tempted too by the Devil, who did all in His power to destroy Him.

That is why in addition to the Sacrificial Spirituality that He preached and practised  that was both Redemptive and Restorative, it had to be Contemplative too. Why?

Because it would only ultimately be through the profound daily contemplative prayer to which St Luke refers (5:4) that Our Lord was daily replenished and refortified by the power of His Father’s love to complete unto death,  the sacrificial life that would redeem the world.

In order to show us how to follow Him daily He gave us the example of His life on earth, so that we could follow Him, by imitating His example.

But He did even more than that, for when He did finally return Home to resume His enjoyment of the beatific vision, He took with Him His human nature to enjoy it too.

Immediately after, this human nature was glorified by the Infinite Love of God, that love could be poured out on us.

This  became possible because that glorified human nature became like a supernatural transformer, making it possible for infinite love to be mystically metamorphosized into human loving in the human nature of Our Risen Lord.

Then as He had promised on the first Pentecost Day, and on every subsequent day, all with pure and contrite human hearts, who continually repent in order to receive it, were taken up into the mystery of what came to be called His mystical body, so that in, with, and through Him, we can come to know and experience the infinite loving of our Father in heaven.

This  new transformed and transfigured mystical body of Christ the King, the New Temple and the New High Priest  would be accessible to all. It would be accessible to all sincere believers  at every time and in every space. Why?

Because although its ultimate boundary would only be  limited by the ever-expanding boundaries of creation, it had its centre at the epicentre of  human existence, and at every moment of every time, to the end of the world.

It is the same infinite love that enables Christ’s ‘Mystical Body’ to fill the created world, that simultaneously enables Him to fill the uncreated world, where He was caught up in the Love of His Divine Father from all Eternity.

This is how He expressed these sublime truths, in His own words at the Last Supper. “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me”? 

“Anyone who loves Me will be loved by my Father, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home within him”.

All this is only possible because the same Holy Spirit who unites the Father and the Son from all eternity has been sent to unite us with Himself and to all eternity too, as He put it at the Last Supper, “I shall ask the Father and He will give you the Holy Spirit to be with you forever, and you are to know Him because He is with you, He is in you.”

That is why in His final prayer for us was “May they be one Father, may they be one in us, as you are in me and I am in you, so that the world may believe it was You who sent me.” 

This sublime union therefore is not reserved for the next life, but for this life, because it is only when people see that through Christ, the Father lives in us and we live in Him, that they will come to believe.

However without the profound prayer, that we have long since forgotten, in which we are sufficiently purified, and prepared for this  awesome transforming union all these promises of Christ, and His plans to convert the world through us, will be impossible.

The prayer about which I am speaking is the prayer of the Anawim, the Poor of Yahweh, the prayer of those who actually do know their need of God, not the prayer that others only talk about, dream about and endlessly procrastinate about.

St Fransis said that, ‘It is in giving that we receive”, and so each day as we try to give ourselves to God in all that we say and do, inside and outside of prayer that God gives us the fruits that our sacrificial prayers  have merited, thanks to the merits of Jesus Christ, in whom we now live and move and have our being.

These spiritual gifts are given  to enable us, like the first people of God, to arrive at the New Promised Land, the New Paradise which is union with our Divine Father,  despite the same daily attacks from the same powers of evil that taunted and tempted Christ throughout His life on earth.

It was in contemplating the sublime mystery of the sacrifice that Jesus made, firstly in order to come to this earth, and then secondly  to return to the Heaven from which He came, that regularly reduced the Poverello of Assisi to tears.

They were  shed so regularly and so relentlessly that he was all but totally blind when he finally opened His arms to  say, “Welcome Sister Death”.

They were not just tears of sorrow when he contemplated what His own people did to the Man who came to redeem them, but tears of joy too that He did redeem them and us  and still continues to redeem us and the world that is still waiting for redemption through us.

Just as His sacrificial journey engendered making reparation to God for original sin and the sins that have become more and more widespread and more and more pernicious down to the present day, so reparation is an essential ingredient of our daily spirituality too.

Now we can see why any authentic Catholic Spirituality is Royal, Redemptive, Restorative, Sacrificial, and Contemplative. And why it can only be lived by the modern descendant of ‘The Poor of Yahweh.’ 

Namely those who listen to and put into practice  the repentance, the prayer and above all else the Sacrifice that had been the ongoing clarion call of Our Lady, which she has used  to galvanise the modern world.

This is her way of calling us all  to return to the God-given Sacrificial  Spirituality that her Divine Son first practised Himself, before giving it to the modern world.

I was initially shocked to hear Father Murr say that for over six decades there had been no proper catechetical teaching in the Church. I suppose I had assumed, or at least hoped, that what I knew to be true on this side of the Atlantic was untrue on the far side of the Atlantic.

From 1969 to 1981  I had been the director of a retreat and conference centre in London, and every week in term time Catholic schools sent me class-loads of children for me to give them a retreat.

I was appalled at the almost complete lack of religious teaching that made me wonder what I could possibly do to remedy the situation in just three days.

St Fransis of Assisi came to my rescue. “There are two ways to call people back to God”, he said, “The second was by preaching, but the first was by embodying the love of God in yourself so that that they can come to encounter Him and His love through you”.

I knew what this meant, that I must spend my early mornings and late evenings in turning to receive the only love that could do for the children what had not been done in their schools. This I hoped would inspire them to seek for themselves the further teaching that I could not give in a mere three days.

It was the best that I could do. One thing I could not assume, as I had initially assumed, was that they had been given the profound spiritual teaching that was never taught at the Second Vatican Council.

There was almost unanimity in passing the document on the liturgy, but there was no teaching on the spirituality that was expressed in the liturgy.

It was assumed and wrongly assumed. I do not therefore want to assume anything, so let me now state as clearly as I can the central mystery of our Faith.  

Because it is of paramount importance that we clearly understand the precise nature of our redemption, I must separate the true and divine  meaning of redemption from a human manmade explanation of redemption.

For all too long it has  both complicated and paganised the true nature redemption, the redemption by which Christ saved the world.

The famous book ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’ has captivated generations of Children. It is undoubtedly a good story, but it is bad theology.

It  simultaneously explained  and  perpetuated an erroneous form of  redemption. God is depicted as a tyrannical tyrant who demands a supreme bloody sacrifice, the sacrifice of His own son.

A sacrifice in which He decrees that the One He loves most has to endure unspeakable horrors,  as He is systematically tortured to death.

This is, it would seem, for God, is the only, and indispensable way, that the human race can be redeemed.  This is simply not true it was not the tender loving Father whom Jesus call upon us to call ‘Abba’ or ‘Daddy’ who was personally responsible for the ignominious death of His beloved son.

In truth, and in fact, it was sinful human beings, further ignited and inflamed by the fire of devilry that was responsible for the appalling and sickening way in which, the most loving man who ever existed, was brutally done to death.

Such a despicable and detestable form of  pagan sacrifice was man’s doing, not God’s doing. What was indeed necessary for our redemption was a life of relentless Divine Sacrificial  loving, lived by Jesus Christ the Son of God, and glorification at the end of it.

This alone would enable Christ the King to pour out God’s Divine Love on all who would receive it through His transformed and transfigured human nature  on the first Pentecost day, and then on every subsequent day to the end of time.

It is this Divine love, more precisely The Holy Spirit, who gives us the power of God’s love to enable our weak human love to be infused with  divine love.

This is the supernatural energy that can alone enable us to imitate the way in which, in His day Jesus Christ our Lord, lived a perfect human life. And this was achieved and achieved to perfection, despite the gates of Hell that were opened to destroy Him, indirectly through  other unredeemed human beings and directly by the devil himself.

If Jesus had died  before His enemies could do their worst, Christ would still be glorified and instantly empowered to release the Only power that could enable us to participate in His lifelong act of redemption.

In doing this, in, with, and through Christ our Saviour, we would not only  be able to participate in our own redemption, but in the redemption of the world that since the first Pentecost day Christ the King has chosen to redeem through us.

When immediately after the Resurrection our Risen Lord explained to two disciples on the road to Emmaus why they should not have been surprised that He did in fact have to suffer and die as He had done was  because it had been clearly foretold by the Prophets.

It was not because God demanded such a brutal and bloody sacrifice, like some pagan Moloch, but rather because unredeemed adherents of the devil demanded it, to satisfy a gamut of savage and sadistic passions that enthralled them.

We are redeemed by Love not by a pagan sacrifice. A love that was indeed expressed in self-sacrifice by Jesus Christ, who  was never recorded as taking part in any traditional sacrifices in the Temple, because He had come to institute a new form of Sacrifice. 

This new form of spiritual sacrifice which He first practised Himself, was called by Him a ‘New Sacrifice in Spirit and in Truth’. It was in practising this new form of sacrifice that He redeemed the world, and which would enable us too, to participate in that redemption.

Although it was man’s pernicious pride and prejudice that was responsible for the horrific torture to which Our Lord was subjected before His agonising death on the cross, He freely chose to accept it, when He could have ended it, and obliterated His persecutors whenever He chose to do so.

It is clear then that He did not intend to forego what so many of His followers would have to suffer from their enemies, and for that matter from natural causes.

However lest anything that I have said could be taken to diminish or minimize in any way our redemption that was won on Calvary and on the Cross, let me explain in more detail the precise nature of our Salvation.

According to the Franciscan theologian Blessed Duns Scotus, God’s initial plan was that Jesus Christ the King, in whom the world was created would have initially come before our fall, not therefore because we had sinned, not to redeem us, but to rule over God’s Kingdom on earth until it found its ultimate consummation in Heaven.

Then we would all experience the Love of the Three in One, as we were drawn into that Ultimate Holy Family and to all Eternity.

The fall of our first ancestors, thanks to their pride and the temptations of the Evil One, did not impel God to send His Son, as He was destined to come anyway, but it induced God to send Him, this time as our Redeemer.

But this time he would have to wage war directly on the power of evil himself, and indirectly on the power of evil, who had enthralled human kind and reduced  them to slavery, the slavery of sin and to the servitude of self-indulgence.

The Gospel then shows that what later came to be called the Holy Land, was in fact a battle field where Christ endlessly confronted and confounded the Devil, and in those who had been possessed by him.

The war was finally won in a final battle that took place on Calvary and by Christ our Warrior King on the Cross. The same gates of Hell that had been open to defeat and destroy Him throughout His life on earth, now enabled the fullest possible frontal attack on His person, by the full might of the Prince of Darkness and all the devilry that he could muster.

Read for yourself how He attacked Christ time and time again and see for yourself how Christ remained undefeated despite the  hideous and hellish horrors that He had to endure, that were inflicted  on His body and on His soul.

With the words, “It is finished”, the final battle was won. He was undefeated and, returned to His Father to be crowned  as Christ the King,  the Victor, or as St John put it, He was  embraced  and enfolded in His God’s infinite love at His glorification, or if you like at His Coronation. 

Now that victory was His and His weak human nature was redolent and radioactive with that Infinite Love. He was positioned and poised  to possess all with pure and humble hearts and to the end of time.

No, it was not the Love of God, but the Evil of the Devil that flung the final horrors at Him that He had to endure until victory released Him.

What happened in those final moments of His Passion and Death, not only defeated the Power of  Evil that had threatened to destroy Him, but released, in His final victorious glorification, the power for those who loved Him and who wanted to follow Him, to be given the Power to do so too.

Let me now draw your attention to something that was the making of the saints. It was something that St Paul was the first to pen when He described the mystical dimensions of the love of God made present in Christ in His death upon the Cross.

The dimensions of this love were described by referring to the dimensions of the Cross when he spoke of “The height and depth, the length and the breadth of the love of God that surpassed the understanding” (Eph 3 :18).

When you look at Christ upon the Cross you are not only looking at Him in the act of winning our redemption but demonstrating the Love that drove Him to do what could not be done without it.

That is why St Francis prayed to experience something of the love that enabled  Him to give His life  for us and to experience something of the sufferings that He endured on the Cross.

Francis’ prayer was answered when he receive the stigmata on the feast of the Holy Cross two years before he died.

Finally, the true imitation of Christ, that will enable us to receive the love that was first poured out of the side of Christ on Calvary, will enable us to follow His example.

The first, most important and indispensable way that we are called to imitate Him, is in the way we follow the way in which He prayed and prayed daily.

It was in this way that He was able  to receive the supernatural help and strength that His weak Human nature needed, to do His Father’s will, and to do it to the end on Calvary.

As His daily prayer enabled Him to receive His Father’s love, that love carried within it all the infused virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit. They finally enabled  His weak human nature to be transformed and transfigured at His glorification in Heaven, so that it became the  prism, as it were, through which His divine love would be transmitted to us.

The spiritual life begins in earnest for us when we, like Him, create the daily quality space and time in our lives to turn and open ourselves to receive that love.

This love transmits to us first and foremost what St Paul called, the greatest and most important virtue of all that is called Divine Love. It is called a theological virtue because it not only comes from God but it empowers those who receive it to return God’s love in kind, in, with, and through Jesus Christ Our Risen Lord.

It is because this divine virtue is given to us by God, and because, as we try to practise it, in, with, and through Christ,  we are empowered to pray like never before.

Just as the love of God that descends into us contains within it different forms and expressions of love, so in the same way our love of God contains within it different forms of how we must express our love of God.

If our love is truly of God then it will want to thank Him, it will want to worship, praise and glorify Him and then adore Him.

Although all these different ways of expressing our love of God are all implicitly  contained in the simple act of love, they must be explicitly expressed separately.

We must explicitly worship, praise, glorify, thank, and adore God in our private and personal prayer before we express them communally with others in the sacred Liturgy. 

When you do this you will experience another dimension open up in your prayer life as these prayers will totally focus your attention on God and away from yourself. For brief moments God, and God alone, will become your spiritual joy and delight, and gradually another dimension in your spiritual life will open up.

If you cannot find appropriate prayers to  help you express these different acts of love, and if you find it difficult to use your own words, then turn to the Gloria that is said at Mass and recite  it slowly and prayerfully over and over again.

Eventually you will find that the love of God that you now come to experience more tangibly than before, impels you to seek that love more deeply. It is then that the Holy Spirit will show you that God’s love can only be found in this life, as it was embodied in Jesus Christ Our Lord on earth.

This is when a person is led to find space and time in their lives to meditate on the life and death of Jesus Christ. 

Meditating over and over again on His infinite act of love made flesh and blood in Jesus on the Cross, will lead us, like the saints before us onward to the point when that love lifts us out of meditation and into  contemplation.

You can come to love someone who lived in the past, but true love desires union and you cannot be united with someone who lived in the past. That is why at this point the Holy Spirit leads you into another form of prayer called contemplation, in which, after sufficient preparation and purification, you can be more deeply united with Christ, who is alive and loving now, more deeply  than ever before.

Then, in, with, and through Christ, you will be able to contemplate  the infinite glory of the Three in One. For it is only in this way that, like Him, you can come to receive, experience, and  be armed with what St Thomas Aquinas called the fruits of Contemplation, and the full panoply of the infused virtues and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Now we can see why any authentic Catholic Spirituality is Royal, Redemptive, Restorative, Sacrificial, and Contemplative. And why it can only be lived by those who listen to and put into practice  the repentance, the prayer and above all else the Sacrifice that had been the ongoing clarion call of Our Lady which she has used  to galvanise the modern world.

This is her way of calling us all  to return to the God-given Sacrificial  Spirituality that her Divine Son first practised Himself, before giving it to the modern world.

This introduction is the best introduction that I can offer to the Traditional Catholic Spirituality that is developed in far more and greater detail on my websites in further  essays, but above all in over forty free videos and podcasts.

Anybody who believes in the simple teaching of our Lady, given at Fatima and in her other genuine appearances, that sum up the essence of authentic Catholic Spirituality,  will also realize that we are living on borrowed time, in the last minute  of extra time.

It would seem that over ninety percent of the hierarchy, and an even higher percentage of the curial officials in Rome have now sold their spiritual birthright to modernism.

The faithful, and that includes those who see themselves as part of the remnant, are totally confused, and even at odds with each other  with little if any genuine catechetical instruction.

It now seems that a worldwide  return to the God-given spirituality that Our Lord Himself lived and handed on to the early Church  is quite  beyond our human endeavour, and  yet we have been promised that the ‘gates of Hell’ will never prevail against it.

That is why I am convinced, that even if Our Lady had not promised it, some form of Divine Intervention would be necessary  to halt the heiness wickedness that has taken over God’s Church.

We must be ready for the inevitable. There must be sufficient members of the Anawim – the Poor of Yahweh, who are already practising    authentic  Catholic Spirituality, to guide others by their example, and by their knowledge of where to go to receive the requisite instruction.

But of course the most important and effective way of leading others to Union with God is, as St Francis taught, by embodying His loving presence within us. 

Maranatha, come Lord, come Lord Jesus.