Dear Reverend Fathers,
Did you ever hear the story of St. Philip Neri and the gossiping woman? She confessed she had been gossiping against someone. For her penance, he told her to go and get a chicken, walk through the town plucking and spreading its feathers as she went. When she was finished, come back and report to him. After she did so, she returned. Then he instructed her to go back and retrieve all those feathers, and she objected, saying it was not possible to do so. And he said to her, “That’s the way it is with gossip. When we spread rumors all over the place, it is impossible to take back all the evil we have done.”
This story also applies to my next topic; allowing immodest women to come into church, even receiving Holy Communion sacrilegiously if the immodesty is grave, and going back out into the streets without being corrected. The burden is on you. Your silence implies consent. Recall the warning in Ezekiel,chapter 3: ‘’ [17] Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me. [18] If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. [19] But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. [20] Moreover if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand. St. Paul was able to say, “Wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all men;” Acts of Apostles 20:26.
There are 12 things that happen when a woman comes to church immodest.
- She commits the sin of immodesty
- She insults God coming into His house immodest.
- She defiles and contaminates the House of God by her immodest dress.
- She tempts others to sin.
- She commits the sin of sacrilege when she goes to Holy Communion
- She draws the priest into sin who is too cowardly to correct her. “Give not that which is holy to dogs.” St. Matthew
- She causes the priest to commit a grave sin of neglect. “To him who knoweth to do good, and doth it not, it is sin.” St. James 4:17.
- When she leaves, not being corrected, she causes many other sins of lust in others.
- She causes all these new sins to fall back on the priest, because he was too cowardly to correct her. “Son of man, I have appointed you as watchman. ..You must warn the sinner, or I will require his blood at your hand. Ezeckiel 3:18-20. This is why St. Paul, after warning all sinners in his path said, “I am clear of their blood.” St. Paul had backbone, and yes, he suffered much for it.
10) She falls into spiritual blindness. She doesn’t even realize the great evil she is doing. ‘’Their own malice blinded them.” Wisdom2:21.
11) She causes the priest to fall into spiritual blindness as well. Because, not doing his duty, he loses many graces.
12) She piles up sins on the priest, because he was required to correct her and did not do so. Therefore, all these sins fall back on him. Now consider, if she causes ten sins of lust a day in men for a year, that’s 3,650 sins she’s responsible for. If 10 women come in church each Sunday and go home uncorrected, that’s 36,500 sins that fall back on the priest, not counting all the other sins he has to account for. Ten years, that 365,000 sins he has to account for. This is only 10 women! Now multiply that by a 100. Then multiply that by a 1,000! Can you see why Teresa Newman was suffering for a priest who had been in purgatory for a 100 years?!!! At Novus Ordo Masses on Sunday, there are many more than ten women who come in immodest. Thousands and thousands and thousands of sins are committed by this one vice alone, because the shepherds are all silent. Silent as a church mouse. And for a bishop to allow these things in his diocese, the numbers go up into the millions over a span of years. How would you like to be in their shoes on the day of judgement? Well does Scripture say, “A most severe judgement to them that bear rule.” Wisdom 6. Now do you see why Sr. Josepha Menendez was shown by Our Lord priests burning in hell, cursing their hands and so forth? Now do you see why Sr. Elena Aiello was shown by our Blessed Mother many priestly souls in hell? “See how many priestly souls,‘’ she said. You can find her messages and warnings from Our Lord and his Blessed Mother online. MotherofGodlibrary.org. I suggest you read them. Now do you see why the Blessed Mother warned at Garabandal, Spain in 1965, “Many cardinals, many bishops, and many priests are on the road to perdition, and are taking many souls with them?’’ What would be your opinion of a man if you knew he allowed immodest women to come into his house each night? Most of you it seems, are not even aware of Pope Pius XI’s Decree on Modesty issued in 1930. You can find it here: tinyurl.com/tdakwyaj.
A decree is a mandate, not a suggestion. It must be obeyed, and implemented. The reason immodesty is such a problem in the House of God is because good men do nothing. If you want to stop a river, you have to build a dam.
In the book HELL AND HOW TO AVOID HELL, on page 81 it relates a story of a woman who hadn’t lived all that badly, but was condemned to hell mainly for the sin of immodesty. And it was revealed to the pious lady who asked Our Lord, “What is the sin that displeases His Majesty most in women?” and He showed her it was the sin of immodesty, verifying it with a vison of the abyss opening up and seeing her former friend condemned to hell for this vice! Here is the story in full.
Father Nieremberg relates the story of a noble lady, who was exceedingly pious, asked of God to make know to her what displeased his Divine Majesty most in persons of her sex. The Lord vouchsafed in a miraculous manner to hear her. He opened under her eyes the eternal abyss. There she saw a woman prey to cruel torments and in her recognized one of her friends, a short time before deceased. This sight caused her as much astonishment as grief: the person whom she saw damned did not seem to her to have lived badly. Then that unhappy soul said to her, “It is true that I practiced religion, but I was a slave to vanity. Ruled by the passion to please, I was not afraid to adopt indecent fashions to attract attention and I kindled the fire of impurity in more than one heart. Ah! If Christian women knew how much immodesty in dress displeases God!” At the same time, this unhappy soul was pierced by two fiery lances, and plunged into a caldron of liquid lead. Thus ends the sad story of the woman who went to hell for the sin of immodesty. One can only imagine the screams of pain and cries of despair she emitted in this vision, screams and cries of pain which will last forever in the ‘’everlasting fire.’’ St. Matthew 25:41. This sad story is taken from the book, HELL AND HOW TO AVOID HELL, page 81.
WARNING TO THE CLERGY WHO PARTAKE IN OTHER MEN’S SINS!
St. Leonard of Port Maurice in his book, Counsels to Priests, relates a story of a man who was committing adultery against his wife. He would go to the priest and confess his sin, and the priest would give him absolution, however, without demanding he give up his sin. His wife was aware of the situation and she warned him. He said, “Shut up and mind your own business. The priest is a theologian. He knows what he is doing.” Some time later the man died. One day his wife was praying and she saw this figure appear before her. She did not recognize him, no doubt because sin disfigures a soul in hell. She asked him who he was, and he said,” I am your former husband, and I am damned.” She said, “Who is that carrying you?’’ and he said, “It is the priest. He has to carry me and many others for all eternity for leading us to hell.” St. John Chrysostom warned the clergy in his time, that if only one soul went to hell due to their negligence, that entirely endangered their salvation. If one wants to know the law of the Church concerning modesty and proper dress, inside the House of God and out, then go to the site saintsworks.net. It is posted on there. This applies both to men and women, but especially to women, for a Kimberly Hahn once stated, “It is a woman’s nature to seduce. Remember, “The immodest shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven.” Gal.5:19-20.
Reverend Fathers and preachers, if these women go to hell for your neglect, are you willing to go there with them? One of the magistrates questioning St. Thomas More said to him, “Ah! Come on Thomas! Why won’t you sign? For fellowship?” Then St. Thomas replied, “And if I go to hell for not following my conscience, and you go to heaven for following yours, will you come with me? For fellowship?
A Careful Father I Want To Be: https://motherofgodlibrary.org/2020/01/23/a-careful-father-i-want-to-be/
FOUR CONDITIONS FOR A GOOD SERMON https://motherofgodlibrary.org/2021/11/22/396/