Before I begin, I want to share a story that was told me by two different priests assigned to the Catholic Church in Maysville, Ky. Today’s date is the Feast of St. Joseph, March 19, 2023. About 30 years ago when I was driving a truck and delivering in Maysville, I arrived there in the evening of August 14th. I called the church to ask about the Holyday times the next day. The next morning I went to Mass there, and the priest had an exceptionally good sermon about Mary’s Assumption. I spoke with the priest after Mass and we got into a conversation. He related to me a story about Our Lord Jesus Christ speaking to Fr. Gobbi. This is how the story went.
Jesus said to Fr. Gobbi, “Would you like to see my bride, the Church?’’ to which Fr. Gobbi replied, ”Yes.” Then Jesus proceeded to show him a woman covered with leprosy. Fr. Gobbi, shocked, replied, “This is your bride the Church?” And Jesus said, “Yes. This is how she looks because of all the sacrilegious Communions!” A few years later I was back up there and I called the pastor about the story. A different pastor. He told me the same story, confirming what the first one said.
Several years ago, a woman was in the process of breaking up a good Catholic home. She continued to go to Holy Communion, while the husband told her she should not be going to Holy Communion because her actions were unjust breaking up a good Catholic home. She disregarded his advice and continued to go. Soon afterward some strange bumps started popping out on her body, and the doctor could not figure out what it was, or how to treat it. The husband knew about this story of Jesus to Fr. Gobbi related above. He told her the story and warned her she should not be going to Holy Communion. She finally listened to his advice and quit receiving Holy Communion. The bumps cleared up after that. She eventually divorced her husband, the unjust judges gave her custody of the children and today, all the children are now living in sin. A tragic story, of how one spouse no longer wishes to keep her vow “for better or worse,’’ and take up her cross and follow along after our Lord. “The father’s blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother’s curse rooteth up the foundation.” Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 3:11.
A family is like a porch with two pillars. Both pillars have to be there to hold the porch up. If not, it falls. Both parents are necessary to hold a family together. If one is missing, the family falls. Most marriages have high points and low points, but when things are going bad, we are supposed to offer up our trials, pray together and work together. In other words, like Jesus said, “Take up your cross, and follow me. “ What is Jesus carrying when we are walking behind him? He’s carrying a cross too. And so is his Blessed Mother. St. Alphonsus said, “St. Bridget had a vision in Rome of an angel with a very long sword, dripping with blood, which denoted Mary’s long martyrdom. Mary had to live 33 years after Simeon’s prophecy in the temple, St. Luke 2:35, knowing that Jesus would one day die a cruel death!”
Now let us hear what our Blessed Mother herself says to Fr. Gobbi about many sacrilegious Communions. This is taken from her message #330, August 8, 1986: “But above all, it is the sacrileges which today form, around my Immaculate heart, a painful crown of thorns. In these times, how many Communions are made and how many sacrileges perpetrated! It can be said that there is no longer any Eucharistic celebration where sacrilegious Communions are not made. If you only saw with my eyes how great this wound is which has contaminated the whole Church and paralyzes it, halts it, and makes it impure and so very sick! If you only saw with my eyes, you too would shed copious tears with me.” “So very sick,” she said. Leprosy is a figure of mortal sin.
No more is this more evident than seeing immodest women parade in church, and march right up to the Communion rail. This is what we call a manifest sin, something that is clearly seen. “Some men’s sins are manifest, going before to judgment: and some men they follow after.” [1 Timothy 5:24]. Most people, including clergy, are not aware that Pope Pius XI issued an encyclical on modesty in 1930, which is to be observed. You can find it here: A PAPAL DECREE CONCERNING MODESTY – Pope Pius XI, 1930, tinyurl.com/2ardncx4. A priest cannot read souls and therefore, if someone comes to Holy Communion with a hidden sin, he cannot refuse them and does not incur sin. However, when the sin is manifest, such as immodesty, he not only can, but is obligated to refuse them, according to the decree of Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius XIsaid, “Women and girls who are immodest are to be debarred from Holy Communion.” If their modesty is severe enough, he is also obligated, according to the Pope, to remove them from the church. As the Lord says in the Gospel, concerning the man who came to the wedding feast without a proper wedding garment on, “Cast him out.” One gentleman who used to serve Fr. Charles Schoenbaechler at the altar rail said, “If someone came up to the Communion rail not properly dressed, Father would lean over and say quietly in their ear, “Go home and get dressed. Then come back.” Yes, Pope Benedict said the clergy are to debar these people from Holy Communion.
Brother Biagio Conte, who recently died, wrote a letter to Pope Francis. The title: Modern Day “St Francis” Pens Disturbing Letter of Warning to Pope Francis Prior to His Passing! 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HtKujVcCUU. He says if the clergy don’t warn the sinner, speaking especially of immodest women in the church, that they will take on the sin of others, just like Our Lord told Ezeckiel, chapter 3. Brother Biagio complains of their immodesty in the church, at Holy Communion, in the Sacraments, and even at weddings the bride herself is indecent. It is not uncommon in this one church where confessions are held frequently, to see immodest women going into the confessional. I recall reading one time Our Lord spoke to Sr. Josepha Menendez, speaking of his clergy, “While absolving others, were themselves on the road to perdition.”- The Way of Divine Love. St. Leonard of Port Maurice, in his COUNSELS TO CONFESSORS, has a terrible story of a priest damned to hell for all eternity because he would absolve an adulterer without making him give up his sin! Most of the women and girls, Catholic women included, are immodest. I wonder sometimes how many of them confess their immodesty in confession. Sr. Josepha Menendez was taken to hell many times by Our Lord, and she saw many clergy burning in hell. There are 12 things that happen when a woman comes into church indecently, and many of these things fall back the priest. https://motherofgodlibrary.org/2022/07/13/twelve-things-that-happen/.
Our Lady of Good Success, over 400 years ago, warned Mother Marianna of Jesus that in our time, the 20th century, there would be very little innocence in children, nor modesty in women. She informed little Jacinta of Fatima, now St. Jacinta, that “Certain fashions would be introduced, that would offend our Lord very much.” As one priest said, “That’s mortally sinful.” If immodesty wasn’t mortally sinful, then St. Paul would not have said, “The immodest…shall not obtain the kingdom of God.” Gal. 5:19-21, drbo.org. Only mortal sin keeps us out of heaven. I was in church today, and this one lady who goes to Mass every day, a good Catholic, gave a sterling example of how ladies should dress. She was fully covered, and her dress went down all the way to her ankles. This is how the Blessed Mother always dressed. In THE MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD, it says she was always fully covered, and the only prat of her that was visible was her face, which inspired so many, and her hands, that had labored for souls.”
Also Mary to little Jacinta at Fatima said, “More souls go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other reason.” In Our lady’s warning to Enzo Alocci about 50 years ago, she told him, “Son, go and tell the priests to be stricter toward the faithful and send away all persons entering the church in indecent dresses, because it is not suitable to come into the Presence of the Divine Majesty in such indecency.” “Send them away,” the Blessed Mother said. What is Mary saying here? She’s saying the same thing Pope Pius XI decreed? Show them out of the church if they are indecent. Do not give them Holy Communion. “Give not that which is holy to dogs,” Jesus said. Fr. Albert J. Hebert. S.M., in one of his books on prophecy quotes Enzo Alocci, and he said Enzo was a stigmatist, and had a statue of the Queen of the World which wept tears of blood. When you search Enzo online, you will see the statue he’s speaking about, covered with tears of blood on her cheeks.! In her message to Fr. Gobbi, #362 she tells him why she is weeping. One reason she says is because souls in great numbers are being lost and going to hell; because too few accede to her request of pray, to make reparation, to offer and to suffer; and because she has spoken and has not been listened to. How often do you hear the clergy talk about the need to make reparation to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary on First Fridays, First Saturdays? It’s almost unheard of. How often do you hear the clergy, bishops and priests, warn about the dangers of immodesty, birth control, the marriage bed undefiled, adultery, fornication? If these things will damn us to hell, what kind of shepherd is silent in the face of such danger? He is like salt without savor.
Why are so many souls going to hell? One reason is the silence of the clergy? Like Jonah, it’s not something they want to do, but when they accepted the responsibility of saving souls, they also accepted the responsibility to warn these souls. God told Isaias, “Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins.” 58:1. What does a trumpet do? It sounds the alarm.
In his sermon, Advice to Parents, St. Alphonsus gives a warning to the clergy who are negligent in instructing souls properly: “It was related that, in the year 1248, an ignorant priest was commanded, in a certain synod, to make a discourse. He was greatly agitated by the command and the Devil appearing to him, instructed him to say, “The rectors of infernal darkness salute the rectors of parishes, and thank them for their negligence in instructing the people; because from ignorance proceeds the misconduct and the damnation of many.” https://www.olrl.org/snt_docs/advice.shtml.
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Judas was the first one to make a sacrilegious Communion, and he lost his soul. Jesus told St. Bridget about the great evil of a sacrilegious Communion. He said, “There does not exist on earth a punishment severe enough to punish a sacrilegious Communion.” St. Alphonsus said that when a person receives Holy Communion unworthily, he attempts to place Jesus on the throne of his heart alongside Satan. Can you imagine anything more evil? If things continue to go on as they are, then there will be nothing left but the horrible chastisements to come upon us, just because we refused to listen to Our Lady’s warnings. Our Lady said at Akita, Japan, 1973: “As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead...”
Mary has given us many prophetic warnings throughout the world, many approved by the Church, many approved by miraculous weepings and so forth. In one of her messages where she wept, she told the seer, “I have buried them in signs!” And yet again, how often have the clergy warned us of these things? St. Peter said, “And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:” 2 Peter 1:19. Isn’t it time we woke up and paid attention?
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