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“But Except you do Penance, you Shall all Likewise Perish”

During September’s study session in Rougemont, es to listen! I can no longer restrain my Son.” As it is,
Canada, it was repeated that Social Credit, also called God uses victim souls, a small number of people who
Economic Democracy, is a means to the ultimate end serve as a lightning rod to prevent the whole world
which is the salvation of souls. Man needs material from perishing. This “restrains my Son” said Mary.
goods to live his life on earth, but the earthly life is All the messages from heaven, whether from
only a passage upon which our eternal fate in the here- Jesus or from His holy Mother, are contingent on how
after will be determined. “At the end of our life, we will we respond to the call for conversion. God sent Jonah
be judged on love,” said St. John of the Cross. In the to warn that if the inhabitants did not convert Nineveh
Gospel, Mark said: “For what shall it profit a man if he would be destroyed. They repented and Nineveh was
gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?” spared. God told Abraham that he would spare So-
(Mark 8:36). We will not carry with us into the here- dom and Gomorrah if he found ten righteous men. At
after the goods we have accumulated but the good we Fatima, Our Lady said: “Russia will convert and we will
have done for others. have peace; otherwise it [Russia] will spread her er-
In his post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation on Rec- rors around the world, provoking wars and persecu-
onciliation and Penance, published in 1984, St. John tions against the Church.”
Paul II explained that all sin, while personal, because it These messages warn us what can happen IF we
is an act of the free will of do not amend our ways. “But except you do penance,
a particular man, also has you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13: 5). God desires
social consequences: our conversion, He does not want any soul to be lost
“By virtue of human but even the Almighty cannot force our will because
solidarity which is as mys- without free will there is no love.
terious and intangible as it God continues to send us calls for conversion and
is real and concrete, each warns us of potential disasters if we remain deaf to his
individual’s sin in some messages. In His mercy, and as an ultimate recourse,
way affects others. This God sends events to shake us from our indifference.
is the other aspect of that Our eternal salvation is at stake: will we spend eter-
solidarity which on the re- nity in heaven with Jesus and all the saints, or in hell
ligious level is developed with Satan and the damned? Here are excerpts from a
in the profound and mag- Saint John Paul II meditation written by Canadian missionary and sing-
nificent mystery of the communion of saints, thanks er/songwriter Mark Mallett, who publishes a spiritual
to which it has been possible to say that ‘every soul blog online defending the Catholic Church called “The
that rises above itself, raises up the world.’ (The ex- Now Word, reflections for our times“. Posted on July
pression is from the French writer and servant of God, 11, 2019, it is titled “When the Earth cries out”. 1
Elizabeth Leseur, Journal et Pensees de Chaque Jour,
Paris 1918, p. 31). To this law of ascent there unfortu- Alain Pilote
nately corresponds the law of descent. Consequently by Mark Mallett
one can speak of a communion of sin, whereby a I have resisted writing this article for months now.
soul that lowers itself through sin drags down with So many of you are going through such intense trials
itself the church and, in some way, the whole world. that what is needed most is encouragement and con-
In other words, there is no sin, not even the most solation, hope and assurance. I promise you, this arti-
intimate and secret one, the most strictly individual cle contains that—though perhaps not in the way you
one, that exclusively concerns the person commit- would expect. Whatever you and I are going through
ting it. With greater or lesser violence, with greater now is a preparation for what is coming: the birth of an
or lesser harm, every sin has repercussions on the era of peace on the other side of the hard labour pains
entire ecclesial body and the whole human family” the earth is beginning to undergo.
(Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, n. 16). It is not my place to edit God. What follows are the
If the sins of the few have consequences for all, so words being given to us at this time from Heaven. Our
then must the good acts, prayers and sacrifices of the role, rather, is to discern them with the Church: “Do
few have consequences for all. In Fatima, Mary said not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophetic utter-
that many go to hell because no one has prayed for ances. Test everything; retain what is good” (1 Thess.
them. This shows the importance of sacrifice, repara- 5:19-21).
tion and penance for the salvation of sinners. In 1876, “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but
during an apparition in Pellevoisin, France, the Blessed woe to the person through whom they occur. It would
Virgin Mary lamented: “And France, what have I not
done for her? How many warnings, and yet she refus-
1 www.markmallett.com/blog/2019/07/11/when-the-earth-cries-out/

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