Reflections
The basic condition of our salvation is repentance. Jesus warns us, “Unless you repent, you will all perish.” He says at the beginning of the gospel, “Repent, and believe in the gospel!”
What does it mean for modern-day American Catholics to repent? It means to change the way of thinking! To turn away from the false thinking of the spirit of the world and adopt the mind of Christ. To stop blindly believing the lies of the mass media, and believe in the gospel of Christ and the real truths.
How should the American bishops change their way of thinking? First of all, now after December 18, 2023 when they adopted the declaration Fiducia supplicans, they must not deceive Catholics by telling them to their faces that they are leading them on the path to salvation. With their synodal path and anti-repentant sodomite antigospel, they are leading them to eternal damnation. The so-called synodal path is rebellion against the living God! It is an open denial of Christ and His gospel of salvation. They must know this! This path of spiritual suicide is deliberately disguised with so-called obedience to the Holy Father.
Scripture clearly says, “If anyone, even an angel from heaven, preaches any other gospel, let him be accursed, expelled.” The sodomite antigospel, proclaimed by the current pseudo pope Leo Prevost, brings a curse and is the cause of expulsion from the Church of Christ. This is confirmed by Church Fathers, such as St. Cyprian, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and also by Doctors of the Church, such as St. Francis de Sales, St. Alphonsus Liguori. Cardinal St. Robert Bellarmine briefly explains this truth, “The Pope who is manifestly a heretic ceases by himself to be Pope and head, in the same way as he ceases to be a Christian and a member of the body of the Church.” The dogmatic bull Cum ex apostolatus officio confirms the same.
With the adoption of Fiducia supplicans on December 18, 2023, the American bishops publicly excommunicated themselves from the Church. As they are no longer Catholics, they hold their offices invalidly. This is truly shocking for many people. A simple believer cannot believe this. The Catholic Church headed by the pseudo pope Leo Prevost is no longer Catholic. Why? Because he has embraced and promoted Bergoglio’s synodal path of rebellion against God. On December 18, 2023, the Catholic Church was de facto transformed into the New Age anti-Church. Behind it is not the Spirit of Christ, but the spirit of antichrist.
It must be acknowledged, however, that many American bishops inwardly disagree with the synodal path. Yet their silence and passivity makes them personally responsible. What is the solution for them? To break away from the traitorous colossus of the US Bishops’ Conference. It robbed the bishops of their independence and responsibility. Sincere priests and their faithful should support the bishops in taking this step. Every bishop is responsible before God for sound teaching in his diocese.
No sincere priest or believer can be silent today! They must demonstrate their rejection of suicidal submission to a bishop who is in rebellion against God. The priests and their faithful are obliged to literally bombard their passive bishop with alarming phone calls, e-mails or, if necessary, personal visits, to make him understand that he must separate himself from the path of rebellion that leads to hell.
Our Lady of Fatima promised, “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” But she preceded it with one condition, and that is repentance.
How should the priests and believers repent? They should begin to keep Sunday holy – they should realize the necessity of pausing from the rush of the world. The whole day on which we commemorate Christ’s Resurrection belongs to God. This time should be devoted to the salvation of our souls and the sanctification of our families. Many believers begin to celebrate the Day of the Resurrection already on Saturday evening after 9 p.m. The family spends a full hour in prayerful reflection on the reality of Christ’s Resurrection. On Sunday morning, from 5 to 7 a.m., they contemplate the further truths of the Resurrection. Then, around 9 a.m., they spend another hour reflecting on the reality of the descent of the Holy Spirit.
In the afternoon, the men gather in small groups of four to seven. They reflect on God’s Word, but also discuss current issues affecting their families, their children, and the environment that influences them. A major problem is the amount of time wasted during the week on smartphones and the internet. Here, strong discipline is necessary, along with an awareness of the dangers that are deliberately kept silent about.
The spirit of the world imposes its consumerist, egoistic, neo-pagan way of thinking on all Christians. As a result, they no longer perceive even the most essential truths necessary for our salvation, and they even lose their conscience and sound reason. That is why small communities, which preserve the Spirit of Christ, are so urgently needed.
In the evening, from 8 to 9 p.m., the family again reflects in prayer on Jesus’ appearances to the apostles during the two Sundays after His Resurrection.
Without this radical observance of the Day of the Resurrection, the Christian family today is seriously threatened by both inner and outer disintegration. Therefore, every father of the family should take this divine call responsibly to heart.
Priests, too, should spend Sunday evening and then the whole of Monday and Tuesday until midday in small groups (4-7 priests) in seclusion from the world, devoted to prayer, the Word of God, and fraternal conversation (Acts 2:42). There they are to seek and prepare the prophetic word for the Sunday homily. In this way they will bring the Spirit of Christ to the faithful, who gives true light. Without prophetic preaching, the faithful lack the strength to resist their own egoism and the spirit of the world. This practice of setting aside a day and a half for prayer and brotherly fellowship leads priests to a deep and genuine conversion. They then become capable of passing it on through personal witness in spiritual power.
What exactly should the bishops do after breaking away from the episcopal conference? At least a small group of true bishops should establish an orthodox Catholic synod. The synod should distance itself from the heretical doctrine of the US Bishops’ Conference and from submission to the false pope Leo Prevost. He is not the Pope of the Catholic Church, but the pseudo Pope of Bergoglio’s transformed anti-Church with a sodomite antigospel.
The orthodox Catholic synod will then choose one of the true bishops as patriarch for the United States. That will be the basic cell of the restoration process in the Catholic Church. Other sincere bishops, who currently accept the dictates of the US Bishops’ Conference out of fear, may gradually join this core group. Moreover, the orthodox Catholic bishops need not fear that the heretical colossus of the US Bishops’ Conference will abuse political power and insidiously punish them for their faithfulness to Christ and the Church.
+ Elijah
Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate