EP 10 - Back to the Future

00:00 No, no, peace, domine, domine. No, no, peace, domine. Se domini, se domini, trua da rolinna.

00:26 In my last talk, you may remember I told you about the pure, the perfect, the unalloyed ongoing and conditional love of God, to which nobody could respond or nobody could responned perfectly, it was so perfect.

00:51 Until one day, two thousand years ago, a child was born in a place called Bethlehem.

01:10 10. His name was Jesus, and the name Jesus means Saviour because he had come to save us, to show us how to respond to the divine love by responding himself, to show us the way by first practising himself what he was going to preach to others.

01:39 By the time he was about two or three years of age, as soon as he was able to speak his mother taught him to pray, and the first prayer that she taught him was the first prayer that had been taught to her.

01:57 er was called the Sheema Remember. A Pregnant in which Jesus was taught to express,"". His love for God and to dedicate his daily life to the love of God by promising to love him with all his heart and mind his his body and soul and with his whole strength, this prayer he practiced first at home, then

02:35 with Joseph at the synagogue three times a day, and then later with his disciples three times a day, morning and evening, three times a day, the shayma, this dedication to God by using the greatest of all the commandments.

02:56 To love God, with his whole heart and mind, with whole body and soul, and with his whole strength. And then Jesus did something further.

03:09 He distilled this prayer into a new form of worship, a form of worship that he called a new worship in spirit and in truth.

03:26 So that every moment of his life he was responding to the love of God by worshipping him with his whole heart and mind, with his whole body and soul and with his whole strength.

03:42 No material offerings in a physical temple, but a spiritual offering in truth from the heart, in the new temple which was himself.

04:00 Now this offering he made throughout his life on earth through his agonizing death on the cross, This offering was continually made when was taken up into glory, transformed, transfigured, and continuing to love the Father with early heart and mind and His whole being, this pure, selfless, sacrificial

04:27 loving. Now this pure, sacrificial loving, loving Was most perfectly embodied in the sacred mysteries of the Mass.

04:43 After the Protestant Reformation when they had played down or positively denied the idea of sacrifice, of Christ or of our sacrifice, Then this offering was perfectly embodied in what came to be called the Tridentine Mass.

05:05 And for about a hundred years or more after the end of the Council of Trent, This sacred sacrificial mass, that embodied the pure loving of God in his Son, was the center of what came to be called a tridentine spirituality.

05:38 God's love now, therefore, in the mass, was as it were, satelited by myriad mystics, all trying to follow Christ to imitate Him, by loving Him the whole heart and mind, with the whole body and with the whole soul, …and to generate this new worship in spirit and in truth, …and it was now that in the opinion

06:09 of so many great scholars, Catholic spirituality reached a high point never quite reached before, …at least since the early days of the church.

06:24 Now, this spirituality was perfectly summed up, this spirituality, this new mystical spirituality, if you like, was summed up by one senior Ronald Knox in his book Enthusiasm.

06:43 Let me read from the book Nie'. To let him make the point for himself. He writes, 17th century was a century of mystics.

06:58 The doctrine of the interior life was far better publicized, developed in far greater detail than it had been in late medieval Germany or late medieval Eval, England.

07:15 Burymo, it is history of a French spirituality who's traced unforgettably, unforgettably, the progress of that movement in France. But Spain, too, the country of St.

07:28 Teresa, St. Teresa and St. John the Cross had her mistakes. Italy also had her mistakes, who flourished under the ages of the Vatican.

07:41 Even the Exile Church in England, produced in Father Baker's Santa Sophia's classic of the interior life, a masterpiece of mystical theology.

08:02 It is not just one senior Ronald Knox, it is poor act in his history. of Catholic spirituality, it is prolonged in his famous work on the spiritual life on scholarly study of mystical theology.

08:26 It is Louis-Buyet, Gary Goulogromish, Louis-Carnier, I could go on and on and on giving you great Names, but one I must also add because only recently, in recent years he's been taken out of Catholic seminaries and that is the work of Tancaré, the great Tancaré, his masterwork on the spiritual life.

08:56 He also sees this moment, these decades as a high point in Catholic spirituality. El cantus O ninti henta ei Adam i Anubiri po et ap ihre pata O rei abauxro invitedimlienient indo Eri C'oi el Bal Titanic A P Lav El a rock and floundered.

09:26 It was demasted, with no wind in its sails and stuck in the mud. It could go no further. The rock that its struck was called quietism, a very subtle but pernisius heresy, which was about to have devastating effect on Catholic spirituality.

09:57 At the time, I'm right down to modern times, but we will see. The heresy had begun thanks to a Spanish priest living in Rome, who gathered around himself many followers.

10:20 Now the essence of quietism was this, what he wanted to do for himself and his followers was to bypass the purification that is necessary in the spiritual journey as we have seen in my last talk and go straight to contemplation.

10:40 That formal contemplation called the prayer of the quiet in St. Teresa's must work, the interior castle. And what did you have to do?

10:54 You had to do absolutely nothing. It was a gift of God. He was right there. ▯» available »The conclusion he drew from this was so terribly wrong and therefore you do nothing until he gives it to you, you do nothing, nothing at all!» » till he And that meant, not even about the distractions and temptations

11:18 that poured in when you were sat there — like aoot supplement there  不得付已ansas adjustable or pleasant toあの complex servant dou say the devil finds work for idle hands and he found plenty of work!

11:42 Win Melinot was condemned for taking his followers back into a practical form of Protestantism. He was also condemned and so when many of them for acts of gross in Decency en almost industrial scale.

12:02 Read about them for yourself, if you will. In Monsignor, Ronald Knox's masterwork, but I have just quoted, enthusiasm. Inevitably, the church had to act, and it did, and it came down heavily on any talk of any ceremony I prayer that could lead to quietism.

12:28 The baby was thrown out with the bathwater. A sloben was coined. Mysticism begins in mist and ends in sism where deep away ante mystical witch hunts were embraced and it committed to send out all over Europe at anisolder-"prad", traithlesleosc lengkt seine trump papers- láchl famous of the through by

13:14 lust st auf motivations As the centuries rolled on gradually, the prayer that teaches a person how to generate under the influence of the Holy Spirit, the pure love that enables them to receive the pure love of God, together with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Ск randomly, Mistress Dehamn, de Christian

13:52 knight, just as recalls From the chair of Hadn't happened, if you'd not been killed at home before you came, then you were not taught.

14:25 It was assumed that you were about personal prayer and how it developed. But nobody knew, and it did not develop at all.

14:36 And so the church was left floundering. And that's why I had to put on a course myself on prayer. Treheta vengeance, dimunekun ngisim Salaha sl In all the universities, as is a studies, they couldn't find anybody else.

15:26 I was shattered and I continued my orbit to do my audit. And as I travelled round after that by invitation all over, I continued to find not only ― ― ― ― ― Who see, if you ask Rhys example of religion and secular rings to take a bar of celibacy, so they cannot get married, so they have the love of a 

16:17 wife, of children, of random children, we don't take away from them, ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― පටඦිනිනිප.

16:35 örungෂතුරිප යඳටයහමිකයට ලෛඳුබ්නාw條 සමිමිර worship සයුිතම හොනුඳිනම.

16:46 හි ලෙනිත්න්නින්්න් ඘සන්යකඩයු්ට ඈකකට. වත්නරුදට. වති paleau». I did what I thought in a sensible human being could do, I wrote to Rome to tell them what was happening, assuming that they didn't know, but my assumption – my assumption was wrong.

17:23 …oh, they didn't know what was happening —in fact, they had a policy, and the policy was to sweep everything under the carpet, to cancel anybody who dared to stand up and speak la sreuth.

17:44 I was counseled away with him. He must be stopped, and so I evaporated into thin air, disappeared. I thought that now I was free, everybody would listen to me, but nobody would.

18:03 I mean ordinary Catholic lady, they couldn't believe what I was telling them, because what sozial, suggesting,РЕ Richmond was unogridable nimi nimi nimi.

18:12 Carbonites e , Couldou dana'adana nimin Why was I could ay deskse, her還有 been father's grave, my Ka pa pa la bumperio, My brothers was reduced so, could you You had Lensible가락 and it, I wrote and told them they could not believe it!

18:27 When they asked me, could they be of help? ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― a help that they wanted to give me, a one-way ticket to the nearest funny farm.

18:43 And so I was utterly isolated. For over 30 years, like Rip Van Le Winkel, I disappeared. And when I disappeared, I thought the only thing I could do was to pray, to revitalize my own prayer life, and to do it by going back and studying the ancient sources of our faith.

19:15 And there in prayer and contemplation using, I hope, the fruits of contemplation plation that were given to me, I wrote two books on early Christian spirituality.

19:34 And of course, they sold like wildfire. Some hope. Nobody was asking the a question about prayer. Nobody said takers back to our origins.

19:55 We want the wisdom of Christ. I was living in a cocoon and I didn't actually realize that they weren't looking for the wisdom of Christ anymore.

20:04 They were looking for the wisdom of the world to save them. Let me go back a bit. 10. At the beginning of the Vatican Council, John XXIII gathered around him a few cardinals.

20:28 Cardinal Bear was one of them, and it's from him, but we'll know the story. Together together and they opened and read our latest secret message from Fatima.

20:45 The essence of it was calling everybody back to prayer quickly urgently. Why? Because if we don't, terrible things would happen because they were on the way to happening now.

20:57 That prayer, the love of God, had been extracted from people's lives, ― ― ― ― Lairty too, and the church was on the downward journey, moving down it, it had to be stopped, otherwise, at a klismic events would happen in the future, and they would happen if we did not come back repent and pray, make sacrifices

21:26 . And this was the essence of our latest letter. A year last, the is not stitches, as if they were sending in an investigation back to her country.

21:56 ―We were almost here saying, our lady—yes, we have verified that it was her speaking at Vatiba, she did appear to the children, yes it is her message.

22:14 Unfortunately, she actually alive in heaven and she just may be not aware of what's going on on earth so we'll carry on by ourselves.

22:28 Thank you very much. Thank you. Our lady didn't just come from heaven one find sunny morning to have a chat with girls because she felt like it.

22:38 She was sent by God with a Very important message that they refused in their arrogance to listen to. And instead, a council was called.

22:52 But the problem with the Vatican Council is this, but the very bishops called to participate in that council had themselves been affected by the lack of mystical theology, no teaching in their seminaries where they were priests.

23:08 ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― � 1].

23:44 Without the profound wisdom that should have possessed all of them, able to only been brought up, as their predecessors had been brought up before the terrible scourge of a quietism, a notice this, a notice this, quietism has been a rather the aftermath of quietism and its aftermath has been so stopped

24:15 . But even the best and greatest of theologians that remind those students of being subtly brainwashed, they are not aware of what has happened ,to them.

24:28 ,they're not aware of what has happened to the Church ,and the terrible consequences. ,they're not aware of it. ,and so, ,there was no Constitution on spirituality.

24:47 Yes, there was one on the liturgy and a pretty good one in many, many ways. ― ― ― ― ― ― A cardinal, who was, in fact, a Freemason, who took out key important words and phrases, but that's another matter.

25:31 They didn't produce a constitution on how to participate in the mass by generating the pure selfless loving, The loving with which God loves us, the spirituality that was in full sale for 100 more years after the Council of Trent.

26:00 The spirituality that was central to the early church, the God a given spirituality that Jesus himself introduced into the early church.

26:17 It had gone. And I remember now, in the 1970s, because I was at the centre of it, at least the centre of it, in the sense that I was the director of a residential centre and was always going to conferences of other directors.

26:35 Religious authors were in a flat spin, not knowing what to do. They could see that they were losing numbers on advanced numbers.

26:44 They were diminishing. They could see that alien feral spiritualities were beginning to flourish. People were beginning to turn to them, but they didn't know what to do.

26:56 And so they got in psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, Cycle therapists – they looked at the wisdom of the world to do what only the Holy Spirit can do, what only the Holy Spirit has done and did do in the early church, and in those glorious days, if you like – those glorious decades – after

27:20 the Council of Trent, and the Great Tridentine Mass was sat corrected by a profound mystical theology that is evaporated …and people don't even know what has happened, this is the sadness, this is the terrible calamity.

27:42 And so, where do we go from here? There's only one place we can go from here, …and that is back to the spirituality of the early church.

27:56 All the spirituality of the early church, as embodied in the modern world, centered around the Tridentine mass, that mystical theology surrounding the Tridentine mass.

28:10 Yes, that should be our ideal now. That's where we must go. Now notice, when the early church unsubssequently, whenever you find authentic Catholic spirituality, at its best, it is always totally focused upon God, it is theocentric, it is God-centric.

28:45 He is the centre of everything, to seek God and His kingdom, and then everything else will be given unto you.

29:01 But sadly, when this theocentric spirituality disappeared, after why Artism. An anthropocentric spirituality began to take over, instead, what that is self-centered, centered on the human being, how I can make myself holy by endless examinations of conscience, the great examine, discernment, try to discover

29:36 my own sinfulness, how to come to terms con ihnen. Out to turn for help to modern gurus, modern psychologists, psychotherapists and so forth.

29:47 Me, me, me, me, me, me centered spiritualities. The devil loves them because they're all centered on him. He loves this sort of thing.

30:04 Remember the story of the Kure does who came into his church one day and he found as it was custom to see him a farmer peasant father spending several hours a day beating his breast Belyun, God's forgiveness, mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.

30:25 And the curae does tell us how one day he was tapped on the shoulder and he looked around and there he saw our Lord.

30:36 And our Lord said to him, I. Monasticism is not a dada per view in your sins in your selfishness. I'll tell you a joke.

30:58 How do you make God laugh? You're telling your plans to make yourself perfect. In an authentic, actually God-centred spirituality, your heart, your mind, your soul, your whole strength is centred upon God all the time and his love and how to receive it.

31:33 There is a time for an examination of conscience that I put it in my evening prayer, if you remember, but the Pope made purpose of that examination of conscience is to see what's getting in the way of God's love, stopping him permeating us, possessing us by his presence, to transform us in his way, not

31:55 in our way. It is not to endlessly and morbidly go and overen, overen our sins, and write them down, and roll up our sleadle, how are we going to get rid of them, how we deserve, how are we to discern them, discern them with ever greater depth.

32:16 Non-lessons, that is the wisdom of the world, that is not divine wisdom. If you keep going on and responding to God's love, as I am describing and telling you, is essential to main line, athentic, catholic, spirituality, the Holy Spirit leads you on into the mystic way, and there the Holy Spirit shows

32:39 you your sins. In his way, remember the other day I told you about finding the works of St. John of the Cross in the Library, and I said read the first nine aptis of the dark night of the soul, and there he outlines all your faults and fading fear to see, that been hidden under the euphoria of first 

33:08 fervor, but he brings them up, he shows you then when it is time, when you are able to see the truth, by bit, by bit, then you go to confession, then you journey on again till they come up again, then they are forgotten, then you go to confession, the focus point is God, God, God, God, oi, oi, oi, oi

33:30 , oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, oi, o …to overcome them at one on the same time.

34:06 There's another very popular form of spirituality at the moment, and that is, the devil is here there everywhere around us, rolled with your sleeve.

34:13 We've got to fight the devil. We've got to learn the tactics. We've got to learn tactics of how to defeat the devil.

34:20 «Oh, this is wonderful,' says the devil. This is just what I like to hear. I like to hear people concentrating on me on how to defeat me in a campaign that I know they will never win, and so they waste hours arming themselves against the power of evil, the devil, to overcome him.

34:40 You won't be able to do it. Here's another joke to make God laugh. Don't tell him your plans to d'efeat the devil.

34:50 We go into the love of God. You see, you're not seen how at the end of this course. Now, everything is so simple.

35:04 F***** God once said that purity of heart is to do but one thing. Loved, and that one thing is just to keep loving God, building a prayer life to go on loving hymn, whether you experience His love or whether you don't experience His love.

35:27 Whether it is sweetness or light, whether it is in darkness, keep going on, journeying on and on and on into the love of God.

35:39 uniru e'l l-rest by iving us the power to overcome the sinfulness that is within us, to draw out the sinfulness that is there.

35:53 Yes, that is true. It is deep down within us, Freud was right, but only the love of the Holy Spirit can draw it out so that we can see it ― ― ― ― ― ― …to do the rest?

36:23 Paps, just before we come to the end and… …and while I'm mentioning the devil, …paps, I could ask our friends, those exorcists in the church who do… …wonderful work and they really do and it is a very difficult work… …and dangerous work.

36:44 We assure you of our prayers. But please, and this is for those who host interview programs too. Please, no more interviews at the moment, at least, of exorcist telling is in more ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― Ithman in Exorcist now for 50 years, very well, and he tells me, and I believe quite rightly, that in 95%

37:35 of cases people referred to him are cured by making a good confession followed by orp co-op, ángeldiv, dix dix, dix dix, dix dix, dix dix dix, dan hef, ze tieck nip, ae høn, hef, cix, dix dix dix dix, dix dix, ae høn, hae høn, hae høn thf, tieck høn, ma Soh, oef, hae høn, hae høn, hae høn, hae høn, hae

38:09 hae h In historyonic detail, what you have encountered, some people are terrified and frightened of the Holy Spirit, sorry, terrified and frightened, not of the Holy Spirit, but when the Holy Spirit casts out devils, what can happen in rare cases, it frightens people.

38:39 Come back from your work as an exorcist and lead your front back to the love of God, No cows, no go without obewow, with the horrors that you have just experienced.

38:50 Though your flock will have no deed of your service. This, We'll affect the core, that source allowing the love of God in, and allowing Christ to descend into the hell which is within us.

39:20 I know it's there. Only he can destroy the evil within us, with him we are safe. Look, I told you in an earlier talk, I said, God is loving us all the time.

39:34 And this is us. Yes, we are locked up in ourselves. But when we are baptaised into the mystical body of Christ on the journey it may be two steps forward one step backward two steps forward one step backward but if we are genuinely on that journey journey towards love as best we can through prayer as

39:57 our guide lead kindly light. We are safe from the devil the devil can't get into the mystical body of Christ and she has glorified a mystical body that surrounds us and that is drawing us into him.

40:15 We're safe, St. John of the Cross makes us quite clear. In his dark night here, in the dark night, you are being purified by the Holy Spirit.

40:24 You are totally safe. So don't be frightened. by exorcist or pseudo exorcist, turning too many dramatic stories where they should not be told.

40:42 Yes, if we remain what within ourselves, yes, if we turn away from love and keep journeying away by sinning, sinning, sinning, sinning, …and then sitting again and never turning back, …yes, then we become porous to evil and to devilry.

41:07 But so long as you are trying, remember, …in the trying is the dying, …in the dying is the rising, …is the rising, in the rising is the opening …to receive the love of God through Christ, to be united with Him.

41:32 In love of the Father, to receive His love, and the gifts that come with His love, this is the spiritual journey.

41:41 Keep looking at Jesus Christ, He is the head of the church. In heaven and on earth, that's why we put on this close on prayer, back to Christ, keep journey together to him.

41:57 Success is assured, but it will take time and battles will be lost. Trust now, we are safe in this journey together in the prayer.

42:14 ―Let me conclude by by telling you that the only testament Matt God has Meaning of preconce fatherland, his love is given the name Cesad, ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― ― � Gratisia, from which we get the word grace, graciousness, gratitude.

43:13 We show our gratitude for God, and this is the only way we can show our full gratitude to God by turning to him, now in the words of our lady at Fatima and elsewhere, and in the early days of the church a sum up everything, we turn to God and His love through repentance, not just once, that's conversion

43:42 , but once you convert it, then you keep repenting on and on and on, and when you go to pray and you kneel down in prayer or whatever, you continue repenting because you want to sail all the time by distractions and temptations, without which remember, ― ― ― …aftaili, …aftaili, …aftaili, …aftaili, …aftaili

44:07 , …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aftaili …aft as you repent, you raise your heart and mind to God

44:36 to receive His love and to do this means great sacrifice. The sacrifice of your time in your daily life, you have to get, stop doing other things that you get pleasure from or enjoy in order to get this time for God.

44:55 These sacrifices, therefore, have to be made for the process c de continuer repentance, de continuer in prayer, as you continually offer your heart and mind to God in the triune is the dying, in the dying, or is the rising, is the rising, is the opening, in the opening is the offering, in the offering

45:29 is the receiving of Christ offering to his Father to draw us up into himself. So it's back to prayer.

45:47 No complications drove back to the rosary as our Lady has kept telling us …and then not just to sing the rosary, but to meditating on the mysteries of the rosary most particularly.

46:05 Those new mysteries, meditating on the wonderful profound teaching of Jesus at the last supper.

46:17 …and then on to the prize that he prayed for that teaching, all he came to teach was love and they hated him for it.

46:29 That's why they condemned him, banged his hands and feet into the cross, crucified him, mocked him, laughed at him. た 這個 is the hurt and the depth and the length that is, this is the understanding Keep turning towards love Keep rerepenty Keep repay Trying to pray ―I am tired to have the time to pray.

47:11 ―Then said our lady, take those sacrifices with you to a mass on Sunday, ―and then with the whole Christian community and Christ, ―that present in the act of offering himself, ―of sacrificing himself, ‵.' We joined with him so that our sacrifices may be offered in with and through his … so that eventually

47:39 , in time his time, our time, we will be taken up with Mary, our Mother through meditation into contemplation, the contemplation into which she entered on the First Pentecost day … distributed literally there into Christ some inexperienced through her molting pen and machine according to Nd fashion for

48:24 us from the beginning … Take heart, we have hope now, because we have prayer, and God is the heart of so of our prayer that has joined together.

48:40 In a crusade against the evil powers that be at the moment in a row, who are try to murder commit murder.

48:52 They're trying to murder orthodoxy. And so, only body who tries to stand against them, but we stand and we stand firm, because we stand firm in Christ, in his love, surrounded by his power.

49:13 And we go forward together. …or the last time then. There is only one way to perfection. There is only one way to God.

49:27 There's only one way to be united with His pure selfless, unalloyed, unconditional loving, and that is to pray. If anyone points to you and tells you to go in another direction, then they are deceiving you.

49:47 hantea bantea bantea.