Albanian Catholic Martyr Gunned by Communist Soldiers March 4, 1946

                 Gjelosh Lulashi  From the Collection   Socialism Kills by Theresa Marie Moreau

Gjelosh Lulashi was arrested as an enemy of the Albanian Government, headed by the Communist Party with its theophobic Socialist ideology of death and destruction.

Tortured to deny God and his Faith, Gjelosh Lulashi was dragged from prison with other Catholics and forced to walk to a garbage dump behind the Ramaj Catholic Cemetery in Shkod, Albania.

Eight machine-gun weilding soldiers of the Peoples Defense stood at the ready waiting for the signal.  It was 5 AM on March 4, 1946.  They were shot and their bodies left in a heap to terrorize the masses.

Viva Cristo Rey!  RROFTE MBRET

Spies In The ROCOR Church: KGB or Priest?

" ... not a few had a dual role as 'bishops' and priests' and uniformed officers of the KGB in whose wardrobe hung both a cassock and a uniform."

By:  Stewart Davies     Former KGB Lt. Col. Konstantin Preobrazhensky, who defected to the U.S. in 1993, is the author of two books:  'KGB/FSB's New Trojan Horse:  Americans of Russian Descent and Russian Americans:  A New KGB Asset

In his books he describes the grave concerns being felt by many Americans of Russian descent about the fact that, on May 17th, 2007, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia,  (ROCOR), signed an Act of Canonical Community with the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.  

ROCOR was originally esablished by White Russians who fled the Bolshevik Revolution and settled inAerica.  These new concerns are founded on the known history of the Moscow Patriarchate:  that it was founded by Stalin in 1943 forthe specific purpose of espionage, disinformation and subversion. All its appointees were selected by the KGB, many were card-carrying members of the Communist Party, and not a few had a dual role as 'bishops' and 'priests' and uniformed officers of the KGB, in whose wardrobes hung both cassocks and uniforms.  What was worn on any given day was decided by which of their two roles they had to play.

All Bishops and most Priests were KGB agents and collaborators.  The bishops were formally part of the nomenclature of the CKKPSS;  (the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) and therefore had to be approved by the Ideological Depatemtne.  The 'ecclesiastical merits' of a candidate didn't interest the ideological Department;  on the contrary, they were hostile to such qualifications. 

 The fewer the merits, the better the candidate.

  Registration as a bishop in the Counciol of Religious Affairs was granted after an 'interview' (interrogation?) with its chairman, Vladimir Kuroyedov, a KGB Lt. General.  (Note:  this also had to apply to Metropolitan Nikodim of the Moscow Patriarchate, who represented the Russian Orthodox Church, in other words, the KGB, in the signing of the infamous Metz agreement by which the Catholic Church agreed not to make any statement critical of the Soviet Union r Communism during Vatican II)

SIDE TRACKING WITH A SAD NOTE ABOUT BISHOP NIKODM

"Many people still remember that in the mid 70s the faithful would drive him out of the Moscow churches shouting:  "Be gone, you heretic, you Catholic!"  Rumors, which circulated in Metropolitan Nikodim's lifetime about him being a secret Catholic have been recently confirmed.  This malicious ecumenis and enemy of Orthodoxy, who had celebrated Liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome had met his death in the arms of Pope John Paul I at the age of 49 on September 5, 1978.

He had longed for this audience with the Pope. When it came time for the audience, he was led to the seat beside Pope John Paul I.  He immediately leaned toward him with a gesture of reverence and whispered some words.  Next instant he was overwhelmed with a massive heart attack.  Pope John Paul held him and admininistered the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church while he was taking his last breaths on this earth.  When asked later what Nikodem had said to him, the Pope responded:  "That is a secret.  What he said were the most beautiful words I have ever heard about the Church.  It was like a son to his father."From Ecumenism -Path To Perdition  

 John Paul I died under very mysterious circumstances within the same month.  September 28, 1978  We will probably never have the answers to this puzzling situation until God decides ...marysong

Continuing with 'Spies In The Church'                                                                                                       In 2014, the Russian Orthodox church, or, more accurately 'Head Office' - the Moscow Patriarchate, published a calendar 'honoring the memory' of .....Josef Stalin.

The collaboration of the Moscow Patriarchate with the FSB (that is, as an organ of the KGB/FSB, is not a thing of the past.  According to Preobrazhensky, it continues to this day, and on a larger scale than ever before.

In Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation, the FSB superseded the KGB, (same beast with a different name), and it is more powerful than ever before.  There is seemingly nowhere its tentacles cannot reach.

Priests of the Moscow Patriarchate are now placed in countries around the world, especailly in Arab, ie:  Muslim countries where such 'priests' make up the entire clergy.  This in no way perturbs the authorities in these countries since they know that they are not there to spread Christianity, but to fight against the hated West.

As a result of Putin's 'friendship' with the late North Korean despot Kim Jong-II in 2006 a Russian Orthodox Church, dedicated outwardly to the Holy Trinity, was opened in Pyongyang.  In deeply communist N. Korea, any expression of religion, or even the suspicion of it, is a crime of crimes, punishable by imprisonment and torture.  Yet Kim Jong-II was more than happy to set these considerations aside for his good friend and ally, Vladimir Putin.  The building of the 'church' was largely financed by Russian money, but Kim Jong-II happily chipped in with $10000,000 from the coffers of his ravaged impoverished country.

In 2014 at least, (and possibly even now), there were North Korean 'students' studying at the Moscow Theological Academy.  If they were really genuine and active Christian believers, they certainly would not have been granted exit visas so that they could go abroad and tell the world the awful truth about life in North Korea and the diabolical character of the regime currently in power there.  They would be wasting away, and being tortured daily, in some inhumane North Korean prison.  The only plausible explanation for their being permitted to 'study' in Moscow at the 'Theological Academy' is that they have been specially selected and sent there by the Ministry of State Security

Whatever they are studying, theology it ain't.

May we suppose that it was Kim Jong-II's intention, and now that of his evil successor, Kim Jong-Un, to emulate Josef Stalin in building an 'Orthodox Church' in the image of the Moscow Patriarchate as an organ of state security.  If this is so, it was all made possible by Vladimir Putin's FSB, successor of the KGB.

The Discarded ("Lost") Documents of VII: A Catastrophy: Read and Weep For China

                        It was planned in advance at a meeting in Metz, France.  Russian Orthodox 
                        and Protestant prelates drew up the spiritual future for Catholics, along 
                        with a few 'spies' as seen above.  These were detected and ejected. One
                        had a purple scarf for a sash.  The others' chain on his Crucifix was
                        too short.


It was one of those warm Roman days and the sky was a perfect blue with a bright sun sending streams of light through the open windows onto the long table where the Cardinals worked.  Voices were lifted now and then in question ... another in answer ... to break the atmosphere of intensity.

There was already a curtain of descending gloom, which seemed to be reflected in the Cardinals' very posture.  Cardinal Ottaviani worked feverishly, his pencil writing and crossing out as  voice lifted in a comment or a query.

The Final Document of their labor was titled 'On The Care of Souls With Regard to Christians Infected With Communism.  (De Cura Animarum Pro Christianis Communismo Infectis)

It was already a sure thing that this document would never pass before the eyes of the College of Cardinals and their Protestant periti, nor their Russian Orthodox invitees.

The 'Treat of Metz' assured this.  So dear was it to the heart of Pope John XIII to reunite the two lungs of the Church that he planned to invite the Russian Orthodox to 'listen in' on the council.

Whether or not 'Good Pope John' was part of the deception is not to be dealt with here.

The main gist here is to present highlights of the discarded (lost by Monsignor Glorieaux) documents.



HIGHLIGHTS OF DE CURA ANIMARUM PRO CHRISTIANIS COMMUNISMO INFECTIS

There were three drafts of proposed declarations which sought to address the menace of communism, to prescribe a program to oppose it and to "shatter its audacity"  These documents and all similar proposals were discarded following the takeover of the council's commissions by the Bishops of the Rhine Group, a coalition of liberal prelates from Germany, France, and Holland, and their allies, who acted in a highly coordinated way to achieve their goals.

  (www.lifesitenews.com) has presented these lost schemas to the English speaking world in what they believe is their first translation from the Latin into the vernacular language)  Translations by
Matthew Cullinan Hoffman.

February 1962:  Approved by the Commission on Bishops and the Supervision of Dioceses

"In recent times, a danger has arisen that menaces the doctrine and activity of the Church, that is, atheistic Communism, whose specific purpose is to radically overturn the social order and to subfvert the foundations of Christian civilization"

"Seeking to bring about a new political order,' an association of men that expels God from the earth', atheistic Communism, like a new gospel and like a form of salvific redemption, preaches its message to all of humanity"

THIS PASTORAL ACTIVITY SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT:

"As the lamentable weakness of piety and religion are the principal cause of so many Christians self-identifying as communists, and as  Christian doctrine and the proper activity and practice of the Christian life are the strongest bulwark against atheism and materialism, pastors of souls and instructors of the youth should strive to educate the minds of the faithful so that they might not be troubled by any reasonable doubt nor by any commonly accepted social injustice"

Catechesis is to include a well-ordered and clear explanation of the social teaching that is contained in the treasury of Catholic doctrine."

"Bishops should strenuously and constantly defend the wise allocutions of the Popes regarding peace, regarding the principles by which a friendly companionship and harmony should be maintained between the social classes, and regarding the principles by which the less developed and poorer nations are to be aided, as opposed to a contented racism"

PLANS ARE GIVEN FOR PASTORS OF SOULS

"Pastors of souls should take the greatest  care that all of the faithful be perfectly instructed in the catholic faith and in good morals, so that they will eschew egoistic and hedonistic individualism.

"Diligent care should be taken so that topics regarding the social doctrine of the Church, are ever more frequently studied in Catholic schools of all levels as lbligitary subjects, especially in ecclesiastical seminaries and in religious institutes."


Read all of this, my dear friends, and weep today for China and all that has gone before.  The entire schema is avaiable in  their archives:  "The Lost Condemnations of Communism of Vatican II" See below for lifesite address:


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Communism Is A Fake God

Vladimir Lenin's body has lain in a mausoleum for 146 years.  Re-embalming costs $198,00 this year.

Russia spends 13 Rubles or approximately $198,00 to maintain the enbalmed corpse. 'The Atlantic'
According to 'Scientific America' Jeremy Hue, a "fresh coat of enbalming fluids is added each year.  This is a week long process of submerging the body in separate solutions of glycerol solution baths with formaldehyde" and other chemicals.

By poll, the majority of Russians want him buried but Vladimir Putin says that he "should stay put" and likened the body to displays of relics of orthodox saints in mausoleums."   But it's not real!

Conversely, Catholic saints who rest in the great cathedrals of the world, in total bodily preservation, have been removed from their graves in that condition. St. Catherine Laboure, the nun who received the image of the Miraculous Medal from a vision of Our Lady, is renowned for her beauty by all who view her truly incorrupt body in Paris.   Real Supernatural!   

Communism is an inverse mockery of the Catholic religion because it is a thought process from hell.
The devil apes God.  Communism hates Catholicism because Catholicism shines the light of the Original Truth upon the world.

Yesterday Pope Francis, in a public statement, said that he is closely monitoring the situation of the Catholic Church in China.  Cardinal Zen, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, intimated that the Pope is throwing the real Church under the bus ... "turning his back" on the sufferings of the faithful underground Catholics in favor of the Communist government of China.

Pope Francis is monitoring the Church in China but he didn't say which 'church.' He has given many statements to us which have the flavour of Marxism, but we will go into that later.

The Chinese Communist government has proclaimed that all churches in China will now obey its' dictates.  According to Cardinal Zen, today February 1, 2018, the faithful will no longer be able to celebrate Mass or the Sacraments underground, in house Masses,  or anywhere.

What does this mean? Let us hear it from some priests whose voices cry out from their tombs today.

"Father Joseph Chang of Jehol, was offered a Communist official job if he would apostatize;  when he refused he was seized at Maoshantung, thrown into jail and ordered to stand motionless for several days and nights, while guards watched to beat him if he moved.  He was then forced to sit over a coil of burning cord until his skin became as black and hard as wood.  Finally he was roped, dragged for two hours, and killed."

Father Francis Chu was the victim of a mob trial in his Kuanti, Jehol church which had been completely looted.  He was then dragged for twelve hours in an effort to make him apostatize;  he finally died.

Father Ho of Heou-fou was jailed and tortured for refusing to apostatize and join the Communist army.  He said to his tormentors:  "You are loyal to your revolution, I to my religion;  I cannot give up my loyalty for yours."  He was shot.  A catholic in the neighborhood sent a child to dip a cloth in the martyr's blood.  When this was held to the eyes of a blind man, he recovered his sight.  Father Ho is revered now, by Chinese Catholics as a saint, and bits of his clothing are treasured as relics."
God's Underground in Asia;  Gretta Palmer

Father Ho's blood and the naturally preserved body of St. Catherine Laboure are miraculous.  This supernatural dogmatic aspect of the faith of Catholics, fully in operation now as it was in the days of Saint Peter, is power which Communism hates.

The next paragraph offers words which were eliminated from Vatican II, which, if they had been there, would have saved us all this suffering.  Cardinal Tisserant and His Holiness Russian Orthodox Nikodim met at Metz France before the Council, and, a pact was made.  The Council would not condemn Communism, nor, would it be mentioned in the Church again.  The powerful encyclicals against Communism from the Popes of recent past had dealt their antidote against the poison of Communism too effectively.  Communism would have died with a few more of these dynamic encyclicals.

                              The Paragraph: From the Schema 'For The Care of Souls Infected With                                                   Communism'
  "Communism is altogether devoted to delivering a vision to man of an organic life, offering a false religion without God, and abolishing the very notion of the eternal Divinity and the hope of another life."

  On the Care of Souls With Regard to Christians Infected With Communism was a document prepared for Vatican II which was discarded by liberal prelates who took over the council's commissions. Life Site News has presented these lost schemas to the English-speaking world in probably their first translation into any vernacular language. Thank you Life Site News!  This is still available at life Site News.  All of it on a pdf in the archives.  It has been laying in the Vatican archives all this time, in Latin, gathering dust.

For a further view of life under Communism:   www.theresamariemoreau.com   She has written unbelievable accounts derived from her research and personal accounts with many of the people.
Communism didn't fall with the Berlin wall!  

Does Francis Really "Follow the Church in China With Special Attention?" Jan. 31, 2018

                                         10/18/2017 Xi Juanping speaks at the nineteenth                                                                                    Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 Pope Francis "follows the Church in China with special attention" is a quote from what he wrote in a public statement read Jan. 31, 2018.  He said there are those  who "foster confusion about the matter" in apparent reference  to the remarks of Cardinal Zen, Emeritus Bishop of Hong Kong, 88, who had been pleading for help from the Pontiff for the Underground Catholic Church in China, which suffers horrendously from  government persecution.

 Therefore, Pope Francis must be aware of the following points given in the speech of Xi Jianping:

                                                                   Introduction

Insisting on hastening the direction of sinicization of all religions, Secretary JinPing stressed that such a vision be followed by all.  All religions are to follow the leadership of the Communist Party.  This thought of Xi JuanPing is expected to become dogma in the Party. Secretary Xi Juanping's speech lasted three and one half hours and included the following four points, which are summarized.  We Chat Religion  (We Chat Platform)  Oct. 18
                                                                       


                      Summary of Four Points of Sec. General Xi JuanPine


1.  To actively develop Social Democracy, which is fully launched.  To unite the patriotic front with          ethnic and religious work which has been innovated and promoted.

2.   "One Country-Two Systems" - "The unification of the Motherland"  All are to make Socialism             with  Chinese Characteristics  better adhered to

3.   We will fully implement the party's basic guidelines for religious work We will  adhere to the               concept of sinicization of our religion and actively guide religions to adapt to Socialism.

4.   We must prevent and resolutely crack down on various types of infiltration, subversive and                 sabotage activities, violent and terrorist activities, ethnic separatism and religious extremism.
       WeChat Religion  (WeChat Platform)


As Pope Francis "follows the Church in China closely" he must be aware of these words and in agreement on the 'principle of sinicization'

Otherwise we would hear words of Papal support for Cardinal Zen, and, the Pope's, and our, suffering brothers and sisters in China.


For Stories of the Suffering in China, including American Priests and Sisters who have gone there in the past read the books by Theresa Marie Moreau.  She has put many true stories on her website in entirety for you to read. Things are the same now as they were then ... Communism did not fall with the Berlin Wall.  (marysong)

For Theresa Marie Moreau www.theresamariemoreau.com

                                                                       













                                    

Chinese Sec. General Xi Jianping and Vatican To Sinicize Catholic Church

Sinicization:  All religions will uphold an independent principle and follow the leadership of the Communist Party.  http://www.asianews.it/vatican asks legitimate Bishops to step aside in favour of illegitamate ones.

Last December Msgr. Peter Zhuang Jianjian of Shanhou (Guangdong) was forced to go to Beijing where a "foreign prelate" from the Vatican asked him to leave his See.  He was to be replaced by illicit Patriotic Church Bishop Joseph Huang Bingzhang.  He had received the same request last October.

Guangzhou  (Asia News)  The Holy See has asked Bishop Peter Zhuang Jianjian of Shantou in southern Guandong province to retire in order to be replaced by an illicit Bishop.

Another Vatican appointed Bishop was asked to downgrade himself as the Assistant of an illicit Bishop.

This is the second time in three months that the Holy See made the resignation demand on Bishop Zhuang, who was secretly ordained in 2006, with Vatican approval.  However, he is only recognized  as a priest by the Chinese government.

On the other hand, the Chinese government is in full support of the excommunicated Bishop Huang Bingzhang, a long time member in the National People's Congress which is China's parliament.

A letter dated 26 October demanded the 88 year old Bishop to resign to give way to the excommunicated Bishop whom the Holy See is going to recognize.

Bishop Zhuang, at that time, refused to obey and said he would rather "carry his cross" for being disobedient a church source in Guangdong who asked not to be named told Asia News.

In the latest incident Bishop Zhuang was escorted to Beijing 18-22 December from his southern diocese to meet senior officials from the central government and a delegation from the Vatican, according to the church source.

Before the trip, the officials began to monitor Bishop Zhuang on 11 December.  Know that the bishop was in poor health, and that the weather in Beijing was freezing, they still rejected his request not to go to northern China, and,  sent a Doctor along.  A total of seven local government officials went along with Bishop Zhuang and no priest was allowed to follow him the source said.

Staying at the Hugyosi Hotel in Beijing, Bishop Zhuang was taken sightseeing on 19 December and then to the headquarters of the Chinese Catholic Patriot Association (CCPA) and the Bishops conference the next day.  Here he met with Bishops Ma Yinglin, shen Bin and Guo Jincai, the President, Vice President, and, Secretary General of the Bishops Conference respectively, the source continued.

The CCPA and Bishops' conference, as well as Ma and Guo, two illicit Bishops, are not yet recognized by the Holy See.

On Dec21, Bishop Zhuang was taken to the Diaoyutal State Guesthouse.  He was first greeted by three officials from the State Administration for Religious Affairs.  Then he was led by Father Huang Baoguo, a chinese priest who is serving at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, to meet with a foreign Bishop and three foreign priests from the Vatican.

The foreign Bishop explained the aim of their travel to China.  It was to accomplish reaching an understanding with the Chinese government, and, to let Bishop Huang become the legitimate Bishop of the Diocese the source said.

The Holy See delegation demanded that Bishop zhuang retire as he was asked in the letter dated October 26.  There was one added term which was supposed to console the elderly Bishop.

He could nominate three priests for Bishop Huang to pick one as his vicar general the source said.

"Bishop Zhuang could not help his tears on hearing the demand" the source said, adding that "it was meaningless to appoint a vicar general, who is still a priest, that Bishop Huang could remove at anytime.

Some Bishops in Southern China opposed the idea of hastily recognizing Bishop Huang, who was officially excommunicated by the Holy See in 2011 for having received illicit episcopal ordination without papal mandate.  "I did not know the outcome but this is a bad solution" he said.

Asia News also asked the Vatican for confirmation of the situation in shantou.  A representive familiair withthe China dossier said that the letter Msgr. Zhuang received was just a request for opinion on the illicit Bishop Msgr Huang.

Another figure has kept silent.  Cardinal Joseph Zen, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong.

Cardinal  Zen confirmed the information obtained by Asia News.

What Are We To Think of The Divine Mercy Devotion?

The true image of God's mercy is the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance, crowned with thorns, dripping precious blood.

"Many people have certainly received graces from the devotion to Divine Mercy propagated by Saint Faustina, and her personal piety was certainly most exemplary.  However, this does not necessarily mean that this devotion is from God.

 It is true that Pope John Paul II promoted this devotion, that it was through his efforts that the prohibition was lifted on April 15, 1978, and that he even introduced a feast of Divine Mercy into the Novus Ordo.  

However, the fact that good and pious people receive graces and that Sister Faustina was pious do not necessarily mean that it is from heaven.

  In fact, it was not only not approved before Vatican II.  It was condemned.  And this, despite the fact that the prayers themselves of the chaplet of Divine Mercy are orthodox.

It was condemned by the Holy Office.

There were two decrees from Rome on this question, both in the time of Pope John XXIII.  The Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, in a plenary meeting held on November19, 1958 made the following decisions:

The supernatural nature of the revelations made to Sister Faustina is not evident.

No feast of Divine Mercy is to be instituted

It is forbidden to divulge images and writings that propagate this devotion under the form received by Sister Faustina.

The Second Decree of the Holy Office was on March 6,1959, in which the following was established:

The diffusion of images and writings promoting the devotion to Divine Mercy under the form proposed by the same Sister Faustina was forbidden.

The prudence of the Bishops is to judge as to the removal of the aforesaid images that are already displayed for public honor.

What was it about this devotion that prevented the Holy Office from acknowledging its Divine origin?  The decrees do not say, but it seems that the reason lies in the fact that there is so much emphasis on God's mercy as to exclude His justice.

  Our sins and the gravity of the offense that they inflict on God is pushed aside as being of little consequence. That is why the aspect of reparation for sin is omitted or obscured.

The true image of God's mercy is the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance, crowned with thorns, dripping precious blood.  The Sacred Heart calls for a devotion of reparation, as the Popes have always requested.  However, this is not the case with the Divine Mercy devotion.

  The image has no heart.  It is a Sacred Heart without a heart, without reparation, without the price of our sins being clearly evident.

It is this that makes the devotion very incomplete and makes us suspicious of its supernatural origin, regardless of Sister Faustina's own good intentions and personal holiness.  The absence of the need for reparation for sins is manifest in the strange promise of freedom from all the temporal punishment due to sin for those who observe the 3:00 PM Low Sunday devotions.

How could such a devotion be more powerful and better than a plenary indulgence, applying the extraordinary treasury of the merits of the saints?

How could it not require as a condition that we perform a penitential work of our own?

How could it not require the detachment from even venial sin that is necessary to obtain a plenary indulgence?

There is presumption in the Writings of Sister Faustina.

The published Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalski  (Marian Press, Stockbridge, MA 2007) also indicates several reasons to seriously question the supernatural origin of the more than 640 pages of voluminous and repeated apparitions and messages.

  The characteristic of any true mystic, who has received supernatural graces is always a profound humility, sense of unworthiness, awareness and profession of the gravity of his sins.

Yet, this humility is strangely lacking in Sister Faustina's diary.  On October 2, 1936, for example, she states that the "Lord Jesus" spoke these words to her:  "Now I know that it is not for the graces or gifts that you love me, but because My will is dearer to you than life.  That is why I am uniting Myself with you so intimately as with no other creature. ((707, p.288)).  

This gives every appearance of being a claim of being more united to Jesus than anybody else, even the Blessed Virgin Mary, and certainly more than all the other saints.  What pride, to believe such an affirmation, let alone to assert that it came from heaven!

In April 1938, Sister Faustina read the canonization of St. Andrew Bobola and was filled with longing and tears that her congregation might have its own saint.

 Then she affirms the following:  "And the Lord Jesus said to me, Don't cry.  You are that saint."  ((1650, p. 583))  These are words that most certainly no true saint would affirm, but rather his sinfulness and unworthiness to his congregation.

This presumption in her writings is not isolated.  She praises herself on several occasions through the words supposedly uttered by Jesus.  Listen to this interior locution, for example:

"Beloved pearl of my heart, I see your love so pure, purer than that of the angels, and all the more so because you keep fighting.  For your sake I bless the world."  ((1061, p. 400))

On May 23, 1937 she describes a vision of the Holy Trinity, after which she heard a voice saying:  "Tell the Superior General to count on you as the most faithful daughter in the Order"  ((1130,  p.417)).  It is consequently hardly surprising that Sister Faustina claimed to be exempt from the Particular and General Judgments. On February 4, 1935, she already claimed to hear this voice in her soul:  "From today on, do not fear God's judgment, for you will not be judged"  ((374  p. 168))

Add to this the preposterous affirmation that the host three time over jumped out of the tabernacle and placed itself in her hands  ((44,  p. 23)), so that she had to open up the tabernacle herself and place it back in there, tells the story of a presumption God's grace which goes beyond all reason, let alone as the action of a person supposedly favored with innumerable and repeated mystical and supernatural graces.

It is perhaps not accidental that Pope John Paul II promoted this devotion, for it is very much in line with his encyclical Dives In Misericordia.

  In fact, the Paschal Mystery theology that he taught pushed aside all consideration of the gravity of sin and the need for penance, for satisfaction to Divine Justice, and hence of the Mass as being an expiatory sacrifice, and likewise the need to gain indulgences and to do works of penance.  Since God is infinitely merciful and does not count our sins, all this is considered of no consequence.  This is not the Catholic spirit.

We must make reparation for our sins and for the sins of the whole world, as the Sacred Heart repeatedly asked at Paray-Le-Monial.  It is the renewal of our consecration to the Sacred Heart and frequent holy hours of reparation that is going to bring about the conversion of sinners.

  It is in this way that we can cooperate in bringing about His Kingdom of Merciful Love, because it is the perfect recognition of the infinite holiness of the Divine Majesty and complete submission to His rightful demands.

Mercy only means something when we understand the price of our Redemption."

Father Peter R. Scott
The Angelus