FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH
OPEN LETTER TO POPE BENEDICT XVI
YOUR HOLINESS,
THE SPEECH YOU HAVE GIVEN DURING THE ANGELUS ON FEBRUARY 21ST, WAS OPTIMUM AND ENLIGHTENING: TO DEFEAT SATAN?S TEMPTATIONS FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST.
BUT, YOUR HOLINESS I ASK YOU:
UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS IS THE CHURCH OF CHRIST TODAY?
NOT THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH, NOR THE ONE OF THE MISSIONARIES OR THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY BODY OF CHRIST, I ASK CONCERNING THE VATICAN, THE CHURCH OF PETER, THE CHURCH THAT YOU REPRESENT AND DIRECT.
CHRIST SAID: "NEVERTHELESS, WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES, WILL HE FIND FAITH ON EARTH?" (LUKE18:8)
NOW, YOUR HOLINESS, THE VATICAN AND MANY OF ITS DIRECTORS ARE IN THE HANDS OF SATAN, THE SCANDALS ARE DEVASTATING. THE INSTITUTE FOR WORKS OF RELIGION (IOR), IS THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, THROUGH WHICH, AS YOU WELL KNOW, THE BLOODY ASSASSINS OF THE MAFIA - ANGELS OF SATAN - LAUNDER MONEY. THE VATICAN IS A POLITICAL AND MATERIAL POWER, THE SAME POWER THAT CHRIST REJECTED FROM SATAN WHEN HE WAS TAKEN TO THE MOUNTAIN AND WAS OFFERED THE KINGDOM OF THE WORLD.
SATAN WINS OVER THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND YOU MUST CAST AWAY THE TEMPTER FROM ITS HEAD.
YOU YOURSELF HOLINESS, KNOW VERY WELL THAT, DESPITE THE FACT THAT NO ONE BUT THE FATHER KNOWS THE HOUR AND THE DAY, THE SIGNS OF TIME INDICATE THAT THIS IS THE TIME FOR THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST TO THE WORLD AND HIS JUDGEMENT. OUR BELOVED CHURCH MUST BE PURIFIED BY PETER BEFORE THE WRATH OF THE HOLY LORD. PETER HAS DENIED BUT HAS REDEEMED HIS TREASON WITH HIS LIFE. TODAY, ALL OF US ARE CALLED, ALL OF US AS CATHOLIC, TO CLEAN THE PUTRIFICATION IN THE CHURCH AND YOU MUST BE THE GUIDE. IF IT IS NOT DONE THIS WAY, CHRIST SHALL CAST AWAY THE MERCHANTS, THE DEGENERATE, THE CORRUPTED AND THE APOSTATES OUT OF THE TEMPLE, ONLY THIS TIME WITH CHAINS OF FIRE AND NOT WITH SIMPLE ROPES.
WITH ALL RESPECT IN CHRIST OUR LORD
GIORGIO BONGIOVANNI
STIGMATIST
SAINT?ELPIDIO A MARE (ITALY)
23rd FEBRUARY 2010
ANGELUS MESSAGE BENEDICT XVI
Plaza San Pietro - Sunday, 21st February 2010
Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Last Wednesday, with the penitential rite of the ashes, we began Lent, a time of spiritual renewal in preparation for the annual celebration of Easter. But what does it mean to enter into the Lenten journey?
The Gospel of this First Sunday of Lent illustrates it, with the account of Jesus? temptation in the desert. The evangelist St. Luke tells us that Jesus, after having received baptism from John, ?full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert for 40 days and was tempted by the devil? (Luke 4:1-2). It is evident that there is an insistence on the fact that the temptations were no accident but the consequence of Jesus? choice to carry out the mission entrusted to him by the Father, to embrace completely his reality as beloved Son, who hands himself over entirely to the Father. Christ came into the world to free us from sin and the dangerous fascination of planning our lives without God. He did it not with high-sounding proclamations, but by personally struggling against the Tempter, right to the Cross. This is an example for all: The world improves beginning with ourselves, changing what is not right in our lives with the grace of God.
Of the three temptations that Satan proposes to Jesus, the first has to do with hunger, that is, material need: ?If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.? But Jesus answers with sacred Scripture: ?One does not live on bread alone? (Luke 4:3-4; cf. Deuteronomy 8:3).
Then the devil shows all the kingdoms of the earth to Jesus and says: All this will be yours, if you will fall down and worship me. It is the deception of power, and Jesus unmasks this temptation and rejects it: ?You shall worship the Lord, your God, and him alone shall you serve? (Luke 4:5-8; Deuteronomy 6:13). Power is not to be worshiped but God alone, truth and love.
Finally, the Tempter proposes that Jesus perform a spectacular miracle: He should throw himself from the high walls of the Temple and make the angels save him so that everyone would believe in him. But Jesus answers that God must never be put to the test (cf. Deuteronomy 6:16). We must never try an experiment in which God is supposed to respond and show himself to be God: we must believe in him! We must not make God ?material? for our ?experiment?! Referring again to Sacred Scripture, Jesus opposes to human criterion the only authentic criterion: obedience, conformity with God?s will, which is the foundation of our being. This too is a basic teaching for us: If we carry the Word of God in our heart and in our mind, if it enters into our lives, if we have confidence in God, we can reject any sort of deception of the Tempter. Moreover, from the whole story there clearly emerges the image of Christ as the new Adam, Son of God, humble and obedient to the Father, unlike Adam and Eve, who in the Garden of Eden gave in to the seductions of the spirit of evil to become immortal without God.
Lent is a long ?retreat,? during which we return to ourselves and listen to God?s voice to overcome the temptations of the Evil One and find the truth of our being. It is a time, we could say, of spiritual ?contest? to live together with Jesus, not with pride and presumption, but using the weapons of faith, that is, prayer, listening to God?s Word and penance. In this way we will be able to celebrate Easter in truth, ready to renew the promises of our baptism. May the Virgin Mary help us so that, guided by the Holy Spirit, we live this time of grace with joy and fruit. May she especially intercede for me and my co-workers in the Roman Curia since this evening we will begin our retreat.
Source: http://www.piercedhearts.org/benedict_xvi/angelus/feb_21_10.htm
