2005

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PURPOSE

The purpose of this Public Forum is to publicly respond to correspondence that we may receive from time to time and which is of Universal interest in these very unsettling times.

We reserve the right to choose what questions to address and how to transcribe the question and/or statement from the correspondence received. The identity of the correspondent will be kept confidential except in the case of abusive correspondence which will then be referred to the appropriate responsible entities.





From AQ @ Australia

Q.  Hello partners in Christ: I say that, putting ANY image, picture, icon of Catholic belief, alongside the Monstrance with the Eucharist on the Altar during a Exposition, is committing the sin of Idolatry.

Please comment,

Thank you

A


A.  This situation, like others, may not be a sin (venial or mortal) in itself but will lead to sin, in this case, idolatry. Logically, we should avoid situations that may lead to sin as much as possible - always recurring to God for strength in doing so - and always out of Love of God and not fear. Fear - without exception - is from satan and never of God.

Therefore there should be no representation of any creature on the altar - or near enough that would distract the faithful from the Eucharist reality - during the exposition of our Lord present in the Eucharist.

Through the Grace of God, miguel de Portugal knows the mechanism that "would lead to sin" in this case, but it is not for revelation at this time. Just know that it will indeed lead to the sin of idolatry and should be avoided. For more on how apparently innocuous actions lead to idolatry review our document which covers such matter.





From RD @ USA

Q.  I am facing a particular type of marital problem, which I'm guessing, some of your faithful readers may be experiencing as well. For the last
nine years my wife has lost all interest in any display of physical affection and we have not had any marital relations. When I raise my concerns about
our lack of intimacy, she refuses to discuss the matter and tells me to practice self gratification if I need a sexual release.

I have read your document, "Divorce among Catholics may be possible" several times, but I have been unable to find an answer. I have spoken to our parish priest about this issue several times, and he has encouraged me to divorce my wife because she is unable psychologically to carry out her duties as my wife. I have to believe our marriage was valid because my wife, being a very intelligent person, must have understood the requirements of a loving union when we took our vows before God. Also we finished the marriage preparation course sponsored by our diocese.

But starting on the second day of our union, she has treated me with little respect and less love, and she refuses to tell me the reasons for her behavior. If I divorce my wife under these circumstances, will I need to get the Vatican approved annulment in order to remarry? Also, if I indulge in self gratification under these circumstances, is it a mortal sin?

Or, since Jesus spoke so strongly against divorce, would I be wiser to stay in the marriage in hopes that things will eventually improve and offer up my hardships to "redemptive suffering" as recommended by the Virgin Mary when she spoke to the children at Fatima? I'll appreciate any help you can give me.

Sincerely,

RD


A.  Without a doubt the situation seems to be complex but appearances are indeed deceiving. We shall take one point at a time to avoid confusing digressions.

1. Based on what we believe and have written - NOTES included - about matrimony, you must have an annulment if you wish terminate the relationship with your wife. Even though she seems to be seriously psychologically unbalanced - which has nothing to do with intelligence - you had all the necessary preparation prior to entering the Sacrament of Matrimony - "for better or worse".

2. Her mental condition, from what you state: "But starting on the second day of our union, she has treated me with little respect and less love" , should be more than enough grounds to secure a legitimate annulment. We refer you to the Note in our document regarding the validity of the mental condition of one of the parties to a matrimony as a reason to secure an annulment.

3. In the meantime - while the "holy paperwork" is processed you should: (a) Pray for her healing; and (b) Offer this suffering for redemptive purposes. God well knows that you wish to remain with your original choice; furthermore, it is in His power, once you offer your suffering for her healing, to do so in a harmonious way. If He does not change the situation by the time the "holy paperwork" is completed, then, it is obvious that He Wills that you proceed and complete the annulment.

4. No. Practicing self gratification is not a mortal sin, per se, regardless of the times such story has been used to control humans. However, it, like any short-circuiting of the human psycho-spiritual-physical balance may lead to mortal sin. We have covered the dangers of this so called "short circuiting" in our document about homosexuality.

Be at peace. Precisely because of your sincere desire to do what is right, God will assist you both in a most solicitous manner to resolve this situation.

If this was a "Test" for miguel de Portugal (a la "Should we pay taxes to Caesar?" [Luke 20:20-26]), well, we thank you for the opportunity.





From CH @ NZ

Q.  In response to a private communication from us, CH responds thus...

In reference to what you tell me: ......"We think that your heart and soul are in a position to give a good level headed evaluation of what you experience......."

I will be happy to report factually what I see and experience (at a religious presentation in his area). As for the condition of my heart and soul...... I try each day to become a better person, whatever that may be. I care about others, but I am no saint. I have done some terrible things in my past and still do. I acknowledge that I have also done many good things for others. I am so saddened by the state of the world, but also I contribute in some ways to the state it is in.

Please don't put me on any pedestal regarding the condition of my heart and soul - I don't deserve it. I am as sinful as anyone, probably more than many. But I have hope. For all of us.

Kind Regards

CH


A.  No. We are not placing you on a pedestal.

Amazing as it may seem for us to say, considering our full endorsement of the Catholic Faith, the only two who belong on a pedestal are: Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Most Holy Mother, the Ever Virgin Mary. No other human being should be placed on a pedestal that may invite profound veneration, as is due to Mary, and adoration, as it is due to Jesus Christ, Our Lord and God.

This principle was clearly expressed through Barnabas and Paul in Lystra [Acts 14:8-18] ; a principle which was conveniently overlooked by the Church Administrators since it was more financially profitable to have many statues of humans on pedestals with a collection box next to it.

We trust in the position of the heart and soul of an individual who openly acknowledges that "I try each day to become a better person, whatever that may be. I care about others, but i am no saint. I have done some terrible things in my past and still do. I acknowledge that i have also done many good things for others. I am so saddened by the state of the world, but also i contribute in some ways to the state it is in." An individual who is also actively pursuing the signs from Heaven for These Times, including those through the Virgin Mary... without even being a Catholic.

How happy would Heaven be if most of those who take the "holier than thou" attitude would get their hearts and souls where yours are! As we have pointed out, Denial is a grave sin and we fail to see any of that in you while the "holier than thou" group make it their own particular idol.

We have said it many times - "It Is One Step at a Time". We only care that souls are on the right track and heading in the right direction and have the necessary spiritual guidance/consolation to keep on going to the Father. How fast they should go? That is entirely up to God and no one else! For... Who is like unto God?





From C @ U.S.A.

Note from The M+G+R Foundation: This is more than a question and it is very lengthy but we deem it important enough to share it, with our comments, far and wide.

Q.  Dear miguel de Portugal -

The National Shrine of St. Ann, located in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City, is to be closed, demolished, and sold after the last mass
tomorrow. The building dates from the early 1850s, and was originally a protestant church, then a synagogue. In 1870 it became the second home of St. Ann's parish (founded 1854).

The High Altar is a Privileged Altar . In 1929, by Papal prescript St. Ann's was named as the National Shrine of the saint.

Due to the decline of the neighborhood, in 1983, then Cardinal Cooke gave St. Ann's to the Armenian Rite Catholics to use as their Cathedral - in
perpetuity. Slowly, St. Ann's began to recover, and gained a congregation of some 700. This included the Armenian Rite, two Novus Ordo Masses, and a Tridentine Indult mass. One of the NO masses was in Spanish for a small but vibrant Ecuadorian community.

In 1999, the parish raised $500,000 to completely restore the church - heating, AC, roof, flooring. A complete paint job - the first in some 50 years was done largely through the labor of the Ecuadorians - who donated their labor, in love for God. This was all done without any help from the Archdiocese of New York - the parish was self sustaining.

In 2004, "Cardinal" Egan threw the Armenians out abruptly, and set out to close St. Ann's , and look to sell the property. AS you can see, there was a very active congregation, and money was not an issue. Egan just wanted to realize some $15 million from the sale of the church!

St. Ann's is in a very populous neighborhood - filled with the young and unchurched. Egan plans to close three other churches in the immediate area, as well as some 30 others in Manhattan. There are some 1.7 million people living on Manhattan Island. Most are godless. The need for open churches, and the presence of Christ in the Tabernacle is obvious to any who understand the missionary nature of the church.

The mission of the church is the salvation of souls. All resources should be used, and no cost spared - so precious to God is just one soul.

But Egan does not see things that way. He, like other faithless priests and prelates have forsaken Christ. They view the church as a business...... as a cash cow. They look at a church like St. Ann's and do not see a Temple of the living God wherein the Sacrifice of the Mass is offered....... nor a building filled with art treasures....... nor as a tool for the salvation of souls.

Nay, Egan sees it only as valuable real estate........ to be sold for......... what? Certainly not for the glory of God. No - any thought like that is certainly part of the agenda.

You can read the story at www. anti-abomination.com. Pictures of St. Ann's are on this page: http://www.anti-abomination.com/nationalshrineofsaintann.htm

I have written for this site and am an advisor to the site, and the effort to combat Egan.

God be with you!

C
A.  This "Cardinal" Egan is the same Egan we have spoken about. He is of the same feather than "Cardinal" Law, recently rewarded by H.H. John Paul II with the most honorable and important Basilica dedicated to the Virgin Mary - St. Mary Major.

We warn those who need to be warned: Anyone who continues to support the Administration of the Roman Catholic Church in any and all areas that may be detrimental to the pristine Catholic Faith, will have far, far more to worry than those who voted for Mr. Kerry in the last U.S. election.

Make no mistake - Rome HAS lost the Faith!

What God needs now more than ever is that His children, like "C", get out and do something to protect the little Faith left, the abandoned unchurched children of God (for whom Jesus care, Remember!?) and denounce the Spiritual Bastards, like Egan, Law, et al who are destroying all in their paths while staining the Holy Name of God with every breath they take. For those who, for one reason or another are not able to physically contribute in said manner, this is what you should do.





From RMcA @ U.S.A.

Q.  I've been puzzled for a good while about this 3rd Secret suppression by the Vatican.

While I don't for a second doubt what you say, it bothers me to have to accept that a special plan/arrangement of God's COULD be thwarted by any agency, human, satanic or anything else. Yet it sounds as if God went to the "trouble" of sending His own Mother from Heaven to earth specially to announce a plan which was, in fact, hampered and thwarted by shenanigans at the Vatican - inspired by Satan or not.

Surely God COULD NOT have been prevented from doing what He planned to do, regardless of who/what opposed it? I'm sure there's an explanation, but I just can't seem to think of it.

Anyhow, I always look forward to your newsletter (although I'm really only struggling with prayers), and take this opportunity of thanking you very much.

RMcA


A.  We thank you for this opportunity that you have given us to "rattle the cage" of the faithful for their benefit (not ours!), one more time...

Indeed the suppression of the third part of the Secret of Fátima may be puzzling and the lying about it, which is something else, may appear to be even more puzzling.

First - about its suppression. We have explained at length why H.H. John XXIII chose to suppress it (not make it public). To that we shall add now that, had we been in his shoes, we would have done exactly the same thing. Why? Because IT WAS TOO LATE!

Second - about its falsification. That is a most grievous sin and those who participated in it - actively and passively will have to account to God about it.

Regarding the rest of your puzzlement about how could God allow this or that. Well, the first example is found at the beginning of Genesis. God allowed the fall of man.

To help to understand this we refer you to one of our documents entitled "Mysteries of God That Allow Us to Better Understand Heavenly Messages - What is "Time and Eternity and The Existing Confusion About the Apocalypse".

Next we refer you to our document regarding the Man's Free Will and all that it entails.

Last, but not least... You state "...although I'm really only struggling with prayers..." Praised be Jesus! We wish that all would be doing so and focusing on the goodness of God and cooperating on reducing the pain that is to come.

The reason we keep issuing the calls and alerts is the same one for which Mary kept visiting Her children... Trying to arouse them from their sleep of indolence so that, through their prayers and sacrifices, they would cooperate with Heaven in the final and very painful phase of the End of These Times.

You will be amazed - We publish a document about a major calamity taking place and there is a rush to read it. We publish a document on prayer and reparation as ways to reduce the suffering.... Yaaaawwwnnnnnn!

We published a document about the very serious AND real contract we are entering with God when we pray Our Father... hardly anyone read it although everyone is going to be judged in the manner shown in said document. Pathetic!

Sadly enough the late German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer(1876-1967) expressed it like it just appears to be: "The good Lord sets definite limits on man's wisdom but sets no limits on his stupidity."

Kyrie Eleison!





From LC @ U.S.A.

Q.  If God will not place upon His children a heavier burden than he/she can carry, why was it then that the cross given to His Son, Jesus Christ, was so heavy that He could not carry it and Simon of Cyrene had to help Him?

LC
A.  At the instigation of the religious fanatics of the Temple ("The Vatican" of those days) - that is, man, NOT God - a heavier cross than He could physically bear was placed upon His Holy shoulder. God intervened and the Romans (*) responded by enlisting Simon of Cyrene to assist Jesus [Mt 27:32, Mk 15:21, Lk 23:26] in carrying His cross.

Thus, when man places upon any of God's children a heavier cross than he/she could bear, God will indeed come to the assistance of His children.

You may then rightfully ask: "Who are His children?"

His children are "His family". That is, in the Person of Jesus, His family, "His mother and His brothers", as Jesus Himself pointed out to us in [Mt 12:50] were : "... whoever does the Will of my Heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother."

Who does (or tries in utmost sincerity) to do the Will of His Heavenly Father? Those who try in earnest to follow Him.

It is that simple. Theologians have made it very complicated because it enhances their egos and fill their coffers with the blackest of money.

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(*) The same "evil" Romans who proclaimed Jesus "...the King of the Jews" by placing, on orders from Pilate, a sign above His Holy Head stating so in three languages [Jn19:19]. Even at the insistence of the fanatical murderers of the Temple, Pilate would not remove the sign. Things have not changed, have them....?





From LP @ U.S.A.

Q.  In reference to news stories about evil in South Asia before the Quake: terrorism in Sri Lanka, child prostitution/human trafficking/sex tourism, and high rates of abortion. And yet ... so many innocents, people who had nothing to do with these things, died, or survive in misery. These disasters seem so indiscriminate in their allocation of suffering.

LP


A.  You state: "These disasters seem so indiscriminate in their allocation of suffering." In reality, they are neither indiscriminate in allocating the suffering nor are they vengeful acts of a despotic God. They are simply God's way of minimizing the damage that we - the "civilized" Christian people - have allowed, caused and/or failed to prevent.

Without getting "knee deep" in theological double-talk so common in The Vatican and of "birds of the same feather" we shall get to the point.


What options has man left for God to protect His children?


The answer has been in our hands for centuries. As a last ditch effort we have spelled it out in several crystal clear documents which people keep reading but, obviously, not able to understand.

Therefore - God Will continue to exercise this option until His Redemption plan is completed - with man's cooperation or not!

Is this so difficult to understand or is it that the god man manufactured does not quite fit into the mold of the Real, Living and Loving God?

One final note: The above applies to members of all Faiths and Religions - not only Christians and not only Catholics. God is the Father of all and Mary is the Mother of all and one day soon She will be acknowledged by all as such - a moment which we await for in joyful rapture.





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