The devil and Archbishop Fulton J Sheen

The Devil!

The Devil!

This is a huge subject and I may have to write this in parts and I hope you will find this interesting and that most important, it will stir you into action!

THE DEVIL IS REAL AND HE IS PLAYING FOR KEEPS!!! NEVER EVER FORGET THAT!!!

This LINK will greatly help, and the talk by Archbishop Fulton Sheen will be a very good start to my comments and reflections on what I have learned so far.

http://www.youtube.com/results search_query=archbishop+fulton+sheen+on+the+Devil&aq=3

THERE ARE SOME VERY GOOD JOKES AT THE BEGINNING TO WHET YOUR APPETITE!

After watching the Bishop, and he is very good, and some say he was the greatest communicator of the 20th Century on TV, and Radio.

He had a huge audience and many if not most were not Roman Catholic,,,,,,,

Then...........

Please read the following passage very carefully.
Luke Chapter 8...

26 And they sailed to the country of the Gerasens, which is over against Galilee.


27 And when he had come forth to the land, there met him a certain man who had a devil now a very long time. And he wore no clothes: neither did he abide in a house, but in the sepulchres.

28 And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before him. And crying out with a loud voice, he said:
What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I beseech you, do not torment me.

29 For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts.

30 And Jesus asked him, saying: What is your name? But he said: Legion.
Legion, I always thought meant a 1000 but it actually means 6000!!!!

He was literally being lead around by 6000 different opinions with absolutely no unity, except to taunt him and lead him astray and eventually destroy him

This is a very important observation as you will see later...

I hope you listened to Bishop Sheen and he listed 3 characteristics of Satanic possession.
Nudity
Violence
Split personality
if I remember correctly.
We will have to deal with these characteristics later

The Bishop gave a definition for the word Devil. Do you remember what it was?
Diaballein.. which can mean to Tear apart and to rip in pieces....and ultimately destroy..

Have you ever watched those documentaries where the Lion carefully splits the herd and takes one little Buffalo and then kills it while all the others are running away in a different direction.
Smart!
Why?
Because those Buffalo Parents and Uncles and Aunties could prove a problem for the Lion if they were not separated.

Just imagine if those Buffaloes had stayed together with a Leader telling them to form a circle around the tender little Buffalo calves, and defend themselves as He the Leader gave instructions to an obedient herd.????

I think the Lions would get very thin and hungry and maybe start eating grass!

John Chapter 10 verse 10 says
 The thief comes not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly.

We all know that Jesus is a GOOD SHEPHERD and does not want His Flock to be divided...
Do you believe that?????

Jesus prays in John Chapter 17 for all to be one.... Do you remember that???

Jesus was the smartest of all!
He knew men and what was inside them.
He knew just how imperfect they were.
He knew they would need teachers.
He knew they would need schools.
He knew they would need a Head Master and other disciplinarians to maintain order.

Imagine telling all the children in England to go to school and the books would all be there and all they would have to do is to read them themselves and there would from now on be no more teachers.

The Lord of the Flies is a Movie which I have not seen but it shows what a bunch of kids get up to when there is no leadership and discipline... Horrible!!!

Well I am just a kid too. A 72 year old kid and I need people of greater and proven experience to keep me in line too.

I hope you see what I am driving at.

I and the Catholic Population are for sure not better than you non Catholics. Some of my very best friends are Non Catholics.
Actually to tell you the TRUTH, I for sure am not Catholic because we have the most on fire and attractive personnel.
We are a weak bunch and many time not even nice.
Some of us are Pharisees of the worst kind.
Some of us are so weak in our faith that we may and probably will give up in the future.
BUT we have a STRUCTURE
We have Leadership
And we have stood the test of time.
One of the best examples I know and one which continually sticks in my mind and is a tremendous encouragement is a true story about Padre Pio

You can watch the movie on you tube! and this characteristic of his is the reason why God was so with this guy and why he became a Saint so soon after his death.

I think it was for 10 years that he was prevented from taking Holy Mass and hearing confessions. Not 10 days or ten weeks but 10 years. ALL BECAUSE OF FALSE ACCUSATIONS...

He had a really good friend who was not a Priest and everyone knew that the Local Bishop was a womaniser on the side.

This friend trying to encourage Father Pio made a negative allusion to this Bishop and got an immediate slap on the face from the Father . He angrily corrected him for his insubordination and lack of respect toward a higher authority.
Saint Pio knew the paramount importance of the need for this 2000 year old structure, even if people in the structure were bad sinners and very bad role models.
I am not a Catholic because of good or bad priests.
I am not a Catholic because other members of the congregation of my church love me or hate me or even worse are indifferent towards me but because of Matthew Ch 16 verse 18...
Jesus Christ is building, maintaining and carrying on my Church with or without me or you or good people or bad people but just because He promised to do so and He has put a structure in place which totally confounded those False Prophets prior to the Pope's visit to my country who believed and spread lies that B16 would return to Rome with his tail between his legs having been snubbed and humiliated by the British Public.

The rest of you who are not in this structure but going to an unstructured school with just books to read and no teachers are easy meat for the Diaballein who is eating you and your denominations for breakfast.

Splitting and splitting and then more splitting and eventual destruction or even worse ineffectiveness!!!!!!!!

It is like going to war without a General or Army Commander... Just take your gun and some ammo and some difficult to understand instructions and win the war all by yourself... Crazy isn't it????