by
Damien F. Mackey
“Now
there are a thousand times ten thousand roads down which any one of us may
travel for a lifetime, But all of those roads are going to end in front of two
faces.
One,
the Merciful face of Christ. And the other, the miserific face of Satan”.
~Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Craig Calvert isn’t into “hooky pooky stuff” but there was no mistaking
this.
There, in a photo his friend took, was a “big devil face” emerging from
a raging fire in Victoria’s East Gippsland region.
The dairy farmer spent 13 hours defending his property from a fire that
spat out 100 metre large fireballs.
“It hit us like four or five times, the chopper pilots are heroes, they
saved it (the property) …I’m very glad people did not get killed here,” he told
Channel 7.
“We had fireballs coming over, jumping. Some of them were 50 metres to
100 metres across.
“We’ve got a photo a friend took and I’m not into hooky pooky stuff but
there was a big devil face in it.”
What is the Essence of the Demonic? by Archbishop Fulton Sheen
"What then is the demonic? The demonic is the temptation
away from the Cross of Christ in redemption. That's the essence of the demonic.
This is an example of the demonic: taking down of crucifixes from our hospital
rooms, from our school rooms. I went to a bishops' meeting in the convent and
the sister was, well she didn't look like a sister, but she said she was. But
the essence of the demonic is the anti-Cross and all that it means. It means
sin, it means redemption, it means glorification, it means resurrection, it
means an eternal peace and joy, but not the Cross. So we have movements in the
Church today where we have this spirit without a Calvary. No mention of a Cross
or of discipline. Just the celebration. It is because we know what clear water
is that we are offended by foul waters. It is only because we know Christ that
we begin to see evil in its depth because evil is relational. Evil has no
substance of its own. It is a parasite on goodness. And the more Christlike we
are, the deeper is our vision of the evils of the world and the evils that can
creep into the Church. How long this conflict with evil forces will last, well
we do know, but now it is intensifying and it centers so much on the Eucharist
which brings us to the necessity of the Holy Hour. I don't know if you have
many tabernacles robbed in this diocese, but we do. In one diocese there were
two country parishes within 7 miles of one another where the Blessed Sacrament
was stolen, corpuses torn of the crucifixes. No Christ on the Cross. There must
be a consecrated host for a Black Mass, that is an absolute essential. It is
where everything will be done backwards. The Our Father will be said backwards,
prayers will be said backwards.
And when the priests join the movement, they have the Body of
Christ to recrucify. We may be a little lax in our devotion to the Blessed
Sacrament, but Satan is not.
Scripture tells us that Satan believes. He believes and
therefore he seeks Him out. And this then, is an additional reason for the Holy
Hour. One bishop jokingly said, "That means I must give up my alcoholic
drinking hour in order to have my Holy Hour." Now there are a thousand
times ten thousand roads down which any one of us may travel for a lifetime,
But all of those roads are going to end in front of two faces. One, the
Merciful face of Christ. And the other, the miserific face of Satan."
~Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Maybe, when one
legislates against Creation - as has recently been the case in Australia
(extreme abortion laws; euthanasia; yes to gay ‘marriage’) - then Creation may
legislate against the legislator.
The fires that
have been raging all the way down the eastern side of Australia have become so
fierce and unstoppable that standard descriptions such as “bushfire” have had
to be replaced with words like “atomic”.
“Up until an hour or so ago it was pitch black, you couldn’t
see 10 feet in front of you. It was just insane”.
The
Rural Fire Service said firefighters were in "uncharted territory" at
the peak of the crisis ….
… with
one responding to footage of the NSW “megafire” with …. “This looks like hell.”
"Within
30 minutes this great wall of fire just came from the back of our cul de sac
and within seconds the trees were catching fire, and the sky was orange and
yellow. It was like Armageddon …".
MidCoast Mayor David West, who lives in Brimbin,
said that he had never seen anything like the nearby fire.
"I'm looking at a sky that's screaming danger,
that's saying 'get out of my way, I'm going to kill you'," he said.
"I know that sounds melodramatic but it's not.
This is a fire that's devouring everything in its path."
1 John 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be
has not yet been made known. But we know that
when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
