Today’s Bible Reading includes Acts 13:44-52. That Word of God begins with a “Hidden Prophecy” that tells us why so many “leading, prominent” people are led to hate The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Spoken Into Being by The Word of He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies to His First Catholic Pope, 2,000 years ago:
“And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
Two Thousand Years of Catholic History begin in this “Hidden Prophecy”: “On the following sabbath, almost the whole city gathered to hear The Word of The Lord. When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and with violent abuse contradicted what Paul said.”
All the anti-Catholics in History have been “filled with jealousy” that leads them to show their hate for those who are blessed with the Seven Catholic Sacramental Blessings that are among “the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” with “violent abuse”!
For 2,000 years, anti-Catholics have been attacked by God’s enemies. We describe what motivates them with our New Catholic Word, “peggalas”. That acronym sums up the seven tribes of God-hating demons: pride, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, and sloth. They try to keep everyone on earth from Being As Catholic As We Can.
When those demons of vanity see someone tempted to follow Catholic Teachings, they appeal to the vanity of countless human marketing plans that lead many to believe: “I know more than Jesus and His Church!” It is a blessing for Catholics to see the vanity of those who persecute us reduced to one sentence and one word, “peggalas”!
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St. Paul, the greatest Catholic Evangelist, was helped by St. Barnabas to share this “Hidden Prophecy” of the great loss that comes to those who reject The Church-Creating Word of Jesus! “Both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, ‘It was necessary that The Word of God be spoken to you first, but since you reject it, and condemn yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.”
His next “Hidden Prophecy” tells us why God lets His Newly Chosen People, those who try to Be As Catholic As We Can, see His “light”! “For so The Lord has commanded us, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, that you may be an instrument of Salvation to the ends of the earth.”
Then, this “Hidden Prophecy” tells us how happy Catholics would be for the next 2,000 years! “The Gentiles were delighted when they heard this and glorified The Word of The Lord.”
Then, we see the “Hidden Prophecy” predicting how miraculously blessed Catholic souls would be for the next 2,000 years! “All who were destined for eternal life came to believe, and The Word of The Lord continued to spread through the whole region.”
More “Hidden Prophecies” identify those who value earthly positions more than getting their immortal souls into Heaven! “The Jews, however, incited the women of prominence who were worshipers and the leading men of the city, stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their territory.”
Today, The Memorial of St. Athanasius reminds us that the same people who persecuted St. Paul and St. Barnabas were attacking St. Athanasius 300 years later. Catholics are blessed to see that History is a record of how so many “prominent women” and “leading men” have been “stirring up a persecution against” Catholics for 2,000 years!
We identify those lost souls every time we watch their puppets providing the “news” they want to be known on broadcasting and media outlets they own and control. Despite 2,000 years of their global efforts, Catholics see that the “Hidden Prophecy” in Today’s Psalm 98:1-4 still echoes God’s Truth of how effectively our Catholic priests, religious, and people have been blessed to obey The Church-Creating Word of Jesus! “All the ends of the earth have seen The Saving Power of God.”
Jesus reminds Catholics of a great danger in John 8: 31-32. The world’s “leading, prominent” people always convince as many as they can to not “remain” in His Catholic Church! May all be blessed to see His “Hidden Prophecy”: “‘If you remain in My Word, you will truly be My Disciples, and you will know The Truth’, says The Lord.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Dear God, may I be / pleasing to thee!”
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