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But this little one in the church, this new youth, this is, for me, a true sign of the true Pentecost. The true Pentecost will not change the beauty of the doctrine, will not change the beauty of the worship, and the beauty of the moral life. Pope John Paul II taught in his Marian encyclical, “Identities matter,” that Mary is located in the very center of the battle of Christ against Satan. Why? The Blessed Virgin Mary has destroyed all heresies because she believed that the Son of God would be incarnated and would become man. The Christian faith consists essentially in the faith in Christ, through God and through man. The Blessed Virgin Mary was the first to believe in the incarnation of God, and since then, this faith has never perished on Earth. And she was the first who believed, and therefore she is the most powerful to destroy unbelief and apostasy. When God became man, he, too, I believe, would make his mother as nice as he could, and that would make her a perfect mother. Our Lady, the Immaculate Virgin Mary, will surely crush the greatest heresy of all times, which is the heresy of the Antichrist, and which is, I quote St. John the Apostle, from his first letter, “who is a liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ, he is the Antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son.” St. John, First Epistle, 2:22.
The greatest enemy of the Christian faith is not an army with material weapons, but an army of those who are equipped with ink and pen in order to undermine and pervert the virginal purity of the Catholic faith. When St. Louis announces the gospel, it seems that he scandalizes through the harshness of his language, insisting on the so-called Marian slavery. Yet we are living in a world of slavery today, the slavery of money, the slavery of power, the slavery of lust, the slavery of the passions, the slavery of fashion, the slavery of public opinion, the slavery of narcotics, the slavery of television, the slavery of the internet, the slavery of pornography. The results are before our eyes. What are the results? Despair, frustration, lawlessness, violence, degradation. This is the price of the sins, according to the words of St. Paul in the Epistle to the Romans, chapter six.
So the original temptation, “you shall be as God,” as spoke the snake in Genesis 3:5, drives men to all kinds of slavery under the pretext of freedom. They cry, “It is forbidden to forbid.” This cry, you know, opened the door to all kinds of slavery, to all kinds of violence and deprivations of the souls and as well as of the body. The chains which bind one to Mary as her servant and as her slave are, in reality, wings, according to St. Louis. He says, “his chains are wings.” A true child and a true servant or slave of Mary, as Louis says, will always keep intact and pure the Holy Catholic faith. To sin against the purity of the Catholic faith will signify to slander the virginal purity of the Blessed, Ever Virgin Mary. Also, the sins against the purity of faith, that is, the sins of heresy, spoil the soul. And so the soul is losing its spiritual purity of the mind, of the intellect, and as a consequence, usually also this is losing the chaste purity of the body. So first, you are losing the purity, the chastity in your mind, in your soul, and then in your body. Heresy is always a consequence of an unchaste life, always. So the virtue of the purity of the faith is deeply linked with the virtue of chastity.
In these our dark times of doctrinal confusion, these deceitful flashes of relativism, naturalism, anthropocentrism, oftentimes covered under the mask of dialogue, under the mask of pastoral accompaniment, under the mask of surprises of the Holy Spirit, dark times of such phenomenon, let us often invoke our Lady, our Mother, with confidence and filial love. “Rejoice, godly, for virtue, mighty, for thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world.” “Mother of God, intercede for us.” Thank you.