May we truly see

The technological advancement in the world had made many things visible to us. Taking our eyesight beyond our immediate surrounding. Communication had become possible, even instantaneously, although geographically we may be in different time zones. So many things had been accessible to us. We even consider ourselves in a global community. In spite of this, we seem closed-in in a self-centered reality and remain oblivious or desensitize to a wider reality.

We can see pictures of aborted babies. We can see beheaded children and the genocide in Iraq and other lands. We can see and know what is happening in our world. Yet, there is hardly any moral indignation. Is it our tolerance for evil? Is it our incapacity to make any judgment? Is it just live and let others live the way they want? Is it erasing the negative and just focusing on the positive?

I still believe there is much goodness and beauty in this world but evil and its ugliness continue to assert itself aggressively. We can all be misled into resorting to abortion or joining evil cults. We do not want it for the people we love or even for those we do not know... because it is wrong and harmful to one's self and the world.

The late Jaime Cardinal Sin during the Martial Law regime reminds people to never get used to the stench of the garbage or else we will not mind living in it. We have been living in so much garbage in our world. We may not have the power to clean it all but if we remain alert, sensitive, indignant, and watchful, we can make a difference. We can keep the garbage from piling up. We can choose not to add our garbage by cleaning up what we can. We can not resign ourselves to the evil that seduces us. With God's light our senses can truly see, hear, smell, taste, and feel what is Truth or lie, love or use, beauty or ugliness. We surely need God to make it through.

Payatas garbage dump from Wiki Commons

Hastening the End

I often see commenters post a lot of tlig.org links in Catholic FB pages and blogs. One such poster seems like a faithful Catholic. So active, then, in posting news but also with the private messages from the tlig link. They even have prayer groups but I was uncomfortable with private revelations of uncertain origins. He was eventually banned from the page. Apparently, it is a group following a mystic and speaker Vassula Ryden who continues to receive divine messages supposedly from our Lord and our Blessed Mother since 1985. She must have a strong following all over the world but I leave it to the Church to decide its merits and veracity.

Vassula Ryden, from Wikipedia

What I am curious about is an article posted on a blog: Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi Speaks on Why the TLIG Messages are so Important. Dated, October 14, 2012.

As in the past, so today Christ comes to us through his prophet Vassula with a message of unity. He wants us to join under the one banner of Jesus Christ. Christ is calling all of us to unite through these the TLIG messages by way of love. However, he asks us all to bend. He reminds us that he would never break our human will. Therefore, he wants us to freely bend our wills so that we might choose unity, and in so doing, forge together our love and compassion in order to join under the one banner of Christ.

Now, this unity doesn’t in any way denigrate the independent rites of different denominations of the Orthodox, of the Protestants, or of the Catholics; it respects these rites. Such rites are encouraged to continue, but we are to join in our common belief. Why? Because Satan’s dictum is “divide and conquer”, whereas Jesus’ dictum is “unite and conquer”! So in uniting in one belief, we will stave off the impending disaster that threatens our world today and the faith of our children. If we unite, we will have more impact in the political world and in religious arena, and dispose ourselves for the era of peace that our Lady prophesied at Fatima.

Therefore, we can respect and eagerly embrace the iconography of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which they look to in many respects as a font of revelation, and to their profoundly rich patrimony of literature on “divinization” and mystical union with the Trinity; we can respect and embrace the scriptural contributions of the Protestants and their well-preserved charismatic gifts that enable us to deepen our faith and develop our gifts received in Confirmation. In sum, the Catholics, the Orthodox, the Protestants, all of us who are in God’s eyes Christian brothers, are asked by the Son of God himself to join NOW under the one banner of Jesus Christ. Without placing superiority or inferiority on these different roles that we all occupy in the Church, we can humbly acknowledge that we are all equal in God’s eyes, while carrying out different roles. And all we need to do is freely bend our human wills so that God’s Divine Will can reign in us. All it takes is two things: intention and desire; we have to have an intention to unite and a desire to make it happen. Then, little by little, we will begin to establish on earth the New Jerusalem, the New Heavens and the New Earth.

I wonder how much influence this private revelation has on the Church today with its mission of unity packaged in ecumenism. They are so in sync with Pope Francis.