One of my highly intelligent readers sent me an interesting note on children, which overlaps with a comment I made regarding the need for parents for raise saints.
St. Faustina's vision is not, of course, infallible, as private visions are not so.
However, she is a saint and we can read her Diary and use it for private meditations. This is from Notebook II, Section 765.
On one occasion, I saw the convent of the new congregation. As I walked about, inspecting everything, I suddenly saw a crowd of children who seemed to be no older than five to eleven years of age. When they saw me they surrounded me and began to cry out, "Defend us from evil," and they led me into the chapel which was in this convent. When I entered the chapel, I saw the distressful Lord Jesus. Jesus looked at me graciously and said that He was gravely offended by children: You are to defend them from evil. From that moment, I have been praying for children, but I feel that prayer alone is not enough.
Defending children from evil means several things:
1) they must learn how to pray and have a personal relationship with Christ;
2) they need parents to teach them right from wrong and to help them form their consciences;
3) they need to be protected from bad tv, computer porn, sexualized movies;
4) they need to go to daily Mass, adoration, and confession on a regular basis;
5) they need a quiet house in which to learn how to reflect;
6) they need to see parents who love and respect each other.
7) either going to private schools which do NOT have sex education or home school
8) to provide Catholic teaching for the children which is orthodox.
9) they need their parents to monitor their friends and where they go and what they do
10) they need their parents to help them develop the virtues given to them at baptism and confirmation
Even children can go to hell.
9 comments:
"The Lord Jesus looked at her and said he was offended by children." She may be a saint, but everything I have ever read from her is bizarre.
Well from this list I'm pretty much a write off...... Guess God Loves the likes of St Therese more than me 'cos I got parents who did everything bad on the list and didn't do any of the good stuff.
Well now I know I'm a write off I'll slink off and watch as I've always done from the shadows
I would very much like you to send me a comment from St. Faustina which is bizarre, so that I can talk to you about it. Thanks
There are misunderstandings as to the point of this post, which is to stop the idea that children as children are innocent. Not so. As soon as we reach the age of reason, we must taught right and wrong.
Anyway, St. Faustina is not infallible. I find the comment from this saint convincing.
Corax, it is never to late to change. As adults, we all have time to repent and move on from our past. We are not prisoners of our past. God bless you.
Can't recall ever coming across anything bizarre in St. Faustina, unless you take the position that orthodox Catholicism is bizarre. And if you think this excerpt from St. Faustina is bizarre, how will you cope with the following from Preparation for Death by St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop and Doctor of the Church:
St. Gregory relates that a child of five years, for uttering a blasphemy was condemned to hell. The Most Holy Virgin revealed to that great servant of God, Benedicta of Florence, that a girl twelve years old was damned after her first sin. A boy of eight years died after his first sin, and was lost. In the Gospel of St. Matthew we find that the Lord instantly cursed the fig-tree the first time He saw it without fruit.
Children can go to hell, once they have attained to the full use of reason. Let's not delude ourselves about this, especially if we are parents.
Why should this Raven bother? from the talk I hear on this blog and others it's already too late (I'm in my mid twenties), I converted when I was 19 and I'm very grateful that most of the people who go to the EF at my parish are the old timers in their sixties and seventies.
When I went to the FSSP parish I found myself very jealous of the children from the large Homeschooling families. Would the world have been SUCH a different place if I was the eldest of those families?
Corax, I am sure that there is never such a thing as too late...
The fact that you read these blogs is a great sign that God is calling you.
Keep up your search...
People may find it difficult to accept the idea that children can be damned but the child who goes to hell could quite possibly have become an adult who eventually goes to hell, and worse, takes other people with him along the way. God knows the best time to take someone from this life.
Humans are quite myopic in the way they view things. Only God can see the bigger picture.
LM
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