The Prophets:
No Matter How Negative
By
Anthony Gonzales
Recently
in Santa Rosa, California a man entered a
home through a bathroom window
at about 2:45am
and proceeded to sexually molest
a 12 year old girl while her
parents lay asleep in
a room just down the hall. Providentially the father woke up
and went to the bathroom to get an aspirin, at
which time he heard his daughter groaning. He came into her room to find
the man in bed with his daughter with his hand over her mouth trying to rape
her. What would you have done in
that same situation? Let me tell you what this man did. He
grabbed the man and started to fight with him. As they struggled, the little girl got up, ran into
the kitchen, called 911, then
got the heaviest frying
pan she could find and proceeded
to smash the rapist with it as he continued to fight her father. She broke the handles off of 3
skillets. The rest of the family joined
in kicking and beating this man who had dared to perpetrate this evil against
one of their own.
Do
you think that the action of the father and his family against the unjust aggressor
was a negative one or a positive one?
Should they be praised for what they did or should they be ashamed of
what they did? Should they have been more compassionate with the criminal
or did
they do the right thing?
Let me tell you
what I think. BRAVO! HOORAY!
SUPERB! This family did exactly what
they should have done. They protected the innocent against an unjust aggressor.
It was not only their moral obligation; they did it out of
love for their family member who had been so violently and horribly
mistreated. If we all did the same our
society would be a much safer and heathier place in which to live. Their action was normal, healthy, and right.
Now
why am I bringing up this incident
in an article about prophets?
Because we live in a
world where few people have the courage to face an
aggressor without timidity and
fear. The prophets were
fearless when proclaiming the word of
God. They constantly railed against the established order when the
established order went against
God and against
His laws. Because of their
courage they were often hunted down
and killed by their own people who couldn't stand the "negativity" and
"harshness" of their
words. The prophets were men
of action. For example, when Saul, under God's
command, destroyed the Amalekites, he
was commanded to
utterly destroy everything, including their animals. Yet he decided upon
his own authority to take the sheep and oxen and he spared the life of the
Amalekite king Agag, taking him prisoner. Now after
Saul had disobeyed the Lord, the Lord took from him
the crown of kingship and when Agag was brought before Samuel, Samuel the
prophet took a sword and hewed him
into pieces before Saul
and before God. And Samuel left
and did not see Saul again and Samuel grieved for Saul.
I
have heard many times that publications such as "The Wanderer" are "too negative" and they are filled with terrible scandals. This publication, "The Hammer",
has also been accused of being too harsh and negative because it discusses in
detail what the Modernists are doing to the Church. I
personally have been told that I should forget the Modernists and their
destruction of the Church and instead concentrate solely upon what the Church
teaches. In other words, be nice,
don't disturb people with the reality that surrounds
them; they face it every day. Rather
just give them the truth of the Church and they will see that these others are wrong. I vehemently
disagree. The reason that the Modernists have been able to do such vast
destruction to the Church is because we weren't loud enough in our protests and
most of the common people had no idea of
how to combat these pseudo-Catholics who have changed the entire
face of the Church. The common man in the pew may or may not know that what the Modernists are doing is
wrong, but without
the facts and without the comparisons that need to be made they will
never understand the difference between Roman Catholicism and Modernism. That is the purpose and intention behind
"The Hammer". I believe this
is a prophetic mission and in any prophetic mission you will have
to tell the cold
hard facts and be subjected to the disdain of others,
even from those who should be supporting your
efforts.
In
every era God raises up certain
individuals to proclaim His gospel, in season and out of season. Some
do it through cloistered prayer, others through acts
of charity, some through teaching, others through the
administration of the
sacraments, some through the written word, and others through prophetic
proclamations. Each one has
his/her gifts. Each one should work in
harmony with the others. If you read the gospels and the Acts of the
Apostles you will find innumerable
references to what
would be considered "harsh" and "negative" words and
actions by Jesus, John the Baptist, and
the Apostles. They did not mince
words in the fear that they might offend someone with the truth no matter how
"negative" that truth seemed at the time. Jesus called those who
would not listen to his words "children of the devil". There are so many people in our modern age
that seem to think that Jesus was only "Mr. Nice". But in reality,
He was
about as narrow, harsh, negative and judgmental as anyone could
possible be according to today's standards. Let's face
it He told us that anyone that
did not accept
His words and live them out
would go to hell. Now you can't be much more "narrow-minded" and
"judgmental" than that.
I am
attempting to produce a publication that
is filled with the positive knowledge of the truth. Its purpose
is to teach the difference between what
the Church really teaches as opposed to
the heresy and error the pseudo-Catholics have duped many into believing
is new Church teaching. They now
sit in many positions of
authority and power and because
they have insinuated their way into
top positions the innocent and the naive believe what they say without making
the proper distinctions. Unless what the Modernists are saying is described and
then compared with the actual teachings of the Catholic Church people will not
always fully understand the differences.
The
reason I used the example of the family that beat up the rapist is because that is exactly what
has been happening to the Church.
She is being gang-raped by these
faithless infidels who wish to make her a prostitute of their own image. If you saw your mother or
your daughter being gang-raped what would you do? If
you did not
react with anger
and zealous rage to stop the aggressors what kind of a person would you
be? Would you turn around, plug your ears and pray for her
or would you take whatever weapon was available and stop the
aggression? To ignore
it or to turn your back is
abnormal, unnatural and cowardly behavior
reprehensible in the sight of men and God. Jesus saw this same thing
happening to His Father's House
and he drove the perpetrators out with a whip.
It is this same zeal that drives me to proclaim the teaching of the
Church as I do and I believe it is the same zeal that drives the writers of The
Wanderer and other such Catholic publications.
Our
zeal and love for the Faith
must be genuine and motivated by love and not self-centered
desires.. Charity is not always gentle
or meek. Many times it must be harsh
and direct in order to stop the unjust aggressor to save the innocent and turn the
agressor from the path of destruction. But to let them go, to ignore them, to
speak to them kindly without
stopping their evil
actions is a slap in the face
of all
that is moral
and good. When Jesus said to turn the other cheek he was speaking
about avoiding personal
vengeance against a wrong
or injury done
to us as individuals. He was not telling us to allow the unjust aggressor to, beat,
rape, kill or destroy with abandon and without
our intercession to
stop them. Jesus, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, created the
natural moral law woven into our very nature. He would never command us to go
against the dictates of the natural law except in extraordinary circumstances.
Now
please understand, I am not saying that
we should just expose the scandals of the Modernists without consideration of
what that information will or will not accomplish in the telling. Those who expose heresy must do so in a
responsible manner always with the intention of giving the faithful the true
understanding of Catholic
teaching.