Armor of God: Spiritual Warfare

// Heaven, the Kingdom of Love //
Fr. Gabriele Amorth: "There are degrees of participation in the joy and love of God. This degree of rank is given according to the level of sanctity each person has reached during his lifetime: the joy of St. Francis of Assisi, for example, will be different from that of the good thief. There is a difference between men on earth, and there will be a difference in paradise.

It is similar to what happens with the stars in heaven: there are those that shine brighter and those that shine a little less. So also it will be with men in the glorious resurrection: all of us shall be resplendent, but each one with a different proportion.

Each one will have that maximum of splendor and happiness that he is personally capable of, based on how he has lived his life. Some will have a greater capacity and others less, but without envy or jealousy toward each other.

Indeed, each one will know complete joy. A verse from Dante’s Divine Comedy comes to mind: “In his will is our peace.” In paradise there is no jealousy; each one is in the will of God, and in His will there is peace. Eternal peace is definitive, where each tear, each sorrow, and all envy will be wiped away."


Source: Fr. Amorth’s An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels

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Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: "Very few souls are given the literal physical stigmata. We can receive it in a spiritual sense through immaterial sorrows, but very few are given this grace. Now, if you ask for this grace, of the physical stigmata, which many people will not ask, you won't get it.

No soul in the history of mankind who has asked for the physical stigmata ever received it, number one, because it's not for you to ask, it's for God to give to whom He wills, when He wills, and why He wills. So forget any desire of asking for it, because we are all given different charisms, different purposes, different missions, different vocations, and we should never desire the vocation of another.

We should desire the vocation God has chosen for us from eternity. Certainly God can put it within the heart of an individual to desire what He desires of us, and that's okay. But let us not run after the external gifts. Why? Because true sanctity consists in the hidden life.

Look at the life of Jesus and Mary. Mary performed not one external miracle, and yet she is the greatest of all saints combined. That is the model after which we ought to pattern our holiness in the hidden life. So if we do have certain external gifts, we should not try to show them."

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Thanks brothers and sisters in Christ, for your support and I truly enjoy learning from Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi with all of you this year! Here's the Compilation of the Year, and please refer to the timestamps in the pinned comment for easier navigation.

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Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: "The 3rd period of the Church, which spans from the 3rd to the 6th century and includes the great personages of Saints, St. Anthony of the desert, Pachomius, Hilary of Poitiers, who withdrew to the desert to a life of prayer and fasting. Why?

For the very purpose of defeating Satan and through their spiritual combat, liberating humanity, setting it free from Satan's grasp. Not to flee Satan but to combat Satan directly in his preferred dwelling: in the desert.

Few people realize that monasticism was founded to combat Satan. This was the purpose of monks to go and meet Satan face to face in the desert, one on one, with fasting, asceticism, prayer and defeat him. And by defeating him, help set humanity free from his grip.

This is the purpose of the foundation of monasteries in the desert."

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This Witch Says NBA Stars Are Her Top Clients and Beyoncé Is a Witch (What the Exorcists said!)

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Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: "The question is, why does it feel as though we do not receive any help or guidance from our angels? The key word here is feel.

When your angels are by your side, do not expect sensible feeling, but faith experience. Remember, angels are not physical beings. They're pure spirits.

So you may not be able to experience them on the sensorial level with your smell, taste, touch, hearing, sight. Sometimes you may not even have an affection impressed upon you by them.

But once you engage your faith, the faith experience becomes manifest. So it all depends on what you're looking for in terms of a...confirmation from your angel.

If it's a sensorial experience, feeling, don't wait for that. But if it's a faith experience, it will always be there.

Paul says faith is not by seeing, but by believing in the things that are unseen. And Jesus told Thomas, blessed are those who do not see but believe.

These are eternal, spiritual, invisible realities, guardian angels, the sacraments, intercession of the saints and the Blessed Mother and so forth.

Our Guardian Angels are there 24/7. The thing I would recommend for these individuals to come to this faith experience is reading a book about the guardian angels, true stories.

By reading that, your faith experience grows in them. Read Padre Pio and his experience with his guardian angels. He had more than one. And we're all given different angels according to our mission. Some have one, some have more.

But the point is they are there 24/7. They do not sleep while we do. They never leave our side. If we enter into a state of recollected contemplative prayer, I believe we will be able to see them with the eyes of our soul. This is called internal vision. It's also known as the mind's eye. That's the word God uses with Catherine of Catherine of Sienna.

He tells her, use your mind's eye And envision Me within you. So if a person wants to have this confirmation of their guardian angel, enter into a state of contemplative recollected prayer and allow God to form within you the image of your guardian angel within your soul, and you'll see him there.

This is also known as a substantial locution. A locution is a word or words that are spoken. But sometimes they also bring images with them.

They could be successive locutions, formal locutions, or substantial locutions. The first two are ordinary gifts. The last, the substantial, is an extraordinary gift. But, yeah, through prayer, through recollection, through faith, we can experience that."

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A reminder for Catholics who chase after every devotion.

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Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: “When referring to those doctors of sacred theology that are vested by the Church with authority to teach theology, the expression the Magisterium uses in several documents is her “qualified theologians.” 1

She teaches that ‘among the vocations awakened in this way by the Spirit in the Church is that of the theologian.’ 2

In the church all have their respective functions: the bishops “protect divine revelation” and the theologians “investigate and explain the doctrine of the Faith.” 3

The church-qualified theologian must take into account the proper mission of the Magisterium and collaborate with it.” 4

In the fullest and complete sense of the word, a qualified catholic theologian is one who receives
this title by the Vatican (Holy See) for having obtained a doctorate in sacred theology at a
university of pontifical rite - and not at a secular college or institute.

Only a doctor of sacred theology from a catholic university of pontifical rite is fully qualified and authorized by the Holy See to teach theology as an ordinary professor at a catholic university. Those who have obtained lesser degrees in theology, e.g. licentiate, masters, bachelors, cannot teach as an ordinary professor at a catholic university.

While all are called to evangelize and instruct others on the faith, the church does not vest them with the authority or title of theologian. Today there are many “opinions” expressed by catholic prelates and laity on the internet, but these do not constitute church teaching, and some of these opinions are “dangerous that lead to error.” 5

Unlike those Christians who disseminate personal opinions on the internet, “the theologian will not
present his own opinions or divergent hypotheses as though they were non-arguable conclusions.” 6

To safeguard the faithful from pernicious errors, God imparts to his bride the church the vocation of the theologian.

1 International Theological Commission, the Ecclesiastical Magisterium and Theology, Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
2 Donum Veritatis, On the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Libreria Editrice
Vaticana, 1990.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.

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Serious question: What is the role or purpose of the snake?

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Exerting a greater force in these end times than the children of darkness. Fr. Iannuzzi explains

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