In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
I entrust you with me to open your Bibles and give a reading of the Gospel of Mark,
chapter 16.
Chapter 16 of the Gospel of Mark, and we are going, in this sacred word,
to give a reading of this message of our Lord Jesus Christ, starting with verse 15,
and even reading up to verse 20.
Let us read the word of the Lord.
And Jesus said to them, And throughout the world preach the gospel to every creature.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be
condemned.
And these signs will follow those who believe.
In my name they will cast out demons, speak new tongues, remove snakes,
and if they drink deadly things, it will not harm them.
They will put their hands on the sick and they will be healed.
And the Lord, after he spoke to them, was received up in heaven, and he went to
the right hand of God.
And they went out and preached everywhere, working with them the Lord, and confirming
the word with the signs that followed.
Amen.
This is, there is no doubt, the best introduction that one could imagine,
because it is this introduction that gives us to understand and know better,
that we are not basing ourselves in any tradition, in any religious experience,
and neither in any philosophy or art of man, in any religion of human foundation.
This, even if we talk about religion, is not even the product of the religion
that the Apostle Santiago speaks to us, in terms of our conduct within
Christianity.
This is.
That is why I recommend to you, even, to do what the Lord Jesus did,
and what I had to do, in my own religious experience.
I say I had to do, because there was no other alternative, at least healthy,
healthy and eternal.
And it is to entrust myself to the Holy Scripture as the only source of divine
revelation.
Jesus himself, in his own time, in his own ministry, spoke to us about
this.
He spoke to us, through his own ministerial experience, among the
religious of his time, in this way.
He says, In other words, aside from this sacred word, there is nothing,
there will not exist, there has not existed, anything that gives testimony of
Jesus Christ, outside of the word of God, the Holy Scripture, the Bible.
Contrary to my own personal experience, as a Catholic and Roman Catholic priest of
the Jesuit order, my experience was the complete opposite of this divine
revelation, to this admonition of Christ.
For me, the testimony of Jesus Christ, was not enclosed in the Scriptures,
as Christ himself divinely decrees, and admonishes the apostles, not only,
but the religious of his time, aside from what they felt, aside from what
they experienced, aside from what they found in the Scriptures, to understand,
to know and to believe that only they, the Scriptures, are the vehicle,
are the only means, where the testimony of Christ can be found.
It is the testimony of Christ in my own life, emanated from them, received from
them, and believed by them, that at this time I begin to pass to you, and to
introduce you.
In the beginning, I cannot fail to allude to what many of you have already read.
A pamphlet, a booklet, in the form of a comic, a comic magazine, although it has
nothing comical, about the testimony of Christ in my life, titled, Alberto.
That same pamphlet, that same booklet, that same magazine, as it is presented for
all ages, from the child to the young and the adult, has been the instrument of the
Holy Spirit in 160 countries, Alberto.
That same thing you see, that booklet, that magazine, has been the instrument,
I repeat, in 160 countries, until two weeks ago, when we received the last
letter from one of the smallest and smallest countries in Africa, which I
myself did not know existed.
From that country we receive news, testimonies of Christ in the life of those
who, convicted of the Holy Spirit, receiving faith, the gift to believe in
Jesus, gave themselves to the Holy Scripture, as the only means, the only
channel, we could say, even more to emphasize it dramatically, the only
channel, contrary to the seven channels that he speaks of according to the Council
of Trent, in reference to the sacraments, here, the only channel of divine
revelation is the Scriptures.
And through this only channel, it was that these people, who began to
read Alberto, that same booklet, that same comic magazine, that you see,
and that you may have already read, is the instrument, even in the last
country that we have received, correspondence of the conviction by the
Holy Spirit, of the conversion of thousands and thousands and thousands and
hundreds of thousands of Catholics, of Catholics, of charismatics,
who have come by faith to receive the saving grace of Jesus Christ.
There is no doubt that in this way we are entering the divine purpose for which this
testimony is being given.
And the divine purpose has already been very declared by the Gospel of Mark,
chapter 16, verse 15.
The purpose was already decreed in advance by God, when the same Jesus Christ,
after the Resurrection, calls his apostles to give this decree, to transmit this
divine decree, which involves this purpose, exclusive of the salvation and
redemption of Him, to make it more personal, of the salvation and redemption
of me, of the salvation and redemption of the human gender.
And it is the revelation of this purpose that is manifested through this decree.
And all over the world and preached the Gospel to all creatures.
In other words, not to the creatures, to all creatures.
That is to say, that with a lot of exclusivity, person by person,
must know the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to believe Jesus Christ.
Faith comes by hearing, I heard myself say, in the midst of my dilemmas,
in the midst of my controversies, priestly, religious, and now with the
scriptures in my hands, I heard this conflict between the religious tradition
and the written word of God.
Between the Magisterium, even, on one side and on the other side,
the tradition, in the middle, the written word of God.
I was thrown on one side by the Magisterium, and on the other by the
tradition.
In my ambition, I myself seemed to feel in my spiritual ambition, and in my need for
Christ, and salvation, and redemption, and remission of my sins, I seemed to be
being torn apart, I was being torn apart on both sides, I was being destroyed,
as Solomon himself said to those who asked and demanded of the child, when both
mothers asked and claimed that he was the son of each one, Solomon in his wisdom
declared, very well, since there are two mothers who at this time ask for the same
son, the only solution would be to cut that son in two.
And the same feeling went through my veins, my mind, my feelings, my emotions,
and even conflicted my will between the religious tradition and the religious
Magisterium.
Between the religious authority of men and the divine authority of the Word of God.
Certainly, I could not coordinate between the three.
There was a tremendous mismatch.
While I could coordinate between the tradition and the Magisterium,
I could not coordinate between the Magisterium and the Bible, between the
tradition and the Bible.
There was no coordination.
There was no affinity.
There was no way, no way, there was no possibility, not even the most remote
possibility for me to be able to relate the Roman Catholic Magisterium and the
Bible, or the Roman Catholic tradition and the Bible.
It did not exist, no matter how much I looked for it, no matter how much I
inquired about it.
Hence, as the Holy Spirit guided me on this biblical journey, especially through
this message, among many other messages that had to do with my conversion and
salvation in Christ, this message was crucial.
Because here I begin to see not only why I have to stop being a Roman Catholic,
why I have to stop being a priest, but why I was a Roman Catholic.
And I could not pass the other two spheres unless I knew, by the word of Christ,
by the testimony of Christ in it, in the scriptures, why I became a Roman
Catholic, why you are a Roman Catholic, why the nations, the peoples, not only
families, entire nations and even entire continents gave in to Roman Catholicism
since 1,600 years ago.
How did this happen?
Where did it come from?
Where does this experience of religious tradition and of Catholic magisterium From
the Bible?
From the Gospel?
Let us read verse 15 once more, and it says, And Jesus said to them,
and to all the world, in other words, the decree already tells us that there is
a territory to occupy, that there is a territory to cover, and this is not only a
country, this is not Mexico, this is not Guatemala, this is not even Central
America or the Caribbean or South America or Spain.
This is the whole world.
And for the whole world.
And what to do?
What to do going through this world, in need, in problems, in political,
social, economic, religious, military, listen well, when we talk about going
around the world, we have to think that when you go around the world, this is what
you are finding.
Drugs, misery.
This is what you are finding.
This is what you are living.
Religions of all kinds.
We can not only talk about Catholicism.
After all, the same book of Apocalypse, chapters 17, 18, 19, tells us that this
same religious system, to cover its own political purpose, as the prophet Daniel
enumerates and reveals it, this political system covered by religion, after all,
is not isolated, because it comes to be even the mother of the abominations and
fornications of the earth.
Which indicates that even when we walk in this world, from one side to another,
from south to north, from east to west, we find ourselves not only with all kinds
of poverty and misery, political, social, economic and moral.
We find ourselves with a lot of religious misery.
I mean tragedies, not only misery, tragedies deeply religious.
If so, then, what is happening with what you are still finding?
The lack of happiness, the lack of peace, the lack of tranquility, the lack of
sobriety, liquor, adultery, fornication, witchcraft, satanism, voodoo, spiritism,
communism, anarchism, socialism, name everything you want, add to the list
what you have already found in your own personal experience.
Contrary to all of this, to this divine decree.
What are we going to do with all of this in the world?
What news are we going to bring?
What news are we going to bring to all of this situation, to all of this population,
to all of this world mass that suffers daily, every 24 hours, all of the
devastation that satan has established in this planet.
Jesus himself declares it and reveals it in this way.
To satan, the old serpent says, the prince of this world, apart from all
of his titles, Jesus is the first one who gives him the title of prince.
The prince of this world.
So much so that satan himself with such a title but with such a title of prince,
offers it to the king, to the king of kings and lord of lords, to Jesus Christ
in person, in the desert, in the temptation that he was led to.
He says, here, finally, if I cannot win you in one way or another, I am going to
offer you the greatest of all offers.
Here I am, the kingdoms of the earth and all its glory, I give you, I offer you,
I give you, with that same power that governs them and dominates them.
He says, I give you all the kingdoms of the earth and its glory, if you worship
me.
Certainly, the offer did not work, but it worked, Jesus, who obtained victory
over him, for us, for you, and for myself.
He says, get away from me, Satan, because you will worship the Lord your
God, and you will serve only him.
Why did I become a Catholic?
It begins to be known from the moment that we know that Satan, as the prince of this
world, not only possesses the governments, possesses the glory of these governments,
but then we know that in that relationship, religion, religious
traditions, seek the human favor, there is no doubt.
And in relation to that same context, God himself is speaking, he is rebelling,
he is moaning, he is suggesting, he is exhorting, he is calling,
he is inviting, in that relationship,
the glory and the governments of this world.
How much eagerness unfolds in the religious tradition everywhere,
in the sense of popularity and political favors.
In response to this, we see that religion, in its traditional effort, seeks,
it does not have to offer, on the contrary, it seeks, in human misery,
in human misery, as Satan himself offers Christ, it seeks in human misery,
in human waste, it seeks its seat, it seeks its coexistence, it seeks its
inclusive life itself.
It does not offer anything because it has nothing, I can not offer anything.
By staying on the side of the Gospel, as I stayed on the side of the Gospel,
since my parents baptized me.
In other words, I was not taken to the Gospel, I was taken to baptism.
Let's understand the order well, how a creature begins to be Roman
Catholic, not because of the Gospel.
My parents, as Spaniards and Roman Catholics, did not receive the Gospel.
What they received is by conduct of human misery itself, and of human sufferings,
the product of that same.
They received everything that is contrary to the hope of eternal life and to eternal
life.
They received everything that is contrary to human redemption and to the remission
of their own sins.
They received an entertainment of death and of eternal death.
There is no possibility that it can be, and this was my own personal conflict,
that it can be related to what religion promises and what the Gospel grants.
In other words, when we talk about what religion promises, we are now talking
about what the Gospel offers.
Religion has many promises.
Even more, since I was baptized as a child in a state of innocence, I was already
promised that I was going to be a Christian.
In other words, I was already in that process of being a Christian.
I did not know what was happening.
I did not know what they were saying to me.
I did not know what they were practicing about my body in a state of innocence.
No creature knows in a state of innocence when they are called to be exorcised and
baptized.
And you say, how?
Exorcised and baptized by the priest who receives them in the baptismal pile.
Let's come to the Gospel and once again to how the same Holy Spirit brought me on
this same day.
I am going to take you step by step.
It says in this way.
And Jesus said to them, go for the whole world.
Now the action of what is going to be done in the world, of what is going to be given
to the world, of what is going to be declared to the world, of what is going to
be offered to the world.
It says, and preach.
Oh, oh, then it is not to go for the whole world and baptize.
No, it is to go for the whole world and preach.
Preach.
Preach the Gospel.
What an offer.
And what a promise.
Because since it is announced of the preaching of the Gospel, there is already
a promise.
It says, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The same Holy Spirit reflects in the epistle of the Apostle Paul to the
believers in Rome, in the city of Rome, which has nothing to do with the Vatican
in Rome, which has nothing to do with Roman Catholicism originated in Rome in
the third century under Emperor Constantine the Great.
This was the first Christian epistle established in the city of Rome,
in the Roman imperial city, in the capital city, in Rome.
And that epistle, that letter, comes with that announcement.
It says from the first chapter in that letter to the Apostle Paul, because I am
not ashamed of what?
Any tradition?
You have to be ashamed of many traditions, I would say of all.
However, the Holy Spirit goes in another direction.
Above all tradition, contrary to all religious tradition, not only Catholic,
even Judaic, at that time, in that moment, in that circumstance, against all
religion, including paganism, against all religious tradition, the Apostle Paul
declares already from the introduction of that letter to the Church, I am not
ashamed of the Gospel.
Why?
What is the reason?
What is the cause that there is no possibility, not even the most remote,
that a human being can ever be ashamed of the Gospel?
I say, it will not exist.
Man will look for it, but he will not find it.
There will be no possibility, there will be no reason, there will be no cause that
can be said for which I am ashamed of the Gospel.
Never.
What the Gospel operates, what the Gospel produces, what the Gospel offers,
what the Gospel has as hope and reality, of that, there is nothing that a single
human being can be ashamed of.
I am not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God.
This is the Gospel that Christ gives to his apostles, of which they themselves
knew that they never had anything to be ashamed of.
But they had a lot to be ashamed of.
They themselves, being Jews, had to be ashamed of.
They had to be ashamed of.
Facing Christ, facing his doctrine, facing his teachings, facing his person,
facing his love, they had and had to be ashamed of their own religious traditions
that prevented them until the moment they were convicted of the Holy Spirit,
and they did not reject the conviction.
Until that moment they had a lot to be ashamed of.
Peter, John, Matthew, Luke, all of them, had a lot to be ashamed of.
When they depended before believing the word of Christ and the person of Christ,
when they had to depend on the religious tradition that prevented them from knowing
the one they needed as Savior.
And all over the world, in that same epistle, the same Apostle declares I am
not ashamed of the Gospel because it is the power of God for salvation to all who
believe.
And chapter 10 of that same epistle begins to say, but how will they believe if there
is no one to preach to them?
How will they believe if there is no one to preach to them?
But how, how will it be possible that even someone can hear if there is no one to
preach to?
Well, says the Scripture, preach the Gospel to all creatures.
In other words, not to the masses, simply to each creature, to all creatures,
individually and personally.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
When I was told and I was given the first news that I was Catholic, already in use
of reason, my parents were the first.
When I knew I was Catholic, it came to happen because my parents told me.
In other words, I was surrounded in a situation where I myself had many
questions to ask.
Already at a certain age, even before arriving to the seminary to pass my
studies to the priesthood, many questions began to grow in my mind.
But I had no answer.
Why did I become a Roman Catholic?
Would it be as a consequence of the preaching of this Gospel?
Would it be as a consequence of this decree of Christ given to his apostles,
transmitted to his church, from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the
earth?
In other words, would it be as a consequence of all that preaching of this
Gospel that I, then, came to become a Roman Catholic?
That you came to become a Catholic?
That you are a Catholic?
Is it as a consequence of this decree?
That Catholics, human beings, came to become Catholics?
Countries, families, and priests came to become priests?
Or men came to become priests?
Women became nuns?
And bishops, and cardinals, and popes?
Will all this be as a consequence of this decree from Christ to his apostles?
That all this came to happen?
Will it be true?
Will this be true?
Let us come again, as I had to return to Scripture, to hear it, to hear it,
and to hear it again, and to hear it again, and to hear it again.
And all over the world, preach the Gospel.
The Gospel.
Let us do the first test, as the Holy Spirit put it to me.
The first test.
Mark chapter 10.
And at this time, to find out the identity of my own Catholic experience,
of my own Catholic faith, of my own Catholic religion.
To find out, to search, wanting to find that identity, of those experiences,
of that faith, of that religion, in the pages of Scripture, in the pages of
the Gospel.
I was led by the Holy Spirit to Mark chapter 10.
In this same direction that you were led.
Mark chapter 10.
And in this Holy Gospel, we read in verse 13, in this way.
And they presented children to be touched.
And the disciples reigned over those who presented them.
In other words, the disciples were surrounded by a multitude of women who
brought their children, their daughters, so that Jesus himself would touch them
when presenting them to him.
The disciples opposed.
And there is no doubt that this was not pleasant for Christ.
That opposition from his disciples to prevent those mothers from bringing their
children to him was not pleasant, I repeat.
We speak of preventing.
This word is very important.
It was crucial in my own conversion.
See why.
As a priest in Edouard, would I be preventing?
As a priest?
Would I be preventing?
And not only as a priest, as a Catholic.
As a Catholic, would you be preventing that your own children come to Christ,
come to Jesus?
Would there be someone asking you?
Would there be someone, religiously, I do not speak politically, economically,
or militarily, not by force of the weapon, by force of religious persuasion,
of teaching, of religious education, would there be someone religiously
preventing at this moment, at this time, in their life, in their country,
in their nation, in their home, would there be someone preventing that
their own children come to Christ, know Christ, and remain in Christ?
Listen to the word, it says, And they presented them children to touch them,
and the disciples reigned over those who presented them.
And seeing Jesus, he became angry, and said to them, Let the children come,
and do not hinder them.
In other words, what is happening here?
They are hindering the process by which God Himself, in His divine plan,
has revealed to Jesus, has prophesied of Jesus, of the Child Jesus.
The prophets already spoke of Jesus.
Here the Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will call His name
Jesus.
Because He, that Child, already, the same name, the same title,
already carries the message and the promise.
Jesus, who means Savior of His people.
Hallelujah.
Jesus.
Jesus is not a simple name.
He carries, implies, brings with Him a message, a promise.
Jesus.
Because He will save His people from their sins.
Jesus, who will not leave His people in their sins.
Jesus, who will not see His people be condemned.
Jesus, who did not leave His people, who did not come to condemn Him.
Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins, from their condemnation,
from their judgment and from their eternal death.
Jesus.
This is the Gospel.
In other words, we are confronting here impediments to the Gospel through
extraordinary religious arts.
It is a paradox.
It was already for me.
My conscience did not resist it.
The paradox was too great for my conscience to overcome it.
That I myself, as a priest, that I myself, as a Catholic, could be an impediment,
a hindrance, even to the creatures that are born to reach Christ when they need to
arrive.
And the hindrance comes quickly.
The hindrance and the impediment are very early at the door of human existence.
Already in a creature in a state of innocence.
It is said by concept of religion to make it Catholic, that it has to be exorcised
and exorcised, that child, that girl, in a state of innocence, without the use
of reason, that they must be baptized unless they go to limbo.
If they are not exorcised and baptized.
Let's start with this impediment.
Where is it?
What is it?
First, exorcism.
We already see that exorcism, after all, in itself is not the impediment,
but it is the individual who practices it.
It is who impedes it, it is who hinders it.
As in the case of my own personal experience as a priest.
I was the one who impeded and who hindered for my ignorance of the Gospel and for not
believing it, for my own disbelief in the Gospel as a priest, by not believing this
same promise of Gedul that I impeded, hindered thousands and thousands of
children to come to Christ.
And they presented children for him to touch them.
And the disciples reigned over those who presented them.
And seeing this, Jesus became angry and said to them, Let the children come and do
not hinder them because of such is the kingdom of God.
In other words, there could not only be a better promise than this, not only,
but there could be a better guarantee and security.
Who can offer it?
Even the sacrament of baptism can offer it.
The sacrament of Confirmation can offer it.
The sacrament of Penance can offer it.
The sacrament of Mass can offer it.
The sacrament of religious orders can offer it.
The sacrament of marriage can offer it.
The sacrament of baptism can offer it.
Not only some of these sacraments, but all together can certify, guarantee,
give this promise to a single human being.
Can it?
Listen to what Jesus says.
I had to listen to him and listen to him again until I believed it.
To me, religiously, it was impossible to believe it.
To me, a religious person.
Why?
Because of such people.
Will it be the Kingdom of Heaven?
No!
Christianity does not deal with undefined promises.
Christianity deals with defined promises.
Safe, eternal and to the present.
Religion has many promises from before.
But which ones are they?
Undefined.
You will be saved one day.
You don't know when.
Here, Jesus goes ahead.
Including time, age, reason.
And he says to these children, they are co-heirs with me of the Kingdom
of God.
They are the heirs of the such, they are the owners of the such.
It is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Now.
Through what process?
What did they have to do?
What did they have to do to those children?
To make them already heirs of the Kingdom of God.
What did they have to do?
The parents, the family.
But now we go to Jesus.
What did Jesus do with them?
To make them heirs of the Kingdom of God.
What did he do with them?
It is extraordinary that Jesus did everything after giving them not only the
promise, but the guarantee of the promise.
He did these things that we are going to read.
We are not going to invent them.
We are not going to imagine them.
We are going to read them.
And to believe.
That was my blessing.
When I started to believe what I read.
What I repeated.
And what I even knew by heart.
By memory.
Like a priest.
But I did not believe it yet.
I tell you the truth says verse 15 of chapter 10 of the Gospel of Mark.
I tell you the truth that he who does not receive the Kingdom of God like a child
will not enter in Him.
In the Kingdom of God.
And taking them in his arms.
See what he does.
First.
Taking them in his arms.
To still reinforce that security of the promise already given.
And taking them in his arms.
If these children had been full of evil spirits and demons as I believed as a
priest.
That the child had to be exorcised.
And as he prays according to the canon law for all priests and for all the Catholic
religious people around the world.
In the whole world.
Not only among us, the Hispanics.
In the whole world.
It is clear and determined that in order to be Catholic, that child had to be
exorcised.
Because he begins to be Catholic when he is baptized.
And he cannot be baptized without being exorcised because he declares the same
religious tradition.
He declares that this child is full of evil spirits.
He is full of demons.
Since he was born.
And then the priest needs to exorcise him, to take out the evil spirits, to take out
the demons from this innocent child.
From this innocent child.
That Christ already disowned the kingdom of God.
And the priest denies it.
And prevents it.
And hinders it.
I tell you that the one who does not receive the kingdom of God as a child will
not enter into it.
And taking them in his arms.
Second, he put his hands on them.
Third, he blessed them.
Hallelujah.
How much transcendence in this teaching.
It transcends.
It transcends from the innocent to the adult.
Because even this analogy is made by Jesus.
He says, if you do not return as children, you adults, you, unless you return as
children, you will not be able to enter the kingdom of God.
We cannot among the adults who received the same glorious experience as I
received.
And Nicodemus did the same.
And Jesus made praise of this promise to Nicodemus.
Since he saw him, he saw him as a man in need, even though he was so devout,
so religious, so pious, not painful, but so educated religiously.
He was a teacher.
Teacher of religion in Israel.
And Nicodemus tells him, in chapter 3 of the Gospel of John, Nicodemus,
you are needed.
It is not that if you want or do not want, it is not that it is a matter to debate or
discuss, or to give an opinion on it.
No.
You are needed.
It is true that you will have many things to object, many things to give an opinion,
many things to confront, many things to discuss and debate, and even, perhaps,
to dialogue in a more human and psychological way, but none of this is
worth it.
His first need is that of Christ.
His first need, above all others, is to be saved.
And the question should be, how to become a Christian, not how to become a Catholic,
because this we are seeing that there is an absolute disparity between how to
become Catholic and how to become Christian.
Jesus went ahead to that dilemma, so that we do not have any confusion.
The Lord clearly says that he put his hands on them and blessed them.
And of course, when this happens to a child, this is what he was saying to
Nicodemus, what is going to happen to him.
Nicodemus was going to be taken in his arms, Nicodemus was going to put the hands
of Christ on him, because he puts his hands on us.
Once he takes us in his arms, he puts his hands on us.
It is true how he was crucified.
The fact of how he was crucified does not go unnoticed.
His hands extended, waiting to receive, as he said, in physical life, come to me
all of you who are burdened and worked, that I will make you rest.
Listen to me well.
The one who comes to me, says Jesus, I have not thrown him out.
And how much my soul aspired to reach that moment, to reach that meeting,
where I was going to find tranquility, peace, security, salvation and eternal
life under the remission of my sins.
Listen well.
How did this start with Nicodemus?
He says, it is necessary for you to be born again.
Is any of this identified with the experience of having become Catholic?
See how one started and how the other started.
From there, Jesus said to his apostles, go all over the world and exorcise
children.
That's it.
Go all over the world and baptize children.
Go all over the world and celebrate Mass.
Go all over the world and accept penance.
Go all over the world and celebrate the apparitions of Guadalupe, of Lourdes,
of Fatima.
Go all over the world and do what?
To the world in need.
And offer what?
To the world in misfortune and misery and sin and transgression.
What?
What are we going to give to this world?
Exorcism?
Baptism?
Or the Gospel?
So that whoever believes it can be baptized.
Amen?
Glory to God.
Listen to me.
How much disparity, how much difference from night to day.
My soul was alarmed when I began to understand, when I began to understand,
when I began to believe.
Not only the truth, but now I began to let the Lord know the truth, the deception,
the lie, the betrayal, and the perversion that the Gospel of him has been in the
course of the centuries.
Listen.
Let's give a reading once more to this passage of the Gospel of Mark chapter 16.
Getting ready for this very special invitation.
Listen to me well.
And he said to them, and all over the world, preach the Gospel to every
creature.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be
condemned.
Of the three things that Jesus did to the children, and even of what he said to
Nicodemus, in no way do we see that neither with children nor with adults did
Jesus exorcise nor did he exorcise the others, nor did he baptize the others,
without believing the Gospel.
Now we better understand the order in which these things correspond.
My soul was being pierced.
Already I felt that not only tears ran from my eyes, physically, literally,
but there were tears from the heart.
There was something that told me and made me feel that I was not only crying,
despite the comfort, despite the promise, despite the offer.
My heart began to cry, but I cried with joy, no longer with sorrow, because when I
cried with sorrow, I saw myself far from all this reality that the Gospel offered
me.
When I began to approach, because I already began to give in to the conviction
of the Holy Spirit, and to believe in Christ, the person of Christ, the
sacrifice of Christ, the blood of Jesus Christ, when I began to believe in the
power, in the effect of that redemptive blood, which began to fall on my sins and
transgressions from Golgotha, there on the cross.
It is then when I began to see that now my hope, which seemed to be so far,
so far from being fulfilled, from being realized, because I was already making my
will as a priest, imploring in my will that mass would be held, of suffrage for
my soul, for the years that had to pass, perhaps in the purgatory.
And I already had in my will noted the necessary money, even to pay mass first.
All this fraud to my soul, and mockery of Satan to my conscience, began to cease
from the moment it began to approach me and to receive by the word that I read,
that I had memorized, that I had recited as a priest, but that I could not believe.
I was prevented from believing it.
Now I heard Jesus again, already closer, and the demons that were in me,
as it happened in the purgatory, were already beginning to give in,
because Jesus was too close to resist him.
They could not resist him anymore, and they began to evacuate, and they began
to ask, please let me go here or there, because Jesus was still approaching.
I was believing his word.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will
be condemned.
With how much guarantee the Lord is pronounced, who even enumerates what had
to happen from the moment that in an act of faith this promise was believed,
in an act of repentance was received, because he already enumerates,
even from verse 17 to 20, all the signs, even that they were going to follow,
not only those who believed his gospel, his promise of salvation, but they were
also going to follow the word preached, the written word, to confirm that
manifestation of love, of grace and of forgiveness.
Erzozism and baptism.
Certainly the priest uses water for baptism, but he also uses other elements
that many parents have not been able to identify in the sacred scriptures,
and it is not possible.
Just as I could not identify from erzozism to Catholic baptism, no person can
identify through these means with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Tragedy, pain, a lot of pain, because it is what you believed that identified him
with Christ.
Even more, they told us that the same sacrament of baptism was already that
heritage, that the blood of Christ was already on us.
The blood of Christ was already coming to us.
However, everything the opposite.
In fact, we were under a promise that we ignored, because in a state of innocence,
not only the priest ignored her in a state of reason, and the religious people
ignored her in a state of reason, but the child in a state of innocence was
already under the promise of Christ.
Be Catholic, be Mahometan, be Buddhist, be Hindu, be Satanist, born wherever that
creature is born.
In a state of innocence, she is already a heir to Christ if she dies.
It does not matter what religion she is, it does not matter in what religion she
has been educated, it does not matter in what precepts of liturgy she has been
taught, that child is under the promise of Christ.
Jesus says, of such, of such, in the plural, whoever, born wherever,
come from whatever religion, of such, of such children, in a state of innocence,
is, is, is, is the Kingdom of God.
Faced with this reality, I begin to see that I become a Catholic not because of
the Gospel, but on the contrary, because of the perversion of the Gospel.
In other words, because of the perversion of the Gospel, because of the perversion
of the Gospel, not because of the Gospel, see the difference, not only hear it,
see it, see it, as I could see it, at the time and in the need of my Savior,
of my salvation.
We must see it.
Certainly, and here, the promise, more the one who does not believe will be
condemned, it is a promise, but it is in a negative direction.
What are you going to decide?
To debate the Gospel?
To discuss it?
To contradict it?
To continue perverting it?
Or to believe it?
What is your position?
Not only, but what will be your determination?
Faith is with you, even more, it is also a promise of the Holy Spirit.
It says, faith comes by hearing.
It was not in you, it was not with me.
It comes by hearing the word of God.
This is the moment that you need to make a decision special, I say it is special
because it is unique.
The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, more the one who does not
believe will be condemned.
You need to take that step.
You need to become a Christian.
This is why the Gospel was decreed to be preached to every creature so that you can
be saved, and that already makes you a Christian.
It is not by name, it is not by baptism, it is not by religious profession,
it is because you believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ to which Christ declared
through his apostles that you would come to receive the faith that is now available
for you to receive and believe the person and believe the sacrifice and believe the
promises of Jesus Christ.
The one who believes in me, says Jesus, even if he is dead, he will live and live
eternally.
Do you believe that?
Do you believe it?
If so, take that step.
Jesus is waiting for you.
He says, here I am at the door and I call.
If anyone hears and opens, I will enter him and dine with him and he with me.
Jesus is at the door of your heart, everything you need, with the faith that
the Holy Spirit offers you to believe your person.
Now you can come believing his Gospel to him.
He is waiting for you.
Do not be late.
Jesus is here.
Father, receive this hour.
To whom now they invoke you.
It is written that whoever invokes your name, the name of the Lord, will be saved.
Now I give you thanks for those who already confess you.
In the name of Jesus I adore you and bless you.
Amen.