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 read the Gospel of Mark, chapter 16.
Chapter 16 of the Gospel of Mark.
And we are going, in this sacred word, to read this message of our Lord Jesus
Christ, starting with verse 15 and even reading up to verse 20.
Let's read the word of the Lord.
And Jesus said to them, And throughout the world preach the gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will
be condemned.
And these signs will follow those who believe.
In my name they will cast out demons, they will speak new tongues, they will
remove snakes, and if they drink deadly things, it will not harm them.
They will lay their hands on the sick and they will be healed.
And the Lord, after he spoke to them, was received up in heaven and was placed
at 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 one could imagine,
because it is this introduction that gives us to understand and to know better that
we are not basing ourselves in any tradition, in any religious experience,
nor in any philosophy or art of man, in any religion of human foundation.
This, even if we speak of religion, is not even the product of the religion
that the Apostle Santiago speaks of 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, Scour the Scriptures, because it seems to you that in them you
have eternal life.
And it is they, the Scriptures, that give testimony of me.
In other words, apart from this sacred word, there is nothing, there will not be,
there has not been anything that gives testimony of Jesus Christ outside the word
of God.
The Holy Scripture, the Bible.
Contrary to my own personal experience as a Roman Catholic and Roman Catholic priest
of the Jesuit order, my experience was the complete opposite of this divine
revelation, of this admonition of Christ.
For me, the testimony of Jesus Christ was not enclosed in the Scriptures,
as Christ himself divinely decrees and admonishes his apostles, not only,
but the religious of his time, apart from what they felt, apart from what
they experienced, apart 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.
At 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 of a comic, 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, that 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, with the only means, the only channel,
we could say, even more to emphasize it dramatically, the only channel,
contrary to the seven channels that are spoken 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 what has been 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 much 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 the apostles to give this decree,
to transmit this divine decree, which involves this exclusive purpose of
His salvation and redemption, to make it more personal, of my salvation and
redemption, of the salvation and redemption of the human gender.
And it is the revelation of this purpose that is manifested through this decree.
Go around the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
In other words, not to the creatures, to every creature.
That is to say, that with a lot of exclusivity, person by person,
you have to know the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in order to be able to believe in
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, the written word of God at the center.
I was thrown aside by the Magisterium, and I was thrown aside by the tradition.
In my ambition, I myself seemed to feel, in my spiritual ambition, and in my need
for Christ, and for salvation, and for redemption, and for the remission
of my sins, I felt like I was being torn apart, like I was being torn apart on both
sides, like I was being destroyed, as Solomon himself said to those who asked
and demanded of the child, when the two mothers themselves asked, saying and
claiming 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 put in conflict 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 in no way, in no way, there was the 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 go to 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 themselves to Roman
Catholicism since 1,600 years ago.
How did this happen?
How did this take place?
Where did it come from?
Where does this experience of religious tradition and Catholic magisterium
originate from?
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 one 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.
Go for the whole world.
And what to do?
What to do going for that world, in need, in problems, in political,
social, economic, religious, military crises?
Listen carefully, when we talk about going for the whole world, we have to think that
when you go for the whole 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 cannot only talk about Catholicism.
After all, the same book of Apocalypse, chapters 17, 18 and 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, is not
isolated, because it becomes the mother of the abominations and fornications of the
Earth.
What indicates that even when we walk in this world, from one side to the other,
from south to north, from east to west, we find not only with all kinds of poverty
and misery, political, social, economic and moral, we find a lot of
religious misery.
I say tragedies, not only misery, profoundly religious tragedies.
If this is the case, 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, holiness, 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 this, to this divine decree.
What are we going to do with all this in the world?
What news are we going to bring?
What news are we going to bring to all this situation, to all this population,
to all this world mass that suffers daily, every 24 hours, all the destruction with
which Satan has established his rule on this planet.
Jesus himself declares it and reveals it in this way.
Satan, the ancient serpent, says, the prince of this world, apart from all
his titles, Jesus is the first to give him the title of prince.
The prince of this world.
So much so that Satan himself, with such a title, but with such an office
of prince, offers him to the king, to the king of kings and lord of lords,
to Jesus Christ, in person, in the desert, in the temptation to which he was led.
He says to him, here, finally, if I cannot win you in one way or another,
I am going to offer you the greatest of all offers.
I have here the kingdoms of the earth and all its glory.
I give you, I offer you, I give you, with that same power that governs 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, stay 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 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 this relationship, the religion, the 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 molesting, he is suggesting, he is exhorting and he
is calling and he is inviting.
In that relationship,
the glory and the governments of this world.
How much eagerness is displayed 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,
does not have to offer, on the contrary, seeks in human misery, in human misery,
as Satan himself offers Christ, seeks in human misery, in human waste,
seeks his seat, seeks his coexistence, seeks his own inclusive experience.
He does not offer anything because he has nothing, he cannot offer anything.
By staying at the margin of the Gospel, as I stayed at the margin of the Gospel,
since my parents baptized me.
In other words, I was not taken to the Gospel, I was taken to baptism.
Let us understand well the order, how a creature begins to be Roman
Catholic, not because of the Gospel.
My parents, as Spanish and Roman Catholics, did not receive the Gospel.
What they received is, by the conduct of human misery itself, and of human
sufferings, the product of that very thing.
They received everything that is contrary to the hope of eternal life and 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 talking now in
relation to what the Gospel offers.
Religion has many promises.
Even more, since I was baptized as a child in the state of innocence, I was already
promised that I would be a Christian.
In other words, that I was already in that process of being a Christian.
I did not know what was happening.
I did not know what they were telling me.
I did not know what they were practicing on my body in the state of innocence.
No creature knows this in the 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 pillar of baptism.
Let us come to the Gospel once more, as the Holy Spirit himself 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 all over the 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.
So it is not, go all over the world and be baptized.
No, it is, go all over the world and preach.
Preach.
Preach the Gospel.
What an offer.
And what a promise.
Because since the announcement 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 the Roman Catholicism, originated in Rome in
the third century, under the great emperor Constantine.
This was the first Christian church 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, 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, even 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 possibility, 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 God's power.
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 a lot to be ashamed of.
They had a lot to be ashamed of.
In the face of Christ, in the face of his doctrine, in the face of his teachings,
in the face of his person, in the face of his love, they had and had to be ashamed
of.
Their own religious traditions, which 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, which 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 in chapter 10 of that same letter, he 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?
Not only that, but how will it be possible for someone to hear if there is no one to
go to preach?
Well, the scripture says, Preach the Gospel to every creature.
In other words, not to the masses, but simply to every creature.
To every creature, 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 already a Catholic by
reason, my parents were the first.
When I knew I was Catholic, it happened because my parents told me so.
In other words, I was surrounded by a situation where I myself had many
questions to ask.
Already at a certain age, even before going to the seminary to pass my studies
to the priesthood.
Many questions began to arise 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 this preaching,
of this Gospel, that I became a Roman Catholic?
That you became a Catholic?
That you are a Catholic?
Is it as a consequence of this decree?
That the Catholics, the human beings, became Catholics?
The countries, the families, and the priests became priests?
Or the men became priests?
The women became nuns?
And bishops, and cardinals, and popes?
Would all this be as a consequence of this decree from Christ to his apostles,
that all this came to happen?
Is it true?
Is this 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.
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, that experience,
that faith, that religion, on the pages of Scripture, on the pages of the Gospel.
I was led by the Holy Spirit to Mark chapter 10.
In the 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 to him children, so that he might touch them.
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 might
touch them, when presenting them to him.
The disciples opposed.
They resisted.
And there is no doubt that this was not pleasant for Christ.
That opposition on the part of his disciples, to prevent those mothers from
bringing their children to him, was not pleasant, I repeat.
We speak of preventing, we speak of preventing.
This word is very important, it was crucial in my own conversion.
See why.
As a Jesuit priest, would I be preventing?
As a priest, would I be preventing?
And not as a priest, but as a Catholic.
As a Catholic, would you be preventing your own children to come to Christ?
To come to Jesus?
Would someone be preventing you?
Would someone, religiously?
I no longer speak politically, economically, or militarily.
No, no, no, not by force of the weapons.
By force of religious persuasion, of teaching, of religious education.
Would someone, religiously, be preventing, at this moment, at this time, in their
life, in their country, in their nation, in their home, would someone be preventing
those children of theirs to come to Christ?
To know Christ?
And to remain in Christ?
Listen to the word.
It says, And they presented children to him that he might 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.
Prevention.
In other words, what is happening here?
They are hindering the process, through which God himself, in his divine
plan, has revealed Jesus, has prophesied of Jesus, of the child Jesus.
The prophets already spoke.
And here the Virgin will conceive, and will give birth to a son, and will
call his name Jesus.
Because he, that child, already has the same name, the same title, already has the
message, and the promise.
Jesus, that means, savior of his people.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, 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, that he will not come to leave his people in their sins.
Jesus, that he will not see his people be condemned.
Jesus, that he did not come to judge his people, that he did not come to condemn
them.
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.
The paradox was already for me.
My conscience did not resist it anymore.
The paradox was too big for my conscience to overcome.
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, so that they reach Christ when
they need to reach him.
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 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, is not the impediment itself, but it is
the individual who practices it.
It is the one who impedes it, it is the one who hinders it, as in the case of my
own personal experience as a priest.
I was the one who impeded and the one who hindered, because of my ignorance of the
Gospel and because I did not believe it, because of my own disbelief in the Gospel,
as a priest, because I did not believe this same promise of faith that I impeded,
and I hindered thousands and thousands of children to come to Christ.
And they presented children for Him to touch them, and the disciples rebuked
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, could there not only be a better promise than this one, but could
there 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, even the sacrament of the religious orders can offer it, the sacrament of
marriage can offer it, the sacrament of extramarital affairs can offer it,
not only some of these sacraments, but all of them together, they can,
all of them together, they can certify, guarantee, give this promise to a single
human being.
Can they?
Listen to what Jesus says.
I had to listen to it, and listen to it again, until I believed it.
To me, religiously, it was impossible to believe it.
To me, a religious person,
because of such people, will the Kingdom of Heaven be?
No!
Christianity does not deal with undefined promises, Christianity deals with defined
promises, secure, eternal, and to the present.
Religion has many promises of the present, but which are they?
Undefined.
You are going to be saved one day, you don't know when.
Here, Jesus goes ahead, even to time, to age, to reason, and says to these
children, they are co-heirs with me of the Kingdom of God, they are the heirs of such
people, they are the owners of such people, it is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Now.
Through what process?
What did they have to do?
What did they have to do, those children, to become heirs of the Kingdom of God?
What did they have to do?
The parents, the family.
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, after giving them not only the promise,
but the guarantee of the promise, did these things that we are going to
read, we are not going to invent them, we are not going to think about them,
we are not going to imagine them, we are going to read and believe them.
That was my blessing, when I began to believe what I read, what I repeated,
and what I knew even by heart, by heart, as a priest.
But I did not believe it yet.
I tell you for a fact, says verse 15, of chapter 10 of the Gospel of Mark,
I tell you for a fact, that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God as 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, granted.
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 canonical right 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 gave them 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 by 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 enter into the kingdom of God.
Nor can we, among the adults who received the same glorious experience as Nicodemus,
did the same.
And Jesus did the praise of this promise to Nicodemus.
Since he saw him, he saw him as a needed man even though he was so devoted,
so religious, so pious, not painful, but so educated religiously.
He was a teacher, a teacher
who taught is necessary.
It is not that if you want or you don't want, it is not that it is a matter to
debate it, to discuss it or to give an opinion about it.
No, it is necessary.
It is true that you will have many things to object about, many things to give an
opinion, many things to confront, There are many things to discuss and
perhaps even dialogue in a more human and psychological way.
But none of this is worth it.
His first need is for Christ.
His first need, above all else, is to be saved.
And the question should be how to become a Christian, not how to become a Catholic.
Because we are seeing that there is an absolute disparity between how to become a
Catholic and how to become a Christian.
Jesus went ahead of 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 telling
Nicodemus that was 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 charged 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 to how this began with Nicodemus.
He says to you, it is necessary to be born again.
Do you identify something of this with the experience of having become Catholic?
See how one began and how the other began.
From there, Jesus said to his apostles, go around the world and exorcise children.
That's it.
Go around the world and baptize children.
Go around the world and celebrate Mass.
Go around the world and do penance.
Go around the world and celebrate the apparitions of Guadalupe, of Lourdes,
of Fatima.
Go around the world and do what?
To the world in need.
And offer what?
To the world in misfortune and misery, and in 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 make known to the Lord by the truth, the deception, the lie,
the betrayal, and the perversion that the Gospel of him has been doing in the course
of the centuries.
Listen.
We are going to give a reading once again to this passage of the Gospel of Mark,
chapter 16.
Preparing us for this very special invitation.
Listen to me carefully.
And he said to them, and to all the world, to preach the Gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever 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,
Jesus neither exorcised them, nor did he exorcise the others.
Nor did he baptize them, 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.
I already felt that not only tears were running from my eyes, physically,
literally.
But there were tears of the heart.
There was something that told me and made me feel that I was not only crying,
in spite of the consolation, in spite of the promise, in spite of the offer.
My heart began to cry, but it cried with joy, no longer with sorrow, because when I
cried with sorrow, it was because I saw myself far from all this reality that the
Gospel offered me.
When I begin to approach, because I begin to give in to the conviction of the Holy
Spirit, and to believe in Christ, in the person of Christ, in the sacrifice
of Christ, in the blood of Jesus Christ, when I begin 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 begin to see that now my hope, which seemed to be so far,
so far from being fulfilled, from being realized, well, I even made my will as a
priest, imploring in my will that mass should be made, of suffrage for my soul,
for the years that had to pass, perhaps, in purgatory.
And I already had in my will, pointed out, 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 I began to approach, 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 again to Jesus, Come nearer.
And the demons that were in me, as it happened in Gadarene, already began
to give in, because Jesus was too close to resist him.
They could not resist him, and began to evacuate, and began to ask, even,
please let me go here or there, because Jesus was still approaching.
I was believing his word.
He who believes, and is baptized, will be saved, but he who does not
believe, will be condemned.
With how much guarantee, the Lord is pronounced, that 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 it 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.
Erzosism and baptism.
Certainly the priest uses water for baptism, but he also uses other elements
that many fathers have not been able to identify in the Holy Scriptures,
and it is not possible.
Just as I could not identify from erzosism to Catholic baptism, no one can identify
by these means with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Tragedy, pain, a lot of pain, because it is what you believed you identified with
Christ.
Even more, they told us that the same sacrament of baptism was already that
heritage, that the blood of Christ was already upon us.
The blood of Christ was already upon us.
However, quite the opposite.
In fact, we were under a promise that we ignored, because in the state of
innocence, not only the priest ignored it in the state of reason, and the religious
people ignored it in the state of reason, but the child in the state of innocence
was already under the promise of Christ.
Be it Catholic, be it Mahometan, be it Buddhist, be it Hindu, be it
Satanist, wherever that child is born, in the state of innocence, he is already a
heir to Christ if he dies.
It does not matter what religion he is, it does not matter in what religion he was
educated, it does not matter in what precepts of liturgy he was taught,
that child is under the promise of Christ.
Jesus says, of those, of those, in plural, whoever he is, born where he is
born, come from whatever religion, of those, of those children in the state
of innocence, he is, he is, he is, he is the Kingdom of God.
Faced with this reality, I begin to see that I become 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.
You have to 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 pain, but what is going to be your determination?
The faith is with you, already, even more, it is also a promise of the
Holy Spirit.
The 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 special decision.
I say 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 all creatures, so that you can
be saved, can be saved, and that 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 in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to which Christ declared,
through his apostles, that you would come to receive the faith that is now available
to you, to receive it, and believe in the person, and believe in the sacrifice,
and believe in the promises of Jesus Christ.
The one who believes in me, says Jesus, even if he is dead, he will live,
and he will 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 have dinner 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 in
his 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.
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