REBUILD

My Church

Rebuild My Church. This is what Saint Francis heard God say to him. It's God's Church. It's not any one else's church. Jesus with God and The Holy Spirit at Pentacost created it. No one else in it can claim 'ownership' of it. At the time Saint Francis lived, God's church was in shambles.

Saint Francis didn't really understand what God meant at the time. He lived in a time of petty conflicts all around where little city-states in Italy were warring. He himself was a prisoner of war, a POW, likely tortured in a prison in Perrugia. There he was smuggled a bible in the Vulgate, not the official latin language but one he could read. He discovered the Gospel afresh. Saint Francis is a saint to both the Catholic and Protestant world because he lived prior to the Protestant reformation. Two billion people in the world recognize him as a great purifier. He founded the order consecrated to Peacemaking who guard the Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.

Saint Francis was told to "build my church." So stone by stone he first went about physically building a new space to worship. Then he realized, that is not what God meant exactly. This actual stone church is still standing, enclosed within a Basillica in Assisi.

Rebuilding the Church means reclaiming the Heart of Christ in it. Evolving away from the dirt of worldly corruption which threatens to swallow it. It means purifying it in a cleansing at the heart of the Church to put Christ's heart at the center of it.

We have now historically a profound filth in the church in the form of the persecutions of people who are highlighting various 'abuses' of clergy and the filth of the abuses themselves which are indeed far more widespread than anyone minimized earlier. It has threatened to completely undermine the church in Ireland and has given ammunition to critics who seek to use the filth to discredit Christ's mission and meaning.

Franciscans, not coincidentally are the order that didn't defect from the Croatian hills against persecutions. They survived them- one third killed, one third imprisoned and the rest persecuted mercilessly. They are the purifying fire. It is also not coincidence that they are the order who are praying non-stop around the Eucharist at Medjugorje and stayed while the diocesene and secular priests fled.

The church in Medjugorje stands as a testament for God's love of womanhood and motherhood, surrounded by the Blessed Mother who won't leave the place according to the three Visionaries who still see her until her mission there is accomplished.

One of the franciscans has been defrocked- because he had a relationship with a woman -a nun-who got pregnant.

I believe that part of the Blessed Mother's mission, the spouse of the Holy Spirit is to cleanse the filth of the hearts of men who view women as lesser, more unworthy or sub-holy, such that they view marriage as scandal, even marriage with clergy. This is contrary to verses in Timothy wherein it is noted that in the end times in particular people will forbid marriage- and this is sin. Error. Falsehood. Heresy. This is contrary to Jewish law and teaching and Jesus said he did not come to abolish the laws but to fulfill them. It has created a path for the foothold of evil to trample the church.

The church needs to repent of this- and once it does, it will go a long way toward cleansing it's ego-errant deviations from God's Will. I believe that the Blessed Mother is not going to leave Medjugorje until there is a formal doctrinal revocation of the mandatory all person all time clerical celibacy imposition which confuses and conflates charisms and drives people God has called into priestly service out of service in HIS church. It is an Afront to LOVE, and God is Love- or he is nothing.