What Satan Hates “Most”– The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus–It is All About LOVE

On June 27,  we Catholics celebrated the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.  The first word used to describe the Sacred Heart is MOST.  How proper.  The definition of MOST  is “greatest quantity, amount or degree”.   Holy Mother Church is sure  smart.  How fitting a word to use to describe the LOVE in the Heart of Jesus,  MOST.  That is because this is what the day is all about, LOVE.   And the LOVE in Jesus’ Heart is the MOST  LOVE there can ever be anywhere, anyplace, anytime.  If you could encapsulate all of the true love that exists in the world, it could never compare to the LOVE that exists in His  MOST SACRED HEART.  That is simply because GOD is LOVE.

The second reading of the Mass for the day was from 1 John 4: 7-16.  I am just mentioning lines #9-12:  “In this way the Love of God is revealed to us: God sent His only Son into the world so that we might have life through Him.  In this is LOVE: not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as expiation for our sins.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we must also love one another.  No one has ever seen God.  Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us and His love is brought to perfection in us.”  Okay, please bear with me?  Before getting to the point of all this  I wish to quote lines #2-3 which are not included in the Mass reading. “This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh belongs to God, and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus does not belong to God.  This is the spirit of the antichrist that, as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the world.”

Now we are in the year 2014.  And yes, finally, I am  going to get to the point.  The point of all of this is to ask how do we as Catholic writers confront the War between LOVE and HATE.  This war is rooted in the Bible, isn’t it?  If God is LOVE what is HATE?  It follows, SATAN  is HATE.  St. John has written, “– the spirit of the antichrist —is already in the world”.  The cunning and devious method that Satan is using to do his HATE work is having those who have joined his minions proclaim that they are serving God  in their evil work.  For example, the abuse, torture and  killing of men, women and children has been going on throughout recorded history and it continues,  unabated, to this very day.  How often are these atrocities committed in the name of God?

The 20th century alone has witnessed seven recorded and documented genocides that have taken uncounted millions of lives.  How many of those people died because their religion or beliefs were contrary to the ones killing them.  Killing out of hatred while using God as the reason is an abomination of all that is GOOD and pleasing to God.  It is the ultimate hypocrisy committed by men and women who have chosen to allow the Minister of Hate to enter their very souls.  People kill (not self-defense) due to pride, envy, anger,  greed and lust, and it seems that ‘pride’ always leads the pack.  Pride is the king of self-destruction and opens the primary portal for  the evil that lurks, waiting to embrace each and every one of us.  And what about all of our Catholic/Christian brothers and sisters who have taken their own road while still proclaiming their faith in Jesus.   Well now,  I pass judgement on no one because  I do not know what is truly in their hearts.  But I do NOT have to refrain from writing in defense of my faith out of fear of being called bigoted, fanatical, racist, and even hateful.  I am none of those things.

My writing has taken a definite turn.   I did not plan it nor did I see it coming.  I just started to pen more and more about different topics that defile our faith, like the atrocities taking place against Catholic/Christians all over the world.  I am also sick and tired of those in the atheist movement wanting to take our religious freedoms away under the guise of being “offended”.  I think I have had enough of  “cafeteria catholics” (especially the ones who hold political office) promoting their own agendas of “pro-choice”, “same-sex-marriage” , “married priests” etc.  And it is done under the guise of virtue.  Listen my friends, I am not intolerant if I am opposed to abortion.  I am not “homophobic” and do not need sensitivity training if I oppose “gay marriage”.   I am a traditional minded catholic man who loves his faith and resents seeing it vilified and spat upon by those who are only interested in their own agendas.  Enough is enough.  So I write to add an extra bit of protection, small as it may be, to that which we call Catholic.

I believe there is a self-centeredness and false pride that exists in all of us.  It is the gateway for evil to enter into us. Many reject this evil. Many have too much love in their hearts to be influenced by such temptation.  Many do not.  Lucifer is alive and well and using these open gateways that are available to him all over the world.  Quite often he is very successful at gaining entrance into these easily accessible souls.   Lucifer was the greatest and brightest of all God’s angels.  But his PRIDE made him him choose to challenge his Creator.  He lost that battle and was cast out of heaven.  He has been waging war with a  vitriolic, all consuming hatred for God and Love ever since.  I imagine he was screaming like a raving lunatic  as we celebrated His MOST SACRED HEART.  He was screaming and yelling because the MOST SACRED HEART is his reality check that tells him  he can NEVER win.