God's Plan and the Fall of the Prideful Angels

Listen - Volume 3 Book I Chapter 20 - LUCIFER CALLS A MEETING IN HELL IN ORDER TO HINDER THE WORKS OF CHRIST OUR REDEEMER AND OF HIS MOST HOLY MOTHER.

When this meeting was held in the infernal regions, Christ, to whom as our Divine Master all was known, betook Himself to prayer against the malice of the dragon and among other petitions He prayed as follows: "Eternal and most high God and Father, I adore Thee and exalt Thy infinite and immutable Essence; I confess Thee as the highest and boundless Good and I offer Myself in sacrifice to Thy Divine Will for the vanquishing and crushing of the infernal powers and of their malicious counsels against My creatures. I shall battle for them against My and their enemies, and by My own works and victories I shall leave them an encouragement and example of what they must do, so that those who serve Me from their heart, may prevail against Lucifer's malice. Defend, My Father, the souls from the snares and cruelty of the serpent and its followers, and grant to the just the power of Thy right hand, in order that through My intercession and Death they may gain victory over their temptations and dangers." 

Our great Queen and Lady had a like knowledge of the evil counsels of Lucifer and saw all that passed in her Divine Son and the prayer He offered. As the Coadjutrix of his triumphs She joined in the prayers and petitions of her Son to the eternal Father. The Most High granted all of them, and on this occasion Jesus and Mary obtained immense assistance and rewards from the Father for those that battle against the demons in the name of Jesus and Mary. 

So great was the efficacy of their prayers, that all those who pronounce these names in reverence and faith, overcome their hellish enemies and precipitously repel them in virtue of the prayers, triumphs and victories of our Savior and of His Most Holy Mother. On account of the protection thereby offered to us against the arrogant giants of hell, and on account of all the other helps furnished us in the holy Church of our Lord, no excuse is left us for not battling legitimately and valiantly, or for not overcoming and vanquishing the demon, as the enemy of the eternal God and our own. For in this we should follow the example of our Savior according to our ability. 

TEACHING OF THE MOST HOLY MARY, THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN. 

228. “My daughter, weep with bitterest sorrow over the stubbornness and blindness of mortals in not understanding and acknowledging the loving protection, which they have in My Divine Son and in me as a relief from all their troubles and necessities. 

My Lord spared Himself no exertion and left no means unemployed in order to gain for them inestimable treasures of heaven:

He garnered up His infinite merits in the holy Church, the most important fruit of His Passion and Death; 

He left the secure pledges of His glorious love; and procured for them most easy and efficacious means in order that all of them might enjoy and apply them for their use and for their eternal salvation;

He offers them moreover His protection and mine; 

He loves them as children; 

He cherishes them as His chosen friends; 

He calls them by His inspirations; 

He invites them by His blessings and graces; 

He awaits them as a most kind Father; 

He seeks them as their Pastor; 

He helps them as the most Powerful; 

He rewards them as One possessing infinite riches, and governs them as a mighty King. 

All these and innumerable other favors, which are pointed out by faith, offered by the Church and presented before their very eyes, men forget and despise; as if blind, they love the darkness and deliver themselves up to the fury and rage of those cruel enemies. 

They listen to his lies, obey his wicked suggestions and confide in his snares; they trust and give themselves up to the unquenchable fire of his wrath. He seeks to destroy them and consign them to eternal death, only because they are creatures of the Most High, who vanquished and crushed this most cruel foe. 

Guard thyself, therefore, my dearest, against this deplorable error of the children of men and disengage thy faculties in order that thou may clearly see the difference between the service of Christ and that of Belial. 

Greater is that difference than the distance between heaven and earth. Christ is Eternal Life, the true light and the pathway to Eternal Life; those who follow Him He loves with imperishable love, and He offers them His life and His company; with it, an eternal happiness, such as neither eyes have seen, nor ears have heard, nor ever can enter into the mind of man (John 14, 6).

Lucifer is darkness itself, error, deceit, unhappiness and death; he hates his followers and forces them into evil as far as possible, and at the end inflicts upon them eternal fire and horrid torments.

Let mortals give testimony, whether they are ignorant of these truths, since the Holy Church propounds them and calls them to their minds every day. If men believe these truths, where is their good sense? Who has made them insane? Who drives from their remembrance the love, which they ought to have for themselves? Who makes them so cruel to themselves?

0 insanity never sufficiently to be bewailed and so little considered by the children of Adam! All their life they labor and exert themselves to become more and more entangled in the snares of their passions, to be consumed in deceitful vanities and to deliver themselves over to an inextinguishable fire, death and everlasting perdition, as if all were a mere joke and as if Christ had not come down from heaven to die on a Cross for their rescue!

Let them but look upon the price, and consider how much God himself paid for this happiness, who knew the full value of it. 

The idolaters and heathens are much less to blame for falling into this error; nor does the wrath of the Most High enkindle so much against them as against the faithful of His Church, who have such a clear knowledge of this truth. If the minds of men, in our present age, have grown forgetful of it, let them understand that this happened by their own fault, because they have given a free hand to their enemy Lucifer. He with tireless malice labors to overthrow the barriers of restraint, so that, forgetful of the last things and of eternal torment, men may give themselves over, like brute beasts, to sensual pleasures, and unmindful of themselves consume their lives in the pursuit of apparent good, until, as Job says (Job 21, 13), they suddenly fall a prey to eternal perdition.

Such is in reality the fate of innumerable foolish men, who abhor the restraint imposed upon them by this truth. Do thou, my daughter, allow me to instruct thee, and keep thyself free from such harmful deceit and from this forgetfulness of the worldly people.

Let the despairing groans of the damned, which begin at the end of their lives and at the beginning of their eternal damnation, ever resound in thy ears: O we fools, who esteemed the life of the just as madness! O how are they counted among the sons of God, and their lot is among the saints ! We have erred then from the path of truth and of justice. The sun has not arisen for us. We have wearied ourselves in the ways of iniquity and destruction, we have sought difficult paths and erred by our own fault from the way of the Lord. What has pride profited us? What advantage has the boasting of riches brought us? All has passed away from us like a shadow. O had we but never been born! 

This, my daughter, thou must fear and ponder in thy heart, so that, before thou goest to that land of darkness and of eternal dungeons from whence there is no return, thou mayest provide against evil and avoid it by doing the good. During thy mortal life and out of love do thou now perform that of which the damned in their despair are forced to warn thee by the excess of their punishment.”

Read - Volume 3 Book I Chapter 20