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Thomas A. Edison, inventor. I have the greatest admiration for all engineers, especially for the greatest among them, for God. John A. Fleming. Physicist. A large number of modern discoveries have completely shattered old materialism. The universe seems like an idea to our eyes today. And the idea presupposes a thinker: Fried Dessaver biologist, physicist, philosopher. When many inventions and discoveries have entered our time over the last seventy, it means that God-Creator speaks to us louder and more clearly through scientists and inventors. Paul Sabatier, winner of the Nobel Prize: Religion and Science, contrast only a person who is neither educated in science nor theology.
Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Laureate: I declare that I am a believer. I believe in God’s power not only as a Catholic but also as a scientist. Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate: The idea of ​​being an atheist is a big mistake. Whoever read it from my scientific theories barely understood them. Max Plank was a Nobel Prize winner. Religion and natural things are not mutually exclusive, as some people think, but complement each other. The reasoning of a believer begins with God, and the sense of physics ends with God. Wernher von Braun, physicist and rocket engineer: Sometimes, I hear the objection that we know so much about nature that we don’t need to believe in God in a century of spaceflight. That’s not right. Only a renewed faith in God can bring about a change that could save our world from disaster. Science and religion are siblings, not adversaries. Human knowledge is very roughly divided into three areas. They are the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology. Quotes from these scientists show that their authors were experts not only in the natural sciences but that they were also well versed in philosophy and theology. They are certainly opposed by no less renowned scientists who have a different opinion. This means that God cannot be proved in laboratories. God is reflected in created things. He leaves the manuscript of his existence with his work. If we put God on the level of matter, materialized him somewhere in the universe, we could talk about his occurrence, but that is not possible because he transcends matter, space, and time. If we put God on the level of the law of nature, we could talk about its validity because the laws apply. However, this is not possible because the laws only apply where there is space, matter, and time.

 In the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation, part of which we read today, the Apostle number John sees the great fire dragon’s struggle with the Woman of the Sun. The object of his hatred is a woman and her child who wants to gobble up the dragon, Messiah, and his Mother. This fight took place first “in the sky” and was also involved in Michael – prince of heavenly multitudes and his angels. The dragon did not stand and was toppled to the ground – where the fight continues. She continues to fight against The Woman and her offspring. So, we are all involved in this fight against evil. And we could ask: And how are we supposed to fight? 

Pet’s look at archangel Michael as he fought and prevailed: Michael -who is like God? It was a battle cry and, meanwhile, an expression of the essence of the angel, which today we honor as archangel Michael. 

And they were the first creatures of God before all material beings. They were aware of their dignity and greatness, their status; they knew they came after God first. And then God showed them his plan to create man, and that He would become a man. Some angels disparaged with this plan of God. Their pride and inner rebellion brought them so far that there was no place in heaven for them. The Apostle John sees the fall of angels, as we read today: “In heaven, a struggle broke down: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. He fought the dragon and his angels, but they couldn’t stand it, and there was no place for them in heaven anymore.’ (J.B. 12,7) It was a struggle to accept a God who is so great that he becomes a small defenseless child and still to do so through the Woman who will be their queen. It was a struggle against God’s will, against God’s plan on earth. 

With his humility, Michael becomes the leader of those angels who, by all their being, celebrate God and his will. How did Michael and his angels fight? Humility. This is still a powerful means of spiritual struggle. It may also happen to us that sometimes we disagree with God’s plan to defy him. But let us not forget: Based on humility and trust in God’s power, Michael was promoted to the duke of the heavenly army. Whoever is small will elevate that God. And because he wants to defend God’s honor, he gets all the power to do so. 

Michael was a pretty humble angel. His name “Who is like God” could also be expressed as follows: “Who is as wise as God, who can raise himself above God?” A humble man is a tool in God’s hands. Angels are helping us do this. They teach us to love God, to accept his will humbly, to fight for his honor, and for the Virgin Mary. Archangel Michael is the guardian of the people of God (Dan 10, 13.21, 12.1), the protector of those who belong to Mary and who will be fully dedicated to it. 

In the holy scripture, the name Michael is mentioned for the first time in the book Daniel. “Michael, one of the princes, came to my aid.” (Dan 10.13) Daniel sees a time in which Michael will significantly help people on earth. “At that time, Michael, the great prince, will rise above the sons of your nation: It will be a time of anxiety that has never been since nations rose.” (Dan 12,1)

To that this time has come is not to be explained. We all see it. People threatened by natural disasters and wars look to the future with fear. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants are threatening peace in Europe. The Christian culture of the old continent is subverted not only by Muslims but also by us to destroy Christian Europe completely. Yes, we are during a gigantic spiritual struggle, so confusion and schism are becoming increasingly noticeable even among Christian Catholics. 

 October 13, 1884, exactly 33 years before the solar miracle in Fatima – he celebrated a Holy Mass in his private chapel. As of Thanksgiving, the Holy Father would remain at another holy Mass. In prayer, Father ours stopped and was completely immobile for a time, and with his arms trained, he observed some happening. His face betrayed horror and astonishment at the same time; suddenly fatally faded. Suddenly, he exclaimed aloud, “Is there no more rescue for the Church?” Then he went straight to his office and wrote in one breath a prayer to archangel Michael: “Saint Michael, the archangel, defend us in battle, be our protector against evil and the base of the devil. We humbly ask that God show him his power. And you, the prince of heavenly multitudes, God’s power, go to hell Satan and other evil spirits who roam the world to the destruction of souls.

Did the new saw? He saw the multitude of demons raced against the Church symbolized by St. Peter’s Basilica. The walls of the temple shook so hard that the time seemed to collapse. Was it during the vision that the holy father exclaimed, “Is there no more salvation for the Church?” And behold, here came down from heaven archangel Michael, began to fight demons and defeated them. The demons pulled back into a crack deep like a chasm, and it then closed. 

 The pope. Leo XIII had a vision of the hellish spirits who had gathered over the Eternal City. This experience created a prayer – and the pope wished to pray it all over the world on her knees after every holy Mass and begged in it for Russia’s conversion. He prayed for her with trimming and, simultaneously, a powerful voice. Unfortunately, the liturgical reform of 1969/70 did not take account of this powerful prayer. However, St. John Paul II wished to return to this prayer: “Although this prayer is no longer praying at the end of the Eucharistic celebration, I call on all of you not to forget and pray for it to help us fight the powers of darkness and the spirit of the world.” 

65 years before Pope Leo XIII blessed Anna Katarina Emmerich (1774–1824), a prominent German mystic, saw in her vision the spiritual struggle and ultimate victory of the Church. God also showed her how the Church – thanks mainly to the help of the holy archaeal Michael – would be saved from terrible hardship, suffering, and hardship. However, she saw not only the winning match of St. Peter’s. Michael, but also the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary: “I saw a red glowing heart floating in the sky, a white stream of rays coming out into the wound on the side, and another stream of rays spreads to the temple and many other places. These rays dragged very many souls into each other, passing through this heart and then further into Jesus’ wound on the side. I’ve been told this is the HEART OF OUR LADY.” And then this blessed German mystic understood something filled with great consolation: “I have come to know that the desire of many humble, loving, faithful Christians has attracted the kingdom of God.” 

These many humble, faithful Christians are you, dear believers. Virgin Mary is always with us, all the more so at a time when we need her most. In Fatima, the Book of Revelation’s words have fulfilled: An apocalyptic Woman descended to the earth, to her offspring, to teach us to lead us in the struggle we go through daily. We are all involved in this apocalyptic fight against the great dragon. He has great power because we, the people, gave it to him with his sins. We can’t beat him ourselves. God has chosen Fatima children to show us how this almost invincible dragon can be overwhelmed. Through these children, he offers us spiritual weapons: the prayer of the rosary, the dedication, the deity of the first reindeer, the atoning sacrifice for the sinners, and how satisfaction for the insults against God and Mary’s heart, the pity of sins, repentance. We can only defeat the great dragon if we are like the children of Fatima. As children, humble and obedient to what God asks of us, what the Virgin Mary begs us to do. She’s our general in this spiritual struggle.

Let us help each other to stay right at this challenging time. Let us pray an often mighty prayer to archangel Michael and hide under the protective mantle of the Virgin Mary into her Immaculate Heart through dedication. 

Apostle John, archangel Michael, Our Lady – they are united by the Book of Revelation, but also by the humble love that seeks and fulfills God’s will! The fight is brutal, but its result is promised to us: (For) “eventually my Immaculate Heart will come outfit.

 Is it possible to prove God? The Bible says. No one has ever seen God. Independent of the Bible, the Greek philosopher Aristotle writes. Even though God is invisible to all nature, he is visible in his work. Imagine such a situation. You’re wandering the desert. Just sand everywhere. Then you will come to a place where you will see three stems lying in a capital letter A. There are only two possible explanations. There was someone in front of you who laid the stalks like that, or it’s a work of chance. You go further and again you will see blades of grass which will be more and will form a word, hello. Also, there are two options. It’s either a coincidence or someone was here before you. I don’t know how many people will still believe in chance. After the next journey, when you are already at the end with the forces, you will come to a place where there is a clear sign from the blades of grass to continue in the direction shown by the arrow. Again, we can say that it is a work of chance. But this is very unlikely. Let’s move from the desert to planet earth. Billions of years ago, it was a ball of glowing gases. Today there is a matter that understands itself. A look at the structure of nucleic acids, the human brain, the form of an atom of the universe raises two questions. Either it arose at the very beginning out of nothing and by chance, just for nothing. Or in the beginning, it was someone who is not a coincidence. I would like to recall the statement made by Professor Edwin Couklin, an American biologist 1863-1962, who said—explaining the origin of life on Earth by pure means the same as expecting a new dictionary from the explosion in the printer. Some can believe in such a coincidence. Here we see that atheism is nothing but a deep belief in chance. If an atheist calls coincidence a development, he forgets that it must also have logic, meaning, and purpose. If an action arose by chance, what story arose by chance. Let’s go back to the desert. If we found a gear there, we could consider its occurrence to be accidental. If we found a watch there, it’s hard to say; it’s hard to say that the wind accidentally blew together the wheels of a hand, a pen, a glass, and it all happens to fit together. If we see that there is something a million times more complicated in the universe than an ordinary watch, only one who rejects higher power out of principle or pride can develop from nothing and super chance.

People prove ourselves with all my power. Money, fame, strength, beauty, learning. Why? And we know that everything will end once in our lives.

Jesus says, “Do not defend him, for he who is not against is for you” (Luke 9:50). Do we long to be great? More significant than a child? Why? He did whatever, he always taught his disciples, he taught them about Heavenly Father, about mutual love, about help, surprising? Not very much. After all, every attitude is challenging.
Contrary to the motives of the apostles and each of us. Are we great !? Even before God, we make ourselves more significant than we are. I want things to go, according to my imagination. I need recognition.

To illustrate, we will use the case of a man who fell into mortal sin but found his way back from his selfish desires and became more spiritual. This man was incredibly tempted to watch The Passion of the Christ, so he went and watched him. Jesus’ suffering and death struck this man right in the heart. On a colossal movie screen, everything Jesus paid for his sins was shown in detail in front of him. Before the end of the film, the man ran out of the cinema and rushed to the Church, looked for a priest, and asked him for confession. The priest, moved by the man’s sincerity, left everything at that and listened. The man cried for mercy and was forgiven. His heart changed instantly, and the dominion of his past sins disappeared forever. This story suggests that Jesus may come to us in various ways.

Jesus often told disciples that “they are incomprehensible.” They spent three years with him, listened to his teachings, saw him heal, resurrected the dead, cast out evil spirits, and even transformed on the hill of Tabor. But it didn’t seem to be enough. In today’s Gospel, he points out that whoever is with him will never be against him. It is easy to criticize them for their incomprehension, but let’s think about what Jesus told them. It was challenging, seemingly quite illogical. He told them things that we still perceive as mysteries of faith. They certainly needed time to think about what they had heard – or to experience it, not just to listen to it. Even today, God’s plans are shrouded in mystery and often challenging to understand. But we don’t have to criticize them right away. For disciples can be a huge source of encouragement and hope for us: we don’t have to understand everything right away. We can overcome the lack of faith, just like them.

Let’s do the same. Let’s persevere in trust. Let us look for answers in the Scriptures and in the teachings of the Church. Even if something doesn’t make sense to us, we can trust that Jesus knows what we need and that he will reveal and reveal the truth to us when we ask him to. He will never give us up!

 We live in a very religious time, but not a very Christian one. Like mushrooms after the rain, we have a wide variety of sects. Astrologers, spirits, horoscope makers, magicians, occultists offer help at every step. If you don’t want to talk to them, they will provide you with at least a pendant or a miraculous stone that miraculously brings health. Such a belief the Christian rejects. Today’s man thinks economically and therefore asks a question. Why this or that is good. Why is good faith? Faith in Jesus and the way with him. Jesus creates a third, spiritual dimension in each of us and leads our spiritual life to the fullness. Jesus builds our will. He will make a bridge between the old and new life. It gives us other perspectives on life from another angle. Faith, together with love, forms the motivating triangle of our lives.
We can show what motivation is in the experience of war surgeons. The cause of the soldiers was a crucial helper in the treatment of these soldiers. The soldier who lost all his relatives in the war and had no one to return to was also subject to minor injuries. Motivation is essential for every human act. Motivation is love. A student motivated by a love of study is a better student than one who studies because he has to. It’s terrible if the motivation becomes something negative; let’s say fear. If we want our children to learn better, we can motivate them positively by setting an attractive goal in front of them or by threatening them with punishment. Against faith, which always contains hope and love, there are still atheists who do not believe. Even if he proclaims love, he denies faith. It denies the spiritual dimension in man and gives him only a bodily dimension. I have never encountered the value motivated by atheism. I don’t know a single song, a work that would arise out of love for atheism.
On the other hand, there are many works of art, musical and artistic, created for faith reasons and motives. Millions of people do great acts of love because they are motivated by faith in God. I hear an objection that everyone believes in something. This is also a motive. However, only a motive that has a spatial value for people and a spatial value for the earth. I can believe that my favorite team will win, or that it will rain tomorrow, and so on. Believing in God means more than believing that I will succeed in sports. There is one difference. When I think I will win the lotto, it may not come true. If I believe in God, I am sure that God will fulfill his promises. Faith teaches one to program only positively. To keep him in positive motivation. Unbelievers often believe that a believer acts the way he does, precisely because he fears God. He is afraid of him. They assume negative reasons in believers. But the truth is different. The believer acts as he does because he loves God. A faith-shaped conscience is shaped positively.

The time we live in is a time full of contradictions. Many people have placed injustice, deception, envy, hatred, and vainglory on the highest pedestal. Today we symbolize protest everything, the authorities’ crisis, the struggle of brother against brother. Have you noticed that it is in this spirit that the apostle Paul instructs and encourages the ecclesial community in Philippi? He writes this: Complete my joy: think the same, love the same, be one soul, and one mind! Do nothing out of hate, not even in vain glory: but in humility do ye regard one another. Why is Paul outlining such an ideological program for his beloved Filipinos? Why does such a program sketch for us through them?

To better understand the answer, let’s look at the spiritual life of the chosen nation. His spiritual leaders, the high priests, the scribes, and the Pharisees, professed God, Moses, and the Law, but were so rigid and hardened in their religious beliefs that they were not willing to change their minds even after the disciplines of John the Baptist and later Jesus Christ. They treated God and his message as things that were already “discarded” and did not know the humility that comes from being aware of their nothingness before God. Their religion was only a rigid ideology and an inanimate system. And although they were admonished and warned, they could not be softened. That is why Jesus told them hardly that the toll booths, the prostitutes, and the sinners would precede them into the kingdom of heaven. For the blackmailers, the nation’s traitors, and the prostitutes were aware that they were living in sins through their fault. Still, when they were willing to accept the call to conversion in a spirit of humility, they had the opportunity to save themselves. Remember Zacchaeus, Matthew, Mary Magdalene…

When we ask what program the religion of Jesus offers us, we can summarize it in two points: – it is an education for proper godly thinking, – it is a path of action to reveal a testimony to God’s message. From this, we see that pious utterances or learned theological theories are not enough here. God demands works of faith, that is, the godliness of life. Of course, God could carry out his plans with the world himself, but in his saving action in the world, God wanted to put the affairs of the kingdom of God in human hands. Although these hands are often unworthy, God can still use evil to transform into good. God does not want evil as such; he only admits it.

Today’s epoch of the Church needs much prayer and concrete deeds of courageous and self-sacrificing Christian witnesses. Theological reflections, liturgical renewal, and all ecclesiastical debates in assemblies, synods, and other meetings will remain only learned games in the sand, or they will be maneuvers with blind bullets if we lack the courage to act unselfishly. It is not enough to explain the living conditions in the world with witty words about Christianity. Still, it is necessary to try to transform oneself and the world in the spirit of the Lord in a spirit of humility and humility. When Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII, was at the International Eucharistic Congress as a papal legate in 1934, he retreated to his cabin on the way back to rest.
Meanwhile, a telegram arrived from the Vatican. The legacy’s secretary knocked on the door several times, and when no one reported, he went downstairs and found the future pope lying on the ground. To the great amazement of why he was doing this, the cardinal said: Today, I have received too much honor, so I must, at least when I am alone, acknowledge my misery…

The apostle James writes: God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. And the apostle Paul saith unto the Philippians, Do ye not for enmity, neither for vainglory, but consider one another in humility. In the spirit of these words, Cardinal Pacelli demonstrated a beautiful pattern of humiliation, following the example of Jesus Christ himself. The latter left us the most admirable example of humility when he knelt before Judas at the Last Supper and washed his feet. And we could continue the example of the humility shown to us by the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, and all the saints in general who lived their earthly lives in modesty and humility before God. Let us also strive to create a unity of spirit and faith through the virtue of humiliation and humility, so that today the Christian may be the light of the world and the salt of the earth.

Among well-behaved people, there is too much about Jesus doesn’t say much. When it comes to sex, money, death, Jesus is one of those topics they can make an ordinary conversation uncomfortable.
This is a consequence of many centuries of false religious sentiment. Enough of those pictures representing the sentimental Jesus of Nazareth, blond and with beautiful blue eyes. Enough of the first communions presented like “Jesus is coming to your heart.”
This name does not sound wrong to people who have a taste perhaps too sweet. And it remains an incurable taboo. Someone has graduated from history without touching on the existence of an unknown Jewish carpenter who broke the record of the world in two: before Christ, after Christ. Another is graduated from ancient literature and knows everything about the Greek-Romanesque myth. He studied it from the original texts, but never encountered the Greek text of the New Testament. It’s weird: the counting of time ends with Jesus, and from
it comes out. And yet it remains as if hidden. Either he is ignored, or he has been married for a long time known. Even priests, popes, and pastors don’t talk much about him. It is true that every Sunday, I point to him in millions of sermons, discourses, and speeches. But very often, it seems that believing in him is not for them, no problem. Instead, it is a given fact. Complex architectures are constructed over the Gospels, but few descend into the basements with those who hear him, find out if there are really the basics. Few strive to test whether there is still a solid cornerstone on which – as they claim – their faith and their ecclesial communities stand.
He is the only person with whom, in human history, God’s name was immediately united. But unheard of for this “outrage” many have become accustomed to. They take it for granted. As if they were (someone remarked callously) poisoned with incense.
There is a “secret” statement attributed to Jesus in one apocryphal gospel: “He who wonders, he will rule.” However, many as if they had lost the gift of wonder. And yet a public opinion poll showed that out of a hundred Sixty-four Italians consider Jesus to be “the most interesting personality of history. “Garibaldi and Martin Luther King are second and third by far. Then .follows. Gandhi and finally, Marx. 1
Many respondents said that they would like to know more about Jesus and especially something reliable. However, they do not know whom to look at they have to turn around. Newspapers and the general cultural public deal with institutions (Vatican, church …), but they do not know the faith itself, or they ignore. The culture of believers, in turn, favors the ascetic exercises and meditations on Jesus, but very often as we are mentioned, he doesn’t pay enough attention to this amazing historical one issue.
So few would seem to be dealing with the problem of Jesus. However, this is not true. The bibliography of Jesus is, in fact, as comprehensive as the ocean, and it is still tumultuous. In the 20th century, about sixty-two volumes were written about Jesus. And at the National Library in Paris, which is a mirror of western culture, the motto Jesus is in second place in the number of index cards. The password comes first God. The discussion of Jesus has been jealously protected for centuries hunting ground of academic personalities from the ranks of clergy and laity (often former clergy). These are the experts who have produced and continue to produce the thousands of volumes mentioned, while refuting each other’s opinions in endless, highly learned discussions. 1 Poll organized by DOXA in the spring of 1974.
For the common people, the books remain prayer and popularizing, often harmlessly promotional in nature. Thus, many do not know that all the hypotheses about Jesus already were told that all objections had been refuted and again established and rebutted indefinitely. Every word The New Testament has been reviewed a thousand times. Among the texts of all times and of all countries, this text has been the most studied, with incredible toughness. A barely faint echo gets into the unprofessional’s ear of this discussion. The dispute has been going on for two thousand years, but in recent years three centuries later, there was a shift in its targeting. While up to In the 18th century, the controversy took place within Christianity (the question of “orthodoxy” and “heresy”), and from the 18th century onwards, non-Christian criticism emerged. The holy books on which faith rests are denied in its history. He wonders what is up to now considered the same even in the sharpest and often bloody one’s controversy, namely the belief in the special relationship of the man Jesus to God, faith in him as Christ, the Messiah.

And when they wondered every one that Jesus did, he said unto his disciples, hear well, and remember what I say unto you, The Son of man shall be delivered into the hand of men. And they understood not that saying, and they were veiled, that they should not understand it: to ask him the word.

When we listen to Christ’s prediction that he will be given into the hands of men, we think: of course, into the hands of the evil Jews, into the hands of the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. But when will we finally realize that Jesus was delivered into the hands of all people, into our hands, into the hands present here, into the hands of each of us ?! The chief priests and the scribes, Caiaphas, Pilate, and others — were, of course, guilty of the Lord’s immediate suffering and death. But that suffering and death were caused by each of us and needed by each of us as the only way to forgive God’s justice for our guilt. Christ’s suffering – that immense act of our injustice – has been planned, intended, anticipated from the ages – about us.

Through every human sin, Christ the Lord is given into our hands – to atone for our sin on the cross; it is we who sacrifice it as satisfaction for our unfaithfulness; it was we who caused his suffering first, and then the lawyers. As St. Peter in the first sermon: we nailed Jesus to the cross with the wicked’s hands and murdered them (Acts 2: 22-23). As we walk around the cross, do we realize that it is our business that Christ is betrayed into our hands?

Christ is delivered into our hands, not only as a begging sacrifice. Through our saving word, it is given to us, with which we can do what we please: accept it or reject it. Christ is given into human hands in the sacrament of the Eucharist, where he becomes the basis of our building of the kingdom of God, the forerunner of our life in the kingdom of heaven. And on this occasion, let us realize that each of us, whether he wants to or not, is handed over to the people he served by his work and willingness and – like Christ – by his suffering, which we sacrifice for the needs of the world.

Today it was our turn. After listening, sending, and proclaiming, Jesus asks each of us, “And who do you consider me to be?” (Lk 9:20). Everything in our daily lives is based on the answer we give to this question. Do I accept it only? as a man, and therefore, I take his words only with human faith, I keep a certain reserve and have my own opinions on some things, or I accept him as the God-man, the word of God and therefore with the certainty of faith. “Is Christ truly a sufficient answer to my problems and the problems of humanity? Jesus shows the way to salvation. He himself is the way, the truth, and the life. In his parables, he reveals the image of a God other than the God of our human ideas and assumptions. He cannot know the true God or the perfect man. Jesus reveals the true God throughout his life and deeds but meanwhile shows the ideal man He overturns our values ​​What is right in the world very often does not apply to God, even the world that in each of us, whether we want it or not, leaves its mark – standing in hostility to God. St. Johan writes that we should not love the world or what is in the world. For him, that love the world is not the love of the Father in him. To love means to identify, to transform into what I love. St. Bonaventure says: “By the power of love, you will be transformed into the one you love.”

Not only our time wants patterns and idols. This was also the case in the time of Jesus. However, we cannot look at Jesus as a hero. Jesus did not desire human glory, power, titles. When Jesus wanted to make people king after the multiplication of bread and fish, Jesus himself fell silent. To Pilate’s question, “Are you the King of the Jews?” We feel our responsibility for the salvation of our souls, but also the souls of the brothers and sisters entrusted to us. Let us not be afraid to ask Jesus about everything.