TO ALL CLERGY FROM ST. JOHN VIANNEY, THE CURE D'ARS
INTRO TO REMONSTRATIONS TO ALL CLERGY:
“St. John Vianney, the Cure D'Ars says: “Praise be to Jesus.”
“My brothers, I come to you by command of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I carry to your hearts loving and constructive criticism. Constructive criticism builds up, strengthens and, if well received, never tears down.”
“If you take offense at my words, it is you who most need correction. I do not come with any inclination to suppress the Truth, but, rather, to lay bare the Light of Truth.”
“Recognize the Spirit of Truth in what I am sent to say.”
DAILY PRAYER:
“Dear Jesus, help me to remember that my vocation must be based upon Holy Love. This will be the protection and strength I need to be holy, for I know my vocation is only as strong as I am holy. Help me, dear Jesus, to be selfless in the use of my time and always solicitous after the spiritual needs of my flock. Give me courage to proclaim the difference between good and evil. Never allow me to abuse my authority or to compromise the Truth. Assist me in seeing You in every soul.”
“Encourage me to pray when I am weary – to love when I feel no love and to open my heart to the spiritual needs of others always.”
“Amen.”
1st REMONSTRATION:
“My brothers, Heaven is not blind to the good you are accomplishing and the spiritual progress you are making with some souls and in some Dioceses. At the same time, the evil hand in the midst of you is also witnessed by Jesus and His Mother.”
“You may shrink at these words and see them as divisive. But, in fact, these words must inspire you to look within your hearts and your ranks to eradicate sin and error. I remind you, you are not infallible. It is only through a cleansing of your iniquities you can best fulfill your vocations; each of you. Then you will be strengthened and your vocations will be more secure.”
First and foremost, you must define sin clearly from the pulpit. Do not try to compromise any sin to appease or to accommodate any one person or special interest group.”
“Do not suppress the Truth – not to gain or maintain power or elite authority, reputation or economic advantage.”
“Do not regard your vocation as some regard a secular career. Do not be jockeying in position to gain favor or higher status, thus disregarding the foundation of your vocation – the salvation of souls.”
“Do not ever engage in sexual activity thus destroying your own soul and others. This is an evil spirit; the spirit of homosexuality and lust.”
“I am closing for now. Jesus will ask me to return with much more.”
Read 1 Timothy 6:11-18
“But as for you, man of God, shun all this; aim at righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in His testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; and this will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches but on God who richly furnishes us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good deeds, liberal and generous.”
2nd REMONSTRATION:
“My brothers, guard against being offended by or blind to this constructive criticism. Jesus sends me to you to strengthen your hearts and vocations for days ahead. Do not discount what I say by reproving the source. I tell you solemnly, it is I who come to speak – the Cure D'Ars.”
“If you are given the grace of a heavenly apparition in your Diocese or given charge of reviewing such a spiritual phenomenon, you have the solemn obligation to regard this with an open heart. So many, so many have been suppressed and the graces attendant to them left unattended. These heavenly apparitions and messages too often are regarded as interference and competition by the local ordinary. Consequently, every visible and invisible step is taken to discredit the visions and the visionary.”
“If an ‘investigation' is done, it is very often not done with the honest motive of discovering the Truth, but rather with the hidden motive of going through the motions of investigating in order to claim Heaven's grace as unauthentic.”
“Further, to say there is nothing supernatural going on is never true anywhere. The Holy Spirit and Satan do battle in every present moment, everywhere, in each soul, to gain a dominance.”
“Heaven acts as it will. No one can dictate when or where Heaven will speak or for how long. Perhaps this is the point most difficult for hierarchy to accept. In fact, I know it is. You do not have control over what Heaven will say or do. You do not trust Heaven to strengthen you and the laity. You try to limit the Holy Spirit.”
“Pray for the humility of heart to accept what I am telling you today.”
Read Ephesians 4:10-16
“He who descended is He who also ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things. And His gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles. Rather, speaking the Truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.”
Read 1 Thessalonians 5:19
“Do not quench the Spirit.”
3rd REMONSTRATION:
“Today, I remind the hierarchy that they are priests first, then Bishops and Cardinals. All priests must work on their personal holiness. There is no holiness outside of Holy Love. They must be examples of Holy Love in word and deed to their flock. This speaks to the absence of any hidden agenda towards self-gain or abuse of authority.”
“First and foremost, the priests' job is to make the Sacraments available to the people. Reception of the Holy Sacraments needs to be promoted from the pulpit. One half hour of confession offered per week shows little concern for the spiritual welfare of any priest's flock. This is the bad fruit of the neglect or reluctance to preach about sin.”
“A priest needs to safeguard his vocation through prayer and sacrifice. He needs to let the Lord fill his heart and his spare time. He needs to be a spiritual leader, not a social director.”
“The parish that encourages Eucharistic Adoration will be greatly blessed. Many vocations will come out of parishes where this is encouraged. You cannot expect vocations to bud and blossom in parishes wrought with scandal.”
“The Church needs to embrace personal holiness once again – first, through the hierarchy and the priests.”
4th REMONSTRATION
“My final exhortation to priests is as follows. Your vocation will only be as strong as you are holy. The only way to be holy is through the embrace of Holy Love, for Holy Love is the embodiment of the Ten Commandments. Through Holy Love you will find your way to a deeper prayer life and be open to small and great sacrifices.”
“The Lord desires your spiritual prowess, for it is through your strengths He is strong. It is by your efforts in personal holiness He can and will reach others.”
“None of what I have said here to priests and hierarchy can or should be modified. I did not come to stroke egos, but to call all clergy back into the Truth. If you do not make a sincere effort to search out and live in the Truth, your vocation is compromised. If you use your authority to oppose the Truth or to manipulate people and situations towards any self-gain, you are not an instrument of God but of Satan.
“No, I will not modify my words. I must give you the Truth as I have been sent to do- without compromise. I must be unyielding in my call for the unity of all clergy in the Truths of the Faith without nuance or compromise and without slandering Vatican II.”
“Study all I have passed on to you without tongue in cheek, but with sincere hearts.”
Read Ephesians 4:2-7; 11-16
“…lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.”
“And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love.”