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0:00 Introduction

2:00 Hidden Dangers: Amulets

20:00 Words Matter

25:00 Media Influence

32:00 Choosing Friends Wisely

39:00 Fashion and Values

50:00 A Special Consecration

52:00 Final Thoughts and Blessing

The Apostle St Paul says that we are in the world but Christians we are not of

the world, we do not belong to the world. Unfortunately the world has its traps,

has some dangerous things that infiltrate our Christian lives, our

Christian homes and families whereby we are prone to corruption. Today Father

Bande who is about to talk to us about five dangerous things that

often penetrate into Christian homes whereby we are very prone to fall to sin

and to destroy our lives. So Salve Maria Father Bande thank you for coming once again.

Salve Maria Brother John, Salve Maria to you all. And Brother Pliny Abasi again joining us.

Salve Maria, thank you very much for the invitation. So Father Bande you said you're

going to talk to us about five things, so shall we get right into it? Which is the

first dangerous thing that Christians have in their houses that they should

not have? Well I think that we should always remember that a Christian family, a

Christian home, alright, is not a ordinary home, right? It's a domestic

church, it's a domestic church. We should always always remember that this is the

foundation of Christian civilization. A family, a home is something sacred and

therefore we should always want to make that sacred place a holy place where

nothing evil enters, nothing negative will occur in this home, alright? This is

what Saint John Paul II insisted many many many times, I remember in the 1980s

alright, when he went to Canada in 1984 for example, he repeated to all those

countries that he visited that we should have, you know, our families, our domestic

churches. There are places where the children have to find God, where God is

present, where God is honored, where God our Father is venerated. So a domestic

church, alright, is a place of holiness, you know. Some people go to church on

weekends, you know, on Sundays, thanks be to God, and then they forget that they're

Christians during the week, you see? So they go to church, they pray, they go to

confession, they receive Holy Communion, which is all excellent, which is already

good, but then they go back home and they start screaming to the children, they

start, you know, well just being lazy or being selfish and then they break

that ambience of the church when they go back home, because they're back

home, well they become, well, just like the world, and the world is full of

selfishness. So that's why, you know, we should have always be very careful of

allowing the world to penetrate into our homes. Like you said, Brother John, in the

beginning, right, St. Paul says that we Christians, alright, live in the world,

but we are not of the world. We are here in order to transform the world. We are

here in order to help the world and not for the world to transform us. So how do

we do this? How do we go about doing this? Well, above all, of course, you know, with

the help of the sacraments. So it's important that the father, the mother

bring their children. Sometimes, unfortunately, in our world, they're more

and more, we have single mothers, we have single fathers, alright. Well, that's not

a problem, alright. So that single mother, that single father should also bring

their children, alright, to church on Sundays. It's not because, well, you're

single that, you know, you don't have also the obligation to make your home, alright,

into a sanctifying place for your children, alright. So even if you're a

single mother, single father, you know, not a problem, make that their home of

yours a domestic church, alright, a place of holiness where the child will feel,

they'll feel loved and everything. So bring them to church on Sundays,

which is so important. Introduce them to the sacraments, so catechism and

everything, you know, so that they feel that they have a purpose in

life and then they go back home, create that ambience and then be careful, be

careful because the friends of your children, the social media, the world will

want to destroy that ambience that you're creating. And the first element

that they will try to introduce into your home is an amulet, alright, an amulet,

yes, an amulet. What is an amulet? Well, an amulet, I remember way back in the

1980s, I remember it was a fashion there, you had these pet rocks, alright, so you

know, you'd order your pet rock there or you'd buy your pet rock, it would come in

a little box and it was instructions there, you know. Instruction? What are you

supposed to do with a pet rock? Feed it every day? It was a curiosity, okay, it was a curiosity, but when I

started going to catechism, alright, I remember that I started to understand

that the pet rock, what was an introduction, alright, was a way that the

devil, alright, was using in order to make us start to venerate the pet rock. The

pet rock started to, well, have some form of energy, some form of strength that

would bring us peace, that would bring us protection and that's an amulet, you see?

Superstitions, I mean, unfortunately, the more people fall away from the true

religion, the less people practice a Christian religion, the most

superstitions they have. I find that funny because people are not willing to

believe in the true God, they don't have a problem believing in pet

rocks or lucky fishes or horoscopes. Yeah, exactly, four-leaf clovers. Yeah, and all sort of things.

Four-leaf clovers, touch wood and all that sort of thing, yeah, exactly, exactly. So be

careful with these amulets, with these superstitious type of elements that

want to enter into your homes, alright, because they will deviate the piety of

your children for what is truth, God, alright, for what is error. What would be an

amulet nowadays? An amulet nowadays, well, I see a lot of people with these kind of

bracelets. They have these type of bracelets nowadays, alright, colourful

bracelets, alright, they're not ugly, okay, but speaking to some of my

parishioners, alright, there in Saint Agnes, a little chapel there, that poor little

chapel, I'm one of the shepherds there, right, so I'm the parish priest there in

this little chapel. We're in the mountains up, almost basically in the

jungle, alright, and so I have, we have like something like 70, there's 72

children that participate in our catechism classes from all ages, right, so

and so some one time I saw one of them, one of the children, well a lot of the

children, they have these kind of corded bracelets, so they're nice, okay,

but you know, it was corded bracelets, so I was asking them, what is this, what is, oh

it's a lucky charm. That changes everything. Lucky charm, yeah, yeah, this brings me

luck. I thought it was, you know, decoration, I thought it was kind of some

form of jewelry, you know, which is okay because it's nice, you know, but no,

the child, alright, someone had told him that that will bring him luck, that's an

amulet, that's a modern-day amulet. Now exist in each country will be something

different, but these lucky charms, so these lucky charms are actually amulets.

Yes, they are lucky charms. Well I think these, on one side they give you the

wrong idea, they are deforming the mentality of the children, of course, also

I think at least some of them actually do attract the devil as well, don't they?

They do, absolutely, they will attract the devil. Oh yeah, these lucky charms will

attract the evil forces because it's a way for the devil to kind of put his

claw into your soul, you know, how does he go about that? He goes about because the

devil is so repugnant that if he presents himself in all of his

evilness, his darkness, and his agit, his nervousness and everything, you know, no

one will want to follow the devil, no one will want to have his presence, right? So

he's a very sly fellow, alright, the devil, he introduces himself, alright,

through superstition, he introduces himself through these kind of elements

that, you know, we laughed about, the pet rock, right? So the pet rock, it seems

like it's something that is very, very insignificant, right? Harmless. Harmless,

almost innocent, you know, or this, or the bracelet, you know, corded bracelet, you

know, something that, you know, a child would use, you know, maybe, I remember when

I was a scout in the scouting movement. Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts, yes. So we had

these, you know, we had these type of medals and things, etc., that we

used, that we would have with us, but they were kind of more

decorative type of things. Part of the ceremony, I mean, in the military you

have them, you don't believe that brings you luck? No, a badge, you get a badge, you

get a medal, you know, that's not lucky charm, that's a form of

recognition, you're being recognized for something that you've done, you've

did, or that you aspire for, or it's just a piece of decoration, you know,

that's okay. But then when it becomes, you know, a little bit more spiritual, oh

that's gonna be bring me luck, you know, that's gonna break the jinx that

that's fallen upon me, you know, because I have a jinx that's been

that someone sent on me, so now I use this type of medal, or I use this

type of thing, etc., etc., so that is superstition, and the devil will

enter into that. The devil will kind of get a permission, if you

start using that with devotion, alright, and this is where it

becomes very dangerous. Always remember, what is prayer? Prayer is a loving

relationship with God, right, where you have a conversation with God, right,

it's to want to unite yourself to God. Well, that prayer, alright, is for God, but

you can also have a relationship, alright, with something, well, that is

contrary to God, and so the amulets introduce you to this other being, you

know, if you start speaking about the spirits, you know, the spirits that are

around us, you know, that will help us, you know, you will invoke the spirits, so

you use this pet rock, you use this bracelet, you use this medal, you know, as

a form for the spirit to be present in your life, because the spirit will

bring you protection. That is a way for the devil to start to have permissions

on you, and to start to manipulate you. Father, so this is something, which I

guess those who are practicing Catholics have it pretty easy to distinguish, but

there may be some who are watching us now, who have this doubt now, about why

are the medals that the church uses not lucky charms? I mean, I can wear, if I

wear, you know, a tooth of a tiger on my necklace, yes, that is a charm, because I

believe that'll bring me luck and protect me and God knows what, but then I

can wear a medal of Our Lady, and I believe that protects me, but then that's not a

lucky charm. So then what is the, why is one good, it is good that I use a medal, we

do use it ourselves, and why is the other one bad? It's always in the intention,

all right, it's always in an intention, all right, so if you're a hunter,

my brother is a hunter, they're in Canada, so he hunts moose, deer, you know,

and one day he had to, there was a bear that was attacking his camp, so they

had to kill this bear, all right, so it was an unfortunate event, but it

did happen, and it does happen, it does happen when you're, you know,

you're 300, 400 kilometers north from any type of civilization and you're

hunting moose, well, bears do show up sometimes, so they had to hunt this bear,

they had to kill the bear because he was dangerous, so they went and

they, as a souvenir of the bear, all right, they took some claws, they took a claw of the

bear and they made kind of a necklace with the claw of the bear, you know, I mean, I

don't find, personally, I don't find it something that is very nice, but, you know,

it's a natural face. So there you go, so the intention here is a souvenir,

kind of a decorative type of thing, they put it on their hunting cabin, all right,

as a decoration. It's almost like a military medal. Yeah, the sign of the

courage that he had, exactly, so there you go, all right, so it's the

intention, but there are those who will want one of those bear claws or bear

tooth, all right, and they will say that no, this will give me special spiritual

powers, you know, spiritual protection because the bear is courageous, the bear

is strong, so I'm gonna have the spirit of the bear, all right, on me and it's

gonna be give me the bear's courage. Now that is already superstition and that is

what is going to make you, all right, unite yourself to the devil, you know, and

you're going to become, therefore, an instrument in the devil's hands. So this

in Holy Scripture, I mean, it's all over the place, I mean, God is always

warning Israel, is always warning, you know, his sons and daughters

against the pagan amulets, against the pagan superstitious spirits, you know,

God is always, I mean, and we find this in the Ten Commandments, right, of making

false images, and so we have to be careful. As Catholics, what's

the difference between an amulet and a decoration? It's the intention. It's the

intention, okay, so now why is the medal, for example, a miraculous medal, you know,

not an amulet? Why is a holy water, why is holy water not a superstition?

Yeah. Right, well, because we Catholics, these are called sacramentals, all right,

sacramentals are not superstitious. Sacramentals are, let's say, are

remind us of God's presence. We invoke God through holy water. We invoke God

through the miraculous medal. We invoke God through the rosary. We invoke God, you

see, through doing the sign of the cross, you see, it's the intention. Doing the

sign of the cross, all right, I am uniting myself to God, and this therefore is

something that is a blessing. So it's always in the intention, all right, so

this is what's important, all right, so, you know, at home we can have

trophies and, you know, their decorations, but if we take that trophy and we say,

no, no, this gives me a special power, you know, then this is also why it's

difficult and it's always, we have to take care. I've known some

people, all right, who received as a gift, all right, the rosary of their

great-grandmother, all right, so imagine it's the rosary of their great-grandmother

that is being passed on from generation to generation. It's beautiful,

it's beautiful, beautiful, and, you know, I would love to have a rosary of my

great-grandmother, you know, but I don't, but those who do, all right, and those who

do pass on, you know, these crucifix from your grandfather or a

picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from, you know, your, some other

ancestor, you know, these are beautiful, beautiful inheritances, right,

objects that you inherit and that unite you, unite us to our fathers in

the faith, but I've heard of people, all right, that say that their rosary, because

it comes from their great-grandmother, is a lucky charm. Yes. They give more

importance, in fact, they give more importance to their grandmother than to

Our Lady. There you go. And to God. It's more special not because it's a

rosary, but it's because of my grandmother, I mean. So a holy rosary

that has been in the family for generations suddenly became an amulet

because of the intention, you see, so the danger, you see, so the danger here, so

that's, so what do you do? What do you do when you realize somebody might be

listening to us here and say, "Eesh, I think I've, I have a few amulets. I think

I've considered, I've had some superstitious moments in my life."

No problem. We have what we call the confessional, all right. As a Catholic, you

know, we know that we can ask forgiveness, so if anybody here who's

listening us to us, all right, has fallen into this superstitious type of thing, no

problem. Just ask forgiveness, go to confession, ask forgiveness, and don't

treat that rosary, don't throw the rosary away, okay. That's not what I was

gonna ask. What do you do with the object, especially if it's a rosary? Yeah, no, don't

throw the rosary away. What you could do, okay, is you could ask the priest, all

right, since you venerated the rosary as a mamulet, all right, you could ask the

priest to kind of exercise the rosary, kind of break any link that

the rosary might have had, all right, with some evil spirit, all right, because

of the evil veneration that you were kind of giving to that rosary, all right,

and then to bless the rosary again, all right, under condition of course, you know.

So this is something that could be done, all right. So there's

always a solution, right. Our faith is so beautiful, you know, God is so

merciful, and there's always ways to getting around this, but it's

important for us to take always into account, you know, the danger that

these things can occur, and that we should be always careful to be Catholic.

I have to be Catholic, I can't be superstitious, I can't be pagan, and this

is why the pagan world is always trying to enter us, enter into our families, and

and to shake our domestic church, right, and making us become superstitious. Mm-hmm.

So that's the first point. Okay, father. That's the first danger. Amulets out. Amulets

are out, all right. So now the second point that is very dangerous, all right,

that is always, that is penetrating slowly, slowly into our, into our families,

and that's profane language, all right, profane language. I mean, words that are

low-level, you know, children bring, bring these back from school many times. They

bring back these, these swear words, right, from, from school that they learn

at the, at the gym or at the, during recess, you know, they don't learn from

their teachers. I hope not. Yeah. I hope not. Okay, we never know nowadays, okay, but

the teachers, I'm sure they don't swear, but anyways, let's say, you know, they, but

children between themselves, so, so that is very dangerous. So when a child comes

back home in your domestic church and uses a swear word immediately, father,

mother, please, we have to rebuke. We have to give, give the child the knowledge that,

that is a bad word, so that the child understands, and to ask the child never

to mention that word again, because if you start between yourselves in the

family to allow these bad words, these swear words, profane language, to, to, to,

to, to become normal, then the sacrality of the domestic church goes away.

Sometimes people are surprised when they find the horrible violence, the sins of

the world invading their family that, unfortunately today, if you've heard cases,

horrible cases of, I mean, violence within the family of, and all that sort of

horrible sins, even gunshots and that, but then sometimes many of these things

started small. When there was a first influence of the world of the sin

entering, creeping inside, they could have been stopped, they could have

taught the child to, it was something wrong, should be avoided, that there is

good, there is evil, but when the parents are complacent with these things, they

find it funny or they don't bother. I mean, you're opening the door to.

That's the, the importance for the father and the, for the mother to give the good

example, right? To have, to use proper language, to, to refrain from ever losing

their temper. We have to, we have to always remember, remind ourselves that,

that the father and the mother, they have a fundamental role, right? In, in, in

creating that domestic church, a place of holiness, a place of sanctity, where, where

children feel that they're being protected, that they're being elevated,

that they're being respected. See, if the father comes back from work and he

starts to use foul language, I mean, even if the child, I think, does not see it,

suppose he does it at work, the child does not witness his father, see or hear

his father, it still does evil. It still. I mean, it doesn't matter if the child,

it's worse if the child sees, of course, but just the fact that the person does

that, it has an influence and your responsibility for God for this. And even

of course, you mentioned swear words, of course, but even the first step to swear

is slang. Yeah, there are some things that. Might not have, it's not a sin, but it's

already a first step. Instead of using the proper word, you start using some

other, other word that doesn't even make sense. Yes. And it doesn't even make

sense. It prepares the person to after start using swear word. So true. Then

father, we have people blaspheme and unfortunately as time passes, it's more

and more common people use words, language, immoral and they don't hesitate

to do it even doing this before children. Yes. The profanity comes to a point

where it's shocking and they're massacring the child. They're shameless. People are

shameless nowadays. Yeah. So it all begins in small things and like Brother Plinyo

said, slang words. You know, a father who's Catholic, a mother who's Catholic, I

mean, that wants to create a domestic church, all right. I mean, we don't use slang

language at mass. Yeah. You know, mass is, is a place of, of, of, it's a noble place.

It's a respected place. It's a cultural place, a place where we, we come into

contact with, with sacrality. So our homes have to be the same thing. A Catholic

house, Catholic family has to recreate that same ambience. And so slang has no

room in our Catholic families. It's like the first step to introduce or to let's

say, create the ambience for foul language to enter. Yeah. Brother Plinyo, so, so true.

You brought that up. Yeah. So, so Catholic families, be careful. You know,

anything that is a bad word, that is a low-level word, that is a low-level type

of language, so, so careful. Yeah. All right. So, so the third, third thing that,

let's say, the third thing that should never enter into a Catholic home, all

right, are bad books. There we go. All right. Bad books, bad videos, bad music.

Those will, those will work in the tendencies. You see, if you have bad

music, violent music, foul language that is being spoken in the music that you,

that you're listening to in the home, well, you're, you're, you're, you're

destroying yourself. You're destroying your family. Father, today you also find

people who, parents who don't listen to bad language themselves, they don't read

bad stuff, but then they give the child, sometimes very young children, totally

free access to the internet and bad company, bad friends, whereby even if the

parent has not, I mean, he's got a cell phone in his pocket with absolute access

to do whatever he wants in total freedom and nobody keeping tabs on him or her. And

then the parents are surprised why they are under bad influence, of course, but

they have to be protected. They have to. Yes. No, the internet is a, is a beautiful

tool, all right, for study, for communication. Internet is something that is,

something that can be used for the good, but is also used for the, for the bad, for

evil and especially for children, you know, a child should never be allowed to

go into his room, close the door and have a smartphone with open internet. No, I

mean, that child should not be allowed to, you know, to have that possibility to

close himself up in his room, you know, and to be able to navigate into internet

without being, without any type of vigilance, any type of, of, of, well, of

attention from the parent. I doubt any of these parents would have the courage to

leave a child in a room with a number of bottles of poison inside. No, let, he's

free, let him do, but then if you're not going to give him physical poison,

spiritual poison is worse. Yes. No, the child is innocent, he won't drink it. Yeah.

Maybe he won't, but are you going to take the risk? Are you going to? The saying says

curiosity killed the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. So the internet is once

again, something that can be very, very good, but can also be very bad. You know, a

13, 14 year old girl, you know, that goes into her room with open internet on her

smartphone. I mean, you're just asking for trouble. You're just asking for

trouble. You know, I would never allow a 14 year old, 15 year old girl, you know, if I

had a daughter, you know, at that age, I would never allow her to go into her. I

mean, if she has to navigate into internet for her studies, for her work or

whatever, then in the living room or in the kitchen, you know, with mother there,

you know, so that everyone sees, everyone knows, everyone, it's, it's open. It's, it's

not, you know, we have to be vigilant. We have to be careful. So, you know, these

bad books, bad movies, I mean, movies, my goodness, it's hard to find good movies

today, you know. So that's why the parent has to be vigilant again, you know. The

parent has to know what are the programs that we're going to see on television?

What are the television channels that we should be listening to? You know, Mother

Angelica, when she created her EWTN channel, all right, she, way back in the, I

think it was in the 80s, 80s or 90s, I remember when I went to visit her in 2001,

2002, right there in Alabama, you know, we went to visit the Mother Angelica and

her sisters there. I mean, she, you see a holy person that was concerned with what

was going on, you know, on television. And so she, she founded her Eternal Word

Television Network in order to allow families to have a good Catholic

television channel that will not be introducing horrible things into the

domestic church, you know, into our homes, into our families. So, so, I mean, there's

EWTN, but there are other also, you know, natural channels, nature channel, etc., etc.,

that are also, you know, could also be used. But be careful because many times,

you know, if we, if we want to be on a news channel, but then in the middle of

the news, there's going to be some publicity that is going to be very, very,

very, very disagreeable for your children. So this is important to be careful what

to allow to, in, in, in your homes, you know, and one of the things that we have

to be careful about are the films and television, you know, because this is, this

is, we should always remember, this is a pagan world we're living in. That's, that's

what I was going to say. It's hard to convince ourselves about that. Yeah.

You want to live in a fool's paradise. Everything is perfect. We're not, we are in a

pagan world. It's exactly what you said. We're in a pagan world and we, but we are,

we are Christians. There we go. And so in St. Paul's time, he said we live in a

pagan, we live in the world, but we're not of the world. Nowadays, the world is

trying to get into our homes. Yes. And it's so easy for the world to get into our

homes. If you open the door a little bit, if you open the screen a tiny bit, the

world comes into our, into our homes in the pagan world that we live in. Father, the, I think

one of the main issues we have in our lives today is that people don't want to

realize how bad things are. They'd like to, they prefer to live in a false

reality that everything is fine, everything is beautiful. Yes. And it's an illusion

that they make themselves, right? They think that the world is good, the world

is positive. Our Lord did say, you know, He didn't come to condemn the

world, but He came to convert the world. He came to save the world. So, so I mean

the world is, we should always remember it, it's the fruit of God's love, you know,

creation and everything. But unfortunately, the world rebelled against

God. And so we have, you know, the consequences of this rebellion in this

pagan society, a pagan society that is always trying to deviate us, to

keep us away, make us go away from God. So, so we as Catholics, we can't be, let's

say, we can't allow ourselves to be illusioned. Hand in hand with the world. I mean, hand in hand with the world, no.

Everything is beautiful, everyone is holy, they're not. No? Yeah. I mean, Father, few

people want to make this very simple thought, but it's a, it's true that we are

Catholics, we frequent the sacraments, we know how difficult it is to practice

virtue. Each one of us know, we have to, we have to go for confession regularly, we

have to pray, we have to do, we have to do this and that. And we know that if we don't hold

our soul in check, we're going to commit sins. Yes. What is true for us is true for

everybody. So you find people who, who don't practice religion, who speak

against religion, who, and apparently they are, they say that they're nice, they're

good, they're perfect. Hey, they're human beings like us. If they don't fight against

the evil inclinations, they have evil inclinations. They may be hiding it, but they do have it.

Well, always remind ourselves, alright, that those who respect God will respect others.

Yeah. A man who does not respect God, don't expect him to respect you, alright, because if

you can't respect what is above him, he will not respect what is equal to him and even less,

what is lower to him. So this is why we Christians have to be vigilant. We have to be careful.

Don't allow the pagan world to enter into your Catholic homes. It's, it's, it's, it's suicidal.

Yeah. It is suicidal. And this is why we promote consecration. This is why we promote

consecration to Jesus through Mary, alright, because those who consecrate themselves as slaves

of love to our Lord Jesus Christ, through the hands of Mary, through the method of St. Louis

de Montfort, right, they shield themselves. It's like a shield. It's like a protection in order

to allow themselves to continue to live in this world, to continue to progress in this world,

because we Christians, we progress. We don't regress. We don't retreat. We want to transform

the world. We want to make the world become a better place, alright, but in order to do this,

we need strength. We need help. And this is why we consecrate ourselves so that we transform the

world and we don't allow the world to transform us. And Father, we form a sort of brotherhood,

a sort of community, a family, because over the last few years, we've got around three million

already at the time of this recording, uh, consecrations done online through our system

online in three languages, uh, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. So there are millions of souls,

but what I find beautiful, of course, the most beautiful part is our relationship between us and

our Lord, us and our Lady. It's true, the vertical relationship, but it has also formed a family.

Around the world, there are people, there are millions of people who have done this consecration

and who have a certain link between each other, who have a certain joy in knowing that there are

others. They help each other, strengthen each other. When two people meet and they realize that

they both of them have done the consecration through our Lady, they realize that they're formed with the

same family. It makes each one stronger because it's much more difficult to survive alone in the

world and not give in to the world than when you are within a family, when you're within friends.

That's one of the main reasons. So in the, we have this consecration. In fact, in case some of you

are watching us now have not done your consecration to Jesus through Mary, please check this link in

the description of this video. It's an online consecration, totally free, which will be very

good for you and your family. But after that, we do have programs that we meet up. So when Father

Timothy, for example, he goes to different parts of the world, we've had masses and meetings in

different parts of the US, in England, in Ireland. We have encounters in Asia, I mean, in different

parts of the world. Also, we have a live rosary every week where all the people around the world

who belong to this family, we meet together to pray a rosary together as a family. But all of this

helps us to survive because the pressure from outside is so strong that unless we have a

pressure inside keeping us strong, we're going to fall away. We need help. We are weak.

And we have to ask for the help that God is giving. And for many of us, it is a consecration to our

lady, which gives us the strength to resist the world. Absolutely. Absolutely. This on the bigger

plan of God, consecration unites all those who are devoted to our blessed mother Mary, all right,

under one same type of umbrella, right? A protective umbrella. Because those who

consecrate themselves to Jesus through the hands of Mary as slaves of love, all right, they also

practice and they also believe in the message of Fatima. You see? So we are devoted to our lady

Fatima and we live the message of Fatima where we believe that in the end, her immaculate heart will

triumph. This is why we consecrate ourselves, you see? Because we want that immaculate heart to

triumph right now at this moment in our hearts. Consecrated in ourselves, we consecrate ourselves

and therefore we have the immaculate heart of Mary triumph in our hearts, all right? So that from

our hearts, it may gain momentum and convert the whole world. Yeah, because the wrong idea would be

yeah, since the world is evil and we are good Christians, we'll remain in a little burrow hidden

by ourselves in the ghetto. No. We want to save ourselves and then we want to spread this light.

We want to convert the whole world. We don't want to let the world be evil and we'll be holy people.

No. No, that's not what we want. We want to be holy and then to convert the whole world to our lady.

I mean, that's a very different concept from what some people have. No, we have to go back to the

catacombs. No, we want to take the good things inside the catacombs to the whole world. Exactly.

Exactly. Like Father said, we want to change the world and not let the world change us. Yeah,

exactly. But we want to change the world as well. We have to change the world. Yes, the world deserves

to be changed for the good, for the best, right? We see all these wars going on right now, suffering,

so much tears that is being shed, so much rejections and everything. We see that people are in need of

peace and peace will only come with the reign of Christ. With sanctity, everybody living holy lives,

then the people will have peace. There's no point of having peace if at the end of the person's life,

the person doesn't go to heaven. Exactly. No point of having a false peace. Try to end all wars

without Christ. Absolutely. End war without Christ. It doesn't work anyway. Exactly. We've been

trying it for centuries and so far one thing we know that doesn't work. Even if it did work,

it wouldn't be enough. It would be good, but it wouldn't be enough. Absolutely true.

So speaking about war and peace, that brings me to the fourth, all right? The fourth thing to avoid

in our Catholic homes and that's bad friends. Bad friends, okay? Because bad friends will bring

war to your home. Bad friends will bring agitation. They will take away the peace. Bad friends are a no

no. Be very vigilant. Please, mothers, fathers, even children, you have to be careful not to

bring any bad friends. And a bad friend is somebody, all right, who, well, that you like,

of course, you know, because you have some affinity with that person, but that person, all right, does

not like you. Yeah. Because that person wants to manipulate you. That person is interested in you

for a other reason. That is a bad friend. A bad friend is somebody who wants to take advantage

of you and bring you towards their bad habits. Now that is a bad friend. A good friend is somebody

who wants to help, who wants to be generous, who wants to be attentive, who wants to, well,

who respects you, who will help you, who will console you. A good friend is somebody who

admires you. A bad friend is somebody who wants to manipulate you. Maybe you'll flatter you,

but that's not true admiration, I guess. There we go, yes. So bad friends are some, are people that

they're selfish and they want to use you as an object for their own benefit. But father,

of course, these things are a little bit confusing. Sometimes there are people who seem to be good

friends and they're bad friends and vice versa. Some people who may seem bad, but they have a good

heart and they're not, they give an appearance of what they, what do you see to be a good test for us

to find out exactly, for us to judge well, especially because when we feel a lot of sympathy,

a lot of affinity with somebody, we tend to think that person's a good friend, even though he may

not be or she may not be. How do we judge well who is a good friend and who is a bad friend?

Right, well in Holy Scripture, our Lord goes and says, not everybody who says, "Lord, Lord, Lord,"

all right, will enter into the kingdom of heaven, all right, because why? Because that's only lip

service. People, there are some people who are very, very good in lip service. They have beautiful

words. They have beautiful conversations. So be careful. Don't judge a person by what they say,

but judge his person by what they do. We have to judge them by their works.

What do they do? What's the fruit of their life? You know, are they a studious person? Do they,

are they coming to home, to my house in order to help my child study? Are they going to work on a

project together? Are they coming to my home in order to pray with me? Are they coming to my home?

You know, a good friend will be somebody who's going to come in order to help me in my garden,

cut the grass, I don't know, help me while I'm sick. You know, someone, but if someone comes

into my home because they want to, well, bring me to participate in some social media activity,

all right, that is hidden behind the door and in the room of my daughter, then no,

that's a bad friend. You know, so, so you can judge a good person from a bad person from their

good works or their bad works. What their actions, judge them by their actions.

That's pretty true, Father. All right. Yeah. I mean, even if you feel a sympathy, but

his acts are bad, simple. You can judge him. Yes. Or you feel that somebody is not good, but

he is doing good. He's helping. He is, or she's helping. That's a, it's something very logical,

very true, but I think very few, uh, quite often we forget this. We tend to judge by the face,

by the appearances, by the act. By our own feelings many times. Yeah.

Yeah. I like him. No, he's a good guy. Yeah. Or she's a good person. Yeah. That's not just

feelings. No, it is not just feelings. Not just feelings. Chapter 23rd of Saint Matthew, we see

there our Lord, um, he starts to judge and, uh, and to denounce, um, the Pharisees calling them

hypocrites, right? So he's judging our Lord. He's judging what? He's judging the actions, the bad

actions of the Pharisees. So this is what a Catholic should always do. We can't judge the heart.

That's his obligation, that's going to be God, that's

going to judge our hearts and our intentions.

We can't judge people's intentions, but we can judge

their actions and this is what we should always be doing.

Being vigilant, see what the people are doing, what

they've produced, what they're offering, etcetera,

etcetera.

This is what will help us know if this is a good,

or a bad friend.

Thank you Father.

Alright, so this is one of the, and the last of course,

the last thing to avoid in a Catholic home, alright,

is immodest fashions.

Careful with fashions, bad fashions, immodest fashions,

impure fashions.

This is so, so, so detrimental to a pure family

ambience.

Alright, you find people who don't have the courage

to dress so badly, but then they encourage the

children to do.

I mean, before God, your sin is worse.

Exactly, exactly.

It's something that, you know, is unfortunately

very, very popular today, very, let's say spread out

and it's the bad fashion.

Fashion is a very, very strong thing, alright,

because fashion is a social aspect.

And since we are all very social beings, we like to

be similar to other people.

Well, we like to be similar to the society in

which we live.

Now, if the society in which we live is pagan and

has bad immoral fashions, well, we have a tendency

of wanting to dress up as the pagan society is

because of our social, well, just instinct, I

guess, instinct upbringing.

Yeah.

Our social desire.

Nobody likes to be different.

It's not, it's not comfortable to be different

than everybody else.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So, so that's why, that's why, you know, we have a

tendency, we have, our children will want to

dress up just like their friends.

And unfortunately at school, not all people

dress up modestly, especially the girls, but

also the boys.

Alright.

Also boys, this is not exclusive to the girls.

Some boys also will be dressing up immodestly,

you know, tight pants or very, very, very short

shorts, you know, it's something that we have to

be attentive to, you know, it's, and it's

something that was denounced by Our Lady Fatima.

I have a text here, all right, because, because

Our Lady, she was already concerned and listen,

this is, we're talking about the year, what year

was Our Lady Fatima?

1917.

1917.

And what year are we in today?

2024.

2024.

So, I mean, there is, there has been a certain

evolution, all right, a hundred and a hundred

odd years, all right, since Our Lady Fatima.

And I can't say the evolution of fashion

progressed for the better.

All right.

I mean, you, you look at pictures in 1917, okay.

We're talking about this first world war.

Um, it's, people were, were modest.

People were modest, but back then there was

also a danger of bad fashion.

It was slowly entering society and now it's

entered absolutely.

Some people, some people say, well, you know,

they'll say, no, but father, that's not a big deal.

Okay.

My daughter is, you know, she, she's wearing

tights and you know, she's just with the other

girls and the boys are used to it and it's not

a big deal.

Yes, it's a big deal.

I'm sorry.

All right.

It's a big deal because tendencies will eventually

start to influence your thoughts and your doctrine

and that will start to influence your actions.

Yeah.

All right.

And so if we act immodestly, we will start to

think immodestly and we will start to act

immodestly.

Right.

So we can't dress immodestly.

We can't act immodestly.

And that's why our lady, all right, she, um,

denounced immodest dressed already in 1917.

So let me just read you what she said.

Certain fashions will be introduced that will

offend our Lord very much.

And then she continues more souls go to hell

because of sins of the flesh than for any other

reason.

So this is our lady that's speaking to the

little sister, the seer Jacinta.

This was a private revelation that Jacinta

was having with our lady.

All right.

And Jacinta goes and she confirms, she goes

and she says, the sins which hurl most souls into

hell are the sins of the flesh.

Certain styles will be introduced that will

offend our Lord very much.

Those who serve God must not follow these fashions.

So these, this is something as a Catholic

family, we should be aware of and we should be

vigilant.

We should take care.

We should not follow these evil fashions.

We have to remember that evil fashions are a

scandal.

It's a sin of scandal.

It brings others to sin.

Our Lord said it would be better to tie a rock

on your neck and be thrown into the ocean than

to commit a sin, a scandal.

It's much worse than many other sins because

besides the sin you're causing sin and God knows

how many others, imagine the day of judgment

where the person is accused by God and you have

500, 1000, 1000s of people pointing out fingers

at you and saying, it was your fault that I

committed mortal sin.

That's why I'm in hell now.

I mean, that is frightening.

The idea is frightening.

It is, it is, it is, it is.

So, so we should be very, very attentive.

You know, let's, let's remind ourselves, how did

our lady, you know, present herself?

I mean, how, what did she wear?

The saints, you know, Jacinta, the little Jacinta,

the blessed says she's, or she's saint.

Is Jacinta blessed or saint?

I think she's saint.

I think she's, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

All the saints, all the saints, they're, how are

they dressed?

They're all dressed modestly.

Right.

You're not going to see any saint, all right, that

is dressed, you know, in a revealing mode.

All right.

Because immodesty is to be revealing.

Yeah.

All right.

So, so I have one more text here.

I don't know if you, you would like me to read.

All right.

This is from 1922.

All right.

This is actually from an encyclical, all right.

Ubhi Akhkani Dey Konsidi.

It's from Pope Pius XI.

Okay.

All right.

So he goes and he says, "There is a sad

forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in

the life and the dress of women.

We lament too the destruction of purity among

women and young girls, as is evidenced by the

increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation

and of their participation in shameful dances."

And then he goes on and he speaks about how

Christian mothers should be attentive to give

always the good example.

Christian mothers should be careful not to allow

their girls and their boys today, also the boys,

all right, to act differently from a Christian

way.

All right.

We should always remind ourselves that paganism is

something that is like a, is something that is

conquering and destroying our families.

And we should therefore, in order not to allow for

paganism to enter into our homes, we have to

learn to resist.

As Christians, we have to say yes to God and we

have to learn to say no to the world.

If we don't say no to the world, then we're just

like the Pharisees, we're hypocrites.

We say yes to God and we say yes to the world.

So we have one foot in the church, we go on mass

and Sundays, but then we have one foot in hell.

Yeah.

All right.

Like our lady said, Jacinta, all right, there

are more souls that go to hell because of immodesty

than any other sin.

All right.

So, so let's be careful.

Let's, let's, let's pay attention.

All right.

This is a subject that, well, unfortunately, is not

mentioned there very much.

You know, I would like priests to speak about

this much more in their homilies.

You know, it's something I think that, that we

should have to, we should, we should hear more

often, all right, especially from our pastors,

from, from, you know, those who are, are spiritual

leaders, I think they should remind us of these

truths, but, but this is why we have this podcast

and this is why, you know, we, we spoke about this

today.

So I hope, I hope this answers your questions.

You know, these are the five things that Catholic

families, all right, should avoid in their homes.

Father, our time is nearly up.

Unfortunately, I really wish we could continue

talking about such an important subject, but do

you have any closing thoughts for us father

now before we end the podcast?

Yes.

So let's, let's just always remind ourselves,

all right, that we are indomitable Christians

having heading for victory.

I like that phrase.

And it comes from Dr.

Plinyu, all right, Dr.

Plinyu, our, our first founder, all right, he

used to always remind ourselves, you know,

despite all the difficulties, all the

evilness, despite the world being in the hands of

the devil, being pagan, immodest, violent and

selfish, you know, we are indomitable Christians

heading for victory.

We have the eyes on the resurrection.

We have the eyes on the message of our Lady

Fatima when she says, in the end, my immaculate

heart with triumph.

So for man, nothing is possible.

But for God, everything is possible and we trust

in God and we love in God and we believe in God.

So this is why, you know, in the midst of all

this, you know, we are always joyful and we are

always full of hope and we are always looking

towards the future because we know that the

future is reserved to our blessed mother Mary.

So much fun.

It's really beautiful.

All right.

So give us your blessing now father, please.

The Lord be with you.

And with your spirit.

And may almighty God bless you, father, son,

and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Sauri Maria.

Sauri Maria.