Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Stefania Caterina and Tomislav Vlašić

14 April 2015

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We are a people that is on our way towards the new creation; therefore, it is very important that we learn the laws that govern the new life in Christ. In this period, we want to develop the topic of death that St. Raphael explains in the book “Beyond the Great Barrier”, chapter 14.[1] Tonight, we will speak about fear and death and how we can overcome them. Let us listen carefully so that the Holy Spirit may guide us from within. Let us not build barriers in our spirit and our thoughts.

Taken from “Beyond the Great Barrier”, p. 265

Fear of death

“Every man is afraid of death. All other fears originate from a fear of death. Doubt and fear are also a form of death; they descend from death. Death goes hand in hand with despair. Fear of death lies in every man as a consequence of original sin, of the loss of original immortality.

You can conquer this fear only if you offer to God your life and your death. Your death is the last great offering that you make to God when you are still in the body. Upon dying, Jesus Himself gave His Spirit up to His Father, offering Him His death. In this way, He conquered death and the fear of death.

God called you to His same mission, that of conquering death and Hell. You are called to conquer them with Jesus Christ. How? By offering your life, the same means chosen by your Master. This is important. Often, even among Christians, death is seen as an unavoidable event to be accepted with a sense of resignation. On the other hand, if you belong to Christ, your death is full of hope. It can be a tool of salvation.

Death, which entered into creation due to sin, will be crushed by Christ’s victory over sin and evil. United with Christ’s offering, you can contribute to freeing the whole universe from death and from the devil. Do not forget that this is the ultimate end of the work of salvation.

All of the evil that strikes man does not come from God but from Satan, and from the participation of man in Satan’s work. This is the root of all evil.

Unfortunately, very few people welcome Jesus Christ and His Redemption on Earth. Very few people offer themselves to God. The shadows advance due to this, and the trials become more burdensome for those who are faithful to God. The time is coming for great burdens and battles for all the chosen ones.

I invite you to offer yourselves to God through Our Blessed Mother Mary. Your offering is a tool of victory and of preparation for the return of Christ. It paves the way for the definitive defeat of death and Hell.”

(St. Raphael the Archangel, 24 February 2001)

 

“Every man is afraid of death. All other fears originate from a fear of death.” It is essential that we understand what it means in our life. St. Raphael’s words would be valuable for every educator and psychologist to explore and uncover the roots of fear.

The fear of death is rarely mentioned in the Bible, yet we know from our experiences and the limited words written at the beginning of the Bible, regarding original sin, that man fell into despair and became afraid of God. Adam also became afraid of Eve; he manifested it when he accused her, and vice versa.

Fear nestles in our roots. We can feel it since our soul has been created immortal, and thus it remembers immortality. Consequently, the soul suffers because of the death of our body, the disintegration of the human being. We have not only the memory of death in us but also the wound that death left in our memory. It is the greatest of all wounds, deeply engraved in our memory. No medicine can heal this wound except the resurrection of Christ, which leads us to our resurrection, as well as all those who adhere to His life. This opens a horizon of hope, and we are called to participate in it.

The consequence of this fear is that man is afraid of God; he does not recognise Him; He refuses to see Him, and he closes in on himself. In doing so, he fails to recognise himself as he truly is in God and how he has been created. Man does not perceive himself as he should in the light of God. Thus, he remains in darkness, where fear is always present. This incites us to become corrupt. Many types of fear and negativity, accusations, guilt, doubts and insecurity settle within us. It is normal because we do not stand in the light and do not see things clearly. It is normal because we have lost our identity.[2] Anyone who loses his or her identity is insecure. Those who refuse to see God distort their life and their religion; they manipulate revelation and everything so that it fits their ideas and their understanding. Instead of immersing themselves in God, they remain closed in on themselves and project their own ideas onto everything.

In this passage, St. Raphael says repeatedly that the only way to overcome fear is to offer one’s life and death to God through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Here, the theme of offering one’s life reappears. As Christians, we should understand that through baptism our old life dies, and we no longer live for ourselves but for Christ, in Christ and through Christ: we have been resurrected.[3] What does dying to oneself mean? It means renouncing corruption, choosing to abandon the life that stems from the corruption caused by our detachment from God when we wanted to live independently. Consequently, we entered the laws of death. Baptism entails a re-evaluation of one’s life, renouncing attitudes that lead to our destruction, spread corruption throughout the universe, and lead to living outside the laws of life.

Out of His mercy, God always bestows us with His life, His breath. However, He cannot restore immortality to us if we refuse it, if we do not renounce mortality. Dying to oneself means relinquishing the mistake man made in the beginning and continues to affect us, as we are still subject to the laws of corruption. Offering our life to Jesus means planting the seed of the resurrected life. It means immersing ourselves, through Jesus Christ, in the source of life in God, the origin of our life. We offer ourselves through the Immaculate Heart of Mary because we cannot do it alone. She compensates for all the shortcomings of people, including Christians; therefore, She has been given to us as Mother.

The fear of death leads us to close in on ourselves, and it destroys us, therefore Jesus told us clearly: “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Mt 6,33). Why did he say this? Because by fleeing from God man builds life here on mortal Earth; everything comes to an end due to death. St. Raphael advises us to offer our life and death to God. What does this mean? It means that by dying to our selfishness, we go through our death every day. We bear the consequences of original sin. If we offer our life and death to God, passing through death will serve as a gateway that leads us to overcome it and be resurrected, just like Jesus Christ. Into the ground of our death, we have planted the seed of resurrection and it will grow. We must nurture it through the daily act of dying to ourselves. Therefore, let us foster our plant and make it bear fruit a hundredfold.

In our books, we have written about the cosmic corruption caused by Lucifer, which has affected especially the Earth. On Earth, there are more Satanists, who offer their lives to Lucifer, than Christians, who offer their lives to Jesus Christ, and this leads to destruction and corruption. Therefore, our path is to live a new life, to enter the resurrected life by offering our life and our death. We have overcome corruption because God has decided to strengthen the spirit of those who want to live according to His laws, and this process has speeded up in these times. God will grant us the power of the Spirit to overcome death; we are destined for resurrection. This is the path! If we kindle this faith and hope through our love for God, placing Him at the centre of our thoughts, this new life will unfold within us. As Christians, the sole gift we can offer to the world is the testimony of a new life, of resurrection.

Therefore, let us dedicate ourselves daily to immersing our entire life in God. Let us immerse the internal death we carry, which is the source of fear, the fear of failure. People often try to fill their internal emptiness by possessing their own life and the life of others.

Let us ensure that everything is immersed in God. Let us offer our life to God, choosing resurrection; let us live as people who have been resurrected so that the Lord may pour the abundance of grace upon us and we may move forward quickly.

I bless you; may the Risen Christ who visited the Apostles, the disciples, the women, visit each of you, revive your spirit, revive the life of God in you and annihilate death. Death in you may not cause devastating consequences, but be subject to the laws of life. God uses His Laws for our purification, for our transformation, to make us die to the corrupt life within us; may our spirit be strengthened and the life that is planted within us. I bless you; may generous souls be born among you, who are ready to live totally for Christ and bring the life that overcomes death, corruption and every type of despair; may they bring good news to humanity, not strange prophecies that irritate and frighten and have nothing in common with the laws of the pure Spirit. May the laws of the pure Spirit work within you, where the Lord Jesus governs you, and no evil will happen to you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

 

[1] Book of Stefania Caterina, “Beyond the Great Barrier”, Luci dell’Esodo, 2008, available at our online shop, https://www.lucidellesodo.com

[2] See Message of the Holy Spirit, 31 March 2010, published on our website under Messages

[3] See Col 3, 3-4