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Dear Father Angelo,

sorry for the previous emails.

Some Freemasons plagiarized me for months, instilling hatred for the Catholic Church in me, drop by drop.

I was in a moment of great loss due to important personal problems and I fell. At the moment of maximum estrangement, I began to suffer. Satan, as presented by them, could not be the alternative. I started praying again, but the words made me sick. I cried long nights over the Gospels. I felt a sharp pain in my heart while listening to the Holy Mass. I haven’t given up. I pushed these people out of my life. I recovered the relationship with the family that I was compromising. I keep praying whenever their words come to my mind. I asked for help from a young friar, who moved me with his serene simplicity. I asked for help from a theologian, who, even without answering me, advised me on a path of confessions with an exorcist. I don’t think I need it, even though I continue to suffer. I hope this test will make me stronger. I love Jesus too much; I love my family too much. A moment of human weakness was taking everything away from me.

I urge everyone to stay away from Satan, in any form he manifests, even if he presents himself as the most affectionate of friends, because the toll will always be high. And, Father Angelo, I ask you: can I do it alone? I would like to rediscover that feeling of safeness and confidence in facing life and human destiny.

Thank you very much, your favor is very important to dispel so many doubts.

Dearest,

1. your email summarizes a previous one, already published with its reply.

However, since in this synthesis there is a plea to beware of dangerous friendships, I like to underline what several Holy Fathers (renowned authors eminent in antiquity, for purity of doctrine and holiness) saw in the words by the Lord “If your eye, foot, hand causes you to sin”: a warning against friendships that are dangerous to the soul.

I wish to present the comment by the Holy Fathers on these three expressions.

2. The Lord says: “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire” (Mk 9:43).

St. John Chrysostom comments: [tr.] “The Lord does not speak about our limbs, but about those who are close to us as our limbs, that is, our intimate friends; thus, nothing is more harmful than a pernicious society”.

And St. Bede: [tr.] “The friend, whose daily help we need, is called our hand; but if he would damage our soul, we must exclude him from our society, albeit we would like a part in this life with a lost one, so that we will not perish in the future with him; then, it is better for you to enter into life weak than with two hands to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire”.

La Glossa (the common comment): [tr.] “Whoever is deprived of the friend’s help is called weak: in fact, it is better to go through life without a friend than to go to hell with him”.

3. “And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna” (Mk 9:45).

San Bede: [tr.] “The friend is called foot because he runs for us, and gives us help”.

4. “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna” (Mk 9:47).

San Bede: [tr.] “A useful friend is called eye, prompt and keen in seeing”.

And St. Augustine: [tr.] “We must undoubtedly conclude from these words that those, who are devoted to the Christian name, even before entering the unity of the Church, are more useful than those who already received the name of Christians, and are imbued with sacraments, and persuade other people about things which drag into eternal damnation together with them.

In the figure of members of the body, the Savior orders us to separate them from our communion, as we would separate from our body a hand or a foot that would compromise its health; and He orders us so to come into life without them, and not be dragged to hell with them”.

5. Well, some presented themselves to you as friends while introducing you to Freemasonry.

Instead, they were actually enemies of your soul.

They presented themselves as very useful and very precious, just as a hand, a foot and an eye are useful and very precious to us.

On the contrary, depriving you of the Sacraments already on earth, they would not help you to go to Heaven (putting it mildly!).

6. You ask me if you can do it alone.

I would say no.

But with Jesus Christ, yes.

Because Jesus Christ is more precious and more powerful than any hand, He sees longer than any eye, and He runs and moves farther than any foot.

His hand holds you clinging to His omnipotence.

His eye makes you keep your gaze fixed on the goal you are earning.

His foot gives you safety so that you do not stumble and fall into hell.

I gladly remind the Lord of you and I bless you.

Father Angelo