St. Catherine of Siena wrote that GOD says that same-sex acts are so appalling that demons who incite them won’t stick around as they are taking place

According to the Novus Ordo calendar today is the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Doctrix of the Church, and Patroness of Europe and of Italy.  Her body rests in the beautiful Dominican church in Rome, Santa Maria sopra Minerva.  Nearby, in what is now a cultural center for things Roman, across from the French seminary’s chapel, is a palazzo in which you find the room where the saint died.  It was one of my “Daily Rome Shots”.

To honor the saint, I will repost here something I posted not too long ago.

In her Dialogues (ch 124), St. Catherine’s conversations with God, the Doctrix of the Church writes that the Enemy, demons, incite people to unnatural sins (homosexual acts) but that they don’t stick around to see it happen, because those acts  are too repulsive even for them.

Those acts are so contrary to nature that they offend their angelic intellect, even though they are fallen and apostate.   They want the sin to take place and they incite it, but it is so offensive to them that they absent themselves when it is happening.

Here she describes demons inciting men to these acts.  GOD is talking at this point…. also about PRIESTS.

Io ti fo a sapere, carissima figliuola, che tanta purità richieggio a voi e a loro in questo sacramento, quanta è possibile a uomo in questa vita; in quanto dalla parte vostra e loro ve ne dovete ingiegniare d’aquistarla continuamente. Voi dovete pensare che, se possibile fusse che la natura angelica si purificasse, a questo misterio sarebbe bisogno che ella si purificasse; ma non è possibile, perché non à bisogno d’essere purificata, perché in loro non può cadere veleno di peccato. Questo ti dico perché tu vegga quanta purità Io richieggio da voi e da loro in questo sacramento, e singularmente da loro. Ma il contrario mi fanno, però che tutti immondi, e non tanto della immondizia e fragilità alla quale sete inchinevoli naturalmente (118v) per fragile natura vostra – bene che la ragione, quando il libero arbitrio vuole, fa stare queta la sua rebellione – ma i miseri, non tanto che raffrenino questa fragilità, ma essi fanno peggio, commettendo quello maladetto peccato contra natura. E come ciechi e stolti, offuscato il lume de l’intelletto loro, non cognoscono la puzza e la miseria nella quale essi sono: che non tanto che ella puta a me che so’ somma eterna purità – ed èmmi tanto abominevole che per questo solo peccato profondaro cinque città (Gn 19,24-25Sg 10,6) per divino mio giudicio, non volendo più sostenere la divina mia giustizia, tanto mi dispiacque, questo abominevole peccato – ma non tanto a me, come detto t’ò, ma alle dimonia, le quali dimonia i miseri s’ànno fatti signori, lo’ dispiace. Non che lo’ dispiaccia il male perché lo’ piaccia alcuno bene, ma perché la natura loro fu natura angelica, e però quella natura schifa di non vedere né di stare a vedere commettere quello enorme peccato attualmente. Àgli bene inanzi gittata la saetta avelenata del veleno della concupiscenzia, ma giognendo a l’atto del peccato egli si va via, per la cagione e per lo modo che detto t’ò.

“I wish thee to know, dearest daughter, that I require in this Sacrament from you and from them as great purity as it is possible for man [PRIESTS] to have in this life. On your side you ought to endeavour to acquire it continually. You should think that were it possible that the angelic nature should be purified, such purification would be necessary with regard to this mystery, but this is not possible, for angels need no purification, since the poison of sin cannot infect them. I say this to thee in order that thou mayest see how great a purity I require from you and from them in this Sacrament, and particularly from them. But they act in a contrary way, for they come full of impurity to this mystery, and not only of that impurity to which, through the fragility of your weak nature, you are all naturally inclined (although reason when free-will permits, can quiet the rebellion of nature), but these wretches not only do not bridle this fragility, but do worse, committing that accursed sin against nature, and as blind and fools with the light of their intellect darkened, they do not know the stench and misery in which they are. It is not only that this sin stinks before Me, Who am the Supreme and Eternal Truth, it does indeed displease Me so much and I hold it in such abomination that for it alone I buried five cities by a Divine judgment, My Divine justice being no longer able to endure it. This sin not only displeases Me as I have said, [NB:] but also the devils whom these wretches have made their masters. Not that the evil displeases them because they like anything good, but because their nature was originally angelic, and their angelic nature causes them to loathe the sight of the actual commission of this enormous sin. They truly enough hurl the arrow poisoned with the venom of concupiscence, but when their victim proceeds to the actual commission of the sin, they depart for the reason and in the manner that I have said. Thou rememberest that I manifested to thee before the plague how displeasing this sin was to Me, and how deeply the world was corrupted by it; so I lifted thee with holy desire and elevation of mind above thyself, and showed thee the whole world and, as it were, the nations thereof, and thou sawest this terrible sin and the devils fleeing as I have told thee, and thou rememberest that so great was the pain that thou didst receive, and the stench of this sin, that thou didst seem to thyself to see no refuge on this side of death, in which thou and My other servants could hide so as not to be attacked by this leprosy. Thou didst see that thou couldest not remain among men, for neither small nor great, nor old nor young, nor clerics nor religious, nor prelates, nor lords, nor subjects, were uncontaminated in body or mind by this curse.

St. Catherine makes it pretty clear what God thinks of sodomy and all the other unnatural acts that fall into that fell category.   So hideous, so offensive are those sins that even demons who provoke them won’t stick around while they are being committed.  Demons can, however, and will, stick around the places where those acts were committed.

This is clear, charitable talk.  It is not the vague and slippery lulling of certain homosexualist activists who are so very popular with those who have given into the wisdom of the world.

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9 Comments

  1. Ellen says:

    Saint Catherine of Siena is my confirmation patron. I picked her because I admired her courage and her holiness.

  2. JustaSinner says:

    Well I guess Fr Jesse James Martin will now claim repulsion of demons as a ’benefit’ of homosexual acts???

  3. kurtmasur says:

    Interesting read. Makes sense too.

  4. adriennep says:

    So beautiful to see her church. You never forget it with the beautiful blue ceilings and pagan elephant and obelisk in front. And that so many other churches are built upon pagan history. What is also fun here is that it is “just across the piazza” from the Church of St. Ignatius, wherein there is a statue of him crushing a Satan-like figure under foot, widely said to also be Martin Luther.

    It just reminds of that time-honored pilgrimage to the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. These churches were meant for shock and awe. Let’s rebuild that tradition. If every Catholic in the US could visit, then we would not have a faith or demographic crisis now.

  5. Unwilling says:

    Like throwing a stink (hydrogen sulfide) bomb and running. When I first heard of this (here), I conceptually checked it against the gospel of Screwtape. True.

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  8. Josh Beigs says:

    Looks like you drew a catty response from one Jason Steidl on this one. Not to mention a disgusting and calumnious one.

    https://twitter.com/JasonSteidl/status/1387894456003796995

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