Pope and Roman Curia spend week on St. Ignatius of Loyola's spiritual exercises
"The five-day spiritual exercises are taking place at the Casa Divin Maestro retreat center in Ariccia, a city located some 16 miles outside of Rome ... The Roman Curia's practice of spiritual exercises is modeled on St. Ignatius of Loyola's spiritual exercises. Pius XI was a great admirer of the founder of the Society of Jesus, proclaiming him patron of spiritual exercises in 1922. In 1929 the same Pope issued the encyclical Mens Nostra on the promotion of the spiritual exercises, in which he also made public the decision to hold annual spiritual exercises in the Vatican."
Oh friends, while all these troubles, wars, religious battles and so on are keeping the attention of the masses, Satan is slyly bringing in spiritual deceptions, and the people are none the wiser, because their focus is on all the 'troubles' in the world. And Satan will give them just the 'revival' they are looking for!
This 'spiritual exercise', which includes 'spiritual formation' and 'contemplative prayer' has invaded a vast amount of churches today! And it is part of the grand spiritual deception by Satan to sweep the world into his 'kingdom'. The Jesuits were formed to counter the Protestant reformation and this Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order brought in 'new age' thinking to deceive the masses. And this 'spiritual exercise' along with all it's other practices are nothing but 'new age' meditation practices to entice the people into an 'experience' and away from a true relationship with Jesus Christ.
Satan wants to give you an 'experience' to make you think that you are being led by the Holy Spirit, and the only safeguard against this is to base your faith upon a 'THUS SAITH THE LORD', rather than the deceptive theories of men.
"We are approaching the end of this earth's history, and Satan is working as never before. He is striving to act as director of the Christian world. With an intensity that is marvelous he is working with his lying wonders. Satan is represented as walking about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. He desires to embrace the whole world in his confederacy. Hiding his deformity under the garb of Christianity, he assumes the attributes of a Christian, and claims to be Christ Himself." (E.White, Manuscript Releases 8, p.346)
"When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss toclasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near." (E.White, Testimonies Vol.5, p.451)
"The enemy of souls desires to hinder this work [TRUE HOLY REVIVAL]; and before the time for such a movement shall come, he will endeavor to prevent it by introducing a counterfeit. In those churches which he can bring under his deceptive power he will make it appear that God's special blessing is poured out; there will be manifest what is thought to be great religious interest. Multitudes will exult that God is working marvelously for them, when the work is that of another spirit. Under a religious guise, Satan will seek to extend his influence over the Christian world." (E.White, Maranatha, p.169)
Are you allowing Jesus Christ to dwell in you? Are you studying God's Word for yourself and living according to the TRUE gospel of Christ? Please heed the warning, as great deceptions are upon us!
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