St. Bridget of Sweden-A Judgment Scene for Five Categories of People, Including the Pope

[Dawn Marie]

Chapter 41 - A Judgment Scene for Five Categories of People, Including the Pope


I now state my grievance about you, head of my church, you who sit on my seat. I gave this seat to Peter and his successors to sit on with a threefold dignity and authority: first, in order that they might have the power of binding and loosing souls from sin; second, so that they would open heaven for penitents; third, so that they would close heaven to the damned and to those who scorn me. But you, who should be absolving souls and presenting them to me, you are really a slayer of souls.

I set up Peter as shepherd and servant of my sheep. But you scatter and wound them; you are worse than Lucifer. He was envious of me and longed to kill none but me so that he might rule in my stead. But you are all the worse in that not only do you kill me by cutting me off from yourself through your bad works but you also kill souls through your bad example. I redeemed souls with my blood and entrusted them to you as to a faithful friend. But you hand them back to the enemy from whom I redeemed them.

You are more unjust than Pilate. He only sentenced me to death. But you not only sentence me as if I were a worthless lord of nothing, you also sentence the souls of my chosen ones and let the guilty go free. You are more merciless than Judas. He only sold me. But you not only sell me but also the souls of my chosen ones for your own base profit and empty reputation. You are more abominable than the Jews. They only crucified my body. But you crucify and punish the souls of my chosen ones for whom your evil and your transgression are harsher than any sword. And so, since you are like Lucifer and more unjust than Pilate and more merciless than Judas and more abominable than the Jews, my grievance about you is justified.

Then the Lord added, speaking to Blessed Peter: "You are the founder of the faith and of my church. While my army is listening, state the sentence of these five men!"

Peter answered: "Praise and honor to you, Lord, for the love you have shown to your earth! May all your host bless you, for you cause us to see and know in you all the things that have been and will be! We see and know all things in you. It is truly just that the first man, the one who sits upon your seat while doing the deeds of Lucifer, should ignominiously surrender the seat he presumed to sit on and become a sharer in the punishment of Lucifer.

Then the Lord added, saying to the first of the five men: "The sword of my severity will go into your body, entering at the top of your head and penetrating so deeply and firmly that it can never be drawn out. Your chair will sink like a weighty stone and not come to rest until it hits the lowest part of the deep. Your fingers, I mean, your advisers, will burn in an inextinguishable and sulphurous fire. Your arms, I mean, your vicars, who should have reached out for the benefit of souls but reached out instead for worldly profit and honor, will be sentenced to the punishment of which David speaks: 'May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow and may strangers take over his property.' What does 'his wife' mean if not the soul that is left out of the glory of heaven and will be widowed from God? 'His children,' that is, the virtues they seemed to possess, and my simple folk, those who were placed under them, will be separated from them. Their rank and property will fall to others, and they will inherit eternal shame instead of their privileged rank.

Their headgear will sink into hell's mud, and they themselves will never get up out of it. Thus, just as through honor and pride they rose above others here on earth, so in hell they will sink so much more deeply than others that it will be impossible for them to rise. Their limbs, I mean, all the fawning priests who followed them, will be cut off from them and taken apart just like a wall that is torn down where stone is not left upon stone and the cement no longer adheres to the stones. Mercy will not come to them, for my love will never warm them nor build them into an eternal mansion in heaven. Instead, stripped of every good, they will be endlessly tormented along with their headmen.

 

 

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[Dawn Marie]

I say to the fifth man: I shall do three things for you. First, I will fill you inwardly with my warmth. Second, I will make your mouth harder and firmer than any stone, so that the stones thrown at you will bounce back. Third, I will arm you with my weapons so that no spear will harm you but everything will give way before you like wax in the face of fire.^{[ 13 ] 55} Be therefore made strong and stand like a man! Like a soldier in war who awaits the help of his lord and fights as long as he still has some fluid in him, so too you, stand firm and fight! The Lord, your God, whom none can withstand, will give you help. ⁵⁶ And since you are few in number, I will give you honor and make you many. ⁵⁷ Behold, my friends, you see these things and know them in me, and thus they stand before me. The words I have now spoken will be fulfilled. These men will never enter into my kingdom, as long as I am king, unless they mend their ways. For heaven will be given to none but those who humble themselves and do penance." ⁵⁸ Then all the host answered: "Praise be to you, Lord God, who are without beginning or end!"

[Dawn Marie]

I say to the third man: Since you, Jew, do not want to believe that I have come, therefore, when I come for the second judgment, you will see me not in my glory but in your conscience, and you will ascertain that all the things I said to you were true. ⁵² Then there remains for you to be punished as you deserve.

Wow, is all I can say to that whole chapter.

[Dawn Marie]

I posted the whole book, in its entirety  HERE.  You will only be able to read it if you are a logged in member.

[Sue K]

Thanks, DM, super post. Putting the book on my e.reader. Reminds me of "...as with the Kings of France..."

[0139vocvm99i8]

Thank you DM,I am trying to download it.Happy feastday of our Lady's Assumption into Heaven

[Dawn Marie]

Your most welcome Via Dolorosa and Susan.  Happy and blessed Feast of Our Lady to you both also :)

[Alley]

Thank you D,  wow powerful words, humbling, we need all the more to pray

for the Pope(s) like Mary said at Fatima and priests.

[Birgitta]

Thanks DM

[Dawn Marie]

Bump