Advisory Via Ephesus

“Mary,” a film released by Netflix on December 6, 2024, offers an adaptation of the life of Mary, Mother of Jesus. Produced by the controversial megachurch pastor Joel Osteen, the full-length movie begins with Mary's conception, highlighting her parents, Sts. Anne and Joachim, and concludes with the Holy Family presenting the newborn Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem after evading Herod's soldiers.

Does this film accurately portray the Mary we know and hold dear?

The trench is deep and wide
Be hard for the enemy to penetrate,
Would be hard to see where we hide,
And where our ammo concentrate.
Entrenched, enjoy the furlough of war,
Engage only when they come
Meanwhile, there’s no flesh to scar
Just the hours and days to overcome
And will they come? Let Field Marshall
Bring his best troops instead;
Let them be heroes, who indeed shall
Win this war for us or forestall but dead
But we’re entrenched with security;
Let’s keep the day and sleep the night
If they overrun, ket;s run to safety
Instead of dying, keep flight
Or hold white flag to surrender
For it’s the fault of trenches
That we know this war is over
Too much in mind and heart is enough stress!

- Karam M. Zingh

While the Advocate has His holy outpouring
Spiritu Mundi itself had its own inception
In trance, possessed modern man perchance progressing
Boasting, lusting, seducing; in deep deception
He hooks modern man in the alchemy of drugs
And preys on him through cosmetology, changing
The face of crime, sanitizing the mummy rugs
Introducing fallen stars, for worshipping,
Body is bound and soul is made captive, and so
His dream-like trance’s in multiverse rising,
With the tips of his fingers, like God, he would know
Everything and woe, he will join the uprising
Entranced he’ll dream a life but - forever?
Virtual reality bites, the fire dousing never.

- Daniel Santos

Novos Ordo, the transition had been made the means
In which manner, the world now, in newest way spins
Everything, each being, must be given the chance and means
To deceitfully proceed with lies, errors and sins
Let all the innocent suffer, teach them false freedom
So that they can reverse, their true existence
And by their ‘own’ godless, programmed choice falsely become
An alchemic essence; substance of false existence
Make him feel good and cosmetize whatever’s evil
If he’s a boy, make him a girl; whatever he likes
Shepherd him into this transit, as if it’s his will
Subvert everything that is true; unleash! Leak the dikes
Finally the Alta Vendita is bought wholesale
Let the horns grow longer then, the scourge of the tail

- Daniel Santos

St. Paul writing to the Ephesians defined the spiritual war thus (6:10-13): “Finally, go strong in the Lord, with the strength of His power. Put God's armour on so as to be able to resist the devil's tactics. For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the sovereignties and powers who originate the darkness in this world; the Spiritual army of evil in the heavens. That is why you must rely on God's armour, or you will not be able to put up any resistance when the worst happens, or enough resources to hold you ground.”

Jesus was, and still is, the ultimate Unconventional Warrior. He led His enemy to believe that He had died and was defeated but His Resurrection later on would cause Satan to panic for He did not die after all. Godless Japan thought that with Bataan and Corregidor surrender, the Philippines had ceased to be but the guerilla onslaught taught it otherwise, because even before the liberation forces arrived, the Japanese Imperial Forces were already reeling from guerilla warfare.

A good soldier of the militant church must also be ready to work as a spy for God’s army or to say the least be knowledgeable in intelligence work because intel is inferior to God’s wisdom. Hence, a devout Catholic should be in the world and out of the world at the same time. He must therefore be seen as a person living in the modern world with the essential trappings of heretical modernism.

A wounded soldier had given me inspiration about a subject I had always been lecturing since my return to Catholic practice and this is on Spiritual Warfare. I am always attuned to dividing it in three parts so that I can always have a thorough discussion. These would be Conventional Warfare, Espionage and Unconventional Warfare. Later, we will try to see how the concept of multiverse plays within the Mystery of God’s Creation.

This is a story recounted to me by my wife. When she was still an assistant Principal of Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in Manila, the school was visited by the Division's elementary science supervisor, Mr. Felipe Saclamitao, and the person assigned to welcome and assist him, he told her this story.

About AVE

Advisory Via Ephesus is a page dedicated to problematic truth seekers. It provides expert advice concerning Christian ethics, Catholic apologetics and insights on Neo-Judaism. It evaluates behaviour not from a limited scientific viewpoint but on a metaphysical Judeo-Christian foundation which defies a godless modernism. It does not worry about the feel good requirements of modern day guidance and counseling but finds conscience as a built-in spiritual mechanism that allows the soul to reason the gravity of sin and therefore allows the free will to liberate a human person from systematic deception.

Therefore, it does not offer any guidance and counseling format which is only existential in its nature and does not recognize the feelings of guilt just so it can render the seeker to feel good. AVE operates on the definition that faith in the oneness of mind and heart. Simply stated, it defines too much use of mind or reason as not faith, but a fake, and too much use of the heart or emotion as not faith, but a fake. Only True Faith can set the truth-seeker free and only True Faith can provide real Hope so that one can have Sincere Love.

AVE recognizes the true worth of guidance advocates tasked by school authorities to direct wary ward teeners. AVE discerns the value of the sincere attempts to help and therefore provides an avenue for discussions on how to effect positive discipline. AVE opens the forum to genuine ecumenical discussions on matters of faith rather than close possible means at arriving at the truth because of too much care for rational philosophy and systematic censure.

AVE Therefore believes in sincere applications of the spiritual works of mercy as tangible proofs of the Real Presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.